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To demonstrate the efficacy of their holistic mentoring methods, Hans and Francine have composited hundreds of their most intriguing mentoring sessions into transformational stories of individual clients. Dramatically told with musical accents, uncannily entertaining and inspiring, each podcast is a poignant story of how a natal chart was key to detonating awareness, activating new behaviors and motivating people to deal with their issues holistically. Aimed at CEOs, entrepreneurs, managers, ...
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Welcome to Dropping In to Power, a podcast devoted to empowering women who surf (or dream of surfing) by sharing our personal stories of commitment, courage, frustration, epiphany, and transformation. Whether you are a newbie, soul surfer or a seasoned pro, our stories can collectively lift each other, change our world in the lineup, in our own heads and hearts, and out of the water.
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REWIND UPDATE: Just a short 32 months ago (!!!) I interviewed the spectacular ER Doctor, Candice Myhre, who saves surfers and regular humans from death and destruction on the regular. In that episode, she mentioned a book she was planning to write, and now she’s done it! Well, ALMOST done it! Her manuscript for Sex, Surf, Sutures, Scars: A Surf Doc…
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REWIND TIME! Two and a half years ago, I paddled through an impact zone of technophobia, stagefright, and impostor syndrome to launch an experiment called the Dropping In To Power podcast. My question: Had other women's lives been transformed by surfing like mine had, and did they want to talk about it, and did anyone want to listen? Yes, yes, and …
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"Auntie Mo" - Maureen McNamara - Maine On Halloween of 2023, when Surfline shared her (now viral) video, we fell in love with a salty New England surfer hurling clean insults and sage advice to an offending “whippasnappa” in the lineup. “Auntie Mo” barreled into our hearts and has since graced our feeds with her elixir of deep surf knowledge, self-…
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“Moments before drowning, she became the sea.” - Mermaid’s Lament In this episode, we temporarily ditch our surfboards and plunge into the raw power of the ocean, its intersection with salvation, and creativity. I talk with the director and stars of Mermaid’s Lament, a film about trauma, grief, resilience, imagination and…mermaids! Shot entirely on…
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Para surfer Victoria Feige, the winningest female adaptive surfer on record, unveils her inner nerd and offers us a breakthrough that will rock your world: a simple, visual explanation of the mechanics of the DUCK DIVE and WAVE MECHANICS. I promise, you will have an AHA moment! At heart, beyond her injury, Victoria is just a girl who LOVES to surf …
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🏄‍♀️“Surfing well with a smile is the best revenge.” Mindy Pennybacker 🏄‍♀️ Mindy Pennybacker, lifelong soul surfer, author, journalist, and surf columnist for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, just released the gorgeous tome, Surfing Sisterhood Hawaii, a history, celebration, and, really, guidebook for how women have ruled and can rule the waves! Her …
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One of the joys of women flocking to the water is how we are learning to cheer for one another. (I know, some of us, ahem, are still working on this on particular days and in particular conditions.) This is NOT something we are raised with, cheering for other women, especially successful ones. We come up against our own competitive feelings (no one…
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“To be in the water like this is to be in movement to a musical note, it is to be one with color while painting, to be with a line while drawing.” From the upcoming, Break. Dr. Stephanie Han, Korean-American author, educator, speaker and self-proclaimed “bad surfer” came to surfing with a dream - to stop the splintering of her family. Instead, the …
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Melissa Volker found a way to obsess about surfing in any conditions--by obsessing about writing about surfing! A mid-life blooming writer and water woman from South Africa, Melissa’s delicious fiction blends “surf noir” with “environmental romance suspense.” (Check out the addictive Shadow Flicker!) In our pod, we chat about the coastal topography…
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Lena Siebertz, founder of Cold Water Sirens, not only braves near-freezing conditions, but relishes them. In temps as low as 37F/2.7C, Lena is forging a community of feminist surfers in Northern Germany and Denmark to transform surf culture beyond the old competitive paradigm, using cold water as part of the reset. Lena and I bonded over surfing he…
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“If I didn’t have this fear, what could be better?” Jade Chang Sheppard has made it her mission to inspire women to ask and answer that question. On the surface, she seems to have fear *licked*. She built her own fortune in her 20s, birthed 3 gorgeous kids, had a successful marriage *and* divorce. She redesigned her life during a “mid-life awakenin…
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Are you a tasty treat for a shark during your period? Finally an answer to the question that plagues every woman surfer, at least once a month! Lifeguard Jessie Kilgour has a pretty strong take on the subject, but you’ll have to get to the end to find out. You’ll want to, though, as Jessie brings a fresh take on everything from where she surfs, to …
