Green Fire Press publisher Jennifer Browdy in conversation with Ojibwe Great Grandmother Mary Lyons, bearing witness to the events of early 2026 in her homelands of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Great Grandmother Mary Lyons is an Ojibwe Elder who holds space with the United Nations Indigenous Knowledge Holders and Wisdom-keepers of the seven regions of the world.

The author of Wisdom Lessons: Spirited Guidance from an Ojibwe Great-Grandmother (Green Fire Press, 2018), Mary Lyons is a documentarian and circle keeper of wellness, holding freedom for all close to her heart through her work as a spiritual advisor and storyteller.

She travels and teaches internationally, with a particular focus on families, communities and individuals who have faced disparities that prevent them from moving forward in a healthier manner.

She continues to support the wellness of sobriety as she walked in those footprints and treasures the organic ways of her ancestral lifestyles.

More about Mary Lyons: https://greenfirepress.com/books/wisdom-lessons-spirited-guidance-from-an-ojibwe-great-grandmother/

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Green Fire Press publisher Jennifer Browdy in conversation with Adrian Dubow and Laura Koffsky, authors of a memoir of the Covid years: Good Work, Grit and Gratitude: The Bittersweet Lessons of the Lemonade Generation.

Even in the sourest of times, there is still good to be found. This is one of the lessons of the pandemic and the ethos of the Lemonade Generation.

In this co-authored memoir, two veteran moms and partners in non-profit work watched as the world came to a halt and their adult sons moved back into their homes in March 2020. With masks on their faces, ironically some of the most unscripted, transparent, and transformative conversations took place, laying a new foundation for communication and collaboration.

Heartfelt, humorous and real, Living in the Generation illuminates stories of gratitude and resilience that will inspire readers across all generations.

More about Good Work Miami: https://goodworkmiami.org

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In this inspiring conversation, Green Fire Press Publisher Jennifer Browdy talks with author and influential podcaster Manda Scott about why imagination plays a key role in changing our world for the better.

This interview is excerpted from a longer presentation recorded in December 2024 as part of the Humanity Rising Writing to Right the World Summit hosted by Jim Garrison of Ubiquity University.

Born in Scotland at 318ppm CO2, Manda Scott was once a veterinary surgeon and is now a novelist, smallholder, contemporary shamanic trainer and host of the international chart-topping Accidental Gods podcast and well as the co-creator of the Thrutopia Masterclass. Best known for the Boudica: Dreaming series of historical novels, her new Thrutopian novel, Any Human Power, is a ‘visionary and seismic’ mytho-political thriller. Woven through with Boudica-style dreaming, it maps out routes across the ghost-lines of tomorrow, in the hope that everyone else will walk them into paths of possibility. She lives with her wife in the liminal edge place between England and Wales.

More about Manda Scott: https://mandascott.co.uk

More about the Accidental Gods podcast: https://accidentalgods.life/our-podcast/

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Listen in on a soul-stirring event: Jennifer Browdy in conversation with Penny Gill, author of the new book Radiant Heart of the Cosmos, in which a great teacher and her Teachers share wisdom and compassion that we desperately need now.

More about Penny Gill: https://www.pennygillwisdomteachings.org

More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com

More about The Radiant Heart of the Cosmos: https://greenfirepress.com/books/radiant-heart-of-the-cosmos-by-penny-gill/

Purchase the book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-radiant-heart-of-the-cosmos-compassion-teachings-for-our-time-penny-gill/05207626ac3d68f8/

From the book:

"The cosmos—the energy of Source…intends for life in form to flourish….

"We have taught you how fear causes blockages and suffering. Then, we’ve explained how to heal the blockages to the vast compassion of Spirit and its energy, its warmth, its power to enliven, and its gifts of insight and ease and freedom….

“The work now is to open to this great flow of Spirit and expand deep recognition of your interdependence and interrelatedness with all beings….

"This is not about good and evil, not at all. It is not a time for judgment. It is a time for profound healing, for individuals, for communities, for your world.

"This is well within your reach, truly. Open to this downpour of Spirit and let it energize and guide you. It is the greatest call imaginable, to the fullest of life for all beings."

--Manjushri, through Penny Gill

This interview is excerpted from a longer presentation recorded in December 2024 as part of the Humanity Rising Writing to Right the World Summit hosted by Jim Garrison of Ubiquity University.

More about Nina Simons: https://ninasimons.com

More about Bioneers: https://bioneers.org

More about Nature, Culture & the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership: https://greenfirepress.com/books/nature-culture-and-the-sacred-a-woman-listens-for-leadership/

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Nina Simons is Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age, and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust, and leadership development. She co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership—which won Gold Nautilus awards in the categories of women, intersectionality, and social justice. Together with Anneke Campbell, Nina writes the Leading from the Feminine newsletter, bridging divides and celebrating connections within the rich tapestry of trailblazers who are evoking the feminine to lead with courage, vulnerability, intuition and empathy.

Another inspiring author interview hosted by Green Fire Press Publisher Jennifer Browdy, PhD.

This interview is excerpted from a longer presentation recorded in December 2024 as part of the Humanity Rising Writing to Right the World Summit hosted by Jim Garrison of Ubiquity University.

Maria Sirois, Psy.D. has spent more than three decades in the boardrooms of business, bedsides of the dying and everywhere in between to do one thing: offer the data, stories, tools and perspectives that enable us to cultivate resilience, health, wisdom and a greater capacity to lead ourselves and others well, no matter the strain or suffering of the moment. As a resilience expert, positive psychologist and international consultant, she is known for her authenticity, wisdom and compassion. She is the author of two books: A Short Course in Happiness After Loss (And Other Dark, Difficult Times) and Every Day Counts. Her third book, The Generous Exchange, a collection essays reflecting on the benefits of appreciation of beauty, goodness and excellence, (including pro-environmental behavior and kindness to others) will be released in 2025.

About The Generous Exchange: https://greenfirepress.com/books/the-generous-exchange/

About Maria Sirois: https://www.mariasirois.com

Maria Sirois TEDx Talk: https://youtu.be/EovRseONIZg?si=U7KJpDmAnFkLvoOW

About Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com

About Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com

Host Jennifer Browdy talks with author Kathryn Girard about her new channeled book It Is Time: The Evolution of Earth and Humanity.

In It is Time, a group of spiritual and extraplanetary Teachers explain the transition to a higher plane of consciousness and existence currently underway on Earth, and how human beings who yearn for connection, kindness and love can continue to grow and find peace despite the dramatic changes on the planet. While at times it may feel like the dark forces of greed, corruption, rage and war are winning, the message here is that new energies are already flowing to the Earth, disrupting what it means to be human now. The Teachers encourage each of us to brighten our Light, recognizing that we are here to shine the way for the Earth and humanity to ascend to a higher level of functioning. The momentum of transformation is upon us, with the beings speaking in this book, along with all the Ascended Masters, archangels, spirit guides and extraplanetary beings from across existence now united in an urgent message: It is time.

More about Kathryn Girard: https://www.spiritwoven.com

More about the book: https://greenfirepress.com/books/it-is-time/

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A deep dive into the practice and rewards of contemplative memoir, with Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle, author of the memoir Ley Lines of Love: Adventures Along the Spiritual Path (Green Fire Press, 2024), as well as Ten Thousand Joys, Ten Thousand Sorrows and Aging with Wisdom.

Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle: https://www.oliviahoblitzelle.com

Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com

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