Wildish Wise Women – Conversations with Everyday Goddesses – Wildish Wise Women

Paula Pavlova is a ‘Wellness Entrepreneur’ based in the Bay Area.  As a first-generation American and birth-right citizen, Paula’s unique upbringing and early exposure to generational trauma led to pursue a career in helping people find personal transformation through spiritual alignment. Paula is the co-founder of GAIA Collective & MoonBox, a mindfulness-based subscription box. She is also an … Continue reading "044: Endometriosis & Healing, Period with Paula Pavlova"

Michelle is an engineer in Silicon Valley by day and a yoga instructor/inspirational speaker by night. For 55 years she lived her life as a white privileged male and then six years ago was awakened to begin a magical journey of divine feminine transition. She now seeks to educate and inspire others by telling her … Continue reading "043: Awakening to Your Inner Truth with Michelle Crawford"

Lisbeth White is a writer, expressive arts therapist and energy healer currently based in the Puget Sound area of the Pacific Northwest. In both her creative and healing work, she explores and celebrates the poignant and potent relationships between women of color and the natural world. Find her on her website or keep in touch … Continue reading "042: Healing Power of Poetry with Lisbeth White"

Nicole is a writer and editor, laughter yoga leader, Reiki master, and ESL and writing tutor for children and adults. She loves trying new things, adventures, and learning about people and places. In 2016/2017 she spent 13 consistent months traveling abroad. Keep in touch with her on her website or follow her on Instagram. Listen to her podcast interview … Continue reading "041: Freedom to Explore with Nicole Rossi"

Annamarie is a wife, mother, and a career women. She has been in Supply Chain Distribution for 22 years. Currently she balances a marriage of twelve years, two sons ages 11 & 9, and a career while staying committed to her practice so she can maintain physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Her motto is “I am … Continue reading "040: Raising Mindful Men with Annamarie Gonzales & Kat Da Silva"

Laura lives and teaches in Boston, MA, with roots in New York. She leads classes, retreats, and a 200-hour yoga teacher training school, The New School of Yogic Arts. Her mission is to “bring the yoga back to yoga.” For more about Laura check out her website and/or her school’s website Find her on Instagram … Continue reading "039: The Power of Commitment with Laura Ahrens"

Erin Tetarenko works as a professional Mind and Body Leadership Coach with individuals and corporations. Her experience extends to working with international facilitation teams on globally recognized development programs. Integrating mind and body, she has created a coaching approach that empowers people to experience inner fulfillment while doing purposeful work. Keep in touch with her … Continue reading "038: Strengthening Your Connection to Self with Erin Tetarenko"

Alex is a bilingual yoga teacher, spiritual activist, and daughter of Mexican immigrants from Los Angeles, California. Struggling with lifelong depression and anxiety, yoga helped her feel at home again in her own skin. She has the privilege of sharing yoga with diverse communities, and teaches in Spanish as an act of language justice. Connect with … Continue reading "037: Language Justice with Alex Rodriguez"

Taraneh is a creative, yoga teacher, community builder, and entrepreneur. She has led donation-based yoga studio and community wellness organization Be the Change Yoga & Wellness, now Be the Change Collective for the last 3.5 years, working to bring accessible and inclusive yoga for all in her San Jose community.  Taraneh thrives on authentic and … Continue reading "036: Evolving Creative Leadership with Taraneh Sarrafzadeh"

Pam Lozoff is a mover, a change-maker, and a seeker. She moves through yoga, makes change through community-based work, and seeks growth and connection with spirit through her path as a karma yogi. For the last decade, her path has taken her into juvenile halls, schools, and therapeutic settings in working with youth to share practices … Continue reading "035: Community Building through Youth with Pam Lozoff"

Rachelle is an Atlanta based yoga instructor and the founder of Cultivate Union, a non-profit organization that promotes sustainability, access and equity in the yoga community.  Rachelle loves learning, listening to podcasts and long walks with her dog Diego, without her cellphone! Keep in touch with her on Facebook and Instagram and consider offering financial … Continue reading "034: Cultivate Union with Rachelle Knowles"

Suzanne Sterling is a dedicated musician, yogi, activist and social innovator who has been performing and teaching transformational workshops for over 20 years. She is founder of Voice of Change, a co-founder of Off the Mat into the World and Director of the Global Seva Challenge.  An award winning musician, she has released 5 solo … Continue reading "033: Becoming A Voice of Change with Suzanne Sterling"

Grace Millsap is a lover of life, brain science geek, and passionate advocate for all forms of health, for all forms of people.   She offers dynamic yoga classes in Charlotte, NC, leads retreats worldwide, teaches a wide variety of workshops, and is in awe that life can be this grand!  Her spunky fire is … Continue reading "032: If You Only Had One Shot with Grace Millsap"

Elena Brower is a mama, author, yoga teacher and speaker. She is influenced by several yoga traditions and recognized internationally for her expertise in offering practices for approaching our world with realistic reverence. She is the author of Art of Attention, a yoga workbook that has been translated into six languages and the creator of Teach.yoga, a … Continue reading "031: Practice You with Elena Brower"

Bryn Truett-Chavez is an advanced practitioner and teacher of the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy, a Certified Massage Therapist, Herbalist and Holistic Health Practitioner. She is also a women’s health and birth advocate and a Wild Crone in training! Find her on her website (and book a session if you are in the Bay … Continue reading "030: Womb Wisdom & Yoni Love with Bryn Truett-Chavez"

Aryn worked in social work and as an elementary and middle school teacher in San Diego for over ten years.  When she became a mom in 2006, she shifted her career focus by combining motherhood, a love of Ashtanga yoga, and her diverse classroom experience she began teaching yoga to children.  She founded her business Aryn’s Family Yoga … Continue reading "029: Yoga for Pelvic Health with Aryn Rannazzisi"

Carla is a mother of two, one living child and one she carries in her heart. Luca is around her always and now impacts how she parents her rainbow baby Elia. A native New Yorker, Carla has lived in Southern California for almost 20 years. She talks to us about how to be there for … Continue reading "028: Parenting After Loss with Carla Grossini-Concha"

Kelly is a Bay Area native who currently teaches Montessori Middle School and runs a small business making organic herbal self-care products.  She has a BA in Art Education and an MA in Special Education as well as learns as much as she can from Mother Nature by sitting in circle with other women as well … Continue reading "027: Plant Medicine with Kelly Curtin"

Taryn Mason left her Engineering career to pursue her passion in holistic health but quickly discovered her obsession with freedom through intuition. She believes connection to our creativity holds the answers to our problems. She currently teaches courses to help women get out of their heads and reconnect with their intuition and creative potential. Find … Continue reading "026: Lighten Up to Find Your Creative Flow with Taryn Mason"

Lise Porter is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, National Trainer for Mental Health First Aid and is currently living in LA and working as an actor.  She just published her first book “Own Your Life: How Our Wounds Become Our Gifts” and is sharing her tips on healing and feeling whole again. Find her … Continue reading "025: How Our Wounds Become Our Gifts with Lise Porter"

Whether it’s exploring the local trails, playing pretzel on the yoga mat, or diving into a book on inner peace, Lena loves an adventure. You can find her teaching yoga in San Diego, leading retreats near and far, and empowering others to be the change they wish to see in the world. She is intentional … Continue reading "024: Yoga Beyond the Mat with Lena Schmidt"

Cinnamon Gray is owner and photographer at Bad Kitty Photography, a boudoir photo company celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. After being diagnosed with breast cancer and having a double mastectomy she realized that she had to walk her walk in regards to her mission statement to love your body no matter what. Connect with her on … Continue reading "023: Learning to Love the Skin You’re In with Cinnamon Gray"

Skye Birdsall is a San Jose native who is raising her little girl while teaching yoga and striving to be part of the solution in this crazy valley.  Ever since she was little, spirituality was central to her life path and helping others has always been a calling.  Her desire to experience life to the … Continue reading "022: Sex vs Partnership with Skye Birdsall"

Sharna Langlais is a Reiki master and intuitive healer who works with clients so they can live freer, fuller and brighter lives. She’s been leading groups, workshops and classes for over 15 years and is very passionate about her work. As well as a Reiki Master,  Sharna is a certified Say it Straight Communication Trainer … Continue reading "021: Tapping Into Your Intuition with Sharna Langlais"

Nicole Steward is a social worker (MSW) and yoga instructor (200RYT) with a focus on community engagement, public education, foster youth advocacy, and trauma-informed yoga. Nicole teaches yoga and offers self-care workshops to social service agencies and non-profit organizations. Nicole believes self-care is a radical tendency we must adopt if we are to sustain ourselves … Continue reading "020: Radical Self-Care for Everyday Survival with Nicole Steward"

Jomally Fernandez is the founder of SOUL WARRIOR YOGA and has been a devoted yogini for over 12 years.   After health issues threatened her life, she found physical and emotional refuge in her yoga practice.  This lead her to take a break from the Real Estate business and dedicate her time yoga.  She completed … Continue reading "018: Healing From the Inside: How Yoga Helped Me Heal with Jomally Fernandez"

Sara Hussein is a Marriage and Family Therapy Trainee at Process Therapy Institute and a recent graduate of John F. Kennedy’s Holistic Counseling Psychology Masters Program. Sara spends her time as a therapist, yogi, and sensualist; playing in the shadows and helping her clients bring light to their darkness by connecting to their vulnerable truth. … Continue reading "017: Kink & Shadow Play with Sara Hussein"

Darci Fontenot is a social worker and music therapist. She found her calling in Hospice and has dedicated much of her career to working with those in the end of their life. She got her bachelor’s degree at Texas Woman’s University and her master’s at San Diego State University. She lives in San Diego with … Continue reading "015: Holding Space & Sharing Music for End of Life with Darci Fontenot"

Carla Grossini-Concha is a wife and mother of two. Originally from New York she has been calling Southern California home for the last 15 years. Her current life’s work is raising her rainbow baby, sharing her story of losing her first son and parenting after loss. She shares via her blog and also has had various works … Continue reading "014: Layers of Loss with Carla Grossini-Concha"

Amber Shumake is a yoga teacher. She’s studied hatha yoga, Forrest Yoga and restorative yoga. Her background was as a public school teacher and she also trained to be a counselor. She is a photographer, a writer, and a recovering alcoholic – largely, an addict, because she’s been addicted to many substances and behaviors. Amber is now in long term … Continue reading "013: Yoga for Recovery with Amber Shumake"

Emily Fleming, M.A.T., RYT-200, is a yoga teacher and educator in Baltimore, Maryland. Emily joined Teach for America as a corps member after graduating from Colby College in 2012, and received her Master of Arts in Teaching from National Louis University in 2014. Emily currently teaches yoga and mindfulness full time at a middle school … Continue reading "012: Teaching Yoga and Mindfulness in Schools with Emily Fleming"

Emilia Nagy is a student of Alison Armstrong and believes her work is to help families create peaceful partnerships which in turn creates a more peaceful world. She grew up in communist Bulgaria, in a literal and figurative war, and found she was playing this dynamic out in all of her relationships. Once she embraced her … Continue reading "011: Creating Peaceful Passionate Partnerships with Emilia Nagy"

Christy Marsh is a Clinical Nutritionist, Holistic Health Practitioner, and a Reiki Master dedicated to treating the whole person. Using a “bio-individual” approach she’s able to assess the unique needs of each individual. Christy offers a whole regime of foods and herbs, energy work, body reading, and lifestyle-fitness solutions that work! Visit her website or follow her Facebook page for regular updates … Continue reading "010: The Magic of Reiki with Christy Marsh"

Renee and Paloma recently launched their new business Rock Your Yoga Retreat where they educate and inspire yoga teachers who want to lead successful yoga retreats all over the world. Paloma comes from a business and law background and was inspired early on with the fantasies of travel. Renee has made her living teaching yoga for … Continue reading "009: Women & Business with Paloma Neuman and Renee Gauthier of Rock Your Yoga Retreat "

Yesica Rodriguez is a mother, song writer, dancer, yoga teacher and a cook. She has taken her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training as well a Prenatal Training and Yoga for a Happy Back. She leads staycation yoga retreats in San Diego and loves being of service to her community. Visit her website for more info about … Continue reading "008: Creating Community & Abundance Mindset with Yesica Rodriguez"

Angelic is an Expat Life Coach and Founder of A Mindful Journey to Freedom. She’s a California native who now lives in London with her partner. Angelic is a Holistic Health Practitioner and studied at the Coaching Academy of London and Master Coach. She works with people to navigate the challenges that follow relocating. You can find … Continue reading "007: Expat Coaching & Life Transitions with Angelic Rendon"

Melissa Eisler is a writer, editor and teacher. She’s a certified yoga instructor (E-RYT-200), certified meditation teacher, and passionate about motivating people to live a healthy, balanced, purposeful life through writing and teaching. Visit her website for tons of helpful articles on meditation and mindfulness. Melissa also has a book out on meditation, read the intro and … Continue reading "006: The Power of Meditation & Mindfulness with Melissa Eisler "

Alison Solomon is a licensed clinical social worker who now spends her time writing and traveling. Her short stories have been published in Mexico and the USA and her debut novel Along Came the Rain was recently published by Sapphire Books. You can visit her website which includes the first chapter of her book. If you … Continue reading "005: Living Your Bliss with Alison Solomon "

Joy works at a grassroots agency in San Diego as a Supported Living Coordinator and is also a round-the-clock Creative Consultant. Her goal is to dismiss personal and public stereotypes by helping citizens explore their unique gifts, and connecting people of all abilities to creative opportunities in their own neighborhood. Find her on her website. Listen to … Continue reading "003: Women & Creativity with Joy Boe"

Christina always felt like the weird kid in the group but has come to find through her many spiritual adventures that she was never meant to fit in as much as teach others to stand out. Standing out as her authentic self is the greatest set of lessons she has received and now Christina wants to … Continue reading "002: Women’s Empowerment & Self-Love with Christina Rogers"

Stephanie is a formally trained therapist, Priestess, energy worker and a breast cancer survivor that spreads her passion in the world by writing and singing. Find her on her website. Listen to her podcast interview here. Resources: “The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself” Michael A. Singer  Originally posted: 03/23/16 Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes