Leah Raidt joins me for a deeply personal conversation about Catholicism, embodiment, gender, spirituality, and the search for aliveness within religious practice. Leah serves to uplift and advance LGBTQ+ artists and narratives toward collective liberation through meditation, facilitation, filmmaking, poetry, performance, producing, and presence. Together, we explore what happens when spirituality moves beyond performance and certainty and becomes something rooted in mystery, discernment, and relationship.

Throughout the episode, we reflect on growing up in Catholic culture, the pressure to suppress intuition in favor of rigid expectations, and the tension between inherited religion and lived experience. Leah shares how Catholicism became a kind of friction that sharpened their discernment, while I speak about navigating faith as a transgender Catholic trying to reconcile what I was taught spiritually with what I knew in my body. This conversation explores paradox, embodiment, and the possibility of a spirituality that reconnects people to themselves rather than teaching them to disappear.

Links to find out more about Leah Raidt: https://linktr.ee/lraidt