James and Angela Mitchell know that even good relationships break sometimes.

After 15 years of marriage, entrepreneurship, parenting, and rebuilding themselves through seasons of pressure, conflict, and growth, they have learned that lasting connection is not built by avoiding hard moments. It’s built by learning how to repair.

In this conversation with Josh and Matti, they unpack the patterns that quietly erode intimacy, the difference between being “the volcano” and “the mountain,” and why emotional safety changes everything inside a relationship.

The conversation moves through intimacy, masculine and feminine dynamics, entrepreneurship, medicine work, spirituality, parenting, and what it means to intentionally grow alongside the person you love.

But underneath all of it is one recurring idea:

Strong relationships are not the ones that never break. They’re the ones willing to reconnect.

0:00 Intro

07:15 Transitioning From Personal Growth to Professional Partnership

13:10 Navigating Business Glitches and Defining Spousal Roles

17:58 The Three Pillars of Intentional Relationships

23:42 Understanding Different Buckets of Intimacy

30:15 Leading Personal Change to Transform the Relationship

35:00 The Evolution of Marriage and Women's Empowerment

40:24 Masculine Embodiment, Being the Mountain, Not the Volcano

49:07 The Role of Faith and Spiritual Intimacy

58:02 Dropping the Matrix, Moving the Family to Peru

1:13:12 Deconstructing Patterns Through Medicine Work

1:25:41 Returning With Assets, Space for Magic and Iconic Business

1:31:00 Final Takeaways, Crisis Proofing and Aliveness

Resources Mentioned:

📚 Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

📚 It’s Not the Stork! By Robie H. Harris

🌐 Love Intentionally

https://loveintentionally.com

Love Intentionally Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/@loveintentionallyco

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Brielle Aguila says music did not just help her survive.

It gave her a way to transform pain before it consumed her.

At 18 years old, she found herself in a psychiatric ward surrounded by girls waking up screaming through the night from panic attacks, trauma and withdrawal. Instead of shutting down, she started singing to them.

That moment changed the direction of her life.

In this conversation with Matti, Josh, and Travis, Brielle explores music as prayer, ceremony, and protection. She shares how ancestral practices, permaculture, and community gatherings became part of a larger search for reciprocity instead of extraction.

The conversation moves through the Moon Dance, the Eagle Condor prophecy, addiction, gardening, lineage and what it means to heal without disconnecting from reality.

But underneath all of it is one recurring question:

What happens when suffering stops becoming identity and starts becoming responsibility?

Brielle Aguila is a medicine musician, permaculturist and founder of Everything Earth Tribe. She is currently traveling the country on her Heaven on Earth Tour, hosting gatherings centered around music, prayer, and regeneration.

0:00 Intro05:46 - Walking the Red Road and Moon Dance Traditions

10:44 - Connecting to Ancestral Lineage

15:33 - Reclaiming the Feminine and the Eagle-Condor Prophecy

20:19 - Awakening Through Adversity and Music

27:31 - The Role of Medicine Music in Ceremony

34:45 - Foundations of Permaculture

45:02 - Overcoming Scarcity Through Gardening

51:00 - The Heaven on Earth Tour

01:10:02 - Birth and Death Doula Work 

Resources Mentioned:

Connect with Brielle:

https://www.instagram.com/remembering_source/

Brielle’s Heaven on Earth Tour:

https://eventbrite.com/e/1984933113375

Listen to Brielle’s Music:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ROKk1qJoTn8D2SzEo9pOG

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Hunt Priest spent years serving as an Episcopal priest before a psilocybin study at Johns Hopkins transformed the way he understood faith, suffering, and spiritual experience.

In this conversation with Travis, Matti, and Josh, Hunt explores Christian mysticism, psychedelics, burnout, death, nervous system healing, and why modern spirituality often feels disconnected from direct experience with God.

