Finding Your Freedom

In this episode, I talk about how far we have gotten from love, the earth and what really matters in this life. I also share a little how this has been showing up for me lately.

-Connecting and living with love

-Money as an energy exchange for our gifts

-The enemy is whatever is controlling us

-Our right to be free in this life and what it feels like to be living a lie

-Telling yourself the truth is the first step

-The fear that comes up from claiming that freedom

-What I’ve been experiencing in my own life lately related to freedom

-Speak whatever is true for you during this time. It’s part of the new world we are building <3

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Intro Music by: Seth Francis

Cover Art by: Tyler Colter

In this episode, I talk about how to get through the rest of “the joy that is” 2020. I talk about my experience, what the pandemic felt like in the beginning compared to now, and tools I’m using to stay grounded during this time.

-Reflecting on the beginning of the pandemic, the summer and now at month 6

-The anxiety of when will this actually end

-All the questioning of our plans, beliefs, and structures happening during this time

-The little heartbreaks we are experiencing each day during this time

-The election pending and collective chaos added on

-Grieving the life we thought we would have in 2020 and by now in this phase of the pandemic

-Sitting with the feeling of being controlled or limited in ways this year

-Searching for a higher purpose during this time

-Still growing in the present and accepting the transition

-Tools to stay grounded and connected in the chaos and unknown

-A new offering coming in November for community and expressing emotions

Past pandemic-related episodes:

7. COVID-19: Adjusting to the New Normal & What We May Have to Learn

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/finding-your-freedom/id1496653089?i=1000469502114

25. Maintaining Your Mental Health When It Feels Like the World is Falling Apart

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/finding-your-freedom/id1496653089?i=1000487197968

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Visit my website: madelinebbailey.com

Intro Music by: Seth Francis

Cover Art by: Tyler Colter

Dr. Gary Dohanich is a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Dohanich received his B.S. in Psychology from Lehigh University, his M.S. in Physiological Psychology from Villanova University, and his Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from Michigan State University.  Following an NRSA postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University, he joined the Tulane faculty in 1985.  His research has focused on the roles of gonadal and adrenal hormones as moderators of cognitive, affective, and reproductive behaviors. Complementary interests included the impact of biological sex on the development and expression of behavior.  He has published 70 research articles, scholarly reviews, and book chapters, and held grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.  Dr. Dohanich no longer maintains an active research laboratory and devotes his time to undergraduate and graduate teaching, and training of doctoral students in contemporary pedagogical techniques.  Dr. Dohanich is the co-founder and former co-director of Tulane’s major and master’s programs in Neuroscience.  He is the recipient of many of Tulane University’s highest teaching awards, including the 1995 Randolf C. Read Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 1996 Sheldon Hackney Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 2007 Suzanne and Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellowship in Undergraduate Education, and the 2014 President’s Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional School Teaching.  He was named the Distinguished Newcomb Fellow by the Newcomb College Institute in 2012 and the Honors Professor of the Year in 2020. Along with Dr. Dohanich’s research and teaching achievements, he’s a lover of New Orleans life and culture, frequenting local clubs and also known for attending all 7 days of Jazz Fest. 

In this episode, we discuss:

-How quarantine is limiting our freedom, Dr. Dohanich’s story, and introverts vs. extroverts

-Sex hormones and sexual differentiation in development

-The complex way sex hormones affect behavior

-Oxytocin and other hormones involved in bonding behavior

-Monogamy in humans: are we “made” for this?

-Effects of hormones in the brain

-Fight or fight response and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in stress

-How other brain structures regulate the stress response

-Epigenetics and how this affects our stress response system

-Long term health effects of chronic stress

Gary Dohanich, PhD: https://sse.tulane.edu/psyc/faculty/dohanich

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Intro Music by: Seth Francis

Cover Art by: Tyler Colter

In this episode, I talk about what I’m working through right now. I talk about breaking out of cycles, not letting perfectionism hold you back, and being in states of transition.

-What I’m currently working through

-When it’s end for cycles to end

-Allowing grace with yourself as you change

-Letting go of the time limit on your growth

-Support for shifting times

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Visit my website: madelinebbailey.com

Intro Music by: Seth Francis

Cover Art by: Tyler Colter

Michaela Cowden is a modern day Priestess, helping heal the collective by guiding the everyday human back to their own divinity. She specializes in teaching women how to anchor into their sacred feminine energy by way of Pleasure, currently leading two online courses: Soaking Wet, an intro to Pleasure, and a 3 month Pleasure Intensive, designed to bring about deep healing and awakening through Pleasure.

Michaela is the living example of the work she teaches, having gone first and done “the work” through her own exploration, and ultimate expansion, with Pleasure. But if there’s one thing she wants everyone to know, it’s that our work is never finished. No matter how many crystals we collect, salt baths we take, or plant medicine trips through the astral plane we embark upon, we are still humans on planet Earth and there will always be new layers to shed to bring us deeper into who we are at our core; our soul, our truest self. 

