Bevin: A Femme Over 40 and her Friends

Community means you keep showing up! I am feeling very blessed and enriched by my in person and online communities right now. In these times having community is so vital to getting our needs and resources met. Belonging is an actual human need--I talk about how to bring your own safe place to community, how to develop it, the importance of vulnerability and tips for facilitating community. I also...

Unconventional life choices during a Saturn Return! Koi is a Taurus, a Burner and an explorer who has figured out life on the road as a car camper and a converted school bus. Van life is totally a learning curve and we talk about problem solving as a digital nomad. How do you care for yourself on the road? Koi is a queer friendly event producer and his (currently in New Mexico but will travel with...

We've talked about morning routines (ep 103) and figuring out our values (ep 111) but here I propose less than ten minutes, thrice daily for your optimal peace! I talk about my experience having an intentional routine three times a day and what you could do to brainstorm what your path to peace could be like. Especially. helpful this time of year because in the Northern Hemisphere this is a great...

My annual episode with Scott on the Winter Solstice! What's a glamour? How can we dig a little deeper and shine our light in these dark times? Please visit with us in our other episodes--I love the progression of a friendship with two growing people over time! Episodes 157, 144, 118, 60 and 14! Scott's website: https://starandstonellc.com/ Scott on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ScottKSmith/po...

Listener question! Do I ever watch old vlogs and videos? How do I feel after having left the hustle bustle of Los Angeles? Following up on Episode 2 about my Gay Divorce and the healing of that heartbreak. Here's the performance art piece I created about Mariah Carey and Activism on the occasion of the inauguration in 2017, which feels relevant to these times: https://youtu.be/dXPZFjxGMWI Patreon....

Are the ten core principles of Burning Man an example of how we can create an interdependent society and bring out the best in one another? I immersed myself for the first time in their culture for four days at the Alchemy Burn near Atlanta, GA and I radically received! The feeling of personal freedom is contagious and I had a great time at this fire festival right below the full moon and Jupiter....

Melissa is bisexual, sapphic and polyamorous. She is a coach who helps folks align their values and their lives, navigate heartbreak and build relationship skills. We talk about her coming out story. De-centering men. The academic industrial complex and, with her PhD and my JD, whether and how to pursue higher education. Freelance work and whether to take the plunge. Melissa was raised Catholic an...

Colin of Queer Cosmos is a Gemini who teaches me how to change the world without taking it too seriously. This is a fun conversation going deep on astrology themes, relational understanding and making jokes and teasing all the Zodiac signs. A Course in Miracles, autonomy, community and my hyper focus on the 1989-1991 birth year microgeneration. This is a FUN episode! Join us for this long form con...

"Living authentically is the key that unlocks the door to life!" Dylan returns to the podcast and we talk all things transition, transformation and self trust. Releasing fundamentalism and the wedge to trusting self and your connection to God. Living in integrity through listening to that still, small voice and following our purpose. Previous episode with Dylan: Episode 51 https://spotif...

I'm hearing propaganda that being queer or trans is being "pushed" onto kids. There's an important distinction between having information about actual human diversity available to people and pushing people into making decisions about a very fluid experience. Queer and trans people have existed since people have existed, natural human diversity is more fluid and spectrum than whit...

Can you believe it before you see it? Listener question about how I walk with faith and trust in God. (The Goddess, the Universe, Spirit, a life force greater than myself, etc...) I talk a lot about faith in dreams and visions for your life with a brief visualization exercise towards the end to help orient you towards your dreams! Join us on the virtual porch as we chat faith! As with all spiritua...

Audio episode 181. It's been 25 (...almost 26) years since I came out of the closet as queer! In this video I recall those days, how I came out to myself and what the repercussions have been. I also talk about all the other coming out occasions I have had like speaking openly about using plant medicine, being spiritual and psychic, being a flashy sparkly person in a small town of lots of borin...

