Warrior Goddess Revolution

On this episode of the WGR, I talk with visionary, facilitator, and CEO, Chantal Pierrat. During our conversation, we share how to lead others from a new paradigm in a world that it constantly changing. We explore what it means to collaborate, bring in the feminine, be relational, and cheerlead each other in a world that wants us to tear each other apart. We are interdependent. We need each other. And we need leaders who hold core values like creativity, compassion, connection, and community at the heart of leadership work.

Meet Chantal

Chantal Pierrat’s mission is to increase women’s leadership across the globe. She is the founder of Emerging Women, a global leadership and media platform. 

Her ultimate vision is to weave feminine leadership and authenticity into businesses, and to create a world where women have a strong voice in the shaping of our future.

https://emergingwomen.com

In this episode of Warrior Goddess Revolution, HeatherAsh Amara talks with movement teacher and community-builder Kyle Fincham about what it means to break rules, embrace uncertainty, and live with wild willingness. Together they explore creativity, play, and the courage it takes to step outside the lines in order to find freedom, authenticity, and joy. If you’ve ever felt confined by expectations or curious about how to bring more aliveness into your daily life, this conversation will inspire you to spark your own wild, willing way of being.

Meet Kyle

Misfit. Tinkerer. Infinite Player. Kyle Fincham is the creator of Infinite Play, a movement workshop that explores playfulness by reconnecting us with our creative, adaptive, and cooperative potential. Infinite Play workshops are accessible to all misfits, wildlings, and nonconformists. Kyle also hosts Behind the Movement, a weekly podcast where he speaks with movement makers of all types about their stories, thoughts, and philosophies. He also regularly writes articles expressing his ideas and wonderings for his blog. Kyle aims to share and explore this passion for playfulness through all areas of his life, teaching, and art. 

Kyle is a purple belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, is deeply influenced by both Tom Weksler and the Fighting Monkey Practice, and was a student of Ido Portal from 2015-2020. Kyle reads often and travels near and far to attend workshops and seminars, expanding his experience of different movement tools, approaches, and philosophies. 

Warrior Goddess Revolution Podcast music and production by Kevin Braheny Fortune

During this deep and delightful conversation with my new friend, Rhonda, we explore spirituality, writing, the "Celtic" Wheel of the Year, and many of the earth-based traditions in Europe, the UK, and the indigenous communities of those areas who were deeply connected to the land. We don't shy away from topics that break our hearts and unearth what has been hidden.

Meet Rhonda

Rhonda McCrimmon is a Celtic Seer & Shaman from Scotland focusing on creating shamanic pathways for those who have been disconnected from their animist lineage and heritage. She has created a safe, clear pathway for thousands of people to reconnect with their indigenous Celtic roots & find creative shamanic ways to restore a consciously connected spiritual life.

www.centreforshamanism.com

During this lively discussion of two old friends who found their way back to each other, I speak with Oceana about elderhood, initiations, and the gifts of aging with pleasure, presence, play, and excitement. Oceana shares about the intersection of sensuality, liberation, elderhood, and ecowomanism.

Meet Oceana

Oceana Sawyer is an ecowomanism activist, liberation and elderhood advocate, and overall wise woman. She has decades of experience working with death and dying, intentional community, and sensuality.

Oceana is crossing the terrain of grief out in the borderlands of one world ending and a new emerging. She can be found wandering around at the crossroads of grieving, sensuality, deep ecology, deep time, spirituality, and liberation.

https://oceana.substack.com/

In this heartfelt episode of Warrior Goddess Revolution, HeatherAsh Amara welcomes the inspiring Kristine Carlson, co-author of the global phenomenon Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and a beacon of hope for those navigating grief and transformation.

Kristine shares her extraordinary journey from a life of love and partnership with her late husband, Dr. Richard Carlson, to a heart-wrenching loss that ultimately birthed a path of profound awakening and purpose. She opens up about embracing grief as a catalyst for healing, wisdom, and deeper joy, reflecting on her transformative choice to live fully in the wake of tragedy.

Key topics include:

• The power of grief as a gateway to greater compassion, presence, and joy.
• Navigating the duality of profound sorrow and radiant joy in life's hardest moments.
• The importance of choosing to embrace transformation, even in unexpected or challenging times.
• Kristine’s insights on sovereignty, singlehood, and living a purpose-filled life after loss.
• Behind the scenes of Kristine’s Lifetime movie, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story.

