The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Podcast”

Episode 144: SUMMER SERIES: Amy McPhie Allebest - Breaking Down Patriarchy

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0400

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.

The 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.

Amy 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.

Amy 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.

This 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.

It’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.

It’s just as important for men to listen in and participate in breaking down patriarchy because ultimately, men are still in power, and patriarchy harms everyone.
It’s also deeply important because we love the men in our lives, and Patriarchy hurts the men we love as well as hurts women.
We don’t actually know the true nature of women because she has always been subjugated.
All human beings have both masculine and feminine energies, and all human beings benefit from cultivating both.
Men are taught to be good men by being defenders of women, and while there is a lot of beauty in that, it can also be very condescending and limiting for the women in their lives.

Listen 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.

Episode 94: Amy McPhie Allebest - Breaking Down Patriarchy

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:15:00 -0400

This 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.

It’s just as important for men to listen in and participate in breaking down patriarchy because ultimately, men are still in power, and patriarchy harms everyone.
It’s also deeply important because we love the men in our lives, and Patriarchy hurts the men we love as well as hurts women.
We don’t actually know the true nature of women because she has always been subjugated.
All human beings have both masculine and feminine energies, and all human beings benefit from cultivating both.
Men are taught to be good men by being defenders of women, and while there is a lot of beauty in that, it can also be very condescending and limiting for the women in their lives.

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Episode 88: Julie Foucht - The Art of Feminine Marketing

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

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.

Meet 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.

*Listen to this episode to learn: *

Why it’s so important for both men and women to draw from the energy of the feminine and bring it into our work life, especially now.
The art of feminine marketing isn’t about the grind and the hustle. It’s about rhythm, pace, intuition, and sustainability. It’s about bringing logic and heart together to make business decisions.
Why opening our feminine power centers is a big part of connecting to the intuitive side of our nature and to making money.
How the scarcity mindset is at the heart of how we women feel about money and income and our ability to make it and feel great about it.

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Episode 77: Dale Allen - Goddess Calling

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400

This episode is positively filled with wisdom and beauty. Goddess Calling - Healing Through Feminine Archetypes.

Listening 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.

While 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.

In this episode, we discuss:

Why does the term GODDESS make some of us uncomfortable?
What is our core wound, and why do we all have one?
How can archetypes help us to heal?
How is the GODDESS related to the Return of The Divine Feminine?
How can we listen for the GODDESS CALLING?
Why now? Why is the feminine the missing piece for what ails us as humans/society?
Why a BREAKDOWN is needed for a BREAKTHROUGH.
Why Women?
Why reclaiming emotion is a critical piece of our inner peace.

Dale 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.

Dale 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.

Dale's Opening Prayer:

“Our mother who art within us, each breath brings us to you. Thy wisdom come, thy will be done, as we honor your presence within us. Each day, you give us all that we need. Your abundance calls us to give and receive all that is loving and pleasurable. You are the courage that moves us to be true to ourselves, and we act with grace and power. We 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. Your body is the sacred earth and our bodies. Your love nurtures and unites us all now and forevermore."

Amen.

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Episode 70: Kelsey Abbott - Sparkly AF

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0400

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.

Kelsey 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.

Kelsey became a certified coach in 2014 and started the “Find your Awesome podcast” in 2017. She was initially very skeptical about Human Design until she began to look into it. How it described her own profile resonated deeply with her soul, so she kept going down the rabbit hole until getting certified.
Kelsey is a 4/6 Manifesting Generator. Right Angle Cross: Penetration. She graduated college with a psychology degree, went on to get a graduate degree in marine mammal science, and studied marine mammals and conservation. She then moved from that career to be a science writer, taking scientific papers and making them accessible, fun, and funny for regular people. On the side, she was coaching, swimming, coaching triathletes, personal training, and then morphed all of this into professional coaching and Human Design.
Human Design is like your blueprint for Earth School, and there are 5 types: Manifestor, Manifesting Generator, Generator, Projector, Reflector.
Kelsey refers to "Reflector" types as "Disco Balls of Awesomeness." Reflectors, who are only 1% of the population, reflect and amplify the energy of others.
If you have an open center, you will feel and amplify the energy of others in that center. If you have a defined center, you have your own energy in that center.
Alexander the Great was a Manifestor. Manifestors are here to make things happen. Manifestors are super, super powerful. They have the biggest aura, the biggest energy of any energy type, which means that a Manifestor cannot sneak into a room. You feel it when a Manifestor comes into the room.
Generator types are the only ones that have an endless reservoir of energy coming from the sacral center.
We silly humans often think that we're on a planet covered with almost 8 billion different people, but really we are on a planet with one human shattered into 8 billion separate pieces, and those different pieces need to own and share their gifts, our gifts. When when we do, we all fit together like puzzle pieces, and then we rise. We are meant to rise together. And we need each other to rise.

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Episode 67: Carole Marie Downing - Tune to Joy

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

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.

