Episode 50: Meet Julia Colangelo- Educator, Speaker, Flow Researcher, and Surfer

The Oceanriders Podcast

Julia Colangelo researches primarily about flow and mindfulness and how it can create a positive impact on different levels. For years, she has been teaching many on how to find flow in both in their personal and professional life. She serves as an inspirational speaker, educator, therapist, and consultant. Julia is also an award-winning Professor of Mindfulness at Columbia University. She hosts the Flow Surfers Podcast, which aims to provide practical strategies to live with more ease and intentionality in life. Her personal life includes being a mom, a writer, and a surfer. She believes that we can all make the world a better, cleaner, and kinder place to live.

In this episode, Julia brings us deep into the concept of flow- what it is, when does it happen, how to achieve it, and how to integrate it into our life so we can release all the burnout and anxiety. She also inspires us to stretch our capacity as far as we can. There’s no time limit to the possibilities we can have and flow is the path to get us empowered. Outside the boundary of flow lurks its alternative: anxiety, depression, self-doubt, feelings of worthlessness, and all the negative feelings that make us unhappy and unfulfilled. Julia also shares how we can make an assessment of our values as opposed to just passively knowing. Getting into flow should be intentional if we are to see and feel its action. Find your flow and wake up every day lovin’ life! Don’t miss out on this week’s podcast!

Episode Highlights:

• 03:47 The Right Time To Stretch Your Capacity
• 08:26 The Right Way To Learn
• 15:19 What Is The Flow State
• 20:01 The Flow Consciousness
• 25:04 How To Get Into Flow State
• 30:10 Surfing and Flow
• 35:49 Get Into A Unified Flow
• 38:33 Flow In Intention

Today, I got to sit down for a conversation with Julia Colangelo. Julia is a surfer from New York and she's also a Professor at Columbia University. She's a therapist and a consultant for people and organizations wishing to tap into flow states for better relationships and generally appreciating life more.

“There's no wrong way to surf if you're having fun and you're smiling and connecting again with who you are in whatever that is.” -Julia Colangelo

In this episode, we get to know Julia a bit better and find out what it is to be in the flow and how to get into that flow state on demand. As surfers, we can often actually get into flow state naturally when we're in the ocean and riding that perfect wave. But in fact, this is one of our privileges, but what if we could replicate this feeling out of the water? As part of her dissertation, Julia modelize these concepts and shares her tips to live a more mindful life and tap into the flow state more often and avoid burnout. In stressful times like now, Julia delivers just the sort of things we need to hear.

I hope you enjoy this episode.

Take care, have fun, and enjoy the waves.

Ciao,

Imi

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Resources Links:

Book

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Creativity: Flow and Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Quotes:

• 05:55 “It's not too late. Let me stretch my capacity." -Julia Colangelo
• 06:40 “There's never a right time; there's never a wrong time… if it's of interest or if it's something that is pulling at your heartstrings.” -Julia Colangelo
• 09:33 “There's no wrong way to surf if you're having fun and you're smiling and connecting again with who you are in whatever that is.” -Julia Colangelo
• 14:17 “Surfing is creating right a cleaner and a healthier nation and world doing those small micro-actions.” -Julia Colangelo
• 21:25 “If we're intentional about how we recover… we'll be setting ourselves up to have a new opportunity presented to us.” -Julia Colangelo
• 21:52 “Flow experiences are not all rainbows and butterflies. They are meant to stretch us.” -Julia Colangelo
• 34:28 “The thing about flow is, there's never crossing something off a list. It's always stretching our capacity and that's on a small level or on a global scale.” -Julia Colangelo
• 38:33 “It all will move in intentional time if we're connecting with ourselves with the value that we have and not trying to conform to someone else's timeframe.” -Julia Colangelo
• 40:00 “If you're like me and you're a human that makes mistakes, just go with that and know that that's just as powerful and informative state of flow.” -Julia Colangelo

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