Zen Mama & Everyday Gurus

We're back with another banter episode with Mary Streeter and Michael Thompson!

This conversation starts with a deep discussion on how it feels to navigate perceived roles while also finding our own desires in life. What choice do we have in the way our life unfolds?  

How can we stop compromising our integrity and our truth and CHOOSE to be uncomfortable instead of pleasing others?

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Anna Leavitt is a mother, spiritualist, healer and medical professional originally from Savannah, Georgia and now residing in Northern Vermont. She has worked in the medical field as an ultrasound technologist since 2009 and has offered spiritual intuitive counseling and energy healing since 2017. Through her experiences with spirit from a young age and training at SNU accredited institutions such as Arthur Findlay College and the Journey Within she continues to cultivate her practice for personal healing and transformation. 

For clients, she holds space and compassion for grief, channels messages for healing energetic and emotional blockages and helps strengthen a spiritual connection to the divine bringing clarity to ones purpose and the journey to higher consciousness. Her gratitude and will to serve through spirit guides her purpose to heal the individual as a whole: Mind, Body and Spirit! For more information about her offerings please visit www.annaleavitt.com. 

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Staci Rieder is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health and Wellness Coach through The Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She has been on a life long journey of learning and sharing natural modalities to improve the quality of life and to live from the heart. She is passionate about food, plants, cooking, yoga, meditation, hiking, gardening and her 20 year old daughter who lives in Colorado. 

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Becoming a mother was even more of an impetus for Staci to better care for herself and her daughter with healthy food and herbs, and also when she created her original
“Lovin’ Spoonful” logo. Staci loves to nourish everyone she knows. She came to Atlanta 2 years ago to help care for her healthy mother and her mother’s 11 year old dog, who is like another child to Staci. Staci has also been on an inner journey to listen to her heart, and bring self care, at all costs. She loves watching life thrive in the best conditions possible and also nurturing in challenging situations. Before leaving Colorado, where she lived for 27 years, Staci worked as a Nutritional Consultant at an outpatient alcohol recovery program, where she
exceled by bringing her eclectic skills creatively to each of her clients. She is now back in Atlanta, closer to the ocean, her absolute favorite place. She currently works with clients individually on Zoom and looks forward to being able to teach her experiential herbal and cooking classes and to lead healing heartful self-care retreats. When she is not working, you can find her in the woods gathering wild plants, or in her garden at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve, walking the dog, doing yoga, or, of course, in the kitchen preparing her love-filled, healing food or making herbal medicines and body care products. She Holds a Certificate in Mental Health and Addiction Nutrition through The Academy for Addiction Mental Health Nutrition. She is a Certified Herbalist and Herbal Medicine Maker, a Certified Macrobiotic Counselor and Macrobiotic Chef through the Nova Healing Arts school in Boulder, CO, and a Certified Birth and Post-Partum Doula through CAPPA and Birthing from Within.

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Deborah has lived in Somers, NY since the early 90’s, raising her family there. She is a public school teacher. Yoga and astrology are among her many passions. She earned her 200 YTT at Ohra in 2017 and is a Level 3 graduate of Debra Silverman Astrology. Check out her website at www.inwardjourneyretreats.com.

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Mary discusses her practices of self-care and how to keep our actions intentional.  
"You dont have to light yourself on fire to keep someone else warm".

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This week's episode is with Morgan Streeter!

Morgan discusses her journey traveling the country at a young age and the struggles of maintaining an individual identity as a mother and professional in corporate America. Her transition from a nomadic lifestyle to the world of 9-5 finance is real, raw, and relevant. 

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Tessa Harrington shares her personal journey as a young mother, talks body acceptance and discusses her anxiety both during and after her pregnancy. She is passionate about opening the discussion surrounding the trials and tribulations of motherhood and body image in a world where media seems to make everything appear "perfect". Tessa is here to remind us that it is okay to not be okay.

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Heather Bedell is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in Vermont who primarily works with youth. In this episode, she discusses her journey and how she has used her experiences and education to break barriers and fight systems of oppression. 

“We all experience pain and suffering and deserve to have people in our corner and have equal access to resources for healing” - Heather Bedell

Episode TW: ED (anorexia), sexual assault

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"Everything will work again if you unplug for a little while - including you..."

Happy Holidays! This is the last episode of the year - Mary will be spending the next couple of weeks decompressing, enjoying time with family, and continuing production of the "Driving Change" series.

What have you learned this year?

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Renn Havill (@coachrennhavill) is the graduate assistant volleyball coach at Glenville State College and the editor of the Zen Mama & Everyday Gurus podcast. 

Renn is a Northern Virginia native that transferred to Northern Vermont University - Johnson in 2019 to continue her collegiate volleyball career and complete her bachelors degree. She graduated in December 2020 and jumped into her role as a graduate assistant during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, she discusses the realities of being a young professional in sports administration, how she sets boundaries, and her passion for activism. She believes that it is her purpose to uplift and empower the voices of women and LGBTQ+ individuals through the sports leadership.
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UNTAMING: Stories of young women finding meaning and purpose through intentional living. These women speak openly and honestly about their lived experiences and how that has awakened in them the need to change old ways of  being and living today, now.
 
From motherhood to working in corporate America, from being a women in the male dominated world of athletics to working in mental health and being a voice for change for future generations.

These conversations are with women finding that authentic, untamed truth within and speaking up and out. They want a place at the table of change and they are struggling to find their way just like the rest of us AND they are doing it, despite the fear, uncertainty and shame that is universal us all.

Listen to this series and you will find rawly relatable, heart touching, and frustrating experiences of sexual assault, body dysmorphia,  eating disorders, sexism. You will hear courage and hope and the struggle to understand and redirect.

May this awaken a part of you that may be settling for a life less then what aligns with your truth and what is possible today, in this incredible time of change. Or maybe you can take a deep exhale knowing that there are women out there doing the work this world needs and as an elder you have opened the doorway for that possibility.
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