Kook Teflon is a professional medium, seer, witch, high priestess, and spiritual practitioner living and working in New Orleans, who incorporates many forms of artisanal and performance arts into her practices. She is an accomplished musician and maker, and a glorious storyteller. Join us as we discuss her epic timeline as she grew up into this work from childhood. (TW: suicide, suicidal ideation, discussed tastefully) Visit www.kookteflon.com to connect with her, buy her goods, and learn more about her and her work than just one episode can possibly cover. PLEASE NOTE: This was recorded before her books were published, and they are NOW AVAILABLE for purchase!
Markell R. Morris is an international speaker, career counselor and job search coach based in Long Beach, CA. Her mission is to help frustrated career changers get excited about their life and career after loss and personal challenges. She has created career programs and resources that help her clients gain a sense of direction and hope, so they can go after their goals with confidence. Download her free ebook, Create a Career You Love, for career advice to discover your meaningful career path, and visit her website at www.futures-in-motion.com/about
Jack Darling is an award winning writer, storyteller, actor and magician-- "an all around rascal and romantic." Jack is featured on the podcast "Strangers" in a two part series called "Jack Be Nimble" and is a five time "Best of Fest" Frontera Fest Winner. Jack won magician of the year in 2017 with the duo Turning Tricks with The Darlings and is currently finishing up a novel about "Hale" loosely based on Jack's childhood. You can find Jack at: Jack Darling Magic's website instagram
Chioma Fanawopo is a Diversity and Inclusion specialist with 20 years’ experience in education, private, public and not-for-profit sectors and as a trustee and school governor. Having a knack for creating safe spaces for leadership as well as the talented people that support them, she facilitates and leads difficult conversations that act as a catalyst for change to transform behavior and get results. Chioma specializes in delivering training on all aspects of diversity, inclusion, belonging and equity. She is passionate about neurodiversity, intersectionality, menopause and gender gias as a facilitator, speaker, and teen/parent coach, and is a sincere woman of faith. Chioma and her work can be found on: Instagram Twitter ...and please check out and join her "Parenting Power" FB group she mentions on the episode, here.
Heidi Carter is a Money Mindset Coach & Guide who helps women create a spiritual relationship with money. She has developed a special process that helps them think of money as a best friend, which allows them to receive more money with ease. Abstract painting and art journaling are special tools Heidi uses to keep her clients’ minds open to possibility, while also strengthening their ability to take risks confidently. Heidi is a University of Texas graduate and trained as a life coach at the Coaches Training Institute. She has been featured in Austin Woman magazine, Best Friends Finance Podcast, Red Shoe Realty Podcast, Sacred Remembering Podcast, Impact to Income Podcast & the Creatrix 5 Day Virtual Retreat for Conscious Business Owners. In her free time, Heidi loves spending time being an artist and her work has been featured both internationally and locally. Find Heidi and her work at heidicartercoaching.com
Rokea Jones holds to the belief that when you take care of the most vulnerable, you elevate the care available to us all. Her work spans over 15 years of experience as a birth worker, educator and community advocate. Rokea holds a Masters degree in Public Administration, which sparked her interest and current work as a researcher. During the course of her career, her work has spanned from birth, early learning and home visiting services to food access, climate justice, housing, and violence prevention all the while working with youth and families. Rokea is a Full Circle Doula, Certified lactation educator and peer counselor as well as an Infant Mental Health specialist (IMH-E®). Join us as we discuss all of this, along with the purpose of PURPOSE and the merits of global travel. Rokea and her brilliant works can be found at: Tubman Center for Health and Freedom Puget Sound Business Journal's "40 Under 40" Instagram LinkedIn ROKEAJONES.com
