Good Girl Gone Human

Ep 17: The Courage to Care, the Courage to Rest

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:00:00 -0700

This week, Holly and Kristina share some personal reflections as they wrap up Season Two of Good Girl Gone Human! They check in with their own good girl parts and discuss how the podcast has been both healing and activating for this part of their healing. As they move into a break from recording, they talk about the bravery of taking a break and leaning into rest. The temptation to push through and continue to produce can lead to burnout so they are humanizing themselves as they admit the need for rest and recovery.
The podcast will be back after this break so stay tuned on socials (@goodgirlgonehuman) for updates and information. If the podcast has been meaningful for you, please consider taking a moment to subscribe, rate, or even leave comments. Thank you for being with us on this journey of rehumanization!

Resources Mentioned:
Audre Lorde "Poetry is not a Luxury"
Kim Krans "Wild Unknown Archetypes Deck and Guidebook"

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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Ep 16: Going Beyond the Label: Embracing Our Innate Worthiness with R.G. Shore

Wed, 28 May 2025 05:00:00 -0700

This week Holly and Kristina are joined by R.G. Shore, author of the award-winning book "The Ocean Inside Me: A Spiritual Memoir on Healing Racial Trauma." Being born in the East but raised in the West was the beginning of R.G.'s relationship to liminal spaces. This idea of not fitting into any one space can be a lonely and isolating place; but the gift of liminal space is that there is more room to discover that you are never just one thing. Moving beyond labels is a painful process of discovering who you are not in order to discover who you are. Allowing these ego deaths is a part of the journey to rising again. While incarcerated, R.G. leaned into meditation as a way to connect with his inner child and heal his own wounds. In meeting himself more fully, he was able to apply that inner work to those around him in prison. His stories of humanizing himself and others are powerful examples of how changes on the macro level often start at the micro level within each of us. R.G. Shore is also the founder of Northwest Wisdom, a non profit in the Pacific Northwest for embodied spirituality. To support his mission, please consider clicking the link below and donating to the cause.

Connect with R.G. Shore:
www.northwestwisdom.org
ig: northwest_wisdom

Donate here:
https://www.zeffy.com/donation-form/donate-to-create-social-change-and-spiritual-healing

R.G.'s book:
The Ocean Inside Me

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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Ep 15: Dance Moves for Humanity: Part 2 with Claire Margit

Wed, 21 May 2025 05:00:00 -0700

*This episode contains conversations around abuse, substance misuse, pediatric terminal illness, and cancer. This warning is simply to empower you with the knowledge you need to make healthy decisions about how and if you should consume this podcast content.

Claire Margit is back this week for Part Two of a vulnerable and honest conversation about being a human. Claire brings depth and story to her "Professional Human Protocol" - practical tools for navigating life. Using the metaphor of a dance floor, she connects each dance move/tool to a universal truth. The goal of these practices is to exist in a more neutral space to be able to move towards healing from a place of safety. While positive thinking directly impacts our health, Claire invites us to not bypass the hard in order to just "be positive." Our nervous system responds to truth so we focus on the truer thing when we are dealing with challenging thoughts. Claire's story is full of heartbreak and healing and she brings these tools as someone who has seen the profound impacts on her own life. Listening to Part One is recommended as it is referenced throughout this conversation.

Resources Mentioned:
Toxic Positivity: Keeping it Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy by Whitney Goodman

Connect with Claire:
Claire Margit on Instagram
Claire Margit on YouTube
https://www.clairemargit.com/

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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Ep 14: Wounded, Not Wicked: Part 1 with Claire Margit

Wed, 14 May 2025 05:00:00 -0700

This week Holly and Kristina are joined by Claire Margit for a beautiful and vulnerable conversation. Claire is a massage therapist and teaches a workshop called Cell Story: Where Science and Soul Collide. In this episode, she shares about the things in her life that led up to the culmination of her current work. Her journey with sobriety invited in a new sort of spiritual awareness and understanding of God. The idea that we are wounded, not wicked, changed the way she related to herself and others. Over time, she could see the story she told herself- that in order to be loved she had to be broken. A breakthrough day in her pre-med classes revealed to her the way that her biology believes the story she tells it. This idea that our thoughts and beliefs impact our biology changed her relationship with her body and the stories she told herself. Through personal storytelling and scientific facts, Claire invites us to recognize the relationship between our thoughts and our bodies.

