Not Afraid To

Listen if you’re ready (or not quite) to fully embrace being selfish! 

What if being selfish was a responsibility? In this episode, we share how demonstrating selfishness serves both inspiration and ease to people you love, and how the prime motivation of knowing yourself is a gift you end up giving to others. 

In between stories about a unique synchronistic life path they have in common and how one day Brooke’s aversion to olives just ‘disappeared’, Raya and Brooke share tools that are simple and effective for getting in touch with your own selfish desires. You can start using them today! 

Listen and let us know… How will you be more selfish in your life? 

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The Pod’s Instagram: @notafraidtopodcast 
Raya’s Instagram: @sharayafriesen
Brooke’s Instagram: @brookeisfearless 
Raya’s Website: rayafriesen.com
Brooke’s Website:  vancouverconstellations.com

Listen if you desire to be a high-impact practitioner or to be someone who thrives in their life by facing their triggers head on.

In this episode, Raya and Brooke share what they believe builds trust in the practitioner-client relationship and how the key to being a high-impact practitioner begins as an inside job.

Raya shares a 4-step process that she offers to her clients, students and uses herself, that has the power to take you from triggered to regulated. 

Together they offer the reframe that our triggers are mirrors, showing us where our work lies so we can continue to learn, grow and experience more ease in our lives. They remind us that someone may push your buttons but they didn’t put them there!

Let this episode be an invitation to fully feel your feelings and to use your triggers as glimmers for growth. When you try the 4-step process from Raya, let us know what changes for you!

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The Pod’s Instagram: @notafraidtopodcast 
Raya’s Instagram: @sharayafriesen
Brooke’s Instagram: @brookeisfearless 
Raya’s Website: rayafriesen.com
Brooke’s Website:  vancouverconstellations.com

Listen if you desire aligned, inspired relationships with your girlfriends.

In this episode, Raya and Brooke use their own relationship as an example, looking at what’s desired and possible within friendships. 

They talk about how sacred sisterhood is irreplaceable. It is the type of relationship that inspires, expands and invites us into our full authenticity. 

Let this episode be an invitation to take inventory of your friendships through self-reflection of how you show up in each one and to tell your besties that you love them!

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The Pod’s Instagram: @notafraidtopodcast 
Raya’s Instagram: @sharayafriesen
Brooke’s Instagram: @brookeisfearless 
Raya’s Website: rayafriesen.com
Brooke’s Website:  vancouverconstellations.com

Listen if there’s a change you need to make in order to be more free. Can you trust that feeling, no matter the cost?

Raya delivers the unexpected in this episode! Together, Brooke and her explore what’s the cost of your freedom? And how to alchemize anything that’s happened in your life into a lesson for your expansion.

In this episode, Raya shares one of the most important ‘choice points’ in her life, choosing to trust her intuition that guided her to divorce her ex-husband and embody her own truth and power no matter the cost. 

This lesson is one that offers a radical view on trusting and acting on your intuition and how everything has the ability to support your expansion. Raya and Brooke also share potent wisdom about money that may surprise you!

Enjoy our most unhinged episode to date! May you use this as an invitation to not settle for anything less than your most magical life!

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The Pod’s Instagram: @notafraidtopodcast 
Raya’s Instagram: @sharayafriesen
Brooke’s Instagram: @brookeisfearless 
Raya’s Website: rayafriesen.com
Brooke’s Website:  vancouverconstellations.com

Listen if you want to turn your triggers into your dream life, and practice the art of collaborative dreaming. 

In this episode, we take the buzz word of manifestation and make it practical. We share stories of simple (or not so simple!) manifestations in our own lives and how to upgrade your frequency to have more magic and miracles in your day to day. 

Learn about how a post-it note on Brooke’s wall led to an expansion of her publicity as an athlete, what spells are being cast every time you think and speak, and how Raya’s philosophy of “no dream is too big” is actually put into action. 

You’ll be inspired by this episode to address your identity, explore your language, and use questions to explore your own inner dialogue. Join us as we invite your subconscious into more aligned manifestation, and amplify your dreams!

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The Pod’s Instagram: @notafraidtopodcast 
Raya’s Instagram: @sharayafriesen
Brooke’s Instagram: @brookeisfearless 
Raya’s Website: rayafriesen.com
Brooke’s Website:  vancouverconstellations.com


Listen to Brooke’s single, Dream Bigger here: https://open.spotify.com/album/1ECnqGUFK8X1Q0JkgRWB7I?si=Qb5Z0zTLTlKpNDzoJ8A4Cw

Listen if you are ready to look at yourself as a powerful, infinite being.

