The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Transformation”

Episode 175: Michaela Carlin - The Psychedelics Of Motherhood & Earth Medicine For The Ages

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0400

The word Psychedelic means -soul reveal.

When 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.

While 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.

In 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.

This 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.

With 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.

Psychedelics as a therapeutic alternative for depression and personal growth
The lack of conversation around youth struggles with depression and mental illness
The impact of psychedelics on motherhood and personal transformation
Surrender, growth, and authenticity in motherhood and psychedelics
The significance of earth medicines, ceremony, and indigenous knowledge
Different types of psychedelics and their unique qualities
Integration, embodiment, and guidance through psychedelic experiences
Breaking free from conditioning and societal norms
Embracing discomfort, challenging what no longer serves us, and living a psychedelic life
Psychedelic generations and their role in transforming the status quo

Michaela 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.

Episode 172: Perdita Finn - Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0400

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.

Perdita 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.

Reclaiming 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In this episode:

Rediscovery of ancestral wisdom
Impact of fear and its tactical usage in control
The regular occurrence of miracles and revisiting what that means
Death, forgiveness, and continuation of relationships beyond death
The detrimental effect of domestication on civilization
Navigating trauma and initiating healing with our ancestors' help
Overcoming fear of hauntings and realigning perspectives on manifestations of the dead

ps: 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.

Find out that the dead are ready and waiting to help you on your healing journey
Understand that miracles are organic, natural, and accessible to everyone
See that you are never alone — no one dies alone and no one lives alone because the dead are a constant presence in our lives
Unearth and*reclaim the suppressed wisdom of your ancestors
Recognize that seeds and miracles alike grow in the dark, so there’s no need to fear either the dead or the darkness

You 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:

Perdita 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.

Episode 165: Kim Fuller and Byna Haynes - BORN TO RISE: Awakening the Stories of Women

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400

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.

Kim Fuller and Bryna Haynes share about the “The Born to Rise Book Project” a movement to inspire, awaken, and amplify, the stories of women.

The 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.

Kim 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.

Through 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.

With 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.

The 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.

Topics Discussed:

The Born to Rise book Project
The Born to Rise movement
World Changers Media
Writing Tips
How the Trance of Unworthiness impacts us when writing.
Surrendering control
Yogic writing
Vulnerability
Becoming the Shero's of our stories
Men and women's allyship
World building
Women's communities
Writing as a group endeavor
The magic of sisterhood
Emerging leaders
The power of personal storytelling

Bios:
Kim 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.
She 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.

Bryna 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.

Company Description:
Founded 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.
Watch out, status quo. You don't stand a chance.
Learn more at www.WorldChangers.Media

Special Guests: Bryna Haynes and Kim Fuller.

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Episode 151: Lynne Twist - Living A Committed Life

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

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.

Lynne is naming the energy coming through at this time: The Sophia Century and what this means for humanity at this time of evolutionary change.
We are the ancestors of an age to come, and all of us that are here at this time have an extraordinary opportunity to make an impact- more than ever before in human history.
How women can meet the dominance of the patriarchy, and how we can ignite a new age of feminine leadership.
Why Men long to activate more of the feminine leadership model in their lives.
How Jack Canfield, friend, and author of Chicken Soup for The Soul, encouraged Lynne to write her new book almost 20 years after the incredible success of The Soul of Money - which is still to this day is considered one of the most visionary and best-selling books.
Living a committed life has inspired and informed Lynne's understanding of what makes ordinary people extraordinary.
For people living at this time in history, humanity is being called forth to be the stewards and midwives of the world to come as our systems and structures fall apart - education, governance, health, education, and climate are all in crisis, and the "mess of the world" can be overwhelming. Lynne's antidote is to live what she is calling "a committed life" in service to a purpose larger than yourself.
Lynn's book is designed to meet the moment of our time and engage people in stepping more fully into our own lives and to reveal our unique gift that is only ours to give.
Why the universe loves commitment, and why the universe loves when we endeavor to do something larger than we feel capable of.
What happens to us at a cellular level when we hear someone speak about their commitments?
How meeting Buckminster Fuller and hearing his story changed the trajectory of Lynne's life and awakened her at the deepest level.
How one ordinary individual can change the world.
How most people think of commitment is backward. Rather than being a burden, commitment liberates us and gives us freedom and fulfillment in ways we never thought possible.
Hear Lynne Talk about some of her darkest times - times she wanted to give up.
Why it's so important that we stay in proximity to suffering, and don't turn away from those who are suffering.

Lynne 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.

She 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.

Lynne 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.

From 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.

Her 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.

