A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World

After an incredibly meaningful and successful five years, I've decided to end the podcast. Thank you for all of your support, time, and trust. I'm off to begin a new chapter, and I'll hope you'll continue to follow along.To stay in touch, subscribe for free at anyakaats.substack.com.Song featured: “A Better Son/Daughter” by Rilo KileySign up for the MGSW book club here.How to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunesBecome a paid subscriber on SubstackVisit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Ian MacKenzie is a new paradigm artist who's been tracking the global emergence of imaginal culture for the past 15 years. From the desert of Burning Man to the heart of Occupy Wall St, Ian has amplified the voices of visionaries, artists and activists who have been working toward planetary system change. He is the co-director of The Village of Lovers, as well as the host of The Mythic Masculine podcast and co-founder of The School of Mythopoetics. Ian and I speak about masculinity, community, elderhood, Eros, trust, and the vital, yet challenging work of turning ideas into action.Find Ian at ianmack.com, and on Instagram and FacebookSongs featured: “Mountain to Move” by Nick Mulvey and “Feed Your Horses” by Gregory Alan IsakovSign up for the MGSW book club here.How to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunesBecome a paid subscriber on SubstackVisit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Peter May is an alchemist, a Grammy award-winning musician, a tree whisperer, a firefighter (and firemaker), an athlete, an architect, and an all around fascinating human being. Peter and I discuss how his love of ecology first developed as a kid living outside Detroit on Lake St. Clair, and how this passion later influenced almost every aspect of his life. From his multiple careers in natural building, native permaculture, sustainable landscape design, and land management, to helping produce and create a Grammy-award winning album with Paul Winter, to the creation of E3 Ecologic, a Crestone-based ecological nonprofit, it's hard not to be inspired by Peter's dedication to following a path dedicated to holism, intuition, and shameless curiosity.Find Peter May at windhorsealchemy.com, and e3ecologic.orgSongs featured: “Awaken and Allow” by Shannon Lay and “Woods Rose and Evening Primrose” by The Sonic ApothecaryJoin myself and Christopher Ryan + Cameron and Melayne Shayne in Montana this summer for the 2023 Sex at Dawn Retreat, August 20-25. To apply, click here.Sign up for the MGSW book club here.How to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunesBecome a paid subscriber on SubstackVisit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Sarah Jones and her husband Michael are fourth generation potato farmers in Hooper, CO. Their farm, Jones Farms Organics, is paving the way in the San Luis Valley (the nation's second largest fresh potato growing region in the U.S.) for regenerative and sustainable farming practices. In addition to helping manage day to day operations at the farm, Sarah has also recently transformed a local gas station and café into a neighborhood whole-food eatery, and helped to bring Marguerite Humeau's 160-acre earthwork “Orisons” to life by convincing her in-laws to donate an unused/fallow circle-pivot to the project. Sarah and I discuss the unexpected and humbling path life sets forth for us when we stop getting in our own way, and how fulfilled and grateful we feel to live in a place where dreams can so easily become a reality.Find the Jones Farm at JonesFarmsOrganics.com, and on InstagramSongs featured: “Without You” by Sjors Mans, “Appaloosa Bones” by Gregory Alan Isakov & “Happiness Does Not Wait” by Ólafur ArnaldsPoem that I read: “To Be Of Use” by Marge PiercySign up for the MGSW book club here.How to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunesBecome a paid subscriber on SubstackVisit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Kelly Moody is a critical ethnobotanist, philosopher, teacher, writer, and podcast host. After growing up in rural southern Virginia on her grandmother's tobacco farm, Kelly's interest in plants and ecology never left her. She received a B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies, and then left Virginia to travel cross-country, studying herbal medicine, land tending, ecology and botany. In the summer of 2020, she hiked the Colorado Trail documenting plants on foot and made notes on wild food and medicine gardens found along the old Ute pathways. Kelly and I discuss what it means to approach fields like ethnobotany, archeology, and anthropology both holistically and with a critical lens, rethinking relationships between people and plants, and questioning the ways we've explored, preserved, and defined “ecology”, “nature”, and “wilderness”. We also speak about the limits of capitalism, and reimagine a future in which infrastructure and capital could work toward ecological regeneration instead of against it.Find Kelly at OfSedgeAndSalt.com, on Instagram, on Substack and listen to her podcast The Ground Shots Podcast, available on Substack and all streaming apps.Songs featured: “Feet Keep Moving” by Natural Self & “Desert Dove” by Holly ArrowsmithSign up for the MGSW book club here.Join myself and Christopher Ryan + Cameron and Melayne Shayne in Montana this summer for the 2023 Sex at Dawn Retreat, August 20-25. To apply, click here.How to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!Become a paid subscriber on SubstackVisit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to contribute financially, please consider becoming a paid supporter for only $5/month and get access to bonus content, a community book club, and more: anyakaats.substack.com Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Jules Evans is a philosopher, journalist, and author, whose work centers around the interplay between rational and ecstatic states of consciousness. Currently, Jules is leading the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project - researching psychedelic harm reduction, ethics, and integration. Jules and I speak about our shared disillusionment with Western spiritual wellness culture, the role discernment plays in realm of mystery, and why it's dangerous to be overconfident about ones “truth”. We discuss how Western religion has always been both a belief system and a business structure, inexorably interwoven with wellness, medicine, and an individualistic approach to self-improvement and healing, and explore how the burgeoning industry of psychedelic therapy may be following in those same footsteps.Find Jules at PhilosophyForLife.Org, on Twitter, Instagram, and on SubstackSongs featured: “Meet Me In the Woods” by Lord Huron & “I Wanna Get Better” by BleachersSign up for the MGSW book club here.Join myself and Christopher Ryan + Cameron and Melayne Shayne in Montana this summer for the Sex at Dawn retreat, August 20-25. To apply, click here.Attend the Orisons art opening on July 29th int he SLV! Get the info here.Come hang out at the Crestone Energy Fair September 16th & 17th! Here is the link for more info.How to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunesBecome a paid subscriber on SubstackVisit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to contribute financially, please consider becoming a paid supporter for only $5/month and get access to bonus content, a community book club, and more: anyakaats.substack.com Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

