Conditioning to Consciousness

Send us Fan Mail What if the moments that quietly lead you to your purpose are also the easiest ones to say yes to?  Lindsay Helt didn't join the gym to transform her life. She was looking for childcare at a gym and some relief from the hard days of early motherhood. But that one small yes set off a chain of events that led to two thriving yoga studios, a community built on real connection, a...

Send us Fan Mail Something strange happens when a piece of art feels like it already belongs to someone you have never met. I sit down with Delana, an artist joining me from Sweden and the creator behind the Museum of Magical Objects, to talk about spirit-led artwork and the real-world process of making “magical objects” that are meant to be used, not just admired. We trace how her path moved from...

Send us Fan Mail Even if we don't mean to do it, we're constantly telling kids that their emotions, their stress, their experiences are wrong. That they should just get over it. Then we act surprised when they shut down, melt down, or check out.  In this solo episode, I pick up a thread from a recent conversation about Gen Z and Gen Alpha and go deeper into what overwhelm actually looks...

Send us Fan Mail We talk a lot on this show about how emotional suppression gets conditioned into us. But what about the generation living in the aftermath of everything we've built — and everything we've passed down? This episode is about kids. Specifically, why we keep calling Gen Z lazy when what they actually are is overwhelmed, overstimulated, and emotionally under-resourced in a wo...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever told yourself “I’m fine” while your body keeps tightening, buzzing, or breaking down, you already understand the problem we’re naming today: emotional suppression. We’re stepping back from the noise of modern life to look at a pattern baked into American conditioning and why it may be a hidden driver behind the chronic illness epidemic. I've been diving into th...

Send us Fan Mail Breaking inherited patterns is some of the most important work of our time. Int his episode, Jess sits down with author Dusah Wiseman to talk about her book Dear Cycle Breaker and what it actually takes to step out of inherited patterns without turning healing into another performance. We start with Dusah’s publishing path, including an early rejection, intense deadlines, and what...

Send us Fan Mail What if perimenopause and menopause are actually a gateway into our most powerful years - but the systems in place really just want to keep us disconnected from that power?  In this episode, I sit down with Caroline Burns, a menopause coach who went from living in a masculine, high-performance world (military service, then accounting) into a midlife turning point she never saw com...

Send us Fan Mail What if mediumship wasn’t a rare gift reserved for a chosen few—but a skill anyone can learn with practice, patience, and self-trust? In this episode of Conditioning to Consciousness , I’m joined by Kristina Cosmic Butterfly, a medium, Reiki practitioner, and teacher who brings an incredibly grounded, accessible approach to spiritual development. Kristina’s journey into mediumship...

Send us Fan Mail When the world feels unsteady, it's more important than ever to bring balance back into our lives. I use the chakra system as my guide for restoring balance, and I love that it gives me a clear path to figuring out where exactly the imbalance is showing up in the first place.  This episode is an exploration of the seven chakras and how they show up in daily life — from nervou...

Send us Fan Mail Your Body Isn’t the Problem — It’s the Portal What if the very thing you’ve been taught to distrust — your body — is actually the gateway back to intuition, wholeness, and truth? In this episode, I’m joined by Vanessa Long , coach, author, and guide, for a deep and grounded conversation about why so many of us feel disconnected from ourselves — and how the path back isn’t through...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Conditioning to Consciousness , we step into a deep, unscripted conversation about decolonization — not as an abstract theory, but as a lived, embodied process that touches our minds, bodies, relationships, and connection to the land. I’m joined by Mars Amante , a psychic medium, animal communicator, and spiritual guide whose work lives at the intersection of ac...

