Awaken your power.

Awaken Your Power — The Integration of Sexuality, Soma, Soul, and Service (with Dr. Elizabeth Willis) In this episode of Awaken Your Power , host Keri Mangis is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Willis , visionary educator, author, and Director of the Institute of New Paradigm Intimacy, for a rich and expansive conversation about embodiment, power, and what it truly means to return to wholeness. Elizabeth i...

Awaken Your Power — Presence, Power, and Belonging to Ourselves (with Mellara Gold) In this episode of Awaken Your Power , host Keri Mangis sits down with Mellara Gold , a longtime meditation and mindful yoga teacher whose work centers on awareness, self-compassion, and embodied presence in a complex and often overwhelming world. Their conversation opens with a question many spiritual practitioner...

In this powerful and paradigm-shifting episode of Awaken Your Power , Keri speaks with Sean Blackwell , author of Bipolar Awakenings and creator of the Bipolar Awakenings project. Sean’s work courageously challenges the dominant psychiatric narrative, offering a radically different lens on bipolar disorder, psychosis, and what many might call “mental illness.” Drawing from his own dramatic hospita...

In this episode of Awaken Your Power , Keri is joined by Karen Laos —speaker, coach, confidence cultivator, and host of the Ignite Your Confidence podcast. Karen has spent 25 years as a trusted C-suite advisor and keynote speaker for companies like Google, Starbucks, and NASA, and is the author of Trust Your Own Voice . Keri and Karen dive into what it really takes for women to speak up, negotiate...

In this episode of Awaken Your Power , Keri talks with Maureen Spielman —spiritual psychology coach and host of the Mystical Sisterhood podcast—about what it really means to live from unity consciousness in a world that feels more divided than ever. They explore how our inner work ripples out into the collective, why women and the reclaimed feminine are so central to this time on the planet, and h...

Episode Description In this conversation, Keri sits down with yoga teacher and clinical social worker Karen DeBaun , owner of Yoga Moodra , to explore yoga as a practice for living—not just another form of exercise. They talk about midlife beginnings, healing from trauma, and how yoga can become a framework for pausing, reflecting, and living more consciously in chaotic times. Karen shares wh...

Episode Summary In this episode of Awaken Your Power , Keri talks with Maree Lipschitz —speaker, facilitator, writer, and lifelong spiritual seeker—about the radical cultural power of female rites of passage . Drawing from decades of work with girls and women at puberty, motherhood, and menopause, Marie shares how ceremony and ritual can transform these transitions from private struggles into publ...

Awakening Into Sovereignty with Aaron Scott In this episode, Keri Mangis is joined by author and systems-thinker Aaron Scott for a far-reaching conversation about what it means to awaken inside a world built on inherited myths, conditioning, and collective illusions. Drawing from his background in philosophy and nearly two decades on Wall Street, Aaron offers a rare lens into how our identities ar...

Awaken Your Power — Episode: From Block to Powerful (with Cheryl Stelte ) Episode Overview In this deeply insightful conversation, Cheryl Stelte    joins Keri to explore what it means to move from block to powerful . A spiritual coach, master healer, and author of From Block to Powerful: The Spiritual Guide to Unlocking Inner Clarity and Authentic Power , Cheryl helps women uncover how t...

In this conversation, writing coach and author Amy Hallberg joins Keri to explore how we awaken power by claiming our gifts—especially in times of upheaval. They trace Amy’s journey from “upholder” to norm-breaker, the humbling wisdom of being an exchange student in West Germany, and why language is only an approximation of lived experience. Together they unpack ritual, grief, and everyday action...

Episode summary Menopause advocate and life strategist Zapheria Bell joins Keri to reframe midlife as a profound alchemical journey. Drawing on her “Five Passages of Menopause,” Zapheria bridges science and soul—neuroscience-informed tools, emotional clearing, and what she calls psych-architecture—to help women move from cracking and burning to pause, remembering, and rising. This is a compassiona...

Episode Summary In this season finale, host Keri Mangis reflects on the powerful conversations from Season 3 of Awaken Your Power. Throughlines emerge from her five incredible guests: the courage to question the status quo, to keep asking why, and to follow not just the mind but the heart and soul. Drawing inspiration from her own TEDx experience, Keri shows how truth and wisdom often come not fro...

