A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World

Kylie a Certified Health Coach, Emotional Expert, Co-Founder of Zura Health, Podcast Host, Speaker and Writer. This is Kylie's second time on the show and we dive in real deep, real fast. We talk about our thoughts on the nature of feminine power, the importance of community and interdependence, and what an embodied & intentional path to self-trust and intuition looks like. We also discuss why you can't actually consent to anything if you don't know and trust yourself, the anger and grief-laden process of recognizing you've confused abuse with love, and why we both feel that if there's going to be a revolution, it will be one grounded in self-knowing and regulation. 

Find Kylie at kyliemcbeath.com and on Instagram @beingisbeautiful

Kylie's Book Recommendation: Patriarchy Stress Disorder by Valerie Rein

Songs featured: "Geminid Meteor Shower" by Hidden Tapes and "Back In My Body" by Maggie Rogers

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Jesse is is a research psychologist and Director of the Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is the author of several books, all of which examine controversial & taboo topics. We talk about the nature of sexual perversion - what it means, how it's defined and why moralistic, socially constructed positions related to behavior of any kind can be extremely problematic. We dive into everything from pedophilia to incest to zoophilia and challenge the "nature" argument as it relates to the construction of sexual orientation. We also discuss how shame and punishment have played a role in human relationships throughout history, how theory of mind can feed into a belief in something greater than ourselves, suicide, narcissism, and how Trump embodies a perfect elixir of both cleverness and psychosis enabling him to capitalize on collective human psychology.

Find Jesse at jessebering.com

Jesse's Book Recommendation: The Stranger by Albert Camus

Songs featured: "Animal" by Jenny and Johnny and "If 6 Was 9" by Axiom Funk

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Callie is a scavenger-gatherer, hunter, wilderness therapy guide, ancestral skills teacher and goat herder who lives nomadically following the seasons and wild food. Chris Ryan co-hosts this episode with me and we discuss everything from Callie's recent appearance on the TV show Alone, her upbringing & close relationship with loss and death, how she transforms grief into gratitude and a commitment to honoring herself and the earth, and the practical and symbolic beauty of goats and how they can help get us back to a more regenerative relationship with the planet.

Find Callie at Caprakhan.com and on Instagram @caprakhan

Callie's Book Recommendation: Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkin, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer and Tending the Wild by M. Kat Anderson

Songs featured: Solo by Oh Wonder and No Hard Feelings by The Avett Brothers

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Leah has a BA in social justice and is working on her doctorate in clinical depth psychology where she plans to write her dissertation on white shamanism. Leah and I speak about what it means to import the sacred, spiritual practices of other cultures into a Western context and how we can get stuck in the trap of spiritual bypassing. We also talk about how all of this relates to power, narcissism, social media, psychedelics and therapy. Lastly, we discuss the nuanced and complex nature of defining and reacting to "abuse", the dangers of cancel culture and the importance of moving from victimhood into empowerment. 

Find Leah on Instagram at @creme.de.la.bean and her white shaman alter-ego Steve at @stevetheshaman

Leah's Book Recommendation: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Song featured: Buildings and Bridges by Ani DiFranco

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Justin and I look at the world in very similar ways. Maybe it’s because we were both raised by a gay dad, or because we both had to navigate challenging early childhood dynamics, or because we both have Dutch heritage. Either way, for as long as we can both remember, we’ve always approached the world with a great deal of curiosity and skepticism. Justin worked in the fire department for his entire adult life and just recently retired. He shares vulnerably about what his 23 years of experience has taught him about humanity and the systems we depend on. We discuss everything from navigating our sexual identity to processing severe trauma to the crisis of loneliness to the multitude of ways our culture fails the people who need our support the most. Justin is one of the most vulnerable and courageous men I know. I’m honored to be his friend and grateful to help share his story. 

