
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: Exactly Where You Are Supposed to Be
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Lisa shares how she is learning to tune in to new frequencies and practice deep listening to others and especially to oneself.
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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! ๐๐
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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?**
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๐ธ **Follow Lisa on Instagram:** @wideopenstages https://www.instagram.com/wideopenstages/
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Exactly Where You Are Supposed to Be
As 2021 comes to an end, it is perfectly natural to feel our inner critics and self saboteurs crank up the volume in our heads, telling us what we should be doing and reminding us what we havenโt done. It isnโt difficult to become hijacked by the fear of time running out, as another year passes by, to walk the tenuous line of hope and regret. We may even feel ourselves wavering precariously between braggadocious declarations of resolutions for the new year, and the harsh frequency of shame. Like a song on repeat replays all the things we said we would do but didnโt last year.
I am writing this to remind you and in turn to remind myself, that we are exactly where we are supposed to be. Right now, right here listening to these words. Nobody told you you should, no one will know that you did. Except you.
As I get ready to host my family again for the holidays for the first time in 2 years, I find myself trying to perfect everything for their arrival. Maybe itโs my theater background - I just love staging and take pride in creating spaces for others to experience; to host, produce, and direct. But what I am learning, after a lifetime of successfully doing all of the above both personally and professionally, is that while creating spaces is a gift I have, that holding space, if I continue to practice it, could be a superpower.
So I turned off the vacuum cleaner, took off my rubber gloves and headed to my office to write this. Iโm exactly where Iโm supposed to be. I have a smile on my face because while I was cleaning it came to me that I know what my word is for 2022. In fact, I recognize that this word isnโt a place to get to, but rather a place to come from and that it has been there all along.
My word is โListenโ. Not with my ears but with my heart. To tune in to the frequency where I can hear beyond the external noise of past and future and to hold space for others and for myself.
Iโve already been tuning in to it more often by simply slowing down and the signal is getting clearer the more I listen rather than adjust the dial. And do you want to hear the coolest thing about it? I didnโt find it by looking for it, I discovered it by listening.
So I was expecting my dad to call before he left today so I could be prepared but just learned heโs been on the road for 2 hours and will be here within the hourโฆ.so Iโm gonna practice what I preach and take this moment to breath - why donโt you join me, just let go and listen.
Iโm Lisa Hopkins, thanks to you for your continued support and for taking the time to be in the moment with me and my wonderful guests and tuning in to listen.
Stay safe and healthy everyone and remember to live in the moment.