The Goddess & The Medicine Woman

In Episode 23 Sydney and Melissa talk about becoming your own teacher on a spiritual path. Realizing that awakening is an inside job. If you see someone outside of yourself as the Guru you give away your own power and resentments can materialize. You must transform your own darkness into light. A teacher can point the way and give advice based on their experiences and knowledge, but it is always u...

In episode 22 Melissa & Sydney have an inspired conversation with Amanda Kate. Amanda is a Kineseologist, Mentor, Archetypal Life Coach, Mom and the Author of: "Divine. Messy. Human. A Spiritual Guide to Prioritizing Internal Truth over External Influence". Amanda is a recovering people-pleaser and self-flagellator, she walks the path straddling the Divine and Messy daily. Always growing, deve...

In this episode Sydney gets real and gets vulnerable while talking about her struggle with her inner and outer worlds and how her ego wants "things" while her spiritual self tries to find balance. Realizing that we need to truly create resolutions from the heart and not the mind and that in order to do that we need to look at the shadow and release the pain within. Sydney also talks about what she...

In this episode Sydney and Melissa sit down with Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Spiritual Mentor Amrit Singh. Amrit Sing has been studying Kundalini Yoga for over 30 years. His foundation was laid in Germany in the early 90's. He then decided to move to India and dedicate his life's work to help build and grow Miri Piri Academy in Amritsar for 20 years. He now lives in Mexico with his wife and two kid...

In this very special episode Melissa and Sydney officially announce their New Patreon Community! The Goddess & The Medicine Woman Behind The Veil: Conversations with the Inner Circle!  In their first Behind The Veil Episode they talk with Jasmine, a guest listener, who has given them permission to put this very personal and intimate conversation out into the world for all to take part in....

In Episode 18 Melissa and Sydney discuss family dynamics and how we adopt rolls within our families and how we hold people in place while not allowing family members to grow and change. And how in turn we allow ourselves to continuously fall into those rolls and unconsciously play out the same situations over and over, year after year. They talk about how standing in your own truth and power, with...

Welcome Back to Season 2 of The Goddess & The Medicine Woman! In their first episode of the new season, Sydney and Melissa have a fun and very interesting conversation with psychic medium and author Corbie Mitleid. Corbie is a Certified Tarot Master, psychic medium, past life specialist and channel. Her career now spans the globe, with clients worldwide. Her talents as an intuitive are feature...

In this episode Sydney and Melissa discuss the first season of The Goddess & The Medicine Woman and the gratitude they feel about the podcast and the people who listen. With over 500 downloads and listeners in 9 countries they are so excited about Season 2 and what that means for them and this community moving forward. They reveal plans for an Inner Circle Patreon Subscription and what that wi...

In Episode 15, Sydney and Melissa have a heart to heart with Weird Ash Yankabytch also known as WAY. WAY is a new Pittsburgh artist. Her artistry centers around hosting events, stand-up comedy and Hip-Hop music. She has been on the comedy scene for over a decade under her former moniker Mz. M. Dubb. WAY is the First Lady of 1403 Ent. Music record label, founded in Pittsburgh by Hip-Hop artist Jay...

In this episode Sydney and Melissa have a conversation about friendships, and other relationships, that we realize are toxic and that you might have to remove from your life in order to be okay. They talk about how you can notice these relationships and what to look for. About how we can set boundries and that it can be very lonely on the road towards healing. Especially as a people pleaser and as...

In this episode Sydney and Melissa talk about magic and how we can create more of it in our lives and about how the world really is a magical place. They talk about the excuses we all make up in our minds for ourselves and for other people that keep us stuck in negative places in life. How we use negative situations to get support from people and how we can look at the positive instead and support...

In this episode Sydney and Melissa talk about the opinions of others and how we tend to put too much stock in what other people have to say. Thinking about how others come from their own place of fear when they give opinions and how it is sometimes not opinion at all, but judgement. How we need to be able to wade through the perceptions of others and ultimately seek out our own opinion and guidanc...

In this episode Melissa and Sydney have a sit down with Intuitive Yoga & Meditation Teacher Louann Swogger. Louann is a fascinating human being who has studied with some of the most accomplished and cool teachers of our time such as Judith Lasater, Biff Mitheofer and Donna Eden. She has also been mentored by L. A. Finfinger , a Power Vinyasa Yoga Teacher. Louann has been teaching in the Pittsb...

In Episode 10 Melissa and Sydney talk about being okay with being uncomfortable while doing the inner work necessary for evolution. Looking at our patterns in our relationships and working out how to move them from old, stuck patterns into new ways of being. Talking about how to create our own inner witness and to stop "Being Nice" and instead speak your truth. Noticing that sometimes "nice" is ju...

In Episode 9 Melissa & Sydney talk a little bit more about the eclipse season and how it is affecting us. About how we express our emotions and how we sometimes supress and hold onto what doesn't help us in our life anymore. We look at how this eclipse offers us an opportunity to let go of anything from the past that holds us back and to fill in that gap with something new. Something that supp...

In this episode Sydney & Melissa get real with Wendy Garrido (pronouns: she/her) a 2-time Gold Medalist in Pickleball, and an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author. She is the creator of the Authentic As Fuuuck Business Braveheart Awards. Wendy identifies as queer, polyamorous and somewhere between a connection queen and a connection whore. In her signature coaching program, Get Souled(tm)! (that's s-...

In this episode Sydney and Melissa have a conversation about the upcoming eclipse and what it might mean for us. How it seems to be bringing up stuff around our relationships with others and with the dark and light aspects of ourselves. Helping us to become more present when we look at relationships and noticing our own life force energy and how we are utilizing it. Sydney gives us some homework t...

In this episode Melissa and Sydney show how we can choose to use our darkest moments to find our way into the light. How we can allow our failures in order to create our success. Sydney gets real and shares a story about her personal dive into a dark relationship* and how she navigated through it to become a stronger, more loving version of herself.  She did this by finding a way to integrate...

In this episode Sydney & Melissa talk about how we often try to save other people to the detriment of our own safety and how we can save ourselves while holding space for others. Being able to say no to the things you really don't want to do without needing a reason. Being authentic with how you really feel and learning how to nourish and nurture yourself in a big way.  Is it possible to...

In this episode Sydney and Melissa meet with Kirsty Collett. Kirsty is a healing facilitator from New Zealand. She is an intuitive channeler, meditation teacher, spiritual blogger, student of astrology and a mom with a deep appreciation of the "inherent Oneness of the All." Kirsty combines intuitive gifts, learned techniques, deep life experience, and heartfulness to mentor, support and guide her...

In Episode 3 Sydney and Melissa talk about what it means to be "Spiritual" and some of the pitfalls you might find along a Spiritual Path. How do you integrate your spirituality and humanness? Can you be a spiritual being and a human being at the same time?  Is it OK to be angry when you are "Spiritual"? What about dirty jokes? I like a good dirty joke...Does that mean I am a horrible person?...

In this episode Melissa and Sydney discuss who they are and how they walk alongside their clients and help them transform. They aren't pulling any punches here and get right into it with a talk about shadow work and Sydney shares a very moving story about her journey into her personal darkness and the healing that came from that experience. Showing you that you can move through even the most h...

Welcome to The Goddess & The Medicine Woman Podcast! This is our pilot episode! We are super excited to share our insights and passions with you. In our first episode we go into why we are doing what we are doing and talk about our intentions for this podcast moving forward. Sharing our healing journey and going deep. Jump in here and join the conversation! As will sometimes happen during Merc...