Everyday Enchantment with Stacey Andon

Money. It can cause us to constrict, expand, laugh or cry-- and we hold so many beliefs about it that can get us sideways in our lives.

Today, we're going right into the heart of our trauma with money--- because we've all got something related to money.

Listen in as I welcome today's guest Meaghan Alton-- who is here to help us unravel a lot of those beliefs that separate us from the type of success we want to have in life.

Together, we jam about:

• how to work with the money beliefs that don't belong to us but we seem to follow them anyway
• why making more money doesn't seem to solve our money 'problems'
• the way we see 'good' money vs 'bad' money and how that can block our success
• why we have a hard time asking for what we want
• the role intuition and numerology play in expanding our financial wealth

More about Meaghan: Economist turned Numerologist, Meaghan uses Numerology to heighten intuition and success in life and business by aligning the energetics with the strategy. Work WITH your Codes for meaningful results.

Find out about her latest offerings at her website: https://www.meaghanalton.com/

How many times have you said "I don't know what to do" lately? If you're like most of us, that answer just seems to slip out before we've even considered whether it's true or not.

So today, I've got some intuitive practicality for you when you hear yourself saying "I don't know". Instead of reaching for everyone you know to help you figure it out--- I've got some easy ways for you to get more clarity and insight right now on what to do (no crowdsourcing needed).

Plus, imagine reducing the anxiety and stress of not knowing and instead . . . feeling calmer and lighter as you lean in to your own knowings-- yup, got that for you today too. Let it be easier -- I've got just the tools.

There are so many shiny 'brands' out there in the world of the interwebs. But there's something amiss when we try to be all things to all people and be something we really aren't. Truthfully, that energetic misalignment speaks volumes without saying a thing. And that 'shine' really is more lackluster than we realize.

How do we instead embody who we are and create our brand from a grounded, authentic place?

So glad you asked . . . because today, I welcome Angela Winter, a brand embodiment guide & web designer who uses her intuitive and creative superpowers to help visionary service providers light up their business and call in their to-die-for clients.

Listen in as we jam about:

• the worst brand advice for creators & entrepreneurs
• the role trauma plays in our desire to be visible and authentic
• the role of integrity & intuition for your brand
• allowing yourself and your brand to evolve
• the power that shining our light has in repairing the world (if nothing else, listen to Angela speak to this-- right around the 38th minute)

It can be scary to follow your own path--- to show up openly and truthfully and there's a whole group of us committing to doing it--- integrating our human + soul. If you are listening and reading this-- know that you are too and come be a part of our communities.

To learn more about Angela and work with her, visit her website, Awakened Creator at https://www.awakenedcreator.com/

Come celebrate this podcast turning 100! A big THANK YOU to all of you who listen, share, review and comment on this podcast! We look forward to 100 more thanks to you!

To celebrate, Stacey welcomes back her first ever guest, Sara Torpey to dig a bit deeper into what it means to live 'everyday enchantment'.

And she turns over the podcast to Sara where together they jam about:

• stepping in to your weirdness as a superpower
• what permission has to do with personal success
• what actually is everyday enchantment - what does that mean/look like in daily life and why does it matter?
• how to choose a mystical life that doesn't ignore being practical
• the realness of magic (and how to cultivate it)
• making space for trust and fear in the same space

More about Sara Torpey: Sara is a business coach with 20 years of experience working with both business owners and educators. At Torpey Coaching, she works with business owners 1:1, in small groups, and in the Selling for Weirdos course to create thriving, profitable businesses through simplicity, smart systems, and leveraging everything that is already working to create even more growth. Check out all of Sara's latest offerings at her website: https://www.torpeycoaching.com/

Wow. We're at the 99th episode about to cross over into triple digits and we're celebrating by sharing all of our behind the scenes experiences with you.

Stacey is joined by Richard Wilmore, Creative Director and Podcast Producer, to reflect on the evolution of the podcast-- including favorite episodes, things that challenged us and of course, where we are headed next.

Listen in as they jam about:

• the creative process of beginning, launching and ending art (how do you do it/when do you know it's time)
• the role that shame and vulnerability have played in sharing truthful topics (what gets shared vs. what is private)
• how being off-the-grid makes your art better
• an oracle message from the show to all of us

We are looking forward to the next 100 episodes and we'd love to hear from you. Drop us a review, send us a question or comment--- what do you want us to talk about next?

The world is pushing us to peak as fast as can -- and as a result may of us get to mid-life and wonder if there's anything fun left.

But how do we thrive doing what we love best? On today's episode, learn how to channel your inner Tina Turner and expand your capacity for joy, even when the doubts creep in.

Today's guest, Roni Jai, is living proof of the ability to thrive in mid-life, even amidst the challenges we can be faced with.

Listen in, as Stacey and Roni dive into:

• overcoming imposter syndrome as fears and doubts rise to stop us and practical tips to use right now
• how unresolved issues from childhood can resurface later in life, influencing present fears and self-limiting beliefs and how shedding this emotional weight can create more freedom and joy
• the importance of building a supportive network including therapy, coaches and self-reflection tools to help you navigate mid-life with greater ease

Fear shouldn't stop you from pursuing your big dreams and embracing the change. Stacey and Roni both share their own personal stories of how they've done it and what they've learned so you can skip ahead and use their practical wisdom for your own next leap.

More about Roni: Roni Jai is a certified coach and retired psychotherapist dedicated to empowering women in midlife through her podcast and blog, Navigating Life After 40. Find about all about her current offerings, including her podcast at https://navigatinglifeafter40.com/

Follow her on the socials: @navigatinglifeafter40 at FB, IG and TikTok

Connect with Stacey: https://staceyandon.com/

Work with Stacey:

Hello Fall-- new season, new routines and a whole lot of moving parts. Want more peace and clarity NOW in your day?

Listen in as Stacey shares 3 easy ways to bring a more grounded, peaceful energy to any situation that include how to:

• take an easy and mindful pause before you take any action
• trust your own path without creating an endless search for the "right next step"
• tell yourself the truth so it will support you rather than derail you

Connect with Stacey:

As a Master Coach & intuitive healer, Stacey helps people of all backgrounds get clear about the next steps of their lives and step boldly onto the path on their own creations (yup, this is about doing it your way).

Stacey loves to work with the world’s healing change agents---- those here to shift the planet into more loving, meaningful energies and those who can caught up in exactly how to do that while thriving as a human (hello emotional, physical and financial well-being).

Suffering. Stuck. Stressed out. Feeling like your mind and body are running you all over the place?

That's how today's guest Jenn Baron felt for a really long time-- until Jenn heard two sentences that changed the whole trajectory of her life.

Listen in as Jenn shares her story -- one begins with a lot of childhood stress--- and transforms into something grounded, peaceful and very real. Plus, she shares those magical two sentences that changed everything!

In today's episode, Stacey and Jenn jam about:

• how the spiritual world's label of 'brokenness' really misses the mark and what feels way better
• how leaning in to vulnerability opens the mind and body -- and how to discern who to trust in this process
• using 'kitten steps' to navigate the changes you'd like to make and how they create big results from small actions

More about Jenn: Jenn is an author, certified life coach, and massage therapist. She lives with her awesome wife and black Lab, Carolina, in Indianapolis. She never says no to pizza! Check out her book Reset Your Mindset and all her offerings at her website: https://www.jennbaron.com/

What do you want to be when you grow up? It's the question we all grow tired of when we are young, but what happens when we feel like we're asking it all over again at mid-life?

Most of us feel like we should already have it figured out or at best not be trying on every new thing to see if it fits.

In this episode of Everyday Enchantment, I welcome Colette Topfer, a retired Lieutenant Colonel who shares her journey of midlife transformation after leaving the military. Collette discusses her decision to retire to spend more time with her young children and how she navigated the transition from a structured military life to new ventures, including teaching and mentoring.

Listen in as we chat about:

• the importance of family, self-reflection, and being open to new opportunities
• the challenges and joys of reinventing oneself
• the significance of community, curiosity, and service in achieving personal growth and fulfillment

More about Colette: Colette is a wife of almost 17 years and a mom of an amazing son and daughter growing up way too fast.
As a kid, she grew up a Navy Brat which meant moving a lot!! She decided to enlist into the Army and spent the next 25 years of her life climbing the Army ladder through various positions and ultimately retired as a Lieutenant Colonel.  Once she retired, she taught Army JROTC in Baltimore County (through the pandemic) and then shifted into Defense Contracting.

Throughout the grind of her busy family and work life she's always tried to find time to coach and mentor as it is one of her passions in this stage of life to help where she can!  She also continues to ask herself what do you want to be or do when you grow up….. and continues to transition through life one day at a time. Follow her latest adventures on Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/keepingitcolette/

Connect with Stacey:

As a Master Coach & intuitive healer, Stacey helps people of all backgrounds get clear about the next steps of their lives and step boldly onto the path on their own creations (yup, this is about doing it your way).

Stacey loves to work with the world’s healing change agents---- those here to shift the planet into more loving, meaningful energies and those who can caught up in exactly how to do that while thriving as a human (hello emotional, physical and financial well-being).

If you had to choose money or fun-- which would it be? Most of us would choose money, right? But, what if by having more fun--- you could actually find yourself with more fun-ds.

Today, I welcome Serena Hicks, a money mindset coach who emphasizes integrating joy and the practical experiences of FUN into financial wellness.

Listen in as we:

• touch on how personal growth and self-acceptance translate into better business success and financial abundance
• discuss the necessity of reconciling one's personal and professional life (they're not as separate as we think)
• discuss the importance of looking at the stories we have about money and how they influence our finances in the present moment
• explore the impact of facing one's fears directly and how building more trust can guide us to taking amazing leaps of faith that strengthen our relationship with money/finances/wealth

We both share personal experiences of transitioning through fears and financial barriers and how those experiences changed our relationship with money in ways that we probably didn't expect.

Our body is a complex system full of information -- and as so, it isn't always so easy to figure out what's what. Like when are you feeling anxiety versus when is it your intuition speaking to you.

What if instead of being either/or-- these things are related and are absolutely worth investigating as part of truly understanding your body, mind and spirit.

