Best Radical Notions Podcasts (2025)

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463. SOIL: What we do to it, we do to ourselves. Nicole Masters breaks down the regenerative shifts that change everything. 58:04

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This week, I welcome one of the most respected voices in regenerative agriculture: Nicole Masters. She’s an agroecologist, educator, systems thinker, and author of For the Love of Soil - one of the best books I read while researching my second book FOOD. With over 25 years of hands-on experience across North America, Australasia and globally, Nicol…

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462. Build your Homeopathic Remedy Confidence with Marcus Fernandez 1:23:08

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How much do you know about Homeopathy? Are you in a ‘thats woo woo’ camp? Are you sold and sworn by it? Do you dabble somewhere between those where you’ve found it interesting and even useful at times, but when it comes to putting things in practice confidently and knowing what you can own, vs when you need a practitioner? Well, by the end of this …

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🫂 How to Hold it All — Self-Employment in Hard Times with Shivani Mehta Bhatia 1:02:13

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This week, we end season seven of Off the Grid with an honest conversation about self-employment amidst polycrisis. I’m joined by the inimitable Shivani Mehta Bhatia — who returns to the show to help us weave our experiences of grief, witnessing, conflict, rest, deep sorrow, and profound joy. It’s been a long year, and we quite literally laugh and …

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💖 A Tiny Pep Talk for Black Friday Feelings (& Holiday Sales Season) 16:22

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Fifteen minutes to center us in radical generosity + energetic sovereignty before the biggest shopping + selling days of the year. Tune in for a tiny pep talk, and to hear more about the Off the Grid Small Biz Gift Guide! & If you want to shop Off the Grid deals through the weekend: 📖 Your Attention is Sacred ebooks are $10 + paperbacks are $20! 🎙️…

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461. Want a better world? Steven Nygren teaches us how to build it 1:02:46

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You have to see it to be it, right? Well for the better world we want and more prosperous, healthy communities we want to be, this week gives you exactly that sense of optimism that it’s possible to build. “Serenbe” just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, was an idea that instead of ‘urban sprawl’ with endless streets of concrete, houses and lawns, towns…

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🧩 Decolonize Your Systems & Yourself — Neurodivergence & Notion with Podge Thomas [BEST OF] 52:09

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Today we visit the Off the Grid archives and Podge Thomas returns for a reflective conversation about why being self-employed invites (and requires) decolonizing how we learn, how we communicate, how we operate, and how we relate to others. Podge has recently created a FREE email course on Metacognitive Learning Design. I want you to get the course…

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460. Proactive Heart Health - Prevention, repair and holistic crisis support 54:17

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Heart Health and Repair - A naturopathic approach on this show. It’s packed with practical support you can implement from today, as well as speak to your practitioner more confidently about. Kath McFarlane’s first career was on the chaotic trading floor of the stock market as an investment banker… until she felt she felt naturopathy was a better fi…

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🚰 Where You Labor is Where You Should Rest — with Jordan Maney 56:03

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If you’re tired of being tired, this episode is for you. Today I’m joined by Jordan Maney, the Radical Joy Coach™ and creator of the RestLab. Through her facilitation and coaching, she helps people who give a damn (including you, dear listener!) learn the radical practice of rest. In this conversation, we get into: Why we can’t talk about rest with…

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459. Men's Health: Your checklist for a solid preventative health strategy with Gerald Quigley 1:02:01

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Men, and those who love them, listen up! The stats show us that men’s concern for their health tends to be a case of “I’m fine… I’m invincible… crisis…ok I guess something has to change”. But what if we could focus on the most important things to have a prevention strategy in place? Gerald Quigley is back on the show, with a 40+ year career as both…

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🛍️ Attention Economics, Impulse Spending & Social Media — with Rachel Duncan 55:17

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Listen to this episode before you begin holiday shopping or selling! Today I’m sharing a conversation I had with Rachel Duncan for the Money Healing Club Podcast where we go deeeeeep into how social media impacts our spending habits and finances. We talk about budgets, boundaries, and screentime. Then we explore why restriction isn’t necessarily th…

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The Little Boulder Abortion Clinic that Could (ft. RISE Collective) 36:53

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When the Boulder Abortion Clinic suddenly closed earlier this year, its staff faced the deepest heartbreak (and let's face it: the rest of us were right there with them!). But within a mere 5 1/2 months, they built something new from the ashes: RISE Collective, a patient-centered abortion clinic carrying forward Dr. Warren Hern’s legacy of compassi…

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458. Ambre Whatley: Saving Heirloom seeds and protecting the future of food 1:04:23

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The power of seeds to future proof our food system. That’s what we’re looking at in this show. If you’ve ever tasted an heirloom vegetable or fruit, you’ll know it. Somehow more delicious, more intense in flavour, the power of the heirloom seed grown in healthy soil is something everyone deserves to connect with. Ambre Whatley joins us - naturopath…

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🖤 How to Stop (Doom) Scrolling 21:02

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Let’s get into it with phone addiction and doomscrolling. 😵‍💫 In this episode, I’ll teach you two practices for raising your awareness around how you use your phone. Then I’ll offer two interventions for interrupting feel-bad habits and learning to scroll more mindfully. As our theme song says… I know that you really want to put your phone away (he…

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Not Shying Away From the Awful Edges: Tré Miller Rodriguez On Grief, Ghostwriting, Love and Loss 56:16

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The night can bend a life. Tré Miller Rodriguez walks us through the moment everything changed—waking to find her husband gone—and the choice to pick up a pen before the pieces even settled. What starts as an obituary and a eulogy turns into a grief memoir that refuses to look away, from the strange etiquette of wedding rings after widowhood to the…

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🌙 Calling in Your Business Spirit — A Community Tarot Reading from Cecily Sailer 19:32

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Let's get mystical, shall we? 🧿 In honor of Halloween, today I'm resharing a community tarot reading that Cecily Sailer of Typewriter Tarot recorded for us last fall. Cecily (she/her) is a creativity coach, writer and tarot reader. She runs a business called Typewriter Tarot, which is a sanctuary and learning community for creative mystics. She's a…

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457. Dr Jocelyn Wittstein: Optimise your musculoskeletal system at any age, stage and situation. 1:01:54

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Does everything hurt and you feel like you’re in a ‘down hill from here’ phase of life? Nope. You need this week’s show if those thoughts have been creeping in! Enter Dr Jocelyn Wittstein, M.D., an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Duke University School of Medicine. She has been in practice since 2010 and is fellowship trained in sport…

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🍁 Reclaiming Your Magic Online & Offline — with Casey Zabala of Modern Witches 55:53

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Happy Halloween/Samhein week, friends 🌙 Today, I’m joined by one of my favorite witches, Casey Zabala of Modern Witches and Wanderers Tarot. Casey and I have a rich conversation tracing her spiritual path and how it became her career. We explore community, magic, and the power of self-publishing, as well as why Casey left social media earlier this …

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Old Politicians, Old Laws, and the Same Old Attacks on Bodily Freedom w/ Sophia Kilmer 1:34:00

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Sophia Kilmer — civil rights lawyer, founder of Defend Trans Rights, and host of her own podcast, Sophie Talks — and I decided to collaborate on the intersection between trans rights and abortion rights for this episode! She’s actually the one who had the great idea to blend our platforms, because as we both know, the right-wing uses the same tired…

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456. From African Herbal Medicine to Radical Self love and care for the modern superwoman: Dr Andrea Sullivan is our expert guide. 1:00:54

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“Why don’t you just go mix up those horsefeathers in your backroom or whatever it is you do” Andrea said to the naturopath after he suggested she become a naturopath. She laughed it off quickly that day, but here we are today, speaking with her, now 40 years into being a naturopathic physician. Dr Andrea Sullivan is a phoenix who’s risen from more …

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🌚 Business as Initiation & the Power of Deep Alignment — with grace allerdice 1:03:13

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Today we embrace the Dark Moon and step into our businesses to remember: “alignment is a dance.” To do that, I welcome grace allerdice back to the podcast for the fifth time. She’s a priestess, a podcaster, and one of my personal friends and guides. In this episode, she shares how her self-employment journey has also been a spiritual initiation and…

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👁️‍🗨️ A New Vision for Off the Grid 16:20

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Here's the thing: Off the Grid isn't just a marketing podcast. 🥸 It's a rallying cry to break free from the attention economy and reclaim your agency. It's also a vision of the internet where we create, connect, and make money online without extractive algorithms. In this bonus episode, I'm sharing the new vision for Off the Grid! And inviting you …

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455. Marianne Williamson - Are you ready to be a spiritual athlete for our times? 53:50

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Marianne Williamson has been a force for good for decades. The author of 16 books, 4 of which are New York Times best sellers, running for President, twice, thousands of events and countless free lives and blogs almost daily for her global audience… She has also been a grass roots activist, from facilitating nearly 20 million meal services for pall…

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📮 Email Mistakes We Need to Stop Making — with Dawn Richardson from Flodesk 1:05:07

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Today we’re going right to the heart of email marketing and answering your burning questions! To do that, I’m joined by Dawn Richardson, Product Education Manager at Flodesk and owner of Tech Savvy Creative. Dawn is here to explain how your emails end up in spam, strategies to get better open rates, and why you should stop sending reengagement camp…

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Part 2 w/ Joanie: From Planned Parenthood to Protecting Young People from Christian Nationalist Predation and Standing Strong for Our Communities 29:00

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If you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, go back and start there! In the first half of my conversation with longtime abortion rights activist and former nurse Joanie (@joaniephotos42 on Instagram), we talked about the devastating personal experience that ignited her love of Planned Parenthood and abortion rights activism, her early days doing clinic …

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💯 100 Ways to Share Your Work & Life Off Social Media 15:52

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Let's get visionary! 🪅 🪅 🪅 Today I'm revisiting and reimagining my list of 100 Ways to Share Your Work/Life Without Social Media — in celebration of my book launch! If you've been feeling unsure, uninspired, or unsatisfied lately, this episode is for you. Tune in for a quick dose of clarity and expansion. 🩵 RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Lea…

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454. Dr Katherine Willow - A new way to approach disease, healing and death 1:27:31

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Have you heard of German New Medicine? I was intrigued by a theory and practice shrouded in scandal and criticism. Why? Because it wasn’t disproven, and because some of the results are truly astounding. So I set out to find a practitioner who had a lot of experience with it but who also hadn’t abandoned other tools in clinical practice, diagnosis, …

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🦗 Quit Launching to Crickets — Simple Strategies for Stronger Sales with Nicole Cloutier 1:03:21

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Today we welcome copywriter Nicole Cloutier back to the podcast (yay!) to help us avoid the most dreaded small biz experience: putting something new into the world and hearing … nothing … in return. We talk through launch basics then go deep into the strategies that have helped grow our sales — even in this challenging year. Join us as we stare int…

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One Badass Babe: Julia Cuthbertson on How Teaching in Spain and Crashing a Wedding in Mexico Led to a Love Affair with Mezcal and the Birth of Las Chingonas Imports 1:07:14

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A wedding in Oaxaca. A chance meeting. A suitcase full of small-batch bottles that turned into an import company with a mission. We sit down with Julia Cuthbertson—founder of Las Chingonas Imports—to unpack how real mezcal is made, why labels can mislead, and what it takes to keep agave traditions alive without romanticizing them to extinction. Jul…

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453. Gerald Quigley - Immune support + bringing herbal and nutritional support into your day-to-day without fear. 58:06

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Why are we more susceptible to coming down with something like a cold or the flu at the turn of a season or change of humidity or temperature? And what really helps? Gerald Quigley joins me on the podcast this week. He’s a 50+ year pharmacist, a 40+ year herbalist, Fellow of the Naturopaths and Herbalists Association of Australia and Fellow of the …

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🌈 Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media — Book Launch! 58:41

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My book is here! Learn more & buy your copy at offthegrid.fun/attention 🥳 🥳 🥳 In today's episode, I tell you all about the book AND the virtual retreat I'm hosting this fall. Then I share an amazing conversation I had with Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer for her podcast Imagination State. It's all about how extractive algorithms wreck our creativity + comm…

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🙅‍♀️ Why I’m Not Putting My Book on Amazon 25:43

