Rising Women Leaders

Enrollment is open for the Way of the Priestess Initiation Program . After a pause, Rising Women Leaders is back. In this solo episode, I share where I've been, what motherhood has taught me, and how this next season of the podcast is evolving. What began over eleven years ago as conversations about leadership, entrepreneurship, and overcoming fear has expanded and evolved to include conversations...

This sound healing meditation was from the RESET mindfulness retreat held at Green Gulch Zen Center in Northern California. Lay down, get comfortable and allow your consciousness to rest into the journey. Join us for an in-person sound healing with Meredith March 22, 2026 in Petaluma, CA at  The Yoga Post (7 pm). Find more meditations from Meredith on Insight Timer: https://insighttimer.com/meredi...

This episode offers a guided Manifestation Meditation to support you to drop into the frequency of what you're calling in this new year. This practice invites you to slow down, turn inward, and connect with what you're ready to welcome into your life. Rather than pushing or forcing, this guided process emphasizes presence, embodied feeling, trust and surrender. Simply allow your intentions to be h...

As part of our Winter Meditation Series, this episode explores the foundations of Vipassana meditation, an ancient practice the Buddha used to attain enlightenment. Vipassana invites us to slow down and observe what's here, just as it is. Sensations, breath, thoughts, and emotions are met with mindfulness and pure witnessing. In this episode, I first share a brief overview of what Vipassana medita...

As we continue our Winter Meditation Series, this episode offers a gentle Ho'oponopono meditation. This is an ancient Hawaiian practice of forgiveness, reconciliation, and inner peace. Winter is a time of turning inward… a season that invites us to soften, to reflect, and to release what no longer needs to be carried. Ho'oponopono reminds us that healing begins within, through simple phrases that...

Something you may not know is I share meditations on the app insight timer. Some of my meditations have thousands of plays over there. I just found out my most popular meditation has over 156,000 plays! I was connecting with one of my listeners over there who asked if I could share these meditations on more platforms so they could be easily accessible. So we'll be offering a winter series of medit...

I just came across a recording of a speech I gave at a holiday party several years ago. And it just warmed my heart and I wanted to share it with you all today… Sending love and warmth this Holiday Season… A few years ago I put on my high heels and red lipstick to go to a fancy holiday party at a beautiful home in Northern California. However, it wasn't any normal holiday party. It was a Toastmast...

It was an honor to sit down with Dr. Melissa Sophia Joy to connect about the love we share for Mary Magdalene. Melissa shares of being woken up in the night by a vision of Mary Magdalene and Yeshua , and aligning with her true path as a Priestess of the Rose. We learn about her story of healing insomnia, eczema, and traumatic memories from past lives through a practice that evolved into what she n...

Enrollment is now open for our Year-long Priestess Initiation Program: The Way of the Priestess Beginning this October. Learn more here: http://meredithrom.com/priestess Sometimes the most unexpected challenges become doorways to new understandings. For me, my introduction to German New Medicine began with a simple prayer for guidance around a health challenge. Not long after, I found myself liste...

For this week's episode, I sat down with Dakota Chanel, a water priestess and ceremonialist, while she was in Southern France researching the book she is writing on the Cathar region and Mary Magdalene. I've been following Dakota's work since we first met in Kauai, and have been learning so much from her, even just from her little shares on instagram about Yeshua, Mary Magdalene, and the sacred ch...

Announcement: Enrollment is open for our Year-long Priestess Initiation Program: The Way of the Priestess Beginning this October: https://www.meredithrom.com/priestess What a joy it was to sit down with Shehera Barnes to share about our journeys to Egypt with each other and learn more about her connection with the Goddess Isis. Shehera grew up in Iran during a revolution, was connected to the divi...

Enrollment is open for our Year-long Priestess Initiation Program: The Way of the Priestess Beginning this October:  https://www.meredithrom.com/priestess Each module in The Way of the Priestess Initiation program is guided by the energy of a goddess or ascended master guide. In the module on Love & Beauty we learn about the Egyptian goddess Hathor , and I shared this workshop on the essence of Lo...

This episode was originally shared on the Mindful Pause Podcast with Audrey Sutton Mills. These ancestral wounds, deeply rooted in our DNA, often show up as fears, insecurities, and blocks that hold us back from our true power. Enrollment for  Way of the Priestess is Open! We begin March 13, 2025 Click here to book a call to learn more Priestess: a space-holder, leader of a movement, of highest se...

