Best Erin Ginder Shaw Podcasts (2024)

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#141 The Final Episode 1:22:05

12M ago1:22:05

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After an incredibly meaningful and successful five years, I’ve decided to end the podcast. Thank you for all of your support, time, and trust. I’m off to begin a new chapter, and I’ll hope you’ll continue to follow along. To stay in touch, subscribe for free at anyakaats.substack.com. Song featured: “A Better Son/Daughter” by Rilo Kiley Sign up for…

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#140 Catalyzing Wider Organisms of Belonging with Ian MacKenzie 1:29:39

12M ago1:29:39

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Ian MacKenzie is a new paradigm artist who’s been tracking the global emergence of imaginal culture for the past 15 years. From the desert of Burning Man to the heart of Occupy Wall St, Ian has amplified the voices of visionaries, artists and activists who have been working toward planetary system change. He is the co-director of The Village of Lov…

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#139 A Holistic and Intuitive Approach to Life and Ecology with Peter May 2:04:14

1y ago2:04:14

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Peter May is an alchemist, a Grammy award-winning musician, a tree whisperer, a firefighter (and firemaker), an athlete, an architect, and an all around fascinating human being. Peter and I discuss how his love of ecology first developed as a kid living outside Detroit on Lake St. Clair, and how this passion later influenced almost every aspect of …

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#138 Taking Advantage of Everything That Makes Life Worth Living with Sarah Jones 1:23:49

1y ago1:23:49

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Sarah Jones and her husband Michael are fourth generation potato farmers in Hooper, CO. Their farm, Jones Farms Organics, is paving the way in the San Luis Valley (the nation’s second largest fresh potato growing region in the U.S.) for regenerative and sustainable farming practices. In addition to helping manage day to day operations at the farm, …

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#137 Critical Ethnobotany and Reimagining Our Role in Ecology with Kelly Moody 1:38:06

1y ago1:38:06

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Kelly Moody is a critical ethnobotanist, philosopher, teacher, writer, and podcast host. After growing up in rural southern Virginia on her grandmother’s tobacco farm, Kelly’s interest in plants and ecology never left her. She received a B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies, and then left Virginia to travel cross-country, studying herbal medici…

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#136 Critical Spirituality, Ecstatic Literacy & Psychedelic Harm Reduction with Jules Evans 1:28:32

1+ y ago1:28:32

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Jules Evans is a philosopher, journalist, and author, whose work centers around the interplay between rational and ecstatic states of consciousness. Currently, Jules is leading the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project - researching psychedelic harm reduction, ethics, and integration. Jules and I speak about our shared disillusionment with We…

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#135 Making a Living From Sunlight and Soil with George Whitten and Sam Schmidt 1:39:53

1+ y ago1:39:53

1:39:53

George Whitten, along with his wife Julie, own Blue Range Ranch (also known as San Juan Ranch) located in the high desert of Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Originally pastoralists, George and his family have been ranching on the same land for well over a century, and have been practicing regenerative agriculture and holistic land management since 1893…

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#134 To Worship at the Altar of Life, Death, Sex, and Love with Erin Ginder-Shaw 1:58:09

1+ y ago1:58:09

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Erin is a professional writer who’s currently studying to get her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Erin is also one of my closest friends, and my former Whore Rapport co-host. Since ending Whore Rapport last fall, Erin and I both felt that there was more to say about our decision to stop the podcast. We speak about the animate, sacred nature of identi…

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#133 Build Me a Castle of Dreams: Musings on Saturn in Pisces with Jenny Kellogg 1:46:39

1+ y ago1:46:39

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Jenny is a certified astrologer, holds a PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures, a B.A. in Classical Philology, and has studied ancient civilizations and languages for over 25 years. She’s also a trauma-informed coach, spiritual guide, and one of my dearest friends. Jenny returns to the podcast (for the fifth time!) to discuss the upcoming ingress…

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#132 Pursuing Gender Reconciliation Through Love and Compassion with William Keepin and Cynthia Brix 2:11:20

1+ y ago2:11:20

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William Keepin and Cynthia Brix are co-founders of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International. William, a climate scientist and physicist who also trained in clinical psychology with Stanislav Grof began GERI thirty years ago under the name “Gender and Ecology” in an effort to expose and heal the hypocrisies of working to end the exploitation o…

