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Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Lee Donahue
How to be Truly Alone without Being Lonely, and its Benefit in Relationships - Ep886
Featuring Interview Guest, Transformation and Relationship Coach, Monica Loren; and Performance Guest, Singer and Songwriter, Elena Flores
Interview Guest: MONICA LOREN; and Performance Guest: ELENA FLORES
In this episode of SOS For The Soul: Coming Home, Jennifer Elizabeth Masters goes straight to the question so many people quietly carry:
“Why didn’t I trust myself… when I knew?”
Self-doubt isn’t random—and it isn’t weakness.
It’s a learned pattern.
When your voice was dismissed, overridden, or ignored—
you learned to disconnect from your own inner knowing in order to stay safe, accepted, or loved.
And over time, that disconnection becomes automatic.
You second-guess yourself.
You override your instincts.
You stay in situations that don’t feel right… even when part of you knows better.
In this episode, Jennifer breaks down:
- Why self-trust breaks down after emotional and narcissistic trauma
- How people become conditioned to override their intuition
- The subtle ways this shows up in everyday decisions and relationships
- Why awareness alone doesn’t create change
- And what it actually takes to reconnect with your inner guidance
This is more than understanding the pattern—
It’s about recognizing why it hasn’t shifted… and what’s required for it to finally change.
If you’ve ever walked away from something thinking,
“I knew better…”
This episode will hit home.
Jennifer works privately with individuals ready to break these patterns at the root and rebuild deep self-trust, confidence, and emotional stability.
To explore working together, visit:
JenniferElizabethMasters.com
Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Lee Donahue
How to Play Your Way to a Positive Impactful Life – Ep885
Featuring Interview Guest, Fitness Ninja, Award-Winning High-Performance Athlete, Coach, Key-Note Speaker, Performer, Travis Brewer; and Performance Guest, Visionary Vocal Artist, Sarah Conner
Interview Guest: TRAVIS BREWER; and Performance Guest: SARAH CONNER
Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Lee Donahue
Empathy- It’s So Powerful it Can Drive Winning Results - Ep884
Featuring Interview Guest, Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, Co-founder of Prison of Peace, Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University’s Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution (ranked #1 in the nation), Speaker, and Author, Doug Noll, JD, MA; and Performance Guest, “Keynote Maestro,” Founder of Life In Tune, a #1 Charting Pianist, Producer of Grammy-Winning Projects, a World-Class Musician with Powerful Leadership Insight, Freddie Ravel
Interview Guest: DOUG NOLL, JD, MA; and Performance Guest: FREDDIE RAVEL
Dr. Melissa Balizan, Pharmacist, TV Host, Keynote Speaker & Women’s Health Expert joins me along with Allen Lycka, (‘the Unshakable’), award winning Radio Host, Doctor of happiness & purpose. Then, it’s 'The Sports Doctor Is In' with some Dr. Bob wisdom and your questions and emails!
Author, Retired Engineer, Philanthropist
Lena Fein lives in San Francisco, the city of her birth. After receiving a master’s degree in engineering from UC Berkeley, she enjoyed a successful career in high tech and founded a non-profit that funded health and education projects in at-risk communities around the globe. Now retired, Lena enjoys the arts in all their forms, including painting, singing, dancing, and writing. Currently, Lena is often seen taking long walks by the bay and hugging her grandbabies.
Her memoir, "Shattering the Mirror" is about her quest to confront her life and see through the distortions of her traumatic childhood. Now in her late sixties, Lena lives with more freedom, clarity, and love than she ever imagined. The book is really about the truth that healing is possible at any age — and that wholeness is priceless.
Retired Yoga Teacher, Meditation Teacher, Energetic Therapist
Kristine Gibson is a retired Yoga and Meditation teacher, and energetic therapist.
She resides in rural New South Wales, Australia. She has practiced Eastern and Western Astrology for over three decades.
Today, she dedicates her work to writing and offering insightful astrological and Tarot interpretations as personalized readings for a global clientele, offering services as both a mystical astrologer and an oracle guide.
Kristine’s book "The Spirit of Your Chinese Animal" is a completely fresh style and discovery of the Chinese zodiac.
An entertaining read for all ages, it ultimately bringing a deeper understanding of the 12 Chinese Animals.
Blending ancient philosophy with a contemporary style, the book invites readers to experience a deeper appreciation of their Chinese birth animal.
Kristine outlines the symbolic nature of each animal, offering personalized reflections that help to lovingly align with the animal’s spirit nature.
