In this episode of the Wild Enthusiasm for Living Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Amatma Simmons for a rich, expansive conversation about hormones, leadership, intuition, and what it really means to live in alignment with your body. Dr. Amatma is a naturopathic endocrinologist, author, and podcaster whose work emerged from decades of supporting women through fertility challenges and burnout. What she discovered along the way became the foundation of what she now calls hormonal leadership, a way of understanding energy, productivity, and creativity through the natural rhythms of the female body rather than forcing ourselves into systems that were never designed for us.

Together, we explore how women operate on cyclical rhythms rather than a 24-hour clock, and how honoring those cycles can restore energy, reignite passion, and transform the way we lead, create, and make decisions. Dr. Amatma breaks down the hormonal cycle through the lens of seasons, from the intuitive quiet of winter to the outward, magnetic energy of summer, and explains how each phase offers specific gifts when we allow ourselves to work with them instead of against them. We talk about intuition, manifestation, leadership, burnout, and the powerful difference between doing and creating, especially when we reconnect with the heart and womb as centers of wisdom and creation.

This conversation is both practical and deeply soulful, blending science, lived experience, and a touch of the mystical. If you’ve ever felt exhausted by trying to keep up, disconnected from your body, or curious about how to lead and live in a way that feels more true, this episode offers a powerful reframe. What might become possible if your hormones were no longer the enemy, but one of your greatest allies?

Dr. Aumatma is a double board-certified Naturopathic Endocrinologist who discovered that her greatest breakthrough came not from speaking louder, but from learning to listen deeper. After nearly 20 years in practice, she evolved from a fertility expert to an intuitive leadership guide, teaching high-achievers to trust the wisdom their bodies already hold.

Dr. Aumatma founded the Holistic Fertility Institute, supporting couples to create families through natural approaches, and has trained hundreds of doctors in fertility specialization. She's the best-selling author of "Fertility Secrets: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Baby-Making," host of the award-winning podcast "Egg Meets Sperm," and co-founder of Madre Fertility, the world's first Smart Fertility Analysis app.

In this episode of the Wild Enthusiasm for Living Podcast, I explore how to create the future you actually desire by letting go of past reference points that keep you stuck in anxiety, fear, and familiar patterns. I share how the brain is wired to rely on past experiences for safety, and how that survival mechanism can limit growth, joy, and new possibilities when it goes unexamined.

I walk you through practical, body-based tools to create a sense of safety and calm in your nervous system so you can stop recreating old outcomes and begin having new experiences. We explore anxiety, fear of flying, starting a new job, public speaking, and other situations where past experiences shape expectations. I also explain how the reticular activating system influences what you notice and why your beliefs play a powerful role in what you create.

This episode offers simple yet effective techniques, including visualization, breathwork, and EFT tapping, to help you trust yourself, release outdated programming, and move forward from a place of peace, openness, and possibility. If you’re ready to stop letting the past define your future and start living with more ease, confidence, and enthusiasm, this conversation is for you.

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What if the life that looks wildly successful on the outside is actually the thing keeping you trapped? In this episode of The Wild Enthusiasm for Living Podcast, Dr. Melissa Mahon sits down with business mentor and online course expert Sara Vezensek for a raw, inspiring conversation about redefining success and creating real freedom on your own terms.

Sara shares her remarkable journey from growing up in Slovenia to working with the world’s ultra-wealthy on luxury yachts and private jets. By her early 20s, she was managing multimillion-dollar yachts and living a life that looked glamorous, exclusive, and enviable from the outside. Behind the scenes, however, she was burned out, on call 24/7, and deeply disconnected from herself. What followed was a courageous decision to walk away from a 15-year career and build a business that prioritized time freedom, location freedom, and alignment without sacrificing income.

