The Soulbody Wholeness Podcast

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In this season 2 opener, Joshua opens up about how The Soulbody Wholeness Podcast went through a major death and rebirth cycle. He shares how it's changed and what to expect going forward this season.

The meat of the episode is centered around the deeper reasons why we continue to make choices that don't serve our highest good- even when we are PAINFULLY aware and know what would serve us better.

He talks about how the old rhetoric of force and will power are limited and don't work in all situations, especially in the realms of complex trauma.

He also offers one of his favorite 1 minute techniques for getting deep into our subconscious- the root of where a lot of these patterns stem from- and actually creating changes in our nervous system that naturally will begin motivating us to make better choices.

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In this episode of the SBW podcast, Joshua sits down with Lua (Buse) Kanlikilic, a Turkish multidisciplinary artist working nomadically across ritual tattooing, body painting, ceremonial workshops, symbolic textiles and garments, altars, and immersive spaces. A trained Reiki practitioner, Lua brings deep energetic sensitivity to each offering—channeling talismanic designs that support personal intention and invite specific qualities into the body and living space.

As a threshold keeper and intuitive translator of symbols, Lua approaches art as devotion: a grounded, transformative way to mark transitions, reconnect to self, and remember the ancient language of images beyond the analytical mind.

They explore how Lua’s journey—from an intense, productivity-driven chapter in Dublin to an initiatory “cocoon” period during the pandemic in Koh Phangan—reshaped her relationship with art, slowness, and spiritual integrity. Together they unpack tattooing as a rite-of-passage practice: not just decoration, but a ceremonial crossing—where symbols, sigils, sacred geometry, and body placement become a living language for transformation.

You’ll also hear reflections on masculine productivity culture vs. feminine spaciousness and gestation, how to create from deep listening instead of algorithmic pressure, and why purpose may be less a fixed destination and more an evolving puzzle that assembles through the right people, places, and timing. The conversation weaves in underworld journeying, nature-based wisdom, and Lua’s work with Ogham (the Celtic tree alphabet) as a pathway into belonging and deeper inner guidance.

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In this wide-ranging, hilarious, and deeply human conversation, Joshua sits down with Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards—author of The Venus Fly Trap—to explore what happens when life (and love) refuses to follow the plan. From spiritual awakening and the “spectrum of insanity,” to the liberation that comes from radical truth-telling, this episode is an invitation to loosen the grip of shame, allow life to dissolve your attachments, and live with more authenticity, humor, and freedom.

• How Stephen’s most volatile relationship became one of his greatest spiritual gifts
• The difference between “this happened to me” vs “this happened for me”
• Shame, secrecy, and the surprising freedom that comes from putting your entire raw story out there
• Attachment to identity (including the material world) and the slow, painful yet liberating process of letting go
• Relationships as initiations: master dark arts teachers, mirrors, and loving someone enough to let them go
• Monogamy as choice (not obligation), and what happens when we don’t tell the truth about what we want
• Emotional waves, satori moments, and why enlightenment still includes washing dishes

Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards is an international speaker and author with a PhD in Spiritual Counseling. His book The Venus Fly Trap explores love, obsession, liberation, and the wild edge where spirituality meets raw human reality—told with humor, honesty, and sexual liberation.

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In this solo episode of the Soulbody Wholeness Podcast, Joshua shares the foundational arc that has shaped his life and the bigger body of his work: the natural progression every Soul-embodied leader must go through- from Healing, to Wholeness, to Service.

Joshua reflects on how many of us never set out to “be spiritual” — we simply wanted to feel better. He breaks down what healing actually means, why the journey moves in spirals, and his controversial perspective on the need for far fewer people to be concerned with trying to help the world- how true and effective service only becomes possible when the nervous system is resourced, the ego is integrated, and inner wholeness is reclaimed.

Along the way, he shares personal origin-story threads — identity wounds, chronic symptoms, coping patterns, and the long initiation into embodiment — and offers a map for how your deepest wounds can become your greatest teachers, and eventually your greatest gifts of service for others.

In this episode:

• The natural progression of the path: Healing → Wholeness → Service (how it’s appropriate to focus on one area depending on your life stage, and what you can expect)
• A mature understanding of and relationship with your ego: healing fragmentation so your ego becomes a servant of your soul
• “Wholing” as an embodied practice: resourcing from within and strengthening connection to the part of you that is already unbroken
• Sovereignty and the “vertical axis”: becoming internally resourced through God/Soul/inner adult rather than external dependency
• Service as embodied leadership: becoming the medicine and letting life initiate you into your contribution
• The three types of purpose: Default Purpose, Created Purpose, and Soul Purpose

Reflection question:

Where in your life are you being called right now — healing, wholeness, or service — and what would it look like to honor that season fully?

Want to go deeper?

If you want to explore this arc in a more embodied way, Joshua will be hosting another online Mystery Class and Embodiment journey for leaders to support whatever season you find yourself in. Join the newsletter to stay updated on the details!

If you’d like access to a library of free resources to get started, deepen, or master your personal journey into your body and soul, check out the Living Embodiment Collective.

To explore Joshua’s offerings and resources, visit https://www.soulbodywholeness.life/

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Welcome to the SBW Podcast! This is a special solo episode where Joshua goes DEEP into huge components of his work- Somatic Alchemy, Elemental Embodiment Exploration (EEE), and Genius Frequency Methodologies.

People are always wanting to know more after seeing some of his work on social media, so he decided to de-mystify it by sharing the methodologies that changed EVERYTHING for him.

Joshua traces the arc from early years of trying to “fix” life through fitness and diet, to ongoing initiations into embodiment, purpose, and soul-aligned living. Along the way, he unpacks the intelligence that is always guiding our attention inwards- towards our trauma and conditioning that are stuck energy in the body- how we can liberate, integrate, and use that energy to become our most authentic selves of love, joy, and service- our Genius Frequency.

He also covers why true transformation requires both depth (our shadows and our truths) and breadth (building safety, spaciousness, and capacity).

You’ll hear what an EEE session can look like, why it is often described as breathwork + bodywork + energy work (but without the work), and how the body prefers to process at the level of sensation, movement, sound, and regulation rather than endless mental and verbal analysis and processing.

In this episode:

• Joshua’s brief personal origin story connection to the work
• What Genius Frequency is, and how EEE fits inside of it
• How trauma, symptoms, and “dis-ease” can be reframed as intelligent guidance instead of enemies
• How EEE differs from talk-based processing
• Breadth vs. depth, and why integration requires both
• What clients often experience: safety, remembering, clarity, rest, vitality, and aligned action

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If you’d like access to a library of free resources to get started, deepen, or master your personal journey into your body and soul, check out the Living Embodiment Collective. This is where you can also access low cost recorded EEE guided journeys and mystery classes.

If you want to explore working with Joshua 1:1, EEE is offered through Somatic Alchemy sessions (and also woven into Joshua’s coaching, purpose initiation containers, and group guided experiences). Check out more at https://www.soulbodywholeness.life/

If you’d like to learn more about Genius Frequency Methodologies or purchase any at home embodiment programs, check out GeniusFrequency.com Make sure to use discount code JOSHUA.

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In this episode of the Soulbody Wholeness podcast, Joshua sits down with Thomas Waterman, founder and steward of Sacred City in St. Petersburg, FL, for a deep dive on community, truth, and the kind of spirituality that is both mystical and practical.

Thomas shares what Sacred City actually is, a self-development community devoted to helping people experience at least one meaningful, “life is magical” moment per day. Together, they explore Sacred City’s monthly upward-spiral rhythm of remembering who we are (song ceremonies / kirtan), embodying who we are (dance portals), and embracing who we are (celebrations), along with the deeper ethos underneath it all: courageous authenticity- being fully yourself even at the threshold of fear.

Thomas offers powerful metaphors for why “telling the truth” can sting at first, but ultimately clears the field for real intimacy, presence, and creativity. Joshua reflects on where we let things “fester” in life, and how half-truths can keep us stuck, even when they look spiritual.

They also dive into ego, shadow, and paradox: how mature spirituality is not about transcending humanness, but shining awareness on the whole human experience.

If you’re craving a grounded conversation on community, devotion to truth, and what it looks like to live your values without trying to control the world, this one is for you.

• Courageous authenticity: being yourself even when it is terrifying
• Pain vs. suffering, and what it means to sit through attachments breaking down
• Ego as a healthy servant of soul (not something to eliminate)
• The origin story of Sacred City, from kirtan circles to a growing community ecosystem
• Tantra as devotion to the truth of the present moment in relationship

I love the moments when I remember what matters most to me, then have the courage to actually live from that place. This is the foundation of my music and my daily life. I’m inspired by those who yearn to live this way. To live courageously authentic lives. This deeper pull continues to motivate me to steward Sacred City, a community of people building a magical place by remembering, embodying, and embracing who we truly are.

Website: http://www.sacredcity.co
IG: @thomasishuman @sacredcity_

Check out the somatic transmission event mentioned in the intro: From Collapse to Courage: A Somatic Transmission for New Earth Leaders
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Joshua sits down with therapist, depth guide, and longtime soul-ally Adina Arden Cooper for a wide-ranging conversation on shadow integration, presence, and what it means to live as a sensitive modern mystic in a chaotic modern culture.

Adina shares the vision behind Remembering the Muse — a nine-month shadow integration journey for highly sensitive creative visionaries — inspired by Inanna’s descent through the underworld, where each “gateway” invites deeper honesty, vulnerability, and self-reclamation.

Together, they explore why true healing is not a finish line, but an ascending spiral of deepening capacity, trust, and embodiment. They speak candidly about the challenges of marketing depth work with integrity, the cultural misunderstanding of trauma and sensitivity, and the ways imagination, art, and the felt sense become portals to soul meaning beyond the mind.

This episode goes beyond surface-level spirituality and explores:

• Why transformation is real, but outcomes cannot be “promised” in the way modern marketing demands
• How highly sensitive people can move from collapse and overwhelm into capacity and presence
• Complex trauma and the hidden patterns that shape identity and nervous system strategies
• The “vertical axis” of resourcing: learning to trust the present moment as the portal to Spirit
• Diagnoses, labels, and pathologizing as distortions of deeper psycho-spiritual truth
• Shadow work as liberation: turning shadow work into “shadow play”
• Imagination as the soul’s language

If you feel the call of mysticism, creativity, and honest self-confrontation, this conversation is an invitation to step through the next gateway — and remember the muse within you.

For more info on Adina’s work:
Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and a very curious person.

Website: http://www.firebirdcreative.me
Instagram: @fire.bird.creative
Podcast: Blue Hour

Check out the group offering mentioned in the intro:
From Collapse to Courage: A Somatic Transmission for New Earth Leaders
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Joshua sits down with multidimensional soul guide and temple steward Christina Marie Echevarria to explore spiritual awakening, soul embodiment, initiation, and the alchemy of transforming fear, trauma, and conditioning into liberated medicine.

Christina shares her origin story as an intensely sensitive child and “mental projector” in Human Design, describing how overwhelm, anxiety, and emotional flooding led to patterns of numbing, coping, and identity confusion.

From there, Christina opens up about the path of deconditioning that reshaped everything- and the gradual reclamation of sovereignty, self-love, and a lived relationship with God that turns life itself into a mirror for awakening.

Together, Joshua and Christina unpack how life is not a problem to fix, but a sacred intelligence that expands our capacity for truth, compassion, and presence.

This episode goes beyond surface-level spirituality and explores:

• How we are entering a nuanced chapter of needing to take “messy action”
• Perfectionism as a protection strategy
• Energetic sovereignty, people-pleasing, and the nervous system “catalog of strategies”
• Presence as the deep unknown, beyond any spiritual concept
• Reality as holographic mirror: how identity shapes perception
• Trauma alchemy as a pathway into wholeness, not self-improvement
• Past-life and ancestral healing, soul retrieval, and “fear as the raw material for higher states”
• Entrainment fields: how coherence in one being awakens coherence in others
• Death and rebirth cycles as ecstatic liberation, not punishment

Joshua also shares about his first tea ceremony in Christina’s temple space, where profound primordial remembrance and spontaneous channeling opened a major portal of purification and soul activation.

