In this episode of The Empress Lioness Podcast, Karen R. F. Mitchell sits down with Tory Saks for a powerful conversation about body wisdom, healing, alignment, and learning to trust the guidance within.

Together, they explore how the body communicates when something is out of alignment, why physical and emotional signals are often invitations to listen more deeply, and how healing begins when we stop pushing past ourselves.

Tory shares her perspective on alignment as the place where healing meets guidance, offering insight into energy healing, Ayurveda, intuition, self-care, and the importance of quiet time and self-reflection. This conversation invites listeners to slow down, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and begin honoring the messages their bodies have been trying to send.

This episode is for the woman who has been carrying too much, ignoring the signs, or questioning whether she can trust herself again.

Your body is speaking.
Your spirit is guiding.
And your healing may begin the moment you finally listen.

This is The Empress Lioness Podcast — where spirit roars and the soul remembers.

About Tory Saks

Tory Saks is an Alignment Alchemist who specializes in Eastern modalities to help bring alignment, balance, and harmony back into the body, spaces, and animals. Blending a lifelong love of sports, a corporate background in sports and marketing, and deep training in Eastern healing, Tory offers a grounded and intuitive approach to clearing mental, emotional, and energetic blocks.

She is also a Spiritual Guide and Chieftain who calls on Oracle energy during her sessions. Tory has been leading an Ayurvedic and holistic lifestyle since 2016 and believes the body has the power to align and heal itself when we are willing to listen.

Connect with Tory Saks

Website: https://www.torysaks.com

Tory’s guiding message:“Alignment is where healing meets guidance.”

In this episode of The Empress Lioness Podcast, Karen R. F. Mitchell sits down with Lizzy, a jazz singer whose voice carries more than music — it carries story, soul, and lived experience.

This conversation explores the woman behind the song: the journey, the lessons, the courage, and the becoming that shaped Lizzy’s voice both on and off the stage.

Together, Karen and Lizzy talk about music, identity, creativity, womanhood, purpose, and what it means to trust the voice within you.

This episode is for the woman who has ever questioned her voice, hidden her gifts, or wondered whether what she carries is enough to be heard.

Because sometimes becoming does not arrive loudly.

Sometimes it comes through a song.
A stage.
A season of uncertainty.
A decision to stop hiding.
And the courage to let your soul be heard.

Connect with Lizzie Thomas
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lizziethejazzsinger/

@lizziethejazzsinger.

In this episode of The Empress Lioness Podcast, Karen R. F. Mitchell sits down with Marlee B. Kivens for a grounded and inspiring conversation about disability, independence, confidence, and learning what is possible one practical step at a time.

Marlee lives with Spina Bifida and cognitive learning differences, but her story is not centered on limitation. It is centered on determination, adaptation, and the quiet power of learning how to do things for herself.

Before building her Pampered Chef business, Marlee relied on support for cooking. Over time, she began gaining independence in the kitchen, preparing her own meals, building confidence with practical tools, and creating a business that helps others feel more capable in their daily lives.

Together, Karen and Marlee explore what independence actually looks like — not as a perfect motivational slogan, but as a real-life process of trying, adjusting, asking for support, finding the right tools, and refusing to give up on yourself.

This episode is for the woman who has been underestimated.

The woman who has had to do things differently.
The woman who wants more independence but does not know where to begin.
The woman who needs to remember that confidence is often built through small, repeated acts of courage.

Because sometimes healing is not only emotional.

Sometimes healing looks like making your own meal.
Learning a new tool.
Building your own business.
Taking one step toward independence.
And realizing, “I can do more than I thought I could.”

Marlee is also a Pampered Chef Independent Consultant through Kivens Kitchen Korner, where she helps others feel more capable and confident in the kitchen through tools, recipes, parties, fundraisers, and practical support.

Connect with Marlee B. Kivens:
Email: [email protected]
Call/Text: 952-681-0043
Website: www.pamperedchef.com/pws/kivenskitchenkorner
Interactive Catalog: https://www.pamperedchef.com/pws/kivenskitchenkorner/interactive-catalog-page

This is The Empress Lioness Podcast — where spirit roars and the soul remembers.

In this episode of The Empress Lioness Podcast, Karen sits down with Stephanie Rahming for a deeply personal conversation about faith, friendship, grief, womanhood, and becoming.

Stephanie is more than a guest. She is a woman whose life, presence, and faith helped Karen see something deeper during a season when Karen did not fully believe. Through Stephanie’s story, this conversation explores what it means to live with grace, endure loss, carry faith through difficult seasons, and become the woman life has been shaping you to be.

This episode is not about perfection or performance. It is a real conversation between women about love, loss, strength, faith, friendship, and the quiet wisdom that comes from lived experience.

For the woman who is grieving, questioning, surviving, or trying to understand what life is teaching her — Stephanie’s story is a reminder that sometimes healing comes through the presence of another woman, and sometimes faith is seen before it is understood.

Topics explored in this episode include:

Faith and womanhood
Grief after the loss of a mother
The power of friendship and divine connection
Learning from life’s hardest seasons
Becoming the woman you were meant to be
How another woman’s faith can become a mirror

This is Real Women, Real Conversations with The Empress Lioness — where spirit roars and the soul remembers.

In this episode of The Empress Lioness Podcast, Karen R. F. Mitchell sits down with Helinka for a heartfelt conversation about healing, identity, self-discovery, and the courage it takes to become the woman you were always meant to be.

