Powerful Stuff

If you're ready to express yourself fully... if you're ready to start sharing your gifts on a larger stage...but you're not sure what that first step looks like... this episode is for YOU!

Today, I am joined by incredible spoken word poet, generational voice, peak performance advisor, orator, and overall incredibly magical human, Oren Harris, who shares his path into his creative expression, and the incredible story of how he manifested sharing his poem on a stage at a festival in front of 40,000 people.

Prepare to be energized and inspired to start visioning and taking action on what you're ready to put out into the world!

If you're ready to step into your calling but want some extra guidance...

...Enjoy this short meditation episode led by this week's Powerful Stuff guest, healing house music producer Lincoln Jesser. 

Do you have two "seemingly" unlike passions but aren't sure how to combine them? Or maybe you really love something but it hasn't "clicked" yet? This episode is for you!

I talk to my friend Lincoln Jesser who has taken the music scene by storm this year with his healing house music. On this episode, Lincoln talks about where his passion for healing sounds and house music came from, how he nurtured both passions individually, and, how, through consistency and following his path of highest joy, he found his niche to create healing house songs that have brought millions of people joy like "Om Mani Padme Hum."

Lincoln also talks about the power of intentionality in all that we do and how it has the power to transform our world and the world around us.

Check out more about Lincoln and his music here. 

Election meditation to return to inner unity, peace, and love

Listen to this to find your center this week and vision how the election has woken you up to your most loving empowered self

And I end the mediation by asking:

🫶 what’s one thing you can do to create more internal unity this week (ie how you speak to yourself , or bringing parts of you into alignment )
🫶 what’s one small thing you can do to spread love or unity this week in your community?

Love,
Mer

Four steps to cultivating hope during times of heartbreak

(I took myself through these when I heard the presidential election results and literally started crying again on the ig live that now became this episode🤣)

1. Feel your feelings. Let yourself snot cry. Scream into a pillow , give yourself full permission to feel all the rang of emotions today
2. Ask your inner child what they need from you to feel safe, like you’ve got them, regardless of the outside world. Maybe it’s allowing yourself to binge watch your favorite tv show. Maybe it’s writing yourself a letter
3. Remind yourself of times in the past where you or society has overcome a dark time in the past and in da t it was the wake up call for healing. How can you be the catalyst and take action on a grassroots level to create the change you want to see?
4. Take action ⚡️⚡️ as my friend @amandangocnguyen wrote in her post today “when you have anxiety, instead of forcing relaxation, take action.” What can you do to create more love and unity in your life, with your friends, in your neighborhood?

All these steps take time. Know you’re not alone. I’m here for you and I hope this helps 🫶

If you're wondering how to approach a friendship that is in a different season, look no further. In this episode of Powerful Stuff, I go deep with one of my besties, model and wellness influencer Abby Neff, where we give our own perspective around a friendship rough patch we went through and how we both approached repairing it to build a new foundation stronger than ever!

Click here to follow Abby on IG
And here is the human design reader she mentions in the podcast

This is a very special episode because as many of you may know, Powerful Stuff is both a podcast AND an experience company helping people foster inner and outer connection with PLAY and FUN!

This episode is our first LIVE episode from our signature event Powerful Stuff: LIVE! at Moss from Oct. 23 2023. This event combines music, comedy, creativity, and connection for a unique and powerful experience unlike any other. 

Listen along for the theme of finding unity and leading with love ahead of the elections.

On this episode, I am joined by:

- my soul sister Sarah de Warren, for a duet of our songs Alchemy and FullBloom, with the unlikely story of how we became friends

-spoken word poet Oren Harris

-master manifestor and musical comedy genius Orimoh

-hilarious comedian Esteban Gast

...and the audience for a very special open mic portion!

Let me know how you like it and I hope to see you at a future event!

Ok y'all. This is one of my most vulnerable and powerful episodes to date. On this episode, I have author and keynote speaker Shola Richards, who is on a mission to help everyone around the world treat each other better. Shola not only wrote the book Civil Unity, about how we can have kind and productive discourse around polarizing topics, but he has also testified in front of the House of Representatives on how to bring more civility to congress.

Shola and I dive into what we can individually do and how we can think about approaching difficult conversations with people with love, kindness, and curiosity. I also share a few personal examples I've been sitting with and Shola and I work through them in real time.

If you're feeling like you want to transform the feelings of fear and separation in this election season to opportunities to heal and find common ground, this episode is for you!

To find out more about Shola and his book Civil Unity, you can check out his website: sholarichards.com or follow him on IG

Do you ever feel like you are ready to unleash your next version of yourself and your potential but you aren't quite sure how to access it? Or maybe you've been feeling unbalanced and burnt out and know that you're capable of experiencing more joy and self trust but you don't know where to start?

This episode is all about what it's like to feel the calling to expand, what doing "the work" is actually like, and the transformation that's possible on the other side.

It's been my deepest honor to have one of my former coaching clients, Alexa Gray, on Powerful Stuff. Alexa recently completed my 12 week signature transformation program for high achieving women ready to deepen self trust and cultivate confidence from the inside out, the UPGRADE.

 On this episode, we dive deep into Alexa's journey as an entrepreneur - from starting her own marketing agency, to being one of the first hires and helping build Ollipop, to navigating grief,t  to expanding her media agency, Social Bloome. 

We talk about how our paths crossed, how she knew it was time to upgrade her current belief system and way of being, and what it was actually like to dive into the work of the UPGRADE, and the tangible shifts she saw during and after.

We also go into her tips and tricks as a marketing expert for those of you ready to be seen online!

You can find out more about Alexa here and her agency, Social Bloome, here.

If you're curious to learn more and apply for the next UPGRADE cohort (open now), you can find out more at https://themeredithbaker.com/the-upgrade

If you're looking to let your different and unique passions in your life guide your path and want to come into authentic alignment from the inside out, this episode is for you!

Kiran Gandhi, also known as Madame Gandhi, is a musician, activist, speaker, and one of my best and oldest friends!  From doing things like touring the world drumming for MIA while getting an MBA, to building an underwater microphone to capture sounds in the North Pole and Antarctica and fuse them into her music, she follows her different joys and masterfully fuses them together for her offerings to the world.

On this episode, we talk about Kiran's journey of creating music with a message and how she incorporates her other passions into her work, and how she brings balance and awareness to everything from relationships, to inner work, to doing her part to help the environment.

Prepare to be inspired and hear powerful action steps and a meditation to own your path! 

Follow Kiran on instagram here and check out her music and upcoming tour dates on her website.