The Modern Sage Podcast

Welcome listeners. This is episode 2 of season 4 and I'm really glad you're here. You may notice that the podcast format has changed for this season as I'm sharing my story of buying a historic and haunted home in Lambertville NJ on the day of Covid lockdown.  I tell this story as a means to inspire us all how to face and embrace the darkness within, how to sit in discomfort and to...

Welcome back to season 4 of The Modern Sage Podcast!  This is the beginning of a new series, which includes the personal stories of Leah and her haunted house, and how facing the ghosts of our past can be one of the most transformational parts of our work. Here Leah will share the story as it unfolds of purchasing a 200 year old  home in Lambertville NJ (an area well known for it's history an...

With all of the conflicting information about diet and wellness, you may be confused about what to eat that will actually support your body and mind. Today, Leah speaks with Sally K. Norton, MPH, ivy-league Nutritionist & Author of the book " Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload is Making You Sick-and How to Get Better ”   to set the message straight and give you information you need to...

Change is in the air - isn't it always? But sometimes change can feel scary, uncomfortable, triggering. What do we do with that? Tune in with Leah to expand your perspective on change, and find more willingness to stay present and mindful. Leah shares a few of her favorite quotes as well as one of her own about the power and perception of change. On a personal front, one of the many changes t...

Dr. Chris Whaley is a former professional wrestler, pastor, author and screenwriter of the film The Masked Saint. Today we talk about how to overcome obstacles and live from the heart. Chris's work, including his film, has touched the hearts of many people, but it's his drive to achieve new things in his life that grabbed Leah's attention. You can find more about Chris here.  We all...

The journey of awakening is often a messy process. Stepping into our higher self, healing, connecting to our higher consciousness and developing our intuitive and trust skills can feel chaotic, energizing, scary, thrilling, confusing and overall like a roller coaster.  In this conversation, Leah and Phill talk about the journey to awakening with the true stories of Phill from his new book, Letting...

"Mindful forgiveness is your mental decision to consciously choose to disempower the resentment by energetically releasing the incident from your thoughts, rendering it powerless so you can move forward for your inner peace, happiness and healing." Kelly Browne Five-time best-selling author Kelly Browne joins Leah to discuss the power of mindful forgiveness. How can we do it? When should...

Many of us feel like imposters - and it's not just at work, but in our communities, relationships and social circles. Kris Kelso, author of Overcoming the Imposter, talks with Leah about what Imposter Syndrome really is, and some helpful tools to help us live more authentically, more confidently, and in our power. We discuss: Humble Confidence Why faking it until you make it isn't the be...

Leah's guest today is a soul sister, fellow energy healer, intuitive, psychic empath and author of the new book, Confident Empath. We talk about the difference between empathy and empathing, the protocols for healers to use to stay clear, unattached and boundaried, the dangers of empathing if unprepared, and the overall energetics of the age we are currently living in. Sensitive people, those...

We are covering one of the most popular topics of the human condition - relationships - with trauma-informed polarity coach, David Lea and Leah Guy. David and Leah dive into the definitions of masculine and feminine, the characteristics of each in our daily lives and how we show up to ourselves and one another in relationships. Being trauma-informed means recognizing that we each carry trauma memo...

From trauma recovery, transcendental meditation, healing, traveling, and mindfulness practices, spiritual awareness and healthy eating, Leah Guy discusses these and more with 20x author Donald Altman. In today's society, even the every day activities like texting and scrolling, can speed up the mind, cause us anxiety and keep us in a stressful state. Donald and Leah talk about their tools for...

Reiki has become an internationally popular healing modality and today Leah talks with Frans Steine, author and master Reiki teacher. Reiki is more than a hands-on healing modality, but a way of life. In this episode Frans talks about the importance of deepening one's personal spiritual life, understanding the precepts of Reiki, and how to reduce anger and worry.   Frans also shares his forme...

Have you wondered what your dreams mean, whose theory to believe in attempts to interpret your dreams, or wish you had a more active and vivid dreamtime? Dreaming can have a powerful affect on one's life when we learn how to engage and interpret this state. Leah Guy talks with dream expert and author Tzivia Gover about the power of our dreams and how to dream on purpose. Tzivia says we can ut...

