What does it mean to remember who we are – beyond modern time, beyond forgetting, beyond fragmentation?

What becomes possible when ritual, prayer, and sacred memory are restored as living technologies for our collective future?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee is joined by Isis Indriya – minister, culture creator, ritual educator, and bridge-builder for the Oracle Clan – for a luminous conversation on remembrance, lineage, and the living transmission of ancient wisdom. Rooted in Egyptian cosmology, Hermetic philosophy, and devotional practice, this dialogue invites us into a deeper relationship with ritual not as performance, but as prayerful participation in the ongoing creation of the world.

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About Our Guest

Isis Indriya is a minister, culture creator, bridge-builder, and fireplace keeper for the Oracle Clan. She is an educator of ritual, divination, Egyptian cosmology, and Hermeticism, and the founder of the Academy of Oracle Arts, a global school devoted to the restoration of sacred wisdom traditions and initiatory learning.

Isis teaches and facilitates rituals and ceremonies worldwide, both online and in community, and leads pilgrimages to Egypt as a living classroom of remembrance. Through her temple space, she hosts community prayers and gatherings, holding space for reverence, transmission, and collective healing. Her work is rooted in devotion, discernment, and the careful stewardship of ancient knowledge in modern times.

What We Explore in This Episode

Together, Aubrey and Isis explore the role of the oracle in times of transition, the responsibility of holding sacred knowledge with humility and care, and the importance of restoring ritual as a communal, embodied practice.

Key Takeaways

• Ritual as living technology for coherence, prayer, and collective orientation
• The oracle as listener, translator, and servant of life – not authority over it
• Egyptian cosmology as a map of harmony, balance, and sacred order
• The importance of lineage, humility, and discernment in spiritual leadership
• Remembering Earth as temple and community as ceremony
• Futures shaped not by domination, but by devotion, reverence, and care

For those drawn to ritual, ancestral wisdom, sacred study, and the slow remembering of what has always been alive beneath the surface of modern life, this episode offers a grounded and luminous invitation to walk with integrity, listen deeply, and tend the future as something holy.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Isis’s work:
Website: www.academyoforaclearts.com
Instagram: @isis_indriya, @academy.of.oraclearts & @studio_omari

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What if the future is not something we wait for, but something we remember how to co-create?

What if our words, our bodies, and our imaginations are already shaping the worlds to come?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with longtime collaborator and trusted companion Cassie Mitchell for a deeply intimate conversation about Aubrey’s book Our Beloved Futures. Together, Aubrey and Cassie explore the birth of Our Beloved Futures – from its mythopoetic origins and shamanic writing process, to the moments of doubt, feedback, and profound soul-retrieval that shaped its final form. Aubrey shares how the book emerged not as a linear argument, but as a frequency – an invitation into remembrance, ecological belonging, and collective imagination.

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About the Conversation

In this rich and expansive dialogue, Aubrey reflects on writing as a devotional practice – one that channels wisdom beyond the intellect and asks the writer to trust their own genius, even when it is not universally understood. She speaks to words as living forces, carrying frequencies that work on us beneath conscious thought, and to the future as a collective dream we are already co-dreaming with the Earth.

From personal stories of creative vulnerability to sweeping reflections on planetary transformation, this episode offers a grounded yet visionary lens on what it means to live, imagine, and create in times of profound change.

What We Explore in This Episode

This episode offers a contemplative glimpse into the nonlinear, shamanic writing of Our Beloved Futures, where the creative process becomes an act of soul retrieval and devotion to authenticity. Aubrey reflects on words as living frequencies, the chakra system as a map for collective becoming, and the butterfly as a guide through collapse and emergence. Woven throughout is an invitation to shift from modern mind to ecological mind – remembering ourselves as empowered co-creators, dreaming the future alongside a living Earth.

