We Are the Compassionate Revolution

Molly was interviewed by Rachel Strong Smith on The Betrayal Trauma Recovery Bookshelf Podcast, and this week we’re bringing listeners part one of that interview – with part two arriving next week!

In this episode, Molly and Rachel explore boundaries through a wider, more spacious lens – one that moves beyond rules, ultimatums, or control and into meaning, symbolism, and self-honoring truth.

Inspired by Molly’s upcoming book, The Great All: A Parable of Hope, New Beginnings, and You, this conversation invites a zoomed-out perspective on boundaries. Rooted in compassion and dignity, the two explore what it means to truly honor yourself and others.

For those navigating betrayal trauma, boundaries often feel confusing, heavy, or weaponized and something you’re told to “set” without ever being taught how to feel your way into them. This episode offers a different entry point.

Molly and Rachel discuss:

This is a reflective, meaning-rich conversation, especially for those healing from betrayal who are tired of black-and-white rules and longing for something more humane, spacious, and soul-honoring.

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Today’s Guest:

Rachel Smith Strong understands betrayal trauma because she’s lived it. After experiencing the devastating impact of betrayal firsthand, Rachel found support that helped transform her life from constant trauma, isolation, and emotional suppression into authentic connection and boundaried living. She now helps guide others through their own healing process.

Rachel holds a Master of Science in Social Work (MSW), is a Board Certified Coach (BCC), and is an APSATS CPC-Candidate. In her work, Rachel focuses on boundary development, gaslighting recovery, addiction-related betrayal, emotional exploration, and mindfulness-based healing. The approach blends evidence-based techniques with deep empathy, guiding clients to reconnect with their authentic selves, create sustainable boundaries, and reclaim their voices. Rachel emphasizes that each healing journey is unique and offers both professional tools and heartfelt support to help individuals transform pain into purpose and trauma into authentic strength.

Find Rachel at The Betrayal Trauma Recovery Bookshelf Podcast, sign up for a free consultation with Rachel here, or join her on Instagram and Facebook.

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What does it look like to lead… without losing yourself in the process? And what if real “leadership” isn’t about proving yourself, productivity, or power — but about awareness, wholeness, and self-trust?

In this episode, Molly sits down with Valeyne Grotrian, a former corporate leader, executive coach, and the founder of Agora Coaching, to talk about inner leadership — the kind of leadership that happens within you first before it radiates outward into your leadership practices. 

Valeyne explains why so many compassionate, conscientious people often rise quickly into leadership roles… and then quietly burn out under the pressure of overworking and keeping-all-the-people-pleased. Together, they explore how hustle culture and “always-on” expectations can slowly erode our sense of self-trust — and how reclaiming your own wholeness can transform not only your inner world but also the culture around you.

This conversation is grounding, expansive, and deeply practical — a reminder that the most powerful leadership doesn’t start with doing more. It starts with coming home to yourself.

In this episode, you’ll learn about:

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Today’s Guest

Valeyne Grotrian is a former corporate leader, executive coach, and the founder of Agora Coaching. She supports value-driven leaders in reclaiming self-trust, reconnecting with their wholeness, and leading from a deeper place — inside workplaces, organizations, and everyday life.

Valeyne offers a 6-month one-on-one partnership called Awaken Your Inner Leader and works with organizations through workshops and speaking engagements.

You can find Valeyne at agoracoach.com and follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE – and kickstart your boundaries journey.

Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All, and get an illustrated copy of the companion journal for free.

Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls: follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or leave a review. Remember: Love is the way!

What happens after you survive the unimaginable at a young age? How do you begin to face what happened and find a way toward healing?

In this episode, Molly sits down with her dear friend Jennifer Evridge, a survivor and truth-teller whose story is living proof that healing is possible — even after years of long-term abuse.

Jennifer shares her experience navigating repeated abuse by people in positions of authority, how fear and shame ended up running the show in her adult life, and what changed when she finally began to look directly at what happened — and step toward healing.

This conversation is tender, raw, and hopeful: a reminder that the parts of you that were buried for survival are often the very parts that can lead you home to self-worth, self-trust, and self-love.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

During their conversation, Jennifer mentions fawning and how Dr. Ingrid Clayton’s work impacted her. You can learn more in Episode 23, Ingrid Clayton: Fawning, Trauma, & the Healing Path Home to Self, where they unpack fawning as a trauma response and what healing can look like on the other side.

