Catalyst Talks

By Stephanie TragerSociety & Culture

Catalyst Talks episodes

October 11, 2023 Spirit Initiations, Plants & Guides with Katharina Mohr de Yaycate
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✨ Join the COLOMBIA QUEST ~Learn about the EXPANSION QUEST in COLOMBIA -December 13-21, 2023 https://www.stephanietrager.com/journey-colombia-2023
Plant wisdom flows through this conversation with Stephanie and Katharina, as both hold space in the sacred and are mystics who’ve been initiated with plant spirit medicine for many decades.
In this conversation we touch on:
🍃 Why entheogenic plants differ from synthetic forms of psychedelic medicines
🍃 Why master plants are not always the answer when we are called to our edge
🍃 The initiations plants offer and how to hold the before, during and after for true integration
🍃 The power of ‘weeds’
🍃 Bypassing the work with one ceremony won’t do it
🍃 How plants are the most holistic guides to accompany our transformation
🍃 Shamanic plant medicine and intention
🍃 Creating the right containers to meet our edges, before, during and after
🍃 Mainstreaming of psychedelics
🍃 Consciousness and vessels for the Divine
🍃 The detox, initiation, and letting go of control
🍃 The master guides of trust
🍃 The power of place and wisdom of Spirit
🍃 The great surrender to self
🍃 Why local is always best and why we need to be mindful of scaling the sacred
🍃 The power of true presence

About Katharina Mohr de Yaycate:
The soul of a mystic, the gift of a seer and the mind of a free spirit, led by a heart wide open for the love and joy of truly living. Katharina is a seeress, wise woman and transformation catalyst. She naturally blends an entrepreneurial upbringing and 20 years of management consulting experience with a life-long quest for conscious expansion and personal transformation. An extrasensory since birth, Katharina turned to shamanism and energy medicine in her teenage years and now embodies 25 years of hands-on experience in shamanic craft and wisdom traditions. She teaches shamanism since 2013 and continues to hone her skills in navigating consciousness through shamanic trance mediumship and plant medicine. Going beyond preconceived ideas, beliefs and life choices into conscious expansion, natural flow and thrive Katharina is an absolutely free spirit and conceptual visionary thinker who is as comfortable in board rooms as she is in wild nature. A workshop facilitator, executive coach, soul guide and trail blazer she has the ability to get to the heart of any matter with incredible speed and clarity.
Connect with Katharina:
http://www.servinglife.site/our-story

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1 hr 7 min
September 13, 2023 A Forest Journey with John Perlin
This episode with John Perlin explores the value, importance and role of trees in civilization from time immemorial. For our nature lovers out there, this one is interesting, rich and informative.
ABOUT JOHN:
John Perlin began his career at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2002 tasked by Nobel Laureate Dr. Walter Kohn to develop a colloquium on global warming for the university’s science departments. The following year John was hired by the physics department at UCSB to collaborate with Dr. Kohn and fellow Nobel Laureate Dr. Alan Heeger on the film, The Power of the Sun: The History of the Evolution of the Science of Light and Photovoltaics- https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.2216954. The film inspired the University of California, Santa Barbara to embrace the solarization of the campus in which John oversaw the placement of photovoltaics on several of its structures. He led a symposium at UCSB on May 17, 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHc5Ike2GIA) introducing the scientific work of Eunice Foote, the women who in 1856 discovered that carbon dioxide is the principal cause of Global Warming and that more of that gas in the atmosphere would lead to a hotter Earth. He was also the lead curator of an exhibit for the University of California, Santa Barbara based on the symposium which opened on October 28, 2019.
John currently is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara. John is the author of four highly acclaimed books on solar energy and forestry: A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology; A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization; From Space to Earth: The Story of Solar Electricity; and Let It Shine: The 6000 Year Story of Solar Energy - Harvard University Press has chosen A Forest Journey as one of “One Hundred Books for Every Bookshelf” ever published by the press which includes such scientific luminaries as Stephen Jay Gould and E.O. Wilson. He has also finished a manuscript on the scientific and feminist work of Eunice Foote and is currently searching for a publisher.
Connect with John:
https://john-perlin.com/

*Join us in COLOMBIA for the QUEST in KOGI LAND December, 2023. Learn more here: https://www.stephanietrager.com/journey-colombia-2023/

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57 min
August 23, 2023 Meaning Making, Truth, and Trust with Stephanie Trager
✨ Join us in COLOMBIA for the QUEST in KOGI LAND December, 2023. Learn more here: https://www.stephanietrager.com/journey-colombia-2023/
In this episode Stephanie covers:
◾️ The iterative process of meaning making, truth and trust
◾️ Four Meaning Making Lenses for Changing Times
◾️ Why trust, influence, and discernment are superpowers and how to master them
◾️ How to use the four agreements to work with these meaning making lenses
◾️ How intuition and discernment require self trust
◾️ A process for tapping into trust to arrive at the truth
◾️ A process for meaning making in these times when trust is low
◾️ Why inner work builds trust not only with others yet helps them trust you
◾️ Trust and leadership for a new earth
◾️ Multidimensional leadership, trust and so much more!
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▶︎ Inner Work of Impact episode | https://www.stephanietrager.com/32-the-inner-work-of-impact/
39 min
August 14, 2023 Mercury Free Mining: Gold Standards with Toby Pomeroy
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In this episode we cover:
✨ The dirty side of gold most people don’t know about
✨ How mercury is poisoning watersheds and communities so that they can eat and we can have the gold
✨ How passion and purpose ignite action
✨ Toby’s journey as an artist and jewelry designer led him to create the Mercury Free Mining mission to end the use of mercury by artisanal gold miners
✨ The movement unfolding in the jewelry industry and the technology available to produce clean healthy gold that aligns with human rights and clean environmental standards
✨ The need to scale the technology available and a vision for making that happen
✨ When the calling calls and you can’t go back to sleep
ABOUT TOBY:
Toby Pomeroy, Founder, Executive Director, Mercury Free Mining
A designer-goldsmith for over 50 years, Toby became passionate about responsible gold mining after encountering Earthworks’ “No Dirty Gold” campaign in 2004. Since then, Toby has been dedicated to cultivating industry-wide support for a socially and environmentally responsible gold supply chain and a purpose-driven jewelry industry. He founded Mercury Free Mining (MFM) in 2017, a nonprofit organization committed to the discovery and deployment of mercury-free processes for the health of 20 million artisanal and small-scale gold miners and the environment upon which we all depend.
MFM is fostering and implementing safe, efficient, mercury-free gold mining methods, and focusing on establishing a certified mercury-free gold supply chain to match industry demand. With a mission to eradicate the use of mercury in gold mining, MFM stands for the jewelry industry’s interdependence and solidarity with artisanal and small-scale gold miners around the world.
▶︎ https://mercuryfreemining.org
▶︎ Learn more about Mercury Free Mining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ezY_fy1Xw&t=634s
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47 min
July 27, 2023 Indigenous Wisdom with Daniel Koupermann
▶︎ Learn about our EXPANSION QUEST in KOGI LAND, COLOMBIA here: https://www.stephanietrager.com/journey-colombia-2023

What does it feel like to be completely satisfied in a mission and life well lived? Daniel shares is decades journeying to the lands of indigenous people who share their cosmovision of a world where we are one, we are one with nature, we are nature. We explore:
☑️ Why it’s important not to romanticize indigenous people
☑️ What honor, reciprocity and right relationship look like in building bridges with indigenous communities
☑️ How Daniel helped found Pachamama Alliance and Fundacion Pachamama
☑️ Ways to journey with us to Colombia in December 2023
☑️ The spirit and focus of the Kogi People in Colombia
☑️ And so much more!

