In this episode I interview the amazing Diana Kelly and Dan Morris about the lost creation story of Sophia and her critical role in understanding the times we are living in which also offers rare insights into who we are, where we came from and how we might fulfill our latent potential as human beings.
\n\nWe discuss current events happening in the Middle East, and Diana and Dan’s discoveries that have led them to understand the influences surrounding us today through the wisdom of Sophia.
\n\nWe also discuss the origins of the Gnostics, their love of Sophia, the tragic story of her entrapment, the Archons (Dark Forces) that influence humanity, and how we can liberate ourselves from the forces that bind us in limiting beliefs and patterns of fear and trauma through the divine spark of Sophia that dwells within us.
\n\nIn addition to exploring her mysteries, we reveal Sophia’s relationship to Jesus Christ at a deeper level and discuss the symbols and maps of meaning that are all around us, that can help us to find our way through the darkness. As the role of the divine feminine in the world accelerates, so too does the urgency of our collective spiritual development, and our relationship to our masculine and feminine counterparts.
\n\nAs the path of Sophia Christos unfolds, we witness a time of great upheaval, spiritual activism, and a lifting of the veils of illusion.
\n\nJoin us to explore the incredible potency of these times through the mystery of Sophia and her cosmic twin, and learn how you can “take up your sword” with compassion as daughters and son’s of the Sophia-Christos to defeat injustice, tyranny, and enslavement on this planet once and for all.
\n\nTakeaways
\n\nChapters
\n00:00 Introduction and Background
\n03:09 Exploring the Mythology of Sophia
\n12:46 The Story of Sophia's Descent
\n19:26 The Influence of Archons and the Patriarchy
\n23:11 The Awakening and Revelation
\n29:15 The Ampulla and the Incarnation
\n36:27 The Sacred Masculine and Feminine
\n43:20 The Three Levels of Masculinity
\n50:24 Attunement and Partnership
\n52:09 Disrupting Patterns and Transparent Communication
\n53:08 Recognizing Traumatic Responses and Gaining Insight
\n57:12 Finding Personal Fulfillment in Relationships
\n57:58 The Role of Masculine and Feminine Energies
\n58:23 Exploring the Mysteries of Sophia
\n59:26 The Templars and the Pistis Sophia
\n01:02:08 Reading Symbols and Maps of Meaning
\n01:07:35 The Role of the Divine Feminine in the World
\n01:11:34 The Power of Saying 'Enough'
\n01:13:06 Navigating Activism and Social Media
\n01:19:47 The Urgency of Spiritual Development
\n01:21:34 The Archonic Influence and Gaza
\n01:25:13 The Hymn of the Pearl and Overcoming Tyranny
\n01:28:22 The Path of Sophia Christos and Spiritual Activism
\n01:31:26 Navigating Shaming and Blaming in Activism
\n01:34:14 Reclaiming Truth and Overcoming Archonic Influence
\n01:36:23 Women's Voices and Speaking Out
\n01:37:21 The Role of the Sacred Masculine
\n01:38:15 Building Relationships for Change
\n01:41:07 Times of Revelation and Change
Special Guest: Diana Kelly and Dan Morse.
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In this episode of the Revelation Project Podcast, host Monica Rogers interviews Tom Paladino, a pioneer in the field of scalar energy. Scalar energy is a fundamental life force that originates from the sun and stars and can be harnessed for healing purposes. Tom shares his journey of discovering and researching scalar energy, inspired by scientists like Nikola Tesla. He explains how scalar energy works and its potential to support health and well-being.
\nTom discusses his unique approach of working with photographs to access the energy field of individuals. By analyzing the quantum signature of a person's photograph, Tom's scalar energy instruments can assist those who have challenges with pathogens, such viruses, bacteria, and fungi, clear them.
He emphasizes that this is not a biological process but a quantum one, working with the energy field rather than the physical body.
\nThroughout the episode, Tom shares testimonials from individuals who have experienced positive results from scalar energy sessions. He highlights the potential benefits, including improved sleep, enhanced mood, clearer skin, stronger nails, and even hormonal balance. Tom also addresses the topic of COVID-19 and how scalar energy can be used to target and clear the virus's energy signature and more.
\nIn conclusion, Tom invites listeners to explore scalar energy by signing up for a 15-day free trial on his website.
He emphasizes the groundbreaking nature of this emerging science and its potential to revolutionize energy and healing practices.
\n** Topics and Timestamps**
00:00:01: Opening Theme
\n00:00:34: Understanding Scalar Energy with Tom Paladino
\n00:02:47: The Healing Power of Scalar Energy
\n00:04:17: The Connection Between Scalar Energy and Quantum Physics
\n00:08:17: The Role of Scalar Energy in Disease and Healing
\n00:11:32: The Practical Application of Scalar Energy Healing
\n00:20:48: The Accessibility and Affordability of Scalar Energy Healing
\n00:23:57: The Personal Experience with Energy Medicine
\n00:28:09: Understanding Scalar Light and Its Effects
\n00:30:10: The Journey of a Scalar Energy Researcher
\n00:31:27: The Challenges of Advancing Scalar Energy Research
\n00:32:08: The Legacy of Nikola Tesla and Scalar Energ
\n00:35:31: The Power of Scalar Energy in Daily Life
\n00:35:53: Eureka Moments in Scalar Energy Research
\n00:39:15: The Impact of Scalar Energy on Physical Appearance
\n00:44:34: The Role of Scalar Energy in Addressing COVID-19
\n00:48:49: Final Thoughts and Recommendations
\n00:51:08: Closing Theme
Tom Palidino Bio:
\nTom Paladino is a Holistic Medical Expert, Scalar Energy Researcher & Humanitarian based in Florida.
Scalar energy is the fundamental life force found everywhere in the world, space and universe. It originates from the sun and stars. Chi, prana, OM, mana, life force, pyramid energy or zero-point energy are synonymous terms for scalar energy.
\n\nTom theorized that all energy in the universe initiates as scalar energy; and that the sun of our solar system and the stars of the universe are the points of origin, “the storehouses,” for scalar energy. He further theorized that scalar energy is instructive energy, as the entire universe is instructed by this Divine Essence. Subsequently, all spiritual, cognitive, emotional and physical action in the universe is initiated and maintained by scalar energy instructions. Scalar energy provides order in the universe.
Special Guest: Tom Paladino.
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Join us as she reveals her path tol deep spirituality without the dogma, and discover how to \"listen for the genius in the room” as we practice how to become wisely selfish so that we can cultivate the deep wisdom that always sits waiting for us in the depths of the darkness. \n\n\n\"Studies estimate nearly 25% of the world’s population does not ascribe to any religion and roughly 25% of people in the US consider themselves “spiritual but not religious.” \n\n\nMany of these people are searching for a life of integrity amid an increasingly polarized global landscape filled with religious extremism, political turmoil, and environmental uncertainty. Disillusioned but seeking to contribute to the well-being of the planet, many are finding guidance in emergent integrative systems that develop all aspects of the modern human: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and social. “Selfistry” is one of those systems that offers a unique and simple approach.\n\n“Selfistry” offers a fresh take on embodying authentic spiritual principles. It is an innovative and integrative framework for self-reflection-an opportunity for the genuinely curious to reconsider their relationship with themselves and the cosmos.” \n\nSarahs Marshank Bio\nSarah Marshank is the founder of Selfistry, an integrative system for mastering the art of being human. She is the author of the award winning memoir Being Self-ish: My Journey from Escort to Monk to Grandmother, where she tells the story of her decade in spiritual retreat. She is also the author of Selfistry: A Guide to Embodying Timeless Spiritual Wisdom. Her teachings weave together spirituality, psychology, and neuroscience in an innovative way — integrating Eastern and Western philosophies with meditative and somatic practices. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sarah teaches and speaks internationally, consults for organizations, and works one-on-one with individuals. When not sharing Selfistry, you might find her walking along the beach, shopping at the local farmer's market with her husband, or making art with her granddaughters.\n\n*The topics we cover in this episode: *\n00:03 Introduction and Welcome\n00:26 Guest Introduction: Sarah Marshank\n02:57 Exploring the Power of Female Collaboration\n03:27 The Importance of Partnership and Trust\n04:17 Overcoming the Sisterhood Wound\n04:32 The Power of Women in Partnership\n04:45 The Art of Being Human\n05:28 The Role of Women in Times of Crisis\n06:59 The Emergence of Wise Elders\n14:50 The Importance of Slowing Down\n23:02 The Journey of Self Discovery\n37:45 The Power of Emptiness and Fullness\n41:16 The Artistry of Life\n42:32 Embracing Your True Self\n43:12 Breaking Free from Societal Expectations\n43:28 Invitation to Join the Unbecoming Coaching Circle\n44:09 Exploring the Fear of Self-Reflection\n45:15 Understanding the Trance of Self-Doubt\n45:38 The Power of Self-Inquiry\n46:06 The Journey to Self-Understanding\n46:54 The Importance of a Guide in Self-Discovery\n48:07 The Artistry of Self-Realization\n48:41 Embracing Simplicity and Connection\n49:24 Reorienting Our Relationships and Conversations\n49:46 The Power of Presence and Self-Consideration\n51:24 The Witness: A Tool for Self-Understanding\n51:44 The Role of Fear in Self-Discovery\n55:03 The Power of Community in Self-Discovery\n55:55 The Wisdom of Embracing Both Light and Darkness\n01:06:08 The Role of Sisterhood in Scaling Self-Discovery\n01:14:29 The Power of Storytelling in Self-Discovery\n01:20:39 The Journey from Escort to Monk to Grandmother\n01:21:53 Invitation to Join Selfistry Retreats\n01:22:50 Conclusion and Invitation to ConnectSpecial Guest: Sarah Marshank.Sponsored By:Unbecoming Winter 2024: UNBECOMING: Break the bullshit rules to transcend good girl programming & reveal the truth of who you are.Links:The Revelation Project Episode 102: Perdita Finn and Clark Strand - The Way Of The Rose The Radical Path Of The Divine Feminine Hidden In The RosaryThe Revelation Project Episode 167: HeatherAsh Amara - Into The Fire: A Journey of Love, Loss, and ResilienceThe Revelation Project Episode 191: Paul Levy - Undreaming Wetiko: Breaking the Spell of the Nightmare Mind VirusThe Revelation Project Episode 129: Sophie Strand - Where the World Gets InThe Revelation Project Episode 190: Glynda-Lee Hoffmann - The Secret Dowry of Eve: The Hidden Treasure of the Feminine RevealedSarah Marshank: Selfistry (@explore.selfistry)FacebookWebsite:Self-development - SelfistryLinkedIn : Sarah MarshankTMW # 57 - Sarah Marshank - Selfistry: Holding Everything in Loving Awareness - YouTube\r\n \r\nRaghu Markus – Mindrolling – Ep. 495 – Selfistry with Sarah Marshank – Be Here Now Network 2024Books - Selfistry","content_html":"In this episode, I dive into a deep and nourishing conversation with Sarah Marshank author of Being Selfish and Selfistry: A Guide to Embodying Timeless Spiritual Wisdom. We talk about her own journey from escort to monk to spiritual guide, and what she discovered about what it takes to become an authentic, grounded, creative and integrated being in these challenging times. Join us as she reveals her path tol deep spirituality without the dogma, and discover how to "listen for the genius in the room” as we practice how to become wisely selfish so that we can cultivate the deep wisdom that always sits waiting for us in the depths of the darkness.
\n\n\n\n\n"Studies estimate nearly 25% of the world’s population does not ascribe to any religion and roughly 25% of people in the US consider themselves “spiritual but not religious.”
\n
Many of these people are searching for a life of integrity amid an increasingly polarized global landscape filled with religious extremism, political turmoil, and environmental uncertainty. Disillusioned but seeking to contribute to the well-being of the planet, many are finding guidance in emergent integrative systems that develop all aspects of the modern human: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and social. “Selfistry” is one of those systems that offers a unique and simple approach.
\n\n“Selfistry” offers a fresh take on embodying authentic spiritual principles. It is an innovative and integrative framework for self-reflection-an opportunity for the genuinely curious to reconsider their relationship with themselves and the cosmos.”
\n\nSarahs Marshank Bio
\nSarah Marshank is the founder of Selfistry, an integrative system for mastering the art of being human. She is the author of the award winning memoir Being Self-ish: My Journey from Escort to Monk to Grandmother, where she tells the story of her decade in spiritual retreat. She is also the author of Selfistry: A Guide to Embodying Timeless Spiritual Wisdom. Her teachings weave together spirituality, psychology, and neuroscience in an innovative way — integrating Eastern and Western philosophies with meditative and somatic practices. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sarah teaches and speaks internationally, consults for organizations, and works one-on-one with individuals. When not sharing Selfistry, you might find her walking along the beach, shopping at the local farmer's market with her husband, or making art with her granddaughters.
*The topics we cover in this episode: *
\n00:03 Introduction and Welcome
\n00:26 Guest Introduction: Sarah Marshank
\n02:57 Exploring the Power of Female Collaboration
\n03:27 The Importance of Partnership and Trust
\n04:17 Overcoming the Sisterhood Wound
\n04:32 The Power of Women in Partnership
\n04:45 The Art of Being Human
\n05:28 The Role of Women in Times of Crisis
\n06:59 The Emergence of Wise Elders
\n14:50 The Importance of Slowing Down
\n23:02 The Journey of Self Discovery
\n37:45 The Power of Emptiness and Fullness
\n41:16 The Artistry of Life
\n42:32 Embracing Your True Self
\n43:12 Breaking Free from Societal Expectations
\n43:28 Invitation to Join the Unbecoming Coaching Circle
\n44:09 Exploring the Fear of Self-Reflection
\n45:15 Understanding the Trance of Self-Doubt
\n45:38 The Power of Self-Inquiry
\n46:06 The Journey to Self-Understanding
\n46:54 The Importance of a Guide in Self-Discovery
\n48:07 The Artistry of Self-Realization
\n48:41 Embracing Simplicity and Connection
\n49:24 Reorienting Our Relationships and Conversations
\n49:46 The Power of Presence and Self-Consideration
\n51:24 The Witness: A Tool for Self-Understanding
\n51:44 The Role of Fear in Self-Discovery
\n55:03 The Power of Community in Self-Discovery
\n55:55 The Wisdom of Embracing Both Light and Darkness
\n01:06:08 The Role of Sisterhood in Scaling Self-Discovery
\n01:14:29 The Power of Storytelling in Self-Discovery
\n01:20:39 The Journey from Escort to Monk to Grandmother
\n01:21:53 Invitation to Join Selfistry Retreats
\n01:22:50 Conclusion and Invitation to Connect
Special Guest: Sarah Marshank.
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This is a must listen for women battling sexual shame or body dysmorphia
\n\nIn this episode of The Revelation Project Podcast we explore women's issues and celebrate the courage of artists who challenge societal norms through their art.
\n\nTopics discussed include labiaplasty, sex toys, female anatomy, body acceptance, censorship and so much more.
\n\nMichael Ibara is the baker and maker of the infamous instagram profile that explores women's issues through vulva pies @piesinthewindow’
\nWe discuss the impact of Mikel's art in empowering women to embrace their bodies and the harmful consequences of societal norms and judgments when it comes to celebrating the diversity of women’s bodies.
The conversation also touches on the lack of understanding and miseducation by the medical industry regarding labiaplasty, a procedure that resuced the length of the labia minor and the most commonly performed aesthetic genital plastic surgery that can leave women with a lifetime of pain, sexual dysfunction and more.
\n\nWe also talk about the censorship of female artists face on social media platforms and the blatant bias of the algorithms when it comes to censorship of naked bodies in content posted by female artists and makers vs. those accounts that are focused on men and mens pleasure which is fascinating to hear about!
\n\nAs a summary this episode emphasizes the importance of art as a tool for liberation, self-acceptance, education and reclaiming our creative power, while also engaging a supportive community to challenge patriarchal programming.
\n\nListeners are encouraged to join our unbecoming coaching circle and explore the work of other empowering women artists mentioned in the episode.
\n\nTopics Discussed:
\n\nBio:
\nI'm an artist using primarily desserts as an art media to explore women's issues. The expectations and restrictions imposed upon us by society and our self imposed standards are all competing for my attention as I create this art. My career path has taken me from artist to public school art teacher to full-time mom to running a home bakery to teacher again and finally back to myself as an artist. My art is a reflection and convergence of all my life experiences up to this very point in time. More about my work/me can be seen at piesinthewindow.com
00:03 Introduction to the Revelation Project Podcast
\n00:56 Exploring Women's Issues with Artist Mikel Ibarra
\n02:20 Monthly Giveaway Announcement
\n03:28 Unbecoming Coaching Circle Invitation
\n05:34 Introducing Guest Mikel Ibarra
\n05:58 Mikel's Artistic Journey and Inspiration
\n12:19 The Impact of Mikel's Art on Women
\n39:00 The Unbecoming Process
\n41:41 Mikel's Personal Journey and Artistic Evolution
\n43:22 The Paradox of Female Sexuality
\n43:53 The Struggle of Meeting Expectations
\n44:29 Exploring Women's Roles in History and Culture
\n45:10 The Power of Art in Cultural Wars
\n45:36 The Impact of Propaganda on Women
\n46:03 The Struggle of Women's Creative Expression
\n47:21 The Power of Women's Circles
\n48:04 The Fear of Embracing the Goddess Within
\n50:58 The Power of Women's Self-Reclamation
\n59:01 The Challenges of Sharing Art on Social Media
\n01:06:28 The Power of Women's Genitals in Ancient Cultures
\n01:09:45 The Importance of Women's Activism and Self-Expression
\n01:12:29 The Impact of Vulva Art
\n01:17:33 The Power of Sharing Women's Stories
\n01:21:41 Closing Remarks
P.S. Don't forget to visit jointherevelation.com, where you can download a free gift, subscribe to the podcast, or leave a review. We appreciate your support and generous listening! More to be revealed.
Special Guest: Mikel Ibarra.
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Perhaps upon first glance, when the terror of the world is breathing down our necks, we refuse to see how capable we are of meeting it. Perhaps we think, our hearts were not made to contend with the immensity of what’s happening- the chaos the sensory input, the imminent threat of climate change, or the video footage of the atrocities happening around the world in Israel and beyond.
\n\nAnd yet, we are equipped with an incredible potential for compassion and resilience - to grow and learn from challenge, and to biologically, neurologically, and spiritually, adapt and change to meet the times we are living in.
\n\nMy Guest, Oren Jay Sofer, believes that every one of us can transform and grow, even in the midst of the heartbreak.
\n\nIn his new book Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love , Oren reveals how we can tap into our full capacity for peace and goodness by cultivating a practice day by day with tiny steps and many other revelations for living in this time of extreme chaos and change.
\n\n"I like to think of the human organism as an instrument," he says. "And this whole journey I invite readers on is about how well you know how to play your instrument. Can you hit the notes of compassion and joy and generosity and gratitude and energy and integrity?” In this episode he walks us through where to start exploring the amazing capacities that we have as human beings- not as a blueprint but to develop the resources inside so that we can each play the role we're uniquely called to play.
\n\nKey points discussed in this episode include:
\n\nOren Jay Sofer teaches meditation and communication internationally. He holds a degree in comparative religion from Columbia University and is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication. He's also the author of several books, including the best-seller Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication and his latest book, Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices to Meet a World In Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love. A husband and a father, Oren lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he enjoys cooking, spending time in nature, and home woodworking projects.
Special Guest: Oren Jay Sofer.
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In this episode, I introduce Paul Levy, a pioneer in spiritual emergence and the author of Undreaming Wetiko: Breaking the Spell of the Nightmare Mind Virus.
\n\nI’ve been fascinated by this concept for years, since it ties in with how I describe the way the “trance of unworthiness” impacts women. In fact, I think Wetiko and “the trance” may be the same thing, just impacting men and women differently. For men, it’s a consuming and a tendency to destruct on the outside, for Women, it happens more covertly, turned inward on themselves instead of a tendency of harming others.
\n\nUltimately, Wetiko is a term, aptly named by Native Americans to describe what they saw as a "mental illness" that came with white colonizer settlers who aggressively stole land from the indigenous, and were driven to kill and take what was not theirs. They would destroy and consume, even at their own expense, and behaved in ways that seemed “possessed” as if by an evil spirit.
\n\nPaul expands on this by sharing his personal encounter with Wetiko- which he believes is a byproduct of unhealed generational trauma that gets passed on. His encounter is hrough his father's abusive behavior and his subsequent realization of its pervasive nature. In this episode we explore how Wetiko manifests in our psyche, and how it influences our "collective madness” - the profound impact it has on individuals and society.
\n\nMany would consider what’s playing out in Israel and Palestine a form of Wetiko.
\n\nPaul emphasizes that we must recognize darkness as a form of illumination and we discusses the role of personal projection in the perpetuation of Wetiko.
\nWe delve into the shamanic archetype of the wounded healer, healing trauma, and retrieving lost parts of the soul as a means of healing Wetiko.
\nThe conversation also touches on childhood experiences, ancestral trauma, how to break generational patterns, and the power of expressing our creativity as our access to healing. The power of being disruptors in our families and society, challenging the status quo and creating change.
*Throughout the episode we also cover: *
\n\nTopics discussed: Wetiko, spiritual emergence, Carl Jung, Tibetan Buddhism, colonization, mass psychosis, mental illness, psychiatry, collective madness, projection, shamanic archetype, trauma, ancestral trauma, generational patterns, expressed creativity, perception of reality, grief, interconnectedness, creative spirit.
Special Guest: Paul Levy.
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The real revelation came when Glynda-Lee Hoffmann started studying the Hebrew letters of the Qabalah,their patterns of energy and the profound messages they hold for us. In a moment of awe, she discovered the explosive birth of the universe encoded within the Genesis story that exposes an incredible secret about the role of Women in our human story.
\n\nThe Qabalah is known as “the language of light” or as some say ”a language for the revelation of the divine light” which reveals to us a much different interpretation of the human story as told in Genesis.
\n\nNow, before you jump to any conclusions about the relevancy of the ancient story of Genesis in todays “modern times” let me assure you that this particular message is right on time with what’s happening in the world, and is actually profoundly hopeful and inspiring!
\n\nMy guest, Glynda- Lee Hoffmann’s remarkable work plays like a detective story through ciphers, clues, ancient mythology and quantum science!\nIf you’d ever listened to Jill Bolte Taylors Ted Talk called “My Stroke of Insight” then you know how profoundly inspiring her message has been as one of the most popular TED talks ever recorded! Imagine then, making a discovery about the “feminine” part of the human brain and where we are now in our human evolution that takes Jill’s Bolte Taylors “stroke of insight” even further into new territories that expand our understanding about the potential and possibility of where we are headed.
\n\nAs far as Glynda and her incredible discoveries are concerned, we are at the Apex of what she insists up until now we have been in “the 7th day of creation” bringing us right to the precipice and potential timely portal into the New World! Will our primal brains, and our dominant masculine aspects keep us in lower functioning neural patterning leading to our inevitable self destruction, or will we actually transcend our limited way of seeing the world and our place in it as the feminine aspects of the brain comes online so that we can cross over the threshold into the New Earth?
\nTune in to find out more in this incredible episode with Glynda- Lee Hoffman author of The Secret Dowry Of Eve: Women’s Role in Developmental Consciousness.\nPrepare to be amazed by what she shares about our potential fruition as the feminine (or angelic) aspect of our brains begin to blossom!
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\n\nSpecial Guest: Glynda-Lee Hoffman.
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What would it mean if the voice of God were a woman?
\n\nMany of you are familiar with my beloved returning guest and Scholar, Dr. Celene Lillie, from our episode together about her book The Rape of Eve an episode that continues to be one of my most popular.
\n\nToday she joins me for an inspiring, evocative, gender-bending, and ever-twisting exploration of an ancient text known as The Thunder Perfect Mind, the self-portrait of a divine feminine being.
\n\nIn this episode we discuss this ancient text which sustains itself for some nine pages of papyrus - sometimes commanding the scene like a goddess, other times disdained and thrown down in the dirt, she keeps challenging those around her. Still other times, she shape-shifts into a masculine form or intentionally contradicts conventional expectations of her previous utterance.
\n\nLike many other important ancient scripts, The Thunder: Perfect Mind was discovered in rural Egypt, where the dry air inhibits decay of ancient material. Thunder belongs to the increasingly famous Nag Hammadi collection of what appear to be mostly early Christian documents, all found in the same jar in the hills above the Nile. It is likely that the Nag Hammadi documents had been collected by an early desert monastic community. Found in the mid-twentieth century and translated within several decades afterward, these documents were initially published in English in 1977, but only accessible to the general public within the last generation. Thunder was one of 52 Nag Hammadi documents.
\n\nThunder has nevertheless already distinguished itself in public consciousness and has captured the imaginations of many. It stands vigil at the beginning of award-winning novelist Toni Morrison’s works Jazz and Paradise. Umberto Eco also cited it in his novel Foucault’s Pendulum. Julie Dash’s award-winning 1991 feature film, Daughters of the Dust, opens with a long citation fromThunder. Its text also anchors a 2005 film by Jordon and Ridley Scott, whose shortened version has appeared widely as a commercial for Prada women’s fashions.
\n\nMore in this episode:
\n\nCelene Lillie is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder; an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oklahoma and The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology; and the Dean of the Westar Institute's forthcoming Academy (launching this Fall). Her scholarly work focuses the New Testament, the Nag Hammadi Codices, and other early literature of the Jesus movement, with a particular interest in gender and violence. She is the author of The Rape of Eve: The Transformation of Roman Ideology in Three Early Retellings of Genesis; co-author (with Jaeda Calloway, Maia Kotrosits, Justin Lasser, and Hal Taussig) of The Thunder: Perfect Mind: A New Translation and Introduction; and Director of Translations for A New New Testament (edited by Hal Taussig).
\nIf I were to name one connected specifically to my work, I'm interested in bringing forth voices that are typically marginalized or hidden in early Christian literature.
Special Guest: Celene Lillie.
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In this impactful episode of the Revelation Project podcast, I welcome author Patrice D'Amato, who shares her experiences and insights from her experiences as a nurse in an abortion clinic in her book, "The View from the Clinic”.
\n\nHer book explores the emotionally charged world of abortion and challenges the shameful and secretive nature of this conversation.
\n\nShe brings humor to a difficult subject and shares her personal journey, including the intimate stories of women from all walks of life and every age and every socio-economic background.
\n\nWe start by discussing the moral outrage that so many seem to be embroiled in - inspiring her to write the book. The episode delves into the history of abortion, normalizing it as women’s healthcare and its normalcy in other cultures. We also discuss the political and societal impact of restricting women's reproductive choices, and all of the ways we continue to miss the collective point.
\n\nThis subject requires self-understanding, opposing perspectives, and is an invitation to embrace our exiled parts for personal revelation and wholeness. They also explore the experiences of clinic staff and the need for empathy and respect when discussing women's experiences.
\n\nListeners are invited to reflect on their own moral outrage and judgments while discovering resources and support for further exploration. Don't miss this thought-provoking episode that challenges assumptions and offers hope for healing and transformation and please don’t forget to pick up a copy of her book because it’s a joy to read! Imagine being a fly on the walls inside the clinic- there are so many incredible stories that can help you see through a kaleidoscope of experiences that just might transform your understanding even more!
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\n\nPatrice is a nurse with 39 years of experience working in a variety of specialties such as critical care, women's health, and geriatrics. After 15 years, she left clinical practice to teach nursing. As an award winning educator at a top ranked university, she found her passion for mentoring new nurses and continues to teach abroad. She recently returned to clinical work and in addition to writing her recently released book, The View from the Clinic: One Nurse's Journey in Abortion Care, she has returned to working in the abortion world supporting post-abortion patients via telemedicine.
Special Guest: Patrice D'Amato.
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Meet my amazing guest, Ronna Dietrich, the author of Rewriting Eve: Rescuing Women's Stories from the Bible and Reclaiming Them as Our Own.
\n\nBiblical stories have long caused tremendous harm to women, not because of what they say, per say but because of how they have been interpreted over the centuries. These “sacred” stories have been used to silence and oppress women through tactics of shame and blame.
\n\nRonna left the church and its dogma 20 years ago but instead of leaving the voices and stories of women in the bible behind, she took took them with her and dared to rewrite them in ways that empower the women who read them and honor those within the pages who have for centuries, longed to be seen, and heard.
\n\nWith her background in feminist theology and her own experience of leaving the church, Ronna brings a fresh perspective to these ancient stories. She highlights the experiences of women like Eve and Hagar, shedding light on their true power and resilience. She also shares her premise of exploring women's experiences through the lens of biblical stories and the importance of recognizing the impact these stories have had on our personal development. She believes we need stories that uplift and empower women, and that we are literally starving to know each others stories as we have long been silenced and estranged from our own.
\n\nRonna revisits and highlights the stories of several named and even unnamed women, such as The Midwives, and The Woman At The Well, and while she surfaces the challenges and negative interpretations imposed upon these women, she ultimately returns to “read between the lines” and remedy their their positions, presence and passion as being far more inspiring than we might initially think.
\n\nThroughout her tender book, Ronna shares her own personal experience and weaves her own story of liberation entwined with the women she writes about. As she releases her own shame and blame she takes back the pen to create a new narrative, filled with courage, sovereignty, and grace.
\n\nYou will love this episode, and even more- her incredible book!
\n\nRonna Detrick left the church and its dogma nearly twenty years ago but took the stories of women with her, longing for them to be seen, heard, and honored apart from doctrine and dogma. She gave a provocative TEDx presentation on an Eve who inspires and empowers women instead of shaming and silencing them and she is the author of "Rewriting Eve: Rescuing Women's Stories from the Bible and Reclaiming Them as Our Own." She holds a BA in Business and Communications and a Master of Divinity degree focused on feminist theology. Her career has spanned human resources, training and development, executive leadership, and since 2009, coaching and spiritual direction. She lives just minutes from the Atlantic Ocean in Hampstead, NC, where she continues to write, drink strong coffee, have beautiful conversations with her clients, and stand firm in her belief that her two daughters are the most amazing humans on the planet. Learn more at ronnadetrick.com.
Special Guest: Ronna Detrick.
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In this episode, Monica and Libby kick off a new season with a playful conversation about their journeys of unbecoming and the transformative power of pilgrimage.
\n\nThey discuss the importance of pleasure, rest, and play, and by embracing these aspects, we can redefine success and create space in our lives to express new values and reach new states of illumination, peace, and wholeness. They delve into the challenges of pursuing desires despite societal expectations, family responsibilities, and internalized patriarchal voices that hinder self-approval.
\n\nMonica shares a bit about her pilgrimage to Crete, a 16-day goddess pilgrimage filled with rich cultural experiences. They explore the significance of taking “unreasonable” amounts of time off, breaking free from societal expectations, and reorienting themselves to new realities upon return.
\n\nThe podcast also delves into the power of sisterhood, the power of witness, and the longings to be in supportive and courageous practices with other women. These are the most beneficial for befriending the nervous system, embracing all parts of the Self, and creating new life possibilities.
\n\nIf you resonate with UNBECOMING then follow this invitation to self-discovery and transformation; visit jointherevelation.com/unbecoming to schedule a free call and embark on your untangling of patriarchal patterns that keep you stuck in the “box” of conformity.
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\n\nCarly shares her personal journey of descent and rising and finding the medicine she needed in this ancient story. Ultimately, she was inspired to make it even more accessible by adding the voices and stories of many women who have traveled this ancient map into the underworld and back again as a testament to the power of this mythical journey.
\n\nInanna's story is for all women who are ready to know themselves more deeply, and face the shadowy depths of the unconscious realms of our being.
\n\nThe portal into the underworld begins to open as a result of our own seeking, and for Carly, it began during her transition into motherhood and she shares more of her story as we get deeper into the episode.
\n\nOur discussion concludes with the importance of embracing both the light and dark aspects of ourselves, trusting our desires, and the power of our emotions.
\nThe Inanna Myth becomes a living transmission that transcends time and space, guiding us through the personal, archetypal, and vast aspects of our existence.
Carly's raw and honest storytelling, complemented by her thought-provoking poetry, will leave you breathless and inspired. As we navigate the seven gates of the Inanna myth, from dissociation and trauma to the powerful reconnection with our bodies, we unveil the ancient map of our own healing.
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\n\nCarly Mountain is a psychotherapist, a psychosexual somatic therapist, breathworker and writer. For the last twenty years she has worked with sacred embodied practices. Her writing and work seeks to uncover what has been exiled or hidden within, that is longing to be remembered and reconnected with. Her new book Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth explores women’s real lived experiences of descent and rising, and familiarises us with a process of female psycho-spiritual growth often overlooked in patriarchal culture. Carly stumbled across the Inanna story during her own descent to the underworld and was astonished by the symmetry it held with her own experience. Since then she has devoted to working with the myth and specialises in beholding others as they traverse the depths of initiation; both in therapy, breathwork and within courses that support women’s awakening and unfolding. She lives in Sheffield, England with her husband and two daughters.
Special Guest: Carly Moutain.
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In this episode of the Revelation Project podcast, Monica and her guest Jim Young explore the societal pressures that men face to be tough and how it can lead to burnout. Jim shares his personal journey of realizing the need to hide his sensitivity and vulnerability in order to conform to societal expectations. They discuss the lack of male role models and the struggles they faced growing up. Jim talks about his experience of being anointed the man of the house at a young age, taking on the role without any guidance. The conversation delves into the impact of shame on male intimacy and the importance of moving through burnout to create intimate connections. They also touch on the similarities between the societal conditioning of men and women and the glorification of toughness. The episode ends with a discussion on self-care, self-discovery, and the importance of authentic connection.
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\n\nAs he grew from boyhood into manhood, Jim Young was handed a set of cultural beliefs that told him to go it alone, never ask for help, and to prove his manliness at every turn. Eventually, his life experience revealed how dangerous and lonely that path was. Today, Jim moves through life guided by the principles of "expansive intimacy."
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Are you struggling with confidence issues and women's health? In this episode, Monica speaks with bestselling author and thyroid health expert Elle Russ about the link between confidence and women's health. They discuss how suppressing our true selves can lead to physical manifestations, particularly in the throat area of the thyroid gland. Elle shares her experience with hypothyroidism and feeling choked up and unable to speak her truth. They also explore the symptoms and importance of diagnosing and treating hypothyroidism and the societal oppression and expectations that affect women's confidence. They discuss the power of confidence and authenticity in relationships and the need to overcome shame and fear of judgment. Elle provides practical tips on how to build confidence and assertiveness and shares insights from her book, "Confident as Fuck.”
