Host of The Priestess Podcast Julie Parker shares in this solo episode the spiritual (and life) lessons that can reveal themselves to us when we feel uncomfortable. No one necessarily enjoys feeling uncomfortable, but within the experience there can be so many lessons for us about self-care, perfectionism, tolerance and grace. Where do we project? Where do we overreact? Where do we bypass? Where do we bury? And what are the genuine benefits not just for us as an individual, but indeed all of humanity that can be found within the lessons of discomfort? They are absolutely there if we are open to them.
Is your soul purpose in life all about what you do? Who you are? A combination of both? Or maybe even neither? Such are the questions of life, love and the Universe that we are exploring today on The Priestess Podcast with my guest Sahara Rose. Sahara’s take on your life legacy and what you are truly here to unveil about yourself in your life and spiritual journey is filled with wisdom. She also shares with us more about her own ancestral lineage as a daughter of refugees and how that still impacts her work today. It’s a refreshing and uplifting conversation on the true essence of your dharma and soul purpose.
Why are people so afraid of being anti-racist? How can that be the case when it is something that so many of us desire to do? This is the question we explore deeply on The Priestess Podcast today with my guest diversity, equity and inclusion coach Trudi Lebron. You are about to dive into fear, failure, perfectionism, white supremacy, oppressive systems, busting out of the good girl persona and learning to be accepting of discomfort and getting things wrong. It’s only when we do so that we can hope to address our own bias, embrace matters of social justice as a part of our spiritual path and create the world we all long for. A world that is steeped in humanity, inclusion and equity for all.
Get ready to be inspired by Yogi and Global Empress Nadine McNeil, joining us all the way from Jamaica on The Priestess Podcast today. In this deep and soulful conversation Nadine shares with us what it means to her to walk through the world with the title of and embodiment of the empress archetype, her sacred spiritual practices, the courage and transition we have all moved through in these difficult global times over the past year (and continuing) and her commitment to the democratisation of yoga. We go here. We go there. We go everywhere. There are some chats and interviews that just through their own spirit and magick - cannot be contained or held in one space - and this is one of them. Leaning into the power of Nadine you will soon see why.
You are worthy. This I know. But do you know it? My amazing guest on The Priestess Podcast today is Thais Sky and she is devoted to supporting women around the world with something she calls ‘The Worthiness Wound.’ It is a wound that many of us can hold deep within and it impacts how we see ourselves, relate to others, love, work and transition through life. The good news is that any worthiness wound you may carry can be healed, and Thais is with us today to inspire us to release shame, what is holding us back, and how we can challenge any individually held notions or oppressive systems that have us captive to a worthiness wound. There is life beyond - well beyond - this wound for us all.
The impact that Stacey Demarco has had in the international realm of modern witchcraft cannot be underestimated. She is an international best selling author, oracle card creator, speaker and metaphysicist who after finding herself very successful but unfulfilled corporate career, embraced her Pagan nature and love of the natural world to bring forth her gifts as a witch. The thing I love most about Stacey is how truly grounded and practical she is, something that you will soon learn about her in this interview. She is nothing if not straight up, devoted to spiritual practice that is reality based and desiring of the world of modern witchcraft to serve the collective from the inside of our own souls and healing needs - out.
Many times when we think of stories, I often wonder if our mind wanders to children and our experiences of being a child hearing or reading stories, or maybe reading a story to a child now. We don’t often stop to consider how powerful stories are for us as adults and what role they may play in our own lives, spiritual development, journeying and connection with others. My guest on The Priestess Podcast today - Annie Gichuru - is a very special story teller. She is shifting the paradigm of storytelling in the modern world, particularly when it comes to uplifting and sharing the stories of migrant women of colour. Annie is refreshing and bold in her storytelling and always brings creative flare to her sharings. Get ready for her special wisdom and call to connect in with the power of your own story.
You are intuitive. You know that right? Even if your intuition may feel distant to you or even a bit ‘off’ at times, or even many times, you still are an intuitive soul. We all are in our own way. And it is the amazing work of my guest today on The Priestess Podcast - Natalie Miles - who is making it a part of her life’s work to ensure that you not only know this about yourself, but should you desire, you cultivate it deeply as well. And for any of you who know what it is like to be very attuned with your intuition and soul voice you will know that it is very much something that can support your own power, personal sovereignty and decision making in the world in the very best possible way. Natalie is here with us today to support you to lean into your intuition more and indeed have it become a part of your most powerful self and way of being.
Do you have a morning routine or practice that you know deeply serves you? Or are maybe trying to establish one for yourself? If so then you will love my guests on The Priestess Podcast today - Britt Deanda and Tara Schulenberg. Britt and Tara share with us their very practical and down to earth wisdom on how to cultivate a start to your day that is intentional and filled with energy, grace and soul. From this place they believe you can then be at your very best throughout your day and create the type of life that is most reflective of you and any desire you may have to serve others. And the great news? The tips and suggestions that Britt and Tara share in this episode and their new book ‘Good Morning Intentions’ can be applied to any time of the day and so don’t step back if you’re not a ‘morning person’ per se. There is absolutely loving guidance here for you too!
