Welcome to The Becoming Podcast, where we talk about modern-day rites of passage, radical transformation, and other times of becoming in women's lives...and how these times can be a catalyst to become more of who you are. Hosted by women's mentor, coach + doula, Jessie Harrold.
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Moonwise podcast is a celebration of feminine wisdom. Join host Dorothée Sophie Royal for conversations about health, wealth, creativity and magic. Together, we explore the shifting tides of our cyclical nature as we gracefully navigate life’s many changes. Our guests are luminous leaders, healers and wisdom carriers who bring reverence and beauty to their work and lives. Follow us @moonwise.co and connect at moonwise.co.
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 6; Episode 6 | Asha Frost on the medicine of transformative times, the miracle of rest, and being eldered by the living world
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My friends! I'm really excited to share this interview with the amazing Asha Frost. We had such a beautiful conversation, and Asha has so much wisdom to share, and does so eloquently. Here's some of what Asha and I talk about in this episode: > How Asha's Lupus diagnosis was a threshold moment in her life that made it impossible to keep up with the…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 6; Episode 5 | Sarah Wildeman on the radical art of building community + nourishing ecosystems of care
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I'm thrilled to bring you this conversation with Sarah Wildeman on the Becoming Podcast this month. This was such a rich and far-reaching dialogue about all things community-building, which is such an important locus of support – and also struggle – as we traverse times of deep change in our lives. Here's some of what Sarah and I talk about in this…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 6; Episode 4 | Danielle Cohen on photography as a rite of passage and the medicine of being fully seen
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Hello, friend! I'm really excited to share my conversation with Danielle Cohen with you. If you're a mother, an entrepreneur, a multi-passionate human, or have ever been on either side of a camera, this episode is a must-listen. First, let me tell you a little bit about Danielle. Danielle Cohen is a visibility coach & professional photographer with…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 6; Episode 3 | Glenda Goodrich on authenticity in midlife, creative rites of passage, wilderness questing + becoming your own spiritual authority
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Hello, friend! I'm delighted to share this month's Becoming Podcast episode with you. In it, I interview artist and fellow wilderness quester Glenda Goodrich. Glenda is an artist, art doula, SoulCollage® facilitator, writer, and convener of ceremony. She brings together earth-based rituals, community gatherings, and creative expression in a search …
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 6, Episode 2 | Megan Sheldon on ceremony, grief, and honouring seemingly invisible moments of change
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I'm really excited to share with you my interview with Megan Sheldon. Megan and I connected through the magic of Instagram a few years ago, and we've recently enjoyed a couple of conversations sharing lots of professional and personal commonalities. Megan holds a tremendous amount of wisdom around grief work, ritual and ceremony, and I'm delighted …
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 6, Episode 1 | Annie Bray on burnout, caregiving, and finding possibility in impossible times
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I'm delighted to share with you that The Becoming Podcast is back for its 6th season (wow!) and that I've got a full and rich lineup of guests to share with you this year! The first is my dear friend Annie Bray. There were a lot of different titles I could have given this podcast and "Deep Conversation Between Two Brilliant Midlife Friends About Th…
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TRUST: Working with Intuition and Psychic Gifts with Sydney Blum (Ep.63)
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In this episode of Moonwise, we talk with Sydney Blum about her experience of working with intuition and psychic gifts. We talk about the importance of energetic boundaries, intention setting and consent. She shares her own story of developing a code of ethics as a psychic medium as well as advice for people who want to engage more with their intui…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 5; Episode 7 | Lucy Jones on the metamorphosis of pregnancy, birth and motherhood
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Hello beautiful ones! I am so excited to share this month's interview with Lucy Jones with you. I think it might be one of my favourite episodes ever: our conversation was so rich and so full of the kinds of things I think we *really* need to be talking about when it comes to matrescence and motherhood. I started following Lucy in the early days of…
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COLLABORATE: A Message from the Trees with Ama Boakye (Ep. 62)
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In this episode of Moonwise, Ama Boakye joins us from Ghana to share an urgent message from the trees. We talk about the possibility of collaborating with nature and the ancestors to create more wellbeing in our world. We discuss the difference between following your heart versus following the voice of intuition that leads to true growth. We also d…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 5; Episode 6 | Heng Ou and Marisa Belger on The Essential Art of Mothering the New Mother
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Hello beautiful ones! I am so excited to share this month's interview with Heng Ou and Marisa Belger with you. They are the authors of The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother, which was a groundbreaking book for so many new mothers and postpartum professionals. To say I was delighted to be able to connect with these two…
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RECEIVE: Megan DeBoer on Tending Wealth (Ep. 61)
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In this episode of Moonwise, we speak with Megan DeBoer about financial wellness and how we can reimagine our relationship with wealth and money. We talk about why money is often linked with self worth and intergenerational trauma and why women in particular struggle with empowerment around wealth. She shares her unique approach of guiding folks in…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 5; Episode 5 | Mimi Young on intuition, animacy + collaborating with Mystery during transformative times
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Hello beautiful ones! I am so excited to bring you this month's episode of The Becoming Podcast with Mimi Young. Mimi Young is a Taiwanese Canadian animist spirit medium and the founder of Ceremonie, an esoteric brand focused on conversations around greater intuition and creativity, animism, and realigning with our deeper purpose. Mimi works at the…
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CLEAR: Healing Subconscious Beliefs with Krishna Avalon (Ep. 60)
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"We spend so much time in the human mind worrying about what we don't want. We're so good at that. But what are you here for? What kind of life do you want to create?" - Krishna Avalon In this episode of Moonwise, we speak with Krishna Avalon about healing subconscious beliefs. She shares her experience of why she added Psych-K work to her healing …
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 5; Episode 4 | Toko-pa Turner on belonging during polarizing times, revillaging for the under-resourced, and finding our place in the greater family of things
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The Becoming Podcast has been on a short hiatus while I focus on writing my book, but oh what a comeback episode I have for you! This month, I spoke to Toko-pa Turner, who many of you may know as the unofficial patron saint of many of my circles and gatherings because of the sheer number of times I've quoted from the wisdom of her book, Belonging. …
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GRACE: Navigating the Borderlands with Erin Chalfant (Ep. 59)
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"Mistakes are portals to freedom." - Erin Chalfant In this episode of Moonwise, we speak with Erin Chalfant about navigating the borderlands of our lives by working with the elements. She shares her insights about the Celtic wheel of the year, how to fail gracefully and connect more deeply with inner knowing. We also talk about: Overcoming perfecti…
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DAWN: Emerging from the Birth Portal (Ep. 58)
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"Birth is a transformational event, it's a rite of passage, it's an initiation. It is an event that is meant to change you. And it's meant to bring you to the very edge." In this episode of Moonwise, host Dorothee Sophie Royal shares her thoughts about the transformative portal of birth and the keys that made her second postpartum a joyful experien…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 5; Episode 3 | Day Schildkret on how to create rituals that honour times of loss, celebration and change
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Welcome to the third episode of the 2023 season of the Becoming Podcast! On this month's show, I had the great pleasure of having a conversation with Day Schildkret. I was first introduced to Day's work many years ago when a friend recommended I check out his book, Morning Altars. Now, Day has written Hello Goodbye, a "recipe book" of rituals, that…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 5; Episode 2 | Jennifer Garvey Berger on the science of adult development + how to allow transformative times to grow you
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Welcome to the second episode of the 2023 season of the Becoming Podcast! On today’s episode, I welcome Jennifer Garvey Berger, someone whose work I've been following for many years, and who I consider to be a valuable teacher of mine. I was so excited to nerd out with her about all things adult development psychology, neuroscience and complexity t…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 5; Episode 1 | Mara Glatzel on honour your humanity, radical self-responsibility and letting the soft animal of your body love what it loves
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Wow! I can't believe we're on season 5 of this podcast! That is 4 years and 36 joyful episodes I've had the pleasure of sharing with you! On today's episode, I welcome The Becoming Podcast's first repeat guest, my friend Mara Glatzel. (You can listen to our first episode together here). If you don't already know Mara, she is an intuitive coach, wri…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 4; Episode 11 | Sarah Vermunt on finding meaningful work and finding your way through career change
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I know so many of you will be excited to listen to this episode of the podcast with Sarah Vermunt. For almost all of the people I work with, career change ends up be the focus of or at least a part of their process of radical transformation. And that, my friends, is Sarah's speciality! Here's some of what Sarah and I talked about in this episode: >…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 4; Episode 10 | Kamya O'Keeffe on women's rites of passage and liberating your inner crone
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 4; Episode 9 | Sarah Durham Wilson on the rite of passage from maiden to mother, midlife, and other dangerous opportunities
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Today on The Becoming Podcast, I'm sharing my conversation with Sarah Durham Wilson. This episode goes DEEP into the wisdom of the archetypes and how we are called to unearth the darkest, gnarliest parts of ourselves in order to fully become. My conversation with Sarah covers: > What the maiden and mother archetypes are, and how to know which one i…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 4; Episode 8 | Molly Millwood on normalizing matrescence, how to survive the "baby bomb" in your intimate partnership, and reclaiming the power of postpartum
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I'm really excited to bring you my conversation with Molly Millwood, Ph.D., today. Molly's book, To Have and To Hold: Motherhood, Marriage and the Modern Dilemma, is, hands down, one of the best books on matrescence and maternal mental health that I've ever read....and I've definitely read them ALL. We share so many perspectives on this rite of pas…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 4; Episode 7 | Kimberly Ann Johnson on the postpartum revolution, women's nervous systems and reclaiming embodied power + authenticity
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It’s my great pleasure to have Kimberly Ann Johnson join me for a rich and wide-ranging conversation on The Becoming Podcast this month. I’ve been following Kimberly’s work since her seminal book, The Fourth Trimester, rocked the worlds of mothers and birth workers alike when it was released five years ago. Since then, I’ve come to view Kimberly as…
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CHANGE: Jessie Harrold on Rewilding Through Rites of Passage (Ep. 57)