\n\nWhat sets this episode apart is Elle's stories’ raw honesty and relatability. She shares her personal experiences of overcoming physical disabilities and various obstacles. These life-changing events became the catalysts for her transformation, leading her to discover her true purpose and become a bestselling author.
\n\nDon't miss this insightful and empowering conversation that will inspire you to reclaim your confidence and live authentically.
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\n\nElle Russ is a #1 bestselling author, world-renowned thyroid health expert, and master coach. She is the author of Confident As Fu*k and The Paleo Thyroid Solution – a book that has helped thousands of people worldwide reclaim their health. Elle has written for Entrepreneur magazine and featured in Success, HuffPost, Mind Body Green, Prevention, and more. Elle offers online courses and free masterclasses at ElleRuss.com
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Meet Cheryl Buck, a cancer anthropologist who shares her personal journey and research about Cancer and its role in human consciousness.
\n\nCheryl's focus is on indigenous cultures and the healing power of the body. Cheryl explores cancer as a teacher and as she perused her research, ended up having her own intimate experience with healing it.
\n\nCheryl discusses how cancer entered her life through a book about a boy with a brain tumor and the transformative impact of the story shared by Dr. Max Gerson and his treatment for healing end-stage cancer patients.
\n\nCheryl highlights her hesitation in sharing alternative methods due to opposition from conventional doctors, and those who are indoctrinated to believe that alternative methods are "crazy" or " out there" - but she has seen the results from these methods and believes that Cancer is ultimately an invitation and a wake up call to become more conscious and aware of the importance of your own body and life.
\n\nWe discuss the importance of listening and deciding for oneself about alternative therapies and Cheryl shares her experience with the Gerson Method and the support she received from her family .
\n\nThe episode concludes with a discussion on reconnecting with nature and the feminine wisdom within us, and the need for a new era of consciousness.
\n\nFor more information, visit the Cancer Talks website and listen to their podcast.
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In this episode of the Revelation Project podcast, Monica welcomes guest Libby to discuss the transformative journey of unbecoming and divesting from patriarchal conditioning. They explore the importance of storytelling, the limitations of societal roles for women, and the need to explore unconscious conditioning. The conversation delves into personal stories of loss, grief, and healing, as well as the impact of family lineage on self-discovery. They emphasize the power of group work and embodied experiences for unearthing hidden conditioning and connecting the dots. The episode also touches on the spell of celebrity culture, disordered eating, and the importance of consent and personal boundaries. Monica and Libby highlight the need to reclaim one's true self and break free from the trance of unworthiness imposed by patriarchy. They invite listeners to join them in this transformative journey of unbecoming and remember their innate worth and brilliance.
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Special Guest: Libby Bunten.
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Richard Harris has a huge heart and is a force for freedom from tyranny in all its forms. That said, he’s been censored and de-platformed for speaking out about medical mandates and mind control through nefarious agendas that use tactics of fear-based control to illicit compliance and conformity.
\n\nIn this episode, we unmask some of tyranny’s disguises and share our own experiences with obedience training and fear-based control tactics that are used to create divisions through media, government, gender conditioning, and more.
\n\nI loved this conversation because Richard asked me as many questions as I asked him. Neither of us had an agenda other than to explore where our questions might lead us, and I’m thrilled with the territory we covered as we touched on the passions that keep us committed to the path of freedom and the pursuit of higher consciousness.
\n\nWe discuss the importance of embracing curiosity, overcoming loneliness, and building self-respect. We also explore the division between awakening individuals and those who might be stuck in fear-based control and how COVID-19 accentuated and accelerated that divide using tactics of censorship, manipulation, and fear.
\n\nRichard shares his own experience with obedience trauma when he was sent to military school at the tender age of eight, where he remained until he turned eighteen years of age. He reveals that this intense obedience training ironically amplifies his value of autonomy and freedom. It also prepared him for what he sees as the spiritual battle playing out on the planet today. Richard shares his understanding of where we are in our human evolution and how reconnecting to our spiritual selves and pursuing the path of consciousness is the most liberating work we can do, I love what he shares about the spiritual powers and gifts of women being especially needed at this time, and how men benefit from women who are fully embodied and liberated to shine their true sovereign selves.
\n\nWe also talk about walking the way of the warrior, the ancient spiritual path, and the middle path that calls us to unity by dispelling the many illusions that keep us in various states of polarity and how we can embrace the paradox of our existence to more clearly see the one true thing going on here.
\n\nBuckle your seatbelt- this conversation is a ride through the seen and unseen realms for sure!
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\n\nRichard is a life coach. He has studied and practiced personal development for two decades. He uses an eclectic model in coaching, which finds strategies and tactics to cultivate the character across all domains - physical, psychological, spiritual, and environmental. Richard is passionate about freedom and is active in the freedom movement, both online and offline. He is the enemy of tyranny, both within and without, and an advocate for the best in humanity to grow.
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Are you ready for a mesmerizing journey into the wonders of the natural world? Join me as I welcome the wise and wonderful Judith Berger to the Revelation Project Podcast. This episode is all about the profound connection between humans and nature, and Judith shares her intimate experiences, her deep love for the earth, and how she began to recognize a deep need for ritual and rapture as part of our human experience.
\n\nJudith transports us to a nursery, surrounded by soft ground and the intoxicating scent of soil. She beautifully describes the mutual sense of welcome and wonder found in nature, where we discover a different understanding of ourselves and the world and her revelation about opening portals into liminal space that opens our hearts, allowing us to fully embrace the magic of our environment!
\n\nBut here's the thing - Judith believes that our connection with nature isn't limited to our time spent outdoors. We can carry that connection with us, even when we're not physically immersed in nature. Personal totems, like feathers or stones, help us maintain that sacred bond and keep our souls aligned with the natural world.
\n\nAs the conversation unfolds, Judith shares her captivating journey - from her childhood adventures in Brooklyn and the Catskills to her deepening connection with trees and her exploration of fairytales and Greek myths. We reminisce about the freedom and imagination of our own childhoods and discuss the longing for children to experience the vibrant world of outdoor play.
\n\nJudith emphasizes the importance of caring for the earth through intimate experiences and as she discovered the power of herbal medicine and yoga, she realized the role of rapture - that boundless pleasure and safety in our senses - that impacts and influences our overall well-being not only for ourselves, but also for people around us.
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\n\nIf you're eager to learn more, Judith has some exciting offerings for you! She has authored a book, "Herbal Rituals," which is a delightful introduction to the world of herbal medicine, filled with poetry and recipes for each month of the year. Plus, she offers newsletter subscriptions, poetry classes, and consultations on her website!
\n\nSo, my friends, if you're ready to be enchanted by the healing power of nature and discover the abundant beauty of plant medicine, then this episode is meant for you. Don't miss out!
\n\nJudith Berger is an herbalist, poet, writer and physician assistant. Born and raised in Brooklyn, her earliest contact with nature was through the prism of fairy tales, the wilds of her father’s backyard garden and the dark corridors of the local plant nursery, where she first cherished the scent of soil. In Ithaca, where she went to University, she experienced her first encounters with the forest that would eventually lead her to study, teach and write about medicinal plants.
\n\nAfter obtaining her P.A. license, Judith returned to writing poetry, as a way to balance the left-hemispheric central nervous system focus of the medical field with the imaginal, mythic world so interwoven with nature. Over the years, Berger has ventured deeper and deeper into the woods, spending much of her free time backpacking in the Catskills and Adirondacks, studying animal tracking and mushroom identification as she continues to harvest plant and mushroom medicine for her clients, family and community and write about her encounters with the natural world.
Special Guest: Judith Berger.
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“Not dying changed everything. Not only did I not die, I actually got to live. And living offered me the chance to bring the most meaningful lessons I learned from facing death into my life and into the lives of many others.” - Kristi Nelson
\n\nWhen Kristi Nelson was diagnosed with stage IV Cancer at age 33, she realized how easy it is to thirst for happiness when you are already standing knee deep in abundance. This is when she began to nurture a gratitude practice that transformed her life and to “being awake to what matters."
\n\nStripped away from everything, she realized the abundance of life's simplest pleasures and began the practice of waking up grateful and staying mindful in her experience which opened her to the teachings and opportunities within each and every moment for learning, insight, love, and action even in the midst of her struggles.
\n\nThis is when she had the revelation that gratitude is momentary and gratefulness is a way of being. That while gratitude needs something good to happen, greatfulness opens us to the opportunity to experience gratitude in every moment.
\n\nOur conversation dives into the five points of perspective and the power of gratefulness in activism and the importance of being deeply in touch with what makes us come alive.
\nListeners are invited to visit Grateful Living for more information and can purchase Kristi's book, "Wake Up, Grateful," to delve deeper into the practice of living gratefully.
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\n\nIf this conversation resonates with you, make sure to check out Kristi's book, "Wake Up, Grateful," and visit the Grateful Living organization for more inspiration. The links are in the show notes.
\n\nKristi Nelson is the recently retired executive director of A Network for Grateful Living. She has a masters degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and has spent more than 30 years in nonprofit leadership, development and consulting. She was worked for the Center For Mindfulness in Medicine, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and the Soul of Money Institute. Kristi is a stage IV cancer survivor who cherishes living among friends and family in western Massachusetts.
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This episode features my dear friend and returning guest, Bergen Hyde and her personal story of divesting from patriarchal religion.
\n\nThis is a topic I feel is very important because I believe many patriarchal religions are the underpinnings of the trance of unworthiness, keeping many women in positions of servitude and oppression through biblical misinterpretations, scripture and sanctioned abuse.
\n\nBergen generously and courageously shares what it’s been like to untangle from her Mormon faith tradition including the heartache and courage as she unpacks years of repression, and even her own complicity in her own indoctrination.
\n\nWe explore various aspects of Mormonism and the practices that were most troubling for her including ideologies, rituals, gender roles, body shame, and the perpetuation of patriarchal norms.
\n\nWe also discuss the intersectionality of patriarchy with racism, fat phobia, homophobia, and transphobia, emphasizing the need to confront internalized oppression and dismantle oppressive systems.
\n\nWe also delve into topics such as feeling spiritually homeless and named the episode "Losing My Religion” after the song by REM, as Bergen reckons with the truth as she highlights the importance of changing transforming her personal narrative to one of empowerment and sovereignty after years of feeling angry and victimized.
\n\nThis is a longer episode than usual because it’s such an important topic that requires more space for reflection- I hope you love it as much as I do.
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\n\nBergen Hyde lives in Provo, Utah with her partner and three children. Her favorite things are dancing, salty snacks, spending time in the mountains, and preferably in a body of water.
\n\nShe is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of WOMB, which she founded with her two sisters Jentri and Sarah. The three sisters hold women’s circles, workshops, retreats, and one-on-one mentoring designed to support women in healing internalized patriarchy, integrating the sacred feminine, and reclaiming personal sovereignty.
\n\nBergen has been devoted to the sacred feminine and regularly co-partners with Sarah Durham Wilson to facilitate group mentorship through the Wounded Maiden to Mature Feminine Rites of Passage Program.
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Welcome to the Revelation Project podcast, where we disrupt the trance of unworthiness to guide women to remember and reveal the truth of who we are.
\n\nIn this episode, my guest, Elise Loehnen, joins me to discuss her New York Times Best-Selling Book, *On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins And The Price Women Pay To Be Good. * She is also a successful writer, editor, and host of the wildly popular _*Pulling the Thread *_podcast.
\n\nElise begins by sharing what led her to write this book- and her experience with chronic hyperventilation disorder, an anxiety disorder, and her challenge to get to the root of it.
\n\nElise discusses the symptoms, treatments and dissonance between her interior struggle and her outward demeanor of success. She reflects on the pressures she began to identify, which led her to the revelation that the underpinnings of her stress and striving were rooted in her unconscious allegiance to “good girl” programming.
\n\nBy revealing the systems of patriarchy and its complex impact on women, Elise delves into early Christianity and the subjugation of women throughout history. We touch on the origins and transformation of the Seven Deadly Sins, the elevation and vilification of Mary Magdalene, and how this impacts us even today.
\n\nThroughout the episode, we weave in behaviors that hold us back as women such as jealousy and envy, and the role they play in women's lives. We also discuss the societal expectations placed on women and the need to free ourselves from external validation
\n\nThe conversation ends with a powerful message about embracing the feminine and reclaiming feminine values to create change in ourselves and in society.
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\nElise Loehnen Fissmer is a writer, editor, and the host of the podcast, Pulling the Thread, living in Los Angeles with her husband, Rob, and their sons, Max and Sam. While she’s co-written 12 books, including five New York Times Best Sellers, she’s currently writing the first book under her own name for Dial Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Previously, she was the chief content officer of goop. While there, Elise co-hosted The goop Podcast and The goop Lab on Netflix, and led the brand’s content strategy and programming, including the launch of a magazine with Condé Nast and a book imprint. For the podcast, she interviewed 100s of thought leaders, doctors, and experts, including Ibram X Kendi, Bryan Stevenson, Nicholas Kristof, Ambassador Samantha Power, Rebecca Traister, John & Julie Gottman, among others.
Prior to goop, she was the editorial projects director of Conde Nast Traveler. Before Traveler, she was the editor at large and deputy editor of Lucky Magazine, where she also served as the on-air spokesperson, appearing regularly on shows like Today, E!, Good Morning America, and The Early Show. She has a B.A. from Yale and majored in English and Fine Arts; she also went to St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Before that, she attended a school where lunchtimes were spent jumping an irrigation ditch. Originally from Missoula, Montana, it's important to her that people know that she went to the National Mathletes Championship when she was in 8th grade and that she’s a horse whisperer. These days, she serves on two boards (Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams and Skinfix), advises a beauty bio-tech start-up (Arcaea), and spends her time writing, reading, and fundraising for causes and politicians focused on environmental action, social justice, women and children’s health, and a more equitable world.
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The word Psychedelic means -soul reveal.
\n\nWhen her teenaged daughter began showing signs of depression, Michaela Carlin began to research alternative therapies which led her down an unconventional rabbit hole to discover the power and potential of psychedelics.
\n\nWhile she did not treat her daughter, she did see an opportunity to use earth medicines for herself. So began a mothers soul-revealing journey to her own inner medicine to deconstruct the inner barriers, beliefs and behaviors that were keeping her from her own potential.
\n\nIn this episode, we explore the role of earth medicines in our lives, our journey as women and mothers and the illusions and gender roles that perpetuate harm on ourselves and those we love and how earth medicine can help us to see the bigger picture while helping us to heal.
\n\nThis conversation takes a deep dive into societal conditioning, breaking free from conformity, and the evolving generations that are challenging societal norms. We also talk about the power of earth medicines and the role they play in healing and reconnecting us to ourselves and the natural network of life on Earth.
\n\nWith personal anecdotes, shared experiences, and insightful reflections, this episode will leave you feeling empowered and inspired and maybe even curious about the use of earth medicine in your own life.
\n\nMichaela Carlin is the host of The Psychedelic Mom Podcast. She holds space for psychedelic (soul revealing) conversations, ceremonies and transformational retreats, as well as mentoring others on how to live a psychedelic life.
Special Guest: Michaela Carlin.
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In this episode, my guest, Seana Zelazo, delves into the mythology of the Sumerian goddess Inanna and the powerful lessons this myth holds for women and personal transformation.
\n\nWe discuss topics such as the influence of Inanna's mythology on our own journey and the impact of patriarchy on our perception of the divine feminine, the significance of the second chakra and creativity, the initiatory experience of darkness and rebirth, the importance of self-love and embracing the messy parts of ourselves, and the role of forgiveness and compassion in healing.
\n\nWe also explore concepts of feminine power, the dismantling of power systems, and the birth of a new world. Through this conversation, we invite listeners to reflect on your own experiences and to embrace your divinity.
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\n\nSeana Zelazo, LICSW is an author, psychotherapist, intuitive channel, and spiritual coach. Her book, The Way of Inanna: A Heroine’s Guide to Living Unapologetically, is available from booksellers worldwide and at Amazon. Learn more at seanazelazo.com
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Welcome to another episode that shatters the trance of unworthiness. This week, Dr. John Demartini, a global human behavior specialist joins me to talk about owning your value and mastering your destiny.
\n\nFrom his humble beginnings battling physical disabilities and learning challenges to dropping out of school at 13 to mastering 20,000 words and reading over 30,760 books, Dr. Demartini’s story is as inspirational as it gets. His resilience shone through when, after almost dying at 17, he discovered yoga, and chose to learn, grow, and defy all odds.
\n\nA painter touched by his journey converted Dr. Demartini's vision to canvas, further certifying his determination to empower others. Driven towards his dream of global influence, Dr. Demartini's empowering work has traversed across time zones, extending to billions.
\n\nIn this episode, we delve deep into stories on unworthiness, self-perception, authenticity, relationships, and the power of love. With narratives that weave into life-altering enlightenment, each tale encourages profound reflection and personal growth. Get ready for a deep dive into how daily actions and small steps can manifest dreams into reality.
\n\nThis is a transformational conversation about soulmates, self-love, perceptions, and dethroning our fantasies so that we can learn about the power dynamics in relationships, the misconceptions about power, and the importance of mutual respect. Dr. John's compelling insights, coupled with his humorous anecdotes, will captivate you from start to finish.
\n\nYou don't want to miss this life-enhancing episode that promises to transform your perception of yourself, your life, and your possibilities. Hit the play button now to fuel your journey to self-worth and empowerment. Let's disrupt the trance together!
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\n\nDr. John Demartini is a polymath and a world-renowned human behaviour expert. He has five decades of research across multiple disciplines. His work has been described by students as the "most comprehensive body of work," and "an
\nextensive library of wisdom," as well as "wisdom of the highest and most valuable order." Dr. Demartini's mission and vision is to share knowledge and wisdom that empowers you to become a master of your own life and destiny.
His education curriculum ranges from personal growth seminars to corporate empowerment programs. He shares life, business, financial, relationship and leadership empowerment strategies and empowerment tools that have stood the test of time.
Special Guest: Dr. John Demartini.
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What if the departed, those we once held dear and even strangers from generations past, are still with us, not only waiting to comfort us, but eager to collaborate with us on creating miracles in our lives.
\n\nPerdita Finn author of one of my favorite books The Way of the Rose, is here to talk to me about her new book Take Back The Magic, about the wisdom our ancient ancestors embraced, a wisdom that has been suppressed for millennia by religious authorities who wanted to mediate our interactions with the other side in order to retain power over us.
\n\nReclaiming our direct intimacy with these relationships can give us unshakeable confidence, empowered intuition, a liberated imagination, and the ability to make miracles happen in the world around us.
\n\nIn this context, miracles are not supernatural feats, but natural, organic occurrences available to everyone. They’re simple yet profound moments of connection, of feeling supported, loved, and understood in ways we seldom experience in our day-to-day lives.
\n\nIn this eye-opening episode you’ll hear about how profound healing awaits you when you reconnect with your ancestors, allowing you to tap into a sense of belonging and an understanding that comes from recognizing that you are part of a continuum — a cycle of life and death that has neither beginning nor end but is an eternal dance.
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\n\nps: Join Perdita on Wednesday, July 12, when she’ll help you open to the realization thatyou are spirit,you’re surrounded by the spirits of your ancestors, and that both the living and the dead are here to work together to create miracles.
\n\nYou can register here for Reclaim Your Connection With the Departed: Discover How to Collaborate With Those on the Other Side to Make Miracles in Your Life:
\n\nPerdita Finn is the co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of the non-denominational international fellowship The Way of the Rose, which inspired their book The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. In addition to extensive study with Zen masters, priests, rabbis, shamans, and healers, Finn apprenticed with the psychic Susan Saxman, with whom she wrote The Reluctant Psychic. Her upcoming book, Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World is available in Fall 2023 from Running Press. Finn now teaches popular workshops on Getting to Know the Dead, in which participants are empowered to activate the magic in their own lives with the help of their ancestors. She lives with her family in the moss-filled shadowsof the Catskill Mountains.
Special Guest: Perdita Finn.
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Embark on an empowering journey into the heart of sisterhood and self-liberation in this compelling episode of the Revelation Project Podcast.
\n\nMonica Rodgers is joined by guest Megan Joe Wilson, renowned trainer, coach, and author who's been empowering women entrepreneurs for over 19 years. Let Megan's insights inspire you as she delves into her work with esteemed feminist icons Mama Gina and Marianne Williamson, and the transformative power of her mentorship programs and Rockstar Camp for Women- a somatic adventure that will rock your world!
\n\nThis episode is not just a conversation; it's a circle of sisterhood, with surprise guests joining in, sharing their profound experiences and triumphs that led to their personal transformation. Tune in to know why embracing sisterhood, collaboration, and adaptability is feminine leadership at its best; learn the power of bragging, and immerse yourself in the divine essence of feminine power that breaks the chains of patriarchal restraints.
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\n\nFor the last 19 years, Megan Jo has been training Women Entrepreneurs to embrace visibility and lead profitable, impactful Coaching Businesses.
\n\nHer experiential courses, “Rockstar Camp” and “No More Playing Small” for Women Entrepreneurs are based on her unshakable belief that confidence can be learned and mastered. In 2020, she worked for two years as a Master Coach with Spiritual Teacher and Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson, and is a regular Co-Conspirator with Feminist Icon and Author, Regena Thomashauer aka “Mama Gena”.
\n\nShe is a faculty trainer at the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and author of the best-selling business books for Women, “Who the F*ck Am I To Be a Coach” and “No More Playing Small.”
Special Guest: Megan Jo Wilson.
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In this eye-opening episode, Monica is joined by Dr. Sarah Buckley, a renowned GP and academic researcher specializing in oxytocin and maternal care. Together, they dive deep into the fascinating world of childbirth, sharing Sarah’s expertise on the physiological and emotional aspects of labor and birth, making for an essential listen for expectant mothers, their partners, and those supporting them.
\n\nSarah sheds light on the biological transformation of women’s bodies in pregnancy and birth. She emphasizes the importance of creating a safe, secure, and unobserved environment during labor to allow the birthing process to unfold. She points to the necessity of understanding that any interventions can create hormonal gaps in the essential feedback loop of hormones that are registered by the mother’s relationship between the brain and her womb and her ability to then bond with her baby, nurse, and more.
\n\nThroughout their conversation, you’ll learn about the influence of oxytocin, specifically in labor, and how women can make an informed choice about their birth experiences only when they know and have the proper information. Sarah explains the hormonal gaps that can be created by interventions like epidural use, and c-sections and speaks to how women can close these gaps with knowledge.
\n\nThis episode challenges the current intervention-heavy focus in modern maternity care and encourages understanding alternative methods like home births, midwifery care, and doulas and why these might be important to consider.
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\n\nSpecial Guest: Dr. Sarah Buckely.
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In this lively conversation, I talk to Tia Levings about her revelations as a former Christian Fundamentalist who shines a light on the abuses in high-control religion, revealing how they impact our headlines & culture today. Her memoir, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy, is coming out in 2024 and I feel grateful to have her on the show.
\n\nJoin us as we dive deep into the patriarchal systems that have affected women's lives for generations. Be prepared to feel a surge of inspiration as we touch upon the power of sisterhood and the resilience of those who break free from the manipulation and crazy-making that many endure.
\nWe delve into Tia's own harrowing experience of abuse, ex-communication, and, ultimately transformation as her journey becomes a beacon of hope for others facing similar struggles and abuses.
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\n\nTia Levings is an author and thought leader who shines a light on the abuses in Christian Fundamentalism and high control religion, and supports survivors of religious trauma. Her memoir, A Well-Trained Wife, releases with St. Martin's Press in summer 2024.
Special Guest: Tia Levings.
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In the latest episode of The Revelation Project Podcast, host Monica interviews Dr. Carla Ionescu, an expert on the goddess Artemis and her relationship to women in both the ancient and modern worlds.
\n\nDive deep into Carla’s fascinating journey from a PhD researcher to falling into a devotional relationship with the Goddess Artemis. Despite the male-dominated academic world which often dismisses the insights and passions that surround Goddess scholarship, Carla discover the magnetic pull this goddess has over countless women, inspiring them to be fierce, unapologetic, and free.
\n\nCarla is the host of her very own Artemis-inspired podcast, The Goddess Project, which aims to empower and educate people on the divine feminine.
\n\nBy working closely with goddesses, we can heal patriarchal wounds and unleash our intrinsic power.
\n\nWe also dive into theories about Artemis and her embodiment of the balanced masculine and feminine, lost rituals, and the transformation brought to those who embrace the goddess within.
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\n\nFilled with examples of ritual, symbolism and an extensive collection of Artemis myths and folklore, Carla’s book is a comprehensive compilation of all things Artemis, and her fundamental role in the communal, political and ritual development of the Greco-Roman world. The goddess of the hunt is more than just a virgin in the woods. Her worship can be traced to a time before the Minoans, and her rituals include all facets of the human experience, starting from birth rituals to rites of passage, to death and beyond. Her protection for those who honour her is all encompassing, her vengeance for those who cross her is swift and fatal.
\n\nWhile classic scholars focused mostly on Olympian deities such as Apollo, Athena, Zeus and Dionysius, this book provides vivid and detailed evidence that the goddess Artemis has been underrated for much too long. Dr. Ionescu's work is a labour of love and research, born out of her long-standing certainty that Artemis was the most prevalent and influential goddess of the Mediterranean.
\n\nDr. Carla Ionescu is a Romanian refugee who escaped the Communist regime with her family when she was 10 years old. She is also an adrenaline junkie, an animal lover, and a natural born storyteller. She likes to ride motorcycles real fast, and research through archival documents very carefully. Carla’s research centers on the influential nature of Artemis both in the Greek world and in Ephesus. Her work provides evidence which suggests that Artemis is the most prevalent and influential goddess of the Mediterranean.
\n\nAs one of the leading experts in the worship and ritual of Artemis Ephesia, Dr. Ionescu spends most of her time teaching in the field of Ancient History and Women’s Studies, and/or applying for grants to support her research travels.
\n\nIn the summers she scavenges new locations and cities worldwide, digging through the remains of grave sites, ruins, and abandoned buildings, trying to uncover the long-lost mystery that is Artemis, The Great Mother.
Special Guest: Carla Ionescu.
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In this episode, Monica talks to the incredible HeatherAsh Amara. As a best-selling author, mentor, land steward, and philanthropist, Heather shares her journey of weaving earth-based wisdom, mindfulness, and practical strategies for creative, courageous, and compassionate individual and community change. The episode covers HeatherAsh's experience of rebuilding her land after the largest wildfire in New Mexico dramatically altered her life and destroyed her property. She emphasizes the importance of staying accountable and open-hearted in the face of natural disasters and challenges. Together, Monica and HeatherAsh delve into the idea of holding onto things at the surface of life, and learning to let go and surrender to the flow of life to open ourselves up to transformation. They also discuss the vital importance of becoming aware of global systems such as patriarchy and white supremacy and working toward social justice and change at a local level. Listeners will surely appreciate the joy and magic that these times have to offer. Join Monica and HeatherAsh in this episode to learn how to become more resilient and conscious in the face of adversity.
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\n\nBest-selling author, mentor, land steward, and philanthropist, HeatherAsh Amara has spent the last three decades weaving together earth-based wisdom, mindfulness, and practical strategies for creative, courageous, and compassionate individual and community change. She is the author of 9 books, including the bestselling Warrior Goddess Training series and The Seven Secrets of Happy and Healthy Relationships with Don Miguel Ruiz Jr
Special Guest: HeatherAsh Amara.
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If you're looking for a way to reconnect with sensuality and explore sexual empowerment, this episode of The Revelation Project Podcast is for you. Author and herbalist Kim Gallagher is my guest, sharing her knowledge of aphrodisiacs and how herbal wisdom can be used to support sexual healing and fulfillment.
\n\nIn a culture that often represses and shames sexuality, Kim encourages listeners to reframe their relationship with sensual pleasure to cultivate energy that can fuel creativity and offer a more authentic self to the world. Kim's personal journey with sexual empowerment will inspire you, and her practical tips for cultivating desired energy will deepen your understanding of your own body and desires. From intentional aphrodisiac experiences to self-love practices, you'll find a wealth of information and inspiration in this episode of The Revelation Project Podcast.
\n\nKim’s interest in sexual empowerment started when she was a homeschooling mother and felt less in touch with her own sexuality. As she delved into the topic, she realized how much shame and repression women have around sexuality in our culture, and felt that there was so much healing that needed to happen.
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\nAphrodisiacs, Herbal Knowledge, Sexual Empowerment, Shame, Sensuality, Intentional Aphrodisiac Experiences, Oats for Sexual Connection, Orgasm and Creative Energy, Roses for Romance and Self-Love
Don't forget to check out Kimberly's book "Aphrodisiac, the Herbal Path to Healthy Sexual Fulfillment and Vital Living" and visit Learning Herbs - the most respected online herbal education website.
\n\nKimberly Gallagher is the author of Aphrodisiac, The Herbal Path To Healthy Sexual Fulfillment and Vital Living. She is an herbalist who has been working with healing plants for over 20 years, and is co-founder with her husband, John Gallagher, of LearningHerbs, one of the most respected online herbal education websites. She is the creator of the Wildcraft! board game, which has sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide, and author of the Herb Fairies children’s books. Kimberly and John have two grown-up children and are into their third decade of marriage. For many years, Kimberly has been actively exploring healthy sexuality and the power of erotic energy as source energy for creative, vital living. Kimberly is an ordained minister at her Trail of Beauty ministry, where sacred sensuality is at the heart of her work.
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Special Guest: Kimberly Gallagher.
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Have you ever felt like you’ve had a story to tell but felt overwhelmed at the thought? Well, today’s podcast episode is about what happens when two women get together to create a vision for publishing the stories of everyday women.
\n\nKim Fuller and Bryna Haynes share about the “The Born to Rise Book Project” a movement to inspire, awaken, and amplify, the stories of women.
\n\nThe Born to Rise Book Project features 22 female writers and is a powerful collaboration that brings women together in sisterhood for a 9 month journey to excavate their inner story to have it included in a printed anthology through World Changers Media.
\n\nKim and Bryna share about the challenges most women face when it comes to writing their stories- How issues of worthiness, confidence and fears of visibility often rear their heads and how we can move through these fears by using them as a writing ally.
\n\nThrough writing, women are given the opportunity to express what they’ve suppressed and may have been afraid to share. Sharing our stories can lead to deeper connections with an audience, and offer profound healing and feelings of accomplishment for the women who participate.
\n\nWith writing tips and insights on how adding emotion and sensory input can make for meaningful storytelling, women gain not only a proficiency for writing but they are also actively building a community of support with other women. Involvement in writing workshops can lead to amazing results and can pave the way for inspiring legacy pieces to leave with the world.
\n\nThe Born to Rise Book Project is published in partnership with World Changers Media, a boutique hybrid publishing company founded by Bryna Haynes who is dedicated to new and diverse voices including those of global visionaries, thought leaders, and Women.
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\nKim Fuller is a mindful photographer, spiritual mentor, author, TEDx and keynote speaker and founder of Born to Rise™. Her passion is to help women stand in their power, their story and their beauty so they can live a confident and peaceful life. She uses photography to mirror the beauty she sees in each woman, empowering them to show up authentically in business and life.
\nShe gives women a platform to share their personal stories with a live audience so they can process, release, and transform from victim to hero. She also gives women mindful tools through her Art of the P.A.U.S.E. method that invites women to slow down and look carefully inward, which enables them to expand in creativity, intuition, peace, and joy, and release their fears, judgments and assumptions of themselves and others.
She is a mother of three children, one of whom is adopted and is her greatest spiritual teacher. Her book “Finding” tells the story of her journey with this young boy and the Dalai Lama. One of Kim’s greatest gifts is she is a great hugger.
\n\nBryna Haynes is the founder and CEO of WorldChangers Media. As a nationally-known book strategist, speaker, ghostwriter, and editor with over 15 years of experience in the publishing field, she has helped hundreds of thought leaders, teachers, healers, and enlightened entrepreneurs deliver their messages and radically uplevel their expert status through best-selling, impact-driven books. Titles she claims in her spare time include: self-reinvention savant, LEGO castle designer, dragon tamer, luxury travel hacker, and connoisseur of kick-ass boots.
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\nFounded in 2021 by Bryna Haynes, WorldChangers Media is a boutique hybrid publishing company focused on “Ideas for Impact.” We know that great books can change lives, topple outdated paradigms, build movements, and change the world. That’s why we are committed to delivering superior-quality transformational nonfiction by, and for, the next generation of thought leaders, conscious entrepreneurs, creatives, and industry disruptors.
\nWatch out, status quo. You don't stand a chance.
\nLearn more at www.WorldChangers.Media
Special Guests: Bryna Haynes and Kim Fuller.
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Throughout this episode, Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue weaves a wonderful conversation that brings nature alive in our awareness. He sees plants and fungi as our ancestors and kin with their own intelligence, and we delve into the concept of identity and what it means to break the habit of being human.
\n\nHe speaks of a time when the King was wedded to the land and that the core of our suffering is due to forgetting and the severing of our relationship with it.
\n\nSean shares his insights into animism, where the world is alive, and all beings, including humans, are equal in significance. He suggests that building a relationship with other-than-human beings is vital, and it begins with consistency and spending time with a place in the natural world, or a tree, river, local or plant to develop a relationship.
\n\nSean suggests that dropping the veil is necessary to see beyond certain levels of reality and see’s our consciousness as a variation of the microrisal webs that form the minds of forests and fields, and that in order to reach beyond- reorganization of the brain is necessary.
\n\nTake a deep dive into discovering your true self and your connection to the natural world in this episode
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\n\nSean is an herbalist, writer, poet, teacher, and initiated priest in two traditions, and his work with plants and fungi weaves together traditional western herbalism, contemporary science, Irish and Nordic animism, and his own lived experience.
Special Guest: Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue.
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We live in and by the stories we have internalized, and the biblical story of Adam and Eve, as it has been told, has caused emotional and psychological damage to women over the ages. The story has also played a massive role in relegating women to disempowering stations, gender roles, and ideas for centuries.
\n\nIn this episode, The Rape of Eve, my guest, Celene Lillie, reveals how the archetypal story of Eve was interpreted by people 2000 years ago as a story vastly different from ones we’ve heard.
\nRather than the traditional story of a sinful woman who disobeys God, tempts Adam with the fruit from the tree of knowledge, and then curses humanity, Celene offers new interpretations of a divine woman who reclaims her sovereignty and power after being violated by those who meant to separate her from them.
