Connected: A Podcast With Jess

We connected on the road as nomads...and Amanda had a personal dream to be on a podcast.  I looked at her and said, "Well, I can make that happen!".  So we shared a mic on a beautiful goat farm near Long Beach, Washington.  I discovered a nomadic community and a magical human named Amanda.  She shares her story and the future story she's dreaming about.  Self Discovery is what it's all about! Connect with Amanda and her nomadic journey: IG: Follow Amanda & Matt's Journey Email: ambarnz@gmail.com

Living as an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) is changing the game in how we run our businesses and our life.  Meet Bianca Morra, a fellow HSP and photographer.  We discuss this newfound gift about ourselves and why it's the secret sauce to her art and business.  She is giving the world an opportunity to see their souls the way she does. Connect with Bianca: Instagram: @biancaleamorra Bianca's Resources: linktr.ee/Bmorra Books we discussed: The Highly Sensitive Person by Dr. Elaine Aron Our Business/Life Coach: Hayley Carr

Sara Cousineau is connecting women back to their essence...their original blueprint of ecstasy and pleasure.  Her story of corporate burnout and evolving herself into a highly intuitive and self-knowing woman has now led her to a unique space of helping women get out of their heads and back into their bodies. She helps women reclaim their sexuality, sensuality, and pleasure. She is also a Doula guidling women through one of the most powerful journeys of their life.  Sara is helping you find your way back to the entire experience of being a woman. It's a juicy episode! Connect with Sara: Instagram: @skcousineau Activating Ecstasy 8-week program

Dacy Gillespie intuitively guides her clients to discover what they feel best in. She helps them let go of the external messages they’ve been given about what they should wear and get to the heart of what’s making them uncomfortable about their clothes. Through their work building a functional wardrobe, Dacy’s clients make a mindset shift from thinking they need to wear what’s flattering to unapologetically taking up space in the world. After a lifetime of jobs in high-stress careers that didn’t suit her highly-sensitive, introverted personality, Dacy started mindful closet in 2013 in an attempt to create a more emotionally sustainable lifestyle. She has two boys, ages 3 and 7, and a husband she adores who is well aware of her mental load. Connect with Dacy: mindfulcloset.com instagram.com/mindfulcloset

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Meet Jenna Dayle...poet, writer, artist and so much more. Her story challenges me to dive deeper into my understanding of intimacy and what it takes to heal from codependency.   Jenna puts it like this, "Becoming intimate and knowing yourself can help you recenter and reroot to your core & experiences when you are in the thralls of codependency. People have a lot to offer us, even when we think we have more to offer them. Learning to get comfortable giving and receiving intimacy can happen slowly and in tiny ways. You can build a life where you aren't 'needed' but loved." This episode is packed full of wisdom, grounding, and inspiration.  @jennadayle will open your soul to find its voice.  I left this conversation in anticipation for pause and sacred listening. I think you will too. Connect with Jenna Dayle: www.instagram.com/jennadayle www.instagram.com/inthisseason www.jennadayle.com > For Postcard Subscription www.jennadayle.com/insta > for more links and ways to connect

Christina and I had never met nor had we spoken prior to this interview for the Connected Podcast. But she might just be my poster child for what it means to connect our human stories. We aren't so far apart in this world and sharing our stories is both good and spiritual.  Christina shares her story of a journey towards truth and self-connection. These journeys come with intention and with struggle. As she allows me into her story, she unknowingly frees me from one of mine.  You will be inspired to be present, trust yourself and seek new depths of spirituality.  You will also be given permission to heal from old narratives that no longer serve you.  Yes... it's a loaded episode. And don't forget to share this one...trust yourself that the person who comes to mind is the one who needs to hear this story. Remember...our stories matter! Connect with Christina: Instagram @christinacarlsonlifecoach Website www.christinamcarlson.com Witches, Bitches & Queers Podcast

This one is special. Rebecca Lujan-Loveless is a soul I've known for 28-ish years and recently reunited for a beautiful conversation about life. We began as evangelical missionaries and we landed in the freedom of knowing who we are at our deepest core. Rebecca shares a powerful story of her journey in and out of evangelical Christianity. She followed herself, her truth. Choosing to honor her soul this way has led her to living in honest relationship with herself and the world. Love you Becca Lu!

