International Women's Day

Latest Podcast Episode. The Candid Conversations Season 2 Episode 6-Troubadours and Teachers with special guest Rev Ananda Leeke.
In today's episode, I speak with my special guest and wonderful client Rev Ananda Leeke for the International Women's History month special. Throughout the month I will be interviewing some dynamic and centred creative women.

We talk about all things books, creativity, authors, and also:

⭐️What inspired Ananda to create her book, including many writers, such as ntozake shange, Maya Angelou, and bell hooks to Billie Holiday as one of her musical influences.

⭐️How Ananda starts her creative process which led her to creating three books.

⭐️How to show up and work on our 'mind drama' to enable us to create masterpieces.
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Again we go in, and this conversation is full of self-love gems grab your herbal tea and invite the love of energy into your space.

If you have a desire to write your own book this episode is a must!

About Ananda,
Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke discovered mindfulness, self-care, and wellness when her career as a lawyer, an investment banker, and a digital communications professional stressed her out, caused burnout, and did not produce the level of success she expected. Over the past 30 years, mindfulness, self-care, and wellness have helped Ananda navigate change, become resilient, overcome panic attacks, transform her relationship with technology and social media, and release her career expectations. As a result, she has been able to pursue her calling as an artist-in-residence at Smith Center for Healing and the Arts at Howard University Hospital and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, an author, a speaker, a trainer, a mindfulness and yoga teacher, a digital wellness educator, a reiki and sound healing practitioner, a Thriving Mindfully Coach, and a Human Design Doula. Today, she coaches and trains high achievers and mission-driven companies, organizations, and communities on how to navigate change, to embrace self-care and digital wellness, to tap into creativity, become resilient, and to thrive mindfully.As the founder and Chief Mindfulness Officer of Ananda Leeke Consulting, she leads a wellness company that specializes in personal and professional development. She oversees the Thriving Mindfully Academy and Resource Network, an online learning platform and membership site. She also serves as a Human Design Doula, a legally ordained interfaith reverend, and hosts and produces the Thriving Mindfully Podcast. In addition, she creates artwork that promotes mindfulness, self-care, wellness, and resiliency. Her mixed media collages, wire sculptures, and paintings have been exhibited in the Washington DC metropolitan area, New York City, North Carolina, and Kentucky. Several of her paintings decorate the covers of her books, Love’s Troubadours, a yoga-inspired novel, and That Which Awakens Me, a mindful creativity memoir. Both books and her mindful technology memoir, Digital Sisterhood are available on Amazon. Currently, she is writing Thriving Mindfully as the REAL ME: A Memoir of Lipstick, Loving Kindness, Joy, and Everything in Between.

Ananadas website
anandaleeke.com/
www.instagram.com/anandaleeke/

Purchase Love's Troubadour on Amazon

www.amazon.com/Loves-Troubadours…One/dp/0595440819

Women we discussed
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ntozake-shange for coloured girls.
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Susan L Taylor
www.instagram.com/iamsusanltaylor/?hl=en

Lessons in Living
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Iyanla Vanzant
iyanla.com/
Tapping the power within
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We also spoke about Billy Holiday the Jazz Artist.

To book a consult to see if the Highly Capable Creative Programme for Creative Women is for you contact me here www.mjfontaine.co.uk

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Just Enough Demon

Angels and Devils by mjfontaine: Postcard and Print

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

— Maya Angelou

What is your 'Just enough or DoubtDemon?

Happy New Year (Moon) As I reflect on the New Moon I just wanted to talk about the manifestation process and the things that stop us from reaching our goals.  Most of our obstacles come from the mind, which are the thoughts that say " you can't do it " or "you haven't got the energy to do it “This negative self-talks takes us of our axis and we forget above our 'marker' which is our 'measure' in the SMART target system.  An example of my marker would be that I am in the process of creating a twelve-week online programme for women,  however this morning I had a huge crises of confidence as to whether I could do this due to the time I needed to create my art vs the time I had to dedicate to do this programme(you want transparency right?) but my positive wise guide inside me reminded me that I just completed my first SOLO exhibition and believe me if I could do that then anybody could.

I doubted myself I would be able to do this

“Some of us were not schooled in success so we spend our adult lives coping with our small successes and blocking out the big ones”

— mjfontaine

A week before my show I came face to face with the Doubt Demon who is really strong when I have a major change in my life.  So I told myself you can do this and then I realised that was also stopping me going to the next level in my life, at times because of my Demon andI am unable to cope with the mass volume of interest not because I am incapable,  but because of my doubts, the demon comes alive.

So in the past my mind would only manifest just enough, clients, sales, etc for me to get by to support my fears or accommodate my limiting beliefs.

So with this realisation I realize that I don't need to listen to the doubt demon.   Sothe question that I want to ask you is for this New Moon is how are you accommodating the 'Just enough of or Doubt Demon.

Please leave your comments below what area of your life is affected.

Marilyn x