Connected: A Podcast With Jess

We connected on the road as nomads...and Amanda had a personal dream to be on a podcast.  I looked at her and said, "Well, I can make that happen!".  So we shared a mic on a beautiful goat farm near Long Beach, Washington.  I discovered a nomadic community and a magical human named Amanda.  She shares her story and the future story she's dreaming about.  Self Discovery is what it's all about!Connect with Amanda and her nomadic journey:IG: Follow Amanda & Matt's JourneyEmail: ambarnz@gmail.com

Living as an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) is changing the game in how we run our businesses and our life.  Meet Bianca Morra, a fellow HSP and photographer.  We discuss this newfound gift about ourselves and why it's the secret sauce to her art and business.  She is giving the world an opportunity to see their souls the way she does.Connect with Bianca:Instagram: @biancaleamorraBianca's Resources: linktr.ee/BmorraBooks we discussed:The Highly Sensitive Person by Dr. Elaine AronOur Business/Life Coach: Hayley Carr

Sara Cousineau is connecting women back to their essence...their original blueprint of ecstasy and pleasure.  Her story of corporate burnout and evolving herself into a highly intuitive and self-knowing woman has now led her to a unique space of helping women get out of their heads and back into their bodies. She helps women reclaim their sexuality, sensuality, and pleasure. She is also a Doula guidling women through one of the most powerful journeys of their life.  Sara is helping you find your way back to the entire experience of being a woman. It's a juicy episode!Connect with Sara:Instagram: @skcousineau Activating Ecstasy 8-week program

Dacy Gillespie intuitively guides her clients to discover what they feel best in. She helps them let go of the external messages they've been given about what they should wear and get to the heart of what's making them uncomfortable about their clothes. Through their work building a functional wardrobe, Dacy's clients make a mindset shift from thinking they need to wear what's flattering to unapologetically taking up space in the world. After a lifetime of jobs in high-stress careers that didn't suit her highly-sensitive, introverted personality, Dacy started mindful closet in 2013 in an attempt to create a more emotionally sustainable lifestyle. She has two boys, ages 3 and 7, and a husband she adores who is well aware of her mental load.Connect with Dacy:mindfulcloset.cominstagram.com/mindfulcloset

Kelly Erra is one beautiful human! She shares her story of running a highly successful direct sales business for 16 years with over 400 loyal customers to being a new mom with high expectations of herself.  Kelly gets real about the challenges of being an “achiever” and a new mom. It's all pure love and joy and oxytocin, but chasing the high, the dopamine, the rewards of productivity, completing tasks, new biz milestones takes balance with the new human who has daily needs too. High Achiever meets Balance right in the middle of Post Partum Depression.Connect with Kelly Erra:Direct Sales BizKelly's Steals & Deals. - let her know you found her from this podcast!Mavin & Maiden

Meet Jenna Dayle...poet, writer, artist and so much more. Her story challenges me to dive deeper into my understanding of intimacy and what it takes to heal from codependency.  Jenna puts it like this, "Becoming intimate and knowing yourself can help you recenter and reroot to your core & experiences when you are in the thralls of codependency. People have a lot to offer us, even when we think we have more to offer them. Learning to get comfortable giving and receiving intimacy can happen slowly and in tiny ways. You can build a life where you aren't 'needed' but loved."This episode is packed full of wisdom, grounding, and inspiration.  @jennadayle will open your soul to find its voice.  I left this conversation in anticipation for pause and sacred listening. I think you will too.Connect with Jenna Dayle:www.instagram.com/jennadaylewww.instagram.com/inthisseasonwww.jennadayle.com > For Postcard Subscriptionwww.jennadayle.com/insta > for more links and ways to connect

Christina and I had never met nor had we spoken prior to this interview for the Connected Podcast. But she might just be my poster child for what it means to connect our human stories. We aren't so far apart in this world and sharing our stories is both good and spiritual. Christina shares her story of a journey towards truth and self-connection. These journeys come with intention and with struggle. As she allows me into her story, she unknowingly frees me from one of mine. You will be inspired to be present, trust yourself and seek new depths of spirituality.  You will also be given permission to heal from old narratives that no longer serve you.  Yes... it's a loaded episode. And don't forget to share this one...trust yourself that the person who comes to mind is the one who needs to hear this story. Remember...our stories matter!Connect with Christina:Instagram @christinacarlsonlifecoachWebsite www.christinamcarlson.comWitches, Bitches & Queers Podcast

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Get Connected with Lena Watt:Hello, my name is Lena Watt of Inner Compass Yoga.  Yoga isn't something I do, it's a way of being, not something to try to attain, reach for or seek outside of ourselves. This path begins inwardly with the self. I have been practicing yoga for 22 years now and teaching it for over 9 years. I strongly believe in the teachings and wisdom of yoga and Ayurveda, which have been a large part of my healing journey. On a very simple and basic level, we are nature, we are not separate, we are all interconnected. Through different mindfulness, ayurvedic, and yoga therapy practices and tools, I hope to help empower individuals through self-love and acceptance to connect deeper with their hearts, their intuition, and their own innate wisdom and ability to heal.Instagram: @inner_compass_yogaWebsite: https://innercompass.yoga/Facebook: Inner Compass Yoga

Erica Carrico is an Award-Winning Money & Marketing Strategist/Coach (International Coach of the Year 2020) for women who are ready to transform their lives by creating soul-aligned businesses, while lucratively expressing their own soul purpose.Through coaching services and speaking, Erica helps people discover their life purpose, build & uplevel their soulful businesses, ditch their 9-5's, and make fabulous money on their spiritual path so they can finally have the impact they were destined to have, and earn a living doing what they absolutely love... what they were put on earth to do. Grab her FREE download 7 Steps to Finding Your Purpose.Erica has a BS in Psychology, a Masters in Business Management, and 12+ years in international business leadership experience. She built a multi-six-figure coaching business (with two kids in tow and while healing from kidney cancer) in just over 2 years and is obsessed with helping her clients all around the world transform their lives by creating profitable, soul-aligned businesses, while lucratively expressing their own soul purpose.To follow more of Erica's work visit her at her WEBSITE HERE. You can also find her hanging out on FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, and LINKED IN.

After you listen to this episode, watch/listen to this song she covered. It was my gift the morning of my first craniotomy.  I listened to it for the first time since my surgery 3 years ago as I prepared this episode for release.  If I could have put it at the end of the podcast, I would have. It moved me to tears to hear and see her at a time that was so pivotal in her freedom. And how full circle it feels to listen now after her recent near-death experience...I dare you to watch without an experience of your own.Chasing Cars- Snow Patrol Cover by Mikalah Travis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAJBbna1onY GET CONNECTED WITH MIKALAH:Instagram: @mikalah_travisYoutube Channel 1Youtube Channel 2

About Athena:It's my mission to empower women to reconnect to their true selves, accept and love themselves as they are, and put themselves first.  I help women going through transitions in their life, gain clarity, courage, & confidence to find themselves again and create space in their lives to do what they love and brings them joy.During my 21-year career at IBM, I found myself balancing family, career, and life.  As we women tend to do, I put everyone else first and ultimately felt like I lost myself.Through my own journey, I came to realize I loved helping and supporting others, and my desire to become a coach was born.  I saw the benefits coaching has brought to my own life and I'm passionate about helping other women who feel disconnected from themselves transform their lives.Connect with Athena:Website: athenapivonka.com (coming live soon)LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/athenapivonkaInstagram: @athenapivonkaFacebook: athena.pivonka

Catharina Joubert is a South African nomad who thrives on creativity that bursts with soul. She's had to build a life from scratch in several countries, including Japan, France, and England. Previously a foreign language expert, her mission was to help students open doors to new and exciting professional opportunities and improve cross-cultural understanding. As a Teach First ambassador, she taught in the roughestschools in England building an extensive toolkit of how to entertain, engage audiences while teaching invaluable knowledge.Living a dual life as an Arts and Music journalist and travel blogger, she eventually quit teaching to start the podcast and production studio: Creators Abroad. Her purpose? To build bridges between people, professions, cultures, and countries, interviewing creatives about their journeys, the lives they left behind, and the dreams they built and helping small businesses reestablish valuable relationships with their clients through the most intimate connection possible: audio.Connect with Catharina:Website: creatorsabroad.comInstagram: @creator.abroadFacebook: @creatorsabroadTwitter: @creatorsabroad

Take-Two with Liz Pessaran. As a therapist and life coach, Liz shares about her frontline work during Covid-19. The tolls this pandemic has taken on our children, therapists, and mental health caregivers are huge. Because of this work, she is seeing a new way forward and evolving her work to support the unique needs we now have. Links for her upcoming events in the show notes.

Runner, Triathlete, Mom, Friend, Sister, Daughter….these were roles Jill found easy until Lyme Disease forced her focus to simply catching her breath. Her story is raw and powerful as she shares with me (and you) the pummeling effects of a life turned upside down by a chronic and painful illness. But my courageous friend is finding REVIVAL in her journey as she creates her own beautiful space in this world. You will be challenged, inspired, and incredibly grateful as you let her story permeate your soul. Maybe you will connect with her story because you, too, journey a “chronic” life, or maybe you connect because you want learn how to come alongside someone who battles like Jill. Either way, Jill will change you!

There is no arguing that our teachers have had a heroic role during this pandemic. It was important to me to begin hearing the stories of woman who have played significant roles in our communities during such unknown times. Erika shares her story of loving our kids, as teachers so beautifully do, and also managing her own risks in the process.

Trusting the deep Knowing within myself became key to healing from years of gaslighting abuse. Coming back to my body and trusting "her" as my ally was the work Dr. Hillary McBride, therapist and author, did with me in my Year of Jess. Hillary holds sacred space in my heart. She is one of my beautiful healers. In this episode, we share how I found her and talk about the work and play we did in Tanzania Africa together. We talk about a topic she was strategic in helping me heal from...Gaslighting. This is the story of how embodiment was key to healing me from the trauma of gaslighting abuses. I hope that this episode brings you healing as well.

Megan has a gift in how she engages life. The path is far more fluid and far more experimental than it is bound to an outcome. Learning who she is and finding her rhythm to growth has created a grounding that she offers to herself and her clients. Being willing to unpack all the boxes in her life has lead her to a new confidence in who she is...and she likes it! She's reclaiming all that is deeply and fully Megan.

Good Girl living only gets us so far and if we stay there long enough, we get deeply lost. Madison Morrigan was one of my beautiful healers in the Year of Jess (and beyond) and she helped me FIND ME! This one is PACKED FULL of deep wisdom.

Recovery, Cancer, Ironman, Cancer Again, Foobs, Reconciling White Privilege...It's all here! This is a full life with many chapters creating one challenging and inspiring story. Kari will leave you wanting to keep the learning mode engaged while offering yourself the grace to make mistakes in the process. You NEED to know this WOMAN!

That's my Mom! She's the guardian of the dying. She walks with them as they leave this world and enter the next. Being a Hospice nurse is a calling and its a calling Debi Massey discovered much later in life. It was a second birth into a practice of healing, care, and respite that nurtured more than just her patients. They healed her. My mom values the human story like no one I know. This episode shows you how.

What if we had a guide to opening the deepest parts of our soul...even the parts we don't know about? Would you let it happen? Are you curious about what you might find? Does it make you a bit scared? Lisa Borden has found a passion to guide womxn through the birthing of their soul's voice. Hear how Lisa creates space for womxn all over the world to open up their wonder, passions, callings, giftings and thoughts through the practice and art of writing. The pen can be the instrument in which your soul finds voice....Lisa is the guide that will create the space for you to do just that! I call her a Soul Doula: a woman placed to provide guidance and support to the mother of a newborn life. What do you need to birth?

Shelbi Starr has learned and given substance to the word "resilient". She has allowed life to shape her into a woman who empowers other women. In her vulnerability in this episode, you will be inspired to see your own resilient nature....and I hope you move forward in it! We talk family, illness, infertility, mothering, marriage, mental health and everything in between. Embracing our growth and journey through the really hard stuff is what forges us into the powerhouses we are!

Sex Worker Rights, Contemplative Prayer, Enneagram 6 Wing 5 bonding, and wow...so much more! Brie Richards is going to motivate you to step into your uniqueness and rise to justice. Brie Richards is the Director of Operations for The Cupcake Girls, a non-profit that provides confidential support to those involved in the sex industry, as well as trauma-informed outreach, intensive case management, holistic resources, and referral services to provide prevention, and aftercare to those affected by sex trafficking. YOU CAN NOT MISS THIS EPISODE!

Grayce Holcomb and I talk about everything! It’s all in here! Spirituality, identity, adventure, onions, bees and leopards. So much in this episode that I have no doubts you will connect with something...or maybe everything.

This episode is all about Dating, Mating & More (Emma's brilliant new business)! It doesn't matter if you're single, married or anything in between, being in relationships with others and ourselves needs our full attention and INTENTION. Emma & Vince share their tips and a little of their magic to having an intentional relationship.

It's my 2-year tumorversary! My husband, Casey, takes the mic to interview me...and I have much to celebrate. It doesn't take brain surgery to make fragmented lives whole, but it sure woke me up to how disconnected I was with myself. Here's to chapters in our stories that stop us in our tracks and the follow-up chapters that make us soar! Cheers!

Until our stories are shared, we don't know how deeply we connect with each other. As Hayley Maree and I find parallels and personal traits that entwine our stories into sacred space, Hayley teaches us what it is to rebuild, reconnect and re-Live (thrive) after deep burnout.

The magic of you is waiting to be discovered. Listening to our Inner Self can lead to immense freedom and peace. Liz Pessaran shares her story of becoming a therapist and life coach while honoring her soul, her spark, her magic. What if you let YOU lead the way?

Karly Borden of The Public Run Club talks with me about her role in my healing process, our trip to Tanzania and why coaching runners into a new relationship with their bodies is her passion. She has challenged me to take this quirky new body I have and make it my home.

Episode 2 What if your talents were your spiritual superpower? What if the most expansive experience of God resided in your next creation? What if you were born to create? And what if we didn’t limit church and spirituality to a building but we let it exist in all the spaces of our life? Could we still find God? My interview with Danielle Estelle Ramsay explores the beautiful connections between our talents/giftings/creative processes and our divine souls. As a pastor, poet, and empath, Danielle will inspire you to be nothing short of COMPLETELY YOU!

Episode 1 "The whole is real. Any division is conceptual." - Tom Myers. Trish Mack discusses how she helped heal my fragmented body after two brain surgeries. We are going to use big words like telocytes, tensegrity, and fascia. Trish refused to look at me as pieces and parts. She helped me learn how to listen to the language of my body so I could find wholeness. This is our story of connection. Full resources and bio in full show notes.