Jen Veralle — event experience strategist; founder of Spark Track and Mindful Drinking Movement; co-founder of Sauna & Sobriety; TEDx speaker (“Why We Should Rethink Drinking Culture”); eleven years alcohol-free and an advocate for inclusive, alcohol-optional social spaces. Episode snapshot After two decades of alcohol misuse and a corporate burnout at forty, Jen rebuilt her life and work—then...

🎙️ Episode Title: Not Your Mama’s Menopause: Redefining Midlife with Shebang 🗓️ Episode Summary: In this powerful, candid, and laugh-out-loud episode of Awaken Your Power , I'm joined by Lori and Doty—founders of Shebang , the bold and unapologetic voice redefining the midlife experience for women. What started as a friendship forged over a tearful porch conversation blossomed into a movement buil...

Guest: Galina Singer | Coach, Writer, Soulful Disruptor https://galinasinger.com/  | IG: @galinasinger 🌟 Episode Summary In this bold and deeply honest conversation, Keri welcomes coach and writer Galina Singer to explore what it really means to live beyond the status quo . Together, they examine the quiet (and not-so-quiet) ways women disrupt inherited roles—especially around marriage, moth...

🎙️ Episode Title: Reclaiming Moxie: How Women Shrink—and How to Stop 🪷 Episode Summary: In this empowering and insightful episode, Keri sits down with social entrepreneur, educator, and unapologetic change-maker Kristi Hemmer. Together, they explore what it means for women and girls to “shrink”—in classrooms, boardrooms, conversations, and everyday culture—and how to reclaim your voice, space, an...

🎙️ Episode Title: Menopause Is Not a Disease—It’s a Rite of Passage 🪷 Episode Summary: In this fierce and freeing conversation, Keri is joined by veteran aromatherapist, coach, and wise woman Anna Denfeld to reclaim menopause as the sacred transformation it truly is. Together they dismantle toxic cultural narratives that treat menopause as a disease or a decline and instead frame it as a chrysali...

Welcome to the season 3 of Awaken Your Power. In a world that rewards fitting in and staying small, what does it really mean to step into your power? In this solo opening, I dig into the myths and misunderstandings about power that keep so many of us from living fully. Is power the same as control? Does it always corrupt? Is it just for a chosen few? Together, we’ll explore a very different kind o...

Episode Title : The Power of Liminal Spaces Host : Keri Mangis   Main Topics : Understanding Liminal Spaces : [05:00] Definition and emotional resonance of being "in between" states, the challenge and beauty of transitions. Cultural Context and Historical Insight : [12:30] Discusses how different cultures and ancient rites incorporate the understanding of these transitional phases. Trans...

Dear Power Source subscribers, It has been a long, busy, hot summer so far! My newsletter has surely fallen down on the list of priorities! However, I have remained busy. I’ve been writing articles for Spirituality & Health Magazine , which you can check out here . I’m also writing two columns for The Edge Magazine , one on personal transformation , and the other on simple t ips and trick s. P...

We are living in a time of immense confusion, pain, and disconnect. When there are horrors in every direction, it overwhelms us, and can cause us to feel like there’s nothing we can do. It can lull us into numbness. Hopelessness is a dangerous emotion. It’s very easy to get caught in a cycle of cynicism, fear, and bitterness. Yet, we are called to pull ourselves out of those cycles. We are called...

Dear Power Source Subscribers: You didn’t think I’d give you a morning meditation without also offering an evening meditation, did you? 🙃 Bookend your days with these two guided meditations, and notice the shifts in your mindset, well-being, and even productivity. Namaste, Keri Get full access to The Power Source at kerimangisauthor.substack.com/subscribe

Of all the good habits you can put into place, taking just a few moments in the morning to get grounded and set your intentions can make all the difference between a day where you always feel a step behind and a day when you feel unstoppable. This AM meditation is just 11 minutes. I encourage you to bookmark this email and get into the routine of playing it each morning. (For paid Substack members...

An overview of the three primary stages of alchemical transformation.

In times of uncertainty, the most important thing we can do for ourselves is be kind. In this brief 10 minute audio, I offer three Metta phrases to help you find peace, safety, acceptance, and compassion in a shifting, changing world. Take some time to listen, and then start practicing repeating these phrases as you move through your days. Namaste, Get full access to The Power Source at kerimangis...