In recent decades, scholars of New Testament and early Christian traditions have given new attention to the relationships between gender and imperial power in the Roman world. In this incredible interview, Celene Lillie shares her process and what she gleaned as she examined core passages from three texts from Nag Hammadi, On the Origin of the World, The Reality of the Rulers, and the Secret Revelation of John, in which Eve is portrayed in a vastly different light and how even now, we are influenced by the violence done in the name of the Roman empire and the implications of rape culture pervasive within it.
\n\nThese re-interpretations of Eve’s story have the potential to disrupt and challenge traditional patriarchal narratives while offering women a trance-disrupting and empowering new story for ourselves and for future generations.
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\n\nCelene Lillie is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder; an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oklahoma and The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology; and the Dean of the Westar Institute’s forthcoming Academy (launching this Fall). Her scholarly work focuses the New Testament, the Nag Hammadi Codices, and other early literature of the Jesus movement, with a particular interest in gender and violence. She is the author
\nof The Rape of Eve: The Transformation of Roman Ideology in Three Early Retellings of Genesis; co-author (with Jaeda Calloway, Maia Kotrosits, Justin Lasser, and Hal Taussig) of The Thunder: Perfect Mind: A New Translation and Introduction; and Director of Translations for A New New Testament(edited by Hal Taussig).
Special Guest: Celene Lillie.
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\n\n\n“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
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Our wombs are portals, and our blood connects us to our lineage, the earth, and our deepest inner selves. The womb continuum invites us to become deeply rooted in our own bodies, and Samantha invites us to break the spells of oppression and reproductive and sex health in patriarchy by connecting to the wisdom and power of our own body.
\n\nSamantha is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in reproductive and sexual health through education, healing and liberation. She started her mission when her mother had a hysterectomy at eight and began to pay attention to her body's natural cycles. At 12, she was lobbying for parental consent laws with the help of an adult companion. She emphasizes the importance of informed consent and sovereignty and encourages her listeners to explore the potential of their own bodies through contemplation, revelation, and gnosis. She believes that reproductive and sexual health should be a spiritual and social reality, not just a medical one.
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\n\nSamantha Zipporah is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in reproductive & sexual health through education, healing & liberation. She has over 20 years of experience honing her craft as an educator, guide & caregiver tending to fertility, sex, & cycles spanning the full womb continuum. Sam’s work rises from an ancient lineage of midwives, witches, & wise women. A fierce champion of critical thinking skills, her knowledge is integrative & inclusive of modern medicine & science as well as traditional & ancient healing practices. Sam provides vital education for everyone from professionals to preteens in her books, courses, & live classes. Her online community The Fruit of Knowledge features monthly live workshops & an abundance of resources & dialogue for womb wisdom keepers & seekers.
\n\nRadical healing & reclaiming of our fertility management, with a focus on contraception & abortion. Fertility management is a homesteading skill, a human right, birth rite, ancestral practice. Womb care has been spiritual, social, & allied by plant medicines for ages prior to the rise of the medical industrial complex & the atrocity of the witch hunts, from which we are still in collective PTSD about. Persecution & monopoly of fertility management is more about economics than religion.
Special Guest: Samantha Zipporah.
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Our teeth represent our total health, and there are ways to improve our oral health that will greatly improve our health, overall.
\n\nIn this episode I get a chance to interview Rupam Henry about her path to holistic dentistry, and why it’s so important that we heal our teeth from the inside out. Allopathic dentistry often misses the root cause of dental issues and what’s under the surface level issues in our mouth. What is our oral health is telling us about what’s going on inside with our internal organs, gut health, circulatory system and so much more.
\n\nAt the young age of 16, Rupam travelled to India, where she lived for 5 years in an international ashram, learning meditation and approaches to the inner world. The desire to be of service to others on the path of self-healing was born in these life changing years.
\n\nRupam comes from an ancient lineage of medicine makers, alchemists and herbalists reaching back 13 generations in Germany. She combines her expertise as an herbalist, holistic health educator and ordained minister with her experience of over 20 years as an RDA in General and Pediatric Dentistry.
\n\nShe is the founder of Rupams Herbals LLC, focusing on holistic health and dental solutions through consultations, a hand made organic herbal line of over 45 different formulas and a passion to support her clients and customers to retain their God-given right to Self-Healing and informed consent.
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Is there a lineage of goddesses that claims the evolutionary power of female sexuality? And if so, why were they pushed to the shadows and demeaned as harlots? Was Mary Magdalene one of them, and what were her teachings?
\n\nLooking into esoteric traditions that celebrated the Goddess and her art of sexual alchemy, Dr. Joanna Kujawa sets out on a detective journey to answer these questions to discover Mary Magdalene stands at the center of this investigation. Learn about her portrayal in the gnostic gospels as a teacher in her own right and Jesus’ intimate partner, the possibility of her life as an alchemist in Egypt, and her last years in Southern France. Find out if Mary Magdalene was the same person as Mary the Prophetess of Egypt and her connection to the mysterious Cathars, Black Madonnas, and Knights Templar.
\n\nWhether looking at Mary Magdalene, Sophia, Aphrodite, Inanna, Hathor, Isis, or the goddesses of esoteric Hinduism, Dr. Kujawa finds the archetype of The Other Goddess-the bearer of the mysteries of sexual alchemy that ends the division between sexuality and spirituality
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\n\nDr Joanna Kujawa is the author of The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge, scholar, and spiritual detective. She received her BA and MA from the Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada, and her PhD from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. As an active academic for over 20 years, she uses her scholarly training to investigate topics other academics often pass over, such as: Can spirituality and sexuality be experienced as one? Who was the real Mary Magdalene? Is there a lineage of Goddesses now resurfacing in our collective experience of spirituality? Apart from her writings for academic publications on spiritual travel, Joanna has also had her short stories and essays published through various media and in many prestigious anthologies, including Best Australian Stories, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, She Rises. She is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Goddess Studies. The Other Goddess was translated into Mandarin
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Join us for an episode of self-inquiry, unlearning, and reparenting. My guest Akilah Richards is back to dive more deeply into deschooling and what it’s all about and how we can recognize it as liberation work that fuels learning, life design, and relationships.
\n\nThis episode was emotional for me because compulsory schooling harmed me in a variety of ways and I saw those same harms happen to my own children through the public school system. I’ve come to see that this system is harmful to just about anyone who experiences it because it’s very nature is to standardize, grade us, and get us to conform to ways of being which are dehumanizing.
\n\nDe-schooling is also a massive part of the process of unbecoming- a subject I’m endlessly passionate about because it honors our humanity, and invites us into the messy and magnificent truth of being human.
\n\nIt’s about reckoning with the systems that have dehumanized us, and unlearning the behavior that causes us to dehumanize others. It’s about breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma that conditions us to give another power and agency over our minds, bodies, thoughts and actions, and reclaiming our sovereignty so that we can make informed choices and participate through consent with the world around us vs. being forced to comply with tyranny.
\n\nWhile this episode is about de-schooling, it’s also about reframing our role in parenting and so much more.
\n\nI hope you love listening as much as I loved recording this interview.
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Empathic, emotionally-intelligent, deep thinking, fun and open-minded are a few of the words that come to mind when it comes to describing Tanya Moushi.
\n\nIn this episode we continue exploring: what is the feminine business model?
\n\nFor me, the foundation of a feminine business model is embracing feminine values to integrate and co-create with the more structured values of the masculine.
\n\nAnd while these core aspects of life are genderless and cannot be divided into a dual worldview, conscious life itself is a dance where dualities make up the whole.
\n\nSo in the past, this has been rather a one-sided dance . And if you ask me, we're stepping on our toes all the time because business is largely still dominated by what we call the masculine values which have traditionally been rewarded with money and respect, and have been thought to provide a higher perspective on how business and the economy should be operated.
\n\nThis has created much suffering. Men women and children are suffering- all genders are suffering, as is our planet.
\n\nIt's a deeply imbalanced model so it's been important for me to bring guests on the podcast who are changing the status quo in business helping to create language and missing aspects of the feminine so that they can be integrated into a business model that benefits everyone.
\n\nTanya Moushi is a Good-Business Enthusiast. She is a Consultant at Moushi & Co, an interdisciplinary firm that believes that business gets better by applying functions of philosophy and art, and is nicknamed the Chief Empathy Officer among her peers. She’s an avid supporter of Downtown Phoenix, believes in the power of generosity and cites Seth Godin as one of her most influential mentors.
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Elena is a spark of energy, a ray of sunshine and a cultivator of embodied JOY- living what she teaches. I enjoyed our conversation so much, and loved diving into some impromptu “parts work” as our interview created space for my inner perfectionist to reveal herself, and how this inner part was created from a memory of embarrassment and shame (so interesting!)
\n\nElena Sonnino is a yin yoga teacher, author and Life Coach who is on a mission to help you transform the walls of survival mode into doors of possibility so that you can step into the spotlight of your life as your most rooted and nourished self. Her work helps you get out of your head and into your body as your source of wisdom, and moves you from beyond shoulds and into curiosity and delight, one day at a time.\nAt home, Elena enjoys watching the sunrise, tending to her many plants, riding her Peloton bike, and impromptu kitchen dance parties.
\n\nLearn more about Elena at [www.elenasonnino.com](https://www.elenasonnio.com) or by reading her new book, Inhabit Your Joy: A Book of Nudges.
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\n\n\n"Whether or not you know it, you’ve probably been influenced by the beliefs of the Gnostics and their powerful grasp over aspects of Western spirituality. Many schools of metaphysics, the occult, mystical teachings, and even fraternal organizations and secret societies have borrowed heavily from Gnostic teaching. It’s impossible to do justice to Gnosticism in a single article, but I’ll do my best to introduce you to some of the basic concepts, leaving further research to those spurred on by the mysteries inherent in the Gnostic world. Any personal work done, if seriously approached, must serve to improve the understanding and knowledge of the student.” - Mo Abdelbaki
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The term "gnostic" derives from "gnosis," which means "knowledge" in Greek. The Gnostics believed that they were privy to a secret knowledge about the divine, hence the name.
\nIt is understood as one of the oldest versions of the christian religion and perhaps that it even dates back to pre-christian times.
More than anything it’s a cosmology of the universe and a mythical way of seeing how the world came to be including the dualistic nature from which all things in this material world are separated into.
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\n\n\n\n\n"We did not come to this world to be good, but to be ourselves.” - Jung
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If the exterior is all an illusion, then the way to find the true reality is within us- where the true universe resides.
\nGnosticism helped Miguel to see the bigger picture - a holistic view of the Universe.
Miguel is the host of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, a popular show on Gnosticism and Hermeticism, ancient and modern
\nVoices of Gnosticism, as well as the post-apocalyptic vampire epic series, The Dark Instinct Trilogy. Art
\nGnostic Journal, The Heretic, Mindscape, Reality Sandwich, and Graham Hancock’s blog. Lectured/app
\nHour, The Alan Eisenberg Show (AM 1400 WRJN), Magick Radio (AM 1680 Chicago), Runesoup, Skep
\nCountercultures Conference at Rice University
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Most of us are desperately dehydrated despite drinking the recommended daily allowance of water because most of the water we drink is no longer “alive”.
\n\nIn our modern world, we have stripped water of its nourishing and hydrating properties through the purification process. Through our industrial treatment of water, we’ve stripped water of it’s minerals and made most of the water highly unstable, chaotic, and incompatible with human life. This results in disease, dehydration, premature aging, and death, but the good news is that awareness can literally change everything!
\n\nLearn about proper hydration and the critical information you need to help your body properly detoxify, repair, and regenerate so that you can recover your energy, vitality, and joy!
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\n\nIsabel Friend is an international ambassador of Water, public speaker, and educator. She seamlessly blends science and spirit into a comprehensive cosmology of Water wisdom.\nSpanning the practical insights of health, hydration and biology, to empowering tactics for Watershed guardianship and ecological activism, to the esoteric and subtle insights of ancient indigenous Water wisdom, to the heady scientific discoveries of cutting edge Water research, Isabel’s offerings are as multifaceted as Water itself.\nFor the past 6 years, she has taught about Water throughout the US, Canada, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Bali, Mexico and Thailand.
\n\nWater is Life. And as such, water holds the solutions to life’s toughest questions. By shifting our relationship to Liquid Life - from resource to THE source - we tap into the vast untapped potential of free energy and boundless wisdom within us and within nature.
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Acharya Shunya is a truth-teller who facilitates authenticity, self-remembrance, and divine feminine pathways to awakening.
\n\nAfter centuries of living in patriarchal societies, many women don’t realize how powerful they are—or how much they’ve been enculturated to keep their true nature hidden.
\nIn Roar Like a Goddess, trailblazing Vedic spiritual teacher Acharya Shunya empowers women everywhere to step into their divine immensity and lead powerful, abundant, and wise lives through her revolutionary revisioning of ancient India’s primary goddess archetypes:
Sharing classic myths, original insights, and empowering practices, Shunya offers a profound process for awakening the many faces of the goddess within.
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\n\nThe first female lineage-holder of her distinguished Vedic tradition, Acharya Shunya is an internationally renowned scholar, teacher, author, speaker, and scholar of nondual wisdom (Advaita) from India and a classically-trained master of Yoga and Ayurveda. She is the Founder of The Awakened Self Foundation and the nonprofit Vedika Global, Inc., platforms headquartered in Northern California that empower, educate, and inspire a global community of students through online courses, workshops, and retreats. These conversations are furthered by Shunya’s top-rated podcast, “Shadow To Self.” An award-winning author of international repute, Shunya’s most recent book, Roar Like a Goddess: Every Woman’s Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful, Prosperous, and Peaceful, was published by Sounds True in September 2022 and is now available worldwide.
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What does filtering have to do with success? If you ask Joel Green, he would tell you- “everything.”
\n\nFor him, it’s about training and disciplining your mind and emotions during life’s most challenging moments and filtering out negativity to embrace growth.
\n\nIn this episode, he shares his personal story about how we can encourage our young men to embrace their challenges and emotions.
\n\nJoel Green is CEO of Pro Level Training, the National Director of Nike Sports Camps, a former professional basketball player, and a renowned motivational speaker. After retiring from professional basketball, Joel Green founded Pro Level Training (PLT), which has become a 7-figure company. A thought leader in the motivational category, Joel Green has a B.A. in Psychology from Rider University, which has helped to fuel his ambition to inspire others. He has developed a reputation for personal excellence and motivational talks that contribute tangible advice for attaining desired goals. Many of the messages he has delivered are conveyed in his first book, Filtering: The Way to Extract Strength from the Struggle
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An act of desperation often leads us to revelation, which was also the case for Dr. Christena Cleveland as she set out for a solo 400-mile track across rural France in search of The Black Madonna.
\n\nThis conversation was so rich and powerful. I absolutely loved unpacking Dr. Cleveland's story and her future vision for what is possible in the world where women permit themselves to find their divinity within their own female bodies.
\n\nChristena Cleveland, Ph.D., is a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist. She is the founder and director of the Center for Justice + Renewal and its sister organization, Sacred Folk, which creates resources to stimulate people's spiritual imaginations and support their journeys toward liberation. An award-winning researcher and former professor at Duke University's Divinity School, Christena lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Lynne's early professional life led her to a chance encounter of meeting Buckminster Fuller, which changed the trajectory of her life. In this fantastic episode, Lynne shares her understanding of this time of the Divine Feminine and how living a life of commitment has shaped her life, her vision for women, and the future of humanity.
\n\nLynne Twist is unstoppable in achieving her commitments, but she does so with humility, open-hearted grace, and ruthless enthusiasm. She is boundlessly generous—with her time, inspiration, and even her own home.
\n\nShe does not distinguish between those deserving of her love and attention and those who are not: all are welcome and appreciated for who they are in her land, and She reigns with love, laughter, and dance, and she loves to celebrate the good in the world.
\n\nLynne Twist is a global visionary and activist committed to creating an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just future. She is the co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance, the founder of the Soul of Money Institute, and the author of the bestselling book The Soul of Money, Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life, and her forthcoming book Living a Committed Life - Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself.
\n\nFrom working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta to the refugee camps in Ethiopia and the threatened rainforests of the Amazon, as well as guiding the philanthropy of some of the world's wealthiest families, her on-the-ground work has brought her a deep understanding of people's relationship with money and Her breadth of knowledge and experience has led her to profound insights about the social tapestry of the world and the historical landscape of the times we are living in - even coining the phrase for this century as "The Sophia Century" - the century of wisdom.
\n\nHer compelling stories, life experiences, commitment, and dedication to making a difference astound and inspire me, and her presence and impact on my life have been immeasurable. In full transparency, I've had the honor of being on her digital marketing team for the past few years and have grown immensely in close proximity to her teachings, leadership, and stand for those she serves.
\n\nIn addition to her best-selling, award-winning book "The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life" (W.W. Norton, 2003), which has been translated into nine languages including Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Bulgarian and Portuguese. Lynne has contributed chapters to more than ten books, including:
\n\nLynne has been an advisor to several organizations, including the Desmond Tutu Foundation, Network of Grateful Living, and The Nobel Women's Initiative — an initiative of seven living Nobel Women Peace Laureates who work together to end violence against women and girls.
\n\nA sought-after speaker, Lynne travels the world giving keynote presentations and workshops for conferences, including the United Nations Beijing Women's Conference, Nobel Women's Conference on Sexual Violence, State of the World Forum Conference, Alliance for a New Humanity Conference with Deepak Chopra, Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Governor's Conference on California Women, among others.
\n\nIn addition, she has co-presented and shared the stage with some of today's most influential thought leaders, including:
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I think it's safe to say that entrepreneurs and businesswomen are done with antiquated notions of "business as usual."
\n\nIn our journeys as successful female entrepreneurs, we are creating new definitions for what it means to "work" and seeking and creating spaces that give us room to be who we are in both/ and our businesses and lives without all of the striving, overwhelm, and exhaustion.
\n\nAs more women and men awaken to the feminine, we embrace and integrate new modalities, embodiment practices, and tools that enhance our connection to ourselves, each other, and our world.
\nInstead of living from a place of force, we are living from flow and attuning to the messages of our bodies and souls- leaving plenty of space on our calendars to remember our need to rest, regenerate, dance, and play.
As more of us lean into our intuition and allow ourselves to be guided by our senses, we learn to include and leverage the gifts we used to suppress and hide. We are expressing and exposing what's outrageous about us because invariably- what is outrageous in us is also the animating spirit of our soul- the unique and vital part that remembers that we are alive!
\n\nIn this episode, Libby and Megan Jo talk about
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Making and taking space in my business has been the greatest gift that I have given myself and my creative projects, including my podcast!
\n\nThis past summer I took four months off and went to long dreamed of places like Peru, and Scotland and also got to take time to really relax, plan, create and take extended time with family and friends.
\nSage Polaris has been my inspiration for developing this more spacious way of being and living and I’m experiencing it as a more "feminine way" of leading and balancing my life and business, so I invite you to join me as I explore this concept through several episodes this season.
I’ve come to see how depleted I always was and how I had become my own worst boss when it came to my business. I was overwhelmed, uninspired and exhausted all the time, and never felt like I could take time away - which is exactly what we are conditioned to do as business owners and "industrial workers”- especially if you happen to be a generator type in human design.
\n\nExperts like Sage helped me understand how to automate and streamline my business and help me identify areas where I could use some additional support.
\nOnce I began to taste what it felt like to automate certain things, I began to have more space for rest, fun, creativity, and so much more.
The big shift for many entrepreneurs is setting the foundation from which they can scale their business. Sage Polaris is one of those professionals who is all about supporting other female entrepreneurs to create thriving a business that takes care of us and provides endless opportunity for rest and regeneration. I’m so excited for you to experience her magic! Listen in to this episode for the secret code to take advantage of a very special offer.
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\n\n\n“Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of con game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game.” - Terence McKenna
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General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) affects 6.8 million adults or 3.1% of the U.S. population, yet only 43.2% are receiving treatment for it and many of those go on to have long term side effects from various medications that interrupt their normal daily patterns taking a cumulative toll on their lives.
\n\nAnxiety can range from disabling to mild- and everything in between, but one thing it has in common is that it can impact anyone from all walks of life. In other words, anxiety does not discriminate, and everyone is in full agreement when it comes to it having a negative impact on our quality of life.
\n\nThis was the experience for my next guest who got to the point of preparing herself for what she felt was the inevitable. She just wanted to feel better- even if it resulting in not being here anymore, which led to a remarkable discovery which seemed to reveal itself in the 11th hour- presenting itself as the antidote to her chronic and debilitating anxiety.
\n\nThe Amanita Muscaria Mushroom has long been considered the plant medicine of choice for those who are looking to find relief from the daily toll anxiety takes on their lives and to experience the “universal ONE”, and the many perspectives it’s psycho-active compounds can induce.
\n\nAccording to Koryak folklore, the Amanita muscaria mushroom was a “sacred gift” and cultures all over the world have it’s properties for a variety of reasons- With its bright, beautiful appearance and unusual mind-altering properties it’s been threaded through folklore and storytelling for thousands of years. It’s known in ancient oral traditions and also in modern tales,
\n\nWhen in Wonderland, Alice eats a mushroom that makes her change in size —though we never get much physical description of it, it’s possible it was inspired by the magical Amanita muscaria. Then of course there is the video game Mario Brothers- Mario eats the red mushroom he turns into his “super form”
\n\nThe Smurfs too live in a red mushroom, and it is always seen as a companion to the fairies and in countless other references made in art and literature.\nFor this reason the Amanita Muscaria is the most iconic and well-known mushroom in the world. It’s been used as decoration, inspiration, and more. With its shining red top speckled with white spots - it’s one of the most recognizable images in the world.
\n\nDespite being given a bad rap as a distinctly poisonous and toxic plant, the truth is that she is an enigma whose likeness and psychoactive properties have transcended generations and cultures.\nThe Amanita muscaria is more than just a mushroom, it’s a part of our heritage - and a rich and fascinating story of humanity and our relationship to healing and the natural world.\nI’m honored to have had this conversation! Thank you Amanita Dreamer for your courageous work in the world!
\n\nAmanita Dreamer is working to educate about the power of the amanita muscaria mushroom to help with panic and anxiety. After it saved her life withdrawing from prescribed benzodiazapenes, she went on to learn the deeper power in might hold. She learned about time, stress and the detachment from the land and our ancestors that she believes has caused a crisis of anxiety and mental illness. She says this mushroom taught her about the power of ceremony, ritual, and listening to our inner sense of time, rhythm and power. Today she travels, speaks, holds drum ceremony experiences with the mushroom and is filming a documentary about it.
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Sometimes I stumble upon a human who is a quiet earth quake that shakes my world and cracks opens my heart. This is my experience of Asia Suler who writes with the soul of a sage and the words of a thousand wise women on the subject of self-compassion and empathy including how mother-Earth mirrors everything we need- if we could attune ourselves to experiencing her unconditional love.
\n\nWhen healing is needed at the deepest level, nature will always call us back home--not only to the groves and meadows, rivers and tree's, but to the homes within ourselves.
\n\nListen in as Asia illuminates the healing power of our living Earth—giving us permission to know ourselves deeply and intimately on our way to personal and ecological healing.
\nAs she encourages us to know our own goodness, empathy, intuitive connections, we expand our capacity for healing and tap into a new awareness that can become our own potent vehicle for planetary transformation.
In a time of unprecedented ecological devastation, it’s easy to feel hopeless and disconnected. It’s easier still to mask our inherent goodness--to imagine that our unique and precious gifts simply aren’t enough, or forget the power of our inborn empathy. For those of us who are highly sensitive, innately attuned to the workings and whispers of the natural world, it can be hard to embody the belief that we’re enough as we are--and that can heal the Earth.
\n\nAs we learn to more deeply nurture and accept ourselves, we unlock living, healing connections to Earth which then mirror back to us our beauty and our magnificence.
\n\nNot only will you love listening to Asia, you will absolutely cherish her revelations and her writing that includes reflection prompts at the end of each of her essays.
\n\nMirrors in the Earth encourages us to embrace our inherent brilliance and the medicine that lives within each of us!
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How is the honey bee connected to the feminine? And how does following the bees through ancient myth support dismantling patriarchy?
\n\nMeet my guest is, Ariella Daly- she is a dream weaver and bee tender. She's devoted to both the physical and the spirit world, and she synthesizes natural beekeeping, shamanism, dream work, and earth activism through writing workshops and teaching.
\n\nHer work combines firsthand knowledge of the honeybee species with an intimate understanding of European bee shamanism. She's known for helping people connect to the wild and sacred through their relationship with bees, nature, the sacred feminine, and the inherent intuition of the body.
\n\nAt this time - we are in dire need of remembering our own sense of belonging and relationship to the more than human world. And we're looking for how to heal, reconnect, and remember.
\n\nIs it possible that other species, ancestors, and myths are seeking us as much as we are seeking them? People are often drawn to Ariella because they are interested in bees and perhaps have a spiritual calling, or perhaps they want to keep bees in a more natural way. But I specifically wanted to bring Ariella onto this episode because of her capacity and talent for dream weaving. I’ve heard her speak in the past, and you'll notice that when she speaks. She weaves a tapestry of mythology, story, and current events in with her work with the bees, and she's most definitely a bridge for tapping more deeply into the mystery that is always right here, She reminds us what we've forgotten- which is how to read the signs and see the symbols and follow that mysterious, generative, feminine energy that is always an invitation to reveal more.
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As we have been witnessing the protests raging across Iran after the brutal death of Mahsa Amini, we are also hearing of intensified violence against the women there.
\nIn order to more deeply understand the current climate, I reached out to my Iranian friend and sister Priya Assal and invited her to join me for an interview.
If you want to hear why what is happening in Iran should matter to us here in America and all over the world, then I urge you to listen to Priya’s revelations and her personal story of love and longing, and her passion for women’s rights in Iran and beyond. Priya Assal is an Educator, Writer, Artist and Women’s Community Organizer.
\n\nShe is the founder of Inner Journey Practices, an educational non-profit organization dedicated to the empowerment of Farsi-speaking women worldwide. Priya holds a BFA from the California College of Arts and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is also a certified Holistic Health teacher, a certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor and a certified Women’s Rite of Passage Facilitator in the lineage of Sarah Durham Wilson.
\n\nIn her Medium article she writes:
\n\n\n\n\n"Today’s Iranian “Women, Life, Freedom” slogan is 1969’s American “My body my choice”, and is exposing yet again the shadow of the old beast at play: Patriarchal Tyranny.
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\nPatriarchal Tyranny is a global curse inflicting violence upon most of the world’s population, including the citizens of seemingly free countries. The fact of the matter is that nearly everyone is oppressed by the corrupt systems born of this beast; systems that define the norms and shape the worldview of human beings. In countries like Iran, Patriarchal tyranny is in your face. It’s undeniable and felt at every corner and in every room. However, in countries like the United States or in Europe, it’s cleverly disguised under pretend freedom and comforts, and therefore harder to recognize and defeat.”
Priya is an artist, activist, writer, educator and a Mature Feminine Rites of Passage Practitioner. She is passionate, determined and committed to using her gifts and voice in service to the liberation of Iranian women, and all women. As the founder of Art of the Inner Journey Education her work serves to provide free education, transformation and Inner liberation to Iranian women so that they may experience reclamation and healing from patriarchal and terrorist rule.
\n\nPlease support Priya’s work to assist Iranian women by donating here
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In 2016, Amy Mcphie Allebest published her piece "Dear Mormon Man,” which went viral during the #metoo movement, helping crack the foundation of deeply rooted inequalities within her church and worldwide.
\n\nThe feminist awakening started long ago, yet part of the issue we face in making progress as daughters of the patriarchy is that our vast repository of herstory isn’t shared widely, taught, or easily accessible. Still, Amy McPhie Allebest is changing all that with her podcast Breaking Down Patriarchy, An Essential Texts Bookclub, which I believe is one of the most important podcasts of our time.
\n\nAmy has always been drawn to asking the deeper questions that revealed the oppressive social systems at play in her university studies. Her questions always led her to more questions that piqued her interest in how these systems impacted women over time.
\n\nAmy is no stranger to agitation and frustration about oppressive systems in her own life. When she found that she could not find a comprehensive women’s studies program, she decided to create one that would help her to illuminate her own struggle. So began an essential texts book club podcast where Amy invites her listeners and readers to tune in each week as she and one of her guests break down the patriarchy. Their conversations are about seminal feminist texts written over the ages that chronicle a deep, rich, and rewarding herstory highlighting the many remarkable ideas, observations, and work of female pioneers who are the foremothers of a most incredible movement to liberate, amplify, and celebrate the independent, sovereign and essential roles of women as co-equal partners in a world that has always sought to oppress and control them.
\n\nThis podcast is a project for the whole human family, and I urge all of us to tune in and become active listeners to this body of work that Amy has worked so hard to make available.
\n\nIt’s filled with incredible history, conversations, insights, and poignant and powerful revelations that offer alternative ways of imagining what might be possible if we were to succeed in joining hands with the men we love to build a more equitable system that benefits and liberates everyone from the oppressive and unjust systems that have dominated the world for the past 5,000 years.
\n\nListen in as we talk about her podcast responses from both women and men across the country, how Amy sees her role as she continues to steward this project, as well as what her vision for the future entails.
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I loved my conversation with Akilah S. Richards and walked away with a much deeper understanding of the value of unschooling in America. Conventional schooling is deeply rooted in colonization, industrial progress, and control over our personal autonomy.
\n\nAkilah is passionate about mindful partnerships and parenting. Since 2016 she has hosted Fare of the Free Child, a lifestyle and parenting podcast about the connection between liberation, learning, and parenting, particularly among Black, Non-Black Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Parents, educators, unschoolers, and entrepreneurs tune in weekly to connect about unschooling, deschooling, conscious parenting, and self-directedness. Discussions center around emotional wellness, learning and children, parenting, self-care, and self-love. The voice and work of this Jamaican-born, digital nomad have been featured on NPR, Forbes, NBC TV, Good Morning America’s blog, and in several literary and in-person spaces throughout the U.S., Jamaica, and South Africa. The TEDx Speaker, digital content writer, and facilitator’s highly-anticipated book Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work (PM Press), will be released in the Fall of 2020.
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\n“The resistance is the roadmap, not a route to something else.”
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Who gets to define what is deemed beautiful?
\n\nWhy do we leave it to others to define what it means, and how can we change the toxic nature of our culture's obsession with beauty myths and lies? Beauty myths cause tremendous harm, from body shame to dysmorphia, from starving ourselves through diet culture, to spending thousands of dollars on fixing or altering our appearance - all the while feeling MISERABLE and unworthy.
\n\nSarah Grandinetti is changing all that. Allow yourself to perceive beauty from a new vantage point and why it’s so important that we begin claiming our own definition of beauty as a means of disrupting the trance that keeps us believing that we are less or lacking in any way.
\n\nSarah Grandinetti is a wife, a mother of four, an international educator, and guide to greater consciousness. Her classes explore such topics as parenting, relationships, money, and more. Having recently left the Los Angeles celebrity salon she owned for 15 years, she has now dedicated herself to changing the conversation about beauty. Inspired by the book, Being You Changing the World, authored by her brother, Dr. Dain Heer, Sarah has created Being You Beauty, a class experience offering tools, insights, and conscious conversations designed to dismantle the overbearing beauty standards and reveal what is actually possible when you include you and your body in what you perceive as beauty. Being You Beauty is a worldwide movement, having just completed a 7-day social media challenge with thousands of participants. Being You Beauty asks the compelling question, “What have you defined as beauty that limits you from receiving your own beauty?” Beyond the trendy ad campaigns used to sell quick fixes, Sarah knows there is nothing to fix! She is on a mission to inspire us all to acknowledge the beauty we truly be and the gift that unique brand of beauty is to the world.
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Ok, Listeners. Oh, my heart!
\n\nThis story is going to blow you away. Be prepared to have your mind and heart blown wide open and keep the tissues nearby, just in case.
\n\nWhat happens when a couple goes from infertility to the conception of multiple eggs, has their own healthy baby, and then decides to donate the rest of their fertilized eggs so that they can be adopted by another family who is having trouble conceiving?
\n\nWell, you are about to bear witness to the incredible story of two remarkable women who each gave birth independently to biological siblings. Discover the bonds these two families have built in solidarity for what’s possible when you want to conceive something you might not have ever believed you could.
\n\nIn this episode, you’ll meet Liz and Emma, both incredible, fun, articulate, and endearing. You’ll hear about their incredible individual stories and then how their lives were brought together through the miracle of social media. You’ll also hear the powerful love between two mothers who both hold a new vision for what it means to invite the village to raise and even help you conceive your children.
\n\nSeriously, this story is just too incredible even to try to find the words for. Just listen!
\n\nIn this episode, Emma and Liz will share:
\n\nLiz August is a Business & Tech Strategist who leads a virtual support team for entrepreneurs who hate figuring out all the technology and strategy it takes to have a successful online business. She does everything from website design to social media scheduling to online course creation. While Liz’s business is truly one of my saving graces, today, we are seeing the personal side of Liz as she talks to us about something very near and dear to her heart. Liz lives in Worcester, Massachusetts with her husband Peter, their four-year-old daughter, Blake, and their dog Porter. When she’s not being a tech goddess, she’s running Netflix marathons while guzzling Diet Cokes.
\n\np.s. Liz is also MY Business Manager and helps me produce this podcast. She handles various other tasks in my online business, and she’s amazing!!! I’ve been dying to have her tell this story on the podcast with Emma!
\n\nEmma is a former social worker who’s taking time to live the mom adventure. She’s a runner, tarot reader, and budding artist. She’s in a fever of adding flowers, gold glitter, and moon imagery to any photo she finds. You can find her artwork and musings @unmadetarot on the Instagrams and the Pinterests. She lives in Pennsylvania with her sweetheart Vince, the adorable baby Edgar, the incorrigible Murphy Beagle, and the cuddly Minerva Cat.
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We've been taught to believe that myths are untrue, yet this indicates how atrophied our cultural mythic imagination is. As a result, myth has been relegated to consumer entertainment or dismissed as irrelevant to us vs. a potent way to more deeply understand ourselves in reciprocal relationships with others and the world.
\n\nOurs is a fact-based, linear, logical, and control-based culture that doesn't allow much room to follow the deep longing to know ourselves, and yet the longing persists and will continue to persist until we answer its call. Perhaps this time in our human evolution represents a heightened collective calling - can we answer it?
\n\nIn this episode, Ian and I talk about where we are as a culture and Ian's hope for awakening men worldwide.
