Happy Hour Podcast With Dee And Shannon

Episode 136: Tips to Prevent or Heal from Burnout with Shannon Jamail In this episode, Shannon shares her top tips on preventing or healing from burn out or feelings of stress and being overwhelmed. One tip that Shannon shared was about limiting oneself from using Social Media to prevent burnout. There are companies that do a really great job at managing social media, which frees you up to work on your business. Instead of getting lost in social media scrolling, you can still build trust and influence on social media, and give genuine content to the company that you hire. Topics Covered on this Happy Hour Podcast: 00:27 - Is It Burnout? 01:52 - A Disclaimer from your Mental Health Therapist! 02:52 -  Know When to Say Yes and When to Say No! 05:04 - You Assign Importance! 07:04 - Clean Up the Clutter! 08:14 - Let’s Pause for a Bit 08:37 - Visualization is a Powerful Tool!  10:13 - Ask for Help, It’s Not that Bad! 11:36 - Commercial 13:15 - Get Off Social Media! Subscribe: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | S

Episode 135: What is Really Within Your Control   with Shannon Jamail In this episode, Shannon shares with us her tips on focusing more on what you can control in order to reduce frustration and bring in more joy. She also talked about setting boundaries and doing a checklist in order to create one’s awareness on what they can control. Not only that but Shannon also asks her audience where they put their energy in, have them realize where their frustrations come from and how they can reduce those that way they could have a brighter perspective on life. Topics Covered on this Happy Hour Podcast: 00:00 - My Florida Retreat! 01:40 - A Powerful Tool forCrazy Unknown Times 02:57 - Expectation versus Boundaries 04:27 - Control the Weather? Control Traffic? Oh, Please!  05:40 - We Can’t Change the Past, nor the Future! 06:35 - It’s a Time Sucking Pointless Endeavor to Control People 07:36 - You Can Set Boundaries! 08:25 - Let’s Pause for a Bit 08:44 - What Can We Control? Our Thoughts? Think Again. 10:38 - Let’s Do

Episode 134: How Horses Can Help You Heal w/ Shannon and Chris  In this episode, Shannon and Chris from Joshua Tree California, owner of Mustang Sanctuary Ranch, talk about how horses help humans heal. Chris shares what he does with the beautiful wild mustang population and how his ranch operates. Although he runs a Mustang rescue ranch, and they predominantly focus on Mustang rescues, but they do have a couple other horses there. He’s just doing as much as he can to make sure that he put his best foot forward in educating and getting awareness out there about what these animals are going through and hoping that we can open our doors to as many as possible. He then shares how horses help us heal, just to kind of give an idea of what the healing magic for horses is, they say a human's heart rate or heart energy emanates, six feet and horse’s is 8 feet. So as soon as you even get anywhere near these horses, they feel you and in turn that energy, the “unseen force” as Chris calls it, calls out to the horse, good

Episode 133: Evicting the Inner Mean Girl —w/ Shannon and Lizzy In this episode, Shannon and Lizzy talk about how we can evict the inner mean girl. Lizzy, affectionately known as the self-love sister, empowers women with the tools that they need to ditch the diets, silence their inner mean girl and confidently step into the body that they love and sustain it. What Lizzy’s been doing over the past five years or so is empowering women with this whole suite of tools to have the body that they love. One of the highlight in this episode is Lizzy talking about the 12 Rebellious acts from her book called Reclaim the Rebel. One of these acts is Just Keep Practicing at Rewriting that Story. Whatever it is that comes up you're not always going to get it perfect. It's going to be a bit more effortful on your first couple of attempts that when you repeat it again and again, and again, it's going to feel easier and that story is going to be more embedded into your subconscious, so that you can move through those moments e