When I first read the words ‘Goddess Ministry’ I felt transported into a beautiful world of possibility and hope - for both our present and future. I see the healing of our world to be so deeply connected to the power of people reclaiming their innately divine and spiritual nature. People who believe in community, collective care, the facing head on of injustice and inequality, and the opening of pathways for us all to heal - and compassionately witness others do the same. And so it’s not going to be a surprise to you that in finding the creatrix of The Goddess Ministry - Lettie Sullivan - that I wanted to have her as a guest on The Priestess Podcast. Lettie’s journey, work and presence is an inspiration and since we conducted this interview, I have had the joy of sitting in a virtual circle with her and soaking in her wisdom even further. Blessings to you all as we begin this 2021 year of The Priestess Podcast with this very special guest.
2020. Well...what can you say really. It’s been a year like no other in my lifetime and I am sure for many people decades older than me too. It has been filled with challenges, realisations, learnings, unlearnings, change and I would dare say for many if not all of us - uncomfortable growth and even loss and grief. And so as we near the end of this tumultuous year what is it that may lie ahead for us in the stars for 2021? Is there more of the same ahead? Or something new and fresh on the horizon? I couldn’t think of anyone better to ask this of than cosmic astrologer Natalie Walstein. Natalie is here with us today to guide us into 2021 and what the stars and planets have in store for us...remembering always of course that your own free will is your greatest compass and guide.
I never take for granted what an extraordinary privilege it is every time a guest is a yes to coming on The Priestess Podcast. And I certainly feel that privilege and honour today with my guest Annabelle Sharman. I first met Annabelle at a beautiful workshop about Indigenous wisdom and sharing, where she gave me a healing. And it was while Annabelle was holding space for me that I received a call, retrieved via message just moments after, that a dear friend of mine had passed. It was not a timing coincidence. Annabelle and I have remained in touch and connection to each other ever since and I am constantly in awe of the beautiful and deeply healing work she puts out in the world. If you are a coach, counsellor, healer or space holder yourself, I’m honestly not sure there is someone I could recommend more highly right now to explore your own capacity to hold space and BE the guide you most long to be. This is Annabelle’s magick - bringing out your own - through her Yuma Healing.
In general whenever I have thought about Goddess Temples, visions of the ancient world have come into my minds eye from places such as Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia and Crete. Thinking about a Goddess Temple in modern times was not something regular for me until I had the experience of going to one in Glastonbury in 2019. It’s challenging to describe how truly special it was to walk into a physical space entirely devoted to the Goddess; a haven of beauty, wisdom, devotion and spiritual guidance there for the greater good of all. And so when I learned that an incredible group of people were renovating a very special space right here in my home town of Melbourne, Australia, I could not get my special guest on the show today quick enough. Priestess Pia Gaia has grown up in a world entirely surrounded by the Goddess and she, along with a group of devoted humans, are creating a Goddess Temple in Melbourne devoted to The Great Mother. Pia shares with us today the journey to making this space happen and how it still continues now. If you’re as inspired as I am from listening to Pia, you’re going to be putting it on your must do list of spiritual places to visit very soon.
Have you ever drunk a feargarita? Not a MARgarita but a FEARgarita? Well I didn’t even know that such a concoction existed until I read about it on the website of my Priestess Podcast guest today - Hayley Carr. And in this interview ahead you’re about to dive into the world of this mindset maven and world champion sportswoman who is going to encourage you to DRINK UP! Hayley is one of the most incredible coaches I know in the personal development field right now. She has a particular passion for supporting incredible people with their mindset and how they can, in particular, dance with fear and uncertainty and make it work for them in every aspect of their calling. And so...the bar is open everyone. Step up and have a drink with Hayley and I today to move from fearful to fierce!
I think it’s reasonably safe to say that if you are blessed enough to be alive and listening to The Priestess Podcast right now you have dreams that you would love to come true. Hopes, desires and wants for the life you want to lead - as a spiritual expression of your soul and who you truly are. What does it really take to embrace those dreams and make them happen? That is something of course that is going to be different for every person. What works for me or someone else may not work for you. And that’s what makes my guest on the show today - Leonie Dawson - so fascinating. As an author, course guide and artist, Leonie has created a multi-million dollar business doing what she is deeply passionate about, and she has touched hundreds of thousands of lives in doing so. She’s quirky, creative, has extremely strict but loving boundaries on her time and needs, and is living proof of what can be possible when you fully embrace your dreams and reach for the life that you most want.
If you do yoga or have it coming into your field as something to explore, then my guest on The Priestess Podcast today, Susanna Barkataki, is going to be Goddess sent to you. I have this small theory, (which is clearly untested in any scientific way but still pressing on my heart), that most of us do not really know what yoga actually is. What we think it is, is a version sold to us through a white and capitalist lens that has stripped yoga of it’s full spiritual and social meaning to just be about what we do on a mat. Susanna is here to share with us today how yoga is so much more than likely what we think we know and how to decolonise our practice and view of it. She is enlightening, warm and also challenging in true yoga practitioner form.