They discuss the Good Friday Experiment, breathwork, non-duality, end-of-life care, and how suffering can become a doorway to transformation rather than despair.

At the center of this episode is a simple but confronting question:

What if the spiritual experiences humanity has always searched for are still available to us now?

0:00 Intro

1:02 The Path to Priesthood

8:47 When Religion Meets Real Experience

17:08 The Johns Hopkins Study

25:47 Fear, Resistance, and Institutional Religion

31:56 Mystical Experience & The Nervous System

47:54 Psychedelics and Christianity: Can They Coexist?

54:32 The Role of Preparation & Integration

1:05:06 Death, Resurrection & End-of-Life Care

1:12:03 Bridging Faith and Mysticism

1:20:23 Closing Prayer

Resources Mentioned:

📚 Living Buddha, Living Christ - Thich Nhat Hanh

📚 How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan

Connect with Hunt Priest:

https://huntpriest.com/

Ligare:

https://www.ligare.org/

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Dalton Follows went from Harvard lacrosse player to meditation teacher and leadership coach after realizing achievement alone was not creating alignment.

A career ending injury, the collapse of his family structure, and a spiritual experience in Tibet forced him to question the version of success he had been chasing. 

What followed was years spent moving between elite performance culture and spiritual communities searching for a way to reconcile ambition with meaning.

In this conversation with Travis and Matti, Dalton explains why purpose without structure eventually collapses, why scarcity exists in both business and spiritual spaces, and why compassionate leadership requires understanding impact, not just intent.

He also breaks down success mapping, the Enneagram, abundance, and the role silence plays in creating clarity.

In the end, the strongest leaders are the ones capable of slowing down enough to see clearly.

0:00 Intro

06:24 Winning the Good Boy Olympics and Harvard

11:43 Spiritual Awakening in Tibet

16:50 Defining Dharma and Upholding Purpose

23:03 Ancient Wisdom Inside Higher Education

30:51 Beloved Community and Growth Through Conflict

36:50 Consciousness Transference and Spiritual Equilibrium

41:40 Amplifying Compassionate Leaders

51:32 Moving Toward Compassion Instead of Conflict

56:47 Brave Spaces and the Responsibility of Privilege

01:03:53 Ethics, Marketing, and Spiritual Clarity

01:08:55 Success Mapping and Life Design

01:21:04 The Enneagram and Leadership Awareness

01:31:40 Money, Abundance, and Worthiness

01:37:46 Silence, Meditation, and Enoughness 

Resources Mentioned:

📚 The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh

📚 The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

📚 No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre

📚 The Life of Milarepa by Tsangnyön Heruka

Connect with Dalton:

[email protected] 

The Alchemy Network:

https://thealchemynetwork.com

Sage Natural Wellness:

https://www.saje.ca

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Josh was about to lose a relationship and realized the pattern felt familiar. Not just from that moment, but from years of showing up the same way.

He could see exactly where it was heading. Another relationship, same outcome, nothing actually changing.

With Matti and Travis, he traces it back to the moment he finally stopped ignoring it. The men’s group he almost didn’t join. The weekly work that started to expose what was underneath. And the decision to go deeper when that still wasn’t enough.

Then he hired a coach and everything sped up. The pressure increased. The excuses disappeared. The patterns became impossible to ignore.

At some point, the question changed. It stopped being about fixing a relationship and became about something much bigger.

What gets passed down if nothing changes?

And what does it take to be the one who ends it?

0:00 Intro

01:26 Relationship Crisis and Pattern Awareness

03:52 Entering Men’s Work and Everyman

05:21 Hiring a Coach and Rapid Acceleration

09:39 First Men’s Group

13:08 Leading by Example in Men’s Work

14:33 Childhood Patterns and Internalized Blame

20:07 Path Into Law and Identity Formation

25:22 Spiritual Moment That Redirected His Path

30:12 What’s Most Personal Is Most Universal

31:11 Brotherhood and Accountability Structure

35:33 Sister’s Influence on Compassion and Acceptance

49:50 Relationship as Rock Bottom for Change

01:01:23 Presence as the Core Skill

01:06:07 Defining Sacred Family

01:09:02 Becoming the Catalyst of Change

Resources Mentioned:

Connect with Josh:

https://www.instagram.com/josh_lanphear/

Osho

https://www.osho.com/

The Crossing for Cystic Fibrosis

https://crossingforcysticfibrosis.com/

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Travis Suit was building businesses, but none of it held once his daughter was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Everything narrowed to one reality he could not control.

He put her on a paddle board and took her into the ocean. It was one of the first moments that gave him something he could do.

That moment started to shift how he saw responsibility and direction. Not all at once, but enough to change what he built next.

Time on the water led to The Crossing and Piper’s Angels, a foundation supporting families facing the same diagnosis.

In this episode, Matti and Josh delve into the decisions that followed, from stepping away from business to building the non-profit.

What happens when the life you planned no longer applies?

For Travis, it meant rebuilding around what was in front of him.

Now he operates from a different place, holding a vision shaped by devotion and responsibility.

0:00 Intro  

05:40 The Ocean as Healing  

11:26 Overcoming Fear  

16:46 Plant Medicine Journey  

21:00 The Need in CF  

28:28 Health and Energy Lessons  

36:12 Leadership Transition  

44:02 Growth Through Testing  

19:54 Building a Movement  

48:14 Going Inward  

Resources Mentioned:

Piper’s Angels

https://www.pipersangels.org/

The Crossing:

https://crossingforcysticfibrosis.com/ 

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www.thewisdommatrix.co 

Matti built his life around control. Straight path, strong performance, no room for error.

At the same time, his sister was struggling with addiction inside a system that never gave her what she actually needed. He kept trying to help, without ever really finding the right way in.

After she passed, something shifted. Not all at once, but enough to start questioning everything he thought he understood about success, control, and what actually helps people.

That shift pulled him into places he would have dismissed before. Conversations, practices, and communities that didn’t fit into the world he came from…

In this episode, Josh and Travis turn the conversation toward Matti and walk him through the story that led him here.

What happens when the path that worked no longer gives you the answers you need?

For Matti, that’s where the bridge started to take shape.

Now he moves between two very different worlds: the one that shaped him, and the one that opened up after.

0:00 Intro

04:52 Navigating Life's Complexity Through Ancient Wisdom

11:49 Practical Tools for Physical and Spiritual Challenges

17:39 The Crossing

23:31 Maija Wellness

35:36 Finding Purpose Through Personal Loss and Creativity

45:40 Re-Anchoring in Faith Amidst Rapid Change

51:51 Moving From Internal Pressure to Internal Peace

01:02:11 The Power of Forgiveness and Gratitude

01:07:54 Bridging the Business and Spiritual Worlds

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Matti, Josh, and Travis are all in the middle of leaving something stable behind.

Careers they spent years building, paths that made sense, structures that worked…and none of them are fully sure what comes next.

But instead of waiting for clarity, they’re starting here.

The three of them have built a friendship around curiosity, deep conversations, and pushing into areas most people avoid. This podcast becomes an extension of that–a way to keep exploring, but now in the open.

In this episode, they begin to lay out what they’re building and why now.

The conversation moves between technology, ancient practices, and the pace of modern life. But it keeps returning to something simpler:

What happens when you stop trying to map everything out before you move?

0:00 Intro

00:56 Why They Started The Wisdom Matrix

07:40 Friendship, Curiosity, and Shared Path

14:23 Ancient Wisdom and Modern Technology

17:18 From Scarcity to Abundance

27:06 Dream Guests and Big Conversations

34:25 The Vision for Maija Wellness

39:11 Stepping into Uncertainty

49:19 Closing Reflections and Gratitude

Resources Mentioned:

📚 The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts

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