This episode explores what true freedom actually means, why financial success alone is not enough, and how listening to your body can become the most powerful decision-making tool you have. Sara dives into manifestation, identity shifts, and the importance of allowing yourself to dream beyond what feels logical or “realistic.” She shares how she went from working 18-hour days to creating a business that allows her to work minimal hours while making a significant impact, and why your million-dollar idea is likely already inside you.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in a high-achieving life that no longer feels good, questioned whether there’s more available to you, or wondered how to create a life with more joy, purpose, and freedom, this episode will expand what you believe is possible and inspire you to take aligned action toward the life you actually want.

In this episode of the Wild Enthusiasm for Living podcast, I explore meditation as a powerful, accessible practice for regulating the nervous system, expanding consciousness, and creating a life with more clarity, ease, and joy. I share how meditation has consistently transformed my mental health, emotional wellbeing, intuition, and connection to spirit, especially during times of stress, anxiety, overwhelm, or major life transitions. Rather than treating meditation as a rigid or intimidating discipline, I invite you into a grounded, compassionate approach that meets you exactly where you are.

I walk you through what meditation truly is, why you don’t need to silence your mind for it to be effective, and how even a few intentional minutes a day can shift your brain waves, lower stress, improve sleep, and increase emotional balance. We explore different forms of meditation, including guided meditation, breath-focused meditation, mindfulness, loving kindness, walking meditation, kundalini practices, and meditating with your higher self or spiritual guidance. I also talk about why meditation supports creativity, intuitive insight, and problem-solving in ways that effort and overthinking never can.

This episode is for anyone who has struggled to stay consistent with meditation, felt like they were “doing it wrong,” or wants practical tools for stress relief, anxiety reduction, spiritual growth, and nervous system healing. I close the episode with a brief loving kindness meditation to help you reconnect with your heart, cultivate compassion, and anchor into a sense of peace and presence. If you’re seeking more calm, clarity, emotional resilience, and a deeper connection to yourself and your inner wisdom, this conversation offers a supportive entry point into a meditation practice that can genuinely change your life.

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In this episode of Wild Enthusiasm for Living, I sit down with spiritual hypnotist, psychic medium, and founder of Sensorium Hypnosis, Amy Marohn, for a deeply meaningful conversation about spiritual hypnosis, intuition, soul purpose, and transformational healing. Amy shares how her work goes beyond traditional hypnotherapy by helping people access their higher mind, resolve subconscious patterns, and reconnect with their most authentic, soul-led selves.

Amy also opens up about her near-death experience and long journey through chronic illness, and how that profound turning point awakened her intuitive abilities and led her toward mediumship, metaphysical healing, and spiritual coaching. Together, we explore how spiritual hypnosis and intuitive guidance can support healing, executive performance, career transitions, and moments when life feels uncertain or out of alignment. We talk about learning to regulate the nervous system, release self-limiting beliefs, and move through challenges with greater calm, confidence, and clarity.

We also dive into Amy’s new book, Whispers Beyond the Veil: Channeled Teachings Inspired by the Spirit World, a spiritually guided and reflective work designed to help people reconnect with their inner wisdom, clarify core values, and align both personal and professional paths with their soul’s purpose. This conversation is for anyone feeling called to deeper spiritual growth, intuitive development, healing, or a more intentional way of living.

If you’re curious about near-death experiences, spiritual awakening, intuitive healing, hypnosis for transformation, or how to live with more presence, purpose, and wild enthusiasm for living, this episode offers insight, reflection, and inspiration.

More about Amy: A few brief highlights about my life and what led me to hypnosis. Over a decade ago, I became very sick from a mysterious condition of unknown origin. It took 5 years to get a diagnosis and by this point I had missed the optimal window of time whereby mainstream interventions could have contained or even completely reversed my illness. Fast forward to a near death experience (NDE) that inspired me to live more intentionally while simultaneously opening my spiritual pathways to higher frequency realms. The concept of hypnosis came through me rather than from me and with every passing season since the opening of my practice, enhanced energies and techniques continue to reveal themselves. I experienced the efficacy of these interventions firsthand, as I used them to restore my body to a state of physical quietude which in turn set my soul on fire to help others heal from within. A 25-year history in the field of rehabilitation has served as the perfect foundation and training ground for discovering my true calling which is far more intuitive and mystically driven. I help lightworker entrepreneurs and business leaders release unproductive patterns and recalibrate to the frequency of the authentic self. It is a privilege and honor to be a part of my clients’ healing journey through intensive one-to-one sessions, small group workshops for advanced study and ongoing coaching.

