Waking Up Wealthy with Isha Vela

Have you tried to incorporate more downtime in your business and find yourself feeling guilty, restless, more anxious, obsessing about work, or just going right back into your old patterns?   In this episode I talk about sustainability in business from the perspective of somatics, specifically unwinding from hustle mode, preventing burnout, and managing overwhelm so that you can play the long game...

This episode on trauma triggers and lack of safety, both in relationships and in coaching containers, is looong overdue! Often, when we hear someone feels unsafe, it comes out as an accusation ("I feel triggered, it's your fault, and you need to fix it so I'm no longer uncomfortable.") But nervous system activations are not a bad thing; in fact, they are an invitation to heal and expand into the l...

It's the first time a man has come on the Devotional Anarchy podcast, and I'm so glad Max received the honor of being my first. Maximillian Webster (AKA Diva Dom Daddy) is a rebellious visionary and mystical branding wizard who specializes in mentoring women through overcoming their inner self-imposed limitations and breaking through societal pressure to conform, helping them bring out the radical...

It's a new season and a new rebrand! Sometimes it can be hard to let parts of yourself go as you evolve and change, and t his episode is about exactly that: embracing evolution in your identity as a leader and how internal change affects how you show up in your personal and professional relationships.    In this episode I talk about: -the fears and stories that can come up for us when we share our...

I'm ending the season with a bang, a truly special treat by interviewing one of my favorite people in the coaching industry, my former coach and esteemed colleague Leah Ardent.   Leah (she/they) is a messaging strategist and the founder of the Shamelessly Successful Actualization Agency. Her passion is providing high provision creative vision and somatic support for ambitious coaches, consultants,...

I invited Lisa Kuzman, leadership expert and trauma educator, to the podcast to talk about being okay with not being okay based on an epic Facebook post she wrote several weeks ago where she talked about how terrorized many leaders were of sharing our struggles, especially when we're holding space for other people in theirs.   Lisa Kuzman is the host of the New Wave Leadership podcast, founder of...

If you feel like you've been getting bitch-slapped by the Universe this year... If you feel like there's an area in your life where NOTHING seems to be working, regardless of intent and effort... If you feel like 2022 has awakened old traumas you thought you'd worked through or that you're spiraling into others you didn't know existed... You're in a massive Shadow portal designed to burn down all...

So many business coaches talk about the front end business strategies, but what about the back end humxning strategies?   In this episode I outline the fundamental BTS requirements of building a sustainable business (without burnout) in integrity with your humanity: ✨ honoring your healing process ✨ respecting internal cycles of rest, play, creation ✨ expressing the full spectrum of your person...

Many of us are familiar with spiritual bypassing and brightsiding, but are you aware of the more subtle ways we weaponize spiritual shame in healing spaces? Of course, the point of this conversation is to recognize how you might be weaponizing spiritual shame within your own internal experience. Examples of subtle forms of spiritual shame in coaching containers: Guiding someone to feel better beca...

Are you ready for a BTS peek into the personal relationship "failures" I've had this year? I'm getting vulnerable AF on this episode of the podcast because I wanted to share some of my experiences and observations around self-ownership in the context of relationship REPAIR. Repair is such a critical but underemphasized aspect of intimacy in relationships.  Relationships are messy, and you're humxn...

I sat down with Sasha Ostara, somatic feminist and certified VITA Sex, Love, and Relationship coach to talk about the myths (and potential dangers) of masculine-feminine polarity in relationship and business coaching spaces.   Sasha and I are both passionate about uncolonizing the ways we inadvertently perpetuate binaries and other traumatized ways of being through our embodiment of corrupt (and o...

I brought Pamela Barba (soulful brand and biz strategist/Human Design consultant) on the podcast for a critical conversation about how trauma shows up in your "showing up," with a specific focus on: 🔥 Communicating with transparency and truth in your sales and marketing process; 🔥 Dispelling harmful lies about "feminine-led business" and instead harmonizing structure and flow in your biz systems...