We hope you enjoy this short meditation to connect with your highest self. This is a powerful practice to connect with your inner guide, ask any questions on your heart, and see what is revealed to you… Enrollment for Way of the Priestess is Open!  WAY OF THE PRIESTESS: MYSTERY SCHOOL + WOMEN'S CIRCLE FACILITATION TRAINING PROGRAM We Begin September 13, 2024 (Sept 2024 - Sept 2025) Online Program...

Have you ever felt judged by someone? Can you remember that pain of feeling misunderstood? Cast out? And separate? Usually the people in judgement don't know the whole story. They don't know the truth of who we are or what we've been through. And usually the people who judge, are themselves in some kind of pain.  I imagine you can relate to that truly awful feeling, especially if you identify as h...

Enrollment is now open for our Year-long Priestess Initiation Program: Beginning this September. Learn more here What a blessing to welcome Ashley Burnett back to the Rising Women Leaders podcast. She was an original guest on episode 013 | Uninhibited Leadership in 2016! We talk about Ashley's evolution as an entrepreneur, how she's been changing through motherhood and a cross-country move, her ne...

Special Announcement: Doors are now open to our 5-week Money Mastery Study Group where Lindsey will be a guest teacher about Personal Finance 101 I was drawn to invite financial advisor Lindsey Woodward to the podcast after participating in a retreat together with founder of Abacus Wealth, Spencer Sherman . I found it so refreshing to meet a fellow socially responsible woman in the field of invest...

Special Announcement: Doors are now open to our 5-week Money Mastery Study Group Welcome back! I'm excited to share my latest conversation with spiritual mentor Jessica Bowes. The universe recently reconnected us for a new free collaboration we've been working on called,  "The Consciousness of Wealth" ~ you can sign up for it right here . I wanted to have Jessica on the show so you could learn mor...

After developing a condition where she began to have an allergic reaction to almost everything she ate, Sena knew something had to change. She had been living a health-focused lifestyle for years after leaving a job at Google and finding the heart medicine of cacao. But years later she would discover her days of drinking cacao, using plant medicines and eating a more vegetarian diet were no longer...

Jane Mayer and I are back to answer the questions we received from you all in February! We also get to hear about Jane's updates at the end of her pregnancy, her move to Alabama to be closer to family, what the third trimester has been like, and how she's being changed. Hear Jane's full story in our previous podcast, episode 133 . In this episode we discussed: Approaching the birth portal and prep...

Announcement: Enrollment is now open for the next cohort of the Way of the Priestess . Richard will be one of our guest teachers When I first discovered that when everyone is talking about "Full moon in Leo" the actual moon in the sky is most often in the constellation of Cancer my mouth dropped! How could this be? Ever since I was a kid I loved looking at the stars and astronomy was one of my fav...

I'm back to podcasting! I know it's been about 8 months since my last episode and I have missed you all. I have just been navigating the reality of being ia new mother, having more limited time now, amidst navigating the identity shifts and transformations of becoming a mother. I'm so excited to share my conversation with Jane, a true voice and channel for the heart of the Holy One. You may rememb...

This Fall I participated in a weekly new parent-baby group in Sebastopol, CA with Kerry Ingram. I met Kerry years ago when she found one of my self-care guide downloads and invited me to be a wise woman to visit her mom and baby groups. I remember thinking I would love to join something like that to meet other mothers and babies if I ever had a child one day… and about six years later it happened!...

It's an honor to have Becca Piastrelli back on Rising Women Leaders. It's been a few years (and a lot of transformation) since our last conversation (episode 10!). We've both transitioned from maiden to mother, and our lives and businesses have transformed along with us. In this conversation we share the real, the raw, and the beautiful of being initiated into mothers: Becca shares of her journey...

Enrollment is now open for the Way of the Priestess Training Program with Meredith Rom. Download the program guide at risingwomenleaders.com and book a call to learn more. It's an honor to have Renee Linnell back on Rising Women Leaders! In Renee's latest book, Still on Fire , she shares stories of magic, miracles, travel and romance… from traveling over 50 countries, love affairs with men half he...