\n\nIan MacKenzie is a new paradigm artist who lives on the Salish Sea with his partner and young son. For over ten years, he's been tracking the global emergence of new cultures. From the desert of Burning Man to the heart of Occupy Wall St, he has sought and amplified the voices of visionaries, artists, and activists working toward planetary system change. He hosts The Mythic Masculine podcast and is the founder of A Gathering of Stories.
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Emotional labor is the exertion of energy for the purpose of addressing people’s feelings, making people comfortable, or living up to social expectations. It’s called “emotional labor” because it ends up using – and often draining – our emotional resources.
\n\nEmotional labor was a feeling I knew well before I knew it was a thing! It's such a relief to put language to something I could not previously articulate.
\n\nI can recall many situations in past relationships, at work, or in family dynamics where I would end up profoundly resenting putting in the extra time when it came to doing the heavy lifting of emotional labor.
\n\n"I'll clean if you just tell me what to clean!" or all the boyfriends who could not be bothered to pay attention to what I was saying I needed so that I had to spell it out! How about the time my father took me to girl scouts, and all the women in the room looked at him like he was a saint for doing something my mother had done a million times? How about at the office when I was expected to answer the door buzzer when we were all in the conference room in a meeting of peers? I mean, the examples go on and on and on and on…
\n\nI loved this riveting conversation with Susan Hyatt; I know you'll love her energy. We were both practically buzzing with resonance in all we were sharing. In this episode, we cover some major ground:
\n\nSusan Hyatt is a Master Certified Life and Business Coach, and one of the world's leading voices on mindset, motivation, and how to become an unstoppable woman. She's also a #1 bestselling author and TEDx speaker; founder of the University for Life Coach Training; and the founder of BARE, a trademarked process that helps women shed body image issues, stop dieting, and treat their bodies with love and respect—leading to huge mental and physical health breakthroughs.
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\n\n\n"Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that is not you so that you can discover, reveal, and embrace the truth of who you are."
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"It's "unbecoming" for a lady to sit like that, Monica."
\n\n"Stop making faces like that! It's unbecoming for a little lady, and besides, your face might freeze!"
\n\nUnbecoming is a term that has been used to manipulate and condition girls and women for generations. It's part of the grooming process into the patriarchal trance of unworthiness that keeps us from revealing our true thoughts, feelings, and self-expression.
\n\nLike an IV drip inserted at birth, micro-dosing cultural messages such as these have kept us in the 4 P's: performing, pretty, pleasing, and polite.
\n\nThe 4 P's condition us to abandon the truth within ourselves in exchange for love and belonging. As a result, many of us lose touch with who we truly are underneath all of the layers of the false self.
\n\nAs many of you know, this is my passion! Helping women reveal, heal and embrace their whole magnificent selves. Helping women break free from the trance is the most rewarding work I can do in the world and my goal in life is to awaken as many unbecoming women as possible.
\n\nIn this episode, join me as I dish with one of my favorite leading ladies, Libby Bunten. In this episode, we dive more deeply into the process of unbecoming and the revelations that come when we begin to unravel what we have been taught to believe vs. what is true. We also talk about our personal journies and how our awakening has impacted our outlook, vitality, creativity, relationships, and basically our whole existence.
\n\nWe also introduce the exciting news of our upcoming journey, which will be available for 20 women this October and which you may have guessed is called:
\n\nUNBECOMING : A 6-month detox from trance to transformation to remember, reclaim, and integrate the TRUE YOU. https://signup.jointherevelation.com/unbecoming
\n\n(If you are interested, we would love to welcome you to journey with us! Click the link to be added to the waiting list, and we will update you the moment we open registration this coming September).
\n\nIn this episode, Libby and I also address the sisterhood wound and why it's part of the patriarchal trance.
\n\nLibby Bunten is an embodiment coach and Social Marketing professional whose passion is strengthening women's lives in her local community and beyond. Raised in a quintessential Maine coastal town, Libby always did "whatever it took" to make a living and get the job done. Before a career in social marketing, she did everything from manual labor to freelance writing. A brief stint in a toxic, patriarchal, corporate work environment propelled Libby to pursue an MS in Clinical Psychology which ultimately led to her work in feminist leadership development with like-minded, independent, and irreverent women.
\n\nShe recently founded and launched her newest group coaching program, Self-Approval School, where women come together in Sisterhood in new ways to remember who they are, break the bullshit rules, and learn to give themselves the stamp of Self-Approval. When she isn't cheering women on, you can find her traveling with her bagel-slinging hunk, Paul, singing karaoke, or in deep surrender to the abyss that is the journey of healing.
Special Guest: Libby Bunten.
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In today's episode, Helen MacMillan shares her personal story and celebrates the birth of her new book, "The Gift of Pain."
\n\nThe first time someone suggested that pain could be a gift, I resisted with every fiber of my being, and yet, it took some time for me to recognize the deep wisdom it continues to teach us when we are willing to listen.
\n\nAnd once we allow pain to come and sit at the table with us, and we listen and respond, the pain will usually leave us.
\n\nIn all cases, pain is a messenger, a prophet, and a gift, AND we must not learn to live with it.
\n\nListen in as Helen and I dive deep below the surface to interpret the wisdom of our pain:
\n\nHelen MacMillan is an author, life coach, healer, and wise woman who facilitates the personal growth integral to achieving your greatest potential and living your most joyful and fulfilling life.
\n\nThrough her 1:1 and group coaching programs, workshops and retreats, Helen equips her clients with healing that allows them to powerfully and authentically create success from the inside out, using their wisdom as their guide. Helen combines her strong intuitive gifts with the practical expertise and wisdom gained from building three successful businesses, being married (twice), and raising three boys (while maintaining her sanity) to help her clients create a life they LOVE with ease and grace.
\n\nOriginally from Jamaica, Helen resides in the USA with her husband Gary and their dog Sadie.
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\n\n\n"As the old ways of ruling and operating crumble and we consciously co-create from our hearts and souls the new world we truly want to inhabit, we are called to also learn new ways of being, new habits that can hold and nurture this growth. As more of Who We Truly Are is called on line, we are served best when we learn how to work with our energy and consciousness, for this is where we will be creating from as we go forward. This is Energy Mastery - a concept and phrase that was given to me by my guides last year to encompass the new skills we must learn if we are to become the galactic citizens of light we came here to embody!"
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I love Veronica Worth - she's a joy to talk to and so grounding and inspiring!
\n\nIn this episode, we talk about this incredible time in our collective evolution and why Veronica sees it as the dissolution of the toxic matrix of patriarchy and the new emergence of a positive network formed by the feminine.
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\n\nVeronica is a shamanic practitioner, business visionary, and intuitive. She is also a Certified Sourced™ Leader, best-selling author, and founder of Evolvative™ and the Athena Matrix™.
\n\nOn a spiritual journey since her youth, she experienced powerful awakenings through her 20s and 30s. In January of 2000, she began receiving channeled guidance from her wise circle of guides and teachers. Kept private until a few years ago, Veronica now actively brings her mystical gifts forward to guide her work.
\n\nVeronica brings insight into the future landscape of what a business and a brand can be at their highest level and what others can do to show up as soul-led leaders and innovators in this new territory. Drawing on her varied experience from both the business and mystical worlds, Veronica blends spiritual soul work, energy healing, and channeling, with her revolutionary approach to creating and expressing fully aligned brands and businesses.
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This past year I completed my 8-month rites of passage teacher training with Sarah Durham Wilson. It’s by far one of the most provocative and potent trainings I’ve ever done. It helped me truly understand the core wounds of women conditioned by patriarchy and how to assist women in healing those wounds.
\n\nIn this episode, I have the honor of introducing you to my teacher and her work and celebrating with her the publication of her first book with Sounds True: Maiden To Mother, Unlocking our Archetypical Journey into The Mature Feminine.
\n\nWhen the goddess culture was stolen and buried, so were women’s rites of passage into our wild, intuitive femininity and maturity.
\n\nWith Maiden to Mother, Sarah Durham Wilson excavates these ancient rites, guiding us through a sacred and crucial initiation from the immature Maiden into the archetypal Mother. This powerful, safe, compassionate, full-bloom feminine life force exists within all of us.
\n\nBecoming the Mother is every woman’s birthright—regardless of whether or not she raises children. The Mother is who we needed as children, who we were meant to be in this life, and who the world needs us to be now.
\n\nSarah teaches that while pre-patriarchal cultures honored women’s natural cycles, today’s society infantilizes women, idolizing youthful traits such as “pretty, pleasing, and polite” to keep us distracted and dependent. While a healthy version of the Maiden will always remain part of us, there comes a time when we must no longer let her wounds and immaturity guide our lives. We must step into our mature, feminine fullness.
\n\nThrough personal stories, rituals, teachings, and practices, Sarah helps women heal the Mother Wound and dismantle our internalized patriarchy with its false, constricting standards for the feminine so that we may live with authenticity and feast on the richness of life. “Midlife is not, as our culture proposes, where a woman’s power ends,” writes Wilson, “but where it really begins.”
\n\nIn this episode, Sarah and I talk about:
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This episode was very emotional for me and brought up many memories of my past experience with abuse. I am deeply moved by Shannon’s work and look forward to her upcoming documentary about domestic and emotional abuse called Trapped By Faith.
\n\nAbuse in any situation is devastating, but marital abuse has its own elements of crazy-making. Combine this with confusing messages from your faith and it can be soul-crushing. Unfortunately, these messages are still commonplace, and even if your marriage is erosive and dangerous - religious dogma and church doctrine may keep you from leaving a situation that’s not healthy for you or your children.
\n\nEmotional abuse is one of the hardest things for most women to identify, especially if the abuse resembles how you were raised and you mistook it for normal or for love.
\n\nIn this episode, we aim to discuss Shannon’s reason for making this film and to support other women in identifying toxic and abusive situations in their marriage and faith.
\n\nShannon Claire helps entrepreneurial women become unforgettable so they can build a thriving business and life they love without sacrifice.
\n\nAs a multi-passionate and seasoned entrepreneur of over 16 years, she is a sought-after international brand photographer, a mentor, and
\ncoach for entrepreneurial women transitioning to their next level of success.
Shannon is a mom to 3 teens and a toddler and is soon-to-be-married. She is a beach lover, conversation starter, and eternal optimist.
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\n\nAn excavator of sacred feminine lineage, Monette Chilson founded WomanSpirit Reclamation to support women in navigating their awakening from patriarchal indoctrination through online courses and community.
\n\nShe has written and spoken about the divine feminine for the past decade, authoring Sophia Rising: Awakening Your Sacred Wisdom Through Yoga and My Name is Lilith, in addition to editing Original Resistance: Reclaiming Lilith, Reclaiming Ourselves and developing its companion curriculum. Monette’s work has been featured in national magazines including Yoga Journal and Integral Yoga Magazine and the anthologies Yoga Wisdom and Whatever Works: Feminists of Faith Speak.
\n\nMonette and I speak about why our inner wisdom—personified by Sophia—is essential for maintaining our centeredness when the world around us has gone mad—AND becoming conscious about our spiritual evolution without judging or shaming.
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In this episode, I had the pleasure of welcoming back Dr. Terrlyn Curry Avery to talk about anti-racism.
\n\nIn our first discussion, we explored her work in helping heal religious trauma, which is also intersectional to racism and a by-product of patriarchy.
\n\nToday we dove into her book Dismantling Racism from the Inside Out, and how these times invite us to reckon with our internal bias and require us to untangle the lies of us and them, black or white, and other corrupt programs of patriarchy.
\n\nSome of the topics we discussed included:
\n\nRev. Dr. (TLC) is the creator of Pastology, the cutting-edge field that focuses on the synergy between pastoring and psychology. She holds a Ph.D. from Hofstra University and a Masters of Divinity from Yale University. She calls herself a pastologist (licensed psychologist and ordained minister) and is a transformational leader, coach, speaker, author and retreat leader. Rev. Dr. TLC has a unique approach to healing, transformation, and manifestation. She places emphasis on the journey toward sacred intelligence: the ability to tap into one’s internal source in order to move toward intelligent choices. Those choices are intended to honor the Sacred and help the individual manifest their greatness, while simultaneously embracing the humanity of those around them.
\n\nRev. Dr. TLC works with highly influential and committed leaders who need spiritual, life, or career coaching as they transform the world by creating a legacy of service, prosperity, and greatness. She also provides coaching support for leaders to help them understand how their sphere of influence can help to change the status quo and to dismantle structures that have intentionally and unintentionally created racial disparities. Her coaching provides an opportunity for leaders to: create the right context for conversations on race and leadership development with their employees; discover how racism and unconscious bias influence their hiring practices, affect their clients and have a direct impact on the company’s financial goals; and understand how racism impacts employees, their work performance, and their feelings of safety in the work environment. Rev. Dr. TLC has a long history of working with institutions, organizations, and communities to bridge the racial divide and to promote racial equity.
\n\nRev. Dr. TLC is the host of Dismantle Racism with the Rev. Dr. TLC which airs on talkradio.nyc.
\n\nShe is the author of Dismantling Racism: Healing Separation From the Inside Out and Sacred Intelligence: The Essence of Sacred, Selfish & Shared Relationships. Rev. Dr. TLC is the pastor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Presbyterian Church in Springfield, MA.
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I’m thrilled to introduce you to Dr. Dorothy A. Martin- Neville, Ph.D., a powerful visionary, who is also a pioneer, mover, and risk-taker who is faith and humor-driven as well as committed to transformation and growth.
\n\nDr. Dorothy’s story is incredibly inspirational and you’ll connect immediately to the warmth and humor she exudes as she tells her story of resilience after growing up in an orphanage from birth till age 3 as an illegitimate daughter of an unwed mother in South Boston. Once she was adopted, she lived in a playpen on the outside porch until she was 6 years old so that her grandmother didn’t have to acknowledge her existence inside the house.
\n\nFast forward and Dr. Dorothy is the author of several books such as Real Women Change The World: Letting the Good Girl Die so the Real Women Can Live, where she shares the importance of emotional intelligence, mindset, mindfulness, and communication as imperative tools for women in leadership.
\n\nShe is also an international speaker, author, consultant/master coach, and frequent radio, podcast, and television guest is also Past-President of the National Speakers Association – CT and the founder of 4 companies.
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A psychotherapist, Dr. Dorothy was in practice for 25+ years. As a motivational speaker, Dr. Dorothy brought a history of living in an orphanage, being adopted and raised in the housing projects of South Boston in a violent alcoholic home. She later became a Catholic nun, an international airline stewardess, and so much more, showing that faith, humor, and passion make anything possible.
\n\nToday, whether supporting individual clients in recognizing and living their Purpose or supporting CEOs in creating a culture of Purpose within their organization, Dr. Dorothy brings first-hand knowledge of the challenges facing those who want to live and work in a culture that feeds rather than drains them.
\nIn that light, Dorothy has supported highly successful women from all levels of success, from Park Ave, NYC to a small town in Maine. Consequently, patterns and similarities in leadership are readily understood as she brings extensive wisdom, knowledge, and experience to the table. Combining her recognition that mindset and communication skills set us apart, with her ability to make the complicated simple, Dr. Dorothy is someone to learn from whether as a speaker, trainer, coach, or consultant.
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Meet Gina Clover.
\n\nI adore her for sharing her mind and heart through her substack writing by challenging the dominant narrative in our culture around money, capitalism, and business as usual.
\nBasically, she’s not buying it when it comes to consumer culture and the insidious ways that it undermines the fabric of our society. Join us as we take a deep dive into the disguised gift of a personal apocalypse and how it disrupts the trance as well as the mind virus that infects our culture with the toxic myths of scarcity. This episode will either piss you off or have you cheering, but either way - your response is welcome. Sometimes we have to get messy and real in order to reveal and heal what’s been ailing us.
Gina is an animist witch and rites of passage guide who centers her work around anticapitalism and ecological re-enchantment. She offers radical presence and compassion to those who want to move into the seasonal reality of their lives in full awareness that the world as we’ve known it is disintegrating, bringing a collapse-aware approach to moving into maturity and relational leadership. She believes we break the spell of modernity by doing this work together. Gina is also a plant medicine integration guide who loves to help people bring animist enchantment into their lives. In the secular world, Gina holds an undergraduate degree in Critical Theory from NYU, as well as an MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in Writing for Film and Television, and is a professional writer.
\n\nShe currently lives in a 150-year-old Victorian Church in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she and her partner are creating a sanctuary called “Our Lady of the Apocalypse”, creating a community space for grief, skill-sharing, ritual, beauty, and unlearning, finding our way through the darkness together, awake in the burning forest of the world.
\n\nThe ways in which the intertwining of capitalism and spirituality is actually at the very heart of the climate crisis and ecocide – the ecological crisis is a deeply “spiritual” crisis arising from the intentional erasure and destruction of ancestral traditions and animist relationships to land and earth– erasure and destruction that was very explicitly in the service of colonial capitalism. So what is needed in the face of these crises is a spiritual response/atonement/reconciliation, but perversely, almost all of what passes for spirituality right now occurs in a deeply capitalist, neoliberal framework that neuters and sublimates all spiritual impulse back into the patterns of hyperindividualism, commodification, consumption, and the society of the spectacle, perpetuating the root causes of the crisis instead of offering a potentially vital response to it.
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I’m back with another dose of the enchanting Sophie Strand. Listen in as we dance in the magic of storytelling, ecology, revelation, and contemplation.
\n\nSophie is someone who understands the power of myth-making and storytelling. She honed her abilities when she learned she had a life-threatening disease and began to write as if her life depended on it. What she came to realize is that all of our lives depend on it. Unless we generate new myths to live into, we will surely stay fast asleep in the culture of make-believe, where we consume everything without implication or consequence.
\n\nIn this episode, Sophie and I continue where we left off. We meander into the wilderness where we make new connections, access revelations, and enchantment abounds- Join us! You won’t be bored!
\n\nSophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her first book of essays, The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, will be published by Inner Traditions in Fall 2022 and is available for pre-order. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in Spring 2023. Subscribe to her newsletter at sophiestrand.substack.com. And follow her work on Instagram: @cosmogyny and at www.sophiestrand.com.
\nEcological Storytelling. Healing beyond hope and the human.
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\n\n\n"I’m not the guy who has got it all figured out. During the Covid pandemic, I had the opportunity once again to face an inner and outer unraveling. For months at a time, I experienced a paralyzing despondency borne of the calamity I saw overtaking society: the very Age of Separation I had been proclaiming, for years, to be nearing an end. Instead, it was reaching new extremes. At the same time, my critiques of the social response to the pandemic brought intense criticism, denunciation, and canceling, including from people whom I’d considered to be deep, trusted allies. Maybe, I thought, it is I who has gone mad, not the world. This is the question, the doubt that paralyzed me. I tell the story of these years in my most recent book, The Coronation.
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I know that my books and other work come from a deep, inspired source, but that source is not me! It is more like I’m connecting to a field of knowledge or to a story that wants to be told. This knowledge is as much my teacher as it is anyone else’s. I’m kind of ordinary, compared to some of the amazing people I keep meeting. I’m just as much in the learning as anyone else, wandering as best I can toward “the more beautiful world my heart knows is possible,” encumbered by the programming and the wounds of our civilization."
\n\nI always say that the Universe has a wonderful sense of humor, and if it’s true that we create our own reality, then I’m so glad my reality includes neighbors like Charles Eisenstein and his wife, Stella.
\n\nI had been following Charles's work for a couple of years and more intensely when the pandemic happened because so much of what he was speaking about made so much sense to me. Then I saw him publicly denounced and canceled by the same community that once embraced and celebrated him, and I thought, surely I must be losing my mind.
\n\nAt the height of my despondency, I also suffered detox symptoms from recently having mercury removed from my mouth. A dear friend suggested I see a woman named Stella, who had recently moved to the area. I began seeing Stella at her home office, and we seemed to develop an effortless friendship in just a few sessions. While I knew she lived there with her husband and child, I was unaware for several more weeks that I was actually in the home of the very person whose work I was immersed in and sharing with as many people as I thought might listen. Amazing, right?
\n\nI had sent my same friend who had referred me to Stella a recent essay from a series by Charles called The Coronation , knowing she would appreciate his mind and heart. It wasn’t until I saw this friend a few days later that she alerted me to the synchronicity, revealing that I had been treated for the mercury detox by his wife!
\n\nFlabbergasted, I returned to Stellas for an appointment and told her the story, only to have Charles walk through the door and extend his hand in a warm greeting.
\n\nMind. Blown. Well-played, Universe. Well-played.
\n\n“We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.” -David Richo
\n\nIn this episode, you’ll get a glimpse of why I am such a fan of Charles and his work. In addition to being incredibly accessible, his revelations are filled with humanity, humility, and love.
\n\nYou’ll hear about this time in human civilization from another perspective as we shift and transform toward creating a new story. At this time, we are in what Charles calls “the space between stories,” and humanity has an opportunity to reimagine the world - the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
\n\n*Charles Eisenstein is an American public speaker, author, and essayist. *
\n\nHis work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. Key themes explored include anti-consumerism, interdependence, and how myth and narrative influence culture. According to Eisenstein, global culture is immersed in a destructive "story of separation," and one of the main goals of his work is to present an alternative "story of interbeing." Much of his work draws on ideas from Eastern philosophy and the spiritual teachings of various indigenous peoples. Eisenstein has been involved in the Occupy, New Economy, and permaculture movements. His new book is coming out this summer: The Coronation.
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Are you able to walk into a room and immediately feel the mood? Do other people easily tell you their burdens? If so, you probably have empathic abilities.
\n\nJoin us in this episode as Gurds Hundal shares the gifts of the empath as well as her own story of revelation:
\n\nGurds Hundal is a dynamic voice for the modern generation of highly sensitive women. She’s an Empowerment Coach and Self-Healing Expert whose mission is to empower women back to their inner light. She’s the creator of Trust Your Inner Light and Rise Up Sister coaching programs that help women go from energetically drained to emotionally, physically, financially, and spiritually liberated. She is the host of the Inner Light Project Podcast and the author of Educo: 52 Quotes For Leading A Better Life.
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What if being yourself was your only job? How would that change your reality?
\n\nThese are the kinds of questions and explorations we ventured into for illumination in this gentle yet powerful conversation with my guest Venus Castleberg.
\n\nIn addition to the fact that Venus is an accomplished coach, author, and workshop facilitator for Access Consciousness, she is also in her own continual process of evolution and involution.
\n\nThe only relationship we need to develop is the one with ourselves. When we have a healthy relationship with ourselves, all others are just an enhancement to our lives.
\n\nIf everyone realized the person they have been looking for was themselves, I believe there would not be so many heartbreaks and strained relationships out there.
\n\nIn this episode she shares:
\n\nVenus Castleberg is the author of the bestseller Here to Forever: Finally Free to Be Me, a story that explores looking for love in all the wrong places. Written with a beautiful vulnerability, clarity, and a welcoming light-heartedness, Here to Forever gives readers a glimpse into her own journey of joy and destruction, asking them to consider the possibility that love can be filled with ease and fulfillment. From a belief system that she was flawed and broken to discovering how to like herself, Venus delivers the tools and processes that others can apply to create something greater.
\n\nVenus Castleberg is a seasoned entrepreneur, coach, and joyful possibility devotee. She is a holistic healthcare practitioner with over 20 years of studying and practicing a range of modalities. Venus has developed an impressive track record, renowned for her compassion, clarity of vision, and joyful approach to life and business. You can learn more about Venus at venuscastleberg.com and follow her on Facebook @venuscastleberg and Instagram venus_castleberg.
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David Strickel is an amazing person with a well-defined ability to channel. We talk about the development of his TYA (Trust Your Abundance) Practice and how it came to be. In this interview, I was able to speak directly to the Stream of David, and it was a fascinating discussion. I think you will enjoy David and my conversation with The Stream.
\n\nFrom early childhood, David received what he refers to as guidance from Source. He developed a deep understanding of universal laws during his teenage years and used these teachings to overcome enormous obstacles. He developed an ability to share this guidance for the benefit of others and has created a simple set of tools that profoundly transformed every aspect of his life, delivering a life of joy, clarity, and abundance. These tools have become The TYA PracticeTM. Through his bestselling book, radio show, podcast, and online training programs, he has helped transform the lives of those seeking a new way all around the globe.
\n\nTYA stands for Trust Your Abundance. This lifestyle empowers students to manifest abundance in all areas of their lives: love, wellness, Source connection, and finances. The TYA Practice has produced proven results, including miraculous healings, improved relationships, new businesses, endless flow of wealth, and more. But by far, the most amazing results with TYA are the awakening of many experiences by adopting this practice as a lifestyle. We now have hundreds of testimonials from those who continue to transform their lives on a daily basis.
\n\nViewers and listeners revel in David’s genuine warmth, patience, and deep understanding of universal law. First encounters with David and his channeled messages are met with instantaneous serendipity, and many describe their experience as life-changing. Your viewers and listeners will learn about their eternal nature and the true meaning of life, walking away forever changed from the insights of The Stream.
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Stuck? Overwhelmed? Feeling out of alignment, and it’s affecting your business? This episode with Emily will truly bring you insight into how to address those situations. Emily explains how she works with entrepreneurs to align their energy. This episode is packed with great advice, humor, Emily’s amazing spirit, and some simple, probably overlooked tips to keep us moving forward.
\n\nPS: We also learned that Graham was eating candy!
\n\nIt’s easy to use intuition in my business, and now I have some tools to start (or deepen). I’ve got to prioritize managing my stress and how it impacts my energy field and business.
\n\nEmily Aarons is the most sought-after intuitive healer for female empire builders. She’s best known for getting her clients out of overwhelming burnout and unlocking the wisdom within to create business and soul alignment. For over two decades, Emily has been practicing healing works directly with powerful visionaries and teaching them how to tap into their intuition to activate quantum growth in their business.
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Chemistry is important to me, as are relationships. I usually conduct what I call “chemistry calls” before I agree to interview a guest on the podcast. Pat and I had some chemistry. I immediately fell in love with her accent, authenticity, and humor. So much that 90 minutes later, we were still gabbing away.
I loved our conversation. Pat is both wise and hysterical! She’s taken menopause into a whole new realm making it much more adventurous and accessible for women ready to experience this rite of passage through another lens.
Pat approaches this subject differently, revealing to women what an honor it is and a positive rite of passage vs. the signaling of negative things to come.
Pat Duckworth is a best-selling author, an international speaker, and a specialist in the area of wellness at menopause. She enjoyed a 30-year career in the British Civil Service, becoming a Director in a major Department. She has written five books on women’s health in midlife. In 2021 her book, Menopause: Mind the Gap, was given a 9/10 rating by getAbstract.Pat is a naturally-gifted public speaker, bringing humor and authenticity to her fact-filled presentations. Pat has worked with organizations in the Public and Private Sectors, including HMRC, ONS, Thomson Reuters, ProQuest, Galliard Homes, Cheshire Fire Service, Kameo Recruitment,& Cambridge University Press. Pat received the ‘Heart and SpiritAward’from the Evolutionary BusinessCouncilin 2022
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I hope you enjoy this moving and provocative interview on Mother Daughter healing with Sara and Charlotte Vetter.
\n\nI became aware of the mother wound in my life at an early age but had no idea how common it was. It was not until I viewed my relationships through a patriarchal lens that I was able to see more clearly how this dynamic is established and then passed down through the generations.
\n\nI think this is a subject that’s critically important and is finally being revealed. I am deeply grateful for the love and liberation modeled in this episode between these two beautiful women because this work takes so much courage and self-reflection. I’m honored they trusted me to facilitate the interview- it was a gift to witness.
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In this episode you’ll hear about:
\n\nCharlotte Vetter is a playful powerhouse with a deep devotion to living an awakened life. Her mission is to ignite inspiration through transformative and impactful experiences while empowering individuals with the tools to feel resourced and radically expressed.
\n\nKnown for her soul blueprint evolutionary astrology readings and engaging live classes, Charlotte’s approach is strong, yet graceful. By bringing levity to challenges, she guides her clients to honor themselves, while breaking through blockages to reprogram body and mind. The result? A life filled with more radiant JOY.
\n\nSara Vetter is the Managing Director of the Soul of Money Institute and is a coach, consultant, workshop leader, keynote speaker and strategist.
\nShe has been working with the Soul of Money Institute since 2001 and has become a key player in all the initiatives of the institute, working in partnership with Author and Founder Lynne Twist.
She is also the Major Gift Officer and fundraiser extraordinaire for the Pachamama Alliance, raising millions of dollars a year for the last 12 years- Pachamama alliance is an alliance between indigenous people of the Amazon and conscious committed people in the modern world and has raised millions of dollars and led and participated in more than 20 delegations and leads high level immersion trips to the Amazon Rainforest
\nSara has played a leadership role with the Nobel Women's Initiative, working closely with the six Nobel Women Peace Prize Laureates on fundraising, strategy and special delegations. Sara has co-led delegations to Dharamsala, India to see his Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Democratic Republic of Congo to work with Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee. She also co-led a coalition to Liberia working closely with Ms. Gbowe and Nobel Laureates Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire and Shirin Ebadi.
Sara is also a member of the WPO (Women’s Presidents Organization).
\nSara’s effectiveness in producing results for the Soul of Money Institute and Pachamama Alliance are legendary. It was her initiative that landed Lynne Twist’s interview on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday in 2016.
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As a female entrepreneur, until I learned the practice of self-care, I was always burning the midnight oil and highly susceptible to being sick and overwhelmed with anxiety and racing thoughts.
\n\nThrow in motherhood and my monthly menstrual cycles, and my life became absolute chaos!
\n\nWhen I look back, it can really make me sad to realize how disconnected I was from my body, its cycles, and the important conversations that are neglected in our culture as it pertains to women, our health, and our access to different aspects of ourselves based on where we are in our moon cycles as well as the seasons of our lives.
\n\nIn this episode, Coco Groothuis and I talk about re-learning what it means to be a modern woman in the world by remembering the wisdom of our bodies, our cycles, and how to sync our own rhythms to the natural rhythms of mother earth and the seasons.
\n\nListen in as Coco shares how she began to draw from these practices and has built upon them to help other women live and work in ways that could support and nourish vs. undermine and deplete. She coaches women with tools and theories that help us amplify our gifts by honoring our bodies' cycles and messages and by shifting from time to energy management.
\n\nCoco also shares additional revelations she’s had through her pregnancy and the deeper wisdom her body gives her access to as she gets closer to being a first-time mother.
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\n\nCoco grew up in Haarlem (The Netherlands) and runs her consulting business from her current hometown of Ijmuiden. She has a clear vision for the future. In this, she sees a major role for female entrepreneurs, who, through their natural gift to connect and create unity, build mutual business structures that embrace inclusiveness, diversity, and sustainability. She helps soul-driven female entrepreneurs to do business cyclically, according to their natural rhythm.
\n\nShe has discovered my own natural flow through years of research and experimenting, feeling what works and what doesn’t, and following the natural cycles of ebb and flow. This allowed her to finally work and live in a new, healthy, structured way. This was when she developed the course FROM TIME MANAGEMENT TO ENERGY MANAGEMENT. In this course, she combines different tools and theories from working with the seasons, the Bullet Journal Method, and the moon's rhythm with her personal experience coaching individual entrepreneurs.
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Talking to Vanessa Chakour about her book Awakening Artemis was a joy! We discuss how we are not separate from nature or exempt from the natural world. How our survival is dependent on this interconnected nature with plants, animals, and fungi with whom we share ecosystems and exchange intellectual ideas.
\n\nI can not express how much I loved this book, her writing, and the lessons explained in it. She shares why it was important to process personal traumas and write them into these stories to share with others. (I might have fangirled hard over her book.)
\n\n\n\n\n"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir
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\n\n\n“A weed is a plant out of place.” ― Jim Thompson
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Vanessa Chakour is an herbalist, visual artist, rewilding educator, former pro-boxer, environmental activist, and founder of Sacred Warrior—a multidisciplinary educational and experiential “school” offering plant medicine, wildlife conservation, and meditation through courses, workshops, and retreats with a diverse group of teachers. Sacred Warrior’s Rewilding Retreats are in partnership with the Wolf Conservation Center in New York, The Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica, and Alladale Wilderness Reserve in the Scottish Highlands. Vanessa has shared her work as a speaker at the United Nations, Brown University, and the Muhammad Ali Center, and as a visual artist, in galleries from Tribeca to Chelsea. She lives in Western Massachusetts and teaches around the world.
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Shelley Paxton is passionate, charismatic, and soulful.
\n\nThink Brené Brown meets Biker Babe, with a dash of Liz Gilbert and a wicked sense of humor.
\n\nAs former Chief Marketing Officer of Harley-Davidson, Shelley found herself at the top of the proverbial mountain feeling success-EMPTY instead of success-FULL.
\n\nThis awakening led her on a profound Soulbbatical journey that became her mission, business, and bestselling book, Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel's Guide to Finding Your Best Life.
\n\nShelley is leading a REBELution to rewrite the script of success and liberate a billion souls who feel called to something more.
\n\nShelley also hosts the Rebel Souls podcast, which invites you to flip the middle finger to the status quo in life, business, and the world at large. She is based in Chicago, is obsessed with the color orange, and geeks out regularly on art and deep conversations that make shift happen!
\n\nListen in as we unpack her revelations about life, love, soul-FULL living, and happiness.
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Listen deeply enough to any author’s words, and you will touch their personal vulnerability. Underneath the public words, the private fleshiness pulsates...
\n\nPatricia has been inspiring women for over 30 years. Her books have always conveyed powerful woman-affirming processes with heart-felt intelligence, inviting each woman to author her own life, body image, and self-understanding. Patricia weds that strong body of work with the absolute necessity of living mindfully in this challenging age. She is currently partnering with WomanSpirit Reclamation and facilitating ZOOM courses based on her classic books.
\n\nClick [here](www.JoinTheReclamation.com) to learn more.
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I loved this conversation with Natalie Claire because it’s rich, deep, and revelatory!
\n\nWe don't often put certain concepts together in our society, such as sexuality and spirituality or topless dancing and mindfulness. That’s part of the problem; we make assumptions about whether something is good or bad, hot or holy. What if it’s just about something far more interesting?
\n\nIn this conversation, Natalie and I explore visibility and sexuality from different vantage points and how our upbringing and social conditioning played a part in getting our needs met or not. We also clear the decks about assumptions around what sexuality and spirituality have in common and how each person's journey and experience can be wildly different from the other.
\n\nNatalie is a holistic coach, therapist, and mindfulness teacher who spent 14 years working as a stripper. She has been a dedicated Buddhist practitioner since 2006, the same year that she began dancing in strip clubs. In 2009, she hit her alcoholic bottom and stepped through the doors of recovery. Over the last 12+ years, she has been uncovering, welcoming, and integrating all parts of herself. She has come to learn that we can truly feel that we belong in this world by inviting every part of ourselves to the table with compassion, care, and love. It is her passion, joy, and honor to support others in the process that has, and continues to, heal every part of her.