Get Connected with Lena Watt: Hello, my name is Lena Watt of Inner Compass Yoga.  Yoga isn’t something I do, it’s a way of being, not something to try to attain, reach for or seek outside of ourselves. This path begins inwardly with the self. I have been practicing yoga for 22 years now and teaching it for over 9 years. I strongly believe in the teachings and wisdom of yoga and Ayurveda, which have been a large part of my healing journey. On a very simple and basic level, we are nature, we are not separate, we are all interconnected. Through different mindfulness, ayurvedic, and yoga therapy practices and tools, I hope to help empower individuals through self-love and acceptance to connect deeper with their hearts, their intuition, and their own innate wisdom and ability to heal. Instagram: @inner_compass_yoga Website: https://innercompass.yoga/ Facebook: Inner Compass Yoga

Erica Carrico is an Award-Winning Money & Marketing Strategist/Coach (International Coach of the Year 2020) for women who are ready to transform their lives by creating soul-aligned businesses, while lucratively expressing their own soul purpose. Through coaching services and speaking, Erica helps people discover their life purpose, build & uplevel their soulful businesses, ditch their 9-5's, and make fabulous money on their spiritual path so they can finally have the impact they were destined to have, and earn a living doing what they absolutely love... what they were put on earth to do.  Grab her FREE download 7 Steps to Finding Your Purpose. Erica has a BS in Psychology, a Masters in Business Management, and 12+ years in international business leadership experience. She built a multi-six-figure coaching business (with two kids in tow and while healing from kidney cancer) in just over 2 years and is obsessed with helping her clients all around the world transform their lives by creating profitable, soul-aligned businesses, while lucratively expressing their own soul purpose. To follow more of Erica’s work visit her at her WEBSITE HERE. You can also find her hanging out on FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, and LINKED IN.

After you listen to this episode, watch/listen to this song she covered. It was my gift the morning of my first craniotomy.  I listened to it for the first time since my surgery 3 years ago as I prepared this episode for release.  If I could have put it at the end of the podcast, I would have. It moved me to tears to hear and see her at a time that was so pivotal in her freedom. And how full circle it feels to listen now after her recent near-death experience...I dare you to watch without an experience of your own. Chasing Cars- Snow Patrol Cover by Mikalah Travis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAJBbna1onY GET CONNECTED WITH MIKALAH: Instagram: @mikalah_travis Youtube Channel 1 Youtube Channel 2

About Athena: It’s my mission to empower women to reconnect to their true selves, accept and love themselves as they are, and put themselves first.  I help women going through transitions in their life, gain clarity, courage, & confidence to find themselves again and create space in their lives to do what they love and brings them joy. During my 21-year career at IBM, I found myself balancing family, career, and life.  As we women tend to do, I put everyone else first and ultimately felt like I lost myself. Through my own journey, I came to realize I loved helping and supporting others, and my desire to become a coach was born.  I saw the benefits coaching has brought to my own life and I’m passionate about helping other women who feel disconnected from themselves transform their lives. Connect with Athena: Website: athenapivonka.com (coming live soon) LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/athenapivonka Instagram: @athenapivonka Facebook: athena.pivonka

Catharina Joubert is a South African nomad who thrives on creativity that bursts with soul. She's had to build a life from scratch in several countries, including Japan, France, and England. Previously a foreign language expert, her mission was to help students open doors to new and exciting professional opportunities and improve cross-cultural understanding. As a Teach First ambassador, she taught in the roughest schools in England building an extensive toolkit of how to entertain, engage audiences while teaching invaluable knowledge. Living a dual life as an Arts and Music journalist and travel blogger, she eventually quit teaching to start the podcast and production studio: Creators Abroad. Her purpose? To build bridges between people, professions, cultures, and countries, interviewing creatives about their journeys, the lives they left behind, and the dreams they built and helping small businesses reestablish valuable relationships with their clients through the most intimate connection possible: audio. Connect with Catharina: Website: creatorsabroad.com Instagram: @creator.abroad Facebook: @creatorsabroad Twitter: @creatorsabroad