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“When a woman decides she has had enough of living by anyone else’s rules but her own, she usually decides to change her life.” - Jessie Harrold In this episode of Moonwise, we speak with coach, women’s mentor and doula Jessie Harrold about supporting women through radical life transformations. We discuss her approach to rites of passage as identit…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 4; Episode 6 | Amber Magnolia Hill on herbalism, rites of passage and what it means to be human upon the earth
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Oh my friends, this month's episode of the Becoming Podcast is so special, in so many ways. First of all, I'm just going to come right out and say it: this is one of those fangirl episodes where I reach out to someone I adore and whose work I've been following for many, many years, and cross my fingers. It was such an honour to have Amber say an en…
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SHINE: Tamu Mosley on Navigating the Perimenopause Portal (Ep. 56)
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In this episode of Moonwise, we speak with herbalist and holistic wellness facilitator Tamu Mosley about the spiritual significance of perimenopause. We discuss her experience of hosting a women’s womb circle for those going through this transition and some of the common symptoms and themes that have come up. We talk about reframing the menopause p…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 4; Episode 5 | Lisa Marchiano on facing and finding yourself as a mother
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When I read Lisa Marchiano's new book, Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself, I knew I had to have her on the podcast. Though I usually work with mothers who are traversing the initial few years of their mothering journey, I found Lisa's book deeply insightful and comforting for the mothering experiences that I'm currently having. Let me tell you…
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WHISPER: Gregory Meredith on The Magic of Runes (Ep. 55)
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In this episode of Moonwise, we speak with diviner Gregory Meredith about the magic of runes. We discuss runes as living beings and why a good question can spark healing and transformation. He shares his story of reconnecting with ancestral knowledge and how the runes came to him. He shares insights about fatherhood, magic and respecting the role o…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 4; Episode 4 | Shauna Janz on how grief can elder us through times of transformation
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Welcome back for another episode of The Becoming Podcast, friends! I'm thrilled to bring you this deep and thought-provoking conversation with Shauna Janz. Shauna is an educator, facilitator and ritualist at the crossroads of grief, trauma, embodiment and ancestral healing work. For the past 15 years she has worked in both private practice offering…
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TRANSFORM: Kelly Van Zandt on The Power of Postpartum (Ep. 54)
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In this episode of Moonwise, we speak with author, doula and spiritual mentor Kelly Van Zandt about the transformative power of the postpartum time. She shares her insights about new motherhood as a unique opportunity for growth and how this often looks and feels like an unraveling of the self. “You are allowed to take down your facade to make spac…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 4; Episode 3 | Mara Glatzel on being needy + how to care for yourself during transformational times
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A big welcome to this month's Becoming Podcast guest, Mara Glatzel! Mara and I have known each other for years, and I was really excited for our conversation. It did not disappoint. As many of you know, self-tending is one of the Seven Core Competencies of Radical Transformation – those skills and capacities that we need to grow in order to travers…
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WARRIOR: Natalie Zacharias on Staying Calm in Chaos (Ep. 53)
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“The warrior of light, the warrior for love, they’re not the ones who have the swords out battling people. They’re the ones who stand rooted for what’s right and true. That’s what the warrior feels like for me. It’s standing in integrity, standing for truth, standing for life, standing for love and being a mountain, really...unshakeable.” — Natalie…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 4; Episode 2 | Carmen Spagnola on rites of passage, questing and becoming an initiated adult
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On this month's podcast, I had the great pleasure of connecting with Carmen Spagnola. I first learned of Carmen's work quite a few years ago now, and since then have taken a number of her programs. I value her as a teacher and guide also exploring what it means to traverse rites of passage and other initiatory experiences, as well as a fellow multi…
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(Encore) JOY: Woman Stands Shining on Remembering Our Sacred Role as Women (Ep. 52)
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“Your joy matters, it's the greatest strength you have.” - Woman Stands Shining In this episode of Moonwise, I speak with Diné grandmother, activist, artist, and ceremonial leader Woman Stands Shining about joy as strength and remembering our role as women in the sacred hoop of life. Woman Stands Shining is a voice for global peace, and her paintin…
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The Becoming Podcast | Season 4; Episode 1 | Rachael Maddox on embodied healing and trauma resolution as a rite of passage
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Rachael Maddox is a trauma resolution educator, coach and guide who’s helped hundreds of humans move from sexual, complex or developmental trauma into pleasure, power and trust-filled relationships. I really wanted to have Rachael on the show today to talk about the possibility of trauma resolution as a rite of passage. Rachael is a gifted map-make…
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GROW: Susan Lipshutz on the Magic of Mentorship (Ep. 51)
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"Love is present in all spaces where things grow." - Susan Lipshutz In this episode of Moonwise, we speak with sacred feminine activist Susan Lipshutz, LCSW about the magic of mentorship. Susan shares her experience with finding mentors in her life and we talk about our own relationship over more than ten years of working together. We discuss vulne…
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