The Wild Sovereign Soul Show

Wild Sovereign Soul co-founder and soul guide, Lian Brook-Tyler, explores the myth of Chiron the wounded healer in full, from conception to stars, reframing it as an awakening arc rather than a healing one, and examining what we miss when we stop the story too soon. This episode is Lian’s All The Everything show… her solo space where she dives deeply into a theme that is alive for her, which, if you know her, could be literally anything - explored through the lenses of science, spirituality and story - hence the name of the show! It is created for those who feel called toward a soulful life shaped by meaning, depth, truth, and love… for those who feel unsatisfied with quick answers or surface level takes. This is a rich rabbit hole that Lian journeys through alongside you. She speaks from her own lived experience and unfolding process… while inviting you into your own as you listen. The LIVE making of All The Everything is recorded live on YouTube… to join Lian for the next one: Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel, subscribed to our Moonly News email list and/or are a member of our Facebook group and we’ll let you know when the next one is happening. In this episode, Lian returns to Chiron, the wounded healer, not to retread familiar ground but to follow the myth all the way to its end, the cave, the exchange with Prometheus, the death, the stars, the parts that almost never get told. She traces the full arc from Chiron's conception through his years of genuine mastery and medicine, into the collapse that the second wound brings, and through to what von Franz calls the hopeless conflict, the precise moment the ego runs out of road and something else becomes possible. She draws on the work of Ken Wilber, whose pre/trans fallacy names something she has lived personally, the difference between a genuine spiritual opening and the long harder work of becoming somebody before you can genuinely become nobody, and why so much of contemporary spirituality mistakes one for the other. Listen if you have done years of real inner work and quietly wonder whether the identity you have built around your healing has itself become the thing you are now living around rather than through. #chiron #healing #woundedhealer #medicine #wound #kenwilber #spiritual We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: Why the wound becoming medicine is genuinely true and also only the middle of the story, and what the myth of Chiron reveals about the arc that follows it How Ken Wilber's pre/trans fallacy names the difference between a real spiritual opening and the work of becoming that no awakening experience can replace What happens when the ego finally runs out of road, and why von Franz and the data from Hardy's 6,000 accounts both point to the same uncomfortable portal Resources and stuff Lian spoke about: Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@WildSovereignSoul, subscribed to our Moonly News email list and/or are a member of our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildsovereignsoul and we’ll let you know when the next one is happening. Share what showed up for you listening to this show, including any questions, either in the Wild Sovereign Soul facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildsovereignsoul or in UNIO https://www.unioacademy.com . Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls https://www.unioacademy.com/: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Wild Sovereign Soul Join our mailing list: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/moonly UNIO: The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls : https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/godeeper Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1694264587546957 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildsovereignsoul YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WildSovereignSoul There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

Lian and Three Principles teacher Dicken Bettinger explore how Sydney Banks' original message was rooted in the spiritual dimension of the mind, why that dimension kept getting lost in translation, and what it means to find peace by looking within rather than thinking your way there. Dicken Bettinger, Ed.D., received his doctorate in counseling psychology and has worked during his career as a licensed clinical psychologist. Dicken’s entire career has focused on psychological well-being. In 1986 he met Sydney Banks, who shared a profound new understanding of the human mind called the Three Principles that unifies our connection to a deeper intelligence called wisdom and our psychological nature. For his full bio see the show notes linked below. In this episode, Lian and Dicken return for a second conversation, this time looking honestly at what happened to the Three Principles teaching as it spread, why the spiritual dimension of Syd Banks' message kept getting reduced to cognitive psychology, and what gets lost when a living teaching hardens into catchphrases and community rules. Dicken shares how Syd himself understood the Three Principles not as good ideas to live by but as the most fundamental qualities of infinite life energy, the intelligence, consciousness, and creative potential from which everything arises, and how that understanding was always meant to unify the psychological and the spiritual rather than replace one with the other. Dicken explains what he noticed happening across the community over forty years, why the "do nothing" instruction became its own kind of command, how Lian's sense that individual soul was rarely spoken about connects to something Syd said consistently, and what shifts when someone stops thinking harder and starts listening for what comes through when the thinking settles Listen if you have ever drifted away from a teaching or community that once meant a great deal to you and found yourself wondering whether it was the teaching itself, or just what it became reduced to. Show notes for episode 551 are here - https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/podcast/551 We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation. please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: Why reducing "thought creates feeling" to a psychological principle misses everything Syd Banks was actually pointing toward How the "do nothing" teaching became a command, and what Syd really meant by looking in the right direction What happens when someone stops trying to think their way to peace and begins to trust the knowing that lives beneath the thinking Resources and stuff that we spoke about: Visit Dicken’s website. (https://www.3principlesmentoring.com/index.html) The Missing Link (https://sydneybanks.com/product/the-missing-link/) Coming Home by Dicken (see show notes for link) Life can be easier than you think by Dicken (see show notes for link) Dicken’s YT channel (https://www.youtube.com/@DickenBettinger) Syd’s YT channel (https://www.youtube.com/@sydneybanks3) Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: (https://www.unioacademy.com/) This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Wild Sovereign Soul Join our mailing list: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/moonly UNIO: The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls : https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/godeeper Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1694264587546957 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildsovereignsoul YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WildSovereignSoul Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically.

