Awaken Your Soul's Journey

Podcast host Angela welcomes Ali Christos, a quantum hypnosis practitioner, author, speaker, meditation teacher, and founder of the Conscious Practitioner Network, who shares how a difficult divorce, encounters with mortality, and deep grief shaped his path from business and real estate into consciousness work guided by the idea “you were never broken, you adapted.” Ali recounts early spiritual cu...

Angela interviews JJ DiGeronimo, a four-time award-winning author, keynote speaker, and host of the Together We Seek podcast, about her shift from 20+ years in Silicon Valley leadership to exploring intuition, spiritual practices, and personal transformation. JJ describes her book Illuminate Your Path and its six phases of spiritual awakening, often triggered by “crossroads” like loss, divorce, or...

Podcast host Angela interviews Richard Krauland, author of The Bridge from Science to God, about his shift from spiritual uncertainty and 24 years of atheism to belief after reading 22 pages of Matthew in 1994, where he felt overwhelmed by its wisdom and a repeated message to stop worrying about himself, care for others, and trust God with money; he began giving and felt guided afterward. Krauland...

Podcast host Angela interviews Ted Kopecko, author of the international best-seller “Finding JOY (Journey Of You): Finding Your Purpose, Value and Freedom,” about shifting from reactive, life-led living to intentional, joy-led living. Ted discusses how grief, lost dreams, and limiting beliefs can leave people stuck and regrets can build over time, arguing that many are conditioned to conform throu...

Podcast host Angela welcomes Dr. Baruch “B” Halevi, a logotherapist, men’s coach, author, and ordained rabbi, to discuss why outward success can still feel empty and what he’s learned from officiating 500+ funerals. B shares how his father’s and grandmother’s suicides led him to help people, especially men, face fear and mortality, drawing on Viktor Frankl’s teachings that meaning is discovered th...

Podcast host Angela interviews Carol Brenner, a speaker, educator, and Shakespeare scholar who applies Shakespeare’s characters and stories to modern personal and business challenges through curricula on six psychological development stages and 12 “superpowers.” Brenner explains how Shakespeare’s multidimensional characters and soliloquies reveal inner psychology, and describes teaching methods th...

Podcast host Angela interviews Zoom guest MonaLisa Coburn, teacher, consciousness author, founder of Soul Navigators Academy, and author of Downloads from One Consciousness and The Joy of One Consciousness (108 “recipes” for nurturing the soul). Coburn describes how her sister’s death in 1996 catalyzed her awakening, including losing her dreams, hearing divine guidance, and later seeing her healed...

Angela records a rare solo episode (episode 135) after 134 prior conversations, reflecting on how interviewing hundreds of people has changed her and what she knows now about grief, healing, love, and spirituality since losing her husband Blaine in 2021. She explains that grief is more than sadness and has physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions, with no fixed timeline, and that joy...

Angela welcomes transformational coach and evidential medium Steve Barton, creator of The Game of 10, to discuss grief, loss, and moving forward without “leaving someone behind.” Steve shares how therapy and a near-death/out-of-body experience shifted his perspective on consciousness and happiness, emphasizing that there’s no right timeline for grieving and you can only go through it. He explains...

Angela welcomes author, speaker, and transformational coach Kelly Keefe, founder of The Heart Space and author of Rise Above Fear, to discuss how fear is a normal part of the human experience and why “feel the fear and do it anyway” can bypass parts of ourselves needing care. Kelly contrasts acting confident with embodying confidence, describing embodiment as coherence between the conscious mind a...

Angela welcomes author and intuitive mentor Ellen Edmondson, whose spiritual awakening began through profound losses, including leaving a senior federal executive career and later losing her mother three months after her son was born. Ellen shares how grief can coexist with joy and become a catalyst for identity shifts, deeper purpose, and expanded capacity for love. She offers practical guidance...

Podcast host Angela interviews her partner, psychic medium and channeling teacher Kevin, about connecting with the “other side” beyond surface-level questions. Kevin says his calling is to help people understand that life continues after death and that mediumship is translating spiritual frequency into human language through thoughts and visuals, sometimes providing evidential details (e.g., Angel...

Angela welcomes Neal Tricarico to discuss grief, the myth of “closure,” and finding meaning after profound loss. Neal shares his background working for more than two decades alongside Tony Robbins and his earlier spiritual training through Deepak Chopra, including meditation, and explains how those tools were tested when his son Anthony died by suicide two years ago. He describes Anthony’s high-fu...

