Through The Portal

What Was Already There — Intuition, Sacred Tools, and the Quiet Revolution with Dina Berrin

Short Overview: Dina Berrin is a certified life coach, intuitive guide, and author who helps women reconnect with their own inner knowing using tarot, numerology, and astrology. In this conversation, she shares the personal turning points that led her to build a practice around the gifts she once had to hide — and then goes through the portal to hear what her inner landscape has to say.

Guest: Dina BerrinIntuitive guide, certified life coach, and author of The Way Within: Igniting Your Intuition with Sacred Tools

Themes:

Intuition as the body's original language

Sacred tools as mirrors for self-recognition

The cost of hiding who you are

Personal transformation with collective ripple effects

Learning and teaching as a continuous practice

The World After the Stopping — A Conversation On Living Toward What Comes Next

Chloe Buzzotta has spent nearly fifteen years living and working inside ecovillages, intentional communities, and permaculture projects. In this conversation, she shares what that experience has actually taught her — about community, about conflict, about the gap between the vision of regenerative living and the real work of building it. The episode includes a guided visualization and an honest look at what it means to trust your own intuition when the stakes feel high.

Themes:

- Ecovillages as experimental hubs for wider societal change

- The difference between stopping harm and building alternatives

- What community living requires is that we don't expect

- Individuation inside collective culture

- Trusting intuition over strategy in long-term vision work

In this episode, Maria speaks with Adam and Kirsten of RegenEarth Studio about regenerative collaboration, trust, and the tension between urgency and alignment. The conversation explores how relationships, inner listening, and systems thinking come together in building regenerative projects.

GuestAdam and Kirsten — Co-Founders of RegenEarth Studio

ThemesRegenerative systems and collaborationTrust and inner alignmentSpeed versus rhythmRelationship as infrastructureBridging business and consciousness

Episode TitleThrough the Portal with Marc Engel — The Human Layer of Leadership

OverviewIn this episode, Maria Gehrke speaks with leadership coach Marc Engel about the relational dynamics that shape how teams function. Their conversation explores vulnerability, deep listening, and the role of conflict in healthy systems. The episode concludes with a guided visualization revealing a landscape of spaciousness and stillness.

GuestMarc Engel — Leadership coach and founder of The Third Space

Themes

Organizational chemistry and relational leadership

The role of vulnerability and trust in teams

Conflict as a catalyst for growth

Systems awareness and collective intelligence

Spaciousness and grounding in leadership and life

Episode Title: Through the Portal — Monique Renee: Alignment, Stewardship, and the Freedom to Wander

Overview: In this episode of Through the Portal, Maria Gehrke speaks with leadership coach and spiritual guide Monique Renee about alignment, authenticity, and what it means to lead life from the inside out. Their conversation explores personal responsibility, the power of childhood curiosity, and how spiritual practices can help people reconnect with their natural patterns of energy and purpose. The session concludes with a guided portal visualization revealing a peaceful inner landscape of forests, wildflowers, and an open path forward.

Guest: Monique Renee — Leadership Coach and Spiritual Alignment Guide

Themes:

Inner alignment and intuitionLeadership as stewardship and responsibilityRemembering childhood authenticitySpiritual practices in everyday lifeVision as a felt sense rather than a fixed plan

Episode Title: Through the Portal — Inge van der Graaf: Gathering Light in the Dark

Overview:In this live session, Maria Gehrke speaks with Dutch regression therapist Inge van der Graaf about burnout as initiation, the body as memory keeper, shadow work, and the courage to step beyond rational certainty. The session includes a guided visualization revealing an unexpected image of black light and gathering sparks.

Guest:Inge van der Graaf — regression and reincarnation therapist and guide for highly sensitive people.

Themes:

Burnout as a threshold

Somatic memory

Spiritual sensitivity and belonging

Letting go of control

Darkness as generative space

Through the Portal — with Rachel ConnorBe a consistent light

In this episode, Maria Gehrke is joined by Rachel Connor of Wordplay Coaching for a spacious conversation on creative courage, wholeness, and the quiet work of becoming. Together they explore fear, perfectionism, creativity as aliveness, and the role of compassion in authentic expression, followed by a guided visualization that reveals a powerful lighthouse metaphor.

Guest: Rachel Connor — coach, mentor, and facilitator supporting creative courage and authentic expression.

Themes:

Creative courage

Wholeness and self-compassion

Shadow and illumination

Creativity beyond art forms

Intuition, choice, and presence

Through the Portal — with Tory StephensImagining hopeful futures through story, vision, and embodied presence

In this episode, Maria Gehrke is joined by Tory Stephens — justice-driven storyteller and Creative Manager of Imagine 2200 at Grist — for a deep conversation on climate fiction, solarpunk futures, and the role of imagination in times of crisis.

Together, they explore:

Why dystopian stories dominate our cultural landscape — and what they do to our nervous systems

How hopeful storytelling can expand collective possibility without denying complexity

Solarpunk as a movement rooted in justice, community, and life-affirming technology

The importance of slowing down to envision futures beyond survival mode

The session concludes with a guided inner-vision meditation and a live visual reflection, inviting listeners to reconnect with stillness, imagination, and long-term care for future generations.

Host: Maria GehrkeGuest: Tory StephensFormat: Conversation, guided meditation, live visual reflection

Through the Portal — with Tylney Taylor

In this episode of Through the Portal, Maria Gehrke sits with strategist and coach Tylney Taylor for a spacious, embodied conversation on sense-making, leadership, and the courage to trust what the body already knows.

Together, they explore the tension between left-brain strategy and right-brain intuition, how real clarity emerges through integration rather than analysis alone, and why meaningful decisions are often somatic before they are rational. The conversation culminates in a guided inner-vision journey, where Tylney steps through the Portal into a symbolic landscape that reveals a simple but powerful message: you’re already here—you just have to let it out.

This episode is an invitation for founders, leaders, and change-makers to slow down, listen more deeply, and reconnect with the inner signals that guide aligned action.

Topics explored:

Strategy as uncovering, not inventing

Integrating intuition, embodiment, and analysis in leadership

Somatic decision-making and collective intelligence

Fear, authenticity, and letting deeper work be seen

Inner vision as a source of clarity and direction

Guest:Tylney Taylor — Strategist, coach, and guide for mission-led founders and leaders. Tylney blends strategy facilitation, execution empowerment, and embodied sense-making to help people build work that matters without losing themselves in the process.

Host:Maria Gehrke — Visual Bard & creator of the Embodied Vision Portal

Through the Portal – with Joey Clifton & Solomon Mehta-Slade

Episode Theme: A journey into play, resilience, and collective tending

In this episode, Maria is joined by Joey Clifton and Solomon Mehta-Slade, co-founders of the Change:Maker Collective, an online community supporting purpose-led people who feel overwhelmed or isolated in their mission-driven work.

Together, they explore:

The origins of the Change:Maker Collective

Why play and experimentation are essential antidotes to burnout

How resilience grows through connection rather than isolation

Rhythmic, seasonal community practices that support sustainable impact

A guided visualization into their inner landscapes

The meadow, the woodland, and the communal fire that emerged

What it means to live the change together — not as a slogan, but as a lived experience

Maria also creates a live, collaborative artwork based on Joey and Sol’s visions, weaving their imagery into a shared piece that reflects their purpose, their joy, and the community they are co-creating.

About the Change:Maker Collective

The Collective is a supportive home for freelancers, founders, solopreneurs, and mission-driven humans who want to do good and feel good while doing it. The community offers weekly sessions, somatic practices, co-working, coaching, and a steady web of connection that helps members feel resilient, rooted, and inspired.