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Tina Mundelsee

Yoga Therapist, Life & Relationship Coach, Author

Learn the key to your mind and create the emotions you want

https://tinastools.com/

Dream Big, work hard, smile always and good things will happen.

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Tina lives in Sicily, Italy!

Where was your passion born?

She grew up in Germany in a small village. She explored nature and played outside all the time. Her grandparents encouraged her with their attitude. She looked at all the details in nature. Intuition is natural and comes to you. She started exploring the world and lived in different countries. Everywhere she went, she questioned why people did what they did. It was hard to understand people. She was curious about life. It doesn’t matter where you come from. We all have the same problem. The problem is our mind. Every problem starts with our mind. She got deeper into yoga philosophy. She realized if she approached people with a coaching point of view would not scare people with the spirituality jargon.

Dena talks about giant oak trees. This is how she wants to live her life.

How do you help somebody learn how to connect with nature? Change the perception of life. We believe to be our mind. We are all energy. We are souls and divine beings. We are all gifted the gift of life. We have a body and a mind. We are not the mind. Humans identify with their mind. They feel they are separate from everything that exists. The imprint of nature comes into play. We are not different from nature. We are part of it. Everything in nature works harmoniously. We are more than our physical body. We have to balance our bodies. We have water and fire and the elements. We need to be aware.

She explains to her customers about their instruments. If you don’t like your colleague it is because they have different beliefs. You have a certain idea of how you want life to be. What about expectations? There is a partnership that we have to find.

The solution to everything is to remember who you are. You are not your mind. The resistance comes from your mind. Your mind is your instrument. You are a soul making a human experience. Your mind has a belief that certain rules have to be followed. You have a choice of how to react. You are not a victim. You cannot control and change other people. Be aware of your thoughts. Be the observer of your mind. You can change your thoughts. You can respond with indifference or calmness.

Once you connect with your thoughts you become indifferent. You let them pass through your being. Where do I want to go with my thoughts? Do you want to be harmonious?

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You need an objective in life. The underlying common desire is freedom and peace in all people. Everything we do should be around our goal. Then you know what to do. See your mind as a computer. No one explains to you how to operate your mind. We are the most evolved being.

Your mind has four parts. The lowest part is your senses. These senses bring back impressions. They go to the external world. You see a chocolate cake. A desire is created. Then your mind has storage. I remember the cake. The ego. The beliefs and your values and good and bad. Ego says I love chocolate cake. It makes me happy. That is where the story ends. Your mind has an intellect. Your ability to decide and discriminate. The cake is great but you are on a diet and you should not get it. You respond responsibly. How do you train? Change your language. My mind is this. My body is this. You create a distance. Take the I out of it. You ask yourself, who Am I? Then you meditate. Just sit and observe your thoughts and how your body is feeling. Doing nothing. Slowly you will realize that you are not your mind. Then you will know that you can take responsibility for what is happening in your mind. This content in your mind is how you experience life. We learned about the power of the mind and healing. You can use visualization.

How can we create a new reality?

We believe we only have a physical body. We have an energetic body. Energy vibrates. Energy attracts similar energy. You can’t touch it. What you create in your mind is a vibration. There is a law of attraction. If you vibrate anger you attract anger. You have to let go of the idea that we cannot control life.

The oak tree weathers the storm and digs deep into the earth and has roots. Humans can get stuck on how things are supposed to be and life doesn’t unfold the way we want it to.

How does our own spirituality play out when we have no control?

Everything you want is a desire. It comes from your mind. You are not your mind. Let it talk. Let it be upset. When you grow up your mind is formed. Every ego makes the experience that it can’t control everything. You are a soul. That is the foundation for life. You will not find lasting peace, the suffering will come back if you let your mind run your life. Who am I? This will bring your answers. It could take five years. You have innate intelligence. If you learn how to use your mind to function, then you just accept life joyfully as it is. Don’t identify as a belief anymore. You will know your true self. You are yoga. You have to remember.

