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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 they’ve 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 Stern🎶
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STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Lisa Hopkins: HOW DID YOU GET HERE?
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You can keep on doing things the way you’ve always done them. You already know how. You’ve done it before so you can do it again and again and again. Managing your current life instead of leading yourself into the infinite life that only you can create. If you choose to.
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🌟✨📚 **Buy 'The Places Where There Are Spaces: Cultivating A Life of Creative Possibilities'** 📚✨🌟
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! 🌈👇
🔗 Purchase Your Copy Here: https://a.co/d/2UlsmYC
🌟 **Interested in finding out more about working with Lisa Hopkins? Want to share your feedback or be considered as a guest on the show?**
🔗 Visit Wide Open Stages https://www.wideopenstages.com
📸 **Follow Lisa on Instagram:** @wideopenstages https://www.instagram.com/wideopenstages/
💖 **SUPPORT THE SHOW:** [Buy Me a Coffee] https://www.buymeacoffee.com/STOPTIME
🎵 **STOPTIME Theme Music by Philip David Stern**
🔗 [Listen on Spotify]
https://open.spotify.com/artist/57A87Um5vok0uEtM8vWpKM?si=JOx7r1iVSbqAHezG4PjiPg
You can keep on keeping on doing what you are doing right now. You are already here. You have arrived at this place in space and time and it was you who got yourself here.
There may have been external factors in play, and obstacles that you’ve had to overcome, but at the end of the day it is you that has made a series of decisions that led you to where you are in your life right now. And, depending on what lens you are looking through at this moment, what you do next is determined by how you choose to look at things right now.
Think about it. What factors played into you being at this point of your life right now?
How Did You Get Here?
But let’s step away from the big existential question for a minute and simply look at this small moment in time right now that we’re sharing together.
Take a moment to breathe and center yourself. With eyes open or closed if you are able, just continue breathing as you scan your body. Notice any tension you are feeling and simply breathe into that area and let it go.
Let me ask you something. Why are you listening right now? Was it planned? Is it because you always do it? Did you stumble upon it and get curious or maybe someone told you you should check it out. Think about it: What was it that led you to being here in this moment right now?
Whatever your reason, you have arrived here and chosen to be here listening, you also have a choice to stop listening to me. You can simply turn off your phone, close the book, shut down the computer. Go ahead and try it. Push pause on this track and just listen to what thoughts flood into your brain. I’ll be here when you return, and I hope that you do but if you decide not to, it’s entirely up to you. So when I say go push pause for 30 seconds and just pay attention to your thoughts. 54321 GO.
What did you notice? Thoughts, when we allow ourselves the space to think and rethink them offer us endless choices about how we want to consider them.
If you're content with things staying the way they are right now, then say no more I am happy for you. You can keep on doing things the way you’ve always done them. You already know how. You’ve done it before so you can do it again
So I encourage you to stop for a moment to consider your why. And lead yourself consciously into the infinite life that only you can create.
