Podcasts about wild awake

In today's episode, our guest is Jenny Armstrong, an elected Alaska state representative and founder of Wild Awake and Delve, two companies focused on empowering women and driving social good. Jenny shares her inspiring journey from the East Coast to Alaska, where she now balances politics, business, and motherhood. We discuss her work advocating for paid family leave, mental health, and childcare, along with her passion for helping other women succeed in leadership and entrepreneurship. Jenny also opens up about her family's unique journey, including welcoming two refugee girls from Afghanistan into their home. Join us for an episode filled with insights on leadership, community impact, and what it truly means to make a difference.In this episode, we discuss:Why Jenny ran for office and her legislative focus on family, mental health, and equalityHow she's helping women entrepreneurs build impactful businesses through Wild AwakeThe challenges of balancing motherhood with a political careerHer family's journey welcoming two refugee girls and helping them thrive in the U.S.Practical advice for anyone looking to make a difference in their communityHit play to join us for an inspiring conversation with Jenny Armstrong about leadership, community, and the drive to make a positive impact!Connect with Jenny: Website: https://www.wildawakecreative.com/Instagram: @wild_awake_creativeLinkedinEmail: jennie@wildawakecreative.comConnect with Ashley:Website: https://dovetaildesigns.coSupport AND/BOTH: Help us offset production costs while we're growingDovetail® Schedule Academy: https://dovetaildesigns.co/dovetail-schedule-academyCaregiver by Dovetail® App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dovetail-co/id6449788093Social:Instagram: @dovetaildesigns.coTikTok: @dovetaildesigns.coFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/dovetaildesigns.coLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyblackington/

Jennie Armstrong, founder of Wild Awake and Delve, started her second business when she kept getting people who weren't her core audience asking for her services. Jennie shares the behind-the-scenes journey of transitioning from a solopreneur to building a thriving consulting firm and online program - under the banner of two brands. Discover her strategies for attracting ideal clients, creating irresistible offers, and managing a remote team - all while serving as an elected state representative.Key Highlights:Understand Jennie's decision-making process for hiring employees versus subcontractors as her business expanded.Learn her proven tactics for generating a consistent pipeline of clients through relationship-building and word-of-mouth marketing.Gain insights into effectively onboarding and leading a remote team aligned with your vision and values.Explore the systems and processes she implemented to facilitate growth while maintaining quality and work-life balance.Discover her candid confessions about the challenges, lessons learned, and privileges that enabled her entrepreneurial journey.Find Us Online:  https://www.confessionswithjessandcindy.comConnect with Jennie:Twitter: https://twitter.com/JennieForAlaska LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniemarmstrong/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jenniemariearmstrong Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wild_awake_creative/ Delve: https://www.delveforgood.com/ Wild Awake: https://www.wildawakecreative.com/ The Legacy Collective: https://www.wildawakecreative.com/legacy Connect with Cindy:Cindy Wagman Coaching: cindywagman.comFractional Fundraising Network: fractionalfundraising.co/LinkedIn: ca.linkedin.com/in/cindywagmanConnect with Jess:Out In the Boons: outintheboons.meLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jesscampbelloutintheboons/

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them. Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4 Maarten Walraven operates at the intersection of music, technology, communities, and education. He wears many different hats, from Co-CEO at Symphony.live to co-creator of the experiment in scene building, Wild Awake and from teaching at the University of Utrecht to being co-project lead for the Water & Music academy. If you want to follow his thinking, the best place is MUSIC x, the newsletter he co-edits. MUSIC MENTIONS NOFX Green Day The Offspring Nine Inch Nails 2 Unlimited Ace of Bass Mirrors Festival Merzbow Keiji Haino John Cage Morton Feldman Brian Eno Q&A Andrew McClusky Music Too “Maximum Overdrive” by 2 Unlimited Nyege Nyege Discovering music today (21:06): Mary Anne Hobbs BBC Radio 6 Opium Hum Hyper Real Radio First album ever purchased (27:40): “Get Ready!” by 2 Unlimited Most recent album purchased (28:41): “Piano Reverb” by Jasmine Wood Artists discovered in the last year (31:12): Iceboy Violet MC Yallah Jalen Ngonda Desert Island Discs (34:18): “For You Who are the Wronged” by Kathryn Joseph “The Downward Spiral” by Nine Inch Nails “Dekmantel Festival 2017 Mix” by Aurora Halal Guest recommendations for future episodes (38:40): Tristra Yeager --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greymatterfm/message

