PODCASTS FOR LOVE & LIGHT
Finding enlightening people who will empower, inspire and teach you by pointing you to your own wisdom can be a jungle. We can all use a little help from time to time. Especially in times when we feel stuck, at a loss, or like our vision is clouded, podcasts are an easy way to shift and fill your being with light. Here are some of our favorites.
Holistic Health, Food and Lifestyle
Many of us have heard about how mushrooms can give us psychedelic experiences. However, it seems fewer know how some of the other properties of these fungi are that they’re able to help our bodies optimize our health and heal imbalances (in a non-psychedelic way). In this podcast episode, you learn about the different types of tonics and what they’re good for, such as memory, kidney clearing, optimization, and the like. Overall the podcast is great for learning about holistic healing using herbalism. Part of the podcast is also a women’s series, as Mason and his wife Tahnee focus specifically on women’s health, motherhood, and cycles such as this episode on menopause with Jane Hardwicke Collins.
Have a listen if you’d like pointers on how to choose happiness. In this conversation, Mo Gawdat – former CEO of Google X – speaks about what brings him happiness and shares the perspective he gained when he lost his 16-year-old son. If a man who has lost his son can find happiness each day, so can you, wherever you are in your life.
In Western society, it’s common to experience a distinction between physical and mental/emotional trauma. It’s also a frequent experience that when healing trauma in Western society it’s about understanding the trauma to get over it. However, many times understanding a trauma doesn’t necessarily mean one heals it emotionally or on a physical level. This means that despite our cognitive understanding we may still experience pain or adjust our behavior (in an unhealthy maybe unconscious way) around a past trauma. Alternatively, what’s oftentimes really needed for traumas to fully heal is a new experience to bring safe, love, compassion, nurturing, and the like to the wound itself so it can mend and stop being a pain. There are several ways of doing this and one of them is through the use of psychedelics. More than simply being a ‘trip’, psychedelics can help us heal traumas on a deeper level that goes beyond the cognitive brain. In this podcast, Michael Pollan, a five-times New York Times bestselling author, explains some of his findings from his recent book on this topic. Go to the podcast here – it’s truly mind-blowing and enlightening.
Womanhood & Sexuality
How would you manage if you were a teenage alcoholic, mixed with a bit of anorexia, who found yourself on a bathroom floor holding a positive pregnancy test? This is exactly what happened to Glennon Doyle. This lady is such a powerhouse and beautiful storyteller and in this video, you get to experience both. Today Glennon Doyle is a mother of 3, a multiple NY Times bestselling author, a SuperSoul-er, a powerful philanthropist, and a successful entrepreneur. Have a listen for some love, light, and belief that you can rise from any pain.
Kim Anami is a holistic sex and relationship coach, who aims to educate men and women on how to accelerate their intimate lives in order to live a more fulfilled life. With no hint of prudence or shame whatsoever, Kim is very direct in her language and speaks openly and freely about sex and related themes in a highly educational way. As an example in this podcast, she speaks about menopause, while in others she speaks about intimate massages known from tantra or about how to have a vaginal orgasm. Through her online programs, podcast, retreats, and sexual wellness products Kim’s goal is to help people heal by opening up on an emotional, psychological, spiritual and sexual level. The podcast is relevant whether you’re single or in a relationship.
Danielle is the Godmother of this site. Her wisdom and way of showing up in the world are both incredibly powerful and divine. She has a podcast called With Love, Danielle also has a former one called Lightwork. I recommend them both, BIG time, but this episode especially. It speaks to one-night stands if you’re a single woman but you crave deep soul love ♥
Creativity & Manifestation
Creativity is such a beautiful aspect of life. Whether we create for no other purpose than for our own joy or we aim to create for a certain outcome, creativity brings color to any existing and oftentimes lightness to our hearts. If you’re stuck in any way and could use an injection of divine fullness watch this TED talk. Otherwise, she has her own whole Podcast called Magic Lessons, which you can find here.
Marie is an amazing woman, coach, motivator and achiever. In her show MarieTV you’ll find all kinds of videos about how to create a life and build a business you love. Here she shares her own wisdom, but she also interviews a range of smart people, who have all built their own businesses. Marie also runs a podcast where she and her guests share actionable strategies for greater happiness, success, creativity, health and more. It’s a great show to get into if you’re looking for inspiration and wise tips on building the life of your dreams.
Tune in if you would like some pointers on manifesting the life of your dreams. Creating the life of our dreams is usually rooted in the faith that it can happen and is made easier when we trust that the universe is helping us get there. Tune in to this video and get a shot of inspiration for this.
Living, Communication, and Connection
Do you know the wise women in an old native tribal society who used to speak to girls about womanhood, men, connection, communication, and sexual relations? This is the kind of woman Sue is. So warm and with such a wealth of knowledge, Dr. Sue Johnson educates us on foundational elements in romantic relationships. Sue is known in the field of psychology, in matters of bonding, attachment, and romantic relationships. Her views are very educational, interesting, and enlightening. The episode speaks about how our attachment patterns from childhood affect our romantic relationships in adulthood, as well as how our emotional way of connecting impacts our intimate encounters. It provides an amazing understanding of how men and women work differently and similarly, in a way that goes beyond polarity. Listen to it, you will not regret it.
It can be hard to move on... from any situation, whether that be love, a job, a place or anything else. This podcast episode with Rob Bell is a little pick-me-up that will help lift your spirit and guide you to look forward to what’s to come with hope, regardless of what it is that you’re transitioning out of. If not hope, then the talk will at the very least help you create some space for acceptance of your current position.
This lady is such a rockstar. She’s a researcher and with her qualitative research as ammunition, she has written several books on the importance of vulnerability for a wholehearted life. I love her books, but you can gain a lot from simply listening to her TED talk here or by watching her film on Netflix.
In this podcast, Simon Sinek speaks about why it is that it’s so hard for the millennial generation (people born in and after 1984) to find happiness and satisfaction in life. Explained in a rational yet compassionate way, Sinek explains how individual millennials and society can change the experience of these people, so they are able to feel content, connected and of impact, while companies learn how to keep great employees of this generation. It’s an important video. We urge you to watch it.
Spirituality/Awakening + Love
Choose this specific video if you have a longer car ride and would like some company that will infuse love, light, bliss and awareness into your journey.
“The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we’re not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you, it radiates from within you”, Marianne Williamson. This woman has so many profound insights like this that she shares in this beautiful talk with Oprah. Marianne has this way of speaking that leaves the receiver feeling like she just had a beautiful reminder. It doesn't feel like being preached to, rather it's like having a nice little truth re-set that brings a better perspective to a murky horizon. Give it a listen. It's lovely.
For the most powerful insights on the energetic shifts happening as a result of the astrological situation (such as the new and full moon), this is your girl. Jessica is divinely tuned in and gives you simple readings on what’s going on in the cosmos and the collective. You can find her podcast here.
Tara Brach is a meditation teacher and bestselling author. We could have chosen one, but each week Tara shares a meditation and a talk, which address matters such as compassion, presence, conflict, love and more. It’s such a beautiful listen which is amazing for bringing perspective to a clouded mind, or to a pressured body. Tara’s teachings are truly wonderful, especially if you’re in need of a little more peace in your life.
Love & Relationships
Whether you’re single or you’re in a relationship and looking to improve your love life, John is a man you want to listen to. He clarifies misconceptions and miscommunications that oftentimes happen in the meeting between feminine and masculine energy and turns it into concrete advice. We’ve put a link up to one of his videos, which is about understanding men and what they crave, but there are many, many amazing (!) videos to choose from here. They tend to be short and to the point and are especially great if you’re a power woman, struggling to attract or create the relationship you want.
Relationships are hard. Especially the one we have with our significant other. How do we communicate, how do we keep the flame alive, and how do we deal with infidelity? Esther shares her amazing wisdom on all of it and more. She is a psychotherapist and a bestselling author who is considered one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Watch her groundbreaking TED Talk on re-thinking infidelity here or watch her talk on the secret to lifelong desire and love here. The former is amazing for everyone to listen to, whether or not you’ve had direct experience with infidelity yourself and the latter is amazing for any human wanting to create a beautiful long-lasting partnership. Esther also runs her own podcast, where you get to listen to her doing couples counseling firsthand. Find the podcast here.
Trauma
Take Command of Your Addiction, Heal Your Trauma & Shatter Your Vices w/ Dr. Gabor Maté in this episode hosted by Lewis Howes.