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Episode 186 Exploring Celebrancy with River Jones
13 août 2026
01:09:26
Episode 186 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
0:00:03 Episode Preview
0:00:27 Episode Opening:
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5:02 Chat with River Jones
River Jones is a Celebant with over twenty five years' experience of delivering tailored ceremonies for people from all walks of life. With a background in adult education and community outreach she worked for over fourteen years at the University of Sussex, where she taught and convened courses ranging from Creative Writing through to Shamanic Consciousness. She has been course director at School of Celebrancy since 2015, as well as delivering events and workshops for organizations such as the Celebrants Collective and the Association of Independent Celebrants. River has conducted hundreds of ceremonies and in this episode shares her knowledge, resources, and many examples of rituals drawn from her wide range of experience as a celebrant.
Episode 185 Food Is Medicine Through Functional Nutrition with Karina Hines
06 août 2026
01:17:42
Episode 185 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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1:24 Episode Opening:
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5:36 Chat with Karina Hines
Karina Hines, founder of Botanical Kitchen is passionate about nutrient-dense food. Karina is a chef with over 22 years of cooking experience in Europe and the United States. She is a board-certified functional nutrition counsellor, herbalist and consultant. Karina is a functional nutrition chef, leveraging a deep understanding of how foods impact health and promoting cooking as an act of self-care. She provides functional nutrition solutions and guides members weekly to make sustainable and sensible changes to support vibrant health. Botanical Kitchen offers memberships to the general public and collaborative partnership programs with practitioners, farmers and organizations committed to helping people make sustainable dietary changes. Karina is highly trained with a well-cultivated skillset in a diverse array of cuisines. Her nutritional work is People-oriented and passion-driven with an international sensibility. Karina demonstrates proficiency in translating complex medical terminology to create accessible, actionable plans for people with chronic illnesses.
Episode 184 Lughnsadh First Fruits of Harvest with Kevin Pennell
30 juil. 2026
00:35:11
Episode 184 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
0:00:09 - Wrenne Wassail from Spiral Dance (Used By Permission)
0:05:01 Episode Opening:
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0:05:10 Lughnsadh First Harvest with Kevin Pennell
Kevin Pennell is the Podcast Host and Producer of Toward A Better Life a Licensed Massage Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Shamanic Practitioner, and a Bardic member of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids. He's also an Usui Reiki Master, and Instructor for various self-help and continuing education workshops with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spurgeon College. As a healing facilitator, he devotes his life to being a "hollow bone" or tool to bring about "Compassionate Healing". Kevin also writes, honing his love of writing through journalism. As an author, he applied his biographical and spiritual insights to complete the work Two Feathers: Spiritual Seed Planter that shares the life and spirit of Ken Two Feathers.
0:19:23 Guided Meditation - Being Part of Lughnsadh
Episode 183 Seeking the Divine Through Music and Magic with Emrys Abner
23 juil. 2026
01:16:12
Episode 183 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
00:00 Episode Preview
1:11 Almost Through the Dark by Tim Cheesebrow(Used with Permission)
5:47 Episode Opening:
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0:09:42 Chat with Emrys Abner
Emrys spent his life chasing the Divine through history, theology, music, and art. Emrys was a middle school music teacher for fifteen years, which helped him learn to deconstruct complex magical concepts and present them in an accessible way. He currently runs a sacred workshop business called The Acoustic Alchemist and hosts the Acoustic Alchemist podcast. We talked about Paganism, Druidry, Music, and some of his upcoming exciting projects.
36:23 Never Need Another Reason Why - By Tim Cheesebrow (Used By Permission)
40:52 Chat with Emrys Abner Continued
1:08:41 The Wire by Tim Cheesebrow(Used By Permission)
Episode 182 Breathwork To Unlock Your Best Self with Jon Paul Crimi
16 juil. 2026
00:55:00
Episode 182 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
0:00:03 Episode Preview
0:57 Episode Opening:
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5:36Chat with Jon Paul Crimi
Jon Paul Crimi is a Breathwork pioneer known for his zero filter East Coast edge and his ability to make deep transformation practical, powerful, and accessible. With more than a decade and a half of experience, he has helped redefine modern Breathwork by stripping away the overly mystical tone and replacing it with grounded, results driven work that speaks to skeptics, leaders, and everyday people alike. Jon Paul's work focuses on emotional regulation, resilience, and trauma integration. Participants often describe their first experience as feeling like decades of therapy without saying a word. His ability to combine intensity, humor, and psychological depth has made him especially effective with entrepreneurs, creatives, executives, and those navigating major life transitions. Jon Paul has worked with major companies including Nike and LinkedIn, bringing Breathwork into corporate environments through customized workshops and retreats. He has also led in person and online teacher training certifications, mentoring the next generation of facilitators.
His work has been featured at the HEAL Hay House Summit and recognized by major media outlets including The Hollywood Reporter, LA Magazine, Good Morning America, and numerous international podcasts. Now based in Bend, Oregon with his wife and two children, Jon Paul continues his mission to bring Breathwork into the mainstream and help people move from rock bottom to mastery using the most overlooked tool they already possess: their breath
Episode 181 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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1:09 Episode Opening:
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5:36 Chat with Lolita Guarin
Lolita Guarin is a stress management expert, speaker, coach, six-time Amazon #1 bestselling author, creator of the CALM Process, which we'll be looking at from a birds eye view, and she's a Story to IMPACT mentor. Lolita helps audiences move from stress and burnout into clarity, confidence, and self-trust with practical tools they can use right away.