In this episode I catch up with Lucy O'Hagan about her wilderness programmes in Ireland. We range from local myths of Lugh and Balor of the evil eye, to the Belfast Punk scene, snow shelters in Norway, cave dwelling in Dordogne, and the teepee outside Galway where we met.To find out more about Lucy's work:https://www.wildawake.ie/To stay tuned for more story offerings:https://sendfox.com/dougiemackaystoryLynx Vilden's Lithica project:https://www.lithica.earth/

Our first live episode was recorded in the new Creeslough Community Hub and we hosted an amazing guest in front of a live audience. Lucy O Hagan from Wild Awake chatted to us about becoming one with nature, meditation, foraging, rights of passage, the wilderness and so much more. Lucy has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the outdoors and we hope you learn something from what we spoke about during this recording.Live music is from the brilliant Ciarzo. Check him out on Spotify.If you want to support the podcast please Buy us a Coffee or check out our social media channels to purchase our new Coffee tumblrs.Instagram: @soulbrewpodcastFacebook: @soulbrewpodcastTik Tok: @soulbrewpodcastTwitter: @soulrewpodcastEmail: soulbrewpodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to episode 28 of the Nurtured by Nature podcast, today I'm delighted to be joined in conversation by Lucy Ní hAodhagáin / O'Hagan the founder of Wild Awake Ireland. Lucy is quite simply one of the most kind hearted, intriguing and inspiring people I have had the pleasure to meet. During our conversation she shares her journey which is beautifully woven with her love of nature. A relationship that began from a need for sanctuary from the challenges of life and has blossomed into a life where she consciously awakens a deeper relationship with the world rooted in reciprocity, reverence and responsibility in both her own life but also the experiences of the many people she works with and guides to their own remembering. Our conversation gently meanders through her wisdom of ancestral skills, ceremonial rites of passage and wildlife tracking and the richness these threads can bring to the tapestry of life. We also hold space for the grief and pain so many of us are experiencing in this time and celebrate the importance of looking to the richness and resilience to be found in the edges, so we can move away from polarisation towards embracing the incredible diversity of voices in  our own communities and in the natural world. Lucy offers up the sacred invitation to deeply listen, and witness each others stories, to find the courage to sit with the questions and challenges of our time and dream into the new world that we believe is possible, whilst remembering to trust that most people have good intentions and truly want to do something to help. Learn more about LucyLucy Ní hAodhagáin / O'Hagan (They/She) is the founder and director of Wild Awake Ireland, a project which seeks to rekindle ancestral life ways for cultural and ecological resilience across the island of Ireland. Lucy is passionate about supporting people to re-establish connection with themselves, their communities and to nature, of which we are a part. Lucy is particularly interested in rewilding and rekindling the knowledge and skills we once knew so intimately, which connect us to place.Lucy's interests range from ethnobotany to wildlife tracking, ancestral skills to restoring rites of passage. All while leaning into the ways in which we can collectively decolonise our relationship to the land and ourselves and be in reciprocity with life. Lucy is happiest when outside, following the trails of deer across the landscape and nibbling on what nature has to offer. Website: https://www.wildawake.ie/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildawakeireland/Other Useful Links:Lynx Vilden - https://www.lynxvilden.com/John Rhyder - Wood Craft School - https://www.woodcraftschool.co.uk/Rupert Marquez - Hand On The Earth - https://www.handontheearth.org/Thank you for being a part of this journey with me, please Subscribe to make sure you don't miss our future episodes, and share with your friends to help these messages ripple out across the world. More information about the Nurtured by Nature Podcast and our host Fiona MacKay: Fiona Mackay Photography WebsiteConnect with us and join the conversation on social media:Instagram @FionaMacKayPhotographyFacebook @FionaMacKayPhotographyTwitter @FiMacKay

As the impact of the climate crisis unfolds all around us, the reality of what's at stake changes our relationships with each other and the natural world. More and more of us are finding ourselves drawn to reconnect with the land and to build community—to “rewild,” in a sense. But what does it mean to live a wilder life? Is it even attainable or realistic for most of the globe, especially if you live in a densely populated urban area?Our guest on today's show is Lucy O'Hagan, a teacher, forest school leader, wildlife tracker, bushcraft instructor, and the founder of Wild Awake Ireland. Through Wild Awake, Lucy guides people through rites of passage, teaches ancestral skills, and helps people to distill what it means to rewild on a personal and practical level, regardless of where you live.On this episode, we speak with Lucy about the Wild Biome project and what it's like to eat exclusively wild, foraged food for three months; honoring age transitions through nature-based, participatory rituals outside of traditional religious practice; using ancestral skills to understand the role of power and privilege in our modern day lives; and the importance of collaboration and building community in our efforts to reconnect and reengage. Dyed Green is a project of Bog & Thunder, whose mission is to highlight the best of Irish food and culture, through food tours, events, and media. Find out more at www.bogandthunder.com.Dyed Green is Powered by Simplecast.

Connecting with nature is also an opportunity to connect with yourself. So says ancestral skills teacher and wildlife tracker Lucy O'Hagan, whose ‘Wild Awake' classes rekindle ancestral life ways for cultural and ecological resistance in Ireland. Think living of off wild foods, tanning animal hides, and building fires from scratch. There has been an enormous surge in a desire to reconnect with the land in modern Ireland. Why exactly is this, and how can the revival of ancient practices improve our livesTom spoke to Lucy to learn more.

Connecting with nature is also an opportunity to connect with yourself. So says ancestral skills teacher and wildlife tracker Lucy O'Hagan, whose ‘Wild Awake' classes rekindle ancestral life ways for cultural and ecological resistance in Ireland. Think living of off wild foods, tanning animal hides, and building fires from scratch. There has been an enormous surge in a desire to reconnect with the land in modern Ireland. Why exactly is this, and how can the revival of ancient practices improve our livesTom spoke to Lucy to learn more.

This week I chat with Lucy O'Hagan, of WildAwake.We talk wild foods, foraging, tracking, deer ceremonies and ancestral rites of passage.Check our her instagram for upcoming courses and yummy wild recipes as part of the Wild Biome Project.Patrons, thank you for your monthly contribution, if you value this podcast, please support and help me purchase my bee equipment for pollinator conservation.It would mean everything to me and my bees.https://www.patreon.com/catchcaitStay earthing,Kate Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/adventures-with-kate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chamanisme, définition : pratique spirituelle ancestrale, présente dans toutes les cultures du monde, où l'être humain, accompagné de son tambour ou de sa voix, se présente comme l'intermédiaire entre l'humain et l'invisible en effectuant un voyage mental, une odyssée à travers un espace rêvé, virtuel, in visible aux yeux du commun des mortels. "Je savais très fort ce que je voulais", dit-elle. Et ce qu'elle voulait, c'est plonger, à corps perdu, dans les possibilités vocales et percussives de sa propre musique. Faire entendre des sons de l'extérieur tout en explorant les tréfonds de son intériorité. Avec S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S, Anne Paceo invite au voyage, mais pas n'importe lequel : celui d'un chamanisme intemporel, "profondément humain", dit-elle. Pour cette nouvelle création, elle puise son inspiration dans les musiques et les pratiques vocales chamaniques. Inspirée autant par l'énergie des tambours de transe que par les chants sacrés, la musique, brute ou texturale, la batteuse, chanteuse et compositrice livre un septième album à la fois introspectif et ouvert sur le monde. En 2020, le festival Jazz sous les Pommiers, où Anne Paceo est alors artiste associée, lui demande de travailler sur une nouvelle création. Après les albums Fables of Shwedagon (2017) et Bright Shadows (2018), S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S voit le jour durant un week-end sous les Pommiers, en septembre 2020. L'enregistrer est une évidence. Anne se plonge alors dans les musiques chamaniques du monde entier, des rituels d'exorcisme de Bali, les cérémonies vaudou d'Haïti, les chants de divination de Sibérie ou encore les rituels de possession du Candomblé brésilien. "Il ne s'agit pas de les reproduire, précise-t-elle, mais plutôt de les laisser infuser dans mon imaginaire, et m'inspirer pour proposer une musique sans frontières." Initiative ô combien précieuse en ces temps