This episode was originally shared on the Mindful Pause Podcast with Audrey Sutton Mills. These ancestral wounds, deeply rooted in our DNA, often show up as fears, insecurities, and blocks that hold us back from our true power. Enrollment for Way of the Priestess is Open! We begin March 13, 2025 Click here to book a call to learn more Priestess: a space-holder, leader of a movement, of highest service to the greater collective, a vessel for the divine, a living embodiment of love Initiation: a s...
Mar 05, 2025•50 min•Season 9Ep. 142
We hope you enjoy this short meditation to connect with your highest self. This is a powerful practice to connect with your inner guide, ask any questions on your heart, and see what is revealed to you… Enrollment for Way of the Priestess is Open! WAY OF THE PRIESTESS: MYSTERY SCHOOL + WOMEN'S CIRCLE FACILITATION TRAINING PROGRAM We Begin September 13, 2024 (Sept 2024 - Sept 2025) Online Program for Women Rising on the Priestess Path Calling all Healers, Wisdom-Keepers, Teachers, Earth Protector...
Aug 20, 2024•17 min•Season 9Ep. 141
Have you ever felt judged by someone? Can you remember that pain of feeling misunderstood? Cast out? And separate? Usually the people in judgement don’t know the whole story. They don’t know the truth of who we are or what we’ve been through. And usually the people who judge, are themselves in some kind of pain. I imagine you can relate to that truly awful feeling, especially if you identify as highly sensitive. It’s enough to make one want to attack back, or worse, go into hiding or shame. I’ve...
Aug 06, 2024•34 min•Season 9Ep. 140
Enrollment is now open for our Year-long Priestess Initiation Program: Beginning this September. Learn more here What a blessing to welcome Ashley Burnett back to the Rising Women Leaders podcast. She was an original guest on episode 013 | Uninhibited Leadership in 2016! We talk about Ashley’s evolution as an entrepreneur, how she’s been changing through motherhood and a cross-country move, her new book, Your Spacious and Seasonal Year , and how to reclaim our time for what we truly value. More ...
Jul 12, 2024•47 min•Season 9Ep. 139
Special Announcement: Doors are now open to our 5-week Money Mastery Study Group where Lindsey will be a guest teacher about Personal Finance 101 I was drawn to invite financial advisor Lindsey Woodward to the podcast after participating in a retreat together with founder of Abacus Wealth, Spencer Sherman . I found it so refreshing to meet a fellow socially responsible woman in the field of investing, and I was excited to share her wisdom with our community at Rising Women Leaders. In this episo...
May 23, 2024•49 min•Season 9Ep. 138
Special Announcement: Doors are now open to our 5-week Money Mastery Study Group Welcome back! I’m excited to share my latest conversation with spiritual mentor Jessica Bowes. The universe recently reconnected us for a new free collaboration we’ve been working on called, “The Consciousness of Wealth” ~ you can sign up for it right here . I wanted to have Jessica on the show so you could learn more about her background and amazing gifts as a channeler, seer, highly intuitive, sensitive and empath...
May 09, 2024•54 min•Season 9Ep. 137
After developing a condition where she began to have an allergic reaction to almost everything she ate, Sena knew something had to change. She had been living a health-focused lifestyle for years after leaving a job at Google and finding the heart medicine of cacao. But years later she would discover her days of drinking cacao, using plant medicines and eating a more vegetarian diet were no longer supporting her body’s needs. By chance, she won an instagram contest for a Hair Tissue Mineral Anal...
Apr 26, 2024•51 min•Season 9Ep. 136
Jane Mayer and I are back to answer the questions we received from you all in February! We also get to hear about Jane’s updates at the end of her pregnancy, her move to Alabama to be closer to family, what the third trimester has been like, and how she’s being changed. Hear Jane's full story in our previous podcast, episode 133 . In this episode we discussed: Approaching the birth portal and preparation for birth Ways to connect with Celtic wisdom keepers Priestess lineages that were destroyed ...
Mar 26, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 8Ep. 135
Announcement: Enrollment is now open for the next cohort of the Way of the Priestess . Richard will be one of our guest teachers When I first discovered that when everyone is talking about “Full moon in Leo” the actual moon in the sky is most often in the constellation of Cancer my mouth dropped! How could this be? Ever since I was a kid I loved looking at the stars and astronomy was one of my favorite subjects in school. I’ve always asked questions like, “Why are we here? Where did we come from...
Feb 09, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 8Ep. 134
I’m back to podcasting! I know it’s been about 8 months since my last episode and I have missed you all. I have just been navigating the reality of being ia new mother, having more limited time now, amidst navigating the identity shifts and transformations of becoming a mother. I’m so excited to share my conversation with Jane, a true voice and channel for the heart of the Holy One. You may remember Jane from earlier episodes: episode 118 - Navigating Change and the Power of Listening , and epis...
Dec 02, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 8Ep. 133
This Fall I participated in a weekly new parent-baby group in Sebastopol, CA with Kerry Ingram. I met Kerry years ago when she found one of my self-care guide downloads and invited me to be a wise woman to visit her mom and baby groups. I remember thinking I would love to join something like that to meet other mothers and babies if I ever had a child one day… and about six years later it happened! Kerry has been supporting new mothers, babies and families for the past decade in CA and now is sha...
Apr 07, 2023•49 min•Season 8Ep. 132
It’s an honor to have Becca Piastrelli back on Rising Women Leaders. It’s been a few years (and a lot of transformation) since our last conversation (episode 10!). We’ve both transitioned from maiden to mother, and our lives and businesses have transformed along with us. In this conversation we share the real, the raw, and the beautiful of being initiated into mothers: Becca shares of her journey of the last 2.5 years after birthing her daughter, her journey with delayed postpartum depression (a...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 8Ep. 131
Enrollment is now open for the Way of the Priestess Training Program with Meredith Rom. Download the program guide at risingwomenleaders.com and book a call to learn more. It’s an honor to have Renee Linnell back on Rising Women Leaders! In Renee’s latest book, Still on Fire , she shares stories of magic, miracles, travel and romance… from traveling over 50 countries, love affairs with men half her age, being rescued by angels, getting stranded at 22,000 feet in the Himalayas, Renee takes us on ...
Nov 11, 2022•56 min•Season 7Ep. 130
It was an honor to sit down for this heart opening conversation with a personal mentor and friend, Porsha Beed. It was just before the pandemic when I first met Porsha in a song circle in Sebastopol, CA. I was touched by the songs her and co-founder Aaron Johnson shared with our group and how effortlessly they brought us into our hearts. I attended their daylong anti-racism workshop and went on to work privately with Porsha to move through my own grief around racism, look at my own blind spots a...
Sep 21, 2022•57 min•Season 7Ep. 129
This week I sat down with dear friend Jane Mayer to share the story of my daughter's birth. She was born March 15, 2022 at our home in Boulder, Colorado. In this story I share about everything from unexpected emotions during pregnancy, what I did to prepare for birth, practices to help baby be in the most optimal position for labor, the story of the birth itself as well as lessons from the first six weeks postpartum. After spending years preparing for motherhood and holding space for women to he...
May 05, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Season 7Ep. 128
As I am about to cross the threshold into motherhood, I sat down to speak with mother, ceremonialist, and birthkeeper Gabriella Cerince. (You can also listen to our last episode from 2020 on Ceremony, Seasons, & the Modern Witch right here ). Gabriella shares her birth story (with her now 6-month old daughter,) and the fine line one walks between fear, trust & intuition in the process, and how she was invited to set boundaries both during and after birth as she stepped into her new role ...
Mar 02, 2022•58 min•Season 7Ep. 127
After hearing Morgan’s story of choosing to donate and redistribute 100% of her inherited family wealth, I knew I wanted to speak with her. In this conversation we discuss what it’s like to face the shadows of our ancestral lineages, ask deeper questions of what our family’s part was in injustices in our country and how we can use that knowledge to atone and repair. Morgan is one of thousands of young people feeling called to redistribute inherited wealth back into the hands of indigenous and bl...
Dec 17, 2021•1 hr•Season 7Ep. 126
This podcast was originally recorded on the Amber Dolan Bath Show . Amber has been a past client of mine, and it was an honor to sit down with her and her partner Jacob to talk all about love and relationships. You’re invited to join Michael and I for a 2 hour online workshop… Love & Relationship Alchemy Join us to Learn: 9 Ways of Being to Create Thriving Relationships Our Top 3 Communication Techniques to Diffuse Conflict and Create Deeper Intimacy Intimacy Practices To Create a Foundation...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 7Ep. 125
Welcome to a new season of Rising Women Leaders! In this episode I share: My journey of pre-conception and conception The role the island of Kauai played during pre-conception Wisdom from my experience for women opening to conceive and welcome a soul into their lives What I experienced in the first trimester (and what I didn’t expect) How I’ve been approaching nutrition and supplements My favorite books on pregnancy and pre-conception The role of surrender in pregnancy, conception and birth Link...
Nov 09, 2021•44 min•Season 7Ep. 124
The timing of this conversation couldn’t have been more perfect. After living eight months on the island of Kauai and deepening my connection to the Earth and plant spirit world, I had the opportunity to sit down with writer, teacher, and earth intuitive, Asia Suler. I had just had my first dream of the island after returning to the mainland, where I greeted the ocean and it greeted me back with a big splash on my hand. I could truly feel the sentience of the plants and the land in the dream tha...
