Madness and Meaning

We’ve spent the last year exploring the nature of who we are, why we are, and how we are as we navigate this crazy thing called life. Creating this podcast and getting to share our insight with you has meant the world to us, and we hope that you’ve taken a little something away from these deep and meaningful conversations, because we certainty did. Thank you for your time, your willingness to get...

In this week’s solo episode Amanda shares the first episode of her new solo podcast: HOME HOME is a collaboration between herself and her Higher Self exploring the relationship between human and soul inside of this Earth-life experience. This is part 1 of a 3-part series examining the divine nature of each human life, and the resistance to fully embracing this aspect of who we truly are. Song Cred...

In this episode, we explore both how people’s personal wellness journeys (fitness, nutrition, self care, personal development) are often fueled by their disempowering need to control and avoid pain, and how facilitators in the wellness space (coaches, healers, therapists, trainers, etc) operate from their need to control others’ experiences as they attempt to heal and overcome. Song Credit: Envy Y...

When you’re going through the motions of the activities/things that SHOULD make you feel happy, fulfilled, have fun… but instead, you feel numb, like you’re just going through the motions to get the things over with… how can you release the internal barriers to your own joy? In this episode, we explore the idea that to feel more joy, we have to stop avoiding feeling discomfort, and check in on our...

We decided to put a new spin on this episode today, rather than choosing one topic to dive deep into we just talk about the current life transition we’ve both found ourselves in, what that’s bringing up for us, where we’ve been challenged to grow, what we’re noticing is different about ourselves lately, and more! Song Credit: Envy You (Instrumental Version) Mimmi Bangoura epidemicsound.com Welcome...

This is a saying we all hear A LOT… and in today’s episode, we wanted to do more than just answer whether or not it’s true that everything happens for a reason. We explore what are the potential benefits and pitfalls that come with believing this, why we are resistant to believing it, and why we might want to believe it. Song Credit: Envy You (Instrumental Version) Mimmi Bangoura epidemicsound.com...

Motivations ebbs and flows… and we’ve all heard those exhaustive quotes about how you can’t rely on motivation to do anything and that sELf dISciPliNE is the key to success.  In this episode, we explore what’s really happening in those wanes of motivation + what it’s telling you about your psyche (and how to use that information), the difference between motivation and inspiration, and how we can s...

What is a spiritual awakening (and what to expect from experiencing it)? We’re taught to live life focused on things outside of us: what we can see, feel and do in order to shift or control it to our liking… …but what happens when you begin searching for more? What happens when you begin wondering IF there’s more? And what happens if the world outside of you no longer satisfies the longing for som...

Join Amanda in this solo episode as she takes you through a guided somatic exercise that you can do any time you’re wanting to feel and release uncomfortable or overpowering emotions or sensations, and learn how to drop from the mind and into the body. Welcome to the Madness and Meaning Podcast. We believe a life without passion is simply a life without meaning. When life gets a little mad and cha...

The most powerful inner work is the work we do in relationship. Other people offer us countless opportunities to awaken to parts of ourselves we were previously avoiding, suppressing, or rejecting. In this episode, we invite you to explore for yourself what projection work can offer you, and how you can use your judgements + jealousy of others to better know yourself, heal, grow, and feel more who...

Ascension: it’s taking a patriarchal concept and making it spiritual, where it’s a destination we all have to get to so we can finally feel satisfied because we did our “job” of contributing to the ascension of this planet. It becomes another thing to work towards, another thing we’re not “there yet” with. In this episode, we explore the idea that ascension is a state of being, meaning it's av...

So many people are having the experience of having their entire lives, livelihoods, careers, and relationships changed in a flash, all at the hands of an audience who are committed to punishing that person for doing or saying something deemed as unforgivable. In this episode, we explore the nature of cancel culture: What are we actually canceling? Why are we canceling? What is the discomfort in ch...

