The "No More Distractions" Podcast
limited series podcast
Namaste City Life is dedicated to building a community that can support each other through the challenges of city living. Sonia’s ‘No More Distractions’ podcast, under the Namaste City Life umbrella, aims to provide a space for individuals to connect, learn, and grow together around topics such as mindfulness, healthy mind and body, hypnosis, ethical fashion, and sound healing, among others. Through the podcast, experts share their insights and advice on these topics to foster a sense of community. This is a limited series podcast, and we invite you to join us on this journey towards balance and connection.
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the podcast's mission
- Explore the challenges of living in chaotic environments full of distractions.
- Focus on specific topics, talk about our experience with it and introduce experts to get their opinion.
- Offer key takeaways in the end of each episode for more clear guidance.
- Hoping to hear from you on new topics to explore in our future episodes.
about our guests
Ilona Pamplona is here to demystify your life’s purpose by normalizing your esoteric experience. She helped dozens of women reconnect with their inner world, harness the magic of their emotions, and transform their most important relationship: the one they have with themselves. To amplify the reconnection with our most magical self, she explores the spirit of words, interprets the complexities of our astrological charts, and uses chakra-cards to balance the wisdom of our body’s energy centers. All of this to create a sacred container for her clients to reveal themselves and develop their self-compassion muscle.
Charlie Sage is a Consciousness Guide, Holistic Life Coach, and Energy Specialist. Her soul mission in this life is to lovingly guide others back to their soul so they can remember who they are, connect back to their "I Am Consciousness" and create the life they were born to live on Earth. She is the creator and CEO of my holistic healing business Project Align where she lovingly coaches humans in activating their power through mindful somatic workouts, energy healing circles, workshops, masterclasses, and retreats. She also serves as a corporate consultant where she shares her teaching through wellness events, seminars, and business retreats.
Alexa is a licensed social worker - specifically a psychotherapist and a Yoga and Meditation Teacher. Both allow her to provide a safe space for clients and students to break down their barriers and face their biggest fears to improve their overall quality of life. She strives to combine her knowledge as a mental health professional with the Yogic philosophies and teachings to facilitate a healing, yet powerful and dynamic environment. She acts as a guide in reconnecting Us with Ourselves: the most beautiful and most important relationship we’ll ever have.
Janice is the founder of Whole In One International, LLC., Janice is a digital entrepreneur in the wellness industry. With the mission to empower others to believe in possibility, she created Om Life Living - a mindful yoga app designed to fuel personal development and instill balance on-and-off the mat - and Om Life Business - a suite of business programs to help wellness professionals build their personal brand online while creating digital products/offerings. She has a passion for living life to its absolute fullest and shares this message through her creative content with a social following of wellness enthusiasts and ambitious self-starters.
Cathy Madeo - the yoga expert, entrepreneur, social media influencer and founder of Cathy Madeo Yoga. Cathy Madeo Yoga is a global online yoga school - educating and empowering thousands of yoga students and teachers worldwide. Cathy’s deep knowledge of alignment draws students who want a solid foundation of the asana practice. Cathy’s passion for living a yoga life brings those seeking a spiritual connection through the yoga practice, and her dedication to developing yoga teachers into the best version of themselves, keeps students and teachers alike coming back for years. She has led 12 teacher trainings, and graduated 250 people in over 40 countries!
Ioanna's passions have always been building communities, cultivating a sustainability mindset, and developing talent. When she was 15 years old she made it her life's mission to share her knowledge with her peers, so she founded a student organization called "NGSW", New Generation Sustainable World in Greece, which was the beginning of her entrepreneurial journey. Fascinated by the complexity of human interactions she got her Bachelor's in Psychology and Communications from St. Lawrence '20 and her Master's in Strategic Management from Pace University '22. She is currently the Chief of Staff and VP of Client Enablement at Aptivio, a B2B SaaS startup that aims to democratize access to Revenue AI. She is also the Founder of Dextego, an EdTech startup with a vision of revolutionizing soft skills development through AI-powered learning.
Yia Mas is founded by Greek American Kristina Maria Headrick. After witnessing the effects of Greece's devastating financial crisis on friends and family, Kristina felt compelled to share more about the country's culture and support Greece by bringing Greek wellness products to America. Kristina holds a degree in history from the University of Virginia. She has extensive experience studying yoga and meditation (200-hour RYT, 100-hour meditation teacher training with Nalanda Institute of Contemplative Science, 75-hour training with Katonah Yoga, and the Mentorship program at Sky Ting Yoga in NYC). With a background in writing and digital marketing, her work attempts to bridge the gap between our increasingly digital realities and tactile experiences. She balances digital work with teaching movement and meditation, including in corporate and co-working space settings in New York City.
Ahmed Soliman began his professional life as a wildlife biologist and environmental scientist. Serving the natural environment and helping to recover endangered species was his way of giving to a greater good. This is a concept that he carries daily into his yogic lifestyle, both in teaching and in practice, seeking to serve the community in a way that supports strength, healing, and sustainability. He also brings his science background to his students through yoga retreats in locations that provide the incomparable forces of nature as a backdrop to our yoga journeys. He currently teaches in NYC.
Irina is a private investor focused on supporting women-led or female-centric businesses. Traditionally, female founders do not get the same type of funding and attention as those run by males. She wants to do her part to bring equality to all founders and give smart, hardworking, driven women the voice and support to bring their ideas to life. She helps her companies in a number of ways, either through introductions to influencers in my network, fundraising efforts, and advisory services especially around building out their sales and marketing organizations.
George is an intuitive sound meditation practitioner based in Brooklyn, New York. He's experienced firsthand the impact of sound and vibration as a modality that can lead to heightened awareness, inner exploration, and outer connectedness. That's why he offers sound meditations across New York for one-on-one and group experiences through Sound of the Times. Catch him on Sunday nights at Kula Yoga in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!