The Revelation Project

Sometimes I stumble upon a human who is a quiet earth quake that shakes my world and cracks opens my heart. This is my experience of Asia Suler who writes with the soul of a sage and the words of a thousand wise women on the subject of self-compassion and empathy including how mother-Earth mirrors everything we need- if we could attune ourselves to experiencing her unconditional love.

When healing is needed at the deepest level, nature will always call us back home--not only to the groves and meadows, rivers and tree's, but to the homes within ourselves.

Listen in as Asia illuminates the healing power of our living Earth—giving us permission to know ourselves deeply and intimately on our way to personal and ecological healing.

In a time of unprecedented ecological devastation, it’s easy to feel hopeless and disconnected. It’s easier still to mask our inherent goodness--to imagine that our unique and precious gifts simply aren’t enough, or forget the power of our inborn empathy. For those of us who are highly sensitive, innately attuned to the workings and whispers of the natural world, it can be hard to embody the belief that we’re enough as we are--and that can heal the Earth.

As we learn to more deeply nurture and accept ourselves, we unlock living, healing connections to Earth which then mirror back to us our beauty and our magnificence.

Not only will you love listening to Asia, you will absolutely cherish her revelations and her writing that includes reflection prompts at the end of each of her essays.

Mirrors in the Earth encourages us to embrace our inherent brilliance and the medicine that lives within each of us!

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Music by: Alex Weinstein Music - Heading Home

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How is the honey bee connected to the feminine? And how does following the bees through ancient myth support dismantling patriarchy?

Meet my guest is, Ariella Daly- she is a dream weaver and bee tender. She's devoted to both the physical and the spirit world, and she synthesizes natural beekeeping, shamanism, dream work, and earth activism through writing workshops and teaching.

Her work combines firsthand knowledge of the honeybee species with an intimate understanding of European bee shamanism. She's known for helping people connect to the wild and sacred through their relationship with bees, nature, the sacred feminine, and the inherent intuition of the body.

At this time - we are in dire need of remembering our own sense of belonging and relationship to the more than human world. And we're looking for how to heal, reconnect, and remember.

Is it possible that other species, ancestors, and myths are seeking us as much as we are seeking them? People are often drawn to Ariella because they are interested in bees and perhaps have a spiritual calling, or perhaps they want to keep bees in a more natural way. But I specifically wanted to bring Ariella onto this episode because of her capacity and talent for dream weaving. I’ve heard her speak in the past, and you'll notice that when she speaks. She weaves a tapestry of mythology, story, and current events in with her work with the bees, and she's most definitely a bridge for tapping more deeply into the mystery that is always right here, She reminds us what we've forgotten- which is how to read the signs and see the symbols and follow that mysterious, generative, feminine energy that is always an invitation to reveal more.

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As we have been witnessing the protests raging across Iran after the brutal death of Mahsa Amini, we are also hearing of intensified violence against the women there.

If you want to hear why what is happening in Iran should matter to us here in America and all over the world, then I urge you to listen to Priya’s revelations and her personal story of love and longing, and her passion for women’s rights in Iran and beyond. Priya Assal is an Educator, Writer, Artist and Women’s Community Organizer.

She is the founder of Inner Journey Practices, an educational non-profit organization dedicated to the empowerment of Farsi-speaking women worldwide. Priya holds a BFA from the California College of Arts and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is also a certified Holistic Health teacher, a certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor and a certified Women’s Rite of Passage Facilitator in the lineage of Sarah Durham Wilson.

In her Medium article she writes:

"Today’s Iranian “Women, Life, Freedom” slogan is 1969’s American “My body my choice”, and is exposing yet again the shadow of the old beast at play: Patriarchal Tyranny.

Priya is an artist, activist, writer, educator and a Mature Feminine Rites of Passage Practitioner. She is passionate, determined and committed to using her gifts and voice in service to the liberation of Iranian women, and all women. As the founder of Art of the Inner Journey Education her work serves to provide free education, transformation and Inner liberation to Iranian women so that they may experience reclamation and healing from patriarchal and terrorist rule.

Please support Priya’s work to assist Iranian women by donating here

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• ‘We are risking death’: Iranians on Mahsa Amini protests | Iran | The Guardian

As we have been witnessing the protests raging across Iran after the brutal death of Mahsa Amini, we are also hearing of intensified violence against the women there.

If you want to hear why what is happening in Iran should matter to us here in America and all over the world, then I urge you to listen to Priya’s revelations and her personal story of love and longing, and her passion for women’s rights in Iran and beyond. Priya Assal is an Educator, Writer, Artist and Women’s Community Organizer.

She is the founder of Inner Journey Practices, an educational non-profit organization dedicated to the empowerment of Farsi-speaking women worldwide. Priya holds a BFA from the California College of Arts and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is also a certified Holistic Health teacher, a certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor and a certified Women’s Rite of Passage Facilitator in the lineage of Sarah Durham Wilson.