Key Takeaways:

• Conversation as medicine – why Aubrey thrives in dialogue and relational inquiry rather than solo transmission.
• Density as devotion – how contemplative writing invites readers to slow down, breathe, and listen between the words.
• Trusting your genius – honoring the truth that not all work is meant to be legible to everyone.
• Words carry power – language as frequency, disruption, and re-patterning.
• Futures are plural – the future is not fixed, but shaped through imagination, choice, and collective dreaming.
• Ecological mind – remembering ourselves as relational beings within a living, intelligent world.
• Find the others – how authenticity becomes a beacon for imaginal cells to gather and build what comes next.

For anyone navigating creative doubt, planetary grief, spiritual awakening, or the longing to participate consciously in what is unfolding, this episode offers a resonant invitation: to clean and clear the vessel, listen deeply, and trust that your presence matters in the shaping of our beloved futures.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What if the intelligence we seek is living all around us – in the soil, in the trees, in the quiet, patient spirits of the plants?

What becomes possible when we slow down, listen deeply, and allow the natural world to re-teach us who we are?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Jason Grechanik, a plant-medicine practitioner, tabaquero, and host of The Universe Within Podcast. Jason’s life’s path has been shaped by devotion to the plants, deep listening, and a humble willingness to let nature lead. Together, Aubrey and Jason explore what it means to walk a path of apprenticeship – the patience it requires, the honesty it reveals, and the profound transformation that unfolds when we meet the world with reverence.

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About Our Guest

Jason Grechanik is a plant-medicine practitioner and tabaquero whose path began with a curiosity about plants as food, life, and medicine. In his early twenties, he studied herbalism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and healing traditions from around the world. This exploration eventually led him to the Amazon rainforest, where he spent nearly ten years working at The Temple of the Way of Light, one of the most respected ayahuasca healing centers in Peru.

Jason currently leads dietas and plant-medicine retreats in Peru and abroad, working with Amazonian tree medicines as well as trees native to North America and Europe. He is also the creator and host of The Universe Within Podcast, which features interviews with elders, healers, teachers, and practitioners from around the world.

What We Explore in This Episode

In this expansive conversation, Aubrey and Jason explore the profound relationship between humans and plants – what we learn when we approach them with humility, and what they reveal when we quiet the mind long enough to listen.

Key Takeaways

• The path of the dieta – understanding isolation, silence, and fasting not as deprivation, but as gateways to clarity and deep communion with plant spirits.
• Apprenticeship as devotion – why true learning requires patience, humility, and a willingness to be transformed.
• Plants as mirrors for consciousness – how vegetal intelligence reflects the parts of ourselves we are ready to see and heal.
• Healing as remembering – the insight that plants don’t “fix” us; they help us recover our inherent wholeness.
• Safety, ethics, and lineage in medicine work – the importance of proper guidance, preparation, and integration when entering plant-medicine spaces.

For anyone drawn to plant wisdom, spiritual apprenticeship, or the subtle terrains of inner healing, this conversation offers a grounded, honest, and illuminating glimpse into the heart of the vegetal world.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Jason’s work:
Website: https://jasongrechanik.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasongrechanik/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UniverseWithin
Podcast: The Universe Within

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What becomes possible when the Dharma meets the wounded places of our world with tenderness, and also with righteous, necessary fire?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Mary Thanissara – Buddhist teacher, former monastic, author, activist, and carrier of profound devotional lineage – for a spacious, intimate, and stirring conversation. This dialogue becomes a remembering: of feminine wisdom long suppressed, of inner authority reclaimed, and of the Dharma as a living, breathing force for liberation.

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About Our Guest

Thanissara began practicing in the Burmese tradition in 1975 and later ordained in the Ajahn Chah lineage, becoming one of the first Western women to join the siladhara order in the UK. She spent twelve years as a Buddhist nun, helping establish both Chithurst and Amaravati Monasteries and pioneering Dharma retreats for families and children.

Thanissara and her husband and  partner, Kittisaro, live in Sonoma County, California where they founded Sacred Mountain Sangha Non Profit which hosts regular practice spaces, retreats, Dharma trainings and its emergent contemplative activist focus, Liberation Spirituality, to support a revolutionary Dharma to meet these times. She holds an MA in Buddhist Psychotherapy and is the author of Garden of the Midnight Rosary, a collection of mystical, devotional poetry. Her work integrates Dharma, depth psychology, trauma-informed healing, and sacred activism – with a particular emphasis on restoring the feminine principle within spiritual life and systems of power.