This episode is an inspiring reminder that even amidst loss, there is hope, healing, and the possibility of a vibrant, love-filled life.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Kristine's books, including Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and Heartbroken Open.
• Her journey from grief to purpose and her advice for those experiencing loss.
• Her daily practices for creativity, spirituality, and living in alignment.

Meet Kristine

Kristine Carlson is a New York Timesbestselling author, best known for her work with her late husband, Dr. Richard Carlson in the Don’t Sweat the Small Stuffseries—with over 25 million books sold worldwide. She is a renowned speaker, inspiring podcast host, retreat leader and blogger. Her mission is to help women transform from heartbreak and loss to live their best lives with joy, gratitude, renewed passion and purpose.

Connect with Kristine

Website: www.kristinecarlson.com

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A special conversation on exploring our bodies, playing with spaciousness and edges, and celebrating all bodies. Erica and Ash met through the Forrest Yoga community where they fell in love with each other as changemakers dedicated to getting more free. During this intimate conversation, they play with how we can reclaim our bodies, face our fears courageously, and saying YES to what we need--not what the world thinks we need or should be.

Meet Erica

Erica Mather, MA, E-RYT, began teaching yoga at age 17 and now studies pedagogy through education, learning, and leadership. She created the Adore Your Body System, which addresses body-image challenges, and the Yoga Clinic, a place where students, teachers, and health professionals can learn about empowered self-care. Erica is a Forrest Yoga Guardian, personally selected by Ana Forrest to become one of a handful of senior teachers in the Forrest Yoga tribe. She teaches at PURE Yoga in New York City, and maintains a full schedule of Yoga Clinic clients and Yoga Clinic teacher trainings.

https://www.instagram.com/erica_mather/

https://kripalu.org/resources/kripalu-perspectives-learning-adore-your-body-erica-mather

Is it a clear boundary or is someone trying to control you? When is a boundary in integrity and when is it hidden manipulation? Social media is all ablaze about Sara Brady's recent sharing of text messages between her and ex-boyfriend Jonah Hill, and her labeling his "boundaries" as a form of control. We start here and explore further into the reasons why boundaries are not about trying to change other people's behavior, how to create more intimacy through agreements and vulnerability, and what to do when someone else wants you to be different as a form of proving you "love" and "respect" them.

During this intimate conversation, Marita Esteva and HeatherAsh share their creation stories of how they became the creative imagineers and magical land stewards they are today. They share their experiences of negotiation, holiness, destruction, collaboration, and creation. Come into this conversation with the elements, working with Warrior energy, and how to deepen in your relationship with the dynamic world we all live in that often goes by unnoticed.

Marita, One Who Catches Lightning, is a formally trained fine artist and filmmaker, a singer-songwriter who has released multiple albums, a published poet, a motivational speaker, metaphysical healer with training in multiple modalities, a guide and mentor to people of all ages and backgrounds, a teacher with years of unique original curriculum, and of course always a student, learner and seeker. Learn more about Marita’s journey and work here.

This lively episode of the Warrior Goddesses Revolution gives us the opportunity to get to know one of our community mentors and teachers, Lara. In this heartfelt interview, Lara opens up to Ash about her spiritual journey, rooting into impeccable energetic practices, exploring the wild world, metabolizing the past, and how she came to finish reading Warrior Goddess Training years after she started it.

This discussion was inspired by an email that came into our Warrior Goddess inbox and was recorded over the Summer Solstice 2022 while we were in Teotihuacan, Mexico. The question: “How are you relating to fire now that you have had the wildfire?” During this candid chat with my student and apprentice, Sarina, we talk about being firewalk instructors, aligning with wildfire destruction, and grounding into our being while navigating loss. 

Meet Sarina

Sarina Harz is a Certified Sundoor Firewalk Instructor, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and Community Magic Maker. Sarina has spent the last decade serving clients with chronic medical conditions, facilitating trauma-informed care, and assisting people in getting free in their lives. They work as a mental and behavioral health therapist, ritualist, and wilderness rites of passage guide. They can be found dancing around the fire, playing in the woods, conjuring magic, and disrupting the status quo.