Resources Mentioned:
Body Keeps the Score
Ameba Sisters YouTube

Connect with Claire:
Claire Margit on Instagram
Claire Margit on YouTube
https://www.clairemargit.com/

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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Ep 13: Relating to our Bodies: Simplifying Embodiment with Teresa Brenneman

Wed, 07 May 2025 05:00:00 -0700

This week Teresa Brenneman joins Holly and Kristina to talk about a key part of our human experience- the bodies we live in. She shares some of the tools that she's used to live a more embodied life, including the Human Design system. They discuss the idea of embodiment as buiding awareness in the body. Listening to the ways the body communicates with sensations and somatics is a process that can be started in simple and digestible ways. This process of building loving awareness helps us to build self trust. Teresa challenges the idea that a regulated nervous system should look like a calm body, recognizing that to regulate we actually have to feel and process the senstations that come through the body. This work of noticing our body can require some slowness and margin, but embodiment is not a destination to arrive at, but rather a journey of self discovery.

Teresa is a Human Design and Tarot reader, the Director of Community at the New School of Human Design, and podcaster. Find all the ways you can connect with Teresa and her work below!

Resources Mentioned:
Luis Mojica IG: @holistic.life.navigation
holisticlifenavigation.com

Connect with Teresa:

IG: @teresaabrenneman

Teresa's podcasts:
-Emoting Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0deljFOo7G6JCtCfW8nRMq?si=24ff2c9387624539
-Human Design Coffee Talk: https://open.spotify.com/show/16RmMggAkvMZnod2FlgOPF?si=06be621cc9db40f5

New School of Human Design:
http://newschoolofhumandesign.com
IG: @newschoolofhumandesign

Book a Human Design Reading with Teresa:
https://newschoolofhumandesign.com/profiles/teresa-brenneman/

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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Ep 12: Meeting Our Shadows with Gentleness: Sustainable Healing with Jes Lock

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:00:00 -0700

This week Holly and Kristina chat with Jes Lock, a Human Design Guide, Space Holder, and Podcaster. Jes shares her story of how corporate burnout initiated her into deep healing work, and how she became aware that she had transferred the same patterns that led to burnout onto her healing journey. This led her to meeting her shadow - the unconsious parts of her that were running the show. These awarenesses over time led her to the work she does now, which is using Human Design to get to know all the parts of ourselves, and to accept the gifts that our shadows have to offer us if we listen. Jes also shares her "5 Pillars of Sustainable Deconditioning", which is her process of engaging in healing shadow work in a way that is gentle and doesn't treat the human conditon as a problem to be solved. Rather, it's a journey of coming home to ourselves.

Jes guides people through this process in her work with Human Design, and has generously offered a discount for Good Girl Gone Human listeners who resonate with her and want to sign up for her course. She also has a beginner's guide to Human Design workbook. Links below!

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

Connect with Jes Lock:

Jes Lock's Human Design Fundamentals Course - use code GGGH-15 for 15% off:
https://wholeandunleashed.com/human-design-fundamentals

Jes Lock's Intro to Human Design Workbook:
https://wholeandunleashed.com/intro-to-hd-workbook

insta: @jes.lock
podcast insta: @wholeandunleashed

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Ep 11: There is No Moral to the Story: Story Healing with Dr. Rick Diamond

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 05:00:00 -0700

This week's episode highlights the beautiful work of Dr. Rick Diamond, a Story Healer in Austin, Texas. Rick shares his lifelong love of story- from his time as an English Professor, Pastor, Author, to his work with individuals and their own stories. In creating a safe container for people to feel into both their humanity and their soul's expansiveness, Rick is able to witness people remembering who they truly are. The work of untangling our identity from the roles and scrips we've been handed can be a messy, gritty journey. In identifying the stories we are ready to put down, we reclaim our agency to create a new story. We can honor what was and recognize that it no longer fits. We can move away from healing as a destination or an outcome and take the next right step, trusting our intuition to guide us.

