The Original Loretta Brown Show

Today, Loretta welcomes Nitasia Roland who is a writer, poet, digital artist, independent researcher, and publisher of esoteric works through her indie press, Urania Press. With an interdisciplinary master’s degree in English, poetry, printmaking, and design, and an MFA in creative writing, her work sits at the crossroads of art, literature, mysticism, and symbolic philosophy.

For over twenty-five years she has explored the Western Esoteric Tradition, Hermeticism, mythology, divination, synchro mysticism, and poetic trance as pathways to deeper understanding of the symbolic imagination. Her creative works include several Tarot and oracle decks such as Tarot Chimera, Starlore Astronomical Tarot, Terra Incognita Oracle, Astronomia Oracle, and the widely celebrated Tarot Emblemata deck.

Tarot Emblemata uniquely revives the symbolic tradition of Renaissance emblem books, drawing from 16th-century French historian Claude Paradin’s Devises Heroïques, aligning those enigmatic emblems with the Major and Minor Arcana of Tarot.

Through this fusion of historical imagery and archetypal symbolism, Roland’s work invites readers into contemplative dialogue with the mysteries of myth, spirit, and imagination.

Find out more at https://www.uraniapress.com/

(Orig. air date 03-12-26)

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Today, Loretta welcomes Peter Russell who is a world-renowned consciousness teacher, author, and pioneer in integrating science and spirituality. With more than fifty years of experience teaching meditation and exploring the nature of the mind, Peter has become a leading voice in understanding human consciousness and awakening.

He is the author of twelve books, including From Science to God, Letting Go of Nothing, and his newest release, How to Meditate Without Even Trying, which offers a refreshing and accessible approach to meditation rooted in ease, allowing, and presence. His work emphasizes that the greatest challenge of our time is freeing human thinking from limiting beliefs that underlie many of our personal, social, and global struggles.

Through lectures, retreats, and online programs, Peter has inspired audiences worldwide to explore deeper states of awareness and discover a more peaceful, intuitive way of living.

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(Orig. air date 04-02-26)

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Today, Loretta welcomes Joseph Selbie who is the author of The Physics of Miraculous Healing: How Emotion, Mind, and Spirit Enable Unlimited Self-Healing. A polymath and longtime spiritual practitioner, Joseph is known for creating bridges of understanding between modern evidence-based discoveries in science and the timeless experience-based discoveries of mystics. He is also the author of The Physics of God, exploring the relationship between science and religion; Break Through the Limits of the Brain, examining neuroscientific support for spiritual experience; and The Yugas, exploring India's tradition of cyclical history. Joseph has appeared on programs including Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, Gaia's Open Minds with Regina Meredith, The Chopra Well, and Buddha at the Gas Pump. A dedicated Kriya Yoga meditator for more than fifty years, he has taught yoga, meditation and universal experiential spirituality throughout the United States and Europe. In 1975 Joseph became a member of Ananda, a spiritual movement inspired by Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi.

Find out more at:  https://www.physicsandgod.com/ 

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Today, Loretta welcomes Vickie Menendez who is a transformational coach, inspirational speaker and author whose work explores grief, healing, self-care and the art of learning to live beautifully after profound change. Her own life has taken her through extraordinary loss, including the deaths of four of her five children, two of them only twelve days apart in 2023. Rather than allowing grief to become the final chapter of her story, Vickie transformed her experience into a mission of supporting others navigating loss, disconnection and life-altering transitions. With more than 35 years of experience in self-care and wellness, she brings together spiritual practice, energy work, breathwork, gratitude, intentional living, nervous-system awareness and sacred space to help people reconnect with themselves and rediscover strength, joy and purpose. Her evolving work includes The Art of Living Beautifully, The Art of Noticing, a 28-day gratitude journey, the Holistic Life Review, private and group retreats, and her Mind, Body, Soul and Sacred Spaces approach. Her philosophy invites us to honor the past without continuing to live there, embrace the life that exists now, and consciously participate in creating what comes next. Vickie is the author of Crystal’s Butterfly Effect: A Mother’s Journey from Loss to Transformation and Compass to the Soul: Your Healing Companion. Her message is perhaps best expressed in three simple words that have become central to her work: Pause. Breathe. Begin Again.

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Today, Loretta welcomes Ivo Domínguez Jr. who is an author, professional astrologer, ritualist, teacher and Wiccan elder whose work spans nearly five decades of magical and esoteric practice. Active in Wicca and the Pagan community since 1978 and teaching since 1982, he was a founding member and former High Priest of Keepers of the Holly Chalice, the first coven of the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel and currently serves as one of the Elders of its fifteen covens. The Assembly is a syncretic Wiccan tradition drawing upon astrology, Qabala, the Western Magical Tradition and European folk religions.

Ivo is the author of numerous books, including The Four Elements of the Wise, Keys to Perception: A Practical Guide to Psychic Development, Practical Astrology for Witches and Pagans, Casting Sacred Space, and Spirit Speak. He is also the anchor author for the twelve-volume Witch’s Sun Sign series. A professional astrologer who has studied the subject for decades, he has taught throughout the United States and abroad.

His newly revised and expanded Spirit Speak: A Comprehensive Guide to Connect Beyond the Veil returns to a work first written eighteen years earlier with substantial new material, clarifications and refinements, including new chapters on plant spirits and aspecting. The book explores spirit guides, ancestors, ghosts, deities and other nonphysical beings, along with spiritual lineage, divine embodiment, discernment and the mindset needed for responsible spirit work.

Find out more at:  https://www.ivodominguezjr.com/

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Today, Loretta welcomes Peter Russell who is a world-renowned consciousness teacher, author, and pioneer in integrating science and spirituality. With more than fifty years of experience teaching meditation and exploring the nature of the mind, Peter has become a leading voice in understanding human consciousness and awakening.

He is the author of twelve books, including From Science to God, Letting Go of Nothing, and his newest release, How to Meditate Without Even Trying, which offers a refreshing and accessible approach to meditation rooted in ease, allowing, and presence. His work emphasizes that the greatest challenge of our time is freeing human thinking from limiting beliefs that underlie many of our personal, social, and global struggles.

Through lectures, retreats, and online programs, Peter has inspired audiences worldwide to explore deeper states of awareness and discover a more peaceful, intuitive way of living.

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(Original Air Date: 04-02-26)

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Today, Loretta welcomes Michele Phillips who is an author, speaker, performance coach and the President of Key Performance, where for more than 25 years, she has helped individuals, executives and organizations harness their personal energy, strengthen emotional intelligence and create meaningful results in both work and life. Her corporate work has included organizations such as Pfizer, Verizon, TAG Heuer, Barclays, Nomura, Schott North America and the PGA.

Michele is the author of Happiness Is a Habit: Simple Daily Rituals That Increase Energy, Improve Well-Being, and Add Joy to Every Day and her newest book, Energize Your Happiness: Tap Into Your Personal Energy and Shape Your Destiny. In her latest work, she explores Personal Energy Alignment—the relationship among our emotions, thoughts, beliefs, habits, and the energy we bring to our choices—and offers 20 Energy Rules, practical exercises, and tools for moving from reaction toward conscious action.

Her approach brings together positive psychology, emotional intelligence, habit formation, practical leadership experience and a spiritual understanding of human potential. Through her “Write Your Outcome” philosophy, Michele encourages people to take greater ownership of the stories they tell themselves, the choices they make and the futures they are creating.

Michele also hosts the Write Your Outcome podcast, where she explores the inner work behind meaningful success with leaders and changemakers. Known by clients as “The Light Lady,” her work ultimately asks a deceptively simple question: What becomes possible when we stop waiting for happiness and begin consciously participating in creating it?

On The Original Loretta Brown Show, Michele joins Loretta to explore happiness, energy, emotional alignment, habits, intuition, consciousness, the difference between genuine optimism and toxic positivity—and what happens when we do everything “right” and life still doesn't give us the outcome we expected.

Find out more at:  https://key2unlock.com/

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Today, Loretta welcomes back Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW who is an international teacher, psychotherapist, consultant, author, and dreamwork specialist with more than four decades of experience exploring the intersection of dreams, trauma, mind-body healing, and spirituality. She is the author of Modern Dreamwork: New Tools for Decoding Your Soul’s Wisdom, PTSDreams: Transform Your Nightmares from Trauma Through Healing Dreamwork, and Ancestral Dreaming: Heal Generational Wounds through Dreamwork, as well as the workbook Integrated and Embodied Trauma Treatment.

Linda’s work brings together contemporary psychology, trauma-informed practice, dreamwork, and spiritual exploration. Trained in EMDR, energy psychology, somatic and expressive therapies, and hypnotherapy, she has taught and trained professionals internationally and is Professor Emeritus at Boston University School of Social Work and Simmons University. She facilitates dream circles and offers individual, group, and professional consultation, helping people use dreams not only for insight but as pathways toward healing, creativity, and transformation.

In her ancestral dreamwork, Linda explores how family stories, unresolved grief, trauma, resilience, and gifts may travel through generations—and how dreams and waking practices can help us recognize what belongs to us and what may have been inherited. Her work includes ancestral visitation dreams, dream incubation, complicated and uncomplicated grief, epigenetics and intergenerational trauma, adoption and multiple lineages, ancestral traditions from around the world, healthy boundaries with ancestors, and the possibility of healing patterns rather than unconsciously passing them forward.

Find out more about Linda Yael Schiller here: https://lindayaelschiller.com/

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Today, Loretta welcomes Yesbelt Fernandez who is an author, professional tarot reader, teacher, facilitator and creator of the YesSpiral Method, a practical system that brings together lunar cycles, astrology, tarot, reflective journaling and strategic planning. She is the author of New Moon Life Design: Manifest the Life You Want Using Lunar Cycles, Tarot & Astrology and creator of the companion New Moon Spiral: A Life Design Workbook. Yesbelt spent much of her professional career in the corporate world, where she learned the value of strategy, planning and intentional decision-making, while simultaneously developing a deep personal practice involving tarot, astrology, journaling and the Moon. Eventually she brought those seemingly different worlds together. The YesSpiral Method follows five repeating phases within each approximately 29½-day lunar “Moonth”: Begin at the New Moon, Build during the waxing Moon, Celebrate at the Full Moon, Release during the waning Moon, and Reset during the Dark Moon. Her work combines cosmic insight with practical tools including journaling, planning and SMART goals, encouraging people not simply to set intentions but to take meaningful action, observe what happens, release what no longer fits and begin again with greater awareness. Yesbelt also leads Moon Circles and community practices designed to help people pause, reflect and move forward with greater clarity, intention and self-trust. Learn more at YesSpiral.com

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Today, Loretta welcomes Regina Leffers, Ph.D., who is a philosopher, author, meditation teacher, and retired professor whose work brings together academic philosophy, psychology, contemplative practice, embodiment, and human development. She is the former Director of the Center of Excellence for the Built Environment and Professor of Sustainable Construction in the College of Engineering at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Regina holds undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Philosophy and a doctoral degree in Philosophy, and alongside her academic career she has maintained a daily meditation practice for more than 45 years. Her book This Is Consciousness! grew from her concern about one of the defining challenges of our time: our increasing inability to speak civilly, listen deeply, navigate differences, and solve problems together. Regina describes consciousness through a series of “facets”—different perspectives through which human beings experience and interpret reality. Each facet contains gifts, challenges, shadows, and particular ways of solving problems, and difficulties arise when individuals or societies become stuck in one facet beyond its usefulness. Rather than judging one facet as simply good or bad, Regina’s work invites us to understand the developmental purpose of each and learn to move more consciously and fluidly among them. At the heart of her teaching is the distinction between responding from love and reacting from fear, along with the transformative role of meditation, embodiment, self-awareness, and what she calls embodied love. Her work asks us not simply to think about consciousness, but to recognize how consciousness is expressed through our bodies, relationships, choices, communities, and collective life. Learn more and find Regina’s free meditation resources at ReginaLeffers.com

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