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#131 Can getting better at one thing help us get better at everything else? (A solo episode / life update) 1:01:00

1+ y ago1:01:00

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For the past few months I’ve found myself in a deep internal dialogue exploring the nature of my desires, my relationship to will, and my capacity for action. In the face of difficult choices, divergent interests, or upon reaching a fork in the road, how do we decide which path to take? How do we tell the difference between “trusting the timing” an…

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#130 Living Nomadically on Horseback with Michael Ridge 1:37:06

2y ago1:37:06

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Michael Ridge has spent the last decade living and traveling nomadically on horseback, mostly in the Pacific Northwest. He is an expert in primitive skills and wild foods, and possesses a level of bravery and commitment to core values that I find extraordinarily impressive. In our conversation, Michael shares about the events that led him to his cu…

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#129 Envisioning, Designing and Creating Spaces for the Future with Johanna Hoffman 1:46:08

2y ago1:46:08

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Johanna Hoffman is a designer, urbanist and strategist exploring the ties between design, planning, fiction and futures. She’s the founder of Design for Adaptation, a studio using strategic planning, interactive storytelling and speculative design to survey the impacts of potential futures and spur proactive adaptation. Her new book is called Specu…

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#128 Mending Our Myths and Planting Seeds of Future Stories with Téo Montoya 1:46:32

2y ago1:46:32

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Téo Montoya is a Human Design Analyst, Metamodern Myth Mender, Indigenous Futurist writer and multimedia artist. His work focuses on synthesizing cosmological and spiritual systems, myths, archetypes, and modalities to find ways of supporting an emerging world in crisis through human development, ecological literacy, and reciprocity with our commun…

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#127 Healing, Transformation, and Evolution through Movement and Dance with Vangelis Legakis 1:34:17

2y ago1:34:17

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Van is an educator and practitioner in dance, healing and spirituality with over 20 years of experience. He integrates Eastern and Western modalities to create a holistic dance education, centering on how dance can enlighten our perspectives on life and how we interact with society. Van reaches beyond dance and choreography by focusing his work on …

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#126 Navigating Darkness & Becoming an Apprentice of the Unknown with Deborah Eden Tull 2:03:18

2y ago2:03:18

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Deborah Eden Tull (who goes by Eden) is a Zen meditation and engaged dharma teacher, public speaker, author and sustainability educator, as well as the founder of Mindful Living Revolution. She trained for seven and a half years as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery and has taught engaged dharma for over 20 years. Her new book, Luminous Dark…

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#125 Paradox, Polarity and Nuance in Astrology with Whitney Will 1:56:24

2y ago1:56:24

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Whitney returns to the podcast to discuss how paradox, polarity and nuance show up in astrology, and how to best utilize concepts of “good” and “bad” to provoke self-awareness. How can nuance be used to both invite and prevent growth? How can we assess when duality is helpful vs. when it isn’t? Whitney and I provide an overview of concepts such as …

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#124 Reckoning With Our Disconnection From Grief, Elderhood and Community, Part Two with Kimberly Ann Johnson 1:53:07

2y ago1:53:07

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Kimberly Ann Johnson is a somatic experience practitioner, sexological bodyworker, author, podcast host, and doula. She returns to the podcast to speak about the turmoil of the past couple years, and recounts the journey that led her to co-author Reckoning with Stephen Jenkinson. We speak about our mutual experience feeling alienated from the “well…

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#123 Reckoning With Our Disconnection From Grief, Elderhood and Community, Part One with Stephen Jenkinson 2:08:08

2y ago2:08:08

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Stephen is a culture activist, teacher, author, and co-founder if the Orphan Wisdom School. His work centers around grief, elderhood, community, and is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, and working for a time we won’t see. Stephen and I speak about how a lack of generational connection and transmission has provoked deep rupture …

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#122 Reclaiming Curiosity and Connection in Dangerously Divided Times with Mónica Guzmán 1:54:18

2y ago1:54:18

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Mónica Guzmán is an author, journalist, and bridge builder. She is the Director of Digital Storytelling at Braver Angels, a nonprofit working to depolarize America, and author of the book “I Never Thought Of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times”. Móni and her parents immigrated to the US from Mexico…

