Struck By Enlightenment

Kristen is joined by Spruill Alexander, Senior Vice President at Towne Insurance in eastern North Carolina. With over three decades in the industry and leadership over a team of twelve, Spruill shares the challenges of motivating a sales team that can sometimes feel entitled. They talk about how to keep performance rising without relying on pressure, how to build a culture that supports internal motivation, and how to bring communication back into the workplace. Spruill also speaks to the role of belonging and why it matters in the day-to-day life of a business. His experience in insurance, coaching, and civic leadership offers a grounded take on what leadership looks like when people come first.

In this episode of Struck by Enlightenment Kristen talks with Johnny Behman, who has been through music school, trained bodies in the gym, sharpened his skills in the kitchen, and now works with his family’s financial team. His path has great diversity on paper, but it’s built on the same thing every day: discipline, presence, and getting better at listening to himself. This episode is about what happens when you hit your limit. Not just physically, but mentally. We talk about setting goals that feel out of reach, the pressure of expectations, and what it means to actually honor the rhythm of your body. Johnny shares how he learned to pull himself out of anxiety, shift his thinking, and train his mind just like he trains his body. If you’ve been sitting in your thoughts too long and don’t know how to quiet them, this conversation gets right into it.

How can you live in a state of manifestation? It's a question I am asked very often, especially when it comes to moving beyond those challenges people face that stand in their way.Our challenges are developed from the fear that we learned on this plane. They limit our love and freedom. Consequently, they limit our awareness of our connection to the energetic realm (universe, source, one, etc.).When we are limited to the physicality of this experience, we develop doubts that there is more beyond this existence. Those doubts block us from opening our pure intuition. So the more we master our challenges the more pure our connection to our intuition and to the One. We then unveil the belief in, and knowing of, all that is.Listen in as I explain more!

The Winter Solstice sets the stage for the rest of the holiday season and marks the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere. It is the shortest day of the year and the longest night of the year. It is the darkest day.More powerful is the energy of the winter solstice, which you can use for life mastery and manifestation. The wintertime is a time of quiet, patience, going within. And the winter solstice is a time of quiet energy. Listen in as I talk more about this powerful time of year.

There have been myriad movies and books about going home for the holidays. Many are humorous, some are dark comedies and some are drama. Why is it that going home for the holidays is such an entertaining topic? Because a large majority of people can relate to the drama, craziness, and discord that surrounds a family gathering during the holidays. Today, I will talk about how expectations, assumptions, judgments, and taking things personally are a stage set for the mastery of challenges within you. I will also offer some thoughts about mastering the holidays so that you can have a magical holiday season!

How do we keep our love alive? For love to continue it cannot be stopped and cannot be limited. Love is about opening, not closing. Open doors allow us to keep moving forward together. Limitations are about fear. Fear exists where there is no love and love exists where there is no fear. The limitations of fear stop love from opening and growing. The greater the relationship to you the more challenges are brought to light - but for you to heal. In a relationship each person must hold their responsibly for keeping love alive, keeping doors open and keeping themselves open to being seen and known. Today we will look at how each person can keep love alive in the relationship.

We will often have a difference of perceptions, but there are times others want you to believe you aren't right - even when you are. When someone is so opposed to what you know is the truth, that is "gaslighting." Doubts can be created, people become vulnerable and dependent. Listen in as Kristen explains the real meaning of gaslighting in relationships.

Kristen talks about the bravery and courage within in regards to self-discovery. It takes courage to go beyond your boundaries and embark upon the journey of self-discovery. We overcome challenges and unveil truths of who we are.

Kristen discusses animal communication with gifted pet psychic Jane Solomon. Join them as they reveal why communication with your pet can enhance your life, as well as your four legged family members. Jane has since passed away but Kristen wanted to share her memory and gifted wisdom in this very special interview.

Judgments often follow when suicide is a topic. Yet, it is something people have many opinions about. Why do people commit suicide? Why is it assumed to be a sign of weakness? Furthermore, why do we judge those who are feeling so destroyed by judgment itself? Remember, “We judge only in the way we are fearful of being judged.” So what might this say about those who judge those who commit suicide? Join Kristen as she discusses that varying judgments people have regarding suicide.

‘Why did he text me that instead of calling?’ ‘When she texts me, she seems like a different person.’ ‘How could he ignore my text messages?’ ‘She completely misunderstood what I said in my text.’ With our newer forms of communication, have you asked yourself one of the above questions about texting in your relationships? Some people constantly text to communicate. Other people find it to be extremely impersonal. One thing is certain, everyone is texting. When mixing this type of communication with our loved ones, things can get confusing, frustrating and disappointing. Listen in as I discuss the pitfalls of texting, and some steps on doing it properly. Join Kristen Bomas as she talks about how important communication is, and how to be truly understood in this digital age.

We never think of anger as a good emotion. One would think it is destructive or abusive. Do we fight back? Is anger always based in fear? Join Kristen Bomas as she discusses how we are lead to anger and how we maintain our freedom and happiness.