DEVOTION with Nisha Moodley – Details, episodes & analysis

Episode Description

Join myself and Ian MacKenzie, as we jam on the power of anticapitalist visioning and taking care of ourselves inside capitalism. In this episode, we riff on…

• The collective "quiet heaviness" and nervous system exhaustion felt in the wake of the Epstein files and global revelations of exploitation.

• Why Nisha feels a "holy wail" of rage rather than shock, as these headlines mirror patterns women have navigated for a lifetime.

• The danger of distancing ourselves from "bad actors" and how that prevents us from seeing the micro-ways domination exists in our own communities.

• Ian's reflection on moving from being a "good man" who points fingers to a man who stands with others to say, "Brother, we can do better."

• A story from Nisha's youth about the "parking lot code" and how social pressure often forces men to choose status over the truth.

• An analysis of the "alpha" performance—using figures like Andrew Tate—as a mask for deep-seated anxiety and a desperate need for control.

• How we have all internalized systems of domination and extraction, even in our most personal relationships and parenting.

• Why we often use outrage as a "safe" way to avoid the deeper, more transformative vulnerability of collective grief.

• The unique healing and "dropping of the guard" that happens in single-gender spaces when the performance for the other is removed.

• Exploring "matriarchy" as the fundamental antidote to patriarchy—shifting from a culture of domination to one that centers the protection of life.

• The shift from "power over" to "power with," moving from ego-driven heroism to leadership rooted in service to the whole.

• A closing vision of "soft-bellied" freedom—the ability to live without armor and build a world that prioritizes the well-being of all children.

RESOURCES + LINKS:

• Check out Ian's podcast at themythicmasculine.com/podcast

• Check out Ian's upcoming men's retreat at themythicmasculine.com/cmc  and receive 10% off with promo code "NISHAMOODLEY"

IF YOU ENJOY DEVOTION PODCAST…

We would love for you to rate and review it!  This helps more people find it and give it a chance. Thank you in advance :) 

CONNECT WITH NISHA:

To join the Podcast Inner Circle, sign up at DevotionPodcast.com (it's free!)

Instagram: instagram.com/nishamoodley

Facebook: facebook.com/nishamoodley

Join my dear friend and podcast guest, Rachael Maddox, as we jam on the power of anticapitalist visioning and taking care of ourselves inside capitalism. In this episode, we riff on…

• Why visioning for the collective is a wildly more catalyzing North Star than personal goals
  
  

• Moving beyond the coaching industry's trends towards self-sacrifice in the name of service, and intense self-focus
  
  

• Our personal stories of shifting from intense guilt for wanting more, to embracing the collective more that includes us
  
  

• My personal story of a big recent pivot
  
  

RESOURCES + LINKS:

• Enrollment is open for my 14th annual Devotional Leadership Council! DevotionalLeadership.com

• Check out Rachael's brilliance at instagram.com/rachaelmaddox

IF YOU ENJOY DEVOTION PODCAST…

We would love for you to rate and review it!  This helps more people find it and give it a chance. Thank you in advance :)

CONNECT WITH NISHA:

To join the Podcast Inner Circle, for access to show notes, bonuses, and a chance to be a guest, sign up at DevotionPodcast.com (it's free!)

Instagram: instagram.com/nishamoodley

Facebook: facebook.com/nishamoodley

I don't know about you, but the pandemic has brought me a huge opportunity to explore my ambitions on a deeper level… 

Why do I want what I want?
What do we want collectively, and why?
Do I actually want what I say I want, really?
What conditioning and wounding has impacted my longings?
How can I even know whether my ambitions are truly mine?
Is it even okay to hold these desires, when so many have so little?

The questions of ambition are not questions we can neatly answer, but questions we're invited to live in. 

This week's podcast episode is an exploration on how we can live, breathe, and move within these complex questions... 

In this episode, I share:

• How we can cultivate deeper self trust, while also interrogating our ambitions
  
  
• The initial "yes" that can make all the difference, and why it's not the whole story
  
  
• Why unmapping from toxic ambition is Grief Work, and some thoughts on what we might need in order to be with it
  
  
• The profound role pleasure can play in walking us back to a deeper understanding of our deepest longings and highest vision

You can find the show notes from this episode over at:  nishamoodley.com/ep15

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RESOURCES + LINKS:

• Sign up for Nisha's free new workshop, Embody Your Leadership: Expand your freedom to show up with vision & devotion, here: EmbodyYourLeadership.com
  
  
• Meditation to connect with your Wise Future Self: NishaMoodley.com/join
  
  
• Soul of Leadership opens for enrollment soon. You can get on the waitlist here: SoulofLeadership.com

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IF YOU ENJOY DEVOTION PODCAST…

We would love for you to rate and review it!  This helps more people find it and give it a chance. Thank you in advance :) 

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CONNECT WITH NISHA:

To join the Podcast Inner Circle, for access to show notes, bonuses, and a chance to be a guest, sign up at DevotionPodcast.com (it's free!)