What We Explore in This Episode

This conversation moves between the intimate and the mythic – tracing Thanissara's journey from early monastic life to decades of teaching, activism, and trauma-informed spiritual care. Through stories, lineage memories, and fierce clarity, Thanissara calls us back to an embodied, relational, and sacred Dharma.

Key Takeaways

• The wounded feminine within Buddhism – how patriarchal structures shaped Thanissara’s early monastic life and why reclaiming the feminine is essential for collective liberation.
• Trauma, silence, and spiritual bypassing – understanding how traditions can unintentionally reinforce harm, and how courage, truth-telling, and relational repair restore the integrity of the path.
• Right timing and sacred cycles – how awakening often unfolds in spirals, not straight lines, and why deep practice requires patience, attunement, and compassion.
• The Dharma in a burning world – how Buddhist practice meets climate emergency, social injustice, and global grief – not as escape, but as embodied engagement.

Whether you are a longtime practitioner, newly exploring Buddhist teachings, or simply longing for a more truthful and loving way of being, this conversation with Thanissara invites you into a deeper relationship with presence, integrity, and sacred courage.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Thanissara’s work:
Websites: https://sacredmountainsangha.org/ and https://dharmagiri.org
Substack: https://thanissara.substack.com

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What if the greatest awakening of your life came disguised as loss, emptiness, or collapse?

What if everything you built was meant to fall apart, so you could remember who you truly are?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Peter Kennedy – entrepreneur, author, and seeker – for a deeply honest and transformative conversation about the inner journey that began after the outer world he built came undone. Once the CEO of a global company, Pete found himself facing the limits of success, addiction, and control. His descent through loss and plant medicine ultimately became a pilgrimage home to his own heart – chronicled in his book The Remembering: A Journey Back to Self.

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About Our Guest

Peter Kennedy is a father of five, entrepreneur, spiritual seeker, and author of The Remembering. Once driven by a relentless pursuit of success (culminating in the $140M exit of his tech startup), Peter’s awakening came not from achievement, but from surrender. A life-changing temazcal ceremony in the jungles of Brazil cracked open the armor he had spent decades building and set him on a path of deep healing and spiritual transformation. Through plant medicine, somatic therapy, and confronting the parts of himself he had long exiled, Peter began to remember who he truly is. 

Today, he is the co-founder of EvolveWell Inc., a conscious technology company redefining growth from the inside out. Peter’s journey is a testament to the power of letting go and the beauty of becoming whole.

What We Explore in This Episode

In this rich and soulful exchange, Aubrey and Peter trace the contours of awakening through the lenses of loss, identity, and integration. They invite us to see transformation not as a destination, but as a daily devotion to awareness, love, and truth.

Key Takeaways

• • From control to surrender – how Peter’s journey through Iboga and other plant medicines revealed the fear underlying success and control.
  • The myth of busyness – dismantling the cultural illusion that productivity equals worth, and discovering presence instead.
  • Love as the ultimate integration – the moment Peter brought compassion to the parts of himself he once rejected, he reshaped his relationship with his family and the generational healing that would follow.
  • Remembering God – finding spirituality beyond religion, in direct relationship with the divine within.
  • Authenticity as power – why embracing our “weirdness” is the medicine the world needs most.

Whether you’re navigating a dark night of the soul, awakening to your true nature, or simply longing to live more authentically, this conversation will remind you that even in the unraveling, you are already home.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Peter’s work:
Website: https://evolveweird.com
Instagram: @therememberingbook
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterkennedy182
Book: The Remembering: A Journey Back to Self

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What does it mean to live in alignment – with self, with others, and with the Earth?