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 123
Announcement: This is the last week to book a call for the 2021-2022 Way of the Priestess Training Program with Meredith Rom. We begin June 10, 2021. Download the program guide at risingwomenleaders.com/priestess I can’t believe almost seven years has passed since I first met Kit Maloney at a weekend retreat for creative entrepreneurs with Sarah Jenks and Nisha Moodley . Since then Kit has had several businesses, from focusing on female pleasure and orgasm to helping women connect with their wom...
Jun 04, 2021•53 min•Season 6Ep. 122
Announcement: Enrollment is now open for the 2021-2022 Way of the Priestess Training Program with Meredith Rom. We begin June 10, 2021. Download the program guide at risingwomenleaders.com and book a call to learn more. It’s an honor to welcome Mama Jenn to our podcast episode today! Jenn has been a client and participant in this past year’s Way of the Priestess program. She shares her story of healing her heart after a difficult break up, rediscovering her connection to Source and finding her g...
May 29, 2021•46 min•Season 6Ep. 121
Enrollment is now open for the 2021-2022 Way of the Priestess Training Program with Meredith Rom. We begin June 10, 2021. Download the program guide at risingwomenleaders.com and book a call to learn more. It’s an honor to welcome you to a guided journey with the singing bowls and the harmonium. I’ve been bringing these intuitive sound journeys to my clients this month over zoom and thought, “This is really what the world needs right now.” So much healing is able to take place when we simply dro...
May 13, 2021•37 min•Season 6Ep. 120
There's an intense amount of pressure we can put on ourselves to achieve, to do, and be productive. How can we know when it's ok to rest? Even in spiritual communities, it's so easy to get stuck in the cycle of constant productivity, as if our self-worth was dependent on it. How do we break the cycle? In this episode Meredith Rom shares a channeled message from source to remind you that you're not here to be a machine. You're a human with feelings and depth. Take ten minutes to let go into the a...
Mar 31, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 119
It was an honor to sit down with Jane Mayer, a true voice and channel for the heart of the Holy One. In this conversation, Jane shares about her journey through the hallways of darkness to find her way back to the light of presence and union. Years ago she found herself unhappily married, struggling with an autoimmune disease and just coming off a failed round of in-vitro fertilization. She was crying, raging, and in deep, deep grief and paralysis. Her soul was screaming at her: it wanted her to...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 118
Do you ever struggle with your relationship to food? Where sometimes you eat your emotions, or use food to procrastinate, especially right before your moon-time comes? This week’s podcast guest, Allie McFee offers a radical approach for new paradigm thought-leaders to shift their patterns with emotional eating + food. By working through her own past struggles of emotional eating, burn out and hormonal imbalance, she offers knowledge on which foods to eat for each phase of the menstrual cycle, ho...
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 117
Finding intimacy with others begins with becoming intimate and honest with ourselves. In this episode with Kendra Cunov , we discuss the difficult habitual patterns we can get into as women seeking comfort and validation from our relationships. After years of dating men who were not fully available to commit to partnership, Kendra decided to take a break from dating and men altogether. She knew this was what she needed to get to the bottom of what was having her stay in deeply unfulfilling dynam...
Jan 29, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 6Ep. 116
It’s an honor to welcome sister Jet’aime to the Rising Women Leaders podcast. I met Jet’aime on the island of Kaua’i this past Fall and instantly felt the power and wisdom she holds. Through the Akashic Records, an etheric Library of everything that has ever happened, is happening, and could happen, she empowers people to see their life through the soul’s spiritual perspective to better understand all they are and all they can become. In this episode we discussed: What are ley lines and how we c...
Jan 15, 2021•54 min•Season 6Ep. 115
Enrollment is now open for the 2020-2021 Way of the Priestess Training Program with Meredith Rom. Download the program guide at risingwomenleaders.com and book a call to learn more. This episode is an excerpt from our recent webinar, The Role of the Priestess in the Modern Age. Sign up to watch the whole replay here. In this episode you’ll learn about: The archetype of the priestess and why this role is so needed at this time 6 spiritual tools for times of rapid acceleration and ascension Practi...
Nov 06, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 6Ep. 114
It’s an honor to welcome Rachel Proctor , an online educator helping people transform their lives through faith and online business to our Rising Women Leaders community. We touched on all the challenges we face as entrepreneurs in the online world: fear, self-doubt, the inner critic, comparing ourselves to those who are our inspirations, how to handle trolls and so much more. Rachel not only shares her firsthand experiences, vulnerable moments, challenges and successes rising as a leader in onl...
Oct 08, 2020•52 min•Season 6Ep. 113
