Wild & Waking

In this powerful continuation of our conversation, Annie Bertrand returns to take us deeper into her signature work: ancestral astrology, mother wounds, karmic cycles, and the soul-level patterns that shape our families across generations. In part one, we explored the foundations of astrology and how to understand your chart. In part two, we turn toward the lineage-level healing work — the real-li...

In this grounded solo episode, Emily shares five transformative truths to support you at the edge of any new season, identity shift, or fresh start. Whether you're beginning a new habit, exploring a mindset change, considering a business pivot, or simply feeling the pull toward growth in the new year, these insights offer clarity, encouragement, and direction. Emily unpacks why we often overcompli...

What happens when you’ve done everything right , hit the milestones, followed the plan, built the “good life” and still feel like something’s missing? In this week’s episode, I’m joined by transformational coach and spiritual mentor Hélène Caniac for a powerful conversation about what it really means to move from achievement to fulfillment . Together, we explore the embodied, lived-in practice of...

This week, I’m taking you behind the scenes of my own evolution through one of my favorite portals: reading. In this end-of-year solo episode, I walk you through all 26 books I read in 2025. These are the ones that cracked me open, challenged my assumptions, expanded my worldview, and quietly shaped the way I’ve shown up on the podcast, in my work, and in my life this year. Rather than sharing a q...

​​In this conversation, Emily sits down with author, educator, and speaker Caroline J. Sumlin to explore the ideas behind her groundbreaking book, We’ll All Be Free: How a Culture of White Supremacy Devalues Us and How We Can Reclaim Our True Worth. Together, they unpack the systemic and cultural roots that shape our identity and self-worth, and how the beliefs we’ve inherited from society have ke...

If astrology has always felt like a foreign language full of symbols, glyphs, houses, nodes, and mysterious lines running across a wheel you are in exactly the right place. In this episode, I’m joined by ancestral astrologer, Annie Bertrand, for a true beginner-friendly walkthrough of the basics. Instead of staying conceptual, Annie reads directly from my birth chart, so you can follow along with...

In this powerful and multi-dimensional conversation, Emily sits down with intuitive healer, medium, and spiritual mentor, Nicolle Merrilyne, to explore the deeper layers of spiritual awakening, energy work, and feminine reclamation. Nicolle shares the origins of her intuitive gifts, the mediumship opening that transformed her life, and the profound initiations that led her into the work of shadow...

So often we expect transformation to be loud, dramatic, or instantly recognizable. But the truth is that personal evolution rarely happens in one defining moment. In this intimate solo episode, Emily reflects on the quiet, incremental, almost imperceptible shifts that have reshaped her entire inner world over the past year, while her external life has looked almost exactly the same. Through the le...

What if your desire isn’t dangerous, but divine? In this deeply transformative episode, Emily sits down with Dr. Kimberly Rose Pendleton , an intimacy coach, scholar, and founder of UNCOVER , to explore what it means to heal from purity culture and reclaim your body, your voice, and your power. Together, they unravel centuries of conditioning that taught women to equate goodness with obedience and...

What if you stopped dreading the darker months and started seeing them as sacred? In this episode, Emily invites you to embrace the descent into the dark half of the year, a season of rest, reflection, and deep inner renewal. Drawing from ancestral wisdom, cyclical living, and her own evolution, she explores how “wintering” isn’t just about enduring the cold, but remembering that rest itself is ho...

What happens when your personal evolution begins to stretch the space between you and your partner? In this deeply honest and compassionate conversation, Emily sits down with feminist marriage coach Maggie Reyes to explore what she calls The Growth Gap , the tension that arises when one partner is actively growing, healing, or awakening, while the other clings to what feels safe, familiar, or expe...

Life is tender and messy and miraculous all at once. In this solo episode, Emily invites you into a reflection on the beautiful, brutal art of holding it all —the grief and the gratitude, the darkness and the light, the exhaustion and the quiet magic of simply being alive. Fresh off a transformative retreat and deep in the waves of pregnancy, she opens up about what it means to sit in discomfort w...