Episode 132: Exploring Love, Passion and More with Leola — Exploring Love, Passion and More with Shannon & Leola Shannon talks with guest Leola on her work within love, passion, intimacy and more. Leola is a Sacred Intimacy Mentor & Muse, inspiring others to see an integration of sexuality and spirituality. She guides individuals and couples in discovering how life-force energy moves in the body; and more importantly, how to harness this inner-power for a pleasure-filled life that begins with our most intimate relationships and extends to our livelihood and our worldview. In her early 20s, Leola discovered tantra and shamanic sexuality as modalities to heal her relationship to her body, process past sexual assault, and create a life she loves. She is now dedicated to guiding others to be turned on by life itself. In this episode, we have Leola, a sacred intimacy mentor as our guest. Her mission and purpose is to inspire others. To guide individual and couples discovering this creative force that we

Episode 131: The Difference in Giving Advice to Clients VS Kids — We have an incredible Community, w/ Shannon and Nathan Jamail Shannon and Nathan both coach clients and they share the different responses from giving advice to kids vs their clients. Join the in their humorous journey of parenthood struggles. In this episode, Shannon and Nathan talks about giving advice to their adult kids and in comparison, to their diverse clients. They wanted to share the difference between their personal and their professional life, reminiscing about how they started their own business and also gave us an idea about direct marketing. They also talked about the “Out of Town Expert Syndrome”, the further you travel, the more knowledgeable you must be. In addition they also share how family and friends see them differently in comparison to others. Topics Covered on this Happy Hour Podcast: 00:40 – Quick Catch Up with Shannon and Nathan 00:56 - Giving Advice to Adult Kids VS Clients 01:22 – A Little Bit of Something about Ou

Episode 130: We have an incredible Community — We have an incredible Community, w/ Shannon and Nathan Jamail  Recently there was a terrible fire close by, and the community response was amazing.  Listen to Shannon & Nathan recap the experience and learn how important community is. In this episode, Shannon and Nathan share how blessed and grateful they are with the Community that they have currently and how that gave them motivation and hope for humanity. Shannon and Nathan also stated how the fire helped the community stay close and continue to support each other. Topics Covered on this Happy Hour Podcast: 01:10 - The Serious Fires in Texas03:02 - Went to Miami During a Tropical Storm04:02 - Fire? What Fire? We’re in Miami!05:22 - Amazing Community Support!07:29 - Giving Back to the Firefighters09:38 - Another Massive Fire After Three Days10:35 - Our Community Look Out for Each Other13:28 - A Business Within the Community15:18 - When the Barn catches Fire, It’s Going to the Ground Subscribe:  Apple Podc

Episode 129: Nathan answers your questions too — Nathan answers your questions too, w/ Shannon and Nathan Jamail You asked, so he is delivering. Nathan is also answering your frequently asked questions, in his way Nathan loves the work. I love how it's probably been stressful being together all the time. Nathan thinks it's also been enjoyable, and so he loves all of it, becoming a closer family because of it, even kids. Nathan also added that if there’s anything he wanted to change, it would be everything as that would highly affect their learning curve, Topics Covered on this Happy Hour Podcast: 01:50 - Let’s Hear Nathan on his Favorite Questions! 03:19 - How Do We Decide on What to Work On? 04:48 - Trying to Get Nathan Killed with Bees 06:15 - Our Kids’ Life in the Ranch 08:10 - Nathan’s Challenging Part Is…TIMELINES! 10:36 - The Learning Curve 13:38 - My Favorite Part is YOU! Subscribe:  Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify Connect with Shannon Jamail: Visit Happy Hour Podcast Facebook Mind &

Episode 128: Shannon answers your most frequently asked questions — Shannon answers your most frequently asked questions, w/ Shannon Jamail Shannon addresses the most frequently asked questions from guests and social media.Shannon takes the day to answer the questions that have been asked most commonly either by guests, directly at our ranch or through email or responses to social media, and calls out what kind of questions her audience has.  Let's be honest, not everybody wants to be that immersed in nature. Some of them are tense and so that's not the jam for everyone and all of them.   Topics Covered on this Happy Hour Podcast: 00:25 - Let’s Answer Some Questions!01:22 - Glamping Ranch? That’s a Great Idea!04:11 - The Biggest Challenge is… All of IT! 07:06 - What Would We Do Differently?09:45 - Shannon’s Favorite Part Is…10:52 - The Bees and All The Animals at the Ranch14:30 - For The Love of Horses17:27 - Horse Yoga19:10 - Is It Hard Working With a Spouse? Do the Kids Love It?21:21 - Ranching Into the Fu

