
STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally and winner of the 2022 Communicator Award for Podcasting, STOPTIME:Live in the Moment combines mindfulness, well being and the performing arts and features thought provoking and motivational conversations with high performing creative artists around practicing the art of living in the moment and embracing who we are, and where we are at. Long form interviews are interspersed with brief solo episodes that prompt and invite us to think more deeply. Hosted by Certified Professional Coach Lisa Hopkins, featured guests are from Broadway, Hollywood and beyond. Although her guests are extraordinary innovators and creative artists, the podcast is not about showbiz and feels more like listening to an intimate coaching conversation as Lisa dives deep with her talented guests about the deeper meaning behind why they do what they do and what theyโve learned along the way. Lisa is a Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership Master Practitioner and CORE Performance Dynamics Specialist at Wide Open Stages. She specializes in working with high-performing creative artists who want to play full out. She is a passionate creative professional with over 20 years working in the performing arts industry as a director, choreographer, producer, writer and dance educator. STOPTIME Theme by Philip David Stern๐ถ
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STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Lisa Hopkins: The Places Where There Are Spaces
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It is often not until we look back that we recognize the intrinsic beauty of these unplanned, non-specific moments that make up our lives.
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๐โจ๐ **Buy 'The Places Where There Are Spaces: Cultivating A Life of Creative Possibilities'** ๐โจ๐
Dive into a world where spontaneity leads to creativity and discover personal essays that inspire with journal space to reflect. Click the link below to grab your copy today and embark on a journey of self-discovery and unexpected joys! ๐๐
๐ Purchase Your Copy Here: https://a.co/d/2UlsmYC
๐ **Interested in finding out more about working with Lisa Hopkins? Want to share your feedback or be considered as a guest on the show?**
๐ Visit Wide Open Stages https://www.wideopenstages.com
๐ธ **Follow Lisa on Instagram:** @wideopenstages https://www.instagram.com/wideopenstages/
๐ **SUPPORT THE SHOW:** [Buy Me a Coffee] https://www.buymeacoffee.com/STOPTIME
๐ต **STOPTIME Theme Music by Philip David Stern**
๐ [Listen on Spotify]
https://open.spotify.com/artist/57A87Um5vok0uEtM8vWpKM?si=JOx7r1iVSbqAHezG4PjiPg
How many times have you looked back at something that has happened in your life and thought
โIf only I had known how amazing that was I would have appreciated it moreโ ?
It is often not until we look back that we recognize the intrinsic beauty of these unplanned, non-specific moments that make up our lives.
We are so focused on where we think we need, should, or want to go, that we hold back from being all in too soon, for fear that we arenโt ready yet. Buying into the idea that we will be โWHENโโฆ.
But what are we missing along the way?
What are the things that you donโt see that are right in front of you in this moment that will become clear only through the wider lens of retrospect or worse yet what are the things that youโre missing altogether? (Make no mistake, this is not FOMO and has nothing to do with anyone else but you.)
These things are Off the time continuum - not on your list or calendar. Rarely recognized or deliberate. They just happen. Theyโre always there. Ripe with possibility for a new storyline or a plot twist, ready to be created. Whether or not you slow down long enough to notice them is up to you.
Can you think of a time when things havenโt gone as planned but something else occurred that would not have otherwise happened? Thatโs created space. Unplanned and unexpected, a departure from the itinerary you so carefully map out for your day, your weekโฆyour life.
There are beautiful spaces to experience and explore between leaping and landing, learning, and growing, giving and receiving, the charted and the uncharted, today and tomorrow, the vision and the dream.
They are places full of energy and life and possibility that exist both in the extraordinary and the seemingly mundane. They are everywhere all around us in each moment and in between each of those moments - in everything we do.
These spaces are unattached to purpose or goals, they are in the moment where gratitude and deep learning and understanding coexist. Gone unnoticed, these very same spaces are wasted, rendered inert into a hardened, closed solid regret.
If we are the culmination of all that we have experienced up until now, how might we open ourselves up to seeing, exploring and creating more of these spaces in each moment of every day? The once that are here right now.
I am working on writing my first book. There Iโve said it! I wasnโt planning on saying it, but Iโve created the space for the courage to say it out loud to you in this moment. Who knows what that will go on to create but I hope that the space on the page will be there to hold my words. The title of the book? โThe Places Where There Are Spacesโ
Iโm Lisa Hopkins, thanks for listening. Stay safe and healthy everyone and remember to live in the moment.