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As we wrap up the year, I’m inviting you to slow down, get present, and intentionally close out the year before rushing into the next one. In this final episode of the year, I share end-of-year journal prompts and energetic tools to help you review what 2025 brought you, the joys, the challenges, the growth, and the wisdom.

I talk about why gratitude is the foundation for creating more joy, abundance, and ease, and how reflecting on what worked, what didn’t, and what you learned creates space for new possibilities. We explore how to let go of what no longer serves you, whether that’s physical clutter, old emotions, outdated beliefs, draining relationships, or digital noise like social media and emails, so you’re not carrying last year’s energy into the next.

I also guide you through how to consciously call in what you desire for 2026 by focusing on the feelings and energies you want to experience, rather than rigid goals or timelines. This episode dives into surrender, trust, and asking for “this or something better,” allowing the universe to deliver possibilities beyond what you could plan or control. Join me as we close the year with gratitude, release what’s complete, and open ourselves to a new chapter filled with ease, expansion, and a wild enthusiasm for living.

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When you feel a strong reaction to letting something go:

Before goals or plans:

(Use the mantra: “This or something better.”)

Hand on heart:

What if letting go of control is the very thing that allows more ease, joy, and trust to show up in your life? In this episode of the Wild Enthusiasm for Living podcast, I explore the ongoing, very human practice of surrendering control and trusting something greater than what we can see or plan. This conversation was inspired by a recent experience watching my son compete in his first gymnastics meets, and the deep awareness it gave me about how quickly I go into gripping outcomes, projecting fears, and trying to manage results in the name of love, safety, and protection.

I talk about how control often creates anxiety and stress, even when our intentions are good, and how surrender can feel unsafe to the nervous system because it asks us to trust beyond what we can logically predict. I share what shifted for me when I stopped asking for a specific outcome and instead began asking for whatever was for the highest good, and how that simple change created more ease for me and more growth, confidence, and self-awareness for my son.

This episode weaves together themes of manifestation, parenting, leadership, healing, and spiritual trust, and clarifies the difference between surrender and giving up. Surrender is not passivity or doing nothing; it is an active choice to stay present, engaged, and open without gripping so tightly that we block growth, support, and possibility. I also talk about how our so-called failures or disappointments often become the very moments that change the trajectory of our lives in ways we couldn’t have planned.

If you find yourself trying to control outcomes, timelines, or other people in order to feel safe, this episode is an invitation to soften your grip, breathe, and trust that something greater may be unfolding. What would your life be like if you could show up fully, take action, and still allow space for the universe to meet you halfway?

What if the story you’ve been telling yourself isn’t who you are, and never was?

In this episode of Wild Enthusiasm for Living, I sit down with Dr. Rick Diamond for a rich, honest, and deeply moving conversation about story healing, spiritual awakening, and remembering who we are beneath the roles we’ve been assigned. Dr. Rick is a former English professor and minister turned story healer, and his work is rooted in the simple but radical idea that there is nothing wrong with you and that you are already whole.

We talk about how our identities are shaped by family, culture, religion, and early experiences, and how easily we begin to confuse those stories with our true selves. Dr. Rick shares his own winding journey into story healing and how he now works with people to gently question the beliefs that no longer fit, make space for intuition and inner wisdom, and reimagine what’s possible without forcing change.

This conversation explores what happens when we pause long enough to listen... to our bodies, our souls, our curiosity, and even the parts of us that feel lost or abandoned. We talk about play, permission, spiritual guidance in all its forms, and why transformation doesn’t have to be dramatic to be real. Sometimes it begins with a single question: what do I want instead?

Dr. Rick also shares stories from his retreats, his upcoming book, and the powerful way meaning-making happens when we sit with one another’s stories and realize we are not alone. If you’ve ever felt trapped by an old identity, afraid to change, or quietly curious about something more, this episode is an invitation to remember that your story is not fixed, and neither are you.

