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How Preferences Derail Your Heart’s Dream with Claudia Navone
True manifestation comes from your heart’s dream, not your head’s dream. When you focus on your mind’s preferences it can derail your heart’s dream. This and more in this podcast episode with Claudia Navone.
Finding Wholeness in Meditation with Alex Boianghu
Learn the ins and outs of silent retreats as part of the path of wholeness in this episode, the fifth in the The Journey of Wholeness series, with meditation teacher & psycho-spiritual therapist Alex Boianghu and Kristine Madera
How to Communicate with Your Subconscious Mind
Learn to communicate with your subconscious mind so that you can work together to create the changes and life that you desire
Spicing Up the Tropics
In the jungle of Papua New Guinea, there are few options but to eat the local fare…
How to Use the Holographic Universe to Create Your Best Life with Joshua Bloom
There has been lots of buzz about the possibility that we live in a virtual or holographic universe. Even if you don’t buy it, using the idea of a holographic universe makes changing yourself and your life In this conversation, Quantum Energy Transformation Expert Joshua Bloom shows us how!
How to Choose the Right Hypnotherapist for You, A Step-by-Step Guide
This step-by-step guide will help you choose the right hypnotherapist for you
About Kristine
Kristine Madera is an Amazon #1 bestselling author who writes fiction and nonfiction shaped by travel, culture, and lived cross-cultural experience.
Inspired while volunteering at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Calcutta, her novel God in Drag examines what happens when spiritual faith fractures in the sacred city of Varanasi. Read the first chapter of God in Drag HERE
She birthed her upcoming novel, The Snakeman’s Wife, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Papua New Guinea.
Be on the lookout for her Etiquette Express Guides, a series of short, practical travel guides that help readers understand the customs, social expectations, and everyday dos and don’ts that make travel smoother and more connected.
Her travels have taken her across India, Asia, Europe, Australia, and Papua New Guinea as both a backpacker and Peace Corps Volunteer. A portion of her book proceeds supports cross-cultural education scholarships.
You don’t need to “master” a culture to move through it well.
You just need a few steady skills:
- How to stay curious,
- How to adjust without performing
- How to recover gracefully when you miss a cue—because we all do.
This free PDF guide gives you 12 simple, human skills you can use anywhere: whether traveling abroad, navigating a new city, joining a host family, starting a new job, or even re-entering your own life after a trip.