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#121 Celebrating Unpopular Opinions and the Fluidity of Identity with Lenore Black 1:47:21

2y ago1:47:21

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Lenore Black, a fan favorite of the show, returns for a second episode. It’s an understatement to say that a lot has changed in the year and a half since Lenore and I first connected, both personally and collectively. We speak about Lenore’s move from New York City to Joshua Tree, which was as much an inner journey as an outer journey. Lenore share…

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#120 Growing Up Maasai in a Complex, Changing World with Elia Edward Mollel 1:28:42

2+ y ago1:28:42

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Chris and I had the pleasure of spending ten days with Elia on our trip to Tanzania last month, and sat down to record a podcast with him at Lake Eyasi. Elia is half Maasai, and spent much of his childhood being raised by his Maasai grandfather. He has a great deal of knowledge and insight about the complexities and conflicts between the Maasai and…

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#119 Rerooting our Stories and Rewilding our Mythology with Sophie Strand 1:43:48

2+ y ago1:43:48

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Sophie is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. We speak about personal and collective mythologies and how so many of our stories have been deracinated from their roots in ways that perpetuate harm. We discuss the importance of rerooting and rewilding these narratives by list…

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#118 Anti-Racism 2.0: Reclaiming Love and Rejecting Division with Chloé Valdary 1:33:00

2+ y ago1:33:00

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Chloé is a writer and entrepreneur whose company, Theory of Enchantment, offers an alternative to conventional anti-racism training. Instead of focusing on dualistic thinking and division, Chloé’s company embraces and promotes love and compassion. We speak about the importance of accepting and embodying our own individual complexities and polaritie…

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#117 In the Shadow of the Healer: A Solo Episode 1:14:16

2+ y ago1:14:16

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This episode has been a long time coming. If you’re a regular listener of MGSW, you know that I’m incredibly interested in exploring power dynamics, shadow, and spirituality, especially when all three become interwoven. I share my reflections about the podcast Cover Story, which uncovers abuses of power within the growing industry of psychedelic th…

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#116 On Living Artfully, Embracing the Unknown and Saying Yes to Life with Debra Berger 1:31:15

2+ y ago1:31:15

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Debra has lived an incredibly full and inspiring life with no plan of stopping anytime soon. From moving to Europe, dropping out of school, marrying an Italian prince and hitchhiking across Africa all by the time she was sixteen, Debra has always embraced the unknown and said “yes” to all of what life has thrown at her. We speak about her love of i…

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#115 Spirituality as a Reclamation of Self with Lindsey Lockett 2:04:32

2+ y ago2:04:32

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Lindsey Lockett is a trauma educator, coach, podcast host and self-proclaimed “awareness junkie and nervous system ninja”. She joined me to continue our two-part conversation about spirituality. (To listen to part 1, head to Episode #79 of the Holistic Trauma Healing Podcast). Lindsey spent the first 30 years of her life as an evangelical Christian…

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#114 Vaccines, Veganism & Will Smith: A Solo Episode About Cognitive Dissonance & Self-Awareness 1:04:52

2+ y ago1:04:52

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In this episode I discuss three relatively controversial and divisive issues in an effort to expose our discomfort with cognitive dissonance. For example, are we really anti-vaccine mandate, or are we just anti-Covid vaccine mandate (because we don’t feel personally at risk)? Would we still be preaching about sovereignty if the virus was deadlier? …

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#113 On Spirituality and Embracing the Mystery of the Cosmos with Christopher Ryan 1:55:27

2+ y ago1:55:27

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Listen now (115 min) | Christopher Ryan (co-author of Sex at Dawn, author of Civilized to Death, and host of Tangentially Speaking) returns to the podcast to discuss spirituality, and the ways we’ve engaged in this realm in different, yet parallel ways. We speak about psychedelics, astrology, synchronicity, and magic, and how these tools and practi…

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#112 Motherhood, Mythology & Metamorphosis with Lisa Marchiano 1:34:01

2+ y ago1:34:01

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Lisa is a writer, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a certified Jungian Analyst. She is a co-host of the podcast This Jungian Life and the author of Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself. She joins me on the podcast to talk about motherhood (both literally and figuratively), and how it offers us a meaningful path toward our own individuation. W…