Find Justin on Instagram @justinotherman

Justin's Book Recommendations: The War on Art by Steven Pressfield and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig

Songs featured: "Bones" by DeYarmond Edison and "Lairs" by Gregory Alan Isakov

Click here to see the Feelings Wheel Justin mentioned

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Sarah Kerr is a death doula and ritual healing practitioner, helping people navigate literal and symbolic death through cross-cultural shamanic healing and nature-based spirituality. We speak about dark nights of the soul as initiatory experiences, rituals for letting go, the cyclical nature of the soul’s journey and how processing personal grief is of service to the larger whole. 

Find Sarah at soulpassages.ca

Sarah's Book Recommendation: World as Lover, World as Self by Joanna Macey and Dark Night, Early Dawn by Christopher Bache

Songs featured: "Semolina" by Slow Meadow and "Kol Nidre" by Max Bruch

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Joe, Lisa and Deb are Jungian Analysts and co-hosts of the podcast This Jungian Life. Our conversation covers Carl Jung & his legacy + weaves together discussions around manifestation, mysticism, authenticity, depth psychology, astrology, suffering, trauma, personal and collective dark nights of the soul & the mythology of the millennial generation.

Find Joe, Lisa & Deb at ThisJungianLife.com

Joe's Book Recommendation: The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune
Lisa's Book Recommendation: Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
Deb's Book Recommendation: The Inner World of Trauma by Donald Kalsched

Songs featured: "Friends" by Francis and the Lights (feat. Bon Iver) and "Japanese Ceremonial Tea (Interlude)" by The Electric Sons

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Diana Rodgers, RD, LDN is a “real food” Licensed Registered Dietitian Nutritionist living on a working organic farm in New England. She’s an author and host of The Sustainable Dish Podcast. She's currently working on a new book and film project, Sacred Cow, exploring the important role of animals in our food system. Diana and I discuss how and why meat is imperative to a stable ecosystem, a healthy diet and necessary to address a long list of environmental issues. We talk soil, death, the religious history behind why Americans have come to view meat as "bad" and how to spread truth and enact meaningful change when it feels like everything is working against you.

Find Diana at sustainabledish.com and sacredcow.info

Click here to pre-order Sacred Cow.

Diana's Book Recommendation: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

Songs featured: "Walk Away" by Xavier Rudd and "The Gardener" by Holly Arrowsmith

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Jenny is a certified astrologer, holds a B.A. in Classical Philology and has studied ancient civilizations and languages for over 25 years. She also has a PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures and is one of my closest friends and mentors. Jenny and I speak about locating and embracing personal filters as it relates to language, heritage and spirituality in order to find our life's unique lesson plan. We also discuss our own personal mother wounds and how we're working through them, our skepticisms about some forms of astrology and how trauma can and should be used as a tool for finding the truest expression of ourselves and our "purpose" in this lifetime. 

Find Jenny at amaltheaastrology.com

Jenny's Book Recommendation: No Friend by the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani

Poems Jenny read: An unpublished translation of an untitled poem by Nobel Prize winner George Seferis, translated from the Modern Greek by Jenny & the poems “Day” and “Night” by Jawdat Fakhreddine translated by Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen from the book Lighthouse for the Drowning.

Songs featured: "Dreamland" by Glass Animals and "Moment of Surrender" by Nick Mulvey

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Kelsey is a veterinarian, former art student and badass hoola hooper. To be honest, we spend the entire first half of this podcast recounting a rattlesnake bite Kelsey got within a day of me meeting her (where she had to be flown out of a remote canyon we were in via helicopter), but for the rest of the show we discuss her experience growing up on large, remote cattle ranches, her inspiration for becoming a large animal veterinarian and how she plans to use her expertise to assist in endangered species awareness, conservation and reproduction. We also discuss our mutual love of the outdoors and how vital it is, especially in these times, to spend time outside in nature.

Find Kelsey on Instagram - @kelseamountain

Kelsey's Book Recommendation: Cathedral of the Wild by Boyd Varty

Songs featured: "Long Time Coming" by Leela James and "Drover" by Bill Callahan

Learn more about chart I spoke about in my intro in regard to mapping our roles in a social change ecosystem here - https://buildingmovement.org/our-work/movement-building/solidarity-is/

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