How beautiful is that?

Meet 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.

She 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.

** Carole believes we can use music as a way to create more connection and bring our voices to the world.**

Attunement - If we were to look at an instrument that was out of tune, we wouldn't say that it was broken or hopeless; instead, we would tune it, and I feel this is the same with people.
If life isn't going exactly as we would like, and we are out of sync with the world, it’s simply a request for re-attunement and noticing where we need to come back into alignment.
We can look at our relationships with ourselves and others as being out of tune or in harmony.
Initially, Carole experienced music as a way to heal from the grief of loss.
Sometimes, life experiences can’t be captured in words, and only music can help us express and move through our pain. When we allow ourselves to feel that deeply, we become wise to the fact that there can even be other emotions felt while we are in pain, such as beauty and gratitude.
Our culture influences whether we feel safe enough or confident enough to bring our voices into the world. Many people have this idea that they have to sound a certain way to sing, which is not true.
It’s so important that more of us access our voices in this way and that we look at a chorus as a metaphor for our humanity. Sometimes there is disharmony, and this is always true; before we have harmony together, it’s a necessary part of the process.

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Episode 66: Candice Hozza: Totally WOO

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

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.

Candice knew she had the gift of knowing and communicating with the spiritual world from an early age, but she shut it down because it seemed to alarm people.
She used to call herself “the queen of stuckness” because she was embarrassed about it and eventually knew she needed to pursue it. Until then she worked in a career that required her to be someone she was not.
The Akashic are a database of your soul connected to divine source that catalog a record of everything. They are a space of infinite possibility.
Candice taps into the Akashic records for business-women who want to understand what their business needs next. `
Every business has an energy and a voice, and we can access what it’s trying to tell us, and what it wants us to know.
The “I AM” presence is the core essence of who you are.

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Episode 63: Ken Mossman - Big Boys Cry

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0500

I met Ken almost a decade ago and felt an instant kinship with him.
In 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.

Throughout 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.

Ken 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.
Ken 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.

Show Notes:

On 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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Episode 54: Coral Brown - The Biology of Belief

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0500

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.

I 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.

Coral 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.

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.

Coral’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.

*Show Notes: *

Our belief system is shaped by our families, society, culture, education, and religion.
Awareness is the beginning of everything.
If you don’t believe it, you don’t perceive it.
We live in a dualistic world: right or wrong, heaven or hell, black or white, but there is a whole spectrum of experience and intelligence we miss when we perceive the world in this way.
We have been in a collective triggering of sorts, and many of us have lost friends and family members due to our beliefs. The higher your level of emotional intelligence and empathy, the more you can feel the collective pain.
Emotional Intelligence is just as important as intellectual intelligence and is more critical than ever as we navigate relationships and connection at a deeper level.
Often, we experience a contraction before an expansion, which is happening in our world right now.
Awareness of our beliefs is where our work is, and fealizing (feel + realizing) what we are feeling in each moment and choosing our response from a place of compassion for ourselves and others.
Conducting an inventory of beliefs is a great place to start noticing what your belief system is.

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Episode 53: Hillary Larson - Anxiety and the Search for Home

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Hillary is a knitter, but not in the knitting of fabrics, more the knitting together of people and projects and possibilities.

Hil 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.

Our 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.

Though 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.

Sit 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.

Hillary 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.

She 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.

Her 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.

Show Notes:

Anxiety is currently a huge subject, we are in extraordinary times now for many reasons and anxiety is a topic we can all relate to.
Many people don't necessarily realize that the feelings that they have are anxiety.
Anxiety can take many forms. If someone had asked Hillary if she had experienced anxiety she would have probably said no, but a culmination of events that include the death of a loved one and a terrible car crash brought her anxiety into focus.
Anxiety can often feel like a terrible weakness, somehow a reflection “that you can't get your act together,” and many can suffer from it in chronic waves to the point of debilitation.
The pandemic has tapped into collective anxiety and it's forcing many of us to look more closely,
Sometimes anxiety can be a disguised gift that forces us to journey into the abyss to look more deeply and compassionately at what frightens us.
Anxiety brought Hillary on a search that led her to a book called “The Diamond in your Pocket,” and it taught her the value of being with what is without needing to fix or make it go away.

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Episode 50: Andrea Powell - Stopping Traffick

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500

"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

This episode was as incredibly emotional as it is deeply inspiring and important.

I’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.

I 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.

Note: 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.

Andrea 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.

