Through The Portal

What Was Already There — Intuition, Sacred Tools, and the Quiet Revolution with Dina Berrin Short Overview: Dina Berrin is a certified life coach, intuitive guide, and author who helps women reconnect with their own inner knowing using tarot, numerology, and astrology. In this conversation, she shares the personal turning points that led her to build a practice around the gifts she once had to hid...

The World After the Stopping — A Conversation On Living Toward What Comes Next Chloe Buzzotta has spent nearly fifteen years living and working inside ecovillages, intentional communities, and permaculture projects. In this conversation, she shares what that experience has actually taught her — about community, about conflict, about the gap between the vision of regenerative living and the real wo...

In this episode, Maria speaks with Adam and Kirsten of RegenEarth Studio about regenerative collaboration, trust, and the tension between urgency and alignment. The conversation explores how relationships, inner listening, and systems thinking come together in building regenerative projects. GuestAdam and Kirsten — Co-Founders of RegenEarth Studio ThemesRegenerative systems and collaborationTrust...

Episode Title Through the Portal with Marc Engel — The Human Layer of Leadership Overview In this episode, Maria Gehrke speaks with leadership coach Marc Engel about the relational dynamics that shape how teams function. Their conversation explores vulnerability, deep listening, and the role of conflict in healthy systems. The episode concludes with a guided visualization revealing a landscape of...

Episode Title: Through the Portal — Monique Renee: Alignment, Stewardship, and the Freedom to Wander Overview:  In this episode of Through the Portal, Maria Gehrke speaks with leadership coach and spiritual guide Monique Renee about alignment, authenticity, and what it means to lead life from the inside out. Their conversation explores personal responsibility, the power of childhood curiosity, and...

Episode Title: Through the Portal — Inge van der Graaf: Gathering Light in the Dark Overview: In this live session, Maria Gehrke speaks with Dutch regression therapist Inge van der Graaf about burnout as initiation, the body as memory keeper, shadow work, and the courage to step beyond rational certainty. The session includes a guided visualization revealing an unexpected image of black light and...

Through the Portal — with Rachel Connor Be a consistent light In this episode, Maria Gehrke is joined by Rachel Connor of Wordplay Coaching for a spacious conversation on creative courage, wholeness, and the quiet work of becoming. Together they explore fear, perfectionism, creativity as aliveness, and the role of compassion in authentic expression, followed by a guided visualization that reveals...

Through the Portal — with Tory Stephens Imagining hopeful futures through story, vision, and embodied presence In this episode, Maria Gehrke is joined by Tory Stephens — justice-driven storyteller and Creative Manager of Imagine 2200 at Grist — for a deep conversation on climate fiction, solarpunk futures, and the role of imagination in times of crisis. Together, they explore: Why dystopian storie...

Through the Portal — with Tylney Taylor In this episode of Through the Portal , Maria Gehrke sits with strategist and coach Tylney Taylor for a spacious, embodied conversation on sense-making, leadership, and the courage to trust what the body already knows. Together, they explore the tension between left-brain strategy and right-brain intuition, how real clarity emerges through integration rather...

Through the Portal – with Joey Clifton & Solomon Mehta-Slade Episode Theme: A journey into play, resilience, and collective tending In this episode, Maria is joined by Joey Clifton and Solomon Mehta-Slade , co-founders of the Change:Maker Collective , an online community supporting purpose-led people who feel overwhelmed or isolated in their mission-driven work. Together, they explore: The origins...

In this episode, Maria guides guest Adam Dickinson — a former FBI analyst turned intuitive guide — through a conversation about inner transformation, embodied intelligence, and learning to trust the signals that come from beyond logic. Adam shares how heartbreak became the doorway into meditation and deeper awareness, how the Akashic Records became a surprising tool for clarity, and why integratin...

In this episode of Through the Portal , Maria guides guest Edward Zaydelman into an inner visioning practice that reveals the deeper currents beneath his work in regenerative land projects and community building. Together, they explore belonging, purpose, relational development, and the courage required to step into bold new possibilities. Includes a guided meditation and a rich conversation on cr...

Today’s Through the Portal session brings you into conversation with Rebecca Weston , a twelve-time Camino pilgrim and guide who helps people 45+ prepare for their own pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago. In this episode, we explore what makes the Camino such a powerful container for transformation — not only through its landscapes, but through its community, its rhythm, and the way it quietly...

In this Through the Portal conversation, I met with Jacqueline (MamaJ) Hollows to cross the threshold between vision and embodiment. From working in UK prisons to founding The Impact Activator , Mama J shares how she learned that money is simply another expression of love and how activating others can ripple healing through entire communities. Guided by visualization, a luminous inner landscape un...

In this Through the Portal conversation, I’m joined by Carolina Wilke , co-founder of Sacred Business Flow , for a live journey into the heart of creation itself. We explore how destruction and renewal dance through every business, how embodiment anchors vision, and what it means to trust the unseen currents guiding our path. Carolina shares the luminous story behind Sacred Business Flow, and toge...

In this episode of Through the Portal , I sit with Andrew Dunn , founder of the School of Wise Innovation. Together, we explore what it means to live in right relationship with vision — to move from chasing to embodying, from screens to soil. Our dialogue flows through innovation, initiation, and Earth’s dreaming, ending in a guided vision journey where the future becomes a living garden. This is...

In this Through the Portal conversation, Maria Gehrke is joined by Makenzie Darling , founder of Movement Maker , for a luminous exploration of sacred leadership, ancestral healing, and the art of birthing the new earth. Together, they journey through embodiment, weaving modern strategy with ancient wisdom, and remembering that we do not have to hold our visions alone. This episode feels less like...

In this first Through the Portal live session, I sat with Jim Palmer , founder of the Center for Non-Religious Spirituality and author of Deconstructionology .Together, we explored the journey of leaving religion, healing from spiritual wounding, and rediscovering a form of spirituality that feels alive, embodied, and self-authored. It began gently—two voices meeting across a digital threshold. Th...