Today’s Guest: Jennifer Evridge

Jennifer describes herself as “spiritual being having a human experience.” She is a survivor and truth-teller with a background as a successful businesswoman, 911 dispatcher, and criminal defense investigator.

She is also the creator of Talk2MeAboutLove: Field Notes from a Spiritual Investigator. Through interviews and reflections, Jennifer travels the world talking with everyday people about their spiritual experiences, awakenings, and inner truths — exploring what it means to be human, to heal, and to live with honesty and love.

You can follow Jennifer and Talk2MeAboutLove on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.

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Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE – and kickstart your boundaries journey.

Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All, and get an illustrated copy of the companion journal for free.

Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls: follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or leave a review. Remember: Love is the way!

This week, Molly is joined by Melinda Lloyd, PhD — a Native Hawaiian researcher, clinical social worker, author, and coach for the Becoming Boundaried Bootcamp — for conversation on Makahiki – a season of rest, renewal, and right relationship that begins with the Hawaiian New Year.

This cultural framework centers on slowing down, reflection, and the intentional pausing of conflict — a radical contrast to dominant cultural ideas of productivity, urgency, and performance. Melinda shares how Makahiki functions as a season of realignment rather than striving, and how Hawaiian worldviews emphasize reciprocal relationship: with spirituality, ancestors, community, the natural world, and the self.

Together, Molly and Melinda weave Hawaiian cultural wisdom and history with individual healing and boundaries work — exploring what it means to stop shrinking as a survival strategy, reclaim one’s pride, and come home to yourself. 

The conversation also touches on somatic healing, code-switching, and the grief that emerges when identity, language, and culture are forcibly suppressed — alongside the hope found in cultural restoration, community healing, and embodied belonging.

Molly and Melinda discuss:

Today’s Guest: Melinda Lloyd, PhD, is a Native Hawaiian clinical social worker, researcher, and author. For over 35 years, her work has centered on working with other Native Hawaiian children and families on grief, loss, trauma, and healing.

Melinda is a coach inside the Becoming Boundaried Bootcamp, where she supports compassionate people in recognizing that boundaries are a powerful act of self-love and self-care — not something you have to earn. 

She is also the author of a three-books series written for her grandchildren – From Puna with Aloha – available through Kindle Unlimited.

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In this episode, Melinda mentions the “House & Garden” metaphor from Molly’s bootcamp. To get access to this life-changing boundaries blueprint – along with many other practical teachings and community supports – start your 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path.

Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls: follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or leave a review. Remember: Love is the way!

This week, Molly is joined by Samuel Ohana — a social worker and compassionate human who embodies love.

Together, they explore what it means to love people in a world where people also hurt people… and how we can hold a “both/and”: naming harmful behavior clearly while still recognizing the untouched humanity underneath.

Today’s Guest: Samuel Ohana is a social worker in nonprofit work with a deep love for people, families, and community well-being.

Sam’s work is rooted in compassion, systems thinking, and the belief that secure, loving connection is something we can practice — personally and collectively.

If overgiving, people-pleasing, or guilt around boundaries has been holding you back, Molly’s Boundaries Breakthrough mini course is currently free.

Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review.

This week, Molly shares a special episode recorded from Maui just after the fourth and final live retreat of 2025 — with the retreat magic still swirling in her.

Molly takes you behind the scenes to the intuitive calling that led her to begin offering live retreats in the first place and offers a glimpse into what becomes possible when compassionate people gather in real time and space to do high-level somatic healing work.

She describes her very first retreat in Alaska with a notebook full of carefully planned teachings — and then (in a moment of deep intuition) she threw the whole plan away to allow something more powerful to take shape.

This episode is a love letter to beautiful transformation that can happen in spaces of live community healing — and a glimpse into what’s coming next, including Molly’s upcoming book tour and a call for musicians that align with the Compassionate Revolution.

Key Highlights:

Musicians: If you feel aligned with the heart-led purpose of the Compassionate Revolution and want to join an experiment weaving music into somatic healing work (including recordings and live gatherings), reach out to Molly and her team at support(at)boundaried(dot)com.

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For retreat updates, book tour news, and Boundaries resources for compassionate people, visit Molly at: www.boundaried.com.

Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path.

Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

Molly sits down with Christi Byerly, MCC, founder and CEO of Awaken Coach Institute, to explore how religious trauma, fear-based theology, and high-control faith systems shape a child’s identity, sense of worth, and ability to trust. Christi shares her personal story of growing up in a strict fundamentalist Christian environment where obedience, hierarchy, and punishment were normalized – and how that upbringing led to depression, anxiety, and lifelong confusion about goodness, desire, and love.

Molly and Christi discuss:

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Today’s Guest:

Christi is the CEO and founder of Awaken Coach Institute, an ICF-accredited coach training school that is, at its heart, a school of love. Awaken Coach Institute trains coaches, healers, helpers, and compassionate humans to listen deeply, grow spiritually, and awaken to their own inner wisdom. Christi has helped shape the journeys of hundreds of coaches and clients. Explore free classes, group programs, Q&A calls, book updates, and Christi's upcoming 2026 Spain retreat at: https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/.

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For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at: www.boundaried.com.

Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path.

Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

This week, Molly is joined by Brenda Knight, award-winning publisher, author, intuition-led trailblazer, and founder of Books That Save Lives (a mission-driven publishing house devoted to changing minds, healing hearts, and creating a more compassionate world).

Molly and Brenda discuss:

Today’s Guest:

Brenda Knight began her career at HarperCollins, working with luminaries Paolo Coelho, Marianne Williamson, Mark Nepo, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Knight was awarded IndieFab’s Publisher of the Year in 2015. Knight is the author of Random Acts of Kindness, The Grateful Table, and Women of the Beat Generation, which won an American Book Award. Knight is Publisher at Books That Save Lives. She also teachers at the San Francisco Writers Conference, Writing for Change and serves as President of the Women’s National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Follow her on Instagram @LowerHaightbk and @BooksThatSaveLives.

BTSL includes an invitation to the Heart Wisdom panels in their newsletter. If you’d like to join, sign up at: https://www.booksthatsavelives.net/contact-us/.

An extra thanks to Duncan MacLeod, the business side of BTSL! He oversees operations, finance, and fulfillment. He’s also an author, and cares deeply about the BTSL mission. He is the author of Money Magic: Easy and Surprising Ways to Not Be Broke. 

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Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at: www.boundaried.com.

Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path.

Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

This week, Molly sits down with poet, minister, and Abstract Voices founder Taikeya J to explore how poetry – and the stillness beneath it – can reconnect compassionate people to their truth, emotions, and deepest dreams.

Taikeya shares how poetry became her sanctuary, how a high school poem about slavery was deemed “too strong” to publish, and how anger, healing, ancestry, and creativity can intertwine in the work of reclaiming one’s voice.

What if the doorway back to your voice wasn’t through force… but through tenderness, creativity, and quiet?

Together, Molly and Taikeya explore:

Today’s Guest:

Taikeya J is a poetic voice, non-profit leader, change-maker, family historian, minister and faith-rooted creative whose work bridges art, identity, and spiritual healing. She inspires audiences to rediscover wholeness, purpose, and divine rhythm. Taikeya holds a Bachelor of Arts in Hospitality Management and a master’s degree in ministry. She also founded Abstract Voices, a creative movement originally launched as a student poetry organization; it evolved into a dynamic community that bridges artistry, healing, and empowerment through written and spoken expression: https://abstractvoices.com/.

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Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at: www.boundaried.com.

This week, Molly is joined by Dr. Melanie Griffiths – an academic, lecturer, and migration scholar whose work reveals what most of us never learned: how borders function, why human movement is not something new, and what’s really shaping the stories we’re told about “the other.”

Together, Molly and Melanie pull back from the news cycle and ask some big, tender questions: What is migration, really? Who taught us to fear it? And what happens when compassionate people start questioning the stories we’ve inherited about borders, race, and scarcity?

Exploring the myths, fears, and power structures that create division, this chat offers clarity and hope.

(And, as mentioned in the show, to step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly, visit www.boundaried.com/path.)

Molly and Melanie explore:

Today’s Guest:

Dr. Melanie Griffiths is an associate professor in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has been researching migration systems since 2007 and specializes in immigration politics and enforcement. She has written on the asylum system, irregular migration, immigration detention, deportation and other topics. Learn more at: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/griffiths-melanie.

Book Suggestions: 

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Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at www.boundaried.com.