pandémiques ! Depuis l'enfance, Anne s'intéresse de près aux pratiques chamaniques, dont les propriétés thérapeutiques bénéficient toujours de la présence de la voix et de la percussion. Ce qui s'entend dans S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S. De Reste un oiseau à Marcher jusqu'à la nuit, de From the Stars à Dive Into the Unknown, de Healing à Travellers, Anne Paceo raconte un monde nouveau, nourri de la sorcellerie, plutôt celle de Mona Chollet que celle au nez crochu, comme on l'entend sur Piel. De la légèreté, de la fantaisie pour affronter une morosité ambiante, pesante et anxiogène. Dans Wishes, elle fait aveu de faiblesse et partage ses souhaits les plus chers. Sur Wide Awake, elle évoque sa dualité, dans L'Aube elle convoque ses fantômes, tandis que Here and Everywhere retrace la dissolution de l'âme. Animal totem du disque, l'oiseau est enfant de bohème, source de spiritualité… S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S est un disque qui, par ses multiples petites histoires, nous fait rentrer dans la grande, habitée par les mondes réels et les mondes parallèles, avec lesquels les chamanes dialoguent. "C'est une manière de revenir à un son profondément organique, essentiel, souligne Anne, de cultiver l'indépendance offerte par les percussions et les voix, instruments ancestraux aussi libres que mobiles." Si elle écrit, compose et réalise seule sa musique, Anne aime s'entourer de complices haute-fidélité. Ici, elle fait appel à Isabel Sörling et Marion Rampal, chanteuses polyglottes qui portent, le cœur en bandoulière, les mélodies d'Anne. Laquelle choisit d'inviter un second batteur à cette drôle de fête mystique, "pour enrichir le spectre rythmique", Benjamin Flament, inventeur d'un instrument unique, constitué d'éléments de batterie et de plusieurs métallophones. Sans oublier les fidèles Tony Paeleman, au piano et au Fender Rhodes, et Christophe Panzani aux saxophones et clarinettes – tous deux suivent Anne depuis l'album Circles, en 2016. "Nous avons fait tellement de concerts qu'il y a quelque chose de spécial quand nous jouons ensemble, un son, une alchimie particulière", commente Anne. Album acoustique, à la fois intime et universel, car il raconte, en filigrane, l'histoire d'une femme puissante dans un monde aux possibilités souvent cachées, S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S réinvente le langage d'Anne Paceo, qui se connecte plus que jamais à l'autre, grâce à la nature, aux animaux et aux astres. Titres interprétés - Here and Everywhere Live RFI voir le clip  - Wild Awake, extrait du Cd Shamanes - Reste un oiseau Live RFI voir le clip  - L'aube Live RFI.   Musicien.nes - Anne Paceo / batterie + n'goni + chant  - Isabelle Sörling / chant - Marion Rampal / chant  - Tony Paeleman / piano + basse station  - Zacharie Ksyk / trompette avec effets.   + 2 titres bonus   The Bongo Hop Tempo Rei, extrait de La Napa (Underdog 2022) The Bongo Hop, c'est le nouveau projet afro caribéen du trompettiste Etienne Sevet. Sur Satingarona pt1, son premier carnet de voyages sonores, nourri de 8 années passées à Cali (Colombie), on retrouve donc les amis de la période caleña, comme Nidia Gongora (la voix d'Ondatropica et Quantic, qu'il avait découverte et filmée dès 2003, alors qu'elle était l'inconnue chanteuse du groupe folklorique Socavon), ou encore le rappeur Maikcel (Zalama), mais aussi le producteur multiinstrumentiste Patchworks (Voilaaa, The Dynamics, Mr President, Taggy Matcher, Uptown Funk Empire), rencontré à Lyon. Tinariwen Le chant des fauves, extrait The Radio Tisdas Sessions (Wedge 2022).   (Rediffusion).

