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In today’s episode, for her second time on this podcast, Alexandra speaks with EbonyJanice!

EbonyJanice is a dynamic lecturer, transformational speaker, passionate multi-faith preacher, and creative focused on Decolonizing Authority, Hip Hop Scholarship, Womanism as a Political and Spiritual/Religious tool for Liberation, Blackness as Religion, Dialogue as central to professional development and personal growth, and Women and Gender Studies focused on black girlhood.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How EbonyJanice went through a period of wanting to walk away from talking about anti-racism, so that she could become a soft woman, and how writing about that and looking into that helped to form her new book All The Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance.
• EbonyJanice’s definition of ‘softness’ and ‘woman softening’ and how that has become such a trendy buzzword and concept on social media, and how it’s not about luxury and living a luxurious life, but about softening the nervous system and deeply taking care of yourself.
• The importance of citation in today’s world of social media, and how the spark of every idea comes from somewhere, how important it is to credit where our ideas and conversations come from, and how to navigate this with other people.
• Discussion around black artists and black art, how it is so often erased in our culture, and how that impacted the way EbonyJanice and team designed the style of her book cover.
• And so much more.

Pre-order your copy of EbonyJanice's book here.

Explore all of her offerings here.

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Today, Alexandra comes to us solo-style with a discussion on spiritual traditions, and honoring the people and lineages that have inspired us and fed us.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Ideas on creating a space of belonging in your life, whether that’s lineage-based, or from a cultivation of places you receive spiritual nourishment from.
• How to rewrite your story by creating your own rituals, and crafting and curating your surroundings and belongings in your home.
• Ideas on how to build a life that is rich with spiritual meaning, and what is meaningful to you.
• And more!

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On today’s episode, Alexandra speaks with author, artist, and teacher John Wineland!

John Wineland is an LA-based speaker and teacher leading men and women in the practices of embodied masculine leadership, spiritual intimacy and sexual polarity.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• John’s experience of growing up Buddhist, and how he realized as an adult that all of his spiritual studies hadn’t prepared him for being in healthy relationship, and how this led him to this work today.
• Reflections on the shifting climate of our society becoming more conscious to healthy relationship and what it takes, especially if you grew up without an example of healthy relationship in the home.
• Ideas on how breath affects our nervous system and therefore your surroundings, including intimacy, as it makes you more aware and available for others’ energy in your system.
• John’s definition of polarity, and how it allows for very deep experiences of intimacy.
• Ideas around what being a ‘practitioner’ means, and what that looks like for John on a daily basis.
• And so much more.

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Get your copy of John's book From The Core here.

Explore all of John's offerings here.

Follow along with John on IG here.

This week, Alexandra comes to us solo-style with an invitation into the conversation around discernment, recognizing the spiritual moments in your life, and what it means to have a deep devotion to knowing yourself and your soul.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Alexandra’s own studies and discoveries around being the “red dakini” and learning how to really start to use discernment in her own love life, and how to start to discern who she should let in to her field of romantic love, and how to manage that flow of energy.
• Ideas around being devoted to knowing yourself and your soul and what lights you up, and how to explore and discover what those things and moments are.
• Personal love stories and shares from Alexandra and reflections on the moments in life she was so deeply touched by art and love.
• And so much more… 

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In this episode, Alexandra speaks with bestselling author, mystic, and creative Rebecca Campbell!

Rebecca Campbell is an international bestselling writer, poet, healer, ritualist, spiritual teacher, visionary and mystic who has been featured in Vogue, The Sunday Times, Oprah.com, Psychologies Magazine. Her books, oracles, courses, and workshops have been translated into over 20 languages and she has supported hundreds of thousands of people to change their lives and answer the calls of their soul.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Alexandra and Rebecca’s reflections on their miscarriages, how difficult that is to go through and to explain to others, the physical reaction in your body, and the emotional and hormonal reaction you can experience as well.
• How Rebecca experienced conceiving and some important creative breakthroughs in her business at the same time.
• Rebecca’s process of accrediting The Inner Temple Mystery School, and how it actually helped to ground the course and provide structure to a course centered around guiding people through a personal and spiritual soul journey.
• Ideas around how boundaries help to provide a clear container for soul journey work, and how a solid container usually allows people to feel safe to go into a deeper process.
• How Rebecca connects to the mystical, or the sacredness of life, and how there are different pathways for every person to discover their own way in to that connection.
• And more!

Follow along with Rebecca on IG here.

Explore The Inner Temple Mystery School here.

Shop Rebecca's oracle decks and other products here.

