Souls and Stardust

Join us for an introductory discussion of the human design self-knowledge discovery system and how it can be used to help you understand your biggest challenge in your life and how you can best grow and thrive as you navigate life!

Special guest and long-time friend of Meo, Stephanie, began studying Human Design in 2020 during the Covid shutdowns. It soon became a passion for her, particularly in how the HD concepts and insights can be applied to making daily life easier for you, and especially how it can inform parenting for far less of a struggle and much more harmonious! She is a strong advocate that learning your human design is an invitation to fully accept yourself as unique and perfectly designed for how your soul intended to move through this life -- this understanding brings peace, sense of purpose, and most importantly, practical and tangible solutions for moving through everyday life in a much more fluid and efficient way for your own personal design! We only scratch the surface with this episode and plan on diving in much deeper with Stephanie in future discussions.

Find Stephanie on Instagram @hd_withstephanie where she often post fantastic human design nuggets of wisdom and insights!

Places to begin learning about HD:

Understanding Human Design by Karen Curry Parker

Understanding the Centers in Human Design by Robin Winn

To find our your human design, head to myhumandesign.com and plug in your birth date and time details.

The 3rd episode in our series about shadow work... this time we discuss the role of childhood experiences as the root of long-standing wounds in our journey, as well as the experiences of our ancestors that create patterns that we inevitably carry with us until they're addressed. "Inner child work" and "generational or ancestral healing" are buzz terms in healing circles, and for good reason. Most of what we struggle with in terms of our shadow took root during our most formative years as children (from 0-14yrs), or have been perpetual cycles in our generational line. Meo and Shannon discuss the importance of acknowledging these roots of our shadow and doing the work to release long-held beliefs, wounds, and limitations through intentional healing work.

The second episode in the series about shadow work, Meo and Shannon discuss how relationships act as mirrors for us, reflecting back to us our unresolved issues, hidden traits, and subconscious fears. Partners, close friends, and family members can trigger emotions and behaviors in us that highlight aspects of ourselves that we've either wanted to hide away for good, or that we never really realized were lurking in the corners of our being.

Issues. We've all got them. And we all get triggered. And many times our partners and closest confidants are the ones who reveal to us our biggest and deepest inner shadow work. Be it mirroring, emotional triggers, conflict, projection, control issues, or fear of intimacy and vulnerability, our relationships many times are our biggest teachers. And let's be honest... we can do a lot of healing on our own, but so much healing cannot happen for us unless we're in the very partnership dynamics that created our fears, insecurities, and inner child wounds.

Yay!! Fun stuff, right? Meo and Shannon talk about how this all works and, through personal examples and client work, they share ways this shadow work can manifest in relationships, and how you can hope to begin the deep work and come out the other side with more healing and growth.

Many times those who are catalyzing the most growth for us in relationships have specific soul contracts with us for exactly that kind of experience. It's not always enjoyable. That makes them a soulmate; and that's a pretty effing important job.

The first in a series of episodes that explores shadow work as a highly useful tool for deep healing and personal growth. Shannon and Meo lay out the origins of shadow work (hey, it's a buzzword in the spiritual and healing communities lately), how it's done, and how it's a highly effective (and necessary) journey for our own healing and evolution. It's not easy, though. And these besties don't sugarcoat that fact one bit. Shadow work requires courage and the willingness to face your biggest fears and spend some time in deep self-awareness reflection about your deepest wounds, repressed emotions, insecurities, and unhealthy patterns. Definitely not a cake walk, but the end results usually include self-acceptance, drastically increased compassion & empathy for self and others, and... dare we say... growth, contentment, healthier relationships, and satisfaction with life.

Enjoy a cup of tea with us, cue us up for your morning commute, or put in some earbuds while you whirlwind clean the house! We love having you along.

