What does it actually mean to work with the divine feminine as a lived force?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, Emily sits down with Alana Fairchild, spiritual teacher and oracle creator, for a grounded, illuminating conversation about Isis, feminine power, truth, and rebirth.

Together, they explore the divine feminine as a source of creative intelligence, spiritual authority, and radical honesty. Not something symbolic or abstract, but something that requires courage, embodiment, and responsibility. Alana shares how archetypes like Isis and Kuan Yin carry distinct medicines for our time, and why real transformation asks us to love what is being revealed rather than bypass it.

The conversation moves through sacred sexuality, shadow, initiation, and the difference between power that dominates and power that restores. Midway through the episode, Emily and Alana open a shared prayer and oracle transmission, inviting listeners into a direct experience of reflection and remembrance.

This episode offers a deeper understanding of how feminine wisdom works, both personally and collectively, and how to stay rooted in love as truth surfaces.

If you are navigating change, revelation, or a sense that something ancient is returning, this conversation will help you meet it with clarity and steadiness.

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About Alana Fairchild

Alana Fairchild is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, writer, and creator of over 20 oracle decks, including the Isis Oracle, Kuan Yin Oracle, and Sacred Rebels Oracle. Her work bridges mysticism, psychology, and embodied spirituality, offering pathways of healing, empowerment, and remembrance rooted in the divine feminine.

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The themes in this episode: embodiment, devotion, feminine power, and living initiation, are central to Ziva Level 3, an advanced container for integration and embodied leadership that includes initiatory experiences and pilgrimage work in Greece.

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What if your purpose isn’t something you need to find, but something you remember by letting go of who you thought you were supposed to be?

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What if the missing ingredient in healing isn’t effort, insight, or intensity — but safety?

Dr. Dave explains why the body must feel safe before real transformation can occur, how vulnerability is not a weakness but a biological gateway to healing, and why many modern approaches to growth fail because they bypass the nervous system entirely. Together, they explore the science behind touch, oxytocin, the vagus nerve, and the body’s innate pharmacy — and why regulation, not catharsis, is what allows change to last.

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About Dr. Dave Rabin

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What if stepping back wasn’t failure, but strategy?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, I sit down with Neha Ruch, founder of Mother Untitled and author of The Power Pause, for one of the most validating conversations I’ve had about ambition, identity, and motherhood.

Neha names something so many women feel but rarely have language for: the tension between wanting a meaningful career and wanting to be deeply present with our children, without burning ourselves out or betraying ourselves in the process. She reframes the idea of a “career pause” as an empowered, intentional choice, not a step backward, but a recalibration.

We talk about why motherhood has been intellectually and culturally diminished, how internalized capitalism keeps women stuck in guilt loops, and why the most ambitious thing you can sometimes do is choose what matters most right now. This conversation is honest, nuanced, and deeply relieving, especially if you’ve ever felt like you were failing at something when you were actually just listening to your intuition.

If you’ve ever felt pulled between ambition and presence… this episode is for you.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why motherhood has been “dumbed down” culturally

About Neha Ruch

Neha Ruch is the founder of Mother Untitled, a leading platform for ambitious women navigating parenthood, and the author of The Power Pause. Her work is reshaping how society understands stay-at-home motherhood, ambition, and identity. Neha has been featured on Oprah, USA Today, and beyond.

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This episode touches on questions we explore more deeply inside Level 3 — how to redefine success, work with seasons instead of against them, and make choices that actually support the life you’re living now.

Level 3 focuses on the inner practices that help those choices feel steady and sustainable.

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What if healing didn’t have to be solitary?
What if family — messy, imperfect, deeply conditioned family — could actually be part of the medicine?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, I sit down with Lauren Tauss, psychedelic facilitator, teacher, and one of the clearest communicators I know in this space. Lauren has a rare ability to bring humor, rigor, compassion, and responsibility into conversations that are often either sensationalized or sanitized.

We talk about why “life itself is psychedelic,” how healing is inherently relational, and what becomes possible when we stop treating transformation as something that happens in isolation.

Lauren shares her own deeply personal journey — from anorexia and control to surrender, embodiment, and trust — and how psychedelic-assisted therapy helped rewire her relationship with her body, her family, and life itself.

This conversation isn’t about glorifying substances or breaking taboos for shock value. It’s about maturity. Integration. And learning how to say hello to yourself — instead of checking out.

If you’ve ever been curious, cautious, skeptical, or quietly fascinated by psychedelic healing… this episode will meet you with intelligence and heart.