Today's guest, Savannah Blake, has done just that. Gone on her own personal journey through debilitating anxiety and found a deeper wisdom as result of her own experiences.

She shares her personal journey -- from panic attacks that could make her pull off on the side of the road-- to a place where she supports others in navigating the journeys that don't quite fit into the conventional boxes.

Listen in as we jam about:

• navigating your own experiences of anxiety (did you know there are different types that require different interventions and strategies)
• how to advocate for what you need- using practical information with your intuitive knowings
• understanding your own personal alarm systems-- that can seem quite vague if seems to always sound the same
• using emotions as messengers and guides to more peace and freedom
• confronting the isolation that anxiety can bring

We've all done it -- the classic bitch session to someone we love. Venting, complaining, vomiting about all the ways the world/day/person sucks.

There is a time and place for it-- and there's the place where you get stuck doing it as everyday conversation. Or even worse-- you are stuck listening to it from people all around you. By the end of the day, you feel like you've been hit by a truck and barely have enough energy to make it to the couch to decompress.

In today's episode, I share some practical tips for breaking this cycle. Most of us learned connecting this way --- to show how much you are suffering too. It can breed drama and negativity and if it's just our default loop, it doesn't create the meaningful connections we crave.

So listen in as I share how we can do it another way, develop emotional wellness and reclaim our right to feel good as we connect with those around us.

Connect with Stacey:

As a Master Coach & intuitive healer, Stacey helps people of all backgrounds get clear about the next steps of their lives and step boldly onto the path on their own creations (yup, this is about doing it your way).

Stacey loves to work with the world’s healing change agents---- those here to shift the planet into more loving, meaningful energies and those who can caught up in exactly how to do that while thriving as a human (hello emotional, physical and financial well-being).

When life seems to be falling down around you -- where do you turn to find peace, joy and even excitement?

There is a vast wonderland of intuitive superpowers hiding in your next orgasm. . . and we want you to access it today.

Join me and the ah-mazing sex & pleasure coach, Danielle Savory for a juicy conversation about how more pleasure can help you access your own inner wisdom with greater ease.

Danielle shares the science and the magic behind our relationship with pleasure.

Not feeling orgasmic? Yup, we talk about that too. Danielle offers practical ideas (things you can try today) for what to do about a lackluster sexual relationship with yourself and partner(s). How do you re-ignite the energies of pleasure?-- we've got you covered.

Have you ever felt yourself swallowed almost-whole by imposter syndrome? Feeling like at any moment, someone will find out that truly you are a terrible, unworthy person? Perhaps even reject or abandon you - and that fear secretly consumes you --- has you over-performing to the point of exhaustion and frustration more often than not.

If you're human-- I have a feeling your answer is yes. It seems to be part of how we've come up in this world-- to doubt our very selves at the cost and expense of our well-being.

In today's episode, I welcome Tony to a coaching conversation where he shares his own honest relationship with imposter syndrome.

Together, we skip the over-analyzing and instead come back home into the body. A place where you can ground into your own energy and discover truths that may be more helpful and more supportive than allowing the mind's worst-case ideas to hold you in its talons.

Maybe there is no fix needed -- no proving to yourself that you're not an imposter, but rather choosing a gentle loving body-led alternative that takes a different road instead.

When was the last time you stopped and checked your stress level? Like really paused and paid attention how you feel right now.

Do you feel grounded in your body? Do you feel happy? Or are you noticing some anxiety, some tightening of your neck, chest or shoulders? Does your to-do list or that argument you had yesterday keep your mind racing and your body a bit on edge?

Today's guest, Molly Purvines, believes most of us are walking around with a low grade "stress fever" that we've normalized as part of our daily life. This "fever" keeps us from truly experiencing happiness in the present moment.

And although it would appear that we need other people or our life's circumstances to change before things get better (hello better spouse/children/bank account/job/body) --- Molly disagrees.

Listen in as Molly shares with us how to break this never-ending stress loop today that keeps us from meaningful happiness/joy--- without having to fix ourselves or change anything else around us.

In today's episode, Stacey welcomes Jane to a coaching conversation.

Jane shares with us that she has been diagnosed with a rare congenital skin condition and wants to get curious about getting more clarity and understanding about it all.

She and Stacey decide to talk directly to this part of her and see what insights may be there for her.

They also explore the role of needing an expert to figure things out-- and ideas for how to tap in to the inner wisdom we hold about our specific experiences.

Where is the place where you can be truthful about what you're feeling -- making space for the full range of emotions and experience --- doing so with more curiosity and love even when it is uncomfortable or uncertain.

These are the places Stacey and Jane discuss today.

In today's episode, Stacey welcomes Stephanie to a coaching conversation.

The two talk about feeling overwhelmed during life transitions and how to navigate next steps when life feels really uncertain and scary because nothing is quite working out to plan.

All of us humans want to know the how and when as we lean into the messier parts of our lives--- what can we do when they aren't immediately clear?

Stephanie brings such braveness and vulnerability to her own self and journey--- even if you aren't in her exact circumstances, maybe you too are going through some changes.

Listen in the wisdom she discovers as she comes back to her own knowing (even without the perfect, neat bow ending). This is what coaching is about -- tapping in to your own wisdom in a safe, loving container.

There are moments when we wonder "do I want to be married anymore?".

And for today's coaching client, Debbie-- that's exactly where she finds herself.

Leaning in to very tender truths and realizations about herself and what she wants in this moment.

Listen in as Debbie helps us all hold space for big feelings and encourages us to invite curiosity to whatever we may be facing in a moment.

Coaching provides a place for us to look at what we're thinking, feeling in a lens of compassionate inquiry. What questions are you holding in your heart today? Is there space for you to allow yourself to feel all that is here and see it, hold it and love it fiercely as the energy it is?

Welcome to SEASON 3! It's here and we can't wait to share the many ways we are stepping out past our comfortable edges to bring you support in living into these energies of elevation and ease.

This season will include episodes of real-life coaching sessions--- get your own bites of wisdom by listening in to our coaching session (we drop a teaser in today's episode).

Jobs. Relationships. Vacations. Creative projects.

We've all been at the end of something, right? Maybe we are happy it's coming to a close and maybe we don't want to let go.

We tend to skip the endings part and want to get right to the next shiny new beginning.

However, there is magic in the transition spaces. There is grief and there is celebration. There is also confusion--- is this really the end? How do I know for sure?

Listen in as Stacey ends Season 2 with you (yup, this is the last episode of this season) and helps us all recognize when we're at the end and how to navigate it with loving kindness for all the pieces that endings bring up.

Plus, a little shout out to all of life's orgasmic moments!

As always, choose the one thing that resonates the most and let that settle into your heart-knowings this week.

If you have topics, ideas or shouts of joy for this podcast, we'd love to hear them! Please share any feedback with us and ideas for the new season, coming soon.

Like so many of us, Sarah Vermunt wound up in a career that she didn't love . . . doing work that felt depleting and uninspiring. Until, one day a mental breakdown changed the course of what she did next.

Listen in as she shares her story and how it inspired her to help others choose jobs and work they love.

In today's episode, Stacey and Sarah jam about:

• how the first stage of listening to your intuition usually involves ignoring it
• how to feel safe when using your intuition for a career move
• the 3 parts of intuition that can trip us up the most (and how to navigate them)
• the way to recognize the head/logic part of us vs. intuition

As always, find the one thing that resonates deeply and let that be a guide for you as you honor your intuitive career nudges.

More about Sarah: Sarah Vermunt is the Founder of Careergasm and the author of Careergasm and Career Rookie. She helps people figure out what the heck they want so they can quit jobs they hate and do work that feels good. Her work has been featured at Forbes, Fortune, Inc., Entrepreneur, and Fast Company. And each month, her career advice is pumped into millions of homes across North America.

What if nothing in this moment had to change or get done? I know, it can feel like a huge lie and makes us want to double-down on our to-do-lists and make it all happen.

And yet, there is growing body of research that has found the less we do that's busy work, the more we actually get the results we want.

I'm in for that and I'm going to share with you some ideas today for how you can play with this idea of being a little less busy and productive in order to get what you want.

Come join me as we dive into unproductivity as a means to more productivity and we find the sweet spot between these two seemingly incongruent places where we can thrive.

Meet April. Her life has been about doing all the things and then some . . . until breast cancer entered her life and changed everything. She discovered that doing all the things wasn't necessarily always what was best for her in her heart.

In today's episode, April shares her story. She opens up about her relationship with her body and losing her breasts and how's she's found a place to heal and thrive. It isn't perfect; it's a work in progress. Yet, her willingness to break the boxes that no longer fit encourage all of us to find our own healing paths too.

Listen in as Stacey and April share the tenderness and vulnerability of life-changing experiences and how they find their way forward even when it feels so messy and so new.

April reminds us all about the beauty of the present moment and how reconnecting to that and meaningful relationships nurture our souls in the most profound ways.

Imperfection. We all fight it. We want it perfectly planned and executed - we want to show the world how amazing we are. But in the quest for perfection, the world doesn't get to see our amazing . . . because in truth, we're afraid to let the imperfect parts be seen. And those parts are equally important parts of our gifts and superpowers.

In today's episode, we get messy. Stacey shares a recent example where she stumbled right through her own imperfect situation with a friend where she felt vulnerable, afraid and definitely embarrassed.

Allowing these experiences to offer us wisdom expands our capacity to love ourselves and the world around us-- which is at the heart of what we're all doing here, right?!.

Listen in to find out how you too can let your messy side be seen and loved and how even with our discomfort . . . it may just be the most wonderful part of being human.

Curious how to kickstart your wellness this new year? Yup, us too!

It happens. Those days where nothing feels so good. You want to feel better and yet you also know that skipping over the truth of how you feel probably isn't going to solve it all.

Lean in instead says Stacey and find the place where you can hold space for yourself because life isn't all perfected happy rainbows.

In today's episode, Stacey shares:

• her own simple practices for those cloudy-feeling days
• how what's been working has been changing over the past year and what to do when that happens
• the after-effects of Covid and the past few years on our inner emotional world

Let go of trying to make it all go away and use your own inner reflections to help take the next feel-good step.

And as always, what's the one thing that you can take from this episode to help nurture your self-care today?

New year . . . new diets to try? There's something about a new year that beckons us to try the latest diet trends even if they aren't what is best for our individual bodies because they almost always promise us a quick-fix to that weight we think we must drop asap.

Today, Stacey welcomes health coach, award-winning personal trainer and owner of Kore Bootcamps & Barre/Yoga, Kelly Backert to look behind the curtain of the latest 2024 diet trends, to explore why diets (even the new ones) aren't the magic pill we want them to be, and to learn instead what you can do to heal your relationship with food.

This is the year to break the endless cycle of new-year dieting in favor of finding peace and well-being with your body.

Stacey and Kelly break it down into 3 parts (all included in this episode):

• 2024 Diet Trends
• Challenges around Weight Loss (starts at 20:28)
• Tools for Better Health (starts at 40:02)

Stacey and Kelly explore why it can be so hard to lose weight even if we're doing everything 'right' and offer simple-to-use tools that can help bring more peace and calm to your relationship with yourself (a loving starting point to better wellness).

Please submit all questions you have about this topic and this episode to stacey@staceyandon.com or kellysbootcamps@gmail.com. Stacey and Kelly will address all questions in an upcoming future episode.

PLEASE NOTE: All information shared on this podcast is for informational purposes and is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Those seeking personal medical advice should consult with a licensed physician. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health provider regarding a medical condition. 

More about Kelly: Kelly Backert is a Certified Personal Trainer and the owner of three fitness studios including Kore Bootcamps and Kore Barre & Yoga (Bel Air and Perry Hall). She is here to help us heal our relationships with food and body and find the place where we remember we are enough.

In today's episode, Stacey opens up about her mother-in-law's recent passing through a very open and honest exploration of death with the expert Dr. Martha Jo Atkins, the author of Sign Posts of Dying: What You Need to Know and an expert in helping individuals and loved ones walk through the extraordinary sacredness of a person's passing.

Not only does Stacey share her personal experience, both Martha Jo and she explore the very tenderness of our own fears around death and how to show up for someone we love who is dying.

Listen in as the two share:

Whether you know anything about or agree that we are entering into the Age of Aquarius-- it is for sure we are in the midst of a planetary shift right now.

We may feel some days like we are spiraling into a deep, long dark night of the soul that we aren't sure how to traverse without harm to ourselves and/or others.

It's murky and yet equally hopeful as all of this change seems to be nudging us to greater harmony and spiritual connection.

Here to help us better understand the changes and how they are affecting us is today's guest, Randi Botnick. Her wisdom and the wisdom of the galactic groups she channels are specifically here to help us create a new way forward with greater joy and ease to our bodies, minds and spirits.

Listen in as Stacey and Randi explore:

• why our physical bodies are feeling out of alignment (and the connection to our nervous systems)
• the role of the divine masculine and feminine in the upcoming years
• how our relationship with our trauma and our past is changing and evolving
• messages directly from the Arcturians that will bring us more clarity and peace (this is a galactic group Randi channels)
• the role joy and sovereignty play in our spiritual practices

There is much afoot right now on this planet and we are all here to live it into experience as Randi shares. The more we can honor the complicated process without problemizing it-- the more we can find our way forward/through.

Meet Sara. She was an uber-successful leader in the business world. By all accounts rocking it and yet a few years' back, something within her started to feel slightly off. She wondered if doing what she had been doing still set her heart on fire and she was concerned that if it didn't "what would?".

Today Stacey welcomes Sara to the episode to share the behind-the-scenes look at Sara's leap from the corporate world into entrepreneurship. But it wasn't the final destination that mattered most--- it became a journey of self and soul.

Learning how to honor your deepest desires and be a practical human on this planet too is at the heart of Sara's journey.

Listen in as Sara shares her thoughts, her fears and what she did to navigate herself through a big leap after finding herself spiritually and mentally over the course of several years.

On this beginning of 2024, Sara's story is here to inspire you to take your own leap--- big, small or in-between. Don't let what the world thinks you should do override what you know in your heart to be true.

We all feel the rush of the end of the year. The push to set resolutions and goals and GET TO IT in the new year. However, for most of us in the Northern Hemisphere we are entering a season where Mother Nature asks us to intuitively slow down and rest.

In today's episode, Stacey shares a few simple ways for you to connect to the truth of your winter energy. And as always, it starts with your intuitive compass that is directly dialed in to the season of Winter. Connecting with winter asks something different of you than the other seasons --- find out how to listen to this season's messages.

Stacey offers several beautiful ways to take care of yourself right now that feel nourishing and restorative.

For most of my early life, it was too scary and felt too un-safe to inhabit a body that was getting traumatized and abused regularly. It wasn't until I began my life coach training, that I started to unravel the mind-body connection and consider coming home to myself. And even then, it was so uncomfortable that I resisted on the regular.

Both Stacey and today's guest, Nona Jordan, know what it's like to be disconnected from their bodies. They share openly their own journeys and experiences with learning how to come back to the practice of being present in the body.

They also acknowledge the difficulties in navigating the world's power structures that have held most of us in power-over positions feeling quite controlled rather than liberated to honor our own physical needs first and foremost.

Listen in as the two talk together about:

• simple embodiment practices that you can implement today
• the connection between our bodies and our emotions
• the radical act of granting ourselves permission to move at the pace of our bodies
• the role forgiveness plays in embodiment

And as always, we encourage you to take one thing from this episode that rings true and play with it in your daily practices.

Losing someone you love-- like your mother- can be a messy path of grieving that twists and turns even after the grief seems to dissolve into 'ordinary' life.

There is no one way to feel and experience this type of loss and it can be quite tender the last two months of the year during the holiday season.

4 years ago, both Stacey and her guest today, Belinda Smith, lost their mothers within a few weeks' of each other. They get together today to open up about the messiness of it then and now and share their unique experiences.

Listen in as they share about:

• messy emotional meltdowns that can come out of nowhere
• how the stages of grief are more like a tornado than a straight linear path
• how the holidays are changed as a result of such a significant loss
• how death affects your surrounding relationships in ways you didn't expect

Grief is a bumpy road full of hope and pain--- we honor yours and wrap you in love as you feel all the feels this season (may it be the holidays or not).

There's something that most people misunderstand about going no contact with a family member. And that is if somehow we just tried harder we could make it work. Because after all, it's your family.

For anyone who has made the difficult choice to go no contact with family, it can get even messier at the holidays (as most of the people around us don't get this boundary).

You know that moment-- when you look around at your life--- and you secretly admit to yourself "this doesn't feel right anymore" or maybe you question "is this really who I am & then cringe to yourself 'no, it's not''".

These moments-- where everything that we've created suddenly feels off--- can invite us into a very dark space of death and uncertainty. As beautiful and transcendent as these moments can be--- the messy middles of transformation can be some of the rockiest waters to navigate.

So many spiritual voices talk about the beauty of being reborn-- of shedding the selves that no longer serve us---- however, when it's happening -- it can feel like you've been dunked under dark murky waters without a breathe, without a path and you may wonder how you're really going to get yourself through to another side.

Today, Stacey welcomes Essence Turner who is no stranger to leaning in to the experiences of spiritual and metaphorical death on this planet. A powerful healer, Essence shares her biggest journeys with death and rebirth and offers insights that not only helped her along the way, but can serve as breadcrumbs on your own journey.

Listen in as Stacey and Essence talk about:

• the role of self-forgiveness in allowing yourself to change and let go (the most intense f-word out there)
• how death and rebirth have their own unique timelines (and how to interpret and work with them)
• the process of radical honesty (and processing feelings around your truths) that can lead the way forward
• the places during these transformations where you can get stuck (and what to do instead)

Let's stop making manifesting a complicated spiritual endeavor that only a few get quite right in this lifetime.

Instead, let's make it more simple and get to the point of our desires and preferences in ways that also make time for the practicality of being a human on this planet (i.e. I need a nap and a delicious dinner today).

Stacey cuts right to the point in today's episode. Want to have more impact around your desires--- part of what's got to go is letting go of the 'trying'. Trying to make things happen really never quite works nor does what she calls "spiritual coercion".

Stacey shares personal examples of her own manifesting journey including . . . connecting with her husband (who was dating someone else at the time she knew he was her person) and smaller things like wanting to see a life-long friend who hasn't been in touch.

Simplify your process and let the miracles come to you. Listen in as Stacey shares exactly how to do this as a soul-ful human.

More about Stacey: Stacey is an intuitive coach who wants to help each person find the beauty and joy of a soul-ful and human life. Learn how to ditch the striving and hustle for your own natural rhythms of being human and find the path that only you know how to create on this planet. We've been taught a lot of rules and put in a lot of boxes-- set yourself free, now (no waiting required).

"Be more authentic". "Come back into alignment". "Ground yourself". These edicts are all over the spiritual landscape these days and yet if we are being honest--- most of us aren't doing such a great job at being physically embodied. No judgment here--- pain, trauma, social conditioning, and other disruptions have caused much of our split and we struggle to find our way back.

In today's episode, Stacey welcomes acupuncturist, Dr. Colleen Curran, to dive into the deep end of authentic embodiment. Colleen's life work is to help more humans live in their bodies full time. It isn't as complicated as we think and also we may need to challenge some of what we've been taught along the way. Listen in as Stacey & Colleen get curious about:

• using energy vs. labels to identify areas in your body needing your attention
• making space for silence and exploration in Mother Nature as a healing modality
• discovering the sunrise and sunset as energetic bookmarks to our physical and energetic bodies
• reclaiming our own inner authority when it comes to embodiment (rather than relying on outside sources)

And as always, Stacey encourages you to find one thing that resonated today and let that simmer in your heart, letting go of the rest.

How often did you consult a friend, a book, the internet over the past week for an answer to a question you had? I have a feeling it was A LOT. In this era of unprecedented access to information, we are trained to search out expertise outside of ourselves on the daily. Someone, some book, some course, some science knows better than us--- but what is the cost to this endless loop of searching? Anxiety? Fatigue? A low-grade apprehension running through our days?

Listen in on how this desire to find the 'expert' outside of ourselves can derail our desire for joy, peace and freedom in our lives and what you can actually do about it ---- today.

Learn how to be the imperfect expert in your own life and reclaim the power you naturally have within you.

In today's episode, Stacey gets honest about:

• how we were taught to search out expertise in favor of our own truths (and how that can hurt us)
• how to break the cycle of this endless searching for the "answer" to our latest question, dilemma, challenge
• how our nervous systems and our bodies can be wise channels of truth (and how to access them)

More about Stacey: Stacey is an intuitive coach who wants to help each person find the beauty and joy of a soul-ful and human life. Learn how to ditch the striving and hustle for your own natural rhythms of being human and find the path that only you know how to create on this planet. We've been taught a lot of rules and put in a lot of boxes-- set yourself free, now (no waiting required).

Do you love to follow astrology-- read your charts and watch the astrological weather? It can be fun and interesting; yet, somehow it doesn't always provide a practical road map for how to live your life or its purpose. That's where Human Design can come in ---- a language, a tool to support you in living out your purpose in a way that feels lit-up and amazing.

In today's episode, Stacey welcomes Jen Mallinger, a Human Design expert and reader, who wants to help all us co-create with the Universe in meaningful and joyful ways using our Human Design.

Listen in as Stacey and Jen chat about:

• what Human Design is (where it came from) and why you'd want to apply it to your own life
• the 5 types of Human Design and how you can use your type to live more aligned with your soul purpose
• how to work with our energy and strategy rather than force it (and how that opens us up to creating solutions with greater ease)

You're about to make a really important decision and you get this funny feeling that what you thought you should do isn't the 'right' thing anymore. You have this feeling in the pit of your stomach that is redirecting you --- in a direction that feels completely uncertain and possibly unexplainable. However, your body keeps nudging you toward this belief/action/message that you have no proof for.

Do you listen to it? How do you know if it's 'right'?

In today's episode, Stacey shares two stories in her own life around trusting her intuition when there was absolutely no proof that it was all going to work out or that it was 'right'.

Listen in as Stacey shares:

• real-life examples of following your instincts when it doesn't seem to make much sense
• how to confront your deepest fears and insecurities around trusting yourself
• learning how to date trust and build a beautiful relationship with it

Stacey reminds us that "when we find ourselves in uncertainty, it doesn't mean that we're lost. It doesn't mean that we don't have clarity. It means we are willing again to trust ourselves." As with each episode, focus on one thing that resonates and let the rest slip away. Enjoy that message meant for you and let it guide you as you trust it's meant.

More about Stacey: Stacey is an intuitive coach who wants to help each person find the beauty and joy of a soul-ful and human life. Learn how to ditch the striving and hustle for your own natural rhythms of being human and find the path that only you know how to create on this planet. We've been taught a lot of rules and put in a lot of boxes-- set yourself free, now (no waiting required).

We hear it all the time---- lead with your heart, and let the mind be of service. But what does that actually mean in real-human life? So many people wonder if they are "doing it right" and truthfully, it's a lot simpler than most spiritual gurus and experts would lead you to believe.

In today's episode, Stacey explores these questions with Aysin Karaduman, a holistic life coach committed to redefining the good life. The two of them take apart what it means to come back to the body and find your guidance by listening in to your heart in very practical terms.

Listen in as they share:

• why it's truly impossible to "get out of your head" and what you can do instead
• how the body holds truths that we sometimes ignore or miss (and how to access them)
• the basic needs that we're actually missing it and why it causes undo suffering
• a beautifully simple (and short) meditation to get yourself connected right now to your heart

As always, Stacey would love for you to find the one thing that resonated most today and let that simmer in your mind, body and spirit this week as you create your days.

Today's topic is a tender one with highly sensitive content around suicide and may be upsetting to some listeners.

4 years ago, Stacey's mother died by suicide. It was and wasn't a shock to Stacey-- however, it led to a very messy year of grieving that didn't really follow a specific path.

Not only did Stacey and her mother have a strained relationship, her death brought up years of childhood trauma and secrets around addiction and mental health.

Stacey shares her journey with her grief as well as how you can navigate the darker experiences of your life with great compassion and care to your truths and heart.

You too can break the shame cycles, the bypassing and supposed 'brokenness' that our lives have encountered in favor of breaking the rules of grieving, healing trauma and reclaiming the power of your own soul.

It is time to break the stigma of talking about the darkest of human experiences so we can create lasting change on this planet --- change that begins with truth and opens us to more of what seek--- freedom and peace.

Enchantment begins with the messiest of human experiences and makes space for it all.

More about Stacey: Stacey is an intuitive (yup, psychic) coach and a channel for healing who wants to invite you to be part of the practical magic that is shifting this planet through messy, human-soulful love.

Ever find yourself yearning for a deeper connection with a friend or maybe even realizing you aren't as close with the people around you than you once thought? In a world that feels more disconnected than ever, it's time to turn our attention to the relationships around us--- using what we've learned about vulnerability and love to create something more meaningful than the models of friendships we grew up with.