The book supports a true connection to the archetypal energy of each animal, presenting ancient Chinese astrological wisdom and knowledge for self-empowerment.
Kristine’s most recent book is "The Year of The Fire Horse".
This eBook is insightful and predictive for all of the 12 Chinese animals, including an overview of potential world themes and changes for 2026.
Challenges and opportunities are balanced out to support all Chinese animals in the Fire Horse year.
There is an overall story that influences and stir passions, as Kristine guides readers to understand how the dynamic energy of 2026 interacts with each Chinese animal and the human spirit.
More than a forecast, "The Year of The Fire Horse" is an invitation to embrace wisdom for navigating any potential upheavals, harnessing inner fire and aligning personal destiny with the greater rhythms of 2026.
Both books are available on Amazon. Kristine is available for individual Tarot and astrology readings.
Psychic Medium
Psychic Medium Angelina Diana (her born name) had been a popular radio host & newscaster for many years, until the world of connecting to energy came into her life. At first, she studied it privately to make her life better. Then the urge to interview psychics and mediums grew stronger. She then realized that there were those practitioners "in the work to heal and those in it to steal ( your money)!" After Angelina received many personal validations from the energy world, she decided to read other people to see of there was evidence. Angelina was surprised to receive more requests to do readings because it "helped' them.
She decided to leave the world of broadcasting, to broadcast other information....from the otherside.
As a Psychic Medium, Angelina Diana participated in the prestigious Mediumship Afterlife Tests, The Veritas Research program under the direction of noted author & scientist, Dr. Gary Schwartz, of the University of Arizona, Tucson. It was during extensive scientific testing by that Ms. Diana’s otherworldly accuracy was scientifically verified to the extent that she received honorable mention in Dr. Schwartz’s book, "The Truth about Medium."
Angelina also has the distinction of being the first medium to be certified by Forever Family Foundation when they began their program in 2005. After she passed the test the first time She went through the certification program various time to help them refine the program to open it up to other mediums.
Angelina has also been a host - "Signs of Life" since it's inception from 2006 -2013. She lent a hand in the programming, production, formatting and creation of their interview show that has noted scientists in the field of survival of death as well as noted authors and other mediums.
Angelina has had the opportunity to use her past media experience and bring her on air readings, messages of hope and spiritual teachings to television and radio. She is the resident psychic medium on Courtney and Kiss in the morning on 95.7FM since 2005 She has the honor of being on Better Connecticut WFSB Channel 3 (CBS), FOX 61, WTNH 8 ( ABC) and Channel 30 ( NBC) in Connecticut. She has also made other TV appearances in Massachusetts WGGB Channel 40 ( ABC) and WWLP Mass Appeal Channel 22 ( NBC) and Arizona. She also produced and host her Cable Access show on Cox Cable PA15 shown throughout the Connecticut area.
She wishes to be a resource to help clients discover their own natural psychic ability, and if they have experiences a loss, help them understand their ability to connect to their loved ones on the otherside.
Founder and CEO of Water es Vida Technologies, Inc
Founder and CEO of OpenSponsorship
Ishveen is a trailblazer in the sports marketing industry having built OpenSponsorship.com into the
world's largest marketplace connecting brands to athletes for digital marketing campaigns. Her
accolades include getting on the Forbes 30U30 sports list, Inc's top 100 female Founders list and raising
over $5M for the company including from NBA team owners, athletes such as Serena Williams, notable
VCs and her Alma Mater Oxford University. The marketplace has 17,000 athletes, 60% are managed by
the major sports agencies and 40% is athletes direct. They have done 10,000 deals including for brands
like Walmart, Footlocker, ESPN, Fanduel, Western Union, and 100s more.
Co-Conspirators at The Experientialists
Lou Pizante
In the thrilling, occasionally absurd, and frequently over-budget world of location-based entertainment,
Lou Pizante somehow balances legal strategy, financial discipline, and a deeply suspicious respect for
artistic chaos. His main job is to make sure the creative train doesn’t fly off the rails—or, when it
inevitably does, to draft the waiver.
Lou is a co-founder and partner of The Experientialists, a strategy and investment firm that operates at
the strange intersection of wonder and ROI. The firm invests scale-stage equity capital in location-based experiential enterprises and partners with real estate investors to reposition underutilized retail into next-gen entertainment districts. On any given day, Lou is translating impossible ideas into plausible
business models, preferably with good snacks. In parallel, he a strategic advisor to Lux Entertainment,
the global experiential studio behind critically acclaimed franchises like Balloon Museum, This Is
Wonderland, and Color Hotel. He also serves as fractional General Counsel and Corp Dev Lead of RPM
Raceway, where he is primarily responsible for the legal and existential implications of putting
high-powered electric go-karts into the hands of very confident teenagers and their highly competitive
parents.
