Callings
Psychology Today Article: How Art and Hypnotherapy Can Spark That Epiphany You Need
Elise Ballard’s interview with acclaimed artist, Rachel Kice, discussing her latest project and how hypnotherapy and abstract art can help with well-being and epiphanies.
A Great Epiphany for the “Time of Coronavirus” – An Interview with Actress/Singer Bronagh Gallagher
The "time of coronavirus" has been one of deep reflection and major insights for me. Yesterday the phrase, "You're the one you're waiting for," kept coming to me and I thought, What memoir did I read that in? Then I realized it wasn't from a memoir or an...
Cory Booker’s Greatest Epiphany in Life: Authenticity Is Key For Success
All of the wildly successful people I've interviewed about their greatest epiphanies have this in common: They all know EXACTLY what their greatest epiphanies are and they've had reverence for them from the beginning. They use their epiphanies as building...
How To Shine Your LIGHT in the World: An Interview with Michael Bernard Beckwith
Today I'm posting the prompts from Epiphany: The Journal for this Epiphany interview from Michael Bernard Beckwith. The video of his interview with me is below and then the prompts are below it if you'd like to go deeper with thinking about your own Light and...
Take Your Place: My Interview with Lawrence Wright, Author of The Looming Tower (now a Hulu series!) and NEW book, God Save Texas
Take your place. The future is now. You don't evolve into who you want to be, you decide it. So take your place, make your mark, be the person you want to be in your family, in your community, in your career, in the world. Where’s there fear, there’s...
Why I Write Books (And Other Things)
The other day someone wrote me and said this: "I’m presenting at an upcoming local book marketing summit. My topic is The ROI of Book Marketing and part of my presentation addresses the different reason authors write books (it isn’t all about money). I...
How The Wisdom From Epiphanies Can Help Us Right Now: Talk Show Interview With Elise Ballard
This interview with Danya Bacchus for FOX's "Politics and the People" was so much fun. We talk about the interviews I've conducted with various people including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Clive Davis, Michael Beckwith, Linda Biehl and Dr. Oz. Danya asks me which...
EPIPHANY INTERVIEW: Is Your Negative Self-Talk Actually Your Voice…Or Someone Else’s?
Most of the time, a person’s negative self-talk isn’t even his or her voice-it’s someone else’s. Knowing that negative, critical self-talk is actually not your voice but someone else’s is the key to freedom from it. https://youtu.be/OhA7yzSVbSs I...
Matt Flannery’s Epiphany to start Kiva.org + How He Made It Happen
We seem separated by distance, culture, language, religion, etc., but the fact is our fates around the world are really intertwined and the things we value are similar. If everyone just knew that, we could bridge our perceived separateness,and the world would be a...
“Show the Love” Epiphany Series: Interview with Natalia Safran
"Every morning when I wake up, I say to myself, 'I'm so lucky.' Even if things may not be going so great and I'm not necessarily feeling that way, it's my mantra. It puts things in perspective - we all have something we can be grateful for each day, and I've found...
“Show the Love” Epiphany Series: Taking A “Light Bulb Moment” to Reality
"It is your enthusiasm, inspiration and commitment to your ideas that become contagious, and when you take action from that place, the roads you need are opened." ~ Betsy Heimann While we were filming at the trunk show and party for the wonderful jewelry line, Show...
“Show the Love” Epiphany Series + A Special Valentines Offer!
We are so excited about the month of February - the month of VALENTINES, ROMANCE, and LOVE -- because we have a very special offer for you to celebrate it and find that perfect Valentines gift for yourself and loved ones -- all from an epiphany! Read on... I recently...
Life = Risk: “If You’ve Never Failed, You’ve Never Lived.”
What do Lucille Ball, The Beatles, Ulysses S. Grant, Michael Jordan, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, and Abraham Lincoln all have in common? They failed. Big. Watch this video and get inspired to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and keep calm and carry on. Life=Risk....
Can Our Dreams Lead to Epiphanies?
I've heard several stories about dreams leading to life-changing epiphanies. Thank you to Gina Clapprood from Rhode Island for writing in to Epiphany Channel about hers. Have your dreams ever brought you answers or messages or an epiphany? Read on and see if this...
A Writer’s Epiphany: Your Calling Calls You All Along
"The moment I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." ~Rumi I remember reading this quote by Rumi one day, and I honestly thought it only pertained to...
EPIPHANY! Inspired By A Father’s Guidance & Love
"Simple question, simple answer. But it changed the course of my life, and I thank my dad every day for his guidance and love for me." Photo by Erich Schlegel I was in college at SMU (Southern Methodist University) and was majoring in business. We lived in Latin...
An Epiphany of Eros: Esther Perel’s Interview with Elise Ballard
For this month of love and eros, I thought I'd post an excerpt of renowned sex therapist and best-selling author, Esther Perel's epiphany from my book. This was of the most surprising interviews I did - I was not expecting the story she told me at all. It was so...
Music Legend Clive Davis’ Greatest Epiphany in Life, as told to Elise Ballard
By completely trusting and acting on your instincts, the course of your entire life can change. —Clive Davis It was the summer of 1967, and of all places I was at the Monterey International Pop Festival. I had come out of a corporate law career, never expecting to be...
How To Spark An Epiphany When You Feel STUCK
I never, ever knew (or admitted) what I wanted to do when I “grew up.” My major in college was Undecided. (Yes, they actually had that as a major.) I would “accidentally” get into plays and musicals as a kid and took drama all through high school and college even...
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”- J. M. Barrie
On January 13, we had the launch party for Epiphany at Gallery Brown in Los Angeles. It was also a little benefit for the Sunshine Kids, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to “helping kids with cancer smile” by putting on events for them and taking them on...
Orian Williams
"You can manifest your destiny when you stop waiting and start creating." Orian Williams is an award-winning film producer whose credits include the Academy Award-nominated film Shadow of a Vampire and the BAFTA-winning and critically acclaimed film Control, as well...
Diane Warren
"Believe in your passion. Believe in your power. Believe in being stubborn." Diane Warren is considered one of the most prolific and successful contemporary songwriters of our time. She has had over a hundred songs on the Top Ten charts and has written for Aerosmith,...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
"Each and every one of us has a glow, an inner glow, which we can use to illuminate other people’s darkness. That’s what love is, that’s what a relationship is, that’s what being a parent is, and that’s what being a friend is." Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the host of the...
Nell Newman
"Follow your passion. Passion gives you the ability to truly experience the good times and get through the tough times because what you’re working toward is so important to you." Nell Newman is the president and co-founder of Newman’s Own Organics: The Second...
Barry Manilow
"Your actions and words are always, always having an impact on another person—especially children." Barry Manilow is a world-renowned singer/songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, entertainer, and performer whose string of Billboard hit singles and...
Annie Leonard
"We’re living like we have another planet to go to." Annie Leonard is the director of The Story of Stuff project. She is the author of the book of the same name, and the creator and host of the Internet film sensation that has been viewed by more than ten million...
John Lehman
"If you have a passion for something and do it with excellence, you will prosper. Money and career will follow." John Lehman is the chairman and founding partner of the investment banking firm J. F. Lehman and Company. He served as Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan...
David Hudgins
"If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else is going to. So go for it. Find what makes you happy and do it." David Hudgins is a television writer, executive producer, husband, and father. His credits include co-producer on the WB’s hit television series Everwood...
Frank Desiderio
"What brings true happiness is true connection with each other." Frank Desiderio is the director of the Paulist Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and is a member of the Paulist Fathers. Prior to that, he served as president of Paulist Productions in Los Angeles, and...
Cory Booker
"Character ultimately rules the day. People will see the truth of who you are even when you make mistakes." Cory Booker has served as the mayor of Newark, New Jersey—the largest city in the state—and now serves as a US Senator. Under Mayor Booker’s leadership, Newark...
Michael Bernard Beckwith
"We think we’re the shade. We’ve forgotten that we are the Light." Michael Bernard Beckwith is the founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center, a transdenominational spiritual community located in Los Angeles, California, that today...
Ben Barry
"We have the power to challenge and redefine beauty every day through our words and actions." Ben Barry is the founder of the Ben Barry Agency in Canada, the first modeling agency in the world to represent models of all ages, sizes, backgrounds, and abilities. He is...
