Episodes

In this episode of Wake Up To Real Love, Dawn is joined by strategic advisor for ethical brands and managing director of The Sustainable Economic Development group, Valentine Stockdale. They discuss How childhood experiences can impact adult life, overcoming ‘the shadow’ and self-limiting beliefs and why plant medicine can heal your past and create new neural pathways for your future. KEY TAKEAWAYS Self-limiting beliefs are common for children that have experienced abuse and abandonment growing ...

In today’s episode of Wake Up To Real Love, Dawn is joined by the creator of Mindful Being, Raditia Lasry. Together they discuss learning how to express, reconnect and control your emotions. Discover how to explore your own creativity and create a life that you own with your own choices. KEY TAKEAWAYS For many people, it's very difficult to express ourselves because we'd never learned how to express ourselves and how to feel. Emotions are secondary and we’re conditioned not to feel because of ou...

Art and the beauty of it is everywhere. Dawn is joined by a world-renowned artist famous for creating vibrant abstract paintings based on interconnectivity and spirituality, Heather Buechler. Discover how to use art to express your emotions and connect with your spirituality and learn how to focus on love and self-worth in today’s episode of the Wake Up To Real Love podcast. KEY TAKEAWAYS Our earth is the biggest landscape for art in the world. There's art all around us in the beauty of life, i...

Dawn is joined by a healer, a mystic and a tantric priestess. Recently rebirthed Rainbow Starlight joins the show to share her incredible journey in realising her true self. Dawn and Rainbow discuss how to find your own voice and unlock your kundalini energy, how to overcome the darkness and why you must learn to accept yourself with love and compassion. KEY TAKEAWAYS Our healing journey is to get to the place where we are at home within ourselves and to a place where we feel freedom and liberat...

What if every day you had the chance to experience more love and intimacy in your life. Dawn Rishárd is joined by Tobias Hofmeister, a community designer, hyper connector and serial entrepreneur. His current ventures focus on embodiment, spiritual entrepreneurship and community design. KEY TAKEAWAYS Pain is not necessarily something to be avoided and in fact should be embraced if you want to attain a personal truth. If a relationship isn’t working , breaking up sooner rather than later can be t...

Dawn is joined by the Founder of MenSpeak. media acclaimed ‘Man Whisperer’ and best selling author, Kenny Mammarella-D'Cruz. They discuss the need to break down so that you can break through, overcoming survival mode and how to find a loving relationship. KEY TAKEAWAYS Society has taught us to hover above all of our feelings and to just survive them. But in order to grow, you need to seize the opportunities in front of you and embrace your feelings because holding that tension in and constantly ...

The most important relationship you'll ever have is the one that you have with yourself. Dawn welcomes personal growth and self-empowerment expert, Brain Truskowski to show to discuss relationships, energy and our egos. Learn how to measure your relationships by your own metrics, how to embrace wild attraction and why when we break free of our conditioning we can fund the answers to love ourselves. KEY TAKEAWAYS It’s important to understand that you don't need to meet some external metric of wha...

By focusing on yourself and by self-examining your experiences you will awaken positive relationships. In today’s episode, Dawn is joined by relationship expert and CRC of Awakening Relationships with over 20 years of experience in training and self-development, Rose Viggiano. Discover how to improve your relationships, better connect with others and respond rather than react in this insightful episode. KEY TAKEAWAYS When you’re not showing up at your best you can examine and explore the area of...

We're all creators, we're all manifestors and we all have the power within us. Today, Ellen Sirena joins the show and she is on a mission to activate Lightworkers and to unleash their soul's purpose and natural money-making gifts to the world to create luscious wealth and wellbeing. Listen in to discover how to shift your energy, manifest what you desire and find peace and love in all that you do. KEY TAKEAWAYS Painting is not about resistance or perfectionism, it's a medicinal tool to heal and ...

What if every day you had the chance to experience more love and intimacy in your life. Dawn Rishárd is joined by transformational relationship mentor and author Dr. Gary Salyer in today’s episode of Wake Up To Real Love. Together they discuss how to self-evaluate and overcome childhood experiences to create better relationships, how to create love for yourself first and why identifying attachment patterns is essential to finding a healthy relationship. KEY TAKEAWAYS An in-depth self-evaluation ...

In today’s episode of Wake up to Real Love, founder and CEO of purpose work consulting and coaching Amanda Aikulola joins the show to share her incredible story. Learn of her inspiring personal story and how to overcome pain, anxiety and take back control of your life. KEY TAKEAWAYS You’re not going to fix yourself and you're going to have to live with this for the rest of your life so a supportive community can really help to get you through the tough moments. Especially when you had to travel ...

Stories of struggles and triumphs in love, sex, and relationships along with expert advice to create more conscious connections ABOUT THE HOST Dawn Rishárd, M.A. With 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages, like I did. As an Intuitive healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the chal...