Before all that, Lou joined a high-tech circus (Two Bit Circus, to be precise), where he managed risks
involving fire, physics, and facial proximity to drones. He once sold an actual tequila cloud to the Mexican government. He was also CFO/GC for Voice for Nature, a company technically owned by the planet, which raised some questions about board representation. Earlier roles include CFO at GOOD Magazine, CEO of Mavent Inc. (a fintech platform acquired by Intercontinental Exchange or “ICE”), and senior positions at Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, Greenwich Capital, and Nomura Securities.
Lou is an appointed member of the World Experience Organization’s Council, named to the Blooloop 50
Immersive Influencer list, and a 2025 XP Land X-List honoree and Council Member. He contributes
regularly to Blooloop, where his columns explore the strange beauty and operational absurdity of the
immersive arts. His LinkedIn newsletter, The Experientialist, is widely read by people who pretend to
hate LinkedIn but can’t stop scrolling.He holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley and a JD/MBA from NYU, where he mastered the ancient art of arguing with himself in two disciplines at once.
Maria Redin
In an industry that runs on equal parts imagination and operational discipline, Maria Redin has a rare talent for making both behave. She builds experiences that feel effortless to the guest and are anything but behind the scenes—where strategy, execution, and creative ambition are quietly negotiating with each other at all times.
Maria is a co-founder and partner of The Experientialists, a strategy and investment firm operating at the intersection of culture and commerce. The firm invests in and scales location-based experiential businesses while partnering with real estate owners to transform underutilized spaces into destinations people actually want to visit. Maria focuses on turning big creative ideas into systems that can run—consistently, profitably, and without requiring daily miracles. She is also the co-author of Cracking the X-Stack, a forthcoming book that codifies the business model underlying location-based experiential.
She also serves as Entrepreneur in Residence at Sensee Group, where she works at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and experience design to scale an investment portfolio of location-based experiential companies. In parallel, she co-leads North American growth for the Balloon Museum, one of the world’s most successful traveling experiential art platforms, helping translate its global success into scalable operations and partnerships in the U.S.
Before that, Maria served as Chief Operating Officer of Non Plus Ultra (NPU), where she led the activation of some of the most iconic and complex real estate in the country, including the San Francisco Mint and Palace of Fine Arts. There, she worked at the intersection of brand, architecture, and live experience—partnering with global companies like Facebook, Gucci, and Pepsi to deliver large-scale events and immersive environments that somehow managed to be both ambitious and operationally sound.
Her career has consistently lived in that tension. At Two Bit Circus, she helped build the future of entertainment using lasers, robots, and just enough chaos to keep things interesting. At IDEO, she developed business models for new products and services rooted in human-centered design. Earlier, at Mattel, she co-led a brand incubator that generated over $100 million in product sales—proving that even toys can have a very serious P&L.
Maria holds multiple degrees from MIT in computer science, engineering, and media arts, as well as an MBA from Wharton, which means she is equally comfortable discussing system architecture, brand strategy, and why your operating model probably won’t survive contact with opening weekend.
She is a member of the World Experience Organization (WXO), a 2025 XP Land X-List honoree and Council Member, and continues to work across the experiential ecosystem—advising, building, and occasionally preventing very good ideas from becoming very expensive cautionary tales.
Singer, Songwriter, Vocalist, Musician
Morley, weaves the threads of jazz, soul, and folk traditions into a singular tapestry of vocal and acoustic splendor — the sound wave of a life lived with uncommon devotion to human rights and environmental justice.
Raised in vibrantly multicultural Jamaica, Queens, and educated at the United Nations School, Duke Ellington High School for the Performing Arts and Alvin Ailey, Morley performs all over the world, both as a soloist and with her self – titled band. She is often called on to sing for and with visionaries on the frontiers of climate and social change.
