Wild Sacred Journey Podcast

What happens if you take two humans, both with some sort of calling to catalyze change, sit them down together during the Lion’s Gate Portal while spiders spin webs overhead, and then release that recording into the world on a Full Moon in Pisces???  A helluva magical, fiery, and loving conversation. Pull up your chair, your log, your rock; get your tea, your hot cocoa, your popcorn - whatever you...

Freedom. Birth. God. These are all words that have become quite loaded and contentious topics of conversation… and yet, in this episode, we dive in. Joining me around the fire is Stella Udeozor - a first-generation Nigerian-American, mother of two, digital content Creator, storyteller, photographer, and birthkeeper backed out of Cincinnati, Ohio; who, through her business, Freedom Birth Story, aim...

I love starting each episode by asking the guest about the forces that shaped them because it drops us right into their unique tapestry of places, ancestors, languages, religions, beliefs, wounds, and victories - in short, the truest stuff of our individual and shared humanity.  In a world where ‘trauma’ has become a buzzword and the pendulum seems to have swung from sweeping things under the rug...

One aspect of being human is toggling back and forth between the stories and experiences of our personality self or our smaller, 3D, human self… and our Soul self, or the parts of us who can zoom way out and be open to (even if we can’t grasp completely) a vaster understanding of the larger Cosmos and web of life. This conversation with Kari Hohne - a dream analyst, artist, and expert on the easte...

Cultures of survival rely on labels for stability - they want to know if a, then b; and in general, it’s an approach that works for us for a while. But eventually, we hit a moment when we can’t continue as we are. When the frameworks and approaches we’ve been taught can’t get us to the next step in our lives. When we realize it’s how we see things that may be part of the problem. To unlearn those...

“I don’t teach voice because I think I’m a great singer. I teach voice because it’s one of my favorite ways to commune with my own heart and life and to move energy and pray.” This is one of the last things today’s guest, Hanna Leigh - a ceremonial musician, voice doula, weaver, visionary and founder of a budding organization called "Weaving Remembrance" - says in our conversation. And I...

The more of these conversations I have, the deeper I understand why we’re gathering here around the fire - answering a whispered call. Sometimes the ‘why’ is in the guest’s personal wisdom, earned and shared through a life fully lived. Other times, it’s because their life and studies offer us a cultural framework different from our current one, often richer in wisdom and spirit. Today’s conversati...

Our guest around the fire this episode is Amana Mayfield-Faulkner, supportive sister and guide for women who are motivated to deepen their understanding of themselves. Through her life, her work, and her own podcast (The Heart of the Soul), Amana is an explorer of pregnancy, birth, death, mothering, sociology, culture, nature, nursing, midwifery, reiki & mediumship… among other things. And you...

Today, on the astrological day of Beltane, Bealtaine ‘ as Gaeilge ’ (in Irish), we gather around the fire with Sionnáin, a musician, songstress, quantum therapist and water carrier from the West of Ireland, whose path is devoted to honouring, celebrating & remembering with the Tuatha Dé Danann, the mythical tribe of Shining Ones.  You’ll hear tales from her journey through personal and ancestr...

Today’s guest around the fire, the charismatic and loving Dan McNeil, self-proclaimed teacher, brother, husband, and father; has taken a winding route to get to where he is today, but as he says early on in the episode, while life has taken him many places, the voice of spirit has always been the same. And you’ll feel that in our conversation - a conversation that dances between:  the despair of t...

What does it mean to be a full-spectrum human? What are all the pieces that weave together to form our experience and how do we distill them down into something that holds deep resonance for us? These questions lay at the heart of the conversation that unfolded when I got together with Dajé James, aka the Story Doula, a storyteller, flower essence practitioner, and space-holder for wild-hearted le...

What's left when all else melts away? When you find yourself at a threshold; in the middle of an initiation; grappling with the things you would never have consciously chosen?  In a moment or many when you’re stripped of your accomplishments, or people you love, or the things you thought you knew? Who are you then? And what really matters? One of my first spiritual teachers and long-time frie...