Today is a first for the Priestess Podcast where we have not one but TWO very special guests for you - Shakisha Reynolds and Laureen Mally of The Woo Collective. These incredible mystics have been helping people activate their spiritual DNA and bring their soul gifts into the world for a number of years now after meeting on the interwebs - Facebook to be exact! They have an ignited bond of sisterhood that runs deeply both through their personal lives as well as the work they bring to the world in partnership. THIS is the sort of sister relationship that I know so many of us crave and want to be a part of and I can’t wait for you to listen in and hear their goodness in this episode. It’s like a girl chat of the highest spiritual order!
What is your life purpose? Big question right? Right! It often seems to me that when this topic is being discussed there are suggestions that you need to do a lot of seeking and searching to FIND your life purpose, however my guest on The Priestess Podcast today - Neha Awasthi disagrees. How and why she disagrees is going to be something I won’t reveal to you now - but encourage you to simply listen in to Neha’s beautiful, soulful and I believe deeply spiritual way of looking at our life and any given moment we are blessed with. This is the sort of episode that might just see you take a big exhale OUT both during and at the end - and change the way you view life and your purpose differently and forever more.
You are worthy. You are loved. You are Diosa. These are the words of my special guest on The Priestess Podcast today - psychotherapist Christine Gutierrez. Christine has been working with and through La Diosa - The Goddess - since she was a child and you’re about to learn how passionately she connects with Her in everything she does in her work today. Christine is particularly passionate about how the Goddess can help us transcend emotional wounds, traumas and hurt IF we are open to all that She needs to show us. And the operative word there is OPEN, because the face of the Goddess does not always come to us in a way that is pretty or neat. Sometimes She needs to show us our darkness and shadow to truly create the conditions for a deeper connection to our soul and highest self.
If you own and run your own business or dream of doing so one day, then today's episode of The Priestess Podcast will be an inspiring one for you to listen into with my guest Hayley Tapper. Hayley is a Feminine Empowerment Coach and Business Mentor and is passionate about serving in her business from a deeply soul aligned space. She shares with us today what a true soul aligned business really is and looks like, how to find your way back to or tap into your soul gifts, and the importance of embodiment and compassion as a business owner. If you’re feeling a little lost in your business and not really sure how to let your heart and soul lead the way for you, it will be filled with feminine wisdom that will support you.
Human Design. It’s quite hot right now! And if you’ve not heard very much about it, I have a feeling that may be about to change as it continues to ignite and inspire people throughout the world on in their lives and spiritual paths. My guest today on The Priestess Podcast is Willow Rising, and she is passionate about Human Design and in particular how supportive it can be for those people who identify as highly sensitive. Human Design is certainly not however just for highly sensitive people. It is something that via your natal chart can provide you with an inspiring opening and pathway to the ownership of your soul gifts. And I’m sure we can all agree that’s a wonderful opening for any of us to dive into.
We are talking all things angels today on The Priestess Podcast with my special guest Shunanda Scott who is an angel medium. Shunanda shares with us exactly what an angel is and it just might not be what you think! She also does some myth busting for us around the physical form of angels, their representation in art and religion and how we all have angels in our lives, even if we are not consciously aware of them. And in this very special conversation we are visited by a guest - a shared friend of ours who passed over this year - in the most beautiful and unexpected of circumstances. Such is the power of angels and how they can bring people together - and you closer to yourself - at any time.
My guest on The Priestess Podcast today, Wendy Wise, has been, up until now, somewhat of an incredible spiritual secret. She has been doing the most amazing and visionary work as a First Nations Healer and now has been called to start to share her magick more widely throughout the world. And so I feel very blessed to bring her to you as our guest today. Wendy is here to share with us about The Wise Method and her three step process and experience that is on the one hand so very simple as a spiritual undertaking and journeying within to our deepest selves, but also so profound, that it may just make you wonder if this visionary woman has the key to unlocking our collective healing as a planet, which we all so deeply need right now.
Confession time! You might be forgiven for thinking that maybe with me being a priestess and all that I serenely meditate every day and in fact are a dab hand at it! I am not. I do meditate, but I am not what you could say are a devotee or regular, more that I dip in and out when I need it, want it, or am guided to it. And that works for me. Whatever your connection to meditation - be it tenuous or a total devotion - I know you’re going to love my guest on The Priestess Podcast today - Rebekah Borucki. Bex is a meditation teacher and guide who is passionate about bringing the benefits of meditation to the masses, particularly those who are feeling stressed out, overwhelmed and anxious. And let’s face it...right now in life and the global happenings we are all traversing, isn’t it the case that all of us in some way or another are feeling such things right now to varying degrees? Bex wisdom could therefore be a saviour for you as it has been for so many people through her work all around the world. Her passion for meditation is truly magic, especially when you connect in with the truth it can bring to your life and how accessible it is as well.