Seed Capital: the world we leave behind is built from what we steward now

• My essay, Gossip was sacred until they made it dangerous
• Subscribe to my newsletter, How We Come Back on Substack
• Join the Winter ‘26 live round of Circle Craft, my women’s circle facilitating training
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

• My essay, Loving a Man in a Patriarchal World
• Subscribe to my newsletter, How We Come Back on Substack
• Join the Winter ‘26 live round of Circle Craft, my women’s circle facilitating training
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

• My essay What It Means to be Ready Now
• Subscribe to my newsletter, How We Come Back on Substack
• Join the Winter ‘26 live round of Circle Craft, my women’s circle facilitating training
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

In this solo episode, I reflect on this past year and look forward at what's ahead through the lens of the seasons. I muse on my experience of the second full year on our farm and how we have expanded, moved through challenges and triumphs throughout the growing season. I also talk about my upcoming winter plans and what I’m generally looking forward to during the darker months. Also…I’m pregnant! Surprise!

Tune in to hear more from me on:

• Hyperlocal and bioregional involvement with the farm stand
• How and why I’ve been refining friendships and connections this year
• Dialing down the people pleasing and rooting into my own values
• Houses as living entities and the sign about my pregnancy
• How winter is the season of gathering and how it impacts community building
• Picking up writing again and considering self publishing after multiple rejections of a book idea
• My passion for women’s circles and gearing up to share my Circle Craft training again this winter

Resources + Links

• Subscribe to my newsletter, How We Come Back on Substack
• My essay The Summer I Got Stung A Lot
• My essay about the loss of our pregnant cow The First Big Loss
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

[03:19] How Farm Life is Going

[14:18] An Update on Community-Building

[24:25] What I’m Looking Forward to this Winter

On this episode, I am joined by Béa Victoria Albina, a trained nurse practitioner, master certified life coach, somatic experiencing practitioner and author of “End Emotional Outsourcing: How to Overcome Your Codependent, Perfectionist, People-Pleasing Habits.” Béa coined the term ‘Emotional Outsourcing’, which describes our co-dependent, people pleasing and perfectionistic habits and how these behaviors cost us our joy, authenticity and true connection to self and others. In this episode, we talk about the cost of chronically and habitually outsourcing our sense of safety, belonging and worth. We dive into the root of these behaviours from a cultural and historical perspective and Bea shines a light on how we were trained up to be disconnected from the earth, magic and our own inner wisdom. 

Tune in to hear more from us on:

• How emotional outsourcing can influence all aspects of our lives and sense of self
• The true cost of people pleasing, perfectionism and codependency, and its root causes
• How shifting to a place of trust is a liberating experience, and how to do this
• Trad-wife culture and how to explore femininity as a gateway to empowerment
• Emotional outsourcing in a facilitator role and finding acceptance and surrender in the process of facilitation
• How to learn the body’s language through somatic experience and understanding where survival patterns come from
• Managing text message overwhelm as a recovering people pleaser

Resources + Links

• Béa Victoria Albina’s book ‘End Emotional Outsourcing: How to Overcome Your Codependent, Perfectionist, People-Pleasing Habits’
• Béa’s website beatrizalbina.com and Instagram @beatrizvictoriaalbinanp
• Béa’s podcast ‘The Feminist Wellness podcast’
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

[0:00] What is Emotional Outsourcing 

[10:55] The Origin of Codependency and Emotional Outsourcing 

[14:39] Weaponized Femininity and Glorified Codependency 

[22:04] Facilitating without Emotional Outsourcing 

[29:28] Practicing and Embodying Self Trust 

[39:38] Navigating Boundaries and Intimacy 

[49:00] Managing Text Message Overwhelm as a Recovering People Pleaser 

[45:20] Bea’s Book ‘End Emotional Outsourcing: How to Overcome Your Codependent, Perfectionist, People-Pleasing Habits’

How can we add meaning and ritual to growing older? For my 40th birthday, I hosted and experienced a Threshold Crossing: an embodied and community-led ritual that initiated me into my next decade. In today’s episode, I sit down with my dear friend Mara Glatzel, who designed and led part of the ritual with and for me. With her, I share about how my desire to claim this threshold saw me move past feelings of cringe and embarrassment and embrace the process of creating something meaningful, incorporating others in it and feeling witnessed in the process.