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In this episode, Monica speaks to Dr. Nanilea Diamond about this time in our evolution and remembering the feminine blueprint.
\n\nI was positively on fire after recording this episode with Dr. NaniLea Diamond. Every cell in my body was vibrating. I know this happens to me when I am in the presence of someone who carries a very potent medicine within their message and through their being.
\n\nI was first tuned into Dr. Nanilea’s work through a mutual friend and was positively thrilled when she said yes to recording with me. Like many of us who have been integrating the experience of the pandemic, she too is emerging from another cycle of dormancy to bring her work to the world in a bigger way, and I’m so excited to share it with you!
\n\nDr. Nanilea Diamond is an expert in Energy Dynamics and is here to bring women into their Full Glory through accessing, aligning with, and creating from their feminine power. Dr. Nanilea has extensive training and experience in working with the patterning of the human nervous system, and a specialty in working with women in feminine leadership, and high achiever lifestyle. She is the creator of the Feminine Blueprint, a design that offers women a feminine approach and model to life leadership that aligns with her feminine intelligence, essence, and guidance system.
\n\nDr. Nanilea has founded several successful businesses over the last two decades with wellness centers in San Francisco and Beverly Hills, working with thousands of people seeking peak performance and cutting edge energy-based technologies to give them access to new possibilities in the human experience. Nanilea is currently based out of Austin, Texas, where she lives with her husband and son and has founded Sacred Feminine Leadership, a tribe of women here to break the mold and build the new.
\n\nNanilea has helped thousands of women transform their lives. She often meets women at crossroads in their lives and helps them use the experience as an opportunity for accelerated growth and awakening. She has worked with women in a wide range of experiences, from extreme trauma to women navigating the nuances of entrepreneurship, dating, marriage, children, and their own sacred dreams and passions. Nanilea thrives on meeting women wherever they are, seeing them as the version of themselves in their full glory and helping them awaken to living that. Then, from that place of her cup runneth over, give to humanity in extraordinary ways. She gently holds you accountable to the embodiment and expression of your highest intentions as a woman for yourself in your life. She reminds us that what we emanate in our lived experiences is our greatest offering to the world. When we have tended to our own heart and emanate unconditional LOVE, everything in our life turns to gold... and the purpose of life is to touch as many lives as possible with that golden light. But, first, we must live it in our own embodiment.
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In this episode I speak to Kyle Russell about his thirty-five year journey with crystals and how he structured a new method for defining and categorizing them. Kyle is a wealth of knowledge including writing his popular book, Crystal Energy: Understanding and Working with Stones for Clarity and Flow. I think you will really appreciate his perspective and his story of how it all started! This episode will enhance your own understanding of crystals (and life itself) not to mention that this episode was super fun!
\n\nFor 3 decades, Kyle Russell has been an innovator, educator, and online personality - having just published his book - Crystal Energy: Understanding and Working with Stones for Clarity and Flow.
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At least a quarter of the women in your life have personally experienced one or more abortions. Most of them never say a word about it because of the subject's social stigma and politics.
\n\nAbortion is fraught with conflicting emotions, thoughts, religious baggage, shame, guilt, repression, and more. So many women suffer from keeping their experiences inside.
\n\nFor the average human, the experience of terminating a pregnancy is far more delicate and complex than anyone is revealing.
\n\nPeople who choose abortion have dynamic lives. Their stories cross a wide spectrum–relatable, heartbreaking, inspiring, unremarkable, and incomprehensible. It doesn’t fit in any ONE box.
\n\nAmanda Kingsley is one of those women who not only shares her personal abortion story she also sheds light on long-overdue conversations that speak to the post-abortion experience. She assists women to reveal and heal from having to keep their silence in isolation.
\n\nAmanda reveals the unspoken truths that live beyond the experience- offering women a collection of love notes that consider the range of human experience. Her work and her book, What I Wish: 100 Love Notes to Help You Survive, Come Alive, and Thrive After Abortion, is a look at abortion through a pro-human lens, breaking down the walls that have kept far too many women isolated, disconnected and in pain.
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\n\nAmanda Kingsley is a Certified Feminist Life Coach and Doula. She is the host of the Speaking Light Into Abortion podcast. And the Author of ‘What I Wish: 100 love notes to help you survive, come alive, and thrive after abortion.’ After her unanticipated abortion as a mother of three, she recognized the need for a wider conversation around the complex emotional landscape of life after abortion. She reminds her audience that it’s okay to feel all the feelings after abortion and that we can honor our decisions by living the life we made our choice for.
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Emotional labor is the exertion of energy for the purpose of addressing people’s feelings, making people comfortable, or living up to social expectations. It’s called “emotional labor” because it ends up using – and often draining – our emotional resources.
\n\nEmotional labor was a feeling I knew well before I knew it was a thing! It’s such a relief to put language to something I could not previously articulate.
\n\nI can recall many situations in past relationships, at work, or in family dynamics where I would end up deeply resenting putting in the the extra time when it came to doing the heavy lifting of emotional labor.
\n\n"I’ll clean if you just tell me what to clean!” or all the boyfriends who could not be bothered to pay attention to what I was saying I needed so that I had to spell it out! How about the time my father took me to girl scouts and all the women in the room looked at him like he was a saint for doing something my mother had done a million times. How about at the office when I was expected to answer the door buzzer when we were all in the conference room in a meeting of piers? I mean, the examples go on and on and on and on…
\n\nI loved this riveting conversation with Susan Hyatt and I know you’ll love her energy. We were both practically buzzing with resonance in all we were sharing together. In this episode we cover some major ground:
\n\nSusan Hyatt is a Master Certified Life and Business Coach, and one of the world’s leading voices on mindset, motivation, and how to become an unstoppable woman. She's also a #1 bestselling author and TEDx speaker; founder of the University for Life Coach Training; and the founder of BARE, a trademarked process that helps women shed body image issues, stop dieting, and treat their bodies with love and respect—leading to huge mental and physical health breakthroughs.
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\n\n\n"Diets don’t work—and it’s not your fault. As a culture, we’re told (and tell ourselves) that if we just lost the weight—tried a little harder, had a little more willpower, or deprived ourselves for a little bit longer—we’d be happier, healthier, and more desirable. But it’s just not true."
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I loved this conversation with Dr. Alexis Conason, who sheds light on diet culture to help us understand some of the myths that we have been taught about weight, health, value, and self-worth.
\n\nThe Diet-Free Revolution debunks the myths we’ve been sold about food, nutrition, health, and weight loss and offers an antidote to the pain and suffering caused by yo-yo diets, untenable food regimens, and quick-fixes. Clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist Alexis Conason shows that finding health, happiness, and real nourishment is about more than changing what, how, or when we eat: it’s about radically shifting our relationship with food by healing our relationship to ourselves. She helps us discover what really nourishes us while teaching us how we can listen to and love our bodies. Enriched with case studies, meditations, stories, lessons, and activities—her 10-step program is a revelation!
\n\nIn this episode, she tells us about her journey with dieting and the revelation that diets don’t work and that the whole industry is aware of this.
\n\nDr. Alexis Conason is a clinical psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist in private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Diet-Free Revolution: 10 Steps to Free Yourself from the Diet Cycle with Mindful Eating and Radical Self-Acceptance (North Atlantic Books, 2021). Alexis is the founder of The Anti-Diet Plan, a weight-inclusive online mindful eating program available worldwide. She was previously a research associate at the New York Nutrition Obesity Research Center affiliated with Columbia University. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, she is a frequent speaker at conferences, and she has been featured widely as an expert on the topics of mindful eating, body image, and diet culture in the media.
\n\nA lifelong New Yorker, Conason lives in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters. She loves all things related to food, including cooking, grocery shopping, watching food shows, and of course, eating! But most rewarding is helping her clients transform their relationship with food and experience the joys of eating. She is a fierce advocate for helping people recognize and question the societal norms that encourage their feeling not good enough about themselves to stop fixating on shrinking their bodies and reclaim the space they deserve in the world. You can find her on social media @theantidietplan.
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Ok, Listeners. Oh, my heart!
\n\nThis story is going to blow you away. Be prepared to have your mind and heart blown wide open and keep the tissues nearby, just in case.
\n\nWhat happens when a couple goes from infertility to the conception of multiple eggs, has their own healthy baby, and then decides to donate the rest of their fertilized eggs so that they can be adopted by another family who is having trouble conceiving?
\n\nWell, you are about to bear witness to the incredible story of two remarkable women who each gave birth independently to biological siblings. Discover the bonds these two families have built in solidarity for what’s possible when you want to conceive something you might not have ever believed you could.
\n\nIn this episode, you’ll meet Liz and Emma, both incredible, fun, articulate, and endearing. You’ll hear about their incredible individual stories and then how their lives were brought together through the miracle of social media. You’ll also hear the powerful love between two mothers who both hold a new vision for what it means to invite the village to raise and even help you conceive your children.
\n\nSeriously, this story is just too incredible even to try to find the words for. Just listen!
\n\nIn this episode, Emma and Liz will share:
\n\nLiz August is a Business & Tech Strategist who leads a virtual support team for entrepreneurs who hate figuring out all the technology and strategy it takes to have a successful online business. She does everything from website design to social media scheduling to online course creation. While Liz’s business is truly one of my saving graces, today, we are seeing the personal side of Liz as she talks to us about something very near and dear to her heart. Liz lives in Worcester, Massachusetts with her husband Peter, their four-year-old daughter, Blake, and their dog Porter. When she’s not being a tech goddess, she’s running Netflix marathons while guzzling Diet Cokes.
\n\np.s. Liz is also MY Business Manager and helps me produce this podcast. She handles various other tasks in my online business, and she’s amazing!!! I’ve been dying to have her tell this story on the podcast with Emma!
\n\nEmma is a former social worker who’s taking time to live the mom adventure. She’s a runner, tarot reader, and budding artist. She’s in a fever of adding flowers, gold glitter, and moon imagery to any photo she finds. You can find her artwork and musings @unmadetarot on the Instagrams and the Pinterests. She lives in Pennsylvania with her sweetheart Vince, the adorable baby Edgar, the incorrigible Murphy Beagle, and the cuddly Minerva Cat.
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What happens when you hear your ancestors call?
\n\nUBIZO is a lyrical and passionate invitation to answer that call and find inner healing by following your truth and listening to the brave and untamed heart beating within you.
\n\nMy beautiful guest, Christa Buthelezi, is an American-born woman who made her way from the darkness of childhood abuse to claiming the life she was meant for. She found that life with her Zulu soul family in South Africa - the family she never knew she had.
\n\nIn this episode, we explore what it means to follow the whispers of your heart and to trust it to show you the way home - even if it’s all the way on the other side of the world - and what it takes to listen. In addition, we cover ground on the following and so much more!
\n\nChrista Buthelezi is an author, creative, and guide whose work focuses on supporting people as they become themselves fully and well. Her first book, UBIZO: A Story of Coming Home, tells her own story of finding her way from her upbringing in the United States to her current life in KwaZulu-Natal and the discoveries she's made along the way. She is now living happily ever after in a magic forest with her family and a host of birds, wildlife, and three somewhat domesticated dogs.
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I believe conversations are an art form and can be incredibly potent medicine for transformation. The best conversations I’ve had are the ones that occur without an agenda, are filled with curiosity, and a deep listening for the invitation into a deeper inquiry where wisdom can often arise and nourish everyone who engages.
\n\nTo me, this conversation feels like one in which my guests and I embark on a conversation that deepens, opens, and expands - nourishing all of us as we go with plenty of laughter and just the right amount of irreverence.
\n\nI especially loved this podcast episode because Taran and Lukas came without any agenda. These two men are wonderfully alive and deeply comfortable in their own skin.
\n\nWe cover lots of ground:
\n\nI share my own story written the night before as I sat with my daughter called “Advice from a Caterpillar” and how it relates to everything we were exploring.
\n\nTaran Rosenthal is a dad, Classical Chinese medicine practitioner, lifelong mover, and co-host of the Apricot Jam podcast. He is endlessly curious and immensely grateful to be kin to all beings.
\n\nLukas Wolf is an acupuncturist, herbalist, and martial artist in Brooklyn, New York. His days can pretty much be summed up as: punch, kick, heal, rinse, repeat. Both Lukas and Taran have their own podcast called Apricot Jam - be sure to listen!
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I started making appointments with Stella this past summer through the recommendation of a friend because I had recently had mercury fillings removed from my mouth. It seemed that even though I was on a detox regimen, my body was still having trouble, and my migraines were getting worse vs. better.
\n\nAfter a couple of sessions, I noticed that my body responded to what Stella would say and do in our sessions. My curiosity and fascination led me to start asking deeper questions about what she was doing and how she was doing it, to which she generously shared with me that I, too, could learn to help my body heal.
\n\nThis led to a number of discussions about bringing attention to my body, how I could access the energetic field, and allow the healing to occur by “getting out of the way,” as Stella will often say.
\n\nOver months of getting to know her more deeply, I am often struck by her gentle but deep wisdom and her perspective on certain things that are happening in the world in mainstream medicine. I marvel at how she orients herself in the world of healing, with respect for multiple modalities and room for contemplating the larger questions that continue to invite us to seek our own answers.
\n\nStella is not a woman of small intellect. She is professionally trained in multiple modalities and an apt pupil of her own healing experiences and the miracles that have occurred in her presence through her understanding of how to communicate with the body. She has healed herself twice of cancer and has also healed herself of autoimmune thyroid disease and scoliosis. She believes that we can heal anything if we are willing to reveal what’s wanting our attention and why it’s calling us into the invitation in the first place.
\n\nStella also happens to be one of the most genuinely loving people I have ever met. I have witnessed and experienced her generosity and integrity, not only for how she holds her work as a practitioner but also as a wife to her husband Charles, a mother to her son, and a teacher and a friend.
\n\nI’m proud to bring you this interview because I believe Stella's work in the world is incredibly relevant, especially at a time when many seek to unentangle themselves from the medicalized world of experts, prescriptions, and diagnoses that often leave us with nothing but frustration, inflammation, and a bottle of pills to suppress the symptoms vs. reveal the root cause.
\n\nIn this great time of revelation, we are making our way back to ourselves, our intuition, and our bodies. We are trusting the body's innate healing potential through the quantum energy field - where all things are possible - especially miracles.
\n\nIn this episode, we will reveal:
\n\nStella is a writer and intuitive bodyworker. Her work draws from her training in multiple modalities, including Oriental Medicine, Esoteric Acupuncture, Ortho-Bionomy, Depth Hypnosis, and Integrative Manual Therapy. Before becoming a bodyworker, she was in publishing in New York, mainly as a travel writer. Her first memoir, Star Sister: How I Changed My Name, Grew Wings, and Learned to Trust intuition, was published in 2012. Her new memoir, about healing from breast cancer, scoliosis, and autoimmune thyroid disease, is currently being serialized at resonantattention.substack.com.
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What is the impact of childhood trauma on entrepreneurship? We may think it doesn’t impact us and instead believe that we simply have motivation or mindset issues. The truth is that the inner child is triggered by something from the past and is still running the show.
\n\nJoin us as we dive more deeply into the impact of childhood trauma on our businesses. We can begin to recognize the symptoms and signs that are inviting us to reveal more so that we can heal the wounds that present themselves in our business behavior. From avoiding tasks to over-producing to having issues with income, these are just some of the many ways our past trauma presents itself through our business.
\n\nNicole Lewis-Keeber MSW LCSW is a business therapist, author, and mindset coach who works with entrepreneurs to create and nurture healthy relationships with their businesses. Nicole is the founder of Love Your Business School and the Creator of the Do No Harm Business Intensive. She has a rich and varied experience as a therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master's in Social Work. Certified in Brené Brown’s Dare To Lead™ methodology, Nicole has also been featured on numerous media outlets, including Fast Company and NPR, for her work in breaking the stigma of mental health and business ownership. She writes and speaks about the impact of small t trauma on businesses. Her biggest, more important work is combining therapeutic processes with business coaching to help entrepreneurs build emotionally sustainable & financially successful businesses. She lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two fat happy cats.
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There's a wild woman within each of us, but she's been led down the wrong path. One that has slowly and efficiently lured her away from her truest, brilliant nature. Women must first root down and recognize the world in which we are planted and then choose to do things differently. It's time we link arms with our sister and say, "Fuck the patriarchy. Fuck the hustle". The world is screaming for a new kind of leadership, one infused with feminine values. It's damned time for a feminine rebellion.
\n\nListen in to hear Natty's story that led her to the path of the wild feminine and how she’s helping women to remember their wild nature and more:
\n\nNat Frasca is the founder of Tribe of Wolves, an organization dedicated to guiding women back to their wild, feminine power. She leads women back to their wildness via her coaching practice and in-person mountain retreats. Her mission is to create an army of female leaders that this mad world is screaming for right now, and she believes the time is now for a feminine rebellion.
\n\nNatty is a mom of three wild teenagers, an avid hiker, and a fierce lover of nineties hip hop. When she's not deep in the forest, you might find her scouring a local vintage shop for parachute pants, in her kitchen with her face planted in a bowl of buttery, garlic, mashed potatoes, or howling wildly under the moon with her sisterhood.
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Bergen Hyde is someone I was immediately drawn to because of her beautiful heart and her willingness to feel and share her experience with others so deeply.
\n\nListen in as we describe the archetypical journey of Wounded Maiden to the Cherishing Mother in our work with the sacred feminine and hear Bergens’s personal story of starving for the nourishment of the divine feminine and how she came to find her.
\n\nBergen Hyde has lived in Provo, Utah for the past 13 years with her husband and three kids. Her favorite things are dancing, salty snacks, spending time in the mountains, preferably in a body of water. Bergen is the oldest of 4 and grew up in Wisconsin.
\n\nShe is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of WOMB, which she founded with her two sisters Jentri and Sarah. They hold women’s circles, workshops, retreats, and one-on-one mentoring designed to support women in healing internalized patriarchy, integrating the sacred feminine, and reclaiming personal sovereignty.
\n\nBergen has been devoted to the sacred feminine for the last four years and is currently training under Sarah Durham Wilson as a Wounded Maiden to Mature Feminine practitioner.
Special Guest: Bergen Hyde.
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_To Create Movement in Stagnant Waters, You Have to Keep Evolving. _
\n\nMeet Kass Thomas, a successful business entrepreneur, and communication expert. The depth and range of her life and career experiences inspire people to explore more choices and find the changes they are looking for. It is her mission in life to strengthen the unity of choice and change. She inspires clients to discover their unique brand of magic.
\n\nA best-selling author, Kass Thomas recently released her new book, Dancing with Riches, a self-empowerment manual, to encourage readers to change tracks if the journey they are on is not working for them. Within the pages of her book, readers will find a guide to transform negative into positive, and to come through a winner, even in limiting situations. Her non-judgmental demeanor creates a safe space for many to express themselves with ease. She is a catalyst for multicultural inclusion. Kass believes there is so much more that unites us than separates us.
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How do culture and our family of origin influence our love life? How can we use spiritual and magical tools to overcome this?
\n\nMeet Veronica Grant, a Love + Life Coach and host of the popular Love Life Connection podcast. She helps successful women who feel like they have it all except love find it. She believes deep work is the only way to deep love.
\n\nHear about Veronica’s own story and how she struggled with love herself. She grew tired of unsolicited and usually patronizing dating advice (even if well-meaning) and the outdated, often unspoken patriarchal rules still governing dating. Out of this frustration, she created the resources she wished were available before she met her now-husband. Through her binge-worthy podcast, free challenges, and coaching, she’s here to shake up how you find love, even in our swipe right, swipe left world.
\n\nVeronica is a Love + Life Coach, host of the popular Love Life Connection podcast, and helps successful women who feel like they have it all except love, find it. She believes deep work is the only way to deep love.
\n\nVeronica’s work has been featured in the Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Your Tango, and countless podcasts.
\n\nA few of her guilty pleasures include: psychoanalyzing TV + real-life famous couples, hiking with her husband, pup, and new baby, and sushi everything.
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What does it mean to surrender certainty and live within mystery again, to recover the dark wisdom of the dirt and the dead, and to find our way together in an age of chaos and collapse?
\n\nSince ancient times, roses have symbolized the divine and our creators active presence in our lives.
\n\nIt's also a representation of the gradual process of revelation, healing, and the many layers of wisdom that unfold throughout our lifetime.
\n\nRoses have also long served as the symbol of "The Lady" and Mother Mary.
\n\nMary is closely associated with the rosary, but what most people don't realize is that she is also closely associated with The Goddess Isis.
\n\nYou may be surprised to realize that the rosary has many incredibly mysteries that lead us down the radical path to the divine feminine.
\n\nBefore a vision of the mysterious "Lady" invited Clark and Perdita to pray the rosary, they were not only uninterested in becoming Catholic but finished with institutional religion altogether. Their main spiritual concerns were the fate of the planet and the future of their children and grandchildren in an age of ecological collapse. But this Lady barely even referred to the Church and its proscriptions. Instead, she spoke of the miraculous power of the rosary to transform lives and heal the planet.”
\n\nTHE WAY OF THE ROSE: The Radical Path to The Divine Feminine Hidden In The Rosary, is truly an incredible story. I consider it essential reading on the path to more deeply connecting with the divine feminine and highly recommend it.
\n\nClark Strand and Perdita Finn are the co-authors of The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary, and the founders of an international fellowship by the same name devoted to the earth and the Lady by any name you want to call her. They are committed to re-wilding prayer and our experience of spiritual community. Clark has written numerous books including Seeds from a Birch Tree: Haiku as a Spiritual Practice and Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age and connects people to the living world with his workshops on haiku and Finn is the author of the forthcoming Take Back the Magic: Getting to Know the Dead and leads friends into the underworld with her intensives on the dead.
Special Guest: Perdita Finn.
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Visiting with Maggie in this episode felt like dipping my cup into a crystal-cool spring of delicious water because she is so refreshing.
\n\nHer playful, fun, engaging way of being is contagious in the best way. She’s someone who occurs to me as vibrant, open, and alive, and she brings laughter and light everywhere she goes.
\n\nIn this episode, we explore death, fear, hiding, transforming, embodiment, and allowing love to bloom in our lives.
\n\nVisionary Healer, Sacred Jewelry Maker, and Chakra Shaking Creator, Maggie Moore is an unstoppable force of good.
\n\nMaggie manipulates metals with intention. Her hands move energy as an empath and channel to spirit. She is directed by laughter, and her path is one of the soulful, playful teacher.
\n\nShe brings her wit and good humor to all she does and gives her clients permission to laugh and release their past while holding them in a sacred space of healing.
\n\nWell-versed in hands-on and long-distance healing, Maggie has been a Reiki Master and intuitive healer for 18 years. She has crafted a career as a fine arts jeweler since 2007, which she creates into sacred talismans which work in tandem with the divine combination of her healing work. She has created a new form of healing movement called Chakra Shaking to enhance her blended gifts.
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"The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story" was such a beautiful book, and its author Laura Davis was a total delight to interview. Having had my own childhood trauma and troubled parental relationships, this book was incredibly helpful in helping to illuminate the deeper truths that lie under the surface of my personal struggle. I found peace and compassion in ways that surprised me.
\n\nCan you caretake a parent who betrayed you in the past? Is it possible to become open-hearted when life has taught you it's safer to stay protected and closed? How do we reconcile with someone we are estranged from when we disagree about some basic facts/realities in life? What does the healing process from trauma look like over the course of a lifetime? What does it mean to write about people in your life -- what are the ethical issues and concerns?
\n\nThis riveting memoir by Laura Davis, also the author of The Courage to Heal, examines the endurance of mother-daughter love, how memory protects and betrays us, and the determination it takes to fulfill a promise when ghosts from the past come knocking.
\n\nWhen she published The Courage to Heal in 1988, Laura Davis helped more than a million women work through the trauma of childhood sexual abuse. But her decision to go public with her grandfather’s incest deepened an already painful estrangement with her mother, Temme.
\nOver the next twenty years, from a safe distance of 3,000 miles, Laura and Temme reconciled their volatile relationship and believed that their difficult past was behind them. But when Temme moved across the country to entrust her daughter with the rest of her life, she brought a faltering mind, a fierce need for independence, and the seeds of a second war between them. As the stresses of caregiving rekindled Laura’s rage over past betrayals, they threatened her intention to finally love her mother “without reservation.” Did she learn what it means to be truly open-hearted before it was too late?
Laura Davis is the author of seven books, including The Courage to Heal, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, and I Thought We‘d Never Speak Again. Her groundbreaking books have been translated into 11 languages and sold two million copies. In addition to writing books that inspire and change people’s lives, the work of Laura’s heart is to teach. For more than twenty years, she’s helped people find their voices, tell their stories, and hone their craft. Laura loves creating supportive, intimate writing communities online, in person, and internationally. Today we’ll be talking about her brand new memoir, The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story, the story of her embattled yet loving relationship with her mother.
\n\nThis episode sponsored by Nina Manolson Body-Peace Seekers
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Cutting For Sign is a tracking term that is a metaphor for becoming aware of, finding, and following the way of one's happiness, balance, calling, or more our more whole and authentic self.
\n\nRon and Daniel have quickly become two of my favorite people. I truly love to be with men who are remaking what it means to be a man in the world and who are exploring ways of being and relating outside the status quo.
\n\nListen in as we explore:
\n\nSo, have you cut for sign in your life? Have you sensed the small clues, details, intuitions, and serendipitous moments that have revealed the path to your truer self?
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What is it to live in the feminine frequency? I loved the energy of this interview so much!
\n\nMeet Amy Pamensky, who is in a continual state of allowing herself to find it as she surrenders to a nomadic lifestyle that’s dictated by listening in and attuning to a feminine way of living and being in the world.
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\n\nOver the last 8 years of being a business owner, Amy has discovered the keys to creating a multiple six-figure soul-aligned business and lifestyle.
\nShe teaches women how to overcome their limiting beliefs, align their energy, and listen to their intuition to create financial abundance and fulfillment.
Amy uses a blend of scientific and spiritual methodologies, including meditation, quantum physics, and neuroscience, to support women in stepping into their next level of leadership and transformation.
\n\nAmy is also the host of the Feminine Frequency Podcast, where she shares weekly wisdom on how to connect with your feminine energy to manifest abundance, love, and the life you truly desire.
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Who gets to define what is deemed beautiful?
\n\nWhy do we leave it to others to define what it means, and how can we change the toxic nature of our culture's obsession with beauty myths and lies? Beauty myths cause tremendous harm, from body shame to dysmorphia, from starving ourselves through diet culture, to spending thousands of dollars on fixing or altering our appearance - all the while feeling MISERABLE and unworthy.
\n\nSarah Grandinetti is changing all that. Allow yourself to perceive beauty from a new vantage point and why it’s so important that we begin claiming our own definition of beauty as a means of disrupting the trance that keeps us believing that we are less or lacking in any way.
\n\nSarah Grandinetti is a wife, a mother of four, an international educator, and guide to greater consciousness. Her classes explore such topics as parenting, relationships, money, and more. Having recently left the Los Angeles celebrity salon she owned for 15 years, she has now dedicated herself to changing the conversation about beauty. Inspired by the book, Being You Changing the World, authored by her brother, Dr. Dain Heer, Sarah has created Being You Beauty, a class experience offering tools, insights, and conscious conversations designed to dismantle the overbearing beauty standards and reveal what is actually possible when you include you and your body in what you perceive as beauty. Being You Beauty is a worldwide movement, having just completed a 7-day social media challenge with thousands of participants. Being You Beauty asks the compelling question, “What have you defined as beauty that limits you from receiving your own beauty?” Beyond the trendy ad campaigns used to sell quick fixes, Sarah knows there is nothing to fix! She is on a mission to inspire us all to acknowledge the beauty we truly be and the gift that unique brand of beauty is to the world.
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Your Soul Has a Plan, and it's written in your Akashic Records. Lisa Barnett shares the ancient wisdom of the Akashic Records to help humanity at this important time in history.
\n\nJoin me as I dive into a deeper understanding of soul contracts and the akashic records with Lisa Barnett, who also shares a prayer and does a collective Akashic Records reading for our listeners.
\n\nLisa brings a level of clarity and access to the Akashic Records with kindness, patience, and love.
\n\nLisa Barnett is the internationally recognized bestselling author of two Akashic Record books. She is also a speaker, teacher, and the Founder of Akashic Knowing School, where she teaches students around the world to access personal Soul wisdom and guidance to transform their lives. As an Akashic Record Reader and Teacher, she has more than twenty-five years of experience in the spiritual healing and Akashic field. She incorporates information from your Soul's Library, with energetic healing on a Soul level to help you break through blocks, clear pain, fear, and Karma, to create the Life Your Heart and Soul Desire.
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How would your world change if you had an authentic, powerful connection to your body, to your soul, to the divine, and to others?
\nThese times represent an embossed invitation with each of our names on it to go deep within to know ourselves more fully.
For most of our lives, we have been taught not to trust our bodies or our knowing. Therefore we learned to give our power to authorities such as educators, medical professionals, and those credentialed to “know better."
\n\nReclaiming our own inner authority seems to be the message of these times as we learn how to unplug from the matrix and reveal our personal truth as chaos continues to swirl around us. This means that we also have to face the inner shadows of our human mess to feel into the truth that can only be found through our bodies and merging with our own physicality. Hello Fear!
\n\nThere's an invitation to get intimate with the emotions and feelings that make us uncomfortable and learn to approach ourselves with love, compassion, and curiosity, and to befriend even the parts of ourselves that scare us.
\n\nListen in as Cherie and I talk about what we are craving at a soul level and how these times beckon us to look beneath the surface and soul dive into our own inherent wisdom to discover our divinity through our beautiful bodies.
\n\nCherie Burton is a mother of 6, author, international speaker, Women Seeking Wholeness podcast host, international business owner, and emotional restoration expert. She has worked in clinical mental health settings and now specializes in the science and spirituality of emotional healing and sensory integration, a "whole soul" approach. Cherie teaches the "new feminine leadership paradigm" – and has guided thousands of women worldwide to access their voices, creativity, power, and authenticity.
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In 2016, Amy Mcphie Allebest published her piece "Dear Mormon Man,” which went viral during the #metoo movement, helping crack the foundation of deeply rooted inequalities within her church and worldwide.
\n\nThe feminist awakening started long ago, yet part of the issue we face in making progress as daughters of the patriarchy is that our vast repository of herstory isn’t shared widely, taught, or easily accessible. Still, Amy McPhie Allebest is changing all that with her podcast Breaking Down Patriarchy, An Essential Texts Bookclub, which I believe is one of the most important podcasts of our time.
\n\nAmy has always been drawn to asking the deeper questions that revealed the oppressive social systems at play in her university studies. Her questions always led her to more questions that piqued her interest in how these systems impacted women over time.
\n\nAmy is no stranger to agitation and frustration about oppressive systems in her own life. When she found that she could not find a comprehensive women’s studies program, she decided to create one that would help her to illuminate her own struggle. So began an essential texts book club podcast where Amy invites her listeners and readers to tune in each week as she and one of her guests break down the patriarchy. Their conversations are about seminal feminist texts written over the ages that chronicle a deep, rich, and rewarding herstory highlighting the many remarkable ideas, observations, and work of female pioneers who are the foremothers of a most incredible movement to liberate, amplify, and celebrate the independent, sovereign and essential roles of women as co-equal partners in a world that has always sought to oppress and control them.
\n\nThis podcast is a project for the whole human family, and I urge all of us to tune in and become active listeners to this body of work that Amy has worked so hard to make available.
\n\nIt’s filled with incredible history, conversations, insights, and poignant and powerful revelations that offer alternative ways of imagining what might be possible if we were to succeed in joining hands with the men we love to build a more equitable system that benefits and liberates everyone from the oppressive and unjust systems that have dominated the world for the past 5,000 years.
\n\nListen in as we talk about her podcast responses from both women and men across the country, how Amy sees her role as she continues to steward this project, as well as what her vision for the future entails.
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Who or what is the sacred feminine, and why is her wisdom essential at this time in our collective evolution?
\n\nLiz Childs Kelly is one of my favorite people, and while I have not known her long, she is someone that feels so familiar - as if I’ve always known her. I fell into an instant kinship with her after she interviewed me on her own podcast, Home To HER, which I highly recommend subscribing to.
\n\nIn this episode, we dish about her work with the sacred feminine and how the sacred feminine intersects with all things mysterious, Indigenous, natural, messy, and wild. She is everything and yet defies definition. In many ways, she is paradox itself! Enjoy our nuanced and delicious conversation and laugh along with us as we try to find the language to describe the sacred feminine. In addition, we share some personal stories about messy human “stuff” that’s coming up in our everyday lives and why these gritty conversations need more space and grace in honor of the sacred feminine.
\n\nLiz Childs Kelly is a writer, Sacred Feminine researcher and educator, community builder, initiated priestess in the 13 Moons Lineage, and the host of the Home to Her podcast, which is dedicated to amplifying the voices of the Sacred Feminine. She is also the co-host of the Revelry series of online events, which invite women from around the world to participate in ecstatic, embodied celebrations of the gifts of each season, and she is an instructor in the social change platform Advaya's upcoming 12-week online course, The Call of the Wild Feminine. Liz is in the process of completing her first book, titled Home to Her: Reclaiming the Ancient Wisdom of the Sacred Feminine. She is a mother of two and currently lives in central Virginia, USA, on the ancestral lands of the Monacan people.
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We’ve been taught to believe that myths are untrue, and yet, this indicates how atrophied our cultural mythic imagination is. As a result, myth has been relegated to consumer entertainment or dismissed as something irrelevant to us vs. as a potent way to more deeply understand ourselves in reciprocal relationships with others and the world.
\n\nOurs is a fact-based, linear, logical, and control-based culture that doesn’t allow much room to follow the deep longing to know ourselves, and yet the longing persists and will continue to persist until we answer its call. Perhaps this time in our human evolution represents a heightened collective calling - can we answer it?
\n\nIn this episode, Ian and I talk about where we are as a culture and Ian's hope for awakening men worldwide.
\n\nIan MacKenzie is a new paradigm artist who lives on the Salish Sea with his partner and young son. For over ten years, he’s been tracking the global emergence of new culture. From the desert of Burning Man to the heart of Occupy Wall St, he has sought and amplified the voices of visionaries, artists, and activists who have been working toward planetary system change. He is the host of The Mythic Masculine podcast and the founder of A Gathering of Stories.
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Kristen is a soul mentor, intuitive business & conscious leadership guide, and the founder of Goddess Brand Co. & Goddess Talk Podcast. She helps feminine beings awaken to theirdivine nature so they can experience deep soul alignment and live a life that turns them on - on every level.
\n\nHer secondary mission is to assist New Earth visionaries, healers, creatives, teachers, & lightworkers in activating their gifts, power, & mission so they can build sacred businesses that contribute to collective healing & ascension.
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Poetry has always held a special place in my heart. I love Alix, and I’ve noticed that not only does she write gorgeous poems, she is also a beautiful and insightful speaker. Everything she says makes you want to write it down!
\n\nIn this episode, we dive into what it is to be polyamorous and how Alix writes poems in collaboration with her higher self. We also talk about creativity, spiritual wholeness, sobriety, imperfection, soul-retrieval, and most importantly, accepting ourselves entirely as we are: with all of our messy contradictions and identities.
\n\nRev. Alix Klingenberg is a photographer, spiritual director, and poet. She’s been writing essays and blogs (Highly Sensitive Extrovert) for several years, but only in the past year has begun to bring her poetry out of her journals and into the public. She self-published her first poetry collection, “Secrets and Stars,” in November of 2020. Alix also leads online creative arts courses and lives in MA with her family, 2 black cats, and a small dog named Cricket.
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*There are no accidents. *
\n\nAs we awaken to our true work in the world, synchronicity becomes more frequent and intensely delightful.
\n\nSynchronicity is how we know that we are exactly where we need to be and that we are “right on time” with the divine.
\n\nIt so happens that this idea of being “on time” is exactly the topic Sophie Strand writes about. Her piece, Catching The Feather, stopped me mid-Facebook scroll and took my breath away. Something in my body resonated at a cellular level, and I realized that she was speaking to a truth my body remembered.
\n\nI’ve been on a quest these past few months to reacquaint myself with my inner wild. That free and innate part of myself that has been tamed and contained, that forgot how to listen to the natural rhythm of life and needs to pick up the drum beat and dance. To allow myself to howl in my loneliness and smell my way to my knowing and dare to open to my ancient wisdom and memory. The wild part of me that remembers who I was before I was domesticated and separated from my true mother, mother earth, and the sensorial ecstasy of being alive outside the confines of the patriarchy.
\n\nWhenever I put my life and my intentions inside of my personal “Revelation Project,” I am always guided to the next human or experience, or tree, river, feather (ahem) I need to meet on my remarkable journey. My job is simply to trust that more will be revealed, and you know what?
\n\nMore always is.
\n\nI’m honored to introduce you to Sophie Strand.
\n\nSophie has much to teach us about returning to our senses and trusting our original design. As deeply interconnected beings, we are always at choice to feel into the intelligence that surrounds us and is within us. She invites us to speak to the trees, listen deeply to what the rivers have to say, and embody the community of mycelium to know more about truth, healing, and reciprocity. To decenter ourselves is to return to the wonder of nature and to discover where true love lives.
\n\nThank you, Sophie, for your incredible work in the world! You are a revelation!
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\n\nSophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her books of poetry include Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press) and Those Other Flowers to Come (Dancing Girl Press) and The Approach (The Swan). She has recently finished a work of historical fiction that offers an eco-feminist revision of the gospels. Her book of essays, The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transspecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine, is forthcoming from Inner Traditions' imprint Sacred Planet. Follow her on Facebook or Instagram @cosmogyny.
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Dancing with money and bringing play into your work life seem like pretty far-fetched ideas until you realize how powerful it is to start to shift away from the way we’ve always done things and to peer through the lens of the feminine to gain more clarity, insight, and enjoyment in how you market your business.
\n\nMeet Julie Foucht. When she decided she needed to take her coaching business seriously, she hired a high-end coach and learned to ‘market like a man.’ Julie doubled, then tripled her income in less than a year, but felt drained, uninspired, and restless. Urged by Spirit, she embraced her essential ‘Womaness’ and birthed a new way, The Art of Feminine Marketing. Today, Julie teaches female coaches, teachers, and healers who are frustrated with traditional marketing how to build 6-figure businesses through the Art of Feminine Marketing. Julie’s clients report having a clearer vision of their divine purpose, greater passion for their work, the skills to be attracting the perfect clients, and are being paid well for their gifts. Julie received her coach certification in 2006 from The Coaches Training Institute. She has served on the boards of numerous non-profits and was named Woman of the Year by the Professional Women’s Network of the Monterey Peninsula in 2013. She is married to the love of her life, has four children, two stepchildren, two furry babies and seven spoiled grandchildren.
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To be with D’vorah Grenn is to sit by the fire with the wise woman, and to deeply connect to and reveal the suppressed herstory of the sacred feminine.
\n\nAs a teacher and a scholar, she is a wealth of introspection, warmth and storytelling and I love both her brilliant mind, and her loving and playful heart.
\n\nD’vorah and I travel to ancient and erotic places in this episode and reveal the layers of power contained within the uncensored and creative feminine life force to discuss what’s possible as more women awaken and step into our power.
\n\nIn addition to being a disciple of truth and divinity, D’vorah is also a lover of laughter and sisterhood, so I know you’ll love this episode and the revelations we share that include:
\n\nD'vorah J. Grenn, Ph.D. & Kohenet/Priestess, is Founding Director, The Lilith Institute (1997). She Co-Directed the former Women's Spirituality MA Program at Institute of Transpersonal Psychology/Sofia University, and founded Mishkan Shekhinah, a movable sanctuary honoring the Sacred Feminine. An Adjunct Professor at Napa Valley College, D'vorah also serves as a spiritual mentor and guide. Her Talking To Goddess anthology includes sacred writings of 72 women from 25 traditions. Other publications include Lilith's Fire: Reclaiming Our Sacred Lifeforce; "The Kohanot: Keepers of the Flame" in Stepping into Ourselves: An Anthology of Writing on Priestesses; and the Jewish priestess and Lilith entries, Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions. Contact info: dvorah@lilithinstitute.com; @lilithinstitute on Instagram, or The Lilith Institute on Facebook.
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When I experienced my first dark night of the soul in 2008, it would have been so helpful to know that what I was experiencing was a rite of passage and a descent that would assist me in my ascent into greater awareness and consciousness.
\n\nWhat I was experiencing was a transition that had me face and heal my inner wounded maiden so that I could cross over into the mother archetype and change my life for the better.
\n\nWhen I stumbled upon Sarah’s work, I felt so deeply seen and nourished. In addition to the fact that she helped me understand my journey at a deeper level, she is also a wealth of information, teachings, and stories about the goddess, the divine feminine, the heroine's journey. She also mentors women on their own paths. What I love the most about Sarah is her potent story-telling and her raw authenticity. I hope you love listening as much as I loved interviewing her.
\n\nSarah Durham Wilson is a women’s rites of passage leader and writer. She is the founder and creatrix of The MotherSpirit, which focuses on archetypal Mother work and resurrecting the rite of passage from Maiden to Mother. Sarah works with private clients and has taught courses and led retreats for hundreds of women over the past decade. She previously worked as an arts and music writer in New York City, writing for Rolling Stone, VH1, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Interview Magazines. In 2010, she launched the website DOITGIRL, which inspired women called to the work of the witch and priestess. She lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her daughter Avalon and her black cat, Odin.
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I have long believed that the most powerful, useful, and underutilized skill we have at our disposal is the skill of listening.
\n\nIf you want to help heal the world and create peace on earth - learn to listen!
\n\nMeet Ximena. She’s brilliant, articulate, and passionate about helping others develop this powerful skill. We had such a rich conversation about how learning this skill can quite literally change everything for the better.
\n\nXimena Vengoechea is a user researcher, writer, and illustrator whose work on personal and professional development has been published in Inc., The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Huffington Post. She is the author of the new book, Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection (from Portfolio Books/Penguin Random House). She is a contributor at Fast Company and The Muse and writes "Letters from Ximena," a newsletter on tech, culture, career, and creativity. She is best known for her project The Life Audit. An experienced manager, mentor, and researcher in the tech industry, Ximena previously worked at Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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As I continue down this path of creative expression through the podcast while also attending to my writing practice, I’ve met the most extraordinary people.
\n\nThis was one of those interviews that led to an expansive conversation about community and creativity, and I loved it so much.
\n\nMeet Lori Snyder, the founder of The Writer's Happiness Movement. The movement is intended to create more joy, psychic space, and financial support for all writers so that they can do what they do - help make the world a better place by writing whatever it is they write about.
\n\nAs an author herself and a former marine biologist, Lori's book The Circus At The End of the Sea will be out on October 19, 2021 from Harper Collins.
\n\nLean in as we explore a conversation about imagining a new reality for the world's future by supporting those who can write it into being.
\nIt sometimes takes a village to birth something new and meaningful into the world.
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In January of 2017, Bethany’s father passed away, and she was tossed into the deepest, darkest well she’d ever imagined—without warning or ceremony.
\n\nSomething inside of her told her: “The only way out is to write.”
\nShe started with a gratitude journal to remind herself of all of the people she should be grateful for in her life. She realized, however, that grateful people didn’t feel the way she felt — angry, anxious, depressed, confused, disillusioned, desperate (to name a few of grief’s cohorts).
\nLooking back, she realized that what she was actually doing was trying to avoid her grief.
Like many of us, she didn’t know that gratitude and grief are not mutually exclusive. She learned that she couldn’t skip over the emotions that make her uncomfortable and recognized that there is a complicated cocktail of emotions swirling inside each of us that makes us feel alive.
\n\nI talk to Bethany about the launch of her new book "Dipped In It," her odyssey into writing her book after the loss of her father, and the wisdom her emotions have brought to her life. Listen to her read a few excerpts and hear about how her daughters played a role in bringing her book to life.
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Parenting can be so challenging, and it is the most incredible experience that I would not trade for anything.
\n\nSarah MacLaughlin and I met through Megan Jo Wilson’s Rockstar Camp. Her work is centered on being a Rockstar in the parenting world, helping parents connect at deeper relational levels with their children. She is truly a wealth of insight and resources.
\n\nSarah is also a social worker, parent educator, and author of another award-winning bestselling book, "What Not To Say: Tools for Talking With Young Children." Her new book, "Raising Humans With Heart: Not a How-To Manual," was written during the pandemic, when it seemed more important than ever for parents and children to have the tools and skills to communicate deeply and authentically.
\n\nShe works full-time as a writer, trainer, and content expert for ZERO TO THREE, a national nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life. Sarah writes the Parenting Toolbox column for Portland, Maine's Parent & Family magazine and her writing has been featured online at The Huffington Post and The Good Men Project
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When I first heard the term “Patriarchy Stress Disorder,” I had a gestalt moment. In an instant, it seemed, I experienced a revelation of magnitude in which I could see the formerly invisible structure that I had existed within and that had impacted me for my entire life, but for which I had no name.
\n\nListen in as Dr. Valerie Rein exposes the system of oppression the majority of us have been impacted by, but few of us have a context or a name for. Hear for yourself why her work is being hailed as the most important work of our time.
\n\nDr. Valerie Rein has discovered Patriarchy Stress Disorder (PSD) and created the only science-backed system for helping women achieve their ultimate success, happiness, and fulfillment by healing the intergenerational trauma of oppression. She holds an EdM in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University and a PhD in Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Her bestselling book, “Patriarchy Stress Disorder: The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women’s Happiness and Fulfillment” has been heralded by Amazon reviewers as "the most important body of literary work of our modern times" and "perhaps the most important book of the century for women." Her cutting-edge programs have helped thousands of women shift from survival to thriving and master the game of "How good can it get?" in their work and personal lives.
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I met Kathy Karn through Seth Godin's digital writing program and we “virtually” fell in love. I became fascinated with her experience with Elephants and moved by her tender and compassionate heart.
\n\nKathy is a visual storyteller, a photographer and conservationist. After 30 plus years as a trauma therapist, she instinctively sought images that reflected resilience, beauty and wholeness, she's primarily a wildlife photographer, although international travel images and people compose half of her image archives, including the iconic animals of east Africa, particularly elephants who have profoundly impacted her work.
\n\nFueled with spirit she's attracted to the wisdom of indigenous cultures. She loves wandering off the beaten path and her camera allows her to focus on specific gestures, connection, or implied story. When she travels to make pictures, she pushes through her natural shyness seeking more. Differences and barriers melt away and curiosity and wonder reign.
\n\nShe hopes her images are a reminder that there is goodness and beauty in the world. She believes people and nature are inextricably linked. She's horrified by the degradation of the environment and the threat to our planet. Photography is a way of seeing. Which can teach and inspire people to care. When we care, we're more inclined to protect.
\n\nIf her stories and images inspire readers to take steps towards making the world a better place.
\nShe believes if we take care of nature, Nature will take care of us. When we save wild places, we save ourselves.
When she’s not traveling, she's at home with her husband in London, Ontario, Canada, or on the shores of the Georgian bay, the sixth great lake. She's grateful for family and friends. They are the wind beneath her wings. Creativity is an essential daily practice and there is much to celebrate in her life.
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Learning more about the wisdom of my menstrual cycle over the years has helped me so much.
\n\nIt’s hard to believe that in this day and age, modern women are still in the dark about the incredible, miraculous rhythmic cycles of the feminine.
\n\nUnderstanding our cycles has so much to do with our creativity, spontaneity, energy, and fertility, while holding so many clues to our emotions, our access to healing, and clearing out that which no longer serves us.
\n\nI love Taq’s work and now that I’ve had the chance to get to know her more deeply, I’m so moved by how she facilitates this work, not only with other women but how she honors this work in her own life.
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Join me for a conversation about Body Whispering with Dain Heer and our innate capability to heal from what ails us by learning to listen to the body's wisdom and discern our pain and disease from another.
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\n\nIn the episode, I refer to the following story to illustrate how we tend to judge an experience. In this story, the experience shifts as the old farmer continues to suspend judgment to view the conditions from other perspectives:
\n\n“There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. "Such bad luck," they said sympathetically. "Maybe," the farmer replied.
\n\nThe next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. "How wonderful," the neighbors exclaimed. "Maybe," replied the old man.
\n\nThe following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy for his misfortune. "Maybe," answered the farmer.
\n\nThe day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son's leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out. "Maybe," said the farmer.”
\n\nBeginning his journey as a chiropractor, Dr. Dain Heer has been facilitating, exploring, and celebrating the magic of bodies for the last 30 years.
\n\nAlong his journey, he developed his signature energy work called the Energetic Synthesis of Being: a totally different way that invites a new level of awareness and energetic transformation with bodies which includes kindness, caring, and communion.
\n\nGrowing up, Dain had a lot of abuse in his life, but he never chose to be a victim. He learned very early on the power of real courage, choice, and resilience. He learned to transform life's challenges into a gift of strength, awareness and continue being in the question. Dain says judgment is the biggest killer on the planet, especially the judgment of ourselves.
\n\nBased on his own life experience, he asks, "What if we could get out of the wrongness of ourselves and see every wrongness, the places where we judge ourselves the most, as a strongness? What would be possible then?"
\n\nReaching far beyond what people say with words, Dain looks at the energy of what is being presented and invites people to live without apology, no longer needing to hide their differences and unique capacities from the world. Body Whispering- A New Way of Seeing, Being & Healing is Dain's latest book. Learn more at www.bodywhispering.com.
\nKeep up to date with @dainheer on Instagram and on Facebook @dainheer. More at www.drainheer.com.
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This episode is positively filled with wisdom and beauty. Goddess Calling - Healing Through Feminine Archetypes.
\n\nListening to Dale Allen share her insights is like listening to a master storyteller at work. I’ve rarely experienced a woman so connected to her self-expression while so effortlessly integrated with her body.
\n\nWhile you can’t see her, you might be able to imagine her moving and flowing throughout this interview, connecting to all of us as we listen. She tells us of her discovery of the Goddess, about how she came to know the healing power of archetypes, and her belief that now is the time for us to remember the Divine Feminine.
\n\nIn this episode, we discuss:
\n\nDale Allen was honored to present to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, her one-woman show, In Our Right Minds™, Guiding Women to Their Strength as Leaders, Leading Men to Strength Without Armor. The Vice President of the Commission invited her to return the following year for an encore. She has brought her talents to scores of audiences at universities, theaters, expos, and workshops across the U.S. and Canada and from Kauai to Dubai. Described as having the energy of “a Cape Canaveral lift-off,” she thoroughly engages and inspires her audience, ranging from highly educated corporate leaders to teenage girls seeking their place in the world.
\n\nDale Allen is a veteran of corporate, commercial communications. Her extensive resume includes hundreds of voice-over, on-camera, and live presentation projects. Some of the most quality-conscious companies, such as BMW, Canon, and MasterCard, among others, have chosen her to represent their brands. Her energy and enthusiasm, sincerity, and strength infuse her presentations and impact audiences.
\n\nDale's Opening Prayer:
\n\n“Our mother who art within us, each breath brings us to you. \nThy wisdom come, thy will be done, as we honor your presence within us. \nEach day, you give us all that we need.\nYour abundance calls us to give and receive all that is loving and pleasurable.\nYou are the courage that moves us to be true to ourselves, and we act with grace and power. \nWe relax into your cycles of birth, growth, death, renewal out of the womb, the darkness, the void comes new life, where you are the mother of all things. \nYour body is the sacred earth and our bodies.\nYour love nurtures and unites us all now and forevermore.\"
\n\nAmen.
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Kristi Frank is a rockstar. She’s warm, loving, fun, and incredibly smart. She is the founder of the documentary series “The Millionaire Within Her” which was just released yesterday.
\n\nI made space for this impromptu episode because once I heard what she was up to, I was super excited to amplify it. I share it with all of you so that together we can get her work out in the world in a bigger way because it’s all about our inner wealth as women.
\n\nKristi Frank, star of Season #1 of ‘The Apprentice,' is well known for helping entrepreneurs start and grow their online businesses. This business, health, and beauty guru has appeared on every major network TV show from ‘Oprah’ to ‘The View,' subsequently helping thousands of entrepreneurs transform their lives and businesses. Watch her in action here: Kristi on 'Oprah'
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\n\nGayle is a transformational retreat leader and founder of the story stylist and award winning expert positioning consultancy for speakers, authors and mission led entrepreneurs. She's passionate about creating experiences for messengers, healers, and entrepreneurial lightworkers that help them get real about how they truly feel so that they can find the message and story that best positions their magic.
\n\nAs a result, her clients clear their visibility blocks and show up powerfully. To speak and lead from a happy, loving heart
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Diet culture, starving ourselves, food guilt, being at war with our shape, fat phobia, body shame. It’s a special kind of torture and what I’ve discovered is that no woman is immune to this hell. For plus-sized women, magnify the feelings of pain by 100 because of how our culture responds to those who don’t fit in, literally.
\n\nThis woman is a beautiful force to be reckoned with, taking plus-sized to the mainstream without asking for permission. GO SARAH!
\n\nSarah Hamel-Smith aka @thecurvytrini is a New York based TEDx presenter, plus-sized model, storyteller and digital influencer represented by TRUE Model Management. She is the co-Founder of Plus Amplified, an organization dedicated to educating and empowering those who live in plus-sized bodies and serves as a catalyst for cultural and internal shifts towards size equity.
\n\nAfter being body shamed for many years she decided to be one of the people who changes the way beauty is defined in society.
\n\nSarah has worked with several major fashion brands as a model, motivational speaker and influencer including Eloquii, Veronica Beard, Universal Standard and Tommy Hilfiger at Macy’s and has been featured as a model and writer in BTFL Magazine. Sarah has presented at NYU and NYWICI as a subject matter expert in influencer marketing and at FIT as an expert in Plus Size Fashion.
\n\nSarah has been featured on CBS News and Crain’s New York speaking out about the dangers of diet culture and has modeled on Good Morning America and as well as InStyle Magazine as a plus size style icon and featured on Billboards in Times Square for New York Fashion Week.
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_I love books. _
\n\nI love books so much that sometimes my husband has to ask for me to stop bringing them all into our bed at night so that he can have a place to rest his weary head. I mean, the nerve! He really needs his own bed.
\n\nSince I was a kid, my childhood dream has been to write a book, and now I’ve decided to make that plural because I am enjoying the writing process so much and have learned just how many stories I have inside me to share! This year I committed to seriously getting busy on this project and hired Bryna as my book coach.
\n\nBryna is a woman with a reputation for making transformational books, magical books, and for helping writers alchemize their wisdom into gold so that they can share their ideas with the world in the most impactful way.
Listen to hear the most important things you need to know about choosing a book coach.
You’ll love what she has to say about her revelations on doing this work and why the pandemic helped her revisit her love of helping others to get their big ideas out into the world.
You’ll also hear about her passion for books written and edited from a place of integrity and why it’s so important that we keep writing quality books and putting impeccable work into the world.
Bryna Haynes is the founder of The Author (r)Evolution and CEO of WorldChangers Media. A nationally-known book strategist, speaker, ghostwriter, and editor, she has helped hundreds of thought leaders, teachers, healers, and enlightened entrepreneurs deliver their messages and radically uplevel their expert status through best-selling, impact-driven books.
\n\nTitles she claims in her spare time include:
\n\nLearn more about Bryna and her work at [www.theauthorrevolution.com](www.theauthorrevolution.com) or [www.worldchangers.media](www.worldchangers.media).
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Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Revelation Project Podcast. Today I am with Darla LeDoux, a transformational business coach, "recovering engineer," author of Shift The Field, and founder of Sourced. Sourced helps service-based entrepreneurs [coaches, consultants, creatives, healers, and therapists] to confidently market, sell, and deliver deep transformation while being guided by their uniquely Sourced mission.
\n\nAfter following the formulas of other experts for years, all while downplaying her unique magic, Darla committed to doing business differently. She reclaimed her inner knowing (Sourced connection), and created the soul-led business that feels divinely right without suffering or struggle. She envisions a world in which all people access and live by their inner knowing, making it valid, valued, and visible in their most magical work.
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This episode was very emotional and moving for me. I don’t know a woman who doesn’t have a negative relationship with her body, including me. There’s so much self-loathing about the skin we are in. Many women feel betrayed by their own bodies, and I don’t think we are aware that the more we self-loathe, the more the beauty industry wins. It’s tragic. This conversation with Nina is incredibly important and revealing.
\n\nNina Manolson is a Body-Peace® coach. She helps women end the war with food and body to feel truly at home in their bodies. Really at home. The kind of at home where you can run around naked and not worry about what is “good enough” or what others will think. The kind of good that allows you to feel ultimate freedom and body peace.
\n\nNina is also a Certified Psychology of Eating Teacher, Nationally Board Certified Holistic Health Coach, and Certified Body-Trust Guide.
\n\nShe helps her clients move past the deprivation-diet paradigm and into a compassionate and powerful way of eating and living, which creates profound, long-lasting change in and with their bodies.
\n\nNina works with individuals and groups and writes body poems – all in service of helping women create a respectful and nourishing relationship with their bodies. Learn more at: NinaManolson.com
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I laughed through this whole episode. Kelsey Abbott is one of the most delightful and playful people I have met in a long time. In addition to being incredibly intelligent, Kelsey is so talented at communicating the impact of human design and how it can help us recalibrate our lives. I’m so excited to introduce you and know you’ll love her as much as I do.
\n\nKelsey Abbott is an intuitive Human Design Reader, a Certified Professional Coach, Instigator of Joy, and the Find Your Awesome podcast host. She helps spiritual adventurers remember who they are and why they're here so they can experience more ease, joy, flow, magic, and miracles. Kelsey believes that the universe wants us to be sparkly AF and that joy is our natural state. When Kelsey isn't playing in her business, she's bringing curiosity, play, and joy to triathlon, a sport she races as an elite amateur.
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I love that magical moment when I'm diving into depths of conversation on a topic I'm passionate about only to discoer kindship with a likeminded sister. Meeting Alexis was like hanging out with someone I've known forever.
\n\nAs seen in FOX, Thrive Global, Entertainment Tonight, and more, Alexis Artin is a leading Success Coach, international speaker, a writer trained in neuro-linguistic programming, and a master embodiment teacher—fully immersed in the DeMartini Method.
\n\nHaving spent the past two decades propelling people towards their personal and professional best, Alexis is a woman transforming women. After working with many A-list celebrities across the board, in television and film, Alexis transitioned her passion and skillset for fostering potential and obtaining results in the world of self-development and transformation. She worked side-by-side with many of the most revered thought leaders bringing personal growth to the global stage. Alexis was the driving force behind expanding one of the largest and most respected female empowerment companies, which inspired her to channel her expertise into creating a coaching practice serving clients worldwide.
\n\nAlexis teaches others to embrace their knowing, connecting mind, body, heart, and soul. Her powerful coaching gives her clients true and lasting transformation from the inside out. An ICF-certified professional coach and Energy Leadership Master Practitioner, Alexis is also co-founder of FreeBody™ Practice and a hypnotherapist.
\n\nIn studying with Dr. John Demartini, one concept he teaches is the paradoxical nature of the soul and the body as complementary opposites. That the soul chose the body to have an embodied experience, but the body is like an animal operating at a base level.
The goal is to integrate our “opposites,” our soul and body, by being present and in alignment with both, and tapping into and re-membering is a constant practice.
Our bodies are designed to tell us when we are not in alignment - and once cued, we can reconnect.
The breath is a tool, but the mind and the heart are the bridge between the body and the soul. They will align us, or they will throw us out of alignment.
When we are very young most of our programming is set because when we don't have resources, we are powerless, and we are then thrust into a world where we have to live by the values of the people caring for us.
Empowerment is about choice, period. Empowerment is about our ability to choose at any given moment.
Awareness is our superpower.
Habitual change happens in 21 days. It’s about where we've been asleep in our lives and where we want to awaken. It is being in the practice of the inquiry and at peace in our lives through the body.
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Gah! I love this this woman because she's so unapologetically herself! Tune in as Nic and I talk about how "the trance" shows up for women in our career and in our self care. You might be suprised to learn that by being the "work hero", you are actually demonstrating how the trance of unworthiness can sneak up on us in the most unexpected ways.
\n\nNic Frick is a career coach, guiding women through the roller coaster of career transitions. Her holistic approach is a result of her commitment to discovering her own self-care practices and her career spanning tech, recruiting, customer service, and teaching yoga. Her programs integrate both career growth strategies and healing modalities to ensure work-life balance and sustainability for her clients.
\n\nShe believes that you can have your dream job if you trust your own authority, start with your why, and lead from your values. Nic prides herself on being the best hugger anyone has ever met. She is committed to dismantling white supremacy, feels happiest on a surfboard, loves sending handwritten letters, and starts getting ready for bed at 8:15 PM.
\n\nNic grew up in Wisconsin and has lived in Minnesota, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Peru. She is currently living with her hubby and daughter in San Francisco, California and they are obsessed with finding the tastiest food possible and avoiding winter as much as possible.
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I love this conversation so much because it’s about the transformative power of singing and music for healing and attunement to ourselves and others. It’s about creating connections and daring to use the instrument of our bodies to bring our voices more fully into the world.
\n\nHow beautiful is that?
\n\nMeet Carole Marie Downing, a coach, song leader, and facilitator passionate about creating resilience through challenging times. Her initial career was in nursing, working in areas of hospice and integrative medicine. She then shifted to coaching after receiving a master's degree in psychology, emphasizing consciousness, health, and healing.
\n\nShe utilizes both her professional background and personal experience to gently support clients to tune in to their capacity to thrive. After a loss and significant life transitions, her most recent work as a song leader and music guide encourages people to sing and learn music in a way that creates connection and cultivates the transformational act of bringing our voices fully into the world. Carole Marie lives in Portland, Oregon, and loves hot cups of tea. She enjoys making music out of everything life offers up and going barefoot in the sand.
\n\n** Carole believes we can use music as a way to create more connection and bring our voices to the world.**
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Candice Hozza is an engaging, witty, and sought-after speaker. Her energetic message brings high performing and heart-centered entrepreneurs to the cutting edge of business support. Her techniques for thinking about, and aligning to, what your business actually wants will breathe new life into stuck and exhausted business owners to help them move from being stuck to being in flow. Once you get into flow, you can monetize your mission with ease.
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I adored this interview and I’ve been geeking out on Human Deign now for weeks and can’t seem to get enough, and I have Robin Winn to thank!
\nIn addition to being a fabulous facilitator and coach Robin has written two amazing and relatable books on the subject of Human Design that make it so easy and enjoyable to understand this technology and apply it to your life.
\nI highly recommend to anyone who has not yet heard of Human Design that you get your chart downloaded, which you can do in a matter of minutes as long as you know your birth time, date, and place. Then, once you know what you are, head on over to Instagram and we can geek out, together!
Robin Winn is a best-selling author of understanding your clients through human design, the breakthrough technology, and understanding the centers in human design, the facilitator's guide to transforming pain into possibility.
\n\nTwenty-five years into her work as a licensed marriage and family therapist, she was introduced to human design as a way to more deeply understand herself and her clients, this transformational knowledge marked a turning point, opening a door of compassion and empowering her work in surprising and unexpected ways.
\n\nRobin is a writer, speaker, transformational, coach, founder, and director of the training programs. Understanding yourself through human design and understanding your clients through human design. She lives on Maui with her wife yarrow. Hey Robin. Hey Monica. Thanks for having me. Oh, I'm so happy to have you.
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In this episode, Monica and Laura dive into the world of intuition and how our soul wisdom can read the signs that can lead us where we need to go.
\n\nLaura Clark is one of those beautiful souls you meet along the way that gently nudges you to look more deeply at the signs that are always within our view if we dare to look, trust and believe in them.
\n\nThis interview was so fun because Laura and I love geeking out on signs. I loved sharing our intuitive hits with each other about the growth we’ve experienced as the mystery of our lives continually unfolds with grace, sass, and a whole lot of cosmic humor.
\n\nDo you see signs in your life? After this episode, you’d likely start seeing them everywhere!
\nYou are welcome!
Laura Clark teaches you how to access your inner knowing and align with your purpose to live your truth purposefully and passionately.
\n\nLaura Clark is also a bestselling author, engaging speaker, and founder of the Wise Living Institute & Living Your truth Sisterhood. Laura champions others to awaken their purpose and inner wisdom, and to use them as a beacon in stepping confidently and courageously forward living one’s own truth.
\n\nAs a sassy and spiritual guru, Laura believes everyone can step forward to a fuller, more joyful, and abundant life.
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I met Ken almost a decade ago and felt an instant kinship with him.
\nIn addition to being a masterful coach, I admire his capacity as a human being to hold complexity and emotion, as well as his great dedication to working with Men toward greater emotional fluency.
After the events at the Capitol on January 6th, I reached out to Ken seeking comfort and a deeper understanding of what I was witnessing. I felt helpless, triggered, and overwhelmed by the series of events that had unfolded that day and how we got there.
\n\nThroughout this episode, I was mightily triggered. I’m grateful for Ken’s steady and compassionate response as we explored the underpinnings of what happened that day and what we can do to start to be part of the change we want to see in the world for the men in our country and our sons.
\n\nKen Mossman has specialized in working with men for almost two decades. With an international clientele from a wide variety of industries from finance, academia, and technology – to entrepreneurship and the arts, Ken’s focus is on helping men expand their emotional literacy, fluency, and flexibility so they can lead with presence and empathy.
\nKen is a Senior Faculty Member with CTI, the Co-Active Training Institute. In addition to his coaching and training work, he writes regularly, hosts the “Mojo for the Modern Man” podcast, and designs and leads intensive, deep programs for men.
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\n\nOn January 6th, 2021, Ken's sister contacted him about the siege at the Capitol and the unfolding violence. Ken's reaction to what he saw on the news felt like a “gut punch" and included tension in his neck and jaw along with a sense of “there’s no surprise here” while simultaneously feeling the shock of what was happening.
The roots of the events have a larger cultural context that we seem to be in denial about.
"We are a nation of good and decent people” seems to be the refrain heard over and over again. Still, the truth is that our nation was built on wobbly legs of genocide, slavery, colonization, and brutality.
Many of the images we saw that day are emblematic of toxic white male privilege and gross characterizations of “The Man Box” in cosplay.
A population fed on a steady diet of misinformation and a toxic model of white male privilege and feelings of anger and invisibility created the Capitol events that day.
One of the Trump administration hallmarks was this idea of “the enemy,” and his language and energy were often about "us or them.”
Rage is a culmination of unexpressed anger, hopelessness, and invisibility.
Many men in our country lack the relational and communication skills needed to break out of the “man box.”
When it comes to raising our children, we need to be mindful of our internal dialog and catch ourselves as parents when we find ourselves triggered by our own unresolved “stuff.”
We need to ask ourselves if we are modeling healthy behavior for our children regarding the full range of human emotion. We need to recognize that the language we have to raise boys falls short and creates an environment for rage.
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No Judgment.
\n\nEven the title of this episode makes me breathe easy.
\n\nI loved my conversation with Dain and gained so much insight and enjoyment from listening to him talk. He spoke about the power of non-judgment and why it is vital to our wellbeing to clear judgment from our energetic centers so that we can stop suppressing our true nature and live a life of allowance. In this episode, he teaches us to uncreate the realities that no longer serve us. That all of the projections, expectations, separations, and rejections placed on us by ourselves or by anybody else keep us from being as weird and different as we are. He encourages us to let that go and create something new by accessing our conscious awareness. I have no doubt you will gain deep awareness just by listening to this episode.
\n\nMeet Dr. Dain Heer:
\n\nDr. Dain Heer is an internationally renowned author, speaker, and facilitator of consciousness and change. For over 20 years, he has been inviting people to embrace their true greatness—people from every culture, country, age, and social strata.
\n\nIn his talks and workshops, he uses a unique set of tools and provides step-by-step energetic processes to get people out of the answers, conclusions, and judgments that are keeping them stuck in a cycle of no choice and no change – leading them into the moments of awe that have the power to change anything.
\n\nFor Dain, judgment is the biggest killer on the planet, especially the judgment of ourselves. Based on his own life experience, he asks, “what if we could get out of the wrongness of ourselves and see every wrongness, the places where we judge ourselves the most, as a strength? What would be possible then?”
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Vironika Wilde is a poet, spoken word artist, award-winning author, nomad, feminist, cat fanatic, and activist.
\n\nMore than a poetry book, Love and Gaslight is a story. Divided into five chapters, it sparks with one woman's decision to leave an unhappy relationship. Her choice begins a painful unraveling. Poem by poem, she searches for lost innocence and unpalatable truth.