Sometimes it feels like there’s an assumption that to shift our current exploitative and divided relationship with the land, we have to be different than we are, adopt a certain lifestyle aesthetic… so I’m super excited for this conversation with winemaker Jason Murray and artist Sandy Gray-Murray of Arterra Wines and Hawkmoth Arts, two people who epitomize lifestyle, not as aesthetic but as consc...

This episode, like a healthy nervous system, oscillates between the personal and the collective; between our individual stories and how that informs what we see as being ‘up’ for us as humans: what’s being asked of us, what we’re yearning for, and what evolution might, or even must, be possible. How perfect then that I’m joined by Kristin Urbanus, a Professional Certified Coach, Spiritual Psycholo...

For this powerful and moving episode I’m joined by one of my teachers, an amazing human who has had a profound impact on my life and journey, Tammy LaDrew. Tammy is a Life Artist, Writer & Personal Development Coach who teaches people how to live better lives through The Art of Awakening, Wayfinding and Conscious Creation - the art of connecting with their inner inspiration, reclaiming their S...

Here in both the 11th episode and the first episode of 2023, I reflect on what I’m aiming to do with these conversations - namely to explore, in dehumanizing times and an increasingly virtual world, what it means to be human. Asking: how do we use our innate human ability to be able to walk with a foot in each world (the physical and the imaginal) in powerful and constructive ways? Through reflect...

This episode I’m joined in friendship and conversation by the gentle-and-fierce visionary, Anna Carapetyan- a birth and postpartum doula, educator and coach; who provides care and support while promoting an orientation toward process, growth, autonomy and interdependence; all so you thrive through your transformative life events. This is an episode of curiosity where we slow down and ask: what’s a...

In this conversation I’m joined by the powerful and radiant Amy Rachelle Taylor - an Intuitive Soul Guide and licensed mental health clinician who coaches people in shadow work, inner child healing, and ancestral & inter-dimensional alchemy for more love, clarity, and personal power. This is a conversation that really roots into what it means to be a unique human expression *and* a quantum fre...

In this conversation I’m joined by the amazing and effervescent Micah Peterson - a human whose joy, love, and depth of compassion I’ve had the privilege of knowing since we were 14 years old. I wanted to have Micah on to share about his life and story because of his passion for village and community care, and also because I wanted to hear his perspectives as someone with identities that intersect...

In this conversation I’m joined by the lovely, wise, and endlessly curious Lindsey Melton - a former dancer, Gyrotonic Method practitioner, and a breathwork facilitator with a gift for bringing clarity and elegant simplicity to the muddy experience of being humans in bodies. Through the lens of breathwork and compassionate relationship with our bodies, we explore: learning to listen to the wisdom...

In this conversation I’m joined by the compassionate, wise, and fierce Dr. Shanequa Smith; a Restorative Practitioner with a passion for decolonizing inwardly - healing from systemic and sociohistorical inequity and generational traumas to better build new cultures and systems, rooted in joy and opportunity. In this episode, you’ll hear Shanequa’s story from the hoods of Harlem, NY to Charleston,...

In this conversation I’m joined by the endlessly curious and deeply wise Emma Sartwell; whose spiritual journey leads to the impressive resume of: interfaith chaplain, ordained Buddhist minister, author, and student and skilled practitioner of a diverse variety of healing modalities like: yoga, meditation, energy healing, shamanism, Somatic Experiencing, psychodynamics, and mystical Judaism (to na...

In this conversation with energy healer, Conscious Transformation mentor, and plant medicine guide, Jaime Lehner , we follow threads of curiosity and wisdom while exploring: plants as consciousness and teachers; how, in an era of disconnection and distraction, working with plants can bring us back to our bodies and hearts - our true natures; the rise in popularity of plant medicines and some pros...

Feeling dissatisfied is an uncomfortable and very normal part of our human experience.  In this bonus solo episode we explore:  how we can harness the gifts of dissatisfaction;  the link between dissatisfaction and creativity (and how that might point to ways we misunderstand creativity);  and the bridge between where we are and where we want to be There's also an announcement...

In this conversation with poet, creativity coach, and dance instructor, Ellis Elliott , we explore:  the people and places that shape us; writing to escape and writing to connect; things that challenge our notions of what it is to be human; myths about creativity; how regular creative practices can help us be more human... and more. What's your takeaway? We'd love to hear. You can find more a...