The Intrepid Soul

By Katie Benway

Hosted by mystic, teacher, author, and speaker, Katie Benway, each episode invites you into real and honest conversations about healing, intuition, resilience, spiritual growth, building community, an... more

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The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.

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December 03, 2025 Write to Heal with Johanna Hattendorf (Conversation #2)
What if writing isn’t just something you do but a way to come home to yourself?
I’m joined again by my dear friend Johanna Hattendorf — a poet, somatic healer, and trauma educator.
In this episode, Johanna shares about writing as a sacred practice: as a way to move through trauma, reclaim your voice, and witness your truth on the page. We talk about writing without pressure - and what happens when we let words pour through us unedited, unfiltered, and alive.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
How writing can be a bridge between your body and your spirit
The power of group writing as a collective healing space
Why devotion (not perfection) is what carries us forward
The magic of free writing (and letting the “bad writing” come too)
How poetry opens us to beauty, truth, and deeper self-witnessing
** If you want to take this work deeper, join The Intrepid Soul Collective on Patreon where you’ll find companion content for this episode.
Have a question you’d like Katie to answer in a future episode? Submit your question here for a chance to have it featured on an upcoming Listener Q&A episode.
Reach Johanna Hattendorf of The Spiral Path https://www.thespiralpathway.com/
Connect with Katie:
Join The Intrepid Soul Collective for exclusive content & support → ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/TheIntrepidSoul⁠⁠
Website → https://katiebenway.com/
Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/intrepid_eleven/
Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/IntrepidEleven
Grab Katie’s book Ignite Your Intrepid Soul → https://katiebenway.com/book/
Download the free guide 4 Guideposts for Meeting Moments of Change from Your Soul → https://katiebenway.com/free-guide-4-guidepost/
Production: Trevor Eisley
Support: Anna Schild
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59min
November 26, 2025 Grieving during the Holidays with Jennifer Landon, M.Ed.
The holiday season can stir joy, memory, longing, and grief all at once — especially when you’re missing someone or navigating a loss that reshaped your life.
In this conversation, I’m joined by my dear friend and grief educator, Jennifer Landon, M.Ed., for a tender, honest exploration of what it means to grieve during a time of year that often expects us to “be merry.”
Whether you’re grieving someone you love, supporting someone who is, or simply feeling the weight of this season in a new way, this episode offers compassion, grounding, and space feel held in whatever this season is bringing up for you.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
Why the holidays can intensify grief and emotional overwhelm
How to honor your needs without guilt or pressure to “perform” joy
The role of community, compassion, and ritual during tender seasons
How grief shows up at work, in relationships, and in daily life
The comfort of signs from loved ones who’ve passed
Practical and soulful ways to navigate this season with gentleness
** If you want to take this work deeper, join The Intrepid Soul Collective on Patreon where you’ll find companion content for this episode.
Have a question you’d like Katie to answer in a future episode? Submit your question here for a chance to have it featured on an upcoming Listener Q&A episode.
Connect with guest, Jennifer Landon, M.Ed.:
Website → YGM Consulting https://ygmconsulting.org/
Facebook group → Your Grief Matters https://www.facebook.com/groups/866256221464175
LinkedIn → Jennifer L. Landon, M.Ed. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferllandon/
Connect with Katie:
Join The Intrepid Soul Collective for exclusive content & support → ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/TheIntrepidSoul⁠⁠
Website → https://katiebenway.com/
Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/intrepid_eleven/
Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/IntrepidEleven
Grab Katie’s book Ignite Your Intrepid Soul → https://katiebenway.com/book/
Download the free guide 4 Guideposts for Meeting Moments of Change from Your Soul → https://katiebenway.com/free-guide-4-guidepost/
Production: Trevor Eisley
Support: Anna Schild
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1h 10min
November 19, 2025 When it’s Complicated: What do I do with a difficult relationship in death?
Grief isn’t simple — especially when the relationship wasn’t either.
In this solo episode, I respond to a listener question about what it means to grieve people with whom our relationships were unfinished, complex, or fraught.
If you’ve ever felt tangled in grief — loving someone and resenting them all at once, or mourning what could have been, or even feeling relief at someone's passing — this episode will help you find self-compassion and grounding.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
Why telling the truth about your feelings is an act of healing
How to navigate grief that’s layered with conflict or complexity
You're in charge of your psychic space - and can set boundaries
How acceptance becomes a form of empowerment
Why healing is less about closure, and more about clarity
** If you want to take this work deeper, join The Intrepid Soul Collective on Patreon where you’ll find companion content for this episode.
Have a question you’d like Katie to answer in a future episode? Submit your question here for a chance to have it featured on an upcoming Listener Q&A episode.
Connect with Katie:
Join The Intrepid Soul Collective for exclusive content & support → ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/TheIntrepidSoul⁠⁠
Website → https://katiebenway.com/
Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/intrepid_eleven/
Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/IntrepidEleven
Grab Katie’s book Ignite Your Intrepid Soul → https://katiebenway.com/book/
Download the free guide 4 Guideposts for Meeting Moments of Change from Your Soul → https://katiebenway.com/free-guide-4-guidepost/
Production: Trevor Eisley
Support: Anna Schild
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41min
November 12, 2025 The Mystical Journey with Rev. Raena Wilson
How do you stay grounded in your humanity while awakening to your divinity?
In this episode, I sit down with Rev. Raena Wilson — mystic, somatic coach, and spiritual teacher — for a conversation about the wild, wondrous, and deeply human path of spiritual growth. Together, we explore how curiosity, playfulness, and emotional stamina can become anchors through transformation, and how community and disruption are essential parts of healing.
If you’ve ever felt disoriented on your spiritual journey (caught between expansion and exhaustion) this conversation is a reminder that you’re not lost.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
How community becomes a container for spiritual growth
The difference between emotional and spiritual stamina
Why curiosity and play are sacred tools for transformation
The power of “trickster energy” in dismantling what no longer serves
How to stay connected to your true self through life’s disruptions
** If you want to take this work deeper, join The Intrepid Soul Collective on Patreon where you’ll find companion content for this episode.
Have a question you’d like Katie to answer in a future episode? Submit your question here for a chance to have it featured on an upcoming Listener Q&A episode.
Connect with guest, Rev. Raena Wilson:
Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/raenawilsonhealingandcoaching
Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/raenatala
Connect with Katie:
Join The Intrepid Soul Collective for exclusive content & support → ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/TheIntrepidSoul⁠⁠
Website → https://katiebenway.com/
Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/intrepid_eleven/
Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/IntrepidEleven
Grab Katie’s book Ignite Your Intrepid Soul → https://katiebenway.com/book/
Download the free guide 4 Guideposts for Meeting Moments of Change from Your Soul → https://katiebenway.com/free-guide-4-guidepost/
Production: Trevor Eisley
Support: Anna Schild
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1h 3min
November 05, 2025The Work of Remembrance with A’Marie B. Thomas-Brown (Conversation #3)
What if healing isn’t about forgetting… but remembering who you really are?
In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend A’Marie B. Thomas Brown for another soulful conversation — this time about remembrance, truth-telling, and the healing that happens when we stop running from our stories and begin to honor them instead. We talk about what it means to interrupt old patterns, tell the truth (especially when it’s hard), and reclaim the parts of ourselves we’ve been taught to hide.
If you’ve ever wondered what it really means to heal, to remember, and to become more of your true self — this one is for you.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
Why remembrance is more than nostalgia
The connection between truth-telling and personal liberation
Why your human experiences are a pathway to Soul
How storytelling can become a tool for healing, clarity, and freedom
Have a question you’d like Katie to answer in a future episode? Submit your question here for a chance to have it featured on an upcoming Listener Q&A episode.
** If you want to take this work deeper, join The Intrepid Soul Collective on Patreon where you’ll find companion content for this episode.
Connect with guest, A'Marie B. Thomas Brown:
Email → [email protected]
Facebook and Instagram → @yes2breath
A'Marie's book: https://www.lulu.com/shop/amarie-bailey/the-reformation-of-a-nation/paperback/product-14m9jqj2.html
Connect with Katie:
Join The Intrepid Soul Collective for exclusive content & support → ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/TheIntrepidSoul⁠⁠
Website → https://katiebenway.com/
Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/intrepid_eleven/
Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/IntrepidEleven