Tina has a book and her projects. Yoga coaching is the name of her book. She wants to share yoga as a way to care for your mind. Tap through into the memory of your body. Movement connects you with your mind and resolves emotional baggage. You don’t even have to step onto a mat! She is preparing an Online course on how to operate your mind. Her course will be done towards the end of the year. Her Facebook group is awakening joy. We all struggle with the same stuff!

Parting words? Don’t take yourself and life too seriously. Try to accept whatever comes joyfully. Be grateful for everything. Aspirational words!

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https://amandapearl.com

Who is a woman owned NYC based accessory company known for its sustainability and ethically made jewelry and clutches that are designed to empower.

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•.   Where did your passion start?  

There was never an aha moment.  She had an appreciation for aesthetics.  She loved creating something out of nothing.  She had an entrepreneurial spirit.  She did this from a young age.  

• How did you manifest these gifts?  She would collect tiny things and she would create things out of nothing and then sell them door to door.

• Creativity is born when you are free to play outside.  What kind of family did you come from.  She had a lot of freedom.  Her parents left them to her own devices.  It made her creative.

• Was there a time that you were ever not creative?  She brought that into whatever form she had.  She made jewelry and danced.  She painted in college.  In her professional life she started her handbags.  This is how Amanda Pearl was born.

• She also dabbles in music and has a passion for it.  She is learning guitar.  

• What stops you?  Do you have an inner critic.  She is headstrong.  She has a drive and focus to keep going. She keeps trying.

• The message here is to keep going!  She bypassed the critic.  She never gave it the power or voice.  There is a consistency with greatness.  There is a characteristic that you don’t give the negative stuff power.  It allows you to live your passion.

• Do you have advice for our audience?  What is the secret sauce? Do your thing.  Attempt things.  Have fun learning.  Who cares if you are bad?  There is no wrong in art or bad.  It is all an exploration.  That is what life should be.  You are not living if you aren’t exploring.

• How did your process start?  She worked with wire and beads.  She wasn’t trained with metal.  She would sketch and work with jewelers to create her ideas.  She uses artisans to create the jewelry.  You can ask for help.  You don’t have to go it alone.  

• Tell us about the clutches.  She started sewing them herself.  She found a factory in Italy.  She was able to achieve her wildest dreams.  Don’t let your weaknesses hold you back.  They are gorgeous!  

• Tell us about your business.  You have a lot of celebrities that wear your jewelry.  It is just her and one colleague, Kelly Kratus Nelson who is Director of Operations.

They are a good pair.  It has been a long road.

• She worked for others and learned how things work.  She is doing it all herself. She paired down her collections.  Her products are collectible.  She streamlined.  She launched in February of 2008 when retail slipped because of the market crash.  Retail was always on sale.  The customer got trained to wait.  Stores took advantage of designers.  She had too much self worth and value in her product.  She pulled her product out of retail.  She can build it to be exactly how she wanted it to be.  She wanted everything to be eco and green.  She started using recycled metals and unmined gems.  She cut out the middleman.  Her customer would never have to wait.  It is the best price every day of the year.  She wants to highlight causes and organizations.  You can move the needle a little bit.  10% of sales goes to a cause.  She was proud.  This is meaningful.  

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• Advice is that it has to be sustainable for you.  Make it make sense.  

• How do you balance production to marketing and in between.  She hired a digital marketing person.  The silver linings of COVID forced her to create her own content.  It is a lot of DIY.  

• She puts pieces of the puzzle together and makes it work.

• She grew up in Seattle.  Her style evolved over time.  She looked at her influences and it comes down to the image of the sea urchin from playing in tide pools when she was young.  She wanted femininity and grace but she loved the armor element.  She wanted you to put something on and feel strong.  The talisman.  The fine jewelry she looked at the physics of waves and the ocean as a feminine power and the ripples from the ocean.  It is about empowering natural elements.  Three is a story for the creative process.

