Dona Rice & Diana Herweck

Soul SiStories

Health EN ↓ 38 episodes

Soul SiStories was born out of a mutual desire to bring forward hope and healing through sharing our lived experiences. Hope is embracing life despite adversity. Hope is our reason.

Author

Dona Rice & Diana Herweck

Category

Health

Latest episode

Jul 1, 2026

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Episodes

An Evidential Medium On Grief And Proof: Isabella Johnson 01.07.2026

Send us Fan Mail You can believe in spirit and still feel shattered by loss, and that tension sits at the heart of our conversation with Isabella Johnson. She’s a certified evidential medium, medical intuitive, grief therapist, and remote viewer, and she brings a rare mix of spiritual sensitivity and grounded honesty to what people in grief actually need: compassion, credibility, and a little more...

Hope Through Expectation: Deanna Johnston 17.06.2026

Send us Fan Mail Your voice can feed you, free you, and still get tangled up in fear. We’re joined by Deanna Johnston, a renowned vocalist and globally working voiceover artist, for a conversation that starts with a plastic microphone in a family basement and stretches all the way to recording projects heard around the world. Along the way, we talk about what it’s like to grow up shy, to feel emot...

Connection Series: Grounding 03.06.2026

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever tried to meditate, connect with spirit, or follow your intuition and then felt spaced out, drained, or too open afterward, this conversation is your safety net. We’re talking about grounding as a real, practical skill for spiritual connection, not a vague “woo woo” idea. The point is simple: expand your awareness while staying anchored in your body, your room, and y...

Hope Through Truth: Cynthia James 20.05.2026

Send us Fan Mail Truth is a loaded word right now, but Reverend Cynthia James brings it back to something you can actually live: authenticity, integrity, and the inner compass that tells you when you’re aligned and when you’re not. We talk about why “facts” can still mislead, how trust is built moment by moment, and why truth seeking is less about winning arguments and more about becoming someone...

Connection Series: Reading The Signs 06.05.2026

Send us Fan Mail Grief can make you ask a question that feels almost unbearable: are they still here? We sit down as Diana and Dona and talk honestly about spiritual signs, the small “God winks” and the unmistakable moments that feel like direct afterlife communication. If you’ve ever wondered whether a butterfly, a ladybug, a song, or a perfectly timed message is just coincidence, we share how we...

Hope Through Waking Up 22.04.2026

Send us Fan Mail Some mornings don’t feel like mornings at all, they feel like a weight. We start from that honest place and work our way toward something sturdier: hope that comes from waking up, not just physically, but emotionally, socially, and spiritually. When you’re tempted to pull the covers over your head, “waking up” can sound almost too simple. We make the case that it’s the only way fo...

Connection Series: Hope Through Connecting 08.04.2026

Send us Fan Mail What if love doesn’t vanish—it starts speaking a new language? We kick off our connection series with a candid look at how two sisters walked from childhood sensitivity and fear into an intentional practice of communicating with loved ones beyond. The journey blends practical tools, personal stories, and a steady insistence on evidence, turning grief into a guide rather than a wal...

Rethinking Success: Curiosity, Resilience, And The Future Our Kids Will Build 25.03.2026

Send us Fan Mail What if the most important thing you teach a young person isn’t a formula or a checklist, but how to listen to their own curiosity? We sit with Mary—educator, consultant, and nonprofit co-founder—whose path winds from risk management to a fifth-grade classroom, then into a practice built to serve students and protect space for her family. Her story is raw and generous: an honest l...

From Trauma To Legacy: A Doctor’s Journey To Healing And Thriving 11.03.2026

Send us Fan Mail What if thriving starts where certainty ends? We sit down with Dr. Greg Linkowski—retired diagnostic radiologist and author of Dare to Thrive—to unpack a life shaped by early trauma, a demanding medical career, and the love and loss of his son David. Greg doesn’t offer platitudes. He offers practices: therapy that names wounds, a faith that steadies the long nights, and a marriage...

From Grief To Brushstrokes 26.02.2026

Send us Fan Mail Loss can silence a room, yet sometimes it also hands you a new language. We sit down with artist Catherine Lamarche Horney to follow the unlikely path from widowhood to a thriving, self-taught art practice sparked by a medium’s simple instruction: paint. With zero formal training, Catherine started with one canvas—imagining her late husband Jim in the mountains he loved—and then s...

From ICU To Pop-Ups: Building Donut Kitty 12.02.2026

Send us Fan Mail What if a family joke became the blueprint for a second chance? We sit down with Ryan and Anne-Marie Villiers to unpack how a terrifying early brush with COVID—coma, code, and the long climb back—sparked the creation of Donut Kitty, a design-forward donut and coffee brand built to deliver delight in small, perfect moments. From a father–daughter trip to Iceland and late-night stre...

Hope Through Witnessing 28.01.2026

Send us Fan Mail When the noise gets loud and the headlines sting, naming what we see becomes an act of care. We sat down to talk about hope through witnessing—how refusing silence, telling the truth, and showing up in nonviolent solidarity can steady us when fear tactics try to shrink our voices. Our conversation traces a path from heartbreak to agency. We revisit the lessons of history—diaries f...

