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The Hoffman Institute Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit, delivers the Hoffman Process, a week long residential course of personal discovery and development. The Hoffman Process allows you to examine and better understand your life and reveals why you behave the way you do. Published scientific research demonstrates the long-term positive effects that the Hoffman Process has had on relieving depre

ssion and anxiety. To date, more than 80,000 people around the world have used the tried and tested Hoffman techniques to improve their quality of life and restore their relationships with friends and family.

06/01/2025

Season 10 Episode 15 Clip 2: Ade & Claudette Faison - Unlocking Futures⁠
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More about Claudette:⁠
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Hailing from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Claudette Anita C’Faison is a master at delivering transformational and spiritual programs. With a mission to bring healing to generational trauma and poverty, she leaves people empowered to create and be accountable for their reality and the lives they have made for themselves.⁠
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For more than 40 years, Claudette has made a difference for over 15,000 marginalized families and children on every continent except Antarctica. In partnerships with family court, juvenile and adult justice programs, she creates and produces programs for inmates, returning citizens, and children of incarcerated parents. Claudette has been doing this work alongside her husband for 41 years.⁠
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Claudette has been educated both traditionally and non-traditionally. She completed the traditional path in the seminary. She was initiated into the non-traditional path in Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, and Peru. Claudette's journey continues as she fulfills her life’s purpose, making a difference that makes the difference.⁠
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Follow on IG: .futures
Follow on FB: https://www.facebook.com/claudette.cfaison; https://www.facebook.com/unlockingfuturesinc

https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s10e15-ade-and-claudette-faison/

05/29/2025

Season 10 Episode 15 Clip 1: Ade & Claudette Faison - Unlocking Futures⁠
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Ade and Claudette Faison have worked in the field of human development for more than 50 years and 40 years, respectively. Together, that's more than 90 combined years working to support others in transformation and lives of possibility. It's no surprise, then, that they both came to do the Hoffman Process along the way.⁠
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Yet, it's all still fresh in their minds. They remember specific instances from their Process. Claudette shares her experience at the Process when she was having a conversation - a quad talk - with her intellect and Spiritual Self. She was asking her Spiritual Self, "Are you Buddha, are you God?" And then she began to laugh and laugh. She says it was like finally solving a mystery.⁠
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For Ade, he remembers coming home having just completed the Process. He walked into a party that Claudette was hosting for her friends. Usually, Ade would hold back, waiting for an opening to join a party like that. But fresh out of the Process, he jumped right into the mix without hesitation. He had changed at the Process, and it was noticeable to everyone.⁠
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Through Unlocking Futures, Ade and Claudette's company, they work with people on the margins of life. The work they do supports people in unlocking a better future for themselves, their families, and their communities. In the past, Ade and Claudette, and Unlocking Futures, partnered with the Hoffman Institute to create an advanced course called "The Quantum Leap Process." Drew taught alongside Ade in one of these courses.⁠
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Listen in as Ade and Claudette share powerful stories of the work they do to unlock futures for many. We hope you enjoy this lively conversation with Ade, Claudette, and Drew.⁠
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Follow on IG: .futures
Follow on FB: https://www.facebook.com/claudette.cfaison; https://www.facebook.com/unlockingfuturesinc

https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s10e15-ade-and-claudette-faison/

05/27/2025

Season 10 Episode 14 Clip 3: Diana C. Toman - A Heart-Driven Badass⁠
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Diana C. Toman is a global legal and strategy consultant. She's also a heart-driven badass - the mantra she coined during her week at the Hoffman Process.⁠
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For much of Diana's career, she had to hide her softness and kindness, fearing she'd be seen as weak. She would hide her generous heart at work, fearing she would be seen as soft in her role at work. But because she is generous and caring, she would continue to act on her generosity outside of work as long as the recipients kept it quiet.⁠
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Misalignment causes tension and takes its toll. This is why Diana came to the Process. During her week there, Diana was able to claim her softness and marry it with her badass business acumen. What a powerful combination!⁠
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The Process, though, brought more healing into Diana's life. Her husband has done the Process, and together they've completed the Hoffman Couples Retreat. Through this work and using the tools regularly, they've come through a rough time and out the other side of a rough time, closer and happier than before.⁠
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We hope you enjoy this powerful episode with Diana and Sadie.⁠
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Follow Diana on LinkedIn and Instagram.⁠
Diana C Toman:⁠
IG: https://www.instagram.com/kcdiana/ ⁠
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianactoman/

