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Brooke Axtell's own story - and the heartbreaking and stunning way she tells it - helps give voice and hope to all other victims of abuse and human trafficking. Brooke's own story and voice rang out across the globe in her appearance on The Grammy's with Katy Perry in 2015 - where her gifts as a writer, poet and activist stunned the world: "After a year of passionate romance with a handsome, charismatic man, i was stunned when he began to abuse me. I believed he was lashing out because he was in pain, and needed help. I believed my compassion could restore him, and our relationship. My empathy was used against me. I was terrified of him, and ashamed I was in this position. What bound me to him was my desire to heal him. My compassion was incomplete - because it did not include me. When he threatened to kill me, I knew I had to escape. I revealed the truth to my mom, and she encouraged me to seek help at a local domestic violence center. This conversation saved my life. Authentic love does not devalue another human being. Authentic love does not silence, shame, or abuse. If you are in a relationship that does not honor and respect you, I want you to know that you are worthy of love. Please reach out for help. Your voice will save you. Let it extend into the night, let it part the darkness, let it set you free to know who you truly are - valuable, beautiful, loved." View Brooke's Grammy appearance address: http://www.sheisrising.org/mission Since then, Brooke founded SHE IS RISING, to provide a healing community for survivors of rape, abuse and sex trafficking. http://www.sheisrising.org Brooke herself was trafficked by her nanny when she was 7 years old. And this experience made her more vulnerable to experiencing domestic violence later in life, she explains— a major risk factor for entering abusive relationships is sexual abuse before the age of 18. "I founded SHE IS RISING because I believe in the unconditional worth of women and girls who face the trauma of violence and exploitation," Brooke says. "I believe in their dignity, resilience, creativity and vision for the future. SHE IS RISING empowers survivors to become leaders." Join Julie Ann and Brooke as they explore the ways we can all help inspire young women to reclaim their worth and express their power to create a more compassionate world.

Can visualization through video technology help children in poverty-stricken parts of the world see their lives beyond their current circumstances - and enable them to envision a new life for themselves, and perhaps a new country, a new world? Natalie Ledwell is testing this with 10,000 children in Columbia - and soon elsewhere across the globe. Join Julie Ann and Natalie to discover how the same visualization practices and tools the world's most successful, productive and creative people (from CEOs and billionaires to athletes and musicians) use every day to perform at their peak, can enable us, and children across the globe, to consciously shift our thoughts to create the outcomes we want with greater ease and joy. Julie Ann Turner's ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner Radio Show is broadcast worldwide to more than 680,000+ global followers and growing, where Julie Ann interviews the visionaries leading Conscious SHIFT unfolding across the globe - like Marianne Williamson, Seth Godin, Don Miguel Ruiz, and more - as we all realize we are the only ones who can consciously choose to CREATE the world we wish to see.

BIG MIRACLES happen in SMALL groups. In fact, extensive research shows the altruistic ("other-focused") power of intention within small circles is a fast track to the miraculous” AND, the less one is focused on self, the more powerful the mirror healing effects for the intender. Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT Show guest, award-winning journalist Lynne McTaggart - author of THE POWER OF EIGHT: Harnessing the Miraculous Energies of a Small Group to Heal Others, Your Life and the World, as well as bestsellers The Intention Experiment and The Field - has spent 10 years studying these Power of Eight groups, and says she is continually "amazed by their extraordinary healing power." Lynne set out to test whether group intention works with major Intention Experiments and these Power of Eight groups - and discovered that the participants - the "intenders" - as well as the targets of the intentions, were getting healed. "I’ve studied them and I’ve concluded that they are a combination of the power of intention, the power of altruism, the power of the group and possibly something else, some X factor I don’t entirely understand," Lynne says. "But what I do know is that they work and work powerfully. It had been there all along, in the early Christian teachings, all those homilies so familiar that they that now sound like words on a Hallmark card: Do unto others. Love your neighbor as yourself. Focusing on someone else heals the healer. Sending altruistic thoughts of healing in a group is a "fast track to the miraculous." Join Julie Ann and Lynne to discover how to harness these energies and the incredible rebound power of group intention to heal your own life.