Connect with us on Instagram at @soulsandstardustpodcast @gratitudemaven and @meobaaklini

We're working on a few side projects to bring you more tools to open your hearts and expand into your fullness. This meditation is designed specifically to help you realign your energy to attract in the resources and abundance you desire to follow your passions and bring your dreams to reality.

Listen as often as you wish. Affirm the statements with conviction in your heart.

Special guest Austin Varvel of Positive Minds, Positive Vibes Podcast joins Meo and Shannon for a very candid discussion on personal evolution, the craziness of personal spiritual paths, and getting deep and dirty in our own shadow work to be able to step into our soul's purpose in this life. The discussion touches upon Austin's journey in finding his motivation and purpose for wayshowing in a spiritual world, and how his, Meo and Shannon's experiences through everything from trauma, victimhood, personal awakening, taking responsibility for our own shadows, and being so brutally honest with ourselves about who we are, how we got here, and what needs to happen in order to keep growing and expanding into the best versions of ourselves.

What is the impact you want to create in this world and why?

You can connect with Austin at:

@Pmpvpodcast on IG

We've all heard the phrase "it's the right person, but the wrong time," or "this is a great opportunity, but it's not the right time." What if all timing is exactly what it's supposed to be? What if the timing of certain people or opportunities in our lives is always perfect, always "good?" And what if how things, opportunities, and people enter our lives is always divinely aligned with our biggest soul and human lessons in that moment?

Meo and Shannon take on the topic of "bad versus good timing" and discuss whether that's just plain BS that we've told ourselves in order to sidestep the lessons that have been so carefully planned by our higher selves for this life. Deeply philosophical and spiritual, this discussion is still down-to-earth and practically applicable for our daily lives and how we navigate those things that feel extra confusing and/or challenging.

Join us for our first Souls + Stardust travel retreat November 9-12, 2023 in Phoenix, AZ! Registration is open and we're so excited to spend quality time with you! Go to soulsandstardustpodcast.com/retreat for all the details and to secure your spot!

All the details about our first ever travel retreat November 9-12, 2023! We are so excited to be hosting a 3-day intensive dive into the heart of you, your healing, and your intuition development! Located in the mountains north of Phoenix, AZ, at the coolest historic ranch, it's three full days of amazing activities that will bring you closer to yourself within sacred space created by all attending. Meo and Shannon are so excited to spend time with each of you! It's the perfect opportunity to plan a soulful trip with your besties, and the bonus of that?! You get a discount on your room when you book as a group!

Go to soulsandstardustpodcast.com/retreat for retreat details, pricing, and registration.

Join us for a beautifully authentic, vulnerable, and potent discussion with Christian Bradley West (aka The Country Clairvoyant) on all things spiritual awakening, coming into ourselves and our authenticity, the sometimes circular journey of deep healing, and above all... to not take life so seriously. Known partly for his work on social media in finding humor and pointing out the absurd within our spiritual journeys here on Earth, Meo and Shannon talk to Christian about how we can stay grounded and keep things in perspective while we try to heal, grow, and evolve in this life, especially in light of religious dogma, the multitude of different spiritual beliefs and "rules" that exist, and whatever hot spiritual "dos and don'ts" being touted by the latest popular gurus. This episode is jam-packed with the good stuff, most of all though, the emphasis on the importance of going within and finding what is truth for ourselves, being brutally honest with ourselves about what it means to be part of humanity, and how choosing to be open and vulnerable about our process. They discuss the importance of "showing your work" for others to see - all the messiness that's involved with healing and growth, and that doing so is one of the most authentic ways teachers or wayshowers can help others feel empowered to do the same.

Christian is witty, intelligent, compassionate, highly intuitive, and deeply empathetic. It was so fantastic to connect with him and record this conversation!

If you feel called to connect with Christian, you can find him at https://www.thecountryclairvoyant.com/ or on Instagram @thecountryclairvoyant

Find Souls + Stardust Retreat Information and lodging options at soulsandstardustpodcast.com/retreat