I'm Awake! Now What?

This week I sit down with Embodiment Coach Alyssa Kuzins to discuss her work helping women heal by creating a body-mind connection, starting from the bottom chakra 's upwards. Alyssa discusses the importance of collaborating with the universe, through your deep inner knowing and cultivating a rich relationship with the divine. She shares important wisdom around trusting ourselves and trusting spir...

This week I sit down with Author, Podcast Host, and Psychic Medium Laura West to discuss her book "Guided," which is a roadmap to interacting and building relationships with your spirit guides and teams on the other side. Laura opens up about stepping into her abilities and sharing her gifts first, with the people closest to her and the world, and how it is normal to feel nervous or afraid to shar...

This week I sit down with award-winning author, teacher, life-long seeker and speaker Mark Matousek about his book "When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living." Mark opens up about his early childhood experience of going inside to inquire and how he became interested in transformation. Mark and I discuss suffering, healing, and answering the question his sister posed to him many years...

This week I sit down with Laura Forbes. Laura is the founder of  Quit Dating Idiots a coaching business focused on helping people overcome blocks in their dating life. Laura and I discuss conscious dating practices and navigating your own self development. Laura shares her passion for helping people and the importance of knowing yourself.  To find out more about Laura and work with her, follow her...

This week I sit down with empowerment coach and podcaster Kaluwa Ghalikar to discuss her break away from religious beliefs and edicts--and how she found freedom in exploring her connection to the divine, in her own way.   Kaluwa discusses a transformative period in her life, where she lost her voice literally and figuratively and how this became a catalyst for change, healing, and integration. Kal...

This week I sit down with Purpose Therapist, Executive Director and Mission-Preneur Garrett Underwood to discuss his life journey, his passions, and his service-based purpose work. Garrett opens up about homelessness and the homeless communities in LA and how he felt called to add his own unique solution and voice to this humanitarian issue. Garrett talks about his work mentoring entrepreneurs by...

This week I sit down with Energy Alchemist and Visionary Erlinda Vo to discuss her mission of "Vibing Up the Planet." empower others to live into their light, purpose, and soul's calling. Erlinda is also the founder of Spa for Your Soul. Erlinda shares a significant life event that became a catalyst for her growth and expansion, leading her to become a modern day alchemist. She articulates the imp...

This week I sit down with Author and Coach Becca Ribbing to discuss her work helping individuals break out of cycles of uncertainty and becoming unstuck in their lives. Becca opens up about her early childhood experience being raised as Christian Scientist and what it meant to learn to not listen to her body and the wounding she incurred that allowed her to create expansive healing in other areas...

This week I sit down with Author and Coach Judi Turkheimer , to discuss her book "Finding Myself in a Nightmare: A mother's healing journey through her daughter's addiction." Judi discusses how her daughter's addiction became a catalyst for her own growth,  self-reflection, and healing. She shares the pains of going through the stages of grief and how she climbed out of denial and into dynamic acc...

Podcast Re-Release: This week I sit down with author James McCrae to discuss his book "Shit Your Ego Says." James walks us through major themes in his book like, mindfulness, your higher self, and your ego. He gives poignant advice about staying the course in your own life journey and listening to your intuition. To find out more about James head over to www.jamesmccrae.com and follow him on Insta...

This Sunday I sit down with Author, Alignment Mentor, Breathwork facilitator, and host of the Bare Naked Podcast- -- Leah Pardee . Leah discusses her spiritual journey and how she found a direct channel to God. She shares intimate details about her healing journey that lead to authentic, self-love through the grace of self-acceptance and mindfulness practice.  Coming through this healing journey,...

This week I sit down with Grounding and Energy Medicine Specialist Amelia Vogler to discuss her work in helping humanity heal trauma, connect to source energy, and navigate the bigness of life from a place of compassion. Amelia was born a highly sensitive and gifted person and at a young age began helping those around her through grief and pain. Amelia began to ask the question "How do we bloom as...

This week I sit down with international best selling Author and radio host of Magical Moments, Alena Chapman to discuss her new book "Hello Soul: Everyday Ways to Begin Awakening Your Spirituality." Alena is a soul nurturer and healer. At a young age she discovered the gift of bringing souls into the light, and has been living this calling ever since. Alena and I discuss how our societal domestica...

