Collective Guidance

Discover the 15 Method, a gratitude-based manifestation exercise that uses Neville Goddard's Law of Assumption to reprogram your subconscious mind. Manifestation coach Robert Meade shares how he imagined his dream beach life, manifested his ideal partner, and what 18 months with Bob Proctor taught him.   Robert Meade is a senior Neville Goddard teacher and imagination coach who has guided clients...

Is something wrong with you, or are you just missing a few dating skills? Dating coach, certified matchmaker, and hypnotherapist Amari Ice explains why so many of us are trying to have a level 25 relationship with level 3 dating skills, and how to finally level up. Amari Ice, "The Prince of Hearts," is the first Black, gay certified matchmaker in the industry, the founder of Amari Means Love, and...

Marvin Rolnick remembers dying in his past life, leaving his body, and choosing the life he's living now. In this episode of Collective Guidance, Charla talks with Marvin about out-of-body experiences, past life memories, A Course in Miracles, and why true forgiveness is the key to coming back to love.   Born in Brooklyn and a longtime California resident, Marvin is a Vietnam veteran who spent 30...

What is channeling, and can anyone do it? Channeler and author Greg Campisi joins Charla Goodnight to explore intuition, psychic ability, spiritual awakening, and how fear and trauma create energetic density that blocks your connection to spirit.   Two years ago, during a plant medicine ceremony with the intention "How do I release fear?", three hours of channeled material flowed through Greg. Tha...

Most of us learned only two ways to deal with painful emotions: suppress them or explode. Both keep us stuck. In this episode, Charla sits down with Marty Simon, retired NYU professor, spiritual teacher, and author of "Spirituality for Effective Living: Teachings of the Masters Through an Unenlightened Disciple," to explore a third way: releasing emotions.   Marty explains how unprocessed emotions...

In this episode of Collective Guidance, we explore fire, earth, air, and water not as a party trick but as a real framework for self-understanding. Olga traces the elements from Empedocles and Aristotle through Hippocrates, Galen, and Avicenna, explains how to read the elemental makeup of your birth chart, and shares simple, practical ways to bring in a missing element or calm an overactive one th...

What's the difference between being capable and having capacity? In this deeply personal conversation, licensed professional counselor and executive coach Dr. Cal Spinks explains why you can be highly skilled, successful, and "capable" — and still lose yourself completely in the process.   Dr. Cal shares his own story: growing up biracial in the projects of Central Illinois in 1968, developing an...

Have you ever wanted to jump off the building of your current life and start over? In this episode of Collective Guidance, sits down with Betsy Pake — certified master coach, speaker, and author of Start Small and Live Big — for an honest conversation about one of the hardest questions a woman can ask herself: do I stay, or do I go?   Betsy has spent over 12 years helping women navigate midlife cr...

On this episode of Collective Guidance, host Charla Goodnight welcomes Allison Pagano, founder of Embodied Dance — a movement methodology blending somatic psychology, neuroscience, conscious dance, and embodied leadership.   Allison opens up about the eating disorder she faced at age 20 while studying abroad in Australia, and the unplanned, improvised dance performance that became the first step i...

What happens to your sense of self when a role you built your identity around disappears — without your full permission?  In this episode, Charla Goodnight unpacks the emotional and neurological truth behind identity shifts: losing a business, an empty nest, a marriage ending, a changing body, or a title that goes away. Charla shares her personal story of building and eventually closing Cycle Guro...

In this episode of Collective Guidance, host Charla Goodnight dives into guilt — specifically the guilt that comes up when we choose to distance ourselves from family members or relationships that no longer feel aligned.   Prompted by conversations with close friends, Charla explores why you don't have to feel guilty for protecting your peace, even when it means stepping back from people you're "s...

Have you ever felt a quiet nudge pulling you toward something you can't quite name? In this episode, Dr. Maria Catarina Inglesby explains why that nudge isn't random — it's your soul calling you home to yourself.   Dr. Maria is a transformational guide, energy channel, and author of "Soaring Beyond: Transcending the Known into Unbelievable Success." A PhD graduate of UC Davis and university medal...

If you've ever felt like your sensitivity or intuition was something to fix or apologize for, this episode is for you. Host Charla welcomes Jay Vee Jackson — senior licensed Reiki Master Teacher, former ICU and hospice nurse, and founder of Illumine Reiki Academy — for a deep, honest conversation about energy healing, physical pain, grief, and what it really means to return to the light already wi...

Have you ever said yes to something you didn't want to do — just to avoid making someone else uncomfortable? In this episode, Charla sits down with Tiffany Braxton, author of Consent Comics, survivor, educator, and founder of Pennspire, to unpack what consent really means — and why it's about so much more than the bedroom. Tiffany created Consent Comics using genderless, visual storytelling to tea...

Feeling the weight of the world lately? You're not imagining it — and you're not alone. In this episode, Charla talks with Liz Moyer Benferhat, founder of We Heal For All and author of When the World Hurts: Why the World's Pain Makes Sense and What You Can Do About It, about collective grief, climate anxiety, empath burnout, and how to actually process the emotional weight of today's world instead...

Charla Goodnight returns after a 30-day hiatus to share the real reason behind her absence — the end of a two-year relationship that fell apart over her spiritual path. In this raw and honest episode, she talks about the recurring pattern of partners who couldn't hold space for her spirituality, why she'll never dim her light for anyone's comfort again, and how she used automatic writing to move t...

What have you accomplished in the last six months — and what are you ready to release? In this episode of Collective Guidance, host Charla Goodnight guides you through a heart-centered self-inventory ritual designed to track where you've been and clarify where your soul wants to go. Released on the Full Moon in Capricorn — the same day Jupiter moves into Leo and Mercury goes retrograde into Cancer...

In this heartfelt and grounding episode, host Charla Goodnight explores the relationship between prayer and meditation — and how both practices became her lifeline during personal conflict and relationship pain. Inspired by a quote from Rick Rubin — "Prayer is talking to God. Meditation is listening" — Charla unpacks what it truly means to find stillness, calm your nervous system, and reconnect wi...

What if everything you keep experiencing — the patterns, the relationships, the recurring struggles — are actually karmic records written in your own DNA, waiting to be cleared? This week's guest is Horus-Poraz, spiritual teacher, ceremonialist, sound healer, and founder of House of Horus — a digital and in-person platform blending ancestral knowledge, ritual, and creative activation to support pe...

In this soul-stirring episode of Collective Guidance, host Charla Goodnight explores the spiritual and psychological concept of resistance — and why the things we fight hardest against keep showing up in our lives. Drawing from her own lived experience with physical pain, a relationship ending, and the pressure of performing "having it all together," Charla unpacks what resistance truly is, why we...

COLLECTIVE GUIDANCE | Episode: Energy, Astrology & The Art of Navigating Life's Big Shifts with Kathy Clair-Hayes   If life feels like it's moving faster than ever — you're not imagining it. In this episode, host Charla Goodnight welcomes back psychotherapist, astrologer, and energy intuitive Kathy Clair-Hayes for a deeply grounding conversation about what's happening energetically in our bodies,...

When you're standing at a crossroads and you don't know which way to go, what do you do? In this short and deeply comforting episode, Charla Goodnight shares a personal story about a pivotal moment in her own life — and the spiritual practice that helped her move through it without fear, without force, and without going it alone. Rather than reacting or making a rash decision, Charla prayed. She c...

What happens when the person who holds everything together finally falls apart? For Kara Kalin, it took two tumors, the loss of her father, a global pandemic, and four kids under five before she finally stopped performing and started actually living. Kara is a registered clinical counselor, certified EMDR therapist, former national-level synchronized swimmer, and founder of The Shift Change — an a...

Radical Forgiveness: Why Your Anger Is Hurting You, Not Them Life is full of transitions — and this week, Charla is in the thick of them. Her middle son just graduated high school, a new baby has joined the family, and she's sitting with the full range of emotions that come with big change. But the real conversation this episode is about what happens when we hold onto anger toward someone who has...

What does it really mean to manifest? If you've been doing vision boards, affirmations, and the 333 method but still not seeing results — this episode is for you. Today's guest is Ayelet Polonsky, founder of the Manifestation Method and host of The Manifestation Podcast (163+ episodes). Ayelet spent years living at an ashram in India, survived a cyclone at Kumbh Mela (one of the world's largest sp...