Angela welcomes Patti Comeau-Simonson, a peer grief specialist and bereavement professional supporting grieving individuals since 2007, with a thanatology certificate and author of Recipes for Healing: Working Through Grief One Plate at a Time. Patti shares losing her husband David, finding purpose through hospice volunteer training about a year and a half later, volunteering nearly 12 years, then...

Host Angela welcomes international writer, actor, and producer Nikki Borger, who moved to the U.S. in 2018 to pursue film acting but soon faced cascading losses: her mother’s sudden death, her stepdad’s pancreatic cancer and passing, both grandfathers’ deaths, her mother-in-law’s cancer returning, and caring for her biological father until he died earlier this year amid the pandemic, housing insta...

Angela welcomes guest Hakeem Bourne‑McFarlane, who shares how a childhood marked by addiction, instability, and the death of his younger brother, shaped his anger, identity, and later self-sabotage. Sports became his mask as he moved through Division I to Division III football, but injuries, five knee surgeries, substance use, and incarceration ultimately forced him into sobriety, honesty, and acc...

Podcast host Angela welcomes Steve Ferrara, author of From Grief to Gratitude: A New Paradigm on Death, who shares how the death of his 23-year-old son in a car accident led him to journal daily for 20 years, later turning those journals into a book with an editor over several years. Steve describes key shifts in healing, including moving from anger and “why” questions toward acceptance, viewing t...

Angela interviews science teacher and memoirist Katie Rizzo, who lost her firstborn son Nicholas to addiction on September 17, 2024 after years of opioid dependence, and describes how Al‑Anon and grief support groups helped her survive. Katie explains her framework from her forthcoming memoir, The Trimesters of Grief (Kohler Books), comparing mourning to pregnancy: early nausea and disorientation,...

Angela welcomes author and ICU nurse Teresa Evans to discuss her book, "Choosing to Die: A Daughter's Story of Supporting Her Mother's End of Life Through Assisted Death." Teresa shares how witnessing death as a nurse shaped her views, and how her perspective deepened when her mother, after years with end-stage heart failure and COPD, chose medical assistance in dying (MAID) on her 80th birthday....

Angela interviews Sylvia Worsham, a three-times bestselling author, spiritual transformation coach, and host of the Release Doubt, Reveal Purpose podcast, about anticipatory grief, daily surrender to God, and finding joy during profound loss. Sylvia shares her complicated relationship with her father, how writing her memoir helped her forgive and heal before his terminal brain tumor diagnosis in 2...

Angela interviews Jody Hudson, author of My Promise to Alex, motivational speaker, and founder of the Alex Hudson Lyme Foundation about her daughter Alex’s years-long medical mystery that began with joint pain in fifth grade, escalated in high school, and was finally diagnosed as Lyme disease after 40 doctors in 2017. Jody describes the emotional toll of dismissal by the medical community, the com...

Angela interviews Kristen Swan, a former business coach now devoted to life and spiritual guidance, about the power of story, curiosity, and self-discovery. Kristan describes three “buckets” of story—stories we tell ourselves, inherited stories, and stories we share—and compares storytelling to visual art as a way to reveal universal human truths and reduce isolation. They discuss vulnerability, u...

Angela welcomes energy healing practitioner and author Dana Wylder, who shares how trauma, chronic stress, and nervous system dysregulation preceded her multiple sclerosis diagnosis and sparked a deep exploration of mind-body healing. Dana explains the yogic model of the five koshas, arguing that chronic illness often arises “upstream” and can’t be addressed through physical treatment alone. They...

Angela interviews Dr. Lise Janelle, founder of the Heart Freedom Method and co-authoring a new book with Jack Canfield, about turning grief and hardship into healing and purpose. Dr. Lise shares how a series of losses in 1988—her father’s terminal cancer diagnosis, her 21-year-old brother’s death, and the end of a long relationship—sparked a lifelong mission to help others release emotional blocks...

Podcast host Angela interviews Jessica Taylor, who describes a severe brain injury that erased much of her memory and education, brought profound grief to her and her family, and left her without adequate medical support in Toronto. Jessica says she rebuilt her life through determination, extensive reading, and 20 years of research that led to her book A Spiritual Awakening and her memoir From Tra...