Awakenings
Talking Epiphanies With Guideposts Magazine
I love Guidepost Magazine's content and mission and was honored to do this interview with Guideposts' sister publication, Mysterious Ways. They asked me about things I talk about a lot concerning epiphanies and things I've never really been asked or talked about...
How to Have An Epiphany: Elise Ballard’s Epiphany and How to Empower Yourself With These Aha Moments
once upon a time...my epiphany story Several years—and what now feels like an eternity—ago I was living in Austin, Texas. I was married at the time, and my husband and I were, for lack of a better word, struggling. I was acting in a play where my character was...
“Being American”: A First-Generation Immigrant Story
What I have realized, and I guess you could say the biggest epiphany about my life, is this: Value your heritage and embrace your distinctiveness. I have. I am not American. I am not Korean. I am both. I realize now that I don’t have to belong to one clique or one...
Interviews with Esther Perel: How to Fight Isolation, Get Connection & Feel Alive
My interview with Esther Perel was such a powerful experience. I loved her epiphany about realizing that it was ultimately her parents that gave her the desire to be a family and sex therapist. She describes growing up in Antwerp, Belgium, after WWII and noticing the...
How to Practice Self-Compassion And Be Your Own Best Friend
I’ve been thinking a lot about KINDNESS lately and I think the first time I really understood self-compassion was listening to Kristin Neff as I filmed her telling me her greatest epiphany. Self-compassion is about being KIND to yourself. Being your own best friend. It was a concept I never understood until that moment. It was the way she described it that gave me my own epiphany.
My Interview with Maya Angelou and How It Changed My Life
A few years ago, I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Maya Angelou for my book, Epiphany. I reached out to Dr. Angelou because several requests had come in via my website for her to be interviewed, and then I asked a woman I was interviewing, Stacey Lannert (also in my...
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...
Get Your Epiphany Project Lesson Plan Now Or Create Your Own!
I’ve learned not to fear but instead smile through the darkness. About a year ago, I was tagged in an Instagram post by Jordan Moxley, a young teacher in Columbus, Ohio. I didn't know Jordan or anyone in Columbus so I was perplexed at first until I saw that an...
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...
VIDEO: Interview with Anthony Meindl, Author, Speaker + International Acting & Life Coach
"It's having the willingness to be open and work and showing up consistently with that willingness in whatever you want to do that will lead to epiphanies and guide you." ~Anthony Meindl This interview for the Epiphany series is with my dear friend, the...
A Haircut Epiphany by Beth Karlin
I wanted to title this blog "Yes, Virginia, Epiphanies Are Sparked Even By Haircuts" (uh-huh, nod to "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus") but then I thought maybe the reference wouldn't work -- during a heat wave in July, no less. Maybe I'd be wrong about that (I...
One Way to Have an Epiphany: Observe & Contemplate Everyday Life
Many important discoveries are made merely by observing and contemplating what is experienced in everyday life. ~Roly Gosling, M.D. Today apparently is World Malaria Day. I didn't even know there was such a thing but I'm happy to know there is and that all the news...
Epiphany: “Many times, tremendous value lies in what we push aside as worthless.” – Florence Horne
"Many times, tremendous value lies in what we push aside as worthless." - Florence Horne Today, because I am in San Francisco for the final event of my book launch tour, I regretfully have to miss the memorial service taking place today in Los Angeles for one of the...
“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...
Gregory Wilson
"Wisdom is the application of knowledge...transforming the knowing into the doing." Gregory Wilson is a professional magician and mentalist who specializes in pickpocketing, cardsharking, shortchanging, and psychological deceptions. He has performed his “criminal act”...
Desmond Tutu
"God loves us all, no matter what. There is no one in this world who is a lost cause." Desmond Tutu was the first Black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and was then Archbishop Emeritus. He became known worldwide during the 1980s as a key...
Esther Perel
"There is a difference between just living and being alive. We are meant to feel aliveness, to be alive, to restore life on this earth, and to breathe life into others." Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s...
Julie Horton
"No one, no relationship, no role, no thing, nothing outside of you defines you. You have to define yourself, and then everyone around you reaps the benefits of that." Julie Horton serves as the executive vice president of Realsongs, the music publishing company of...
Florence Horne
"Many times, tremendous value lies in what we push aside as worthless." Florence Horne is a retired teacher and was a researcher on a project with the State Department of Education of New Jersey studying the effects of music and art on learning and development. She is...
Rachel Blaylock
"Don’t worry about making it all perfect, because it’s never going to be perfect. Not-so-perfect is still special. It’s even beautiful." Rachel Blaylock is a homemaker, wife, and mother of three. She studied as an actress, began taking minor roles in Dallas, Texas,...
Roger Birnbaum
"Striving to be the best possible version of yourself and helping the people around you do the same enriches your life and comes right back to you." Roger Birnbaum is the co-chairman and CEO of MGM Studios and is the co-founder, co-chairman, and chief executive...
G.W. Bailey
"When one life changes, many lives change." G.W. Bailey is a stage, film and television actor, internationally known for his many roles, including Capt. Harris in the Police Academy film series, Sgt. Rizzo from the MASH television series and his role as Lt. Provenza...
Maya Angelou
"We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can’t do." Maya Angelou is a celebrated African American poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, actress, producer, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. In 1970 her autobiography, I Know...
Alexis Minko
"To be blessed, be generous." Alexis Minko was born in Libreville, Gabon, and was raised primarily there and in Paris, France. He began his career as an attorney working for the United Nations in New York and worked with the Security Council of the United Nations on...
Andrew Ko
"Value your heritage and embrace your distinctiveness." Andrew Ko is the senior director for U.S. Education Strategy and Innovation for Microsoft Corporation, responsible for promoting and creating innovative programs improving education through the use of technology....
Ali MacGraw
"Every one of us has to pick our own way through the land mines of life — no one can or should do it for us. Sometimes the most extravagant pain is the gateway to something incandescent." Ali MacGraw is an internationally known, award-winning...