Episode 180 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
0:00:00 Episode Preview
2:07 To The Yew Within the Mind That Remembers by Amanda Gisby(Used with Permission)
5:39 Episode Opening:
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10:02 Chat with Stephanie Curd
Stephanie Curd
Stephanie Curd and her sister Natalie are Immersive Spirit. As spiritual coaches, intuitive mediums, energy workers, astrologers and haunting investigators, their expertise lies in guiding individuals towards deeper self-awareness, healing, and spiritual growth. With a unique blend of intuitive insight and practical wisdom, Stephanie and Natalie help clients tap into their inner knowing and unlock their true potential . Working with the stars they help others to dig in and understand a little bit more about themselves. Lastly, they work with those impacted by something otherworldly to investigate and cross or remove those beings whenever it is appropriate. Immersive Spirit's approach is compassionate, empowering, and tailored to meet the individual needs of each person they work with.
Episode 179 Exploring the Otherworld with Raven Rissy
25 juin 2026
01:20:42
Episode 179 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:01:18 Elemental Cry by Hem Netjer (Used with Permission)
0:06:42 Episode Opening:
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0:09:47 Chat with Raven Rissy
Raven Rissy is a practicing Heathen Völva, who has studied the art of Seidr, but has knowledge in many cultures and mythologies. She's featured in Ryan Smith's new book, Spinning Wyrd and is currently in the process of publishing her own works. Raven is also an accomplished musician and artist. Her band, Hem Netjer, opened this week's show. Raven shares her spiritual experiences through music as well as teaching.
Raven hails from the Pacific Northwest of Canada, where her journey has led her to study and practice within the Pagan and Occult Communities for over 15 years. She's also studied at multiple Mystery Schools including OBOD.
Throughout her spiritual journey thus far, RavenRissy is very grateful to have met some wonderful teachers and elders within her communities. She is very honored to hold the title of May Queen (2021-2022) within a large pagan organization from the Pacific Northwest. She has also created and been on the council of other pagan groups and organizations. She is well practiced with running and teaching one on one, small and large group rituals, as well as holding sacred space for members within her community, virtually and in person.
0:38:36 Otherworld - By Hem Netjer (Used By Permission)
Ep 178 Steps to Recover Your Soul with Rachel Harrison
18 juin 2026
01:08:43
Episode 178 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:00:58 Episode Opening:
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0:05:10 Chat with Rev Rachel Harrison
Rev Rachel Harrison is an inspirational spiritual coach who offers a compassionate path to a happy and healthy life. She is the host of the Recover Your Soul Podcast and has authored her book Recover Your Soul Bonus. Rachel shares a transformational spiritual approach rooted in self awareness, healing, and awakening.
Drawing from spirituality, positive psychology, 12 step wisdom, and New Thought metaphysics, Rev Rachel created the Recover Your Soul™ process after her own journey of healing from alcoholism, people pleasing, control addiction, and codependency. Her work is grounded in lived experience and guided by a deep trust in spiritual connection and inner wisdom.
Rev Rachel's coaching style is intuitive and personalized, supporting clients in developing self awareness, strengthening their relationship with a Higher Power, practicing self compassion, and releasing old patterns through forgiveness and acceptance. While her roots are in recovery, her teachings extend far beyond addiction, offering guidance for anyone seeking emotional healing, spiritual growth, and a more authentic way of living.
Episode 177 Magick Behind Her Music with Nymphya mp3
11 juin 2026
01:18:36
Episode 177 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:00:56 What Have I Forgotten - By Nymphya (Used with Permission)
0:04:56 Episode Opening:
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0:09:47 Chat with Nymphya
Nymphya shares magic through her music that has touched thousands of lives around the world. Not only a very talented artist that shares her heart and soul through each of her songs, she's also a practicing pagan, 3rd degree in the Celtic Traditional craft, an animist and she's studied the Western Mysteries for years. In fact, her most recent album What Have I Forgotten? (with an illustrated magical tome that accompanies it) is all about the 7 stages of spiritual alchemy, since it turns out that what the songs were about. There's so much more to share about Nymphya's music, life, work, so let's get started.
0:41:14 Beachcombing - By Nymphya (Used By Permission)
0:47:26 Chat with Nymphya Continued
1:12:32 Unwanted Goodbyes - By Nymphya (Used By Permission)
Episode 176 Healing Ancestral Karma with Edit B Kiss
04 juin 2026
00:57:08
Episode 176 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:00:34 Episode Opening:
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0:05:10 Chat with Edit B Kiss
Edit B Kiss's work as a holistic mentor and success habit coach. Edit is #1 best-selling author, Humanitarian Award winner, and international speaker. She specializes in guiding individuals from misery to peace within 30 days by integrating ancient healing techniques with neuroscience. Her journey from a 15-year career in petroleum engineering to holistic healing exemplifies her commitment to transformation and personal growth.
