The Revelation Project

If you're looking for a way to reconnect with sensuality and explore sexual empowerment, this episode of The Revelation Project Podcast is for you. Author and herbalist Kim Gallagher is my guest, sharing her knowledge of aphrodisiacs and how herbal wisdom can be used to support sexual healing and fulfillment.

In a culture that often represses and shames sexuality, Kim encourages listeners to reframe their relationship with sensual pleasure to cultivate energy that can fuel creativity and offer a more authentic self to the world. Kim's personal journey with sexual empowerment will inspire you, and her practical tips for cultivating desired energy will deepen your understanding of your own body and desires. From intentional aphrodisiac experiences to self-love practices, you'll find a wealth of information and inspiration in this episode of The Revelation Project Podcast.

Kim’s interest in sexual empowerment started when she was a homeschooling mother and felt less in touch with her own sexuality. As she delved into the topic, she realized how much shame and repression women have around sexuality in our culture, and felt that there was so much healing that needed to happen.

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Don't forget to check out Kimberly's book "Aphrodisiac, the Herbal Path to Healthy Sexual Fulfillment and Vital Living" and visit Learning Herbs - the most respected online herbal education website.

Kimberly Gallagher is the author of Aphrodisiac, The Herbal Path To Healthy Sexual Fulfillment and Vital Living. She is an herbalist who has been working with healing plants for over 20 years, and is co-founder with her husband, John Gallagher, of LearningHerbs, one of the most respected online herbal education websites. She is the creator of the Wildcraft! board game, which has sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide, and author of the Herb Fairies children’s books. Kimberly and John have two grown-up children and are into their third decade of marriage. For many years, Kimberly has been actively exploring healthy sexuality and the power of erotic energy as source energy for creative, vital living. Kimberly is an ordained minister at her Trail of Beauty ministry, where sacred sensuality is at the heart of her work.

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Special Guest: Kimberly Gallagher.

Links:

• Book: Aphrodisiac: The Herbal Path to Healthy Sexual Fulfillment and Vital Living: Gallagher, Kimberly: 9781401960926: Amazon.com: Books

Have you ever felt like you’ve had a story to tell but felt overwhelmed at the thought? Well, today’s podcast episode is about what happens when two women get together to create a vision for publishing the stories of everyday women.

Kim Fuller and Bryna Haynes share about the “The Born to Rise Book Project” a movement to inspire, awaken, and amplify, the stories of women.

The Born to Rise Book Project features 22 female writers and is a powerful collaboration that brings women together in sisterhood for a 9 month journey to excavate their inner story to have it included in a printed anthology through World Changers Media.

Kim and Bryna share about the challenges most women face when it comes to writing their stories- How issues of worthiness, confidence and fears of visibility often rear their heads and how we can move through these fears by using them as a writing ally.

Through writing, women are given the opportunity to express what they’ve suppressed and may have been afraid to share. Sharing our stories can lead to deeper connections with an audience, and offer profound healing and feelings of accomplishment for the women who participate.

With writing tips and insights on how adding emotion and sensory input can make for meaningful storytelling, women gain not only a proficiency for writing but they are also actively building a community of support with other women. Involvement in writing workshops can lead to amazing results and can pave the way for inspiring legacy pieces to leave with the world.

The Born to Rise Book Project is published in partnership with World Changers Media, a boutique hybrid publishing company founded by Bryna Haynes who is dedicated to new and diverse voices including those of global visionaries, thought leaders, and Women.

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She is a mother of three children, one of whom is adopted and is her greatest spiritual teacher. Her book “Finding” tells the story of her journey with this young boy and the Dalai Lama. One of Kim’s greatest gifts is she is a great hugger.

Bryna Haynes is the founder and CEO of WorldChangers Media. As a nationally-known book strategist, speaker, ghostwriter, and editor with over 15 years of experience in the publishing field, she has helped hundreds of thought leaders, teachers, healers, and enlightened entrepreneurs deliver their messages and radically uplevel their expert status through best-selling, impact-driven books. Titles she claims in her spare time include: self-reinvention savant, LEGO castle designer, dragon tamer, luxury travel hacker, and connoisseur of kick-ass boots.

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Special Guests: Bryna Haynes and Kim Fuller.

Links:

• PRE-ORDER: Born To Rise book

Throughout this episode, Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue weaves a wonderful conversation that brings nature alive in our awareness. He sees plants and fungi as our ancestors and kin with their own intelligence, and we delve into the concept of identity and what it means to break the habit of being human.

He speaks of a time when the King was wedded to the land and that the core of our suffering is due to forgetting and the severing of our relationship with it.

Sean shares his insights into animism, where the world is alive, and all beings, including humans, are equal in significance. He suggests that building a relationship with other-than-human beings is vital, and it begins with consistency and spending time with a place in the natural world, or a tree, river, local or plant to develop a relationship.

Sean suggests that dropping the veil is necessary to see beyond certain levels of reality and see’s our consciousness as a variation of the microrisal webs that form the minds of forests and fields, and that in order to reach beyond- reorganization of the brain is necessary.