Richard Simmons just passed away and Erica and I share a queer freak aerobics root in his workout videos and she reminisces about being in his last workout video and I reminisce about his influence on me in the intro to this episode. Erica and I talk sobriety, exploring who we are in a normie world, processing emotions, dating a cis man while being queer, the heteropatriarchy, officiating weddings...

In 2024 we are faced with insidious, well organized power grabs from the far right. Sonya is a dear friend of mine who has been a community organizer and activist for more than two decades. She's great at breaking down big concepts in ways I can understand and I hope it will help you, too. It's hard to know what to do to stem the tide of political forces who want to repeal women's righ...

Manduh is back on the podcast talking about the string of miracles that have unfolded since she followed Spirit's guidance to release her day job and focus full time on her Reiki Bakery and Mediumship development. We talk about the Water Heater Miracle of 2024, her mediumship development work at Camp Chesterfield, coming out with no queer experience and her birthday Qveen Herby concert adventu...

Oregon recently legalized facilitated psilocybin journeys and Lisa is back on the podcast talking about them! She is a licensed facilitator and we go through the whole process of taking a potentially life changing journey with plant medicine at the center she works for. We also talk about career pivots and connecting to our loving ancestors with fungi! Previous episode with Lisa, with her backgrou...

My relationship with God is my top value. Since relationship is an action word my practice evolves as I evolve. It's been over three years since I did an episode about this and thought an update was due! My hope is it will inspire you to develop your own spiritual practice (if you want one) and/or give you some ideas of folks to connect to who can help guide you on your path! Grab a notepad! M...

Quality of grief is quality of life! In my belief and how I connect to the ancestral realm, I've received more "I love you" messages from my dad this past year than I did my entire adult life when he was alive! Checking in on my grieving process with y'all. My previous episodes about dad grief: Episode 127: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/3P1hOFogSJb Episode 124: https://spo...

Astrologer, Akashic practitioner, divinator, musician, actuary, gentle human Jonathan Koe joins me on the podcast! We talk about traditional metrics for success versus claiming it for yourself. How to devote to art and spiritual practice without needing an outcome and lots and lots of astrology tid bits. Jonathan's website: https://www.jonathankoe.com/links/ Jonathan's podcast: Healing the...

Continuing my series digging into the characteristics of white supremacy culture--talking about choosing quality over quantity vs quantity over quality. We live in a society and economy that pushes for infinite scale and likes to put people into boxes. When slowing down and focusing on connection is the more relational, effective and joyful way to live life. Characteristics of white supremacy cult...

Unmet needs, leveling up, connecting to your guides as a way of making life easier. We all deserve to get our needs met and when our subconscious needs things we aren't getting it creates self sabotage! I learned about that in Leah Garza's Akashic Mentorship (now enrolling for 2024 cohort) and since I've been seeking to meet my unmet needs for affirmation and connection through safe so...

Audio Episode 170. I welcome back body positive personal trainer Bianca Russo to the podcast. How to use Chat GPT to design a personal habits protocol tailored to your specific goals. What is wealth and how do we define abundance. Unlearning extractive capitalism overwork. A surprising update about women's sports. Toppling the patriarchy. My previous episode with Bianca is episode 148: Tips to...

Listener question! Asked about whether I have career regrets from my pivot away from law (which created massive mental and physical chronic health conditions) and into my current career. And when to quit or when to stay the course! This is touching on a special nerve for me right now because I'm needing to seek additional streams of income to supplement my aerobics business right now. Join me...

Life is full of hard conversations--break-ups, asking people out on a date, setting boundaries, revealing vulnerable things about yourself, so many more! I talk about my experience learning to open up to conflict, intimacy, and releasing defensiveness (this was huge). When to have hard conversations versus walking away, when to offer unsolicited advice, and physiological ways to prepare for hard c...

Listener question! Spice Girls as femme icons problematic or empowering? I could talk for eight hours about the invisible handcuffs of shame! About hegemonic beauty standards! About femme as a playground for gender expression, the natural evolution of self expression and not putting limitations on our purpose! Let's play in gender and unlearn the confining shame that hides our gifts! Should yo...