  Truly OWNING (embodying) your boundaries are at the very root (energetically speaking) of your sovereignty in your personal and professional relationships.  At every level of your growth, your boundaries are going to require adjustments and upgrades based on your needs and desires.  In this episode of the podcast, I get into what ACTUALLY gets in the way (at the intersection of intimacy, trauma,...

Bodywork and mindset are often spoken of separately, which perpetuates dualism, or the artificial mind-body separation promoted by that little bitch Descartes ("I think, therefore, I am"). I was guilty of this too: there was a time when I thought all beliefs existed in the body and that if I did enough somatic work, I would be free of some of the basic harmful thought patterns that had been with m...

There's a feeling that you don't want to feel and that you go to great lengths to avoid.   Getting close to it can cause anxiety and even panic attacks.    We learn it in our homes through the norms passed down through our ancestry.    We learn it in our communities and through the collective consciousness of how to be and how not to be.    It shows up in how we relate to aspects of ourselves, how...

Do you prioritize thoughts and ideas over sensing and feeling?  Do you delay putting yourself or your creative work out there because you're obsessing over the details? Do you engage in sex without love? Much of what you experience as personal can actually be traced back to the collective trauma of whyte supremacy. Riffing off of Jones and Okun's (2001) article on white supremacy culture and addin...

How do you relate to power in your relationships and within yourself? This podcast episode is a potent one, sparked from an unpleasant experience I had with a leader in the polyam community who clearly did not walk his talk of intimacy, attunement, and repair.  After posting about this experience on Facebook, I got a flood of notes from people who'd had similar experiences. Fauna and Kari were two...

How good does it feel in your body to be in the presence of someone you feel absolutely safe with? You can let go of vigilance. You feel yourself settle into a relaxed, receptive state. You can soften and open yourself to be seen, felt, and heard. Perhaps there is space to deepen a sexual connection as well. From a coaching or mentorship perspective, what motivates you to get into somebody's conta...

The ability to be aware of your emotional landscape and navigate your way through emotional debris is one of the most important aspects of your  Ability to connect vulnerably and intimately with your partners; Integrity and accountability as a leader in your professional relationships; Capacity to showing up for the messy humxn behind your business. Because you lead with your body and because we a...

There's no sex like slow sex!  In this episode of the Devotional Anarchy podcast Darshana Avila of Erotic Wholeness shares the skills that are required to create space for a deeply satisfying and connected sexual connection.  Known for her appearance in Netflix's Sex, Love and Goop, Darshana is an internationally recognized speaker coach and facilitator who supports women and couples and exploring...

Do you lead with your wounding or your healing? How do you embrace intimacy in sales (and in every other aspect of your business)? In this deeply informative and insightful interview with Brigette Iarusso-Soto, no BS business coach for leaders who want to earn more and serve more clients without compromising their commitment to equity and inclusion, we dive into changing the culture of business th...

Are you aware of the patterns and defenses you're bringing into your personal and professional relationships (yes, even with money, God, and sex)? Are you attuned to what strategies you employ to keep yourself safe in relationships but that actually limit intimacy?  Did you know the leadership gifts and superpowers that exist inside your intimacy wounds? In episode 5 of the Devotional Anarchy podc...

Are you in ownership and authorship of your thoughts, emotions, and experiences?   Is your energy fully yours to direct towards your pleasure, play, and passion or do you hold yourself back in self-doubt, criticism, and judgment?   How, when, and with whom do you engage in fear projections when your intimacy wounds get activated?    In this 4th episode of the Devotional Anarchy podcast, I get into...

So intimacy wounds, what TF are they and why are they important?  How do we heal them through the body? Most of our suffering in relationships is set up by a) our natural and healthy desire to heal ourselves and b) reaching outside of ourselves to do that. Ideally, we do heal in relationships, but often we're unable to create relationships that heal because we're not aware of how intimacy wounds a...

Love anarchy is one of my favorite topics and something I've been exploring deeply over the past year.  A lot of what we call love is actually the negotiation of needs and the creation of contracts on a relationship escalator, with the agenda to decrease the likelihood of experiencing hurt, rejection, and abandonment. Therefore, what we understand as love in society has more to do with fear and in...