Take a deep dive into discovering your true self and your connection to the natural world in this episode

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Sean is an herbalist, writer, poet, teacher, and initiated priest in two traditions, and his work with plants and fungi weaves together traditional western herbalism, contemporary science, Irish and Nordic animism, and his own lived experience.

Special Guest: Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue.

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• Otherworld Well

We live in and by the stories we have internalized, and the biblical story of Adam and Eve, as it has been told, has caused emotional and psychological damage to women over the ages. The story has also played a massive role in relegating women to disempowering stations, gender roles, and ideas for centuries.

In this episode, The Rape of Eve, my guest, Celene Lillie, reveals how the archetypal story of Eve was interpreted by people 2000 years ago as a story vastly different from ones we’ve heard.

In recent decades, scholars of New Testament and early Christian traditions have given new attention to the relationships between gender and imperial power in the Roman world. In this incredible interview, Celene Lillie shares her process and what she gleaned as she examined core passages from three texts from Nag Hammadi, On the Origin of the World, The Reality of the Rulers, and the Secret Revelation of John, in which Eve is portrayed in a vastly different light and how even now, we are influenced by the violence done in the name of the Roman empire and the implications of rape culture pervasive within it.

These re-interpretations of Eve’s story have the potential to disrupt and challenge traditional patriarchal narratives while offering women a trance-disrupting and empowering new story for ourselves and for future generations.

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Celene Lillie is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder; an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oklahoma and The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology; and the Dean of the Westar Institute’s forthcoming Academy (launching this Fall). Her scholarly work focuses the New Testament, the Nag Hammadi Codices, and other early literature of the Jesus movement, with a particular interest in gender and violence. She is the author

Special Guest: Celene Lillie.

Links:

• The Revelation Project Episode 81: Dr. Valerie Rein - Patriarchy Stress Disorder

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”

Our wombs are portals, and our blood connects us to our lineage, the earth, and our deepest inner selves. The womb continuum invites us to become deeply rooted in our own bodies, and Samantha invites us to break the spells of oppression and reproductive and sex health in patriarchy by connecting to the wisdom and power of our own body.

Samantha is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in reproductive and sexual health through education, healing and liberation. She started her mission when her mother had a hysterectomy at eight and began to pay attention to her body's natural cycles. At 12, she was lobbying for parental consent laws with the help of an adult companion. She emphasizes the importance of informed consent and sovereignty and encourages her listeners to explore the potential of their own bodies through contemplation, revelation, and gnosis. She believes that reproductive and sexual health should be a spiritual and social reality, not just a medical one.

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Samantha Zipporah is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in reproductive & sexual health through education, healing & liberation. She has over 20 years of experience honing her craft as an educator, guide & caregiver tending to fertility, sex, & cycles spanning the full womb continuum. Sam’s work rises from an ancient lineage of midwives, witches, & wise women​. A fierce champion of critical thinking skills, her knowledge is integrative & inclusive of modern medicine & science​ as well as traditional & ancient healing practices. S​am provides vital education for everyone from professionals to preteens in her books, courses, & live classes. Her online community The Fruit of Knowledge features monthly live workshops & an abundance of resources & dialogue for womb wisdom keepers & seekers.

Radical healing & reclaiming of our fertility management, with a focus on contraception & abortion. Fertility management is a homesteading skill, a human right, birth rite, ancestral practice. Womb care has been spiritual, social, & allied by plant medicines for ages prior to the rise of the medical industrial complex & the atrocity of the witch hunts, from which we are still in collective PTSD about. Persecution & monopoly of fertility management is more about economics than religion.

Special Guest: Samantha Zipporah.

Links:

• Website: Samantha Zipporah

Our teeth represent our total health, and there are ways to improve our oral health that will greatly improve our health, overall.

In this episode I get a chance to interview Rupam Henry about her path to holistic dentistry, and why it’s so important that we heal our teeth from the inside out. Allopathic dentistry often misses the root cause of dental issues and what’s under the surface level issues in our mouth. What is our oral health is telling us about what’s going on inside with our internal organs, gut health, circulatory system and so much more.

At the young age of 16, Rupam travelled to India, where she lived for 5 years in an international ashram, learning meditation and approaches to the inner world. The desire to be of service to others on the path of self-healing was born in these life changing years.

Rupam comes from an ancient lineage of medicine makers, alchemists and herbalists reaching back 13 generations in Germany. She combines her expertise as an herbalist, holistic health educator and ordained minister with her experience of over 20 years as an RDA in General and Pediatric Dentistry.

She is the founder of Rupams Herbals LLC, focusing on holistic health and dental solutions through consultations, a hand made organic herbal line of over 45 different formulas and a passion to support her clients and customers to retain their God-given right to Self-Healing and informed consent.

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• Website: Rupam's Herbals

Is there a lineage of goddesses that claims the evolutionary power of female sexuality? And if so, why were they pushed to the shadows and demeaned as harlots? Was Mary Magdalene one of them, and what were her teachings?

Looking into esoteric traditions that celebrated the Goddess and her art of sexual alchemy, Dr. Joanna Kujawa sets out on a detective journey to answer these questions to discover Mary Magdalene stands at the center of this investigation. Learn about her portrayal in the gnostic gospels as a teacher in her own right and Jesus’ intimate partner, the possibility of her life as an alchemist in Egypt, and her last years in Southern France. Find out if Mary Magdalene was the same person as Mary the Prophetess of Egypt and her connection to the mysterious Cathars, Black Madonnas, and Knights Templar.

Whether looking at Mary Magdalene, Sophia, Aphrodite, Inanna, Hathor, Isis, or the goddesses of esoteric Hinduism, Dr. Kujawa finds the archetype of The Other Goddess-the bearer of the mysteries of sexual alchemy that ends the division between sexuality and spirituality

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Dr Joanna Kujawa is the author of The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge, scholar, and spiritual detective. She received her BA and MA from the Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada, and her PhD from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. As an active academic for over 20 years, she uses her scholarly training to investigate topics other academics often pass over, such as: Can spirituality and sexuality be experienced as one? Who was the real Mary Magdalene? Is there a lineage of Goddesses now resurfacing in our collective experience of spirituality? Apart from her writings for academic publications on spiritual travel, Joanna has also had her short stories and essays published through various media and in many prestigious anthologies, including Best Australian Stories, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, She Rises. She is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Goddess Studies. The Other Goddess was translated into Mandarin

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• Book: The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge - Kindle edition by Kujawa, Dr. Joanna. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Join us for an episode of self-inquiry, unlearning, and reparenting. My guest Akilah Richards is back to dive more deeply into deschooling and what it’s all about and how we can recognize it as liberation work that fuels learning, life design, and relationships.

This episode was emotional for me because compulsory schooling harmed me in a variety of ways and I saw those same harms happen to my own children through the public school system. I’ve come to see that this system is harmful to just about anyone who experiences it because it’s very nature is to standardize, grade us, and get us to conform to ways of being which are dehumanizing.

De-schooling is also a massive part of the process of unbecoming- a subject I’m endlessly passionate about because it honors our humanity, and invites us into the messy and magnificent truth of being human.

It’s about reckoning with the systems that have dehumanized us, and unlearning the behavior that causes us to dehumanize others. It’s about breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma that conditions us to give another power and agency over our minds, bodies, thoughts and actions, and reclaiming our sovereignty so that we can make informed choices and participate through consent with the world around us vs. being forced to comply with tyranny.

While this episode is about de-schooling, it’s also about reframing our role in parenting and so much more.

I hope you love listening as much as I loved recording this interview.

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Links:

• Book: Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work: Richards, Akilah S., Bayo Akomolafe

Empathic, emotionally-intelligent, deep thinking, fun and open-minded are a few of the words that come to mind when it comes to describing Tanya Moushi.

In this episode we continue exploring: what is the feminine business model?

For me, the foundation of a feminine business model is embracing feminine values to integrate and co-create with the more structured values of the masculine.

And while these core aspects of life are genderless and cannot be divided into a dual worldview, conscious life itself is a dance where dualities make up the whole.

So in the past, this has been rather a one-sided dance . And if you ask me, we're stepping on our toes all the time because business is largely still dominated by what we call the masculine values which have traditionally been rewarded with money and respect, and have been thought to provide a higher perspective on how business and the economy should be operated.

This has created much suffering. Men women and children are suffering- all genders are suffering, as is our planet.

It's a deeply imbalanced model so it's been important for me to bring guests on the podcast who are changing the status quo in business helping to create language and missing aspects of the feminine so that they can be integrated into a business model that benefits everyone.

Tanya Moushi is a Good-Business Enthusiast. She is a Consultant at Moushi & Co, an interdisciplinary firm that believes that business gets better by applying functions of philosophy and art, and is nicknamed the Chief Empathy Officer among her peers. She’s an avid supporter of Downtown Phoenix, believes in the power of generosity and cites Seth Godin as one of her most influential mentors.

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• Tanya Moushi (@tanyamoushi) • Instagram photos and videos

Elena is a spark of energy, a ray of sunshine and a cultivator of embodied JOY- living what she teaches. I enjoyed our conversation so much, and loved diving into some impromptu “parts work” as our interview created space for my inner perfectionist to reveal herself, and how this inner part was created from a memory of embarrassment and shame (so interesting!)

Elena Sonnino is a yin yoga teacher, author and Life Coach who is on a mission to help you transform the walls of survival mode into doors of possibility so that you can step into the spotlight of your life as your most rooted and nourished self. Her work helps you get out of your head and into your body as your source of wisdom, and moves you from beyond shoulds and into curiosity and delight, one day at a time.

Learn more about Elena at [www.elenasonnino.com](https://www.elenasonnio.com) or by reading her new book, Inhabit Your Joy: A Book of Nudges.

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• Sage Polaris: What if you could shave 15 to 20 hours off your work week with proven copy templates and use marketing psychology to 3x your sales results? The strategies she shares will help you live your life outside of screen time—even if you don’t have a big marketing budget. I think you will LOVE It! Apply for your 2-week trial by going to www.sagepolaris.com/monica and then use code REVELATION to get started for $7 with Sage’s copy template membership.

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• Website: Elena Sonnino