Agapi Stassinopoulos: In the Presence of Love.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Guest: When Agapi Stassinopoulos walks into a room, you know you're in the presence of love. Her name, in fact, translates to "love." She is a sought-after speaker, teacher and a best-selling author of multiple books, the latest being Wake Up to the Joy of You: 52 Meditations and Practices for a Calmer, Happier Life.
Story: Training at the Royal Academy of London, Agapi wanted to build a career in performing arts. But it seems the universe conspired to create a different path. Struggling to find her way on the stage and screen, she changed direction and instead pursued a Masters in psychology, seeking to inspire and elevate people not by taking on the persona of other characters, but by taking the stage as herself and sharing her own, very personal stories, ideas and wisdom.
Big idea(s): If you’re stuck and you can’t seem to break out of it, help someone else get what they need and you’ll automatically be empowered.
You’d never guess: How spontaneously performing Joan of Arc to a stranger on a NYC bus kick-started her career.
Current passion project: Speaking and facilitating workshops around the world on changing the way people work, helping them reclaim their lives and move from merely surviving to thriving.
Please enjoy this guided meditation, titled, Let Love In, from Chapter 13 of Wake Up to the Joy of You.
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| 0:00.0 | What my mother taught me which is faith. |
| 0:07.0 | She had so much faith that in the middle of nothing they will be plenty. |
| 0:16.0 | And if we can communicate that to people, that in the middle of our hardest times, |
| 0:23.0 | there is faith that we are not alone. |
| 0:29.0 | Imagine feeling like you were kind of put on the planet to do a certain thing |
| 0:34.0 | and then getting to a point where you're an adult and you're doing it and you're pouring your heart into it. |
| 0:39.0 | And it seems like the universe is not rising up to support you but is rather doing the exact opposite. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, that was the experience of today's guest, Agapista Stasnopoulos, |
| 0:49.0 | as she really started to devote herself to the performing arts and the dramatic arts |
| 0:54.0 | and struggled, mildly, with her career. |
| 0:57.0 | And that struggle then became the source of a lot of questioning, a lot of exploration that led her to |
| 1:03.0 | change directions, pursue a master's in spiritual psychology. |
| 1:07.0 | And then becoming author, she's written a number of books now, leads workshops and speaks globally. |
| 1:12.0 | Her latest is called Wake Up to the Joy of You. |
| 1:15.0 | It's a beautiful book with 52 weekly meditations and practices. |
| 1:19.0 | And if you stay tuned at the end of this conversation, actually, |
| 1:24.0 | she has very graciously allowed us to edit in one really beautiful guided meditation around love |
| 1:31.0 | as we wrap up the conversation today. |
| 1:34.0 | So be sure to stick around for that and set aside a few extra minutes to really deepen into it. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm Jonathan Fields. This is Good Life Project. |
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