The Spiritual Shitshow with Suzanne Sole

In Part 2, Suzanne continues her conversation with Patrick W. Ziegler —Michigan Emmy® Award-winning writer, actor, and producer, and co-writer of Hallmark Channel’s The Blessing Bracelet . Patrick is also a longtime Artist’s Way facilitator, guiding groups through Julia Cameron’s transformative process to help people release perfectionism, move past resistance, and rediscover the joy of creative e...

In Part 1 of this in-person sit-down, Suzanne chats with Michigan Emmy® Award-winning writer, actor, producer, and Artist’s Way facilitator Patrick W. Ziegler about what it really takes to keep believing in creativity when life doesn’t follow the script. Patrick shares the behind-the-scenes story of co-writing the Hallmark film The Blessing Bracelet —a story about gratitude, grace, and the surpris...

In Part 2 of this illuminating conversation, Suzanne continues her deep dive with London-based healer Edit B Kiss, a Reiki Master, Karma Yogi Practitioner, and holistic mentor who specializes in guiding people through trauma release and energetic alignment. This episode explores the full-body, frequency-based healing process Edit uses with her clients—an approach that helps people release what’s b...

What happens when a petroleum engineer starts having panic attacks… and ends up becoming a global energy healer? In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Suzanne chats with the brilliant and bold Edit B Kiss from her home in London. Edit is a Hungarian-born holistic mentor, Reiki Master, Karma Yogi Practitioner, and success habit coach whose journey from corporate burnout to spiritual breakthrough...

In Part 2 of this powerful conversation, Suzanne talks with author Keith Butler about his extraordinary journey of resilience, identity, and self-love. Keith, author of Little Black Gay Boy: An Unapologetic Memoir of Surviving, Coming Out, and Recovering, opens up about his path to recovery and the healing that allowed him to reclaim his voice. Keith shares how his struggles, triumphs, and spiritu...

Suzanne talks with author and speaker Keith Butler in Part 1 of this powerful two-part conversation about identity, faith, healing, and the long road to living out loud. Keith is the author of Little Black Gay Boy: An Unapologetic Memoir of Surviving, Coming Out, and Recovering , a raw and radiant story about growing up Black and gay in the rural South, enduring rejection and trauma, and finding t...

Recorded live at Unity on the Lakeshore in the beautiful Saugatuck-Douglas area of Western Michigan, in this Sunday morning talk, Suzanne exploring how the 12-step journey became a catalyst for her healing, transformation, and spiritual awakening. And, how surrendering to the process—especially through Steps 10 and 11—helped her begin to allow life itself to guide and teach her. With honesty, humo...

What do you get when you cross an existential crisis with a Broadway belt and a spiritual breakdown you accidentally turned into a comedy show?  In this special edition of The Spiritual Shitshow, Suzanne is pulling back the velvet curtain on The Spiritual Awakening Comedy Cabaret—her one-woman comedy cabaret about healing, awakening, and all the wildly human (and occasionally ridiculous) stuff we...

In Part 2 of Spiritual Divas: Making Art & Laughing Out Loud , Suzanne Sole and Amy Steinberg pick up where they left off—with laughter, creativity, and a whole lot of real talk. From inflatable hot tubs to artistic evolution, the conversation dives into what it means to be bold, brilliant, and totally unfiltered women who are out here making powerful, weird, wonderful work. They swap stories...

​T​hat's right, ​it's a spiritual diva series​! Suzanne ​is having some c​hitty chats with the multi-talented powerhouse: a singer-songwriter, performer, visual artist, newly licensed New Thought minister, playwright, and comedian, Amy Steinberg—for a rich, funny, and soul-charged conversation about art, spirit, and creative courage. ​Amy shares her story and about her work, Suzanne and...

Is love a divine calling​, or just a full-body spiritual ambush in really good lighting? In this episode, Suzanne dives into the love portion of Joseph Campbell’s “Love & the Goddess” from The Power of Myth , unpacking how real, soul-stretching love is less about happy endings and more about spiritual combustion. From the neutral angels delivering the Holy Grail (on a beam of non-dual love, ob...

In Part 2 of “Why Don’t These MF-ers Respect My Boundaries?” , Suzanne is back with licensed therapist and spiritual guide Tom Bob Nedderman for the next round of Asking for a Friend. This time, it’s all about the holding —the shaky, sweaty, often guilt-ridden art of actually enforcing a boundary once you’ve set it.  (Spoiler: people will test you. MF-ers gonna MF.) We dig into the deeper fears th...

