Welcome to Season 7 of The Modern Sage Podcast, where Leah will take you through what's in and what's out for the year ahead and beyond  - including personal and collective growth work that will help everyone get on the same page of a higher and healthier vibration.

Listen in and be inspired, and if you want the cliff notes, here's Leah's top INs and OUTs for 2025. Enjoy!

What's Out:
1. Being a victim
2. Staying up late like a rock star
3. Eating seed oils and processed foods
4. Blaming others and making excuses for not being happy
5. Being silent or wimpish about who you are - hiding your authenticity
6. Learning to say no

What's In:
1. Learning to say yes 
2. Taking ownership of your life
3. Expressing your authentic and letting creativity flow
4. Eating seasonally and simply
5. Getting to bed early and rising with the sun
6. Learning to say yes to life

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This is a live and unscripted video of random readings for people who submitted through Instagram. Both Leah and Barbara will tune in to see if they can connect with the people and/or their loved ones who have passed over and give helpful information for the one's who have asked.

Leah is a 3x author, intuitive healer and inspirational speaker. She uses her personal triumphs over addictions, rape, anxiety, eating disorders along with more than two decades experience helping people make positive and lasting change in their lives. For readings or other support, visit www.leahguy.com or follow on social @leahthemodernsage.

A sought-after inspirational speaker, Leah has appeared on top media outlets as an expert on mind-body connection, energy medicine, emotional healing, mindfulness and spirituality, and is host of The Modern Sage Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Barbara is a psychic medium and author from Amsterdam. She works with her spirit guide, Ben, to give the most accurate information about your loved ones, and specific guidance for your life. To learn more or book a reading, visit www.barbarathemedium.com or on social @bbpsychicmedium

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This is my 100th episode!! Thank you so much for listening and being along for the ride.

Today I wanted to talk about one of my favorite subjects: God. 

How we speak about God.
How we receive God.
How we love God.
How we live God out in our lives.

And the powerful reminder of God's word - that we were not born with or given the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of sound mind.

Who and what is God for you? 

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This special episode features Sweta Vikram, author of the new book The Loss that Binds Us, as well as the award winning author of 13 other books. Sweta is also an Ayurvedic doctor and teaches the power of this science around the world.

Leah and Sweta discuss doshas, and how to get back to balance with food, emotions and tips when we are under stress, or enduring grief.

This practical life-science is helpful for all people and Sweta's book offers 108 tips to cope with loss.

To find out more about Sweta, visit her website.

To find out more about Leah's work, visit her website. 

• Sweta Srivastava Vikram, PhD is a dedicated Doctor of Ayurveda, a globally renowned speaker, and an acclaimed author of 14 best-selling books. The goal of her work is to alleviate stress and elevate the overall quality of her clients lives through Ayurveda-based health and wellness coaching. Sweta specializes in addressing disordered sleep, anxiety, digestion, appetite, and mood. With a Master’s degree in Strategic Communications from Columbia University and a post-graduate degree in Sports Nutrition, she applies her expansive knowledge to shape her approach. Sweta has recently released her newest book, "The Loss That Binds Us, by publisher Loving Healing Press. It is a heartfelt guide through grief. Her impactful work has been featured in renowned publications, including The New York Times, NBC, as well as a documentary collaboration with Dr. Deepak Chopra. 

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This simple question can help you in your healing work, help you get clear about your desires, and to help you create strong boundaries. 

Being available has more to do than time management or even ideas of what we want. It's a deep and nuanced understanding of our energy and how we are using it. 

Are we being true to ourselves?
Are we operating out of fear?
Are we listening to the small voice within?
Are we open to receiving or more interested in controlling?

Take a listen and let yourself get curious so you can find your authentic truth. 

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An encouraging podcast to remind you that no matter what is going on today, your story is not over.

Change is inevitable - and even when we welcome it, it can be stressful to get through.

There's often a more subtle, but no less powerful, type of change and that is the call of your spirit. The knowingness that it is time to address, readdress, ponder, explore, act, surrender and heed the call of your soul. This is a personal and potent energy that comes right on time, if we open to it.

Leah shares about her fears of performing in the one-woman show, and the call of her heart to do so, as well as the ways that present-moment living and breaking free from the stories of our past can help us.

To learn more about Leah, visit her site. 

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Have you ever asked for a sign? Maybe you didn't get the sign, or notice it. Or maybe, you got the message loud and clear. Even still many of us have doubt, even when we say we believe, that spirit is on our side - that God listens - that we are worthy of a life that is guided by the great beyond.

In this solo podcast, Leah shares some of her recent signs and confirmations about her project regarding her new work. Some may seem trite, others more profound.

But the message of the podcast is that we must be in an active relationship with spirit to know their language, to hear the calling, to witness the signs. This isn't a one-way relationship, it's an interactive one that calls us to engage with the highest and most loving, most pure and divine of energy and beings. 

Take a listen, enjoy and ponder for yourself, what do you really believe, and how are you nurturing that relationship? 

The truth is, confirmation is everywhere that spirit is present, and we are constantly being guided in the direction that is best for us, if we but notice. It requires our presence. 

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Stoicism is a philosophy that Olympic Gold Medalist Mark Tuitert utilized to help him achieve his goals - not just in competition, but in life itself. Today, Mark and Leah talk about the meaning of Stoicism, how to face life's challenges, and what it takes to find calm in the midst of chaos in one's life.

Mark  is an Olympic champion, entrepreneur, podcaster, author and speaker. 
Mark's new book is The Stoic Mindset; Living the Ten Principles of Stoicism.
 
Visit Mark on his website. Or social media @marktuitert

Visit Leah on her website. Or social media @leahthemodernsage

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In this episode Leah speaks with author and medium Carole Obley on how to heal grief and guilt and find security about life's transitions.

Many of us believe there is an afterlife. However we may have a hard time trusting life's natural processes such as death.

Carole and Leah speak about how the eternal bond of love is real, how spirit beings are living entities who are still present in our lives, and how we can form a relationship with them through communication to further deepen that relationship.

There is no end to our loving relationships, energy is infinite. We can learn how to move through life's grief and often the guilt that comes with these transitions, to remember that there is no ending and that spirit is alive and well.

To learn more about Carole and her writings or to book a session, visit her site. 

To book a session with Leah, find out more about her courses and other offerings, visit her site. 

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Survival Mode - we hear about it but aren't sure if we're in it. 

Survival mode is a trauma response. When we are burdened with the stress of life or past experiences or trauma, or if we have generational trauma in our families, we may have learned how to survive, but not much else.

Many people are living in survival mode. The anxious state that is overwhelmed and cannot be present or available for new experiences, feelings, spontaneity or true relaxation.

Leah covers the symptoms of survival mode, as well as how to get out of survival mode and heal. 

Some of the highlights are:
Desire to feel numb
Stuck in fight, flight or freeze
Being overly reactive
Having anxiety
Inability to focus

What is the opposite of survival mode? The ability to relax, be available, have resources on hand to pivot without panic, to authentically enjoy one's surroundings and simply being alive.

Leah shares some of her favorite methods to move beyond survival into a place of present moment living through somatic therapy, sound healing, yoga, movement for healing, meditation and more. 

Listen in and be inspired. Oh, and Leah shares another story about the house - but of course! 

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