ABOUT DANIEL
Andean Paths welcomes you to the heart and soul of Central and South America. We are a travel service that's committed to offer our clients the “journey of a lifetime”. Through the experience and knowledge of the staff at Andean Paths, you will be immersed in the wonder, beauty and mystery of Central and South American culture.
Andean Paths is owned by Daniel Koupermann, one of the first developers of ecotourism in Ecuador. The designer and builder of Kapawi Eco-Lodge (www.kapawi.com) in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin.
Daniel has over 30 years of experience with the Achuar people of that region. He has developed strong relationships with many of the leaders and the powerful shamans in the territory. In addition, he has been involved with yacht operations in the Galapagos Islands, the development of a community-based tourism program on Isabela Island and the implementation of a condor-viewing program in Cajas National Park. He is the former president of Fundacion Pachamama, the Ecuadorian arm of The Pachamama Alliance in the United States, (www.pachamama.org) a well-known non-profit organization which works with the indigenous groups in the Amazonian Region of Ecuador and Peru.
Daniel strongly believes that the knowledge of our ancestral cultures and the natural history of every place we visit are amazing sources of inspiration for the savvy traveler. The Achuar and Sápara people in the Amazon forest, the Kogi in the Sierra Nevada in Colombia, the Quero in the Sacred Valley in Perú and the Mayan in Guatemala all can share with us a space to make our journeys very personal and inspirational, and teach us new ways to live our lives and view the world around us.

*Join Stephanie and Daniel in COLOMBIA in December of 2023 for the QUEST in KOGI LAND
Learn more here:
▶︎ https://www.stephanietrager.com/journey-colombia-2023/

