Have you ever felt cynical about the medical community and its attitudes about death? Or felt that modern psychiatry is a deadend? The amazing Dr. Anna Yusim will change your mind and give you hope! Anna is always a bright spirit and a delight as she shares her own embrace of Spirituality in a rigorous medical community. She is wise, insightful and a woman who has broken stereotypes and limits in so many areas of her life and work. Unlike her community of peers, Anna sees all manners of death, from the physical to the psychological as powerful invitations to experience the world and soul more fully! Fascinating and inspiring. Dr. Anna Yusim is an internationally-recognized, award-winning, Board-Certified, Stanford- and Yale-educated Psychiatrist & Executive Coach with a Private Practice in New York City, Connecticut, California and Florida. With clients including Forbes 500 CEOs, Olympic athletes, A-list actors and actresses, and the Chairs of academic departments at top universities, Dr. Anna Yusim helps influential people achieve greater impact, purpose, and joy in their life and work. Dr. Yusim is the best-selling author of Fulfilled: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help You Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life. As a Clinical Assistant Professor at Yale Medical School, Dr. Yusim is presently working to create a Mental Health & Spirituality Program / Center at Yale with Dr. Christopher Pittenger, which will be a bridge between the Yale Medical School and Yale Divinity School. Dr. Yusim is the Chief Medical Officer of Conscious Health, a holistic mental health treatment center based in California that bridges ancient psychospiritual wisdom with state-of-the-art, evidence-based mental health interventions like ketamine, transcranial magnetic stimulation and other treatment modalities. She is the Medical Lead for SuperMind, a mental health start-up based in Miami that utilizes personal coaching, binaural beat meditation technology and an EEG-based biofeedback systems to create targeted, precision mental health therapy for depression, anxiety and PTSD. She is also on the Board of numerous other enterprises in the mental health space, including Being Health, Plaey and Pause + Purpose. Dr. Yusim has published over 320 academic articles, book chapters, scientific abstracts, book reviews, and articles for the lay public on various topics in psychiatry. A frequent contributor to CNN, Fox News, ABC, and NBC, she has been a guest on hundreds of national and international TV shows, radio programs, and podcasts. Learn more at https://annayusim.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a podcast all about the many faces and forms of death, it was time to talk to someone who helps people face the end of life - theirs and their loved ones. It was truly a fascinating and enlightening conversation - to explore the end of life and how we think about it, how we treat it in society, and how we can do better to support people who are dying, and those people who support the dying or those who are wanting to face their own mortality with more wisdom, grace, and connection. So many great perspectives drawing on research, academic views, and a progressive social commentary on how to live best with death. Kathy is an unconventional death educator with a passion for palliative care and improving the end of life care for all. Kathy has been teaching and researching at Lakehead University for over a decade. In her work, Kathy inspires and challenges future healthcare providers to be prepared to care for individuals who are dying, and their families, in healthcare settings. Kathy leverages her experiences as a cancer survivor and as a palliative care provider to challenge us to have the important conversations about dying, death and life. Kathy strives to make an impact with her teaching, research and speaking to discover, share and communicate the information that we are all "dying to know." Dr. Katherine Kortes-Miller is the Director, Centre for Education and Research on Aging and Health (CERAH) https://cerah.lakeheadu.ca; Associate Professor, Research Chair on Aging and End of Life (2023-25). She is a gifted author, speaker, researcher and advocate. With a Masters of Social Work and PhD her research experience is interdisciplinary and collaborative contributing to a broad range of fields of study including: social work, palliative care education, gerontology, and medical assistance in dying (MAiD). She is committed to improving the care provided at the bedside for our most vulnerable and frail. She is developing a research portfolio that will influence healthcare education and care at the bedside alongside improving organizational and healthcare policy. Learn more at https://www.lakeheadu.ca/users/K/kkortesm/node/40174 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I love this important, practical and inspiring conversation about boundaries. Boundaries are such an important part of mental, emotional and spiritual health, and Molly Davis helps us understand the nature of boundaries on all these levels while offering some practical insights and some provocative perspectives. Molly Davis is a multi-talented teacher, cartoonist, author, and therapist, with credentials that include a Bachelor's of Science in Psychology and a Master's of Science in Community Mental Health. Her range of work experiences have included substance use disorder and mental health counseling in outpatient, intensive-outpatient, family, educational, and residential treatment settings, as well as operating in leadership and administrative capacities. https://boundaried.com Instagram: @boundariedbootcamp  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I certainly don't believe there is such a thing as a "better teacher" and it's not fair to play favorites. But I have to admit, the work of Asha Frost is something very special in the world today and whether it's her teachings, classes, books or her card decks, I think she's a very important voice that represents the convergence of Indigenous wisdom and modern psychological and spiritual healing with great clarity and integrity. I can't stress the importance of her work, and I was delighted to share in this insightful, uplifting, and heartfelt conversation. Asha Frost is an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) Medicine Woman, a Homeopath and an Intuitive Mentor who believes wholeheartedly in the power within to heal our bodies, our spirits, our lives. She is able to clearly see one’s presence, power and medicine and invites people deeper into their own magical knowing. Her facilitation style empowers, uplifts and inspires with grace and deep love.  She has a BA in Psychology from the University of Guelph and a degree in Homeopathic Medicine, with a private practice for the past 14 years as a Healer and Soul Seer and has facilitated thousands of healing ceremonies through powerful circle and one on one work. She is a divine channel for deep healing and a visionary for a healed way. Author of three books, her book, You Are the Medicine, and card decks with Hay House Publishing have achieved incredible success and focus on NBSP and guided healing work for wide audiences. https://ashafrost.com Instagram: @asha.frost Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wow. Well, if you want to challenge your assumptions about life and reality and explore both profound and simple ways to transform the way you experience life, this is definitely the conversation for you! Dr. McGeorge draws from her incredible and eclectic background to inspire us to think about health, self, Conscious, the soul, healing, and the very nature of everything we know differently. This conversation is wild and full and wonderful! Fasten your seat belt. Dr. Kimberly McGeorge is an internationally renowned naturopathic doctor, energy healer, remote viewer, paranormal expert and consciousness teacher. Her extensive client list includes of some of the world's most talented healers and, for the past 25 years, she has worked on thousands of people around the world. Dr. Kimberly was born with the ability to remote view, see people's auras and was highly intuitive. While still in college, she helped police on many occasions. Finding she had a natural affinity with herbs, she worked as a herbalist and went on to create and distribute her own line of herbal organic products internationally. During this time, her personal practice expanded to multiple clinics throughout Columbus. Driven by her inner knowing that her healing work could be made much