Episode 0 - Welcome to Light Your Life
Tina Marie welcomes you to Light Your Life Podcast
Tina Marie St.Cyr (00:59):
Hello and welcome to the light your life podcast. I am Tina Marie saints here, and this is an introduction to what you will experience and what I promise on the light, your life journey. I'd like to share the story of my life in short and what brought me to this place to produce a podcast. In 2004, I was completing my masters in holistic nutrition. Prior to that, I was a business woman leading a family, two little ones. And in corporate America, I knew in my corporate America time that the inspiration and the drivenness that I had to start my own business was still there. And luckily enough, I was part of a very entrepreneurial corporation. I was in the very first 200 people that were starting that company and the movement and the transformation that we did very swiftly took us to a large firm.
Tina Marie St.Cyr (02:03):
And in the largeness of it, I felt the need to leave and start my own entrepreneurial journey. I did so and led a beautiful, very well-regarded consulting firm that expanded globally. And in that journey, I had reached my thirties and I wanted to go back to school, having a business degree. It was very palpable and useful for me, but that part of my journey, I wanted to go into something where I could help people heal. And I found myself wanting to have my own healing journey through nutrition. So I did, I dove into holistic nutrition, learned about the body and biology and all the inner workings of ourselves, mind, body spirit, and began an integrative practice after that with beautiful physicians, wonderful physicians. And we helped thousands of people through a nutrition, integrative nutrition program with my firm at that time, which was optimal health consulting.
Tina Marie St.Cyr (03:08):
And I was sought out by radio people that said, we want you on radio to tell your story, because I had been keynoting on public stages and conferences up until that point. And it took me a year to say yes to radio. I didn't know that radio was going to be in my future as a medium of expression and connection with people that I could also help yet. Whenever I dove into radio, it was intimate. It was real, it was fun. I had co-hosts that were funny. And if you've ever visited a real radio station, you're usually standing and, and you're having banter back and forth with your production people. And in this case, I did have co-hosts and Ron Jackson was one of my first co-hosts and Ron, if you're listening to this big hugs and we were funny, we had a segment that was, um, hit a lot of funny segments, but one that I remember was I, I had dared Ron to eat certain things, right.
Tina Marie St.Cyr (04:04):
And I had some really weird things that you've never found in the common American diet, such as Monkfruit back then. It was not even known. Um, we had, you know, just so many wonderful little dishes that he would look at it and go, I am not going to eat that. And we would dare him, would dare Ron to eat it. And then we had a segment that my, my daughter was on and she came on and she had the, I bet you didn't know that segment, which was interesting facts from around the world that she drummed up from, who knows where. And it was just great having Maddie on. And Maddie was, I think at the time 12 and, uh, hearing her young mind and radio was such an intimate, wonderful expression of fun information and connection. I was able to interview some of the great minds of the transformational personal development experience, such as the, the late Wayne Dyer and introducing Deepak Chopra in his early days and interviewing Richard Branson.
Tina Marie St.Cyr (05:06):
And so I had Marianne Williamson. I had dignitaries a world leaders. I had celebrities that I interviewed on the show, and it was an amazing journey. We recorded well over 500 shows and we were known across the globe and syndicated in multiple cities for holistic living. And then life took a turn. My family needed a different level of attention as my children grew. And I went off air for a while. I went off air to give my attentions and my love and my need of time to the big rocks in my life. And that hiatus spanned until now. So it's been 12 years. And in that time, holistic living is still out there on the airwaves as replays. Yet, there was something calling me to return to this intimate way of being with you, to be in your ear, to lend advice and wisdom and fun and frivolity and connection.
Tina Marie St.Cyr (06:12):
And the truth is on, on radio. We had colors and we were able to listen to people that would call into the show and share their experiences and ask questions. And I've, I've delayed going into the podcast world because I was wondering, how can I recreate the experience I had on radio? And, and later the experience I had on television, we're able to have guests on and we had a studio to audience and it was great to be able to connect with people there. And so as I've toiled with the, what can podcasting do, can I recreate the same fun for Valente connection, intimacy, and connection with you?
Tina Marie St.Cyr (06:49):
I decided, yes, I'm diving into another podcast. Let's do podcasting as opposed to radio, which, you know, there's an element of the intimate audio experience that you have there. I'd love to share the journey and paint pictures of our guests and their lives and what they've come through with specificity, so that you can feel the emotion of their journey and what they've become because each of us have our own hero's journey. I know I did. And I know you do, and there are obstacles and challenges that appear to be in our way. But whenever we listen to another person's story, there's something that it ignites inside of each one of us. It speaks to a different level of our own becoming, and it wakes us up at a different level. I know you know this and so light your life. What I promise you is your host and your journey, take her with you is that I will bring you the people of the world that you've heard their stories possibly at one level.
Tina Marie St.Cyr (07:53):
And I asked the questions that they do not publish on their press sheets or in their one sheets or in their media kit. I go deeper. I go more raw, more intimate, more real. I will pull out the true soul of the guests that we have here on the show so that you can learn from them so that I can learn from them as well. There will be celebrities, people that are authors, maybe in movies, maybe world leaders, those you will see, you will hear. And then there will be people like you and I, the people getting through life and wanting to have those big rocks that matter to them, be the focal point of where they give their time and intention like I did during my hiatus. And I still do every day. The journeys that other people have taken will impress upon us and impress upon our lives and our awakening, that next level.
Tina Marie St.Cyr (08:48):
And I promise to bring you that content. And I also promise to make it fun in a lively. And I'll tell a joke here and there. You may even catch me singing as I love singing. And there will be guests. I guarantee that we'll have great harmonic balance with me and we will burst into song. I guarantee it. And then I'll also challenge you. I'll challenge you to become more. There's so much more to your life. It does not matter what's in front of you. If it feels like it's an obstacle. If it feels like it's a challenge, if it feels like you cannot surmount it together, we will together. We will provide the tools and the strategies and the methods and the stories that ignite that part of you that, you know, is there, there will be multiple types of episodes. So let me tell you what the episodes will feel like and look like for you.
Tina Marie St.Cyr (09:39):
There will be the fireside chats. The fireside chats are the interviews that we'll have with people. And then there will be sparks of wisdom, and those will be intimate connections for you. And I, I will share part of my journey intimately, and some wisdom that came from that. Those will be shorter, maybe two to five, maybe 10 minutes of sparks of wisdom that you can keep in your hip pocket. And you can listen to them on those days where you may have a little bit of a loneliness or maybe feel drained, and I'll ignite you and give you a little bit of fire to put you back on course. And then there will be the episodes called from the coaches corner. As I am the CEO of bonfire coaching. And I lead an entire beautiful family of coaches that are affecting other people's lives from around the globe.
Tina Marie St.Cyr (10:29):
And so you will get to meet and talk to and with our coaches. So you may be called on if you are one that will write your story and send it to us at bonfire coaching, our email is hello at bonfire coaching. If you send us your heartfelt request and let us see in June what you need, you can be a guest on our show and you can sit as that person that is talking to the coaches in our coaches corner, and we'll record the transformation you get to. So courageously, let us see, feel and experience so that others can learn from your story as well. So there you have it, three episodes, fireside chats, sparks of wisdom, and from the coaches corner where you can star to help other people. Thank you so much for favoring the light, your life podcast. And I do hope to meet you in person.
Tina Marie St.Cyr (11:22):
I do hope to see your email come across our email feed at hello at bond park coaching. And I do hope to see you on our Facebook pages at bonfire coaching, and then even in events that we host and maybe in those classrooms. And I love to get to know your story. So thank you again, please do make light your life podcast, one of your favorites and keep us there as inspiration for your day. And maybe one day you'll be a guest on our show. My name is Tina Marie Saint's here, and I'm so glad we're connected until the next episode, have a beautiful life and amazing journey and do what you love to let your life
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Tina Marie St.Cyr (12:09):
That was so energizing. I have takeaways that will help my life, and I'm sure you do too, to get shownotes bonuses gifts for you from our guests and more head over to light your life podcast.com and be sure to bookmark this podcast is one of your favorites. I am Tina Marie St. Cyr, founder of bonfire, coaching and creator of the bonfire method. Thank you so much for being connected. Now, my homework for you summon the courage to let your life a little more and go make progress on your dreams today.