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

Dr. Rick Diamond:
https://www.instagram.com/drrickdiamond/
https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.rick.diamond
https://drrickdiamond.com/
https://drrickdiamond.com/subscribe-to-rick-diamonds-story-work-newsletter/

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Ep 10: Evolution of an Artist: How Supportive Community is Key with Teddy Boldt

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:00:00 -0700

This week Holly and Kristina are joined by Teddy Boldt, singer of Teddy at Night and Holly's older brother! Teddy shares his lifelong journey as an artist that led him to his current creative project. After playing in bands where his whole self was not fully accepted, he leaned in to the importance of authentic community. The music industry can strip people of their individual expression as a way to capitalize on their art. Teddy has found people to collaborate with who are committed to humanizing themselves as a way to make art that inspires, connects, and moves people. They discuss the idea of the burden of being a true artist and how that shapes someone's relationship to their creative process and art. Teddy also shares his heart behind the song Good in the End, the instrumental used at the intro & outro of each episode!

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

Teddy at Night:
https://teddyatnight.com/
https://www.instagram.com/teddyatnightteddyatnight/
https://www.tiktok.com/@teddyatnight

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Ep 9: Reimagining Therapeutic Work with Elyse Snipes

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:00:00 -0700

Holly and Kristina return for Season Two with guest Elyse Snipes. Elyse shares how the title "therapist" has never felt like a good fit, even after working in that role for almost 20 years. Her work has evolved from doing therapy in an Airstream trailer by the beach to sitting on the beach side by side with people. This humanizing work aims to take the shame out of healing, bringing therapeutic work out into the world. They talk about the ways society views therapy and consider new entry points and invitations into this kind of healing work. If the price of admission has been brokenness, how can we approach therapy with a reimagined sense of wholeness and agency? The temptation to give our power away to those who have a perceived sense of authority makes so much sense and can even feel comforting. The work of healing from a place of inner authority, self-trust, and full agency can lead to more play, creativity, and self-acceptance.

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

Connect with Elyse:
Website https://www.elysesnipes.com/
Instagram @elysesnipes
Substack https://elysesnipes.substack.com/

Radical Wellness
Website: https://www.radicalwellness.co/
Instagram @radicalwellness_co

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Ep 8: Shedding Good Girl Programming and Embracing Authenticity

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -0700

On this episode Holly and Kristina reflect on their podcasting journey so far, sharing the ways it has confronted their good girl programming. This conversation dives into how their collaboration has been a mirror and a support for each of them in unique and different ways. The work of building the framework for a podcast has been challenging and rewarding, and they talk about ways they want to play and expand the conversations in the future. Moving away from perfectionistic good girl dynamics, they are leaning into more authentic, whole-hearted expression. They invite each other and listeners to continue to, like the snake, accept the shedding of outgrown patterns as we expand and change and grow.

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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Ep 7: Human Design: Building Trust with Yourself, Not the System with Holly

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -0800

This week, co-host Holly shares more about Human Design as a way to expand and accept the wholeness of who we are. She shares her experience of picking up this system after leaving high control religion, and learning to use it in a way that promotes freedom, not fundamentalism. Human design is a framework and a language that can be used to foster self-awareness. Above all, it is an invitation to compassionately observe ourselves and our patterns and to experiment with trusting our inner wisdom. There is a temptation to get fundamental about any system and turn to it as a way to "save ourselves." This conversation unpacks the ways that we can use tools as resources but ultimately remember that we are the ones who will save ourselves- through accepting ourselves so deeply that we realize we don't need to be fixed or saved.

Get your Human Design Chart here:

https://neutrinoplatform.com/home

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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Ep 6: Living Ceremoniously: Women’s Circles with Kristina

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 05:00:00 -0800

Get to know co-host Kristina a little better in this episode of Good Girl Gone Human as Holly interviews her on one of her passions- Women's Circles. Kristina shares about the journey that led her to starting her own Women's Circle. Her orientation towards leadership and community spaces provided fertile ground for this new thing to enter her life. She is reclaiming what it means to be a leader. Although new to her life and community, Women's Circles are ancient and have been practiced in many cultures over time. Hear more about how this sacred rhythm of gathering has created a way of living that is full of ritual and connection.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

The Women's Circle: Gathering with... by Anoushka Florence
Wintering by Katherine May

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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Ep 5: The Gift of Self Awareness with Firefighter Dave Thompson

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:00:00 -0800

Holly and Kristina are joined by their first guest, Dave Thompson. Dave is a first responder, husband, and father. He vulnerably shares his journey towards self-acceptance in a workforce that didn't seem to accept him at first. As he journeyed into this place of self-trust he also expanded his view of faith and spirituality, highlighting curiosity over certitude. This conversation expands the lens of Good Girl Gone Human to the ways the masculine is challenged to trade their humanity for a label of "good" or "bad."

