web01.fireside.fm Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:03:11 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Belonging” https://revelationproject.fireside.fm/tags/belonging Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:15:00 -0500 The Revelation Project is an individual and holistic movement that disrupts the trance of unworthiness and lifts the veils of personal illusion and cultural deception that keep us from remembering our divinity and inherent wholeness. The Revelation Project Podcast explores alternative narratives to traditional patriarchal influences that awaken, liberate and activate awareness. Join us to investigate vulnerable and courageous topics that reveal more magic, wonder, and beauty than we ever thought possible. Life is a revelation, and what gets revealed gets healed. en episodic Life is a Revelation Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC The Revelation Project is an individual and holistic movement that disrupts the trance of unworthiness and lifts the veils of personal illusion and cultural deception that keep us from remembering our divinity and inherent wholeness. The Revelation Project Podcast explores alternative narratives to traditional patriarchal influences that awaken, liberate and activate awareness. Join us to investigate vulnerable and courageous topics that reveal more magic, wonder, and beauty than we ever thought possible. Life is a revelation, and what gets revealed gets healed. no Goddess, Sacred Feminine, Awakening, Healing, embodiment, Sacred Masculine, Feminine Leadership, Erotic Power, Archetypes, Gnosis, Mother Wound, Patriarchy, Awakening, Divine Feminine Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC rodgers107@me.com Episode 117: Natalie Claire - Strip Clubs, Sex Work & Spirituality https://revelationproject.fireside.fm/117 8a2d8387-e094-4b2e-abe6-d3f9c500cce0 Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:15:00 -0500 Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC full Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC In this episode, Monica explores the topics of sex work, stripping, and spirituality with Natalie Claire. 1:04:08 yes I loved this conversation with Natalie Claire because it’s rich, deep, and revelatory! We 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? In 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. Why are sexuality and sex work such taboo subjects? How can we invite every part of ourselves out into the open without editing ourselves? How can we uncover, explore, and integrate all the paradoxes within ourselves without compartmentalizing? What makes us feel safe and seen to ourselves to fully reveal or fully express ourselves? How can we change our perspective on sex work and stripping and get away from the stigmas and assumptions attached to those? How do different people feel seen or identify with invisibility or freedom from societal norms? Natalie 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. connection,consciousness,courage,education,feminine,healing,health,inspiration,love,revelation,selfhelp,selflove,spirituality,vulnerability,women I loved this conversation with Natalie Claire because it’s rich, deep, and revelatory!

We 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?

In 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.

  • Why are sexuality and sex work such taboo subjects?
  • How can we invite every part of ourselves out into the open without editing ourselves?
  • How can we uncover, explore, and integrate all the paradoxes within ourselves without compartmentalizing?
  • What makes us feel safe and seen to ourselves to fully reveal or fully express ourselves?
  • How can we change our perspective on sex work and stripping and get away from the stigmas and assumptions attached to those?
  • How do different people feel seen or identify with invisibility or freedom from societal norms?

Natalie 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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]]> I loved this conversation with Natalie Claire because it’s rich, deep, and revelatory!

We 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?

In 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.

  • Why are sexuality and sex work such taboo subjects?
  • How can we invite every part of ourselves out into the open without editing ourselves?
  • How can we uncover, explore, and integrate all the paradoxes within ourselves without compartmentalizing?
  • What makes us feel safe and seen to ourselves to fully reveal or fully express ourselves?
  • How can we change our perspective on sex work and stripping and get away from the stigmas and assumptions attached to those?
  • How do different people feel seen or identify with invisibility or freedom from societal norms?

