Sharing a heartfelt thank you from me, your host Nathan Maingard, to you, the dear listener of the We Are Already Free podcast!

Thank you for joining me for 20 episodes, here's to so many more!

Connect with me at the links below, and I'll see you in the new year.

Big love to ya!
Nathan

Do you often feel like you’re fighting to survive rather than flowing to thrive?

Today’s guest, Sufey, is a powerhouse of surrender, a goddess of expansion, a mother, an enchantress, and an enthusiastic servant to her King. Her upcoming course (HU)MAN begins 01/01, and it’s a sovereign woman’s journey into her ROOT chakra.

Sufey’s voice alone was enough to calm a deep part of my restless being. Her message is clearly transmitted by the lived experiences she embodies. Her dedication as a mother, wife, and human offer a vastly more valuable narrative than our society’s default, of what it means to be human.

If you didn’t know it yet, the stories we tell ourselves, and let in from the outside, absolutely shape the quality of our lives. Sufey’s stories are narratives worth inserting into your being.

Listen on to absorb:

• What is needed to surrender into an abundant and flowing life

• Why it's not always about what you prefer, but about expanding the capacity to receive whatever life is bringing you

• How our society is feminising men, and why we need more masculine men

• Near the end, Sufey shares the greatest gift that any community (or village, as she says) can give to a woman (this is part of her never-before shared birth story, SO INSPIRING)

To learn more about HUMAN, Sufey’s beautiful course for women, a deep dive into the grounded beauty of muladarha charkra, launching on 01/01, visit alreadyfree.me/human

In her course, you will explore containment, birth, human bodies, nourishment, attachment parenting, developmental psychology, fear, famine, family life, magick, trust, provision, the masculine, rituals, starvation, sex, safety, predators, the psyche, burial, the bones, belief systems, coming home… and go on an intimate journey into the foundation of your being.

I’m honoured to share that I am an affiliate of Sufey’s course, HUMAN. At no extra cost to you, when you purchase this course you are supporting yourself, Sufey, and me all at the same time! There’s heaps of gorgeous and powerful information on the course page, at alreadyfree.me/human, so go there to feel if there is resonance for you.

The sad reality is that most of us don’t even know who we are, let alone how to live our purpose and grow a beautiful world! Authenticity is one of the two primary needs of every human…but too many of us live our lives without every truly experiencing our own authentic selves.

If you’ve ever felt like you don’t fit in, like you’re too much (or not enough) for this world, as though you can’t catch a break from the overwhelm of simply trying be yourself…then this episode with Dr Nicole LePera, The Holistic Psychologist, is for you.

In it you’ll learn why so many people are struggling to be themselves, why purpose can only come through authenticity, how childhood sets up our entire life experience, and what you can do to begin or deepen your journey Home to Wholeness (no matter where your starting point is right now).

I believe this is the most important journey any of us will ever take. And Dr Nicole’s new workbook, How To Meet Yourself, provides a roadmap to guide us.

Dr. Nicole LePera, a holistic psychologist, trained at Cornell University and New School for Social Research. She leads the #SelfHealers movement, an international community of people joining together to take healing into their own hands. She is the author of #1 NY Times Bestseller ‘How to Do the Work’. Her new book, "How To Meet Your Self: The Workbook For Self-Discovery" was released on 6 December 2022.

This is one of the most powerful, inspiring, and hopeful episodes I’ve ever recorded. And if you’ve been listening to this podcast, you KNOW that that’s a big deal!

The information in here, if you consistently apply it, has the potential to positively transform how you experience your self, your life, and all your relationships.

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by how complicated living a life of vibrant health seems? Always another diet fad, another bit of news about how bad fat is, then how good it is, and so on? Well, you’re in the right place! Today’s guest, Dr Gary Shlifer, has simple solutions which will help you to align with your ancestry and up-level your lifestyle.

Dr. Shlifer is a board-certified internal medicine physician specialising in preventative care, nutrition/metabolism and anti-aging medicine. He brings his robust experienced with hospital inpatient medicine to his outpatient primary care practice in order to help prevent and cure disease for his patients. He is the founder of Evolve Healthcare in Los Angeles, a multi-specialty integrative medicine clinic focused on disease prevention and lifestyle optimization. He is also cofounder of Sapien, an organization focused on promoting health education and advancing health information technology. Through his companies and community outreach, the doctor works to promote his message of healthy living, eating and lifestyle practices.

