EarthXperiences

“You cannot want for someone what they don't want for themselves.” — Joseph Octaviani What makes someone reconsider everything they thought they knew about their health, beliefs, and the way they live? In Part 2 of Earth Xperiences, herbalist, father, and Life the Plantway creator Joseph Octaviani shares the personal health crisis that led him to explore herbal medicine, natural healing, fasti...

“Something can still be valid even without their validation.” — Jerome Shaw Can humans live without food? What is breatharianism, and how do personal experiences influence what we believe about health, spirituality, and the human body? Author, seeker, and Qigong teacher Jerome Shaw joins Dani on Earth Xperiences to explore breatharianism, pranic living, extended fasting, veganism, consciousness, a...

“Feelings have a role in everything we do. Literally every single thing we do.” Joseph Octaviani How do our experiences shape what we believe about health, relationships, spirituality, and the way we choose to live? In this two part conversation on Earth Xperiences, Dani Daniela speaks with Joseph Octaviani, herbalist and creator of Life the Plantway, about his personal healing journey, plant base...

“I'm not looking for my better half. I'm already whole.” What happens when your understanding of God changes? Can you question Christianity without abandoning spirituality? And how much influence do our beliefs have over the lives we create? In this Earth Xperiences conversation, M. Simone shares her journey from growing up Christian to exploring God consciousness, manifestation, and the belief th...

“I would be lying if I didn't say I have a bias. I want my faith to be true. I want my faith to be right.” What happens when someone who deeply believes in their religion is willing to examine its uncomfortable history? Can questioning your faith make it stronger? And how do we distinguish God's voice from intuition, personal desires, or the influence of our upbringing? In this conversatio...

“You don't see until you see, and you don't listen until you open your ears.” Gabriela Lerner What makes someone question beliefs they've held for most of their life? Can changing your diet influence your values, spirituality, and the way you see the world? In this episode of Earth Xperiences, Dani sits down with Gabriela Lerner, a vegan advocate, health coach, mentor, and network mark...

What does it take to build a healthy marriage? Is love something we find, something God chooses for us, or something we learn to create? In this episode of Love Xperiences , a special series from the Earth Xperiences podcast, married couple Domonic Morrow and his wife, Martina Morrow , join Dani for an open conversation about love, marriage, faith, and the experiences that shaped their relationshi...

“Everybody has their truth. There are also universal truths that we all have to kind of live by.” Chris James joins Earth Xperiences for a conversation about what happens when you begin questioning the beliefs you once considered fundamental truths. Raised in Christianity as the son of a minister who later became a pastor and bishop, Chris shares some of the questions that followed him from childh...

“I just get a little defensive about my story because it's just like the most beautiful story to me.” — Anna Sheffield What happens when the assumptions people make about your family don't reflect your actual experience? Anna Sheffield grew up as a Black daughter in a white adoptive family. While transracial adoption often raises questions about racial identity, cultural belonging, adoptio...

“You should never fully trust anybody. You need to have discernment.” — Dr. Giovannie Jean-Louis What happens when the systems we depend on for justice and healthcare become the very systems we begin to question? In this Earth Xperience, Dani sits with Dr. Giovannie Jean-Louis, a neurodisability physiotherapist, healthcare advocate, and cofounder of Prober, to explore systemic racism, medical mist...

“The behavior goes where the reinforcement flows.” Dr. Jared Van is a behavior scientist, precision teacher, educator and abolitionist whose work explores how reinforcement, punishment, environment and systems influence human behavior. In this Earth Xperiences conversation, Jared shares how an early concern with fairness eventually became connected to his work in education, behavior science, disab...

“One of the first questions I ask my students every semester is, Do you care if your beliefs are true?” Melanie Trecek-King is the creator of Thinking Is Power and an educator focused on critical thinking, information literacy and science literacy. In this Earth Xperiences conversation, Melanie shares how growing up in a Young Earth Creationist church, studying biology and eventually questioning b...

“No more blind faith.” Hope with Holly joins Dani on Earth Xperiences for a conversation about Christian deconstruction, questioning faith, religious identity, Christian nationalism, patriarchy, relationships, motherhood, and what happens when the beliefs that once shaped your entire life begin to change. Holly shares her experience inside evangelical Christianity and the questions that eventually...

