Awakening Soul Divinity

Sometimes you spend your whole life trying to escape what happened to you. But eventually, the things you use to numb the pain can become even more painful than what you were running from. Nikki Mammano knows what that descent can look like. Addiction took her from childhood pain to becoming the crystal meth queen of Waikiki, prison, prostitution, homelessness, and a motel room with a gun to her h...

You can spend years going from doctor to doctor, trying different approaches, and still be left without an answer that explains what you're experiencing. After a while, it becomes difficult to know who—or what—to trust. In this conversation, Clint Greenlee shares his thirteen-year journey through Lyme disease, autoimmune issues, and chronic illness—and what he discovered about acceptance, listenin...

You can spend years feeling like something is about to go wrong, even when everything around you seems fine. When your nervous system learned early to stay watchful, that way of moving through life can become so automatic you don't even realize it's happening. Elizabeth Kipp and I explore how growing up walking on eggshells shaped her nervous system—and what she has discovered about resistance, re...

You can know exactly what you need to do and still find yourself avoiding it. Sometimes avoidance becomes so automatic that, before you realize it, your whole life is on hold. In this conversation, Steve Ray explores what lies underneath his lifelong pattern of avoidance—and what he is beginning to discover about fear, shame, losing his voice, and learning to meet himself differently. Topics In Th...

You can spend years taking care of everyone else without realizing how little space you've left for yourself. Work, family, responsibilities, and keeping everything going can slowly become the way you live. In this conversation, Tae Harris shares what he began to see when he finally asked, “What about me? —and what becomes possible when you stop putting yourself last and begin making room for your...

At some point, you begin to wonder why you never feel like you're enough. No matter how much you give or how deeply you love, the same patterns keep finding their way back into your life. What if those patterns aren't here to punish you, but to show you something you've been unable to see? Laziena Hodge and I explore grief, belonging, childhood wounds, and what becomes possible when we stop runnin...

Your life can change in an instant. One unexpected moment can disrupt everything, leaving you feeling like you're simply trying to survive. In this conversation, Jill Sorensen shares how a life-altering medical trauma became the beginning of a journey through forgiveness, self-forgiveness, and discovering that healing doesn't happen all at once. If you've been living in survival mode, wondering ho...

At some point, you begin to wonder why you still feel stuck. You've worked on yourself, searched for answers, and tried to change, yet the same patterns continue to find their way back into your life. What if those patterns aren't signs that you're failing, but invitations to understand yourself more deeply? In this conversation, Shillpi Joshi and I explore how inherited patterns, control, self-sa...

You can spend years trying to hold your life together while quietly losing yourself in the process. It happens little by little through years of surviving, performing, and becoming who everyone else needs you to be. What if the patterns you've been trying to escape have been trying to show you something all along? In this conversation, Shilpa Manjeshwar and I explore what becomes possible when we...

When your mind never seems to slow down, it can feel like you're trapped in the same thoughts, fears, and patterns. Anxiety, depression, and emotional struggles often run deeper than we realize. In this episode, Craig Merriweather shares his journey through depression, anxiety, and a bipolar II diagnosis, and how understanding the subconscious mind and nervous system transformed his life. Together...

When nothing seems to change, it's easy to believe you're the problem. Feeling stuck, disconnected, or constantly searching for answers can keep us looking everywhere except the one place that matters most. Jessi Graham shares insights from her journey as a fourth-generation psychic and spiritual guide. Together we explore self-love, identity, healing, intuition, and why the answers we seek are of...

When something hurts for years, it's easy to believe something is wrong with you. Childhood trauma, shame, and emotional pain can leave us searching for answers we can't quite name. In this episode, Chris Sansone shares his journey through childhood sexual abuse, healing, advocacy, and the deeper meaning of longing. Together we explore how trauma shapes our lives, why emotional pain lingers, and h...

Have you ever looked at your life and wondered, "How did I end up here?" Burnout, chronic illness, and feeling disconnected from yourself can leave you questioning everything you thought was true. In this episode, Brooke Santamaria shares her journey through illness, burnout, spiritual awakening, and the moment she stopped looking outside herself for answers and began reconnecting with her own tru...

