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PODCAST

STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

Lisa Hopkins, Wide Open Stages

Ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally and winner of the 2022 Communicator Award for Podcasting, STOPTIME:Live in the Moment combines mindfulness, well being and the performing arts and features thought provoking and motivational conversations with high performing creative artists around practicing the art of living in the moment and embracing who we are, and where we are at. Long form interviews are interspersed with brief solo episodes that prompt and invite us to think more deeply. Hosted by

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All Episodes

11:19

Jet Lag Reset: A Gentle Meditation to Reorient Your...

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2026/01/26

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! et lag can leave you feeling untethered—tired and wired at the same time, unsure whether to rest or push through. This gentle meditation is designed to help your body recalibrate after travel, without forcing sleep or wakefulness. Rather than trying to override your system, this practice focuses on orientation. We begin by grounding in the body and noticing where you are now—the quality of light, the sounds around you, the simple fact of being suppor...

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51:19

Hanako Greensmith: Igniting Her Creative Fire...

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2026/01/22

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! In this deeply honest and reflective conversation, I sit down with Hanako Greensmith—actor, artist, and series regular on Chicago Fire—to explore what happens between the milestones. I’ve had the joy of knowing Hanako since her training years at Pace University, and here she speaks with remarkable openness about ambition, self-worth, burnout, and the inner work required to sustain a creative life. We talk about the pressure to constantly do more, the...

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12:01

Guided Meditation for Sleep While Traveling

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2026/01/18

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! Airports buzz. Cabins hum. And yet your body often stays braced—as if it still needs to steer. This guided meditation offers something different: a chance to soften, settle, and let yourself rest while you travel. Designed especially for long flights and extended journeys, this practice invites you to let the seat support you, the motion carry you, and your nervous system stand down from vigilance. We begin by easing the body—relaxing the jaw a...

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3:48

Stopping to Honor Living in the Moment

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2026/01/15

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! We pause to honor nearly six years of conversations that still feel alive because we keep changing. We invite you to revisit a curated set of episodes that meet you where you are and deepen themes of presence, courage, identity, joy, and letting go of perfection. • reflecting on five to six years of the show • choosing presence over chasing answers • why certain conversations feel timeless • themes of courage, identity, joy and letting go • how retu...

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13:32

Wake with Gratitude: A Morning Meditation to Begin Again

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2026/01/11

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! Begin your day with intention, gratitude, and gentle presence. This guided morning meditation invites you to wake slowly and begin again—before the day fills your attention with plans, responsibilities, and expectations. Designed to be listened to just after waking, this practice helps you clear yesterday, release worries about the future, and create a blank canvas for the day ahead. Through breath, gentle visualization, and gratitude-based affirmati...

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6:20

Mantras Don’t Carry Us Through. We Do.

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2026/01/08

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! What if your favorite creative mantra is quietly making your work worse? In this episode, we explore how well-worn phrases like “story is king” and “trust the process” can feel grounding—while subtly eroding responsibility, discernment, and engagement. Drawing inspiration from Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull, we look at how language meant to guide us can become a stand-in for the deeper work it’s meant to represent. We reflect on how “trust the proces...

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4:54

Returning to Focus: A 5-Minute Reset

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2026/01/04

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! This short, guided pause is designed to help you reset your focus—without effort, without fixing anything. In this 5-minute practice, you’re invited to step away from whatever you’re doing, soften your gaze, and gently gather your attention. Through simple breath cues, subtle physical release, and intentional focus, this meditation helps quiet mental noise and bring you back to center. Perfect for moments when: your attention feels scatteredyou’re tr...

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7:35

What I Needed to Hear — and Maybe You Do Too

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2026/01/01

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! What if the words you’re waiting for are already in the room? We explore a simple, disarming question—what do you most need to hear today—and discover how a small, overlooked detail becomes a compass for calm. A ceiling sconce turns into a living metaphor for the quiet constants that hold us, even when we don’t flip the switch. The story moves from pressure and creative block to permission and presence, inviting a shift from grit to grace without los...

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20:30

Drifting Into Rest: A Full-Body Scan for Deep Relaxation

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2025/12/28

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! Tonight’s meditation is an invitation to slow down and gently transition from wakefulness into rest. We begin by settling into the space where you’ll sleep—tending to the small external details that help your body and nervous system feel safe and uninterrupted. From there, we turn inward, using breath and awareness to soften mental activity and release the day. This guided practice moves through a slow, full-body scan, inviting curiosity rather than ...

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8:24

Finding Light When the Holidays Feel Heavy

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2025/12/25

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! As joyful as the season is meant to be, the holidays can quietly carry a lot of weight — expectations, pressure, comparison, and the sense that we’re somehow supposed to feel more festive than we do. In this episode, I share an excerpt from my book The Places Where There Are Spaces, a short reflection called “Holiday Hangovers.” It’s a story about noticing how easily we slip into expectation, how quickly joy can turn into self-pressure, and how gentl...

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9:33

A Meditation for Peace: Calming the Mind, Opening the...

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2025/12/21

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! What if peace isn’t something you hold, but a place you can always return to? We invite you into a guided meditation that starts with the breath, softens the grip of racing thoughts, and opens the heart to a wider circle of care. Across a few grounded minutes, we move from inner calm to compassionate connection, showing how awareness—not control—creates space for steadiness even when life stays complex. We begin by arriving as we are, shifting from ...

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7:49

How to Let Go of What You Can’t Control

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2025/12/18

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! As the year winds down, many of us find ourselves feeling heavier—not physically, but energetically. In this episode, I explore the idea of psychological baggage: the unprocessed memories, regrets, worries, hopes, and fears we’ve grown used to carrying as if they’re part of who we are. Drawing from Chapter 24 of my book, The Places Where There Are Spaces, I share an excerpt that invites us to consider a lighter way of traveling through life—one where...

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12:42

Letting Go of Expectations: A Guided Meditation

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2025/12/14

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! What would your day feel like if the pressure to prove eased by even ten percent? In this guided meditation, we open a gentle, grounded space to notice the quiet expectations that hum beneath the surface—the subtle “I should have” and “I need to” messages that drain focus and blur what truly matters. Rather than arguing with these stories, we meet them with curiosity. We trace where they come from—family, culture, industry—and ask a simple but powerf...

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4:43

How to Stop Reacting and Start Creating: A One-Letter...

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2025/12/11

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! What if the imagination that fuels your worst-case scenarios could become your most reliable source of clarity, calm, and momentum? In this episode, Lisa shares a simple but powerful shift that turns reactivity into creativity—one letter, and one intentional choice, at a time. You’ll learn why we default to reactive patterns, how those patterns drain energy and agency, and what it takes to reset your nervous system and reconnect with your values. Thr...

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Re-Entry: A Guided Reset Between Meetings, Moments,...

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2025/12/07

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! If you’ve ever felt yanked from one moment into the next, this guided reentry is your reset. We slow down the space between chapters so you can release the residue of what just happened and choose, on purpose, how you want to enter what comes next. Through gentle breathwork, grounding cues, and clear language, we create a small but powerful pause—one that returns scattered attention back to the body and helps the nervous system trade urgency for pres...

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10:20

A Guided Pause For Guilt, Rest, And Renewal

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2025/11/30

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! Heavy week, full schedule, and that quiet tug of guilt for needing a break? Let’s trade performance for presence. We slow down together with gentle breath cues, simple body awareness, and a compassionate question that cuts through noise: what do I need right now? No fixing, no penance—just a soft return to yourself that steadies your nervous system and brings your energy back online. We start by loosening the body’s armor—dropping the shoulders, unc...

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4:26

No More Toxic Gratitude: A Kinder Way to Be With...

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2025/11/27

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! Gratitude can get twisted when it’s layered with pressure, obligation, or performance. Many of us were raised to *“be grateful”—*as if appreciation could be forced, graded, or used to override whatever we’re actually feeling. That’s where gratitude turns toxic: when it becomes a script instead of a truth. In this short real-time reflection, recorded while waiting for a client, we take a gentle but honest look at the difference between authentic grati...

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14:02

Guided Visualization For Trust, Ease, And Possibility

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2025/11/24

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! What if the change you want doesn’t require a leap, just a quiet step toward a familiar doorway? We guide you through a calm, sensory-rich visualization designed to slow your breath, soften your body, and open the mental space where clarity tends to appear. You’ll build an inner room that feels safe, notice the quality of light and air, and approach a doorway that leads to the version of you who has already said yes to a possibility you’ve been holdi...

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8:53

Tolstoy’s The Three Questions: A Timeless Parable...

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2025/11/20

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! We’re all moving so fast — planning ahead, rushing toward the next thing, trying to get it all right. But what if the clarity we’re searching for only arrives when we slow down long enough to notice what’s right in front of us? In this episode, Lisa narrates Leo Tolstoy’s beloved parable “The Three Questions” — a timeless story that reveals the power of presence, the wisdom of tending to this moment, and the truth that the “right time” is rarely some...

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11:51

Guided Body Scan For Deep Relaxation And Grounded Calm

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2025/11/16

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! Slow down, soften, and come home to your body with this gentle, guided body scan meditation. Designed to help you unwind tension, reset your nervous system, and reconnect with your physical presence, this practice is perfect for any moment when you need grounding or calm. We move from the feet to the crown of the head, releasing stress layer by layer, creating spaciousness, ease, and a sense of deep arrival. Use it in the morning to set the ton...

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