Tune in to hear more from me on:

• What it means to ritualize a threshold crossing and the transformational power it holds
• How I designed the celebration and what factors were involved
• The vulnerability I had to lean into throughout the whole experience
• What it looked like and meant to me to leap across the threshold
• How I have been integrating the experience and the importance of the pause of becoming
• The power of being witnessed and witnessing transformation
• How Mara celebrated her own 40s threshold crossing and how it differed to mine
• What it means to us to grow older and different ways we’re embracing that

Resources + Links

• Rooted Magic, my October 2025 retreat at the Kripalu Center
• Previous podcast episode #66 and episode #112 with Mara Glatzel
• Find Mara on Instagram @maraglatzel, her website MaraGlatzel.com and her book, Needy
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

[0:00] Introducing Mara and the Threshold Crossing Ritual

[8:21] Claiming and Witnessing the Threshold of Turning 40

[19:20] The Vision and Process of the Ritual

[29:30] Leaping over the Threshold

[44:55] The Transformational Power of Ritual

[48:39] Embodying and Integrating a Threshold Ritual Experience

[52:00] Different Ways of Experiencing the 40s Threshold

[59:27] Experiencing the Joy of Being Alive and Growing Older

In this episode, I reflect on the significance of my roadside honor system farm stand on a personal, communal and environmental level. This small physical, and seasonal, structure is a prayer for community, an altar to trust, and a quiet form of resistance to disconnection and urgency. Join me in this musing on how meaning isn’t created from scale, but from depth.

Tune in to hear more from me on:

• The embodiment of rightsizing and experiencing more tactile, IRL living
• Where my love for farmstands originates
• Reclaiming a sense of enoughness and building resilience
• The farmstand as an altar for people to feel nourished and connected
• Reconnecting with the earth and local community
• The joy of simple, sacred interactions
• The farmstand as a place of reciprocity and regeneration

Resources + Links

• Episode #133 with Stevie Storck on Rightsizing Life and the Sharing Table
• Episode #136 with Carmen Spagnola on Satisfiability as a Collapse Skill
• My Substack piece on ‘The Community Economics of a Roadside Farmstand’
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

• [0:00] Introduction to my Farm Stand Journey 
• [4:26] The Origin Story of my Love for Farm Stands 
• [9:30] Rightsizing: The Intention behind my Own Farm Stand 
• [13:52] The Embodiment of Satisfiability 
• [20:10] The Farm Stand as a Sacred and Regenerative Tool of Exchange 
• [27:15] Community Identity and Neighbourliness 
• [30:25] The Farm Stand as a Place of Reciprocity

Today I am joined by my dear friend Erin Claire Jones, one of the world’s leading experts on Human Design and founder of Human Design Blueprint. Through her coaching content and digital products, Erin has empowered hundreds of thousands of people to overcome their biggest obstacles and find their flow in life, love and work. And she now has a gorgeous book out: How Do You choose? A Human Design Guide to What’s Best for You at Work, in Love and in Life.

Personally, I love Human Design as a tool to understanding myself and the people around me. In this episode, Erin and I dive deep into my own blueprint as well as my family’s to illustrate how knowing one’s Human Design can empower your relationship with yourself, as well as with your partner, children and anyone else you are close to and/or care about.

