It turns out I had two connections to Laura (at least that I know of) in the 3D. We were first introduced in the summer of 2022. I had my first intuitive reading with her in September of that year. Laura is an absolute gem of a human - probably the happiest person you will ever meet. She and the guidance she brings through from beyond the veil has been absolutely instrumental in keeping me grounded and assisting in my integration of several very powerful psychedelic experiences.
Laura is a former schoolteacher who followed the call of her soul into the realm of conscious channeling and intuitive healing. In this installment of The Permission Slip Laura shares the raw, beautiful story of her awakening—how she moved from burnout and people-pleasing into alignment with her deepest truth. Her journey is one of radical trust: leaving the known, shedding the "good girl" identity, and allowing a completely different kind of intelligence to lead.
We talk about what it means to receive guidance from beyond the veil, how to discern divine truth from fear, and why so many of us are being called to live and lead in new ways. Laura shares how the channeling process works for her, how she holds space for others in their own expansion, and why accessing your multidimensional self doesn’t require escaping the human experience—it deepens it. This episode is an invitation to step into your own intuitive power, remember who you really are, and allow the unseen world to guide the seen.

Laura's Bio

An elementary school teacher, a nanny, an energy healer and a happiness coach! Laura navigates this world in an attempt to help, to heal, and to guide us to MORE- more happiness, more self love, more confidence, more success, more self-awareness, more understanding of the truth of your power here!

She began her career as an elementary school teacher, has her MA in Curriculum and Instruction, and worked with preschool - 8th graders. With the help of her husband, she has passionately survived guiding her four boys into adulthood! Her spiritual journey began in the fall of 2014 when she found herself living the picture perfect life, but never feeling worse. “I was sad, depressed, feeling utterly hopeless, not to mention completely stressed out, and I truly had no idea why.” She had been experiencing severe physical dizziness and had spent over a year searching for answers within the medical community. The cause was never determined. It was in her surrender that Divine intervention provided a book suggesting meditation, and she fell onto this path hard and fast overcome by a sense of peace.

Continuing this journey, she became a Level III Reiki Master, and found the connection to her inner-voice. She began to really listen, not with her ears but with her her whole self, and what followed was PEACE, CLARITY and understanding of her purpose. Guidance came through loud and clear as she began communicating with her spirit guides (we ALL have them!) and then with other aspects of Source Energy (the nonphysical realm).

Laura is a teacher, a coach, and a source of information for anyone searching for truth and happiness. She loves what she does, and believes this path will lead anyone to what they truly desire, which is HAPPINESS! She connects and COMMUNICATES with Source Energy daily, and uses this connection to teach, inspire and help others understand their own connection. Laura works with individuals and groups, channeling instruction on the Law of Attraction, the Importance of Self Love, Stepping into Your POWER, and understanding the connection you have and the guidance you are receiving RIGHT NOW with and from the nonphysical realm, and how this impacts your happiness.
She is grateful for every experience, every connection she makes with the individuals who seek her guidance. And she knows that each connection is intentional for her learning, as well. She is committed to bringing enlightenment to all those who find her and help each discover his or her own path to peace, love, joy, and the truth of this existence.

Website https://www.getintothelight.com
Instagram @get.into.the.light
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@lauraomalley-inthelight9321

Special Guest: Laura O'Malley.

The guest on upcoming Episode 6, Laura O'Malley, introduced me to Alefyah Lindo in early 2024. I was laid up in bed, literally unable to walk on the day of our first appointment. She was kind enough to come to my home and did her best to assist me. Since then we've worked together several times, most recently in a "Deep Dive" into some stubborn remaining blocks.
In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Alefiyah–modern mystic with roots in social work and psychotherapy, healer, and feminine wisdom guide—for a soulful conversation about what it means to truly live from the heart. Alefiyah shares her journey of awakening through the heartbreak of being raised a woman in the highly patriarchial Middle East and how she came to embrace her path as a mystic while navigating motherhood, marriage, and the pull of modern life. Together, we explore how feminine power doesn’t shout or hustle—it listens, receives, and guides from a deeper intelligence.
We talk about the difference between intuition and fear, the ways our bodies speak long before our minds catch up, and how trusting the unseen is a radical act in a culture that worships control. Alefiyah offers practical wisdom on how to cultivate embodied presence, honor your cyclical nature, and live in alignment with what she calls the “current of truth.” This episode is an invitation to let the heart—not the mind—be your compass, and to reclaim your inner mystic in a world that has forgotten the sacred.

Alefiyah's Bio

I am a Mind-Body-Energy Intuitive, and I access other aspects of my being than just my mind. I use a Holistic and Non-Dual approach. My practice includes highly effective techniques, intuitive guidance, and almost 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist. Finding Buddhism and doing a 10-day silent Vipassana Meditation retreat in my early 20s started my spiritual journey. Early in my career in attachment and trauma work, I started incorporating mind-body techniques in my practice, like mindfulness-based stress reduction, breath work, yoga, etc., to help my clients decrease symptoms, as I encountered the limitations of talk therapy. Ten years ago, I learned about the Chakra energy system taught by Caroline Myss. Then as I reached a plateau, I discovered EFT, which was my entry into energy work, and pivotal for my healing journey. I also became fascinated by the Lymphatic System and the world of Fascia (connective tissue), and their interconnection to our physical and mental health. Our lymphatic system and fascia are closely connected to the energy meridians running throughout our body. During my study of energy medicine, teachers like Marie Manuchehri, Dr. Jennifer Vest, and Suzanne Giesemann have helped me become more skilled in my energy-intuitive abilities, recently extending it to animal/inter-species communication.

