What if the upheaval we're witnessing is not the end of civilization, but the end of an age?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, Aubrey Morgan Yee sits with independent researcher, author, and engineer Bibhu Dev Misra for a fascinating exploration of the ancient doctrine of the Yugas and what it might reveal about the moment humanity now finds itself in. Drawing from decades of research across Vedic texts, archaeology, astronomy, comparative mythology, and ancient civilizations, Bibhu offers a compelling framework for understanding collapse – not as failure, but as the necessary threshold between worlds.

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About Our Guest

Bibhu Dev Misra is an independent researcher, author, and speaker exploring ancient civilizations, cyclical time, comparative mythology, and humanity's forgotten history. Trained as an engineer at IIT Kharagpur and an MBA graduate of IIM Calcutta, he spent more than two decades working as an Information Technology consultant for organizations including the World Bank and the United Nations before dedicating himself fully to research and writing.

His work bridges ancient wisdom traditions with modern scientific inquiry, drawing connections between Vedic cosmology, archaeology, astronomy, sacred architecture, and global mythic traditions. He is the author of Yuga Shift, and his research has appeared in publications including New Dawn, Nexus, and Mysterious Universe.

What We Explore in This Episode

In this expansive conversation, Aubrey and Bibhu examine humanity's place within vast cycles of time, asking what becomes possible when we step outside the modern myth of endless progress.

They explore the Yuga cycles as movements of consciousness rather than technological advancement, the relationship between collapse and renewal, and why so many ancient traditions describe our present moment as a great transition. Together they reflect on soul purpose, spiritual practice, cosmic relationship, and the qualities needed to navigate an era of profound transformation with courage instead of fear.

Key Takeaways

• The Yuga Cycle – Understanding history as cyclical rather than linear, and why Kali Yuga is defined by consciousness, not technology.
• Collapse as transition – Why periods of breakdown often precede profound cultural and spiritual renewal.
• Remembering soul consciousness – Moving beyond fear, scarcity, and ego toward lives rooted in purpose, compassion, and service.
• Spiritual practice as preparation – Meditation, wisdom, selfless service, and daily balance as anchors during times of rapid change.
• A new relationship with the cosmos – Ancient traditions, sacred sites, and humanity's place within a much larger living universe.

Ultimately, this conversation is less about predicting the future than remembering who we are within it. If this truly is a time of great transition, then the invitation is not to panic, but to participate. To become less attached to empire and more devoted to life. To cultivate the inner qualities that no collapse can take away. And to remember that even in the darkest age, the work has always been the same: to embody truth, serve with integrity, and become a source of light for others.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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Learn more about Bibhu’s work:
Website: www.bibhudevmisra.com
Book: Yuga Shift

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Book: Our Beloved Futures

In this chapter conversation, Aubrey is joined once again by her dear friend Gabriela to explore Mariposa – the closing chapter of Part I of the Our Beloved Futures book. Together, they reflect on the butterfly as a living metaphor for our collective moment: emerging from the chrysalis with wings still wet, suspended between what is ending and what has not yet fully begun.

Rather than rushing toward certainty, this conversation invites us to honor the threshold itself. The awkwardness. The paradox. The beauty of becoming. Aubrey shares why this in-between space is not a mistake to escape, but sacred territory where new forms of humanity are slowly learning to breathe.

As the conversation unfolds, they explore the energy body as a bridge through uncertainty, the invitation to "become immense" in a time of global crisis, and why our greatest capacity may not be individual brilliance, but communal wisdom.

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What We Explore in this Episode 

This conversation weaves together mythology, ecology, spirituality, psychology, and systems thinking to ask what it truly means to become human during an age of transformation.

Together, Aubrey and Gabriela explore why the butterfly's struggle cannot be rushed, how collapse and emergence coexist, the role of the subtle energy body in navigating change, and why the future will be imagined, and built, not by isolated heroes, but by communities learning to listen together.

Key Takeaways: 

• The Mariposa moment – Humanity is emerging from the chrysalis, but our wings are still wet. Transformation asks for patience, not premature certainty.
• The sacred threshold – We are living between worlds, where the old is dissolving and the new has not yet fully taken form.
• Becoming immense – Rather than shrinking in the face of complexity, this moment asks us to expand our capacity for grief, love, responsibility, and courage.
• The energy body as bridge – Ancient understandings of our energetic anatomy offer practical ways to remain grounded and relational during uncertainty.
• We come in peace – Beneath generations of fear and conditioning lives our deepest nature: one rooted in relationship, belonging, and care.
• Prophecy by community – The future will not emerge through isolated individuals, but through collective resonance, shared imagination, and communities learning to discern together.

This episode is an invitation to trust the slow intelligence of transformation. To recognize that not knowing is part of becoming. To remember that the butterfly does not rush the drying of its wings. And perhaps, neither should we.

With Love and Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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Book: Our Beloved Futures

What happens when the stories that once gave shape and meaning to our lives no longer hold? And how do we navigate a world in which old myths are dissolving while new ones have yet to emerge?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, Aubrey Morgan Yee converses with mythologist, psychologist, and educator Bradley Olson for a rich exploration of myth, meaning-making, and the psychological dimensions of living through times of profound transition. Drawing on decades of work in clinical psychology and his deep engagement with the legacy of Joseph Campbell, Bradley invites us into a more intimate relationship with myth – not as something ancient or abstract, but as a living practice that shapes how we understand ourselves and the world around us.

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About Our Guest

Dr. Bradley Olson is a psychologist, mythologist, educator, and writer whose path has taken him from law enforcement and criminal justice to the study of psychology, literature, and myth.

After more than three decades as a psychotherapist, Bradley now focuses on exploring life through the lens of myth – drawing on the work of Joseph Campbell, C.G. Jung, and the world's great storytelling traditions to illuminate the deeper questions of meaning, purpose, and what it means to be human.

Today, he serves as Publications Director for the Joseph Campbell Foundation and hosts its flagship podcast, Pathways with Joseph Campbell, where he helps bring the enduring wisdom of myth to contemporary life.

What We Explore in This Episode

In this expansive conversation, Aubrey and Bradley explore myth not as ancient stories, but as a living mode of perception. Together they ask what happens when the meaning-making structures of a culture begin to dissolve, and how myth can help us navigate uncertainty without collapsing into despair. They discuss the Great Turning as a mythic moment, the role of artists as myth-makers, the hero's journey as an inward path of self-overcoming, and the possibility of cultivating a "mind of myth" in everyday life.

Key Takeaways

• Myth as living experience – Myth is not simply a story to interpret, but an experience that shapes how we encounter ourselves and reality.
• The mythic imagination – Learning to see life symbolically opens us to wonder, meaning, and deeper participation in the world.
• The hero's journey revisited – The true heroic path is not outward conquest but the inward work of self-discovery and transformation.
• Meaning-making in uncertain times – When old narratives fail, myth offers a way to remain in relationship with mystery rather than certainty.
• Following your bliss – Campbell's famous phrase points not toward comfort or happiness, but toward the sublime – the thing you feel called to devote your life to.

We don't know the myth we're living in. This episode is an invitation to become more conscious of the stories shaping your life, and to remember that meaning is not something we discover waiting for us in the world. It is something we participate in creating.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Bradley’s work:
Website: www.bradleyolsonphd.com
Book: The Mythopoetic Impulse

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Book: Our Beloved Futures

What if the path toward peace begins not by fixing the world, but by composting the stories, behaviors, and thought-forms that keep us disconnected from ourselves, one another, and the living Earth?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with her dear friend and collaborator, Gabriela Nova, to continue their exploration of Our Beloved Futures. Together, they enter Chapter Four: The Dissolving – Composting Wetiko, a profound inquiry into the forces of separation, domination, and scarcity that shape both our inner lives and the systems around us. Through stories of burnout, people-pleasing, performance culture, and the longing to belong, Aubrey and Gabriela reflect on what it means to reclaim sacredness, restore relationship, and gently dissolve the patterns that no longer serve life.

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About the Conversation

This conversation offers a compassionate and grounded exploration of awakening in a time of collapse. Aubrey shares how recognizing Wetiko as a collective operating system helps transform overwhelm into agency, allowing us to identify the roots of suffering rather than becoming paralyzed by its symptoms.

Together, Aubrey and Gabriela examine the tension between performance and presence, productivity and rest, separation and interbeing. They reflect on the courage required to say a sacred “no,” the importance of honoring our body's rhythms, and the lifelong work of unlearning inherited patterns that obscure our authentic selves.

