StevePavlina.com Podcast #014 - Embracing Your Passion
May 21st, 2006 by Steve Pavlina
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StevePavlina.com Personal Development for Smart People podcast #14: Embracing Your Passion
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a new podcast, so here’s a new one recorded by my wife, Erin (her first podcast was #10 on lucid dreaming).
One of the things I love most about my marriage is that I get to participate in the unfolding of Erin’s life path as well as my own. Since the beginning of the year, she’s made the most enormous quantum leaps forward I’ve seen in the 12+ years I’ve known her. She is completely on fire with passion, and we’re savoring every delicious minute of this time in our lives. Often when I see her now, she will jump up and say, “I am so excited. I am so excited!”
In this podcast Erin talks about how she initially chose to put security ahead of passion in her life, opting to go to graduate school and get a “real” job. Eventually, however, she re-awakened to her spiritual purpose after years of denial and resistance. In January she summoned the courage to ”burn the ships” and launched ErinPavlina.com, where she writes about what she’s most passionate about, especially psychic development.
In this podcast Erin mentions a blog post she wrote about her upcoming TV appearance on the Criss Angel Mindfreak show, where she actually went to a haunted house with a team of paranormal investigators to attempt to get in contact with spirits there. She hasn’t been the same since she returned. 
Enjoy the podcast…
Pavlina-014-Embracing-Your-Passion.mp3
(Time = 12:17, Size = 5.6MB)
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May 22nd, 2006 at 10:12 am
[...] This is the situation many people are stuck in. People are not willing to risk losing a present life-situation which makes them unhappy for some risky yet potentially uplifting and fulfilling future. Erin Pavlina discusses this in her latest podcast, Embracing Your Passion. She details the story of how she became stuck chasing degrees for a boring but secure and lucrative job at NASA, until she realized that this path, in the long run, would probably bring discontent. So she instead returned to her passion, paranormal and psychic phenomena, and began writing a blog. She may not be making as much money as she would at NASA, but my guess is she feels more bouyant and alive than she ever would at NASA. [...]
October 21st, 2006 at 7:45 pm
[...] In Erin Pavlina’s podcast on Embracing your Passion she asks the question, “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”. This is intriguing, but I’ve had a hard time coming up with an answer to it. I think I’m too fettered by my physical reality and find it hard to let go and simply dream. I think this question might be the key… I will return to answer this one soon! [...]