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

True Self, False Self by Richard Rohr
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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Ep 4: Dismantling Pedestals: Humanizing Those We Admire

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:00:00 -0800

This week Holly and Kristina unpack how breaking down pedestals allows us to be more human. They unpack why we might put people on pedestals and the impact it can have on our lives, and how it can lead to de-humanizing each other. The person who we pedestalize is left with the responsibility to uphold our values, while we outsource our power to them. They talk about this idea on a cultural level with examples of actors, singers, and politicians, while acknowledging how this impact also touches our day to day lives and relationships. As we learn to de-pedestalize people, we allow them to be human again. In that process, we re-humanize ourselves as well.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Facing the Music: My Story By Jennifer Knapp
Holly's Jennifer Knapp Substack article: https://open.substack.com/pub/goodgirlgonehuman/p/whole-from-the-start-with-jennifer?r=1kuogc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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Ep 3: Expanding Capacity for Grief

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:00:00 -0800

This conversation is a pause to sit with the grief that comes in this human experience. Holly and Kristina witness each other in the process of their grief, wondering how we can show up for ourselves and others when grief comes. They discuss the tension of holding both grief and hope, expanding the capacity to experience the full spectrum of these big emotions. Through stories and real-time examples, they share the tools and resources they utilize when life gets really hard and messy. There is an invitation to sink into deeper self trust as you allow yourself to feel your grief.

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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Ep 2: Belonging to Ourselves With Others

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 08:00:00 -0800

This week Holly and Kristina dive into one of the big risks of dropping the "good girl" label: losing belonging. They dive into the idea of belonging- how do we belong? Belong to who? As we accept the fullness of our humanity, is there a possibility for more authentic and sincere belonging? Losing the certainty they once held, they discuss navigating the loss of community that was tied to that certainty. As we learn to take responsibility for our own belonging, there is an invitation to experiment and play, looking for places to belong to next.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Book- Toko-pa Turner Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home
Song- Maddie Zahm You Might Not Like Her

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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Ep 1: What is Good Girl Gone Human? — Entering the Era of Collaboration

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:00:00 -0800

On this first episode of Good Girl Gone Human, Holly and Kristina discuss their healing journeys and the path to starting a podcast together. After a lifetime of working hard to be seen as "good," they are discovering what it means to accept the whole spectrum of their humanity. There is risk in puting down the label of good- the risk of being seen as "bad," the risk of losing belonging. The hope is that as we expand our capacity to embrace our own humanity, we can expand our capacity to hold each other's humanity as well. They talk about the importance of collaborating on this project and bringing it to the community space, as the work of healing and reclaiming humanity can be an isolating experience. This ongoing conversation will be a place to unpack all of the areas of life that these concepts touch, share the tools they've used on this healing journey, and to hear stories from others who see themselves in this story.

Resources Mentioned:

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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Good Girl Gone Human Trailer

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:00:00 -0800

Good Girl Gone Human is an ongoing conversation that explores what it means to re-humanize ourselves. After a lifetime of trying to be seen as “good,” Holly and Kristina are diving into the idea of what it would feel like to put that label down- and embrace the whole spectrum of their humanity. This conversation leans into the big messy questions, like: what are the risks of putting the good label down? What would happen if we did accept the whole spectrum of our humanity? They look at the ways we dehumanize ourselves in the name of being good and the tools they’ve found for reclaiming those parts of ourselves we deem “bad.” There is an invitation for anyone who has felt dehumanized to join the conversation and re-humanize themselves in community.

Intro/Outro Music:

Good in the End by Teddy at Night

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