quicker, more affordable and amplified exponentially using technology, Dr. Kimberly consulted with an esteemed neurosurgeon and realized that the healing frequencies in naturopathy could be applied to all areas of her client's lives. Her latest ground-breaking program FrequencyMaster™ teaches how to master frequencies in your own life and trains other healers to use her own unique and successful methods. https://www.secrettoeverything.com Instagram: @secrettoeverything Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Katt is just a pleasure to talk with and such an incredibly open, welcoming, wise and wonderful soul. Beyond his important work about the wisdom and power of the midlife crisis, he offers us beautiful insights about what it means to live well and authentically, and how to bring mindfulness effectively and beautifully into all we do. Ben Katt has been helping people experience deep transformation and access lives of greater joy, compassion, and purpose for the past twenty years. His first book, The Way Home: Discovering the Hero’s Journey to Wholeness at Midlife (St. Martin’s Essentials, February 2024), is a guidebook and memoir about the inner journey we all must embark on in order to live our fullest lives. Ben is the founder of the WITHIN Prison Meditation Project, serves as a hospice chaplain, and writes regularly about identity, purpose, creativity, and belonging in his weekly STILL newsletter. Ben is a certified advanced meditation teacher of the 1 Giant Mind technique, holds a Master of Divinity degree, and was an ordained minister for over a decade. Previously, he led The On Being Project’s work in supporting religious and spiritual leaders in the work of social healing. Ben is an expert at adapting ancient personal development practices for modern contexts in order to help people wake up to who they are and why they are here. https://www.benjaminkatt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beyond his incredible work in the world of organizational wellness and transformation well-being, Joel Bennett definitely stands out as a powerful thinker and someone who has done more to help us understand time and how to live consciously in relationship to all its facets then just about anyone else I can think of. Join us for this incredible conversation that will help you to think about change, time, and well-being in new ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This conversation is full of surprises and powerful messages about how to live a full and meaningful life. With sexuality as a leading edge to the conversation, we quickly discover that Elsbeth and Freddy are really masters of energy and purpose in all areas of life. Authenticity, intuition, social evolution and clearing up confusions around what sexual energy really is and isn't are just some of the important topics we cover. Dr. Elsbeth Meuth and Freddy Zental Weaver have assisted thousands of couples and singles create lasting intimacy and fulfillment in their life and relationships. They are featured on Showtime’s  documentary series Sexual Healing andthe Emmy Award-winning NBC show Starting Over, best-selling authors of Sexual Enlightenment endorsed by world-renowned Spiritual Pioneer Dr. Michael Beckwith. They are the co-founders of TantraNova Institute in Chicago and the originators of June 1st National Intimacy Day. Free gift mentioned in interview Introduction to Sexual Meditation - Video Class Learn distinctions and practices of Sexual Meditation to access and channel your creative spark https://tantranova.lpages.co/introduction-to-sexual-meditation/ TantraNova website  https://www.tantranova.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The core intention behind this podcast is to help people understand the connection between personal and planetary healing. It seems there are a few experts out there who are making the connection such a profound, eloquent, and practical way as Dr. Paul Zeits. In this incredibly insightful conversation, we talk about the seven steps to becoming a love-centered activist. Listen carefully and be sure to check out his work online! About Paul Zeitz MD: Dr. Paul Zeitz is a veteran leader on the front lines of multiple global and domestic movements and a preventive medicine physician, epidemiologist, author, and award-winning champion of global justice and human rights. He has been on the front lines of the global AIDS movement, climate transformation, racial and gender equity, authentic democracy, sustainable development, and child welfare in the U.S. and around the world.  In his forthcoming book, Revolutionary Optimism: Seven Steps for Living as a Love-Centered Activist, Zeitz shares an indispensable roadmap for personal and global liberation, with a clear, step-by-step guide—a timely remedy and cure of anxiety, hopelessness, and the potentially the super crises facing our world. revolutionaryoptimism.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the wise and vibrant age of 91, Bernie Seigel MD is one of a handful of people who can truly be said to have transformed the world of healing, cancer recovery, chronic illness recovery, and self-help in the modern era. In this free-form sharing, Dr. Bernie shares profound and well-tested insights about life, love, healing, and caregiving. It plays like a wonderful and heartwarming visit with a dear old friend, and a master healer. Bio: Bernie Siegel (born October 1932) Dr. Siegel attended Colgate University and Cornell University Medical College. He holds membership in two scholastic honor societies, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha and graduated with honors. His surgical training took place at Yale New Haven Hospital, West Haven Veteran’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.  He retired from practice as an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Yale of general and pediatric surgery in 1989 to speak to patients and their caregivers. In 1978 he originated Exceptional Cancer Patients, a specific form of individual and group therapy utilizing patients’ drawings, dreams, images and feelings. ECaP is based on “carefrontation,” a safe, loving therapeutic confrontation, which facilitates personal lifestyle changes, personal empowerment and healing of the individual’s life.  For many, Bernie needs no introduction. He has touched many lives all over our planet. In 1978 he began talking about patient empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. As a physician, who has cared for and counseled innumerable people whose mortality has been threatened by an illness, Bernie embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the medical ethics and spiritual issues our society grapples with today. Bernie has been named one of the top 20 Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet by the Watkins Review. website: www.BernieSiegelMD.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This fabulous interview is full of insights about the nature and process of healing. Jonathan Hammond wrote the wonderful book The Shaman's Mind, and draws from the wisdom in this excellent resource, as well as from his extensive studies and practice as a holistic healer in this lively and helpful conversation. Join us for an interview filled with insights for healers, people doing their own healing work, and anyone interested in the transformative process. About Jonathan Hammond: Jonathan Hammond is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Michigan, a certified Master Teacher in Shamanic Reiki, Usui, and Karuna Reiki, and is the Advanced Graduate Studies Advisor for Shamanic Reiki Worldwide. He teaches classes on shamanism, spirituality, energy healing, and Huna at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Penn State University, One Spirit Learning Alliance, and Glidewing Online Courses. Jonathan has training and certifications in Cherokee Bodywork, Huna and Ho‘oponopono, and he is an ordained Alakai (leader or guide) through Aloha International. He has completed all core curriculum through the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, he has been initiated through the Minoan Fellowship in Wicca, and he has completed intensive training in the therapeutic facilitation of psychedelics with Inward Bound, Ireland. Jonathan has worked and studied alongside shamans in Mexico, Brazil, Bali, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Hawaii. He now spends his life deeply committed to empowering and healing people by bringing indigenous Earth wisdom to the modern world.  