In this episode, we dive into:

-What me and Michaela are healing and finding freedom from in quarantine

-Michaela’s story of awakening and pleasure

-The process to finding self love

-What self love really is

-Becoming sexually free

-Making self pleasure sacred and using crystal wands

-Cultivating an abundance mindset

Michaela’s instagram: @michaelacowden

Michaela’s links: https://linktr.ee/michaelacowden

Connect with me on Instagram: @madds_baileeyy

Visit my website: madelinebbailey.com/

Intro Music by: Seth Francis

Cover Art by: Tyler Colter

In this episode, I talk about why women’s bodies are owed to no one. I talk about women being viewed as more than bodies and what consent actually looks like. I discuss:

-Madeline’s life update

-The pain body for women in our bodies and our sexuality for thousands of years

-Viewing women’s worth in their bodies

-Emotional safety in sex

-Consent is NOT convincing someone into sex

-A example situation in my life that is a common story for women

-Why women owning their pleasure and listening to their bodies is so important

-Respecting your bodies no’s and yes’s & the psychological impact

-Looking for signs of manipulation and gaslighting in terms of sex

-Women are sacred and their bodies are owed to no one

-2020 awakening, freeing yourself, and creating your new life

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Visit my website: madelinebbailey.com

Intro Music by: Seth Francis

Cover Art by: Tyler Colter

In this episode, I talk about maintaining your own mental health in the chaos of the world we live in now: corona virus and the shadows of our society being exposed. I discuss:

-Celebrating the 25th episode!!!!

-Everything happening in the world: corona virus, BLM, capitalism, sex trafficking, the election

-Dealing with everything in your personal life as well

-Staying in alignment with ourselves in the chaos of it all (there is a lot going on!)

-Can we feel joy and hope while the world feels like it’s falling apart

-Prioritizing yourself before serving others and taking aligned action

-Our unique role to play in this shift

-Taking time to get curious about that role

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Intro Music by: Seth Francis

Cover Art by: Tyler Colter

Conner Moore is the host of The Realness and Conner Wanders where he takes a straightforward approach to the conversations and issues that are most pressing within our cultural landscape. Conner also co-hosts the Ok, Babe Podcast, and is a Co-Founder of Soulfire Productions, a media company rooted in community, that provides production and consulting for top podcasts in wellness and personal development.

In this episode, we dive into:

-Conner’s new project talking about politics 

-How Conner started in the personal development space

-Getting everything you wanted and it not being right & the dichotomies in Conner’s life

-Small town mentality

-Learning about yourself through dating and your relationship patterns

-Conner’s quarantine shadows 

-Psychedelics, spirituality and PTSD

-PTSD vs. experiencing trauma 

Conner’s instagram: @connerwanders

Conner’s websites: www.gettherealness.com

www.soulfireproductionsco.com

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Intro Music by: Seth Francis

Cover Art by: Tyler Colter

In this episode, I talk about realizing you are out of alignment and what that feels like. I give tips to come back into alignment and come home to yourself and your truth. Enjoy this episode as a teach from the space of being out of alignment myself right now.

-My experience with being out alignment in the past

-My current experience of being out of alignment

-What causes us to fall out of alignment?

-How it feels to be out of alignment

-Steps to come back to come to yourself

-Calibration days and setting boundaries

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Visit my website: madelinebbailey.com

Intro Music by: Seth Francis

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Chandresh Bhardwaj is an author, spiritual advisor, and speaker. His bestseller book and podcast, Break the Norms: Questioning Everything You Think You Know About God and Truth, Life and Death, Love and Sex, presents thought-provoking ideas on how we perceive relationships, sex, spirituality, and other essential aspects of life. With nods from both The Dalai Lama and Dr. Deepak Chopra, Chandresh Bhardwaj offers a fresh, trailblazing voice in contemporary spiritual teaching. 

Currently based in Los Angeles, Chandresh has long been fascinated by the incredible power of the human consciousness and shares that the truth must be realized from within. You can learn more about his work at www.cbmeditates.com or connect with him on his Instagram @cbmeditates.

In this episode, we dive into:

-Chandresh’s perspective on 2020: Rebelling with awareness and growing through discomfort

-What is ~r e a l l y~ is tantra?

-Addiction from a tantric perspective: a deep longing

-Simple ways to become more conscious every day: removing the labels of who you are & pausing before reacting

-Spiritual gurus: the one who understands darkness and helps you transcend it

-The differences between tantra and religion

-Working with the goddesses through tantra

-Goddess Kali and Durga

-How tantra can shine light on other mental health conditions: looking at symptoms to go deeper into the roots

-Embracing the uncertainty of life, aloneness, cultivating the feminine and masculine

-The raw truth of life: we are born and die alone

-Chandresh shares guidance with me

Chandresh’s instagram: @cbmeditates

Chandresh’s website: https://cbmeditates.com/

Connect with me on Instagram: @madds_baileeyy

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Intro Music by: Seth Francis

Cover Art by: Tyler Colter