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What a start to Season 2! I had a serious surf accident last week with a major head trauma - so I thought, why not do a mini-podcast with a concussion!? This is a little "bonus episode" of me sharing the blow-by-blow of what happened, and the epiphany I had on the other side of the miracle. Coming soon: I have four *amazing* women lined up for podc…
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Junko Yamasaki went on holiday to Australia from her native Japan at 20 years old, and never looked back. Breaking away from her culture’s traditional expectations, she trailblazed a life fueled by curiosity, compassion and courage. Over her 52 years, she has embodied many aspects of both personal and professional womanhood - daughter, sister, wife…
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Starting at 43 in Boston (!!!), Surfer Stacey Mac rocketed into a pro career as a SUP surfer, defining diehard as she chased hurricanes across state lines to hone her skills. A natural adrenaline junkie, Stacey funneled her focus into her newfound passion, creating a career as a competitor, judge and instructor and moving full time to Costa Rica. B…
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Jenni had become expert at many sports, vocations, missions, but, at 55, living in Hawai’i, she was still ruled by an old story of “I can’t surf, I’m too old to learn, it’s never going to happen.” When Covid hit, she found herself surrendered to the call she had been hearing her whole life, breaking through the fear and doubt, and committing. And d…
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Elizabeth has overcome so many obstacles on her shero’s journey to becoming the Curvy Surfer Girl - a harrowing childhood, very real near drowning, a landlocked life, and zero representation of surfers who look like her. She has not only returned from her ordeal with shining success, but she has brought back an elixir--her gift of inspiring and upl…
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McKenzie Clark is a self-made waterwoman who headed to Kona on her own at the tender age of 18--with a mission. Her life since has been a testimonial of courage, adventure, humility, and badassery. From solo adventures around the world with a backpack and a Lonely Planet book, to surviving a shark attack, to getting her captain’s license in her 40s…
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Surfer moms—current and future—this podcast is for you! My guest is a newly minted mama fitness trainer, and the founder of Santa Cruz's chapter of Join Surfing Moms, a non-profit that helps moms get their much-needed waves. Sara's story is so important for moms to hear! She grew up surfing, but even with all that experience, she lost her confidenc…
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Gabi Del Rosario entered the sea in a shroud of grief and emerged like the proverbial butterfly from her chrysalis! This Manila city girl unexpectedly found herself in Covid lockdown on the Philippine coast, where everything about her life transformed. At first, surfing was not even in her consciousness, but the sudden death of her father drew her …
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After 13 years, Regina left the surfer's paradise she had created in the mythical blue waters of Kona to answer another kind of deep blue call—becoming a police officer! In her 40s! On the mainland! In a city! This courageous life choice required her stepping away from the relationship she had cultivated with the water as a surfer, free diver and p…
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“If you drop in with a full heart, you are going to get in return something bigger, stronger, and better than you could ever imagine.” Ivana Bajic’s gorgeous interactive multi-media project, Nature of Surf Women, is a real-time testament to her credo, and documentary evidence of the transformational power of surf. Ivana grew up as a girl in Serbia,…
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It’s never EVER too late, and never EVER not possible! Meet Jeanne Fernandez-McShane, who at 67, has just started her surfing journey, and she is fierce! She is such an incredibly accomplished woman, you will want to just vibe on her grit! Jeanne’s story is a little different - rather than her whole life transforming from surfing, she brings her li…
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My guest this week is the phenomenal Kris Primacio, co-founder and CEO of the International Surf Therapy Organization (ISTO, https://intlsurftherapy.org/) Kris started surfing at 41 ,and in 10 short years metamorphosed her life into a sea-salty dream she never even knew she had. She starts her days frothing in the lineup, then peels off her wetsuit…
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My own sudden health crisis derailed the interviews I had set up with amazing women, but, like paddling through an endless impact zone, I knew I had to keep going! This episode is me interviewing me - awkwardness and all - and telling my own story of transformation, TMI included. It definitely mirrors my surfing - moments of inspiration and flow, a…
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Today’s guest is Dr. Candice Myhre, @drcandysurfvival, surf doctor, ER doctor, mermazing surfer, and champion for equality for women in two male-dominated arenas - medicine and surfing. Coming from a surf city where women were not welcome in the lineup, it took a friend flaking on her to send her on the adventure that would change the trajectory of…
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My very first guest is Aurélie Madec, a born storyteller with a divine accent. Aurélie is a teacher, surfer, and mother, who sculpted her career and life around her passion for surfing. In our conversation, she shares many pieces of her life, from her pioneering grandmother, having to save pocket money for her first board, traveling the whole world…