Find out more about Rebecca's offerings here.

Join Creative Woman Set Free, Alexandra's new 6-week masterclass and group portal here.

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In today’s episode, Alexandra speaks with Rocco Kayiatos!

Rocco Kayiatos is an expert in content, brand and community building. He is an award-winning leader in the tech and media space, creating training programs, content in all forms and formats and building loyal communities around a brand. He is currently Chief Content Officer at FOLX Health and has held leadership positions at Grindr and BuzzFeed. 

Rocco is hailed as the first openly transgender man to put out an LP (2003). He is the founding editor of the world’s first trans male quarterly print journal, Original Plumbing Magazine, and co-editor of Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture (Feminist Press, 2019), writer and editor of The Mindful Masculinity Workbook: A Practical Guide To Healthier Masculinity. He is the proud co-founder and director of Camp Lost Boys, the first sleep-away summer camp exclusively for adult men of trans experience.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Rocco’s reflections around making yourself accessible by putting yourself out there on different platforms, and how it can be dismantling and confusing, if you don’t also put up clear boundaries for yourself around that.
• Ideas around being on the frontier or the beginnings of a new idea, cultural movement, or zeitgeist, and how you don’t necessarily always get the credit, or the acclaim for doing so, but how that work lays down the groundwork for other, larger, more mainstream movements to come in and take up space in our culture.
• Thoughts around our culture’s current views around masculinity, how important it is to heal with our relationship to masculinity, and how we are missing spaces in our culture today where men can gather, heal, and connect together.
• Ideas around cancel culture and how it’s actually very binary - black or white, bad or good - and how that’s doing us a huge disservice today at a time where we are trying to become more inclusive, accepting, and understanding as a society at large.
• And so much more!

Grab your copy of The Mindful Masculinity workbook here and the Original Plumbing book here.

Wanna work with Rocco? Check out Rocco's consulting offerings and get in touch here.

Follow along with Rocco on IG here.

Join Creative Woman Set Free, Alexandra's new 6-week masterclass and group portal here.

Grab your copy of Alexandra's book, F*ck Like A Goddess: Heal Yourself, Reclaim Your Voice, Stand In Your Power here.

In this episode, Alexandra speaks with Vicki Noble!

Vicki Noble is a feminist healer and wisdom teacher, co-creator of Motherpeace and author of eight books, including Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess; Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World (a handbook for women healers); and The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power (a survey of the long lineage of Amazons and Yoginis practicing female shamanism since time immemorial). After a series of psychic and spontaneous healing events in the late 1970s, Noble co-created, with Karen Vogel, the round feminist Motherpeace tarot cards revising both divination and world history to include women and people of color. In 2017, the fashion company Christian Dior licensed the Motherpeace images for a special clothing line, sending their matriarchal values out to all the urban centers of the world.

In the late 1980s, Vicki Noble founded and directed the Motherpeace Institute in California, and published an award-winning quarterly journal, SnakePower: A Journal of Ancient and Contemporary Female Shamanism. For decades she has traveled and taught internationally, and leading pilgrimage groups to sacred Goddess sites around the world; her books are translated and published in numerous languages. Her intensive teaching in Italy for more than a decade has led to a dedicated group of Italian feminist women practicing and passing on her teachings.

She is retired from teaching as a graduate professor in the Women’s Spirituality Masters Programs at CIIS, New College in San Francisco, and finally at Sofia University in Palo Alto (formerly called ITP). She has been a professional astrologer and healer, and for two decades has adapted Tibetan Buddhist Dakini practices for her Goddess students. Currently she holds private intensives and Motherpeace Certifications in Santa Cruz, where she lives near her family and close to the Pacific Ocean, gardening, walking, and watching whales.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Reflections on the overarching respect of celebrity and youth culture in the U.S. and subsequent lack of valuing our elders in our culture, and how that differs from indigenous cultures throughout history and today.  Plus, ideas on how that greatly impacts women, and especially older women, going through menopause and beyond.
• The origins of Vicki’s work and co-creations of the Motherpeace tarot deck and her book Shakti Woman, how the tarot community reacted to the deck at the time of its creation, and how the work holds up and is still relevant today.
• Reflections on our move into patriarchy as a society, and how that took us away from living as sacred, living collectively, living sustainably, and experiencing life from a female-centered, peaceful way of living.
• Ideas around separating the patriarchy from masculinity, and the complexities and process of this journey as women living within the patriarchy interested in healing with the masculine in our own lives.
• Reclaiming women’s spirituality in our culture, and how it is also a call for structured practices and commitment.
• And so much more… 

Follow along with Vicki on IG @vickinobleone here.

