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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: The Gift of the Present
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"What I want for Christmas threatens to cost me a lot and, if I don’t pay attention, I will be paying deeply in emotional and spiritual pain well into the New Year. "
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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
No matter what you are celebrating this time of the year, ‘tis the season for people to be asking each other what they want for the holidays. I know exactly what I want for Christmas. It doesn't cost anything and you can't find it in the store. I know what you are thinking. You’re thinking I’m gonna share something neatly wrapped up in altruism and mindful platitudes. But it’s quite the opposite really. When I said what I want doesn’t cost anything, that wasn’t exactly true.
In fact, what I want for Christmas threatens to cost me a lot and, if I don’t pay attention, I will be paying deeply in emotional and spiritual pain well into the New Year.
You see, when our wants are tied to things happening or people being a certain way, our happiness becomes dependent on the things we can’t control and, ironically we have given away the greatest gift we already possess in the process. It’s so easy to dwell on the vivid memories of what the holidays used to look like or to imagine what they could be - if.
So when we say all I want is for my family to be happy or for there to be peace on Earth although beautiful sentiments, those are big asks and nobody can give you that.
Despite the fact we’ve all been conditioned to want this to be "the most wonderful time of the year", I urge you to consider the notion that the only true gift, and one that we have all been given, is the gift of the present.
I’m not saying that this holiday season I won’t be missing family members who have passed on or moved far away but, I am resolved to let go of hopes and expectations and simply enjoy each new moment as it unfolds.
