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For many women raised within Christianity, Mary Magdalene exists somewhere in the background of the story: present at the tomb, vaguely associated with sexual sin, but rarely treated as a central figure in Jesus’s ministry. Then you encounter a different version of her… and suddenly, pieces of your own spiritual story begin falling into place.

In this episode of Wild & Waking, I’m joined by Magdalene priestess and somatic practitioner Olivia Magdalena for a conversation about the woman hidden in plain sight and the full-body rage, recognition, and remembrance that can come with rediscovering her. Olivia shares how reading Mary Magdalene Revealed altered the course of her life and helped her understand something she had felt, but could not yet name.

At the heart of our conversation is a tension many women carry: the institution no longer feels true, but our hunger for the divine hasn’t disappeared. We talk about deconstructing patriarchal religion without dismissing every spiritual experience we’ve ever had, finding our way back to the parts of Jesus and ritual that still feel meaningful, and learning to trust ourselves after being taught that spiritual authority belonged to someone else.

This is a conversation about more than recovering Mary Magdalene’s story. It is about recognizing what her erasure reveals about our own, and what becomes possible when women return to their bodies, their inner knowing, and a spirituality that does not require them to disappear.

In this episode, we explore:

• The historical misrepresentation of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute or repentant sinner
• Mary Magdalene’s role as the “apostle to the apostles” and her importance within Jesus’ ministry
• How the Roman Empire, patriarchal power, and the formation of biblical canon shaped institutional Christianity
• The lost Gospel of Mary and its teachings on inner knowing, human divinity, and spiritual authority
• The Madonna-whore binary created through the stories of Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene
• The connections between purity culture, religious trauma, and women’s disconnection from their bodies
• Somatic healing practices for rebuilding intuition and self-trust after religious deconstruction
• How to begin discerning between intuition, anxiety, trauma responses, and inherited conditioning
• Why reclaiming spirituality can bring women closer to the mystic Jesus rather than further away
• The relationship between spirituality, feminism, decolonization, activism, and political power
• Olivia’s Mary Magdalene pilgrimages to Provence and the sacred caves of Southern France
• The role of nature, ritual, and embodied experience in reconnecting with the divine feminine

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I had the easiest, fastest, most magnetic launch of my life, and less than 48 hours later, I was flat on my back with mastitis, unable to lift my head off the pillow. Obviously, I had questions.

In this solo episode of Wild & Waking, I’m taking you inside one of the most bonkers weeks I’ve had in a long time. I decided to relaunch The Coven, abandoned the sales page format that made my insides scream, created the whole thing in a PDF instead, and watched the first group fill almost immediately. Everything felt easy, aligned, and so freaking fun. Then, just as I was ready to ride that momentum into the rest of my work, my body abruptly took me out.

What began with me Googling the spiritual meaning of a clogged milk duct turned into a much bigger conversation about upper limits, physical recalibration, and what can happen when your life begins expanding faster than your body can integrate it. Was this overgiving and burnout, or was I experiencing the physical aftermath of stepping into a much bigger version of my life and work? And what if getting knocked on your ass doesn’t always mean you’re moving in the wrong direction?

This episode is part chaotic voice memo, part business celebration, and part spiritual investigation into the moments when everything is blooming and falling apart at the exact same time. We’re talking about honoring the pause without turning it into a failure story, holding joy and frustration together, and getting curious about whether the disruption in front of you might actually be part of the initiation.

In this episode, I explore:

• What made The Coven launch feel so easy, magnetic, and aligned
• Following your energy instead of forcing a business strategy that creates resistance
• The upper limit problem and why expansion can trigger physical or emotional disruption
• The spiritual meaning of mastitis, clogged ducts, and blocked nurturing energy
• How the body responds during identity evolution and major life transitions
• Spiritual initiation, energetic recalibration, and the “sacred reset”
• Why getting knocked down doesn’t necessarily mean you’re on the wrong path
• Honoring your body’s need for rest without turning the pause into a failure story
• Holding success, joy, illness, frustration, and uncertainty at the same time
• Recognizing the seasons of planting, blooming, expansion, and integration
• Trusting yourself when outside explanations don’t fully resonate
• Getting curious about disruption instead of immediately retreating into old patterns

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In this episode of Wild & Waking, I’m joined by entrepreneur, author, and personal branding expert Colleen Nichols for a candid conversation about mixing business and politics, finding and using your voice online, and why choosing to remain “neutral” is anything but. Colleen has spent years helping entrepreneurs become more human on the internet, but as the political landscape has grown increasingly impossible to ignore, her work has expanded to include what happens when being authentic also means being willing to say what you believe.