Together, they explore what it means to move through life’s challenges, listen to your inner wisdom, release old versions of yourself, and step into a more honest and aligned season of life.

This conversation is for the woman who is learning to trust herself again, honor her journey, and remember that becoming is not about perfection — it is about returning to the truth of who you are.

Join us in the throne room and remember: your story matters too.

Connect with Helinka Carr:
Website: https://unspokenrosebud.com
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Unspokenrosebud

Connect with Karen R. F. Mitchell:
Website: https://www.karenrfmitchell.com
Book: Becoming The Empress Lioness: Rising from Survival into Sovereignty
Schedule an alignment conversation: https://calendly.com/theempresslioness/alignmentconversation

In this episode of The Empress Lioness Podcast, Karen R. F. Mitchell sits down with Robyn Harris for a heartfelt conversation about the woman beneath the strength.

Robyn’s message centers on gently breaking free from fear, overwhelm, and dis-ease, and helping women reconnect with the truth of who they are beneath survival, pressure, and the roles they have carried.

Together, Karen and Robyn explore healing, becoming, self-trust, and what it means for a woman to return to herself after years of holding so much.

This conversation is for the woman who has been strong for everyone else, but is now ready to feel whole within herself.

Join us in the throne room and remember: your story matters too.

In this episode of The Empress Lioness Podcast, Karen R. F. Mitchell sits down with Lauren Most of Mirror Mirror for a real conversation about success, identity, love, leadership, and coming back to yourself.

Lauren shares what it means to balance achievement with the deeper longing for connection, alignment, and a life that actually feels true. This conversation is for the woman who looks strong on the outside but knows there is more waiting for her within.

Connect with Lauren: https://www.mirrormirrorpower.com

Connect with Karen: https://www.karenrfmitchell.com

Schedule an alignment conversation: https://calendly.com/theempresslioness/alignmentconversation

In this heartfelt episode of The Empress Lioness Podcast, Karen R. F. Mitchell sits down with Shannon Roberson for a soulful conversation about love, self-worth, divine timing, and the courage it takes to trust what is meant for you without abandoning yourself in the waiting.

Together, Karen and Shannon explore what happens when a woman begins to understand that love is not supposed to cost her peace, identity, or voice. This conversation opens the door to deeper reflections on relationships, healing, patience, discernment, and learning how to choose from worth instead of wound.

Shannon shares wisdom around love, timing, and the inner work required to stop forcing what is not aligned. Karen brings the Empress Lioness lens of sovereignty, asking what it means for a woman to trust herself, trust the process, and stop chasing love that requires her to shrink.

This episode is for the woman who has loved deeply.

The woman who has waited, questioned, hoped, and wondered if what she desires is still possible.

The woman who is learning that divine timing is not punishment.

The woman who is beginning to understand that real love should meet the woman she is becoming, not pull her back into the version of herself she survived.

Because love is not only about finding the right person.

Sometimes it is about becoming the woman who no longer negotiates her worth while waiting for what is truly aligned.

In this episode of The Empress Lioness Podcast, Karen R. F. Mitchell sits down with Kim Boudreau Smith for a powerful conversation about identity, transformation, voice, and the deeper journey of becoming the woman you were always meant to be.

Together, Karen and Kim explore what it means to move beyond the roles, expectations, and survival patterns that often shape a woman’s life. This conversation invites listeners to reflect on the moments that awaken truth, the courage it takes to reclaim your voice, and the inner work required to stop shrinking and begin standing fully in your power.

Kim brings wisdom, presence, and lived insight into what happens when a woman decides she is no longer available to live disconnected from herself. Karen brings the Empress Lioness lens of sovereignty, asking what it means for a woman to return to herself, trust her own knowing, and lead from truth instead of fear.

This episode is for the woman who knows she is changing.

The woman who has outgrown old versions of herself.

The woman who is ready to stop performing strength and begin embodying her truth.

The woman who is learning that her voice, her story, and her purpose are not accidents — they are part of her becoming.

Because sometimes the journey is not about becoming someone new.

Sometimes it is about finally becoming the woman who was waiting underneath the survival.

In this soulful episode of The Empress Lioness Podcast, Karen R. F. Mitchell sits down with Bee Doyle for a powerful conversation about astrology, intuition, self-trust, and the sacred moments when the stars confirm what the soul has already been whispering.

Together, Karen and Bee explore how astrology can become more than prediction or personality labels — it can become a mirror for remembrance, timing, identity, healing, and deeper self-understanding. This conversation invites listeners to reflect on the signs, patterns, seasons, and inner nudges they may have ignored, questioned, or dismissed.

Bee brings insight into how the birth chart, cosmic timing, and spiritual awareness can help women understand themselves with more compassion and clarity. Karen brings the Empress Lioness lens of sovereignty, asking what happens when a woman stops looking outside herself for permission and begins trusting the wisdom already living within her.

This episode is for the woman who has felt something shifting but could not explain it.

The woman who has sensed that her life is calling her into a new season.

The woman who has been receiving signs, confirmations, dreams, intuitive pulls, or repeated patterns and is finally ready to listen.

Because sometimes the stars do not tell you something new.

Sometimes they confirm what your soul already knows.

Links & Resources:

• Visit Bee’s website at ⁠DoubleLibraAstrology.com⁠
• Follow her on Instagram @DoubleLibraCoaching