Explore Vicki's books, the Motherpeace tarot deck, and other offerings here.

Join Creative Woman Set Free, Alexandra's new 6-week masterclass and group portal here.

In this episode, Alexandra speaks with the legendary Stoya! Jessica Stoya is a retired adult performer and current journalist. Stoya has written about sexuality and pornography for the Guardian, The New York Times, VICE, Playboy, and is half of Slate's How To Do It sex advice column. 

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How Stoya got started in sex work, how she dealt with the fears at the time regarding her future self and working in the industry, and how that has currently settled in her life today.
• Stoya’s experience of feeling true pleasure and excitement during working in pornography, how it was also a job on some days, and how her menstrual cycle greatly impacted her working conditions and experience in the industry.
• Ideas and discussion on how harmful other people’s projected shame can be on our own internalized beliefs, and how much work it can take to distance ourselves from that.
• Examples of how Stoya has set boundaries for herself on the internet, and how a lot of sex workers today don’t have the privilege to do so.
• How Stoya became a writer, and helped to fill in gaps she saw regarding representation for women and different body types.
• And much more juiciness!

Follow along with Stoya @stoya on IG and Twitter.

Check out Stoya's offerings and links, including links to Fleshlight and OnlyFans here.

Grab a copy of Stoya's book Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn here.

Join Creative Woman Set Free, Alexandra's new 6-week masterclass and group portal here.

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In this week’s episode of Holy F*ck, Alexandra speaks with long-time friend Daniella Rabbani, who is the host of the MOM Curious podcast, Director of OMA which is available now on Prime Video, and a Yiddish Songstress!

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Advice Daniella shared with Alexandra many years ago on how to learn how to sing in an embodied way, plus Daniella sings a Yiddish song for us!
• Ideas and examples on feeling different levels of aliveness in your body, and how to work with that heart-flutter, nervous, alive energy when you feel it flowing within you.
• Details around Daniella’s healing journey, including how physical pain was manifesting in her body, and how she was existing as a very high-functioning, personable and funny person as a survival mechanism.
• How the creation of art can be such a powerful tool for transformation, and is often overlooked as a healing method to be witnessed, enjoyed, seen, and heard in your process.
• Daniella’s experience of bridging being a mother alongside being a practitioner of different healing methods like microdosing, breathwork, and other alternative healing methods.
• Ideas on creating a mission statement for yourself, so that it can travel across cities, locations, jobs, vocations, and different projects over the course of your creativity, career, and magic out there in the world.
• And more!

Watch Daniella's film OMA here.

Listen to Daniella's MOM Curious podcast on Apple Podcasts here.

Follow along with Daniella on IG @daniellarabbani.

Join Creative Woman Set Free, Alexandra's new 6-week masterclass and group portal here.

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In today’s episode, Alexandra speaks with Adriana Rizzolo for what we have deemed the “Sex, Drugs, and Spirituality” episode!

As the founder of Body Temple, spiritual mentor, somatic healer, sex educator for women, trans* and non binary folks, speaker, grief and aliveness doula, Tantric meditation, energy healing and embodied movement facilitator, Adriana helps people heal trauma and patterns of helplessness, awaken their power and feel at home in their bodies to start living life in alignment with their souls offerings and sexy, secure relationships.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Adriana’s transition from working as a hair stylist in New York to her current vocation as a healer and spiritual mentor.
• Her journey to becoming sober after growing up around addiction, and how that’s now transformed to a fierce devotion to sobriety.
• Ideas around putting yourself in spaces where people are sharing and being authentic about the human experience, including our shadows, and how that can be so liberating and healing to our experience, rather than being in spaces where certain aspects of being human are masked, or not discussed openly.
• How Adriana’s reclamation journey of her relationship to her sexuality has been helpful to trust herself, trust what she has to say, and not get lost in other people’s ideas and projections of herself, and ideas on how you can begin to explore this reclamation for yourself.
• Ideas around how any spiritual practice can be useful in different moments and phases of life, and it’s so important to discern in each moment and phase of life when it’s helpful for you and when it can be put to the side in the moment.
• Adriana’s current book recommendations, and much, much more!

Follow along with Adriana on IG @thepowerofloveschool.

And check out all of her offerings here.

Join Creative Woman Set Free, Alexandra's new 6-week masterclass and group portal here.

Shop Chakrubs using this link http://chakrubs.com/?aff=290 and use code ROXOLOVE at checkout for a discount!