Why do some people keep destroying themselves no matter how badly they want peace? Addiction, shame, anxiety, and emotional pain often begin long before we understand where they came from. In this episode, Shannan Kym shares her journey through addiction, childhood trauma, loss, and breaking generational cycles—and what finally helped her begin healing. Shannan Kym is an internationally award-winn...

What happens when you grow up believing you were never meant to be loved? Childhood trauma can shape identity, safety, and self-worth long into adulthood. In this episode, Melanie Taylor shares the hidden grief carried by those who learned to disappear in order to survive—and what it means to return to the part of ourselves that was never broken. Melanie Taylor is a Licensed Professional Counselor...

What happens when the person you love slowly disappears—and you’re still asked to keep living? Dami Roelse shares what it’s like to lose a partner long before they’re gone. In this episode, Dami Roelse opens up about caring for her husband through Parkinson’s and dementia, and the quiet reality of becoming a caretaker instead of a partner. There’s a kind of grief that doesn’t have space to land wh...

What happens when war follows you home? PTSD and survivor’s guilt don’t end when the mission does. In this episode, Navy SEAL veteran Rob Sarver and Alex Gendzier share the hidden emotional journey many veterans—and the people who love them—face after war. Topics In This Episode: -The hero's journey as a framework for healing -Understanding soul wounds and PTSD as a spiritual journey -The importan...

When postpartum depression hits, it doesn’t always look the way people expect. It can feel like you’re still there… and at the same time, like you’re slipping away inside—and no one around you can fully see it. In this episode, Katherine Connors shares her experience of postpartum depression while remaining deeply connected to her role as a mother. There’s a kind of loneliness and disorientation t...

What happens when you survive the unsurvivable? Maya Tiwari shares her journey from terminal cancer to reclaiming Shakti and the forgotten power of the Divine Feminine. In this episode, Maya Tiwari shares how a terminal cancer diagnosis at twenty-one became an initiation that stripped everything down to essence. This conversation explores lived experience, emotional truth, and what it means to sta...

We explore how early trauma and disconnection shape the way we experience love, identity, and belonging. Louis & Paula Silverstein share how war, childhood wounds, and emotional disconnection influenced their lives—and what shifted as they began to meet those experiences through awareness, relationship, and higher consciousness. From Louis’s early experiences with war and cultural identity to Paul...

In this episode we explore how the chaos you grow up in becomes the blueprint for your relationships. Dr. Dan Sneider shares how generational trauma, addiction, and emotional abuse shaped his early life—and what shifted when he finally faced the patterns playing out in his relationships. Raised in a home shaped by addiction and emotional instability, Dan entered adulthood carrying shame, lonelines...

Here we explore how childhood trauma quietly shapes your relationships—and why the same patterns keep repeating. James McKenna shares how growing up without emotional support led to loneliness, relationship cycles, and hitting rock bottom—and what shifted when he finally saw the pattern instead of reliving it. The conversation moves through emotional absence, the weight of unresolved pain, and the...

Here we explore what happens when your reality begins to change in ways you can’t explain. Chris Berryman shares how a painful relationship, the pandemic, and unexplained interdimensional experiences challenged everything he thought he understood about life—and what shifted as his awareness expanded beyond it. Topics In This Episode: -Heartbreak can lead to profound spiritual awakening. -Interdime...

We explore the patterns that quietly keep us cycling through pain, doubt, and self-sabotage. Irene Weinberg and I discuss how grief, loss, and life’s unexpected turning points can expose the deeper beliefs and habits shaping our lives—revealing where trust, awakening, and purpose begin to emerge. This conversation moves through grief, self-sabotage, trust, and spiritual awakening, exploring how aw...

We explore what happens when grief becomes the doorway to a deeper spiritual search. When Akasha Jen Smith lost her father at nineteen, the loss cracked something open. What followed was a long journey through anger, questioning, and the dark night of the soul as she searched for meaning beyond the pain. This conversation moves through loss, intuition, and the quiet process of remembering who we a...