Follow The Sound, Morley’s new album, co – produced with Chris Bruce, features contributions from Toumani Diabaté (kora), Meshell Ndegeocello (bass, percussion, vocals), Shara Nova a.k.a. My Brightest Diamond (vocals), Jon Cowherd (piano, vocals), Chris Bruce (guitar, bass, vocals, keyboard, drum programming), Arun & Trina Ramamurthy (violins), Jack DeBoe, Jay Bellerose and Abe Rounds (drums, percussion), Cole Kamen (trumpet), Justin Hicks, Kenita Miller, Jason Charles Walker and Alex Koi (supporting vocals) and Rashaan Carter (bass and sound engineer). Mixed by Ken Rich and Mastered by Greg Calbi, Track 3 “Where Are We” was arranged by Daniel Lanois
Morley and Chris recorded with Ken Rich at Grand Street Recording and Rashaan Carter at Looking Glass Arts and also engineered their own sessions remotely.
Follow The Sound was made possible by a generous grant from The Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and Artist Residencies from the renowned Baldwin For The Arts and Looking Glass Arts.
Morley’s music appears on network television, commercials and in human rights documentaries, Democracy Now, and has moved minds and spirits as diverse as His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, entrepreneur Richard Branson, Nobel laureates Jodi Williams, Mary Robinson and Ela Gandhi. Morley has graced stages as wide-ranging as the Nomad Women’s Festival in the Sahara Desert, to Carnegie Hall.
A featured performer and speaker for TEDWomen and several TEDx gatherings nation wide, Morley created and produces “Circle Round Dignity,Courage and Survival” a performance based round table which has been generously commissioned by Lincoln Center for Lincoln Center, over the span of four years. Morley spearheaded the successful fundraiser Borderless Lullabies that continues to be a source of revenue for the pro-bono legal defense fund, KIND: Kids – In – Need – Of – Defense, representing unaccompanied refugee minors in court after being separated by ICE.
To date, Morley has released seven albums of original songs via Sony, Universal and independently. She is a founding member of The Bruces and the cast of Toshi Reagon’s. “Parable Of The Sower – The Opera” and has penned songs for the great William Parker, Richard Bona, Youn Sun Nah, Lizz Wright and more. Morley and Chris Bruce wrote and performed the theme song for, “That Kindness – A play for and by the Nurses of America” V (Formerly Eve Ensler).
Morley also uses music as a tool when working with war veterans and survivors of domestic violence.
Board-Certified Internal Medicine Physician, Doctor, Humanitarian, Advocate, Volunteer
One of the treasures of my life has been the privilege to enter the lives of those suffering through unexpected diagnoses, disease, physical pain, and emotional distress. I do not take for granted this calling to serve and the blessing of knowing God’s will in my life. Writing, speaking, and communicating with you allows me to reach more, help more, and learn more. This is a part of my evolutionary purpose, stones built upon the cornerstone of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.
In 2018 a dying patient comforted me with the words, “It’s okay, I am going to have a good death.” Her peace through her suffering inspired my quest for the answers to “What are the ingredients of a good death?” The ingredients discovered for a good death changed my life and my hope is that they make your suffering a little less and your joy a little more.
I was in my thirties when I met Jesus for the first time. I wasn’t a fan. He had stolen my husband’s heart and I just didn’t get him (Jesus or my husband). However, Jesus pursued me to the end of myself and when I cried out for his peace, his joy, HIM…He answered! He accepted me as I was, deeply flawed and yet forgiven. This is the Jesus I know. He is my Lord and Savior who came to this broken world and suffered on the cross unto death. Yet, He came to conquer death and was raised to the right hand of Father God so that I may one day also survive my death. This is my best death. If you are reading this and do not know him, He is pursuing you too! Stop running.
I hope to share my family with you as we get to know each other. My husband Scott and I share five great children, two fantastic sons-in-law, and eight super grandchildren. We raised our kids with the quote of “roots to grow and wings to fly” and they are each flying in their own journey. When we come together it can be a beautiful mess and not without drama (let’s keep it real here). I love to have Christmas in matching pajamas and don’t be surprised if we show up to Krispy Kremes in our matching flannels. We are a tribe. In fact, myself and the kids are members of the Western Cherokee Tribe.
I graduated from medical school in 1989 and pursued Internal Medicine at Baylor Medical Center in Houston. In 1992, I was recruited as one of three physicians in a new hospital-based program—what we now call Hospitalists. Since then, I’ve spent most of my career caring for patients at their most vulnerable, and in doing so, they’ve become my greatest teachers. In 2009, a medical mission trip to Rwanda changed my life. I felt God say, “This is your place and your purpose.” I expected to build a clinic, but God invited me into a season of growth and waiting. Serving with Africa New Life—as a volunteer, board member, and now Chair—has been a profound gift. That clinic is now a thriving hospital. God’s plans truly are better than ours.