LIVE 2p PT * THE ABUNDANCE PROJECT * w Derek Rydall Abundance is not something you lack - it's something within you, that you must circulate > #ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner * TODAY, 2/21! 2pm Pacific! > Join LIVE @ www.ConsciousSHIFTRadio.com REGISTER at www.ConsciousSHIFTShow.com (IT'S FREE) [Receive Show Details + Access to GIFT > Genius Guide + Audio] Catch the Global #ConsciousSHIFT Show as Derek Rydall joins Host Julie Ann Turner for a thought-provoking dialogue (just crossed 680K+ global subscribers - celebrating with all fellow ConsciousSHIFT-ers! Thanks!) REGISTER at www.ConsciousSHIFTShow.com (IT'S FREE) ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner featuring Derek Rydall / THE ABUNDANCE PROJECT https://www.facebook.com/events/1555436817909896/ Surprisingly, abundance isn't something you can "get" - or something you lack, it's something within you, that you must circulate. When you understand how to do this, you can generate all you need no matter the circumstances you face. Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Derek Rydall - author of The Abundance Project - will share how you can: -- Discover the true nature and source of wealth -- Understand The Great Reversal, finally putting you in a place of power to manifest -- See the Big Betrayal, which will take all your power back from the world -- Receive the 7 Gifts That Give You Everything (this is a game-changer!) -- Discover Abundance Blind Spots that Have Been Silently Sabotaging Your Success -- Create a way of life that will allow you to have the life you deeply desire and truly deserve. Join Julie Ann and Derek for this transformational exploration - you will feel the shift, and you will never see wealth and abundance or your place in the world the same way again! Julie Ann Turner's ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner Radio Show is broadcast worldwide to more than 680,000+ global followers and growing, where Julie Ann interviews the visionaries leading Conscious SHIFT unfolding across the globe - like Marianne Williamson, Seth Godin, Don Miguel Ruiz, and more - as we all realize we are the only ones who can consciously choose to CREATE the world we wish to see. REGISTER at www.ConsciousSHIFTShow.com (IT'S FREE) (Receive Show Details + Access to GIFT > Genius Guide + Audio) Join us LIVE for #ConsciousSHIFT! with Julie Ann Turner > * WED., 2/21! 2pm Pacific! > www.ConsciousSHIFTRadio.com We'd LOVE for you to join us! (& Help us spread the word! ;-D

Catch the Global #ConsciousSHIFT Show as Daniel Pink joins Host Julie Ann Turner for a thought-provoking dialogue (just crossed 680K+ global subscribers - celebrating with all fellow ConsciousSHIFT-ers! Thanks!) REGISTER at www.ConsciousSHIFTShow.com (IT'S FREE) ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner featuring Daniel Pink /WHEN: Secrets of Perfect Timing Timing is everything ... but we don't know much about timing itself. It turns out, timing is not an art - it is a science ... one we may use to our great benefit. Our lives are a neverending stream of 'when' decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Timing, it's often assumed, is an art; Daniel Pink shows that timing is in fact a science. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work and succeed. * How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? * Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? * How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? * Why should we avoid going to the hospital in the afternoon? * Why is singing in time with other people as good for us as exercise? * And what is the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married? Join Julie Ann and Dan for irresistible stories and practical takeaways that will give you compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives. Julie Ann Turner's ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner Radio Show is broadcast worldwide to more than 680,000+ global followers and growing, where Julie Ann interviews the visionaries leading Conscious SHIFT unfolding across the globe - like Marianne Williamson, Seth Godin, Don Miguel Ruiz, and more - as we all realize we are the only ones who can consciously choose to CREATE the world we wish to see. REGISTER at www.ConsciousSHIFTShow.com (IT'S FREE) (Receive Show Details + Access to GIFT > Genius Guide + Audio) Join us LIVE for #ConsciousSHIFT! with Julie Ann Turner > * WED., 1/17! 2pm Pacific! > www.ConsciousSHIFTRadio.com We'd LOVE for you to join us! (& Help us spread the word! ;-D