In this far-ranging conversation, we cover everything from the mistake of asking too many mistakes as a doctor, to how our ancestry is a great place to look for the answers to our health needs, to how important it is that we talk about, face, and embrace death to truly live…and much more.

Towards the end, Dr Gary answers the question I ask in every episode about what We Are Already Free means to him in a way I found especially inspiring, hopeful, and empowering.

I’m your host, Nathan Maingard, and, as a highly sensitive person in a highly insensitive society, I was very nearly crushed by my efforts to fit a mould our society just calls ‘being a good citizen’. Having navigated my own healing of depression, burnout, suicidal ideation and other lovely things like that, it’s my honour to help others like me to bloom into the unique beauty they came here to bring… through breathwork, empowering songs, stories and poems, inner life skills coaching…and of course, ice baths (sorry, I know I’ve been talking about them a lot recently, but seriously, they’re frickin’ EPIC!).

If you've been feeling overwhelmed, stressed, or stuck, the energetic frequency of today’s guest Fia is medicine for gentle surrender to the beauty of this moment. Soak in the the energy of surrender, faith, trust, and love…this episode is for you.

Welcome to We Are Already Free, a podcast helping free people and down-to-earth seekers to live their truth and be the change. If you’re done with paying attention to buy more of the life you DON’T want, and you're ready to reconnect with the curiosity, joy, and wonder that you knew as a child…then this podcast is for you.

Based in the countryside north of Stockholm, Fia Forsström (known mononymously as Fia) is a spiritual singer/songwriter who, with her inspirational lyrics and catchy melodies, has a unique way of weaving music that empowers the listener to drop deeper into themselves and find their own medicine. Since the release of her debut album "Made of Stars" in 2016, Fia has been touring worldwide and continues to touch hearts wherever she goes. Building a solid platform through social media and word of mouth, Fia took her place as one of the leading voices on the spiritual music scene with ”Legacy of Light” in 2017 and ”Waterfall of Wisdom” in 2019. Both of them, like the debut, were recorded and released through crowdfunding. Since then, several EPs, singles and various collaborations have taken place and in autumn/winter 2022 she enters the studio to create her fourth album.

When my sweetheart Carly introduced me to Fia’s song Shedding Skins a few years ago, it instantly became a soundtrack to my own dark night of the soul. It encouraged me to keep going, to befriend the most shadowy parts of myself, and to keep showing up for the present moment. I still listen to it regularly.

Some of the things we get into in this episode include:

• Why making friends with your demons can help you to live a better life

• Why turning inward is the greatest gift for ourselves and all our relations

• How spending time in nature is a recalibration

• A simple way to connect with belonging, purpose, and faith beyond religion

• How Fia's dark night of the soul turned her spark into a fire

• Near the end: Why you should be yourself, stay curious, not take things too seriously, and trust your inner knowing

If you’ve forgotten that your body is miraculous, that you can heal from anything, that you are more powerful than you’ve been taught…or that you don’t have to wait until you’re 'too old’ to live an empowered, health-filled life…then yes, you guessed it, this one’s for you!

Freya Kellet is a woman they call dangerous... Poetic portal. Freedom-lover. Ex-vegan organic livestock farmer. Knower of biological reality. Traditional birth attendant. Bacon enthusiast. Believer in her (and your) body. She has packed an astonishing amount of experience, wisdom and down-to-earth goodness into her 25 years.

Links To Freya Kellet

• Substack

• Instagram

Links & Things from this Episode:

• Why Freya 10/10 recommends getting married

• Why the practice of saying "yes" helped Freya to have an awesome wedding

• Why it’s important to find and choose courage to do big and small scary things

• Why the universe loves courage

• What has prompted the softening in Freya?

• An inspiring and transformational journey with chronic pain

• Find out more about Barefoot Shoes

• Get into Ancestral Eating

• The protective gift of the pain in a body

• German New Medicine

• Why you should be oiling your body

Have you been feeling heavy with all the intensity going on in the world today? Good news! That’s what we'll help you with on this week’s episode with Lily Zepeda, where you’ll receive a big fat injection of laughter, joy, and deeply healing, rooted humour.

Lily Zepeda is a certified trauma-informed yoga instructor & Plant Medicine Integration specialist with over 10 years of experience leading workshops, retreats and working with Master Coaches. She combines her training at the Ecology of Shamanism school with her experience in inner-child work, Somatics and Polyvagal Theory Foundations. Lily specializes in helping others to inner-stand their bodies, nervous system regulation and sacred medicine healing journeys. She believes that plant medicine's profound healing experiences do not end with the ceremony, and her integration coaching allows clients to unify the visions, messages, and epiphanies from the experience into their day-to-day life.