“The entire concept of you as a sinner, an unworthy sinner, is the most energy draining thing you’ll ever experience.” Cyndi Savage spent more than 30 years inside Christianity, including years as a minister and missionary. Then she began questioning the Bible, the ideas she had been taught and the framework she had once used to understand God, morality and herself. In this Earth Xperience, Cyndi...

“You have to set a new standard of familiarity for yourself.” What happens when the beliefs, communities and expectations that once gave your life structure no longer feel honest? In this Earth Xperiences conversation, Dani sits with artist, creative, speaker and musician Saiuri Diogé for a discussion about faith, identity, work, love and learning how to trust yourself outside of the roles other p...

“If I didn’t know who Jesus was for myself, I would want nothing to do with Christianity.” Can you question Christianity, challenge church culture and still choose faith? In this episode of Earth Xperiences, Dani sits down with Vene for a conversation about Christianity, church hurt, Seventh Day Adventism, religious legalism, spiritual experiences, critical thinking and what happens when the faith...

“Death is nothing to fear.” Josh, known online as Everyone’s Brother, says his understanding of life, God and identity changed after surviving multiple medical crises and near death experiences. In this Earth Xperiences conversation, Josh shares what he remembers from being outside of his body, what he describes as an encounter with God, and how those experiences challenged the Christianity he gre...

“I am one with God, but I am not God.” Michael Monk describes himself as a spiritual teacher of energy mastery and metaphysics with a devotion to God. His path there has been anything but simple. In this Earth Xperiences conversation, Michael shares why he rejected the church as a teenager, the experience he believes was his first encounter with God, a healing he describes as miraculous, and how t...

Who Are You When You Stop Performing? | Dr. Crystal Harrell on Work, Faith and Being Seen “I didn’t see myself. I didn’t acknowledge my own gifts, my own creativity, my own intellect, my own intuition. I neglected me first.” Dr. Crystal T. Harrell spent more than a decade pursuing education as her path out of poverty, eventually earning more than $1 million in scholarships and grants and graduatin...

Is Capitalism the Root of All Evil? Financial Trauma, Faith & AI with Rahkim Sabree “A dysregulated person is a profitable one.” What if our relationship with money is telling us something about the systems we live in, the experiences we carry, and what we believe makes a good life? In this episode of Earth Xperiences, I sit down with financial trauma expert, author, speaker, and financial the...

Part 2 of 2 with Julie @abercadabermcdoo "Somebody's got to stop hurting other people first." How do we challenge racism without losing sight of each other's humanity? In this Earth Xperience, Julie returns for the second half of her conversation to explore one of the most difficult questions of our time. How do our experiences shape the way we see race, trust, politics, justice,...

In Part 1 of this two part Earth Xperiences conversation, Julie, known on TikTok as @abercadabermcdoo , reflects on the experiences that shaped how she understands race, goodness, accountability, and personal change. She examines the racism she has had to recognize within her own thinking and the difference between appearing like a good person and becoming honest enough to grow. The conversation a...

What happens when you stop performing the life you were taught to live and begin discovering the one that feels true? In this Earth Xperience, Tyresha "Sunie" Flemister, also known as Guided by Sunie, shares her journey through Christianity, faith deconstruction, sexuality, nervous system healing, grief, and spiritual transformation. As a licensed mental health clinician, transformation...

“The world isn't out to get me. I was just in the wrong one.” What happens when the beliefs that shaped your identity no longer fit? In this Earth Xperience, Tyson Porter, healer, creator, musician, and spiritual teacher, shares the journey that took him from the Baptist church through Buddhism, Hinduism, meditation, astrology, ayahuasca, and ultimately back to Christianity with a completely diffe...

“What makes us human is that we take what is inside and make it visible.” In this Earth Xperiences conversation, Dani speaks with Francina Simone, founder of Midnight Scholar Society, about truth, ancestry, writing, spirituality, witchcraft, Christianity, Black church, God, joy, and what it means to become yourself in real time. Francina shares how she understands herself as someone moving between...