In this episode, Stacey welcomes back Kelly Backert to get real about their friendship and how they navigate it together in a very open and honest way. Plus, what they've learned along the way that can help us nurture all relationships more authentically.

Listen in as they share about:

• navigating high school friendships that instilled an energy of competition that continued into adulthood
• the big life changes like divorce that brought about changes in friendships
• shifting from transactional friendships to ones that feel more open and honest
• leaning in to being uncomfortable and honest in a friendship
• the difference between belonging and fitting in (and how grounding into your own self is the key to nurturing your relationships)

More about Kelly: Kelly Backert is a Certified Personal Trainer and the owner of three fitness studios including Kore Bootcamps and Kore Barre & Yoga (Bel Air and Perry Hall). She is here to help us heal our relationships with food and body and find the place where we remember we are enough.

There is no diet or grueling exercise plan that needs to fix you---- Kelly will show you exactly how to do it differently. Kelly works with clients all over the country--- email her at kellysbootcamps@gmail.com for more information about her offerings and check out her websites: https://korebootcamps.com/ and https://www.korebarreyoga.com/

More about Stacey: Stacey is an intuitive (yup, psychic) coach and a channel for healing who wants to invite you to be part of the practical magic that is shifting this planet through messy, human-soulful love.

You know that moment when everything that felt certain a day go seems to melting down around you? You try to get yourself back on solid ground and nothing seems to be working. Most of us call these dark nights of the soul and even if you know what they are--- Stacey wants to share with you how you can move through with greater ease-- either now if you feel like that's the space you're in or in a future moment when they come crashing in around you.

In today's episode, Stacey shares:

• what exactly is a dark night of the soul
• how you can create more ease in the toughest of feelings or circumstances
• her own latest experience with a dark night and what she did to help herself when she was filled with despair

Listen in as Stacey gets honest, real and open about the things that we fear the most.

More about Stacey: Stacey is an intuitive (yup, psychic) coach and a channel for healing who wants to invite you to be part of the practical magic that is shifting this planet through messy, human-soulful love.

Imagine this-- you've got a really big decision in front of you. You feel gripped at times with indecision--what really is the 'right' thing to do? You ask everyone you know-- you look at books, TED talks, social media and your friends to see what you probably should do. The rub comes in because that should doesn't feel that great. It feels like you have to--- you know like all those time your parents made you eat peas and carrots and you felt like you were gagging the whole way through (or maybe you had a dog/pet to help you out in those times, lols).

Listen in today as Stacey shares a simpler way to take your next step and quell that nagging indecision.

Start with an easy decision in front of you and practice using Stacey's strategies in a low-stakes kind of way.

In this episode, Stacey shares:

• How to let go a step that feels like a should in favor of the one you really want to choose
• A few real-life examples where following the rules can trip us up
• How to access a deep well of wisdom within you
• A few key questions to help you get clearer about what you want

And as always-- pull only ONE THING from listening or watching this podcast-- the thing that supports you in trusting yourself and your gifts.

More about Stacey: Stacey is an intuitive (yup, psychic) coach and a channel for healing who wants to invite you to be part of the practical magic that is shifting this planet through messy, human-soulful love.

Calling all dog and animal lovers!! Not only are our amazing pets incredible life companions--- what if they are here to help us navigate our lives with greater ease through their healing gifts? Animal guides are everywhere including in your home and their invisible gifts are needed more than ever, as we learn how to receive their grounding energies as part of our healing journeys.

In today's episode, Stacey welcomes Erin Scott, an avid podcaster and breast cancer survivor, whose life was changed when she fell in love with her first dog. Erin shares her heartfelt story about how dogs helped her in her own healing journey and how they are important teachers to us all. Not only can they offer us lessons in unconditional love, they also may have some other special gifts to share.

Listen in as Stacey and Erin jam about:

• the role that animals play here on the planet during this world-wide shifting of energies
• Erin's reluctance about dogs (she didn't grow up with them) and how that shifted, especially during a very dark time for her
• what dogs can teach you about your own life purpose (they have their own service to do on this planet-- and they need our help at times)
• letting go of control and 'the plan' in order to be true to ourselves and how dogs teach us this on the daily

You saw the most interesting bumper sticker in front of you today and you wonder if it really was a message meant for you or just a weird coincidence. How do you really know what is a sign and what isn't in a world full of messages, signs and information everywhere we look?

In today's episode, Stacey shares an easy way to spot the signs in your everyday life --- by using the things around you that seem the weirdest. In fact the weirder the better she believes because when you stop and pause for something unusual-- you are already half way there in receiving the sign.

Listen in as Stacey shares:

• how to spot intuitive messages meant for you
• a few of the weird signs she's received that were spot on messages helping her get clear and grounded about important life decisions
• ideas for how to build your confidence around interpreting those signs specifically in a moment

And as always-- pull only ONE THING from listening or watching this podcast-- the thing that supports you in trusting yourself and your gifts.

More about Stacey: Stacey is an intuitive (yup, psychic) coach and a channel for healing who wants to invite you to be part of the practical magic that is shifting this planet through messy, human-soulful love.