More About Dr. Rick Diamond:
www.drrickdiamond.com

Dr. Rick Diamond is a Story Healer. He helps people see what patterns and beliefs have led them to their present moment, and he helps them discover the path their deepest self wants to explore.

Rick was an award-winning college English teacher for a decade. He then had a series of spiritual experiences, attended seminary, and worked as a minister, eventually leading an innovative interfaith community in Austin, Texas. Rick has led thousands of classes in seminaries, universities, and churches. He’s created and led scores of retreats and events about open-heartedness, spiritual awakening, emotional intelligence, personal formation, and more. He helps organizations create strategies to realize their goals.

His worldview embraces both Western and Eastern religious traditions, myth and archetypes, and Indigenous and shamanic practices. He participates in therapy, recovery, men’s work, and in energy medicine and breathwork. Rick is the author of two books and hundreds of articles. He created the Story Healing process by bringing together spirituality, myth, art, literary theory, systems analysis, and the joy of awakening.

In this episode of Wild Enthusiasm for Living, I sit down with Christina Roulund, founder of Awaken Magick Within, to explore the deep and often misunderstood experience known as the witch wound. Together, we talk about what it truly means to be willing to be seen and heard, to trust what you know, and to stop hiding the most powerful parts of yourself. Christina shares her journey of spending twenty years suppressing her witchy side and stepping away from her craft, and how in November 2024 she finally reached a breaking point and came out of the broom closet. From that moment, everything shifted. She created Awaken Magick Within and began helping others reclaim their magic and heal their own witch wounds.

Christina brings a grounded and refreshingly real perspective to this conversation. Professionally, she works as a witch wound healer, manifestation coach, certified behavior change specialist, and certified EFT practitioner. But at the heart of it, she’s a normal woman who home schools her son, grew up in Florida, and has always loved everything witchy. Our conversation explores the ancestral, cultural, and personal layers that make so many intuitive and magical people afraid to be visible. We look at the fear of speaking up, the fear of being targeted or misunderstood, and the old survival patterns that still influence how we show up today.

If you’ve ever felt yourself holding back, dimming your gifts, or questioning whether it’s safe to be who you are, this episode offers insight, validation, and a new way of understanding why those patterns exist and how to release them. It’s a reminder that healing the witch wound isn’t about becoming something different. It’s about remembering what you already know and allowing yourself to fully live it.

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YouTube: https://youtube.com/@awakenmagickwithin
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Website: www.AwakenMagickWithin.com

Have you ever wondered why certain patterns keep repeating in your life, no matter how much inner work you’ve done? In this episode of Wild Enthusiasm for Living, I dive into the transformative world of Matrix Reimprinting, a trauma-healing method that has completely shifted my practice, my clients, and my own life. We explore what really happens when a part of you gets frozen in a traumatic moment, and how that “echo” continues influencing your emotions, your body, and even the people and situations you attract.

I share the mind-blowing experience of learning Matrix Reimprinting, how it expands on EFT tapping, and what it’s like to step into the quantum field to meet and heal younger versions of yourself. From surprising memories that surface out of nowhere, to insight from echoes you didn’t know existed, to the powerful belief shifts that follow, this process allows you to gently release the freeze response and rewrite the imprints that have shaped your life.

You’ll discover how Matrix Reimprinting can be used for big-T and little-t trauma, anxiety, relationship patterns, money blocks, dissociation, physical symptoms, and even multidimensional experiences like past-life echoes and future-self guidance.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in old patterns, sensed that talk therapy wasn’t quite reaching the root, or longed for a trauma treatment that actually closes the loop and leaves you feeling whole, this episode opens the door to what’s truly possible. Join me to explore a modality that’s gentle, profound, and energetically aligned, and one that just might change the way you understand healing forever.

If you're interested in a session with Dr. Melissa Mahon, please find more details at: https://www.drmelissamahon.com/matrix-reimprinting