Instagram: instagram.com/nishamoodley

Facebook: facebook.com/nishamoodley

In these deeply divided times, where we're expanding our awareness of the ways we've contributed to inequity and injustice, where social media enables a lightning-fast game of "telephone", where assumptions are made based on optics, and where calls to "cancel" someone can take place of relational engagement… the fear of being called-out can be gripping.

If we aim to embody our leadership…

We don't want to react like a little animal backed into a corner. 

We don't want to accidentally (let alone intentionally) cause harm. 

But when we don't face the fear of being called-out, we become fragile instead of resilient...

We hide and keep ourselves small and quiet, because we don't want to risk causing harm or receiving negative attention.

We become rigid, self-righteous, and defensive, because deep down we can't handle being wrong.

In this episode, I share:

• How we can build resilience through receptivity (which doesn't mean being open to abuse)
  
  
• The difference between calls for accountability and attacks, and why we ought to discern the difference, even if we don't like how communication is being delivered
  
  
• How I "sort the mail" on communications, as a way to discern how I want to respond
  
  
• Why it's crucial to remember that we have sovereign choice over how we respond
  
  
• What we need to consider about right-relationship, after the dust settles

You can find the show notes from this episode over at:  nishamoodley.com/ep14

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RESOURCES + LINKS:

• Sign up for Nisha's free new workshop, Embody Your Leadership: Expand your freedom to show up with vision & devotion, here: EmbodyYourLeadership.com
  
  
• Soul of Leadership opens for enrollment soon. You can get on the waitlist here: SoulofLeadership.com

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IF YOU ENJOY DEVOTION PODCAST…

We would love for you to rate and review it!  This helps more people find it and give it a chance. Thank you in advance :) 

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CONNECT WITH NISHA:

To join the Podcast Inner Circle, for access to show notes, bonuses, and a chance to be a guest, sign up at DevotionPodcast.com (it's free!)

Instagram: instagram.com/nishamoodley

Facebook: facebook.com/nishamoodley

This week's podcast is structured like a workshop, where I muse on the under-acknowledged challenges that I see getting in the way of us fully surrendering in devotion to our sacred work, and offer some of my favorite meditations, practices, and inquiries to open more fully to the medicine we're here to receive and weave...

In this episode, I share:

• How focusing on what's marketable / what people want, can keep us from moving to our creative cutting edge
  
  
• The restrictive identities that bind our freedom to fully claim ourselves as whole beings
  
  
• How to shift from relating to your work as a Slot Machine to a Garden (and why we MUST)
  
  
• My favorite meditation for cultivating self-trust and trust in life
  
  
• The animist way of relating to my work that's changed everything

You can find the show notes from this episode over at:  nishamoodley.com/ep13

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RESOURCES + LINKS:

• Learn about Nisha's intimate new course, DEVOTED | Surrender Into Your Sacred Work: DevotedCircle.com
  
  
• Meditation to connect with your Wise Future Self: NishaMoodley.com/join
  
  
• Check out Episode 9, to learn more about cultivating an animist relationship with your work

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IF YOU ENJOY DEVOTION PODCAST…

We would love for you to rate and review it!  This helps more people find it and give it a chance. Thank you in advance :) 

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CONNECT WITH NISHA:

To join the Podcast Inner Circle, for access to show notes, bonuses, and a chance to be a guest, sign up at DevotionPodcast.com (it's free!)

Instagram: instagram.com/nishamoodley

Facebook: facebook.com/nishamoodley

Messy times call for leadership...but how on earth can we show up in our strength and integrity when things are hard? 

In this episode, I share:

::  My biggest growth-edge in moving elegantly through moments of messiness

:: A reframe on integrity that is liberatory and relational

:: How I navigate sharing personal things online, without bringing the energy of needing to be held 

:: The role of your "Pillars of Nourishment" in moving through your messy moments

:: Ideas for the specific ways we can communicate our needs for space and support 

You can find the show notes from this episode over at:  nishamoodley.com/ep12

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RESOURCES + LINKS:

• Sign up for Nisha's free new workshop, Embody Your Leadership: Expand your freedom to show up with vision & devotion, here: EmbodyYourLeadership.com

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IF YOU ENJOY DEVOTION PODCAST…

We would love for you to rate and review it!  This helps more people find it and give it a chance. Thank you in advance :) 

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CONNECT WITH NISHA:

To join the Podcast Inner Circle, for access to show notes, bonuses, and a chance to be a guest, sign up at DevotionPodcast.com (it's free!)

Instagram: instagram.com/nishamoodley

Facebook: facebook.com/nishamoodley

This conversation with Sebene Selassie is filled with grounded wisdom, stretching from the importance of land acknowledgment to cultivating self-love.  

In this episode, we discuss:

::  Thoughts on the relationship between intimacy with death and belonging with life.

