I speak with Shamanic Teacher and Healer Jez Hughes about shamanism, animism and learning from indigenous cultures who are raised in an animist culture - believing in the aliveness and connection between everything. We talk about how the Western world has lost its way, soul sickness and the leadership of the shaman - a role in service to the community, creating healing for people and reciprocity between people and the earth.

About Jez

Jez is the founder of Second Sight. He has studied shamanism intensively for twenty five years with various teachers, from both contemporary shamanism and indigenous elders across the globe.

He has a worked full time as a shamanic healer and teacher for nearly twenty years, treating thousands of people from the U.K and across Europe.

He works closely with the indigenous Wixarika (Huichol) nation of north central Mexico, as a cultural liaison for their work in the U.K. and also through a ten-year commitment to apprentice with the sacred sites and teachers of their land.

He is one of the founding directors of the Maye Takuta Foundation which is dedicated to the support and preservation of indigenous communities worldwide.

His own initiation involved a fifteen-year journey through various mental illnesses, physical convulsions and psychotic breaks before finding a cure in shamanism.

His passion is restoring connections to the ancestral lineages and land that has lost its traditions.

His work has featured all across the national press and on ITV television and BBC radio. He is the author of The Wisdom of Mental Illness- Shamanism, Mental Health & the Renewal of World and The Heart of Life- Shamanic Initiation & Healing in the Modern World.

Find Jez:

https://secondsighthealing.com

I speak with Raffaello Manacorda about leadership, power and looking at life through an archetypal lens. We talk about how the current archetype of the 'strong man' is playing out on the world stage and themes around collective consciousness, integrity and projections of power onto those seemingly 'in charge'.

About Raffaello

Raffaello Manacorda is an international Tantra teacher and practitioner. He has been practicing Tantra for more than 15 years and has undergone intensive training in several styles of Yoga. After completing an MA in Philosophy, Raffaello decided to spend more than twelve years living in alternative communities and experimenting with radically alternative lifestyles.

It was in these wild years that he first encountered Tantra, the "rebel way to Spirit". This encounter developed into a life-long practice, first on a solo journey, then studying Tantra and Yoga in some of the best worldwide schools. Raffaello serves as lead faculty in ISTA, the International School of Temple Arts, and teaches and lectures worldwide. He is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Wisdom Studies with Ubiquity University (California).

Raffaello is the co-creator of the ISTA Practitioner Training (PT), ISTA’s program for coaches and practitioners in the field of conscious sexuality.

Find Raffaello:

https://raffaello.life

https://www.instagram.com/raffaello_manacorda

I speak with Celeste González about living a life of nourishment and depth and being in connection with the beauty that is here every moment if we can remember to savour it. We talk about temple culture, creativity and feeling deeply seated in ourselves. Celeste shares about her work, what it has taken to lead and create the bodies of work in the way that she does and of course, a glorious laugh at the cosmic joke of it all.

About Celeste

Celeste González is a facilitator, mentor, community leader and artist. Her life spirals around a deep curiosity of the human experience and an ancient thirst for depth. She opens spaces for humans to find their unique relationship with divinity, beauty, sensuality, freedom and more than anything, gnosis. She is a rebel devotee, a storyteller with no degree and deeply passionate about inspiring others to live their most sovereign, expressed selves. Celeste is currently a nomadic hermit supporting different projects in New Zealand, Egypt and Europe.

Find Celeste:

www.devoteeoftheheart.com

www.instagram.com/devoteeoftheheart

I speak with Sigourney Belle about Wild Business, pregnancy, motherhood and creating from the feminine current of aliveness. We cover business development and creation as an initiatory rite, including the emergence of books and bodies of work from the deep wells of personal crisis, chaos and transformational change. We also talk about motherhood as a rite of passage, including the beauty and challenge of different stages of pregnancy and motherhood and how being a soulful leader weaves with the journey of bringing a soul into the world.

About Sigourney

Sigourney Belle Weldon is the Founder of SOMAMYSTICA®️, a revolutionary process of getting to the root cause of any condition, that applies to a whole human approach to healing that integrates the body, mind, and spirit. In this work, she forges the bridge between Human Psychology and Mysticism.

Over 10,000 practitioners all over the world have been served through her programs and courses and taught how to address the individual, collective, and cosmic (astrological) contributors to wellness.

Sigourney is the acclaimed author of the bestselling book Wild Business, a guide on integrating an intuitively led business model through awakening and activating the feminine principle.

In her upcoming book, THE MOTHERCULTURE REVOLUTION: Sacred Activism through the journey of Motherhood, she writes about how mothers hold the evolutionary potential of our collective as the vessels and givers of life.

Her vision is to usher in a new paradigm of healing, spirituality, and business, one where everything is integrated at all levels, and a new state of being, where we learn to embrace the light and shadow, becomes the norm.

