Byte Sized Blessings | Paranormal Stories, Divine Encounters & Magical Happenings!

Hey babes and welcome back to the podcast that just doesn't quit! This time I'm introducing you to Dr. Kate who is all about curiosity, play, having fun, inviting others to the table to build relationships and who had, when she was on a retreat, an experience that changed her life! (is that surprising? I mean, everyone who comes on this pod has an experience like that!) But back to Dr. Kate...she's so many things, and occupies so many fabulous places, I'm gonna let her website do the talking for me...so be sure to check it out!

Dr. Kate Raynes-Goldie

To say that we got along, would be an understatement. She's FUN, she's FABULOUS, and she is here to change the world! I think part of the beauty of this podcast is that you are meeting so many people who are creating beauty, and enriching the world, and that, in itself, is it's own kind of miracle!

REMEMBER TO RATE AND REVIEW MY FRIENDS, IT HELPS OTHER PEOPLE FIND THE PODCAST! (and guess what?  I will love you forever!)

Your bit of beauty is this...Dr. Kate's delightful TedEx talk...all about Games and Play and how these practices can change your mind and your life!

Isa Gucciardi tells a mind-blowing tale this week, and one, frankly, that the minute our interview was over, I COULD NOT WAIT TO PRODUCE AND LET YOU KNOW ABOUT! It's just another reminder that time and space are not what they seem, that we can, in fact, heal the past, and that grief is always waiting to be transformed.

Isa is an amazing human, who speaks multiple languages, who has traveled and studied all over the world, and who has created and teaches a healing modality, Depth Hypnosis, that is bound to upend conventional talk therapy and hopefully spread all over the world! (I'm hoping total world domination here because we need healing, all of us!)

To check out Isa, go to her website, here.
For Sacred Stream, her organization, click here.

For Isa's Instagram, click here!
For Sacred Stream's Insta, click here!

As well, Sacred Stream is offering their Depth Hypnosis Foundation Course in July, check it out by clicking here!

PLEASE DO SHARE THIS POD, IT IS A TRUE LABOR OF LOVE AND MAKES HEARTS HAPPY! (at least this is what the hearts tell me!)

Your bit of beauty is this: a talk from the School of Advanced Research here in Santa Fe, NM. The title is "Wayward Shamans: The Prehistory of an Idea," by Silvia Tomášková. Check it out when you have the time...and when you're ready to understand this world is so much more beautiful than you could have ever imagined!

Isa Gucciardi tells a mind-blowing tale this week, and one, frankly, that the minute our interview was over, I COULD NOT WAIT TO PRODUCE AND LET YOU KNOW ABOUT! It's just another reminder that time and space are not what they seem, that we can, in fact, heal the past, and that grief is always waiting to be transformed.

Isa is an amazing human, who speaks multiple languages, who has traveled and studied all over the world, and who has created and teaches a healing modality, Depth Hypnosis, that is bound to upend conventional talk therapy and hopefully spread all over the world! (I'm hoping total world domination here because we need healing, all of us!)

To check out Isa, go to her website, here.
For Sacred Stream, her organization, click here.

For Isa's Instagram, click here!
For Sacred Stream's Insta, click here!

As well, Sacred Stream is offering their Depth Hypnosis Foundation Course in July, check it out by clicking here!

PLEASE DO SHARE THIS POD, IT IS A TRUE LABOR OF LOVE AND MAKES HEARTS HAPPY! (at least this is what the hearts tell me!)

Your bit of beauty is this: a talk from the School of Advanced Research here in Santa Fe, NM. The title is "Wayward Shamans: The Prehistory of an Idea," by Silvia Tomášková. Check it out when you have the time...and when you're ready to understand this world is so much more beautiful than you could have ever imagined!

Greetings all and welcome to your mid-week miracle episode! Today I am introducing you to Mitch Carson, who is a bad-ass and such a change-maker that I couldn't wait to get him on the show.

