Ancient Intelligence

In this episode, Anya hosts dedicated Men’s Coach, Ewan Corlett. Ewan has been to battle with his own demons and has come out on the other side victorious with a powerful purpose to help men do the same. He supports men from all walks of life in finding their power, living from their hearts, and finding joy and fulfillment in their lives. His emotional strength and depth come through beautifully in this episode about understanding men and emotional availability.

An emotionally available man? In our culture this phrase buzzes around especially in women circles. Is he or isn’t he emotionally available? But we never stop to actually define the term, understand the variables, and ponder how different behaviors from women might impact emotional availably or the lack of it.

We discuss the arc of emotional availability and what that journey looks like for men. We explore what’s at play when men fall into lust versus concisely choosing relationship. We get into how and why men’s work is a prerequisite for emotional availability, a very paradoxical and important thing for women and men to understand. Since at the end of the day, we all want more emotionally available men right?

Tune into this beautiful exploration of manhood and womanhood right alongside it as we ebb and flow towards understanding what qualities are required for men and women to meet each other in a truly emotionally open place.

References:

Connect with Ewan on Instagram here

Work with Ewan directly here

We discuss the Shia Lebouf interview on Real Ones here

In this episode, Anya hosts Confidence and Compassion expert, CEO of Workplace Catalyst, and host of “The C Word,” Magalie René. Magalie helps individuals and corporations bring leadership, compassion, and well-being together into one high-impact package.

This episode is called ‘Uncovering Femininity and Understanding Men’ because as women find their femininity, they begin to see men with greater love and compassion. Both Magalie and I didn’t really understand femininity until very recently and that journey of discovery is one we want to share with you - all in the name of healing men and women.

This is a continuation from our prior episode where we discussed Daddy Issues (aka the father wound). Women that have experienced daddy issues typically have a tough time with femininity and reclaiming it is a revolutionary experience. One that brings a brand new relationship with work, pleasure, receiving, confidence, and men of course.

This episode is live just in time for Maglie’s launch of her new miniseries, The “C” Word (no it’s not a 4 letter word)! It’s a 10 part miniseries about a 10-letter word with the power to change the world. Compassion is a game changer and no one teaches how and why quite like Magalie René. Her approach has changed my life and it is sure to change yours, connect with Magalie below:

References:

Watch The “C” Word here

Watch Magalie on Good Morning DC here

Connect with Magalie on instagram here

In this episode, Anya hosts wise woman and psychotherapist, Taune Lyons. Taune is devoted to interconnection and she helps people take that elusive journey from their head to their heart.

Taune’s empathy and openness paired with her clarity and realness made her the perfect person to discuss the very confusing state of relationship labels and buzz words that we find ourselves in today.

While options and labels for different relationship structures are growing, the level of personal understanding, integrity, and authentic alignment isn’t always…so I wanted to explore that.

To do that, I went back to basics to ask the simple questions; what is polygamy? what is polyamory? what is monogamy? what is consensual non monogamy? What is partnership? How do we know what is authentic to us?

Taune and I talked partnership, power-dynamics, sex, love and the role culture and history play in our relationships. Our intention was to give everyone listening an opportunity to discover what being in true-integrity might mean for them.

References:

Connect with Taune on Instagram here

Work with Taune here

Hold on to Your Kids by Gabor Máte here

In this episode, Anya hosts powerhouse mindset coach for women, Sidney Scott. Sid is the creator of the CURE coaching framework which is the process he uses to help women achieve their best breakthroughs. His company, Your Best Breakthrough, empowers women to break through physically, emotionally, spiritually, and financially. Having spent 8 years as a language analyst working in counter-intelligence, he uses a tactical yet spiritual approach to guiding women through the work to have them boldly step into the woman who creates all the outcomes she desires.

Sid is a man who truly understands women at the deepest level and it was an honor to share the space with him. This episode is a demonstration of what’s possible when men and women see each other and want the best for each other. With Sid focusing on helping women, and myself focusing on helping men we came together and broke down what’s really going on in the hearts, minds, and souls of both sexes.

We talk about partnership, the mistakes men and women make (and most importantly, why), and what it means to be seen by the opposite sex. We unpack the difficulty men and women have with giving and receiving, what emotional leadership looks like, and we paint the picture for a potential new vision for partnership.

Sid is based on Phoenix, AZ but works with women all over the world. He hosts workshops, has programs, and coaches 1:1. He’s currently enrolling for his upcoming 6 week course.

References:

Connect with Sid on Instagram here

Connect with Sid on facebook here

In this episode, Anya hosts NY based psychotherapist Michael Shawe. Michael’s passion for helping people heal their traumas so they can create meaningful connections is infectious. He’s currently spending a lot of time coaching couples as well as leading a men’s group.