George Whitten, along with his wife Julie, own Blue Range Ranch (also known as San Juan Ranch) located in the high desert of Colorado's San Luis Valley. Originally pastoralists, George and his family have been ranching on the same land for well over a century, and have been practicing regenerative agriculture and holistic land management since 1893, long before either of those terms even existed. Sam Schmidt, a New York City-area native, joined the ranch in 2020 through an apprentice program, and is now the Assistant Ranch Manager, alongside his partner Noelle. George, Sam and I speak about the rise and fall of industrial agriculture, the challenges of making a living from land stewardship, what it means to bridge the divide between environmentalism and agriculture, and how taking a regenerative and holistic approach to the land also means applying those same principles to our relationships and communities.Find Blue Range Ranch at bluerangeranch.com, on Instagram, and learn more about the ranch's apprenticeship program here.For those local to Crestone and the SLV, check out my article about Blue Range Ranch in the June edition of The Crestone Eagle.Songs featured: “El Jardin” by Hermanos Gutiérrez & “The Universe” by Gregory Alan IsakovSign up for the MGSW book club here.Join myself and Christopher Ryan + Cameron and Melayne Shayne in Montana this summer for the Sex at Dawn retreat, August 20-25. To apply, click here.Come hang out at the Crestone Energy Fair September 16th & 17th! Here is the link for more info.How to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunesBecome a paid subscriber on SubstackVisit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to contribute financially, please consider becoming a paid supporter for only $5/month and get access to bonus content, a community book club, and more: anyakaats.substack.com Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Erin is a professional writer who's currently studying to get her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Erin is also one of my closest friends, and my former Whore Rapport co-host. Since ending Whore Rapport last fall, Erin and I both felt that there was more to say about our decision to stop the podcast. We speak about the animate, sacred nature of identity, the challenge of overcoming projections and idealizations, and the dangers of leaning too far into intellectualization to the point where it becomes a defense. We also talk about our evolving and deepening relationship to the archetype of the Whore, and discuss what it means to live and love from a place of sacred devotion. Songs featured: “Path 5 (delta)” by Max Richter & Grace Davidson and “You Want What You Can't” by Natalie TateSign up for the MGSW book club here.Learn more about advaya and their courses here. Join myself and Christopher Ryan + Cameron and Melayne Shayne in Montana this summer for the Sex at Dawn retreat, August 20-25. To apply, click here.How to support the show:* Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes* Become a paid subscriber on Substack* Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to contribute financially, please consider becoming a paid supporter for only $5/month and get access to bonus content, a community book club, and more: anyakaats.substack.com Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Jenny is a certified astrologer, holds a PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures, a B.A. in Classical Philology, and has studied ancient civilizations and languages for over 25 years. She's also a trauma-informed coach, spiritual guide, and one of my dearest friends. Jenny returns to the podcast (for the fifth time!) to discuss the upcoming ingress of Saturn into Pisces. From learning how to manifest our wildest dreams, to practicing responsible spirituality, to finding safe, structured containers to manage chaotic emotional and spiritual realms, to integrating death, grief and loss into our everyday lives, we discuss why this transit is so significant and meaningful for each of us.Find Jenny at Amalthea.guide, on Instagram and download her Akashic Records self-study course at akashictraining.comSongs featured: “Inside” by East Forest and “Human” by Alex SerraGet access to the “Spiritual Bypassing” worksheet that Jenny mentioned in our conversation by clicking here.Hear me talk more about my own Saturn return here and here.Sign up for the MGSW book club here.How to support the show:* Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes* Become a paid subscriber on Substack* Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to contribute financially, please consider becoming a paid supporter for only $5/month and get access to bonus content, a community book club, and more: anyakaats.substack.com Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

William Keepin and Cynthia Brix are co-founders of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International. William, a climate scientist and physicist who also trained in clinical psychology with Stanislav Grof began GERI thirty years ago under the name “Gender and Ecology” in an effort to expose and heal the hypocrisies of working to end the exploitation of Mother Earth without simultaneously addressing the exploitation of women and the feminine. Over the years, GERI has evolved into an international program that brings people together from all walks of life to resolve the gender divide through honest and compassionate discourse, somatic work, and mindfulness practices. GERI prioritizes cross-cultural perspectives, and is inclusive of all gender identities, sexual identities and welcomes people of all ages and spiritual beliefs. Their book, Gender Equity & Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family is available now.Find William and Cynthia at grworld.org, and on Instagram, Twitter and FacebookWilliam & Cynthia's Book Recommendations: Think On These Things by Jiddu Krishnamurti, Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, and Cave in the Snow by Vicki MacKenzieSongs featured: “Above All Else, Be Kind” by AJIMAL and “Meet Me There” by Nick MulveyApply to present or teach at the Crestone Energy Fair in September or get more information about attending by clicking here.How to support the show:* Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes* Become a paid subscriber on Substack* Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to contribute financially, please consider becoming a paid supporter for only $5/month and get access to bonus content, a community book club, and more: anyakaats.substack.com Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

For the past few months I've found myself in a deep internal dialogue exploring the nature of my desires, my relationship to will, and my capacity for action. In the face of difficult choices, divergent interests, or upon reaching a fork in the road, how do we decide which path to take? How do we tell the difference between “trusting the timing” and rest/reflection vs. laziness and avoidance? How do we confront the grief of not being able to “do it all?” In this episode, I explore all of these questions, and share an epiphany I had that's been helping me to move through the complexity of honing in on my desires in order to take authentic action. I also share some big news relative to and my community project in Crestone, CO, and also speak about how I see A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World evolving in the coming months and years.Song featured: “In Praise of Home” by RuraJoin our book club by clicking here.Follow Chris and my community project, The Crestone Conglomerate on Youtube and on InstagramHow to support the show:* Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes* Become a paid subscriber on Substack* Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to contribute financially, please consider becoming a paid subscriber for $5/month. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Michael Ridge has spent the last decade living and traveling nomadically on horseback, mostly in the Pacific Northwest. He is an expert in primitive skills and wild foods, and possesses a level of bravery and commitment to core values that I find extraordinarily impressive. In our conversation, Michael shares about the events that led him to his current life on horseback, and outlines what his day-to-day has looked like, season by season, for the past ten years. We discuss civilization, technology, authenticity, grief, ecology, and community, and Michael outlines the the logistical, psychological, spiritual and emotional tools necessary to live the kind of life he's chosen. This conversation is by far one of my favorite episodes of the podcast, and deserves more than one listen.Find Michael on Instagram, TikTok and Youtube.Here is a short video about Finisia Medrano, Michael's teacher -Songs featured: “And You Don't Even Know You Hurt Me” by Nick Murphy, “Fertile Ground” by Evan Fraser, Vir McCoy, Rising Appalachia, and Chloe Smith, and “Wandering Nomad” by Cody FrancisHow to support the show:* Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes* Become a paid subscriber on Substack* Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to contribute financially, please consider becoming a paid supporter for only $5/month. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Johanna Hoffman is a designer, urbanist and strategist exploring the ties between design, planning, fiction and futures. She's the founder of Design for Adaptation, a studio using strategic planning, interactive storytelling and speculative design to survey the impacts of potential futures and spur proactive adaptation. Her new book is called Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities we Need. Johanna and I talk about strategies to make the intangibility and overwhelm of the future more personal and inspiring, and how we can integrate grief into shifting narratives. We discuss how national mythologies translate into the creation of different landscapes, the pros and cons of modern cities, and how important it is to give ourselves permission to lean into our creativity, imagination, and confidence in order to manifest big ideas. Johanna's book recommendations: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and the work of Eric Klineberg, Ursula Le Guin, Stuart Candy, and Octavia Butler.Find Johanna at johannahoffman.com and on InstagramSongs featured: “The Fear” by Ben Howard and “Let Me Down Easy” by Gang of YouthsHow to support the show:* Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes* Become a paid subscriber on Substack* Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable and have the means to donate financially, please consider becoming a paid subscriber for only $5/month. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Téo Montoya is a Human Design Analyst, Metamodern Myth Mender, Indigenous Futurist writer and multimedia artist. His work focuses on synthesizing cosmological and spiritual systems, myths, archetypes, and modalities to find ways of supporting an emerging world in crisis through human development, ecological literacy, and reciprocity with our communities and more-than-human kin. In other words, Téo and I have a lot in common. We speak about our complex relationships to both Human Design and Astrology, and the importance of questioning the nature of “belief” when it comes to working with archetypal systems. We also discuss mythology, individualism, the collective crisis of meaning, grief, identity, ecology, masculinity, Metamodernism and so much more.Téo's book recommendation: The Four Shields: The Initiatory Seasons of Human Nature by Steven Foster and Meredith LittleFind Téo at archaicremnant.com, on Instagram @teomontoya_ and listen to his podcast Indigenous FuturesSongs featured: “A Prayer of My Own” by Nick Mulvey and “You Get What You Give” by New RadicalsHow to support the show:* Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes* Become a paid subscriber on Substack* Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable and have the means to donate financially, please consider becoming a paid subscriber for only $5/month. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Just wanted to share a quick update about the return of our official Millennial's Guide to Saving the World book club.If you're already on Substack/signed up for the book club, no need to listen to this. Just wanted to make sure to make the announcement on the podcast for listeners who have not yet subscribed on Substack.All the info for how to sign up and participate can be found by clicking here. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Van is an educator and practitioner in dance, healing and spirituality with over 20 years of experience. He integrates Eastern and Western modalities to create a holistic dance education, centering on how dance can enlighten our perspectives on life and how we interact with society. Van reaches beyond dance and choreography by focusing his work on human development through fusing dance, spirituality and healing practices. Van and I recorded this conversation in Athens, Greece where I spent two weeks participating in his Contact Beyond Contact facilitators training course. We speak about Van's unconventional journey in discovering dance, his desire to unify his multidisciplinary interests, and his work using movement and dance not just as performance, but also as a healing modality for our body, mind, heart, and spirit.Find Van at UnitySpace.org, and on InstagramInterested in signing up for the CBC Facilitators Training Course? Find the info here and email cbc@unityspace.org using code “CBC_Anya”Songs featured: “Passage” by Garth Stevenson, “Rest (Acoustic)” by Leif Vollebekk, and “De Ushuaia a La Quiaca” by Gustavo SantaolallaFor some beautiful visual representations of Contact Beyond Contact: Visit my SubstackHow to support the show:* Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes* Become a paid subscriber on Substack* Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable and have the means to donate financially, please consider becoming a paid subscriber for only $5/month. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Deborah Eden Tull (who goes by Eden) is a Zen meditation and engaged dharma teacher, public speaker, author and sustainability educator, as well as the founder of Mindful Living Revolution. She trained for seven and a half years as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery and has taught engaged dharma for over 20 years. Her new book, Luminous Darkness, explores what it means to embrace, navigate and learn from the unknown. Eden and I discuss how “endarkenment” is different than enlightenment, and how balancing both light and dark in our lives can provide a radical path to wholeness. We discuss everything from embodiment to dark nights of the soul, light pollution, the suppression of femininity, our collective disconnection from the earth, and the complexities of power, dominance, hierarchy.Find Eden at deborahedentull.com and on InstagramEden's Book Recommendations - Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki & Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmermerSign up for Retrograde with Intention here - We start September 17th, but registration will remain open through September.Songs featured: “Heat & Dark” by Luca Fogale and “The Fruitful Darkness” by Trevor HallHow to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunesBecome a paid subscriber on SubstackVisit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable and have the means to donate financially, please consider becoming a paid subscriber for only $5/month. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Whitney returns to the podcast to discuss how paradox, polarity and nuance show up in astrology, and how to best utilize concepts of “good” and “bad” to provoke self-awareness. How can nuance be used to both invite and prevent growth? How can we assess when duality is helpful vs. when it isn't? Whitney and I provide an overview of concepts such as malefics & benefics, sect, dignities and debilities, aspects, and retrogrades, to discuss what's both helpful and unhelpful about seeing something as “positive” or “negative". We also discuss the archetype of Mars, and the upcoming Mars retrograde in Gemini. Our course, Retrograde with Intention, returns  September 17th, and is a group container to support your growth, awareness and transformation over the course of the upcoming Mars Rx transit.Sign up for Retrograde with Intention here.Songs featured: “Tumbleweed” by Puscifer and “Born Under A Bad Sign” by Albert KingHow to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunesBecome a paid subscriber on SubstackVisit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable and have the means to donate financially, please consider becoming a paid subscriber for only $5/month. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Kimberly Ann Johnson is a somatic experience practitioner, sexological bodyworker, author, podcast host, and doula. She returns to the podcast to speak about the turmoil of the past couple years, and recounts the journey that led her to co-author Reckoning with Stephen Jenkinson. We speak about our mutual experience feeling alienated from the “wellness” community during Covid, and the great loss and betrayal we felt from those who pitted individualism and “personal sovereignty” against community and social responsibility. We also touch on the importance of becoming conscious of our biases, cultivating humility and nuance especially in times of heightened emotion, the risks of overvaluing the hero's journey, and what we can do to make ourselves worthy of elderhood.Purchase a copy of Reckoning by Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Ann Johnson here.Find Kimberly on Instagram and on her website KimberlyAnnJohnson.comSongs featured: “Ballad Of A Thin Place” by RF Shannon and “Baby Hallelujah” by KonradsenCheck out this live performance of “Baby Hallelujah” by Konradsen - How to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunesBecome a paid subscriber on SubstackVisit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable and have the means to donate financially, please consider becoming a paid subscriber for only $5/month. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Stephen is a culture activist, teacher, author, and co-founder if the Orphan Wisdom School. His work centers around grief, elderhood, community, and is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, and working for a time we won't see. Stephen and I speak about how a lack of generational connection and transmission has provoked deep rupture and brokenness. We discuss the difference between communities and collectives, the danger of individualism and personal “sovereignty,” and how grief is an inevitable outcome of true “awakening”. We also touch on guru/student relationships, societal misconceptions about power and privilege, how to cultivate belonging as a state of being, and the devastating effects of living in a culture that has traded grief for grievance.Purchase a copy of Reckoning by Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Ann Johnson here.Songs featured: “Invocation” by Nights of Grief and Mystery, “The Future” by Leonard CohenHow to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!Become a paid subscriber on Substack.Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener supported project. If you find this content valuable, please consider becoming a paid supporter for only $5/month. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Mónica Guzmán is an author, journalist, and bridge builder. She is the Director of Digital Storytelling at Braver Angels, a nonprofit working to depolarize America, and author of the book “I Never Thought Of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times”. Móni and her parents immigrated to the US from Mexico when she was a teenager. Móni is a liberal, but her parents voted for Trump… twice. Our conversation focuses on the importance of curating connection to those we disagree with, and the practice of maintaining curiosity about ideas and opinions we don't understand. We speak about how to prioritize trust above “truth,” the polarizing role of the media, and the danger of getting sucked into ideological silos. Móni explains how it is possible to remember that we are all smarter and more capable than what they want us to believe, but only when we make space for and reclaim vulnerable conversations, and a connection to one another.Mónica's book recommendation: The Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo EmersonFind Mónica on Twitter, Instagram, and ReclaimCuriosity.comClick here to learn more about Contact Beyond Contact.Click here to sign up for the Sex at Dawn Retreat this September in Montana, hosted by Chris Ryan, Cameron & Melayne Shayne, and me! (Only two spots left).Songs featured: “Moving” by Eskimotion, “Back to You” by Benjamin Gordon, and “Going Home” by ÁsgeirHow to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!Become a paid subscriber on Substack.Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener supported publication. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to donate financially, please consider becoming a paid subscriber for only $5/month. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Lenore Black, a fan favorite of the show, returns for a second episode. It's an understatement to say that a lot has changed in the year and a half since Lenore and I first connected, both personally and collectively. We speak about Lenore's move from New York City to Joshua Tree, which was as much an inner journey as an outer journey. Lenore shares why she decided to reevaluate her career, her connection to herself and to nature, and the identity she held onto for years as a bisexual, queer, kinky, non-monogamous woman. We speak about the importance of avoiding political and ideological silos, and why it's vital that we approach ourselves and the world with curiosity, empathy and a willingness to have our minds changed in ways we might not expect.Click here to listen to the first podcast episode Lenore and I recorded together.Find Lenore on Instagram and on SubstackSongs featured: “Desert Solitaire” by Greta Morgan, “Ends of the Earth” by Lord Huron, and “Meanwhile Back in the City” by The Presidents of the United States of AmericaHow to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!Become a paid subscriber on Substack.Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener supported publication. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to donate financially, please consider becoming a paid subscriber for only $5/month. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Chris and I had the pleasure of spending ten days with Elia on our trip to Tanzania last month, and sat down to record a podcast with him at Lake Eyasi. Elia is half Maasai, and spent much of his childhood being raised by his Maasai grandfather. He has a great deal of knowledge and insight about the complexities and conflicts between the Maasai and the “modern world,” because that complexity informs his life and identity. In this conversation we speak about his experience learning about wildlife, the land, astronomy and what it means to mature as a man within his Maasai community, and the shift into his adult life as a safari guide. We speak about Maasai culture and tradition, climate change, spirit animals, tourism, education, and population growth. Elia gives some unique and important context to the experience of coming from and living in two very different worlds.Get in touch with Elia through Gladiola Adventure.Songs featured: “Korobela” and “Asante Sana” by The SoilHow to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!Become a paid subscriber on Substack.Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener supported publication. If you find this content valuable, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Sophie is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. We speak about personal and collective mythologies and how so many of our stories have been deracinated from their roots in ways that perpetuate harm. We discuss the importance of rerooting and rewilding these narratives by listening with our whole bodies, and becoming aware of how our individual story is a part of an overarching ecological matrix. We touch on how we've both worked to reframe our own sensitivity and illness, and the complexities of Psilocybin, masculinity, Jesus, spirituality and magic.Find Sophie at and on Instagram, on Substack and check out her course with Advaya. Pre-order her book The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine.Sophie's Book Recommendations: When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut and Inflamed by by Rupa Marya and Raj PatelSongs featured: “Gold Star Mothers” by Hammock, “Meet The Moonlight” by Jack Johnson, and “Dust” by Ryan MontbleauHow to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!Become a paid subscriber on Substack.Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable and have the means to donate, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Chloé is a writer and entrepreneur whose company, Theory of Enchantment, offers an alternative to conventional anti-racism training. Instead of focusing on dualistic thinking and division, Chloé's company embraces and promotes love and compassion. We speak about the importance of accepting and embodying our own individual complexities and polarities as a means to accept others. We discuss the West's (and our own individual) obsession with controlling and predicting, which inevitably leads to abuses of power. We also talk about meaningful relationship as an antidote to power grabbing, the importance of channeling anger as opposed to identifying with it, and how real change will require that we get back into our bodies and feel our feelings.Find Chloé at TheoryofEnchantment.com, Instagram, and Twitter, and listen to her podcast The Heart SpeaksChloé's Book Recommendations: The Way of Woman by Helen Luke and The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchristSongs featured: “Dreamer” by Arisha Badru and “You Make Loving Fun” by Fleetwood MacHow to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!Become a paid subscriber on Substack.Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramHere is the 60 minutes segment I spoke about in our conversation:A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable and have the means to donate, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

This episode has been a long time coming. If you're a regular listener of MGSW, you know that I'm incredibly interested in exploring power dynamics, shadow, and spirituality, especially when all three become interwoven. I share my reflections about the podcast Cover Story, which uncovers abuses of power within the growing industry of psychedelic therapy. I also discuss Power in the Helping Professions by Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig, and reflect on how power is wielded within various forms of “therapy”. How might “healers” project the wounded pole of the wounded healer archetype onto their patients, thereby avoiding their own? What are the dangers of silencing genuine questions and concerns during campaigns to gain cultural acceptance of something that's been historically demonized? Why are we more willing to discuss abuses of power when the abuses involve sex and drugs? How have nuanced conversations and opinions been replaced by false binaries and “you're with me or against me” reactive assumptions? I discuss all of these questions and more.Song featured: “Waterfalls” by Ten FéHow to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!Become a paid subscriber on Substack.Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to donate, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Debra has lived an incredibly full and inspiring life with no plan of stopping anytime soon. From moving to Europe, dropping out of school, marrying an Italian prince and hitchhiking across Africa all by the time she was sixteen, Debra has always embraced the unknown and said “yes” to all of what life has thrown at her. We speak about her love of integrating art and architecture, and the beauty of bringing something of ourselves to new experiences as opposed to requiring an experience to give something to us. We touch on the importance of embracing our individual uniqueness, the beauty of being a citizen within a community, and why elderhood is underrated.Songs featured: “Confidently Lost” by Sabrina Claudio and “Against the Wind” by VictoryHow to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Lindsey Lockett is a trauma educator, coach, podcast host and self-proclaimed “awareness junkie and nervous system ninja”. She joined me to continue our two-part conversation about spirituality. (To listen to part 1, head to Episode #79 of the Holistic Trauma Healing Podcast). Lindsey spent the first 30 years of her life as an evangelical Christian, but had a reckoning at age 33 and a traumatic dark night of the soul that provoked her to reinvent her life from the ground up. We speak about her journey of developing an individual approach to belief and meaning, and her commitment to understanding herself and the world in ways that challenge the status-quo. We speak about our mutual dedication to critical thinking, reinventing ourselves, and resisting fundamentalist/black & white thinking. We talk about belonging, ancestry, past life regressions, honoring the earth, and Lindsey tells a story about this one time she sacrificed a pig with her neighbors in order to pray for rain. Join me on Substack to share your thoughts about this episode in the comments section, and get access to bonus content and a community of like-minded humans.Find Lindsey at LindseyLockett.com and on InstagramSongs featured: “Be Like Water” by Lo Wolf and “All The Way Down” by Jonathan WilsonHow to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode I discuss three relatively controversial and divisive issues in an effort to expose our discomfort with cognitive dissonance. For example, are we really anti-vaccine mandate, or are we just anti-Covid vaccine mandate (because we don't feel personally at risk)? Would we still be preaching about sovereignty if the virus was deadlier? What if it had been a white man who had slapped Chris Rock, or what if Chris Rock had been a woman? Is creating an identity around veganism more about seeking external validation than it is about veganism? This episode explores how resistant we can be to embracing the subjective nature of our beliefs and decisions, instead opting into “belief clubs” that provide us with externalized rationalizations for our own biases. I argue that by doing so, we lose countless opportunities to grow and gain greater self-awareness.How to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!Join me on Substack and get access to newsletters, exclusive writing, community book clubs & access and a private Discord server just for listeners of the show: anyakaats.substack.comVisit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Christopher Ryan (co-author of Sex at Dawn, author of Civilized to Death, and host of Tangentially Speaking) returns to the podcast to discuss spirituality, and the ways we've engaged in this realm in different, yet parallel ways. We