Chamanisme, définition : pratique spirituelle ancestrale, présente dans toutes les cultures du monde, où l'être humain, accompagné de son tambour ou de sa voix, se présente comme l'intermédiaire entre l'humain et l'invisible en effectuant un voyage mental, une odyssée à travers un espace rêvé, virtuel, in visible aux yeux du commun des mortels. "Je savais très fort ce que je voulais", dit-elle. Et ce qu'elle voulait, c'est plonger, à corps perdu, dans les possibilités vocales et percussives de sa propre musique. Faire entendre des sons de l'extérieur tout en explorant les tréfonds de son intériorité. Avec S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S, Anne Paceo invite au voyage, mais pas n'importe lequel : celui d'un chamanisme intemporel, "profondément humain", dit-elle. Pour cette nouvelle création, elle puise son inspiration dans les musiques et les pratiques vocales chamaniques. Inspirée autant par l'énergie des tambours de transe que par les chants sacrés, la musique, brute ou texturale, la batteuse, chanteuse et compositrice livre un septième album à la fois introspectif et ouvert sur le monde. En 2020, le festival Jazz sous les Pommiers, où Anne Paceo est alors artiste associée, lui demande de travailler sur une nouvelle création. Après les albums Fables of Shwedagon (2017) et Bright Shadows (2018), S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S voit le jour durant un week-end sous les Pommiers, en septembre 2020. L'enregistrer est une évidence. Anne se plonge alors dans les musiques chamaniques du monde entier, des rituels d'exorcisme de Bali, les cérémonies vaudou d'Haïti, les chants de divination de Sibérie ou encore les rituels de possession du Candomblé brésilien. "Il ne s'agit pas de les reproduire, précise-t-elle, mais plutôt de les laisser infuser dans mon imaginaire, et m'inspirer pour proposer une musique sans frontières." Initiative ô combien précieuse en ces temps pandémiques ! Depuis l'enfance, Anne s'intéresse de près aux pratiques chamaniques, dont les propriétés thérapeutiques bénéficient toujours de la présence de la voix et de la percussion. Ce qui s'entend dans S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S. De Reste un oiseau à Marcher jusqu'à la nuit, de From the Stars à Dive Into the Unknown, de Healing à Travellers, Anne Paceo raconte un monde nouveau, nourri de la sorcellerie, plutôt celle de Mona Chollet que celle au nez crochu, comme on l'entend sur Piel. De la légèreté, de la fantaisie pour affronter une morosité ambiante, pesante et anxiogène. Dans Wishes, elle fait aveu de faiblesse et partage ses souhaits les plus chers. Sur Wide Awake, elle évoque sa dualité, dans L'Aube elle convoque ses fantômes, tandis que Here and Everywhere retrace la dissolution de l'âme. Animal totem du disque, l'oiseau est enfant de bohème, source de spiritualité… S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S est un disque qui, par ses multiples petites histoires, nous fait rentrer dans la grande, habitée par les mondes réels et les mondes parallèles, avec lesquels les chamanes dialoguent. "C'est une manière de revenir à un son profondément organique, essentiel, souligne Anne, de cultiver l'indépendance offerte par les percussions et les voix, instruments ancestraux aussi libres que mobiles." Si elle écrit, compose et réalise seule sa musique, Anne aime s'entourer de complices haute-fidélité. Ici, elle fait appel à Isabel Sörling et Marion Rampal, chanteuses polyglottes qui portent, le cœur en bandoulière, les mélodies d'Anne. Laquelle choisit d'inviter un second batteur à cette drôle de fête mystique, "pour enrichir le spectre rythmique", Benjamin Flament, inventeur d'un instrument unique, constitué d'éléments de batterie et de plusieurs métallophones. Sans oublier les fidèles Tony Paeleman, au piano et au Fender Rhodes, et Christophe Panzani aux saxophones et clarinettes – tous deux suivent Anne depuis l'album Circles, en 2016. "Nous avons fait tellement de concerts qu'il y a quelque chose de spécial quand nous jouons ensemble, un son, une alchimie particulière", commente Anne. Album acoustique, à la fois intime et universel, car il raconte, en filigrane, l'histoire d'une femme puissante dans un monde aux possibilités souvent cachées, S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S réinvente le langage d'Anne Paceo, qui se connecte plus que jamais à l'autre, grâce à la nature, aux animaux et aux astres. Titres interprétés - Here and Everywhere Live RFI voir le clip  - Wild Awake, extrait du Cd Shamanes - Reste un oiseau Live RFI voir le clip  - L'aube Live RFI.   Musicien.nes - Anne Paceo / batterie + n'goni + chant  - Isabelle Sörling / chant - Marion Rampal / chant  - Tony Paeleman / piano + basse station  - Zacharie Ksyk / trompette avec effets.   + 2 titres bonus   The Bongo Hop Tempo Rei, extrait de La Napa (Underdog 2022) The Bongo Hop, c'est le nouveau projet afro caribéen du trompettiste Etienne Sevet. Sur Satingarona pt1, son premier carnet de voyages sonores, nourri de 8 années passées à Cali (Colombie), on retrouve donc les amis de la période caleña, comme Nidia Gongora (la voix d'Ondatropica et Quantic, qu'il avait découverte et filmée dès 2003, alors qu'elle était l'inconnue chanteuse du groupe folklorique Socavon), ou encore le rappeur Maikcel (Zalama), mais aussi le producteur multiinstrumentiste Patchworks (Voilaaa, The Dynamics, Mr President, Taggy Matcher, Uptown Funk Empire), rencontré à Lyon. Tinariwen Le chant des fauves, extrait The Radio Tisdas Sessions (Wedge 2022).

In this episode, we talk with Lucy O'Hagan of Wild Awake about settler-colonialism, ancestral skills, and decolonization in Ireland. Our conversation threads together rewilding and rekindling relationships with places through traditional practices and rituals.     Check out Lucy's work at: www.WildAwake.ie IG: @WildAwakeIreland     Support this podcast by becoming a Patron at: https://www.patreon.com/PoorProlesAlmanac

Lucy is an ancestral skills teacher, Rites of passage guide & Rewilder. Lucy is the founder of ‘Wild Awake', an organisation which seeks to rekindle environmental and cultural resilience through the (re)learning of ancestral and traditional skills in nature. As part of this organisation, Lucy also directs the 'Phoenix Forest School', located in Dublin's Phoenix Park, and the 'True Nature Youth Rites of Passage' programme. Lucy is passionate about supporting people to re-establish connection with themselves, their communities and to nature, of which we are a part. She is particularly interested in rewilding and rekindling the knowledge, skills and ceremonies we once knew so intimately, which cultivate deep belonging to the land. Lucy holds classes for adults in a variety of places across Ireland. She facilitates week-long immersions in Meath and Donegal, long-term rewilding programmes, hide tanning camps, as well as foraging and ethnobotany workshops across Ireland. Lucy has recently co-produced 'Airmid's Journal: The Irish journal of foraging, folklore, myths, magic and remedies' which is available to purchase through the Wild Awake website. Lucy feels most at home wandering barefoot through the woods, following animal trails & nibbling on what food or medicine nature has to offer. http://wildawake.ie/ https://www.instagram.com/wildawakeireland/ https://www.facebook.com/wildawakeireland

Did you know that you can weave your self-care into your work? If you have a business grounded in community care and individual support, making sure you can sustain your business without burning yourself out is crucial. This week, I am so excited to welcome Scout Chavers of Wild + Awake to the podcast. Scout … Continue reading "Episode 137: Self-Care in Service with Scout Chavers"

On episode 17 of Living Tarot, I interview my friend, Scout Chavers. Scout is an intuitive healer, generational doula and somatic guide in Austin, TX. She guides doula’s, healers and ethically non-monogamous lovers toward radical self acceptance, trust and love throughout transitions in their life through a trauma informed lens. Scout is passionate about alchemizing life experiences, emotions and our innate intuitive wisdom into empowerment and a deep sense of self trust - because she truly believes in rebirthing, reparenting and reclaiming our wellness as our birthright and as a form of activism. Scout’s resourced connection ushers various soul types through discomfort and creates a space for them to arrive to authenticity in their bodies to live WILD + AWAKE. Working with marginalized communities to ensure their birthright of awareness and wellness is truly ancestral work and at the cornerstone of Scout’s community engagement. Scout and I discuss the complexity and exhaustion that she experiences showing up in the wellness community as a queer, black woman. Scout speaks about how her activism has changed over the years. We talk about what led her to doula work and how despite our best efforts at rebellion we are always brought home to our calling. We discuss how intuition has shown up in her ability to be an intuitive healing guide and How she has taken it upon herself to take care of the caretakers in life. We talk about the burden of perfectionism and how to take better care of yourself. More Show Notes and Transcript Connect with Sheila: To book a tarot reading, virtual tarot party, or distance Reiki session with Sheila click here - https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=18090641  To read more about Sheila’s offerings click here - http://www.starsagespirit.com/services/ Or on Instagram www.instagram.com/starsagespirit Connect with Scout: Find scout Online at www.scoutwildawake.com or on Instagram at www.instagram.com/scoutwildawake Join Scout for her next Soulful Self-Care Sunday: https://scoutwildawake.com/firstsunday Join the waitlist for Scout’s Doula Support Community here: https://scoutwildawake.com/wildawakedoulacommunity-waitlist Donate to Scout’s Doula Support fund here: https://scoutwildawake.com/donate - *This money is strictly used to provide educational scholarships to BIPOC Doulas seeking mentorship and skillsets to help them support BIPOC families.

Today, my guest is Lucy O'Hagen, the founder and head of Wild Awake! Ireland. I've followed Lucy's work for several years and continue to feel deeply inspired and in awe of the programs that she creates. I've been wanting to interview Lucy for some time now. Firstly to elevate her school, but also, while our organizations are similar in style and content, the cultural and historical context in which they sit is very different. This is something I find interesting and wanted to know more about. If rewilding is to be widely appealing, we need to understand the multiple contexts that make it look and feel different so that we can understand how to appropriately rewild in these contexts. One that stands out to me and is colonialism and how it affects different groups and demographics around the world, and how this influences rewilding. This is an area that Lucy and I explore in this episode. Enjoy!Become a SupporterLucy O'HagenWildAwake! Ireland (website) http://wildawake.ie/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/wildawakeireland/?hl=enFacebook https://www.facebook.com/NatureskillsIreland/Lucy's Inspirations:Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv http://richardlouv.com/books/last-child/Forest School https://www.forestschoolassociation.org/what-is-forest-school/8 Shields http://8shields.org/about/Circle of Life Rediscovery (https://www.circleofliferediscovery.com/)Woodcraft School (https://www.woodcraftschool.co.uk/)Lynx Vilden (https://www.lynxvilden.com/)Braiding Sweetgrass https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrassLinks to add to our conversation:What is Settler Colonialism?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settler_colonialismIrish Travelers Q&A: What does ethnic recognition mean for Irish Travellers?https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/q-a-what-does-ethnic-recognition-mean-for-irish-travellers-1.2993526Original Instructions https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Original-Instructions/Melissa-K-Nelson/9781591430797Tending the Wild by M. Kat Andersonhttps://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520280434/tending-the-wildThe word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscapehttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarlane-word-hoard-rewilding-landscapeIrish Gods & Mythologyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danannhttps://www.connollycove.com/celtic-gods-goddesses-ancient-ireland/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/petermichaelbauer)

Subscribe to our new podcast 'Ecolution' now! In the first episode we go into the woods with Wild Awake, the forest school reconnecting kids to nature, buzz to a school where bees are part of the curriculum and quiz zoologist Shane McGuinness on why biodiversity is so important. And two girls from Ballybough give bees a fighting chance.

We go into the woods with Wild Awake, the forest school reconnecting kids to nature, buzz to a school where bees are part of the curriculum and quiz zoologist Shane McGuinness on why biodiversity is so important. And two girls from Ballybough give bees a fighting chance.

Because travel has changed my life in so many varied ways, I know that it's transformative; when I talk to three other people who believe this, like for this Episode 152 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast, I'm even more sure about how transformative travel can be. If you're able to rearrange your budget to get travelling then go and do it! In this episode I start off speaking with Dean O'Shea who runs a business devising trips for mostly corporate professionals with the hope that they'll be transformational - and it sounds like it's working. Dean gives me a couple of examples of people he's already helped to have some major life transformations as a result of particular travel experiences. I then chat with Nate Hake who used to be a trial lawyer in the United States. These days he's travelling the world - he was about to head to Tblisi, Georgia when we spoke - and his own life has been substantially transformed through his travel experiences. As an Aussie I'm proud to say there were Australians involved in this transformation, too! Finally, I talk with Fiona Galloway who uses the tag line "transformative travel" to describe the tours she runs. She's passionate about the power of travel to transform lives in so many ways. Links: Dean’s site Unbelievable Adventures - https://www.unbelievableadventures.co.uk/  Nate at Travel Lemming - https://travellemming.com/ Fiona’s site Wild Awake - https://www.wildawaketravel.com  Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers Show notes: https://notaballerina.com/152  

This time Eric and Tommy get deeper into the separation of humanity from the rest of nature. Tommy also talks to Lucy O'Hagan from Wild Awake about getting back in touch with our roots. As usual there's a decent amount of lefty belligerence. Bakin' n' snowflakin'. Music: Wild Rocket - Blowholes [ wildrocket.bandcamp.com/ ] Illustration: Gareth Curtis [ probablygareth@gmail.com ]

For me, some of the most interesting travel I've done has been the more challenging travel, and that's often when I've travelled to developing or poorer countries. The culture shock is greater, and where there's culture shock, there's learning! - although of course, I always also am reminded that wherever you go, the common denominator is people, and people are really the same across the world. Just the same, travelling in developing countries leads to some really impactful and interesting experiences and the three guests in this episode of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast have great stories to tell about their trips to countries as diverse as Haiti, Madagascar and India. First up, I speak to Fiona Galloway who spent some time in Haiti about twenty years ago. She learnt a lot from her stay in Haiti, and it set her up for her current work running tours for transformative travel. Next I chat to Linda Schlencker who talks about some of the poverty she found away from the key tourist zones of Madagascar. She's travelled widely but was surprised by what she saw there. Finally, I talk with Whitney Taylor who describes an especially impactful trip she took to India with Hands On Journeys.  Links: Thanks to Scrubba - https://www.thescrubba.com - use discount code AMANDA15 for a 15% discount off any Scrubba product Previous episode about Travel in Africa - https://www.notaballerina.com/80 Fiona’s site Wild Awake - https://www.wildawaketravel.com Linda’s site Self Drive Adventures - http://www.selfdriveadventures.com/  Whitney Taylor works with Jito Connected - Inspiring Greatness site - https://jitoconnected.com/inspire/  Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers Show notes: http://notaballerina.com/129

Settle in somewhere quiet and contemplate the beauty around you with Hilary T Smith, author of WILD AWAKE and A SENSE OF THE INFINITE, out May 19!  Hilary T Smith Show Notes WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE: EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT BIPOLAR BUT WERE TOO FREAKED OUT TO ASK Hilary’s guest post on YA Highway about how to be a nomad DUNE by Frank Herbert

So, here's our October podcast, sorry for the delay! This time of year always gets a bit hectic, even for ladies like us!This month we missed having Rey with us, but the lovely Shaheen from Speculating on SpecFic joined us. Seeing as Shaheen loves all things specfic related, Trin and Mandee talked about the specfic series they love, and Shaheen mentioned some contemp reads that she's recently enjoyed.October releasesRed - Alison CherryJust One Year - Gayle FormanFault Line - Christa DesirAllegiant (Divergent #2) - Veronica RothTandem - Anna JazarbResist (Breathe #2) by Sarah CrossanWalking on Trampolines by Frances WhitingUnbreakable (The Legion #1) by Kami GarciaThe Last Girl by Michael AdamsSky Run (The Cloud Hunters #2) by Alex ShearerCity of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic #1) by Magnus FlyteBook of the monthThe Killings Woods by Lucy ChristopherCurrently readingTrin: The Whole of My World by Nicole HayesMandee: The Vanishing Moment by Margaret WildShaheen: Steelheart by Brandon SandersonRey: Rey let us know that she is loving Wild Awake by Hilary T. SmithListen NowSubscribe on iTunes

So, we accidentally took a break...and now we're back! We chat about our fave books of the year so far, play a thrilling round of 'Book Rec Death Match' and catch you up on what we've been up to.  Books Mentioned:July releases:Zac and Mia by AJ BettsDirty Little Secret by Jennifer EcholsTruly, Madly, Deadly by Hannah JayneA Really Awesome Mess by Trish Cook and Brendan HalpinThe Sky So Heavy by Claire ZornPick of the month:The Accident by Kate HendrickBuy it now at BookworldCurrently Reading:Mandee: Zac and Mia by AJ Betts Rey: 17 & Gone by Nova Ren SumaTrin: The Accident by Kate HendrickOur favourite books (so far) of 2013Disclaimer: Girl Defective by Simmone Howell and Wildlife by Fiona Wood top all our lists.Rey: Infinite Sky by CJ FloodOut of the Easy by Ruta SepetysCode Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinCharm & Strange by Stephanie KuehnMandee: Alex as Well by Alyssa BrugmanAll This Could End by Steph BoweThe Zigzag Effect by Lili WilkinsonLife in Outer Space by Melissa KeilTrin: Fall For Anything by Courtney SummersThe Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Notes From the Teenage Underground by Simmone HowellWild Awake by Hilary T SmithListener Question:What are your favourite books so far? Also what on earth is that book with the cowboy?Listen NowOn iTunes

We have Paula Weston author of The Rephaim series on the podcast. Plus we chat book hangovers, manicures and more.Books mentioned:May releases:Steal My Sunshine by Emily GaleThe Lucy Variations by Sara ZarrGolden by Jessi KirbyThe Book of Broken Hearts by Sarah OcklerThe Fifth Wave by Rick YanceyWild Awake by Hilary T. SmithPick of the month:Haze (The Rephaim book 2) by Paula Weston(cover note: wow May is orange and purple!)Currently reading:We were all between books!Mandee: Just finished Wildlife by Fiona WoodReynje: About to start Steal My Sunshine by Emily GaleTrin: Just reread Shadows by Paula Weston and is awaiting HazeListener question of the month:What was the last book to give you a hangover?Listen NowLinks: Find out more about The Rephaim series on Paula's Website See Mandee's amazing nails on her blog The Bookish Manicurist