Episode 175 Personal Empowerment Through Energy with Herman Petrick
28 mai 2026
00:56:29
Episode 175 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:05:59 Chat with Herman Petrick
Herman Petrick is an internationally renowned energy healer and spiritual guide with well over a decade of experience in holistic wellness and transformation. Originally from Portland, Oregon, he honed his unique abilities in energy healing while residing in New Zealand, where he developed techniques for clearing negative energies, closing dark portals, and channeling healing frequencies to promote harmony and positivity. Today, based out of his practice at globalenergyclearing.com, Herman specializes in remote energy clearings for individuals and properties, addressing issues like sleep disturbances, anxiety, depression, and intentional negative energy placements to help clients reset and reconnect with their true selves. A sought-after speaker at events like the Sedona Yoga Festival, Herman continues to inspire global audiences with his dedication to energy cleansing and personal empowerment.
Episode 174 Embody Your Spiritual Path with Michael Wilson
21 mai 2026
01:08:08
Episode 174 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:00:52 Episode Opening:
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0:05:57 Chat with Michael Wilson
Michael is a psychotherapist with an extensive background in psychotherapy, and Transpersonal Psychology (or Spiritual Psychology), and Environmental Psychology e.g., Nature Connection. He is a Druid member with the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids. Michael lives and works in Northumberland incorporating regular visits to the Scottish Highlands and Islands for long nature immersions. He has written several additional excellent books on psychology as well.
Episode 173 Mystic South Gathering 2026 with Heather Greene
14 mai 2026
01:02:37
Episode 173 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:01:16 Eclipse - By Mac and Cheese (Used with Permission)
0:05:59 Episode Opening:
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0:10:34 Chat with Heather Greene
Heather Greene is an acquisitions editor with Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd., a freelance religion journalist and author of the award winning book Lights, Camera, Witchcraft: A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television. Heather has been studying both Witchcraft and film for over thirty years. She has a B.A. and an M.A. in Film Studies. Heather also co-hosts The Witches Movie Coven podcast and she's on the board of the Atlanta-based Mystic South Conference. When she gets a few quiet moments, Heather can be found in her studio restoring dolls, singing along to a playlist, sipping tea on the back porch, or tending to her two very needy cats.
Episode 172 Tarot - A Guide For Livng with Steve Hounsome
07 mai 2026
01:09:54
Episode 172 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:00:53 Eldur - By Hem Netjer (Used with Permission)
0:06:27 Episode Opening:
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0:11:28 Chat with Steve Hounsome - Tarot-A Guide for Living
Steve Hounsome has been working with the Tarot since his teenage years, over 45 years ago! From his beginnings as a Tarot reader he developed his own style of working with and teaching the Tarot that he called 'Tarot Therapy'. In 1999 he published the first of his three volumes of books entitled 'Tarot Therapy', more recently adding 'The Tarot Therapy Workbook' to the series. He created two Tarot decks with accompanying books and continues to teach and promote use of the Tarot for personal and spiritual development by therapeutic means. He has created three Courses with Philip Carr-Gomm, creator of the Druidcraft Tarot, including the newly released 'Tarot Therapy'. Steve's recent books are 'Tarot for Grief' and new for 2026 'Tarot for Living and Dying'.
Episode 171 The Fourth Branch of The Mabinogi with Damh the Bard
30 avr. 2026
01:22:03
Episode 171 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:01:13 Prologue - Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi by Damh the Bard (Used with Permission)
0:05:56 Episode Opening:
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0:09:58 Chat with Damh the Bard and the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi
Damh the Bard is a modern-day Bard whose spirituality and love of folk tradition is expressed through his music, storytelling and poetry. His performances are both entertaining and educational, speaking directly to the heart, and never without a good splash of humour. With twelve outstanding albums, and singing and speaking engagements all over the world, Damh has become one of the most popular contemporary Pagan musicians – a musical storyteller who works within the world of myth: where the Elves dance on Midsummer's Eve, where the trees talk, and the Hollow Hills take you into the Otherworld, where the Goddess rides her horse, guiding you to magic, and the Horned God and Greenman of old call to you from the shadows of the Greenwood.
He began his Spiritual Journey at a very young age, often found in the school library reading through books on magic and the supernatural. Damh was initiated into a Ceremonial Magic group at age 18. He then discovered Paganism, which led him to Druidry, joining the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids in 1994. On the Summer Solstice of 2010, he was installed as the Pendragon of the Order, taking over from the artist Will Worthington who had been the Order's Pendragon for the previous 19 years. Damh served the Order as Pendragon until the Summer Solstice of 2025 when he passed the role over to Matt McCabe. His Path is an Animistic Way that sees and acknowledges the connection between all life. That Spirit is within all things, from the pebble to the mountain, from the raindrop to the oceans, all alive, vibrant, conscious, and part of the Great Web. To Damh the Path of the Bard, the Skald, the Scop, is to sing of that connection and bring that magic to life through music.
Along with his musical concerts, Damh has also given talks, run workshops, and participated in panel discussions at conferences and camps in the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada, and the USA, with his favourite topics including: Awen the Mead of Poetry and the Creative Quest; Animism; Magic and Seership; Tree Lore; Mythology; and Wilderness Awareness.
