Creative Rhythms, Traveling Alone, and Going Towards the Love with Sebene Selassie

What does it mean to create spaciousness? Through our creative rhythms, through our travels, through the expression of our voices? I talk with writer and teacher Sebene Selassie, the author of You Belong and the excellent Substack newsletter Ancestors to Elements,...

Jocelyn K. Glei: Where are my wings?

On the awkwardness of wintering while everyone else is awakening. Jocelyn reflects on being out of sync with the collective energy of reinvention at the beginning of each new year. She talks about being in the “awkward soup of transformation” and contemplates the...

Adrienne Maree Brown: Are you satisfiable? (Archival)

What does it mean to be satisfiable? And how do you recognize when you have “enough”? These questions are central not just to our own well-being but to attaining a more just and equitable society. For this conversation, I sit down with writer, facilitator, and...

You are already that which you yearn for

How to flip the script on healing and wellness culture by noticing how you already embody all that you yearn for. Jocelyn reflects on the intersection of capitalism, productivity culture, and the wellness industry and how they each try to lure us into focusing on what...

Dina Schapiro: Manifesting from the Heart

A conversation about how to get our bodies (and our brains) onboard with manifesting a new reality. In this episode, I take a deep dive into the mechanics of healing with Dina Schapiro. Dina has been a therapist for over 20 years; she’s also a professor, and formerly...

Jocelyn K. Glei: Letting Go & Letting Flow

A brief reflection on the voice and how our desire to avoid uncertainty — to know the outcome before we even begin the process — can block the free-flow of self-expression.   Resources, Ideas & Links Jocelyn’s 4-week course “Finding Your Voice: A sacred...

Jocelyn K. Glei: Things Don’t Have to Be Hard

I reflect on the process of unwinding from the limiting beliefs that we hold that create so much hardship. In the first episode of season 6, I ask: “How can we take our expectations of struggle, turn them inside out, and transform them into an opportunity to feel even...

Jocelyn K. Glei: Dawning Awareness

How defaulting to the intellect as our primary channel of knowing cuts us off from deeper consciousness & insight. In this episode, I talk about the many different ways of knowing that we have access to — intellectual, somatic, energetic, intuitive, ancestral. And...

Lisa Olivera: The Self-Extraction Impulse

“When I think of self-extraction, I think of pouring out and giving and holding space and showing up for other people, not from a place of overflow, but from a place of depletion.” Lisa Olivera is a therapist-turned-writer, who feels like a kindred spirit of the pod....

Jocelyn K. Glei: Am I allowed to say this?

How we get locked into online personas that keep us from evolving and speaking our truth. In this episode, I talk about the rise of personal brands and the expectation that we present one continuous persona online — and how that limits the expression of our fullness....

Prentis Hemphill: Breaking Out of “Control Mode”

“We’re always trying to measure ourselves up to who we’re supposed to be, and it takes our attention away from who do I want to be? Who do I feel that I am?” I talk with writer, teacher, and embodiment coach Prentis Hemphill, who is also behind one of my...

Jocelyn K. Glei: Bad Habit Loops

What are the ideas, thoughts, and habits that rupture, or interrupt, our ability to feel at home? Through the lens of my own past addictions to alcohol and crime fiction, I explore the dark side of habits in this episode — the anxious, internal routines and dialogues...