Growing Edge Live

Growing Edge Live with Dr. Ali BenjaminJoin Ali Benjamin as she creates conversations with soul-centered people who channel their attention, energy, and resources into supporting others and helping the world come together in love.Guest: . Rev. Cindy EdelsonRev. Cindy is a graduate of the Michael Bernard Beckwith School of Ministry at Agape International and is an affiliated Minister with Centers for Spiritual Living. As a CSL Practitioner for over 20 years, then as a Ministerial Intern, then Minister, Rev. Cindy has served three other Centers before coming to Salt Lake. She blessed The Center for Spiritual Living, San Jose, Agape International Spiritual Center and the Agape Bay Area Center in various professional and volunteer ways, including as a Staff Minister, Heart to Heart – Compassionate Care Ministry Director, CO-Director of LGBTQ+ Ministry, Spiritual Community Gatherings Ministry, Ministry Team for Friday Nights, Treasurer and Fundraising Team Leader. Rev. Cindy is committed to being sure that our Center is a place where transformation happens. She facilitates that transformation by teaching classes (Visioning, Foundations, Energy Codes, Living Untethered with more to come), giving inspiring Sunday talks and offering leadership and support to all who serve our community. She posts regular Prayer and Meditations to our Facebook page and leads our monthly community Visioning the first Sunday of each month. She also brings in fabulous guest speakers, many of whom offer outstanding Sunday afternoon workshops.https://spirituallyfree.org/thesatyacenter@gmail.comwww.satyalive.org#newthoughtmedianetwork#alibenjamin #growingedge

Join Ali Benjamin as she creates conversations with soul-centered people who channel their attention, energy, and resources into supporting others and helping the world come together in love.Guest: .Dr. Michelle MedranoTopic:: Enneagram ChatRev. Dr. Michelle Medrano is a career minister in the New Thought movement.She received her ministerial degree at the School of Ministry at Mile Hi Church in 1991.The Huntington Beach Church of Religious Science hired her as an assistant minister, and she served in that capacity for four years.Then she was blessed to serve as senior minister of New Vision Center for seventeen years. In 2013, she was invited back to Mile Hi to serve as an associate minister. In the spring of 2019, she joined Rev. Joshua Reeves as the co-lead minister of Mile Hi Church.Writing runs in her family and authoring articles and books has been a part of her career dreams for a long time.http://9pathstothesoul.comhttp://alisonjbenjamin.comthesatyacenter@gmail.comwww.satyalive.org#newthoughtmedianetwork#alibenjamin #growingedge

Join Ali Benjamin as she creates conversations with soul-centered people who channel their attention, energy, and resources into supporting others and helping the world come together in love.Guest: Denise DolanDenise Dolan is a pioneer of teaching new paradigms and the co-founder of LOVE. LIFE. WISDOM., a transformational company devoted to “The Life You Want and the Love You Deserve.” Her work is grounded in a simple but radical premise: while we cannot control the world or change other people, we can change how we meet life from the inside out—and that inner shift has the power to change everything.Denise teaches that we are not here to wait for circumstances to improve before we allow ourselves selves to live fully. We are here to participate consciously. To choose clarity over contraction. To creatively respond rather than react. Through intention-setting, meditation, community dialogues, wisdom teachings, guidance on masculine-feminine polarity, and conflict-resolution and many other practices, Denise guides people back to their own inner authority. In her spaces, participants speak from personal experience rather than ideology. They listen differently. They sometimes remember. And often, they discover that what they once believed with certainty no longer fits—making room for something truer to emerge.Denise is one of a small group authorized by don Miguel Ruiz to teach The Four Agreements and Toltec wisdom, which she translates into grounded, modern practices for everyday life. She lived in India and became a certified yoga teacher and Jyotish practitioner in the ancient Vedic tradition. A New Thought minister and lifelong student of diverse wisdom traditions. She teaches not what to believe—but how to listen inwardly and live from that place. Her role as a bridge between worlds has been consistent throughout her life. Earlier in her career, Denise co-founded the U.S. division of a multinational consulting firm during a technological turning point in history. At a time when corporations were constrained by rigid systems, she helped introduce a new way of working—one that allowed organizations to design processes that reflected how they actually functioned. It was a shift from being shaped by systems to shaping systems themselves.Later, Denise made a similar shift inward—leaving the corporate world to practice Jin Shin Jyutsu, an ancient Japanese healing art. Philanthropists contracted her to bring this modality into hospitals in New Jersey, where it continues to be offered more than two decades later. Today, Denise’s focus is intentional creation and manifesting. Science now confirms what wisdom traditions have long taught: when clear intentions and genuine feelings come together, the quantum field responds. One without the other does not create change. This is not philosophy for Denise—it is lived experience. Her own path has included loss, reinvention, and more than one dark night of the soul. Through it all, she chose to deepen her inner work rather than surrender to fear. What emerged was not just a new life, but a new way of living—guided by conscious intentions. In 2022, she and her husband moved overseas to live a life they envisioned and together and are thriving on a farm near the beach.Denise’s work is for those who feel disillusioned and frustrated but haven’t given up. For those who sense that the world does not need more noise, but more presence. More clarity. More courage to live from the inside out.If you are ready to stop waiting for permission.If you are ready to reclaim your agency.If you are ready to participate in creating the life you want rather than the life you inherited—This is an invitation.The life you want and the love you deserve are not outside of you.They begin within—and they are possible.https://denisedolan.com/https://bridgingloss.com/index.htmlhttp://alisonjbenjamin.comthesatyacenter@gmail.comwww.satyalive.org#newthoughtmedianetwork#alibenjamin #growingedge.