0:48:37 Son of the Waves - Damh the Bard (Used with Permission)
0:54:29 Continued Chat with Damh the Bard and the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi
1:14:29 Oak Broom and Meadow Sweet - Damh the Bard (Used with Permission)
Episode 170 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:05:10 Celebrate Spring with Kevin Pennell
Kevin Pennell is the Podcast Host and Producer of Toward A Better Life a Licensed Massage Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Shamanic Practitioner, and a Bardic member of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids. He's also an Usui Reiki Master, and Instructor for various self-help and continuing education workshops with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spurgeon College. As a healing facilitator, he devotes his life to being a "hollow bone" or tool to bring about "Compassionate Healing". Kevin also writes, honing his love of writing through journalism. As an author, he applied his biographical and spiritual insights to complete the work Two Feathers: Spiritual Seed Planter that shares the life and spirit of Ken Two Feathers.
Episode 169 Magic of a Harmonious Life with Robin Clare
16 avr. 2026
00:58:10
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0:04:22 Interview with Robin Clare
Robin is a bestselling author and creator of the Harmony Method™ — a transformative framework that guides people to live and lead with greater ease, clarity, and alignment. Through her book, Harmony: The Frequency of True Success, Robin teaches how to align inner truth with outer life so that success flows naturally. She bring decades of experience as a spiritual teacher, life and recovery coach, and nonprofit executive, blending practical wisdom with deep spiritual insight. Robin helps audiences discover how to move from stress and striving to a state of Harmony — where inspiration becomes purposeful action and life itself becomes a living expression of authenticity and joy.
Episode 168 The Magical Mysteries of Wales with Emlyn Phillips
09 avr. 2026
01:04:26
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0:05:39 Interview with Emlyn Phillips
Emlyn is this week's guests who hails from Wales. He's a druid-grade member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. Emlyn has degrees in International Relations, Computer Science, and Business Administration, as well as a postgraduate qualification in Applied Linguistics. He's also a trained coach, hypnotherapist and mediator. He has worked as an outdoor pursuits instructor, a Linux systems administrator, a developer of multilingual online learning systems, a corporate coach, a university lecturer in strategic management and marketing, and an educator and examiner in English as a second language. He is the author of numerous published articles, and of two books - with the third on its way. He currently lives in the small tropical nation of Timor-Leste. Emlyn is also passionate in his studies of Wales, its history, culture, and the magical mysteries of old from that region.
Episode 167 Author A New Life Through Hypnosis with Michelle Walters
02 avr. 2026
00:57:13
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0:04:05 Interview with Michelle Walters
Michelle is a voracious imagination advocate, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and AI Advocate. She writes and speaks on themes associated with the subconscious, self-improvement and personal growth. Michelle has blended her passion for marketing with hypnosis and AI to create "MakeMyHypno", a first-of-its-kind custom hypnosis app that makes you a personalized audio recording delivered to you inbox in a matter of minutes.
Episode 166 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:04:52 Interview with Belinda Coker
Belinda is an Australian hiker, writer, and educator who helps women rebuild confidence through practical adventure and responsible travel. She has completed solo hikes from Australia's Red Centre to crossing Greenland's Arctic Circle, experiences that shaped her belief that confidence grows through action, not theory. Through her platforms, Soul Treader and The House Sitting Collective, she teaches how structure, trust, and responsibility create genuine freedom and stability in life.
Episode 165 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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Episode 164 Longevity and Wellness with Michael Dorfman
12 mars 2026
01:04:57
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0:04:52 Interview with Michael Dorfman
Michael is an 83-year-old certified Health & Nutrition Life Coach, investigative author, and thriving example of plant-based longevity. Based in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, he has spent the last 17+ years living—and coaching—on how to age vibrantly without chronic disease.
Michael adopted a vegetarian diet in 1976, transitioned to a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle in 2008, and earned his certification in Plant-Based Nutrition in 2019. His book, The Thriving Vegan, exposes how the food and pharmaceutical industries mislead the public—and how individuals can reclaim their health.
In his latest book, The Longevity Wellness Revolution, Michael shares practical tools from the Blue Zones, as well as his discoveries, including breathwork, intermittent fasting, stress reduction, and more. He's passionate about showing that it's never too late to live with energy, purpose, and joy.
Episode 163 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:10:08 Celebrate Spring with Kevin Pennell
Kevin Pennell is the Podcast Host and Producer of Toward A Better Life a Licensed Massage Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Shamanic Practitioner, and a Bardic member of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids. He's also an Usui Reiki Master, and Instructor for various self-help and continuing education workshops with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spurgeon College. As a healing facilitator, he devotes his life to being a "hollow bone" or tool to bring about "Compassionate Healing". Kevin also writes, honing his love of writing through journalism. As an author, he applied his biographical and spiritual insights to complete the work Two Feathers: Spiritual Seed Planter that shares the life and spirit of Ken Two Feathers.
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Episode 162 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:04:08 Interview with Ranbir Puar
Ranbir is a TEDx Speaker, Author, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Life Strategies Coach, and Nervous System Architect and Certified HeartMath® Coach who has been helping adults and children transform their lives since 2009. She blends neuroscience, somatic regulation, neurofeedback, and mindset training to rewire both mind and body, creating breakthroughs where traditional coaching or talk therapy often plateau. She is also a licensed provider of the Integrated Learning System (Focus), the Rest & Restore Protocol, and the Safe & Sound Protocol, providing her clients with access to cutting-edge tools that accelerate transformation.