Amy Torok is co-creator of the Missing Witches project. Together we discuss the importance of learning about the lost histories of our spiritual legacy, as well as looking back at our earliest versions of ourselves-- the ways we would play as children and ways we expressed ourselves as adolescents-- to find purpose and inspiration to be who we are and become the elders of tomorrow. She and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches podcast and zine and are the co-authors of New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment. (September 2023), and Missing Witches: Reclaiming True Histories of Feminist Magic (March 2021). BUST magazine wrote “Dickens and Torok teach us what it means to create art, engage in activism, and exist at the intersection of witchcraft and feminism.” Find their books, podcast, zine and coven at MissingWitches.com
Asal Shokati served a variety of roles in the arenas of finance, lending, and business consulting and have worked with hundreds of small businesses and startups as well as educational facilities. Over time, the stress of her career and the autoimmune condition she struggles to manage forced her to reevaluate her relationship with her body, which led her to not only the amazing creative healing power of Ayurveda, but also led her back to her roots and back into union with her body and her self. Asal loves to paint, cycle, walk in nature and play the mystical Persian instrument of Setar and sometimes dance. A native of Tehran in Iran, Asal has lived in Texas for over 20 years and practices as an Ayurvedic practitioner and a certified yoga teacher with additional training from Restorative Yoga. Asal Shokati can be found at: AsalShokati.com @AsalShokati on YouTube @mysticallly.asal on Instagram
Andrea Gomez is a witch & creatrix, and her medicine comes from the intersection between self-discovery, creation & magic. She creates art to touch people’s hearts, experiences of transformation, spaces of liberation, and tools of self-honor. Through her one-on-one mentoring and group containers, she takes you on a journey to explore your inner landscape, recognize what makes you unique, honor your gifts, release your conditioning and find the courage to fully express the beauty of your soul. Find her medicine over at: https://www.nourishingwitch.com/ Get her free offering: “Embrace your Creative Magic” Listen to her podcast The Mess & The Magic Find Andrea on IG @nourishingwitch
Three very exciting bits of news to share with all of you: 1. We have a new website! www.creativityisspirituality.com 2. I am releasing my first book available on that new website: THE DEVOTION JOURNAL WORKBOOK: a 28 day writing journey through the process of self-love, starting from scratch with daily journaling prompts 3. Actually I am releasing TWO books, both available on that new website: MAKE THE DREAM WORK 3-MONTH FILL-IN-THE-BLANK DREAM JOURNAL: a quick and easy method to record all that your subconscious is eager to communicate with you every morning when you wake up. 🥳 You can celebrate by buying as many copies of the books as you can, ok? 🎉 Poke around the website and see what you think. Now... LET'S CELEBRATE!!! Go buy some books! 📚📖
Anyone on TikTok & Instagram knows Maria Bowler as one of the brightest stars out there telling us the truth about our creative minds and how vital our personal creativity is to our lives in a world where we are pressured to merely produce and consume. On this episode, we have the unique honor to dive into Maria's own personal bio to hear about her own journey through her upbringing and coming-of-age as an academic, and through her intriguing story of inner resistance as she endeavored to freely converse about what was emerging from her heart within the spiritual spaces she inhabited. Maria Bowler is a creative coach who describes herself as "a marriage counselor for you and your highest creativity," combining neurobiology, positive psychology, philosophy, craft theory, and contemplative practice. She is a proud Canadian who is a certified Life Coach, Enneagram Applications Professional, and Spiritual Director who sews her own clothes and holds an MFA from Yale and is an MFA candidate at University of Minnesota. You can find her at mariabowler.com or @mariaevbowler.
Reverend April Kling Meyer now returns from her hiatus to finish seminary and get ordained with a very special guest, Maria Bowler, Creative Coach of TikTok/Instagram fame for her words of truth around the deep personal nature of the creative process.
