For the People Podcast

Somehow I’d love to emphasize that my experience in that imitation was 100% sober. I want people to know that immense healing is possible through embodiment, and the discipline of sobriety.

About Mo Washburn mo washburn is a queer bodyworker, community care practitioner, and deep listener based in Sebastopol, California — on the unceded homelands of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok peoples. Mo's path has been anything but straight. From the corporate world to farming, from bodywork to doula care to song circles, they have spent years finding their way back to the same question: how...

In this special episode, Aliko Weste shares a powerful talk originally given at the Conscious Growth Convergence in Lost Valley, Oregon. Titled Returning to Our Houses of Magic: A Comprehensive Historic and Neuro-Somatic Inquiry and a Cyclical Map for the New World , this workshop brings together history, healing, somatic awareness, decolonization, and visionary world-building. Aliko explores the...

Rabbi SaraLeya Schley was ordained in 2005 by the ALEPH Ordination Program, for which she currently is on the academic Va’ad and faculty. An elder and advisor, she has been involved with Wilderness Torah and its offshoots since 2007. She authored a 2020 responsum about Medical Assistance in Dying that was published by the Integral Halachah Institute and is a Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Hartman I...

Arthur Wald is a lifelong meditator, entrepreneur, and spiritual teacher who guides others in accessing flow states for personal mastery. As a Director and Lead Facilitator at Know the Self Academy , he trains students in techniques for bridging inner work with real-world impact. A queer man in a long-term partnership, Arthur brings both lived experience and professional insight to his work, suppo...

Antonia Songbird is an elemental priestess, songstress, devotional dancer, writer, earth activist, and ceremonialist devoted to the healing of humanity and the earth. She creates sacred containers for personal healing and collective awakening — bringing people together through cacao ceremonies, song circles, interactive workshops, and tea pouring to raise consciousness and restore harmony between...

In this deeply intimate episode, host Aliko Weste sits down with Chelsea for a vulnerable conversation about pregnancy, grief, love, motherhood, and the profound transitions that shape a human life. As Chelsea enters her third trimester, she reflects on the emotional threshold between maidenhood and motherhood, the tenderness of creating life while carrying grief, and the responsibility of becomin...

Dr. Jessica Tartaro (she/her) is a cis-gendered, able bodied, second generation Sicilian Jewish Intimacy Coach, Mediator & Connection Facilitator who draws from over 20 years of experience in the healing arts facilitating individuals, couples and groups. Through her one-of-a-kind workshops, Jessica powerfully weaves together the threads of Conscious Intimacy, Authentic Relating, Positive Psych...

Bio: Elliot Barnette lives and works in Seattle, WA. They are a passionate Jewish professional and love working towards building deeper relationships with their local community. In their free time, Elliot enjoys reading, writing, drinking tea, and spending time on the couch with their Great Dane. Aliko Weste sits down with Elliot Barnette for a deeply honest conversation about race, privilege, whi...

With over 20 years in corporate coaching and leadership development, Renee is both a Certified Autoimmune Paleo (AIP) Coach and Certified Health Coach (CHC), with additional training in Functional Nutrition. Drawing from her personal journey overcoming anxiety, she has developed powerful healing practices that work with the body’s natural capacity to restore and thrive. She offers customized, mult...

Rhys-Thorvald Hansen is a folk artist and facilitator whose work seeks to erode the barriers between self and place. Living along the coast of the Salish Sea, Rhys draws inspiration from the rhythms of the land, water, and those with whom humans share the earth. As a multimedia artist focusing on textiles and digital illustration, Rhys' work is concerned with the multiplicity of patterns that echo...

Tad (he/him) is a digital advertising and programmatic media pioneer with a passion for helping sole proprietors, small businesses, and non-profits create effective and manageable brand strategies. Since 2018, he has created and led communities of small business owners in orchestrated, grassroots marketing and fundraising campaigns for non-profits such as Meals on Wheels, The Negro Leagues Basebal...

Tada Hozumi (穂積 理彰) was born October 13th 1977, in Basel Switzerland, on the 670th anniversary of the destruction of the Knights Tempar. Through the years or 2016-2020 they pioneered "cultural somatics", an open-source framework for social change, which understood groups of humans, from families to whole nation states, as having interwoven collective nervous systems. This innovation, which sea...

Vila Loukas has been serving people in the healing arts for over 20 years. She is certified as a Healer and Guide with the Modern Mystery School International. Vila brings a unique blend of keen insight, deep compassion and fierce commitment to her work with clients and students who are ready for greater light, flow and empowerment in their lives. As a teacher of metaphysics, Vila specializes in g...

Leo Cosmo Farbman (he/they) is an Ashkenazi Jewish parent, reparations organizer, ancestral wisdom carrier and death doula. His practice weaves together the work of wealth redistribution, land return, ancestral healing and cultural repair towards personal and collective balance. They are an apprentice to the Afro-Indigenous healers of Drinking Gourd, the Sacred Logistician of the Reparations Summe...

Meg Evans is a former competitive figure skater who left home at 16 to train with Olympic coaches, mastering the demanding world of elite sports. After retiring from competition, Meg embraced a radically different path, dedicating herself to learning primitive survival skills and using wilderness therapy to support troubled youth. Now focused on outdoor education, Meg is passionate about connectin...

Rafa Kalapa (Alan Rafael Seid) grew up bilingual and bicultural in Mexico and the US. For over 30 years he has been a researcher, student, and teacher of modalities for living in harmony within ourselves, with each other, and with the planet. He coaches leaders and Changemakers on how to maximize their positive impact. You can see what his clients say about working with him at https://RafaKalapa.c...

Nala is director of “The Well, An Oasis for Animist Ritual,” supporting innovative ways of restoring grieving and lamentation culture from around the world. For 25 years, she has been tending the lands and waters of her permaculture homestead, both physically and ritually. Hands in the soil, she is honored to practice a low-tech, ecosomatic lifestyle on an Island beside the Salish Sea, in Washingt...

Today's episode features Tao Fallenstar, a visionary entrepreneur and new paradigm business consultant. This Episode dives into the truth about our social structure, law, and society. Tao specializes in common law, legal strategies, and innovative structures like private churches, ministries, and blockchain-based decentralized autonomous organizations. This is a must listen.

In this Episode I talk to my dear friend Brittany Anglin about life, race, art, and what it's really like to be Black in the PNW. 

In today's episode, we have the pleasure of hosting Jody Poth, a native Washingtonian and a distinguished local performance artist. I talk to Jody about her journey with performance, the truth and grief of the work, and how art and dance can support all of life. 

In this Episode, I interview Lydia, an Iranian Armenian American folk artist and multi-instrumentalist on her journey of creating her music, life, and The School for the Great Turning. This is a must listen episode for personal and life development skills. 

This is a special episode of For The People podcast from an event Bex Lipps and I produced in April 2023 at Seattle University called Fucking Real. This Episode dives into all topics of militant social justice culture, pain, trauma, cancel culture and the social dynamics that run our generation. 

I have the pleasure of interviewing Laurie Wagner who's an incredible author and writer who influences so many people in the United States to tap into their intuition and subconscious through wild writing. In this Episode we explore the journey of creative business development and success.

This short episode is about change, solidarity, and how to find somatic trust with the Universe. This episode features Ahlay Blakely's song - Everything is Change.