How might restoring harmony within become the path to restoring peace on our planet?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Kumu Ramsay Taum, a respected Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) teacher, cultural practitioner, and visionary leader whose life work bridges ancient wisdom with modern systems. Together, they explore how Hawaiian ancestral wisdom offers a roadmap for personal and collective healing, and how Hawai‘i itself can serve as a model for a peaceful and regenerative world.

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About Our Guest

Kumu Ramsay stands as a bridge between worlds – an Indigenous wisdom keeper rooted in ancestral knowing, yet fully engaged within the infrastructures of modernity. His work does not seek to escape the systems of extraction and imbalance, but to meet them, reweave them, and offer a path forward grounded in Aloha, accountability, and alignment. 

In spaces where metrics have too long replaced meaning, Kumu Ramsay calls for a deeper reckoning: not merely accounting, but radical accountability; not just reference, but reverence; not only return on investment, but a return on intellect, intention, and integrity. His voice is both ancient and emergent, advocating for economic and ecological systems that reflect the sacred interdependence of all life. 

Through a lens of peace, sustainability, and relational wisdom, Kumu Ramsay helps communities remember who they are, where they stand, and how to move in harmony with both land and law, spirit and structure.

What We Explore in This Episode

In this powerful conversation, Kumu Ramsay and Aubrey explore the inner technologies of alignment and harmony, Ho’oponopono, and how ancient Hawaiian wisdom holds keys for navigating today’s fragmented world.

Key Takeaways

• • Ho‘oponopono as inner technology – the practice of restoring right relationship within, before attempting to heal what’s outside of us.
  • Living Pono – understanding alignment as a dynamic, moment-by-moment attunement to what is proper and balanced in each circumstance.
  • Mana as life force – accessing, rather than accumulating, the universal energy available to all living beings.
  • Hawai‘i as the world’s spiritual navel – envisioning the islands as a global center for peace, reconciliation, and ecological renewal.
  • Navigating multiple realities – reimagining time, destiny, and choice through the Hawaiian lens of cyclical and multidimensional awareness.

Whether you are walking the path of reconciliation, exploring your relationship with the Earth, or seeking a deeper sense of purpose, this conversation will invite you to slow down, listen, and remember your place in the great web of life.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Kumu Ramsay’s work:
Website: https://www.ramsaytaum.com/
Instagram: @ramsaytaum

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What if leadership wasn’t about extraction, but about regeneration—of people, culture, and the planet? 

What becomes possible when we root our organizations in joy, reciprocity, and nature’s blueprint? 

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Jackie Mirkopoulos, a regenerative venture capitalist and leadership consultant guiding a new model of business rooted in reciprocity, embodiment, and joy.   

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About Our Guest 

Jackie Mirkopoulos is a regenerative venture capitalist and dynamic public speaker dedicated to shaping a harmonious future through her work in leadership development, her social impact fund as well as her newly founded leadership consultancy, Seven Neighbours. 
 
Weaving visionary insights with lived experience, she challenges conventional thinking and guides leaders to align with nature’s blueprint in order to create thriving organisations, healthier cultures, and increased profits. With her trademark warmth and distinct sense of humour, Jackie invites audiences to step away from outdated hustle mentalities and into a state of flow, resonance, and co-creation with nature. 
 
Her expertise spans health and wellness, company culture, land stewardship, and philanthropy - each driven by a deep commitment to building community and fostering meaningful change. With her captivating, authentic, and consistently engaging approach, Jackie always leaves audiences not only thinking differently but also feeling inspired and empowered to lead differently. 

Aubrey and Jackie met at Project Biome, where Jackie serves on the Board of Directors. 

What We Explore in This Episode 

In this conversation, Jackie invites us to reimagine leadership, wealth, and business through a regenerative lens.  One that honors our humanity, reconnects us to nature, and centers joy as a transformative force. Drawing on her personal story, body-based wisdom, and experience stewarding both land and capital, Jackie shares a vision for organizations that nourish rather than extract, and for leaders who are rooted, resilient, and ready to co-create the future. 