Everyone talks about meditation and its benefits. Lots of us have trouble doing meditation. Leah talks with The Path founder Dina Kaplan about how to be a student for life and utilize meditation as one of the training tools. This is a candid episode from two successful women who have also struggled with anxiety, self-confidence, performance and authenticity. Listen in on how to follow your gut to...

Welcome to season 3 of The Modern Sage Podcast - where you can be inspired and informed to live a life that you love. Leah is talking with Dr. Betsy Holmberg, psychologist and researcher, about what the monkey mind really is, why it offers us such challenges (and criticisms) and what we can do to tame this part of our brain, which Betsy has named the Tribal Brain. Sharing her personal story about...

It's the end of the year and while many people are considering their New Year plans, I want to invite you to consider the practice of resiliency in our spiritual journey. Becoming more resilient is something we can foster in our lives at any age.  It's not just the ability to be strong or brave in the face of uncertainty or life's challenges, but the ability to come back to self, to...

In this special episode Leah features comedian Mike Marino, aka "NJ's Bad Boy" for a little holiday cheer.  Mike and Leah share some laughs and also talk about some of the challenges in life, including the holidays, growing older, change in our lives and a variety of other miscellaneous conversations. It's like listening in to 2 friends catching up on life. Leah even got Mike t...

Leah and Buddhist teacher, Deborah Eden Tull share an enlightening conversation about the darkness that may bring hope to any listener. Darkness is deeply misunderstood in today’s world; yet it offers powerful medicine, serenity, strength, healing, and regeneration. All insight, vision, creativity, and revelation arise from darkness. It is through learning to stay present and meet the dark with cu...

Dr. Bradley Nelson, author of The Emotion Code, and The Body Code, joins Leah Guy to discuss how to release emotional baggage in order to restore mental and physical health. Nelson discusses how he formulated the emotion code, and how learning from his clients that many of our physical ailments and mental blocks are due to holding old emotions in the body. This can also include generational trauma...

The simple reminder, that "this is happening for me, not against me," is a powerful and recurring lesson many of us face.  Turn being a victim into an empowered state of being, it's possible as we take on a new lens. Different then toxic positivity, but a full immersion to seek the growth and evolution through healing our very personal experiences. These are the lessons and blessing...

Leah Guy and Matthew Branham, MAcOM, LAc, discuss powerful topics based on finding the harmony within our lives, living in harmony with the breath, and overcoming the fear of death. Yin & Yang, breathing with nature, finding acceptance and flowing with the expansion and contraction and not forcing through or disrupting are part of this conversation. The breath dynamic happens every day, every...

Self-abandonment is a form of sabotage that many of us have learned as a means of "survival" in our relationships. Once formed, it often becomes a negative pattern in our daily lives. Self-abandonment is a learned behavior, which means we can unlearn the behavior. We abandon what we want or need. We lie to ourselves and others about who we are and what are our wants and needs. We hide. W...

How can we change our relationship to money so that we experience more happiness and peace and less worry and shame. Ken Honda and Leah Guy talk about the mindset about money and energy of prosperity. Happy Money should make you smile with you receive it, and when you spend it you feel can feel appreciation. Your attitude toward money is the foundation to live in wealth, both emotional and tangibl...

Medium and mindfulness expert, Alaine Portner, and intuitive healer Leah Guy share an intriguing discussion about mediumship and if there is life after death. When people whom we love transition out of their human bodies, of course we experience great loss and sadness. However, as Alaine and Leah share, there is still connection available as our loved ones watch and  engage with us from their dime...

Anxiety presents itself in many forms. Dr. Tracey Marks, a forensic psychiatrist, talks with Leah Guy, an intuitive healer, to help us understand: *what anxiety is *why we get anxious *natural ways to prevent and reduce anxiety *personal accounts of a healer's journey through life's many anxious moments *how to use mindfulness to stay calm If you, or someone you know suffers with anxiety...