In this potent conversation, I sit down with Yarrow Kae —a mentor, spiritual guide, healer, and clinically trained therapist who bridges ancient wisdom with modern psychology—to explore what it really means to embody the truth of who you are. Yarrow’s story is nothing short of extraordinary: at 19, she downloaded enlightenment on the dance floor of a rave, setting her on a decades-long journey of...

What happens when you realize the life you worked so hard to build doesn’t actually feel like your own? In this week’s episode of Wild & Waking , I sit down with Kathleen Pitt—The Quantum Psychic —to explore her radical journey from nurse practitioner and mom in Detroit to soul-led mentor, channel, and guide helping women step into their highest alignment. We dive deep into the quantum field —...

What if your worth wasn’t tied to how much you produce, how many tasks you complete, or how many boxes you check off the list? In this episode of Wild & Waking , I’m diving into a conversation so many women wrestle with: untangling our value from output and reclaiming the power of presence. For centuries, women’s gifts—our wisdom, intuition, creativity, and nurturing—were considered sacred. Ov...

Have you ever wondered what really happens during a Reiki attunement? In this solo episode, I’m sharing my honest, unfiltered experience from my Reiki I & II attunement weekend—a journey that unlocked new layers of magic, healing, creativity, and self-trust that I never could have anticipated. From the moment I arrived, I realized this wasn’t just about learning a modality—it was an invitation...

Have you ever felt the tension between following the “logical path” you were taught to take and the deeper pull of your intuition? In this episode of Wild & Waking , I sit down with Hay House author and spiritual business coach Liz Roberta to explore how we can break free from burnout, trust our inner wisdom, and build lives and businesses that are truly in tune with our soul. Liz’s book, Livi...

Have you ever had a powerful breakthrough — an awakening, an expansion, a deep inner revelation — only to feel frustrated when it doesn’t immediately translate into your daily life? In this solo episode of Wild & Waking , Emily unpacks the truth that integration always lags behind revelation . Growth isn’t instant. Transformation takes time to embody. And the space between knowing and becoming...

What happens when the life you planned completely unravels—and you’re forced to decide who you really are without the “shoulds”? In this episode of the Wild & Waking podcast, I’m joined by Jessica Frew, author of Shove Your Shoulds: Become a Decision-Making Badass to Live the Bold Life You Deserve . Jessica’s story of walking through divorce after her husband came out as gay, rebuilding her li...

In this solo episode, I’m continuing the story I began back in Episode 160 — my journey of breaking down, breaking open, and finding breakthrough on the other side. This time, I’m sharing the next chapter: my first-ever Reiki session, the wild and beautiful soul baby messages that came through, and the spiritual affirmations that left me feeling like a completely different person. If you’ve been c...

This is the initiation into your next becoming. In part two of this sacred series with Katy Stuart, we move from remembering to reclamation. We explore what it means to rise from the rubble of old identities, to hold the sacred responsibility of your truth, and to lead—not from performance or perfection—but from deep spiritual embodiment. If part one unpacked the history of how women’s voices were...

What if the very reason you feel stuck, silenced, or afraid to take up space… didn’t start with you? What if the resistance in your body, the self-doubt in your voice, and the fear of being seen are actually ancient echoes of a system built to keep women small? In this first half of a powerful two-part series, I’m joined by my business coach and spiritual mentor Katy Stuart for a conversation that...

What happens when your body completely shuts down—and no one can explain why? In this behind-the-scenes solo episode, Emily invites you into the real, raw, and honestly kind of ridiculous past few weeks of her life. From first-trimester exhaustion and creative burnout to a surprise trip to urgent care where she couldn’t catch her breath, this is one of those “how is this my life right now?” update...

What if the static in your life wasn’t just overwhelm—but a sign you’ve been disconnected from your deepest knowing? In this soul-expanding conversation, I’m joined by intuitive healer and psychic medium Kelsey Anderson to explore what it means to live a soul-led life in a world that constantly asks us to outsource our power. We talk about how to reconnect with your embodied intuition, reclaim the...

What if you stopped fighting your energy dips, creative bursts, and seasonal shifts—and started listening to them instead? In this episode, Emily invites you into a powerful reframe: you are nature. Which means you were never meant to be linear, consistent, or constantly “on.” You were designed to move in rhythm—just like the Earth, your body, and the moon. This conversation is a heartfelt introdu...