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In today’s episode, Alexandra speaks with Alex Ebert!

You may know Alex from the band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, or on Instagram as Bad Guru. Alex has been bringing so many incredible philosophical conversations into the space of wellness and new ageism and we are so excited to have him on the show today.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Ideas and discussion on how the modern interpretation of the ‘law of attraction’ in much of the mainstream wellness industry’s teachings is centered around capitalism and has actually created the idea of no longer resonating with interconnectivity.
• The difference between the idea of mastering life vs. letting life master you.
• Examples of spiritual bypassing in the mainstream wellness and new age industry’s teachings, and how creating a declaration and acknowledgement of our interconnectedness in the universe can help us heal this level of bypassing.
• Ideas on how the antidote to the mainstream’s spiritualization of selfishness lies within reintegrating death rituals and safe spaces for ourselves and our communities to confront our mortality and shadow selves, in order to bring our neurosis (behavior, beliefs) back into the light.
• How we can sometimes invent challenges or hardships to solve, in order to continue to advance as a human being throughout our lifetime, and how that can really form us in becoming who we are and how we interact and relate to life.
• And so much more.

In this week’s episode, Alexandra speaks with Millana Snow!

Millana Snow is one of the leading voices in global wellness. She is an energy healer, teacher and wellness entrepreneur with a passion for bringing healing to a diverse community of clients, followers, brands, celebrities, and even members of the royal family. Based in Los Angeles, Millana is a former model (YSL, CoverGirl) and woman of color with Afro-Latina/Panamanian, American, and British roots. Speaking to an audience as diverse as her background, her work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, PopSugar, and Women’s Health. Millana is the winner of Project Runway and “Best Travel + Adventure Show” Webby Award. In 2017, Millana created Wellness Official with the vision that everyone deserves wellness and healing. With a mission to democratize wellness, Wellness Official strives to make the space more inclusive and accessible, highlighting diverse practitioners and celebrating the lineages from which our modern-day wellness practices came.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• The similarities of both Millana and Alexandra’s experiences of understanding and healing with their father wounds and how that led to understanding what personal shifts needed to happen in order to open and surrender into deep romantic relationship.
• How integrating the embodiment of being both a strong and powerful human AND being soft and humble was the key to finding a deep relationship and healing and surrendering to love.
• The difference in a relationship being rooted in fear and codependency vs. securely attached, and how that requires a deepening of trust and a letting go of control, and how we often see representations of codependency in films and tv as love, and rarely see secure-attached relationships as the mainstream example.
• Ideas on how modern-day capitalism and the concept of a productive society have influenced our spiritual lives to be more compartmentalized and ‘to-do’ focused vs. the simplicity and consciousness of aliveness.
• How turning your consciousness more towards life means turning more towards all of it, including suffering, and not just turning towards joy, ease, and love... and how embracing the embodiment of all is surrendering fully to the experience of life.
• The courage and vulnerability it takes for a healer, teacher, and/or facilitator to lead and teach as it is a journey deep into your own depths and requires an intense self-reveal.
• And more!

In today’s episode, Alexandra shares with us her latest favorite rebel mystics, artists, and writers on the spiritual path, and what each of those rebel mystics represent and the lessons they bring to the spiritual conversation.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How we can get to know our true soul by extending our vulnerability out every day and taking the risk of getting real and unmasked often.
• Ideas on the nuance of what spiritual growth actually is and how to check in for yourself on where you are overly comfortable and where you are actually stretching open and expanding.
• How the “how” and “why” of what we do may be more important than the “what” of what we do in this life, and what that means for our daily mindset.
• The difference between your personality and your deep soul depths, and the path to discovering your depths in life.
• And more!

In today’s episode, Alexandra welcomes Diego Perez aka Yung Pueblo to the show!

Diego Perez is a meditator, writer, and speaker who is widely known on Instagram and various social media networks through his pen name Yung Pueblo. Online he has an audience of over a million people that he reaches through his written works that focus on the reality of self-healing, the movement from self-love to unconditional love, and the wisdom that comes when we truly work on knowing ourselves. His first book, Inward, quickly became a bestseller. His second book, Clarity & Connection is available for order now.