At the heart of this episode is an invitation to see dissolution not as failure, but as transformation. Like the caterpillar dissolving within the chrysalis, we too are asked to release old identities, stories, and ways of being so that something more aligned can emerge.

What We Explore in This Episode

This episode explores Wetiko as a cultural and psychological force that thrives through extraction, domination, and disconnection. Aubrey reflects on practices for composting these patterns through self-awareness, service, sacred relationship, and conscious choice. Together, she and Gabriela explore burnout culture, the myths of productivity, the healing power of rest, and the delicate process of dissolving inherited conditioning so that authenticity can shine through.

Key Takeaways:

• Wetiko as mind virus – Understanding the forces of extraction, scarcity, domination, and endless consumption that shape modern culture.
• From overwhelm to agency – How naming the problem allows us to work with it rather than collapse beneath it.
• Sacredness as antidote – Reclaiming reverence for self, community, and Earth as a pathway toward healing.
• The performance trap – Why burnout is often rooted in inherited beliefs about worth, productivity, and achievement.
• The sacred no – Learning to discern what is truly aligned and creating space for deeper, more authentic yeses.
• The dissolving process – How unlearning, self-inquiry, and transformation mirror the chrysalis journey of becoming.

This episode is an invitation to meet yourself with compassion as you untangle inherited stories, release patterns that no longer belong to you, and remember the deeper truth beneath them. Because healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about dissolving what was never truly yours, so that who you have always been can emerge.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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Book: Our Beloved Futures

What if the land is already speaking, and our work is to learn how to listen?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, Aubrey Morgan Yee sits with regenerative designer, educator, and poet Scott Gallant for a grounded and expansive conversation on ecology, attention, and the intelligence of living systems. Drawing from years of work in Central America and beyond, Scott reflects on the lessons of farming, syntropic agriculture, hospitality, and restoration, and how these practices invite us into a slower, more relational way of inhabiting the world. Together, they explore regenerative design not as a set of techniques, but as a way of relating – one rooted in humility, observation, patience, and deep reciprocity with the Earth.

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About Our Guest

Scott Gallant is a regenerative designer, educator, and the co-founder of Porvenir Design, a regenerative design studio focused on integrating farms and ecological systems into hotels, retreat centers, educational campuses, and hospitality enterprises.

With more than 15 years of experience working primarily in Central America, Scott specializes in helping clients understand the deeper potential of their land and develop systems that extend beyond property boundaries into community and ecological resilience.

As an educator, he has co-facilitated more than 25 Permaculture Design Courses and created an online Syntropic Farming Primer. He is also a poet and the author of Empty Pockets, a collection of short reflections exploring simplicity, beauty, and relationship with the natural world.

What We Explore in This Episode

In this deeply reflective conversation, Aubrey and Scott explore what becomes possible when we shift from extracting from land to listening to it. They speak about regeneration as an act of attention – learning to observe patterns, release rigid expectations, and become receptive to the intelligence already present within ecosystems. Together, they reflect on death and decay not as failures, but as essential aspects of living systems, and on how modern culture’s fear of impermanence often disconnects us from the deeper wisdom of nature.

Key Takeaways

• Regenerative relationship – Regeneration begins with listening, reciprocity, and humility toward living systems.
• Attention as practice – Observation and curiosity are foundational to ecological intelligence.
• Release & impermanence – Healthy ecosystems teach us to let go of control and fixed expectations.
• The wisdom of land – Nature is not passive matter, but an active participant with its own intelligence and rhythms.
• Syntropic thinking – Diversity, cooperation, and succession are essential principles for resilient systems.
• Beauty in enoughness – Simplicity, slowness, and presence open us to deeper forms of abundance.

Toward the close of the episode, Scott shares a poem from his collection Empty Pockets – a quiet meditation on leaves, seasons, and the patience of receiving life as it comes. The poem becomes a mirror for the conversation itself: a reminder that wisdom often lives not in certainty, but in the ability to remain open, attentive, and in relationship with change.

Because perhaps the future is not something we force into being. Perhaps it is something we learn to tend.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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Learn more about Scott’s work:
Website: www.porvenirdesign.com
Instagram: @scottplantstrees
Book: Empty Pockets

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What if climate resilience is built not only through policy, but through relationship?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, Aubrey Morgan Yee sits with educator, peacebuilder, and climate justice advocate Maya Soetoro-Ng for a rich and deeply human conversation on positive peace, community resilience, and the power of reimagining how we belong to one another. Together, they explore peace not as the absence of conflict, but as an active, relational practice rooted in compassion, deep listening, and collective care. This episode is both grounding and galvanizing – an invitation to move beyond despair and remember our capacity to contribute meaningfully to the world around us.

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About Our Guest

Maya Soetoro-Ng is an Indonesian-American educator, peacebuilding leader, and climate justice advocate based at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she serves as a faculty specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

Her work bridges peace education, restorative practices, leadership for social change, and climate resilience. She is also the co-founder of the Institute for Climate and Peace and The Peace Studio, organizations dedicated to uplifting community-centered solutions, restorative storytelling, and creative approaches to collective transformation.

Drawing from her upbringing across Indonesia and Southeast Asia, Maya’s work is deeply informed by multicultural education, interfaith understanding, and a lifelong commitment to nurturing the very best in human nature.

What We Explore in This Episode

In this expansive conversation, Aubrey and Maya explore the difference between “negative peace” – the absence of acute conflict – and “positive peace,” the active cultivation of connection, justice, care, and belonging within our communities.

The conversation also explores the intersection of climate and peace — how climate disruption acts as a “threat multiplier,” intensifying displacement, instability, and fragmentation, while also creating opportunities for communities to remember their interdependence and resilience. 

Key Takeaways

• Climate & peace – Climate disruption is not only an environmental issue, but a relational and social one.
• Community resilience – Some of the most powerful solutions emerge directly from frontline communities.
• Deep listening – Peace requires the willingness to listen with compassion and remain open to discomfort.
• Re-familializing – Remembering how to become family again with one another and with Earth itself.
• Love as superpower – Choosing empathy, tenderness, and humanity as pragmatic acts of transformation.

Throughout the episode, Maya returns again and again to one essential truth: we are never powerless. There is always something we can contribute – some small act of care, restoration, or bridge-building that ripples outward into the collective field.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Maya’s work:
LinkedIn: Maya Soetoro-Ng
Wikipedia: Maya Soetoro-Ng

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What if the key to transforming them has been with you all along – in your breath?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, Aubrey Morgan Yee sits with breathwork and trauma expert Alyse Bacine for a grounded and illuminating conversation on healing at the root. Together, they explore how our earliest experiences – from the womb through childhood – shape the beliefs, patterns, and emotional imprints we carry into adulthood. Through the lens of breath, body, and energy, this conversation offers a pathway out of repetition and into true transformation.

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About Our Guest

Alyse Bacine is a Breathwork & Trauma Expert with over 24 years of experience, and the creator of The Metamorphosis Method™ – a comprehensive approach to healing that works across the mind, physical body, and energy field.

With a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and over a decade as a school counselor, Alyse combines clinical depth with intuitive precision. Her work focuses on identifying and clearing core wounds, including the Birth Story, Mother, Father, and Sibling wounds, allowing clients to create lasting change rather than temporary relief.

Through breathwork, energy work, and trauma resolution, she supports individuals in dissolving limiting patterns and stepping into their highest potential.

What We Explore in This Episode

In this deeply practical and expansive conversation, Aubrey and Alyse explore how trauma is formed not only through major events, but through subtle unmet needs, inherited patterns, and early relational dynamics.

Together, they explore the role of suppressed emotion, the intelligence of the body, and the breath as a bridge between the conscious and subconscious mind – offering access to clarity, release, and integration.

Key Takeaways

• Core wounds – Patterns like “I’m not enough” or “something is wrong with me” often form through subtle unmet needs, not only overt trauma.
• Breath as technology – Conscious breathing brings us into the present, unlocks suppressed emotion, and bridges conscious awareness with subconscious imprinting.
• The body holds the story – Trauma is stored in the body and must be felt, not just understood, to be resolved.
• Presence as power – Healing expands our capacity to stay with ourselves, feel safely, and respond from awareness rather than pattern.
• Energy awareness – Becoming conscious of your energy allows you to shift your internal state and reclaim agency in real time.

This episode is an invitation to slow down and listen inward. To notice what is repeating. To follow the thread back to its origin.