His first book, The Shaman’s Mind - Huna Wisdom to Change your Life is available wherever books are sold. He also has an album of shamanic journeys and meditations entitled The Shaman Within that is produced by Hemi-Sync.  Website: www.jonathanhammond.com Instagram: @jonathan_hammond_maui Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At 91 years of age, Dr. Bernie Seigel has an endless reservoir of wisdom to share on how we heal, what matters most, and what it means to be truly human. Jump into this wonderful conversation as you feel the joy of sitting with a true master. Stories, teachings, and wandering thoughts of wisdom and light - it's all here!  Dr. Bernie Seigel Bernie Siegle MD is nothing short of a modern-day legend. A Yale-trained surgeon, Bernie transformed his practice and life’s work when he discovered that mindset, spirituality, and lifestyle changes were as powerful and effective as any medical intervention - especially in the treatment of chronic illness. He has written a library of bestselling books and pioneered the field of mind-body medicine. berniesiegelmd.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tina D’Amore is the founder and owner of 3 Crows Healing: Shamanic Medicine & Animal Whispering. A former educator, she works closely with her helping spirits to shift the spiritual causes of dis-ease. After overcoming a severe illness that caused multiple Near-Death Experiences, Tina is attuned to the magnificence of the worlds available to us, including the world we share together. Tina facilitates sessions with clients who reside in the US and in Europe, Canada, Asia, Africa and Australia with the sole intention of empowering her clients’ Inner Fire, intuitively creating sacred space to peel away layers of old programming. Tina empowers those who suffer from chronic illness to make lasting changes in the relationship between themselves and their dis-ease to reclaim their lives. I loved my conversation with Tina! We had met before and so had the chance to go deep into themes of near-death; facing death; and the ravages of illness and life setback as a part of the journey of healing and awakening to personal gifts and power. For me this was such an honest, provocative and exciting exploration of topics in healing, shamanic work, and the process of becoming authentic that most of us never really get to have or hear.  This is a great conversation for healers and students of spirit to check out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this inspiring interview, we explore some of the keys to transformation and well-being that are featured in his incredible new book about people who have overcome extraordinary obstacles and life setbacks. Many of the stories take us into the realm of miracles and mystery. What is it that makes for a truly resilient soul or a complete life revival? Join us for this insightful and compelling conversation. Dr Ken Harris is an incredible voice in the world of healing and transformation. With nearly 40 years of experience as a chiropractor, integrative healer, and wellness innovator, Dr. Ken brings wisdom and lightness to every conversation and each guidance he offers. In his recent book, Dr. Ken showcases the power of the human spirit to face, overcome, and triumph in the face of unspeakable adversity.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Zajaczkowski is undoubtedly one of those big-hearted, clear-minded people who has learned to synthesize multiple worlds of experience and training in ways that uplift people's lives and make an immediate difference. This is not gratuitous praise! Michael's new book The Owners Manual to Life is absolutely an instant favorite book of mine and one that I would recommend above others easily. It has 100 simple and powerful life lessons all described in two pages each and I am eager to gift this book to so many people I know. Join this conversation and discover some of the most essential wisdom this fantastic author has to offer. Find out more about The Owner's Manual to Life Michael Zajaczkowski earned his master’s degree in marriage and family counseling from Antioch University, Los Angeles. After working with both couples and individuals, he resumed his career as a business and sales training coach. He currently runs an international business and inside sales training company and uses his experience from counseling and coaching to help his clients set and achieve financial goals while helping them identify and engage in activities that give their lives meaning alongside of their career success. https://michaelzbooks.com/ Connect with Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D. here and find out about Mindful Integrative Therapy, Advanced Spiritual Guidance, Transformational Leadership Find books by Jonathan Ellerby and other MindBodySpirit.fm podcast hosts in the online store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Even though the future hasn’t happened yet, there’s no question that some people are gifted and helping communities, teams, and leaders to consciously create a better future for everyone involved - Charles Holmes stands out as an exceptional talent in this way. This interview is both practically insightful, and personally inspiring, especially if you’re looking for a little hope in the world of business and leadership. Help is on the way! About Charles Holmes: Charles Holmes is a skilled facilitator and educator whose 25 years of experience has honed a passion for creating meaningful dialogue among groups whose diverse opinions would otherwise work against a common understanding of desired outcomes. Charles has facilitated projects with clients from health care - including dozens of Canadian health regulatory agencies - to forestry and mining, software and pharmaceutical companies, educational institutions and utility firms, and government and not-for-profit sectors. The meetings he has designed and facilitated have focused on innovation, conflict resolution, community engagement, long-range scenario planning, and hundreds of strategic planning sessions with Boards and management teams. He has worked with multinational corporations in many settings throughout the world. As an educator, Charles has taught negotiation, team building, meeting facilitation, and leadership in Executive Programs for Universities in Canada and Saudi Arabia. He was a senior associate of the University of Cambridge, Business and the Environment Program. He was co-founder of the Learning Strategies Group in the Faculty of Business at Simon Fraser University where he was the lead in establishing the Executive Development Program, a biotech MBA and an MBA in Applied Sustainability.https://www.ceholmesconsulting.com/ Connect with Jonathan Ellerby Ph.D. Advanced Spiritual Guidance and Transformational Leadership Find books by Jonathan Ellerby and other MindBodySpirit.fm podcast hosts in the online store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is money the root of all evil? Or is it possible money is the root of all goodness? There are so many ways to change and shape the world, and it was an absolute honor and pleasure to discuss what it means to create a better world with the iconic social investment leader Joel Solomon. Rarely do you get to listen to someone with as much experience in the world of high finance and high-impact investing, while gaining some deep insight into the power of his spiritual life and moral compass. This episode offered a powerful call to action for all people everywhere. About Joel Solomon- Joel Solomon is a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada’s largest mission venture capital firm, at $240m assets under management. Investing in Organics and Environmental & Climate Technology in Canada and the USA, Renewal Funds is GIIRS-rated, a founding Canadian B Corp (5x “Best for the World”), a “1% for the Planet” member, recognized as ImpactAssets “Top 50 impact fund managers.” Joel is a 2021 Clean50 Canada “Lifetime Achievement” honoree, frequent public speaker, board member of the University of British Columbia, co-producer of the Just Economy Institute, and co-author of The Clean Money Revolution: Re-Inventing Power, Purpose & Capitalism. Joel was inducted into SVN’s Hall of Fame in 2012 with a Lifetime Achievement Award. His 2015 op-ed on fossil fuel divestment appeared in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. Joel has been several times named to the “Power 50” by Vancouver Magazine and been subject of many feature articles and interviews. He is a frequent speaker and is a Co-Producer on a number of Hollyhock-based conferences, including Social Venture