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#111 Non-Monogamy, Relational Discernment and the Quest for Liberation with Rachel Krantz 1:50:53

2+ y ago1:50:53

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Rachel Krantz is the author of Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy. She is also one of the founding co-editors of Bustle, and a recipeint of the Peabody Award. Rachel and I discuss the complicated and overwhelming process of finding safety and authenticity within the world of unconventional relationships. While being ca…

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#110 Responsibly Navigating Metaphysical and Extrasensory Realms using The Akashic Records with Jenny Kellogg 1:46:13

3y ago1:46:13

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My friend Jenny Kellogg returns to the podcast, this time to speak about the Akashic Records. Early scientists said that there was a fifth element beyond fire, air, earth, and water. It was called “ether.” The information field of the universe could also be called ether, and this information field is what the Akashic Records are said to contain - a…

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#109 On Living and Letting Go: A Conversation with my Grandma Barbara 1:58:36

3y ago1:58:36

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This week, I bring you a conversation with my Grandma Barbara. From cleverly cheating on a vision test in order to become an airplane stewardess, to becoming a psychotherapist, sex and relationship therapist, and a Jungian therapist, to buying land in Colorado and building a cabin in the mountains, to raising her son (my Dad) and embracing his homo…

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#108 Let Me Tell You a Story... A Solo Episode 29:05

3y ago29:05

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"If you asked her to identify the moment she knew she was lying to herself, she could tell you..." This week, I decided to take a break from my regularly scheduled programming to read you a story. From unrequited love, to hero complexes, codependency, the erotic energy between teachers and students, eros, fantasy and delusion... I think you'll find…

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#107 The Shadow Side of "Wellness" and Healing our Relationship to Food and Our Bodies with Orleatha Smith 1:34:18

3y ago1:34:18

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Orleatha Smith, M.Ed is a serial entrepreneur, biologist and certified holistic lifestyle coach. Both of us spent years in the paleo/ancestral health world, had paleo food blogs, adhered to a strict paleo diet and worked in the wellness industry. We also both developed orthorexia and an extremely antagonistic relationship toward food and our bodies…

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#106 Rebuilding Tribe and Tribal Mythologies for the Modern World with Timo Killian 2:04:13

3y ago2:04:13

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Timo and I have too many things in common to list. From an obsession with Tony Kushner's Angels in America, to the importance of recognizing and building personal mythologies, to neo-tribalism and the importance of community, we spent two months in Antigua, Guatemala philosophizing late into the night about all our favorite subjects. Timo was raise…

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#105 The Truth About Planetary Retrogrades with Whitney Will 2:13:01

3y ago2:13:01

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Whitney Will is a psychological astrologer and writer. She has a B.A. in the History of Math and completed her M.A. in Counseling Psychology with a focus on Jungian and Archetypal Studies at Pacifica. Whitney returns to the podcast, this time to chat with me about planetary retrogrades. We discuss what's really happening in the sky when a planet "g…

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#104 Embodying Feminine & Masculine Polarity and Navigating Spiritual Superficialities with Chris Bale 2:08:41

3y ago2:08:41

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Chris is a Spiritual Mentor and Master Energy Worker. He has extensive education in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Medical QiGong, Reiki, Pranic Healing, & Sexual Alchemy. We discuss our shared experience of identifying as spiritual and yet feeling alienated by most spiritual communities and unpack why that is. We also do a deep dive in…

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#103: Waging War on Gangsters: Questioning our Reaction to Terrorism with Rehan Ansari 1:31:20

3y ago1:31:20

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I met Rehan at the beginning of Covid on a ranch in Santa Fe. After mentioning that my podcast features taboo conversations about a variety of topics, he asked if I'd ever discussed terrorism and the War on Terror & started talking about how bizarre he thought it was that the US had waged an entire war against what he described as "local gangsters"…

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#102 The Complexities of Environmentalism, Responsibility and Hope with Tzeporah Berman 1:24:16

3y ago1:24:16

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Tzeporah is a Canadian environmental activist, campaigner and writer. She has worked in environmentalism for 30 years, is the co-founder and International Program Director at Stand.Earth and the Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. From being arrested at the front lines of forest conservation initiatives, to speaking direct…