Send us Fan Mail What if empathy isn’t weak — but dangerous? In this solo episode of Conditioning to Consciousness , I break down a cultural shift that keeps coming up in my research -- a growing narrative that empathy is irrational, manipulative, or harmful. A quiet but powerful “war on empathy” is taking shape — and it’s deeply connected to emotional suppression, nervous system dysregulation, an...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Conditioning to Consciousness , I’m joined by Dr. Elizabeth Philipose , a scholar, spiritual guide, and longtime educator whose work lives at the intersection of systems theory, feminism, spirituality, and collective healing. Together, we explore the hidden architecture of power —the systems of capitalism, patriarchy, racism, colonialism, and scarcity thinking t...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is about choosing curiosity over comfort.  In this episode, I had the opportunity to sit down with Amy McDonald to name the system of white supremacy directly, explore how it was built and maintained through U.S. history, and talk about what it looks like to begin deconstructing it in ourselves and our communities. The opening acknowledges an important truth: this is...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Conditioning to Consciousness , Jess is joined by returning guest Danielle Polgar , an astrological advisor with over 20 years of study and 13 years of therapeutic client work, to break down the major astrology transits happening right now — and why so many of us feel like we’re living inside a collective “system upgrade.” While natal chart astrology can help yo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Conditioning to Consciousness , we explore patriarchy not as a political talking point or a blame narrative, but as a hidden operating system or a script running beneath the surface of our lives that shapes how safe we feel to speak, lead, rest, succeed, and be seen. This conversation is an invitation to look more deeply at how systemic conditioning lives not ju...

Send us Fan Mail Creativity is something we often see "reserved" for the talented. Otherwise it's seen as indulgent, frivolous, even wasted time. In this episode, we gently dismantle that myth.  I’m joined by writer and creative guide Allegra Chapman for a rich, grounding conversation about creativity as a nervous-system practice, a form of self-care, and a path back to self-connect...

Send us Fan Mail It's all just heavy right now. And unstable. Chaotic. Overwhelming.  It's hard to keep up with everything that's happening. For a lot of people, the easiest response is to shut down -- not because we don't care, but because caring feels like too much.  But that's the point -- the shut down, the apathy. When we check out, harmful systems advance.  This epis...

Send us Fan Mail In a world that feels heavy, chaotic, and — at times — genuinely unreal, it’s easy to swing between two extremes: doom-spiraling until your nervous system shuts down… or trying to “love-and-light” your way through realities your body knows are not okay. This episode lives in the middle path. I sat down with Kelly Stegman (aka The Boho Witchery ) for a conversation about spiritual...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Conditioning to Consciousness , we’re talking about something a lot of women feel… but rarely say out loud: rage —the kind that builds quietly under “I’m fine,” behind the smile, and beneath years of self-betrayal, suppression, and over-functioning. The episode starts with a quiet reflection on the importance of feeling it all at a time when there's a lot o...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you walk away from everything you’ve ever known - your family, your culture, your religion - and have to rebuild your life… twice? In this episode, I sit down with Emily Adams , a speaker, coach, and creator of a new human design for leadership platform, to talk about her extraordinary journey from growing up in the Amish community to becoming a powerful, grounde...

Send us Fan Mail January is often framed as a fresh start — a time for productivity, goal setting, and pushing forward. But biologically, emotionally, and energetically, we’re still in winter. This episode of Conditioning to Consciousness offers a collective “weather report” for January and explores the real cost of ignoring seasonal rhythms in favor of constant output. Drawing on natural cycles,...

Send us Fan Mail I didn’t expect to release another episode before the end of the year, but sometimes clarity arrives when we least expect it. This episode was recorded in one of those moments — after yoga, sitting in my car, via voice note — when something just clicked. In this episode, I’m sharing an honest reflection on the evolution of The Becoming You Project and where my heart — and this wor...

Send us Fan Mail The Wisdom That Lives in the Winter Solstice and Nature’s Cycles In this final episode of the year, we explore the quiet wisdom of winter —and what the winter solstice can teach us about rest, release, and the natural rhythms we’ve forgotten how to trust. The winter solstice marks the shortest day and longest night of the year , a powerful turning point where light begins its slow...

Send us Fan Mail What does it really mean to do shadow work in a world that feels like it’s on fire? In this episode, I sit down with Christine Zaroura to explore what happens when we stop running from the dark and start listening to it. Christine shares her story of grief, spiritual awakening, and what she calls becoming a “bridge builder” — someone who can feel the darkness, name the systems tha...