The Spiritual Boss Podcast

What happens when something you built becomes part of your identity, and then it’s time to let it go?

In this conversation, I’m talking with Ang from Wildsky Sisters about the decision to step away from what she and her sister, Tamara, created. There is real emotion behind the changes, which you'll hear while listening. The grief that came with the decision and the complicated process of figuring out who you are when you're no longer building, achieving or showing up in the same way.

We talk about business, belonging and whether the community we find through our work is always as simple as it seems. We also get into spirituality, what happens when it stops being an identity or a business and becomes something much more ordinary, embodied and real.

And we go into some bigger questions around spiritual leadership, power, discernment and what happens when we stop looking outside ourselves for someone else to tell us what's true.

This is a conversation about endings, identity, belonging and finding your way back to yourself when the thing you thought you were building your life around changes.

You can find more from Ang here: https://www.wildskysisters.ca/shop-full-store/dream-chamber-e3e4j

What does it mean to come home to yourself?

Season 8 of The Spiritual Boss begins with a more personal conversation - it's just me, getting honest about where I am, what’s changing, and what I want this season to be about.

I’m talking about Tanya taking a year away from the podcast, why I’m excited to step into this season on my own and my intention to create a space that feels empowering, uplifting, honest, and welcoming.

I’m also sharing a story I’ve never really told here in this way about my experience with melanoma - the scars it has left behind, my complicated relationship with my body, and what self-acceptance looks like when you don’t always love what you see.

Because coming home to yourself isn’t about becoming a better version of who you were, it’s about letting go of who you thought you had to be.

This season, we are talking about work, relationships, motherhood, ambition, identity, spirituality, change—and what it really means to create a life that feels like yours.

I hope you enjoy this season!

You can work with me 1:1 or through online and in person trainings: https://www.melaniedawnyoga.com/

In this season finale episode, Tanya and Melanie look back on some of their favorite conversations, the episodes that impacted them most, and the moments that made them laugh, think deeper, and grow along the way.

From spirituality and healing to relationships, identity, intuition, and the beautifully messy parts of being human, they reflect on what they’ve loved most about creating the podcast together and the unique dynamic they bring as a duo.

This episode is part reflection, part celebration, and part behind-the-scenes glimpse into the friendship, honesty, and conversations that shape the show.

Thank you for listening, sharing, and growing with us this season, we can’t wait for what’s next.

In this episode, Tanya and Melanie explore the power of women’s stories, oral tradition, and the wisdom that has been passed down through generations outside of history books. The conversation begins with the idea that women’s voices, experiences, and contributions may have been erased, overlooked, or softened throughout history — and how storytelling became a way of preserving truth, intuition, survival, and connection.

Inspired by themes from Women Who Run With the Wolves, they reflect on the importance of remembering the wild, instinctive parts of ourselves and the role stories play in helping women reconnect to who they are beneath conditioning and expectation.

Tanya also shares pieces of her own personal evolution and relationship to her history, creating a conversation that is both deeply reflective and universally relatable.

This episode is about memory, identity, feminine wisdom, and the stories that continue to live through us.

In this solo episode, Melanie explores the shadow side of the chakra system through the teachings of Anodea Judith, diving into how the “demons” of the chakras influence the energetic field we live from every day.

From fear, control, people pleasing, perfectionism, and emotional attachment, Melanie shares how our thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and nervous system patterns create a magnetic field that shapes the reality we experience.

This episode explores how we unconsciously recreate familiar emotional states, why change can feel threatening even when we deeply want it, and how attachment to comfort, identity, and old patterns can quietly keep us stuck.

Melanie also shares reflections on why we often grow right to the edge of transformation… only to stop ourselves there — and what it actually takes to shift the field and create change from a more conscious place.

This conversation blends spirituality, energetic awareness, nervous system insight, and grounded self-inquiry for anyone feeling stuck between who they’ve been and who they’re becoming.

Over the course of many years and many readings I have noticed an incredibly important link between developing your imagination in tandem with your intuition. They are collaborative skills that interact and interrelate. Join me as we discuss how to strengthen your intuition by way of tapping into imagination. 

We had some laughs while exploring our toxic traits - and natural digressed (as we do) into various other topics including the moral debate of whether it's okay to hex/curse people and send out bad juju, the power of sex magick - and some other fun twists and turns along the way. A little bit of spring spice! 

In this episode, Melanie opens up about her relationship with procrastination - something she once wore as a badge of honor. But underneath it, she discovered something deeper: a quiet collection of unbirthed ideas, held back by limiting beliefs and subtle patterns of self-protection.

This conversation explores what’s really driving procrastination, the beliefs that keep it in place, and what happens when you begin to see it not as a flaw, but as a signal.

This is more-or-less a stream of consciousness and a candid and vulnerable share of where I'm (Tanya) at with life specifically around career pursuits and motherhood.

This is a conversation about discernment. About taking your power back and how to avoid giving it away in the first place. As soon as we position someone on a pedestal or hand our power over to them, we set ourselves (and them) up for ultimate failure.