This week, Raya and Brooke explore the topics of self-doubt and the doubt we receive from others. Raya shares two personal situations where influential people in her life doubted her, and explains how those moments offered her the perfect opportunity to go all-in on herself and her truth.

Brooke highlights how we always have the ability to choose the narrative we carry, whether we get hooked into what others think or choose to bet on ourselves and soar. She also shares a powerful perspective on how our time with teachers and mentors is naturally meant to end, and why learning not to take anything personally is absolutely necessary to become an embodied, masterful leader and teacher. Today’s episode is a beautiful reminder that everyone and everything is a mirror, offering us a continuous opportunity to self-reflect, clear stories, and align with our deepest truths and desires.

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The Pod’s Instagram: @notafraidtopodcast 
Raya’s Instagram: @sharayafriesen
Brooke’s Instagram: @brookeisfearless 
Raya’s Website: rayafriesen.com
Brooke’s Website:  vancouverconstellations.com

Listen if you’re ready to make stronger decisions.

On this week’s episode, we answer a listener’s request to share one of the most powerful tools we use with clients. Brooke dives deep on the concept of “strong reasons vs. weak reasons” for every decision we make and action that we take. This is one of the favorite and most impactful tools that many of her executive coaching clients have benefited from over the years. Brooke takes Raya through the process and examples of weak and strong reasons in dealing with Raya’s own choice to move, and how a subtle change in our reasoning makes our decisions more impactful and empowering.

In this episode, Brooke also shares vulnerably about how her decision of why to train jiu jitsu has changed over time and how greater awareness has led to stronger choices.

Let us know what strong choices you make after listening to this episode! 

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The Pod’s Instagram: @notafraidtopodcast 
Raya’s Instagram: @sharayafriesen
Brooke’s Instagram: @brookeisfearless 
Raya’s Website: rayafriesen.com
Brooke’s Website:  vancouverconstellations.com

Listen if you’re ready to stop blocking your blessings.

On this week’s episode, Raya and Brooke speak on the greatest gift you can give another: your presence. They discuss why it is so important to fully receive compliments, and how doing so is connected to honoring your gifts and inspiring others. Brooke shares a magical moment she had in Thailand which offered the perfect entry point to the messages shared.

Raya shares her personal practices for honoring her energy as a practitioner, including how to remain anchored in our hearts without taking on other people’s energy. They explore why aspects of Western healthcare can be inherently unhealthy through the lens of self-care and energetics, and highlight why it’s so vital to be mindful of who you welcome onto your health and wellness team. Today’s episode is an open invitation to honor your own energy and to recognize how doing so deeply impacts the people you serve.

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The Pod’s Instagram: @notafraidtopodcast 
Raya’s Instagram: @sharayafriesen
Brooke’s Instagram: @brookeisfearless 
Raya’s Website: rayafriesen.com
Brooke’s Website:  vancouverconstellations.com

Listen if you’ve ever been ghosted. 

Today Raya and Brooke peel back the layers of social conditioning to uncover what it means to be "yourself." We often navigate the world through a lens of "How will this be perceived?", essentially letting others' opinions act as the CEO of our behavior. Brooke shares her journey of moving from "considering" perceptions to a place of total internal clarity, while Raya recounts a season of losing several close friends and the surprising lessons and peace that time offered her.

From the concept of "Ego Hooks" to the addictive nature of victimhood, this conversation is a masterclass in radical self-honesty. We explore the difference between being a "good friend" and being a "truthful friend," and why sometimes, the greatest gift someone can give you is their departure from your life.

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The Pod’s Instagram: @notafraidtopodcast 
Raya’s Instagram: @sharayafriesen
Brooke’s Instagram: @brookeisfearless 
Raya’s Website: rayafriesen.com
Brooke’s Website:  vancouverconstellations.com

Listen if you are ready to be turned on by your life. 

Welcome to Not Afraid to... In this episode, hosts Raya and Brooke are bold as they explore their views on why women’s pleasure is sacred and our own personal responsibility. Brooke serves up a spicy metaphor that is anchored into women feeling safe, having their needs met, being receptive to life, feeling creative and being open to miracles.

Raya shares a fiery story that demonstrates the power of holding your own vibration and speaking your truth in partnership. Highlighting how when you do, this can lead those in a soul connected relationship into further expansion and self growth. This is a fun one!

This episode is a call to action to speak your full truth in your relationships and to be open to witnessing the ripple of miracles that can offer you.

Connect and Share
The Pod’s Instagram: @notafraidtopodcast 
Raya’s Instagram: @sharayafriesen
Brooke’s Instagram: @brookeisfearless 
Raya’s Website: rayafriesen.com
Brooke’s Website:  vancouverconstellations.com