• She has spiritual boxes on her website.  How were those born?  She had a showroom with a shop in the front.  One morning her father didn’t wake up. He was a bright sparkling person and was healthy.  It was a freak thing that he passed in his sleep.  The world stopped spinning and was inside out.  It changed a lot of things.  She discovered a lot through the trauma.  She started doing things to make herself feel better.  She brought them into the shop.  It resonated with people!  The birth of these other categories came out of the loss.  These are gift boxes and they can send it and write a sweet note.  

• She loves the Rumi quote:  The Wound is the Place Where the Light Enters You. 

• How do you get celebrities to wear your things?  You used to work with a PR agency.  We need to capture the hearts of people.  They use social media to have customers respond.  Customers are smart.  They connect with the real person and the story.  How does this align with their own values.  Her work has benefited the bottom line.  Using recycled metals speaks to the customer.  They are on Tik Tok now.  She does Instagram live.  They are real people who wear this stuff.  They are transparent.  It creates a faithful audience.  It creates authenticity.  

• Was it hard to break through the noise of the internet?  It is hard in the digital landscape.  It is crowded.  It is tricky.  It is always changing.  You can never have gone to school for this!  

• When you look to the future, what do you hope and dream.  Her outlook for doing business is all about a sincere straight forward way.  She hopes more brands get on board.  She wants the business to take off more so she can have it be about the causes that are meaningful.  

• Parting words?  It is never too late to shift to try something different.  We are grown ups.  These are our lives.  Make it more enjoyable.  Why not?