What I originally thought would be a conversation about unpacking what’s behind the term mama’s boy, we went much deeper. We ended up going on a hero’s journey where we unearthed what it means to actually love a person in their wholeness. We talk about how the key to making real connections is through our dark sides and how similar we all are in our experiences.

We talk about mama’s boys, emotionally absent fathers, power dynamics, and how sex and our wounds are inextricably linked until we make the subconscious conscious.

With plenty of personal references, anecdotes, and examples; this conversation is an invitation for everyone, man or woman, to ask themselves some important questions about their truest desires for love, sex, and connection.

References:

Connect with Mike on Instagram here

Check out Mike’s Zocdoc reviews here

Iron John by Robert Bly

Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliot

Trauma & Recovery by Judith Herman

In this episode, Anya hosts self-mastery coach and wise woman Julie Diaz. This is a special episode that was inspired by the awareness of the cultural narrative out there that no one cares about men. As two women who care about men deeply and are committed to shifting this narrative, we wanted to get together and go back and forth sharing all the reasons why we love men.

Gentlemen, this is for you, in honor of you, and inspired by all that you are and bring to the table as men. It’s 20 minutes long so listen in as Julie and I ping-pong finishing the sentence, ‘I love men because…’

Connect with Julie here

Connect with Anya here

In this episode, Anya hosts vibrant and expressive fitness coach and dancer Hannah Rose. Hannah’s passion for people find deep connection and freedom within their bodies is inspiring.

She’s got immense wisdom to share about how people’s body movement or lack thereof is directly related to the pain they hold within them. As a dancer and fitness coach, Hannah and I discuss both the strip club and fitness industries at length and unpack the wounded and healthy masculine and feminine dynamics that live in both spaces.  We highlight how different movement is for men and women and why so many women feel helpless in the hyper-masculine fitness industry because they don’t achieve the results they want.

We touch on the bodybuilder’s journey and the mental struggle that can exist there, in addition to highlighting the missing space for the feminine within fitness in general. We talk about men and the way they relate to their bodies through the training process and sexuality. Finally, we unravel the layers of validation and rejection that exists for both men and women within body movement.

We highlight some resources and cultural references during this episode including;

Strip Down, Rise Up - a must watch documentary on netflix for both men and women highlighting sensual expression and trauma

Shredded - An award winning short documentary from Israel that follows the mental struggle of a bodybuilder. (Link to watch only available for 48 hours after release of this episode)

Magic Mike - Understanding the sensual freedom and safety that fluid body movement creates for men (specifically the live shows)

Last but not least, connect with the wonderful Hannah Rose on instagram. She’s currently creating a beautiful new program for women that fuses the discipline of the gym with the fluidity of sensual dance.

In this episode, Anya hosts game-changing elite life coach, Nick Tillia. He’s the go-to coach when Elite athletes and professionals want extraordinary support and the unfair advantage in their lives.

Nick has become an expert in understanding inner child work and during this episode he let’s us into the wisdom behind his teachings. We cover the multi- dimensional meaning behind the phrase, ‘heal the boy and the man will appear,’ in addition to the loneliness epidemic, understanding masculinity, unconscious dynamics between men and women, and parenthood.

-Connect with Nick here

In this episode, Anya fills a gap that we have in our culture by bringing to light a term that is missing, masculinism. Many times, we see feminism and masculinity being placed next to each other (or pitted against each other), but that’s not correct. Feminism is a movement, while masculinity is a life force (apples and oranges).

Etymology is extremely important, when we don’t have the right word or the right definition of a word in our culture, we get stuck. And currently we are stuck because we are missing the word and definition of masculinism. Listen in as Anya introduces masculinism, where it came from, and why we so desperately need to add it to our vernacular. In this short episode, Anya talks about Robert Bly (the father of men’s movement), Egyptian mythology, Indigenous storytelling, and how we can use masculinism in the modern context to help get us unstuck and move forward.

In this episode, Anya hosts expressive and magnetic musical artist, Chelsea Perkins. Chelsea makes upbeat girl-power music that gets you off your chair and into your body. Her style and energy is one-of-a-kind and sometimes when we think of artists, we think of them one-dimensionally (i.e. only cooking or singing or acting) but the truth is that it’s their personal lives that impact them the most creatively.

That’s exactly what I found out when I went behind the scenes with Chelsea. Listen in as she shines light on the personal journey that has made her who she is today. From dating to healing to modern womanhood, join Chelsea and I as we uncover how to express your creativity and unique YOU-ness through the properties of masculinity and femininity. We also do a live exercise that brings forth how to separate the two elements within you in a clear way that you can join in on. Once you meet Chelsea you’ll want to check out her music in all the places music is available:

Connect with Chelsea on IG here

Listen to her latest songs here

Follow her on Twitch here