The Revelation Project

Listen deeply enough to any author’s words, and you will touch their personal vulnerability. Underneath the public words, the private fleshiness pulsates...

Patricia has been inspiring women for over 30 years. Her books have always conveyed powerful woman-affirming processes with heart-felt intelligence, inviting each woman to author her own life, body image, and self-understanding. Patricia weds that strong body of work with the absolute necessity of living mindfully in this challenging age. She is currently partnering with WomanSpirit Reclamation and facilitating ZOOM courses based on her classic books.

Click [here](www.JoinTheReclamation.com) to learn more.

Links:

• Books: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

I loved this conversation with Natalie Claire because it’s rich, deep, and revelatory!

We don't often put certain concepts together in our society, such as sexuality and spirituality or topless dancing and mindfulness. That’s part of the problem; we make assumptions about whether something is good or bad, hot or holy. What if it’s just about something far more interesting?

In this conversation, Natalie and I explore visibility and sexuality from different vantage points and how our upbringing and social conditioning played a part in getting our needs met or not. We also clear the decks about assumptions around what sexuality and spirituality have in common and how each person's journey and experience can be wildly different from the other.

Natalie is a holistic coach, therapist, and mindfulness teacher who spent 14 years working as a stripper. She has been a dedicated Buddhist practitioner since 2006, the same year that she began dancing in strip clubs. In 2009, she hit her alcoholic bottom and stepped through the doors of recovery. Over the last 12+ years, she has been uncovering, welcoming, and integrating all parts of herself. She has come to learn that we can truly feel that we belong in this world by inviting every part of ourselves to the table with compassion, care, and love. It is her passion, joy, and honor to support others in the process that has, and continues to, heal every part of her.

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• The Revelation Project 20: Megan Jo Wilson - Rockstar Camp and Radical Self Approval

In this episode, Monica speaks to Dr. Nanilea Diamond about this time in our evolution and remembering the feminine blueprint.

I was positively on fire after recording this episode with Dr. NaniLea Diamond. Every cell in my body was vibrating. I know this happens to me when I am in the presence of someone who carries a very potent medicine within their message and through their being.

I was first tuned into Dr. Nanilea’s work through a mutual friend and was positively thrilled when she said yes to recording with me. Like many of us who have been integrating the experience of the pandemic, she too is emerging from another cycle of dormancy to bring her work to the world in a bigger way, and I’m so excited to share it with you!

Dr. Nanilea Diamond is an expert in Energy Dynamics and is here to bring women into their Full Glory through accessing, aligning with, and creating from their feminine power. Dr. Nanilea has extensive training and experience in working with the patterning of the human nervous system, and a specialty in working with women in feminine leadership, and high achiever lifestyle. She is the creator of the Feminine Blueprint, a design that offers women a feminine approach and model to life leadership that aligns with her feminine intelligence, essence, and guidance system.

Dr. Nanilea has founded several successful businesses over the last two decades with wellness centers in San Francisco and Beverly Hills, working with thousands of people seeking peak performance and cutting edge energy-based technologies to give them access to new possibilities in the human experience. Nanilea is currently based out of Austin, Texas, where she lives with her husband and son and has founded Sacred Feminine Leadership, a tribe of women here to break the mold and build the new.

Nanilea has helped thousands of women transform their lives. She often meets women at crossroads in their lives and helps them use the experience as an opportunity for accelerated growth and awakening. She has worked with women in a wide range of experiences, from extreme trauma to women navigating the nuances of entrepreneurship, dating, marriage, children, and their own sacred dreams and passions. Nanilea thrives on meeting women wherever they are, seeing them as the version of themselves in their full glory and helping them awaken to living that. Then, from that place of her cup runneth over, give to humanity in extraordinary ways. She gently holds you accountable to the embodiment and expression of your highest intentions as a woman for yourself in your life. She reminds us that what we emanate in our lived experiences is our greatest offering to the world. When we have tended to our own heart and emanate unconditional LOVE, everything in our life turns to gold... and the purpose of life is to touch as many lives as possible with that golden light. But, first, we must live it in our own embodiment.

Links:

• Website: Nanilea Diamond

In this episode I speak to Kyle Russell about his thirty-five year journey with crystals and how he structured a new method for defining and categorizing them. Kyle is a wealth of knowledge including writing his popular book, Crystal Energy: Understanding and Working with Stones for Clarity and Flow. I think you will really appreciate his perspective and his story of how it all started! This episode will enhance your own understanding of crystals (and life itself) not to mention that this episode was super fun!

For 3 decades, Kyle Russell has been an innovator, educator, and online personality - having just published his book - Crystal Energy: Understanding and Working with Stones for Clarity and Flow.

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• The Revelation Project Episode 71: Nina Manolson - Body Peace

At least a quarter of the women in your life have personally experienced one or more abortions. Most of them never say a word about it because of the subject's social stigma and politics.

Abortion is fraught with conflicting emotions, thoughts, religious baggage, shame, guilt, repression, and more. So many women suffer from keeping their experiences inside.

For the average human, the experience of terminating a pregnancy is far more delicate and complex than anyone is revealing.

People who choose abortion have dynamic lives. Their stories cross a wide spectrum–relatable, heartbreaking, inspiring, unremarkable, and incomprehensible. It doesn’t fit in any ONE box.

Amanda Kingsley is one of those women who not only shares her personal abortion story she also sheds light on long-overdue conversations that speak to the post-abortion experience. She assists women to reveal and heal from having to keep their silence in isolation.

Amanda reveals the unspoken truths that live beyond the experience- offering women a collection of love notes that consider the range of human experience. Her work and her book, What I Wish: 100 Love Notes to Help You Survive, Come Alive, and Thrive After Abortion, is a look at abortion through a pro-human lens, breaking down the walls that have kept far too many women isolated, disconnected and in pain.

In this episode:

Amanda Kingsley is a Certified Feminist Life Coach and Doula. She is the host of the Speaking Light Into Abortion podcast. And the Author of ‘What I Wish: 100 love notes to help you survive, come alive, and thrive after abortion.’ After her unanticipated abortion as a mother of three, she recognized the need for a wider conversation around the complex emotional landscape of life after abortion. She reminds her audience that it’s okay to feel all the feelings after abortion and that we can honor our decisions by living the life we made our choice for.

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• Website: Amanda Star Kingsley- Certified Life Coach

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 deeply resenting putting in the 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 piers? I mean, the examples go on and on and on and on…

I loved this riveting conversation with Susan Hyatt and I know you’ll love her energy. We were both practically buzzing with resonance in all we were sharing together. 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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• Website: Online Certified Life Coach Training | Life Coach Certification for Women

"Diets don’t work—and it’s not your fault. As a culture, we’re told (and tell ourselves) that if we just lost the weight—tried a little harder, had a little more willpower, or deprived ourselves for a little bit longer—we’d be happier, healthier, and more desirable. But it’s just not true."

I loved this conversation with Dr. Alexis Conason, who sheds light on diet culture to help us understand some of the myths that we have been taught about weight, health, value, and self-worth.

The Diet-Free Revolution debunks the myths we’ve been sold about food, nutrition, health, and weight loss and offers an antidote to the pain and suffering caused by yo-yo diets, untenable food regimens, and quick-fixes. Clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist Alexis Conason shows that finding health, happiness, and real nourishment is about more than changing what, how, or when we eat: it’s about radically shifting our relationship with food by healing our relationship to ourselves. She helps us discover what really nourishes us while teaching us how we can listen to and love our bodies. Enriched with case studies, meditations, stories, lessons, and activities—her 10-step program is a revelation!

In this episode, she tells us about her journey with dieting and the revelation that diets don’t work and that the whole industry is aware of this.

Dr. Alexis Conason is a clinical psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist in private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Diet-Free Revolution: 10 Steps to Free Yourself from the Diet Cycle with Mindful Eating and Radical Self-Acceptance (North Atlantic Books, 2021). Alexis is the founder of The Anti-Diet Plan, a weight-inclusive online mindful eating program available worldwide. She was previously a research associate at the New York Nutrition Obesity Research Center affiliated with Columbia University. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, she is a frequent speaker at conferences, and she has been featured widely as an expert on the topics of mindful eating, body image, and diet culture in the media.

A lifelong New Yorker, Conason lives in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters. She loves all things related to food, including cooking, grocery shopping, watching food shows, and of course, eating! But most rewarding is helping her clients transform their relationship with food and experience the joys of eating. She is a fierce advocate for helping people recognize and question the societal norms that encourage their feeling not good enough about themselves to stop fixating on shrinking their bodies and reclaim the space they deserve in the world. You can find her on social media @theantidietplan.

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• Website: Dr. Conason Psy.D. – Psychologist – Author – Speaker

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.

Links:

• Embryo Adoption - Nightlight Christian Adoptions

What happens when you hear your ancestors call?

UBIZO is a lyrical and passionate invitation to answer that call and find inner healing by following your truth and listening to the brave and untamed heart beating within you.

My beautiful guest, Christa Buthelezi, is an American-born woman who made her way from the darkness of childhood abuse to claiming the life she was meant for. She found that life with her Zulu soul family in South Africa - the family she never knew she had.

In this episode, we explore what it means to follow the whispers of your heart and to trust it to show you the way home - even if it’s all the way on the other side of the world - and what it takes to listen. In addition, we cover ground on the following and so much more!

Christa Buthelezi is an author, creative, and guide whose work focuses on supporting people as they become themselves fully and well. Her first book, UBIZO: A Story of Coming Home, tells her own story of finding her way from her upbringing in the United States to her current life in KwaZulu-Natal and the discoveries she's made along the way. She is now living happily ever after in a magic forest with her family and a host of birds, wildlife, and three somewhat domesticated dogs.

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• Book: UBIZO: A Story of Coming Home: Buthelezi, Christa Gumede

I believe conversations are an art form and can be incredibly potent medicine for transformation. The best conversations I’ve had are the ones that occur without an agenda, are filled with curiosity, and a deep listening for the invitation into a deeper inquiry where wisdom can often arise and nourish everyone who engages.

To me, this conversation feels like one in which my guests and I embark on a conversation that deepens, opens, and expands - nourishing all of us as we go with plenty of laughter and just the right amount of irreverence.

I especially loved this podcast episode because Taran and Lukas came without any agenda. These two men are wonderfully alive and deeply comfortable in their own skin.

We cover lots of ground:

I share my own story written the night before as I sat with my daughter called “Advice from a Caterpillar” and how it relates to everything we were exploring.

Taran Rosenthal is a dad, Classical Chinese medicine practitioner, lifelong mover, and co-host of the Apricot Jam podcast. He is endlessly curious and immensely grateful to be kin to all beings.

Lukas Wolf is an acupuncturist, herbalist, and martial artist in Brooklyn, New York. His days can pretty much be summed up as: punch, kick, heal, rinse, repeat. Both Lukas and Taran have their own podcast called Apricot Jam - be sure to listen!

Links:

• Apricot Jam on Apple Podcasts