Grab Katie’s book Ignite Your Intrepid Soul → https://katiebenway.com/book/
Download the free guide 4 Guideposts for Meeting Moments of Change from Your Soul → https://katiebenway.com/free-guide-4-guidepost/
Production: Trevor Eisley
Support: Anna Schild
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49min
October 29, 2025 Q&A with Katie: What our Loved Ones on the Other Side teach us
Have you ever wondered where love goes when someone leaves this world?
In this solo episode, Katie Benway answers listener questions about life after death, soul connection, and what our loved ones want us to know once they’ve crossed over. If you’ve ever wondered how to stay connected after loss, or how to trust the signs and whispers from beyond, this one is for you.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
The messages loved ones most often share from the other side
Why forgiveness is central to healing grief
The difference between grief and guilt (and how to release both)
How to reclaim your power after loss and live your spiritual truth
Why connection to the unseen is a birthright, not a burden
Have a question you’d like Katie to answer in a future episode? Submit your question here for a chance to have it featured on an upcoming Listener Q&A episode.
** If you want to take this work deeper, join The Intrepid Soul Collective on Patreon where you’ll find companion content for this episode.
Connect with Katie:
Join The Intrepid Soul Collective for exclusive content & support → ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/TheIntrepidSoul⁠⁠
Website → https://katiebenway.com/
Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/intrepid_eleven/
Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/IntrepidEleven
Grab Katie’s book Ignite Your Intrepid Soul → https://katiebenway.com/book/
Download the free guide 4 Guideposts for Meeting Moments of Change from Your Soul → https://katiebenway.com/free-guide-4-guidepost/
Production: Trevor Eisley
Support: Anna Schild
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46min
October 22, 2025 Creativity, Bravery, and Intuition: Why your truest self never stops calling with Brady Sadler
What if your creativity isn’t a side project, but a clarion call from the soul inviting you to keep becoming?
In this conversation, I’m joined by Brady Sadler — entrepreneur and consummate creative — for a conversation about the tender and messy wake-you-up terrain of realignment, midlife thresholds, and the call to keep finding your way back to your voice, your values, and your vision.
This one is an ode to the artists, the feelers, the late bloomers, and anyone standing at a threshold wondering… what now?
Inside, we explore:
How creativity can become a portal to your truest self
What it means to “start over” with more honesty and alignment
The emotional stamina it takes to stay in your own becoming
Why community and values are non-negotiable on this path
The quiet, sacred experiment of finding your way over and over again
** If you want to take this work deeper, join The Intrepid Soul Collective on Patreon where you’ll find companion content for this episode.
Connect with Brady: https://www.bradysadler.com/
Connect with Katie:
Join The Intrepid Soul Collective for exclusive content & support → ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/TheIntrepidSoul⁠⁠
Website → https://katiebenway.com/
Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/intrepid_eleven/
Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/IntrepidEleven
Grab Katie’s book Ignite Your Intrepid Soul → https://katiebenway.com/book/
Download the free guide 4 Guideposts for Meeting Moments of Change from Your Soul → https://katiebenway.com/free-guide-4-guidepost/
Production: Trevor Eisley
Support: Anna Schild
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1h 16min
October 15, 2025 Aren’t we all in the closet? Leading a life with kindness, courage, and authenticity with Paul Boynton
What does it really take to live with courage in a world that asks us to hide?
In this week’s episode, I’m joined by my dear friend and colleague Paul Boynton — bestselling author, coach, and lifelong advocate for living with intention. Paul’s career has spanned more than 50 years in social work, mental health, and nonprofit leadership, and today he continues to write, coach, and nurture a global community with his daily encouragement and stories of resilience.
Paul is the author of Begin with Yes, Be Amazing, and Remember: A Little Book of Courage, Comfort, and Hope, with his work featured in outlets including The Huffington Post. Most recently, he’s leapt into new creative territory with his first novel, Skyler Bleu – Almost Home (An Eola General Story), now being published in a serialized format on Substack.
This conversation is an invitation to remember that you don’t have to wait until you feel “ready” to begin. You can act in the presence of fear, you can share the parts of yourself you’ve kept hidden, and you can root yourself in communities that help you grow.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
Why Begin With Yes was a turning point in Paul’s life and work
What it means to take small actions that create lasting change
How vulnerability opens the door to deeper connection
Why community acts as a birthing partner for our ideas and becoming
How empathy and kindness ripple far beyond what we see
** If you want to take this work deeper, join The Intrepid Soul Collective on Patreon where you’ll find companion content for this episode, including a guided meditation to discover what part of you is in the closet.
Connect with guest Paul Boynton: https://beginwithyes.com/
Connect with Katie:
Join The Intrepid Soul Collective for exclusive content & support → ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/TheIntrepidSoul⁠⁠
Website →⁠ https://katiebenway.com/⁠
Instagram →⁠ https://www.instagram.com/intrepid_eleven/⁠
Facebook →⁠ https://www.facebook.com/IntrepidEleven⁠
Grab Katie’s book Ignite Your Intrepid Soul →⁠ https://katiebenway.com/book/⁠
Download the free guide 4 Guideposts for Meeting Moments of Change from Your Soul → ⁠https://katiebenway.com/free-guide-4-guidepost/
Production: Trevor Eisley
Support: Anna Schild
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55min
October 08, 2025 Life is a Series of Deaths and Rebirths with A’Marie B. Thomas-Brown (Conversation #2)
What if the real transformation doesn’t come from changing your life… but from surrendering to it?
In this soul-deep conversation, I sit down again with A'Marie B. Thomas Brown to explore the sacred cycles of ego death, surrender, and rebirth. Together, we talk about what it means to endure seasons of silence, let go of what’s no longer ours, and open to the kind of transformation that doesn’t always look or feel graceful, but is deeply real and wildly necessary.
If you’re walking through a tender season of release, feeling the ache of uncertainty, or craving permission to be in-process, this episode will meet you there.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
Why acceptance is one of the most radical tools for transformation
How silence, surrender, and endurance shape the soul
What spiritual rebirth really looks like (it’s messier than Instagram says)
How death and ego-dissolution lead us closer to our truth
** If you want to take this work deeper, join The Intrepid Soul Collective on Patreon where you’ll find companion content for this episode, including Q & A with guest A’Marie B. Thomas Brown answering your questions.
Connect with guest, A'Marie B. Thomas Brown:
Email → [email protected]
Facebook and Instagram → @yes2breath
A'Marie's book → https://www.lulu.com/shop/amarie-bailey/the-reformation-of-a-nation/paperback/product-14m9jqj2.html
Connect with Katie:
Join The Intrepid Soul Collective for exclusive content & support → ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/TheIntrepidSoul⁠⁠
Website →⁠ https://katiebenway.com/⁠
Instagram →⁠ https://www.instagram.com/intrepid_eleven/⁠
Facebook →⁠ https://www.facebook.com/IntrepidEleven⁠
Grab Katie’s book Ignite Your Intrepid Soul →⁠ https://katiebenway.com/book/⁠
Download the free guide 4 Guideposts for Meeting Moments of Change from Your Soul → ⁠https://katiebenway.com/free-guide-4-guidepost/
Production: Trevor Eisley
Support: Anna Schild
...more
49min
October 01, 2025 What exactly IS Trauma and how do I heal it with Johanna Hattendorf
What if your healing didn’t have to be perfect, just real?
In this episode of The Intrepid Soul Podcast, I’m joined by my dear friend Johanna Hattendorf — somatic healer, trauma educator, and one of the most grounded, brilliant people I know when it comes to nervous system repair. Together, we explore what trauma really is (and what it’s not), how it shapes our ability to connect, and the slow, sacred work of coming back into our bodies.
If you’ve ever felt broken or frustrated by the ups and downs of your healing journey, this episode is for you.
Inside, we talk about:
How trauma lives in the body (and how to tell it’s still running the show)
Why surrender isn’t about giving up but softening into support
The real reason trauma disconnects us from ourselves and our communities
What it looks like to move through grief, rage, and shame with self-trust at the center
** If you want to take this work deeper, head to Patreon where you’ll find the podcast companion content for this episode, including a guided somatic exercise to help you release trauma energy.
Reach Johanna Hattendorf of The Spiral Path⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.thespiralpathway.com/⁠
Connect with Katie:
Join The Intrepid Soul Collective for powerful workshops, transformative ceremonies, guided journeys + meditations, and deep-dive Q&A sessions to explore the deeper terrain of self and spirit → ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/TheIntrepidSoul⁠⁠
Website →⁠ ⁠⁠https://katiebenway.com/⁠
Instagram →⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/intrepid_eleven/⁠
Facebook →⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/IntrepidEleven⁠
Grab Katie’s book Ignite Your Intrepid Soul →⁠ ⁠⁠https://katiebenway.com/book/⁠
Download the free guide 4 Guideposts for Meeting Moments of Change from Your Soul →⁠⁠⁠ https://katiebenway.com/free-guide-4-guidepost/⁠
Production: Trevor Eisley
Support: Anna Schild
...more
1h 7min

FAQs about The Intrepid Soul:

How many episodes does The Intrepid Soul have?

The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.