Because healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about remembering who you were before the pattern began.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Isis’s work:
Website: www.alysebreathes.com
Instagram: @alyse_breathes
Podcast: Reclaiming Consciousness

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What if learning to work with story is one of the most essential skills of our time?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, Aubrey Morgan Yee sits with storyteller, teacher, and visionary Leah Lamb for a rich and expansive conversation on the power of story as a living, animating force. Together, they explore storytelling not as entertainment, but as technology – a vehicle for connection, healing, and transformation. This episode is both teaching and transmission. It’s an invitation to become more aware of the stories we are telling, receiving, and amplifying.

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About Our Guest

Leah Lamb is a storyteller, educator, and the founder of the School for Sacred Storytelling, where she guides conscious creators in using story as a tool for personal healing, creative expression, and collective transformation.

Drawing from her background in theater, filmmaking, wilderness studies, and healing arts, Leah revives storytelling as an ancient practice that connects us to Earth, spirit, and one another. Through her courses, retreats, and community spaces, she has supported over 1,000 participants in unlocking the transformative power of their own narratives.

She is also the creator of The Whale Dreamer and steward of the Whale Dreaming Council, a gathering space exploring relationship, imagination, and collective futures through the consciousness of whales.

What We Explore in This Episode

In this deeply layered conversation, Aubrey and Leah explore storytelling as a multidimensional practice – one that operates psychologically, spiritually, and culturally all at once.

Key Takeaways

• Story as operating system – The narratives we inherit and repeat shape our reality, often unconsciously.
• Sacred storytelling – Stories in service to life, connection, and the flourishing of future generations.
• Mythic language – Symbol, metaphor, and archetype as the language of spirit and the imaginal realm.
• Discernment of stories – Not all stories are trustworthy; sacred stories carry an arc that brings us home.
• Community & coherence – Stories of care, resilience, and interdependence as foundations for new worlds.

This episode is an invitation to become more conscious of the stories we are living inside of. To ask:

What am I in service to?
What stories am I amplifying?
And what futures are those stories shaping?

Because the future is not only built through action. It is spoken, imagined, and remembered into being.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Isis’s work:
Instagram: @leahlamb, @schoolforsacredstorytelling, @thewhaledreamer
Website: https://schoolforsacredstorytelling.com/, https://www.thewhaledreamer.com/
Audiobook: Sacred Storytelling

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What if healing begins the moment we can name what we are inside of?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Cassie Mitchell to continue their journey through Aubrey’s debut book, Our Beloved Futures. Entering the chapter The Golden Seal: Rendering Forms, they explore the alchemical moment within the chrysalis, where dissolution gives way to new form, and what it asks of us in this time of planetary transformation.

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About the Conversation

At the heart of this dialogue is a powerful reframe: the systems we are witnessing are not separate from us, but expressions of patterns we have inherited and can transform.

Aubrey and Cassie explore wetiko – a “mind virus” or thought-form rooted in greed, and disconnection – as an extractive orientation to life that shows up in scarcity thinking, hoarding, domination, and the constant sense that there is never enough. Through personal stories and ancestral threads, Aubrey shares how these patterns live in the body and psyche, and how awareness becomes the first act of healing.

From there, the conversation expands into possibility:

How do we rebuild cultures of care in a world shaped by disconnection?
How do we relearn trust, relationship, and community in small, embodied ways?
What happens when we choose kindness, even in the most ordinary interactions?

What We Explore in This Episode

This episode speaks to the power of micro-moments – eye contact, warmth, generosity – as the threads that begin to reweave the social fabric. And they remind us that the future will not be built solely through systems, but through relationships.

Key Takeaways:

• Wetiko as thought-form – Naming the extractive, scarcity-based pattern moving through individuals and systems.
• From shame to awareness – Seeing these patterns within ourselves as the beginning of freedom.
• Cultures of care – Rebuilding trust, connection, and relational life in a fragmented world.
• Community as practice – Small acts of kindness and presence as foundational to collective healing.
• Remembering our genius – Each person carries a unique, living intelligence that does not conform to standardized definitions of success.
• Parenting & presence – “See the child in front of you” as a guiding principle for nurturing authentic expression.
• New futures of work & value – Questioning systems that only value what can be monetized, and imagining economies that support creativity and flourishing.

As the episode closes, Aubrey offers a powerful invocation:

“Become a freedom writer. A poet of peace. We are consciousness itself becoming self-aware… Devote yourself to the critical work of self-forgiveness.”

This is the work of the golden seal.

To remain open in the midst of dissolution.
To choose joy, even as the world trembles.
To unlearn, unravel, and reimagine what it means to be human – together.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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Book: Our Beloved Futures

What if this moment of dissolution is not the end, but the chrysalis?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down once again with her dear friend Cassie Mitchell to continue their exploration of Our Beloved Futures. They enter Chapter Two: Waking from the Nightmare – a meditation on anxiety, consequence, hatred, and the radical cultivation of inner peace during times of global reckoning. As headlines intensify and the collective nervous system hums with instability, they explore how to stay informed without being consumed, protect innocence where we can, and cultivate resilience not as rigidity, but as a grounded, bendable strength.

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About the Conversation

At the heart of this dialogue is the chrysalis – the stage where the caterpillar dissolves into formlessness before becoming something entirely new. Aubrey speaks to this moment as an age of consequence, where both personal and collective choices are revealing their effects. This reckoning is not only happening “out there.” It is happening within each of us.

Aubrey offers a powerful reframe: peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to move through conflict without creating additional harm.

What We Explore in This Episode

In one of the episode’s most moving moments, Aubrey reads her poem from the chapter – a raw invocation of courage in the face of historical amnesia, violence, and moral collapse. Yet even here, the invitation is not despair. It is tenderness. It is choosing to meet this time not with hatred, but with clarity and love.

Key Takeaways

• Anxiety as frequency – Not every thought or fear belongs to you. Discernment is a practice.
• Homeopathic news – Staying aware without flooding your nervous system.
• The Age of Consequence – Personal and planetary reckoning as both challenge and opportunity.
• The Chrysalis Moment – Dissolution as necessary for emergence.
• Peace as resonance – Hate transfers; peace resonates with our original nature.
• Response-ability – Releasing reaction to cultivate grounded, compassionate response.
• Small acts matter – A hug, a home-cooked meal, forgiveness, breath. These are not trivial gestures. They are culture-making.

For anyone feeling destabilized by the pace of change, this episode offers a steady hand: Root into your present moment. Tend your inner life. Protect innocence where you can. Let peace begin as an inner resonance and ripple outward from there.

We are in the chrysalis. And courage, in this time, is choosing love again and again.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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Book: Our Beloved Futures

What if the very instability we fear is an initiation into deeper relationship – with Earth, with our children, with our own souls?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee is joined by her beloved brother Chévanni Davids – father, founder, listener, feeler, and steward of the Reimagined Learning Community in South Africa – for a profound and tender inquiry into what it means to live in a time of volatility with reverence rather than control. Together, they explore how modern education conditions us toward certainty, productivity and control, and how reimagining learning invites us back into presence, relational intelligence and embodied knowing.

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About Our Guest

Chévanni Davids is a father, writer, facilitator, and educator exploring new pathways for learning, community, and human becoming. Rooted in Ubuntu and regenerative ways of knowing, his work invites individuals and families to move beyond rigid systems toward relational, self-directed, and soul-led education. Through gatherings, dialogues, and immersive learning spaces, he supports people in reconnecting with curiosity, care, and the living world, helping reimagine education as a practice of liberation.

He is the visionary behind the Reimagined Learning Community, based in South Africa – an unschooling network and educational space grounded in the philosophy that children are complete, autonomous human beings capable of directing their own lives. 

What We Explore in This Episode

In this expansive dialogue, Aubrey and Chévanni explore the concept of being “entrusted with uncertainty” as a sacred responsibility in our times of climate crisis, social upheaval, and collapsing systems. They speak to uncertainty not as chaos, but as the soul’s language – a portal into possibility, ecological empathy, and collective attunement.

Key Takeaways

• Uncertainty as initiation – moments of collapse, grief, and disruption as portals to deeper coherence.
• Unschooling as liberation – shifting from certainty-based curriculum to life-based learning.
• Witness to “withness” – moving beyond passive observation into embodied allyship and relational presence.
• Letting go as ritual – releasing material attachments as practice in non-clenched living.