Key Takeaways 

• Nature as blueprint for leadership – how Jackie draws from permaculture, embodiment, and natural systems to guide regenerative business transformation. 
• From extraction to reciprocity – why true sustainability starts within, and how organizations can shift from burnout culture to life-honoring practices. 
• Wealth stewardship in transition – the challenges and opportunities facing next-gen leaders as they inherit wealth and reimagine legacy. 
• Joy as a regenerative force – why joy isn’t optional, but essential for resilience, creativity, and cultural change. 
• Human-first systems change – how reconnecting with our bodies, emotions, and inner work is key to transforming business from the inside out. 

Whether you're a leader, a culture shaper, or someone dreaming of a more regenerative world, this conversation will remind you what’s possible when we lead from joy, reciprocity, and embodied wisdom. 

May this conversation illuminate the path you’re walking and inspire you to lead from the inside out. 

With Love and Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee 

GUEST INFO 

You can find Jackie here:
https://linktr.ee/SevenNeighbours  

EPISODE RESOURCES 

https://projectbiome.org/  

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What if money was never meant to be a measure of worth, but a sacred current of life itself? 

What becomes possible when we remember our economic lives as part of a holy, relational web that includes all beings, seen and unseen? 

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Pat McCabe, a sacred storyteller and spiritual visionary whose work bridges Indigenous wisdom, ceremony, and activism. 

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About Our Guest  

Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing.  

She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human. 

What We Explore in This Episode 

In this conversation, Pat invites us to radically reimagine our relationship to money, land, and life itself. Drawing from deep Indigenous wisdom, ceremony, and personal revelation, Pat shares a vision for healing our economic systems and restoring a way of being rooted in fearless generosity, spiritual sovereignty, and the sacred hoop of life. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Money as Spirit: Rather than seeing money as transactional or neutral, Pat introduces it as a sovereign spiritual entity—one that has awakened and now chooses to serve only life, light, and love.  
• Omnibeneficence and the sacred hoop – how every being has a unique role to play in the web of life, and what it means to live in right relationship with all our relatives. 
• The Power of Ceremony & Spirit Logic: When we move from fear-based decision-making to spirit-led action, miracles become possible. Money arrives not through control, but through alignment. 
• Unlearning the death ways – why the extractive systems we’ve inherited must be composted, and how we begin to return to life-honoring ways. 
• Fearless generosity as survival strategy – what buffalo teach us about facing storms, and why soft hearts and collective courage are essential in these times. 

Whether you're a philanthropist, changemaker, or simply longing for a more sacred way of living, this conversation will open your heart, expand your imagination, and reorient your compass toward thriving life. 

This conversation is a blessing in itself. May it touch you in the exact place it’s needed. 

With Love and Gratitude, 

Aubrey Morgan Yee 

GUEST INFO: 

You can find Pat McCabe here: 

Website:  https://www.patmccabe.net/ 

EPISODE RESOURCES:  

https://www.landjusticefutures.org/motherhouse - a learning & movement space for Mother Law & Complicit No More. 

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

How do we move beyond fear and separation to reclaim our sovereignty and reconnect with the intelligence of the Earth?

What if the key to human health is not just within us, but beneath our feet—in the living soil?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Zach Bush, MD, a renowned, multi-disciplinary physician of internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice care and an internationally recognized educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease and food systems. 

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Zach Bush, MD founded Seraphic Group and the non-profit Farmer’s Footprint to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health. His passion for education reaches across many disciplines, including topics such as the role of soil and water ecosystems in human genomics, immunity, and gut/brain health. His education has highlighted the need for a radical departure from chemical farming and pharmacy, and his ongoing efforts are providing a path for consumers, farmers, and mega-industries to work together for a healthy future for people and the planet.

His work in for-profit and nonprofit arenas is creating avenues for collaborative action for all stakeholders in our global community for a regenerative future of health for the planet and our children.

In this conversation, Zach and I explore the ways in which our bodies, our communities, and our ecosystems are reflections of one another. We discuss the collapse of control-based systems, the disempowerment embedded in modern health narratives, and why true healing requires a return to sovereignty, coherence, and connection with the natural world. Zach offers a radical shift in perspective, moving beyond the paradigm of disease and survival into a new era of health, belonging, and regeneration.

Key Takeaways:

🌿 The microbiome as the foundation of health—how soil and gut health are inextricably linked.

🌿 Why modern medicine is failing us—the dangers of pharmaceutical dependency and chemical agriculture.

🌿 Regenerative agriculture & planetary healing—why shifting farming practices is key to reversing chronic disease.

🌿 Moving beyond fear & control—how to reclaim personal sovereignty and health through deep reconnection with nature.

🌿 The spiritual awakening of our time—why true healing requires us to step beyond outdated paradigms and embrace a new way of being.

Zach offers a radical shift in perspective, moving beyond the paradigm of disease and survival into a new era of health, belonging, and regeneration. His message is both disruptive and deeply hopeful, calling us to step beyond outdated paradigms and embrace a future rooted in sovereignty, connection, and renewal.

With Love and Gratitude,

Aubrey Morgan Yee

GUEST INFO

You can find / follow Zach Bush MD here:

Website: www.zachbushmd.com 

Instagram: @zachbushmd 

EPISODE RESOURCES 

Farmer’s Footprint: www.farmersfootprint.us

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

How do we challenge the deeply entrenched systems of oppression while reimagining a future built on justice, wisdom, and reciprocity? 

What does it take to move beyond resistance and into the creation of something truly new? 

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Pooven Moodley, an international human rights and environmental lawyer and social justice activist who has spent his life on the frontlines of the struggle for freedom, equity, and environmental justice. 

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Pooven’s journey began as a young activist in the anti-apartheid movement before pursuing a legal career, starting at the Legal Resources Centre, where he engaged in landmark human rights litigation. He has since held leadership roles in Natural Justice (Executive Director), ActionAid (International Head of Campaigns), and Oxfam GB (Country Director, South Africa), supporting grassroots movements and challenging corporate and governmental exploitation. 

Among his notable achievements, he co-led the successful campaign to stop South Africa’s proposed nuclear deal with Russia, fought for women’s land rights in Africa, and played a key role in securing the UN’s recognition of the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, for which his coalition won the 2023 United Nations Human Rights Prize.  He is a Council Member of the ICCA Consortium, Chair of the Defending the Territories of Life initiative, and serves on the boards of Awana Digital, the Institute for Natural Law, and 350.org. As a co-founder of the Earthrise Collective, he continues to integrate legal advocacy, Indigenous knowledge, and movement-building to co-create a regenerative and justice-centered future. 

In this conversation, Pooven and I trace the threads of his lifelong work in human rights and environmental justice, from his early years in activism to his leadership in global campaigns for land and Indigenous sovereignty. We explore the deep intersections of legal advocacy, activism, and ancestral wisdom, the shifting energy of our time, and the profound spiritual reckoning required to dismantle oppressive systems while co-creating a future rooted in justice, reciprocity, and liberation. 

Key Takeaways: 

🌿 The fight for justice and human rights—how Pooven’s journey from the anti-apartheid movement to global activism shaped his perspective on systemic change. 

🌿 Dismantling empire from within—why legal advocacy alone isn’t enough and how we must also reclaim ancestral wisdom and alternative ways of being. 

🌿 The Earthrise Collective and the power of gathering—how wisdom keepers, activists, and change-makers are coming together to seed a new way forward. 

🌿 Sacred activism & planetary transformation—how ancient wisdom traditions and modern resistance movements are converging in this moment of reckoning. 

🌿 The role of South Africa in the global shift—the deep spiritual and energetic significance of the land and the unfolding transformation happening there. 

Pooven is a beacon of courage, clarity, and wisdom, and this conversation is both a sobering and deeply hopeful exploration of what is possible when we commit to truth, justice, and the sacred work of repair. It is an invitation—to look deeper, to move beyond resistance into creation, and to step into our role as stewards of a just and thriving future. 

With Love and Gratitude, 

Aubrey Morgan Yee 

GUEST INFO 

You can find / follow Pooven here: 

Instagram:  @poovalingummoodley 

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures