Radically Alive Women

Meet Dianne Whelan of the documentary film "500 Days in the Wild" (currently screening in New Zealand) about her 500-days-turned-1,862-days journey along the Trans Canada Trail. “This film is all about connection: connection to self, connection to each other, and connection to the web of life.” Dianne shares what the land taught her: burning the schedule, facing fear, why the water is sacred, and...

A conversation about “Living fully”, the power of healing sexual trauma of women in an all women’s group with Psychodrama and feelings work according to Possibility Management.

"Rather than trying to clear things off and get them away from me, I bring them in and let them transmute through me. Then they become medicine.” Tia Healey-Jellick

RAW Voices is a format in which authors read aloud their own text. No commentary, no interpretation. Let it land in your body.

RAW Voices brings you the voice and words of a woman author.

This is a conversation between Julia Neumann and Iona Conner on elderhood, love for the Earth, environmental activism, and a life lived fully from the inside out.

We are revisiting a conversation of 2024 with Care Dubois that many of you told us stayed with them. This interview is worth revisiting several times — because it touches upon universal themes in which you will be able to recognize yourself. Now, almost two years on, we believe it is safe to say that Clare was right: The times are even edgier than they were at the time of this conversation.

A conversation between Lindsey Lockett and Julia Neumann.

This conversation is between four women on the topic of motherhood - by women who have not given birth to children. It is an honest, unscripted dialogue informed by very different women, with different life paths, choices and perspectives.

In this epsiode, discover the richness of your inner world to end self-violence with Sónia Gonçalves and Millicent Haughey. Sónia is a powerful energetic witch and healer. She shares here a series of tools she has discovered that have enabled her to support her body through healing and very low energy states. In this special episode, Sónia generously walks through the importance of slowing down to...

Meet the Radically Alive Women (RAW) Edgecast Team that brought you our RAW conversations for the past year: Mia Harrison, Estefania Santamaria Cerrutti, Sebastian Norton and Julia Neumann (and not in this episode: interviewers Annika Korsten and Hannah Abouzahrah). In this conversation, the team shares about what it means to be woman, what it means to be man, about initiation, the importance of w...

In this Radically Alive Women Edgecast conversation, Julia Neumann speaks with Bernice Raabis, founder of Dance the Medicine, an international team of conscious dance professionals helping people build dance communities across the globe. Bernice shares what it’s like to live nomadically with her 14-year-old daughter as they travel the world, blending practical planning with deep bodily listening a...

In this Radically Alive Women conversation, Julia Neumann speaks with Annamária Sütő (“Wolf Woman”,) a Hungarian from Transylvania living independently in a small village, and her adult daughter Anna Réka Ötvös, who is frequently traveling between Siberia and Hungary, and learning to feel “home” within herself. They discuss shifting the mother-daughter relationship from blame and constant arguing...

Robina McCurdy - New Zealand born, a woman firmly grounded on this earth, a global weaver of creating a regenerative culture, an community elder who is young in her heart and ageless in her wisdom. The 76-year old woman of many hats shares through a number of examples how to live life to its full extension through one's life stages and takes a fierce stand for elderhood being recognized and honour...

Julia Neumann from Radically Alive Women speaks with parenting coach and "Tides" rites-of-passage facilitator Amy Weber and young woman Gabriela Fagundes about mother-daughter relationships, especially the transition of girls into womanhood. Amy describes navigating the empty nest as a mother and how "Tides" and "Rising Tides" help mothers and daughters renegotiate patterns, create space, and reco...

This Radically Alive Women Edgecast conversation between Julia Neumann and Ellen Appleton explores “mother graduation,” the transition from actively mothering children to relating to them as independent adults. Ellen describes her deep identification with motherhood, including two wanted pregnancies, and speaks to the innate wisdom, love, and intensity she experienced as a mother. The discussion h...

Shalane Hopkins went on an extraordinary adventure: she walked the 3,000-kilometer Te Araroa trail in New Zealand in 2010, just before its official opening, and came through Christchurch around the time of the earthquake. In this honest conversation with Julia Neumann, Shalane shares her experiences, motivations, and what led her to stay in New Zealand and become a Kiwi citizen. The conversation d...

Yael Deckelbaum is a platinum award-winning Israeli/Canadian singer songwriter and an activist for peace, and especially well known for her song “Prayer Of The Mothers”, written in 2016 to support the Women Wage Peace Movement: a song for the movement of Palestinian and Israeli mothers walking together for change and peace. You hear its tune at the beginning of the episode. Shared by millions, it...

Nicola Hearn is a woman that walks the edge between mainstream culture, activism, and advocacy for societal change. With a background in technology, she was the heart behind Third Space Canteen, a social enterprise promoting food culture. In July 2025, one of her Instagram reels went viral in which she calls out greed and profit-orientation and calls in collaboration for societal change. Listen in...

Melissa McGregor is the creatress of Nature School in Mangawhai, in the North Island of New Zealand. This conversation dives into the personal inspirations that led to this creation. We also talk about what has evolved over the years and the current results of bringing feelings work into the mix. Melissa is passionate about encouraging others to get started. If this is something you are thinking a...

Birgit Frank has been researching money for over two decades and brings a fresh and playful energy into a topic that is as hidden from everyday conversations as is initmate relating. And yet - it is our relationship we have with and towards money that enables change how we allow money to flow. In this episode Birgit shares with us the concept of the Money Being - a community tool which brings conn...

In this episode of Radically Alive Women Edgecast, Charlotte Chalkley speaks of her journey and the creation of the "Orchard" project at SOMOS on Tenerife. SOMOS is an Archan Invention Centre, for people to go from survival to creation,  to discover who they are and their purpose. The Orchard project is rooted in the principles of being over doing, and aims to reconnect with Gaia through conscious...

⁠Veit Lindau is a grounded visionary, idealistic business punk, and psycho-social reformer who defies all boxes. With over three decades as a renowned German coach, trainer, mentor, and author, Veit’s work is a wake-up call to those who sense that the rehearsals are over, personally and collectively. In this rich conversation with Julia Neumann, sparked by his new book “Stunde der Wahrheit” (Momen...

Listen in for this honest and vulnerable edge conversation between two women who recently experienced their mothers’ deaths. Janet Redmond, Village Heart Surgeon and Building Communication Bridges Originator, returns to Radically Alive Women Edgecast to share about her journey accompanying not only her mother’s dying process, but also her death: directing her funeral service, and bringing her ashe...