Lian and hypnotherapist and changework facilitator James Tripp on where pattern-based change meets its ceiling, what Jungian individuation and NLP have to say to each other, and why the most resistant clients may be the ones most in need of a reconnection to soul. James Tripp is an internationally recognised authority in the fields of self development, personal mastery and generative changework. Coming from a diverse background including philosophy, music, martial arts, movement culture and NLP, James is also the developer of the Hypnosis Without Trance approach to hypnotic facilitation as well as author of the critically acclaimed book of the same title. In his one-to-one work, James works with individuals looking to become better adapted in consistently creating outcomes they value and living lives they love. Since turning professional in 2007 his clients have included artists, filmmakers, entrepreneurs and business creators, c-suite executives, actors and performers, frontline services operatives, medical doctors, writers, special forces operatives and military veterans. In this episode, Lian and James begin with "doomer optimism," a genuine belief that radical change is not only inevitable but potentially the very thing that makes us more alive and more human. They look at what it costs people to build a life around patterns that are functional in the world but out of resonance with who they truly are, and why that gap, which might show up as numbness, burnout, or a vague sense that something's missing, tends to compound under pressure. From there the conversation moves into territory that doesn’t always make it into change-work: soul, and what it takes to bring that word into a room full of police officers without losing them, and why, in James’ experience, even the most practical people tend to respond when someone gives them permission to look in that direction. There's something here about nourishment rather than healing, about arcs of becoming rather than things to fix, and about where ancient ways of knowing, shamanism, Taoism, the Kabbalah, still carry genuine usefulness in a world that has largely forgotten them. Listen if you've been doing this work, in yourself or with others, long enough to sense that changing our patterns is only part of the story. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: - Why changing patterns can take you a long way but still leave you feeling like the nut has been removed from the shell - How soul connection shows up differently depending on the room you're in, and why James rarely uses that language the same way twice - What Jung's private admission near the end of his life, that he had failed at his principal task, reveals about how long it takes for a seed to become a fruit tree Resources and stuff that we spoke about: - Visit James’s website (https://www.jamestripp.co.uk/). - James’s Linktree (https://linktr.ee/jamestripp) - Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: (https://www.unioacademy.com/) This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Wild Sovereign Soul Join our mailing list: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/moonly UNIO: The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls : https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/godeeper Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1694264587546957 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildsovereignsoul YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WildSovereignSoul Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

Wild Sovereign Soul co-founder and soul guide, Lian Brook-Tyler, explains what death has always been trying to teach us about the art of really living, drawing on three of her own encounters with death, including fifteen years of chronic pain and panic attacks, that ultimately changed everything. This episode is Lian’s All The Everything show… her solo space where she dives deeply into a theme that is alive for her, which, if you know her, could be literally anything - explored through the lenses of science, spirituality and story - hence the name of the show! In this episode, Lian shares the story of her own three encounters with death, a violent attack in her youth that left her braced against life for fifteen years, the sudden and complicated death of her father, and a shamanic burial initiation. She weaves through the science of near-death experiences, including findings from Dr. Pim van Lommel's eight-year longitudinal study and Raymond Moody's landmark research, which found that across cultures, ages, and belief systems, only two things consistently emerged as what truly mattered. She also looks honestly at what modern culture has done by removing death from daily life, how a death-denying world dismantles genuine choice, and why sovereign living may not be possible until we stop trying to pretend we have more time than we do. She closes with a simple daily practice, a few minutes each morning to ask what this day would mean if it were the last ordinary one. Listen if you find yourself putting something important off until conditions feel more right, or if you know what your life is calling for but keep finding reasons not to move toward it yet. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: Why the life review described consistently across near-death experience research points to only two things as mattering, and what that means for the choices available to you today How a culture that removes death from daily life creates a sovereignty wound, and the way genuine self-directed choice depends on facing what we most want to avoid What happens when you spend a night buried in the earth, facing the prospect of death, and the quality of aliveness that becomes available on the other side of it Resources and stuff Lian spoke about: Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@WildSovereignSoul), subscribed to our Moonly News email list (/moonly) and/or are a member of our Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/bemythicalcommunity) and we’ll let you know when the next one is happening. Register your interest for the upcoming Wild Sovereign Soul journey here (/wss). Share what showed up for you listening to this show, including any questions, either in the Be Mythical facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/bemythicalcommunity) or in UNIO (https://www.unioacademy.com). Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: (https://www.unioacademy.com/)This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Wild Sovereign Soul Join our mailing list: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/moonly UNIO: The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls : https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/godeeper Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1694264587546957 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildsovereignsoul YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WildSovereignSoul Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

Lian Brook-Tyler and Jonathan Wilkinson, Wild Sovereign Soul co-founders, trace how the rise of individualism severed our connection to community and spirit, what Jung's individuation actually meant before it was reduced to self-improvement, and what these times are really calling us to. Lian and Jonathan sit down together for their monthly, free-flowing conversation honouring the path of the Wild Sovereign Soul. It's challenging to live in this crazy modern world, the Wild Sovereign Soul path is what we know will help. Each month, they meet live themes from the modern world head on, weaving together what they're currently consuming and creating, how wildness, sovereignty, and soul are showing up in their own lives, and the patterns they're seeing across our students and clients. There is room for curiosity, disagreement, and humour, alongside reflections drawn from their own experiences and initiations, as well as insights from ancient wisdom traditions, astrology, Gene Keys, shamanism, and more. In this episode, Lian and Jonathan explore how individualism became the water we swim in, tracing the distance between what Jung meant by individuation and what it has been flattened into, drawing on Kabbalah, shamanism, David Deida's three stages, and Dr. Jeffrey Martin's cross-tradition research into what union actually looks like when people get far enough along any genuine path. They look at how the self-development world inherited Jung's language while losing his meaning, and how that has left many people cycling through spiritual frameworks in the same way they once cycled through self-help. From there, the conversation opens into what might be reclaimed, what the shaman's role reveals about service and the whole, and what it means that the word "individual" once meant something that could not be divided from everything around it. Listen if you have poured time, energy and money into a spiritual or personal path and sometimes find yourself wondering whether you are actually moving somewhere, or mostly just getting better at thinking about yourself. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll receive from this episode: What the true cost of individualism is, not just for the individual, but for our relationship to community, spirit, and the whole Why individuation, as Jung understood it, has almost nothing to do with becoming more your separate self, and how the gap between that and how it is now used has fuelled a culture of self-obsession How almost every mystical and religious tradition, however different their language, can converge on the same destination when followed far enough What the traditional shaman's role reveals about what goes missing the moment any path of soul becomes primarily about personal development Resources and stuff Lian spoke about: Register your interest for the upcoming Wild Sovereign Soul Pilgrimage here. (https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/pilgrimage) Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: (https://www.unioacademy.com/) This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Wild Sovereign Soul Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/moonly Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: https://wildsovereignsoul.com/unio Go Deeper: https://wildsovereignsoul.com/godeeper Follow us: Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

Voice coach and author Barbara McAfee explains why so many people are afraid to sing, what group singing does to the nervous system and the sense of self, and why the loss of communal song may be one of the most significant things modern life has taken from us. Barbara is a voice coach, author, speaker, and performer, with over 30 years of experience helping people unlock their full voice through practical vocal techniques and tools for authentic, flexible self expression. In this episode, Lian and Barbara explore what actually happens when people sing together, why the fear of singing runs so deep in so many of us, and how recorded, pitch-corrected music has done to the human voice something similar to what airbrushed images have done to the human body. They look at the oral tradition as a living technology for transmitting knowledge, holding grief, and keeping communities in tune across generations, and at the way group singing can restore something that most people don't realise they've been missing until it returns. From there, the conversation moves into singing at the threshold of death, the Morning Star Singers' eighteen years of bedside work, and what Barbara has witnessed about the way song changes the experience of dying, for the person leaving and for everyone gathered around them. Listen if you've ever felt the pull to sing with others but the fear talked you of it before you even began. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: Why the fear of singing in a group runs so much deeper than shyness, and what actually put it there How group singing can move faster than team building, therapy, or any amount of talking when it comes to creating genuine connection What happens when singing is brought into hospitals and hospices, and why staff and patients alike respond as if they are remembering something Resources and stuff spoken about: Visit Barbara’s Website (https://www.barbaramcafee.com/) Join Barbara on: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/mcafeemusic) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/barbara.mcafee) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/barbaramcafeesings/) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaramcafee/) Watch Barbara’s TEDx talks: Bringing Your Full Voice to Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze763kgrWGg) How Oral Tradition Singing Helps Us Work & Live Better Together (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrRQulQnaoQ) Barbara’s audiobooks & Paperbacks - For links see Barbara's website(https://www.barbaramcafee.com/store.html) Bandcamp: A catalogue of Barbara’s original music (https://barbaramcafee.bandcamp.com/) Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: (https://www.unioacademy.com/) This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Register your interest for the upcoming Wild Sovereign Soul journey here (https://bemythical.com/wss). Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper Follow us: Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

Marketing consultant and ethical business educator Tad Hargrave returns to examine how the world's chaos, social media fatigue, and AI proliferation are changing what ethical marketing actually requires of small business owners right now. Tad is a hippy who developed a knack for marketing (and then learned how to be a hippy again). Since 2001, he's been weaving together strands of ethical marketing, Waldorf School education, a history in the performing arts, local culture work, anti-globalization activism, an interest in his ancestral, traditional cultures, community building and supporting local economies into this work of helping people create profitable businesses that are ethically grown while restoring the beauty of the marketplace. Tad did improv comedy semi-professionally for 25 years, co-ran Edmonton's progressive community building network TheLocalGood.ca, founded streetcarshows.com and the Jams program of yesworld.org. He speaks Scottish Gaelic and helped to launch and co-facilitate the Nova Scotia Gaels Jam. He is from Edmonton, Alberta (traditionally known, in the language of the Cree, as Amiskwaciy [Beaver Hill] and later Amiskwaciwaskihegan [Beaver Hill House]) and currently lives in Duncan, BC (Quw'utsun territory). In this episode, Lian and Tad explore the questions their clients and students keep bringing lately: how (and if) to market when the world feels like it's unravelling, when social media has lost its pull, and when the proliferation of AI is changing. They begin with the question many of us are pondering: is it even okay to be marketing when the world is on fire? They move through Joanna Macy's three types of transformative work, the way social media can function as a place to hide rather than a place to connect, and what it costs when we throw our thoughts into AI to articulate things we haven't yet wrestled into words ourselves. From there, the conversation opens into the growing appetite for something genuinely human, something written by an actual person, something that only happens in a room with other bodies present, and what that might mean for how we show up, market, and serve. Listen if you're feeling uncomfortable marketing your work while the world is doing what it's doing, struggling with your social media when it's not being seen, or the AI question has become one you can't keep putting off. We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you'll learn from this episode: Why knowing which lane your work actually belongs in changes how you think about marketing during difficult times How AI can erode the very capacities that make our voices worth listening to in the first place What happens when we stop trying to beat the algorithm and commit instead to being unmistakably, specifically human Resources and stuff spoken about: Visit Tad's Website Tad's Ethical Marketing Starter Kit Find out more about Membership for Marketing for Hippies Join Tad on Instagram & YouTube See Tad's Upcoming Events Register your interest for the upcoming Wild Sovereign Soul journey here. Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls:This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper Follow us: Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

Lian Brook-Tyler and Jonathan Wilkinson, Wild Sovereign Soul co-founders, trace their own soul paths together, from childhood rupture and chronic mystery illness, through decades of searching, to turning their wounds into medicine, and suffering into a path worth walking. Lian and Jonathan sit down together for their monthly, free-flowing conversation honouring the path of the Wild Sovereign Soul. It's challenging to live in this crazy modern world, the Wild Sovereign Soul path is what we know will help. Each month, they meet live themes from the modern world head on, weaving together what they're currently consuming and creating, how wildness, sovereignty, and soul are showing up in their own lives, along with questions from listeners and the team, and the patterns they're seeing across our students and clients. There is room for curiosity, disagreement, and humour, alongside reflections drawn from their own experiences and initiations, as well as insights from ancient wisdom traditions, astrology, Gene Keys, shamanism, and more. The show offers grounded perspective, practical insights, and stirring activations for staying soul-led, aware, and responsive inside a modern culture that continually asks us to flatten and deaden ourselves. Each episode is also an invitation to journey deeper with the themes within the Wild Sovereign Soul community, UNIO. In this episode, Lian and Jonathan open the veil on their own soul paths, tracing the ruptures, the mystery illnesses, the chronic pain and long years of not knowing, through to the moments that cracked something open and made it medicine. Jonathan shares how decades of autoimmune conditions and brain fog became the precise material his soul needed to pull him out of his mind and into something softer and truer, and how the path of Christ consciousness, Gene Key 22, and a daily Post-It note are currently where that work lives. Lian traces her own path from the abandonment wound that set her against the Feminine, through a physical attack that began fifteen years of facial pain, through to her father's death and the morning the pain simply left, and the Gene Key of the Shaman that had been waiting for her all along. From there, the conversation moves into the questions the team had waiting for them: what each would bottle from the other and dispense into the world, and the most valuable thing eleven years of working together has actually taught them. Listen if you've spent years trying to fix something that nothing has touched, keep cycling back to the same pattern and wondering when you'll be done with it, or suspect the life you're actually here to live is still waiting for you to show up. We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you'll receive from this episode: Why autoimmune and mystery conditions so often have a soul call at their root, and what it means to finally stop trying to cure them and begin to understand what they're trying to show us How the Gene Keys spheres of Life's Work and Evolution tend to be the ones we most resist, forget, and keep cycling back to What it actually looks like when two people with polar opposite natures use each other as the material for their liberation over more than a decade Resources and stuff Lian spoke about: Excalibur clip that Lian mentioned Register your interest for the upcoming Wild Sovereign Soul journey here. Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper Follow us: Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

Barbara McAfee, voice coach and author, explores how your voice carries early silence, family secrecy, cultural training, and unrealised gifts in the body, and how working directly with sound can restore range, authority, and emotional truth. Barbara is a voice coach, author, speaker, and performer, with over 30 years of experience helping people unlock their full voice through practical vocal techniques and tools for authentic, flexible self expression. In this episode, Lian and Barbara, explore voice as the muscle of the soul, something physical and behavioural that reveals where we have been silenced, where we adapted, and where we still hold unused range - not just vocal but all kinds of aspects of us. Barbara reflects on growing up as a secret keeper, how silence shaped her early sound, and how her voice expanded beyond what she believed possible through the Roy Hart lineage. Together they consider archetypes as living forces, energies looking for a job, and how older cultures worked with them through ritual, invocation, and sound. They look at the Five Elements as a living map of vocal expression, how earth, fire, water, metal, and air each carry distinct qualities in the body, and how landscape, gender, and class shape which of these we are permitted to use. Lian offers herself as a live example, including how partial deafness affects volume and self perception, before they experiment with laughter, yawns, and the awkward freedom of taking up more sonic space than feels polite. Listen if you notice your voice shifting depending on who you are with, like you become softer with authority, sharper with family, or uncertain about how loud you really are, and wonder what your truest, fullest expression might be. We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you'll learn from this episode: Why suppressed parts of you often show up as missing range, pitch, or volume in the voice How landscape, culture, and gender subtly train which vocal qualities feel safe to use What happens when you treat voice as a set of movable elements rather than a fixed identity Resources and stuff spoken about: Visit Barbara's Website Join Barbara on: YouTube Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Watch Barbara's TEDx talks: Bringing Your Full Voice to Life How Oral Tradition Singing Helps Us Work & Live Better Together Listen to Barbara's audiobooks: Full Voice for Leaders: Cultivating Vitality, Presence, and Impact in a Changing World (soon to be renamed Vocal Intelligence) 2025 Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence, 2011 Barbara's paperbacks: Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence Vocal Intelligence: Leading with Vitality, Presence, and Impact (coming in Spring of 2026) Bandcamp: A catalogue of Barbara's original music Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper Follow us: Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

🚨Please note: there's a moment in this conversation that contains reference to abuse in childhood Men's work facilitator Hugh Newton names the predator in men as a genuinely dangerous survival force, how it drives manipulation, coercion, and harm when unrecognised, and how men can learn to spot it before it damages others and themselves. Hugh's life began in the midst of a war in Zimbabwe, then known as Rhodesia, and growing up in such harsh conditions meant that he had to work hard to overcome his complex childhood trauma. He began his self development journey over 30 years ago, and his work now focuses on supporting men to meet the parts of themselves that most people would rather deny. In this episode, Lian and Hugh, explore the predator within as a cold, calculating instinct that lives beneath behaviour as a real force that can injure, dominate, and destroy when it operates without awareness or restraint. They explore how this part forms through childhood predation, abuse, and sustained danger, why it learns to hide, disguise itself, and detach from feeling, and how it can shape men's relationships, sexuality, and sense of power. From there, the conversation turns to how predation shows up in everyday life, not just in extreme acts, but through emotional cruelty, sexual pressure, manipulation, subtle undermining, and the inner predator turned inward as relentless self attack… and what it actually takes for a man to face this force safely, take responsibility for it, and prevent it from harming others. Listen if you want to recognise the part of men that goes cold, focused, and dangerous, and understand what actually stops it from hurting the people closest to them. We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you'll learn from this episode: Why the predator shuts down feeling in the body, and how that emotional coldness makes harm possible How predatory behaviour often looks ordinary, polite, or successful while still leaving a wound What happens when a man stops denying this force and makes it answer to conscience rather than letting it act unchecked Resources and stuff spoken about: The Sovereign's Journey - May 2026 edition Hugh's book on Amazon Regular online workshops for men Join Hugh on instagram Join Hugh on Facebook Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper Follow us: Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

In this week's show Lian is joined by Dr. Aumatma Simmons. Dr. Aumatma is a double board-certified Naturopathic Endocrinologist revolutionizing fertility care. After witnessing countless couples struggle with invasive treatments, she pioneered a functional approach that addresses root causes - without drugs or financial strain. She's helped hundreds of "medically hopeless" couples conceive naturally. Beyond her clinical practice, Dr. Aumatma has trained hundreds of physicians, authored a best-selling book, is the host of an award-winning podcast, and created Madre Fertility—the world's first Smart Fertility Analysis. Featured across major networks as the leading Holistic Fertility Expert, she's expanding her "fertile systems" approach to help professionals create abundance without burnout. In this episode, Lian and Dr. Aumatma explore fertility through a lens that most women are never shown. They touch on the moment her body refused pregnancy in a relationship that looked perfect on paper, the years of painful cycles that only made sense in hindsight, and the cultural myths that tell women their bodies are failing when they are often communicating something vital. From there, the conversation turns to what fertility is really responding to… safety, stress, sleep, hormones, relationships, and whether a woman's life is in alignment. They look at how birth control can mask deeper issues, why endometriosis so often goes undiagnosed for years, and how menstrual cycles act as early messengers long before fertility becomes a concern. Listen if you have ever had your symptoms dismissed, worried you were "too old", or sensed that your body was telling the truth before your life caught up. We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you'll learn from this episode: How fertility fear is shaped by age myths, and what changes when you look at real hormonal signals instead Why painful or irregular cycles are often early warning lights, not inconveniences to suppress The way safety, nervous system regulation, sleep, community with other women, and nourishment quietly shape fertility and overall health long before conception is even on the horizon Resources and stuff spoken about: Dr Aumatma's Website Join Dr. Aumatma on: Instagram Facebook YouTube TT LinkedIn Dr. Aumatma's Book: Fertility Secrets: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Baby-Making Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper Follow us: Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

All The Everything is Lian's solo show where she dives deep into a topic, often woven around a myth or fairytale that she's been journeying with. The LIVE making of All The Everything is recorded live on YouTube… to join Lian for the one: Make sure you're subscribed to our Moonly News email list and are a member of our Facebook group and we'll let you know when the next one is happening. Lian explores what creates a soulful Christmas, beginning with the way the season stirs old memories and sudden tenderness, then circling through the frantic pace that pulls so many of us away from what we actually long for. She speaks about ancient midwinter traditions flickering beneath the surface of modern life, the hush that falls when the light begins to change, and the quiet ache that arrives when we slow down enough to notice what is really happening inside us. From there the conversation moves into the practices that help you hold your ground in the middle of family dynamics, sensory overwhelm and the expectations that seem to gather in the dark of December, settling finally on how vision, community and small daily gestures shape the kind of Christmas you actually want to live. Listen if you have ever felt both joy and dread rising together, wondered why familiar patterns return each year, or longed for a holiday that welcomes every part of you. We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you'll receive from this episode: How the old rhythms under Christmas reveal themselves once you stop trying to perform the holiday and start listening for what is already moving beneath it Why acknowledging longing, memory and discomfort can create a steadier, warmer Christmas than pushing for cheer ever could What happens when you root your Christmas in real soulful practices rather than pressure, and how this transforms the way you experience community, self-care and the season itself The Soul Practices Lian invited you into: 🌿 AWAKENING YOUR WILDNESS PRACTICES Wild Practice 1: Sunrise or Moon Greeting Make an intentional devotional choice to go outside each morning or night (depending on whether you're a morning or night person). Go out even for a very short amount of time (even one minute). Greet the sunrise or the moon. Pause and commune with that great being. Let the light (sunlight or moonlight) touch your face. Imagine your breath matching its ancient rhythm. Allow its blessing into you. Receive the gift of light. Wild Practice 2: Choose a Place in Nature & Make an Offering Choose a place in nature (a sit spot, special tree, or a place you feel drawn to). If you don't have one, go and find one. Take a small offering that won't damage the environment or wildlife. Offer it intentionally (for example, seeds for birds). Whisper your gratitude. Make this an intentional act of giving at Christmas in a way that is wilder and older. The offering can be for the place itself or the creatures who live there. Wild Practice 3: Mini Wild Wonder Walk Go for a short walk (even five minutes). Do not set a goal or destination. Allow your belly button to lead you. Notice your body and your breath as you walk. Notice what shifts as you return to belonging to the earth. Come out of the busy, material world and return to your body and the earth. Do this intentionally, even briefly. 👑 ACTUALISING YOUR SOVEREIGNTY PRACTICES Sovereign Practice 1: Inner Child Christmas Inquiry Ask your inner child: What do you wish for Christmas this year? What do you fear? What do you crave? What do you long for? What would allow you to feel safe and welcomed? Allow your inner child to answer you. This can be a daily practice, especially in the mornings. Keep your inner child present with you through the Christmas period. Sovereign Practice 2: Throne of Sovereignty (Before Family Gatherings) Before a family gathering (or before guests descend): Stand or sit with both feet on the ground. Breathe into your belly. Imagine yourself sitting on the throne of your life. Feel yourself rooted to the earth. Imagine a crown on your head, opening to spirit and allowing it to flow through you. Let this remind you of being centred, grounded, and guided. Return to this embodied memory whenever you feel pulled out of centre or old patterns arise. Sovereign Practice 3: Permission to Leave the Room If a situation becomes tense, difficult, or painful: Give yourself permission to leave the room. It can be brief. Even knowing you have permission can be enough. Use simple excuses if needed (loo, letting dogs out, stepping into the garden). Take a moment to ground yourself, reconnect with your inner child, and return to yourself. Recognise this as a sovereign choice. ✨ AWAKENING THE SOUL PRACTICES Soul Practice 1: Read a Nourishing Poem Read a poem that nourishes you. Poets mentioned: David Whyte, Mary Oliver (or your own favourites). Make it a daily ritual, ideally in the morning. Notice the line that speaks to you that day. Journey with that line throughout the day. Ask: What is it wanting your soul to know? What is it opening your soul to? Let the poem be a soul touchstone through the day. Soul Practice 2: Soulful Meditation / Being With Your Soul Meditate in whatever way feels nourishing. It does not need to be long (even five minutes). Avoid forcing or obligation. Create beauty: Light a candle. Gaze into the flame. Simply be with yourself and your soul. This may not even feel like "meditation" — it is a moment of communion with your soul. Soul Practice 3: Listen Deeply Listen to something nourishing: Music An audio (e.g. Richard Rudd / Gene Keys) Let one phrase, melody, or sound shape the tone of your day. Allow it to move through you. Notice what your soul is being called to. Let it remind you of your inner light, especially in bleak or wintry times. The questions Lian asked: Question 1 "If I could shape Christmas around what my soul actually longs for this year, what would it look like?" Question 2 "Will you hold that vision?" Will you hold the vision of what Christmas would look like if your soul was met and fulfilled in what it longs for? It is a sovereign choice to hold a soul-aligned vision. Resources and stuff Lian spoke about: To join Lian for the next LIVE making of All The Everything: Make sure you're subscribed to our Moonly News email list and are a member of our Facebook group and we'll let you know when the next one is happening. Share what showed up for you listening to this show, including any questions, either in the Be Mythical facebook group or in UNIO. Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper Follow us: Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).