Connect with Daniel: https://www.andeanpathsjourneys.com

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41 min
July 13, 2023 Energetic Herbalism with Kat Maier
▶︎ Learn about our EXPANSION QUEST in KOGI LAND, COLOMBIA here: https://www.stephanietrager.com/journey-colombia-2023/
Kat Maier and Stephanie traverse a gorgeous flowing river in this deep dive on Energetic Herbalism, Ayurveda, Vitalism and the wisdom and language of plants. Kat is one of those wisdomkeepers who’s teachings invite you to swirl around in all dimensions at once. In this episode we explore:
✨What is Energetic Herbalism
✨How to listen to place -the place where you are, live and are from
✨The unique attributes of native plants and trees
✨The morphogenetic field and our evolution
✨Mistakes many people make when it comes to ‘using’ herbs
✨Plants as teachers
✨Sacred plant traditions and how Kat came to be a leading western herbalist of our time
✨Sustainability and ‘regeneration’ of endangered plants
✨How to source your herbal medicine locally and why it’s better for you and the plants
✨Indigenous intelligence and the golden threads that hold balance on Gaia
✨And so much more!
▶︎ Previous episode with Kat here: https://www.stephanietrager.com/the-plants-speak-with-kathleen-maier/
ABOUT KAT:
Kat is an extraordinary teacher and wisdomkeeper of herbal medicine and shares the culmination of her life’s work in her recent book, Energetic Herbalism. She’s poetic and multi-dimensional and together we weave, flow, and poetically examine the nuances of what energetic herbalism is, how it works, why it’s key to embrace and how it invites a permanent departure from reductionist thinking. Kat Maier RH, (AHG) is the founder and director of Sacred Plant Traditions, a center for herbal studies in Charlottesville, Virginia where she’s trained many clinical herbalists who have gone on to to begin other schools, apothecaries or open practices. In clinical practice for over 30 years, Kat teaches internationally at universities, conferences, and herbal schools. She is a founding member of Botanica Mobile Clinic, a nonprofit dedicated to providing accessible herbal medicine to local communities. This grew out of her school’s free clinic which was one of the first on the east coast and went on to be a template for other schools. She began her study of plants as a Peace Corps volunteer, and her training as a Physician’s Assistant allows her to weave the language of biomedicine into her practice of traditional energetic herbalism. She is coauthor of Bush Medicine of San Salvador Island, Bahamas. As a passionate steward of the plants, Kat also served as president of United Plant Savers and was the recipient of the organization’s first Medicinal Plant Conservation Award. Energetic Herbalism is the 2022 winner of the Nautilus Book Award.
▶︎ Kat’s Website: https://www.katmaierherbalism.com/
▶︎ Purchase Energetic Herbalism here: https://sacredplanttraditions.com/#buybook
▶︎ Sacred Plant Traditions: School for Clinical Herbalism: https://sacredplanttraditions.com/
▶︎ United Plant Savers: https://unitedplantsavers.org
Join us in COLOMBIA for the QUEST in KOGI LAND December, 2023. Learn more here: https://www.stephanietrager.com/journey-colombia-2023/
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1 hr 11 min
May 22, 2023 Planting Our Planet with Tali Orad
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This episode dives into:
🍃What it looks like to pivot as an engineer to founder of a tree planting and community building NGO
🍃Why tree planting isn’t enough
🍃How communities thrive with tree planting
🍃What one person can do when they follow their heart
🍃The 1Treelion Movement and a the power of trees
About Tali:
Tali Orad is an engineer, TEDx speaker, and serial entrepreneur. She is the founder of 1treellion.org an NGO with the mission to collectively make a meaningful global impact by bringing communities together to plant trees and help mitigate the effects of climate change. Tali’s first NGO came about after she saved the life of a dying baby, resulting in her founding an NGO to raise awareness of CPR education.
She is a Thrive guest contributor, the host of The Butterfly Effect podcast, and a frequent speaker. Tali believes in the power of people to make a change and hopes with the help of the people she can help our planet.
Connect with Tali :
https://www.1treellion.org/ambassadors
https://linktr.ee/butterflyEffectPodcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x07EJxqUd7U
Mentioned in the episode: Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data ~ https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/numbers-and-nerves
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49 min
May 12, 2023 Ammortal Living with Dr. Steven Young
Have you ever met a mortal wizard? My guest on Catalyst Talks, Dr. Steven Young is definitely one. A Holistic Coach (Mind, Body, Spirit) with a degree in Kinesiology and a Masters and Doctorate Degree in Physical Therapy, Steven aims to create 1 billion Ammortals.
In this episode we dive into:
⚫️ What’s an Ammortal and how do you become one
⚫️ Frequency technologies to speed up healing
⚫️ Stacking tech to allow the body to restore itself
⚫️ Unintended consequences
⚫️ The Ammortal Chamber’s alchemy
⚫️ Consciousness and tech to support our future evolution
⚫️ Bridging ancient and future potentials
⚫️ Restorative energy and make it available to you
⚫️ How frequencies can heal you to the core physically, emotionally and spiritually?
⚫️ The quickest way to experience massive transformation in your life
⚫️ The levers to shift from intellectual understanding of spirituality to being
⚫️ Accessing our multidimensionality
⚫️ What’s going to leap our world forward Stick through the end, there is so much wisdom available here!
About Steven Young:
Dr. Steve Young is a Holistic Coach (Mind, Body, Spirit) with a degree in Kinesiology from Penn State and a Masters and Doctorate Degree in Physical Therapy from Hahnemann University (now Drexel).He is an Amasian (Taiwanese) who has helped thousands of individuals re-engineer their health for a better lifestyle. He aims to create 1 Billion “Ammortals” – An Ammortal is a mortal that connects to and embodies the divine powers within. They have revealed their essence, gifts, and purpose in life so they inspire others to be and do greater good for humanity.He is the Chief Solutionite of BodySolutions and the Consciousness Tinkerer and Chief Love Officer of Ammortal.
Connect with Steven :
https://www.ammortal.com/
https://drsteveyoung.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-young-dpt-8ab903a/
https://globalhopesummit.com/speaker/dr-steve-young/
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1 hr 4 min
April 21, 2023 Orchestrated Connecting with David Homan
We do deals, we do business, we have impact, we share our purpose, we speak our truth, we need humans. In this episode my friend David Homan joins me to explore his passion and mission to support connectors to be better askers and exactly how to do it. As part of a large impact ecosystem sometimes we forget how to be intentional about asking for what we need, making connections for others and how to be impeccable with integrity every step of the way.
In this episode Stephanie and David explore:
✨ What it means to be an intentional connector
✨ How to build confidence and share your ‘Impact Ask’
✨ The key to building a strong community of like minded impact action takers
✨ Why asking from purpose is more important than need
✨ The roots of Orchestrated Connecting and how to plug in
✨ What classical music can teach us about community building
✨ The importance of relationships
✨ The alternative to being a stand for what you need or the option of destitution
✨ Why gratitude is gold
✨ How to value your chain of connections
✨ The art of the Impact Ask
About David Homan:
David Homan connects people. His primary skill in life is learning about people, helping them reframe and pitch themselves better, and then creating long-lasting relationships based on the premise that for everyone for whom he connects the dots, they would be described as an action oriented, natural giver with high integrity.
His methodology, Orchestrated Connecting, is currently being explored towards a Book, and his community of over nearly 1100 global "superconnectors" represents family offices, venture capitalists, impact investors, entertainers, athletes, CEOs/Founders, community organizers, and a myriad of other incredible "occupations" that do little to describe how amazing each individual in this community of communities is.
As a prior non-profit CEO, David raised millions for the arts while running a multi-national, multi-million dollar Foundation that survived near total destruction due to Bernie Madoff, and incubated a social impact film company for the Dalio Family Office. His impact advisory firm, Orchestrated Opportunities, partners with family offices, start-ups, funds, and nonprofits to build new, structured ecosystems of relationships to strategically scale and expand their growth. Focal areas include mental health, health and wellness, climate change, art, philanthropy, social justice, and investing in women, among others.
David is a recognized classical composer whose music can be found by saying "Alexa--please play the music of David Homan" with 7 albums and radio play internationally. His latest project is a film/mini-series focused on a composer who loses his mind to Alzheimer's.
He serves as an Advisor to NEXUS, part of the steering committee of the DC Family Office Network, as a founding member of the First Republic FEA NY Chapter, as an advisor to the Catalyst Impact Foundation, as an Advisor to Regeneration.VC, and as Board Chair of the Arthur Miller Foundation.
Connect with David :
https://orchestratedconnecting.com/
https://orchestratedconnecting.com/core-beliefs/honoring-the-chain-of-connections/
https://orchestratedconnecting.com/core-beliefs/the-impact-ask/
https://www.homanmusic.com/
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1 hr 11 min
March 30, 2023 China’s Economic Hitman Strategy and the Life Economy with John Perkins
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Stephanie and John explore what it means to speak the truth when you hold perspectives that may rattle the status quo... and how to do it with grace and kindness.