Ranbir is a 20-Time Staff Pick on Insight Timer, the world's largest community of meditators, and has spoken at global parenting events such as the Mindful World Parenting Summit alongside Eckhart Tolle and Dr. Shefali. She is the creator of the popular Today I Practice life strategies app and has been featured in publications around the world. Please welcome Ranbir Puar as we discuss Life Rhythms on this episode of Toward A Better Life.
Episode 161 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:04:40 Interview with William Gadea
William Gadea is a Peruvian-American author, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist practitioner. He has written ARROW: The Power and Poison of Story, which explores how storytelling shapes our minds, our sense of self, and our happiness. Drawing on neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and personal experience, William looks at how the stories we tell can both heal and hinder us - and how awareness of this process can help us live with more clarity and compassion. He is also the creator of What Is Mind?, a YouTube channel about consciousness.
Episode 160 The Science and Spirituality of Oneness with Faith Spencer
12 févr. 2026
01:01:46
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0:04:22 Interview with Faith Spencer
Faith Spencer, is a certified "Happy for No Reason" trainer and author of "The Oneness Guide for Today: A Book of Insight for Young Women"—a unique and timely book for teen girls and young women navigating pressure, perfectionism, and social media stress. Her work helps young people shift from ego-driven striving to soul-deep connection by exploring the science and spirituality of oneness. Faith is here to share powerful tools for self-acceptance, inner peace, and authentic living. Granted, the focus of her book is connecting with teens and young women, yet, after reading her book, I can confidently say her book, The Oneness Guide is a great guide for everyone! Won't you please welcome, Faith to Toward A Better Life!
Episode 159 Reflections On Resilience with Ashana Kaiulani
05 févr. 2026
01:03:16
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0:04:32 Interview with Ashana Kaiulani
Ashana is a trauma support specialist and reclamation coach whose work is rooted in helping women remember who they are after deep emotional pain or betrayal. She's the founder of Way Home Wellness and host of The Reclamation Room podcast, where she shares real, grounded conversations about self-trust, healing, and coming home to yourself. Her work, though rooted in helping women navigate toward their better life, can be applied to all when is it some to resilience. Please welcome my guest Ashana Kaiulani as we discuss Reflections on resilience.
Episode 158 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:07:30 Insights of Imbolc with Kevin Pennell
Kevin Pennell is the Podcast Host and Producer of Toward A Better Life a Licensed Massage Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Shamanic Practitioner, and a Bardic member of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids. He's also an Usui Reiki Master, and Instructor for various self-help and continuing education workshops with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spurgeon College. As a healing facilitator, he devotes his life to being a "hollow bone" or tool to bring about "Compassionate Healing". Kevin also writes, honing his love of writing through journalism. As an author, he applied his biographical and spiritual insights to complete the work Two Feathers: Spiritual Seed Planter that shares the life and spirit of Ken Two Feathers.
0:20:34 Guided Meditation for Honoring Imbolc
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Episode 157 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:03:19 Interview with Shilah
Shilah is a Bardic member with the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids. She says that while Google may be good for some things, Shilah believes connecting, learning, and growing happen in the more "human" realm. She calls herself an artist of the Fae Folk which can be seen in her magickal creations that honor the Fae Folk and related realms. She's walking her path in Earth Based Spirituality and is sharing glimpse of her life as a Hedge Witch in this episode of Toward A Better Life.
Episode 156 Creativity and Wellness with Mark Firehammer
15 janv. 2026
01:20:42
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0:08:25 Interview with Mark Firehammer
Mark Firehammer is the founder of the Creative Humanity Alliance, a growing ecosystem of artists, educators, and innovators using creativity as a catalyst for cultural healing and human reconnection. Their mission is simple but urgent: to use art and creative practice as keys to unlock the connection that modern life too often makes us forget. As an author, creator, and entrepreneur, Mark's work—including the novel The Echo and the Voice—explores how imagination can repair culture and guide us toward a more human, more fulfilling life.
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Episode 155 Bear Facts of Introspection with Kevin Pennell
08 janv. 2026
00:44:12
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0:08:25 Bear Facts of Introspection with Kevin Pennell
Kevin Pennell is the Podcast Host and Producer of Toward A Better Life a Licensed Massage Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Shamanic Practitioner, and a Bardic member of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids. He's also an Usui Reiki Master, and Instructor for various self-help and continuing education workshops with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spurgeon College. As a healing facilitator, he devotes his life to being a "hollow bone" or tool to bring about "Compassionate Healing". Kevin also writes, honing his love of writing through journalism. As an author, he applied his biographical and spiritual insights to complete the work Two Feathers: Spiritual Seed Planter that shares the life and spirit of Ken Two Feathers.
0:24:46 Guided Meditation to Connect with Bear Medicine
Episode of 154 Little Rules For A Better Life With Teri M Brown
01 janv. 2026
01:10:56
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0:05:51 Interview with Teri M Brown
Terri M Brown: Born in Athens, Greece as an Air Force brat, Teri came into this world with an imagination full of stories to tell. She now calls the North Carolina coast home, and the peaceful nature of the sea has been a great source of inspiration for her creativity.
Not letting 2020 get the best of her, Teri chose to go on an adventure that changed her outlook on life. She and her husband, Bruce, rode a tandem bicycle over 3000 miles across the United States from Astoria, Oregon to Washington DC, successfully raising money for Toys for Tots. She learned she is stronger than she realized and capable of anything she sets her mind to.
