By Ana Verzone
4.9
8888 ratings
The podcast currently has 237 episodes available.
This week is for those of us who feel a sense of grief that we may have started our spiritual journey “too late.” Who feel we’re way late to the party. I’m going to help you rethink that by showing you why right now is the perfect time for you to begin your path. We’ll also be busting a few myths about what we often think our path should look like, versus what it really is.
You will learn:// Why it’s never too late for you to dive into your spiritual journey
// What we think spirituality and the path are and what they actually look like
// Ways we can work through the grief that comes from wishing we had started our journey sooner
// How to find our own definition for progress
Resources:// Episode 78: Grief and Loss
// Episode 102: Start Close In
// Episode 209: Ripening and the Inevitability of Our Awakening
// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.
// Want something more self-paced with access to weekly group support and getting coached by yours truly? Check out Freedom School – the community for ALL things related to freedom, inside and out. This month is all about mastering emotional wellness, and just because we’re already halfway to December doesn’t mean it’s too late… right? ;) Learn more at JoinFreedomSchool.com. I can’t wait to see you there!
// Have you benefited from even one episode of the Rebel Buddhist Podcast? I’d love it if you could leave a 5-star review on iTunes by clicking here.
This week we'll talk about what's possible when we drop our stories. We'll ask ourselves, “Is this STILL a story that applies to me?” and "Who am I without my story?” We’ll revel in what freedom from the past feels like, how redefining personal narratives can impact the collective, and how this is especially relevant in these times.
You will learn:// What is the difference between facts and a story
// The top reasons we hold on to our stories - even when they’re painful
// The importance of meaning-making that we assign to facts
// How rewriting our personal narrative can lead to collective awakening
// How to harness neuroplasticity to create a new story that better serves us
// The importance of mindfulness in liberating ourselves from our past
Resources:// Episode 3: How to Change the Past
// Episode 55: Letting Go to Grow
// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.
// Have you benefited from even one episode of the Rebel Buddhist Podcast? I’d love it if you could leave a 5-star review on iTunes by clicking here.
This week we’re going to explore what we can do as individuals and as a community when we feel ungrounded during uncertain times. I’ll give you an important first step toward healing and action, lessons from 4000+ year-old trees, and reminders that help keep the spark of hope alive and well. We’ll zoom in and out to make current events more manageable within our hearts, minds, and spirits.
You will learn:// Why it’s so important to mourn when dealing with challenges in our lives
// How to focus on our communities and become leaders of action
// What happens when we forget our inherent lovability and interconnection with all that is
// Where our personal path and practice play into all of this
// How to stay tapped into hope
Resources:// Episode 66: Cultivating Radiant Inner Confidence - Ziji
// Episode 179 - Medicine for These Times
// Episode 233 - The Indomitable Human Spirit - You’ve Got it in You
// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.
// Have you benefited from even one episode of the Rebel Buddhist Podcast? I’d love it if you could leave a 5-star review on iTunes by clicking here.
This week, we dive into those unforgettable moments when we realized, “Holy shit—I have it in me!” Together, we’ll explore the times life called for a strength we didn’t know we had, and how reconnecting with these hidden resources can empower us for whatever comes next. Through reflection, storytelling, and a bit of awe, we’ll uncover the courage and resilience that have always been a part of us, ready to rise to any challenge.
You Will Learn:// The importance of remembering times when we surprised ourselves with our capacity
// Why it can be so hard to acknowledge our resilience
// What ziji is, and how we can use it to survive the unsurvivable
// Some ways I’ve managed to find ziji - an inner radiant confidence - in the most unlikely moments
// Practices you can start today to help connect to your own ziji
Resources:// Episode 39 - The 4-Step Visualization Technique for Any Situation
// Episode 44 - The Power of the Pause
// Episode 64 - Cultivating Radiant Inner Confidence - Ziji
// Check out my Free Unshakeable Confidence Training
// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.
// Have you benefited from even one episode of the Rebel Buddhist Podcast? I’d love it if you could leave a 5-star review on iTunes by clicking here.
This week is all about why we ALL belong… no matter how different we might feel from the world around us. I’ll break down why we often feel out of place with the world around us when we’re on our spiritual path and why that can actually be a GOOD thing. Plus we’ll jam on some great ways you can help to remember and feel connected with your inherent belonging in the world, and how the very thing that might have you feeling isolated is the very thing that will connect you to all that is.
You Will Learn:// Why we often feel we don’t belong while on our spiritual path… and why that means we’re headed in the right direction!
// How our perceived differences that seem to isolate us are the exact gifts that we need to bring to our people
// How modern society teaches us that we’re separate, when the reality is we are deeply interconnected
// Why YOU are absolutely needed to help our society evolve and expand.