I have an undergraduate degree from Purdue University, a master's degree from University of Illinois and I am a licensed therapist in Illinois.
My 20+ year journey has allowed me to gain a deep understanding of many disciplines, and I am in a unique position to take all that training and create tailored care for my clients.
Every technique or skill I teach my clients is something I have personally used and found extremely helpful at some point in my life. And in a nutshell, I LOVE what I do!
Even though my ethnicity is Indian, it wasn’t until I was an adult and studied yoga and Ayurveda did I learn the meaning of Namaste, saying it with the posture of our hands together by our heart. It means “the light in me bows to the light in you.”
Namaste! 🙏🏾

Website https://www.alefiyahlindo.com

Special Guest: Alefiyah Lindo.

I was guided to Melissa by a friend all the way back in 2012, as I struggled mightily in the aftermath of divorce, foreclosure and bankruptcy. I had several one-off appointments until completing the Landmark Forum, where it became very clear I needed EXACTLY what she had to offer. I spent 13 months meeting with her regularly for guidance and the occasional kick in the ass. I'm glad I did. She helped build the solid foundation that carried me through years of transformation.
Melissa Ford is master coach, author, and unapologetic truth-teller. Tune in for a conversation that cuts right to the core. Melissa and I explore what it really means to lead from love, not people-pleasing, and how most of us have been trained to abandon ourselves in the name of "service." She shares her journey from corporate performer to soulful coach, and how choosing truth over comfort led to the most honest, powerful work of her life.
We unpack what fierce love actually looks like in practice: saying the hard thing, standing for someone else’s greatness, and being willing to risk their discomfort for their transformation. Melissa talks about why conflict is often sacred, how real leadership begins with integrity to self, and why approval is a poor substitute for real connection. This episode is an invitation to stop performing, stop rescuing, and start leading from a place of radical honesty and love that includes you.

Melissa's Bio

I’m a business and life coach who works with entrepreneurs, executives, career changers, artists, you name it. Clients seek me out to address leadership and productivity challenges, role transitions, growth and profitability concerns, and other issues that have them feeling unfulfilled or stuck in their professional lives.

In my 20+ years of coaching, I’ve developed a holistic approach to helping my clients. While they are initially focused on a single “problem” or “project,” I help them take a step back and examine the thought patterns that get in the way of crafting creative solutions and approaches to move forward in their work.

A bit about me: I’m a certified PCI Coach and graduate of ACS. I have an English degree from the University of Illinois and a law degree from DePaul University. My legal training has made me an analytical coach with a bullseye focus, pinpointing exactly what will propel clients forward. When I’m not coaching, I can be found “vacationing” at professional development events, visiting my grown daughter in NYC, working out with my personal trainer (aka, my son), and enjoying the love and friendship of my husband.

Website https://melissafordcoaching.com

Special Guest: Melissa Ford.

It was late 2019 and, in spite of a lot of personal growth work, including a beautiful solo psilocybin journey, guided MDMA journey with an underground therapist and a 12 day Ayahausca retreat in the Ecuadoran Andes, I was still in excrutiating physical pain. I was guided to Jonathan Tripodi, mystical fascial magician and talented astrologer by a power greater than myself. A five day intensive that ended three days before the 2020 Covid lockdowns gave me a great deal of relief and left me well-equipped to navigate the next six months and beyond.
Tune in for an expansive conversation with Jonathan, creator of Body Memory Recall (BMR) where we explore the profound wisdom held within the human body. Jonathan shares his journey from athletic performance and massage therapy to a spontaneous emotional awakening that changed everything. That moment revealed to him what so many of us miss: that the body is not just a vessel—it’s a living archive of every experience we’ve never fully felt. From that awareness, Jonathan developed a somatic healing modality that helps people access and release the unconscious memories, traumas, and emotions stored in their tissues.
Our conversation uncovers the deeper truth about pain, memory, and the body’s capacity for transformation. We discuss why surrender—not control—is the key to healing, how breath and gentle touch can unlock what the mind cannot access, and why true freedom often begins with vulnerability. Whether you’re holding onto pain you can’t explain, or you’ve tried to think your way to healing and hit a wall, this episode offers a radically different approach: drop into the body, trust its timing, and allow what’s ready to rise. This is an invitation to feel what’s been waiting, and to finally let it go.

Jonathan's Bio

For 30+ years Jonathan has explored body memory and its relationship to chronic pain, stress, illness, and behavior. His Body Memory Recall – BMR – approach has supported thousands of individuals to heal old wounds and experience, renewed states of of health,
peace, power, joy, and wisdom.

International Author, Healer, & Educator

30+ Years Experience Specializing in the transformation of Suppressed Pain, Emotion, & Trauma
Author of Freedom from Body Memory
Founder of the Body Memory Recall (BMR) Approach
Creator of 365 Online Learning for Transformation & Awakening
Featured on GAIA
Featured on E-Motion
BS Physical Therapy
BA Sports Science

Website https://jonathantripodi.com
Instagram @freedomfrombodymemory
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/bodymemoryman

Special Guest: Jonathan Tripodi.

I was introduced to Julie Murphy in 2019 and she has been instrumental in assisting me in healing from generational money wounds and moving into a life of abundance and optimism around money. In this episode of The Permission Slip, I converse with this powerhouse financial advisor and truth-teller who believes real wealth starts from within and knows. Julie shares how her journey through divorce, motherhood, and personal awakening helped her break free from the conditioning of both the financial industry and her Catholic upbringing. She talks candidly about the energetic blocks that keep people stuck in financial struggle—often rooted in fear, guilt, and shame—and how aligning money with authenticity, emotion, and soul purpose creates true abundance. This is money talk with a heart-centered twist.
We explore how the inner child influences financial decisions, why unprocessed emotions sabotage prosperity, and what it takes to live from a place of alignment instead of obligation. Julie offers grounded, no-nonsense wisdom about how to give yourself permission to stop performing, start receiving, and honor your unique path—even if it means disrupting everything you’ve built. Whether you're burned out, financially stuck, or yearning for more freedom, this episode is a call to stop "shoulding" all over yourself and start living from your truth.