Teri graduated from UNC Greensboro with a multitude of degrees – majors in Elementary Education and Psychology and minors in Math and Sociology – she just couldn't settle on one thing! While homeschooling her four children, she began her writing career by focusing on small businesses, writing articles, blog posts, and website content.
In 2017, after finally getting out of an emotionally abusive 14-year marriage, Teri began dabbling in fiction, a lifelong dream. Upon winning the First Annual Anita Bloom Ornoff Award for Inspirational Short Story for a piece about her grandfather, she began writing in earnest, and published her debut novel in 2022, Sunflowers Beneath the Snow, a historical fiction set in Ukraine. Her second novel published in 2023, An Enemy Like Me, takes place during WWII. Her latest novel, Daughters of Green Mountain Gap, a generational story about Appalachian healers came out in January 2024. In June 2024, her short story, The Youngest Lighthouse Keeper, came out in the anthology Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women. Her latest book, 10 Little Rules for a Double-Butted Adventure (Feb 2025), is an inspirational look at the life lessons she learned riding across the United States on a tandem bicycle. In April, her first children's book, Little Lola and Her Big Dream, will launch.
Episode 153 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:11:59 Interview with Lady Eve
Lady Eve is a musician, artist, and the owner of Singing Pines. Eve grew up in Atlanta and spent summers in Appalachia basking in the aroma and nurturing her deep love and appreciation of trees and the forests while playing in mountain streams. Eve is a certified forest bathing guide by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, and enjoys sharing her passion for soundscape and sensory/somatic experiences. As a Bardic Druid (with the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids) and an active Zazen practitioner, she incorporates meditation and subtle awareness throughout her endeavors. Her artistic advocacy focuses on the connection between music, environment, accessibility and wellness. In 2016 she began to lead an ongoing series of soundwalks, which gives the public opportunities to experience natural surroundings through listening techniques, meditative breathing, and contemplative focus. In recent years, the soundwalk program has grown into an artist residency called the ACA Soundscape Field Station at Canaveral National Seashore, and an accessibility program for blind and partially sighted youth called Young Sound Seekers, sponsored by the National Park Service. These programs highlight the growing importance of environmental sound (soundscape) on the quality of health for all living creatures. As a musician and soundscape artist, she uses field recordings, electronic music, spoken word, and classical oboe in her compositions and collaborations. She has performed at several venues throughout North America.
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Episode 152 Nurturing Our Sixth Sense with Rachael Schmidt
18 déc. 2025
01:07:31
Episode 152 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:04:07 Interview with Rachael Schmidt
Rachael Schmidt, author of Common Sixth Sense, is a mindfulness-based self-development coach, mentor, and educator with more than twenty years of experience helping people awaken to their fullest potential. She has worked with teenagers, Fortune 500 leaders, and everyone in between, guiding them to live more authentic and connected lives. Schmidt teaches mindfulness integration at the graduate level and is the founder of the consultancy, Common Sixth. You can learn more at www.commonsixth.com.
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Episode 151 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:04:07 Interview with Joanna Zhang
Joanna Zhang is the award-winning founder of The Operations Genius and creator of the world's first Fractional VA Service, a revolutionary approach to operational support that gives entrepreneurs the flexibility, accountability, and expertise they need. A sought-after global speaker, Joanna brings more than strategies, she infuses her talks with soul-aligned wisdom, sharing divine messages that inspire founders to lead from their hearts. Her unique perspective comes from her own journey of soul awakening and soul ascension, guided by her spiritual mentor, which deepened her commitment to uplifting others toward personal transformation. Her story resonates with Toward A Bette Life as a reminder that a "better life" begins with inner alignment—and ripples out to touch family, community, and the world. Please welcome Joanna Zhang to Toward A Better Life as we explore Soul Awakening and Personal Transformation
Episode 150 Druidic Perspectives of The 4 Elements with Kevin Pennell
04 déc. 2025
00:45:51
Episode 150 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:05:19 Druidic Perspectives of The 4 Elements with Kevin Pennell
Kevin Pennell is the Podcast Host and Producer of Toward A Better Life a Licensed Massage Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Shamanic Practitioner, and a Bardic member of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids. He's also an Usui Reiki Master, and Instructor for various self-help and continuing education workshops with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spurgeon College. As a healing facilitator, he devotes his life to being a "hollow bone" or tool to bring about "Compassionate Healing". Kevin also writes, honing his love of writing through journalism. As an author, he applied his biographical and spiritual insights to complete the work Two Feathers: Spiritual Seed Planter that shares the life and spirit of Ken Two Feathers.
0:19:35 Guided Meditation to Deepen A Connection to the 4 Elements
Crazy Journey of Motherhood with Cindy Caprio Woulfe
27 nov. 2025
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Episode 149 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:10:09 Interview with Cindy Caprio Woulfe
Cindy Caprio Woulfe is a full time mother, certified meditation teacher and wellness advocate residing in Connecticut with her husband and two sons. A University of Colorado at Boulder graduate in Communication and an Institute of Integrative Nutrition alumna, she balances motherhood with her passion for mindfulness practices. A regular contributor to Fairfield County Mom, she offers compassionate guidance for mothers seeking balance amid life's overwhelming moments. Her first book, In the Weeds: A Guide to Saving Your Own Soul on This Crazy Journey Called Motherhood, is available for purchase.