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The most radical choice I’ve made in self-publishing is not putting my book on Amazon. Tune in to this episode to learn: Why I made this decision What it means for my book How I’m going to find readers anyway & Exactly how many books I’m hoping to sell Then join me in my journey of self-publishing without giving Jeff Bezos more money… by getting a …

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452. IRON Deep dive: Too high, too low, tried ‘everything’ and still feel awful? 1:26:28

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IRON: It’s a part 3 of sorts, as we’ve covered Iron twice on the show previously but given the questions that continue to come in: This is the show to round it all out thoroughly. We unpack: Iron - when it’s a friend, foe and how to get into a ‘healthier relationship with it’. Why your body might think it needs to protect you from iron Understandin…

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Panache, Persistence and Truth: Writer and Photographer Elyssa Maxx Goodman (a.k.a. Miss Manhattan) on Her Love of Drag, Unheard Stories, and NYC Culture 55:38

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Ever wondered how someone builds a life around what they love? Elyssa Maxx Goodman offers a masterclass in turning passion into purpose. Born to New York natives transplanted to Florida, Goodman always felt the magnetic pull of the city where "the weirdos" gathered. By sixteen, she was already saving for her inevitable migration. The path wasn't al…

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💥 Why I Turned Down a Book Deal 34:31

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Welcome back to Book Week! In this behind-the-scenes episode (from the Clubhouse!), I tell you all about: The story of my first book (& why I had to rewrite that story to move forward) Why I decided to write this book (instead of just making more podcast episodes) My process for writing the 15,000 word manuscript in ONE WEEK (a wild choice) How I e…

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📔 Demystifying Publishing: From Idea to Manuscript to Book in Your Hands — with Bailey Lang 1:08:22

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Bailey Lang is a book coach, editor, and ghostwriter who helps business owners, creatives, and academics tell stories that matter. In this episode, Bailey and I pull back the curtain on the book-writing process. I share the messy middle and behind-the-scenes challenges of bringing my own book to life, while Bailey offers grounded guidance on what t…

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451. Want to keep joy and connection centre-stage in your relationship? Dr Kathryn Ford teaches us how. 59:52

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What if, though, we knew the tools and techniques we needed to focus on to keep joy and connection centre-stage in our relationships? Dr Kathryn Ford has been working with couples to grow together for over 2 decades to do just that, and in this week’s show you will learn: Why having a vision of yourselves as a couple is important How becoming a cou…

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🫶 Moving Past Perfectionism & Procrastination — Parts Work for Creative People with Tracy Candido 57:38

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Tracy Candido is a creative coach and the host of Hidden Parts, a podcast about the inner voices that shape how we live, work, and lead. Today she joins me on the podcast to help me unpack how my inner perfectionist, procrastinator, and hyper-achiever showed up in the book writing process. To do that, she teaches us a lot about Parts Work. Tune in …

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I'm Not Good Yet, But I'm Getting Better: Actor Melissa Parker Caron on Music, Motherhood and Following Fear 53:09

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What happens when you finally stop letting fear dictate your choices? In this heartfelt conversation with actress, improv coach, and former rock star Melissa Parker Caron, we explore the transformative power of facing what scares us most. Melissa shares her winding path from Orlando's vibrant music scene to New York City, where she's raising a Broo…

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450. Regenerative Farming insights for eaters and farmers with Margaret River Organic Farmer 53:21

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It’s a Farmer Insights show this week, designed to inspire eaters to upgrade their food sourcing practices and for farmers, whether organic or regenerative farming curious, to gain insights into how others are achieving success, saving money, transitioning, managing weeds and pests, and more. Lawson and Laura from Margaret River Organic Farm in Wes…

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✏️ Deleting Instagram, Practicing Attention & the Magic of Self-Publishing — with Cody Cook-Parrott 57:25

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This summer, Cody Cook-Parrott deleted their Instagram account. In doing so, they “lost” 80,000 followers and gained so. much. more. In this conversation, we dig into why Cody decided to delete IG, how their creative attention has shifted since, and what it really looks like to build a business (and publish a book) off the grid. Tune in to this epi…

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🏁 The State of Substack & How to Fall Back in Love with the Internet — with Seth Werkheiser 1:00:50

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Seth Werkheiser was one of the first 3000 people on Twitter. Now he runs Social Media Escape Club and helps people get off X, Facebook, Instagram, and more. In this conversation, we chart how we’ve each spent 20+ years online — beginning with AOL, Tumblr, and Twitter all the way through Instagram, TikTok, and the current state of Substack. This one…

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449. Decide what the next best version of yourself is: Here’s how, with Dr Shefali 53:26

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Dr. Shefali joins us this week: Clarity and Wisdom in 50 Minutes, looking at two aspects of psychology and personal development with the clinical psychologist and renowned best-selling author: 1️⃣ Conscious Leadership: Level up your life, starting with yourself! • Unlock your authentic self • Vision boarding done right - you may be focused on the w…

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💫 How to (Self) Publish a Book Without Social Media 25:17

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Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back! Season 7 of Off the Grid officially kicks off next week. 🥳 This season we'll be digging into all things (self)-publishing without social media. I'm talking to writers, coaches, witches, and more about the magic of bringing our ideas to life and selling them in the marketplace. 😬 To get you in the mood, I'm …

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448. Eat 2 venison steaks a year to save the environment? The opportunity in addressing invasive species, with Tara Medina 51:51

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A food system show with a difference today and I can’t wait to hear from our global audience how these issues play out where you live, too! What if eating a particular type of red meat - even just a couple of times per year - made a huge amount of environmental, economic and nutritional sense? Well, if you have an invasive species deer problem, lik…

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Ready With a Go Bag: Writer Tyler Wetherall on the Notion of Radical Possibilities, a Life of Travel and Finding Home Anywhere 56:17

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What does "home" mean when you've spent your childhood on the run? Tyler Weatherall, author of the memoir "No Way From Home," brings us into her fascinating journey from being the daughter of an international pot smuggler to becoming a respected journalist, author, and community builder in New York's literary scene. Tyler shares how growing up with…

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Show 447. The Biology of Trauma: Uncover, Understand, and Heal with Dr. Aimie Apigian 1:13:05

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Trauma: Have you read books full of all the reasons why trauma is linked to disease but felt a crucial piece missing? What to actually DO? This week, Dr. Aimie Apigian, double board-certified physician, trauma specialist, and author of the upcoming book The Biology of Trauma: How the Body Holds Fear, Pain, and Overwhelm, and How to Heal It, is goin…

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Planned Parenthood Saved Her Life -- Now She Fights for Them (Part 1) 48:00

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In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Joanie (@JoaniePhotos42) shares how accessing abortion care as a teen shaped her lifelong advocacy. We talk about her early experience with Planned Parenthood, her work as a clinic escort in the '90s, her career as an RN, and how the same forces she resisted decades ago — misogyny, disinformation, and Christ…

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From Bartender to MFA Student to Teacher: Krystal Marie Orwig on Rewriting Her Story Arc 1:00:42

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What drives someone to uproot their life and move across the country with no safety net? For Krystal Marie Orwig, it was a childhood dream that refused to die. "I was 12 years old when I said I was gonna live in New York," Krystal shares, reflecting on how she made that declaration long before understanding what it would mean. After moving from Sou…

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446. Unlock Nature's Medicine Cabinet with Herbalist and Author, Rachelle Robinett. 1:04:14

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Herbs: Do you have the confidence to use them in certain situations? Do you only turn to herbal supplements when things are wrong? This week with clinical herbalist and author, Rachelle Robinett, we are growing our herbal medicine vocab. Rachelle Robinett is a Clinical Herbalist, writer, educator, and thought-leader and is here to inspire you close…

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445. Herbal Medicine 2.0: Rebuilding our health and our planet from the soil up with Ric Scalzo 59:12

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Do you take any medicinal herbs? This week we have an hour of power with pioneer herbalist, entrepreneur and now regenerative farmer and research philanthropist, Ric Scalzo. Some of the parts to the show: • Ric's journey from philosophy student to herbal medicine and naturopathy • Fascinating insights on herbs like hawthorn, wormwood and schisandra…