In her Medium article she writes:

"Today’s Iranian “Women, Life, Freedom” slogan is 1969’s American “My body my choice”, and is exposing yet again the shadow of the old beast at play: Patriarchal Tyranny.

Priya is an artist, activist, writer, educator and a Mature Feminine Rites of Passage Practitioner. She is passionate, determined and committed to using her gifts and voice in service to the liberation of Iranian women, and all women. As the founder of Art of the Inner Journey Education her work serves to provide free education, transformation and Inner liberation to Iranian women so that they may experience reclamation and healing from patriarchal and terrorist rule.

Please support Priya’s work to assist Iranian women by donating here

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• ‘We are risking death’: Iranians on Mahsa Amini protests | Iran | The Guardian
• Death of Mahsa Amini - Wikipedia
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• Zoroastrianism - Wikipedia — Zoroastrianism
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In 2016, Amy Mcphie Allebest published her piece "Dear Mormon Man,” which went viral during the #metoo movement, helping crack the foundation of deeply rooted inequalities within her church and worldwide.

The feminist awakening started long ago, yet part of the issue we face in making progress as daughters of the patriarchy is that our vast repository of herstory isn’t shared widely, taught, or easily accessible. Still, Amy McPhie Allebest is changing all that with her podcast Breaking Down Patriarchy, An Essential Texts Bookclub, which I believe is one of the most important podcasts of our time.

Amy has always been drawn to asking the deeper questions that revealed the oppressive social systems at play in her university studies. Her questions always led her to more questions that piqued her interest in how these systems impacted women over time.

Amy is no stranger to agitation and frustration about oppressive systems in her own life. When she found that she could not find a comprehensive women’s studies program, she decided to create one that would help her to illuminate her own struggle. So began an essential texts book club podcast where Amy invites her listeners and readers to tune in each week as she and one of her guests break down the patriarchy. Their conversations are about seminal feminist texts written over the ages that chronicle a deep, rich, and rewarding herstory highlighting the many remarkable ideas, observations, and work of female pioneers who are the foremothers of a most incredible movement to liberate, amplify, and celebrate the independent, sovereign and essential roles of women as co-equal partners in a world that has always sought to oppress and control them.

This podcast is a project for the whole human family, and I urge all of us to tune in and become active listeners to this body of work that Amy has worked so hard to make available.

It’s filled with incredible history, conversations, insights, and poignant and powerful revelations that offer alternative ways of imagining what might be possible if we were to succeed in joining hands with the men we love to build a more equitable system that benefits and liberates everyone from the oppressive and unjust systems that have dominated the world for the past 5,000 years.

Listen in as we talk about her podcast responses from both women and men across the country, how Amy sees her role as she continues to steward this project, as well as what her vision for the future entails.

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I loved my conversation with Akilah S. Richards and walked away with a much deeper understanding of the value of unschooling in America. Conventional schooling is deeply rooted in colonization, industrial progress, and control over our personal autonomy.

Akilah is passionate about mindful partnerships and parenting. Since 2016 she has hosted Fare of the Free Child, a lifestyle and parenting podcast about the connection between liberation, learning, and parenting, particularly among Black, Non-Black Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Parents, educators, unschoolers, and entrepreneurs tune in weekly to connect about unschooling, deschooling, conscious parenting, and self-directedness. Discussions center around emotional wellness, learning and children, parenting, self-care, and self-love. The voice and work of this Jamaican-born, digital nomad have been featured on NPR, Forbes, NBC TV, Good Morning America’s blog, and in several literary and in-person spaces throughout the U.S., Jamaica, and South Africa. The TEDx Speaker, digital content writer, and facilitator’s highly-anticipated book Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work (PM Press), will be released in the Fall of 2020.

“We can’t keep using tools of oppression and raise free people.” -Akilah Richards

“The resistance is the roadmap, not a route to something else.”

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Who gets to define what is deemed beautiful?

Why do we leave it to others to define what it means, and how can we change the toxic nature of our culture's obsession with beauty myths and lies? Beauty myths cause tremendous harm, from body shame to dysmorphia, from starving ourselves through diet culture, to spending thousands of dollars on fixing or altering our appearance - all the while feeling MISERABLE and unworthy.

Sarah Grandinetti is changing all that. Allow yourself to perceive beauty from a new vantage point and why it’s so important that we begin claiming our own definition of beauty as a means of disrupting the trance that keeps us believing that we are less or lacking in any way.

Sarah Grandinetti is a wife, a mother of four, an international educator, and guide to greater consciousness. Her classes explore such topics as parenting, relationships, money, and more. Having recently left the Los Angeles celebrity salon she owned for 15 years, she has now dedicated herself to changing the conversation about beauty. Inspired by the book, Being You Changing the World, authored by her brother, Dr. Dain Heer, Sarah has created Being You Beauty, a class experience offering tools, insights, and conscious conversations designed to dismantle the overbearing beauty standards and reveal what is actually possible when you include you and your body in what you perceive as beauty. Being You Beauty is a worldwide movement, having just completed a 7-day social media challenge with thousands of participants. Being You Beauty asks the compelling question, “What have you defined as beauty that limits you from receiving your own beauty?” Beyond the trendy ad campaigns used to sell quick fixes, Sarah knows there is nothing to fix! She is on a mission to inspire us all to acknowledge the beauty we truly be and the gift that unique brand of beauty is to the world.

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Ok, Listeners. Oh, my heart!

This story is going to blow you away. Be prepared to have your mind and heart blown wide open and keep the tissues nearby, just in case.

What happens when a couple goes from infertility to the conception of multiple eggs, has their own healthy baby, and then decides to donate the rest of their fertilized eggs so that they can be adopted by another family who is having trouble conceiving?

Well, you are about to bear witness to the incredible story of two remarkable women who each gave birth independently to biological siblings. Discover the bonds these two families have built in solidarity for what’s possible when you want to conceive something you might not have ever believed you could.

In this episode, you’ll meet Liz and Emma, both incredible, fun, articulate, and endearing. You’ll hear about their incredible individual stories and then how their lives were brought together through the miracle of social media. You’ll also hear the powerful love between two mothers who both hold a new vision for what it means to invite the village to raise and even help you conceive your children.

Seriously, this story is just too incredible even to try to find the words for. Just listen!

In this episode, Emma and Liz will share:

Liz August is a Business & Tech Strategist who leads a virtual support team for entrepreneurs who hate figuring out all the technology and strategy it takes to have a successful online business. She does everything from website design to social media scheduling to online course creation. While Liz’s business is truly one of my saving graces, today, we are seeing the personal side of Liz as she talks to us about something very near and dear to her heart. Liz lives in Worcester, Massachusetts with her husband Peter, their four-year-old daughter, Blake, and their dog Porter. When she’s not being a tech goddess, she’s running Netflix marathons while guzzling Diet Cokes.

p.s. Liz is also MY Business Manager and helps me produce this podcast. She handles various other tasks in my online business, and she’s amazing!!! I’ve been dying to have her tell this story on the podcast with Emma!

Emma is a former social worker who’s taking time to live the mom adventure. She’s a runner, tarot reader, and budding artist. She’s in a fever of adding flowers, gold glitter, and moon imagery to any photo she finds. You can find her artwork and musings @unmadetarot on the Instagrams and the Pinterests. She lives in Pennsylvania with her sweetheart Vince, the adorable baby Edgar, the incorrigible Murphy Beagle, and the cuddly Minerva Cat.

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We've been taught to believe that myths are untrue, yet this indicates how atrophied our cultural mythic imagination is. As a result, myth has been relegated to consumer entertainment or dismissed as irrelevant to us vs. a potent way to more deeply understand ourselves in reciprocal relationships with others and the world.

Ours is a fact-based, linear, logical, and control-based culture that doesn't allow much room to follow the deep longing to know ourselves, and yet the longing persists and will continue to persist until we answer its call. Perhaps this time in our human evolution represents a heightened collective calling - can we answer it?

In this episode, Ian and I talk about where we are as a culture and Ian's hope for awakening men worldwide.

Ian MacKenzie is a new paradigm artist who lives on the Salish Sea with his partner and young son. For over ten years, he's been tracking the global emergence of new cultures. From the desert of Burning Man to the heart of Occupy Wall St, he has sought and amplified the voices of visionaries, artists, and activists working toward planetary system change. He hosts The Mythic Masculine podcast and is the founder of A Gathering of Stories.

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Emotional labor is the exertion of energy for the purpose of addressing people’s feelings, making people comfortable, or living up to social expectations. It’s called “emotional labor” because it ends up using – and often draining – our emotional resources.

Emotional labor was a feeling I knew well before I knew it was a thing! It's such a relief to put language to something I could not previously articulate.

I can recall many situations in past relationships, at work, or in family dynamics where I would end up profoundly resenting putting in the extra time when it came to doing the heavy lifting of emotional labor.

"I'll clean if you just tell me what to clean!" or all the boyfriends who could not be bothered to pay attention to what I was saying I needed so that I had to spell it out! How about the time my father took me to girl scouts, and all the women in the room looked at him like he was a saint for doing something my mother had done a million times? How about at the office when I was expected to answer the door buzzer when we were all in the conference room in a meeting of peers? I mean, the examples go on and on and on and on…

I loved this riveting conversation with Susan Hyatt; I know you'll love her energy. We were both practically buzzing with resonance in all we were sharing. In this episode, we cover some major ground:

Susan Hyatt is a Master Certified Life and Business Coach, and one of the world's leading voices on mindset, motivation, and how to become an unstoppable woman. She's also a #1 bestselling author and TEDx speaker; founder of the University for Life Coach Training; and the founder of BARE, a trademarked process that helps women shed body image issues, stop dieting, and treat their bodies with love and respect—leading to huge mental and physical health breakthroughs.

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