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Interviews

A Different Take on Being Happy at Work

by NadiaFebruary 7, 2010

Few weeks ago, I came across a blog post (The 100-100 Divide) written by a fellow blogger Karl Staib which consumed my thoughts for a couple of days.
The subject of the post was on motivation and it was a fascinating read for it opened my eyes to the reality that not every one feels motivated [...]

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Woundology 101

by NadiaNovember 5, 2009

In the book Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss, she writes about the subject of woundology.
Woundology means that we allow our wounds or the pain of what we experienced to define our lives. Often, we let our pain define how we feel, how we think and how we perceive not only ourselves but others, [...]

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Chillin’ with the Saltwater Buddha: Being Spiritual in a Material World

by NadiaOctober 29, 2009

One of the many blessings that comes with having your own blog is that you get to talk to anyone that you want. Sometimes, the people you want to talk to, don’t want to talk to you. However, I have been very fortunate and most of my requests for interviews have been granted.
The great thing [...]

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Breathe in Life – Interview with Dorothea Delgado

by NadiaOctober 15, 2009

The Buddhists have a saying that when the student is ready the teacher will appear. The literal translation of that saying is very true. As with any saying or proverb or parable, additional interpretations also can apply.
Taking that into consideration, the above mentioned saying also applies to the people who cross your path. For one [...]

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“Working for Good” – an Antidote for Violence – My Interview with Jeff Klein

by NadiaSeptember 17, 2009

One subject that I often spend a lot of time thinking about is the topic of work. As I have written many times before on this blog, this is an issue that is so simple yet society has complicated it to such an extent that it seems normal for so many of us to not [...]

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Spiritual Warriors: My Interview with Jsu Garcia

by NadiaJuly 24, 2009

One of the things that I love about life is that a single event which looks so insignificant at the time can lead to things that you never imagined and end up bringing some type of experience which really impacts your life on some level.
When I first joined Twitter, one of the first people I [...]

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Hanging Out With the Saltwater Buddha

by NadiaJuly 13, 2009

As life would have it, the months of May and June ended up being my version of going on a spiritual retreat. It was not my intention to spend these two months in retreat but life has an interesting way of making things happen.
At one point during the course of my life-imposed retreat from the [...]

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Living Instead of Working: My Interview With Jonathan Mead

by NadiaJuly 10, 2009

Due to the current economic situation, more and more people are being laid off from their jobs. Unemployment rates in America are the highest they have been in a very long time. Many are trying to find work yet despite all of this, I have come to notice that more and more people are talking [...]

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The Happiness Project: My Interview with Gretchen Rubin

by NadiaApril 14, 2009

Yesterday, I had the chance to interview Gretchen Rubin about her blog, The Happiness Project. I first came to know of Gretchen earlier this year. My husband called me while I was on my way home and told me that there was another lawyer who went on a search for happiness and had a blog [...]

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Back To Basics: Raw Food, One Lucky Duck and Sarma Melngailis

by NadiaMarch 20, 2009

Besides happiness, another topic that is of real importance to me is food. Food has to be healthy and it has to be organic. It makes no sense to eat food that has been treated with toxic chemicals. If the recent peanut product recall has taught us anything, it is that our food supply is [...]

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