It Takes Courage To Tell The Truth

Teeka Rohana is a transpersonal counsellor, student of Indigenous Knowledge, frontline activist and artist.

Infusing themes of social injustice and ancestral connection into her theatre, music and poetry.

Teeka’s work accentuates the need for pleasure and ritual as embodied forms of dismantling systems of oppression.

She is inspired and informed by her matriarchal Indonesian roots as well as the works of Adrienne Maree Brown, The Nap Ministry and Bayo Akomolafe.

Teeka currently resides on Bundjalung country working in mental health and disability support work.

Teeka recently came back from the Adani coal Mine site after being arrested and abused by the police force while she was chained up to the welding machinery they were using to extract the minerals and resources from our beloved earth.

Teeka tells her story of frontline activism, how we can support and why we need more bodies on the frontline.

Alice Forrest is a marine biologist, wildlife guide & scientific communicator currently based in Byron Bay. She spends her days eye-gazing with humpback whales, hanging out with penguins on the Antarctic ice, or freediving with turtles in the east coast sea. Alice joins us from her tiny home in the northern river, the audio is one of an off grid home. Please be aware that wifi is not as strong but the knowledge and stories shared in this conversation are incredibly rich and inspiring.

In this conversation we talk about showing up for the planet, getting rid of guilt, how to be a change maker, the reality of plastic pollution and climate change, and the inspiring life that Alice is living in order to inspire and create positive change.

Carla joins us on the show today to discuss her story from 2020. When Carla lost her job from COVID 19, she decided to move to slow down and start real healing with time and space on her side. She tells of her long journey with Topical Steroid Cream, how the western medical system failed her, how she found treatment and healing in community and how she invited in a slowing way of healing to really get to the root cause of her dis-ease.

Carla comes on the show today to share her truths, to connect with other who may be experiencing this and to help create a community outside of the western medical system which denies that TSW is a side affect of the prescribed cream they give to people with skin conditions.

A important and intimate story to be shared, about grief, healing and perseverance.

Instagram @leskec

“Sustainability is knowing your place in the world” - Nidala Barker

Nidala Barker is a woman who was birthed into culture, lore and custom. She is a musician and has a masters in sustainability.

Nidala's ancestral roots are deeply embedded on this continent known as Australia. Her mother is a Polish/French academic and her father a

Djugan Man from the Kimberley in Western Australia.

In this episode, Nidala speaks being an Indigenous woman who is pioneering a sustainable future, she isn't afraid to have challenging conversations and walks through the world with courage and deep knowing of her place within it.

We speak about the importance of truth telling, getting out of the echo chamber and our own personal responsibility for the planet.

Nidala shares about her first time discovering "Survival Day" and how she sees the future of Australia as we embrace our black history as a collective.

"But don’t you want that to be on a day where you can acknowledge you were more than the massacres you did"

This is such a great podcast for those wanting to deepen their understanding of these issues. Share, like and love Nidala's work.

Please contact Nidala here

Spotify: Nidala Barker

Instagram: @nini.barker

Samantha Neal is a menstrual educator and activist.

Her education programs have been taught throughout Australia and the United States to girls and women of all ages. Her work is in dismantling attitudes of silence and shame around menstruation and providing a comprehensive and holistic approach to cycle education. Born in Venice, California and raised on the Big Island of Hawaii, she now calls Byron Bay, Australia her home.

In this discussion Sam reminds us of our power within, about understanding our menstral cycle in order to understand ourselves. The untapped potential of tracking and the ripple effect it can have on planning and organising week to week life.

We also discuss the power of rest and resisting the male dominated society by saying no, taking time to self care and looking after yourself. Sam approaches her work with a subtle balance of soft and strong.

Her passion pours through her voice as she speaks her truth and shares truths to us in the intimacy of a conversation between friends.

This is such a great podcast for those wanting to deepen their relationship with self and understand that shame about our periods is just a way to keep us from harnessing our power.

Please contact Sam to find out more about her work

Website: https://www.yourwisdomwithin.com/

Instagram: wisdomwithin_

Arakai is passionate about embodiment, an experienced martial artist (+20 years), an inspiring Astrologer, sound healer, detox facilitator, a RYT 500-certified yoga teacher and a highly skillful body worker with 10 years of experience and several thousand hours of training.

Arakai has been devoted to the healing arts all her life. Psychic from a very young age she used her vision, voice and hands to offer healing to people. After several near death experiences that provided her with the potent training grounds to heal herself she was led to devote herself to the modalities of herbalism, Bodywork and Astrology.

Astrology has given a filter to the psychic and unseen realms that Arakai had been communing with her whole life. She realized after working intensively with the plants in the jungle for many years that there was connection to the planetary energies and her clients natal charts that she could see inside of the body.