Dustin Wheeler is an Empowered Woman, Motivational Speaker, Lifestyle Strategist, and Transformation Coach. Hear how she overcame her traumatic past, got out of her head, into her heart, and changed the stories she’d been telling herself her entire life. Dustin developed a 3 step strategy to discover her true passion and purpose, one much greater than herself. She teaches us the #1 lesson to create our life by design, where our actions match our values, and we recognize that we’re all part of th...

Imagine taking the microphone at age 15, moving from city to city, radio station to radio station, spinning records, entertaining millions, and getting paid to do what you love. Follow Rick Tarrant on his journey from Disc Jockey to #1 Radio Producer of Contemporary Christian music for 21 years, until he had his voice silenced, and lost almost everything he valued. Hear how Rick found the sun after darkness, reclaimed his voice, discovered his place in the world, and created new dreams again. Hi...

Do you accept yourself or others without always understanding? Meet Cynthia Fortlage, a 30 year Technology Executive and finalist for CIO of the Year (2019) by Women in IT awards, who had an identity crisis a few years ago. She questioned all of her ideas, expectations, and beliefs about who she was in the world. Cynthia used her leadership skills to redefine herself emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physically, while also navigating her family relationships and friendships. Cynthia gives ...

Join Patty Mohler on her journey flowing down the river of life, where the boulders in front of her don’t hold her back. Even though she’s experienced much grief and loss, as well as her own personal challenges, she doesn’t let those stories define her. Using her professional and personal life, Patty shares many tools to help (re)discover yourself, build community around you, and use your own resourcefulness to Renew and Restore your Mind-Body-Spirit connection, where you Celebrate Your Best Sel...

What do a Marine, Counselor, Helicopter Pilot, Medical Emergency Airlift Facilitator, National Speaker, Philanthropist, and Family Man all have in common? It’s Matthew Currin, founder and creator of Convene Communities, where real people share their real life experiences in order to collaborate, teach, and learn from each other. After a helicopter accident where his best friend died, Matthew tried to make sense of his own life and purpose. His extremely challenging and fascinating life experienc...

How can you expand your perspective? Meet Dr. Kimberley Linert, a holistic Behavioral Optometrist and host of Incredible Life Creator podcast, who helps people See themselves differently in order to heal poor eyesight and other physical and emotional issues. Despite suffering a terrible loss, Kimberley finished writing her book called Visualizing Happiness in Every Area of Your Life. She guides us to examine the vision of our lives and gives us the keys to make choices that either bring us close...

What if you could wipe the slate clean? What else could be possible for you? Join my beautiful guest Debra Putt, a coach and healer, who poses these questions to direct your life. Debra has studied, practiced, and facilitated many healing modalities, and most recently the tools of Access Consciousness. She introduces us to the possibility of living a live full of Ease, Joy, and Glory by listening to the messages of the body and spirit. She challenges our perspective and asks “What do you want to...

How do I stay in alignment with what I want in life? That is the question posed by Stephen Witmer, a Spiritual Psychologist. He leads us on the journey of the mind, heart, and body that leads us to the experiences we want to have and the people we want in our life. Stephen shifts our perspective, examines our choices, and shows us where our True Power lies when we’re our own best navigator and honoring our life. Stephen teaches ongoing group Skills classes in his home near Charlottesville, Virgi...

Laura Anne Hof is a woman with many skills and talents. Along with her career as an airline pilot, she’s a Mom, Life Coach, Meditator, Healer, Nature Lover, Yogi, French speaker, Amateur Musician, Photographer, and Writer. Hear how she claims her femininity in a job that’s predominately male, navigates her life by changing “one vector degree,” and overcame relationship challenges by making choices that honor her Truth. Laura teaches THE Power that takes you Higher and Higher in Life. Keep your ...

Meet Kia Baker, host of the Female Veterans Podcast, Co-Host of Hot Topics Live, and Success Coach at the London Real Academy. It is her mission and purpose to give a voice to the women in the military that no longer serve, are under-appreciated, often under-represented, and sometimes left ignored and alone on the streets homeless after suffering PTSD while serving their country. Having suffered PTSD herself and developed Fibromyalgia in the military, she learned how to help herself by helping o...

Are you or someone you know grieving? What do you do when you don't know how to support or help a friend when they lose someone they love? Meet Kelli Nielsen who has experienced great grief in her life. Within 2 years, she lost both her mother and her 20 year old son. Grief stricken, she sought help through various support groups, but found people who continued to suffer for years afterwards. Kelli went on a mission to make her way through the grief and turn her pain into purpose. Hear the heroi...

How did a California Girl and a Kiwi Native (both in their 20s) get engaged within a month and stay married for 20 years? Meet the Beautiful couple Jayme and Tony Williams who “grew up” together, built an IT Infrastructure business working side by side every day, and raised 2 gorgeous daughters. Hear how they navigated the paradoxes of Freedom vs Connection to find themselves, individually and as a couple. Not without challenges, but becoming more aware of their own energy and Truth, they learne...