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Thomas Moore - author of THE SOUL OF CHRISTMAS (and New York Times bestseller "Care of the Soul," among his 22 books) - says that, in truth, "the enchantment of Christmas is a taste of what is possible if human beings could really love each other." The infant in the manger symbolizes new life, the potential all human beings have to be a new kind of being dedicated to agape, a love of the other - whoever that 'other' may be." Moore believes this sacred holiday has plenty to offer to Christians and non-Christians alike - that is an event and a transformation that belongs to everyone. THE SOUL OF CHRISTMAS is all about Christmas - taking a look at one of the important symbols of the Christmas season (the birth of Jesus in a manger, the guiding star, the Magi, the Angels, and the Christmas tree), and exploring their history and their meaning, across belief systems - to discover how everyone, no matter what their religion or belief, can enjoy this magical time of year. Moore shows that focusing on the meaning behind the symbolism and the sentiment behind the commercialism can lead us to a way of living that can hold value to people of any faith: a grand experiment in living from generosity rather than competitiveness, a single day when children know better than anyone that magic exists. With the right mindset, even shopping can become a deep practice of love and spirituality. Treasure the gifts exchanged at this time. "Christmas gifts are a taste of utopia, a way of being in the world that flows from the heart and overcomes ego anxieties. In this way, gifts are the real meaning of Christmas and are an important part of the entire, multi-faceted festival." Christmas, says Moore, belongs to everyone. It has meaning only as a plan for the entire human race. "If you enter the spirit of Christmas, the child could be born in you. You have a chance to rise above the unconsciousness that is widespread in the world today." Christmas shouldn't be sentimentalized or turned into consumer frenzy: "The child lying in the manger is perhaps the most radical of all spiritual reformers." The Christ Child reminds us of the infinite possibilities of life available to us, and we celebrate that vitality in the season of good cheer, gift-giving, and community. Christmas also offers an opportunity to get in touch with our own mystical side, to recreate the Nativity in our hearts. "If we could but mix just a small measure of the child's naïveté with an intelligent appreciation of the traditional Christmas symbols, myths, and images," Moore asserts, "we might be surprised at the profundity." Meditate on the nativity scene. Put one in your home and notice the ones displayed in your community. "Nothing could be more important than finding ways to incorporate in your person and your life the moment when the spiritual realm fully intersects with your ordinary life." Join Julie Ann and Thomas to ponder the deeper meanings and wonders of Christmas - available to each of us, with the potential to lift the souls of humanity.

* YOUR MESSY BRILLIANCE * with Kelly McNelis What if your "beautiful flaws" are essential to living the whole, happy, passionate life you're trying so hard to perfect? > on #ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner * TODAY, 11/15! 2pm Pacific! > Join LIVE @ www.ConsciousSHIFTRadio.com REGISTER at www.ConsciousSHIFTShow.com (IT'S FREE) [Receive Show Details + Access to GIFT > Genius Guide + Audio] Catch the Global #ConsciousSHIFT Show as Inventor Kelly McNelis joins Host Julie Ann Turner for a thought-provoking dialogue (just crossed 680K+ global subscribers - celebrating with all fellow ConsciousSHIFT-ers! Thanks!) REGISTER at www.ConsciousSHIFTShow.com (IT'S FREE) ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner featuring Kelly McNelis/YOUR MESSY BRILLIANCE There is no magic pill ... no one-size-fits-all solution to your problems ... no guru coming to save you. And there is no personal-development program that will get you to “perfect.” The truth is, you don’t need any of those things. You are brilliant and breathtakingly powerful, exactly as you are. The remarkable truth — one that you already know deep down in your bones — is that this idea of perfection can’t bring you the joy, passion, and purpose you are craving. What you are looking for, according to author and Women For One founder Kelly McNelis, is your messy brilliance. It’s the part of you that’s perfectly imperfect and that contains your wholeness: the good, the bad, and the ugly. In fact, fully owning our stories will free us from the disease of perfectionism, shame, and self-judgment that holds us back from living the life of our dreams. Join Julie Ann and Kelly to discover practical advice and powerful tools to claim ourvoices, tap into our power, and ultimately find our greatest joy and passion for life. Julie Ann Turner's ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner Radio Show is broadcast worldwide to more than 680,000+ global followers and growing, where Julie Ann interviews the visionaries leading Conscious SHIFT unfolding across the globe - like Marianne Williamson, Seth Godin, Don Miguel Ruiz, and more - as we all realize we are the only ones who can consciously choose to CREATE the world we wish to see. REGISTER at www.ConsciousSHIFTShow.com (IT'S FREE) (Receive Show Details + Access to GIFT > Genius Guide + Audio) Join us LIVE for #ConsciousSHIFT! with Julie Ann Turner > * WED., 11/15! 2pm Pacific! > www.ConsciousSHIFTRadio.com We'd LOVE for you to join us! (& Help us spread the word! ;-D