Institute (SVI) since 1995. SVI partners with Vancity Community Credit Union, a values-based not-for-profit coop financial institution with over 500,000 member-owners. https://joelsolomon.org/ Find out more about Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D. Spiritual teacher, author, transformational leadership Find books from Jonathan Ellerby and other MindBodySpirit.fm podcast hosts in the online store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we have the pleasure of traveling through the furthest reaches of consciousness into the power of simple every day life moments. Lifelong teacher, and guide to all things spiritual, personal and professional, Kute Blackson, shares his passion, his visions for what matters most, and how we can all become more fully alive. Kute Blackson is utterly unique in the world of human potential. Unlike those who promise to simply help people “get” what they want, Kute's life work instead reveals to people what they have to give, by liberating who they are most truly and deeply. The focus: Freedom Kute's own background and experience lays out the blueprint for his approach to liberating others, setting their gifts and greatness free. Born in Ghana, West Africa, his multicultural upbringing as the child of a Japanese mother and Ghanaian father, raised in London, and on 4 different continents defies all stereotypes. He is a next-generation world leader out to awaken millions to Love and to Living their inspired destiny. The son of a revered spiritual leader, Kute was speaking to his father’s congregations, in more than 300 churches, by the age of 8. At the age of 14, he was ordained into his father’s ministry and groomed to carry on the family’s spiritual legacy. But his hearts-truth drew him to separate from his father’s ministry and come to Los Angeles in 1995.   Kute courageously and daringly, came to America with two suitcases, and a dream seeking out many of the spiritual and self-help icons who inspired him while still a boy. Kute quickly learned to take an outside-in approach and make it an inside-out approach, and created his own approach, which is about liberating the individual in order to get in touch with who they are and give it. This is what he calls “Liberated Living.” According to Kute, once freed of the conditioned responses scripted by family, society, institutions and the media, people are no longer limited to pre-programmed interactions in the course of living. In fact, life becomes an expansive, jazzy improvisation, which is what he calls “Freefall.” His most recent book is, The Magic of Surrender. Find out more about Jonathan Ellerby Ph.D Spiritual Teacher, Author, Coach Find books by Jonathan Ellerby and other MindBodySpirit.fm podcast hosts in the online store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This conversation was fascinating and fun and felt a bit like a wild ride exploring psyche and soul. Through diverse analogies from Chinese medicine to natural history and personal growth, traditional Chinese medicine expert Sabine Whilms joins me for a conversation with incredible complexity, depth, and playfulness. It moves fast and there is more involved than you might catch the first time. This is a great dialogue to challenge the mind and awaken the soul. Find Sabine Whilms, Ph.D here https://www.happygoatproductions.com/ Sabine has been studying classical Chinese writings on medicine ever since her Ph.D. education in Asian Studies and medical Anthropology. With a strong academic background in early Chinese philosophy, science, cosmology, and language and therefore in a historically and culturally sensitive approach to classical Chinese medicine, she now enjoys studying and teaching Chinese medicine as a living, effective, ever-changing, and much needed response to the issues of our modern times. Some of her favorite topics are gynecology and reproduction, pediatrics, medical ethics, and “nurturing life,” as envisioned by the great medieval “King of Medicinals” Sun Simiao. Sabine is happiest when engaging in a dialogue with practitioners and students of Chinese medicine on how to bring this ancient wisdom to life in our modern times. Besides teaching at the School of Classical Chinese Medicine at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and producing books on Chinese medicine through her publishing company, Happy Goat Productions, she is busy raising a daughter and varying numbers of dogs, chickens, goats, fruits, and vegetables. Sabine Wilms, Ph.D., is the author and translator of more than a dozen books on Chinese medicine. Her publications include translations of Sun Simiao’s writings on pediatrics (Venerating the Root) and of the Divine Farmer’s Classic of Materia Medica (Shennong Bencao Jing); two books on Wang Fengyi’s system of “Five Element Virtue Healing” (Let the Radiant Yang Shine Forth and Twelve Characters); a translation and discussion of the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic (Huangdi Nei Jing Suwen) chapter five (Humming with Elephants); and of Qi Zhongfu’s Hundred Questions on Gynecology (Nüke Bai Wen, published as Channeling the Moon). Find books by Jonathan Ellerby Ph.D and other MindBodySpirit.fm podcast hosts in the online store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who needs ethics? At a time when truth is vilified, false news is made real, and we find division and difference accentuated on the human path to a sustainable future, we must ask if there is any such thing as morality or ethics left in the world? Do parents need ethics? Do leaders need ethics? What does it mean to be an ethical person in a time of crisis? Professional ethicist, Lawyer, mother, and proud Latina, Alexandra Olmos Perez helps us dive deep into these questions and how to find our personal answers. We touch on some sensitive and personal topics and the whole conversation evolves into some powerful reflections and conclusions. Alexandra Olmos Pérez, LL.B, MSc, Ph.D., is an ethicist working for the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), providing consultation services through the Ethics Department. She is originally from Mexico and completed her education at the National University (UNAM). She has a law background and a Masters and Ph.D. in Bioethics. Before settling in Canada, she worked in both the private and public sectors in Mexico, including the National Bioethics Commission and the National Human Rights Commission. She also has experience teaching bioethics and has several publications on human rights, health ethics, and bioethics, including a book on advanced directives in the Mexican context. Find Alexandra Olmos Perez on Twitter @alexandraolmosp and LinkedIn Connect with Jonathan Ellerby PhD Find books by Jonathan Ellerby PhD and other MindBodySpirit.fm podcast hosts in the online store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this compelling and socially significant interview, we explore the potential of artificial intelligence. Acknowledging the challenges and dangers we discuss how best to relate to artificial intelligence if we seek a better life or a better world. You do not need to be a technophile to enjoy or benefit from this important conversation - it is a topic that will impact us all Lucas Petty is the CEO of AI Daddy, a consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses leverage artificial intelligence to drive growth and innovation. Lucas started AI Daddy as a way to share Artificial Intelligence with as many people as possible. Built on powerful humanistic values and with an eye towards the opportunities and extremes of AI, the work and insights of AI Daddy stand out as credible and necessary. Today, it is a platform to teach and help advance our Super Human Cause around the world. Lucas Petty and AI Daddy Find AI Daddy on Instagram Find books by Dr. Jonathan Ellerby and other MindBodySpirit.fm podcast hosts in the online store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we have the great privilege of listening to the wise counsel, ancient teachings, and future-minded wisdom of Ilarion Merculieff. With great heart and clarity, this celebrated and cherished Traditional Elder offers healing insights for individuals, communities, and our greater world. Drawing on his experience as both a spiritual leader and a social and political change agent working in diverse fields from ecology to wellness, this interview offers more than can be put into words! Ilarion (Larry) ‘Kuuyux’ Merculieff has decades of experience serving his people, the Unangan (Aleuts) of the Pribilof Islands and other indigenous