Andrew Harvey is Founder & Director of the Institute for Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability.Andrew Andrew was born in south India, where he lived until he was nine years old. He left India to attend private school in England and entered Oxford University. Harvey had become disillusioned with life at Oxford and returned to his native India, where a series of mystical experiences initiated his spiritual journey. Over the next thirty years he plunged into different mystical traditions to learn their secrets and practices.He has since lived in London, Paris, New York, and San Francisco, and has continued to study (and teach the wisdom of) a variety of religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. He has written and edited over 30 books.(Bio excerpts taken from his website, https://www.andrewharvey.net/meet-andrew)
Alexander Meyer is the Junior National Team Head Coach of Archery Ireland as well as a User Experience Designer. These two expertises may not seem like they have a great deal of overlap, but Alex has found many commonalities between the two in his simultaneous career in both fields. Originally from New York City, the son of a painter and an interior designer who raised him to be artistically inclined, Alex has lived most of his life in Austin, Texas, having recently moved to Ireland in summer of 2019 to coach archery for the national Olympic-level team. Making it to become one of the 10 highest qualified Olympic-style archers in the world hasn't happened without tremendous and seemingly insurmountable setbacks, the greatest of which being the relationship he has had to forge with his own body, transforming that relationship from one that is adversarial to one that is collaborative only through open communication to and from the physical body, which for Alex has served as a portal to his own understanding of his spiritual nature. Here's the TEDx talk referenced in the episode with Tim Harford. Alexander can be found at: alexmeyer.design instagram.com/archeralexmeyer
Jude-Martin is a people and organisational development professional with 15+ years’ specialism in Leadership, Culture Change, and Personal Development. He has worked with public, private & not-for-profit organisations in education, insurance, transport, healthcare, professional services, and consulting sectors in the UK and Australia. His mission is to use social media to bring mindfulness practices to as many as possible, particularly those in the workplace, so they can be at their best and move with confidence by applying simple mindfulness practices, including learning to harness the power of silence. Connect with Jude-Martin here: Website: www.jude-martin.com Email: info@jude-martin.com Instagram: @judemartinetuka Twitter: Jude_MEtuka Visit https://jude-martin.groovepages.com/corporatemeditation for more info on how to book Jude-Martin for yourself or your organization. Look out for: Jude’s new online Masterclass – Total Self Transformation, currently in production and scheduled for release December 2021.
James Prescott has hosted the Poema Podcast since 2015, where he curates conversations with international authors, speakers and advocates on topics of spirituality, faith, mental health, grief and identity. He’s contributed to Huffington Post, Thrive Global and many other publications. You can find James online at jamesprescott.co.uk and follow him on Twitter & Instagram at @JamesPrescott7.
Cassandra Lawrence works engaging faith communities to address anti-Muslim discrimination. She is a trained mediator, dialogue facilitator, and interfaith and racial justice community organizer. She also teaches negotiation and conflict transformation primarily to faith communities. She has a BA in Religious Studies from the University of British Columbia and a master’s degree in comparative ethnic conflict from Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 2021 she completed a master of divinity at Wesley Theological Seminary with honors, specializing in Public Theology, and received the Excellence in Public Theology Award. She can be found on Twitter at @casslawrence.
Sophie Strand is a poet, historical-fiction writer, and essayist based in the Hudson Valley with a focus on the intersection of spirituality and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming from Sacred Planet Books (Inner Traditions). She has three chapbooks: Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press) and Those Other Flowers to Come (Dancing Girl Press) and The Approach (The Swan) Her writing has been published by The Dark Mountain Project, www.poetry.org, Unearthed, Braided Way Magazine, Creatrix Magazine, and Your Impossible Voice. And you can continue to follow her work and poetry on Facebook or Instagram: @cosmogyny.
Brooke Preston is an Ohio-based comedy writer, satirist, teacher, and storyteller. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Cut, Real Simple, McSweeney’s, Reductress, Men's Health, and other fine outlets and crumpled napkins. She is a co-founder and editor of online satire publication The Belladonna; she and her fellow editors co-wrote New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust and Equal Pay. She has taught for The Second City, Thurber House and more, and was head writer for this year’s Thurber Prize ceremony. Follow her on Twitter at @bigu.
Johanna is the director of Illumina Yoga and is known as a teacher of teachers and an inspiration fairy who mentors countless yoga instructors on their ever expanding journeys. She is a sequencing specialist devoted to the infinite creative and connective stream of each individual’s truth and is the founder of the Full Spectrum Sequencing Approach. Her classes incorporate poetry, moving metaphor and music in a rich orchestral way that guides the student on a soulful, sweaty journey into the heart of what it means to be human. As a spiritual counselor, she is recognized for her ability to see the light, wholeness and infinite potential within everyone she meets. www.Illuminayoga.com Instagram: @johannagbell