This week I am joined by award winning producer, filmmaker, and author Penny Price Lavin. Penny's film "The Healing Field" which is about exploring energy and consciousness and has been viewed by millions and created a global movement of awakening, energy understanding, and healing. Penny tells us that as a young child she understood her psychic abilities and leaned into them early on, helping oth...

This week I am speaking with actor, director, and author, Angel Aviles . Who is best known for her role as Sad Girl, in the cult movie classic "Mi Vida Loca." Her book "To Happy to be Sad Girl: Surviving Sadness, Ditching Anxiety, and Learning to Thrive" is a beautifully written autobiography about her internal healing and integration story, and the lessons she learned along the way that can help...

This week I sit down with author, podcaster, and spiritual teacher Morgan Chonis . Her book " Unravel The Bullshi*t" is a story of disappointment, survival, forgiveness, and rediscovering her feminine greatness. Morgan shares how her life fell apart many times through different circumstances and what brought her to the precipice of her own power and ignited within her--long lasting change, healing...

This week I sit down with Author and host of Healing Through Trauma Gabriel Klingman , to peel back his life story that began in trauma and learn how he turned his pain into purpose. Gabriel walks us all the way up to the darkest point in his life, and explains how he found a way through the darkness. He also shares with the audience the value of forgiveness, how multifaceted it can be, and he ope...

Happy New Year Sweet Souls! The podcast is on holiday break until January 16, 2022 and we are revisiting some of our favorite episodes in the podcast library! Re-Release: I'm delighted this week to have Christopher   Moore as my guest. Chris is an international novelist and New York Times bestselling author. I asked Chris to come to the show to talk about his influential book "Lamb: The Gospel Acc...

Re-Release: Dr. Judith Orloff Happy New Year Sweet Souls! The podcast is still on holiday, but we are revisiting some of our favorite episodes in the library!  This week I am joined by Dr. Judith Orloff, Best-Selling Author of "Thriving as an Empath: A Daily Guide to Empower Sensitive People."  Dr. Orloff comes to the show to discuss her extensive work to normalize being an empath.  She speaks can...

Hi Sweet Souls-- the podcast is on its holiday break and will return on January 16, 2022. Until then, we are revisiting our most compelling interviews of the podcast! We wish all our listeners happy holidays and light-filled New Year!!! Re-Release This week I am joined by world-renowned Author, Nagual, Artist, Teacher, and Healer don Miguel Ruiz, Jr. don Miguel comes to the show to share the intri...

Happy Sunday Sweet Souls! This week's episode is a 2021 wrap up, with yours truly Krista Xiomara! This episode is dedicated to YOU the listener, who has made my lifes' work meaningful by showing up every week, engaging in all the interviews, and letting me share your personal stories when you message me!  The podcast is going on it's holiday break and will return January 16, 2022. We have an incre...

This Sunday I sit down with healer and healing guide, David Sleininger to discuss his life journey, through healing, awakening, and finding his purpose. At a young age David became plague by chronic pain which lasted for years and interrupted his livelihood. Leaning into his pain he tells the listening audience what his suffering taught him and how he alchemized his experiences--which gave him a g...

This week I sit down with Author, Thought Leader, International Speaker and Coach Adele Spraggon to discuss her book "Shift: 4 Steps to Personal Empowerment." Adele opens up about her own internal struggle of starting and stopping projects and jobs, recalling how frustrated she was knowing she was not reaching her full potential. She set out to create a proprietary 4 step system called The Repatte...

This week I sit down with Spiritual Teacher, Medium, Warrior and Author, Sheila Vijeyarasa to discuss her life path and book called "Brave: Courageously Live Your Truth." Sheila shares being psychic at a young age, seeing spirits, and how she made sense of these paranormal experiences later in life. She tells the audience about her intensive multi-year self-education where she gained language, too...

This week I sit down with Solutions Therapist Hina Beg, Hina is the author of  "Just Talk Therapy" a book  about therapy sessions with young children, that takes the reader through the meaning of talk therapy in the context of Indian Society. Hina also hosts a podcast of the same name. Hina opens up with advice to people who are wanting to develop personally, and some common obstacles she finds on...