John’s former life as an Economic Hitman and his breadth of wisdom and knowledge as an economist, historian and proponent of the Life Economy, gives him poise to explain how debt trap diplomacy is proliferating all over our planet and now starring China in the show.

John is the author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman and is debuting the third edition - on China's Economic Hitman strategy.

This episode is full of wisdom, information and perspective.

About John Perkins:
John Perkins, Economist/Author/Activist: As Chief Economist at a major consulting firm, John was advisor to the World Bank, UN, IMF, Fortune 500 corporations, and leaders of countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and US government agencies. John Perkins has written eleven books that have been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than seventy weeks and translated into over thirty languages. As a former chief economist, he advised the World Bank, United Nations, Fortune 500 corporations, and governments around the world. His eleven books, including Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Touching the Jaguar, and Shapeshifting spent over 70 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, are published in more than 35 languages, and sold over 2 million copies. His latest, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition (Feb 2023) describes China’s EHM strategy and the need to transform a failing, degenerative Death Economy into a regenerative Life Economy. He has lectured at more than 50 universities; been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, Time, The New York Times, Elle, Der Spiegel, and many others. He is a founder of the nonprofits Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance and was awarded the Lennon/Ono Peace Prize.

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https://johnperkins.org/books

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49 min

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Conversations with awakened leaders sparking deep inquiry into who we are, why are we here, what’s our real purpose, and how can we harmonize with the higher energies of Earth and the Cosmos at this time to usher in a new evolution of ourselves and humanity.