
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 theyβve 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 SternπΆ
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STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Lisa Hopkins: The Art of Giving & Receiving
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The season of giving is upon us, and although some of us are brilliant at finding that perfect gift, but why do we find it so difficult sometimes to receive?
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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! ππ
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π **Interested in finding out more about working with Lisa Hopkins? Want to share your feedback or be considered as a guest on the show?**
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The Art of Giving and Receiving
The season of giving is upon us, and although some of us are brilliant at finding that perfect gift, why do we find it so difficult sometimes to receive? Weβve perfected going through the motions when someone gives us something because we know what receiving is βsupposed to look likeβ. We smile and nod with our humble thanks, or maybe even go overboard and gush. Receiving compliments can be the worst. They seem somehow dangerous and summon an instinctual urge to deflect the praise and protect ourselves from being exposed. So we laugh it off or self-deprecate.
But what does receiving actually FEEL like?
As kids, saying please and thank you was one of the first things we were taught. It was also one of the biggest ways we could disappoint our parents, if we forgot to say it. But saying and feeling are not the same thing. Itβs easy to remember how badly we felt when we were reprimanded for not saying it- but did we ever have the opportunity to learn how giving thanks actually feels, when we mean it?
There is a gift in receiving. A reciprocal energy that is charged and cyclical. If we give thanks by rote when we receive something because we are βsupposed toβ, or when at the holidays itβs our turn to say what weβre thankful for around the dinner table, but donβt take the time to be vulnerable and dig into our hearts to express and share how we really feel, we have stopped the cycle and robbed the giver of the gift. And ourselves of the joy of receiving.
I have no doubt that we will all be feeling more connected to what really matters to us this holiday season after having lost so much. Perhaps it will be easier to receive the true gift of being able to gather, and celebrate with our families again this year.
This holiday season I urge you to slow down, and consider how you feel when you are giving thanks and to pass it on and pay it forward.
I know that I am truly thankful for you, dear listener for taking the time to listen.
And as my my gift to you, I offer the words of author Kahlil Gibran who wrote:
Go to your fields and your gardens,
and you shall learn that
it is the pleasure of the bee
to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower
to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And to both, bee and flower,
the giving and the receiving of pleasure
is a need and an ecstasy.
Iβm Lisa Hopkins. Stay safe and healthy everyone and remember to live in the moment.