Show Notes:

Human trafficking at its core is about exploiting people’s vulnerabilities.
Our vulnerabilities at home are much deeper than most parents realize because of online apps and unregulated and insecure gaming.
The pandemic amplifies this vulnerability even more because so many kids are home, feeling lonely, and therefore vulnerable based on their hunger for connection and attention.
The vast majority of those trafficked are women and minorities.
Our society is disabled, not those who survive trafficking.
A trafficker's worse nightmare is an empowered kid.
Andrea’s goal is to see every woman feel valued and loved and to stop human trafficking.
Many women who are survivors of human trafficking have a continuum of trauma which also involves a continuum of healing.
Andrea also works with UNITAS and has written a parenting guide so that parents can know how to deal with threats as well as what to look for.
Roblox is an online gaming app with faulty security that endangers children to sextortion and Andrea wishes someone from the organization would respond to her outreach.
Andrea was afraid to start a non-profit for human trafficking but a wise woman said to her, “Even if you only help one person, your organization will have been worth building.”
“My Octopus Teacher” is a film that metaphorically represents the case of Tiffany Simpson to Andrea. Tiffany is a survivor of sex trafficking that was convicted to 17 years in prison and is still currently serving the sentence with seven years to go vs. the trafficker that exploited her. This shows how backward our laws are and how they perpetuate the cycle of exploitation.
People are conditioned to silo their experiences, and experiencing trauma is often at the heart of many mental health issues.
Money is a trauma source for many survivors of human trafficking.
Being trafficked is like a disappearing act because it happens slowly to many people who are already feeling invisible. Andrea shares that her job is to help human trafficking survivors reappear and reclaim their wholeness.
Online dating apps, online gaming, and insecure apps are all sources of exploitation. Ending human trafficking is an act of love.
The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 40.3 million victims of human trafficking globally. 81% of them are trapped in forced labor. 25% of them are children. 75% are women and girls. (Source: Polaris Project)

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Karana Rising
Surviving Now — Karana Rising
The Soul of Money Institute and Lynne Twist
My Octopus Teacher | Netflix Official Site
Petition · Free Child Sex Trafficking Survivor Tiffany Simpson · Change.org
Survivors Share This — Karana Rising
Shop — Karana Rising
DONATE — Karana Rising
UNITAS Parent Resource Guide
Free to Be – We Prevent Trafficking
Facebook | Anka Christine
Instagram • Anka Christine (@ankachristine)
Free Tiffany Simpson / Change.Org — Tiffany Simpson was trafficked as a child by a man who she thought loved her. She was 17 when her violent trafficker lured another 13 year old runaway into his car offering help. Tiffany and this young girl were brutally assaulted by multiple men. She was bleeding out after being stabbed while 8 months pregnant by her trafficker. However, the police arrested Tiffany and her trafficker in 2012. She was sentenced to 20 years in adult prison for trafficking another minor. It is hard to believe she has already served 8 of these years. She deserves justice and healing. Now more than ever, it is time to set her free.

Episode 48: Libby Bunten - Rupture to Radiance

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 23:00:00 -0500

This podcast brought me so much pleasure! Libby Bunten is a dear friend and colleague that keeps me thinking, daring and belly-laughing.

Join us as we travel into the deep rupture of Libby’s personal awakening and into the world of radiant feminist leadership development.

Libby’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.

We are programmed not to take ownership of our innate gifts. The “art of bragging” comes from Mama Gena and is really about celebration and learning to create a culture of claiming our accomplishments and celebrating one another.
Libby had experienced “The Mother Wound” first hand and found herself at a point in her life where she was seeking a way to reveal her true self.
Libby came home from Mama Gena’s weekend experience and cried for a week, which is something Mama Gena calls a “rupture”.
Trying to suppress your emotion is like trying to push a balloon underwater.
Giving permission and space for our emotion creates a clearing, and if we do this work enough- the work of unbecoming, we can return to our original divine design.
After completing a Mama Gena weekend, Libby enrolled in Rockstar Camp with Megan Jo Wilson and took her awareness and the work of unbecoming even higher.
Social marketing is aligned with leadership development and often gets us way out of our comfort zone. It often confronts us with the level of independence it gives us, and calls us to be more responsible, visible, and engaged.
Women are uniquely suited to do well in social marketing because it’s about relationships, community and authentic connection.
Feminist leadership is about getting all voices at the table.
Women are circling in ways that are creating a spiral of evolution, and helping each other ascend into a higher understanding of what we are capable of, and how we are all connected.
Libby continues to build her thriving Arbonne community, and next on her bucket list is writing her book!

Special Guest: Libby Bunten.

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Episode 46: Monica Rodgers - Monsterlogue: I Am Not Sorry

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:15:00 -0400

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."

I 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.

Maybe 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.

As 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.

Basically, 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.

Ironically, 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.

I 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.

This 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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Episode 28: Kerri Hummingbird - The Second Wave

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 23:00:00 -0400

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.

While 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.

Listen 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.

I 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.

Kerri 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.

• Sovereign means : the truth already. It’s the idea that we are whole and complete, with all the tools we need within.
• We come to earth to have an experience of forgetting who we really are and all that we are capable of.
• Your soul is designed so that you can have the fullest experience you wanted to have on earth.
• We all have a unique thumbprint, which is symbolic of the unique being that you are.

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