Welcome to another installment of “Asking for a Friend” series in The Spiritual Shitshow podcast where Suzanne brings in therapists, ministers, artists, content creators, and other amazeballs humans to chat about how to get through the shitshow  of healing and awakening. Together, they dive into the big, messy, deeply human questions we all wrestle with. She’s not asking for herself, she’s asking...

You ever find yourself spiraling over something someone said—or didn’t say—and suddenly you’re convinced they meant something awful ... even though they were just asking a question? That’s not intuition, babe. That’s your unhealed shit trying to direct the show. In this episode, Suzanne gets down and dirty about projection : what it is, why we all do it, and how most of us have no idea we’re doing...

Welcome to this 2-parter of Suzanne's “Asking for a Friend” series here in The Spiritual Shitshow podcast where she brings in therapists, ministers, artists, content creators, and other amazeballs humans to chat about how to get through the shitshow of healing and awakening.  We’re back for Part 2 of this mind-and-soul-expanding convo with the radiant Rev. Linda Jackson of Cityside Spiritual...

Welcome to another installment of Suzanne's “Asking for a Friend” - a recurring series in The Spiritual Shitshow podcast where Suzanne brings in therapists, ministers, artists, content creators, and other amazeballs humans to chat about how to get through the shitshow  of healing and awakening. Together, they dive into the big, messy, deeply human questions we all wrestle with. She’s not aski...

What if bliss isn’t found in bubble baths, vision boards, or getting your entire life together — but in walking straight through the mess with your heart cracked open?  In Part 5 of Suzanne's series on The Power of Myth , we crack open the cosmic piñata known as Sacrifice and Bliss — aka, the part of your journey where everything has to fall apart so you can feel free.  From ancient corn myth...

You f*cked up. Or maybe life just fell apart again for no reason and now you’re spiraling, eating gluten-free cookies you don’t even like, asking the Universe whyyyy this is your life. And to make it worse? You start blaming yourself. Cue the shame spiral, inner critic monologue, and a highlight reel of every mistake you’ve ever made. Congrats — you’ve just been hit with the second arrow, Buddhist...

Suzanne is joined by her wildly talented friend, Tony Award-winning actor, soul-shattering singer-songwriter, and spiritual truth-teller with Southern charm, Levi Kreis. Levi won the Tony Award in 2010 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his electrifying portrayal of Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet , and he’s been setting stages and hearts on fire ever since. He’s an accomplished re...

Before there was therapy, breathwork, and podcast hosts to help us get thru th​e​se mf times, there w​as myth. Ancient, poetic-ass ​m​yth.   In Part 4 of ​her Power of Myth series, Suzanne ​g​ets deep into "The First Storytellers" and how the first humans didn't just survive by hunting and gathering, but also by telling stories, making art, and taking part in ceremonies and rituals....

“Asking for a Friend” is a new recurring series in The Spiritual Shitshow podcast where Suzanne brings in therapists, ministers, artists, content creators, and other amazeballs humans to help unpack the shitshow of healing and awakening. Together, they dive into the big, messy, deeply human questions we all wrestle with. She’s not asking for herself, she’s asking for a friend. You’re the friend. A...

"We're on a mission from God!" - The Blues Brothers In Part 3 of her  Power of Myth series, Suzanne dives into The Message and the Myth —the episode that cracked her whole view of life wide open. This was the moment Joseph Campbell put words to things she had only felt —about God, about spirituality, about why we’re all here bumbling through this mess together.  Hearing Campbell tal...

So you want transformation, evolution, maybe a little enlightenment—but you also want to stay cozy in your comfort zone with snacks and no emotional risk? Well, that's not how it works, doll face. In Part 2 of this Power of Myth breakdown, Suzanne talks about the first conversation between Moyers and Campbell — “The Hero’s Adventure”  — based on Campbell's book, "Hero with a Thousan...

"Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth changed my f*cking life—and not in a 'cute little mindset shift' kind of way. I'm talking full-on cosmic identity crisis in the middle of a Tuesday."  - Suzanne Sole In this intro episode of Suzanne's series about that time The Power of Myth blew her f*cking mind, she kicks it off by introducing the man, the myth, the metaphor ki...

Using your voice should be simple. Open mouth, release truth, feel empowered—right? LOL. For a lot of us, especially if you’re a people-pleaser, trauma survivor, or chronic “smile and nodder,” speaking up feels more like emotional skydiving... without a parachute. In this episode, we’re digging into the messy, hilarious, holy work of saying the f*cking thing. The truth. The boundary. The opinion....