In this discussion we talk about Astrology, the age of Aquarius and how to look to the planets for guidance. We discuss how astrology Is language of nature. Understanding the rhythms and how to dance with the patterns of the planets. How to co-create our reality and free ourselves from the smoke and mirrors of oppression. Astrology gives us a map of our psyche to learn to work with these patterns and codes within us to discover the true essence of who we really are.

Arakai Moon

@star_siren_astrology

Madeleine Keller is a folk herbalist, writer/zinester, and witch.

She use's her work with plants and ceremonial practices as vehicles for work around unsettling and whiteness.

She takes a critical perspective to her herbalism work, and strives to teach workshops that include Indigenous histories and question the colonial roots of western herbalism.

We discuss working with plants as a white settler and bringing an unsettling lens to that work. Also how to explore and cultivate your own story through your ancestry and remembering that all women are witches.

The importance of rest and deconstructing the notion of "real work" in community organising, and Madeleines personal experience with this stigma.

Dealing with and healing from organiser burnout and how plant medicine can assist the affected.

How the call to defund police opens the way for care workers and healers in our world.

Check out the resources below and connect with Madeleine:

Madeleine Keller

madeleinelkeller.com

Resources

Protect Juristac Campaign led by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band

http://www.protectjuristac.org/

The Nap Ministry project by Tricia Hersey

https://www.instagram.com/thenapministry/

My Links

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/madeleinelkeller

Softest Sniff: Free Workshop on Hydrosols and Aromatherapy for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Care: https://mailchi.mp/06f6927b988c/signup-for-softest-sniff-hydrosols-aromatherapy-workshop

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/underfullmoons/

Website: https://madeleinelkeller.com/

How can we find our power as women?

How can we connect to our pussys’?

Why sacred is sexy and journeying to meet our soul through sensual pray is an essential part of reclaiming our space in this world.

In todays conversation I talk with Leela Kalyani about her profession as a feminine healer.

Did you know the Sanskrit word ‘Leela’ translates to divine cosmic play.

In this chat, you can feel how Leela embodies her name.

How to get out of your head and into your heart in the bedroom, how to walk in the world with integrity

We talk about her story as a mix raced Indian / Australian woman. She explores how she grew up with Hindu statues and discussions of Shakti and Shiva and now as an adult is exploring the worlds of sacred sexuality, polyamory and conscious relating.

Leela talks about her work with women in the sexuality space, healing as a female and how she carries herself in the world.

So excited to share this conversation with you.

Connect with Leela

Website: https://padminiyoni.com/

Instagram: http://instagram.com/padmini_yoni/

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How can we change the system? Today I talk with Bronwyn Bate. She set up a social enterprise called Mettle Women Inc (Mettle).

Mettle Women Inc. is an ethical gift delivery social enterprise employing women who are experiencing homelessness due to domestic and family violence.

Bronwyn witnesses how the system failed women post crisis. She saw an opportunity to support women to gain their financial freedom through a program that supports, encourages and up skills.

Mettle gives 100% of the profits of the business directly to the women who make the gift boxes.

Bronwyn's transparency and integrity being a CEO of this business is something to aspire too. She gives tips on how to be a strong female business leader and setting up social enterprises.

Domestic and family violence is the single largest driver of homelessness for women in Australia. The lack of safe and accessible employment and opportunities to establish financial independence can make it extremely difficult & dangerous to leave abusive environments.

Head to the website today to grab a gift for someone and support a powerful business model, for women, by women.

Website: https://www.mettlegifts.com/

Instagram: http://instagram.com/mettle_org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mettleorg

A podcast by Ella Noah Bancroft

Released as a big FUCK YOU to THE COMMONWEALTH On the Queens Birthday.

Aimee Aroha is a Transpersonal Mentor, Transpersonal Birth Mentor & Birth Companion. She is also a Mother of two, a lover, a believer in and advocate for radical self responsibility, body autonomy, expansive conscious relating (with self and others). She believes wholeheartedly in the power of pleasure and the importance of conscious relationships, birthing and parenting for the future of health of humanity and the planet.  As a Transpersonal Mentor, Aimee has seen how the wellness world has been created through the colonisers lens and she is using her work to help decolonise healing and self care trend.

In this conversation we discuss Aimee’s journey to decolonise her mind, body and soul as a mixed heritage woman with Maori blood (First Nations people to New Zealand). Aimee is passionate about birth sovereignty and reclaiming the birth space for women and birthing people. She herself has traversed the Rite of Passage that is birth, the transition from Maiden to Mother and we talk about the complex, wild, intuitive, ceremonial, at times traumatic, often joyful and always expansive birth experience. We discuss helpful ways to ritualise your birth and Aimee’s own incredible unassisted home birth in 2019.

Aimee is a huge believer in radical self care and is a rebel at heart and this conversation is so needed right here, right now.

Decolonise To Thrive.

Connect with Aimee

Website https://www.thestonedchrysalis.com/about


Instagram: @ripsnorter