Catch the Global #ConsciousSHIFT Show as Inventor Kevin Munro joins Host Julie Ann Turner for a thought-provoking dialogue (just crossed 680K+ global subscribers - celebrating with all fellow ConsciousSHIFT-ers! Thanks!) REGISTER at www.ConsciousSHIFTShow.com (IT'S FREE) ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner featuring Danielle Sax/CONSCIOUS SELF-CARE As the Holiday Season begins – we may consciously choose peace over stress, blessing over busy-ness - and set the tone for living year-round from a place of balance, through a powerful practice of Conscious Self-Care. Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest Danielle Sax - an internationally recognized author, speaker and Conscious Self-Care expert - will share how "over-giving" can actually work against the joy we seek during this annual Season of Giving - and how conscious self-care practices that start with, but go far beyond, gratitude, can also safeguard our health, our well-being, and our most precious relationships and moments in our lives. Danielle is a mentor to professionals and entrepreneurs who lead powerfully and care deeply, but who have given so much of themselves in their professional and personal lives, that they have sacrificed themselves, their relationships and their well-being in the process. In her book "Shifting Out of Chronic Stress," Danielle shares how Conscious Self-Care offers a powerful, long-lasting solution. By sharing her authentic story and expertise, she shows you how you, too, like hundreds of others, can move through any challenge or stress masterfully by practicing Conscious Self-Care in your daily life. Join Julie Ann and Danielle to discover simple-but-powerful steps to shift out of stress and into your inner strength, starting now. Julie Ann Turner's ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner Radio Show is broadcast worldwide to more than 680,000+ global followers and growing, where Julie Ann interviews the visionaries leading Conscious SHIFT unfolding across the globe - like Marianne Williamson, Seth Godin, Don Miguel Ruiz, and more - as we all realize we are the only ones who can consciously choose to CREATE the world we wish to see. REGISTER at www.ConsciousSHIFTShow.com (IT'S FREE) (Receive Show Details + Access to GIFT > Genius Guide + Audio) Join us LIVE for #ConsciousSHIFT! with Julie Ann Turner > * WED., 11/1! 2pm Pacific! > www.ConsciousSHIFTRadio.com We'd LOVE for you to join us! (& Help us spread the word! ;-D

What if the world as we know it operates on a false premise - a premise that everything is separate from everything else? What if ultimate reality is something different than what we believe in the mainstream? What if we can create Heaven on Earth by simply living as who we really are? Global Oneness Day was created precisely to address these things. Join Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Steve Farrell - co-founder with "Conversations with God" author Neale Donald Walsch of Humanity's Team, the international organization and movement that created "Global Oneness Day" - the "Earth Day for Awakened Humanity" - in its 8th year, on Tuesday, Oct. 24. > Register for the free Global Oneness Day Summit & Gifts https://vg165.isrefer.com/go/g1d17JAT/jaturner/ Speakers include Michael Beckwith, Marianne Williamson, Jean Houston, Doreen Virtue, Nassim Haramein, Panache Desai, Gary Zukav, Ervin Laszlo, Neale Donald Walsch, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Bruce Lipton, Gregg Braden, Lynne McTaggart and Ervin Laszlo, and many others. ConsciousSHIFT is a Global Oneness Day Co-Creator this year, and I am committed in lending my support, as I have for years. I’m contributing my time to call attention to our connection, our Oneness, because this is the first step in creating a fulfilling, compassionate and sustainable world. It is an ancient truth, a timeless truth, that we are all One with the Divine, each other and all of life. We are not separate, even though it appears that we are when we look out on the world. This wisdom is shared in the Old Testament, Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas, Tao Te Ching, the Upanishads and other Sacred Text. The message that we are all One with the Divine and each other has been shared over the millennia. In Oneness, we see that what we do for others we are actually doing for our self. It is easy to see how this leads us down a virtuous path. For example, when people are hurting or the earth is crying out for our attention, we respond. But not from a vantage point of a problem that is “out there” because there is no “out there." Everything is interrelated, interconnected and interdependent - so everything is personal and we hold everything close. In Humanity’s Team we believe this is the missing message. It is the message that turns the world right side up. When we commune with the Divine within and live in connection with the world around us everything starts to come together. We are part of the beautiful planet we inhabit, so we naturally come into service to humanity and all of life. Imagine what the world looks like when we live in the truth of our connection, our Oneness. Imagine each of us communing with the Divine within and coming into service to the world around us because we know it is part of who we are. Imagine all of us living as our Big Self, not our small self. This is the Heaven on Earth that we’ve all dreamed about. We believe we can make this our reality in this generation. In 2007, the Humanity’s Team Global Council gathered in Portugal to discuss this. We reflected upon how Earth Day had been created to address the ecological crisis and discussed how a Global Oneness Day might call attention to the illusion of separation that has caused so much dysfunction in the world. We agreed to create an Oneness Petition and to solicit signatures from all over the world. In 2010 we gathered over 50,000 signatures from over 150 countries and arranged a meeting with Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury at the United Nations. On May 20th our team presented the petition and formally requested that the United Nations create a Global Oneness Day. The rest is history. We were invited to create Global Oneness Day so we did. Our first Global Oneness Day was on October 24th, 2010. We arranged a global conference call with the capacity to hand