Join Ali Benjamin as she creates conversations with soul-centered people who channel their attention, energy, and resources into supporting others and helping the world come together in love.Guest: Dr. Sydney Lehman SteenDr. Sydney Lehman Steen is an ordained CSL and Interfaith Minister. She is the Community Spiritual Leader and Senior Minister at the North Hollywood Church of Religious Science.Raised in Religious Science, Dr. Sydney’s commitment to spirit and to cultivating the unfoldment of the Divine within ALL people is absolute. Her dedication to inclusivity, sacred activism, and social justice informs her life, her teaching, and her speaking.Dr Sydney is also well-known in the music world as a fierce jazz pianist, keyboardist, composer, and conductor. She has worked with artists ranging from Shirley MacLaine, Dizzy Gillespie, and the Stan Kenton Orchestra, to the Pointer Sisters, Sarah Brightman, Robert Goulet, and even the Oregon Symphony. Additionally, she spent literally thousands of hours playing keyboard in the orchestra pits of Broadway shows such as: Les Miserable, CATS, Aida, Jesus Christ Superstar, Chicago, Spamalot, Beauty and The Beast, and Legally Blonde.https://www.nhcrs.org/ http://alisonjbenjamin.comthesatyacenter@gmail.comwww.satyalive.org#newthoughtmedianetwork#alibenjamin #growingedge

Join Ali Benjamin as she creates conversations with soul-centered people who channel their attention, energy, and resources into supporting others and helping the world come together in love.This week Ali is joined by Center for Spiritual Living's spiritual leader, Rev. Dr. Soni Cantrell-SmithRev. Dr. Soni Cantrell-Smith is the founding Minister of Ahava Center for Spiritual Living in Lexington, Kentucky. She graduated from Holmes Institute under the Direction of Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith in 2006, and was ordained in 2011. Dr. Soni is steeped in the principles of Science of Mind and is a lifelong student of the philosophy.Dr. Soni began her studies in 1992 at Huntington Beach Church of Religious Science in Huntington Beach, California. For 10 years, she was the music director at Namaste CSL in Long Beach, California. She has co-written a successful musical titled “Last Call,” which has been performed in numerous venues throughout the country.Dr. Soni has been active in 12 Step work for more than 30 years. She teaches spirituality classes at the Hope Center Rehabilitation for Women and is a co-founder of Bluegrass Rainbow Faith Communities, dedicated to supporting faith communities in becoming open and affirming to all.Dr. Soni has served the CSL Minister Council for six years, two of those as co-chair. She has served on the CSL Nominating Council as well as the CSL Sacred Activism Task Force. Dr. Soni has been serving the CSL interim ministers’ team for two years. She was the recipient of of the Ministers Meritorious Award in 2023.Dr. Soni believes we are all spiritual leaders. We, as leaders, must be able to articulate our vision and keep it alive through our faith in it, and we must create a sense of belonging and hope that this vision can transform our world.Growing Edge Live with Ali Benjamin is sponsored by Satya, dedicated to inspiring minds, healing hearts, and transforming lives. We are a loving place of support and resources. We share transformational tools that awaken individuals to embody their authentic power and purpose, create a life they love, and experience wholeness, abundance, and ease as never before.growingedgelive.comalisonjbenjamin.com#newthoughtmedianetwork#alibenjamin #growingedgeTranscript