Episode 127: Nourishing YOU with guest Suki — Nourishing YOU with guest Suki, w/ Shannon, and Suki. Shannon and guest Suki have an in-depth discussion on how Suki got started in the retreat world, why her cooking is special, and some points of why retreats are so important. An Austin native, and Richardson resident, Suki wears many hats and even has a few aliases (some lovingly know her as Jenn). In a former life, she discovered Dallas by way of kitchens dabbling in a variety of cuisines from healthful farm-to-market to upscale restaurants. At the end of a tough 2020, she found reprieve in her first retreat experience and was inspired to leave the evolving restaurant industry to host others. She is passionate about many things-though hospitality, honest food, and physical well-being top the list.  Her hospitality experience combined with over a decade of practicing yoga is the foundation of Four Dimensions. Her goal is to create a sacred space for guests & instructors to come together and explore the Fou

What is your midlife experience as a woman, wife, mother, and individual? The process of getting to midlife is an ongoing one, and being able to share that journey with other women is something that may truly help you. In this episode, Kara Zebrowski shares her journey and how she coaches and supports women who are going through this phase in their lives. Kara shares more about her journey and background. Her experience of moving homes and starting her business from scratch. Why we need to take care of ourselves in mid-life. The three big things Kara works on with women. Upcoming retreats with Kara. Do you need to come to Kara’s retreats? Reshape Midlife Website   “I really started to see a need in this mid lifetime for women and beyond, where women have spent so much time nurturing their families, their jobs, and their aging parents. I felt like there just needed to be some sort of support. I've developed online courses, which I offer now that I coach women through. And I've been able to add retreats, whic

Running the ranch isn’t without challenges. While we do love it, there are days when it can be hard and overwhelming- and it can be easy to get stuck in that headspace. In this episode, we share how we are learning to respond and stay positive even when things don’t go as planned or when life throws us curveballs. And how we’re learning to balance one another as partners working alongside each other. We look back at why we built the ranch, why we started this journey, and why it’s all worth it in the end. Enjoying the ride even if things are hard. How we resolve issues that come up at the ranch. Balancing each other as partners (sometimes). Remembering why we started and why we’re doing this. “I put love in, you've put love in, we've put our heart and soul in building the ranch. And people feel that and that is what this is about, which is so fucking cool.” “This is what we wanted, this is where we want to be, and this is what we wanted to do. This is like our love child. Everything about this is for our ki

Another day, another update coming your way! We’re constantly working to make your visit to the ranch an unforgettable one. In this episode, we share with you some of the updates on the ranch including our new accommodations, the animals that we were generously given and, of course, future plans you’re going to love and look out for! Accommodation updates on the ranch The story behind the 1860 house. Animals that are currently in the ranch and the interesting stories on how we got them. New team members at the ranch. Our plans for offering horse yoga.   “Everything we're doing we're learning we're no by no means experts on anything when it comes to the ranch life.”

 Are you making the connection between your body, mind and emotions? My guest today, Angela Van Wagoner Moore, Founder of Concrete Yoga and co-owner of Unbound Collective School of Yoga & Wellness, joins me to tell you more about her upcoming Yoga From Within Retreat at the ranch.  Angie shares more about the work that she does as a Yoga Therapist. The lessons she learned from being a Yoga Therapist and creating a school. What to expect from the Yoga from Within Retreat Schedule and topics for the October Retreats. Links: Concrete Yoga Website Unbound Yoga & Wellness Website Retreats at the Ranch   “In the Yoga From Within Retreat we’re focusing on just turning inward and trying to uncover some things that we ignore to allow people to have space to shake it out and let emotions surface. “

There is so much going on at the ranch nowadays and we’ve got a lot of updates coming your way in this episode. We share why we love working on the ranch and with each other (despite driving each other crazy). We also talk about how we make working with each other ‘work’.  Latest updates on the ranch. Working together as husband and wife at the ranch. Taking breaks from work and each other. Explaining why the ranch is “our” thing. Incorporating fun into the work that we do. What’s happening in the next few months at the ranch.

A lot has happened over the last week and this is what we’re going to share with you in this episode. Lots of updates on what’s happening, the struggles and bumps we’ve gone through, updates on the ranch, future plans and the lessons we’ve learned along the way. We’ve realized so many things, but the most important one of all is that these challenges just make us better and stronger everyday.  We share the problem we had with Pax, our horse. The wins we’ve had over the last few weeks. Latest updates on the ranch and the future plans on our drawing board. The lessons we’ve learned throughout the experience. “Each challenge has come with a reward. It doesn’t just add things that we have to do, it changes our priorities.” “At the end of the day, everything works out. It’s like the growing pains of a human. I think because we’re pushing and growing, we’re learning and maybe even making a deeper belief that is what we go through and when things happen that stop us or derail us, we get stronger for it. The ground

Welcome to our first podcast episode on the ranch!  We’re husband and wife and embarking on a new journey here on the Happy Hour Podcast.  We’re completely starting over from scratch on this podcast. It’s on this space that we want to share with you what’s happening at our ranch, the world, business, life, and all that stuff. We talk about our journey, have some laughs, and maybe we'll all learn a lil something along the way too.  In this episode, we give you an update on the progress of our retreat center in Texas, how we got to this point, and the challenges and wins we’ve had along the way. How we got to this point of building a retreat center. The challenges that we’ve come across. Building our home and retreat center. The storms that affected our ranch in Texas. The wins we’ve had through the journey. Updates on the property. "There's such an immense feeling of peace when you’re on the property… It’s nothing like we envisioned as far as our retirement plan but it’s everything I wanted and more now. I l

Children coming out to parents about being gay isn’t always an easy thing. While some are okay with it, there will always be others who are opposed to the idea. But like it or not, there is always a possibility that your child may be gay and this is what we want to share in our episode today. Our very special guest is my 18-year-old daughter Nyla. She will be sharing her experience with you on how it was for her to come out to us, her parents, as well as to other family members and friends. She also shares her journey from how she knew to now that she’s living with her girlfriend. If you are a parent, Nyla also shares her thoughts on how to approach talking to children about the topic. It’s a super informative episode that will touch and open your minds and hearts.

This week on my Happy Hour podcast I am celebrating 100 episodes!  This is a huge milestone and I am so grateful for the support over the last 3 years.  I am taking a few weeks break as I work on new content and shows for season 3- AND coming back with two new members of the Happy Hour team!   Help me to welcome Stefanie and Angie (you may remember them from episodes 97 and 99)!   A lil about Stefanie- she is a momma of two beautiful kiddos and lives in Newport Beach California with her husband and family.  She is a nurse and is also certified as a birth and postpartum doula.  She is also a beautiful yoga instructor and she brings a passionate and healing touch to all that she does.  Learn more about Stefanie here.  A lil about Angie- is a momma to two cute as hell dogs and a cranky but adorable cat. She lives in Savannah Georgia with her fiancé.  She is a lawyer and brings a feisty and determined attitude to all she does and is an incredible lawyer that fights for her clients and firm.  She is also starting

Man, how are you feeling right now?  A couple friends and I have a chat on my podcast this week and talk about how quarantine is going. Warning: we are slap happy at times, pissed at other times, and just ridiculous at other times. Would love to hear how your quarantine is going.  What are you doing during this time that is working and what is just not working? One thing that helps me, is to plan for something yummy in the future.  Like my yoga & wine beach retreat happening this October.   Also finding fun and creative ways to connect with people now has really helped.  Like my virtual alignment retreat happening in June.  Would love to know what you are planning or doing during this time?