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A portrayal of an activities director in a care community who, with the help of her natal chart, is shocked to find out she is in the wrong profession because she has been entranced into loving people more than living out her own potential. Listen in as this dilemma is resolved with the support of holistic mentoring sessions.…
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This podcast tells of a prominent CEO who, stuck in an inherited and outdated vision of leadership, finds he is living next door to himself and at war with his employees--until the insights from his natal chart, supported by holistic mentoring, jolt him into turning things around. Of particular interest to entrepreneurs who may be successful in the…
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Hans tells the story of a successful entrepreneur who races through life like a motorcycle and leaves a trail of devastation in her wake. Why? Surprisingly, because she is unaware she’s blocking her innate idealism and unable to live it out as an adult. As her natal chart detonates her awareness, holistic mentoring enables her to activate new behav…
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In this story of an unhappy woman, Francine explores what has made her fail her entire life to stand up for herself. With help of her chart, she shows the woman how she can turn this around and, through holistic mentoring sessions, trains her to assert her own needs and desires. Sounds hard to do? Listen to how it can be done!…
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Hans tells the story of an elderly woman who, exhausted from a life of service, faces a bleak retirement. Yet through holistic mentoring sessions and the help of her natal chart, she finds a way to connect an old heartfelt ambition with a newly developed skill to add color and energy to her life.
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Francine tells the story of a brilliant grants manager who is facing a tough choice: losing her job by continuing to allow her inner jungle to emerge at work, or saving it by facing and taming her wild inner forces with the possibility of enjoying the added bonus of inner peace.
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Hans narrates the story of A high-level manager who, thinking he has his life under control, inexplicably falls victim to explosions of anger. Encouraged in mentoring sessions to face these, and what lies beneath them, and guided by the insights of his natal chart, he manages to live his life quite differently.…
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Francine narrates the story of a successful psychotherapist whohas no idea why she feels flat and empty and has no satisfyingpersonal life. Find out how she manages to create one bydiscovering and integrating her shadow side through holisticmentoring and the insights of her natal chart.
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In this podcast by Hans, a failing artist, who learns he hasmistaken his epiphany for his life’s work, struggles to readjusthis career goals and mend his personal life during online holisticmentoring sessions. Inspiring for anyone attempting to balance apersonal life with creative endeavors.
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In this podcast, Francine spotlights a retired banker who alwayslived to please his wife instead of his own heart. Because of thishe finds himself stuck in the suburbs and is ready to give up onlife until his natal chart reveals his neglected moral side, andholistic mentoring sessions open up for him an unexpected path tojoy and self-fulfillment.…
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Portrayed by Hans, an unhappy longtime cubicle worker, realizingthe career mistake she has made, taps into seemingly lost dreamsand hidden talents to joyfully engineer a brand new career. Enjoyhearing how she does this.
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Francine in this podcast tells of a top manager who is in danger of losing her job because unevolved parts of her threaten to offset her finest talents--and is unaware a secret desire is pushing her to look for love in all the wrong places. Listen in as her natal chart detonates her awareness and holistic mentoring helps her activate new behaviors.…
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Hans relates how an IT worker, lost in the information age and stuck in her head, reconnects with her heart and belly--and finds a better way of using her mind--through lessons in effective personal information processing. Sounds impossible, but listen to how she does it!
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Francine portrays the story of an activities director in a care community who, with the help of her natal chart, is shocked to find out she is in the wrong profession because she has been entranced into loving people more than living out her own potential. Listen in as this dilemma is resolved with the support of holistic mentoring sessions.…
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Hans tells of a prominent CEO who, stuck in an inherited and outdated vision of leadership, finds he is living next door to himself and at war with his employees--until the insights from his natal chart, supported by holistic mentoring, jolt him into turning things around. Of particular interest to entrepreneurs who may be successful in their busin…
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Coming alive in these podcasts, and told dramatically through transformational stories, is how Hans and Francine add new dimensions of joy, mastery and meaning to their clients’ lives. These stories tell how they creatively use a client’s natal chart as an unrivaled coaching and consciousness tool to detonate a client’s awareness and, through holis…
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