https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s10e14-diana-c-toman/

05/25/2025

Season 10 Episode 14 Clip 2: Diana C. Toman - A Heart-Driven Badass⁠
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More about Diana C. Toman:⁠
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Diana Toman is a seasoned global legal and strategy consultant, founder of Toman Advisory Group, LLC, and a former Fortune 500 Chief Legal Officer. As a trusted advisor to boards of directors, C-suite executives, and functional teams, Diana guides clients through a myriad of global business, legal, and governance issues while also leading their organic and acquisitive growth. She is an influential, solutions-oriented leader who actively partners with clients to achieve their corporate objectives and reduce risks. Leveraging years of experience building high-achieving teams and inspiring the best in people through a foundation of integrity, trust, communication, and purpose, Diana serves as an executive coach to accomplished leaders and board of directors.⁠
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Married and a mother of two, Diana is a Hoffman graduate and resides in Overland Park, Kansas. She is deeply committed to community service and has served on various boards of directors. She volunteers with numerous nonprofit organizations focused on education, human needs, and art. A commitment to empowering individuals and organizations, while balancing strategic insights with a dedication to ethical leadership, guides Diana’s professional and volunteer work. While at Hoffman, Diana coined the mantra, "Heart Driven Badass." At the Process, she aligned her heart and intellect. That balance has been instrumental in her personal growth journey.⁠
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Follow Diana on LinkedIn and Instagram.⁠
Diana C Toman:⁠
IG: https://www.instagram.com/kcdiana/ ⁠
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianactoman/

https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s10e14-diana-c-toman/

05/22/2025

Season 10 Episode 14 Clip 1: Diana C. Toman - A Heart-Driven Badass⁠
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Diana C. Toman is a global legal and strategy consultant. She's also a heart-driven badass - the mantra she coined during her week at the Hoffman Process.⁠
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For much of Diana's career, she had to hide her softness and kindness, fearing she'd be seen as weak. She would hide her generous heart at work, fearing she would be seen as soft in her role at work. But because she is generous and caring, she would continue to act on her generosity outside of work as long as the recipients kept it quiet.⁠
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Misalignment causes tension and takes its toll. This is why Diana came to the Process. During her week there, Diana was able to claim her softness and marry it with her badass business acumen. What a powerful combination!⁠
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The Process, though, brought more healing into Diana's life. Her husband has done the Process, and together they've completed the Hoffman Couples Retreat. Through this work and using the tools regularly, they've come through a rough time and out the other side of a rough time, closer and happier than before.⁠
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We hope you enjoy this powerful episode with Diana and Sadie.⁠
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Follow Diana on LinkedIn and Instagram. ⁠
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Diana C Toman:⁠
IG: https://www.instagram.com/kcdiana/ ⁠
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianactoman/

https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s10e14-diana-c-toman/

05/20/2025

Season 10 Episode 13 Clip 3: Lee Klinger Lesser - What Does This Moment Ask of Me?⁠
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Lee's work and the Climate Crisis:⁠
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Over the past six years, Lee has been helping to develop programs for Wildland firefighters on the front lines of the Climate Crisis. These firefighters are seeking support to meet the overwhelming challenges they are facing.⁠
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Whether we realize it or not, we are all on the frontlines of the Climate Crisis. This has led Lee to develop programs to integrate the practice of Sensory Awareness with responding to the Climate Crisis. She is dedicated to bringing forward the core lesson she has learned from her years of practice: “There is no place to run, there is no escape from being with what is.” This is especially poignant and true as we realize that this Earth is the only home we have. We cannot run from what is happening. There is no escape from what is happening. So, it is up to each of us to find how to contribute to healing and caring for this precious home.

https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s10e13-lee-klinger-lesser/

05/18/2025

Season 10 Episode 13 Clip 3: Lee Klinger Lesser - What Does This Moment Ask of Me?⁠
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More about Lee Klinger Lesser::⁠
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Lee studied Sensory Awareness for 33 years in the United States with Charlotte Selver, the founder of this practice. Through Return to Our Senses, she's been leading workshops since 1976, in English and Spanish. Lee sees over and over again the gift that this practice brings into the lives of so many people and into our world, which is in such great need of people living with awareness, resilience, and presence. She has reached into communities facing significant challenges to offer the resource and refuge of this practice.⁠
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Lee led and co-founded a non-profit organization to work with military veterans: Veteran’s PATH —Peace, Acceptance, Transformation, Honor. She led this work for 12 years, stepping away from a formal role in the organization in Fall 2019. Under new leadership, the organization dissolved in 2023. Lee still facilitates programs for veterans and honors this work as some of the most meaningful and life-changing work she has had the privilege to do. She witnessed veterans open to devastating experiences, face, and transform pain into new possibilities. Lee continues to be inspired by the profound commitment to service and the loving dedication to community that she experienced in her work with veterans.⁠

https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s10e13-lee-klinger-lesser/

05/15/2025

Season 10 Episode 13 Clip 1: Lee Klinger Lesser - What Does This Moment Ask of Me?⁠
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Lee Klinger Lesser is our guest today. A graduate of the Hoffman Process, Lee has led Sensory Awareness somatic workshops worldwide for many decades. She teaches workshops to diverse groups, including veterans and wildland firefighters.⁠
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Lee led and co-founded a non-profit organization to work with military veterans: Veteran’s PATH. While she no longer leads this organization, Lee still works with Veterans, many of whom have graduated from the Hoffman Process.⁠
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As a Hoffman grad, Lee is familiar with the "Left Road, Right Road" tool, a choice point that occurs many times each day of our lives. Lee speaks to how crucial presence is in choosing the steps of our lives and the direction our lives take. The question she often holds is, What does this moment ask of me? In each moment, we can ask ourselves this powerful question. It's a way to slow down and realize that everything that exists is here and only here. Each moment asks us to stop and sense our next step, or in Hoffman terms, whether or not we will go down the Left Road or Right Road.⁠
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The capacity Lee has to express the power of an embodied life in words is extraordinary. Listen in as she offers an articulated path to conscious choice in each moment of our lives. As she says, "If we keep offering what we can offer, and we have confidence in our own possibility to have impact and our own capacity to respond, then we're not going to have regret. We may not be able to change things, maybe we're not going to be able to change what we want, but the way we're living and what we offer is coming from our own love and our own vitality and our own ability to respond."⁠
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We hope you enjoy this deep and rich conversation with Lee and Drew.⁠
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Content warning: This episode references su***de. If you or someone you know is considering su***de, you can call the US National Su***de Prevention Program at 800-273-8255 (or simply 988), or message the crisis text hotline at 741741.

https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s10e13-lee-klinger-lesser/

05/13/2025

Season 10 Episode 12 Clip 3: Jake Reisch - Telling the Whole Story⁠
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Jake Reisch, a 2024 Hoffman Process graduate, has a passion for building impactful companies from the ground up. He's also an authentic speaker and storyteller, as you'll hear in this conversation with Jake and Sadie. Authenticity is at the heart of Jake's story, as well as courage, self-compassion, and a willingness to stay present to himself, his life, and all he loves.⁠
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Sadie begins by asking Jake to share his bio - a seemingly quick and easy task. In Jake's case, though, he has realized that his bio and how he shares about himself and his life now have radically changed since his time at the Hoffman Process.⁠
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It was after completing the Process that things started to click for Jake. He found he could witness his patterns in real-time and began to consciously make different choices in his daily life. At one point, as he shares, he found himself publicly speaking about his experience in childhood. He told his audience of the mistakes he made as well as his successes as an adult, building very successful startups. Both were, and are, true. Jake then told his audience that in his successes, he'd been "leaning into the gifts that he was given that he just didn't know how to use when he was younger." Jake was able to publicly share all of himself and his history. He's found that when he shares hard things with others, it permits them to share their hard things, too. That's how deep relationships become possible.⁠
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More about Jake Reisch:⁠
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Jake is a Forbes 30 Under 30 startup founder with a passion for building impactful companies from the ground up. He is currently the Executive Director at the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction while actively coaching and investing in high-potential, impact oriented startup CEOs. He completed the Hoffman Process in March 2024. Jake currently lives in Panama City, Panama, with his wife Isabella and small dog Barry.⁠ ⁠
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Follow Jake on Instagram and LinkedIn. ⁠
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IG: https://www.instagram.com/jakereisch ⁠
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jreisch

https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s10e12-jake-reisch/

05/11/2025

Season 10 Episode 12 Clip 2: Jake Reisch - Telling the Whole Story⁠
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More about Jake Reisch:⁠
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Jake is a Forbes 30 Under 30 startup founder with a passion for building impactful companies from the ground up. He is currently the Executive Director at the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction while actively coaching and investing in high-potential, impact oriented startup CEOs. He completed the Hoffman Process in March 2024. Jake currently lives in Panama City, Panama, with his wife Isabella and small dog Barry.⁠ ⁠
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Follow Jake on Instagram and LinkedIn. ⁠
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IG: https://www.instagram.com/jakereisch ⁠
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jreisch

https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s10e12-jake-reisch/

05/08/2025

Season 10 Episode 12 Clip 1: Jake Reisch - Telling the Whole Story⁠
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Jake Reisch, a 2024 Hoffman Process graduate, has a passion for building impactful companies from the ground up. He's also an authentic speaker and storyteller, as you'll hear in this conversation with Jake and Sadie. Authenticity is at the heart of Jake's story, as well as courage, self-compassion, and a willingness to stay present to himself, his life, and all he loves.⁠
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Sadie begins by asking Jake to share his bio - a seemingly quick and easy task. In Jake's case, though, he has realized that his bio and how he shares about himself and his life now have radically changed since his time at the Hoffman Process.⁠
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It was after completing the Process that things started to click for Jake. He found he could witness his patterns in real-time and began to consciously make different choices in his daily life. At one point, as he shares, he found himself publicly speaking about his experience in childhood. He told his audience of the mistakes he made as well as his successes as an adult, building very successful startups. Both were, and are, true. Jake then told his audience that in his successes, he'd been "leaning into the gifts that he was given that he just didn't know how to use when he was younger." Jake was able to publicly share all of himself and his history. He's found that when he shares hard things with others, it permits them to share their hard things, too. That's how deep relationships become possible.⁠
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One more thing about today's episode: as mentioned, Sadie Hannah, Hoffman teacher and coach, hosts this conversation with Jake. Sadie is our newest Hoffman Podcast host. She and Drew will share the role of host moving forward. Congratulations, Sadie!⁠
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Thank you, Jake, for telling us your whole story. We hope you enjoy this authentic and intimate conversation with Jake and Sadie.⁠ ⁠
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Follow Jake on Instagram and LinkedIn. ⁠
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IG: https://www.instagram.com/jakereisch ⁠
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jreisch

https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/podcast/s10e12-jake-reisch/

05/07/2025

We welcome Sadie Hannah, Hoffman teacher and coach, as a new host of the Hoffman Podcast. Sadie will host warm, interesting, and intimate conversations with Hoffman graduates, along with fellow host Drew Horning.⁠
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Sadie’s first conversation will air tomorrow. Be sure to listen in. And, please, give Sadie a warm welcome here in the comments.⁠
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To discover more about Sadie, listen to her story, On the Other Side of Suffering, on the Hoffman Podcast.

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