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Liz Pessaran is a Therapist, Life Coach, and Speaker who helps women around the world let go of what they “should” do and embrace what they feel “connected to”. Ultimately thriving in their purpose. She helps women walk away from their unfilled jobs and lifestyles and step into their dream career cultivating the life they always desired. With over 5 years of counseling experience, Liz utilizes her unique skill set to guide women to tap into their deep soul so they can shatter the box of limited belief and embrace their inner magic.   Liz has a Bachelors in Psychology, Masters in Counseling Psychology, and is trained as a Life Coach with the Beautiful You Life Coaching Academy. You can connect with Liz at her website Lizpessaran.com and Instagram @lizpessaran. \r\nRegister for her upcoming free event with Megs Colleen, RISE WITH PURPOSE, at https://risewithpurposeretreat.lpages.co/april2021/\r\nCheck out her LIFE ON PURPOSE coming June 2021: Lizpessaran.com/life-on-purpose 

Jill is a Missouri native. She moved to the Seattle, WA area at the age of twenty to attend a natural health school and pursue her studies in holistic nutrition. At Bastyr University she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition, simultaneously completing her massage training in downtown Seattle at Brenneke School of Massage. Taking off the next ten years to raise a family, Jill utilized her knowledge in nutrition to provide wholesome meals for her children. She has grown her knowledge in nutrition throughout the years specializing in unique dietary needs. Her life now revolves around healing from chronic Lyme disease that has plagued her for the past five years, but her initial onset was at age sixteen. Struggling to maintain a job outside of the home Jill recently started a blog lymerevival.com to help others struggling with Lyme disease. Here she hopes people will find useful information on Lyme disease, natural treatments for Lyme, holistic nutrition to support specialized dietary needs, as well as community.\r\n\r\nJill\'s Website\r\nJill\'s Blogging Resource

We have chosen to leave politics out of this for the sake of hearing the heart of being a teacher navigating through the rapid changes.  \r\n\r\nI hope that you will feel as I do after this conversation: an immense desire to thank and support our teachers. Their resiliency and hope has been a light to our children. \r\n\r\nPlease share these stories of beautiful women.  Their stories matter and cause us all to rise to even more empowering versions of ourselves.

Dr. Hillary McBride is best known as co-host of the Liturgists podcast and host of the CBC podcast Other People’s Problems. But that work has only been possible with years of clinical practice as a counselor and research as a psychologist, a base of expertise that includes work at the intersection of spirituality and mental health, trauma and trauma therapies, body image, eating disorders, perinatal mental health, and the menopausal transition. Her first book, Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are, was published in 2017; she was the senior editor of a textbook which was released in 2018, Embodiment and Eating disorders: Theory, Research, Prevention, and Treatment, and her next book, The Wisdom of Your Body, will be out in 2021. She has been recognized by the American Psychological Association, and the Canadian Psychological Association for her research addressing our relationships with our bodies across the life span, and her work in feminist psychology. Hillary makes her home in Vancouver, British Columbia.Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We AreMake sure to subscribe to her podcast: Other People's Problems We discuss a talk on Shame from The Liturgists Gathering in Seattle, October 2017. Click here to listen. You can find many healing and informative conversations on embodiment, spiritual trauma and faith throughout the seasons of The Liturgists Podcast. Website: https://hillarylmcbride.com/

Megan Colleen Johnson is a life coach, space holder, speaker, and writer who helps passionate humans as they step into the role of Reclamation Queen of their own life. With a focus on self-trust, wholeness, and sovereign reclamation, Megan coaches humans who are ready to discover their magic, stand in their power, and reclaim their dreams. Megan is a trained life coach with Beautiful You Coaching Academy, holds her degree in graphic design, hosts her podcast titled, “The Reclamation Podcast”, and has over 8 years of creative marketing experience. You can find her online at megscolleen.com or on social media @megscolleen. Megan talked about her upcoming events on the podcast. Here's where you can find out more: Reclaiming You: A 5-month, high-touch coaching program for holy outsiders ready to reclaim their full expression. https://megscolleen.com/reclaiming-you 

Madison Morrigan is a 4x international award-winning life coach, host of Everything Belongs The Podcast, a speaker, and is the creator of Awaken Her Soul, a 14-week mentorship program designed to help women embody their worth, power, and fullness. Centered on self-responsibility and full expression, Madison coaches ambitious and creative women as shed layers of old programming keeping them small and finally come home to their true selves.Madison has her degree in interpersonal communication with an emphasis in psychology from Missouri State University, has a certificate in conflict resolution, meditation, and legal mediation, and is proudly Certified BYCA Coach. Connect with Madison Morrigan: Website: madisonmorrigan.com Awaken Her Soul Wait List: awakenhersoul.com Instagram: @madisonmorrigan Podcast: Everything Belongs