Make no mistake, Mitch is a plain talker-and he doesn't fuss about, especially with the important stuff. He tells it like it is, and that's a good thing! I think that we sometimes need that dose of reality to shake us out of our stuckness...and Mitch brings that in spades! The story that Mitch shares this week is all about loss, endurance and keeping going, even when all looks so very bleak!

To read up on Mitch and his work, click here!

REMEMBER TO RATE AND REVIEW BABIES...those mean so much to me and help the podcast reach the rest of the world!

Your bit of joy is here-during PRIDE MONTH, and the message is emphasized again, at the beginning of this video-that we can choose our families, our communities, those places we feel we belong. What more do we need than to be understood, brought into feeling like we matter and that we can contribute, and bring joy and beauty into the world!

Greetings all and welcome to your mid-week miracle episode! Today I am introducing you to Mitch Carson, who is a bad-ass and such a change-maker that I couldn't wait to get him on the show.

Make no mistake, Mitch is a plain talker-and he doesn't fuss about, especially with the important stuff. He tells it like it is, and that's a good thing! I think that we sometimes need that dose of reality to shake us out of our stuckness...and Mitch brings that in spades! The story that Mitch shares this week is all about loss, endurance and keeping going, even when all looks so very bleak!

To read up on Mitch and his work, click here!

REMEMBER TO RATE AND REVIEW BABIES...those mean so much to me and help the podcast reach the rest of the world!

Your bit of joy is here-during PRIDE MONTH, and the message is emphasized again, at the beginning of this video-that we can choose our families, our communities, those places we feel we belong. What more do we need than to be understood, brought into feeling like we matter and that we can contribute, and bring joy and beauty into the world!

Holy Cannoli everyone, I could NOT WAIT to release this interview and this conversation I had with the ridiculously talented and funny Gretchen Menn!

Some of what you will learn this episode:
*Why Gretchen is a badass
*How the word "mundane" means very different things to different people
*Three examples of magic/miraculous events
*How we should all avoid joining cults
AND, finally, WHY GRETCHEN IS A BADASS! (Did I mention that already, oh yeah, but it bears repeating!)

Gretchen is a guitarist for the group Zepparella, (as well as a solo artist!) and is so exquisitely adept on the guitar (but it's not her only instrument) that my jaw dropped watching her play. Please check out these below to see just what I'm talking about! There is no doubt in my mind that Gretchen is changing the world for the better by showing up and kicking ass just in general.

Fading by Gretchen Menn, featuring Kirsten Menn, soprano, and Emily Palen, violin

Valentino's Victory Lap by Gretchen Menn, Directed by Eric W. Shamli

Gretchen's website- please, do yourself a favor and do a deeper dive on this creative and intelligent human!

Gretchen's Wiki

I was so grateful to Gretchen for her time and her laughter. She's an impeccable storyteller and our conversation was electric!! (because, puns!)

Please share this podcast with those you love, as well as those you only slightly tolerate! ;-)

And consider leaving a rating or a review, they help others find the pod!

Finally, here is your bit of beauty...yes, another gorgeous video of Gretchen doing what she does best, rocking out and making it look easy! I myself think it is such a good thing to witness other humans in their elements, shaping and changing the world for the better, with the magic they create! 

Deep Purple "Highway Star" solo by Gretchen MennPhoto by Renee Jahnke

Holy Cannoli everyone, I could NOT WAIT to release this interview and this conversation I had with the ridiculously talented and funny Gretchen Menn!

Some of what you will learn this episode:
*Why Gretchen is a badass
*How the word "mundane" means very different things to different people
*Three examples of magic/miraculous events
*How we should all avoid joining cults
AND, finally, WHY GRETCHEN IS A BADASS! (Did I mention that already, oh yeah, but it bears repeating!)

Gretchen is a guitarist for the group Zepparella, (as well as a solo artist!) and is so exquisitely adept on the guitar (but it's not her only instrument) that my jaw dropped watching her play. Please check out these below to see just what I'm talking about! There is no doubt in my mind that Gretchen is changing the world for the better by showing up and kicking ass just in general.