Episode 148 Ageless Art of Storytelling with Eimear Burke
20 nov. 2025
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Episode 148 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:06:22 Interview with Eimear Burke
Eimear Burke -is the Chosen Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD) who lives in Kilkenny, Ireland. Eimear is a retired Counselling Psychologist and her interests in Druidry and psychology have led her to act as a Celebrant, helping people to design and enact meaningful rites of passage. She is licensed to perform legal weddings in the Republic of Ireland and can also offer non legal ceremonies. Eimear has a deep love of the ancient Irish tales and has a passion for storytelling. She brings the old tales to new audiences, and - while remaining faithful to the stories - often examines them from new perspectives, so that listeners experience them as fresh and relevant. She particularly enjoys showing people the sacred sites of Ireland and telling the ancient tales right where they happened. Eimear is also a Priestess dedicated to Danú in the Fellowship of Isis. She is an Arch Druidess in the Druid Clan of Dana and a member of the Noble Order of Tara.'
Episode 147 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:05:14 Interview with Craig Meriwether
Craig Meriwether is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Medical Hypnosis Specialist, and author of the Past Lives Guidebook. He's also the founder of Sacred Mystery Hypnotherapy, where he goes clients through powerful spiritual healing journeys such as past life regression, life-between-lives regression, spirit guide connection, and ancestral healing. In Craig's work, he's helped Clients uncover and heal unresolved trauma from past lives. People connect with their spirit guides for clarity and direction. Individuals release ancestral patterns and generational wounds. Seekers access the "life-between-lives" spirit world for profound insight. Clients reconnect with their soul's purpose and mission. In this magical episode, Craig shares how these techniques can help people heal emotionally, physically, and spiritually—often in ways that traditional approaches can't reach. He offers a grounded, practical explanation of how spiritual hypnotherapy works, along with inspiring real-world stories from his practice.
Episode 146 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:05:54 Interview with Dr. Len Lopez
Dr Len Lopez is a Nutrition and fitness expert, who created 5 S.T.E.P.S. a Day... a unique 'to-do' list to help improve your Habits and Attitude by tracking how You Feed Body, Mind, and Spirit. Everyday shade-in One or all 5 S.T.E.P.S. for the action you took and tap into your 'visual' and 'kinesthetic' learning centers to help anchor those better habits and attitude. If you're already tracking your Physical steps or closing your Rings for your PHYSICAL Body... this will be easy, but What am I doing for My Mind and Spirit? Every day ask yourself these 5 questions? SLEEP ----- Did I Sleep/Dream with a Smile? THINK ----- Did I Think Better? EAT ------- Did I Eat Right? PHYSICAL -- Did I Get Physical? SPIRIT ------ Did I work my Spiritual muscles? ....if you did, shade-in that step. By the end of the day... week... month... you can quickly see how good you are at feeding your body, mind, and spirit. It's NOT Rocket Science... It's Feedback and Accountability. In less than 2 minutes you can track and see, if you are doing the things that will make you Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? Or at least get you to be Bigger, Better, Bolder? Dr. Len also created a TEEN version. The 5 S.T.E.P.S. are the Same - but applicable to teens.
Episode 145 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:00:59 Autumn Leaves - Damh the Bard (Used with permission)
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0:10:54 Finding and Being With Our Spirit Guides with Kevin Pennell
Kevin Pennell is the Podcast Host and Producer of Toward A Better Life a Licensed Massage Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Shamanic Practitioner, and a Bardic member of the Order of Nards Ovates and Druids. He's also an Usui Reiki Master, and Instructor for various self-help and continuing education workshops with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spurgeon College. As a healing facilitator, he devotes his life to being a "hollow bone" or tool to bring about "Compassionate Healing". Kevin also writes, honing his love of writing through journalism. As an author, he applied his biographical and spiritual insights to complete the work Two Feathers: Spiritual Seed Planter that shares the life and spirit of Ken Two Feathers.
0:31:22 Guided Meditation to Find Your Spirit Guide
Episode 144 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:05:54 Interview with Amy Dickens
Amy Dickens is a leading voice on joy, play, and reconnecting with the parts of ourselves that make us feel most alive. She's the creator of Joyfully You, where her mission is to help adults rediscover the transformative power of joy and play—not as something frivolous, but as a vital part of well-being, creativity, and authentic living. With her background in yoga, meditation, and coaching, Amy has guided people through healing and self-discovery for years. Now she channels that wisdom into her playful videos, her podcast, getting people quite literally dancing through the streets, and her new book 101 Ways to Spread Joy. Amy reminds us that joy isn't just for kids—it's fuel for our souls.
Episode 143 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:04:05 Interview with Lizbeth DeSa
Lizbeth is Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy Practitioner, Educator, Conflict Mediator, Laughter Yoga Leader, Writer. She helps those dealing with Shame, Anxiety, and Depression. Using An IFS Approach, she has also helped individuals suffering from Complex Trauma issues and PTSD with IFS. Lizbeth believes the mind is made up of sub-personalities or "parts". Each part has unique qualities. Some parts are functional and valuable while others may behave in negative ways. However, they have positive intentions, even if that is hard to believe. Underlying the parts is a person's true essence or Self.The Self knows how to heal in order to become whole and integrated. Sing the song of Your Self. Stay tuned as Lizbeth DeSa shares the magic of Internal Family Systems Therapy.
