Transcending Normal

“Transcending Normal” is about uprooting the B.S. stories we've been taught to believe are “normal” so that we can transcend to our higher selves. This podcast is for open-hearted, ambitious women wanting to leave the burnout culture behind to create mental, emotional, and spiritual wholeness. DesiRae Kraft is a Psychotherapist, entrepreneur, Highly Sensitive, and Intuitive alpha female who bridges spirit and logic while bringing a direct and deeply rooted sense of compassion. Through her training and lived experiences with Therapy, Human Behavior, Psychology, Holistic Health, Energetic Healing, and Mindfulness, she helps guide others to create an authentic life, healthier relationships, and aligned businesses. We’ll explore various topics; uprooting and healing things like belief systems, societal expectations, mindset, mindfulness, relationships, inner work, and leadership. Sprinkled with social injustice issues to create global and social healing. Tune in for real and soul-provoking conversations as DesiRae and other self-healer seekers, thought leaders, and change-makers provide tangible tools, tips, and deep self-introspection to help you in your journey to your higher self. More at www.desiraekraft.com Connect on Instagram @desirae.kraft @transcendingnormal.podcast Disclaimer: https://desiraekraft.com/disclaimer/

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Episodes

[INTERVIEW] TRANSCENDING FAT PHOBIA: Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation with Author, Speaker, and Educator Dana Sturtevant

In next week's episode, I talk with my friend Dana Sturtevant. Dana Sturtevant, M.S., R.D. (she/her) is the co-founder of the Center for Body Trust and the co-author of the book Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation. As a registered dietitian, she helps people divest from diet culture, explore what it means to be embodied, and move toward more compassionate forms of radical care. Her work as a speaker, educator, and trainer focuses on humanizing health care, advancing health eq...

Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 11

[INTERVIEW] Overcome Burnout and Go from Stress to Serenity with Coach Lydia Lincklaen

In next week's episode, I talk with Lydia Lincklen, a Certified Life and Flow Code Coach. She experienced and overcame burnout personally, and she helps women and men manage their stress and overcome burnout to allow them to find their true authentic selves. From stress to serenity! She's made it her mission to help other people find happiness, become their authentic self, let them enjoy life, and build resilience to stress. When she helps coach one person, she sees how it indirectly helps even ...

Apr 17, 2023•53 min•Ep. 10

[INTERVIEW] The Power of Vulnerability, Play & Activating Our Feminine Power with Ecstatic Life Mentor Alara Sage

In this week's episode, I talk with The Ecstatic Life Mentor, Alara Sage. Alara is an intuitively gifted mentor, teacher, and healer who coaches provocatively and soulfully. She has over 15 years of experience helping others reignite and transform their own lives. Alara Sage works with ambitious female leaders and professionals who are highly successful but feel unfulfilled and lonely in love, life, and relationships. She helps them reawaken their sexual power as a woman so that they can magneti...

Apr 03, 2023•48 min•Ep. 9

[INTERVIEW] Surrendering in Entrepreneurship, Hitting Rock Bottom & Owning Our Value as Female Leaders w/ Exec Coach, Speaker, and Author Kristin Darga

In next week's episode, I talk with Kristin Darga. Kristin Darga is a CEO, Author, Speaker, Exec Coach, and founder of Black Label Coaching and Impact Founder who spent over 5 years telling the real, gritty, and unsexy stories of entrepreneurship. She’s guided over 500 founders, CEO’s and their teams in the business. Her media company and her award-winning book, Impact Founder, provide an outlet for entrepreneurs to share their hardships AND...THEIR TRIUMPHS!! She is a contagious, creative, and ...

Feb 27, 2023•58 min•Ep. 8

[SOLO] It's OK to not be OK.

Today's episode is all about giving yourself permission that it's OK to not be OK and to feel it all when life throws you an emotional dumpster fire. The last few months I've been moving through some heavy emotions and many compounded things that have brought me to my knees. As I've been speaking with my other open-hearted female leader friends who are going through the same thing, this seems to be an energetic theme right now. In our conversations, I've also noticed this theme that as ambitious...

Feb 13, 2023•26 min•Ep. 7

[INTERVIEW] Eating Intuitively, Living Holistically & Thriving with an Auto-Immune Disease with Holistic Nutritionist Georgia Grey

In next week's episode, I talk with Georgia Grey, who is a Holistic Nutritionist and owns Whole Body Healing Nutrition. Georgia works with people who do not feel well, specializing in Lyme Disease, autoimmune disease, and hormone imbalance. Georgia and I both have auto-immune diseases and talk about things we’ve learned along the way, ways we all can listen intuitively, eat mindfully and thrive holistically in our lives. If you have an auto-immune disease, it can feel like a long journey toward ...

Feb 06, 2023•51 min•Ep. 6

[SOLO] Take the Leap & Face Your Fears to Become Your Authentic Self in 2023

In today’s episode, we discuss what you would do this year if you knew you were fully supported. What leaps are you finally ready to take in 2023? No matter where we are in our journey toward creating an authentic life taking leaps, big or small, can feel scary. We will face fears when we embrace messy actions and step out of our comfort zone. We’ll jam out on taking leaps, knowing you’re supported, facing your fears, and ten things to remember when doors close this year —> all so you can be ...

Jan 30, 2023•30 min•Ep. 5

[INTERVIEW] Healing Your Sexuality to create more Pleasure, & Intimacy with Sex, Love, & Relationship Coach Amanda Testa

In this week's episode, I talk with one of my dear friends Amanda Testa. Amanda is not only a Sex, Love, and Relationship coach but a trusted healer and guide who’s served hundreds of clients over the years with masterful skills in coaching, pleasure embodiment, and somatic trauma resolution. She helps her client tenderly heal their relationship with their sexuality, shamelessly embrace pleasure, own their sexy confidence, and cultivate deeply connected relationships with her fiercely loving sup...

Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 4

[SOLO] Embodying & Activating Your Confidence

Hey, hey, ladies! Today we’re going to talk about embodying your confidence, stopping negative self-talk in its tracks, and loving ourselves as we age. It’s an invitation to be in awe of our bodies and beauty and to love MORE of who you are. Creating a ripple in ourselves and our lives. Towards the end of the episode, we’ll do a 5-minute feminine embodiment exercise. Don’t worry if you’re running around as you’re listening to this; you can always come back to it later! In this episode: Why activ...

Jan 16, 2023•36 min•Ep. 3

[SOLO] We All Have the Power to Reinvent Ourselves

In this first episode: Who this podcast is for. Intro on me, DesiRae. DesiRae shares high-level in three parts; where she started, where she’s been, and how she got here today. From her upbringing, career, tragedy, entrepreneurship, and through the global pandemic to today. What you can expect from Transcending Normal. Take my hand as we're in this together. Embracing all parts of who we are as beautifully imperfect and complex Humans. We all have the power to reinvent ourselves. Who am I? My na...

Jan 11, 2023•48 min•Ep. 2

Trailer

“Transcending Normal” is a new podcast about uprooting the B.S. stories we've been taught to believe are “normal” so that we can transcend to our higher selves. This is for open-hearted, ambitious women wanting to leave the burnout culture behind to create mental, emotional, and spiritual wholeness. DesiRae Kraft is an entrepreneur, Highly Sensitive, and Intuitive alpha female who bridges spirit and logic while bringing a direct and deeply rooted sense of compassion. Through her training and liv...

Dec 29, 2022•2 min•Ep. 1

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