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    <copyright>Copyright TrueSpiritualAwakening.com</copyright>
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    <itunes:summary>Learning to connect to intuition and spirit in order to craft a well-lived life.  We discuss personal development and spirituality. IT's not about self-help. It's about self-reliance</itunes:summary>
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      <title>024: AWAKE! Podcast - Interview with Denise Barreto - Part 2</title>
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      <title>019: AWAKE! Podcast - How to Uncover Meaning and Purpose</title>
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<p>I also tell what I learned about resistance on a sightseeing cruise on Lake Superior.</p>]]></description>
      
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      <title>018: AWAKE! Podcast - How to Set Boundaries and Protect Your Dream</title>
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<p>Whether it is setting boundaries with friend or family members--or even strangers--we often struggle with setting (and holding) firm boundaries.</p>
<p>Setting boundaries is vital to nurturing and cultivating your dream. There are dream snatchers out there who will steal the vitality of your dream before it has an opportunity to take root. </p>
<p>This may not be intentional, but it can happen all too easily.  It is essential that you protect your dreams with boundaries until they are strong enough that no one can shake them.</p>]]></description>
      
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    <author>steve@truespiritualawakening.com (Steve Rice)</author><itunes:subtitle>Setting boundaries is one of the most challenging obstacles many of us face. Whether it is setting boundaries with friend or family members--or even strangers--we often struggle with setting (and holding) firm boundaries. Setting boundaries is vital to nurturing and cultivating your dream. There are dream snatchers out there who will steal the vitality of your dream before it has an opportunity to take root.  This may not be intentional, but it can happen all too easily.  It is essential that you protect your dreams with boundaries until they are strong enough that no one can shake them.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Steve Rice</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Setting boundaries is one of the most challenging obstacles many of us face. Whether it is setting boundaries with friend or family members--or even strangers--we often struggle with setting (and holding) firm boundaries. Setting boundaries is vital to nurturing and cultivating your dream. There are dream snatchers out there who will steal the vitality of your dream before it has an opportunity to take root.  This may not be intentional, but it can happen all too easily.  It is essential that you protect your dreams with boundaries until they are strong enough that no one can shake them.</itunes:summary></item>
    
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      <title>017: AWAKE! Podcast - How to Develop Confidence and Courage</title>
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<p>Often we get sidetracked evaluating our options.  Make a decision, take action, <em>then </em>evaluate.  The time to evaluate is after you've begun to produce results.</p>]]></description>
      
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    <author>steve@truespiritualawakening.com (Steve Rice)</author><itunes:subtitle>The only way to produce confidence is to be courageous enough to face your fears and step into them.  Taking action, produces results and creates momentum.  Results + Momentum = Confidence.   Often we get sidetracked evaluating our options.  Make a decision, take action, then evaluate.  The time to evaluate is after you've begun to produce results.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Steve Rice</itunes:author><itunes:summary>The only way to produce confidence is to be courageous enough to face your fears and step into them.  Taking action, produces results and creates momentum.  Results + Momentum = Confidence.   Often we get sidetracked evaluating our options.  Make a decision, take action, then evaluate.  The time to evaluate is after you've begun to produce results.</itunes:summary></item>
    
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      <title>016: AWAKE! Podcast - How to Accept Criticism</title>
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<p>"The highest quality that a human being can reach is to be independent of the good opinion of others." - Abraham Maslow</p>
<p>Criticism offers you an opportunity--to clarify your dream and to become who you must be to do what you must do!</p>
<p>Embrace it!</p>]]></description>
      
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    <author>steve@truespiritualawakening.com (Steve Rice)</author><itunes:subtitle>You will face criticism. We all do. If you can learn to see it as a gift, you will experience great courage and personal power. Learning to deal with criticism in a healthy way is the keystone of self-actualization. "The highest quality that a human being can reach is to be independent of the good opinion of others." - Abraham Maslow Criticism offers you an opportunity--to clarify your dream and to become who you must be to do what you must do! Embrace it!</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Steve Rice</itunes:author><itunes:summary>You will face criticism. We all do. If you can learn to see it as a gift, you will experience great courage and personal power. Learning to deal with criticism in a healthy way is the keystone of self-actualization. "The highest quality that a human being can reach is to be independent of the good opinion of others." - Abraham Maslow Criticism offers you an opportunity--to clarify your dream and to become who you must be to do what you must do! Embrace it!</itunes:summary></item>
    
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      <title>015: AWAKE! Podcast - Bringing Certainty to Uncertainty</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Life flows in a myriad of uncertainties.  The power comes from recognizing this fact and learning to bring certainty to the uncertainty.  </p>
<p>If you can do this, then you will stand out in a world of those "losing their heads".  </p>]]></description>
      
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    <author>steve@truespiritualawakening.com (Steve Rice)</author><itunes:subtitle>"The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty that you can deal with"  So says peak performance advisor, Tony Robbins. Life flows in a myriad of uncertainties.  The power comes from recognizing this fact and learning to bring certainty to the uncertainty.   If you can do this, then you will stand out in a world of those "losing their heads".  </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Steve Rice</itunes:author><itunes:summary>"The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty that you can deal with"  So says peak performance advisor, Tony Robbins. Life flows in a myriad of uncertainties.  The power comes from recognizing this fact and learning to bring certainty to the uncertainty.   If you can do this, then you will stand out in a world of those "losing their heads".  </itunes:summary></item>
    
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      <title>014: How to Find Your Calling</title>
      <itunes:title>014: How to Find Your Calling</itunes:title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align: left;">I share a simple equation for uncovering your personal power and encourage you to bring your true self to the forefront of your life.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Finally, I share how to create a life of purpose and meaning, day by day.</p>]]></description>
      
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      <title>013: AWAKE! Podcast - How to Overcome Unmet Expectations</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>012: AWAKE! Podcast - Ditching the Work/Life Balance</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 02:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>The truth is that there is no "magic pill,"  but I share some personal experiences as well as a powerful tool I have used to ditch the "work/life"  balance paradigm.</p>]]></description>
      
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      <title>011: AWAKE! Podcast--How to Cure 'Epic Shit' Syndrome</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>In this episode I talk about what "Epic Shit" Syndrome is and how to over come it. </p>
<p>I share why many of us as over-achievers set out on a quest for the "epic" in order to validate ourselves and our lives. I tell how to break this cycle through a simple realization.</p>
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      <title>010 AWAKE! Podcast - How to Leave "I Don't Know What to Do" Behind Forever</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>"I don't know what to do!"  </p>
<p>Have you said this...to yourself or to someone else?  Has someone said it to you?</p>
<p>This episode is all about banishing "I don't know what to do" from your life. You don't have to live in uncertainty and doubt. You can get rid of the frustration of uncertainty by following this simple shift in belief.  I'll tell you how on this episode.</p>]]></description>
      
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      <title>004: AWAKE! Podcast - Eradicating Excuses</title>
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