Ever wonder why it’s so hard for you to FEEL? Or perhaps you spend so much of your life spiraling in the chaos of your mind that you don’t even realize you’re numb to your feelings… In this episode, we explore the complexities of the journey out of our heads and into our bodies, and how expanding your capacity to feel will pop you out of going-through-the-motions and change your entire life for th...

In this solo episode, Kelly details how life’s most potent therapy has provided her the most massive opportunities for healing and growth - through her relationships. She talks about attachment theory / attachment styles, toxic relationship patterns, fear of rejection and abandonment, and how what we judge in others is always a mirror to an aspect of ourselves that we have rejected. Follow Kelly a...

We all default to the belief system that we need to move towards a future that is better than where we currently are. In this episode, we explore the paradox that the future is better than the present and how this operating system limits us in life, relationships, business, and overall fulfillment. Song Credit: Envy You (Instrumental Version) Mimmi Bangoura epidemicsound.com Welcome to the Madness...

If you involve yourself in any personal development and/or healing work… How do you feel about that being exposed to others? Is there any aspect of yourself that feels ashamed to have to be “working on yourself” so much? Shame is usually what drives our desire to heal and grow… but is also ironically serves as a block to moving forward on the healing and growth journey. In this episode, we explore...

It’s not news that in order to get most desired things in life, we’re going to need to get uncomfortable and face our deepest fears. In this episode, we wanted to explore that real, tangible difficulties we have with this process and a different approach to facing fears and getting out of our own way. Song Credit: Envy You (Instrumental Version) Mimmi Bangoura epidemicsound.com Welcome to the Madn...

After 27 episodes of Madness & Meaning where we’ve alluded to many aspects of our personal stories that led us to where and who we are, we decided to dedicate an entire episode to dishing out the depths of our stories, including upbringing and childhood trauma, high school struggles, disordered eating, career pursuits, relationships, and ultimately what led us into our spiritual awakenings. Li...

Music Credit: Arise by Ian Aisling, Uppbeat License Code: 6KAGQIEBNYULIFFL Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/ian-aisling/arise License code: 6KAGQIEBNYULIFFL ..................... Allow my Higher Self to guide you on a journey to come face to face with your soul. This is a meditation that you can do as often as you like in order to learn how to get comfortable relaxing...

The same way Regina called Gretchin out for trying to make fetch happen… we’ve found that trying to make goals happen is equally as nauseating. As coaches who have played the role of someone others come to to help them achieve a specific outcome, our work has evolved to match the insights we’ve gained along the way around how chasing external goals never turns out the way we hoped it would. In thi...

In a world filled with things to feel stressed out, anxious, and overwhelmed by, we all desire to land in a greater sense of inner peace. But if you’re anything like us, accessing that peace you deeply crave has never been as simple as taking a break from your to-do list, committing to a meditation practice, or overcoming that one big stressful issue. In this episode, we explore how our desire for...

The ability and willingness to regularly self-reflect outs you miles ahead in the game of life. It allows you to pop out of unconscious ways of being that aren’t serving you so you stop spinning your wheels, strengthen your intuition and become more emotionally intelligent. Self reflection also gifts you the ability to see yourself, where you typically look to others to be seen. In this episode, w...

We’re all familiar with the power of the imagination, in its ability to completely change your emotional state and vibration simply by thinking of something (whether you’re imagining what you want or what you really don’t want) But in society, imagination is chalked up as daydreaming that causes us to escape reality, and therefore, to be in the real world we need to be thinking critically, logical...

These days, we’re constantly bombarded with messages about how we should practice self love and be kind to ourselves… yet no matter how much we try to replace our habitual negative self-talk with positive affirmations, most of us still feel like crap in our own company. Rather than fighting to move from one extreme (self-criticism and hatred) to another extreme (exclusively positive “self-love”),...

You know when you’re waken up before your alarm by nothing but your incessant worry about things that you KNOW don’t matter? Anxiety is a relatable experience to many, and much of taught help for overcoming it doesn’t do much but perpetuate it and make you more frustrated that you’re thinking so negatively even though “you know better” This episode, Kelly guides you through a process to shift how...