:: Blocking, deleting, unfriending, fighting? Musing on boundaries and connecting across differences.

:: The power and importance of relationship, and the role social media plays (or doesn't) in that.

:: Meditation as a pathway to being more in our bodies and with each other.

:: Sebene's insights about the distinction between aiming to achieve states of consciousness, vs. aiming to be more here and more human

:: How we can open to holding a stand for justice alongside compassion.

You can find the show notes from this episode over at:  nishamoodley.com/ep11

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RESOURCES + LINKS:

• Order Sebene's book, 'You Belong - A Call for Connection' at sebeneselassie.com
  
  
• Connect with Sebene on Instagram at instagram.com/sebeneselassie
  
  
• Sign up for Nisha's free new workshop, Embody Your Leadership: Expand your freedom to show up with vision & devotion, here: EmbodyYourLeadership.com

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IF YOU ENJOY DEVOTION PODCAST…

We would love for you to rate and review it!  This helps more people find it and give it a chance. Thank you in advance :) 

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CONNECT WITH NISHA:

To join the Podcast Inner Circle, for access to show notes, bonuses, and a chance to be a guest, sign up at DevotionPodcast.com (it's free!)

Instagram: instagram.com/nishamoodley

Facebook: facebook.com/nishamoodley

In these times of intensity, many of us may find ourselves feeling tender and raw.  This can lead to our minds and nervous systems being more easily hijacked by technology and propaganda, leading to deepening disconnection, division, and aggression…

Lately, I have had many people reach out, challenged with sifting through all the competing and colliding narratives flying around, and desiring to feel more rooted clarity. 

In this episode, I share... 

:: Ideas for what to STOP doing, to create space for clarity and coherence 

:: Discernment about where firmness and nuance can intersect around our beliefs

:: How our nervous systems and minds can be easily hijacked, and some of my favorite simple practices for preventing that

:: How America's collective psyche reminds me a lot of my dad's, shortly before his death, and how we might unhook from the hyper-paranoia

You can find the show notes from this episode over at:  nishamoodley.com/ep10

As we explore ways to create that are both personally and collectively nourishing, there's an opportunity to seek clarity about what wants to be created, how it wants to be created, and what our place is in its creation.

Relating to our creations through an animist lens invites us to hold them in RELATIONSHIP with all other beings.  This opens up the possibility to create things that are more integrated and mutually nourishing.

In this episode, I'll share:

:: A philosophy for business that places strategy in service of soul 

:: My favorite ritual for connecting with my business on a soul level, in order to gain clarity about how to support its growth

:: The things we need to get clear on, in order to step into a role of stewardship 

:: A soulful way to check-in with our work regularly, to see what's needed

You can find the show notes from this episode over at:  nishamoodley.com/ep9

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RESOURCES + LINKS:

• You can find Hiro Boga, mentioned in this episode, at HiroBoga.com
  
  
• Sign up for Nisha's free new workshop, Embody Your Leadership: Expand your freedom to show up with vision & devotion, here: EmbodyYourLeadership.com

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IF YOU ENJOY DEVOTION PODCAST…

We would love for you to rate and review it!  This helps more people find it and give it a chance. Thank you in advance :) 

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CONNECT WITH NISHA:

To join the Podcast Inner Circle, for access to show notes, bonuses, and a chance to be a guest, sign up at DevotionPodcast.com (it's free!)

Instagram: instagram.com/nishamoodley

Facebook: facebook.com/nishamoodley

In this conversation with Majo Molfino, we talk about the five Good Girl Myths, and how they can manifest-in and impact our hearts, minds, and world....sharing personal stories along the way.

In this episode, we discuss:

::  The more problematic or dangerous aspects of our obedience to external authority.

:: How we might catch the inner Good Girl triggers, so we can re-route ourselves towards choices that emerge from our wholeness.

:: Majo's journey of losing her mother tongue, then reclaiming it over time.

:: How being in community together has helped both of us find more liberation from perfection and fragile harmony.

:: What our top personal Good Girl Myths are, and how we're breaking free.

You can find the show notes from this episode over at:  nishamoodley.com/ep8

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RESOURCES + LINKS:

• Order "Break the Good Girl Myth" at goodgirlmyth.com 
• Connect with Majo on Instagram at instagram.com/majomolfino/
• Find the Shadow Side of The Feminine summit at shadowsideofthefeminine.com/nimo
• Sign up for Nisha's free new workshop, Embody Your Leadership: Expand your freedom to show up with vision & devotion, here: EmbodyYourLeadership.com

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IF YOU ENJOY DEVOTION PODCAST…

We would love for you to rate and review it!  This helps more people find it and give it a chance. Thank you in advance :) 

–––

CONNECT WITH NISHA:

To join the Podcast Inner Circle, for access to show notes, bonuses, and a chance to be a guest, sign up at DevotionPodcast.com (it's free!)

Instagram: instagram.com/nishamoodley

Facebook: facebook.com/nishamoodley