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If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, emotionally reactive, unfocused, or spiritually tired, this episode is your wake-up call.

We are living in a world engineered for distraction. Political division, social outrage, endless headlines, and emotional bait are not accidents. A dysregulated nervous system is easy to manipulate, easy to control, and easy to pull away from truth and presence.

In this episode of Inspire Create Manifest, Joe breaks down how chronic stress and constant division hijack your awareness and why staying reactive keeps you trapped in a system that profits from your distraction.

This isn’t about choosing sides. It’s about seeing the pattern.

You’ll learn how to pause instead of react, how to recognize when your attention is being pulled, and how nervous system regulation becomes an act of personal and collective power.

This episode offers a simple awareness practice to help you come back into your body, reclaim your clarity, and stop participating in the manipulation.

Because waking up doesn’t mean being angry.
It means being present.

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In this first episode of the year, I’m not bringing notes. I’m not bringing a plan. I’m just showing up and telling the truth.

I talk about why my malas are back around my neck after hanging on the wall for a year, and what it means to stop being the nice guy who always says yes. After decades of putting everyone else first, I’m done with being taken advantage of, and I know I’m not alone.

This episode is about stepping into what I call your villain era. Not becoming a bad person, but finally standing up for yourself. Saying no. Speaking your truth. And recognizing how resentment, frustration, and even physical pain can come from constantly abandoning yourself to keep everyone else comfortable.

If you’ve ever finished last because you were trying to make sure everyone else was okay, this conversation is for you.

We’re allowed to change. We’re allowed to shift. And we’re allowed to stop being the yes man.

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As this year comes to a close, Joe shares a deeply honest reflection on burnout, autopilot, and the quiet emptiness that can exist even when life looks “successful” on the outside. This episode is a reminder that nothing is wrong with you. You haven’t failed. You haven’t lost your way.

You’ve simply been distracted.

Through personal insight, gentle truth, and a simple daily practice, Joe invites you to return to presence, reclaim your awareness, and step into the new year with intention instead of pressure. This isn’t about big resolutions or forcing change. It’s about one small, powerful shift that brings you back to yourself, one day at a time.

Experience the closing transformation scene from A Christmas Carol, read with a focus on reflection, presence, and remembering who you are beneath the noise of the season. This episode opens with a powerful hook, a brief message from the Philadelphia Yoga Conference, and a quiet invitation to settle in before the reading begins.

You will hear the moment Scrooge wakes up to the truth that change is always possible, even after years of drifting. This is not just a Christmas story. It is a reminder to pause, breathe, and return to the part of you that still believes in goodness, gratitude, and new beginnings.

If you are moving through a season of transition, this is the perfect episode to reset your energy and reconnect with what matters.

In this episode:
• A grounding opening reflection
• A short message from the Philadelphia Yoga Conference
• A gentle invitation into presence
• A full reading of the closing scene from A Christmas Carol
• A closing reflection on awareness and returning to yourself

Perfect for Christmas Eve listening, holiday reflection, or a quiet moment to reconnect with your inner light.

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If you’ve been feeling disconnected from yourself, this episode is a reminder that nothing is wrong with you. Disconnection isn’t a failure, it’s a signal.

In this conversation, Joe explores why so many of us feel off, scattered, or out of alignment in a world that constantly pulls our attention outward. Through the lens of awareness and the Warrior’s Path, he shares why reconnection doesn’t come from doing more, fixing yourself, or forcing healing practices. It comes from noticing where your awareness has gone.

Joe guides listeners through a simple, embodied practice to return to the present moment using breath and the body. This episode is an invitation to stop searching for yourself and remember that awareness is always available, right here, right now.

You were never disconnected. You were just distracted.

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In this episode, I’m sharing a story from early in my career that reveals what confidence really is, and how distraction slowly trains us to forget the power we already have.

• Story from IT career, standing up to management

• Leading before being given the title

• Confidence as an internal signal, not a credential

• Evidence-based confidence, remembering moments where you already acted from truth

• How distraction, autopilot, and digital noise pull us away from ourselves

Confidence doesn’t come from courses, validation, or rules.
It comes from awareness, focus, and remembering who you were before the fog.

Practice:
Pause. Recall a moment when you trusted yourself and it worked. Sit with that version of you. That energy is still available.

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You didn’t lose your confidence.
You just forgot.
And remembering is a choice you can make right now.

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The real battle isn’t good versus evil.
It’s awareness versus autopilot.

In this grounding episode of Inspire Create Manifest, Joe Longo breaks down how distraction, drift, and unconscious living quietly steal your power, and how returning to presence is the simplest way to take it back.

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In today’s episode, Jennifer Estelle returns with a story that feels like a masterclass in trust, timing, and the power of following the call even when the world thinks you’re “delusional.”

Jen is the founder of Endless Mountain Vineyards and The B & Let Liv Project, a nonprofit bridging human and animal welfare. Her journey began with a pit bull named Buster, a dog who cracked her heart open and showed her what unconditional love can rebuild. From that one moment of presence came a memoir, a vineyard, a healing center, and a mission bigger than anything she could have imagined.

We talk about roadblocks, synchronicities, the pause, breast cancer, buying land she scripted years earlier, and the messy miracle of choosing yourself. We explore why the “how” isn’t your business, why allowing is its own form of discipline, and why believing in yourself is often misunderstood as being unrealistic.

If you’ve been feeling the pull toward something different, something bigger, something truer, this conversation will remind you that you’re not waiting on clarity. You’re waiting on courage.

The call is already here.
Let this episode help you answer it.

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