King Hero's Journey with Beth Martens

Join me for a King Hero interview with  Will Keller , who has passionately pursued many avenues of freedom, including reality itself. While Will is best known for teaching  Natural Law , this conversation explores a different question: What does it even mean to be real? We'll look at the difference between reality and philosophy, reality and hope, reality and what we think should be, along wit...

What happens when you realize no one is coming to do what you know needs to be done? In this King Hero interview, I'm joined by  Ben of Cambridge , whose path led him from quiet observation to direct action during the rollout of 5G technology in the UK. After researching the technology for himself and concluding that it posed serious concerns, Ben chose to act. He equipped himself with the evi...

The nickel rabbit hole goes deep. That's one reason Dr. Garrett Smith has spent more than  34 hours  live streaming on the subject and he's not done lol. If that feels overwhelming, this episode is for you. Returning guest  Dagmar Stansova  and I are getting together to share the highlights, our own experiences, practical tips, and the basics of nickel detox to help you get oriented. For t...

"All the world's a stage." This familiar quote has many layers of meaning, and this week Micah Ellars returns to  Beth of Fresh Air  to unpack them with me. The stage has become a powerful symbol in our culture. It's a place where our attention is drawn outward, toward the performers and away from ourselves. In freedom movements, the word  actor  has even become synonymous with ...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , I'm joined by returning guest  Dagmar Stansova  to talk about the process of detoxing what may be the most heinous of all the toxic metals: Nickel. Who knew?? For most people, nickel only comes up in conversations about skin reactions, jewelry allergies, or metal sensitivities. Yet the medical literature is filled with research on nickel toxicity and its...

More than 25 years ago, I left what I now openly call a cult. If you've followed my work for any length of time, you've probably heard me mention my years in India and the spiritual organization I devoted myself to in my twenties. In 1999, when victims began coming forward with accounts of sexual abuse by the group's leader, I left immediately. At the time, I was fighting for my life w...

What becomes real when sight extends beyond the eyes? In this King Hero interview, I'm welcoming back  Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan  for our third conversation together. Over the past several years, I've watched Edith conduct extraordinary explorations into consciousness, blindfold vision, telepathy, healing, and human potential. Her work raises profound questions about perception, awareness, and...

Story is food for humans. We spend a lot of time thinking about what nourishes us physically, emotionally, and mentally, yet many people are starving for story. Not only for information, instructions, and guidance. But authentically told story that carries something real and can be the food for something else real to grow. There are all kinds of stories in the world. Stories that shape cultures. S...

In this episode of the  King Hero’s Journey , we’re deep diving into the Hero’s Journey through the lenses of  sound, film, stage, archetype, and creation  with an extraordinary panel: Roy “FutureMan” Wooten Kery KG Greene Micah Ellars What brings us together is a shared fascination with the Hero’s Journey as a living structure moving through human experience. FutureMan and Kery explore where  sou...

Sublimate 💫 To sublimate is to refine raw material into a higher expression. To take the friction, experiences, talents, and struggles of life and allow them to become substance for consciousness. This isn’t about superiority over others. It’s about becoming less mechanically run by programs and more connected to the essential inner being that supports real freedom. There is a spiritual worth to...

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Synergy is what happens when something new is created through coming together. In groups, it has a recognizable structure: A common aim and shared intention Real opportunities for contribution Individual purpose remaining intact,  and  something new is born James Hillman called this new thing a  daimon  — a third being or soul that emerges from the w...

This episode comes straight out of a real-life meeting at Confluence. Something became unmistakably clear to me there — what it looks like when a community forms  organically . Not managed. Not engineered. Not pushed into existence. But something that actually  converges . Confluence itself is a living example of this. You can feel the difference when you’re in it. People aren’t being organized… t...

What does it look like when a life of music becomes a path of initiation? In this King Hero interview, I’m joined by  Roy “Future Man” Wooten —five-time Grammy Award-winning musician, composer, and inventor—to explore the intersection of  sound, innovation, and the Hero’s Journey . Future Man is known for creating entirely new instruments, including the  Drumitar , which allows him to play a full...

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Fresh back from Confluence in Texas, this episode is about returning — coming back with something real. I’ll share some highlights and adventures from the experience, and what transformation happens when we step out of our usual environments. Patterns loosen, new clarity appears while you’re away, but many people wonder how to hold onto it when they’re back in regular life. In addition, I have a w...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , we move to the next phase: Drop it. Once you’ve spotted a pattern, tracked it, and recognized its structure… there’s only one thing left to do. Not fix it. Not manage it. Not analyze it further. But to  drop it . To let it move through you instead of holding it in place. Life is full of things we cling to — both the “good” and the “bad.” When something feels...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , I’m getting into one of the most powerful aspects of deprogramming: The pattern interrupt. If you’ve been following along, you know I’ve been spending time with the work of  G. I. Gurdjieff —and for someone who rarely finds great resonance in other systems, I’ve found a surprising amount of common ground. One of his key insights: For anything to change… it n...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , I’m exploring something deceptively simple — and incredibly powerful: Naming. To name something is not just to describe it. It is to bring it into form. It’s one of the first capacities we develop as humans — learning language, learning to differentiate, learning to point to reality and say,  this is that. And from there, everything changes. Naming is an  Al...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , we're getting into one of the most useful skills you can develop if you want to move through life with any kind of clarity: Spot it. Life is not random. It’s recursive. Themes repeat. Patterns cycle. Spirals move — not in circles, but in layers. If you’ve ever had the experience of thinking,  “Didn’t I already go through this?”  — you did. Just not from...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , I’m turning my attention to something subtle, pervasive, and rarely questioned:  scent . It’s everywhere. From perfumes and cleaning products to public spaces and travel environments, scent shapes our experience more than we tend to notice — influencing mood, affecting the body, and sometimes overwhelming the senses in ways that are hard to ignore once you s...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , I'm joined in person by good friend, meditation teacher, and truth advocate  Wonnita Brands . After the chaos of 2020 and the years that followed, something strange has happened culturally: the world seems eager to move on as if nothing happened. As if we didn’t live through: Lockdowns and the forced isolation of families and communities The criminalizat...

In this episode of Beth of Fresh Air, Beth welcomes a modern Renaissance man — filmmaker, teacher, actor, health coach specializing in the Love Your Liver approach, truth lover, a devoted student of his own psyche, adept in the work of G. I. Gurdjieff and Carl Jung. In a culture that prizes specialization — where the right hand no longer knows what the left one does — this conversation explores th...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , we enter the arena of  sound . Sound is everywhere. It captures our attention, intrudes on our space, shapes our moods, colors our perceptions, and often influences us more than we consciously realize. From music to machinery, from background noise to deliberate harmony, sound plays a powerful role in how we experience the world. On the heels of an inspiring...

I'm pressing pause on the  Evolve  series for a minute. Instead… we’re going to take a breath,  connect,  and let me think out loud. Episode 18 is a solo, slightly unhinged (in the best way), community livestream. No script. No outline. Just me, you, and whatever wants to come out of the ethers. Possible directions include: A rant and question about  belief  (a pet peeve) Observations about ho...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , Beth turns the  Evolve  lens toward one of the most powerful—and least examined—forces shaping culture, society, and gender dynamics: the  Mother archetype , particularly its shadow expressions. Joined by special guest  Marja West —author, podcaster, mentor, and advocate for survivors of trafficking and ritual abuse—this conversation explores how unresolved...