Tune in to hear more from us on:

• My family’s Human Design charts and what they mean
• Understanding the gifts and challenges of each of our designs (including my 4 year old’s)
• Being seen and recognized for your soul’s unique blueprint
• The Types and Authorities in Human Design
• How your blueprint can define your relationships and ways to navigate that

Resources + Links

• Order Erin’s book How Do You Choose? A Human Design Guide to What’s Best for You at Work, in Love and in Life
• Look up your own design on Human Design Blueprint and use code ‘BELONGING’ for a 10% discount on your guide
• Study Human Design with Erin: humandesignblueprint.com
• Find Erin on Instagram @erinclairejones and @humandesignblueprint
• Listen to my first podcast episode with Erin, #105: Human Design for Parents and Partners
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

• [0:00] Introduction and Celebrating the Book Launch: Making Human Design Practical 
• [13:12] Understanding People’s Human Design 
• [16:46] Finding Recognition in Relationships 
• [20:17] Navigating Family Dynamics and Parenting through the Lens of Human Design 
• [33:32] A Partnership between Two Sacral Authorities and Making Gut Decisions 
• [41:32] Observing People as a Human Design Expert 
• [45:53] Growing Up in a Family with Projectors and Manifestors 
• [48:58] The Main Types and Authorities within Human Design

In today’s episode, I am joined by Julia Plevan Olianksy. Julia is the author of The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing and founder of The Forest Bathing Club. She guides nature-based healing experiences and runs Organism Thinking, a consultancy bringing ecological intelligence to brands. She recently launched placebased.org to support bioregional initiatives. Our paths first crossed in a women’s circle in 2019 and recently intertwined again through the algorithm of Substack. Julia writes the Substack The Earth Has a Mother about mothering through climate change and her essay on bioregioning nudged me to invite her on the podcast for this wonderful conversation.

We talk about the practice of reorienting one’s life personally, culturally, economically, and politically around the natural characteristics of a specific bioregion, meaning rooting deeply in place and aligning with the rhythms, ecosystems and stories of the land you inhabit.

Tune in to hear more from us on:

• Finding belonging to a place through understanding its bioregion and ecosystem
• Living more locally and regeneratively
• The cultural significance of soil in shaping community and identity
• Observing, witness and partaking in the natural cycles around you
• The homogenisation of culture because of the internet
• The impact of technology on personal connections
• Transitioning from a tech career to a more localised, nature-connected lifestyle
• Embracing the healing power of nature and community engagement in a tech-driven world
• Writing as a creative process and outsourcing it to AI

Resources + Links

• Julia’s Substack The Earth Has A Mother and her essay Becoming Bioregional
• Julia’s Book The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing
• Find Julia online through The Forest Bathing Club and her bioregioning initiative Place Based Projects
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

• [0:00] Introduction to Julia Plevin Oliansky
• [10:19] The Meaning of Bioregioning
• [15:57] How to Become More Bioregional
• [20:20] Finding Identity in a Tech Driven World
• [29:21] The Cultural Significance of Soil
• [38:22] Human Connection and the Role of AI
• [51:57] Signs of Spring and Witnessing Natural Cycles

In today’s solo episode, I answer listener questions. We dive into themes of joy and challenges in seasonal living, the intricacies of rural homesteading and navigating community dynamics. I share my personal experiences of farming, motherhood, navigating eco-anxiety, land stewardship and the impact of climate change.

Tune in to hear more from me on:

• Making a joy list and how this can help during tough seasons
• What’s been challenging on the farm this Winter
• How community dynamics play a crucial role in homesteading
• What to consider and ask yourself before buying a farm or move to a rural area
• Navigating eco-anxiety and the current political climate as a parent and as a human being
• How to stay connected to oneself and the land in these times of ego-collapse

Resources + Links

• Julia Plevin Oliansky’s Substack ‘Can we make bioregioning work?’
• Pro Publica climate change maps
• My Substack, Root Shock: Micro Farmoir Tales
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

[0:00] Introduction

[2:46] What is currently bringing you great joy?

[15:56] What is currently bringing you challenge?

[21:20] What are the hardest parts about rural/homestead living? Are you happy with the decision?

[28:26] What’s been the most surprising thing about your transition to farm life?

[29:50] What questions to ask myself about buying land?

[37:28] How are you managing eco-anxiety as a parent these days?