Find Sigourney online:

https://www.sigourneybelle.com

I speak with Matthew Liam Gardner about what we can learn from ancestral stories, indigenous wisdom and listening to the myths of the past. Matthew calls for a type of leadership that is rooted in a shared ability to listen to one another and love this human family. Matthew is embarking on 'Raising Albion', a 3 month pilgrimage across the length of Britain. Through this walk he is massaging the spine of the land and asking big questions about what's in store for our collective awakening.

About Matthew:

Matthew Liam Gardner is the Founder and Lead Teacher of School of Living Myth, a frontier Wisdom School devoted to guiding Emerging Leaders on the mythic path of becoming themselves.

Matthew’s transmissions weave together ancient teachings and emergent wisdom to support the rising leaders of this age to ripen, refine, and fully embody their unique potential.

At the heart of Matthew's message is a call to remember a greater love and to live a deeper story.

Find Matthew online:

The School - schooloflivingmyth.com

Youtube - youtube.com/@MatthewLiamGardner

I speak with Claire Ecclestone about leadership and power as responsibility. Claire shares about her career in Birth Craft and being on bended knee to birth as holy work, supporting others to remember their own power and being humble enough to lead from the dark. We also talk about the extraordinary intelligence and sacredness of the body, working with intuition, navigating social and industrial structures and retaining a wildness of spirit amongst the responsibilities of leadership and family.

You can watch another interview with Olivia and Claire on Intimacy after Birth here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2KE9v8Q5Kw&t=83s

About Claire:

Claire is a Grandmother, homebirth midwife, and lover of wild movement and the Holy dark. Claire has developed Womb Craft (TM) bodywork combining Craniosacral Therapy, Post Birth Scar Remediation and Somatic Sexology. Claire is the founder of Womb Rhythms, an online school offering trainings in traditional art of Birth Craft.

Claire lives in Aotearoa New Zealand and teaches Spinning Babies and Birth Craft workshops internationally.

Claire blows gently on top of the embers in the belly to wake up the fire of remembering this body as Holy intelligence.

Claire’s website: https://www.claireecclestonmidwife.com/about

Online school Womb Rhythms: https://learn.claireecclestonmidwife.com/p/home

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/clairehomebirth/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/claire.eccleston.5

I speak with Luzi Pods about leading from embodied wisdom and being the architect of your own transformation. We cover the beauty and riches that can come from being your own teacher and taking all that you've learnt and letting it inform and feed your own creative artistry. We also talk about the importance of creating community and where the work of conscious sexuality, the Temple Arts and facilitation may be going as people look away from old paradigm leaders for the answers. Noting the importance of those wanting to facilitate and lead, to stay humble to their human fallibility. Luzi also shares about her work to create sacred spaces where people can meet their edges, uncover more aspects of self, experience a dose of magic AND take the lessons home into daily embodied practice so they can show up in the world with their particular gifts.

You can listen to another conversation with Luzi and Olivia on Sexology, Ecology and Transformation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_QGwFOzfZk&t=1902s

About Luzi:

Luzi Pods is a Somatic Sexologist, facilitator and artist. Her life is devoted to exploring the mysteries of matter and reclaiming the body as Home, Lover and Life’s true oracle. Luzi’s work is a fusion of Somatics and the sacred which weaves ritual, sexuality, prayer and art to remind humans of the love they’re made of. She facilitates temples and spaces which dance with the mystical and mundane aspects of erotic aliveness, creative expression and leadership - and inspire humans to embody their true power, magic and purpose. You’ll mostly find her naked in the forest, making love to the trees.

Find Luzi online:

https://www.instagram.com/luzipods/

https://linktr.ee/luzipods

https://luzipods.com/

I speak with Bonny Tydeman about soulful leadership from a Psychosynthesis perspective and finding the gold amongst the beauty and challenge that is inherent to life. We cover the challenges, fears and wounds in life - that feel so personal but are actually so universal - being a sacred doorway to a deeper understanding of self and the expression of soul through creativity and ritual.

About Bonny:

Bonny is a soulful leadership coach, psychospiritual guide and spoken word artist. In her coaching work with individuals and groups, she focuses on the cultivation of authentic expression as a pathway to finding meaning and belonging. Her background in the creative industries - where she was a creative producer, art director and cultural curator - informs her rich and imaginative approach to self-enquiry and initiation. She is passionate about the transformational power of creativity; the synthesis of spiritual exploration with psychological understanding; and the meeting place of personal and social transformation. As a spoken word artist, she explores deep existential terrain with boldness and humour. Her debut spoken word EP, Welcome the Dark will be released in February next year, with the first single No-one Knows dropping next Saturday on Winter Solstice.

Find Bonny online:

https://www.soul-beam.com/

https://www.bonnytydeman.com/