Resources:// Episode 115: Making Quality New Friends
// Episode 124: “Who Am I?” Loneliness and Our Self-Concept
// Episode 210: Spiritual Friends and How to Make Them
// It’s not too late to join the No Regrets course! Our first virtual retreat is NEXT week, so you’ve got time to snag your spot and the awesome bonuses - a NEW bonus is access to the most popular Freedom School module - on RELATIONSHIPS - where we explore the most common barriers to a healthy relationship. We also dive into people pleasing and boundaries and how to not need others to act a certain way so we can feel better. It’s a GAME CHANGER and opens up so much more freedom in all our relationships: romantic, intimate, friendships, work relationships, challenges with family members…trust me.
Head over to TheNoRegretsCourse.com and join us NOW so you can dive into the course material with instant access, and hang out with us on the virtual retreat next week!
// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.
// Have you benefited from even one episode of the Rebel Buddhist Podcast? I’d love it if you could leave a 5-star review on iTunes by clicking here.
This week is all about the power of a self-generated ceremony. I’ll open up about my own recent experiences while on a 4-day, 4-night wilderness solo fast and how I created ceremonies right there for the major moments throughout my life. I also share how my heart was cracked open, and jam on some ways you can create your own ceremonies, including questions you can use to get started.
You will learn:// How ceremony can help us get unstuck
// What a self-generated ceremony is and why it can be more potent than ones that are taught to us
// How to counteract the tendency that modern industrialized society has to keep us from the support we need when experiencing major life changes
// My recent experiences and epiphanies in the desert and the self-generated ceremonies I created to mark each of them
// Prompts you can use to begin creating your own ceremonies
Resources:// Episode 116: The Importance of Rites of Passage
// Episode 184: The Power of Intention, Ritual, and Ceremony
// Come join me and a group of like-minded souls in living the next 9 months as if they are our last. Remembering our limited time here on Earth creates clarity and inspires action like nothing else. Dive more deeply into practices that help create a life of inner and outer freedom – come join me in my NEWEST program, called No Regrets. It’s an exploration into our own life legacy, the gift of impermanence, intimacy with death + life, and living a life of no regrets. Be sure to snag our discounts and bonuses before doors close!
// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.
// Have you benefited from even one episode of the Rebel Buddhist Podcast? I’d love it if you could leave a 5-star review on iTunes by clicking here.
This week I talk about my recent wilderness solo fast and all of the clarifying moments I had about living a life of no BS and no regrets. We’ll jam on the top 5 regrets of the dying that Bonnie Ware wrote about, and what we can do to work on preventing them. Plus I’ll give you some
tools for overcoming the fear and doubt that’s keeping us from making changes right now.
You will learn:// How my wilderness solo fast helped me come to terms with my regrets BEFORE it was too late
// How to prevent the 5 top regrets of the dying, and how we can face each of them so we can live a life more honestly and freely.
// Why it can be so hard to let go of our regrets and fears, and some practices we can begin now to help overcome the hesitation
// The importance of forgiveness, ziji, and self-compassion as we navigate and overcome our regrets
// Why we want to think about living with no regrets now - and now then the end seems more near
Resources:// Episode 34: How to Forgive
// Episode 53: How to Forgive Yourself
// Episode 116: The Importance of Rites of Passage
// Episode 184: The Power of Intention, Ritual, and Ceremony
// Episode 222: Struggling with When Things End
// Check out my FREE Clarity + Courage Training
// Come join me and a group of like-minded souls in living the next 9 months as if they are our last. Remembering our limited time here on Earth creates clarity and inspires action like nothing else. Dive more deeply into practices that help create a life of inner and outer freedom - come join me in my NEWEST program, called No Regrets. It’s an exploration into our own life legacy, the gift of impermanence, intimacy with death + life, and living a life of no regrets. Be sure to snag our discounts and bonuses before doors close for those on SUNDAY.
// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.
// Have you benefited from even one episode of the Rebel Buddhist Podcast? I’d love it if you could leave a 5-star review on iTunes by clicking here.
In this week’s episode, I share my story of when I got diagnosed with kidney cancer and what it was like having to face the reality that we all will die, and we NEVER know when. I’ll also give you some ways we can stop putting off the things that give our life meaning and a sense of integrity, and start living a life of no regrets, making the most of whatever time we have. For some this means more adventure. For some it means forgiving (including ourselves). There are so many ways this can look. But for all of us, it means more freedom.
In this Episode you will learn:// The one thing I need the world to know before I die (hint: it’s to wake the f*ck up!) – and why
// Why you shouldn’t wait for something like the Big C (cancer, or an accident or severe illness etc.) before doing the soul work.
// Why knowing we are only here for an undetermined amount of time is not scary – it’s enlivening.
// How my cancer diagnosis taught me to let go of the sh*t that doesn’t matter
// How you can wake the f*ck up… and why you need to do it RIGHT NOW
Resources:// Episode 9: Impermanence, Death, and Other Sexy Things
// If you’re ready to wake the f*ck up and stop putting off what really matters - and get more clear about what really matters to YOU - come join me and a group of like-minded souls in living the next 9 months as if they are our last. Remembering our limited time here on Earth creates clarity and inspires action like nothing else. Dive more deeply into practices that help create a life of inner and outer freedom - come join me in my NEWEST program, called No Regrets. It’s an exploration into our own life legacy, the gift of impermanence, intimacy with death + life, and living a life of no regrets.
// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.
// Have you benefited from even one episode of the Rebel Buddhist Podcast? I’d love it if you could leave a 5-star review on iTunes by clicking here.
This week I sit down with Cathy Raven Toldi, an instinctive meditation teacher, Zen priest, and sacred Eros guide. We jammed about expanding our concepts of Eros and sex and how that connects us with our own deep spiritual practice and the wild world around us. Plus, Raven shares one practice that we can all try right now to tap into our own Eros energy from a more wholistic perspective.
In this special Episode, you will learn:// How Cathy became so connected - and dedicated - to reshaping concepts of Eros and sex
// How a limited view of Eros and sexuality leads to unnecessary suffering
// Myriad ways to connect to the sensual world around us
// How society has perverted the concepts of Eros, sex, and intimacy and how we can choose to be more healthy about it instead (this does not mean boring;)
// ALL the ways Eros can be deeply connected to our spiritual path (and there’s a lot ;)
// Where masculine and feminine energies can come into play
// One practice you can start with today to connect with your own experience of Eros
Resources:// Episode 139: Nature and Reconnecting
// Episode 143: The South + Wounded Children
// Episode 195: Going Beyond Our 5 Senses
// If you want to stop putting off what really matters - and get more clear about what really matters to YOU - come join me and a group of like-minded souls in living the next 9 months as if they are our last. Remembering our limited time here on Earth creates clarity and inspires action like nothing else. Dive more deeply into practices that help create a life of inner and outer freedom - come join me in my NEWEST program, called No Regrets. It’s a deep dive into exploring our own life legacy, the gift of impermanence, intimacy with death + life, and living a life of no regrets.
// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.
// Have you benefited from even one episode of the Rebel Buddhist Podcast? I’d love it if you could leave a 5-star review on iTunes by clicking here.
Welcome to a VERY special episode of the podcast… this week I interviewed my first ever GUEST, Spring Washam. Spring is one of my beloved Buddhist teachers, but also a real pioneer in terms of offering entheogens, along with the Buddhist spiritual path. And she’s been an inspiration for me in many ways.
In this interview, Spring and I talked all about what she’s learned about plant medicine and altered state experiences in the jungles of South America and how that’s translated to her work here in the United States. We also talked about where all that fits into her own Buddhist beliefs and how she faces opposing views from other Buddhist practitioners.
In this special Episode, we jammed on:// How we both began working with plant medicine & ayahuasca
// Why we find exploring the medicine’s place in Indigenous culture so important to its uses in Western society
// Why there’s an absence of integration and post-journey support in our industrialized, western society
// The importance of ceremony and community in our healing journey
// Whether altered-state experiences ACTUALLY go against the teachings of Buddhism (and if that even matters)
// Our advice for those who are considering plant medicine on the spiritual path
// Death and the possibility of rebirth, and the implications in journey work
Resources:// Learn more about Spring Washam (and stay tuned for her 2025 event schedule)
// Follow Spring on Instagram or Facebook
// Check out my previous Episodes on psychedelics and entheogens:
Episode 97: Psychedelics and Spiritual Practice
Episode 153: Psychedelic Exceptionalism
Episode 225: How to Choose a Psychedelic Guide
// Episode 122: Come See for Yourself - Ehipassiko
// If you want to dive more deeply into practices that help create a life of inner and outer freedom, come join me in my NEWEST program, called No Regrets. It’s a deep dive into exploring our own life legacy, the gift of impermanence, intimacy with death + life, and living a life of no regrets.
To get on the waitlist, head over to AdventureMastermind.com. You’ll be the first to know when early registration opens in a few days, with special early bird rates, extra bonuses, and first dibs on the limited-capacity in-person retreat on the Big Island of Hawai’i…and more.
// If you want to dive deeper into this Soul-level work and create a strong foundation for self-coaching, consciousness exploration, and creating a life of freedom, adventure, and purpose, head over to JoinFreedomSchool.com. It’s got everything you need in one place.
// If you’re new to the squad, grab the Rebel Buddhist Toolkit I created at RebelBuddhist.com. It has all you need to start creating a life of more freedom, adventure, and purpose. You’ll also get access to the Rebel Buddhist private group, and tune in every Wednesday as I go live with new inspiration and topics.
// Have you benefited from even one episode of the Rebel Buddhist Podcast? I’d love it if you could leave a 5-star review on iTunes by clicking here.
The podcast currently has 237 episodes available.
11,634 Listeners
12,460 Listeners
2,260 Listeners
5,095 Listeners
14,725 Listeners
586 Listeners
25,987 Listeners
648 Listeners
24,049 Listeners
1,177 Listeners
4,908 Listeners
40,458 Listeners
13,208 Listeners
441 Listeners
534 Listeners