Rooted Voices Sacred Bones

Joanne and Jean explore living with uncertainty and the self-trust that helps us take the next step. From everyday decisions to the risks of changing work or setting your own fees, they consider what it means to lean into change and learn as you go. A lively conversation with a few rabbit holes along the way. About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational pod...

What do we want our wealth to make possible? Chris Ighodaro joins us to explore financial planning grounded in purpose and the emotional patterns that influence our decisions. Our conversation widens into wealth beyond money, including the richness of community and the knowledge we pass on. A thoughtful exploration of building financial security while tending to the life it supports. About Chris C...

What changes when someone gives us the space to be heard? Jean Hamilton-Fford and Joanne Sprott welcome Colin D Smith, “The Listener” and host of Listening Matters, for a warm conversation about the attention we bring to one another. Together, they explore the space a pause can open and the difference between preparing a reply and staying present. Listening begins before the first word—and sometim...

Who would you trust with a spare key to your home? And would you be someone else could trust with theirs? Jean, Joanne, and Jillian begin with that question and follow it into relationships, self-trust, AI, boundaries, and the distance between good intentions and their impact. A warm, candid conversation about staying open while paying attention to what experience has taught us. This is a link to...

What if belonging does not end when someone stops breathing? Dr. Sandra Evers joins Jean, Jillian, and Joanne for a deeply human conversation shaped by her years living among a Malagasy community in Madagascar. Together they explore grief, ritual, loneliness, curiosity, cultural difference, and a way of belonging that includes both the breathing and those who remain present after death. It is a co...

Discernment can sound calm and considered, but what happens when fear, judgment, emotion, or bias takes its place? Jean and Joanne explore discernment as a whole-self practice involving thought, feeling, intuition, and the body — including the value of the pause, even when a decision cannot wait. About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted b...

What if creativity is far bigger than the things we make? Jean and Jillian are joined by confidence coach Jennifer Fiedler for a wide-ranging conversation about creativity, self-trust, authenticity, visibility, and the inner resources we often fail to recognize in ourselves. Drawing on Jennifer’s experiences in film, international work, and coaching, they explore the role of safety in creativity,...

Grief does not follow a timetable, and it does not arrive in only one form. In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones , Jean, Jillian, and Joanne explore grief as part of the human experience: the loss of people, relationships, identities, places, work, pets, and former versions of our lives. They also reflect on grief delayed by survival, the moments of stability that can finally give us acc...

Curiosity can open doors, unsettle certainty, spark creativity, and lead us somewhere entirely unexpected. In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones , Jean, Jillian, and Joanne explore what happens when we remain willing to question, wonder, experiment, and venture beyond the familiar. They also consider the boundaries of curiosity: when it becomes distraction or intrusion, when it carries ri...

What if balance was never something we were meant to achieve? In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones , Jean, Jillian, and Joanne explore the shifting dance of attention, energy, capacity, priorities, rest, joy, and change. From work-life balance and burnout to alignment, boundaries, and the seasons of life, the conversation moves toward a more human possibility: adapting our steps as the m...

*Apologies for the static noise. It was a fan running because of the heat. Our guest is Hela Wozniak-Kay. In this episode we speak about identity, creativity, intuition, and memory as well as a few other things. About Hela Wozniak-Kay Hela says, 'Life's too short to wear just one hat. And I have a wardrobe full of beautiful virtual hat boxes - each with a colorful chapeau: The Connectress, Lady Sp...

What is intuition, and where do we experience it? In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones , Jean, Jillian, and Joanne explore intuition as a whole-body intelligence. The conversation moves through frequency, light, toroidal energy, biofields, navel intelligence, safety, trust, lived experience, and the many physical signals through which intuition may make itself known. From flashes of colo...

Working together is often presented as automatically positive, but the reality can be far more complicated. In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones , Jean, Jillian, and Joanne explore trust, shared effort, uneven contribution, autonomy, and the structures that make joint work either nourishing or exhausting. The conversation also moves into building a team with complementary strengths and m...

What does it take to sustain something meaningful without depleting the person bringing it to life? In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones , Jean, Jillian, and Joanne explore manifest sustainability: the intentional, consistent, and persistent practices that support what is taking shape while tending the personal ecology beneath it. Together, they consider rhythm, capacity, choice, and the...

Destiny and sovereignty are often spoken about as though they sit at opposite ends of life: one suggesting a path already laid before us, the other placing authority firmly in our own hands. In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones, Joanne leads a rich conversation into the space between them. Together, we explore the difference between destiny and fate, and the way fate can become the hamme...

In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones , Jean Hamilton-Fford, Joanne Sprott, and Jillian Starman explore the idea of The Infinite Line — the golden thread running through a life, a body of work, a relationship, a story, or a soul’s becoming. The conversation moves through continuity, connection, intersections, patterns, spider webs, and the shapes we create as we move through the world. So...

Resilience is often spoken about as strength, grit, or the ability to keep going. In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones , Jean Hamilton-Fford, Joanne Sprott, and Jillian Starman slow the word down and look at what resilience actually asks from a living human being. This conversation moves beyond polished ideas of coping and into the real terrain of awareness, decision, structure, problem-...

In this special episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones , the tables turn as Jean Hamilton-Fford steps out of the host’s chair and into the guest seat. Interviewed by Joanne Sprott and Jillian Starman, Jean speaks about the deeper threads that shape her work: voice, creativity, inner authority, lived wisdom, perception, identity, and the stories we carry beneath the surface of daily life. The conve...

In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones , Jillian Starman and Jean Hamilton-Fford speak with Joanne Sprott for a raw and reflective conversation about voice, memory, body wisdom, and the deeper stories that shape a human life. Joanne is someone who has lived between language and mystery — indexing books, reading symbols, listening for patterns, and helping people reconnect with the inner vo...

In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones, Jean and Joanne speak with Dr. Jillian Starman, founder of Wise Women Leadership, about women in transition, the inner work of leadership, and the quiet power of redefining success from the inside out. Jillian’s work supports women entrepreneurs and leaders as they navigate business, family, personal growth, boundaries, confidence, resilience, produc...