We talk about the very real fear that comes with speaking out: losing followers, upsetting customers, disappointing family, being misunderstood, or discovering that people you care about fundamentally disagree with you. Colleen doesn’t pretend those consequences aren’t possible. Instead, we explore what can exist on the other side: deeper trust, stronger alignment, a more connected community, and the relief of no longer performing a watered-down version of yourself to keep everyone comfortable.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why staying neutral in business, politics, and social justice is never truly neutral
• How to speak about politics online without turning your entire platform into a political account
• Finding your voice as an entrepreneur, business owner, leader, and human who cares about the world
• The fear of losing followers, customers, friends, or family when you share your beliefs
• Why values-led marketing can create greater trust, connection, and alignment with your audience
• How changing your mind publicly is a sign of growth—not hypocrisy or failure
• Navigating criticism, online backlash, vulnerability hangovers, and the discomfort of being misunderstood
• Small, practical ways to speak up online, in your business, and during everyday conversations
• Why what you are doing right now reflects what you would have done during other defining moments in history

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We are living through a time of profound unraveling. The pace and weight of what is happening around us can leave our attention scattered, our nervous systems overwhelmed, and our energy stretched across far more places than we ever consciously chose. We want to remain awake to the wounds of the world and contribute to meaningful change, but we cannot continue showing up if we are constantly depleted, dysregulated, and disconnected from ourselves.

In this episode of Wild & Waking, I’m joined by author, activist, spiritual teacher, racial-equity educator, intuitive healer, and clinical social worker Michelle Cassandra Johnson to discuss her newest (and, as she calls it, witchiest) book, You Are Protected: Invoking Spiritual Support to Sustain Your Energy. Michelle shares how spiritual protection can help us draw our energy back, return to our center, and discern what is ours to carry in a moment when everything feels urgent. This is not protection rooted in fear, defensiveness, or disconnection. It is about strengthening our spiritual resources so we can remain openhearted, fully alive, and engaged for the long haul.

Together, we explore ancestral healing and how to call upon healthy, well, and benevolent ancestors, especially when our blood lineages feel complicated or painful. Michelle offers that the more-than-human world as another place to begin, reminding us that the elements, ancient trees, bodies of water, and the earth itself are living ancestors available for relationship and support. We also talk about spiritual hygiene, energetic boundaries, micro-adjustments that interrupt our habitual overgiving, and the deceptively simple question that can return us to our power: What is mine right now, and what is not?

In this episode, we explore:

• Spiritual protection and daily energetic hygiene
• How to recognize energy leaks and prevent burnout
• Creating boundaries while navigating caregiving and unavoidable responsibilities
• Ancestral healing and connecting with benevolent ancestors
• Working with nature and elemental energies as spiritual support
• Staying engaged in activism without becoming depleted or dysregulated
• Discerning “what is mine right now—and what is not”
• Reclaiming witchcraft, magic, ritual, and spellwork as healing practices
• Calling on archetypes, animal allies, deities, herbs, crystals, and other protective resources
• Remaining grounded as you outgrow old identities and encounter other people’s projections
• Protecting your energy so you can remain fully alive and continue showing up for collective change

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Many of us learned that goodness was attached to obedience, obedience to approval, approval to belonging, and belonging to safety. Before long, we became experts at reading the room without ever learning how to read ourselves. Even as grown women, we can find ourselves self-censoring, overexplaining, and organizing our lives around what our parents, friends, communities, or people on the internet might think.

This isn’t a simplified “fuck what they think and do whatever you want” conversation. It is an invitation to notice who is sitting on the imaginary board of directors for your life. Whose approval are you seeking? Whose needs are you prioritizing over your own? And why are you giving your power to people—or systems—that may not even know how to wield their own?

You can remain in relationship, consider other perspectives, and take in all the information in the world without surrendering your authority. The deeper work is learning to filter those voices through your own lived experience and intuitive knowing, so you can build a firmer foundation within yourself, reconnect with what you know, and bring your power and magic home.

In this episode, I explore:

• How purity culture shapes women even outside organized religion
• The connection between obedience, approval, belonging, and emotional safety
• Why women learn to read the room before learning to read themselves
• How fear of judgment leads to self-censorship and overexplaining
• The parents, friends, communities, and systems holding an imaginary vote in our lives
• The difference between considering other perspectives and surrendering your authority
• Questions to help you identify where you are outsourcing your power
• Rebuilding self-trust and reconnecting with your inner knowing

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What if your spiritual practice didn’t require another elaborate ritual, expensive collection of crystals, or unchecked box on your already-overwhelming to-do list? In this episode of Wild & Waking, I’m joined by Molly Donlan—author of Mundane Magic: A Lazy Witch’s Guide to Hacking Your Brain, Building a Daily Practice, and Getting Stuff Done and co-host of the Demystify Magic and Science of Reiki podcasts—to explore how we can weave magic into the ordinary tasks we’re already doing every day.

At the heart of Molly’s work is a beautifully simple idea: your spiritual practice does not need to become one more thing you feel guilty about neglecting. Mundane magic invites us to transform washing dishes, folding laundry, mopping floors, clearing clutter, and tending our homes into accessible rituals for mindfulness, intention, nervous-system regulation, and connection. These practices are designed for real people, real schedules, and even the squiggliest ADHD brain days—when your energy is low, life is chaotic, and the bar needs to be low enough to trip over.

Together, we unpack why discipline and self-criticism rarely create sustainable change, how perfectionism and purity culture can sneak into spiritual spaces, and why making something simpler does not make it less meaningful or magical. This conversation is an invitation to stop performing your spiritual practice, release the pressure to do it all, and begin noticing the sacredness already woven through your everyday life… because when you learn to find a nugget of magic in the mundane, your entire life can become a ritual.

In this episode, we explore:

• How Molly evolved from a skeptic of all things “woo” into a Reiki practitioner, witch, spiritual teacher, and bestselling author
• The science behind Reiki, energy healing, mindfulness, and other magical practices
• Why understanding the nervous system can make spiritual practices feel more accessible and effective
• What “mundane magic” means and how to find magic in everyday life and how to turn washing dishes, folding laundry, cleaning, decluttering, and other household chores into spiritual rituals
• ADHD-friendly spiritual practices designed for low-energy days and “squiggly brains”
• Why discipline, shame, and self-criticism rarely create sustainable habits or meaningful change
• How novelty, intention, and dopamine can make dreaded chores easier and more enjoyable
• The ways perfectionism, capitalism, patriarchy, and purity culture can infiltrate spirituality
• Why your spiritual practice should support your life instead of becoming another place to perform
• Deconstructing cultural beliefs about witchcraft, magic, darkness, and what it means to call yourself a witch and how choosing your own labels can become an act of authenticity, identity reclamation, and personal power
• How retraining your brain to notice moments of magic can change the way you experience your home, relationships, work, and everyday life
• Giving yourself permission to grow publicly without needing to appear fully healed, certain, or “finished”
• How finding supportive spiritual community can become a catalyst for self-discovery and personal growth

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In this solo episode of Wild & Waking, I’m reflecting on what it means to finally arrive in a version of yourself you are no longer afraid to let other people see. After years of deconstructing inherited beliefs, questioning old identities, moving through grief, and learning to sit with both my light and my darkness, I’m entering a season that feels different: rooted, integrated, and ready to hold the fullness of my voice, my power, my magic, and the mission I know I’m here to carry.

After spending a weekend surrounded by women in agriculture, entrepreneurs, former clients, and fellow rural women, I was reminded that there is no single right way to be a farm wife, a mother, a business owner, a leader, or a human being. Radical authenticity asks us to step outside the roles, rules, and expectations we inherited, and to stop allowing the fear of rejection, judgment, or not belonging to keep us from becoming who we truly are.

But choosing yourself never affects only you. One woman’s decision to say yes to an opportunity, follow an unconventional path, start a business, change the way she parents, question an inherited belief, or live more honestly can create a ripple effect through families, friendships, businesses, and entire communities. We may never see where that ripple ends, but our courage to go first becomes a permission slip for someone else to begin.

This episode is an invitation to trust your becoming, let yourself be fully seen, and remember that your radical authenticity carries power far beyond your own life. You are allowed to take everything apart, rebuild it differently, and create a life that feels true to you… even when the path hasn’t been paved and not everyone understands where you’re going.

In this episode, I explore:

• What it means to become fully integrated and allow yourself to be truly seen
• Radical authenticity as a pathway to self-trust, freedom, and personal growth
• Moving beyond the fear of judgment, rejection, and no longer belonging
• Deconstructing inherited beliefs, social conditioning, and limiting expectations
• Why there is no single right way to be a woman, mother, farm wife, entrepreneur, or leader
• Learning to embrace both your light and your shadow
• The difference between intellectually knowing who you are and being ready to embody it
• Finding the courage to follow an unconventional or unpaved path
• How saying yes to yourself gives other women permission to do the same
• The ripple effect our choices create within families, friendships, businesses, and rural communities
• Why living authentically can become an act of leadership and generational change
• Trusting your identity evolution—even when other people don’t understand it
• Creating a life rooted in your truth rather than society’s rules

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In this episode of Wild & Waking, I’m joined by New York Times bestselling author and historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez to discuss her new book, Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made. Kristin reveals how the seemingly harmless products, stories, aesthetics, and slogans consumed by generations of women carried deeply embedded ideas about femininity, domesticity, capitalism, race, religion, and political power—and how white Christian women were not merely shaped by this culture, but helped create and sustain it.

Together, we trace the surprising connections between positive thinking, prosperity theology, multilevel marketing companies, Christian consumer culture, and the expectation that a “good” woman should remain beautiful, grateful, submissive, and endlessly optimistic. We explore how these systems offered women belonging, identity, influence, and community while also making that belonging conditional—and why doubt, anger, grief, questions, and conversations about systemic injustice were so often dismissed as personal failures or dangerous negativity.

Kristin’s work invites us to see more clearly what shaped us, reckon honestly with what we helped create, and begin asking: Is this who we want to be… and what do we want to build instead?

In this episode, we explore:

• How white Christian women shaped American religion, culture, consumerism, and politics
• The hidden history behind the “Live Laugh Love” version of white Christian femininity
• How New Thought, positive thinking, evangelical Christianity, and prosperity theology became intertwined
• The “good Christian woman” ideal of beauty, submission, domesticity, gratitude, and self-sacrifice
• Why MLM culture became especially influential among white Christian women seeking income, identity, purpose, and community
• How belonging within evangelical communities can feel deeply loving while remaining conditional upon loyalty and conformity
• The difference between the realities of rural life and the performative tradwife aesthetic sold online
• How nostalgia for an imagined, morally pure past can fuel authoritarianism and Christian nationalism
• The symbolic role of white womanhood within patriarchal visions of the Christian family and Christian America
• How the gospel of positivity discourages conversations about systemic racism, structural inequality, and racial justice
• Why religious deconstruction often involves grief, isolation, identity loss, and the rebuilding of an entire worldview
• How women can reckon with their complicity in harmful systems without losing compassion for themselves or others

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There comes a point in a woman’s becoming when the identities that once helped her survive begin to limit how fully she can live. Being the good girl, the responsible one, the peacekeeper, or the high achiever may have earned you safety, belonging, and approval, but eventually, those same identities can become the ceilings of your expansion. You may have built a beautiful life filled with people and work you genuinely love, yet still feel an inexplicable ache beneath it all: a restlessness, a tightness, a sense that the woman you have been can no longer carry you where you are going.

In this solo episode of Wild & Waking, I’m exploring the descent that begins when good-girl conditioning and lifelong performance stop working. Drawing from my own experience with postpartum depression, identity loss, religious and political deconstruction, spiritual awakening, and the long process of becoming someone new, I share why personal growth rarely feels like the shiny, upward evolution we’ve been promised. Sometimes becoming yourself feels more like dying. It asks you to grieve old identities, walk through uncertainty, meet the parts of yourself you were taught to fear, and remain in the darkness long enough for something more honest to emerge.

We’ve been conditioned to treat difficult seasons as problems to solve quickly, but not every season is meant to be rushed, optimized, or transformed into an inspiring lesson. Sometimes the darkness is the initiation. It strips away the need to be good, palatable, productive, and universally understood, revealing the self-trust and sovereign power that performance could never give you. This episode is for the woman standing between who she was trained to be and who she knows she is becoming; the woman learning that she is not falling apart, but being initiated into a deeper, freer, more fully embodied version of herself.

In this episode, I explore:

• How good-girl conditioning teaches women to seek safety, belonging, and approval through performance
• Why the identities that helped you survive can eventually become the ceilings of your personal growth and expansion
• The hidden ache of outgrowing a beautiful life that still looks good from the outside
• Why becoming your authentic self can feel like falling apart, losing yourself, or experiencing an identity death
• The descent between good-girl performance and feminine sovereignty
• My experience with postpartum depression, identity loss, grief, and emerging from a prolonged season of darkness
• How religious deconstruction, political awakening, and spiritual evolution can unravel the person you were taught to be
• Why healing and personal transformation are not always linear, positive, or meant to be rushed
• The difference between self-improvement rooted in performance and growth rooted in freedom, self-trust, and authenticity
• How difficult seasons can become initiations into deeper self-awareness, embodied power, and sovereign leadership
• Releasing the need to be palatable, universally understood, or responsible for everyone else’s experience of you
• Learning to trust the messy, uncertain space between who you were and who you are becoming
• Why meeting your darkness, emotional depth, intuition, and power is essential to reclaiming your whole self
• What it means to emerge from the unraveling as a freer, more sovereign, fully initiated woman

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In this episode of Wild & Waking, I’m joined by bestselling author and spiritual teacher Tracee Stanley for a conversation about living ritual, presence, purpose, and what it means to recognize the sacredness already woven into our everyday lives. Tracee’s newest book, Living Ritual: Infuse Each Day with Purpose and Spirit, offers an invitation to move beyond the idea that spiritual practice has to be elaborate, time-consuming, or separate from the rest of our lives, and instead discover the small, meaningful ways we can bring intention and devotion into the moments we’re already living.

We talk about ritual as an antidote to so much of what defines modern life: distraction, disconnection, isolation, and the feeling that we’re constantly moving without necessarily knowing what we’re moving toward. Tracee shares how even the smallest rituals can help us slow down enough to notice what is here, reconnect with ourselves, and remember our relationship to something larger than ourselves. This isn’t about adding another practice to the never-ending list of things we “should” be doing, it’s about shifting the way we inhabit the life that is already unfolding around us.

Ultimately, this conversation is an invitation to remember that the Divine isn’t waiting for us somewhere outside of our ordinary lives. It is already here - in our relationships, our homes, our bodies, our connection with nature, and the tiny moments we so easily overlook. You don’t need hours of uninterrupted time or a perfectly curated spiritual practice to live with greater purpose and spirit. Sometimes, you simply need to slow down long enough to notice the sacred that has been dancing alongside you all along.

In this episode, we explore:

• What ritual really means and how it differs from habits, routines, and performative spiritual practices
• How to create simple daily rituals and micro-rituals that bring more meaning, presence, and intention into everyday life
• Creating accessible spiritual practices for householders, mothers, caregivers, and people living full, busy lives
• How ritual can become an antidote to distraction, disconnection, isolation, and lack of purpose
• The relationship between ritual, mindfulness, presence, and nervous system regulation
• How everyday moments can become opportunities to connect with the sacred and the Divine
• The power of nature connection and seasonal living as pathways back to ourselves and our interconnectedness
• Honoring the cycles of birth, death, rebirth, transition, and change rather than resisting the seasons that feel uncomfortable
• How ritual can help us reconnect with purpose, meaning, belonging, and our relationship to something greater than ourselves
• The importance of honoring ourselves in every season of life, rather than waiting until life feels peaceful or perfect to practice presence

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