The Embrace and Expand Podcast

Our guest today is someone I have wanted to get on the podcast for sometime after reading her book Mirrors in the Earth.  She is a writer, herbalist, earth intuitive, and the guide behind One Willow Apothecaries— an online hub for learning, healing and connecting with the living world. After navigating her own healing journey overcoming years of chronic pain and illness through coming back to natu...

I am incredibly excited to introduce you to today’s podcast. Those of you that have been following the podcast since episode 1 have heard me mention his name numerous times. Since 1999, he has practiced the Eastern spiritual disciplines of Tibetan Buddhism, breathwork & meditation, QiGong, Yoga, Shaolin physical therapy and Toltec practices.  He has been working closely with the indigenous Per...

On this episode I get a little personal. I talk about the importance of recognizing your limitations and when you need to start setting boundaries to protect your health and mental well being. The truth is we can't do it all and sometimes we take on more than we can handle. When that happens we need to set a boundary with ourselves and the outside world so we don't become stressed, overw...

Our guest on today’s episode is a widely respected author and blogger in fields ranging from nature spirituality to the future of industrial society, He is the author of more than seventy books, including sixteen novels, and blogs weekly on his website ecosophia.net.  An initiate in Druidic, Hermetic and Masonic lineages, he served for twelve years as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids...

On this episode we dive back down the rabbit hole with Ryan Sprague from Highly Optimized for part 3 of our conversations. If you haven't listened to part 2 where Ryan interview's me over on his podcast, This One Time on Psychedelics , then head over and give that episode a listen before starting this one. In part 3 we talk about creating a conscious relationship with cannabis, knowing y...

Today we have a special guest who is a man after my own heart. He is a highly-optimized individual who has found balance between the mind, body and spirit. An industry leader in cannabis education helping people to over come abuse, over use and codependency. He teaches people how to consciously connect with cannabis, set intentions and experience the power of the flower.  This is a conversation I...

Have you read or watched The Secret and thought the Law of Attraction was the answer to your dreams? Have you tried to focus your energy and attention on what you truly want only to have nothing manifest? Yeah me too!  In this episode I talk about the missing links to the Law of Attraction and how you need take a few more steps to be able to manifest the life of your dreams.  Support the show To s...

Today we welcome to the podcast our very first guest of season 2. I came across this beautiful soul during a week long Breathwork Summit back in January of 2023. After taking pages of notes from his hour long workshop I knew I needed to get him onto the podcast to share with all of you his wondrous teachings. He spent several years living and studying in a Hindu monastery which introduced him to t...

Welcome back to The Embrace and Expand Podcast!  Season 2 starts off talking all about mediation. Why should you meditate? How will it help you? Is it just a waste of time? I discuss all of these questions and more in this episode. Touching on many different types of mediations, science backed reasons on why it is good for your body and mental health, as well as guiding you through a short meditat...

As winter begins to come to a close here in Virginia so does Season 1 of The Embrace and Expand Podcast. Season 2 will begin April 3rd, 2023 right along spring. Just as winter is a time to go inward and reflect on the previous year, spring is a time for growth and awakening. Season 2 will follow this theme of growth with a change in how each episode will come about. Thank you for being on this jou...

Today’s interview is with a guest I met at a Somatic Breathwork Training last December in Phoenix.  Finding out more about his story I knew I had to invite him on the Podcast. Like many of our guests he led a life that from the outside looking in was perfect. Founder of several companies, as well as, being named one of Silicon Valley’s 40 under 40 at the age of 31, he was living the dream life. De...

On this episode I dive deep into the concept that we are all connected. From Quantum Physics and Mechanics to Shamanism and nature I talk about several different perspectives on how we are all connected. Do you believe we are all connected? If not listen to this podcast with an open mind and see how from ancient civilizations to modern day science is proving how interconnected we all are. Support...

On this episode we invite a kindred soul to the Embrace and Expand podcast.  This guest and I have walked similar paths in life. Waking up one day realizing the life she was living was no longer in alignment with what she wanted her life to look like. After making drastic changes, her and her family hit the road in a self converted school bus to follow the life of their dreams. She is now an autho...

On this episode I talk about what it means to love your inner child. When was the last time you connected with your inner child? Do you find it easy to laugh, sing and play? Or do you struggle getting in touch with that child like essence? This episode is all about how we can connect with our inner child and begin to love them like they always deserved. Join The Embrace & Expand Community and...

This episode is brought to you by the card Abundance. What does abundance mean to you? Do you think of having lots of money, a big house and fancy car? Or do you think of being healthy and having all the energy you need to do whatever you want to do? The definition of abundance can look different for everyone but there is one thing that is true for all people who live abundant lives...they have an...

The guest in this episode is someone that recently came into my life that has brought much clarity through her wisdom and understanding of human design. She is an enlightenment  catalyst, Energetic Inclusivity advisor, Money manifestor, and singer of truth. She shows up fully and unquestionably as herself and tells it how it is in everything that she does. Helping people to come back to themselves...

In this episode I talk about the key to wisdom. I have found that in life knowledge is power, but knowledge only turns to wisdom when it is applied. When we can learn from the wisdom of others and the wisdom from our own life experiences we can unlock the door to our own potential. The key is that once that door is unlocked you must choose to walk through it in order to find the key to your own wi...

In this episode I discuss respecting your boundaries. Do you struggle with setting and respecting boundaries? I know I have for a very long time. As a recovering people pleaser I have had to learn to set boundaries in order to be able to have the capacity to show up in the way that I want to. Setting boundaries, and respecting them, isn't always an easy thing to do but it is necessary in orde...

On this episode I interview a colleague of mine Alicia Kay. She is a fellow Breathwork practitioner, licensed Trauma Counselor, coach, business owner, mother and holistic ambassador. She has gone through her own healing journey overcoming intense adverse experiences in childhood, recovery from abuse, substances, self-sacrificing and self sabotage. Her goal in life is to help her clients to reconne...

On this episode I talk about what it means to grow together. We can grow together in relationship, within our selves by merging our own masculine and feminine energies and we can also grow together as a community. I talk a bit about a new community platform that my wife, Rachel, and I have started called The Embrace and Expand Community. It is a community designed around growing together. About he...

In this episode I talk about how things in life are not so black and white. Our perspectives and experiences are not always black and white. We each are unique individuals and have our own views. It is never just one way or another. There fore life and how we experience it is not so black and white but more akin to the full spectrum of the rainbow. Support the show To stay connected with The Embra...

This episode is quite unique in that it is two podcasts happening simultaneously. Steve Norris from the Better Place Project podcast joins me to dive deep with one another. Instead of us interviewing each other for our individual podcasts we decide to join together and just have a conversation. We go into our journeys through life and how they lead us both to becoming Somatic Breathwork Practition...

In this episode I talk about getting to know you fears. Getting to know what fears are stopping you from doing the things you want to do in life. Or stopping you from being the person you want to be. I talk about the various ways I have overcome some of the fears in my life and how I face the ones that still exist. So let this episode be your invitation to get to know your fears and see how you ca...

In the card pull for this episode we are greeted by two ravens asking us to trust in magic. When did you stop believing and trusting in magic. When did you stop seeing the magic in the world all around you. In this episode I talk about how we can begin to shift our perspective again to be able to trust in magic. To see the magic in the mundane tasks that we have to do in the day to day. So let thi...

This is an extra special episode as we have our very first guest on The Embrace and Expand Podcast; Vash Tomanec. Vash used to be an Uber eats delivery guy who knew he was destined for something greater. He had the dream of owning his own business and decided to use the powers of visualization and manifestation to make it happen. Two years later and he owns 3 businesses and received an award from...