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The Spiritual Grind

The Spiritual Grind

Written by: Dr. Jenni and Rev. James
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The Spiritual Grind is a candid, down-to-earth podcast hosted by Dr. Jenni Emery, PhD, RN, CHLC, CH, and Rev. James Emery, MHSB, exploring personal growth, mindset, belief systems, leadership, and real-world transformation.

Drawing from decades of study, lived experience, and practical application, Jenni and James bridge the gap between spirituality, psychology, business, and everyday life. Their conversations move beyond theory, offering honest insight into how beliefs are formed, how patterns repeat, and how intentional awareness can create lasting change.

Rather than promoting labels, dogma, or shortcuts, The Spiritual Grind focuses on clarity, responsibility, and personal agency—meeting listeners exactly where they are and giving them tools to move forward with confidence, depth, and authenticity.

Each episode blends thoughtful dialogue, real stories, and grounded perspective designed to support growth in both personal and professional life—without hype, pressure, or pretense.

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  • UFOs, Fishing, And Why Your Bait Is Expectations
    Feb 19 2026

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    What if the scariest part of your life isn’t a ghost, a glitch, or “AI taking over,” but the labels and expectations you repeat without noticing? We follow a trail from a morning coffee chat and The Island to a conspiracy-tinged documentary and land on a practical truth: words direct attention, attention sets frequency, and frequency trains results. Rename a thing and you can dial fear up or down—UFO to UAP is a public example. Inside your own head, “narcissist,” “always,” and “never” are the same trick, shrinking your field until your body starts shouting what your beliefs refuse to update.

    We unpack this with real stories and tangible tools. A client stuck in a hot-flash spiral wasn’t reliving menopause; she was burning energy under a fear template. A business leader couldn’t trust a solid proposal because an old wound kept pattern-matching the wrong face. Then we go simple: a fishing parable where belief is the bait and expectation is the spot. If you only trust one lure in one cove, a single doubt creates split energy and empty nets. Go broader—expect to catch fish, then adjust the bait—and results return. The same move unlocks money, relationships, and health: release rigid outcomes, widen your intent, and let feedback guide the next right action.

    Along the way, we challenge the fear of technology by naming the convenience we already embraced: debit cards, smartphones, voice assistants, even medical devices. The pattern is the pattern—spoon-fed change until panic cools. The antidote is inner maintenance. Schedule belief updates like software patches. Ask: What template is running? Does it still serve? What’s a more generous expectation I can stand behind today? With practice, awareness gets fast, boundaries get clean, and your script stops looping.

    Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a belief update, and leave a review with one label you’re ready to retire. Your next chapter starts when you choose a better line.

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  • Facing Doubt And Finding Your Edge
    Feb 17 2026

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    Moves happen fast around here: a mobile studio, a sleepy gecko named Momo, and a launch plan bold enough to include a Jeep sweepstakes tied to the Lucidium World app and a nonprofit partner. But the heartbeat of this conversation is quieter and more personal—how self-doubt sneaks in right before big moments, and how to flip it off by changing the “hat” you’re wearing.

    We unpack the exact moment doubt tried to hijack a dealership meeting and show the reset step by step: pause, breathe, recall a version of yourself who knows how to win, and step into that identity with intention. This is not pretending; it is role selection. Your core doesn’t change—you simply pick the version of you that fits the room. Along the way, we talk about visualization that actually works, scripting tough conversations during your commute, and why people can feel your energy before they hear your pitch. Rejection shows up too. One manager said he “didn’t have time,” and we walked out clean. The takeaway: protect your state, keep your offer sharp, and move on.

    We also dig into giving back without turning it into a money myth. You can donate skills, time, and momentum. We share real examples of pro bono help for small businesses and how that kind of service builds community and self-belief. Then we preview the Gin Dan Yoga retreat in Daytona Beach, a blend of yoga, Chinese meridian work, meditation, and short teaching blocks designed to move stuck energy and release old weight from the fascia. Add in fresh wins—an energy reset book heading to Amazon KDP, a redesigned site, and new contributions to Brains Magazine—and it’s a full, high-energy arc.

    If you’ve ever felt imposter syndrome right before the door opened, this one hands you tools you can use today: choose the role, anchor a past win, practice the words, and walk in with clean focus. If this resonated, tap follow, share it with a friend who needs a push, and leave a quick review to help more people find the show.

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  • Choose Your Operating System Or It Chooses You
    Feb 14 2026

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    A grocery-store blood pressure cuff read 106/74 and, quietly, a chapter closed. After two strokes, a brain bleed, and months of unexplained symptoms from chronic mold and radon exposure, we realized the loudest part of our recovery wasn’t medical—it was mental. We had absorbed other people’s predictions, worn them like a uniform, and rehearsed fear until it felt like fact. The moment we stopped feeding that loop, our bodies found room to breathe.

    We unpack how mycotoxins colonize differently for each person—sinuses and voice for one, muscles and digestion for the other—and why mold often hides behind allergy labels. We talk candidly about testing, misdiagnosis, and the gray space where protocols help but narratives harm. From there, we tackle pedestal thinking: the habit of handing our power to experts, creators, or step-by-step blueprints. Textbooks and algorithms evolve; your nervous system and beliefs are the real operating system. Update that, and everything else recalibrates.

    Our toolkit is simple and stubborn: awareness when reality stops working, accountability when patterns repeat, and five-minute acts that rebuild trust—walking without narrating doom, writing one honest journal prompt, touching a dormant craft until it hums again. We share the practices that shifted us from follower mode to leader mode, the mindset that let anger dissolve, and the playful tools we’re building—books on inner reality design and monetizing purpose, plus a metaphysical app that teaches belief work through quests, potions, and alchemy. Healing can be structured and light at the same time.

    If this resonates, press play. Then take one small step your future self can thank you for. Subscribe, share with someone stuck in a fear loop, and leave a review to help others find their way back to their own script.

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