Julie's Bio

Transforming Lives Through Financial Empowerment

Julie Murphy is a Chicago-based CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, founder and CEO of JMC Wealth Management, Inc. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
With over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, Julie and her team have successfully guided thousands of clients across the U.S. and internationally. Her expertise spans critical areas of financial and life planning, including portfolio management, asset allocation, risk management, college planning, business and retirement planning, estate planning, and insurance solutions such as life, disability, and long-term care coverage.
What sets Julie apart is her holistic approach to financial planning. Rather than focusing solely on numbers, she helps clients uncover their emotional and psychological relationship with money. Her transformative, time-tested program, PACT—which stands for Picturing Yourself, Accepting Reality and Awakening, Choosing to Change, and Taking Action—has empowered countless individuals to align their finances with their true goals and values, creating profound shifts in their lives.

Website https://jmcwealth.com
Instagram @awakenwithjulie
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliemariemurphy/
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@JulieMurphy

Special Guest: Julie Murphy.

In the first episode of The Permission Slip, I touch my journey healing from decades of depression, addiction, and physical pain to a place of deep presence and purpose. For much of my life, I felt like I didn’t belong here—as in on Earth, here, in a body. Despite building a successful business and raising two beautiful daughters, I was deeply disconnected, numbing myself with alcohol and later navigating chronic pain through a medical system that was not designed to deal with spiritual issues. My healing truly began after a psilocybin journey cracked me open, leading me to explore alternative modalities, spiritual practices, and inner transformation. This podcast is my offering to others who are seeking their own way out of pain and into authenticity, embodiment, and joy.
My first guest, Renee LaVallee McKenna, has played a pivotal role in my healing. She’s a former multi-substance addict turned spiritual psychologist who brings a grounded, no-BS approach to deep inner work. In our conversation, we talk about addiction as a search for the right algorithm, the hero’s journey as a framework for healing, and the ways unresolved trauma lives in the body. Renee shares how her own rock bottoms became portals to growth and how she found her calling by surrendering to something bigger than herself. Our discussion touches on themes like self-responsibility, spiritual awakening without substances, and the intelligence of our body and nervous system. If you’ve ever felt stuck, numb, or like your life is “fine” but missing something essential, I hope this episode offers a glimpse of what’s possible when you give yourself permission to heal.

Reneé's Bio

I'm a Boston-born mentor, hypnotherapist and Shamanic healer who guides people to heal and transform on a soul level. My individual sessions, workshops, groups and mentorship programs in Spiritual Psi-Kology offer a unique blend of neo-Shamanism and Buddhist philosophy with hypnotherapy and body-based mindfulness.

I bring my 30+ years of experience as a recovering addict and ex-crazy person to my weekly podcast, sharing snackable teachings on spirituality, psychology and all things personal growth.

All of the work I do with clients, I have experienced in my own therapy and personal growth work. I consider myself a mentor, guide and navigator for your own soul's journey. I DO NOT practice as a licensed psychologist or counselor.

I have a Masters degree in Transpersonal Psychology and am a certified clinical hypotherapist. For 14 years I studied DepthHypnosis, Shamanism and Energy Work with Dr. Isa Gucciardi and have been a student of Lifespan Integration, Hakomi Method and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and healing methods.

Through my own inner work and practice, I have come to believe that spiritual and intuitive methods of healing are more effective and transformative than the more intellectually and physically based approach of Western psychology. The work of Spiritual Psi-Kology is intended as an alternative and a compliment to Western psychology and many find this work to be a great addition to traditional talk therapy, psychology and psychiatry.

My book, workbook and guided audio series Allies & Demons: Working With Spirit For Power And Healing is available on Amazon and Audible. Allies and Demons guides you through the 15 basic inner journeys of Spiritual Psi-Kology. This powerful book is filled with inspiring client stories, soul level wisdom, and my personal journey of healing and empowerment.

I know the extremes of success and failure. From bankruptcy to grad school, from divorce and homelessness to motherhood and art teacher, from addict and alcoholic to lead of Women's March 2017, I bring the wisdom gained from my many life experiences to my students and clients world-wide.

My passion is to bring this work that has healed and transformed my life to all who need it. My free content includes a weekly podcast, healing workshops on Insight Timer and content on Youtube. My year-long Mentorship Program trains therapists, counselors and healers in the grounded and practical tools of Spiritual Psi-Kology. I also offer Healthy Healer Workshops offering tools for healthy boundaries, energy medicine and spiritual connection for other practitioners.

Check out my artwork here.

Special Guest: Renee LaVallee McKenna, MA.

In this intimate and wide-ranging conversation, I sit down with licensed psychotherapist Ben Goldberger, LCSW—founder of We Are Medicine. Ben shares his personal journey from depression, disconnection, and rebellion in his 20s to finding healing through men’s work, psychotherapy, and holotropic-style breathwork.
They explore how non-ordinary states of consciousness can open pathways to integration and wholeness, what it means to reclaim personal agency in healing, and why deep breathwork can be as transformative as psychedelics—without the pharmacology.
The episode also weaves in themes of trauma release, body-based therapy, spiritual awakening, meditation, and miracles, offering listeners both inspiration and grounded tools for inner work.

** Ben's Bio **

Ben Goldberger is a breathwork facilitator and trauma-focused psychotherapist practicing in the Chicago area since 2010. He is passionate about helping others access their innate abilities to heal and change through the use of intuitive, somatic methods, combined with more conventional analytical approaches. Ben offers monthly breathwork workshops, private breathwork and a variety of talk and somatic therapy modalities meant for all ages including EMDR, Jungian-informed psychotherapy, and family therapy of all kinds.

Website: https://wearemedicine.net

Special Guest: Ben Goldberger.

I had the pleasure of experiencing not one, but TWO sessions with Therese at the very start of my transformational healing journey back in 2019. I was so f-ing excited to sit down with her and talk about her work earlier this week, especially with the vocabulary and understanding I have gleaned about the nature of this work in the intervening years.

In this expansive and deeply personal conversation, I sit down and chat with Dr. Therese Rowley — skilled intuitive, author, and organizational change agent — whose life has woven together mystical experience, Fortune 500 consulting, and groundbreaking work in the realms of healing and multisensory intelligence. Therese shares her journey from a childhood immersed in Catholic mysticism to becoming a sought-after intuitive for individuals, leaders, and businesses. Along the way, she recounts her own dark night of the soul, lessons from chronic fatigue syndrome, and the path that led her to help others navigate spiritual, emotional, and energetic transformation.

We also explore Therese’s visionary reframing of neurodiversity, particularly in children, as “multisensory intelligence” — a paradigm shift that moves beyond pathology to possibility. She explains how so-called “symptoms” may actually be signs of quantum perception and untapped human potential, and how parents, educators, and society can better support these gifts. This episode is a fascinating blend of personal story, spiritual insight, and forward-thinking ideas that challenge the boundaries between mysticism, science, and education.

If you enjoy this episode, please like, subscribe, and share to help spread the word.

**Dr. Rowley's Bio **

A visionary intuitive with over two decades of experience working with neurodiverse youth and their parents.

Therese Rowley, CEO of Accelerated Alignment and Multisensory Intelligence, is a business consultant, intuitive expert, and advocate for multisensory youth. With a PhD in Business Transformation and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, she combines a sharp business acumen with over three decades of experience guiding corporate leaders through strategic and organizational transformations. Her consulting work includes partnering with leaders at organizations like AT&T, Kearney, Inc., and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and transforming legacy institutions, such as the YWCA-Chicago, into thriving enterprises. She has been adjunct faculty at the University of San Francisco, the University of Chicago Graham School, the Booth School’s LEAD Institute, and Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies. She founded the Conscious Business Network of Chicago in 2008 to bring together feisty, leading-edge leaders to stimulate business imagination, advancing a more conscious marketplace.
A skilled intuitive with a focus on transformation, Dr. Rowley has conducted over 12,000 intuitive readings and healings, supporting leaders and others to balance and align their inner and outer worlds. She teaches clients to access and trust their intuition through courses, webinars, and articles, as well as through her book, Mapping a New Reality: Discovering Intuitive Intelligence.
Dr. Rowley also brings expertise in neurodiversity, supporting parents of gifted and intuitive children through intuitive guidance and advocacy. She has long recognized that youth diagnosed as neurodiverse are uncommonly gifted. Her work gives voice to the child’s inner world, offering their parents a deeper understanding of their child’s purpose as well as practical strategies to help families appreciate, communicate with, and support them more effectively. As Executive Producer of The Misdiagnosis of Gifted Children, she sheds light on how gifted children are often misdiagnosed and medicated because the behaviors of profoundly gifted youth and the behaviors defined as ‘neurodiverse” are often identical.

Parent Community Website: The Wonder Children: Transforming the Neurodiverse Experience -http://multisensoryintelligence.ai/
Facebook: The Wonder Children - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thewonderchildren
Intuitive Business Website: Accelerated Alignment - https://thereserowley.com
Facebook: Dr. Rowley's Conscious Business Network - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066454075257
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thereserowleyphd/

In this episode, I reconnect with Lizzi Cutler, an intuitive and transformational energy worker who once guided me through a powerful healing process that helped clear energetic blocks around abundance—blocks I didn’t even uncover during years of therapy or plant medicine journeys. Lizzi shares her story of growing up in suburban Chicago, always feeling like an outsider and spiritually aware from a young age. Her path led her through yoga, meditation, and eventually discovering her unique intuitive gifts, which she now uses to help clients identify and clear deeply embedded energetic patterns.
Lizzi describes her work as communicating soul-to-soul, often receiving playful, grounded messages in her own language. Her approach is part energetic scanning, part intuitive guidance, and part energetic “cleaning lady,” as she calls it—helping people release energetic blockages that manifest as chronic scarcity, emotional pain, or confusion. We discuss the importance of listening to the body for intuitive yes/no responses, the trap of trying to manifest from a place of resistance, and the need for more play in our adult lives. Lizzi’s clients range from spiritual seekers to medical professionals, all seeking clarity, healing, and permission to live in alignment with their higher selves.

Lizzi's Bio

Lizzi Cutler is a transformational coach with a proven track record of helping high achievers and individuals seeking deeper personal growth overcome stress, remove emotional and energetic blockages, and elevate both their personal and professional lives. Known for delivering lasting results, Lizzi uses a variety of techniques, including energy work, guided visualization, and emotional clearing, to empower her clients to release tension, realign their focus, and unlock their full potential. Her approach is infused with hope and optimism, creating an environment where clients can break through limitations and see new possibilities. Whether you're aiming for peak performance or seeking balance in your everyday life, Lizzi’s holistic, results-driven methods offer a path to breakthrough achievements, renewed confidence, and sustained success. Her mission is to equip high performers with the tools for self-awareness, balance, and long-term personal and professional growth, while fostering a sense of hope for a brighter future.

https://lizzicutler.com

IG: https://www.instagram.com/lizzicutler/

In this episode, I sit down with Wendy Perkins Schoef — ADHD coach, microdosing guide, and neuro pleasure coach who specializes in working with solo entrepreneurs. Wendy shares her remarkable origin story: raised by a single Catholic mom in LA, navigating an ADHD brain through college and careers spanning real estate, biometrics, and web development, before finding her true calling after a divorce sent her on a journey of sexual self-discovery and eventually into orgasm coaching and nervous system work. We dig deep into her holistic framework of Goal, Set, Setting, and Intention — the foundation she uses whether she's helping a client build their business, choose a microdosing protocol, or regulate their nervous system. We talk about the differences between psilocybin and LSD as microdosing tools, why LSD is a "non-specific amplifier," and how the right substance choice depends entirely on what's going on in your body, mind, and environment. We also get into the profound connection between sexual energy and creative energy, the jaw-pelvic floor link, yoni dearmouring, the stigma around prostate work for men, and harm reduction resources for those exploring psychedelics. Wendy also opens up about parenting her son Max, who was born with a brain injury, and how that experience has deepened her understanding of the nervous system and shaped her approach to her work.

About Wendy

Wendy is an ADHD microdosing and neuro-pleasure coach, researcher, and co-host of the Psychedelic Revelations podcast.

She works with brilliant, creative, capable people who are also a little bit fried—navigating chronic stress, ADHD, burnout, or all of the above. The ones who’ve read the books, tried the supplements, made the to-do lists, and yet still feel tired but wired, overthinking everything, spinning in place while their responsibilities grow by the hour.

Wendy’s approach is rooted in a core belief: your nervous system is sacred, pleasure is a birthright, and ADHD symptoms are signs of a dysregulated nervous system—not a broken brain. Through microdosing support, nervous system regulation, embodied practices, and a BIG helping of tech support, she helps people remember their own divine intelligence and step back into who they truly are so they can make the impact in the world they’re meant to do.

Her work blends research, lived experience, and a deep reverence for the body’s wisdom to support transformation that actually lasts.

Website: https://thesuccessdoula.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendygoesdeep/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/thesuccessdoula
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thesuccessdoula
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesuccessdoula
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wendygoesdeep

Special Guest: Wendy Perkins Shoef.

Karen Kubicko grew up steeped in Catholic school traditions — but something always felt bigger just beneath the surface. In 11th grade, on her first day at a new public school, she heard a voice tell her she'd had a past life with a complete stranger in the hallway. She dismissed it. Decades later, that moment makes perfect sense.
In this episode, Karen walks me through the pivotal experiences that cracked her open: a near-fatal emergency C-section that may have briefly stopped her heart, a vision of her deceased grandparents holding her newborn daughter, and years later, a car accident in which an archangel took her on a tour of what felt like her future. Each experience deepened her abilities and ultimately led her to train directly under renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Brian Weiss at the Omega Institute in New York.
Today, Karen offers "whole soul readings," past life regression sessions, intuitive development classes, and Reiki — all aimed at helping people identify and clear the root causes of patterns that are holding them back in this lifetime. Whether it's recurring abusive relationships, irrational fears, chronic anxiety, or a general sense that something is missing, Karen's work helps clients trace those threads back to their source — and release them.
Our conversation goes deep on several fascinating topics:

How past life regression works and what a session with Karen actually looks like

• The empath problem — why highly sensitive people absorb other people's emotions, how childhood trauma (hypervigilance, unsafe environments) keeps the "feelers" turned all the way up, and practical tools to dial them back down
• Discernment — how to tell the difference between your own inner voice, ego chatter, and genuine intuitive guidance
• Spirit guides and channeling — Karen's experience receiving information, and how she sets clear boundaries with the beings she works with
• Dr. Brian Weiss and the origins of past life regression therapy — how a skeptical psychiatrist accidentally regressed a patient 5,000 years and changed the field of healing forever
• Manifesting and timeline choice — the idea that every moment offers a choice between vibrational states, and how awareness of that gap between stimulus and response is itself a form of freedom

Karen and I also connect the dots between indigenous wisdom traditions, empathic experience, and the growing global awakening — weaving in references to Paul Selig, Bashar/Darryl Anka, and the power of trusting what you receive, even when it first shows up as a horse and buggy in your living room.
This is a beautiful, wide-ranging conversation for anyone curious about the soul's journey across lifetimes — and how understanding that journey can heal the one you're living right now.

About Karen

Karen Kubicko is a past life hypnotherapist, and intuitive psychic reader passionate about teaching and helping others heal through working with their spirit guides, angels, and healing the patterns found in their own past lives. She is the author of: Life Is Just Another Class—One Soul’s Journey through Past Life Regression, an account of 16 of her own past lives and Making True Love—Healing Relationship Patterns Through Past Life Regression which explores common root causes of relationship issues, plus provides insight on how to heal these patterns so you can find true love.
Karen also utilizes her psychic skills to intuitively see someone’s whole soul experience including their past lives. Karen completed the Past Life Therapy Professional Training course with Dr. Brian Weiss. She received her hypnotherapy certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists. She has personally remembered over 200 past
lives and has helped numerous others remember their own past lives.

Connect with Karen

Email: Karen@KarenKubicko.com
Website: www.KarenKubicko.com
Book a Personal Session: https://calendly.com/karen-kubicko
YouTube: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.youtube.com/@KarenKubicko
Instagram: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.instagram.com/karenkubicko
Facebook (page): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.facebook.com/KarenAKubicko
LinkedIn: Karen Kubicko ~ https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kubicko/
X (Twitter): @KarenKubicko ~ https://x.com/KarenKubicko
Pinterest: Karen Kubicko ~ http://pinterest.com/karenkubicko/
RedBubble (art & merch): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.redbubble.com/people/KKubicko
Karen can be seen supporting her youngest child on the LMN Lifetime television show Ghost Inside My Child (S2
E1, 2014).

For more on Karen Kubicko, please visit: https://www.karenkubicko.com/about-karen/

Special Guest: Karen Kubicko.

In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Dominica Fisher, Director of Meditative & Creative Exploration at BÎAN, the wellness club in Chicago where she and I originally met. Dominica and I dive into her extraordinary journey which began as the daughter to single mother who was also Polish immigrant. Our discussion runs the gamut - her early intuitive visions, to discovering meditation, shamanic journeying, and eventually mastering the mechanics of manifestation.
She & I break down what it actually means to create reality — not as a platitude, but as a lived, moment-by-moment mechanics-of-consciousness experience. Dominica shares the stories that cracked her open, the visions she tried to suppress as a child, the ways she learned to work with her intuitive abilities, and how she now teaches others to consciously create their lives.
We also get into the Bengston Method, the intensity and power of desire lists, the traps of “victim consciousness,” the importance of regulating emotional states, and what it really takes to direct your reality without bypassing your humanity.
If you’ve ever wondered how intuition, manifestation, meditation, and reality-creation really function beneath the surface, this episode is a doorway.

Special Guest: Dominica Fisher.

In this episode, I sit down with Clinical Nutritionist, Author and Noetic Gield Practitioner Jessica Brown for a powerful exploration of the emotional, energetic, and spiritual roots of healing.
Jessica shares her remarkable story — from growing up between two very different parents, to experiencing depersonalization/derealization after marijuana use, to finding an energy healer who helped her rebuild her inner world. Her journey opened the door to noetic field therapy, compassionate inquiry, and the innovative work she now does at the intersection of trauma, belief systems, energy, nutrition, and chronic health conditions.

We discuss:

• How childhood fragmentation becomes unconscious belief structures
• What sits in one's auric field and how it influences behavior
• The mechanics of noetic field therapy
• Why the heart — not the mind — is what clears deep-rooted patterns
• The emotional origins of food struggles
• How GLP-1 medications create psychological spaciousness
• How trauma echoes through the nervous system, the emotions, and the body
• Why “spiritual growth” doesn’t mean bypassing human fear
• Re-inhabiting the body and returning to one’s own wholeness

This is a rich, grounded conversation for anyone interested in inner work, trauma healing, consciousness, and especially the relationship between food and emotional safety.

About Jessica Brown

Jessica Brown is a Stanford-certified compassion teacher, functional medicine clinical nutritionist, and author with over 25 years of experience helping people heal physically and emotionally. With more than ten years of specialized clinical practice in self-compassion-based reparenting and mindset work, she has guided thousands toward lasting transformation.

Jessica is the author of "The Loving Diet," which pioneered mind-body approaches for autoimmune conditions, and served as visiting faculty at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, where she helped create their Mindful Eating program. She maintains a thriving practice as a consultant to practitioners and clients nationwide and continues to influence the health community through her innovative approaches to healing.

Her work bridges the gap between medical treatment and emotional healing, offering practical tools for those ready to transform their relationship with food, body, and self from the inside out.

Learn more at www.thelovingdiet.com or www.glp1nutritionacademy.com

Book: Beyond the Shot
Inner Work for Lasting Success on Weight-Loss Medications
By Jessica Brown

About the Book

With millions turning to GLP-1 medications like Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Mounjaro®, and Zepbound™, one question looms large: What happens after the prescription?
Beyond the Shot is the first book written for patients themselves navigating life on GLP-1s. Clinical nutritionist and compassion educator Jessica Brown blends the science of GLP-1s with the psychology of eating, showing readers how to quiet food noise, stop self-sabotage, and create lasting change.

Highlights

The first book for GLP-1 users, filling a major gap in obesity care.

• Blends science with psychology: medication, mindset, and self-compassion.
• Case stories illustrate real transformations beyond weight loss.
• Practical anchors: protein, fiber, hydration, sleep, and structure.
• Supports the urgent call from the American Society for Nutrition for multidisciplinary care alongside GLP-1 therapy.

About the Author

Jessica Brown is a clinical nutritionist, author of The Loving Diet, and founder of Inner Well Press, the GLP-1 Nutrition Academy, and the Menopause Heart Project. She is a sought-after speaker and educator, known for combining warmth, practicality, and compassion in helping people transform their relationship with food and body image.

This is the first episode I've created that has video. You may wish to watch it to see how Laura's entire countenance changes when she channels the other beings.

Link - https://youtu.be/xo72vAcW6-k

I'm really excited about this follow-up conversation with Conscious Channel Laura O’Malley and even more excited that we got to communicate directly with the beings that have been coming through her for years with powerful information for the rapidly expanding consciousness and shifting reality we are presently experiencing. We dive straight into one of my favorite topics: Kundalini energy and what’s actually happening during spiritual awakening. My own experiences with powerful energy experiences, plant medicine, and meditation led me into this conversation — and Laura’s Guides wasted no time stepping in to speak directly.

The episode is an exploration of consciousness:

• What kundalini really is
• Why it releases only when the body is vibrationally ready
• Why more people are experiencing spontaneous awakenings now
• Why many of these openings have been misdiagnosed as breakdowns
• How thoughts, vibration, and free will shape reality
• How to tell the difference between ego and higher self
• Why “fighting darkness” only feeds it
• How to shift your vibration through attention
• What Christ Consciousness actually means
• How plant medicines give temporary access to higher dimensions
• The nature of soul fractals and multidimensional existence
• The Collective speaks bluntly about fear, news addiction, collective expansion, and why love is the only real frequency beneath it all. Their message is clear: we’re in a massive vibrational shift, and more people are waking up to their true nature while still in the body — something that used to be rare.
• We also talk about embodiment practices, emotional processing, why suppressing feelings creates suffering, and the mechanics of raising your vibration intentionally (without spiritual bypassing).
• This episode is raw, real, and a direct hit for anyone navigating awakening, expansion, or the feeling that the world is changing in ways they can’t ignore.

Video of the session is available on my YouTube channel - @ThePermissionSlip.

Special Guest: Laura O'Malley.

In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Shweta Shyamani, a clinical hypnotherapist, energy intuitive, and co-leader of Rewilding Retreats for Women. Shweta shares her powerful journey from corporate success to soul-centered healing—walking away from an MBA-driven marketing career just days before 9/11 and eventually finding her calling in energy medicine and Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT).
We talk about how unresolved emotions and energy imbalances can manifest as physical illness, why traditional talk therapy often keeps us looping in old stories, and how techniques like RTT, EFT tapping, and hypnotherapy help people access deeper layers of healing. Shweta also opens up about her mother’s decades-long illness, which became the catalyst for her path as a healer, and about her retreats that help women reconnect with their feminine essence, emotional truth, and sense of belonging.
It’s a rich, heartfelt conversation about courage, intuition, and what happens when we finally choose alignment over achievement.

Special Guest: Shweta Shyamani.

CONTENT WARNING - in this episode there is some graphic sexual language that may be triggering.

In this intimate and eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Rich Priddis, a Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide and long-time ISTA (International School of Temple Arts) facilitator. Rich shares his remarkable journey from a strict Mormon upbringing—steeped in sexual shame and repression—to becoming a global teacher of sacred sexuality and embodied healing. I met Rich in the summer of 2023 where he was a lead facilitator of an ISTA retreat I attended in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. It was one of the more powerful and healing experiences I've had in my life.
We explore how early religious conditioning shaped his relationship with his body, the liberation that came through tantra, cuddle parties, and sex-positive communities, and the transformative power of consent, communication, and embodiment. Rich explains concepts like the Wheel of Consent, the Body SMART model for conscious relating, and how sexual energy can be used for healing, self-acceptance, and creative awakening. We discuss shadow work, shame release, and reclaiming authentic connection to self and others through presence, truth, and love.

Rich's website - https://www.richpriddis.com

Special Guest: Rich Priddis.

In this episode, I sit down with Pascale Falempin—former professional dancer, Pilates instructor, and breathwork facilitator—to explore the path of embodiment from a deeply lived perspective.
Pascale grew up in Corsica, surrounded by nature and simplicity, before stepping into the intensity and cultural expansion of Paris and eventually into a career in dance. What unfolds is a story that will feel familiar to many: a gradual disconnection from the body in pursuit of performance, achievement, and external validation—and the eventual return.
We dive into the intelligence of the body as something far more than mechanical. Pascale speaks to the subtle ways the body communicates, how trauma and conditioning get stored, and how breath becomes a direct access point into unwinding those patterns. This is not about forcing transformation—it’s about listening, allowing, and creating the conditions for the body to reveal what it already knows.
We also explore the paradox of modern life: being highly functional yet deeply disconnected. Pascale shares how her work integrates movement, breath, and awareness to help people come back into relationship with themselves—not as an idea, but as a felt experience.
This conversation moves beyond concepts. It’s about the lived reality of embodiment, the courage it takes to feel, and the quiet power of coming home to yourself.

Pascale can be found on Instagram - @powerhousepascale

Special Guest: Pascale Falempin.

In S2•E3, I speak with Christopher Sunyata, a former medical device engineer turned Buddhist meditation teacher and men’s coach based in Boulder, Colorado . We met at an Osho-inspired Deer Tribe workshop in Cave Creek, Arizona—an intensive container exploring sacred sexuality and polarity work .

Christopher shares his origin story:
• Raised Catholic in Decatur, Illinois, bullied through childhood 
• A sensitive kid who later became a college rugby all-star—yet carried a fractured internal self-image 
• A near-death suffocation accident in childhood that left a deep imprint in his nervous system 
• Ten years of Jungian analysis, divorce after discovering an affair following a mushroom journey 
• Intensive Buddhist practice and eventual immersion in embodied tantric work

We explore how women’s somatic intuition became one of his greatest teachers—how feminine bodies read tension, contraction, and presence instantly .

We discuss:
• Why resting as “open awareness” makes men more trustworthy and attractive 
• Breath-rate recovery and training the parasympathetic nervous system 
• Why meditation, psychedelics, and sexuality all intersect as portals into death practice and ego dissolution 
• His extensive work with plant medicines, including 5-MeO-DMT 
• Sexual practice as spiritual practice
• The difference between effort-based “techniques” and relaxed energetic openness
• How men can access sustained, non-ejaculatory, full-body orgasmic states
• Why relational polarity requires stability, not performance
• The nervous system as the foundation of spiritual and relational growth

Christopher’s central thesis:

A man’s depth is revealed in how much intensity he can open through—without collapsing, grasping, or dissociating .

We also explore how shame around sexuality has been weaponized socially and spiritually—and what happens when that shame is removed.

This conversation bridges:
• Trauma work
• Buddhist meditation
• Tantric polarity
• Somatic nervous system regulation
• Psychedelic awakening
• Masculine leadership

It’s an unapologetically honest conversation about embodied masculinity in a time when many men feel disconnected from purpose and presence.

Special Guest: Christopher Sunyata.

In this episode, I sit down with Deb Servetnick. "Grateful Deb" is a life mastery coach, psychedelic guide, bodyworker, and founder of Serve Medicine. Join us for an expansive, unscripted exploration of healing.

We begin with her origin story as a lifelong Deadhead and early psychedelic explorer, then move into the deeper terrain: her MAPS training, her decision to remain aligned with decriminalization over legalization, and her critique of over-medicalizing sacred medicine.

Deb shares why preparation matters more than the “six great hours,” how vibrational alignment shapes outcomes, and why psilocybin remains her preferred medicine for whole-body healing. We talk about grief, cancer, nervous system regulation, subconscious patterning, and the importance of replacing, not just removing, habits.

The conversation turns personal as we explore sugar, distraction, cannabis, and the difference between trying to “beat” something versus learning to love it into transformation.

This episode is about frequency. It’s about asking for what you actually want. And it’s about remembering that the universe is already responding.

Special Guest: Deborah Servetnick.

Dr. Jodie NewDelman shares her evolution from a hard-science neuropsychology background at UCLA studying autism genetics to embracing a more integrated biopsychosocial-spiritual model of care. We examine:
• The limitations of purely symptom-based psychiatric models
• ADHD and neurodivergence as neurotypes, not simply disorders
• Trauma as both psychological and somatic — and how it presents as chronic pain, fibromyalgia-like symptoms, digestive disorders, and “mystery” illnesses
• The Quadrintity framework (cognitive, emotional, physical, spiritual) and how imbalance across these domains manifests as dysregulation
• Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy as a non-specific amplifier that accelerates subconscious material to the surface
• Why preparation, safety, and integration are non-negotiable in psychedelic work
• Transference and countertransference as essential considerations in altered states
• The difference between being “fixed” and reclaiming agency

This episode invites listeners to examine whether their current healing path is addressing root causes — or merely suppressing symptoms.

• Nervous system regulation • Trauma stored in the body • Neurodivergence & ADHD • Chronic pain & somatic symptoms • Internal Family Systems (IFS) • Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy • Psychedelic preparation & integration • Transference & countertransference • Biopsychosocial-spiritual model • Experiential medicine • Personal agency in healing

Dr. NewDelman's website is https://essensuate.com
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Special Guest: Dr. Jodie NewDelman.

This season-one finale of The Permission Slip is a deeply honest, unsanitized conversation between me and my former wife, Amy Anesi. We were married for 15 years, raised two daughters together, divorced after an affair, endured bankruptcy and foreclosure in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse—and then chose a different path forward.

Instead of turning divorce into a lifelong war story, we explore what it looks like to take responsibility, metabolize pain, and consciously evolve beyond blame. This episode challenges the dominant cultural narrative that divorce must be ugly, adversarial, and permanently scarring. It doesn’t.

With Amy as both witness and mirror, I share my own arc—from childhood conditioning and emotional repression, through infidelity, trauma, and collapse, into somatic healing, psychedelic therapy, nervous-system work, and spiritual awakening. What emerges is not a story of redemption, but of integration.

This is a conversation about accountability without self-flagellation, healing without spiritual bypass, and what becomes possible when two people choose growth over grievance—for themselves and for their children.

Special Guest: Amy Anesi.

I discovered the channeled work of Paul Selig and his "Guides" (whom have called themselves "Melchizedek") in late summer of 2020. I had fortunately been "softened" up considerably with psychedelic work including Psilocybin, MDMA, Ayahuasca and Mescaline in addition to some deep myofascial work by that point in my healing journey. A friend shared a link to a YouTube video and it was as if a tractor beam took hold of me. I was mesmerized and, after checking their stock online, was on my way to a bookstore 30 minutes away where I purchased three books.

This work is one of the three pillars of my transformation - up there with psychedelics and somatic work. And it may not resonate with you. It was one of the clearest example of "When the student is ready, the teacher appears" I've experienced. Others have told similar stories.

In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Paul Selig for a conversation about consciousness, channeling, and what it means to live in alignment with a higher order of truth while fully embodied as a human being.

Paul shares his personal origin story — from an accomplished academic life to an unexpected spiritual awakening that opened him to hearing and working with the Guides. We explore how his abilities unfolded gradually, the role discipline and integrity played in stabilizing the work, and why true channeling is less about being “special” and more about becoming transparent to something greater.

We move into the core teachings brought through the Guides: the nature of divine union, the Christ as a universal principle rather than a historical figure, and humanity’s current reckoning with fear, separation, and self-denial. We also discuss discernment in spiritual work, the difference between inspiration and channeling, free will, presence, and how awakening does not bypass the human experience — it transforms how we meet it.

This conversation is not about belief systems or spiritual bypassing. It’s about lived experience, embodiment, and the practical integration of higher consciousness into daily life.

Paul's website is https://paulselig.com

Special Guest: Paul Selig.

The irony of the fact that it took me 16 episodes to get to somebody who works with psychedelic medicines is not lost on me. Psychedelics (all of them) have been instrumental in my healing process. As somebody who hasn't had an alcoholic drink since 2001 and hadn't smoked weed since 1995, dipping my toe in the psychedelic waters was not a decision I undertook lightly. It was a short journey from the dip to the plunge, however.

I'm very grateful to Lisa for agreeing to be on the show and to share the beautiful potential these medicines have for fostering healing and connection. The fact that they are Schedule I narcotics is criminal in and of itself.

In this episode, I talk with Lisa Parker about her journey from chronic trauma and unexplained pain into becoming a practitioner of psychedelic-integrative bodywork. Lisa shares how early experiences of fear, dissociation, and bodily threat shaped her nervous system—and how modalities like Rolfing and other somatic work, especially in tandem with medicines such as Ayahuasca, Psilocybin and Kambo helped her reclaim safety in her body.

In themes that are common across most episodes, we explore how trauma lives in fascia, why chronic pain often has emotional and energetic roots, and how combining low-dose psychedelic medicine with hands-on bodywork can accelerate healing in a safe, grounded way. This conversation moves through nervous system regulation, consent, embodied boundaries, touches briefly on Human Design, and the difference between catharsis and integration.

This episode is an invitation to understand healing not as fixing what’s broken, but as remembering how the body already knows how to come home to itself.

Special Guest: Lisa Parker.

Join me as I sit down with someone who has been a beautiful and powerful force in my healing journey — my Pilates instructor and friend, Janell Riedl.
After resisting the call of Pilates for a long time, three years ago I found Janell. She has been guiding me unwinding my twisted fascia, waking up dormant muscles, getting overactive muscles to calm down and helping me release decades of stored tension and trauma. She is not your typical Pilates instructor; Janell is also an intuitive, an energy worker, and a teacher in the truest sense — someone who learned the hard way, followed her intuition, and kept leaning into the deeper layers of her own evolution.
We talk about her path from theater major to bartender and aspiring rock star, to leaving a toxic relationship, to living with an energy intuitive in Oregon who cracked her open to her real gifts. We chat about how the body stores emotion and how shaking can reprogram the nervous system. Our talk ventures into why letting go is harder than holding on, and how intuition guides her work with clients.
We also dive into spiritual openings, core unwinding, fear conditioning, ego, and why you can’t heal a body you’re judging. This episode is a small window into the magic that happens when someone merges technical mastery with intuitive knowing.
This is a conversation about healing, trusting your path, and remembering that the journey is the point.

Special Guest: Janell Riedl.