Natalie 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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]]> Episode 51: Angela Todd - Revealing Herstory https://revelationproject.fireside.fm/51 49e41089-2fb1-421d-8303-069521209e06 Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500 Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC full Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC In this episode, Monica talks to Angela Todd about the preservation of women's stories. 48:10 no 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. Angela 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.  Angela has a BA in women's studies, MA in literary and cultural theory, and did her PhD work in cultural studies. Show notes: * Women’s stories are usually relegated to the sidelines of history. * We don’t have World history or American history without women’s history.  * Many women don’t believe they have a story to tell, and this must change.  * Ordinary women have extraordinary stories.  * We always think someone else has the story or the beauty or the experience. * The facts of your life are so much more powerful when they are put in the context of a story.  * Our stories can be an inheritance, and our history is made more rich and complex and often illuminate great deeds done by those that might not have made it into the history books.  * Hurt people hurt people, but invisible people make more invisible people.  * There are structures in place that shape everything and the patriarchy is one of them.  * Famous people’s stories are very scripted and not usually helpful when it comes to authentic storytelling.  * In order to archive your story you need 3 things: your voice, your papers, your photographs.  * History is incomplete without the stories of women and minorities.  * Angela is often hired by daughters and many women are gaining a lot of healing by collecting parts of their family history.  * Keep your important papers, photos, recordings in a cardboard box and put them on a shelf in a closet. * Make a plan to share your archives and pass the information on to the historian in your family or an actual archive, repositories.  * Our colleges, universities, town records, church groups - we can find a place to pass along our archives and there are organizations that would like to preserve them.   connection,consciousness,courage,education,feminine,healing,health,inspiration,love,revelation,selfhelp,selflove,spirituality,vulnerability,women 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.

Angela 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. 

Angela has a BA in women's studies, MA in literary and cultural theory, and did her PhD work in cultural studies.

Show notes:

  • Women’s stories are usually relegated to the sidelines of history.
  • We don’t have World history or American history without women’s history. 
  • Many women don’t believe they have a story to tell, and this must change. 
  • Ordinary women have extraordinary stories. 
  • We always think someone else has the story or the beauty or the experience.
  • The facts of your life are so much more powerful when they are put in the context of a story. 
  • Our stories can be an inheritance, and our history is made more rich and complex and often illuminate great deeds done by those that might not have made it into the history books. 
  • Hurt people hurt people, but invisible people make more invisible people. 
  • There are structures in place that shape everything and the patriarchy is one of them. 
  • Famous people’s stories are very scripted and not usually helpful when it comes to authentic storytelling. 
  • In order to archive your story you need 3 things: your voice, your papers, your photographs. 
  • History is incomplete without the stories of women and minorities. 
  • Angela is often hired by daughters and many women are gaining a lot of healing by collecting parts of their family history. 
  • Keep your important papers, photos, recordings in a cardboard box and put them on a shelf in a closet.
  • Make a plan to share your archives and pass the information on to the historian in your family or an actual archive, repositories. 
  • Our colleges, universities, town records, church groups - we can find a place to pass along our archives and there are organizations that would like to preserve them.  

Links:

]]> 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.

Angela 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. 

Angela has a BA in women's studies, MA in literary and cultural theory, and did her PhD work in cultural studies.

Show notes:

  • Women’s stories are usually relegated to the sidelines of history.
  • We don’t have World history or American history without women’s history. 
  • Many women don’t believe they have a story to tell, and this must change. 
  • Ordinary women have extraordinary stories. 
  • We always think someone else has the story or the beauty or the experience.
  • The facts of your life are so much more powerful when they are put in the context of a story. 
  • Our stories can be an inheritance, and our history is made more rich and complex and often illuminate great deeds done by those that might not have made it into the history books. 
  • Hurt people hurt people, but invisible people make more invisible people. 
  • There are structures in place that shape everything and the patriarchy is one of them. 
  • Famous people’s stories are very scripted and not usually helpful when it comes to authentic storytelling. 
  • In order to archive your story you need 3 things: your voice, your papers, your photographs. 
  • History is incomplete without the stories of women and minorities. 
  • Angela is often hired by daughters and many women are gaining a lot of healing by collecting parts of their family history. 
  • Keep your important papers, photos, recordings in a cardboard box and put them on a shelf in a closet.
  • Make a plan to share your archives and pass the information on to the historian in your family or an actual archive, repositories. 
  • Our colleges, universities, town records, church groups - we can find a place to pass along our archives and there are organizations that would like to preserve them.  

Links:

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