The name Yung Pueblo means young people; it serves to remind him of his Ecuadorian roots, his experiences in activism, and that the collective of humanity is in the midst of important growth. Diego's practice of Vipassana meditation has given him a deeper understanding of liberation that inspires his writing. Through writing and speaking he aims to support the healing of the individual, knowing that when people release their personal burdens it helps humanity build a global peace.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Diego’s meditation practice and level of devotion and commitment to his particular practice, and how to measure the results of whatever practice you are engaging in.
• How to feel any emotion without becoming it.
• How Diego’s practice applied to his life, surroundings, and experience in a very practical way in this past year, and how it served during a time of chaos, grief, and the unknown.
• How to have a bit of detachment from productivity or work in today’s world, and how that can actually increase your overall sense of calm and peace in your life.
• How authenticity IS transformation, and changing as a human being in your life is part of the healing journey.
• Diego’s experience of growing up for several years in poverty, and how that affected his fear response and experience of feeling constant anxiety.
• How forging a new path - whether in career, money, other measures of success - can be a healing experience for a family lineage.
• And more!

Vanessa Cuccia is the Founder of Chakrubs, The Original Crystal Sex Toy Company.  She is also the Author of “Crystal Healing & Sacred Pleasure.” and a Musician, with debut album “This is a Spell”, available now.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The experiences and relationship that led Vanessa to realize she was disconnected from pleasure, and wanted to explore how to re-establish her connection to pleasure.
• How the Chakrubs products are a symbol of your relationship to self-love, self-pleasure, and spirituality, and how beginning to work with them is the first step in the direction of self-awareness towards deeper self-love and pleasure.
• How Vanessa has dealt with copy-cat versions of her products and business since its creation, and how people who enjoy and share about her products can help appropriately credit the business and the vision.
• The path of being a trailblazer and visionary and stretching the collective and how that clears the path for others to create.
• How to open to co-creation with life and allow that force and energy to flow through you.
• How to use crystal wands to get in touch with and open up the energy that is already within you, whether it’s love, passion, pleasure… etc.
• And more!

Stay tuned to the end of the episode where Vanessa plays a single from her debut album live on the piano for us!

On today’s episode, Alexandra speaks with Haize Hawke!

Haize is a Heartled Spiritual Facilitator, Mentor, and Master Doula, who believes and lives for ceremony and ritual.  As a mother of three children, Haize is also a Student Midwife, and facilitates Rituals for all life transitions, milestones, celebrations and rites of passage.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Haize’s method of mothering her three children and how she mothers each differently.
• How Haize discovered the powerful service of a doula during her own experience of child birth.
• How to stay rooted in love and connection to others, even in times of intensity and uncertainty such as these, and how that love can lift others up.
• The difference between thinking things through vs. feeling things through.
• The formula of love and how you can embrace it, use it, and honor it in your own life.
• How consciously choosing love and living in love is a meditation within itself.
• Haize’s guidance and questions to drop in to your own prayer space on following your passion and what to do next in your life if you may feel confused on how to give your gifts to the world.
• How the tools of our modern, digital age give us the tools to become proficient in anything we’re interested in, and how to use that information to fuel your own path in the world.
• How birth is one of the most powerful places of connectedness and deep love.
• What to do in moments of fear and how to bring yourself back to a place of love.

Enjoy!

This week, Alexandra shares with us her first solo episode!

If you’re not too familiar with Alexandra yet, she is an artist, bestselling author, speaker and teacher. She leads workshops and has been featured as a guest speaker on podcasts and TV including on ViceTV’s Slutever, Epix’s Sex / Life show and at numerous festivals and events worldwide.

Her book “F*CK LIKE A GODDESS” debuted in July 2020 with Sounds True to be #1 new release and bestseller in 3 categories on amazon for 3 weeks in a row. It was also featured in many publications as a radical guidebook for modern spirituality outside the mainstream and a practical guide to healing that includes body, mind, and spirit.  

With a career traversing genres, but with a through line of exploration of the female body and the intersection of sexuality and spirituality, Alexandra has been making art, writing, and sharing her heart publicly for nearly two decades about modern spirituality, the feminine faces of the divine, embodiment as healing and practice, and the path of the expression of the soul through art and writing as liberation.