INSPIRED INVENTION … how creative visionary and American veteran Kevin Munro acted on his inspired ideas, to invent 3 environmental innovations … Join Julie Ann & Kevin on ConsciousSHIFT, to discover how you can honor your inspired ideas, to contribute to the world, too.

We all know someone who is more sensitive than others and more affected by the hardships around them. The term that describes these sensitive people is "empaths." But unlike the experience of normal empathy, they not only share in others' joy and pain, they actually feel and absorb others' emotions and physical symptoms. Empath's heightened experience of the world can overwhelm or even damage them, unless they learn tools to empower and ground themselves. Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Dr. Judith Orloff - author of The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People - says that research shows that 1 out of 5 people are highly sensitive. But what is the difference between having empathy and being an empath or highly sensitive? "Empathy means our heart goes out to another person in joy or pain," says Dr. Orloff. "But empaths actually feel others' emotions and physical symptoms in their own bodies, without the usual defenses most people have. While most of us tend to think first, and then feel, empaths function in the opposite way. Other characteristics of empaths include: * They are overwhelmed by large groups and need a lot of alone time; * Labeled as shy, introverted, or overly sensitive; * Over-stimulated by noise, odors and non-stop talkers; * A need to replenish in nature. In our over-intellectualized society, we often do empaths a disservice by thinking there is something "wrong" with them and misdiagnosing them with sensory processing disorder, depression, agoraphobia, panic disorder, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. They have a gift that needs to be nurtured. While their big hearts and amazing talent for deciphering other's feelings often lead them to health and service professions, it can also lead to compassion fatigue and burnout. To better embrace their special gifts, empaths need to develop self-preservation techniques to not only survive, but thrive. Join Julie Ann and Judith to discover 5 insider tips for empaths and highly sensitive people in an insensitive world - with these strategies in place, you can enjoy your gifts of depth, creativity, intuition, love of nature, capacity to deeply love, and fulfill your desire to help others and better the world.

An essential and new message is coming through, shared by Neale Donald Walsch in his latest book, Conversations With God, Book 4: Awaken the Species. Julie Ann is honored to host Neale again on ConsciousSHIFT (see May 2010 Show on iTunes http://itun.es/igQ6Wv) - in this show they discuss Neale's unexpected, and powerful, new message from God (introductory excerpts below): You are already awake. You just aren't acting like you are. The jarring state of the world you are experiencing is reminding you that you're already awake, and you can choose to do something about it. Even those who did not know before, know now. It's becoming too obvious for even the most immature members of your emerging species to not seek it, to not realize it, or to pretend they don't know. Yet you're still not acting as if you know. You're not integrating what you know. You must begin acting like you know Who You Are. That is all that's going to be required for all of you who already feel that you are awake to bring and end to every nightmarish condition. The invitation is to demonstrate Who You Really Are - and one way you see yourself doing it is by assisting in ending the suffering of others, bringing healing to a planet, and affecting in a a positive way the future of those you love. The invitation is to awaken, as part of your process of personal evolution, the many members of your species who are already awake, to the fact that they are, and then to inspire them to begin acting like it also, so to model and inspire an awakened behavior for those others who are still asleep - and to do this because your personal evolution calls you to. You can't awaken the species until you awaken yourself. Being awake and knowing what you know ... and having all that you know fully integrated into your life ... are two different things. God resides inside you. You are an Individuation of Divinity. It's time to start acting like it. Survival is not your basic instinct. If you all followed your basic instinct, the survival of your species would not be in question. It would be guaranteed. The basic instinct of humanity is the expression of every human's True Identity - which is Divinity. If humans followed the impulse of their soul in every moment, they would create Heaven on Earth overnight. It is The Perfect Time for Advancement. Join Julie Ann and Neale, as he shares 16 contrasts between how we live and how an awakened Highly Evolved Being would act, as well as the 7 Tools of Integration - which we may use to live an Awakened Life, fulfill our potential, AND save ourselves, the species, and the planet.

Making Money Without $elling Your Soul? Why cultivating a LOVE-based mindset makes attracting money easier! Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Michele Pariza Wacek - author of LOVE-BASED MONEY & MINDSET: Make the Money You Desire Without Selling Your Soul - tells us that it is entirely possible to offer and sell our work without using fear to trigger action - in fact, the best way to prosper in our businesses (and sell our work) and in every area of our lives - is to take a LOVE-Based approach! Are you ready to step into a life of peaceful prosperity? For many of us, money is a source of angst. Maybe it seems like there's never enough - and it's a constant source of stress. Maybe no matter how hard you work, you're never able to get ahead. (Or maybe you're in so much debt, all you feel is shame and despair.) If any of this sounds familiar, then you're in for a treat. Michele's guidance - and powerful-but-simple practices she will share with us - are designed to help anyone who struggles with money issues - especially those who have (or want to have) a business. The bottom line: The more you can cultivate a LOVE-BASED MINDSET, the more easily and effortlessly you'll attract money into your life. Join Julie Ann and Michele to discover how having a "LOVE-BASED MINDSET" will not only heal your relationship with money, so you not only feel peaceful about it - but also will allow you to much more easily attract all the abundance you want.

Steve Jobs, fresh from the sting of being unceremoniously dismissed from Apple, bought a little-known graphics company called Pixar from George Lucas. For years Jobs personally financed the company — hoping that it would be his comeback story — breaking new ground in the technology of computer animation. For Pixar to lift off the ground though, it would need help. And that was where Steve Jobs turned to Lawrence Levy, Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, and author of TO PIXAR AND BEYOND: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History. What Lawrence, a Harvard-trained lawyer and executive, found as he explored Pixar - was a company on the verge of failure. Lawrence shares the story of what happened next: how, working closely with Jobs, Lawrence produced and implemented a highly improbable plan that transformed Pixar into one of Hollywood’s greatest success stories. Join Julie Ann and Lawrence to discover the untold and unknown story of how he worked hand-in-hand with Steve Jobs to reinvent a tiny video graphics studio and grow it into one of the most powerful and beloved motion picture studios of our time.

We are witnessing a revolution in human possibility - a growing movement to storm heaven and steal fire. It's about a $4 trillion dollar underground revolution in hacking consciousness to increase performance. Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest Steven Kotler - co-author with Jamie Wheal, of STEALING FIRE: How to Harness the Revolution in Altered States - the story of Silicon Valley executives, members of the U.S. special forces, maverick scientists, to name only a few—who are turning everything we thought we knew about high-performance upside down. Instead of grit, better habits, or 10,000 hours, these trailblazers have found a surprising short cut. They're harnessing altered states of consciousness to solve critical challenges and outperform their competition. Today, this revolution is spreading from the extreme to the mainstream, forcing us to rethink how we can all lead richer, more productive, more satisfying lives. Driven by four accelerating forces — psychology, neurobiology, technology and pharmacology — we are gaining access to and insights about some of the most controversial and misunderstood terrain in history. It is essential to know how to navigate these potent forces - so we can harness them safely and responsibly, and avoid common traps that exist as we explore the edge of consciousness and human potential. New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler and performance expert Jamie Wheal spent four years investigating behind the scenes of this revolution-from the Virginia Beach home of SEAL Team Six, to the Googleplex in Mountain View, to the Burning Man festival in Nevada, to Richard Branson’s hideaway on Necker Island, to Red Bull’s headquarters in Santa Monica, to Nike’s innovation team in Portland, to the United Nations Headquarters in New York. And what they learned was stunning: In their own ways, with differing languages, techniques, and applications, every one of these groups has been quietly seeking the same thing: the boost in information and inspiration that altered states provide. Today, this revolution is spreading to the mainstream, fueling a trillion dollar underground economy and forcing us to rethink how we can all lead richer, more productive, more satisfying lives. Join Julie Ann and Steven to enter that revolution - to discover the nature of “ecstasis”—those moments where we step beyond our default consciousness - and begin to explore more expansive possibilities, in the intersection of consciousness, wellbeing and performance.