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Where This Work Continues

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About Robert Edward Grant

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For our 100th episode, we’re bringing you a rare and deeply sacred conversation with ceremonialist, teacher, and ritual artist Isis Indriya — recorded live with the participants of our Egypt pilgrimage container. This wasn’t just an interview; it was a transmission. A remembering. A reorientation back to the technologies, rituals, and embodied wisdom that humans have used for millennia to become living temples.

Isis is one of the most devoted students and teachers of Kemet, divination, and ancient ritual arts that I’ve ever known. Her command of lineage — and her humility within it — is breathtaking. In this conversation, she guides us into what it truly means to be in devotion, to walk as a sacred vessel, and to build an inner architecture strong enough to hold the frequencies we’re calling in.

If you feel the pull toward Egypt, toward ancient remembrance, or toward rebuilding your own inner temple… this episode will speak directly to that place inside you.

In this episode, we explore:

· Why devotion is a technology, not a performance

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00:00:00 — Opening the space & inviting Isis to pray us in

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If you’ve ever felt pulled toward a sacred place for reasons you can’t explain, this episode will speak to that knowing.

Emily sits down with her dear friend Kate Northrup to unravel the pilgrimage to Egypt that stretched her open, challenged every layer of her identity, and initiated her into codes she didn’t even know she was asking for. From Isis and Nephthys to masculine healing to full-body activations inside the temples, this is a story about what happens when ancient lands begin working on you.

This isn’t a travel recap. It’s an initiation.

In this episode, we explore:How Isis first came into Emily’s lifeWhy Egypt amplifies everything—pleasure, prayer, and clarityThe role Nephthys plays in creation and the unmanifestThe masculine healing that prepared Emily for this journeyWhat unfolded inside the Hathor templeWhy certain codes can only be received through lived experienceHow sacred sites reshape your understanding of purpose

Key Moments:[00:01] Egypt’s intensity & the first moments of arrival[02:10] Why Emily felt called to Isis—and to this pilgrimage[05:11] Meeting Nephthys, goddess of the void[09:20] The ceremony that shifted Emily’s entire understanding of creation[14:30] Masculine healing and lineage patterns[18:05] The Hathor temple activation[20:40] The “bananas” moment inside the temples[27:45] How Egypt revealed the next chapter of Emily’s work

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This conversation with Matías de Stefano opened our entire pilgrimage container, recorded live with a “studio” audience of the souls who would soon travel with us to Egypt. Before we set foot on the land, Matías offered a transmission on what pilgrimage really is: a remembering of the future we are collectively walking toward.

Matías is a “rememberer,” someone who recalls the structure of the universe and the evolution of consciousness across epochs, not as history, but as a map of where humanity is going next. In this session, he explains how Earth’s 26,000-year cycle shapes our awakening, how the temples were built to hold future timelines, and how our bodies act as tuning forks for the planet’s next evolution.

Here’s why this matters… this episode articulates what so many people are feeling right now: the acceleration, the intuitive heat, the sense that we’re preparing for something. Matías offers a framework that helps you understand that you’re not remembering the past… you’re remembering the future your soul already chose.

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About Matías de Stefano:

Conscious educator, gridworker, and rememberer

✨ LIVE TRANSMISSION: Become the Temple — Dec 10 at 1pm ET

Are you ready to learn how to work with the sacred site energies we discussed in this episode? Before applications open for the Spring 2026 Greece Mastermind + Pilgrimage, Emily is teaching a free live activation called Become the Temple.

She’ll reveal the mission behind the pilgrimage, why these mysteries matter now, and how to get involved if you feel the call.

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We’re continuing the Priestess Pilgrimage re-release series with one of my favorite conversations I’ve ever had — recorded in a tiny pink hotel room in Athens with my best friend, the brilliant and beloved Layla Martin.

In Part 3, we travel through Crete, one of the last known matriarchal societies on Earth. Layla and I explore what happens when feminine spiritual authority isn’t erased but honored — and how cultures change when women and men hold power side-by-side. We dive into the serpent priestesses of ancient Crete, the origins of Kundalini, the hidden role caves played in feminine rites, and what it means to turn up the dial on your own divinity in a grounded, embodied way.

We also share the very human, very messy, hilariously sacred moments inside the cave ceremony — a reminder that sometimes the divine arrives with sweat, fear, laughter, and tourists stumbling through your initiation.

If you’ve ever felt the pull toward ancient feminine wisdom or sensed there’s more to your own divinity than you’ve been taught… this episode is a homecoming.

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