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: Connecting With Our Former & Future Selves Today
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Lisa offers us a tool for connecting with our former and future selves -> TODAY!
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Recently, while waiting for my podcast guest to arrive, I found myself looking straight into my own eyes on the zoom screen which was already recording. Some days when this happens I turn my camera off or fiddle around adjusting things, but in this instance I remained still and calm and, kind of out of nowhere, spontaneously started talking to myself.
This is what I said:
“Hey future self. How lucky you are to have talked to
all these interesting people.”
It felt surprisingly powerful, sincere and thrilling all at the same time to send a message to my future self.
Then, as I continued to look at myself on the screen, I thought deeply about my younger former self and actually felt my inner child rejoice as I said with a smile;
“Hey former self, you DO become a broadcast journalist.”
Again, it was a special kind of feeling connecting with my former self in that way and letting them know where we landed. Afterall, I am the future of my former self and it felt expansive as we came closer together in that moment.
I paused a little to savor the feeling and then looked deeply into my eyes again. Nodding my head in real time acknowledgement and gratitude I said:
“Hey current self. Being in the moment is pretty cool.”
I share this with you now because I came across it as I was editing the interview from that day. I was about to delete this segment when I realized that there’s something profound and honest about taking the time to do this exercise.
It’s so easy to rush past what is right in front of us in this very moment and dismiss our former selves in pursuit of growing up, and to tease and taunt current self to do better, and achieve more so that eventually maybe just maybe then we might become our elusive ideal future self one day.
We forget that our inner child and our future self are both here within us right now in this moment.
So, take a moment to look yourself in the eye either in a mirror on your phone and summon your former and future selves in this moment.
Think about it.
What’s one thing right now that you can tell your future self?
What’s something you’d like to say to your child self or your former self that they might want to hear?
And now, what about your current self? What might you share together in this moment?
So I encourage you to try it. I promise you won’t regret it. Feel free to share yours with me by adding your video to the comments on my insta. My video is there on wideopenstages.
I’m Lisa Hopkins, stay safe and healthy everyone and remember to live in the moment.