In 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:

Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Live Them, by Katherine Martin (New World Library, 1999)
Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals" by Darian Rodriguez Heyman (Jossey-Bass, 2011)
Einstein's Business: Engaging Soul, Imagination, and Excellence in the Workplace" by Dawson Church, Ph.D. (Elite Books, 2007)
Birth 2012 and Beyond: Humanity's Great Shift to the Age of Conscious Evolution by Barbara Marx Hubbard (Shift Books, 2012)

Lynne 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.

A 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.

In addition, she has co-presented and shared the stage with some of today's most influential thought leaders, including:

Oprah Winfrey
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Riane Eisler
Deepak Chopra
Jane Goodall
Leymah Gbowee
Jack Canfield
Paul Hawken
Van Jones

Episode 137: Helen MacMillan - The Gift of Pain

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0400

In today's episode, Helen MacMillan shares her personal story and celebrates the birth of her new book, "The Gift of Pain."

The 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.

And once we allow pain to come and sit at the table with us, and we listen and respond, the pain will usually leave us.

In all cases, pain is a messenger, a prophet, and a gift, AND we must not learn to live with it.

Listen in as Helen and I dive deep below the surface to interpret the wisdom of our pain:

Is pain necessary for growth?
What inspired your book "The Gift of Pain?"
Why pain is is something we must NOT learn to live with.
Learn the 5 step process to shift your mental, emotional, and energetic state
How is pain currently serving you?
Some examples of Helen's work with clients in pain and what it's teaching them.

Helen 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.

Through 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.

Originally from Jamaica, Helen resides in the USA with her husband Gary and their dog Sadie.

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Episode 119: Shelley Paxton - Soulbbatical

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:15:00 -0400

Shelley Paxton is passionate, charismatic, and soulful.

Think Brené Brown meets Biker Babe, with a dash of Liz Gilbert and a wicked sense of humor.

As former Chief Marketing Officer of Harley-Davidson, Shelley found herself at the top of the proverbial mountain feeling success-EMPTY instead of success-FULL.

This 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.

Shelley is leading a REBELution to rewrite the script of success and liberate a billion souls who feel called to something more.

Shelley 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!

Listen in as we unpack her revelations about life, love, soul-FULL living, and happiness.

How does a soul fever show up in our lives?
Hear about Shelley’s reoccurring nightmares that would not leave her alone until she started listening to what she was being shown.
What does it mean to take a SOUL-batical? Why is this something everyone should do?
How can you become the CSO - Chief Soul Officer - of your life?
How does one shift from feeling Soul-EMPTY to soul-FULL?
Why is it important to rewrite our success script?

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Episode 105: Bergen Hyde - From Wounded Maiden to Cherishing Mother: An Archetypal Rite of Passage for Women

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:15:00 -0500

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.

Listen 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.

What is internalized patriarchy, and how does it impact women?
What is the wounded maiden, and why is she so prevalent in the world today?
What are the traits of Wounded Maiden? What are the Traits of Mother?
What is The Triple Mother Wound, and how can we reveal it and heal it?
What is the Death Mother?
How can the dark feminine energies hurt or help us?
Why does the Patriarchy want to keep women pretty, pleasing, and polite?
What is the archetypal underworld, and why must we go there to discover who we are?
How can women awaken from the trance of patriarchal religion to discover the sacred feminine's nourishment?
How did Bergan begin to conceive of her work with WOMB?
Why it’s so important for women to become embodied and know their own inner wild?
How can women return to flow and keep the flow?
How can women connect more deeply with Mother Earth?
What does it mean to be with the “pain of transformation?”

Bergen 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.

She 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.

Bergen 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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Episode 72: Darla LeDoux - Shifting the Field

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0400

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.

After 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.

There are two types of energy. There is default energy, and then there's sourced energy.
Default energy is all the rules we live by based on the past and trying to control the future.
Sourced energy feels alive and aligned and is created from the present moment.
We're at a place in our evolution as a society where people know that they're not really stuck. There's just something hidden from their view, so it’s our job as coaches to help them reveal what’s hidden.
There are three stages to the anatomy of a transformation.
When we are working with a client in this way, we trust that everything that’s showing up is conspiring for us to see our truth - that it all gets to belong there.
The structure offered in this anatomy allows us to be more in our magic and to lean into our intuitive gift.
The answers we seek are never going to come to us while we are safe inside of our comfort zone.
The paradox is that we need to learn to validate ourselves but we can't do that until we've really been seen and witnessed through another's eyes.

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Episode 31: Margaret Klein Salamon - Facing Climate Fears

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:00:00 -0400

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.

I 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.

When I read her book, I was struck by one of the first paragraphs:

“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.”

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.

But I love Margaret’s attitude in this excerpt:

“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.”

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.

There 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.

Margaret shares the bottom line:

“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”

I would add that the path to transforming ourselves is the path inward to loving ourselves.

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