Alight

Welcome to the launch of the Alight Podcast! Our episodes bolster your optimism and clarity, offer you practical skills for soulful self-care and conscious creativity, and encourage you to know and be your authentic, soulful self. 

We’re living in a time of great shift for people and Earth, so many of us feel the urge to contribute something distinctive, bright, and beautiful. 

**New interview series launching in October 2025** 

Learn how to: 

• Contribute to the world from your wholeness: expand your well-being so you offer your service, of whatever type, from the strongest place possible. 
• Transform our world with your light by trusting your heart’s guidance. 

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Hear an update on the podcast, why the podcast has been on pause, and what my new offering is.

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Whether Rachael Te Wano is in sessions with clients or leading travel to sacred lands, she shares tools of embodiment and self-activation. She helps her clients align with their highest potential, unravel the threads of their destiny, heal at the origin, and activate the inherent wisdom within their DNA. She loves to say, “a grounded women will change the world.” Find her work at www.rachaeltewano.com 

Rachael is a deeply grounded, peaceful, and empowered healer, teacher, and guide. In our conversation, she shares: 

• Why grounding to your own Earth Star Chakra is your solid foundation. “To be embodied, stable, and deeply connected opens up a space for us to vibrate at a higher frequency and be aligned to our inner voice.” 
• How grounding to your Earth Star Chakra helps if you’re feeling resistant to life on Earth, and teaches you about authentic connection.
• How to ground to your own Earth Star Chakra. “This is our birthright: to receive this beautiful re-weaving of connection to Mother.”
• It’s an exercise in receiving, which for many of us isn’t a strong area.
• She’s seen grounding to the Earth Star Chakra help people heal mentally and physically and heighten their creativity and empowerment. 
• Why embodied spirituality is important: if it’s not enhancing your everyday reality, what’s the point?
• How she learned about self-transformation by healing her finger that was scheduled for amputation. 
• What Ocean taught her this year about our relationship with Earth’s waters.
• What happens when you live as a custodian of the land you inhabit.

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Can we create our reality? Hear renowned coach Abiola Abrams and Chara discuss:

• Why it matters for us to take full responsibility for our lives and manifest consciously, not unconsciously.
• Why it’s important to realize that the mindset and manifestation approaches taught in recent decades actually are age-old and global and connect to neuroscience.
• The new discovery that some of the past century’s prominent mindset teachings originated from a black Ethiopian rabbi who taught in New York in the 1920s.
• 3 simple tools for being a conscious co-creator and a conscious receiver of what you desire to experience.
• Why this isn’t spiritual bypassing or toxic positivity.
• How your self-transformation can help heal and re-story the world
• What to do if you’re having trouble believing in what you desire to create.

“The shift I want to invite everyone to make is to realize that we all are infinitely powerful …and allow ourselves the expansiveness to think about possibilities…” Abiola Abrams

ABIOLA ABRAMS is an award-winning author of FROM IMAGINATION TO REALITY and AFRICAN GODDESS INITIATION, in addition to being an intuitive coach, keynote speaker and columnist, creator of goddess oracle cards, and faculty member of The Omega Institute, The Shift Network, and Hay House Summits. Abiola studied sociology at Sarah Lawrence College and has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Abiola is mommy to Ruby and the first-generation American daughter of multi-generational healers, seers, and farmers in Guyana, South America, who are descended from several West African nations. She is passionate about midwifing conscious leaders to breakthrough and using her gifts to inspire, uplift, and transform. Learn more about her work at womanifesting.com and on social media at @abiolaTV. Find a free gift from Abiola at https://u.womanifesting.com/p/free-goddess-receiving-workbook

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Hear about the miracles, acts of kindness, and learning I've experienced recently with the passing of my dog...and about the wild animal babies showing me life's renewal.

