ASLU 083: Creative Canadian - Meghan Telpner Adds Heart to Transform the Brain
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In this week’s episode, multi-passionate creative entrepreneur, Meghan Telpner, sits down with Melissa to talk about her creative & entrepreneurial journey and how she is helping others find alignment and coherence through the heart-brain connection!
Meghan Telpner is a Toronto-based, two-time best-selling author, nutritionist, co-host of the Today Is The Day Podcast, and founder of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition. Her humorous, engaging and real approach to living a healthy life has garnered her a world-wide audience. Meghan’s Academy of Culinary Nutrition is growing a global community of leaders and instructors now creating their own health-inspired businesses in 75 countries. She has been featured in Forbes, ranked as one of the top 100 female entrepreneurs in Canada, and named Best Holistic Nutritionist in 2017, 2018 and 2019 with National Nutrition. She is also mom to four year-old Finley.
In this episode we cover it all: finding inspiration, delegating, experimenting, mental health, finding inspiration, building community, creativity… and we talk about Meghan’s newest work, coherence training, and how it can help us foster happiness and creativity in our lives and our work.
This Episode Is For…
needs a dose of inspiration from another creative Canadian female small business owner
is feeling burnt out, stuck, stressed or out of alignment (and wants to know how to fix it!)
ever wondered if it's worth building a community around their business
would like to how other business owners get inspired, experiment and learn to fail (or fail in order to learn)
If you just want the links to the resources mentioned in this episode, scroll down to the bottom. If you’d like to try Meghan’s free coherence session just head over here.
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you can live life on a different frequency
In This Episode We Talk About
In this episode we talk about:
Meghan’s creative and entrepreneurial journey
how a health crisis changed the trajectory of her career in unexpected ways
trying things out to see what you love, what works and what doesn’t and what makes money that aligns with your core values
growing incrementally and letting one thing build on another
where the ideas come from and the zone of creativity
being still enough to let creativity come to us
the fear of failure in our work
genuinely building a community around your work and why it’s so important to your business and your happiness
not being afraid to go big but with small steps
how she started an actual school!
how she delegated and doubled her team so she could continue to try new things without giving up the business she loves
how hitting a wall with her own mental health took her on a new path
her new program that’s in the works revolving around coherence training (using different techniques that help regulate our heart rate variability to effect how our brain functions)
using these techniques to elevate our critical thinking, our creativity, our intuition, our self-regulation while lowering stress, reactivity and aggression to help us thrive (and how this can be useful to creatives)
how meditation works and what it physically does to our brains (including “meditative” activities and how those bring you into coherence)
actively seeking out hobbies or experiences that bring your joy that get you into the “zone” (playing an instrument, doing a puzzle, knitting a scarf)
why we need to build time away from our businesses into our businesses
Mentioned in this episode
- Meghan Telpner
- Today is the Day Podcast
- Academy of Culinary Nutrition
- Episode 25: Creative Canadian - Travel Publisher Ayngelina Brogan
- Undiet
- The Undiet Cookbook
- Meghan's Free Coherence Session - try the technique yourself!
- Follow Meghan on Instagram - try the technique yourself!
- Follow Meghan on Facebook - try the technique yourself!
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