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A steady drumbeat can change your state—and your life. We sit down with Dr. Marta Nikolai to explore how core shamanism uses simple, time-tested methods to enter theta consciousness, meet compassionate spirit allies, and bring back practical guidance for daily challenges. No psychedelics required, just sonic driving, intention, and a safe container that lets the ego rest so truth can rise.

We break down brainwaves in plain language and map how the shift to theta creates dual awareness: you remain grounded in the room while traveling in non-ordinary reality. Marta shares beginner-friendly techniques for journeying, the importance of clear instructions, and why weekly practice restores spiritual authority. We talk about tailored rituals that make change stick, from small acts with deep meaning to integration steps that keep the wisdom in your body, schedule, and relationships.

The conversation also honors boundaries and timing. Not all sessions flow—and that’s okay. Learning when to pause, refer, or say “not today” protects the work and the client. Marta explains when to seek a practitioner, how community circles amplify healing, and why in-person drumming and rattling matter in a hyper-visual, trend-chasing world. Her personal path—from accounting to academia to shamanic teaching—illustrates how life cracks open when you follow the quiet call of spirit and stay with a simple practice long enough to master it.

If you’re curious about shamanic journeying, theta states, spirit guides, or the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, this is a clear, grounded starting point. Listen, learn the basics, and try one weekly journey to see what unfolds. If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review to help others find the path. What’s the first question you’d take to your guides?

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If you've ever found yourself setting the same goals year after year without understanding why they don't stick, this episode offers a different approach.

Amanda Parker gets honest about her own journey from living on autopilot—jumping from job to job, saying yes to everything, and feeling like life was happening to her—to learning how to intentionally design her life. The shift didn't come from more ambition or better goal-setting. It came from learning to reflect.

In this year-end episode, Amanda shares the practice that changed everything for her and hundreds of her clients: honest, structured reflection. Not the surface-level gratitude list kind, but the kind that helps you understand your patterns, acknowledge both growth and challenges, and make conscious choices about what comes next.

She also highlights the podcast episodes from 2025 that resonated most with listeners—covering everything from money mindset to personal branding to intuitive business coaching. Each offers a different lens on the same core question: How do we come home to ourselves?

The episode includes Amanda's Year End Reflection Guide, a framework she's refined over eight years of using it herself and with clients. It's designed to help you take stock of where you actually are (not where you think you should be), recognize how far you've come, and create a vision for 2026 that's grounded in truth rather than wishful thinking.

If you're tired of repeating the same patterns or ready to approach the new year with more clarity and intention, this episode gives you both the perspective and the practical tool to do it differently.

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What if the key to your success isn't about becoming someone new, but reclaiming who you've always been? In this transformative conversation, Amanda sits down with personal brand strategist Beth Hocking to explore how building your personal brand is actually a profound healing journey. Beth shares her powerful story of leaving a 20-year corporate career—complete with director titles, global travel, and multi-million dollar deals—to help women step into their authentic power and get paid to be themselves.

This isn't your typical branding conversation. Beth reveals how her own breakthrough came through a surprising download in a sound bath that led to a pivotal identity shift (yes, it involved cutting off all her hair). But more importantly, she breaks down her SEEN framework—a methodology rooted in self-trust, embodied leadership, elevated identity, and notability—that helps her clients move from hiding their brilliance to claiming their space in the world. Whether you're a healer afraid of being seen, an entrepreneur playing small, or anyone who's lost touch with their seven-year-old dreamer self, this episode will remind you that you already have everything you need.

The conversation dives deep into the intersection of personal branding and healing, exploring how learning to trust yourself again is nothing short of miraculous. Beth shares client success stories that prove when you stop waiting to be "ready" and start building your brand from a place of authentic self-knowledge, extraordinary things happen—from viral LinkedIn posts to dream job offers to signing clients within weeks. If you've been waiting for permission to step into your power, consider this your invitation.

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• Website: https://beth-hocking.com/
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What if everything you've been told about spiritual awakening is wrong? Forget the Instagram posts about divine downloads and blissful enlightenment—the real story of awakening is far messier, more isolating, and infinitely more human than anyone wants to admit. And if you're in the thick of it right now, wondering why your entire life suddenly feels intolerable while everyone around you seems perfectly content, you need to hear this.

In this raw, deeply personal solo episode, Amanda pulls back the curtain on what actually happens after an awakening experience—the part no one talks about when they're selling you that ayahuasca retreat or Kundalini activation. She shares her own seven-year journey through what she calls the "messy middle": that disorienting liminal space where your old life no longer fits, your relationships start falling away, and you're trying desperately to make sense of an experience you don't even have words for. From her pivotal Reiki attunement in Thailand that shifted everything, to the years of fumbling through courses and teachers trying to intellectualize something that could only be understood through the body, Amanda offers the hand-holding and validation that she wishes someone had given her when she first stepped onto this path.

This episode is essential listening if you're experiencing that gnawing restlessness that won't go away, if you're the only person in your circle questioning everything, or if you're secretly terrified that something's wrong with you because the life that looked perfect on paper suddenly feels unbearable. Amanda speaks directly to the shame of wanting "more," the exhaustion of finally feeling again after years of numbing out, and the grief of outgrowing relationships, careers, and identities that once defined you. But she also shares the truth that makes it all worthwhile: on the other side of this uncomfortable transformation is a life lived in full technicolor, where nothing can stop you because you finally know yourself completely.

Whether you're already deep in your awakening journey or just beginning to sense that there's something more calling to you, this episode offers the compassionate, brutally honest roadmap you've been searching for. Amanda's message is clear: you're not broken, you're not alone, and the messy middle is exactly where you're supposed to be.

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Ever notice how your body tenses before opening an email from your boss, or how your heart races before sharing your work? That activation you've been trying to suppress might not be the problem. What if you're meant to move through those states, not eliminate them? In this episode, Amanda speaks with Amyee Oen, whose perspective on nervous system healing was forged in the wild waters of Alaska, where survival depends on trusting your body's wisdom completely.

Amyee's journey from ER trauma medicine to somatic healing reveals what conventional healthcare often misses: presence, attunement, and space to actually feel what's happening in your body. After recognizing she was living in chronic fight-or-flight, she discovered breathwork and somatic practices that changed how she inhabited her own skin. Now she guides others through similar transformations in the wilderness itself. As she shares, "We are animals. We're meant to have all of those states and move through them. We're not supposed to be regulated all the time—we're supposed to flow through states like a wave."

This conversation delivers immediately applicable wisdom: track what state your nervous system is in, understand why vigorous movement helps activation but worsens freeze, and learn how nature does the healing work when you know how to receive it. Whether you're successful on the outside but disconnected inside, struggling to use your voice, or exhausted from trying to stay calm all the time, this episode offers a different path.

What would change if you trusted yourself the way Amyee trusts herself in the wilderness—knowing that even if gale-force winds roll in, you've got you? Listen to discover how reclaiming your wildness might be the key to coming home to yourself.

How to Get in Touch with Amyee:

• Website: https://amyeeoen.com/
• Instagram: @amyeeoen
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyeeoen/
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What if heartbreak isn't something to rush through, but an invitation to transform? Saguna Budhiraja, a crystal energy guide and founder of Ektara Heart in Amsterdam, challenges the cultural messaging that tells us to "just get over it." Instead, she reveals how a shattered heart literally freezes your nervous system, why your relationships mirror your self-worth, and why the real work isn't finding someone new—it's becoming whole on your own.

Drawing from her own journey through motherhood, childhood wounds, and multiple heartbreaks, Saguna cuts through spiritual platitudes to get real about self-love. She explores the ancestral patterns we inherit, the performance of love we learned as children, and why grief doesn't follow a timeline. As she says, "When your heart is so shattered, it freezes the body. It's like when you fracture the leg, you don't expect yourself to run." Yet we demand exactly that of ourselves after heartbreak.

You'll learn practical wisdom: why asking the right questions before committing matters more than chemistry, how to recognize when a relationship can be healed versus when it needs to end, and what compassion actually looks like in practice. Saguna shares how clients transform through inner work—unpacking wounds, setting boundaries, learning love languages, and practicing self-dating—not through dating apps or manifesting.

Whether you're recovering from heartbreak, questioning a current relationship, or caught in repeating patterns, this episode offers something rare: permission to grieve, tools to heal, and a roadmap to love that starts from within. Listen to discover what becomes possible when you finally put yourself first.

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• Website: www.ektaraheart.com
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What if everything you want to change in your life is just one reflective practice away? Most people never learn how to truly reflect, spending years feeling like victims of circumstance while never understanding why. Amanda Parker's breakthrough came in a coach training classroom when she realized that despite journaling her whole life, she had no idea what reflection actually was. It was a jarring awakening that changed everything. Because reflection isn't just a wellness trend—it's the foundational practice that determines whether you live by conscious choice or drift through life on autopilot.

"Without the reflection, you might just feel like a victim, like life is happening to you," Amanda explains. But when you pause to ask yourself deeper questions—What does this feel like? What matters to me? What would I like to be different?—something shifts. You move from passive observer to active creator, gaining clarity to recognize patterns and make better-informed decisions.

Amanda shares three powerful practices: Morning Pages from The Artist's Way (free-writing three pages daily without judgment), pulling an Oracle card with the intention "What do I need to know today?", and walking in nature without distractions. These aren't complicated rituals—they're accessible entry points that rewire how you process your life. When practiced consistently, they move you from surviving to thriving by design.

Ready to stop letting life happen to you and start creating it by choice? Press play and discover the gateway practice that changes everything.

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Have you ever faced a decision that looked perfect on paper but felt wrong in your gut — that subtle unease you can’t quite explain? In this episode, Amanda Parker explores how to hear and trust your inner wisdom, even when logic pulls you in another direction. She reveals how learning to listen within can transform confusion, overthinking, and anxiety into calm, grounded clarity.

Amanda shares deeply personal moments when intuition spoke clearly — guiding her to life-changing moves across the world — and others when she ignored that voice and paid the emotional price. Through those stories, she illustrates the truth that “when it doesn’t feel clear, it’s because something doesn’t feel right.” Listeners will recognize their own patterns of doubt and rediscover that the body often knows the truth long before the mind does.

This episode offers both soulful insight and practical guidance. Amanda walks you through simple tools to connect with your intuition — from morning journaling and pendulum work to using oracle cards as mirrors for self-trust. These practices help you quiet external noise, ground in your own energy, and find answers that truly align with who you are.

If you’ve ever wondered how to distinguish intuition from fear, or how to trust your inner knowing in the face of uncertainty, this conversation will leave you inspired to slow down, listen deeply, and begin building a relationship with your own inner wisdom. What might change in your life if you truly believed your inner voice was always right? Tune in to find out — and start hearing yourself more clearly than ever before.

How to get in touch:

Website: www.amandaparker.co

Instagram: @amandaparker.co

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandamparker/

Podcast: www.dontsteponthebluebells.com

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