How to be Human

On today's Season Finale of the How to be Human podcast we are interviewing Lara Foster. Hey, that's me! We were lucky enough to have Steve Brophy return to the podcast and become guest host for the day.

Lara Foster is an author, coach and developer. Her debut juvenile fiction novel The Healing Gem of Arcadia released in October 2022! Her curiosity leads the way in life when she writes and creates new projects like this podcast. She is grateful to the experiences and deep connections she has with humans who have helped her to feel and be fully seen and heard.

Lara’s gifts to recognize when she is heard is magnified when she turns that mirror towards others inviting them to fully see and hear themselves. This is where her coaching prevails. This is where her writing takes flight. And these are the types of programs she develops. Deep deep listening, resonance and connection with all of life.

In this episode we discuss:

• The Healing Gem of Arcadia
• The process of writing
• Morning rituals
• Resonance
• How to love yourself, like really
• Holding space
• Getting curious together
• Love and Fun
• How to move through life with grace and ease

And so much more!

Please enjoy the Season Finale of the How to be Human podcast. Thank you to everyone who held space, listened and joined in the fun during the process of creating this together.

Season 2 is TBD.

"If I show up and be the best version of myself, the content I've created actually does all the heavy lifting. I've just gotta help people, guide them to have conversations around what they're learning and how that could be implemented in their lives." -Georgia Ellis

Georgia Ellis is a dear friend and confidant. We met in passing days prior to being immersed into a retreat amongst the Redwoods of California in 2019. Her magnitude shines bright, she is a soul set forth to encourage other souls to shine their brightest, not despite the storms, but amidst the storms.

Georgia's capacity  shines to captivate and motivate humans to bring forth not only their best selves, but to ignite and awaken those parts of ourselves that lay dormant. It is in this capacity that her orchestrating of combining each subjects unique signature sound lays a harmony to bear. Don't blink, or you'll miss it. Step in time with her, and you'll be it.

"Ohana stretches far beyond what we think our normal concepts of family are." -Kelly Potts

Ceylan Kara is a transformation guide offering one on one and group support to those seeking to come into a more intimate relationship with who they are at their core and building a life aligned. 

She is also trained in various modalities including somatic psychotherapy, coaching, sacred sexuality, womb work and soul initiation teachings. Most of all she is a student of the path and loves guiding fellow traveler's with her understanding of the tricky terrain of spiritual and psychological development.

She started her own spiritual and personal development workshops at 17 and has been lucky enough to learn from fellow traveler's all over the world. 

In this episode we discuss:

-Holding non-judgmental space of loving and compassion

-Being a "doctor of the psyche"

-Soul intimacy

-Guiding others to touch the core of their soul

-Recognition of other humans at a really deep level

-Integrating the different dimensions that we have access to as humans

-Holding the tension of divine/animal & feminine/masculine energies, etc.

-Learning the art of balancing our different parts

-Understanding that masculine/feminine energies is not defined by gender or bodies

-Jungian theory on inner marriage aka balancing masculine/feminine energies within ourselves

-The commitment through inner marriage to not leave or betray yourself for anyone or anything

-Maturity through self ownership and sovereignty

-Life and Relationships becoming a CELEBRATION!

-Learning through transmission, being in the presence of others who have already received and embodied that knowledge

-Revealing yourself to find "the others"

-Making your wish, desires, longings known externally

-How to integrate the masculine/feminine into your practices

-Down regulating your nervous system

-Allowing our bodies to come into centered and grounded states, "calming ourselves

-And so much more!

#HowToBeHuman #HumansBeingHuman

It would only be fitting that our dear Steve Brophy is officially the 7th episode of the new How to be Human Podcast. And, as I learned last month just weeks before chatting with Steve, we both were born on March 7th as well. Such a treat to celebrate our birthdays in tandem, through the curiosities of Hedge School, blossoming into what you're seeing now.

How do you human? Join us as we take a deep dive with these high-caliber, heart-centered humans in the How to be Human Series hosted by Lara Foster.   

How to be Human with Josie Coleman: Episode 6

Calling all empaths, intuitive's, vibration and energy sensers! Have you awakened your gift of deep and wide sensing? Have you learned how to become empowered through what you notice, sense, see, intuit and feel? 

Tune in as we hear how previous empath in denial Josie Coleman came to light with her own gifts and is utilizing them to serve the world now.     

In this episode we cover:  

-Intuition Ethics 

-"Out of control" healers 

-Spiritual arcs 

-Spiritual beings experiencing a human existence 

-How the "programming" in our minds affects the way we think about things 

-Deconstructing the way we think, to put our attention towards what we really want 

-Reckoning as recognizing 

-How to really listen to another human 

-Pulling energy back and utilizing a Golden Sun 

-Lifelong learning 

-Co-creating with others  

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How do you human? Join us as we take a deep dive with these high-caliber, heart-centered humans in the How to be Human Series hosted by Lara Foster.   

How to be Human with Jaleel Mackey: Episode 5   

Jaleel is co-founder (with Tom Williamson) of Breath Rise + Thrive which started in 2020. 

"The message kind of came to me, I know breathwork, I know meditation, I know what it means to navigate times of uncertainty… I know what it means to try to fix my life, repair the brokenness. And try to come out on the other side with a little bit more clarity and purpose and a sense of who I am. And so I said, you know what, I'm best suited in the streets, in the trenches. So I quit my job at Google, started BRT, to teach people breathwork, meditation and other types of peak performance tools for them to navigate times of uncertainty. Which it felt like the world really needed at that time." -Jaleel Mackey   

In this episode we cover:   

-Setting intentional time to be emotional  

-How to put yourself back together  

-Emotional dexterity as a practice  

-How to express anger productively  

-Using the breath to remember our humanness  

-Naming emotions in conversation  

-Creating opportunities for connection and dialogue  

-Detaching from outcomes  

-Authenticity & Vulnerability   

How do you human? Join us as we take a deep dive with these high-caliber, heart-centered humans in the How to be Human Series hosted by Lara Foster.

How to be Human with Joshua Lundell: Episode 4 

Joshua Lundell is a culture architect, executive coach, & author who makes art, helps others, and leads with loving-kindness.

Masterful in bringing forth form from formless, Joshua is currently in service to teams keen on exploring peak performance, group flow, & enterprise culture transformation. Joshua's a former financial services exec with a strong portfolio of global delivery successes at a major institution.