\n\nVeronika is also a sexual assault survivor reclaiming her body. She is an immigrant climbing into the home-sized hole in her heart. She is an adult comforting her inner child. She is a woman questioning the social conditioning that governs her freedom.
\n\nLove and Gaslight is raw, political, and transgressive. It's edgy, feminist, and relevant. Most importantly, it's honest. You will feel it. Whether it makes you feel sad, glad, or attacked, it will also make you feel brave enough to speak your truth.
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Join us for this revealing conversation as Sandra Payne and I discuss our healthcare workers' well-being, especially our nurses.
\n\nSandra Payne is a Registered Nurse and the owner of Sandra Payne Holistic Wellness Coaching. She is also the founder of the Nurse Rx Coaching Program. To overcome her own struggle with burnout, depression, and anxiety, Sandra used a truly holistic healing approach that she refers to as her “Journey through the Canyon of Hope." She felt a passionate fire to guide other women on their own canyon journeys through coaching and healing, so she created the Nurse RX Program in which nurses learn and practice a host of skills and exercises to manage their own mental and emotional exhaustion through the combination of individual coaching and a powerful sisterhood of connection & support.
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As we age, we understand what age discrimination (also known as ageism) is all about.
\n\nPeople face ageism and other intersecting forms of discrimination in many ways in our society. Women, by and large, are disproportionately impacted by ageism. From a young age, we are conditioned to believe that our value is tied to our youthful appearance and “marketability." As a result, the beauty and fashion industry perpetuate a narrative that keeps women in “the trance” of unworthiness.
\n\nPolicies and services must be adapted to reflect our changing population structures to ensure that everyone, young and old, has equitable access to services and entitlements. Yet, this is only part of the tragedy of the ageism story.
\n\nMeet Kat Miller. Kat has an MA in spiritual psychology. For the past 35 years, she’s been counseling, teaching, and consulting. Her passion is using aging as a catalyst to breaking free from cultural conditioning and discovering truth and wisdom through our own direct experience. Kat also uses the medium of photography to express the inherent beauty of aging and impermanence.
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Liz McCartney offers healing wisdom and knowledge to humanity through her gift as a spiritual channel. She is a master teacher of Reiki and combines meditation and pranic healing in her work with her clients. Her focus is on creating a synergistic connection to help her clients embrace the human experience through the divine being. Imagine a synergistic relationship to healing through the divine being within you - this is the work of Liz McCartney.
\n\nLiz and I decided to riff on what is currently happening in our country and why it seems so much easier to blame, shame, numb, and deflect, and why it is so important that we start working on the unresolved and unhealed wounds within.
\n\nWe hope that this episode will normalize the human mess with some intersecting conversations that may reveal more awareness and even normalize the healing process.
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Rebecca Lyn Gold has been writing since the age of 6 when she found a floral cloth covered 5-year diary (with a lock and key) in her Christmas stocking.
\n\nShe is now an author, editor, writing coach and the founder of Yogic Writing-- a practice that utilizes the philosophies and disciplines of yoga, meditation and journaling for writers of all levels to break through resistance, uncover memories, and find story nuggets buried within.
\n\nHer books include: "Till There Was You: An Adoption Expectancy Journal," "A Wizard Called Woz: a biography of Stephen Wozniak," "That's Why We're Here: Stories from passionate James Taylor fans," "How To Write It Funny" with author/humorist Amy Koko, and "A Friend Named Sunny Skies: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Music of James Taylor."
\n\nShe is currently writing: "From Your Mat to Your Memoir: Creating a yogic writing practice to find and write your life stories."
\n\nRebecca believes that writing is a spiritual practice, much like yoga or meditation. It takes courage to forge ahead, even when you have no idea where you are going.
\n\nYou step on the mat, you greet the page, you meet your resistance, and then you Let. It. Go.
\n\nRebecca has 3 children (who live in 3 different states-- although she tries not to take that personally), three grandchildren, and a 4th on the way. She lives with her husband Osvaldo and their dog Brownie in Providence, Rhode Island (for now).
\n\nShe leads workshops, retreats and online programs using Yogic Writing as a tool for women to find and write their life stories.
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Tabitha Lord is an accomplished author and is known for her science fiction series: HORIZON. She has received several independent book awards, including the Writer’s Digest Grand Prize in 2016.
\n\nIn addition to writing novels and short fiction, Tabitha is a partner and senior writer for Book Club Babble and managing editor for the Inkitt Writer’s Blog. Recently, she’s tried her hand at writing romantic suspense under the pen name Maggie Clare. Tabitha lives in Rhode Island with her husband, four kids, and lovable fur babies.
\n\nListen in today as we talk about changing careers at 40, vulnerability, storytelling, raising kids, climbing mountains, and doing things that are hard but worthwhile.
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Truth Speaks is a Black, Non-Binary, Trans-Queer Woman with Southern roots. She relocated to the state of Maine in 2011 to be an Evangelist. Truth is a Black Lives Matter Activist, Feminist, Writer, Femme, and Artist. She also has a long history in the medical field in nursing, then shifted her focus in 2015 to her work in Antiracism. She uses her art to draw attention to issues surrounding white supremacy, police brutality, and anti-Black racism, focusing on Black women. Truth is always looking for opportunities to empower women and share her lived experiences and truth with the world.
\n\nIn this episode, we talk about Decolonizing the Mind and what it means to empower womxn by raising the awareness of unfamiliar intersections and conversations that other women like Truth encounter daily.
\n\nI loved this conversation with Truth. I will continue to follow and celebrate her beauty, grace, and fierce love for humanity and her incredible stand for making change happen in the world. Thank you for all you do as a cycle breaker, artist, and activist.
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Coral Brown was one of our top podcast episodes of 2020, so I thought it fitting to invite her back at the close of what has been an incredibly challenging year for most of us. Today we talk about The Biology Of Belief and how our beliefs shape everything, including what we perceive, how we live and move in the world, and how our beliefs even biologically impact our health.
\n\nI want to mention that being with Coral is also like sitting in a hub where you experience a whirlwind of connection points that simultaneously come together. I often leave our conversations feeling as though I have shifted on a cellular level. I feel more expansive, aware, and tuned-in to deeper wisdom about what’s happening in the world that, I am convinced more than ever, is happening not to us but for us.
\n\nCoral Brown is known and loved in her local community and around the world. She is a mother, a dharma dweller, and a teacher of teachers. She is known for her integrative, lighthearted approach that fuses vinyasa yoga's vibrant, creative energy with her experience as a holistic counselor.
\n\nCoral is a licensed mental health counselor and draws on twenty years of experience in yoga, philosophy, and holistic counseling to provide fertile, open space for the processes of healing and transformation.
\n\nCoral’s teachings are fueled by the desire to reveal and cultivate the essence of our individual and collective dharma and instill it into every aspect of our being. Coral leads worldwide teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops. She is a regular contributor to Yoga Journal and has featured classes on YogaGirl.com.
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Hillary is a knitter, but not in the knitting of fabrics, more the knitting together of people and projects and possibilities.
\n\nHil and I met years ago by coming together on a digital marketing project. This experience snowballed into an epic friendship that, in many ways, feels like it spans many lifetimes.
\n\nOur talks effortlessly flow, always feeling like 10 minutes but more often they end up being hours of deep conversation covering a myriad of topics. I find her endlessly fascinating because she’s a deep thinker with an endless well of insights.
\n\nThough I feel like I’ve known Hil for lifetimes, we finally only met in person last November in NYC. She’s got the gift of bringing peace and perspective to every conversation and relationship I’ve seen her contribute to and this one is no different.
\n\nSit back and enjoy the levity and love that comes through in this beautiful woman’s expansive heart on a topic that so many of us struggle with - anxiety.
\n\nHillary Larson had a life that most people might dream of. After studying at the BBC and the Royal College of Art in London, she moved to New York and landed a dream job producing nationally syndicated radio shows. She interviewed celebrities from Bette Midler to Ozzy Osborne.
\n\nShe eventually moved back to the West Coast and found herself unexpectedly establishing a literacy program for gang kids, eventually working with both children and adults in the roughest parts of Portland.
\n\nHer success was evident on the outside. But underneath, anxiety was ruling her life, sometimes preventing her from leaving her own home. Until one day, after a thirty-plus battle with anxiety, she heard the words that would eventually heal her.
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Patriarchy stress disorder, pandemic parenting, and creating a wildly successful and profitable business from a place of pleasure and desire - these topics are just the tip of the iceberg in this incredible episode with my esteemed guest, Sage Polaris.
\n\nMany of you may already know that I am a lover of language, words, naming “it," synchronicity, and mysticism. I knew that the name “Sage” already intrigued me, and so of course I had to go digging below the surface, feeling into the deeper essence of what it means:
\n\nSage.
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adjective, sag·er, sag·est.
\n\nIt did not take me long to recognize that Sage is aptly named, but then the name “Polaris” also had me Googling!
\n\nPolaris: Also known as the North Star. Polaris lies nearly in a direct line with the Earth's rotational axis "above" the North Pole—the north celestial pole—Polaris stands almost motionless in the sky, and all the stars of the northern sky appear to rotate around it.
\n\nI mean, can you stand it?
\nSage Polaris.
Her name got me thinking about what it takes to be "sage." What I know about wisdom is that it's often gained by having faced tremendous trials, difficulty, and extreme challenges.
\n\nThere is a reason for instance, that Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, has the companion totem animal of the owl. An owl is a symbol of wisdom and is known to “cleave” through the darkness, able to view things from a higher perspective.
\n\nI am loving the wisdom, perspective, and “Sage" offerings delivered in this episode. Listen in as we dive deeply into work, life, and love, and what Sage is doing to invite women to join her in seeking higher perspectives that bring more love and pleasure to our businesses and lives. I think you'll be amazed by what you hear.
\n\nThank you for your time, Sage! You are a gem!
\n\nSage Polaris has written high converting copy for more than 350 clients earning them millions of dollars. She helps personal brands and service providers sell more of their service or offer with the words on their website.
\n\nShe has worked with Chrisette Michele, James Wedmore, Rick Mulready, and Amber McCue. Basically, she makes money for the “internet famous” people we all look up to.
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My inner child met Angela’s inner child at a business event a year ago and we fell in love. When I found out that Angela’s passion is archiving women’s stories I became obsessed with learning more. As the family historian in my own life, I have always been curious about the absence of the female storyline. I’ve come to realize that this isn’t just a personal issue, but a global one, and that’s why Angela's work is so important. Until we learn our herstory, and that of minorities, we will never have an accurate or complete history. In today's episode, we discuss the trance of unworthiness and its relationship to archive-building and storytelling.
\n\nAngela Todd is an archivist, historian, and activist. She has always been THAT girl: talking to wise elders in the grocery store; reading women's stories; asking her kid “where are the women on that Lego spaceship?”, always looking for the women, and seeking out their stories. Now she's on a mission to capture women's stories and to preserve them. Her work is shaped by the belief that every woman has a story worth saving, and that history needs the stories of women and other marginalized folks to even approach living up to its name.
\n\nAngela has a BA in women's studies, MA in literary and cultural theory, and did her PhD work in cultural studies.
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"In 2016, an estimated 1 out of 6 endangered runaways reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were likely child sex trafficking victims. Of those, 86% were in the care of social services or foster care when they ran.” - Polaris Project
\n\nThis episode was as incredibly emotional as it is deeply inspiring and important.
\n\nI’m so grateful to Andrea Powell for honoring my request to create this episode on the subject of sexual exploitation and human trafficking in America. Not only is Andrea an incredible resource, but she’s also a beautiful human being with a fierce heart and a sharp mind. I have no doubt you will see what a powerful advocate she is for those she serves and why this issue is such an important one for all of us to become involved in solving.
\n\nI urge everyone who comes across this episode to listen in and understand the ingredients that perpetuate this epidemic across multiple industries in America. My hope is that by listening we become empowered to help put an end to this practice once and for all.
\n\nNote: While we did not discuss the QAnon conspiracy on this episode, Andrea has dispelled these myths repeatedly on other shows. For more information on this subject please contact her directly because it presents a dangerous distraction to the real issues of sexual exploitation and human trafficking. Those on the front lines of this epidemic are deeply perplexed by this complex and disturbing narrative.
\n\nAndrea Powell is the co-founder of Karana Rising, a survivor-led nonprofit that dares to support survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation for life. With her team, she offers survivors a chance to lead in their lives while healing from their past. She is also the Director of Survivor Engagement at UNITAS and is the founder of FAIR Girls, an organization offering safe housing to young women survivors of human trafficking. Andrea is an author and artist; her work has been featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times, BCC, and NBC Think. She enjoys creating multimedia art and writing.
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Today’s episode is with special guest Liz McCartney to talk about all things spiritual.
\n\nWe often come into our paths with the true elements of ourselves unknown. We feel adrift throughout our lives and seek relation within ourselves as human beings but have our true essence unknown. The often unanswered questions of our origin, path, and purpose can only be answered when we become connected to the Divinity in which we were created.
\n\nLiz believes in a true connection to ourselves as human beings and our true Divine Being. She has been guided to create a synergistic approach to healing through the connection of our Divine being and our human existence.
\n\nThrough her connection to the Source of all Universal Life Force Energy and the higher dimensional beings of light, wisdom, and knowledge of the Fifth Dimension, offered with a gentle, warm, patient, kind, gracious, and unique presence, Liz brings you into the truest form of yourself through the synergy of your soul's beauty and healing.
\n\nLiz offers healing wisdom and knowledge to humanity through her gift as a spiritual channel. She is a master teacher of Reiki and combines meditation and pranic healing in her work with her clients. Her focus is on creating a synergistic connection to assist her clients to embrace the human experience through the divine being. Imagine a synergistic connection to healing through the divine being within you - this is the work of Liz McCartney.
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This podcast brought me so much pleasure! Libby Bunten is a dear friend and colleague that keeps me thinking, daring and belly-laughing.
\n\nJoin us as we travel into the deep rupture of Libby’s personal awakening and into the world of radiant feminist leadership development.
\n\nLibby’s infectious love of laughter, life and leadership is accessible and inspiring. As a highly accomplished independent consultant in the global online business world with Arbonne, Libby’s passion is is to strengthen the lives of women in her local community and beyond. Raised in a quintessential Maine coastal town, Libby always did “whatever it took” to make a living and get the job done. Before a career in social marketing, she did everything from manual labor to freelance writing. A brief stint in a toxic, patriarchal, corporate work environment propelled Libby to pursue an MS in Clinical Psychology which ultimately led to her work in feminist leadership development with like-minded, independent and irreverent women. When she isn't cheering women on, you can find her traveling with her Hebrew Hunk, Paul, singing karaoke, or in deep surrender to the abyss that is the journey of healing.
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The Mother Wound.
\n\nThis is a subject that is near and dear to me because of my own experience healing this wound, and it’s a continual theme in my work as a co-active coach. Most often, women are unaware that they have a throbbing Mother wound waiting to be revealed and healed.
\n\nOften the wound continues to cause problems in the lives of women because they don’t understand the source of their pain and if they do, they are taught not to talk about it.
\n\nFrom a very early age, we are raised to reject the feminine. Our initial split is usually unconscious but begins with that which represents the feminine, our own mother.
\nWe are taught that an alternative to being “feminine” is to seek to emulate the masculine because it’s what we glorify in this culture, and so many women become lost, deeply yearning for the missing and rejected parts of herself.
In a patriarchal culture, we are taught that to be feminine is weak, emotional, crazy, manipulative, and needy. Because our own mothers grew up inside the same patriarchal culture, they often exhibit symptoms of the wound and perpetuate it through their own fractured parenting, or pass it through the womb. They too are trapped between a rock and a hard place due to the fact that our society does not value their role in the family structure, nor do they value themselves, because, wound.
\n\nIn addition to the fact that we don’t celebrate the feminine in our culture, we also can’t speak of the fracture, because to speak ill of your mother is taboo. While we can poke fun through media, comedy, literature, and theatre, we are bound to a collective shame should we dare speak out against the women who birthed us into the world.
\n\nHealing the Mother-Daughter split involves grieving the initial separation from or rejection of her, as well as the rejection of that part of ourselves, and then learning to honor the values that we've been cut off from as women - a reclaiming of our own feminine, and ultimately a reclamation and integration of both the feminine and the masculine.
\nJoin me in welcoming back Kerri Hummingbird, Soul Guide, here to talk to us about her latest book -Love is Fierce, Healing the Mother Wound
Kerri Hummingbird inspires people to lead their lives wide awake with authenticity, passion, and purpose that positively impacts others. She catalyzes mind-shifts that transform life challenges into gifts of wisdom with her Reinvent Yourself programs for individual and group mentoring. She is the international best-selling author of The Second Wave: Transcending the Human Drama and the award-winning best-selling book Awakening To Me: One Woman’s Journey To Self Love which describes the early years of her spiritual awakening. She has served as a social activist, leader, and philanthropist for over three decades. Kerri is also the Founder of the Skills Not Pills Movement and Host of the Soul Nectar Show. Her latest book is available now on [Amazon]((http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B08KFPJZXG/revelationpro-20))
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When I was a kid, I developed a variety of sophisticated bedtime rituals to ensure that the monsters that lived beneath my bed wouldn't “get me."
\n\nI was known to follow an elaborate sequence each night that included practically pole-vaulting into bed from the furthest point in my room I could muster, and this went on for years. I would often perform the rituals in a more “grown-up way” over time, even if I was sleeping at a friend's house. As I look back, while I know this was just a phase most kids go through, I had a preoccupation with scary subjects well into adulthood that would simultaneously pique my curiosity while activating a keen sense of dread.
\n\nMaybe it had something to do with my upbringing, and what I now recognize as my hyper-vigilant inner child who rarely felt safe. Or maybe it’s something we all have and hide to some extent, not wanting to reveal the childish notion that there’s something out there coming for us.
\n\nAs I grew into adulthood and began the inner work of revealing and healing, I discovered that most monsters don’t live under beds, but in my head. Many of them are well known in my work as a coach by different names - such as shadow work, saboteurs, inner gremlins, distorted masculine, distorted feminine, and so on.
\n\nBasically, the true monsters live as conjurings of our own deepest fears about ourselves, projected out into the world making it seem like an awfully scary, hostile, and unpredictable place. Most of my work is helping women especially reveal the shadows of the self that keep us running, or believing that we are not worthy, not enough, not lovable.
\n\nIronically, my name "Monica" became shortened to “Mon," “Mons," sometimes "Har-Monica," or "Momica," but “Monster” eventually became an affectionate nickname that stuck with many of my friends over the years.
\n\nI decided that instead of a monologue, I wanted to record a series of Monsterlogues as a way to bring them out from our unconscious and into the light of the day, so we can all see them for who and what they really are.
\n\nThis first Monsterlogue is about the Sorry Monster that can’t stop apologizing because she has the audacity to exist in a world that trained her to believe she doesn’t have a right to take up space. I hope you enjoy it, and that you have your own revelations about your own “Sorry” Monster.
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Monica Rodgers talks to Dr. Catherine Blackledge about the unsung power of the vagina.
\n\nOne of the greatest pieces of unconscious conditioning we have in western culture is that we do not teach our girls to name the source of her feminine power. If anything we are taught to call our genitals by colloquialisms such as Coochie, Privates, Down There, Front-Bottom - the list goes on. Those who were given a more "scientific" term were often taught to call it “vagina,” a sterile and clinical word that is also physiologically incorrect.
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\nWorse, the majority of women are taught to call it nothing at all, and not to refer to it, look at it, or know it’s magic, and this had had a devastating impact.
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\nPersonally, I didn’t have the courage to look at my own vagina until I was in my 40s. In my world, it wasn’t something that was talked about growing up, and as far as I was concerned, there was some kind of disgust that permeated any reference to my nether region. How tragic to finally reach the age of almost 50 years old and recognize that it’s only just in the last few years that I have begun to reveal and heal my own inner misogyny. I use that word deliberately because it’s true, we live in a world that teaches a woman to hate herself, and to think less of herself based on her gender.
I consider Dr. Catherine Blackledge a true visionary. To me, a visionary is someone who sees the missing link. They understand the fundamental missing piece, sometimes years and even decades before others catch on.
\n\nDr. Blackledge was inspired to write her book almost 17 years ago, and she has since become an internationally acclaimed author of the bestselling book, Raising The Skirt, The Unsung Power of the Vagina, which celebrates the beauty and power of the vagina and womanhood and reveals how the true extent of vaginal and female power has been forgotten, ignored and misrepresented. Raising The Skirt was originally published in 2003 as the story of V and has sold over 100,000 copies in 13 countries. Women describe it as their Bible and say it has saved their lives.
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\n\n* In Gaelic and Greek mythology, groups of women raised their skirts en masse to defeat Irish sun god Cúchulain and Greek hero Bellerophon, respectively. Ancient and modern history relate how women deploy the raising the skirt gesture in protest and as a military tactic.
\n\n* The idea of the vagina as a passive vessel, a simple sheath to surround the penis, is one of science’s greatest misconceptions.
\n\nWe have to get past women being so undervalued in the world and help women know how powerful we are as not only the portal of life, but as a being who has an extraordinary amount of wisdom, power and influence.
There is still a tremendous amount of misinformation out there and very little about the true anatomy of the vagina. The clitoris, for example, is a massive wishbone structure that is seated deeply into the pelvis, not simply a small nub at the top of the vagina.
Catherine understood at an early age that the vagina was being misrepresented and set out to understand why and reveal a deeper truth.
When Catherine initially told people she wanted to write about it, people could not even say the word, even her publishers.
Catherine believes the word Veranda should be brought back - it's an older term that was used for female genitalia, meaning "parts inspiring awe, respect or reverence." Catherine believes having a positive, respectful word for the vagina, which girls and women feel comfortable and confident using is a vital first step to female empowerment and being proud of what we have between our legs.
Catherine discovered many wonderful scientific facts, such as men, also have a clitoris, it’s what causes the penis to become erect.
Catherine shares her own personal story of becoming infertile due to an STD that went undetected when she was young. She believes that if there were not such a stigma around women’s sexuality that this could have been avoided.
The Pink Pussy Hats worn in the Women’s March is a modern-day representation of Raising the Skirts.
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This episode is near and dear to my heart because I get to interview one of my favorite people in the whole world: Linda Freedman. Linda is one of my biggest heroines because she taught me something really powerful about age - it doesn’t MATTER! She is also a model of generosity and compassion toward other human beings who need our help, and she dared to believe she could make a difference, and boy, did she.
\n\nI had the opportunity to work with her a few years back and the project changed me. It had a profound impact on shaping my understanding of what it takes to make an impact, and that when you really desire to do something in service to others, nothing is impossible.
\n\nLinda is the writer and producer of UNACCOMPANIED: Alone in America, a short film that shows what happens when unaccompanied children cross the US-Mexico border and appear in immigration court without a lawyer. The film has been viewed online by more than 50 million people in over 170 countries and won a special award at the Indie foreign film festival.
\n\nAfter working as a documentary filmmaker for the last decade, Linda has shifted gears and is now writing instead of producing stories that she hopes will have the same impact as unaccompanied. She's completed the pilot for a limited TV series on unaccompanied children and a second pilot for a TV series about the trauma response work that she does. She lives in Portland, Oregon with Mateo, her yellow Labrador retriever, and recently discovered a new way to stay in shape - non-contact boxing.
\n\nIn recent years the number of unaccompanied immigrant children migrating to the United States has nearly tripled and they have no representation or legal counsel, leaving them vulnerable and alone.
In mid-March 2014, Linda was sitting at her breakfast table reading The Oregonian. She came across a piece written by Anna Ciesielski, a young lawyer working for Immigration Counseling Service, who represents unaccompanied children from Central America in immigration proceedings. She described the situations these children face and the nature of her work with them, and it broke something in Linda.
\n\nChildren have no way to contact, communicate with, or hire a lawyer.
Linda spent months talking with and filming interviews with pro bono attorneys who had represented unaccompanied children. She attended immigration hearings and talked to anyone who had any experience working with unaccompanied kids.
Because the Department of Justice does not allow recording devices in immigration hearings, it felt impossible to convey the story that needed to be told. Linda became so disheartened, she shelved the project for more than a year.
Finally, a new approach took shape, film a reenactment of the children's circumstances in the most realistic way possible. With the help of an amazing team, we brought the vision to life.
Over four years later, and with timing that was devastatingly appropriate, Linda was relieved to finally be sharing the story of unaccompanied children, the forgotten ones, who have no one to guide them, hold them, or serve them.
Linda is now writing a pilot for a series she hopes will get picked up.
Linda has a son with Mobius syndrome that she admires so much due to his mindset and resilience.
Linda was born in 1940, making her 80 years old, and she never tires of learning and taking risks.
Linda believes that the combination of curiosity, passion, and perseverance means that you can do anything
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We spend so much time seeking an intimate relationship with a significant other, but rarely stop to think about what it really takes to have a successful one, and if we really want one.
\n\nMeet Simone Milasas and Brendon Watt, Authors of Relationship, Are You Sure You Want One?
\n\nEnjoy this candid, straight-talking, no-sugar coating relationship conversation and learn more about how Brendon and Simone help people to ask for what they truly desire, kicking the fairy tale romance to the curb.
\n\nWhat is [Relationships Done Different](www.relationshipsdonedifferent.com)?
\n\nYou should choose relationship from choice not a necessity!
\n\nWe want to see more kindness in relationships of all sorts. With your partner, kids, parents, and most importantly yourself!
\n\nWhat if we could empower each other to be as great as we can be?
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Join me on this week's episode as I talk to master story-teller and re-emerging pandemic parent, Melanie Deziel, about all the things.
\n\nWhat does becoming a new mother, abruptly moving from a 600 square ft apartment, and launching a new book have in common?
\n\nThese are just a few of the unexpected adventures Melanie shares in this episode.
\n\nMelanie is a keynote speaker, an award-winning branded content creator, and a lifelong storyteller on a mission to share the power of compelling and credible content with others. She is the founder and chief content officer of Storyfuel, which teaches marketers, publishers, creators, and companies of all sizes how to tell better brand stories.
\n\nShe is also the author of The Content Fuel Framework, How to Generate Unlimited Story Ideas.
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In today's episode, I introduce you to Bryna Haynes and we talk about the science of creating our reality, the dangers of wishful thinking, and why the world won’t change unless we change.
\n\nBryna Haynes is an inspirational speaker, philosopher, waymaker, retreat leader, coach, and award-winning, best-selling author. She is the founder of Choose Your Evolution and the creator of the Quantum Evolution® system. Bryna helps conscious entrepreneurs, changemakers, leaders, and influencers navigate growth and change so they can step into their biggest vision in the most intentional ways possible.
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Why has Western medicine so persistently focused on men when observing health conditions that affect both men and women?
\n\nDr. Alyson McGregor is a physician, researcher, writer, and advocate for women's health. She is the Director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is a TED speaker with over 1.6M views and recently published her book "Sex Matters: How male-centric medicine endangers women's health and what we can do about it."
\n\nMen and women are different and modern medicine has not recognized or accommodated for that. We need to do better.
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Jeannie Spiro is my business coach and an incredible resource and support for the many successful female entrepreneurs in my life. I invited her on the show to share more about her work in the world and how she views the role of Women in business - especially now as we are no longer doing “business as usual." Listen in as Jeannie offers a perspective for women who are running heart-centered businesses in these changing times, and what the world wants now.
\n\nJeannie is a business strategist specializing in helping women, coaches, visionaries, and experts create a lifestyle business with more ease, income, and impact. Using her burnout to bliss method she helps them create a business model, revenue, streams, and sales funnels that allow them to achieve multiple six or seven-figure lifestyle businesses. After achieving multiple six-figure businesses, Jeannie hit extreme burnout. She repeated the same patterns again and again until she finally decided to break the cycle by redesigning her entire business. Within weeks of her redesign, Jeannie doubled her income by working half the time. As a result, she's taken her exact process and now helps other women design monetize, and grow a highly profitable business that complements their lives.
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*Remembering who we really are can take a while, especially when you’ve been raised in a society that has created impossible and distorted standards of beauty. *
\n\nOften by the time we are in grade school, we find ourselves becoming self-critical and lost in comparison and self-criticism. We are too much: too fast, too slow, too thin too fat, too short too round, too this or too that. Eventually, we forget who we really were before the world tried to change us into something we are not.
\n\nAndrea Mosley is the woman behind the brand Beautiful Soul. There was a time she did not know how beautiful she was, and she spent most of her days allowing everyone but herself to decide who she was and what she should be. After a lifetime of starts and stops, Andrea pursued a master’s degree in psychology which also led her to the world of metaphysics. Since her awakening, Andrea has made it her life’s mission to help women, in particular, remember their beauty.
\n\nListen in as we explore what makes us beautiful and how to shift from our external understanding into a personalized internal understanding that moves us confidently into our deeper knowing.
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I heard Lynne Twist speak for the first time approximately eight years ago and have been a huge fan of her work ever since. Her ability to capture the essence of what matters most in life is deeply moving and inspiring. In fact, what I distinctly remember from that day is that every cell in my body was resonating with energy that coursed through my body and made what felt like an indelible impression on my soul. When I returned home, I dove more deeply into her work. I discovered that while tiny in physical presence, she has always been mighty in vision and capability. For more than forty years she has been a recognized global visionary dedicated to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. Her breadth of knowledge and experience has led her to profound insights about the social tapestry of the world and the historical landscape of the times we are living in, especially now as we continue our journey into what she calls “The Sophia Century," which is defined as the time in our history when the feminine archetype returns, awakening women and men to transform the world.
\n\nLynne Twist is a global pro activist, speaker, and author of the best-selling book, The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life. She is the co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance, a social profit organization that is an alliance between indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest and conscious, committed people in the modern world, for the sustainability of life. Lynne has shared her passion on stage with some of today’s top thought leaders, including Oprah Winfrey, The Dalai Lama, Jane Goodall, and Desmond Tutu.
\n\nSara Vetter is the Business Development Director of the Soul of Money Institute (SOMI) and is a coach, consultant, workshop leader, keynote speaker, and strategist. She is also the Major Gift Fundraiser for the Pachamama Alliance. Sara has had experience in advertising, marketing, and sales with the Disney Channel and several magazines including LA Magazine. She has been coaching, consulting, and leading workshops with Lynne Twist for more than seven years. Sara is an experienced SOMI facilitator of workshops, fundraisers, journeys, and retreats. She also leads several of the Pachamama Alliance Transformational Educational programs. Sara has held a leadership role with the Nobel Women's Initiative, co-led delegations to Dharamsala, India, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Liberia. As the major gift fundraiser for the Pachamama Alliance, Sara has led and participated in more than nineteen delegations and immersion trips to the Amazon Rainforest. She has raised millions of dollars for the Pachamama Alliance and the Nobel Women's Initiative and is a consummate fundraiser.
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If damaging our environment were made an actual crime at the international level, then corporations, private interest groups, and individuals could be held accountable. We would therefore drastically reduce the incidence of mass damage and destruction of ecosystems that is currently taking place globally. Jojo calls this harm ecocide and right now, in most of the world, it is legally permitted. But it’s possible to change the rules and it’s high time we did. Listen in as Jojo and I talk about her work to make the destruction and plundering of nature an international crime at the International Criminal Court.
\n\nWith degrees from Oxford and London Universities and a background in communication, entrepreneurship, and on-the-ground environmental activism, Jojo Mehta has a unique reputation for “getting things done,” and likes nothing better than working to unusual parameters. She is a natural leader as well as a compelling public speaker and advocate. Alongside barrister and legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins, Jojo co-founded the Stop Ecocide campaign in 2017 to support the establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court. Since Polly’s death in 2019 she has co-ordinated the growing international team engaged in this highly focused mission and is Chair of the Board of the Stop Ecocide Foundation in the Netherlands, which now manages the campaign. Jojo is a key spokeswoman for Stop Ecocide and has contributed to law conferences, environmental summits, festivals, and climate rallies as well as podcasts, interviews, and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from Extinction Rebellion to the BBC World Service and from the Ecologist to the New York Times.
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Alyssa describes herself as a walking paradox so I found myself feeling right at home in our very progressive discussion with a surprise “ending." It also happened to be National Orgasm Day, so, there’s that. You're welcome.
\n\nAlyssa Neill is a holistic Registered Dietitian, Certified Life Coach, in-training Quantum Alignment Human Design Analyst, and a Nourishment Evangelist, who deeply enjoys exploring all the avenues of nourishment, including & especially (!) those that are culturally taboo.
\n\nShe works with clients one on one in her private practice and hosts groups, intensives, and retreats. Alyssa loves nothing more than creation, expression, learning, and connecting. She climbs, dances, hikes, and adores being anywhere outside.
\n\nAlyssa is a Human Design G-Center Authority Projector, a Cancer Sun, Pisces Moon, and Capricorn Rising. While she appreciates all of these ways to define who she might be in relation to you, she also loathes when people try to define her.
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I loved my conversation with Akilah S. Richards and walked away with a much deeper understanding of the value of unschooling in America. Conventional schooling is deeply rooted in colonization, industrial progress, and control over our personal autonomy.
\n\nAkilah is passionate about mindful partnerships and parenting. Since 2016 she has hosted Fare of the Free Child, a lifestyle and parenting podcast about the connection between liberation, learning, and parenting, particularly among Black, Non-Black Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Parents, educators, unschoolers, and entrepreneurs tune in weekly to connect about unschooling, deschooling, conscious parenting, and self-directedness. Discussions center around emotional wellness, learning and children, parenting, self-care, and self-love. The voice and work of this Jamaican-born, digital nomad have been featured on NPR, Forbes, NBC TV, Good Morning America’s blog, and in several literary and in-person spaces throughout the U.S., Jamaica, and South Africa. The TEDx Speaker, digital content writer, and facilitator’s highly-anticipated book Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work (PM Press), will be released in the Fall of 2020.
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\n“The resistance is the roadmap, not a route to something else.”
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Jenna Arnold was first mentioned to me by a dear friend over ten years ago. She called me one night soon after meeting Jenna in New York City. “This woman is a force of nature and you HAVE to meet her!" I recall her saying.
\n\nFast forward, and while I have been following her on social media for several years, I recently noticed that she was publishing an important book about race. I asked for a copy, devoured it, and felt deeply excited about its content. I loved it because Jenna doesn’t try to simplify or dumb down what’s happening in the world and why. In it, she calls out middle-class white women to recognize where we unconsciously keep the systems of oppression in place and why. She further argues that if we were to awaken to our power and our willingness to be with difficult truths, we could quite literally change the future for all human beings. Jenna asserts that white women benefit from the very systems that oppress us, and we use our voting power to keep these systems in place because we won’t face where we have been complicit in the oppression of ourselves and others, and where our inaction has determined the current trajectory of this country. This is such an important book, and a powerful conversation- please listen in- I’d love to hear your thoughts.
\n\nJenna Arnold is the author of Raising Our Hands, an educator, social entrepreneur, activist, and mother who lives in New York City with her husband and two children. Jenna was one of the National Organizers of the Women’s March in 2017 and Oprah named her as one of her “100 Awakened Leaders who are using their voice and talent to elevate humanity." For her work as the co-founder of ORGANIZE—an organization focused on ending the waitlist for organ transplants in the US, Jenna was named one of Inc Magazine's "20 Most Disruptive Innovators" and the New York Times called it one of "the biggest ideas in social change." Jenna created the hit TV show on MTV, 'Exiled!' which took spoiled American teenagers to live with indigenous cultures around the world, and while at the United Nations, Jenna created multi-platform programming for MTV and Showtime with A-list celebrities like Jay-Z and Angelina Jolie. Jenna sits on the board of the Sesame Workshop Leadership Council and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her first book, Raising Our Hands, is about how white women can stop avoiding hard conversations, start accepting responsibility, and find their place on the new frontlines (published June 2020).
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Rachel Dunham is often referred to as a creatrix, and while the term itself refers to a powerful female creator, I believe that a creatrix is also a woman who is gifted with intuition and the ability to tap into that which we cannot see in order to bring ideas and essence into form and energy.
\n\nI was lucky enough to have worked with Rachel to create the branding for The Revelation Project, and was astonished when she revealed it to me. It’s a mark with multiple meanings that so captured the many angles of what The Revelation Project is.
\n\nMy logo is of two faces looking at one another, their outline creating a butterfly. The butterfly is a symbol of transformation; a story that is near and dear to my heart. The two faces represent self-love and the power of witnessing other women. Witnessing, or truly seeing another, and celebrating each other, are two very important elements to every interaction I have with all the women I serve through The Revelation Project. Rachel created an image that represents not only me but the many women the project serves as well as our power, our purpose, and our ability to become the most beautiful version of our true selves.
\n\nListen in as Rachel and I talk about mothering, female entrepreneurship during covid, business as a form of self-expression, the evolution of a brand, the importance of investing in your business, the energetics of branding, The Desire Deck that she is creating, and the mark she wants to leave on the world.
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Margaret Klein Salamon, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist turned climate warrior whose work helps people to face the deeply frightening and painful truths of the climate emergency and to transform their despair into effective action. She is the founder and executive director of The Climate Mobilization, which advocates an all-hands-on-deck, whole society mobilization to protect humanity and the living world from climate catastrophe. Her book, Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth, is a radical self-help guide for the climate emergency.
\n\nI heard about Margaret through Humanity Rising and reached out for an interview when I heard her talk about the emotional disconnect we humans have in facing the climate crisis. I became deeply curious about the root cause of this and wanted to dive more deeply into revealing the answers.
\n\nWhen I read her book, I was struck by one of the first paragraphs:
\n\n\n\n\n“Inside all of us, a battle rages. It’s the battle between knowing and not knowing, between fully facing the truth — emotionally, as well as intellectually — and shrinking from it. We sense we’re in a climate emergency and mass extinction event, but we have a deep-seated psychological instinct to defend against that knowledge. The pain is shouting at us: “Everything is dying!” Somewhere inside, we know that humanity and the natural world are in peril. Indeed, we feel the horrors of civilizational collapse and the sixth mass extinction of species, in our bodies. Our minds attempt to shield us from this pain — we avoid, distract, deny, and numb ourselves. But these defenses work only temporarily: When we fail to process our emotions and mourn our losses, the pain takes on tremendous power. It follows us around like a shadow, and we become increasingly desperate to avoid what we know.”
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I often talk about our social training ground and our society’s obsession with avoiding our emotions. I’m struck by the parallels between our stunted ability to process our suppressed emotion and our inability to truly feel what’s happening to our planet.
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\n\n\n\n\n“We — humanity — are putting together a team of heroes to cancel the apocalypse, to protect ourselves and the natural world from catastrophic collapse. You might not realize it, but you are on the roster. Your jersey is sitting in your locker. We need to figure out your position and get you into (emotional) shape. The first step is to show up to practice. We are waiting for you.”
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In Facing The Climate Crisis, Margaret also surfaces the teachings of Fromm, who postulated that the only reason people would not rise against the possibility of worldwide nuclear destruction was that they were already experiencing devastating destruction, internally. This validates my deeper knowing around our own unconscious self-loathing - the idea that it is unconscious makes me even more motivated to help us realize that the very symptoms we think are normal are actually not, and are, in fact, unhealthy and very destructive.
\n\nThere are so many symptoms of self-loathing. The very idea that any of us would not feel a measure of panic and deep grief at the reality we are facing is in itself a testament to how disconnected from our true nature we are. It also shows a deep disconnect from love and respect for ourselves and for others.
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\n\n\n\n\n“To solve the climate and ecological emergency, we must transform our destructive economy into a regenerative one, and we must do it at emergency speed. We don’t just need zero emissions in every sector; we need huge carbon drawdown projects that restore ecosystems and the soil. We need permaculture and food localization; we need an end to mass consumerism and endless growth; we need to give back half the Earth to nature to restore biodiversity, and we need to create a society based on protecting and healing humanity and the natural world. This means transforming not only our energy, agricultural, transportation, and industrial systems — it means transforming ourselves”
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I’m thrilled to Introduce Coral Brown, who is known and loved in her local community and around the world.
\n\nCoral is a mother, a dharma dweller, and a teacher of teachers. She is known for her integrative, lighthearted approach that fuses the energetic, creative energy of vinyasa yoga with her experience as a holistic counselor. Coral is a licensed mental health counselor and draws on twenty years of experience in yoga, philosophy, and holistic counseling to provide fertile, open space for the processes of healing and transformation.
\n\nCoral’s teachings are fueled by the desire to reveal and cultivate the essence of our individual and collective dharma and instill it into every aspect of our being.
\n\nCoral leads worldwide teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops. She is a regular contributor to Yoga Journal and has featured classes on YogaGirl.com.
\n\nListen in as we talk about yoga philosophy, chakras, the nine faces of the Goddess, Hindu mythology, our basic human needs, the principals of Shakti Shiva, and what’s happening in the world now, and so much more.
\n\nIn this episode, Coral shares more about her extensive studies in philosophy and yoga which have allowed her to access a layer of healing that goes beyond traditional methods. She explains that she was “blessed with depression,” and how this experience helped her to more deeply understand and embrace her own dharma.
\n\nCoral shares her own dharma statement (statement of purpose) reflecting the values she holds:
\n\nTruth, Compassion, Reverence, Commitment, Considerate, Ethical, Generous, Service, Respectful, Humility, Resilience, Perseverance, Mindful, Integrity, Loyal, Purposeful, Empathy, Faith.
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\nIn dealings with others, I will act with integrity and goodwill. I will be graceful, fair, conscious, and truthful.I will tenaciously continue to develop my skills and use them with humble confidence to raise the collective consciousness toward healing, fortifying, and integrating body, mind, and spirit. I will live what I love.”
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As a licensed holistic counselor, Coral is interested in supporting and enhancing the mind, body, and spirit of each client. She holds space and provides guidance and support that leads to personal transformation and integration. She believes that while this process takes courage, it can be lifesaving and life-changing. Her ideal client is someone who is ready to take the risk to fully embrace their strengths and their vulnerabilities in order to live a meaningful life.
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100 voices is about creating a space for authentic and grace filled conversations that makes space for the awkward and the messy, but also follow a format that uses the power of questions to invite people to listen to each other.
\n\nHer goal is to facilitate conversations that help others access personal transformation as it relates to dismantling racism. Using conversation as an instrument of change, especially now that the world has “cracked open”.
\n\nJoin us as we explore Tracie’s vision for what’s possible when we dare to create brave spaces for necessary conversations that might be messy and hurtful, but also revealing and healing!
\n\nListen in as she shares about her calling to dive more deeply into curiosity and asking questions as instruments of change and how asking questions and listening have become the pillars to her life’s work.
\n\nLearn why we must create brave space vs. safe space for women and men to have conversations about race and privilege and why she blows bubbles as a self-management tool when she is having difficult conversions, and what they remind her to do.
\n\nLaugh along with us as we talk about relationships, marriage, small talk and the situations in life that force us to self- examine.
\n\n\n\n\nThere are important questions at the heart of understanding ourselves, and most of us have failed to ask them.” - Tracie Jae
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More about Tracie: Tracie Jae believes the world can be a better place if we focus on human to human interactions. As the Lead Rebel of the Quiet Rebel brand, she creates space for authentic, grace-filled conversations about the things that matter most. Her signature event, 100 Voices, invites participants into dialogue about race and culture. 100 Voices and events based on its framework, offer a guided conversation that welcomes self- examination and a window into our humanity through other’s lived experience. Tracie is mom to 3 adult daughters and counts them as her greatest joys.
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Have you ever felt that you came here to be of service or had a deep curiosity to know more about your purpose, or suspected that you are part of something bigger? Then you may be part of The Second Wave.
\n\nWhile we can often think that change on the planet, and in human evolution, is up to someone else, this book explores why we each play a role in making change happen and birthing the new world. Especially now when we are all feeling so much fear and division. This book is about trusting what’s happening, knowing we are exactly where we need to be, and allowing ourselves to be compassionate, loving and vulnerable- even in the darkest, messy moments.
\n\nListen in as Kerri and I dive into the mess of the human experience and talk about self love, sovereignty, soul contracts, 5th dimension conversations, self-judgement, current world issues, division, fear, and the many way’s we have to reveal, feel and heal, what is coming to the surface so that we can expand and transform into a more loving and just world, together.
\n\nI loved my interview with Kerri, because I love her honestly, her grit, and her down to earth way of explaining and exploring spiritual concepts that can otherwise feel out of reach. I hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it.
\n\nKerri Hummingbird, Soul Guide, inspires people to lead their lives wide awake with an authenticity, passion and purpose that positively impacts others. She catalyzes mind-shifts that transform life challenges into gifts of wisdom with her Reinvent Yourself programs for individual and group mentoring. She is the international best-selling author of “The Second Wave: Transcending the Human Drama” and the award-winning best-selling book “Awakening To Me: One Woman’s Journey To Self Love” which describes the early years of her spiritual awakening. She has served as a social activist, leader, and philanthropist for over three decades. She is the Founder of the Skills Not Pills Movement and Host of Soul Nectar Show.
\n\n• Sovereign means : the truth already. It’s the idea that we are whole and complete, with all the tools we need within.
\n• We come to earth to have an experience of forgetting who we really are and all that we are capable of.
\n• Your soul is designed so that you can have the fullest experience you wanted to have on earth.
\n• We all have a unique thumbprint, which is symbolic of the unique being that you are.
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What do systemic racism and religious wounding have in common?\nBoth are very damaging to our souls if we don’t reveal and heal them.
\n\nListen in as Terrlyn and I talk about the importance of taking the time to investigate our own traditions and beliefs. We discuss how all must examine and reveal where unconscious bias and disempowering interpretations might be getting in the way of tapping into the true spirit of our divine nature as well as how we can all relate to one another as members of a larger spiritual community where everyone gets to belong.
\n\nDr. Terrlyn L. Curry Avery is a pastologist, spiritual leader, author, and TEDx speaker. She is the creator of pastology, the dynamic approach to transformation that focuses on the synergy between spirituality and the human psyche. She helps transformational leaders stay grounded in their faith, values, and purpose by providing both spiritual and psychological support as they manifest their own greatness and help others to do the same. Dr. Curry Avery helps leaders recognize and understand how ingrained disruptive and damaging messages from various religions may impact their finances, decision-making, careers, and personal self-image. She holds a Ph.D. from Hofstra University and a MDiv. from Yale University. She is the author of Sacred Intelligence: The Essence of Sacred, Selfish and Shared Relationships and was the previous host of her own Public Access Show.
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Stephanie is the founder of Lioness, a coaching consultancy dedicated to helping powerful women lead and live from a place of pleasure, power, and purpose. As a leadership and sexuality coach, she empowers women to awaken that seductive, magnetic place inside themselves so they can lead their business and lives from a place of inner strength and ease. Stephanie has a unique ability to flex between feminine flow and concrete masculine structures. She gives women permission to remove their armor and explore the more sensitive, sensual, and intuitive parts of themselves while also taking daring action towards their desires.
\n\nStephanie has a corporate background in talent strategy, culture change, and leadership development, working with Fortune 100 companies such as IBM, TDAmeritrade, and MetLife. She is also an expert in the feminine arts and is a graduate of The School for Womanly Arts, a certified Tantra & Sexuality Coach, Co-Active Leadership Coach, Femme! Teacher and KAP facilitator. She’s worked with hundreds of creative and talented women in over 20 countries to reclaim and honor their voice and power within.
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Meet my dear friend Vanessa Ryerse. She is an entrepreneur, an ordained pastor a working artist, and a mother. I first learned of Vanessa when I heard her on Rob Bell’s Podcast The Robcast a couple of years ago and I knew I had to reach out and know her more deeply.
\n\nIt turns out, she’s my people, and our initial conversation actually sparked a desire in me to begin my own podcast. Vanessa helped me realize that I wanted to give women who are doing powerful work in the world a bigger platform to share their ideas, revelations and work. She’s talented, open-hearted, rebellious, and thinks about things deeply - with her heart.
\n\nWhen Vanessa talks you want to lean in and listen real close so you don’t miss something magical. She’s always making beautiful things and she’s always integrating and building bridges for herself and for others between the human and the divine.
\n\nVanessa pastors at her start up: Vintage Fellowship in Fayetteville with her husband Rob. They have four children, biological and adopted, ranging from college to preschool. She sells in two Etsy shops: one for vintage home decor and clothing, The Classic Butterfly, and another featuring her broken china mosaic art, The Mosaic Butterfly.
\n\nListen in as we talk about her new sermon series, her own understanding of Patriarchy, her religious trauma, how she’s shifting the narrative of gender hierarchy with progressive theology and so much more.
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Karen Anderson is leading the conversation about healing the generational wounds between mothers and daughters and using this challenging relationship as an opportunity and a catalyst for growth, leadership, wisdom, and creativity. Karen challenges the current patriarchal definitions of these energies and notes that for millennia, women have been burnt at the stake (literally and metaphorically) when we wield our emotions, power, and creativity intentionally. She acknowledges the many women in our maternal lineages that have suffered mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically as a result of the unexpressed emotion, the unused power, and the untapped creativity within them. Karen hopes to disrupt these generational patterns through a project she calls The Motherlode.
\n\nIn it, she will be highlighting twenty creative women who have learned from their difficult relationship to their mothers, specifically around power, emotion, and creativity, and how to alchemize these energies in service to their leadership, relationships, and work, and why it matters.
\n\nListen in as Karen and I unpack the importance of revealing and healing these generational wounds and why they are such a rich source of insight for our leadership with other women. If you would like to participate in The Mother Lode, simply visit Karen’s website.
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\n\n\n\n\n“From the time you were born, and even when you were in the womb, your relationship with your mother served as a blueprint for your relationship with yourself. Your mother’s beliefs were the basis for your own. You learned to treat yourself the way your mother treated herself, and the way she treated you. This is generally an unconscious process.” ~ Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration
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\n- The term “motherlode“ refers to the source of gold from which small nuggets originated, a principal source or supply.
\n- Sometimes women are left out of the conversation about the divine feminine if they don’t identify with terms like ”goddess."
\n- Our relationships with our mothers can serve as a blueprint for our relationships with ourselves.
\n- Many of us have been our mothers’ “student” for decades and may have been handed beliefs and values about our bodies, identity sexuality, gender, etc.
\n- A deeper examination of what our mothers taught us about emotion, power, and creativity can be a valuable source of insight and revelation as it relates to our own personal leadership.
\n- If women are to have more say in the world, more of us need to understand and teach, directly and explicitly, and by consciously modeling the true nature of emotion, power, and creativity, not the current patriarchal definitions.
\n- Many of us have been taught that emotion is weak vs. a powerful source of energy to summon.
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As a licensed mental health counselor and certified life coach, Jessica Martin embraces the concept of the collective wisdom and draws from her expertise in holistic health while also tapping into her intuition to help her clients heal, integrate and balance. Jess uses tools of mindfulness, art, and somatic understanding and she can often be found delivering workshops, classes, public speaking, or hiking with her dogs.
\n\nWe are the stories we tell ourselves and the cumulative stories we are told about ourselves. At some point, we may find that our stories form an identity that limits and constrains who we want to be. As women, we can find the challenge compounded by inferred gender roles that are not aligned with what we may envision for our own lives. As COVID–19 continues to challenge us to innovate, women, in particular, are stepping up, finding new opportunities, and collaborating in ways that serve the collective whole while also stretching us to imagine a new future that’s distinctly different from the hectic and unconscious way we have been living.
\n\nListen in as Jess Martin and I discuss the evolving story of identity and how we can reimagine what’s possible by choosing which parts of our story we wish to keep, transform, or create from scratch. We also cover a wide range of subjects including naked rock climbing, Instagram celebrities, Divine Feminine girl-crushing, and the neurobiology of trees. As usual, there is a fair amount of irreverence and swearing. I sure hope you enjoy the show.
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Catherine Avery is the founder of Productivity By Design. Catherine empowers busy professionals who struggle with brain fog to conquer their daily tasks, paperwork, and productivity. A former queen of clutter, recovering Type-A Wall Streeter, and cancer survivor, she implements proven strategies that get you on a more productive and profitable track. Combining her design sense with streamlined systems and business acumen, she helps her clients master their time, space, and information.
\n\nCatherine didn’t expect the intense chemo brain after recovering from breast cancer and it led her to find her passion in developing a business dedicated to helping women organize their lives.
\n\nCatherine shares about 2 bouts of depression 10 years apart from each other and how different they both were.
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Nicole Majik is someone who walks into a room and makes you think: "Who is that cool chick? I have to know her!"
\n\nIn addition to being incredibly intelligent, she's also warm, soft spoken and welcoming. She brings a grounded optimism to her work in the filed of energy and helps to demystify cosmic concepts for application in our everyday lives.
\n\nWith a diverse background in Biology/Chemistry, and a Masters Degree in Metaphysics, Nicole Majik has a diverse skill set to assist women to transform from where they are currently, to where they want to be, using her unique process: The Alchemy of Transformation.
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Nicole works with leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives who feel stuck or discouraged, yet know that there is more in this world for them than their current situation has to offer, she helps them alchemize their own experiences in life into gifts they can use to assist themselves and others.
\n\nChakra clearing, working with the auric field, and transmuting energy into its highest and best use are just some of her many gifts.
\n\n*Check out Nicoles amazing offerings on her website including her next online workshop FORK THIS, BEND THAT!
\n\n"Forkbending is more than just a “stunt”. It is about learning techniques that allow you to access the quantum field and energetically alter physical material substance. This shows how energy work can directly affect physical substance….the techniques used can be greatly effective in healing. Some have been used to move bones instantaneously into proper alignment!" She maintains a 100% success rate working with her students.
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What if you could learn how to raise your voice, trust your power, and overcome your deepest fears? Meet Megan Jo Wilson, the founder of Rockstar Camp.
Megan Jo is someone I deeply admire because she is taking the world by the balls and shifting the narrative about what it means to be a woman. In addition to being a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, and a leader of world leaders, she is also an entrepreneur that is committed to supporting women to claim their voices and step into their personal leadership.
Megan Jo is HOT, feisty, tender, funny, bold and honest. She's not afraid to say it like it is and does not suffer fools gladly. She's been a tremendous teacher and I consider her a dear friend.
My prediction is that she will one day grace the covers of popular magazines as someone women want to celebrate and emulate. She stands for every woman to BE exactly who she is, living life out loud and without apology.
Megan Jo is also an author of two best-selling books: Who The Fuck Am I To Be A Coach and Who The Fuck Am I To Be A Rockstar. She is the founder of Rockstar Camp, an experimental learning program for women who are ready to step out from behind the curtain to start rocking their business and their lives.
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\n\nSpecial Guest: Megan Jo Wilson.
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She is a former Christian fundamentalist with a Master of Religious Education degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and is also the author of Fundamen-Talisman: Resurrecting the Fundamentals of Relationship from the Fundamentalism of Religion. It has been referred to as a handbook for recovering Christian fundamentalists.
Her life and work motto are,** “lightening up enlightenment!”**
\n\nLinks Mentioned
\nConnect with Duann Kier:
\n• Facebook
\n• Website
\n• Books
\n• [Metaphysical Mississippi](metaphysicalmississippi.com)
Monette Chilson, author of Original Resistance: Reclaiming Lilith, Reclaiming Ourselves, My Name is Lilith, and Sophia Rising: Awakening Your Sacred Wisdom Through Yoga, writes about God in the feminine and the feminine in God.
She speaks to groups big and small, in both lecture and workshop settings. She’s written for publications including Yoga Journal, Integral Yoga Magazine, and Elephant Journal and has contributed to numerous anthologies, most recently Yoga Wisdom: Warrior Tales Inspiring You On & Off the Mat and Whatever Works: Feminists of Faith Speak.
Monette was awarded an Illumination Book Award gold medal, as well as the Hoffer Small Press and First Horizon Awards.
\n\nShow Notes:
\n• Monette grew up in a Southern Baptist church and was raised to know a punishing God.
\n• Who is Lilith? Lilith was kicked out of the Garden of Eden - she was there before Eve.
\n• Lilith is a mythological first woman in the world. She is an archetype who is also a historical figure in the Bible that came before Eve.
\n• Lilith was kicked out of the garden because she wasn't interested in being dominated. She used her voice and said, "I am a full person."
\n• Monette started messaging to children so that they can integrate the feminine divine as young children vs. having to grow up the way we did, trying to undo the damage of omission. • If we can't see our feminine selves in God, it's impossible to see God in ourselves, so you have to start by reclaiming.
\n• Original Resistance, Reclaiming Lilith, Reclaiming Ourselves is a collected anthology with contributions from 45 women all over the world who resonated with the archetype of Lilith.
\n• It's so important for women to have stories, and see ourselves reflected in strong characters and heroines.
\n• Women were not given the full story. We were told stories that were exclusively told through the male lens, and it's even more damaging when it's told in a religious context because it keeps you from connecting from that vital divine feminine part of ourselves.
\n• Pronoun analysis in the Bible shows an exaggerated use of "his" vs. "hers." This is significant. If a woman cannot see "hers" then she cannot claim what is hers.
\n• It's never been ok that we, as women, have been omitted from history as whole human beings.
\n• Everything that we have been told has been told through the lens of men.
\n• In the Bible, "Sophia" means wisdom which conjures up the embodiment of the feminine divine, but it was never honored as this.
\n• Monette has been on a search for the feminine divine and has run into wall after wall as she has struggled to find what she was looking for.
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\n\nTrista Hendren is the creator of The Girl God series and a Certified Women’s Empowerment Coach with Imagine a Woman International.
Trista grew up Christian and studied the Bible very closely. She attended college but was not taken seriously as a theologian. Trista has also identified as an atheist and Muslim for periods of her life before developing her own sense of spirituality.
She authored a book The Girl God after her daughter called out the fact that God is usually depicted as male. After the book's success, Trista created the series which now totals 25 books.
\n\nShow Notes:
\n• Finding divinity within yourself.
\n• How we tend to categorize and isolate people because of their spirituality.
\n• Spirituality is totally separate from religion.
\n• Women's circles of today and their origins as discussed in the Bible.
\n• The importance of self-love for women.
\n• Learning how to be with all of the changes of motherhood.
\n• Changing your narrative through reframing.
\n• The wisdom in the female body and menstruation as a sacred time.
\n• How maltreatment of Mother Earth is a symptom of the patriarchy.
\n• Religion and money are some of the biggest ways to suppress women.
\n• Getting really intentional with what we want.
Links Mentioned:
\n• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
\n• Find A Women's Circle website and app
\n• Monette Chilson's Lilith Circle Guide
\n• Trista Hendren Facebook
\n• Instagram
\n• Girl God Books
In this episode join me for an interview with Lisa Medley. Lisa believes that as we create more love in the body, we create more love in the world.
Lisa serves as a Sustainable Wellbeing Lifestyle and Body Relationship Mentor. She has over 20 years’ experience in the healing arts, expressive therapy, life and wellness coaching, therapeutic massage and bodywork, somatics, energy medicine, and conscious movement & dance.
Lisa has experienced a divine connection all of her life. She is a Unitarian Universalist preacher’s kid, currently studies all kinds of spirituality, and creates her lifestyle to be in “integrity with her soul.” She is the creator of Beloved Your Body™ - a lifestyle program that empowers clients to cultivate a positive relationship with their body for sustainable wellbeing. Lisa believes that the body acts as a bridge to celebrate our divine humanity.
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Any Links Mentioned:
• Rhode Island School of Design
• Finding: The story of a young boy who becomes his adoptive mothers's greatest spiritual teacher
• Shifting Your Lens | Kim Fuller | TEDxNewBedford
• Kim Fuller - Born to Rise and the Power of Personal Story
Special Guest: Kim Fuller.
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\"The greatest gift we can give our children is modeling self-forgiveness for our imperfect selves.\" - Monica Rodgers.
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\"We have to meet men and boys where they are and teach them that conversation is where we solve problems.\" - Mark Greene.
Learn more about this episode at https://www.jointherevelation.com/blog/13
","summary":"Mark Greene writes, speaks, coaches and consults on the challenges men face when raised in man box culture. He helps men create a healthier vision of masculine culture and identity. \"We have to meet men and boys where they are and teach them that...","date_published":"2020-03-04T02:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dc4a7092-3b39-4d74-97bb-be308a798234/392cd6e7-db7a-4b38-87fe-38673757005c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":60089939,"duration_in_seconds":3715}]},{"id":"3b5cf960-5595-4a6c-8b9a-085b1102559c","title":"Episode 12: The Power of Self Forgiveness","url":"https://revelationproject.fireside.fm/12","content_text":"Self-loathing is its own special kind of trauma. Listen as I recall a story of finding self-forgiveness in the epicenter of a huge \"parent fail\" with my daughter. “It’s an inside job before we can take it to the outside. It’s the internal reckoning” - Andrea Willets. Learn more about this episode at https://www.jointherevelation.com/blog/12","content_html":"Self-loathing is its own special kind of trauma. Listen as I recall a story of finding self-forgiveness in the epicenter of a huge \"parent fail\" with my daughter.
“It’s an inside job before we can take it to the outside. It’s the internal reckoning” - Andrea Willets.
Learn more about this episode at https://www.jointherevelation.com/blog/12
","summary":"Self-loathing is its own special kind of trauma. Listen as I recall a story of finding self-forgiveness in the epicenter of a huge \"parent fail\" with my daughter. “It’s an inside job before we can take it to the outside. It’s the internal...","date_published":"2020-02-26T01:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dc4a7092-3b39-4d74-97bb-be308a798234/db4f6728-d32b-4ae2-bfe0-97ecefcc72f8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44581563,"duration_in_seconds":2745}]},{"id":"bdf79393-d9f7-43af-9de1-cdfe6ea7f66a","title":"Episode 11: The Power of Witnessing - Pt. 1","url":"https://revelationproject.fireside.fm/11","content_text":"Join us in this episode as we talk about the power of witness and why it's important that we hold space for each other as friends, family members, and fellow human beings. Learn how something so simple can have a profound impact on making someone feel seen and known. “In being present, you're not only being present for yourself, you're being present for someone else too.” - Monica Rodgers. Learn more about this episode jointherevelation.com/11","content_html":"Join us in this episode as we talk about the power of witness and why it's important that we hold space for each other as friends, family members, and fellow human beings. Learn how something so simple can have a profound impact on making someone feel seen and known.
“In being present, you're not only being present for yourself, you're being present for someone else too.” - Monica Rodgers.
Learn more about this episode jointherevelation.com/11
","summary":"Join us in this episode as we talk about the power of witness and why it's important that we hold space for each other as friends, family members, and fellow human beings. Learn how something so simple can have a profound impact on making someone feel...","date_published":"2020-02-19T01:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dc4a7092-3b39-4d74-97bb-be308a798234/299f83c2-22da-41c5-a548-9fbe4d51663c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":57338963,"duration_in_seconds":3543}]},{"id":"14d6bafb-8e61-4541-b949-49c46bae9900","title":"Episode 10: Andrea Willets - A Love Story","url":"https://revelationproject.fireside.fm/10","content_text":"How Andrea Willets harnessed the power of self love and makes her unapologetic presence in the world. \"Vulnerability became my greatest strength.\" - Andrea Willets. Learn more about this at www.jointherevelation.com/10","content_html":"How Andrea Willets harnessed the power of self love and makes her unapologetic presence in the world.
\"Vulnerability became my greatest strength.\" - Andrea Willets.
Learn more about this at www.jointherevelation.com/10
","summary":"How Andrea Willets harnessed the power of self love and makes her unapologetic presence in the world. \"Vulnerability became my greatest strength.\" - Andrea Willets. Learn more about this at www.jointherevelation.com/10","date_published":"2020-02-12T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dc4a7092-3b39-4d74-97bb-be308a798234/de1f509f-69b6-45b6-8f66-22e22121e183.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":86402513,"duration_in_seconds":5359}]},{"id":"b17eeb59-4f58-4e17-bf67-631689f3ec66","title":"Episode 9: Sorry, No More! Notes From A Recovering Apology Addict","url":"https://revelationproject.fireside.fm/9","content_text":"Andrea talks about the female apologizing personality types, what we might be covering up by saying \"sorry\", the guidelines for a proper apology, and more. \"This overuse of 'I'm sorry' is the replacement for the real conversation.\" - Andrea Willets. Learn more about this episode at jointherevelation.com/09","content_html":"Andrea talks about the female apologizing personality types, what we might be covering up by saying \"sorry\", the guidelines for a proper apology, and more.
\"This overuse of 'I'm sorry' is the replacement for the real conversation.\" - Andrea Willets.
Learn more about this episode at jointherevelation.com/09
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“The divine is in you.” - Vanessa Ryerse.
Learn more at jointherevelation.com/08
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\"When one person is growing and the other one isn't, is it sustainable? I would argue yes.\" - Monica Rodgers.
Learn more about this episode at jointherevelation.com/07
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\"The magic happens outside of the comfort zone.\" - Monica Rodgers.
Learn more about this episode at jointherevelation.com/06
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This episode is about exploring spirituality, how ego gets in the way, finding an access point to the divine, and how definitions of race and gender often separate us from seeing the bigger picture and the path to LOVE.
\"It is really about starting to have a relationship with life that bypasses the ego.\" - Monica Rodgers.
Learn more about this episode of The Revelation Project with Monica Rodgers and Andrea Willets at www.jointherevelation.com/05
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\"It is not selfish actually, it is about restoring the integrity that's meant to be there in order for us to serve ourselves so that we can serve others.\" - Monica Rodgers.
Learn more about this episode at jointherevelation.com/04
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“Often as humans, we need to belong. We want to belong. We want to be loved. We want to know that we're enough and that we're worthy. And that all is influenced by The Training Ground.” - Monica Rodgers.
Learn more about this episode of The Revelation Project with Monica Rodgers and Andrea Willets at www.jointherevelation.com/03
","summary":"The training ground is another way to talk about how we were all socialized when we were kids. Does what we learned during that time help us be our best selves? “Often as humans, we need to belong. We want to belong. We want to be loved. We want to...","date_published":"2019-12-10T23:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dc4a7092-3b39-4d74-97bb-be308a798234/c2f77780-0558-4135-b74f-092a092cf6d0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":43464399,"duration_in_seconds":2676}]},{"id":"17b8c80a-8035-4e91-b890-ff4dd7268b13","title":"Episode 2: Vulnerability & Fear of Exposure","url":"https://revelationproject.fireside.fm/2","content_text":"Today on the show, our co-host Monica will be talking about her recent \"vulnerability hangover.\" She describes her dismay when it dawns on her that she wont be able to hide as much now that the podcast is live. She struggles to honor all the parts of herself in the face of overexposure, and shares what came up for her in this podcast launch and how her \"mess became her message.\" We talk about why knowing your truth is important, what you can learn from difficult situations, how to show up authentically and much more. \"How do I show up authentically with all of me? And be able to share all of me without offending someone along the way?\" - Monica Rodgers. Learn more about this episode of The Revelation Project with Monica Rodgers and Andrea Willets at www.jointherevelation.com/02","content_html":"Today on the show, our co-host Monica will be talking about her recent \"vulnerability hangover.\" She describes her dismay when it dawns on her that she wont be able to hide as much now that the podcast is live. She struggles to honor all the parts of herself in the face of overexposure, and shares what came up for her in this podcast launch and how her \"mess became her message.\"
We talk about why knowing your truth is important, what you can learn from difficult situations, how to show up authentically and much more.
\"How do I show up authentically with all of me? And be able to share all of me without offending someone along the way?\" - Monica Rodgers.
Learn more about this episode of The Revelation Project with Monica Rodgers and Andrea Willets at www.jointherevelation.com/02
","summary":"Today on the show, our co-host Monica will be talking about her recent \"vulnerability hangover.\" She describes her dismay when it dawns on her that she wont be able to hide as much now that the podcast is live. She struggles to honor all the...","date_published":"2019-12-03T22:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dc4a7092-3b39-4d74-97bb-be308a798234/28fcc5a8-d440-4bf1-ac75-2fceca447c18.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25480082,"duration_in_seconds":1531}]},{"id":"3057cfc5-4a73-4e3b-934c-aed8f6d71c85","title":"Episode 1: What is The Revelation Project?","url":"https://revelationproject.fireside.fm/1","content_text":"Welcome to The Revelation Project Podcast. For our very first episode of The Revelation Project, enjoy Andrea Interviewing Monica about her darkest days before the dawn, and where The Revelation Project began. We also talk about why loneliness is so difficult, how to heal from difficult situations, spiritual work and much more. “Oftentimes we're the instrument in somebodies healing but we don't realize it.” - Monica Rogers. Learn more about this episode of The Revelation Project .","content_html":"Welcome to The Revelation Project Podcast. For our very first episode of The Revelation Project, enjoy Andrea Interviewing Monica about her darkest days before the dawn, and where The Revelation Project began. We also talk about why loneliness is so difficult, how to heal from difficult situations, spiritual work and much more.
“Oftentimes we're the instrument in somebodies healing but we don't realize it.” - Monica Rogers.
Learn more about this episode of The Revelation Project .
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