For anyone parenting, teaching, grieving, navigating uncertainty, or longing to live beyond the spell of hyper-control, this episode offers a radical invitation: to soften the fist, to trust the breath, and to meet this moment not with panic, but with presence.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Chévanni’s work:
Instagram: @che_reimagined & @reimaginedlearning
Facebook: Re-Imagined Learning Centre
Website: www.reimaginedlearningcommunity.com

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What if remembering our place within a living cosmos is the beginning of true empowerment?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits in intimate conversation with her dear friend and longtime creative companion Cassie Mitchell, continuing the unfolding of the Our Beloved Futures book. Together, they open a deeper layer of the book’s architecture, philosophy, and prayer – exploring futures thinking as liberation, ecological belonging, and sacred participation in the ongoing creation of the world. This episode is both reflection and invocation – a remembering of ourselves as participants in a living Earth, and an invitation to imagine futures rooted not in domination, but in reverence.

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About the Conversation

In this contemplative and expansive dialogue, Aubrey speaks to the courage required to remain authentic in the creative process, especially when navigating feedback, doubt, and the pressure to make one’s work easily digestible. She shares how Our Beloved Futures was never meant to be a conventional book, but a transmission – a frequency that works on the reader beyond linear logic.

The conversation moves between the intimate and the planetary: from the vulnerability of trusting one’s inner voice, to the profound responsibility of recognizing that the future is shaped through imagination, relationship, and collective dreaming. Aubrey invites us to shift from the “modern mind,” rooted in separation and extraction, into an ecological or Indigenous mind – one that understands interdependence, reciprocity, and the aliveness of the world. At its heart, this episode asks us to remember: we are not observers of the future. We are co-creators within it.

What We Explore in This Episode

This episode offers a deepening into the philosophical and energetic foundations of Our Beloved Futures. Aubrey reflects on the nonlinear, initiatory nature of writing, the chakra system as a map of collective becoming, and the power of metaphor – particularly the butterfly – to help us understand the necessary dissolution of old systems and identities. Woven throughout is an invitation into futures work as empowerment, imagination, and sacred responsibility, grounded in our relationship with a living Earth.

Key Takeaways

• Writing as soul retrieval – the creative process as a journey of remembering, integration, and transformation.
• Words as living frequencies – language as spell, transmission, and embodied experience beyond intellect.
• The chrysalis moment – understanding collapse, uncertainty, and dissolution as part of emergence.
• Futures as empowerment – recognizing our role and agency in shaping what comes next.
• Co-creating with a living planet – remembering ourselves as participants within an animate, intelligent Earth.

For anyone moving through personal or collective transition, creative becoming, or the longing to live in deeper alignment with life, this episode offers a steady and visionary reminder: the future is not fixed, and we are not powerless. Through imagination, devotion, and relationship, we participate in the emergence of our beloved futures.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What becomes possible when ritual, prayer, and sacred memory are restored as living technologies for our collective future?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee is joined by Isis Indriya – minister, culture creator, ritual educator, and bridge-builder for the Oracle Clan – for a luminous conversation on remembrance, lineage, and the living transmission of ancient wisdom. Rooted in Egyptian cosmology, Hermetic philosophy, and devotional practice, this dialogue invites us into a deeper relationship with ritual not as performance, but as prayerful participation in the ongoing creation of the world.

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About Our Guest

Isis Indriya is a minister, culture creator, bridge-builder, and fireplace keeper for the Oracle Clan. She is an educator of ritual, divination, Egyptian cosmology, and Hermeticism, and the founder of the Academy of Oracle Arts, a global school devoted to the restoration of sacred wisdom traditions and initiatory learning.

Isis teaches and facilitates rituals and ceremonies worldwide, both online and in community, and leads pilgrimages to Egypt as a living classroom of remembrance. Through her temple space, she hosts community prayers and gatherings, holding space for reverence, transmission, and collective healing. Her work is rooted in devotion, discernment, and the careful stewardship of ancient knowledge in modern times.

What We Explore in This Episode

Together, Aubrey and Isis explore the role of the oracle in times of transition, the responsibility of holding sacred knowledge with humility and care, and the importance of restoring ritual as a communal, embodied practice.

Key Takeaways

• Ritual as living technology for coherence, prayer, and collective orientation
• The oracle as listener, translator, and servant of life – not authority over it
• Egyptian cosmology as a map of harmony, balance, and sacred order
• The importance of lineage, humility, and discernment in spiritual leadership
• Remembering Earth as temple and community as ceremony
• Futures shaped not by domination, but by devotion, reverence, and care

For those drawn to ritual, ancestral wisdom, sacred study, and the slow remembering of what has always been alive beneath the surface of modern life, this episode offers a grounded and luminous invitation to walk with integrity, listen deeply, and tend the future as something holy.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Isis’s work:
Website: www.academyoforaclearts.com
Instagram: @isis_indriya, @academy.of.oraclearts & @studio_omari

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What if our words, our bodies, and our imaginations are already shaping the worlds to come?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with longtime collaborator and trusted companion Cassie Mitchell for a deeply intimate conversation about Aubrey’s book Our Beloved Futures. Together, Aubrey and Cassie explore the birth of Our Beloved Futures – from its mythopoetic origins and shamanic writing process, to the moments of doubt, feedback, and profound soul-retrieval that shaped its final form. Aubrey shares how the book emerged not as a linear argument, but as a frequency – an invitation into remembrance, ecological belonging, and collective imagination.

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About the Conversation

In this rich and expansive dialogue, Aubrey reflects on writing as a devotional practice – one that channels wisdom beyond the intellect and asks the writer to trust their own genius, even when it is not universally understood. She speaks to words as living forces, carrying frequencies that work on us beneath conscious thought, and to the future as a collective dream we are already co-dreaming with the Earth.

From personal stories of creative vulnerability to sweeping reflections on planetary transformation, this episode offers a grounded yet visionary lens on what it means to live, imagine, and create in times of profound change.

What We Explore in This Episode

This episode offers a contemplative glimpse into the nonlinear, shamanic writing of Our Beloved Futures, where the creative process becomes an act of soul retrieval and devotion to authenticity. Aubrey reflects on words as living frequencies, the chakra system as a map for collective becoming, and the butterfly as a guide through collapse and emergence. Woven throughout is an invitation to shift from modern mind to ecological mind – remembering ourselves as empowered co-creators, dreaming the future alongside a living Earth.

Key Takeaways:

• Conversation as medicine – why Aubrey thrives in dialogue and relational inquiry rather than solo transmission.
• Density as devotion – how contemplative writing invites readers to slow down, breathe, and listen between the words.
• Trusting your genius – honoring the truth that not all work is meant to be legible to everyone.
• Words carry power – language as frequency, disruption, and re-patterning.
• Futures are plural – the future is not fixed, but shaped through imagination, choice, and collective dreaming.
• Ecological mind – remembering ourselves as relational beings within a living, intelligent world.
• Find the others – how authenticity becomes a beacon for imaginal cells to gather and build what comes next.

For anyone navigating creative doubt, planetary grief, spiritual awakening, or the longing to participate consciously in what is unfolding, this episode offers a resonant invitation: to clean and clear the vessel, listen deeply, and trust that your presence matters in the shaping of our beloved futures.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What becomes possible when we slow down, listen deeply, and allow the natural world to re-teach us who we are?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Jason Grechanik, a plant-medicine practitioner, tabaquero, and host of The Universe Within Podcast. Jason’s life’s path has been shaped by devotion to the plants, deep listening, and a humble willingness to let nature lead. Together, Aubrey and Jason explore what it means to walk a path of apprenticeship – the patience it requires, the honesty it reveals, and the profound transformation that unfolds when we meet the world with reverence.

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About Our Guest

Jason Grechanik is a plant-medicine practitioner and tabaquero whose path began with a curiosity about plants as food, life, and medicine. In his early twenties, he studied herbalism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and healing traditions from around the world. This exploration eventually led him to the Amazon rainforest, where he spent nearly ten years working at The Temple of the Way of Light, one of the most respected ayahuasca healing centers in Peru.

Jason currently leads dietas and plant-medicine retreats in Peru and abroad, working with Amazonian tree medicines as well as trees native to North America and Europe. He is also the creator and host of The Universe Within Podcast, which features interviews with elders, healers, teachers, and practitioners from around the world.

What We Explore in This Episode

In this expansive conversation, Aubrey and Jason explore the profound relationship between humans and plants – what we learn when we approach them with humility, and what they reveal when we quiet the mind long enough to listen.

Key Takeaways

• The path of the dieta – understanding isolation, silence, and fasting not as deprivation, but as gateways to clarity and deep communion with plant spirits.
• Apprenticeship as devotion – why true learning requires patience, humility, and a willingness to be transformed.
• Plants as mirrors for consciousness – how vegetal intelligence reflects the parts of ourselves we are ready to see and heal.
• Healing as remembering – the insight that plants don’t “fix” us; they help us recover our inherent wholeness.
• Safety, ethics, and lineage in medicine work – the importance of proper guidance, preparation, and integration when entering plant-medicine spaces.

For anyone drawn to plant wisdom, spiritual apprenticeship, or the subtle terrains of inner healing, this conversation offers a grounded, honest, and illuminating glimpse into the heart of the vegetal world.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Jason’s work:
Website: https://jasongrechanik.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasongrechanik/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UniverseWithin
Podcast: The Universe Within

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Mary Thanissara – Buddhist teacher, former monastic, author, activist, and carrier of profound devotional lineage – for a spacious, intimate, and stirring conversation. This dialogue becomes a remembering: of feminine wisdom long suppressed, of inner authority reclaimed, and of the Dharma as a living, breathing force for liberation.

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About Our Guest

Thanissara began practicing in the Burmese tradition in 1975 and later ordained in the Ajahn Chah lineage, becoming one of the first Western women to join the siladhara order in the UK. She spent twelve years as a Buddhist nun, helping establish both Chithurst and Amaravati Monasteries and pioneering Dharma retreats for families and children.

Thanissara and her husband and  partner, Kittisaro, live in Sonoma County, California where they founded Sacred Mountain Sangha Non Profit which hosts regular practice spaces, retreats, Dharma trainings and its emergent contemplative activist focus, Liberation Spirituality, to support a revolutionary Dharma to meet these times. She holds an MA in Buddhist Psychotherapy and is the author of Garden of the Midnight Rosary, a collection of mystical, devotional poetry. Her work integrates Dharma, depth psychology, trauma-informed healing, and sacred activism – with a particular emphasis on restoring the feminine principle within spiritual life and systems of power.

What We Explore in This Episode

This conversation moves between the intimate and the mythic – tracing Thanissara's journey from early monastic life to decades of teaching, activism, and trauma-informed spiritual care. Through stories, lineage memories, and fierce clarity, Thanissara calls us back to an embodied, relational, and sacred Dharma.

Key Takeaways

• The wounded feminine within Buddhism – how patriarchal structures shaped Thanissara’s early monastic life and why reclaiming the feminine is essential for collective liberation.
• Trauma, silence, and spiritual bypassing – understanding how traditions can unintentionally reinforce harm, and how courage, truth-telling, and relational repair restore the integrity of the path.
• Right timing and sacred cycles – how awakening often unfolds in spirals, not straight lines, and why deep practice requires patience, attunement, and compassion.
• The Dharma in a burning world – how Buddhist practice meets climate emergency, social injustice, and global grief – not as escape, but as embodied engagement.

Whether you are a longtime practitioner, newly exploring Buddhist teachings, or simply longing for a more truthful and loving way of being, this conversation with Thanissara invites you into a deeper relationship with presence, integrity, and sacred courage.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Thanissara’s work:
Websites: https://sacredmountainsangha.org/ and https://dharmagiri.org
Substack: https://thanissara.substack.com

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Peter Kennedy – entrepreneur, author, and seeker – for a deeply honest and transformative conversation about the inner journey that began after the outer world he built came undone. Once the CEO of a global company, Pete found himself facing the limits of success, addiction, and control. His descent through loss and plant medicine ultimately became a pilgrimage home to his own heart – chronicled in his book The Remembering: A Journey Back to Self.

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About Our Guest

Peter Kennedy is a father of five, entrepreneur, spiritual seeker, and author of The Remembering. Once driven by a relentless pursuit of success (culminating in the $140M exit of his tech startup), Peter’s awakening came not from achievement, but from surrender. A life-changing temazcal ceremony in the jungles of Brazil cracked open the armor he had spent decades building and set him on a path of deep healing and spiritual transformation. Through plant medicine, somatic therapy, and confronting the parts of himself he had long exiled, Peter began to remember who he truly is. 

Today, he is the co-founder of EvolveWell Inc., a conscious technology company redefining growth from the inside out. Peter’s journey is a testament to the power of letting go and the beauty of becoming whole.

What We Explore in This Episode

In this rich and soulful exchange, Aubrey and Peter trace the contours of awakening through the lenses of loss, identity, and integration. They invite us to see transformation not as a destination, but as a daily devotion to awareness, love, and truth.

Key Takeaways

• • From control to surrender – how Peter’s journey through Iboga and other plant medicines revealed the fear underlying success and control.
  • The myth of busyness – dismantling the cultural illusion that productivity equals worth, and discovering presence instead.
  • Love as the ultimate integration – the moment Peter brought compassion to the parts of himself he once rejected, he reshaped his relationship with his family and the generational healing that would follow.
  • Remembering God – finding spirituality beyond religion, in direct relationship with the divine within.
  • Authenticity as power – why embracing our “weirdness” is the medicine the world needs most.

Whether you’re navigating a dark night of the soul, awakening to your true nature, or simply longing to live more authentically, this conversation will remind you that even in the unraveling, you are already home.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Peter’s work:
Website: https://evolveweird.com
Instagram: @therememberingbook
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterkennedy182
Book: The Remembering: A Journey Back to Self

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Kumu Ramsay Taum, a respected Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) teacher, cultural practitioner, and visionary leader whose life work bridges ancient wisdom with modern systems. Together, they explore how Hawaiian ancestral wisdom offers a roadmap for personal and collective healing, and how Hawai‘i itself can serve as a model for a peaceful and regenerative world.

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About Our Guest

Kumu Ramsay stands as a bridge between worlds – an Indigenous wisdom keeper rooted in ancestral knowing, yet fully engaged within the infrastructures of modernity. His work does not seek to escape the systems of extraction and imbalance, but to meet them, reweave them, and offer a path forward grounded in Aloha, accountability, and alignment. 

In spaces where metrics have too long replaced meaning, Kumu Ramsay calls for a deeper reckoning: not merely accounting, but radical accountability; not just reference, but reverence; not only return on investment, but a return on intellect, intention, and integrity. His voice is both ancient and emergent, advocating for economic and ecological systems that reflect the sacred interdependence of all life. 

Through a lens of peace, sustainability, and relational wisdom, Kumu Ramsay helps communities remember who they are, where they stand, and how to move in harmony with both land and law, spirit and structure.

What We Explore in This Episode

In this powerful conversation, Kumu Ramsay and Aubrey explore the inner technologies of alignment and harmony, Ho’oponopono, and how ancient Hawaiian wisdom holds keys for navigating today’s fragmented world.

Key Takeaways

• • Ho‘oponopono as inner technology – the practice of restoring right relationship within, before attempting to heal what’s outside of us.
  • Living Pono – understanding alignment as a dynamic, moment-by-moment attunement to what is proper and balanced in each circumstance.
  • Mana as life force – accessing, rather than accumulating, the universal energy available to all living beings.
  • Hawai‘i as the world’s spiritual navel – envisioning the islands as a global center for peace, reconciliation, and ecological renewal.
  • Navigating multiple realities – reimagining time, destiny, and choice through the Hawaiian lens of cyclical and multidimensional awareness.

Whether you are walking the path of reconciliation, exploring your relationship with the Earth, or seeking a deeper sense of purpose, this conversation will invite you to slow down, listen, and remember your place in the great web of life.

With Love & Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

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GUEST INFO

Learn more about Kumu Ramsay’s work:
Website: https://www.ramsaytaum.com/
Instagram: @ramsaytaum

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What becomes possible when we root our organizations in joy, reciprocity, and nature’s blueprint? 

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Jackie Mirkopoulos, a regenerative venture capitalist and leadership consultant guiding a new model of business rooted in reciprocity, embodiment, and joy.   

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About Our Guest 

Jackie Mirkopoulos is a regenerative venture capitalist and dynamic public speaker dedicated to shaping a harmonious future through her work in leadership development, her social impact fund as well as her newly founded leadership consultancy, Seven Neighbours. 
 
Weaving visionary insights with lived experience, she challenges conventional thinking and guides leaders to align with nature’s blueprint in order to create thriving organisations, healthier cultures, and increased profits. With her trademark warmth and distinct sense of humour, Jackie invites audiences to step away from outdated hustle mentalities and into a state of flow, resonance, and co-creation with nature. 
 