Fading by Gretchen Menn, featuring Kirsten Menn, soprano, and Emily Palen, violin

Valentino's Victory Lap by Gretchen Menn, Directed by Eric W. Shamli

Gretchen's website- please, do yourself a favor and do a deeper dive on this creative and intelligent human!

Gretchen's Wiki

I was so grateful to Gretchen for her time and her laughter. She's an impeccable storyteller and our conversation was electric!! (because, puns!)

Please share this podcast with those you love, as well as those you only slightly tolerate! ;-)

And consider leaving a rating or a review, they help others find the pod!

Finally, here is your bit of beauty...yes, another gorgeous video of Gretchen doing what she does best, rocking out and making it look easy! I myself think it is such a good thing to witness other humans in their elements, shaping and changing the world for the better, with the magic they create! 

Deep Purple "Highway Star" solo by Gretchen MennPhoto by Renee Jahnke

Hello all! This time I'm introducing you to Arlene Miller, who tells a story we might be familiar with-one where we don't fit, where we have the sense that we might be in the wrong family, and something, we don't know what, is missing! (I know I felt like I JUST HAD TO BE ADOPTED when I was a kid!) Arlene goes on to tell us a story, and one that *also* might be familiar...where we find our tribe, our belonging, in the most unexpected of places! And that life, or the Universe, or Spirit, has a plan for us all along, and sometimes we just have to be patient (without ever losing that FAITH that all will be well!)

To check out Arlene and her grooviness click here!

To share the podcast, just open your mouth in a crowded area and shout "I KNOW THE COOLEST PODCAST EVER AND YOU ALL HAVE TO LISTEN TO IT!" HAHA! but seriously, sharing is caring!

Your bit of joy? This video from Nat Geo that talks about happiness...which is a good place to start on your way to Joy. Because while Joy can sometimes sneak up on you unawares, it can also be something you nurture and cultivate. So do it, take the time to watch this video...and begin your own path to UNSTOPPABLE JOY!

Hello all! This time I'm introducing you to Arlene Miller, who tells a story we might be familiar with-one where we don't fit, where we have the sense that we might be in the wrong family, and something, we don't know what, is missing! (I know I felt like I JUST HAD TO BE ADOPTED when I was a kid!) Arlene goes on to tell us a story, and one that *also* might be familiar...where we find our tribe, our belonging, in the most unexpected of places! And that life, or the Universe, or Spirit, has a plan for us all along, and sometimes we just have to be patient (without ever losing that FAITH that all will be well!)

To check out Arlene and her grooviness click here!

To share the podcast, just open your mouth in a crowded area and shout "I KNOW THE COOLEST PODCAST EVER AND YOU ALL HAVE TO LISTEN TO IT!" HAHA! but seriously, sharing is caring!

Your bit of joy? This video from Nat Geo that talks about happiness...which is a good place to start on your way to Joy. Because while Joy can sometimes sneak up on you unawares, it can also be something you nurture and cultivate. So do it, take the time to watch this video...and begin your own path to UNSTOPPABLE JOY!

Hello fellow humans!

Thank you for your patience this last week as I finished up my work with the Santa Fe International Literary Festival, but guess what? I now have oodles of time to create beauty! (and podcasts). *You lucky ducks!*
This time I get to introduce you to Ash Perrow, who has quite a story to tell! After suffering an NDE, Ash tells of what happened after, and the promise that he made in that diffuse and dark place, one which earned him the right to return to the land of the living! And as Robert Frost said, in his poem "The Road Not Taken," Ash's choice has made all the difference. It has meant that he is able to show up for those who need help, show up for all of us when he models what a true life looks like, and show up for my show, to inspire all of us who listen!

To read a bit more about Ash and his work, click here!

Your bit of beauty is this poem, by Robert Frost, one that urges all of us to live a life full of our uniqueness, and our unique choices...choices that will make all the difference.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Love you babes...have a beautiful week! xo