Episode 142 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:03:38 Interview with Erica Joy Siegel
Erica is an Acupuncture Physician & Herbalist in the Jacksonville, Florida area. In practice for 20 years she assists in treating a variety of health conditions, simple to complex, acute to chronic. Utilizing several techniques and adjunct therapies to get desired outcomes. She's the only practitioner in the region doing Acunova-a protocol from Denmark using points on the hands and feet to help recover some vision and slow degenerative eye diseases. She is also unique in her offering of laser acupuncture for kids and needlephobes. She's also authored a wonderful book The Acupuncture Point Functions Charts & Workbook which she talks about in this episode Acupuncture Demystified
Episode 141 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:04:27 Interview with Angie Hawkins
Angie Hawkins is an Inner Glow Coach who transforms high-achieving, spiritual women from chasing love and approval to radiating fierce confidence so they can finally feel happy, free, and loved for who they are. She works with women who've done therapy, read the books, tried the spiritual path, but still feel like something's missing. Through deep inner work and identity transformation, she helps them break the cycle of not feeling "enough," so they can experience real love, confidence, and peace without having to change who they are.
Angie authored Running in Slippers, a raw and vulnerable memoir about finding resilience after emotional rock bottom. Angie has moved from Chicago to Hawaii on her own, jumped out of a helicopter and into the ocean Navy SEAL-style, bungee jumped, skydived, and cliff jumped, and now she's jumping in to talk with me about People Pleasing, Boundaries, and Being A Functional Adult. Stay tuned for my eye opening chat with Angie.
Episode 140 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:05:48 Interview with Dana O'Driscoll and Nate Summers
Dana O'Driscoll - Dana is the Grand Arch Druid of AODA in the US along with being a lifelong student of nature spirituality and Druidry and has been practicing for 18 years. She has authored of multiple books that focus on nature spirituality and neopagan practices through the lenses of reverence, respect, and direct action on behalf of the living earth.
Nate Summers has authored several books as well studying with a number of amazing teachers and mentors over the years. Nate's approach is a blend and mix of the lineages. Ultimately, his goal in writing, teaching, and mentoring is to help people discover their own truths and ways with the guidance and wisdom handed down through the ages and through many powerful lineages. Nate hopes to empower people in their lives, to help them discover ease, peace and confidence, and to be lit up inside with their own primal passion, vitality, and power.
Dana and Nate talk about their new book "Eco-Spirituality in the 21st Century: ReVisioning Nature, Community, and Connection for a Better Tomorrow" an incredible title for an incredible book. Eco-Spirituality offers a new vision for nature spirituality both by drawing upon ancient, ancestral connections and by visioning human-nature-spirit connections for a brighter future. The authors combine their collective skill sets in druidry, wilderness survival skills, permaculture, and more, to create this new framework for engaging in an eco-centric spiritual practice and lifestyle in the 21st century. Stay tuned for this compelling chat about Eco-Spirituality!
Episode 139 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:03:40 Interview with Corie Wightlin
Corie Wightlin, an ADHD/executive functioning coach, educator, and mindfulness facilitator who gets ADHD—because she lives it. With over 25 years of experience in cognitive science, education, and coaching, she helps overwhelmed folks turn chaos into clarity using real-life strategies that actually work. Her approach is rooted in self-compassion, practical tools, and meeting clients exactly where they are.
Episode 138 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:01:08 Nwyfre and Intuition - The Listening Breath Dr. Abby Campbell (Produced by Kevin Pennell and Used By Permission)
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0:07:47 Exploring Our Soul - Kevin Pennell
Kevin is a Podcast Host and Producer of Toward A Better Life. He's also a Licensed Massage Therapist, an Usui Reiki Sensei, and Continuing Education Instructor and Instructor for various self-help workshops. Kevin has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spurgeon College. As a healing facilitator, he devotes his life to being a "hollow bone" or tool to bring about "Compassionate Healing".
Various cultural and ceremonial methods may be applied to his work as a facilitator for personal healing and spiritual counseling.
He employs Traditional Massage Therapy, TuiNa (a Chinese form of medical massage), Thai, Trigger Point Therapy, Acupressure, and other bodywork techniques plus Reiki, Intuition, and Empathy to promote the individual's emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Creator and Spirit Guides play vital roles in Kevin's facillitory work with others. He also applies hypnosis, journey, and guided meditation techniques for overcoming present, past, and/or past life issues in person and via Zoom
Kevin also writes, honing his love of writing through journalism. As an author, he applied his biographical and spiritual insights to complete the work Two Feathers: Spiritual Seed Planter that shares the life and spirit of Ken Two Feathers.
Episode 137 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell
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0:00: 56 Eve of A Great Discovery by Awenfire (Used By Permission)
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0:08:05 Interview with Victoria Williams
Victoria Williams is the author of The Warlock and the Ovate. The cover says it's a timeless fantasy adventure crafted for older children and adults. Set in a mythological world of ancient castles, majestic dragons, wise druids, and battle-hardened Vikings and even a magical tree where morality and corruption collide. Powerful themes of redemption, ancient wisdom, and the awakening of true purpose are also found in the pages of Victoria's The Warlock and the Ovate a world where hope prevails!