speak about psychedelics, astrology, synchronicity, and magic, and how these tools and practices have informed our approach to life. We touch on integration, ego, and humility, plus discuss the conflict between scientific worldviews/mechanistic thinking and the exploration of subjective meaning and belief. Plus, I talk about my inspiration for The Lunar Circle and why I approach and teach astrology in such a nuanced and experiential way.Find Chris at chrisryanphd.com, on Twitter and on InstagramSongs featured: “Bathroom Dance” by Hildur Guðnadóttir from the movie Joker and "Inside I'll Sing” by Shards & Isolation ChoirHow to support the show:Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!Join the Substack community and get access to newsletters, exclusive articles, and a private Discord server just for listeners of the show, which you can join by clicking this link - https://discord.gg/sQHPPVC9 (This Discord link expires in 7 days from the episode date. If it no longer works, send me an email - anyakaats@gmail.com)Join the April Lunar Circle, enrollment closes 3/28 - AnyaKaats.com/LunarCircleVisit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Lisa is a writer, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a certified Jungian Analyst. She is a co-host of the podcast This Jungian Life and the author of Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself. She joins me on the podcast to talk about motherhood (both literally and figuratively), and how it offers us a meaningful path toward our own individuation. We speak about projection, the process of creativity, the dangers of victimhood, the fallacy of control, and distinguishing the difference between intuition vs. anxiety. We also discuss the power of mythology as a warehouse of psychic patterns and their capacity to give us language for things that are notoriously hard to language. Find Lisa at LisaMarchiano.com and at ThisJungianLife.com Lisa's Book Recommendation: The Cormoran Strike Series by Robert Galbraith (Aka J.K. Rowling) Songs featured: "Sun, Arise! (An Invocation, An Introduction)" by Phospherescent and "One More Cup of Coffee" by Frazey Ford How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Join the Substack community and get access to newsletters, exclusive articles, and a private Discord server just for listeners of the show, which you can join by clicking this link - https://discord.gg/Vwp4nr2P (This Discord link expires in 7 days from the episode date. If it no longer works, send me an email - anyakaats@gmail.com) Join the April Lunar Circle - AnyaKaats.com/LunarCircle Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Rachel Krantz is the author of Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy. She is also one of the founding co-editors of Bustle, and a recipeint of the Peabody Award. Rachel and I discuss the complicated and overwhelming process of finding safety and authenticity within the world of unconventional relationships. While being careful not to dismiss non-monogamy outright, we do our best to lend some much needed nuance to the topic. We discuss power dynamics, discernment, abuse, safety, trust and intuition, among many other things. Rachel's book is incredibly courageous, vulnerable and nuanced, and I was honored to discuss it with her in this conversation. Find Rachel at RachelJKrantz.com and on Twitter Songs featured: "River" by Bishop Briggs and "Invocation (Chaitanya Mantra)" by The Hanumen How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Join the Substack community and get access to newsletters, exclusive articles, and a private Discord server just for listeners of the show, which you can join by clicking this link - https://discord.gg/4EaBb3FE (This Discord link expires in 7 days from the episode date. If it no longer works, send me an email - anyakaats@gmail.com) Join the Lunar Circle waitlist - AnyaKaats.com/LunarCircle Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

My friend Jenny Kellogg returns to the podcast, this time to speak about the Akashic Records. Early scientists said that there was a fifth element beyond fire, air, earth, and water. It was called “ether.” The information field of the universe could also be called ether, and this information field is what the Akashic Records are said to contain - a dynamic, neutral reservoir of information including every thought, emotion, experience, and intention of your soul through all lifetimes. Jenny and I discuss the difference between accessing the Akashic Records vs. psychic/past life regression readings, and, in true form, we bring a hefty portion of discernment, nuance and groundedness to yet another extremely complex spiritual topic! Jenny's Book Recommendations: Science and the Akashic Field by Ervin Laszlo and Journey of Your Soul by Shepard Hoodwin Find Jenny at Amalthea.guide and on Instagram Songs featured: "A Spark, A Beginning" by Corre and "Spinning Away" by Brian Eno and John Cale How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

This week, I bring you a conversation with my Grandma Barbara. From cleverly cheating on a vision test in order to become an airplane stewardess, to becoming a psychotherapist, sex and relationship therapist, and a Jungian therapist, to buying land in Colorado and building a cabin in the mountains, to raising her son (my Dad) and embracing his homosexuality from a young age, my Grandmother has lived her life with an open heart and open mind. We speak about her life, the lessons she's learned and how she's embracing the inevitability of death. If you've heard my Dad on the podcast (episode 21 and episode 73), this conversation will certainly add some depth and insight. Song featured: "Good Woman" by the Staves and "Virginia in the Rain" by the Dave Matthews Band How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

"If you asked her to identify the moment she knew she was lying to herself, she could tell you..." This week, I decided to take a break from my regularly scheduled programming to read you a story. From unrequited love, to hero complexes, codependency, the erotic energy between teachers and students, eros, fantasy and delusion... I think you'll find this story relatable. Song featured: "Show Me Love" by Hundred Waters How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Orleatha Smith, M.Ed is a serial entrepreneur, biologist and certified holistic lifestyle coach. Both of us spent years in the paleo/ancestral health world, had paleo food blogs, adhered to a strict paleo diet and worked in the wellness industry. We also both developed orthorexia and an extremely antagonistic relationship toward food and our bodies in the process. We discuss the complexities of our individual journeys and what it took to re-prioritize happiness, pleasure, and a fiercely honest, stress-free and individual approach to health and wellness. Find Orleatha on Instagram Orleatha's Book Recommendations: The High-Five Habit by Mel Robbins, Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon and the Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton Songs featured: "Rise" by Dominique Fils-Aimé and "Enough" by Aisha Badru How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Timo and I have too many things in common to list. From an obsession with Tony Kushner's Angels in America, to the importance of recognizing and building personal mythologies, to neo-tribalism and the importance of community, we spent two months in Antigua, Guatemala philosophizing late into the night about all our favorite subjects. Timo was raised in Mormonism and had a successful career in political consulting before focusing on a project around a return to tribal living, where small groups of people live in committed community that gives equal weight to both the individual and the community. If you're interested in spirituality, mythology, tribe, community and belonging, this episode is not to be missed. Timo's Book Recommendation: Tribe by Sebastian Junger Find Timo on Instagram, at storyofexistence.com or email him tim@theunknown.be Sign up for Whitney and my Retrograde with Intention course by clicking here. Enrollment ends December 8th and space is limited! Songs featured: "The Truth About the World" by Andrea Marie, "Bethesda Fountain" and "More Life" from Angels in America and "MANGO" by KAMAUU feat. Adeline How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Whitney Will is a psychological astrologer and writer. She has a B.A. in the History of Math and completed her M.A. in Counseling Psychology with a focus on Jungian and Archetypal Studies at Pacifica. Whitney returns to the podcast, this time to chat with me about planetary retrogrades. We discuss what's really happening in the sky when a planet "goes retrograde", dispel false narratives about what retrogrades mean and delve into the archetype and mythology behind Mercury, Mars and Venus. We also expand on what it means to be born during a planetary retrograde and to have a retrograde planet in your natal chart. Lastly, we discuss our upcoming course "Retrograde with Intention" where we will be helping participants track the upcoming Venus retrograde in Capricorn through their charts and creating community and ritual around the transit, honoring Venus the best way we know how.  Find Whitney at at StarHearthAstrology.com, Youtube and Instagram. Sign up for our Retrograde with Intention course by clicking here. Enrollment ends December 8th and space is limited! Songs featured: "Love Like a Sunset, pt. 2" by Phoenix and "Southern Star" by Gregory Alan Isakov How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Chris is a Spiritual Mentor and Master Energy Worker. He has extensive education in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Medical QiGong, Reiki, Pranic Healing, & Sexual Alchemy. We discuss our shared experience of identifying as spiritual and yet feeling alienated by most spiritual communities and unpack why that is. We also do a deep dive into Feminine and Masculine Polarity, how they exist within each of our us and how we enact this energy balance and exchange within relationships. We talk about the physical and psychological effects of trying to neutralize and deny the natural flow of energy in our bodies, and how when yin & yang are in disharmony, true vitality and health can never be fully established. We also speak about the ways both men and women can step up to the plate support each other in this process. Find Chris on Instagram and at AwakenedIntent.com Chris' book recommendation: Tantric Orgasms for Women and Tantric Sex for Men by Diana Richardson Songs featured: "Can't Help But Fly" by Climbing PoeTree, be steadwell & Luqman Frank and "Medicine Man" by Dorothy How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website – AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

I met Rehan at the beginning of Covid on a ranch in Santa Fe. After mentioning that my podcast features taboo conversations about a variety of topics, he asked if I'd ever discussed terrorism and the War on Terror & started talking about how bizarre he thought it was that the US had waged an entire war against what he described as "local gangsters". I was intrigued, to say the least, and a year and a half later, we sat down to talk about it. Rehan grew up in Pakistan, but came to the US for college, and has lived here ever since. He's a journalist, writer and a playwright, currently working on a project for Frontline/PBS about majoritarianism. We speak about the fallacies surrounding the War on Terror (of which there are many), and unpack how on a grand scale, the US effectively fabricated an enemy, and constructed and proliferated a war based on misguided judgement and vastly overblown risk. Rehan's book recommendation: The War At the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa Songs featured: "Masters of War" by Vieux Farka Touré and Julia Easterlin and "War" by Edwin Starr How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website – AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Tzeporah is a Canadian environmental activist, campaigner and writer. She has worked in environmentalism for 30 years, is the co-founder and International Program Director at Stand.Earth and the Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. From being arrested at the front lines of forest conservation initiatives, to speaking directly with the CEOs of fossil fuel corporations, Tzeporah has seen it all. We speak about regulation as it relates to both consumption and production, the difference between being a citizen vs. being a consumer, and we dissect the complexities of locating “responsibility” for ending the climate crisis. We discuss how humans are not separate from nature, but a part of nature itself, the unknown long-term effects of clearcutting and reforestation, and how to create hope in a seemingly hopeless situation. Find Tzeporah and support her work by visiting Stand.earth and FossilFuelTreaty.org Tzeporah's book recommendation: The Day the World Stops Shopping by J.B. Mackinnon Songs featured: "My City Was Gone" by The Pretenders and "Green Mountain State" by Trevor Hall How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website – AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Jenny joins me on the podcast once again, this time to talk about the astrological significance and underpinning of generations. We speak about every generation from the Baby Boomers through to Gen Z, and give some context for how each can be viewed through the lens of astrology, karma and collective purpose. What does the Hero's Journey look like on a generation scale? What can we define as the collective shadow of a generation? How does each generation fit together thematically and what might we glean from their chronology? We also speak about the most recent, as of yet unnamed generation and provide some thoughts on what their journey may look like based on what's currently going on in the world. Find Jenny at AmaltheaAstrology.com and on Instagram Jenny's book recommendation: The Hades Moon by Judy Hall Songs featured: "Life Don't Last That Long" by Anders Osborne and "Star People" by George Michael Join the Lunar Circle and get access to special pricing through midnight, September 24th: anyakaats.com/lunarcircle How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website – AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

When I launched this podcast 3 years ago, I would have never been able to predict that this monumental 100th episode would be shared with my Mother. In fact, at the time, we weren't even speaking to one another. This conversation tracks my own ancestral history from the life of my grandmother, to my mother, to me. We speak about family patterns, trauma, the mother wound, codependency, and the excruciatingly painful two years we spent apart from one another in 2017 & 2018. If you have a Mom, or a daughter, or want to reinvigorate your belief in hope, change and forgiveness, this conversation shouldn't be missed. Thank you, Mom, for sharing this moment with me, and to Doren and Sherry for helping us in spirit, every step of the way. Also, a huge thank you to all of the wonderful, unimaginably beautiful humans that listen to this podcast. Here's to many more… Find Cathy, my Mom at cathyarden.com Songs featured: "Change" by Tracy Chapman and "I Think I Understand" by Joni Mitchell Join the Lunar Circle and get access to special pricing (now extended!) through September 24th: anyakaats.com/lunarcircle How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website – AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Torie Feldman is an Ancestral Healing Guide and Women's Spiritual Mentor. In this conversation, we speak about what it means to heal intergenerational patterns and cycles, from both a biological and psychological point of view. We also talk about the difference between grounded and ungrounded spirituality, the reclamation of womanhood and feminine power, sacred sexuality and the archetypes of both maiden and mother.  Find Torie on Instagram and at SacredAncestry.com Torie's book recommendations: Jambalaya by Luisah Teish and It Didn't Start with You by Mark Wolynn Songs featured: "Estrellas" and "Huracan" by Maria Jose Montijo Join the Lunar Circle and get access to special pricing (now extended!) through September 24th: anyakaats.com/lunarcircle How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website – AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Two-thirds of Kosmic Tonic join me on the podcast this week to discuss all things Venus. We unpack the mythology and multivalent archetype associated with this frequently misunderstood and oversimplified planet. We speak about desire, longing, and how love is consistently more complex than we give it credit for. We touch on projection, fantasy, what constitutes core, human needs, and make a case to de-pathologize pleasure. We also discuss our own Venus placements and the journey that all three of us have been on to understand ourselves through the lens of love and loss.  Find Eliza and Kestrel on Instagram and at KosmicTonic.com Songs featured: "Road to Venus" by Leif Vollebekk and "Healer in the Sky" by The Secret Sisters Join the Lunar Circle and get access to special pricing through September 10th: anyakaats.com/lunarcircle How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website – AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Tao, Chris and Anya have a three-way... conversation. Sitting in Tao's shipping container gallery in Yucca Valley, the three of us speak about the interwoven relationship between life, death, sex, pleasure, pain and creativity, and how the absence of death can directly correlate to an absence of eroticism. We question the hypocrisies of mainstream environmentalism, and whether individual action can influence collective change. We also speak about disagreement, the purpose of podcasts, and the art of conversation.  Find Tao on Instagram and listen to his podcast "Being in the World" on Youtube Find Chris at on Instagram, Twitter, and at chrisryanphd.com Songs featured: "Pure Imagination" by Dave Harrington Group and "Human" by Sevdaliza How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website – AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I talk about how I've been feeling and what I've been thinking about over this past summer. Namely, about the intersection of beauty and death. I speak about how as I get older, a lot of my optimism and my desire to find "purpose" and "meaning" has become supplanted with unavoidable grief, death and sorrow. I question whether believing that everything happens for a reason is really just a manic and delusional avoidance of truth, honesty and sadness. I explore whether pessimism equals complacency, and if we're kidding ourselves by thinking any one of us can make a palpable difference in the way we, as a species, operate in the world.  Song featured: "Mama" by Lola Kirke & Kelly Zutrau Join the Lunar Circle before September 2nd and get access to special, discounted pricing - anyakaats.com/lunarcircle How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website – AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Melayne is a Budokon Mixed Movement Athlete and founder of the Warrior Women Tribe. She is the VP of the Mixed Movement Arts System Budokon and Director of the Budokon Yoga Program and Teacher Training. We speak about movement as a tool for self-exploration and as an invitation to think about how we exist in the world as a whole. We touch on imposter syndrome, sexuality, non-monogamy, and unpack the warrior woman archetype, as well as the mother archetype. We also discuss community and how it acts as a mirror, plus how moving toward fear and risk provides us with an opportunity to grow.  Find Melayne on Instagram and at Budokon.com Melayne's book recommendations: Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha, Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel, Intimate Relationships by Stephen Wolinsky & Conscious Loving by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks Songs featured: "Iluminar" by Porangui, Sumeru by Islandman and "Feeling Good" by Sofi Tukker How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website – AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Clementine Morrigan and Jay are the hosts of the podcast "Fucking Cancelled." We speak about the reality, danger and harm of what Clem & Jay have defined as "The Nexus" - Cancel Culture + Identitarianism + social media. Plus, we dive into how all of this relates to healing from trauma, 12 steps, and taking responsibility of our own lives. We touch on race, gender, privilege, power, economics, and a whole lot more.  Find Fucking Cancelled on Patreon, send them an email at fckingcancelled@gmaill.com, and find Clementine on Instagram and on Patreon.  Clementine & Jay's book recommendations: Terror, Love and Brainwashing by Alexandra Stein, Toward Freedom by Toure Reed, Ministry of the Future + The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher & Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Songs featured: “I Won't Run From It” by Big Red Machine and “You Don't Know Me" by Ben Folds ft. Regina Spektor How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website – AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Tracy is a senior staff writer at Jezebel covering sex, gender, and feminism. She's also the author of "Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire". Tracy and I discuss what it was like growing up as a young person with access to porn, AOL sex chatrooms, and how we navigated the very confusing world of "sexual education." We cover desire, pleasure, masculinity and femininity, power dynamics, sexual self-awareness, or lack thereof, and more. Find Tracy at TracyClarkFlory.com and on Twitter. Tracy's book recommendation: Talk Dirty to Me by Sallie Tisdale and Love and Trouble by Claire Dederer. Songs featured: “Unravel Me” by Sabrina Claudio and “Feeling Good” by Nina Simone How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website – AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Rachel was raised in a strict fundamentalist Christian household with rigid gender expectations. She was exposed to pedophilia, sexual violence and severe homophobia from a very young age. In the process of trying to find herself, Rachel became convinced that she could solve her mental health issues and her difficulties dating by taking cross-sex hormones and becoming a man. Rachel, who now identifies as a lesbian woman, shares openly about this process & why she decided to ultimately detransition. Rachel also explains what all of this has to do with internalized & culturally reinforced misogyny, unprocessed trauma, fundamentalist ideologies + widespread medical & psychological malpractice.  Find Rachel on Twitter. Watch Dysphoric on Youtube. Rachel's book recommendation: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk and Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich Songs featured: “Save Me” by Bleu and “Things Are Gonna Get Easier” by Low Motion Disco How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to perks like an exclusive Discord Server, a book club just for patrons, shirts + stickers, playlists, and curated workshops led by myself, fellow Patrons and former guests of the podcast. Visit my website – AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe