Joan of Sparc's Podcast

In this podcast, Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers and former Strategic Marketing Director of Odwalla Juice company, shares insights on the path forward at this pivotal moment in history. We discuss how to face the reality of the destruction of our natural world, how to create meaningful business practices that support a new system, tips for getting authentically connected with others, how to discover our personal gifts, social justice, the power of inclusivity, and the beauty of interbeing. Nina is an award-winning social entrepreneur and international public speaker, she is the Co-founder and Chief Relationship Strategist at Bioneers. Nina is passionate about reinventing leadership, restoring the feminine, and co-creating a healthy, peaceful and equitable world for all. And she really does walk her talk in that regard.

An intimate conversation with Amanda Chantal Bacon, founder of Moon Juice. She discusses listening to the voice of intuition through the process of building a successful business, overcoming health challenges, finding true love, pregnancy, aging and dying. She shares her top three self-care practices that help her create a strong foundation for being an entrepreneur, mother, wife, and living a heart-centered life.

Jody Kemmerer is a phenomenal woman whose background spans from making films to training as a social worker working with detainees at Rikers Island. She is currently a psychotherapist wielding her mindfulness skills living in New York. In this episode, Jody shares how profound the simple art of mirroring and presence can be as well as her motivation for a life of service.

Alison Teal was named the “Female Indiana Jones” by Time Magazine. She is a lifelong adventurer and surfer who travels the world filming environmental and cultural phenomena, sharing it through her photo and film series called “Alison’s Adventures”. In this podcast, we talk about courage, her survival challenge on the show Naked and Afraid, the resilience of women, magic, big wave surfing, plastic pollution, the clean up of trash island and learning how trust.

Nicole Davis, lover of nature, documentary filmmaker, journalist, and founder of red flag magazine, shares her birth story. We talk about the ups and downs of breastfeeding, intuition, the beauty of ritual, in-home and hospital birth, back labor, throwing out good “advice” for something that makes more sense in the moment, perseverance, mother’s love and the power of surrender.

In this podcast, we explore both the grit of entrepreneurship as well as the grace of possibility that comes from coursing through a pioneering path. Jennifer Ford, a visionary and leader, provides us with a realistic view of what it takes to bring a dream to life.

Erin Roy is a dancer, actor, writer, producer who courageously allows her creativity to take the driver’s seat everyday. Listen to how she describes showing up, letting go and allowing her curiosity to reveal entirely new perceptions of the world, humans, truth, Shakespeare, and her life.

Bodyworker & Intuitive Healer, Sofia Lindroth, takes us through her process of investigating the profound and innate healing powers of the body. From the methodical and practical to the esoteric and energetic, we are invited to feel what remains hidden in order to heal.

Honored by the U.N for her life-saving work through her non-profit Shine On Sierra Leone, Tiffany Persons shares how her deep love for human connection, synchronicity and a willingness to follow her inner knowing has led her on the adventure of a lifetime.

Former pro snowboarder, mother, healer, and cancer retreat founder Megan Pischke Porcheron absolutely knows how to ride huge mountains but this is the story of the most extreme descent of her life. Ride with her through the shadows of breast cancer and take with you the gifts of her strength and deep self-love. Music Credit: SHEL - Fascination