peoples in a number of capacities—locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally. For his entire career, Merculieff has been a passionate advocate for indigenous rights/wisdom, and harmonious relationship with the Earth Mother. He has given keynote addresses at such forums as the National Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Pan-Pacific University President’s Association, the national convention of American Indian Students in Science and Engineering, White House Conference on the Oceans, and the World Congress of Ethnobiology. He also has lectured on traditional ways of knowing and Indigenous Elder wisdom at such places as Colombia University, University of Montana, Missoula, University of Colorado, Boulder, Seattle University, University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and Oregon State University. Merculieff has been featured in interviews and talks on media such as Al Jazeera, BBC, Native America Call-In, and National Public Radio (NPR). Close to Merculieff’s heart are issues related to cultural and community wellness, traditional ways of living, Elder wisdom, climate change, and the environment. Having had a traditional upbringing, Merculieff has been, and continues to be, a strong voice and activist calling for the meaningful application of traditional knowledge and wisdom obtained from Elders in Alaska and throughout the world in dealing with modern-day challenges. He founded and currently heads the Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways, and is a chief consultant and member of several other board councils. His present work revolves much around the council of Elders he co-founded, called the Wisdom Weavers of the World, (https://www.wisdomweavers.world/ ) to bring the messages of Elders from throughout the world to global attention. Wisdom Weavers of the World Connect with Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D. Spirituality and Mindfulness Teacher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is mindfulness, really? How can the power of the present moment change a life, a school, or a country? Learn about Ben Painter's incredible new nonprofit putting mindfulness programs in high schools - how they do it, why they do it, and what are the outcomes. This is an incredible conversation that has a narrow local focus with a massive, global application. Ben Painter is the co-founder and a partner at WholeSchool Mindfulness, focusing on strategic growth. In high school, Ben had the opportunity to take mindfulness classes with Mindfulness Director Doug Worthen. Since then, Ben has used his meditation practice to become a healthier, happier person and a more compassionate community member. Prior to serving in his current position at WholeSchool, Ben worked at New Profit, a venture philanthropy organization that partners with social entrepreneurs to break down barriers to opportunity in America, where he supported the Investor Relations team and held mindfulness classes for the New Profit team. Ben studied at Bowdoin College, where he served as the Vice President of the Student Body and co-founder of the Mindfulness Club. Ben has attended numerous meditation retreats, including two retreats at the Drupa Drong monastery in Northern Nepal. Find out about WholeSchool Mindfulness Jonathan Ellerby, PhD. Spirituality and Mindfulness Teacher, Coach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kamin Samuel started her professional career as the U.S. Navy’s first female African-American helicopter pilot. She transitioned to having several small businesses and then to corporate as a web developer at a computer electronics company. Kamin moved up quickly working for several organizations, even serving as Vice President of Online Merchandising and Vice President of Global Website Operations at a billion-dollar company. This important conversation dives into her work on the film Courage to Thrive. In this uplifting and insightful interview Kamin discusses the life-giving lessons we can embrace - lessons she learned and refined through her film’s exploration of the incredible brokenness, breakdown, and impasse that three woman faced and grew threw to become powerful and successful women - shaping their communities and our world. The film explores the lives of women who have been underserved, underestimated and underinvested in. These women share how they faced adversity, and rewrote their narratives, to step into new levels of leadership in their careers and in the lives in new ways that they never imagined. Learn more about Kamin and her work - https://www.kaminsamuel.com/ https://couragetothrivedoc.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This interview with the extraordinary and important author Lyanda Lynn Haupt was a real delight. Lyanda is a brilliant writer and a wise soul calling us back to what is most vital in ourselves, in nature, and in life. Her books offer profound insights into our personal lives, but in ways that will transform our world. I loved talking to her and you will love listening. Lyanda's wisdom is simple, natural, and powerful. Lyanda Lynn Haupt is an award-winning author, naturalist, ecophilosopher, and speaker whose work explores the beautiful, complicated connections between humans and the wild, natural world.. Her newest book is Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit (Little, Brown Spark 2021). Lyanda’s writing is acclaimed for combining scientific knowledge with literary, poetic prose. Her previous books include: Mozart’s Starling The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness, Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin’s Lost Notebooks, and Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds. She is a winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Nautilus Book Award, a finalist for the Orion Book Award, and a two-time winner of the Washington State Book Award. Lyanda has created and directed educational programs for Seattle Audubon, worked in raptor rehabilitation in Vermont, and been a seabird researcher for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the remote tropical Pacific. Her essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including Orion, Discover, Utne, LA Times, Times Literary Supplement, Image, Huffington Post, Wild Earth, and Conservation Biology Journal. She lives in Seattle with her husband and a mixed backyard chicken flock. http://www.lyandalynnhaupt.com Connect with Jonathan Ellerby PhD. here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Child therapy pioneer and holistic therapist, Lisa Dion, is a delight to interview. Lisa's ability to blend solid psychology with a deep understanding of human energy and spirituality is a rare gift. You have to listen to this "Part 2" interview with Lisa as we dig deep into what true healing is, how it happens, what holds us back, and what it means to be human. It's a great follow-up to Part 1 - be sure to check that one out as well. Lisa Dion is an international teacher, clinical supervisor, author, coach, and entrepreneur. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, and is at the cutting edge of her field creating new and innovative models of therapy with children and adults. She is the founder and President of the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute and the creator of Synergetic Play Therapy®. She is also a Certified Gestalt Therapist, Parent Educator, Level II EMDR Practitioner, and Master Certified Facilitator of the Demartini Method™. In her private practice, she works with clients of all ages from around the world on a full spectrum of issues. In addition to her clinical work, she has also launched multiple for-profit and non-profit businesses and is a business consultant to various organizations worldwide. https://lisa-dion.com Connect with Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D. here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Upon the release of his new collaborative book Dr. Rossman and colleagues explore the absolutely unique and singular power of couplehood and committed relationships as a path to personal healing, growth, and transformation. Insightful and compelling we explore the paradox of how a lasting commitment to another person, with a deep focus on one's own learning, makes for a journey of mutual awakening. More importantly, the lessons are helpful for all types of relationships. Dr. Jeffery Rossman has been a psychologist for 35 years. His work is informed by psychodynamic and psychospiritual principles.He also uses experiential techniques that catalyze rapid transformation and personal growth, such as hypnotherapy, biofeedback, neurofeedback, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i), mindfulness, and mind-body movement, breathing, and meditative practices. These evidence-based techniques tap into our innate capacity to learn and create new patterns of thinking, feeling, and behavior. https://jeffreyrossman.com Find out more about Jonathan Ellerby PhD. and get some expert coaching here Find books from Jonathan Ellerby PhD. and other MindBodySpirit.fm podcast hosts in our online store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Powerful. Provocative. Ancient wisdom and cutting-edge science converge in this amazing call with iconic healer, author, and teacher Alberto Villoldo. Drawing on energy medicine, shamanic wisdom, neuroscience, psychedelic, and longevity research, this conversation with inspire and challenge you to envision a new future for yourself and our world. Alberto Villoldo was born in Cuba, where he was exposed to Afro-Indian healing traditions at an early age. While pursuing his doctoral studies in psychology and medical anthropology, he traveled throughout the South West, the Amazon, and the Andes researching Native American healing methods. He later directed the Biological Self-Regualtion Laboratory at San Francisco State University, where he investigated mind-body medicine and the neuro-physiology of healing. He founded and directs the Energy Medicine School at The Four Winds Society, and teaches energy medicine to thousands of nurses, physicians, psychotherapists, and lay persons every year. He is an internationally recognized leader in the field of alternative medicine and shamanic studies, and is a best-selling author - multiple times over! Find out about Alberto Villoldo and The Four Winds Society Find out about Integrative Spiritual Coaching with Jonathan Ellerby, PhD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this important interview, Jonathan explores the life lessons, future forecasts, and insights of legendary thinker, leader, educator, author, and co-founder of Bioneers: Nina Simons. This session strikes directly at the core questions of this podcast: global, personal, controversial, and loving. Share it! About Nina Simons- Nina Simons is the co-founder and Chief Relationship Strategist at Bioneers, and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Bioneers is a nonprofit that uses media, convening, and connecting to lift up visionary and practical solutions for many of our most pressing social and ecological challenges, using a whole-system approach. Nina is a social entrepreneur who is passionate about reinventing leadership, restoring the feminine, and co-creating a healthy, peaceful, and equitable world for all. She speaks and teaches internationally at schools, conferences, and festivals, and co-facilitates transformative workshops and retreats for women that share practices for regenerative leadership through relational mindfulness. Throughout her remarkable career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age, orientation, and more to create conditions for mutual learning and leadership development. She produces and speaks at large-scale events to work intimately to help small, diverse groups of women leaders knit together to strengthen each other’s work pursuing intersectional healing and ecological justice. Nina serves on the Advisory Council for Daughters for Earth and is a member of the Women Donors Network, Confluence Philanthropy, and Edge Funders. 2017, Nina was a recipient of the Goi Peace Award, presented annually to individuals who have made outstanding contributions toward the realization of a peaceful and harmonious world. Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra. Find out more about Jonathan Ellerby, PhD. here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this fabulous conversation with psychotherapist and bestselling angel medium, Corin Grillo, we explore the evolution of consciousness in everyday terms and personal steps. We explore how the seemingly cosmic and bizarre is actually ironically grounding, guiding, and healing. Discover the connection between angel experiences and how to access the fullness of your own self and our common future. Corin Grillo is a licensed psychotherapist, international best-selling author, speaker, healer, retreat leader, and founder of the Angel Alchemy Academy. A mind-blowing miracle from the angels saved her life, cured her of life-long depression, and awakened her spiritual gifts. She now teaches others all over the world how to awaken their spiritual gifts, heal their lives, and discover their true purpose by working with angels and the Divine She teaches by bridging others with direct mystical experiences, excessive amounts of laughter, down-to-earth spiritual wisdom, ritual, and powerful energy medicine that awakens the heart, mind, and soul. https://coringrillo.com/ Find out more about Jonathan Ellerby PhD. and how you can work together here Check out books by Jonathan Ellerby and other podcasters on MindBodySpirit.fm at the online bookstore Jonathan Ellerby coaching services Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good Vibes? Spirit Guides? Do you believe there is a subtle energy in all things? Have you had an encounter with the Spirit World or question if it is real? Ellen Meredith is both a professional energy healer and "channel," and her insights are powerful, clear, and useful. Discover why and how we can access these forgotten dimensions of the spiritual world to better understand yourself and how to create real practical changes on earth! Ellen Meredith is the author of Your Body Will Show You the Way and The Language Your Body Speaks. She has been in practice since 1984 as an energy healer, conscious channel, and medical intuitive, helping over ten thousand clients and students worldwide. As an energy medicine practitioner, Ellen helps clients engage with the body’s energies to activate healing. She teaches energy medicine courses on the Shift Network and has served on the faculty of energy medicine pioneer Donna Eden since 2010. Visit her online at http://www.ellenmeredith.com. Find out more about how you can work with Jonathan Ellerby, PhD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This honest, open conversation with author and teacher Steven Washington is an incredible look at addiction, the body, and what it means to "recover" from the pain of life and the loss of self. A retired, celebrated Broadway dancer and performer, Steven now dedicates his life to facilitating body-based healing and restorative practices. Steven Washington is a Movement Master, Author, and Recovery Advocate who is passionate about helping others navigate towards a happier, healthier life. Steven had a successful career as a contemporary dancer, working at New York City Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and appearing on Broadway in Disney’s, The Lion King but to help him cope with anxiety and self-doubt, he often relied on drugs and alcohol. Twenty years ago, Steven made a conscious decision to get sober and his true life’s work began. Since then, he has impacted countless lives through movement and his keen ability to connect and relate to others. During his study of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Steven fell in love with Qigong, which he describes as, "A moving meditation that supports the health of our body, mind, and spirit.” He is a Certified Qigong Instructor and a Pilates teacher and has taught individuals and groups for over 20 years. Adding to his knowledge of the body and its energy systems, Steven is also a qualified Neuromuscular Massage Therapist. www.stevenwashingtonexperience.com Find out more about Jonathan Ellerby PhD and how you can work with him Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can we talk critically about diversity and inclusion programs? Is the topic taboo? Not on this podcast! Join seasoned HR executive Marc Fields and I as we explore and expose deeper issues and practical insights in the work of creating more equitable and inclusive workplaces, and find out how bias, voice, and opportunity shape the world for all of us. Marc Fields, is the Senior Vice President, Racial and Social Equity & Culture for California Life sciences. Marc has leads numerous innovative and high impact diversity, equity & inclusion, and human resources strategies creating inclusive and equitable environments for the employees, customers and communities they serve. Marc has also worked with Vail Resorts, where he served as Vice President, Diversity & Equity and Inclusion and Human Resources. Marc’s 20 years in Human Resources includes roles with Raytheon, Thermo Fisher, Honeywell, and Amgen. Marc is a graduate of Morehouse College and has an MBA, Finance from the University of Notre Dame. Find out more about Jonathan Ellerby, PhD Spiritual Teacher, Author, Coach Integrative Spiritual Coaching Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An incredible exploration of what it means to heal, evolve, and grow. Jonathan sits down with Lisa Dion, an international teacher, clinical supervisor, author, coach and entrepreneur. Rooted in psychology and science, and filtered through decades of clinical experience we discuss the layers of life, energy, and transformation from the micro to the macro. A conversation that you shouldn’t miss if you have any interest in healing, spirituality, or the personal-planetary transformation. Guest Bio- Lisa Dion is the founder, president, and lead instructor of Synergetic Play Therapy Institute Synergetic Play Therapy® is a research-informed model of play therapy combining the therapeutic powers of play with nervous system regulation, interpersonal neurobiology, physics, attachment, mindfulness, and therapist authenticity. Find out more about Jonathan Ellerby, PhD. Author, Spirituality and Mindfulness Teacher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Garrett Jackson is one of those rare people who hears the call at a young age and immediately takes action to learn, grow, and serve. Having committed deeply to contemporary training and studies in modern shamanic practice, Garrett is a signifier of a new era of healing, in which we can find our way beyond appropriating the traditions of others, and instead cultivate our innate gifts through responsible pathways of new ancient wisdom and practice.  Garrett Jackson is a gifted healer and a wonderful guest offering some simple overviews and explanations of his work, especially for those new to the power of shamanic work. I found this interview refreshing in his clarity and directness. It is so helpful for people looking to understand the ways that we heal beyond predication and can communicate beyond this world. A skilled and experienced practitioner of shamanic healing, Garrett Jackson brings us back to basics and helps shed a light on what Shamanic Practices offer us in the so-called Modern World. Learn more about Garett and his upcoming events at https://www.garrettpjackson.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a wonderful and heartwarming exploration of what it means to help and heal. Exploring 40 years of lessons in a professional healing practice, Dr. Ken Harris shares truly clear and brilliant insights that are accessible and meaningful for all. Jonathan and Dr. Harris look at what it means to really heal mind, body, and spirit. Dr. Ken Harris, M.S., D.C., chiropractor, educator, lecturer, workshop presenter, author and keynote speaker, was the founder of Waldwick Wellness Center in New Jersey. The center was a multi-doctor facility providing all-natural health and wellness care for forty-five years. A pioneer in holistic healing, Dr. Harris first established his practice in 1974 and in 1993 established the Mind-Body Wellness Education Center, dedicated to the exploration, understanding and promotion of the mind-body-spirit connection. Find out more about Jonathan Ellerby Ph.D and his books, events, and speaking engagements Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Farrell is co-founder and Worldwide Executive Director of Humanity's Team, a non-profit organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The organization is focused on helping people throughout the world awaken to their deeper Self and the interconnectedness of everything in the Universe. Jonathan talks with Steve about his journey and his calling to play an active role in creating a consciousness movement that could help people across the globe connect more deeply with the Divine Truth of Oneness. Find out more about Steve Farrell and Humanity's Team here Work with Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D for business coaching, spiritual guidance, and more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this simple yet profound, complex yet straightforward exploration of the meaning of life, evolution, and a sustainable way forward for all people and the planet, world renowned biologist David Sloan Wilson breaks down what the future needs of us. From the analysis of worldviews to the mission to communicate evolutionary power to the global elite, this fascinating conversation digs deep into how we think about how we think about change. Guest bio- David Sloan Wilson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He applies evolutionary theory to all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life, both in his own research and as director of EvoS, a unique campus-wide evolutionary studies program that recently received NSF funding to expand into a nationwide consortium. Find out more about Jonathan Ellerby Ph.D here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Jonathan Ellerby for a conversation with Chief Willie Sellars. Willie Sellars was born and raised in Williams Lake, BC and is a member of the Williams Lake First Nation (“WLFN” or “T’exelc”) of the Secwepemc Nation. Elected onto WLFN Council at the age of 24 in 2008, Willie was one of the youngest elected Councilors in WLFN history. After serving 10 years on Council he was elected as the Chief of the Williams Lake First Nation in 2018 and is currently in his first term. In his previous work experience, Willie worked as a Wildland Firefighter for the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations before returning to his community to assume the position of Special Project Coordinator in the WLFN Economic Development Department. During this time he was responsible for new business initiatives flowing from Impact Benefit Agreements, engagement with proponents in the traditional territory and community consultation for major WLFN projects. Willie is also a published author of “Dipnetting with Dad,” which won a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Chocolate Lily, Shining Willow, and Ontario Library Association awards. His next book, “Hockey with Dad,” is due to be released in the Fall of 2021. Willie enjoys his family time with his three kids, playing hockey with the Williams Lake Stampeders, attending community events at WLFN, dipnetting, and playing fastball. Find out abut Chief Willie Sellars and Williams Lake First Nation here Find out about Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D. books, products, and events here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kurt Johnson is an award winning entomologist who is also a recognized figure in comparative religions and consciousness studies. His scientific career began while he was a Christian monk, during which time he completed his doctoral studies in evolution and ecology. He is known in science for his writing on taxonomy, evolution and ecology (especially about butterflies) and in particular for his published research and popular writing on the scientific career of famous Russian-American novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov. His book Nabokov's Blues (co-authored with journalist S. Coates) was named a "top 10 book in science" in 2000 at the Washington Post, Library Journal, Booklist, and HMS Beagle. This best selling, amazingly accomplished human is pushing the boundaries of leadership, education, and community building and delivers a thought provoking chat with clear insights and powerful visions of a better world. Find out more about Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D. Author, Spiritual and Mindfulness Teacher here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Brown is an inspiration to me. From his nature-rooted days as a child, to his incredible and disturbing time of military service in Vietnam, and on to his story of healing and recovery, this conversation reveals so much about life, love, and healing. As a Dakota Sioux, war vet, father, husband, and drug and alcohol counselor in an innovative program for Indigenous People, Jim’s story is a unique and rare example of what the human heart and mind are capable of. This is an important session for all listeners. Find out about Dr Jonathan Ellerby and his books, products, and events here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Dr. Jonathan Ellerby for a powerful meditation on the war in Ukraine. Jonathan shares this special episode to bring a practice and reflection to these challenging times. Find out about Dr. Jonathan Ellerby's books, products, and events here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Dr. Jonathan Ellerby in a surprising, honest, spiritually rooted conversation with multiple New York Times Best Selling author Thomas Moore, as they dive into what a vibrant society of the future needs most. Find out more about psychotherapist, former monk, and bestselling author Thomas Moore here Dr. Jonathan Ellerby website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tic Tok star and sought after licensed psychologist Dr. Han Ren and Jonathan have an honest discussion about liberation psychology and what it will really take to heal social division, privilege, and systems of leadership and power. Find out about Dr. Han Ren here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our first episode! Join me for a deeply connected and humble personal conversation and connection with a dear family member, Serene Thin Elk, Chief Behavioral Health Officer at South Dakota Urban Indian Health, co-founder the nonprofit Generation Red Road, as we explore intergenerational trauma, collective healing, Indigenous Healing and the challenge of creating a future for ourselves and together. Find out about Serene Thin Elk and the South Dakota Urban Indian Health Organization here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a conversation that takes you from the ordinary to the mind-blowing extraordinary. Stay to the end as you listen to Alysa Rushton share her difficult story of struggle and despair, and onto a near death experience and transformation unlike most. Alysa looks and sounds like a cheery, and encouraging best friend who is ready to take you to the beach. But you will meet few people with a more  roughed wisdom and agile mind. I am always so grateful for time with Alysa - her depth of insight and power is rare. Her clarity is incredible. And when you reach the end of this discussion, you will be ready for more as I was. About Alysa - Following years of health issues Alysa Rushton found herself overweight and overmedicated - being prescribed over 28 medications - by the age of 27. A Near Death experience took her beyond this world, and gave her insights that stayed with her well beyond her experience. Building on her decades of experience training as an organizational development consultant and coach, today Alysa shares profound practices developed from her Near Death Experience.  She has a strong focus on energy, frequency and aligning our lives to tune into the best frequency of us.  She’s on a personal and planetary mission to help us tap deeper into love and oneness, and help us awaken to our full true potential as an expression of the Divine in physical form.  Links and resources for Alysa - Website: https://alysarushton.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alysarushton/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/alysarushton Facebook: www.facebook.com/alysarushton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I first met Kellan at a Near Death Experience conference, where he spoke passionately about his incredible experience of professional, death and loss, personal transformation and his extraordinary experience of being physically dead. His honesty and energy were compelling, and I'm so honored that I have had the chance to get to know him since. This conversation is energizing, challenging, and I encourage you to be sure that you listen to his experience on the other side. Grounded in decades of extraordinary business, success, and now fueled by spiritual insight, he offers such an important perspective on life and death. Kellan has lived multiple lives and careers. He had a 30-year career in energy, including C-suite positions in the US and Canada. He has a 16-year career as a Life and Business coach and is known as the “Alchemist of the Soul.” He is the author of 18 books and counting with numerous #1 bestsellers, Kellan coaches an international clientele in business, mindset work and high-performance. He performed in a music group that had three albums chart #1 on the Billboard charts. He still writes, records and performs. Kellan also had a 40-year battle with undiagnosed and untreated Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), which led through a roller coaster of high-flying success and secret stints in rehab for addictions. In 2018, Kellan had a near-death experience as he lay in a coma for three weeks while doctors scrambled to both save his life and diagnose the lethal strain of MRSA, which had severely infected both lungs. From that experience came several books, most notably Meeting God at the Door - Conversations, Choices, and Commitments of a Near-Death Experience, and Down From The Gallows. Kellan's website - https://www.kellanfluckiger.com Listen to Your Ultimate Life with Kellan Fluckiger - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-ultimate-life-with-kellan-fluckiger/id1505919748 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is always a gift to spend time with John Lockley. I look up to him as one of my own teachers and a model of how to live culturally, rooted wisdom and lifeways with integrity and balance. This magnificent conversation unfolds almost like a ceremony as we explore the deeper lessons of healing, ceremony, and the power of the Spirit World as we discuss death, tradition, and traditional medicine. According to John's Xhosa elders, he is one of the first white men after Apartheid to become a fully initiated Xhosa sangoma (African Shaman). In the sangoma medicine path in South Africa, there are many different tribes/lineages that make up a rich and diverse tapestry of healing. South Africa has one of the oldest living shamanic cultures left in the world. John Lockley was born, in 1971, into a divided Apartheid South Africa, with the mark of the sangoma on his face – a band of white birth skin around the eyes. At 18, John was serving in the South African army as a medic (during the war with Angola in the 1980s) when he had a strong, prophetic dream calling him to train as a Xhosa sangoma. He immediately began to suffer from the thwasa, a severe period of ill-health that is inherent in all ancient shamanic cultures which can only be cured through apprenticeship to a shamanic teacher. Because of the restrictions of Apartheid (which ended in 1994) it would take John seven years to find a Xhosa teacher. Learn more at https://www.johnlockley.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This conversation about human transformation and change was so deeply touching and powerful. Not only did Theresa and Bill share so much insight, but they also offered so much vulnerability and raw personal truth. What a beautiful time of sharing. Hosts of the powerful “My Inner Knowing Podcast”, facilitators, teachers, Theresa Hubbard and William Bird work together to offer incredible programs and content that can awaken wholeness and heal the heart. Drawing on her decades of work as a therapist and coach, and his decades of work as a lawyer, coach and council, they inspire and model an integrated approach in all they do. Learn more at https://myinnerknowing.com/pages/about Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I could not have imagined a better first guest for the bone collectors series. Michael Meade is an extraordinary author, teacher, and pioneer of mythology and the modern psyche was one of the earliest influences on my own journey and it was an absolute honor to interview him.  Compelling, challenging and profoundly insightful, this conversation dives into the heart of personal and social transformation. Confronting the myths that need to die, and the quest for Soul that tests the very limits of our human being. Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a deep knowledge of cross-cultural rituals. He has an unusual ability to distill and synthesize these disciplines, tapping into ancestral sources of wisdom and connecting them to the stories we are living today. He is the author of Awakening the Soul, The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny, Why the World Doesn't End and The Water of Life; and the creator of the Living Myth Podcast.  Michael Meade is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a nonprofit network of artists, activists, and community builders that encourages greater understanding between diverse peoples. Learn more about Michael and his work at https://www.mosaicvoices.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices