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Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards is the author of The Venus Fly Trap: Sex, Lies, and Repercussions, a true story he chose to publish as based on one. Born in Blackpool and now based in Florida, he holds a PhD in Spiritual Counseling, speaks internationally, and coaches.

The conversation starts with the book: why he wrote it, why he waited three years to, and why it's explicit. From there it covers the kettle cord and the closet, attachment and possessions, running from pain and burning out, what boundaries mean, his dad reading the book, and what a good relationship looks like to him now.

Then what he's building next: more books, a movie and series, and Miracles Resorts, a spiritual theme park with a rainforest safari, a zip line, and a university with moving walls.

Stephen Paul Edwards writes the way he talks, and he is just getting started!

Connect with Stephen:

On the web: vft23.com

Coaching, with a complimentary 30-minute session: vft23.com/coaching-and-counselling Instagram: @stephen_sapereaude X: @Stephen_Edwardz TikTok: @vft23_official

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Orlo Flock has spent years building businesses. He and his wife Kay run Hot Yoga Playa in Playa del Carmen. We are thrilled to have him back on the show to answer the question: How do I create a businessman costume, a persona I can put on when it's time and take back off?

What follows is unique and valuable perspective on business building.

The mindset that separates builders from everyone else, listening more than you talk, not being afraid to look like an idiot, fear and the confidence to fail, financial literacy and the books he rereads to his kids, trust but verify, contracts even with the people you love, "it is always your fault," the 80/20 rule, and boundaries before burnout.

Then the money. Why nobody values what you give away free, why you charge for your customer's sake and not your own, charging for the transformation rather than the hour, and recurring income over lump sums.

Orlo Flock is a man who will hand you his playbook and then ask you why you want it.

Connect with Orlo:

Hot Yoga Playa, Playa del Carmen — hotyogaplaya.com

Schedule & booking: hotyogaplaya.com/horarios

Instagram: @hotyogaplaya

Facebook: facebook.com/playahotyoga

Email: [email protected]

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Becca Akicita is a bodyworker of fifteen years and the founder of Living Balance Wellness in Corvallis.

Born at home in northern Idaho, homeschooled on a homestead with nine denominations on one road. Bible college at seventeen and a solo mission trip to Peru at nineteen that nearly killed her... then handed her a career when a busload of Oregon massage therapists pulled into the village.

We get into: - Leaving a faith without a rupture - "Get rid of the grid work" - the black and white squares of right and wrong - Astrology as a language - Giving imposter syndrome a seat behind the vision instead of the wheel - Energy work as thinning the threads - The Wednesday Wellness Walk, the Practitioners Expo, and a retreat center.

Whether you were raised in something you've since walked out of, work in the healing arts, or just like watching someone find her own words in real time... come sit in this one.

One important note: we recorded this in March and it's reaching you in September. The Wellness Walk dates Becca mentions on tape point at last spring. The Walk is running again now, third Wednesday of the month, and her newsletter is where the current ones get announced.

Connect with Becca:

Website: livingbalancetoday.com

Instagram: @livingbalancetoday

Facebook: Living Balance Wellness

Book a session: massagebook.com/therapists/hands-on-health- Newsletter — her own pick for hearing about the Wellness Walk and the Expo — signup is on the website

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Stephen Victor spent decades as a cop before a voice in a crowded room told him he'd been looking for something his whole life. From sheriff's deputy in Montana to one of the most quietly extraordinary healers you've ever heard of, he walks us through the architecture of a human being... how we're built, what drags us, what lifts us, and what "the field" always knows that we don't.

We talk about the moment reality opened up in image after image between his weapon and a man in an alley. About a guide who showed up like a drill instructor and stayed for decades. About watching his late wife leave her body... jubilant, free, surrounded by 20,000 beings and a condor flying with an eagle. About the difference between attention (an energetic force we keep giving away) and intention (a force beyond us we can actually use).

We go deep into NLP, family constellations, and the soul logic Hellinger found... the hidden rules we keep violating because we don't know they exist. Stephen explains why conflict expressed between people almost always originates somewhere else entirely. Why healing yourself heals your ancestors and your descendants. And why the biggest thing blocking most people isn't fear of the pain, but rather it's fear of becoming someone different.

Stephen Victor is a man who turned a prosaic life into a poetic one, and helps others do the same.

Shoutouts & Links:

• Stephen Victor — NLP practitioner, family constellations facilitator, healer. Find him at stephenvictor.com and on Instagram and Facebook.
• Elizabeth Bamber of Heart of the Valley yoga studio in Corvallis OR... The connector who made this conversation possible. Check them out at https://www.heartofthevalleyyoga.com/ Thank you Elizabeth!

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In this expansive, heart-centered conversation, Michael Avery sits down with consciousness explorer, multidimensional guide, and intentional alignment facilitator Zolyah Navarrete. Together they journey through the marriage of masculine and feminine energy, the living resonance of crystals and plants, name frequency decoding via Hebrew numerology, quantum hypnosis, parts work, and the deep identity upgrades required to hold greater abundance, visibility, and self-leadership.

Zolyah shares her soul’s role as an observer and reporter across galactic and earthly layers, her evolution from a child in Poland to metaphysical store owner (Vibrant Essences) and Reiki practitioner to working with business owners and founders on expansion, visibility blocks, money flow, and energetic self-sabotage. The dialogue flows through embodiment vs. mental grasping, fractal reality, religious trauma healing, returning to church roots through the heart, self-love as true empowerment (and its relationship to the power frequency spectrum), dark force entities, psychic medium experiences, and the simple-yet-profound act of feeling rather than forcing understanding.

Listeners will walk away with fresh perspectives on:

• Why “winning the lottery” (or scaling a business) often leads to collapse without identity expansion
• How names carry frequencies that can support or hinder your soul’s chosen game
• The difference between conventional coaching and deeper consciousness work
• Reclaiming authority through attunement, embodiment, and heart-centered reading of sacred texts

Whether you’re a spiritual entrepreneur navigating visibility and money, someone healing religious or childhood trauma, or simply curious about multidimensional living, this episode invites you to drop from the mind into felt resonance and remember who you truly are.

Connect with Zolyah Navarrete:

• Website: intentionalalignmentcenter.com
• Facebook: Zolyah Navarrete
• Instagram: @innercoherencespecialist (or search “inner coherence specialist”)
• Etsy shop: Vibrant Essences 3

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An intimate, wide-ranging conversation with Jenn Rowe, spiritual medium, Reiki practitioner, and founder of Spirit Sound Reiki in Corvallis, Oregon.

What begins as stories of teenage recklessness and "intentionally naive" living evolves into profound explorations of:

• The dark night of the soul and cracking open
• Codependency, people-pleasing, and external validation
• Integrating shadows without shame... accepting the full messy puzzle of self
• Surrender, forgiveness, and curiosity as portals to joy and authenticity
• Spirit guides, channeling, ancient wisdom, Akashic records, and animal totems (bear, whale, wolverine, bees, ravens)
• Sound healing with crystal bowls, gongs, chimes, and the unique resonance of her Corvallis studio space
• Reiki, chakra balancing, and allowing ego to step aside for collective spirit energy

Jenn shares her journey from suppressing intuitive gifts in a religious upbringing to fully embodying mediumship, sound baths, and energy work... and now helping others remember their wholeness.

Michael reflects on his own session with her, including messages to slow down and unblock generational patterns between root and sacral chakras.

This episode is medicine for anyone tired of performing, hiding shadows, or chasing answers instead of living questions. Come exactly as you are... dark and your light.

Key Mentions & Links

• Spirit Sound Reiki studio (Corvallis, OR): https://spiritsoundreiki.com/
  • Book Reiki sessions, sound baths (Wednesdays 6:30–7:30pm donation-based drop-in), and events
• Instagram/Facebook: @SpiritSoundReiki
• Referenced: Akashic Records, Hermetic philosophy, Soma Breath (tangential via guest's breathwork interest), spirit animals (bear, whale, wolverine, bees, ravens), Book of the Dead,Touched by an Angel (nostalgic TV reference)
• Michael's session insights: journaling, slowing down manic energy, creativity unblocking

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In this honest and uplifting conversation, Cayse Lahrman shares how she’s learned to notice when she’s running on manic energy and consciously flip her switch before conversations or any moment that needs a different presence. From a chaotic “big life” filled with family trauma and 20 years at Home Depot to thriving as a multi-location manager at T&A Supply in the Pacific Northwest flooring world, she reveals the value of accountability, doing the real work, and learning to be okay when life finally feels good.

She opens up about conscious parenting with her daughter, choosing to bring lightness instead of sadness into every room, sitting in discomfort with her partner instead of shutting down and her vibrant art practice and cosplay creations as a form of meditation and joyful expression.

Follow Cayse on Instagram @ekc.creations

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In this spontaneous, open conversation on this is emotionart, host Michael Avery sits with Cindee Brown-Mills... keynote speaker at the Oregon Business Conference, Navy veteran, former corporate CFO, and founder of Breathe Alaska... for a heart-opening exploration of what happens when the ladder you’ve been climbing finally breaks you.

Cindee shares the moment she hit rock bottom: sitting on her kitchen floor, exhausted from decades of high-stakes finance roles, people-pleasing, and unexpressed grief, realizing she could no longer “tough it out.” And then a single online breathwork class cracked open decades of stored trauma, generational pain, and the constant sympathetic nervous system overload so many of us live in without even naming it.

Breath is the only body system we can consciously control, it works like a remote control for your nervous system that you can use at your desk (yes, even in corporate life) to shift from fight-or-flight to calm clarity in minutes

Cindee now guides triathletes, corporate teams, and seekers through retreats, workshops, and her signature 'Mindfulness in the Wilderness' experiences in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.

Whether you’re still climbing, quietly quitting, or just ready to rewrite the script, this episode is your invitation to pick up the remote and start regulating on purpose.

Guest Bio Cindy Brown Mills is the founder of Breathe Alaska and a certified Soma Breath instructor. After 20+ years in corporate finance and non-profits, she left burnout behind to teach breath as medicine for nervous system healing. She offers corporate workshops, athlete retreats, equine-assisted experiences, and intimate wilderness mindfulness journeys in Juneau, Alaska.

Connect & Experience

🌐 breathe-alaska.com

📸 Instagram & Facebook: @BreatheAlaska

💼 LinkedIn: Cindy Brown Mills

Book a discovery call or join an upcoming retreat/workshop, where spaces are intentionally small for deep transformation.

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This conversation is raw, unfiltered healing in real time.

Ryan Uhle walks in carrying every paradox: molested as a kid, Tourette’s, parents swapping spouses, the wealthy-abusive mansion versus the poor-loving apartment, the “nice guy” mask that kept him small. Then there's a heroic-dose of mushrooms that retrieves deep buried memories, the move to Oregon on a hunch that psilocybin would be legalized, building Multidimensional Training, and finally stepping fully into his dragonfly self... proudly phallic, deeply feminine, and unapologetically becoming whole.

Our talk explores women taking back their masculinity while men cling to insecurity, the marriage of divine masculine & feminine inside every unique body, and the “No More Mr. Nice Guy” journey.

Ryan Uhle is a man becoming the leader of love he was always meant to be... creating space and handing you the flow prop, watching you invent something new on the trampoline, and reminding us that heaven and hell are right now.

Multidimensional Training — movement, mind & spirit facility in Springfield, OR

E3 (Explorer Ecstatic Experience), the 501c3 replacing churches with love, play & ecstatic community

Ryan’s cell: 541-968-9282

Email: [email protected]

Website: multidimensionaltraining.org

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Six hours distilled. Mark van der Pol and Adrienne Fritze of Conundrum House Experiences sit with us and we wander through massacre sites and magic carpets, dissociation learned at five and the skill it became, We play Know Thyself and discover that Mark seeks harmony while Adrienne seeks freedom... and that neither of them are who they thought they were. We talk about brains as rendering agents, emotions as the actual processors, and the terror of disintegrating in a crowded room. And we find the slick bubble that lets you walk back into the noise without losing yourself.

This conversation is healing happening in real time.

🖇️Shoutouts & Tags:

• Conundrum House — Play and event space in Corvallis, OR. Come play differently.
• Know Thyself — The card game that guarantees you'll never finish knowing yourself.

Original music by Buddy Anderson! Check out his portfolio website: aaronbuddyanderson.com

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