Time Stamps:

06:14 What the world would be like if people took themselves less seriously

07:51 Humour as a way to stay in touch with the inner child

08:42 Making the ordinary extraordinary with playfullness

11:48 Zoom out to get perspective

12:08 How Nathan won partner of the week

13:42 Using humour to change the world - How Lily made the documentary Mr Toilet, the number two man

19:48 How the last few years have impacted Lily and what she thinks is going on now

21:37 How the lockdowns helped true colours to be seen

26:37 Yes, the gaslighting is real

28:37 The things we CAN do

30:22 Why it's so important to care for the temple of...

Our society's only real enemy is the inner liberation of its people. It promises us escape from the 'not-enoughness' it indoctrinated into us...if we just sign up for another medication, operation, or any other kind of indoctrination which keeps us outsourcing our power.

If you've forgotten what it's like to love the body you're in, or you know others who have forgotten...this episode offers a gentle but firm medicine of resilience, rooting, and revelling in reality.

It's a solo episode going deeper into the story and subject around my new poem Your Body Is Not A Mistake. I hope that it serves all who listen.

Watch the original video to the poem on Twitter (where it has gone viral) or Instagram (the comments on both are worth reading).

That's all this week, please do reach out to let me know how this lands. I would be delighted

Have you ever felt that you have to fix every negative thing you see, like it's up to you to save the world!? That is super stressful, amiright!? Thankfully, this episode with Amber Magnolia Hill of Mythic Medicine is filled with the energy of softening, of doing the little (and big) things only you can, which end up being just what the world needs. If you're ready to let go of some of that tension from all the weight you've been carrying...this is for you.

This bio is taken from her website, and I HIGHLY recommend you read it in full after listening to this episode, linked below: Amber is a podcast host and maker of plant medicines for people who yearn for knowledge about herbalism, deepening ancestral connections, and remembering what it is to be human upon the earth. She helps folks to drop the cultural lies of disconnection and disempowerment, and to remember that the old ways are in our bones.

In this episode she shares:

• How she stays afloat and without frying her brain while being a business owner, mom, homesteader, podcast host, wife, human, etc...

• One of the surprisingly beautiful lessons of COVID

• Which type of food literally nourishes, lubricates, and calms our nervous systems

• Why cultivating a relationship with the earth is so important

• Near the end, important insights for people who want to be more self-sufficient and head in the homesteader direction
  

Where to find Amber and Mythic Medicine:

• Main website for medicines, Medicine Stories podcast, and more: Mythicmedicine.love
  

If you’ve been feeling stuck in old patterns, trapped by your past, or struggling with stories that don’t serve you, today's guest Taheera Ma’at has joyful and deep messages which will serve you in transforming, awakening and living with love.

In this episode:

• Why we’re living in the great awakening, the new times

• How rituals can help you through your own awakening (and some simple ones to get started with)

• Why you should stop worrying about what others think of you and get on with living as your authentic self

• How important it is to get help and support along the way

• Why having a glass of wine might actually mean you’re enlightened

• And, near the end of this episode, a beautiful reflection on how death can be a celebration of ‘graduation’

• As always, there is so so much more goodness in here!

Taheera is an Ayahuasca Shaman, Kambo Practitioner, and Clinical Trained Therapist who has been working in the healing field for over 21 years. She holds 2 Masters Degrees one in Professional Counseling with a specialization in Trauma and another one in Human Services specializing in Addiction and is a E.M.D.R. Certified Therapist. She is the founder of the Ecology of Clinical Shamanism Institute, a 2 year Apprenticeship where women learn about Shamanism, Metaphysics, get trained in Shamanic Earth Medicines, and become Integration Coaches. Taheera has also completed Metaphysical Trainings ranging from Past Life Regression, Akashic Records, Angel Healing and is a Reiki Master. Taheera holds most retreats at her retreat space, Oasis en las Montañas (Oasis in the Mountains) in the Dominican Republic where she lives. She studies with her current mentor Joel Villayamor, an Ayahuasca Shaman who has been working with the plant for over 17 years, as well as participated in trainings with the Late Elder Malidoma Patrice Some, an African Shaman who inspired her to bridge the worlds of Clinical and Shamanic Application. She continues to be a student as she shares her wisdom of the Goddess, helping people come back to Balance, Wholeness and Joy.