This episode is an invitation to stop treating your shadows as enemies, trust the intelligence of your initiations, and remember that your essence itself IS the medicine.

For more info on Christina’s work:

Christina Marie is a priestess for the path of essence embodiment, sacred business and devotional service. She is the steward of Becoming Medicine, a mystery school and temple offering multi-dimensional support for mission-motivated souls devoted to the path of mastery.

She holds high-level space to midwife New Earth leaders across initiatory thresholds of birthing their medicine, actualizing their legacy timelines and walking their God-guided prophecy path of dharma, destiny and Divine Union.

Website: https://becomingmedicine.co/

Instagram: @becomingmedicine

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In this raw and real episode, Joshua sits down with his soul brother and prior guide and mentor, David Miranda.

David is a certified Purpose Guide, Neurodynamic Breathwork Facilitator, and trauma informed somatic practitioner.

David opens up about what he refers to as his “Calling to Clarity”- the story of how he spent a major portion of his life in a fog, seeking love, connection, and validation through the haze of drugs, alcohol, and sex addiction.

And the precise moments of Divine grace- a clearing of the haze and the revelation of clarity- the transformational shift of identity from the outer to the inner. The moments where he was able to finally come home to his Soul.

David and Joshua explore themes around:

• Identity crisis
• Addiction
• How clarity requires clearing, simplifying, and removing
• The raw human version of spiritual awakening
• The immortal will, creativity, and sacred memory of the human spirit
• The multi-dimensional nature of relationships and karmic connections
• The role of music and culture in personal discovery

This episode is also an experiment in a new type of authenticity for the podcast, as it was more of a conversation between two brothers. David shares his story not from a place of polished preparation, but rather from dropping into the raw present moment.

It was a living, breathing relationship he got to re-experience with his story, connecting new dots and revealing new insight.

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To learn more about David’s work: http://purposeiscalling.life/

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In this deep and wide-ranging conversation, Joshua sits down with men’s coach Hannah Jo McCartney to explore intimacy, sexuality, emotional alchemy, and relationship as a path to soul evolution.

Hannah Jo specializes in helping men recreate their relationship to their sexuality, emotions, and desires. She is a co-founder of The Studio X in Santa Barbara, California where she supports clients in person and worldwide through virtual coaching and community.

Hannah Jo shares her personal origin story into what she and her community call the PolyTantric Method- a living, embodied framework that weaves together somatics, tantra, transpersonal psychology, shadow work, and relational practice.

Together, Joshua and Hannah unpack how relationships, desire, and sexual energy can become vehicles for awakening, rather than identities, labels, or pleasure-driven pursuits.

This episode goes far beyond surface level conversations about polyamory or tantra. Instead, it explores:

• Relationship as a mirror for soul growth, not a fixed category
• Polyamory reframed as “the capacity to love many,” not promiscuity
• Why emotional triggers are accelerants for healing
• Men’s deconditioning work around emotion, desire, shame, and masculinity
• Sexual energy as a force for purification, coherence, and purpose
• Sovereignty, discernment, and truth-telling in complex relational spaces
• The role of the solar plexus, internal masculine, and self-responsibility
• How embodiment and somatic awareness transform intimacy from the inside out

Hannah Jo also speaks candidly about her work with men-supporting them to reconnect with their feeling bodies, rewrite internalized “man programs,” and come into deeper alignment with their authentic values, relationships, and life purpose.

The conversation closes with Hannah Jo guiding a powerful Trinity of Awareness Meditation- an alchemical and practical practice of deep self-compassion.

This episode is an invitation to question inherited relationship models, reclaim emotional truth, and relate from the deepest layers of the body and soul- beyond labels, beyond scripts, and beyond fear.

For more info on Hannah Jo’s work:

Website: http://thestudiox.com

Instagram: @hannahjomc

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