During this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why it’s important to use discernment about what teachings, art, wisdom, and influences to allow into your life in this modern, digital age.
• How spiritual sacred space is relative to each person’s unique life experience and is not a cookie-cutter formula that fits everyone.
• How the mystical life is vast, and includes both the sacred and the profane.
• How to be a more nuanced spiritual practitioner and experience life more robustly, rather than just “good” vs. “bad”.
• How we are spiritual, emotional, physical, and psychological beings and not just one element of being.
• Why it’s important to bring all sorts of people, stories, and paths of living to the “spiritual” conversation.
• And more!

For our third episode, Alexandra welcomes Bunny Michael to the show!

Bunny Michael is a spiritual coach and multi-disciplinary artist who has dedicated their work to awakening Higher-Self - the manifestation of love within all humans deconditioned by the limitations of ego identity.  Using writing, visual art, music, and performance Bunny has shared their Higher Self message on stages throughout the United States and Europe.  What Alexandra loved about this episode is the generosity, aliveness, depth, and magic that Bunny brought to the show, and we so hope you enjoy!

During this episode, you’ll learn:

• The first encounter that Bunny had with their highest self, and how that experience felt and was different than other moments of spiritual practice.
• How our lives can often be guided by unconscious tendencies to avoid pain and suffering and how to begin to unravel that for yourself.
• The art of channelling divine creative energy through the form of you who are, and how to take the pressure off of doing it “right”.
• How following your purpose and your message can keep you grounded in your work in the moments where you may feel confusion or uncertainty in how to deliver your gifts to the world.
• How the shadows of our ego can sneak into our businesses and the path of sharing our message with the world, and how to bring awareness to those shadow parts.
• How moving our bodies, breathing, and expressing can help us shift and move through the grief we may be experiencing from this past year.

For our second episode, Alexandra welcomes Dr. Will Siu to the show!

Dr. Will Siu, MD, DPhil is a Psychiatrist, speaker, writer and educator specializing in psychedelic-assisted therapy. He has been a guest speaker on many podcasts, and was recently featured in Netflix’s ‘The Goop Lab’ speaking about psychedelics and the impact they can have within the healing community. What Alexandra loved about this episode was how Dr. Will’s story that he shares with us today is a story that many of us all live through and will be able to relate to in some way within our own lives about finding the courage to speak up in the face of old institutions and beliefs. Stay tuned to the end to hear more about Dr. Will’s take on incorporating psychedelics into your own healing journey.

During this Discussion, you’ll learn:

• Dr. Will’s three steps to healing, whether you are using psychedelics or not in your process.
• The role that psychedelics can play within the healing process, and what breakthroughs they may assist with in the process.
• How the path to living authentically and speaking up can be a healing journey within itself.
• How living authentically is a conscious choice we make throughout our lives.
• How using our voice is an integral part of healing and living in our own authentic truth.
• How to discern if psychedelics are right for you on your healing journey.
• How the western medical system and the modern spiritual community are engaging in practices that are not always in full integrity, and how to navigate your way through both.
• And much more!

For our first episode, Alexandra welcomes Rachel Rabbit White to the show! Rachel Rabbit White is a writer, ritualist, goddess worshiper, poet, and former sex worker. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Vanity Fair and a host of other incredible platforms. What Alexandra loves about Rachel is she is so radically herself—she seems like a fully self-expressed woman, and that can be hard to find in our society. She advocates for sexworker rights, for queer rights, for loving freely, and for engaging in healthy sexual relationships. Stay tuned until the end when Rachel reads a poem from her incredible book, Porn Carnival: The Paradise Edition.

During this episode, you'll learn:

• How social norms and narratives hold us back from living our most authentic and fully-expressed lives. 
• Why relationships between women and between friends can be treasured and elevated in the same way that a romantic relationship with an established partner can.
• How psychedelics can free you from the societal constructs that you normally live your life by, and empower you to nurture your truth without fear.
• How sexual fluidity and personal growth has helped her discover more about her own sexual self.
• Much, much more.