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After giving presentations on the dangers of climate change, Leah Rampy became convinced that something was missing from the conversations. With experience as a teacher, professor, corporate and nonprofit executive, and leadership consultant, she began a decades-long journey to understand what lies beneath our unwillingness to change our interactions with the natural world. Her growing commitment to re-weaving soul and Earth has been informed by leading  pilgrimages and retreats, extensive reading and research, her contemplative practice, and the wisdom of the living world. She is the author of the new book, Earth and Soul: Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos. 

Listen to hear Leah’s insights on how:

• Presenting people with facts about climate change usually isn’t enough to shift behavior.
• Welcoming people into relationality and kinship works much better.
• Dealing with your overwhelm and discerning what you can contribute will bring you ease.
• Nature models interdependent sharing of resources, showing us how to think not in terms of scarcity and competition, but abundance and mutual benefit.

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Osprey Orielle Lake is the founder and executive director of the Women's Earth and Climate ActionNetwork (WECAN). She works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. She is the author of the award-winning book Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature, and her new book, The Story Is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. Learn more at https://ospreyoriellelake.earth  

In our conversation, Osprey shares:

• When systems are crumbling, as they are now, we must decide what we want to create instead. 
• We’re in a process of composting systems of oppression and co-creating with the web of life the world that we want to live in.
• Why it’s crucial to listen to women and Indigenous and black and brown communities if we want to lift everyone up and support the web of life.
• Why “we need community as we tend to the world.”
• How to be aware of your ancestral connection to land.
• How to engage in solution-building so you feel less overwhelmed.

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Kate Neligan is an equine-partnered life and business coach, healer, and animal communicator who is devoted to the human-animal bond. Kate pairs her intuitive gifts with those of horses and goats to help people access their own inner power and life purpose. She works with both high-performing women and companies in developing mindful cultures through team-building and leadership retreats. Kate has a Master’s in Spiritual Psychology and is certified in equine experiential education. She is the creator of Awakening With Equines, a first-if-its kind certification program for equine-partnered facilitators, and an Awakening With Equines card deck that highlights horse wisdom qualities. Find her at www.kateneligan.com 

Tune in to hear Kate discuss:

• What it’s like to experience animal-partnered coaching.
• How horses, donkeys, and goats offer us unique types of support, including energy work.
• The higher way for us to treat animals and how we can dismantle speciesism and outgrow old patterns of domination of animals.
• How animals and plants are waiting for our next-level collaboration.

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Do you ever think about how all cultures have important myths and stories about transformation? Tune in to hear:

• Why transformation is core to who we are as humans
• Signs of transformation already occurring in our world
• Why transformation is something we have to choose
• Why individual transformation leads the way for collective transformation
• How to craft your own transformative story about what humans and nature accomplish together in the 21st century

Hear the story of Sedna and why it's important for you to design your own transformative story that will help guide us forward as humans on Earth.

The natural world is waiting for us to choose transformation.

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What does it mean to be part of the democracy of frequency?

We all get to choose, in any moment, what frequency we are holding: rage or despair, joy or peace; fear or irritation, love or inspiration, discontent or gratitude. As we can learn from wise voices such as recent Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nargess Mohammadi, or others such as Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel, and Immaculee Ilibagiza, even when we are imprisoned in dire circumstances, we have a choice about what our internal energetic and emotional state is, and what we are then able to offer to the world. 

Tune in to hear how:

• Choosing our energetic state may be our highest contribution to healing our planet and harmonizing the human-Earth relationship. This is because life on  Earth operates as a democracy of interconnected lives, or a grand symbiotic system in which countless lives are intertwined, continually influencing one another via their frequency, decisions, and actions.
• Each of us gets to choose whether we are emitting muddy or dim light, or bright, vibrant, light that brings greater beauty and regenerative creativity to the world.
• You can curate your frequency and contributions through a 4-step process.
• This can be easy at times, and an uphill climb at others, yet it's not spiritual bypassing. I offer examples.
• The democracy of frequency and the options it offers you are likely going to be make or break in what happens here on Earth. Those who believe there’s still plenty of hope for humanity and the Earth are the ones who are opening pathway after pathway for us to live in harmony with one another and the Earth. 

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