Her expertise spans health and wellness, company culture, land stewardship, and philanthropy - each driven by a deep commitment to building community and fostering meaningful change. With her captivating, authentic, and consistently engaging approach, Jackie always leaves audiences not only thinking differently but also feeling inspired and empowered to lead differently. 

Aubrey and Jackie met at Project Biome, where Jackie serves on the Board of Directors. 

What We Explore in This Episode 

In this conversation, Jackie invites us to reimagine leadership, wealth, and business through a regenerative lens.  One that honors our humanity, reconnects us to nature, and centers joy as a transformative force. Drawing on her personal story, body-based wisdom, and experience stewarding both land and capital, Jackie shares a vision for organizations that nourish rather than extract, and for leaders who are rooted, resilient, and ready to co-create the future. 

Key Takeaways 

• Nature as blueprint for leadership – how Jackie draws from permaculture, embodiment, and natural systems to guide regenerative business transformation. 
• From extraction to reciprocity – why true sustainability starts within, and how organizations can shift from burnout culture to life-honoring practices. 
• Wealth stewardship in transition – the challenges and opportunities facing next-gen leaders as they inherit wealth and reimagine legacy. 
• Joy as a regenerative force – why joy isn’t optional, but essential for resilience, creativity, and cultural change. 
• Human-first systems change – how reconnecting with our bodies, emotions, and inner work is key to transforming business from the inside out. 

Whether you're a leader, a culture shaper, or someone dreaming of a more regenerative world, this conversation will remind you what’s possible when we lead from joy, reciprocity, and embodied wisdom. 

May this conversation illuminate the path you’re walking and inspire you to lead from the inside out. 

With Love and Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee 

GUEST INFO 

You can find Jackie here:
https://linktr.ee/SevenNeighbours  

EPISODE RESOURCES 

https://projectbiome.org/  

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What becomes possible when we remember our economic lives as part of a holy, relational web that includes all beings, seen and unseen? 

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Pat McCabe, a sacred storyteller and spiritual visionary whose work bridges Indigenous wisdom, ceremony, and activism. 

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About Our Guest  

Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing.  

She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human. 

What We Explore in This Episode 

In this conversation, Pat invites us to radically reimagine our relationship to money, land, and life itself. Drawing from deep Indigenous wisdom, ceremony, and personal revelation, Pat shares a vision for healing our economic systems and restoring a way of being rooted in fearless generosity, spiritual sovereignty, and the sacred hoop of life. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Money as Spirit: Rather than seeing money as transactional or neutral, Pat introduces it as a sovereign spiritual entity—one that has awakened and now chooses to serve only life, light, and love.  
• Omnibeneficence and the sacred hoop – how every being has a unique role to play in the web of life, and what it means to live in right relationship with all our relatives. 
• The Power of Ceremony & Spirit Logic: When we move from fear-based decision-making to spirit-led action, miracles become possible. Money arrives not through control, but through alignment. 
• Unlearning the death ways – why the extractive systems we’ve inherited must be composted, and how we begin to return to life-honoring ways. 
• Fearless generosity as survival strategy – what buffalo teach us about facing storms, and why soft hearts and collective courage are essential in these times. 

Whether you're a philanthropist, changemaker, or simply longing for a more sacred way of living, this conversation will open your heart, expand your imagination, and reorient your compass toward thriving life. 

This conversation is a blessing in itself. May it touch you in the exact place it’s needed. 

With Love and Gratitude, 

Aubrey Morgan Yee 

GUEST INFO: 

You can find Pat McCabe here: 

Website:  https://www.patmccabe.net/ 

EPISODE RESOURCES:  

https://www.landjusticefutures.org/motherhouse - a learning & movement space for Mother Law & Complicit No More. 

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What if the key to human health is not just within us, but beneath our feet—in the living soil?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Zach Bush, MD, a renowned, multi-disciplinary physician of internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice care and an internationally recognized educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease and food systems. 

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Zach Bush, MD founded Seraphic Group and the non-profit Farmer’s Footprint to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health. His passion for education reaches across many disciplines, including topics such as the role of soil and water ecosystems in human genomics, immunity, and gut/brain health. His education has highlighted the need for a radical departure from chemical farming and pharmacy, and his ongoing efforts are providing a path for consumers, farmers, and mega-industries to work together for a healthy future for people and the planet.

His work in for-profit and nonprofit arenas is creating avenues for collaborative action for all stakeholders in our global community for a regenerative future of health for the planet and our children.

In this conversation, Zach and I explore the ways in which our bodies, our communities, and our ecosystems are reflections of one another. We discuss the collapse of control-based systems, the disempowerment embedded in modern health narratives, and why true healing requires a return to sovereignty, coherence, and connection with the natural world. Zach offers a radical shift in perspective, moving beyond the paradigm of disease and survival into a new era of health, belonging, and regeneration.

Key Takeaways:

🌿 The microbiome as the foundation of health—how soil and gut health are inextricably linked.

🌿 Why modern medicine is failing us—the dangers of pharmaceutical dependency and chemical agriculture.

🌿 Regenerative agriculture & planetary healing—why shifting farming practices is key to reversing chronic disease.

🌿 Moving beyond fear & control—how to reclaim personal sovereignty and health through deep reconnection with nature.

🌿 The spiritual awakening of our time—why true healing requires us to step beyond outdated paradigms and embrace a new way of being.

Zach offers a radical shift in perspective, moving beyond the paradigm of disease and survival into a new era of health, belonging, and regeneration. His message is both disruptive and deeply hopeful, calling us to step beyond outdated paradigms and embrace a future rooted in sovereignty, connection, and renewal.

With Love and Gratitude,

Aubrey Morgan Yee

GUEST INFO

You can find / follow Zach Bush MD here:

Website: www.zachbushmd.com 

Instagram: @zachbushmd 

EPISODE RESOURCES 

Farmer’s Footprint: www.farmersfootprint.us

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What does it take to move beyond resistance and into the creation of something truly new? 

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Pooven Moodley, an international human rights and environmental lawyer and social justice activist who has spent his life on the frontlines of the struggle for freedom, equity, and environmental justice. 

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Pooven’s journey began as a young activist in the anti-apartheid movement before pursuing a legal career, starting at the Legal Resources Centre, where he engaged in landmark human rights litigation. He has since held leadership roles in Natural Justice (Executive Director), ActionAid (International Head of Campaigns), and Oxfam GB (Country Director, South Africa), supporting grassroots movements and challenging corporate and governmental exploitation. 

Among his notable achievements, he co-led the successful campaign to stop South Africa’s proposed nuclear deal with Russia, fought for women’s land rights in Africa, and played a key role in securing the UN’s recognition of the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, for which his coalition won the 2023 United Nations Human Rights Prize.  He is a Council Member of the ICCA Consortium, Chair of the Defending the Territories of Life initiative, and serves on the boards of Awana Digital, the Institute for Natural Law, and 350.org. As a co-founder of the Earthrise Collective, he continues to integrate legal advocacy, Indigenous knowledge, and movement-building to co-create a regenerative and justice-centered future. 

In this conversation, Pooven and I trace the threads of his lifelong work in human rights and environmental justice, from his early years in activism to his leadership in global campaigns for land and Indigenous sovereignty. We explore the deep intersections of legal advocacy, activism, and ancestral wisdom, the shifting energy of our time, and the profound spiritual reckoning required to dismantle oppressive systems while co-creating a future rooted in justice, reciprocity, and liberation. 

Key Takeaways: 

🌿 The fight for justice and human rights—how Pooven’s journey from the anti-apartheid movement to global activism shaped his perspective on systemic change. 

🌿 Dismantling empire from within—why legal advocacy alone isn’t enough and how we must also reclaim ancestral wisdom and alternative ways of being. 

🌿 The Earthrise Collective and the power of gathering—how wisdom keepers, activists, and change-makers are coming together to seed a new way forward. 

🌿 Sacred activism & planetary transformation—how ancient wisdom traditions and modern resistance movements are converging in this moment of reckoning. 

🌿 The role of South Africa in the global shift—the deep spiritual and energetic significance of the land and the unfolding transformation happening there. 

Pooven is a beacon of courage, clarity, and wisdom, and this conversation is both a sobering and deeply hopeful exploration of what is possible when we commit to truth, justice, and the sacred work of repair. It is an invitation—to look deeper, to move beyond resistance into creation, and to step into our role as stewards of a just and thriving future. 

With Love and Gratitude, 

Aubrey Morgan Yee 

GUEST INFO 

You can find / follow Pooven here: 

Instagram:  @poovalingummoodley 

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK 

Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com
Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee
Substack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.com
Book: Our Beloved Futures

What happens when women gather to hold the Earth in devotion and love?

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Julia Weigert, a code carrier of the Sophia Consciousness, Magdalene Rose Priestess and Steward of Gaia.

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Julia and I met and became friends while in a circle of women studying the wisdom lineages of Magdalene, Isis, Morgana and other ancient Priestess lines. 

It is her mission to support women on the path of fully embodying their multidimensionality as living bridge of the divine and earthly realm. As a women’s ceremonialist and mentor, she guides women to live in tune with the rhythms of nature, reclaim their sovereign power and reconnect with their soul essence & wisdom. As Reiki Master Teacher and energy healer she holds and facilitates space for potent transformational processes allowing others to access their innate soul wisdom. 

Her true passion lies in being an endless pilgrim, guiding others on sacred sojourns designed to catalyze a profound exploration of self. In the embrace of ancient lands enchanted by magick, Julia facilitates experiences of expansions of consciousness and awakening to one's own purpose in the greater tapestry of the cosmos.  

In this conversation, Julia and I follow the threads of a dream she had that saw women around the world gathering to become the beating frequency of Gaia. Holding a mandala as Earth transforms and becomes anew in the lineage of the cosmos. 

Key Takeaways:

🌿 The wisdom of dreams and how they serve as guidance for our life’s path.
🌿 The Magdalene lineage and its connection to ancient priestess traditions.
🌿 Dragons as guardians of the Earth’s energy lines and the need to restore lost connections.
🌿 The transformative power of sacred pilgrimage and working with Gaia’s ley lines.
🌿 How to trust the visions and synchronicities that call us toward our purpose.

This conversation is a beautiful reminder that we are all part of a greater cosmic weaving and that by listening deeply—whether to our dreams, the land, or the whispers of ancient wisdom—we can reclaim our place as stewards of the sacred. 

A beautiful conversation with a beautiful soul. Enjoy...

With Love and Gratitude,

Aubrey Morgan Yee 

GUEST INFO

You can find / follow Julia Weigert here:

Website: www.soulwisdom.ch

IG: @soul_wisdom_by_julia

FB: @Soul Wisdom

Podcast: The Sacred Travel Podcast on Youtube, Spotify, Apple

EPISODE RESOURCES 

Monthly Gatherings: The Magdalene Dragon Mandala

Free Program: 22 Days of Mastering Your Creatrix Powers

Sacred Travel Experiences 2025: https://www.soulwisdom.ch/sacred-travel

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John has spoken at shamanic gatherings, economic forums, and universities around the world and has been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, NPR, A&E, the History Channel, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Der Spiegel, and many other publications, as well as in numerous documentaries including The End of Poverty?, Zeitgeist Addendum, andApology of an Economic Hit Man.

His awards include the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace (along with Lady Gaga and Pussy Riot) and the Rainforest Action Network Challenging Business asUsual Award. He is a founder and board member of the Pachamama Alliance and Dream Change.Together, John and I delve into the systems driving inequality and environmental destruction and discuss how we can shift toward regenerative economic models that honor life and equity. This conversation is both sobering and inspiring—a call to action for those ready to imagine and build a world rooted in love, equity, and sustainability.

Key Takeaways:

• Understanding the death economy: a system rooted in exploitation, consumption, and short-term gains.
• Transitioning to a life economy: aligning economic systems with the well-being of all life.
• Lessons from Confessions of an Economic Hitmanand the courage required to confront entrenched power structures.
• Practical steps to transform systems of inequality into models of equity and sustainability.
• The role of individual and collective action in building a regenerative future.

John is filled with the life-force of a man who is on purpose. Using his gift of writing to share the truth about empire and the web of systems that are destroying our planet and our humanity. You will love this conversation... settle in with a cup of tea and an open mind.

With Love and Gratitude,

Aubrey Morgan Yee

GUEST INFO

You can find / follow John Perkins here:

Website: https://johnperkins.org/

Instagram: @johnperkinsauthor

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnperkinsauthor/

YouTube TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btF6nKHo2i0

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How do we balance the urgency of the meta-crisis with the hope of regeneration? 

In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee engages in a powerful conversation with Matthew Monahan, a visionary leader, regenerative farmer, and founder of the global initiative Ma Earth.

Matthew Monahan is a dreamer who knows how to bring dreams to life. After building a successful tech venture with his brother early in life, he actualized a vision to build a leading-edge regenerative farm in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Mangaroa farms is now a resilient community food hub and education centre, transitioning dairy & pine into regenerative agriculture & native forests. 

Driven by his love of the earth and understanding of the moment we are in as a species, Ma Earth was born to hold space to “share ideas and build tools for planetary health and regeneration.” Simple and profound. 

Matthew travels the world meeting with leaders and innovators to understand how new and emerging finance technologies can meet the pressing needs of a planet in meta-crisis. He is a visionary leader who holds a powerful, calm presence in the midst of urgency. The kind of person you want to be in the mess with… and most importantly he is my dear friend.

In this episode, Matthew and I talk about how to meet this moment with grace, what it means to be a good steward during times of collapse and how we can collectively rise to transform the systems that sustain life on Earth.

Key Takeaways:

• The importance of transitioning from extractive practices to regenerative models in both farming and finance.
• How emerging technologies like blockchain can be used ethically to support ecological and cultural resilience.
• Practical steps individuals can take to contribute meaningfully to local and global regenerative efforts.
• The critical need for a cultural shift that pairs technological innovation with deep, systemic change.

I know you will enjoy this episode. It’s full of clear-eyed confrontation with the toxicity of modernity and the hopeful truth that there are good people all around the world opening cracks through the trouble to help us collectively emerge into something else…

With Love and Gratitude,

Aubrey Morgan Yee

GUEST INFO

You can find / follow Matthew here:

Website: https://maearth.com

Instagram: 

@maearthmedia 

@mangaroafarms 

@biometrust

Other: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maearth

EPISODE RESOURCES 

Matthew Monahan is bringing together the seemingly disparate worlds of regeneration and finance through his podcast The Regeneration Will Be Funded, a project of his greater vision – Ma Earth. Ma Earth recently launched its second round of grants to Earth Regenerators using quadratic funding methods with community crowdfunding on Gitcoin. 

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• The meaning and importance of rematriation of land and why it matters now more than ever.
• How connecting with the Earth and her ecosystems can deepen our sense of 
  belonging and healing.
• Tools for holding space for future generations, even in times of darkness and difficulty.
• The power of regenerative economies and creating land transitions that are both ethical and just.

I’m so grateful to Abi and all she stewards. I hope you will find solace, inspiration and
regeneration in our words...

With Love and Gratitude,
Aubrey Morgan Yee

GUEST INFO
You can find / follow Abi here:
Instagram: @_ethical_land_transition

EPISODE RESOURCES
Center for Ethical Land Transition 
https://centerelt.org/
Mother Law Starter Series 
https://www.landjusticefutures.org/starter-series

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Most of all he is my hanai brother and dear friend. A person I turn to when I need to untangle my thinking about the world and my place in it. He is a guardian of the futures and a mystical anarchist, a philosopher and mythopoetic truth teller. A rare being, always becoming into a new version of himself. He is someone I am deeply grateful to be woven with in this lifetime… May this conversation move you to lean into your own becoming, so that your life becomes a prayer of purpose to the unfolding of the ages. May we all be useful to these times. 

Links:

Brave Earth

Rewording Fellowship

Transition Resource Circle

Rojava - Autonomous Community

Books:

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Ideas to Postpone the End of the World - Ailton Kranek

T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone - Hakim Bey

Designs for the Pluriverse - Arturo Escobar

Tiokasin Ghosthorse - Various writings

Sophie Strand - Various writings

Bayo Akomalofe - Various writings

Less is More: How Degrowth will save the world - Jason Hickels

Sociology of Freedom - Abdullah Öcalan 

Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble - Stephen Jenkinson

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She is the author of several books, including ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’, an eye-opening tale of tradition and change in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”. Together with a film of the same title, Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 40 languages, and sold half a million copies.

Her latest book is ‘Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness’. Other publications include ‘Bringing the Food Economy Home’ and ‘From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture’.

Helena is also the producer of the award-winning documentary ‘The Economics of Happiness’.

Educated in Sweden, Germany, Austria, England and the United States, Helena specialized in linguistics, including studies at the University of London and with Noam Chomsky at MIT. Her work, spanning almost half a century, has received the support of a wide range of international figures, including Jane Goodall, HH the Dalai Lama, HRH Prince Charles and Indira Gandhi.

From 1975, Helena worked with the people of Ladakh, to find ways of enabling their culture to meet the modern world without sacrificing social and ecological values. She was the first outsider in modern times to become fluent in the language.

She has helped to initiate localization movements on every continent, particularly in South Korea and Japan, and co-founded both the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.

Helena is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Right Livelihood Award (aka the “Alternative Nobel Prize”), the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.”

Helena has lectured in seven languages and appeared in broadcast, print and online media worldwide, including MSNBC, The Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian. She has written numerous articles and essays, and her work has been the subject of thousands of articles worldwide.

Most recently, Helena was profiled in The New York Times, titled ‘What if Local and Diverse Is Better Than Networked and Global?’. Download the article: NY Times – Helena Norberg-Hodge Profile (PDF)

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Join us for a potent conversation about decolonization, the dark feminine, art in activism and finding your voice in the midst of collapse.

https://www.mothertongue.earth/

@ebyanzanini

@the.mothertongue

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She traverses clinical engineering, healthcare technology management, socio-economic development, mathematics, leadership and fashion design; to the interface between science, culture, cosmology and paradigms of healing. She has a passion for weaving art, science and spirituality towards healing of the Collective and restoration of the Whole. She is a co-steward of the Earthrise Collective, a gathering of wisdom keepers sharing devotion to earth.

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Anu is a sought-after expert in breaking bias, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), entrepreneurship, mindfulness, and compassion. He has worked with over 200 companies reaching over 20,000 professionals. He has logged over 10,000 hours of meditation and developed "BE MORE wth Anu” - a science-backed, compassion-based approach after conducting decade-long research on the causes of and solutions to racial and gender inequality. He has spoken about this work at TED, SxSW, and the Oprah Conversation. And has a JD from NYU Law, MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge, and BA in International Relations & Islamic Studies from NYU. You can follow him on Instagram @mindful.anu.

Links:

https://www.bemorewithanu.com/bemorejourney

@mindful.anu

BE MORE with Anu - is an ed-tech company that empowers people to break bias so they can advance diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging, reduce wasted costs, and enhance bottomline performance in their organizations and communities. BE MORE with Anu envisions a global beloved community that embodies equity and belonging by breaking bias, healing trauma, mending policies, and channeling resources equitably.

Breaking Racial Bias® is a five-week course by BE MORE with Anu where you can develop actionable skills to take systemic racism head-on and advance racial equity and belonging in your workplace and communities. Join our community of diverse professionals from around the world and transform systemic racism from the inside out.

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www.laylaelkhadri.com

@laylaelkhadri

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In this conversation we go deep into the heart of leadership, energy and consciousness. Enjoy!

https://inquiryintoconsciousness.com/

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More than any of this, Lynn is a sister, friend and guide to so many. She is a trickster, lover, circle tender and someone who embodies the beauty way with deep grace and elegance - and a lot of play. I am so grateful to her for her vision, tenacity and commitment to bridging from these worlds to the nexts.

You can find her work at:

www.transitionresourcecircle.org

and

www.postcapitalistphilanthropy.org

She is proudly not on social media...

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These lands awoke her to her healing potential and abilities, and so began her journey of rememberance. Starting with Remedial massage, over the last 20 years Simi has created a very specific tool kit to assist her and her clients return to their soul’s calling. She practices 13 sign astrology, also known as Siderial Astrology. 

13 sign, Siderial Astrology

Our blueprint is mapped in the stars. From this we can see our life’s path, strengths, weaknesses, purpose, significant life transits and cycles. 13 sign astrology includes the lost archetype of 13 which was removed, but is here for reclamation again, the blueprint of our unique organic nature to dream in a new reality aligned with our souls’ purpose.

Her mission is to offer ultimate care and assist others on their journey of awakening to who their truly are- by nurturing and supporting them to their unveiled, organic and aligned and most exquisite dreaming potential.

To follow and work with Simi

https://simishea.com.au/

@simishea

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Zachari and his wife Tatiana (an equally accomplished and skilled healer) hold Masters degrees in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, the top rated accredited Chinese Medical School in the US and Doctorates from the Pacific College of Health & Sciences.  With over 6 years of training and 20 years practicing researched based natural compounds, acupuncture, herbs, nutrition, massage, western clinical diagnosis and pharmacology (drug/herb interaction), they are among premiere providers of alternative healthcare in Asheville. 

But perhaps their greatest accomplishment of all is a thriving, juicy, fulfilling marriage that is a life long work in progress, full of lessons and gifts… and their three beautiful young daughters. 

In this vulnerable and powerful conversation, we dive into the countless miracles that had to occur for us to even use words in the first place, the healing potential when having difficult conversations with our loved ones, the potency of deep listening and how, what Zachari calls, ‘life-giving interpretations’ can shift your mindset and heal the adversaries within, bringing freedom and joy into your life and your relationships. 

To find Zachari and Tatiana: https://www.ashevillealternativewellnesscenter.com/

If you are interested in our 2024 couples retreat, email: aubrey@ourbelovedfutures.com

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"I am descended from an expansive mix of peoples from the European continent, most prominently the British Isles, Ireland and Germany, as well as Lithuania and Russia of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. My ancestors crossed the Atlantic in many waves and due to many different circumstances over the past ~400 years. I am very much still in the process of uncovering the individual and collective stories of my people, both before their passages and after, and how their lives and legacies shape the world and my place within it. 

I live with an enduring sense of responsibility to uncover and acknowledge the truth of my ancestors’ lives and actions and the larger narratives and ideologies of racialized capitalism and dominance that they lived within, and in some cases built — and to do what I can with my time here on earth to reckon, grieve, heal and transform those legacies into something more humane, whole, and just.

My deep longing for justice and the dream of a world of balance and regeneration have guided me to ask what is mine to do in service to healing, liberation and repair for myself and my people? I have found that the most meaningful and impactful work I can do is to turn towards my ancestors and the money I have inherited in their names, and begin to uncover their stories, and release that unjustly accumulated wealth into the communities most directly harmed by its creation.

Over the past few years organizing with Resource Generation I have begun to redistribute my own inherited wealth and mobilize other people with
wealth and class privilege to join me. I am currently redistributing 50% of what I have access to and am working to increase my giving in the
coming years while organizing my family and extended family towards reparative action and right-relationship with money, land and power." (Bio from https://www.morganhcurtis.com)

Justine’s work and collaborations…

https://resourcegeneration.org/

https://walking-water.org/

https://www.morganhcurtis.com/justine-epstein

https://www.morganhcurtis.com/ancestors-money

https://m4bl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/defining-reparations.pdf

https://www.morganhcurtis.com/decolonial-dames-of-america

https://www.facebook.com/shadetreefoundation/

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Resources

Office of Indigenous Innovation

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Resources:

Tipping Point Chronic Homelessness Initiative

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“You want to make a difference? Then start by looking within.” – Aunty Puanani Burgess

Resources:

A video about Building the Beloved Community made by one of Aunty Pua’s young students

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 Ashanti shares with us her experience of growing up as a young black woman in the relative comfort of of post-apartheid South African suburbia and the radical awakening she had as a student during the Fees Must Fall student uprising. From her work with decolonizing narratives to spoken word poetry to her recent stint on the Parisian runway at fashion week, Ashanti is a powerful beam of light. This is a vibrant episode, alive with the passion and purpose of a beautiful human whom I am blessed to call my soul sister and friend. 

Resources: 

 Learning 2 Unlearn 

 @ashanti_kunene 

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Understanding the implications of our meta-crisis, Yael immersed herself in communities and cultures outside of the dominant system while completing her masters on how we can reimagine communities through Nature's genius.

Yael is a founding steward of Brave Earth (Tierra Valiente), center for applied cultural transition, and Fuerza De Amor, a community resilience network, in Costa Rica.

Yael serves as the Managing Director of Culture Hack Labs and devotes herself to creating narratives in service to life to create systems change. She is a Moon Dancer, self professed mermaid and one who lives life as ceremony in devotion to the earth and all her forms.

Resources:

Brave Earth - https://www.braveearth.com/

Culture Hack Labs - https://www.culturehack.io/

Fuerza De Amor - https://www.fuerzadeamor.org/

@yaelm

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