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• Carey Kirkella, Photographer
• Learn how to use photography as a storytelling tool to improve self-worth and create mindfulness. 
• https://www.careykirkella.com/ 
• https://www.instagram.com/careykirkella/
• https://www.careykirkella.com/sisters-survivors
• Carey creates custom image libraries for purpose driven missions and entrepreneurs. 
• She is passionate about portraits of breast cancer survivors and their sisters. It is a tribute to her sister, who lost her life to breast cancer. It is also a way to raise awareness about stage IV metastatic breast cancer.
• She is also passionate about mental health
• Dena asks when her passion started. 
• Carey says that photography has been her passion since she was 12 years old. She always used it as a way to help her own mental and emotional health. 
• She got a full scholarship to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY to study photography when she was 18 years old. 
• Dena asks if this fueled her passion even more, or if she became uncertain about her path.
• Carey says that soon after she graduated she was working as an assistant photo editor for the Wall Street Journal. She says it was not a good fit because it was too corporate. She quit after two years. 
• Carey discusses how she worked right across the street from the Twin Towers. Before 9/11, she had an intuitive feeling about something bad happening to the Twin Towers. 
• Dena asks Carey to discuss her intuition.
• Carey says that it comes out of empathy because she is a very empathetic person. She believes empathy goes hand in hand with intuition. 
• At the time, she thought the catastrophe would be a tidal wave or something. She did not know it would be a man-made disaster. This intuitive experience really scared her, and it was a hard time in her life. She had PTSD afterwards. 
• Dena says that empathy can be a gift, but it can also be a challenge. 
• Dena asks Carey to talk about how her photography career advanced after that.
• Carey began with weddings. In 2005, she was working on building her commercial portfolio. She ended up going to a Christian music festival to photograph it. At the time, she was closed minded about a religious music festival, but it ended up being a mind blowing experience in a good and bad way.
• She says that she was in a fragile state, and she wasn’t sleeping much. These two together caused her to have a manic episode and she had to be hospitalized. She was then diagnosed with bipolar disorder. 
• She then started photographing nature as a mindfulness practice to get centered within herself. 
• Dena asks if these skills are essential to be able to cope with mental health problems?
• Carey says that yes, it is essential to have things in one’s toolkit that can help us get through hard times. Being able to fall back on these (music, photography, art, being in nature, etc.) is vital to keep one on track. These are centering activities. 
• Carey says that it is important to do these activities regularly on a daily basis in order to fill up one’s tank and build emotional resilience. These activities are not just a fallback in an emergency, rather they are common practices intertwined into our days and weeks. It is a good foundation to have.  
• Dena then asks Carey to go into discussing her next chapter. 
• Carey says that she did not think about doing anything with the mindfulness photography until recently. 8 years ago her sister passed away from breast cancer and had only been diagnosed 4 months prior. She also had her wedding 1 month after her sister passed away. Carey was hospitalized due to her bipolar disorder following this stressful time in her life.
• A couple years later, she began photographing breast cancer survivors and their sisters. The project is called Sisters and Survivors. It is a tribute to her sister as well as raising awareness for stage IV breast cancer needs more research funding. It only gets 7% of the breast cancer funding research. People do not pass away from breast cancer, they pass away when it spreads to other parts of the body. 
• One of her clients was a woman named Dana Donofree who has a fashion line she created called AnaOno intimates which is lingerie and sleepwear for people who have gone through breast cancer reconstruction surgery.
• Carye began photographing behind the scenes fashion shows as a part of NY fashion week to raise money for organizations that help those with stage IV breast cancer.
• This helped Carey to process her grief around her sister. It also helped her realize how powerful photography is and how empowering it is.
• She then wanted to use photography as a storytelling tool to improve self-worth and create mindfulness. 
• Carey is beginning workshops that teach this practice. She is also talking to the Girl Scouts because she wants to help incorporate it in teens’ lives. She also is talking to an organization that helps those who are 65 and older.
• Dena asks about the logistics of the workshop.
• Carey says that the workshops are about using photography story prompts that are inspired by self awareness, mindfulness, self care, positive relationships, and purpose. Each week, they have a photo story prompt. For example, if it is self care that week, they could do a photo story about the food they are eating and share that within a small group. 
• Carey says that this can just simply be done with their phones. Carey also teaches people how to take better pictures with their phones in addition to the photo prompts. 
• Healing is done by going through the pain, and these exercises can help with that. 
• Dena asks how people can contact and reach out to Carey.
• Carey says that people can contact her through her website, and on her Instagram.  She also has a separate website for sisters and survivors.
• Carey discusses pain, and she shares “alchemizing the pain” which hopefully gets transmuted into more of a positive impact. It is taking pain and optimizing it into purpose. 
• Dena asks if the bipolar disorder diagnosis was freeing, or causing her pain.
• Carey discusses how she saw a maternal psychiatrist, and how the woman recommended that Carey does not have kids. Carey decided to try to have kids. She ended up having a couple of miscarriages, but she kept trying to have a child. 
• Carey discusses her third hospitalization, which was after the birth of her son. She suffered from postpartum psychosis.
• After this, she knew she needed to do something to help others avoid this experience. 
• She became incredibly strong. She dug deep, and found this strength. 
• When you assume your worth, you also see value in other people. You reinforce the idea that there is strength and worth in every single person. This is what Carey learned throughout her Bipolar disorder. 
• Carey says that the stigma surrounding Bipolar disorder is huge and hinders her life. She let her bipolar disorder impact her self esteem for a while. Now she is in a place where she realizes who she is.
• Dena asks what her voice inside her head sounded like during this time.
• Carey said that her inner critic’s voice was very loud. Carey has also always been a perfectionist, which has also made it difficult for her. 
• Dena acknowledges the beauty Carey is doing in giving many people a platform to share their stories.
• Dena asks Carey to share with the audience a photography exercise. 
• Carey chooses the topic of gratitude. With photography, a lot of it is about looking at light. Look around you and be aware of your surroundings. Notice where the lights fall. Appreciate and feel gratitude for the light and the beings around you. Sit with that, and think about affirmations before taking the images. Then taking an image can help summon and capture those positive feelings. 
• Carey says when she photographs nature, she uses this affirmation: “I am rooted, but I flow.” Having this affirmation in mind allows one to get their creative juices flowing and using photography as a playful, fun game to help one’s state of mind. 

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