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#101 The Astrological Significance of Generations with Jenny Kellogg 1:39:15

3y ago1:39:15

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Jenny joins me on the podcast once again, this time to talk about the astrological significance and underpinning of generations. We speak about every generation from the Baby Boomers through to Gen Z, and give some context for how each can be viewed through the lens of astrology, karma and collective purpose. What does the Hero's Journey look like …

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#100 Mending the Paradigms that Shape Us: A Conversation with my Mother (Cathy Arden) 3:08:11

3y ago3:08:11

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When I launched this podcast 3 years ago, I would have never been able to predict that this monumental 100th episode would be shared with my Mother. In fact, at the time, we weren’t even speaking to one another. This conversation tracks my own ancestral history from the life of my grandmother, to my mother, to me. We speak about family patterns, tr…

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#99 Healing Ancestral Trauma and Reconnecting to our Roots with Torie Feldman 2:08:15

3y ago2:08:15

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Torie Feldman is an Ancestral Healing Guide and Women's Spiritual Mentor. In this conversation, we speak about what it means to heal intergenerational patterns and cycles, from both a biological and psychological point of view. We also talk about the difference between grounded and ungrounded spirituality, the reclamation of womanhood and feminine …

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#98 The Venus Diaries with Kestrel Neathawk and Eliza Robertson 1:52:43

3y ago1:52:43

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Two-thirds of Kosmic Tonic join me on the podcast this week to discuss all things Venus. We unpack the mythology and multivalent archetype associated with this frequently misunderstood and oversimplified planet. We speak about desire, longing, and how love is consistently more complex than we give it credit for. We touch on projection, fantasy, wha…

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#97 Death, Sex, Pain and Pleasure with Chris Ryan and Tao Ruspoli 1:51:40

3y ago1:51:40

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Tao, Chris and Anya have a three-way... conversation. Sitting in Tao's shipping container gallery in Yucca Valley, the three of us speak about the interwoven relationship between life, death, sex, pleasure, pain and creativity, and how the absence of death can directly correlate to an absence of eroticism. We question the hypocrisies of mainstream …

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#96 Everything is Beautiful and Dying: A Solo Episode 54:31

3y ago54:31

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In this episode, I talk about how I've been feeling and what I've been thinking about over this past summer. Namely, about the intersection of beauty and death. I speak about how as I get older, a lot of my optimism and my desire to find "purpose" and "meaning" has become supplanted with unavoidable grief, death and sorrow. I question whether belie…

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#95 Movement and Embodiment as Keys to Access our True Self with Melayne Shayne 1:36:21

3y ago1:36:21

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Melayne is a Budokon Mixed Movement Athlete and founder of the Warrior Women Tribe. She is the VP of the Mixed Movement Arts System Budokon and Director of the Budokon Yoga Program and Teacher Training. We speak about movement as a tool for self-exploration and as an invitation to think about how we exist in the world as a whole. We touch on impost…

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#94 The Leftist Case Against Cancel Culture & Identitarianism with Clementine Morrigan and Jay 2:05:38

3y ago2:05:38

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Clementine Morrigan and Jay are the hosts of the podcast "Fucking Cancelled." We speak about the reality, danger and harm of what Clem & Jay have defined as "The Nexus" - Cancel Culture + Identitarianism + social media. Plus, we dive into how all of this relates to healing from trauma, 12 steps, and taking responsibility of our own lives. We touch …

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#93 Sexual Desire and What it Can Teach Us About Ourselves with Tracy Clark-Flory 1:26:55

3+ y ago1:26:55

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Tracy is a senior staff writer at Jezebel covering sex, gender, and feminism. She's also the author of "Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire". Tracy and I discuss what it was like growing up as a young person with access to porn, AOL sex chatrooms, and how we navigated the very confusing world of "sexual education." We cover des…

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#92 Exploring Gender Dysphoria, Mental Health and the Decision to Detransition with Rachel Foster 1:34:38

3+ y ago1:34:38

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Rachel was raised in a strict fundamentalist Christian household with rigid gender expectations. She was exposed to pedophilia, sexual violence and severe homophobia from a very young age. In the process of trying to find herself, Rachel became convinced that she could solve her mental health issues and her difficulties dating by taking cross-sex h…

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