Hope Through The WTF Moments 15.01.2026

Send us Fan Mail When life throws the kind of curveballs that make you say “are you kidding me,” where does hope live? We open up as sisters about the losses that reshaped us—death, divorce, and the everyday mess that never takes a day off—and how we learned to hold grief and gratitude in the same hand. This is a raw, practical conversation about staying present when love is gone, routers won’t co...

From Grief To Connection: Why We Started Soul SiStories 31.12.2025

Send us Fan Mail What if the hardest years of your life became the seedbed for hope? We open up about the losses that reshaped us in 2019–2020 and the unexpected ways they led to Soul SiStories—a place where story, spirit, and everyday courage meet. Our conversation traces two complementary paths: one of lived mediumship practice and one of deep study and research. Together we explore how meditati...

Frosty The Snowman On Hope, Imagination, And Living Your Motto 16.12.2025

Send us Fan Mail What if belief came before proof—and that shift changed how you move through every season of life? We invited Frosty the Snowman to share a surprisingly grounded take on hope, resilience, and the quiet power of imagination. The result is part cozy holiday story, part life school: a conversation that blends warm nostalgia with practical wisdom you can use long after the snow melts....

Hope Through Compassionate Education Dr. Ali Herweck 07.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail What if the detour was the door you needed? We sit down with Dr. Ali Herweck—physician, MPH, and current REI fellow—to trace a real, unvarnished path into women’s health and fertility care. From not getting into medical school the first time to matching lower on her list and moving across the country, Ali turns every twist into fuel. She shows how purpose steadies ambition, how mi...

Rhonda K Roberts: Hope in the Face of Loss 06.09.2025

Send us Fan Mail Death doesn't come with a guidebook. For Rhonda Roberts, each loss became a stepping stone toward profound understanding—from the confusion of a 10-year-old watching her grandmother's casket to the peace of whispering goodbye to her father-in-law on his birthday. "The last thing people that are loved ones want us to do when they transition is to spend our lives in a...

From Theater to Page: A Writer's Journey of Healing and Hope w/Gail Priest 04.08.2025

Send us Fan Mail Gail Priest, award-winning author of Soul Dancing, shares her journey from theater teacher to novelist and how her background in education and counseling psychology influences her storytelling. Her passion for writing stories about healing from trauma and family secrets offers readers hope and the possibility of second chances. • Background in theater and education provides founda...

Finding Hope Through Mediumship with Miguel Gonzalez 04.07.2025

Send us Fan Mail Miguel Gonzalez shares his extraordinary journey from fine arts graduate to gifted medium and spirit artist, recounting how a profound visitation from the Lady of Guadalupe changed his life path forever. • Experienced dream visitations from Lady of Guadalupe at age 26 that initiated his spiritual awakening • Grandmother's spirit visits provided early validation through inform...

Embracing Autism: Life at Your Own Pace w/Liz Michels 21.06.2025

Send us Fan Mail Liz Michels shares her powerful journey as an adult woman with autism, challenging misconceptions and advocating for understanding that people develop "in their own time." Her story from early diagnosis to becoming a workplace advocate demonstrates how proper support and acceptance can lead to thriving despite challenges. • Diagnosed with autism at age three despite doct...

Life Beyond Death: The Zach's House Story w/Martin & Krista Anderton 07.06.2025

Send us Fan Mail What if the death of a loved one isn't the end of your relationship, but rather the beginning of something profoundly different? Martin and Krista Anderton discovered this truth in the most heart-wrenching way when their 20-year-old son Zach died in a car accident. Just when they thought their world had ended, something miraculous happened on the third day—they found Zach, or...

Going Beyond Customer Service: A Life Dedicated to Helping Others - Neal Woodson 23.05.2025

Send us Fan Mail A childhood brush with death shaped Neal Woodson's entire life philosophy. After surviving what doctors called an infant tachycardia at less than a year old, Neil's mother consistently reminded him: "You're here for a reason. Don't squander it." That powerful message became the foundation for a life dedicated to service and helping others realize thei...

Finding Your True Voice: Heather Wolf's Journey Through Music and Sacred Wisdom 10.05.2025

Send us Fan Mail From childhood wonder to professional musicianship, Heather Wolf's journey embodies the essence of authentic expression. Growing up with a profound spiritual connection to nature, Heather recounts the transformative moment when she felt unconditional love emanate from a maple tree in her backyard—an experience that shaped her lifelong devotion to folk wisdom and ancestral tra...

She Said Yes to Life and Grew to Meet Her Challenges: Linda Wolf 25.04.2025

Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to live an authentic life? Meet Linda Wolf, a woman who has fearlessly navigated cultural revolutions, personal struggles, and social upheaval since the 1960s, never losing sight of her core values along the way. Linda's journey began in Los Angeles, where her feminist mother instilled principles of compassion, honesty, and boldness that would guide her rema...

The Larson Legacy: 40 Years of Transforming Lives Through Community Theater 06.04.2025

Send us Fan Mail Paul and Karen Larson never planned to revolutionize their community. When their athletic young son wanted acting classes in 1984, they signed him up with their local city program. The disappointing result – children simply lip-syncing to Sound of Music songs – sparked something unexpected. "I could do better than that," Paul said. Karen's response? "Well, why...

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