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Lorene Wapotich Listen to her interview ...

Lorene Wapotich founded Celebrating Her Rite to help women mentor and celebrate girls as they grow into womanhood. She's an herbalist, wilderness guide, and accomplished educator who has been designing and leading nature-based programs for girls for more than 25 years. She also trains women, especially moms, how to create meaningful and magical Coming of Age ceremonies that help girls develop confidence, courage and grit. She loves to play, tell stories, and sing songs, and is the mom of two teen step-daughters. https://celebratingherrite.com

Jacqueline Kane Listen to her interview ...

Jacqueline Kane is a Medical Intuitive and Stop the Pain Specialist. She supports women in discovering the crucial hidden links between their physical pain and finances, and their ability to live a full life. Jacqueline has over 20-years in private practice as a healer, and over 35-years in health care. She has merged her innate wisdom with a multitude of healing modalities to create a unique, results-oriented method of healing. Jacqueline uses tools like Ancestral Energy Clearing, Hypnotic EFT and modalities to get to the root cause that is keeping people in pain and keeping them from being invincible and living their dream life. www.jacquelinemkane.com

Forrest Rivers Listen to his interview ...

Forrest Rivers is a writer, teacher, and speaker who splits his time between the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina and the Colorado Rockies. His personal journey of awakening began at the age of 30 on an awe-inspiring trip to Maui, Hawaii. It was there on that enchanted island where the profound healing power of the Earth spoke through to his heart and helped him overcome a difficult period of alcohol abuse. After returning home from that transformative experience, Forrest became interested in the spiritual traditions of the Far East and began to immerse himself in the teachings of Buddhist, Hindu, and Taoist mystics and took the pen name Forrest Rivers in honor of the Earth and her profound healing power. Today, Forrest is a teacher of meditation and has started meditation gatherings at each of the schools that he has taught at during his over decade long run as a community college professor. Today, Forrest spends a great deal of his time guiding others to look within and become the best versions of themselves. In the very near future, it is his dream to start a wilderness retreat center that focuses on the spirit of service and inner work. He is the author of two books: The Hippie Revival and Collected Writings as well as COVID-19 and Humanity's Spiritual Awakening. Learn more at ForrestRivers.com and COVID- 19book.info

Megan Rae - Listen to her interview ...

Megan Rae is a community herbalist, permaculture facilitator, healing artist and holistic wellness educator rooted at Living Hearth Farm, a homestead and creative studio in Northwest Wisconsin. She has taught with Green Wisdom School of Natural & Botanical Medicine, the Midwest Women's Herbal Conference and Gathering of the Guilds permaculture convergence, along with creating and co-facilitating the Open Hearth PDC with her partner. Megan is the host of Nature Remembered Podcast and contributor with Land by Hand, a permaculture education and media platform empowering regenerative lifestyles through traditional skills and stories.
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Cat Pantaleo - Listen to her interview ...

Cat is a Holistic Health Practitioner with over 20 years of professional experience as a consultant, instructor and nature guide. A core belief of hers is that health is a journey in which the goal is not perfection, but a life infused with meaning and purpose through self-exploration and growth, connection and joy. She is trained as an Herbalist, Naturalist, Nutritionist and Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. Additionally, Cat is a Youth Nature Connection Mentor, a practitioner of Non-violent Communication, and most recently received her Master's degree in Ecopsychology from Naropa University. She skillfully weaves these aspects into her work creating opportunities to cultivate resilience, restoration, deep nourishment and a re-connection to one's authentic, wild self. Her work is ultimately informed by Nature Beings and guided by an impassioned desire to restore respect and reciprocity between humans and the natural world, re-awakening our innate human capacity for caring and cooperation in order to re-establish an Earth-honoring way of being so that all life may flourish.

Brooke MedicineEagle - Listen to her interview ...

Brooke MedicineEagle is a legendary indigenous Earthkeeper, wisdom teacher, healer, visionary, singer/songwriter, shamanic practitioner, ceremonialist, carrier of women's mysteries, sacred ecologist, and catalyst for wholeness. She is the author of the American native literary classic, Buffalo Woman Comes Singing, and of The Last Ghost Dance. Her music recordings, teachings, writings, and wilderness spiritual retreats have touched the hearts and minds of people world-wide. Brooke is an elder sister and guide, offering a lifetime of ancient & modern wisdom for your wellness, thriving & prospering. She is currently working internationally, offering a heart-centered, ecologically sound, healing way for the flowering of individuals, Mother Earth and All Our Relations..

Sarah Ellen - Listen to her interview ...

Sarah Ellen is a student of life. She cherishes the opportunity to live with awareness, and experience the wholeness of being alive. Sarah Ellen lives at her home, Heartsong, in Barrington Hills, Illinois with her husband Jay, and their dogs, cats, goats and chickens. She intends each day to know and remember her inherent connection with the Earth and all the magic and beauty that surround her. Sarah Ellen has studied virtually with Asia Suler, and personally with Linda Conroy, Pam Montgomery and her lifelong teacher and kindred Susun Weed. She gives great regard and gratitude to her unconditionally loving teachers and co~creators the plants, animals, elements and the well~spring of her own blood and bones that hold the memories and knowings of all the Wise Women and their sons, who came before her. What gifts could be received from a poison ally? During a 2015 three season herbalism class at the Resiliency Institute in Naperville, Illinois taught by herbalist Linda Conroy Sarah Ellen found out. Asked to choose a plant ally Sarah asked that the plant choose her. Though not who she expected, when Poison Ivy appeared it was an invitation too curious to pass up.

Linda Conroy - Listen to her interview ...

Linda Conroy, MSS, MLSP is a Wise Woman, Bioregional Herbalist, A Wild and Whole Food Afficinado and a Community Organizer. She is the founder of Moonwise Herbs, The Midwest Women's Herbal Conference and Mycelium Mysteries, a Women's Mushroom Gathering. She lives at her homestead in southern Wisconsin with the plants, mushrooms, ducks, chickens, rabbits, honey bees, great pyreness and familiar felines. She teaches classes and runs apprenticeship programs based on the wise woman tradition. She can be reached at www.moonwiseherbs.com or midwestwomensherbal.com

Author Maureen Smith - Listen to her interview ...

Maureen Theresa Smith is a writer, activist, and mom with a background in healing arts. She defines her life work as integrating spirituality into everyday practices and rituals that are inspirational and fun, in order to support girls and teens in becoming whole, strong women. Her company, Indigo Blooms offers personal coaching, support circles, workshops and products to empower girls and those that care for them by enhancing intuition, awareness, and inner-authority with beauty, joy and a fierce commitment to self-love and compassion for all. Maureen offers visionary coaching and to girls and women in times of transition and facilitates Indigo Circles for tween and teen girls. She authored First Moon, Celebration and Support for a Girls' Growing Up Journey, New World Library, Spring 2005 and recently, Your Moontime Magic, A Girls Guide to Getting Your Period and Loving Your Body, New World Library, 2020.

Artist Lisa Levart - Listen to her interview ...

Hudson Valley artist and photographer Lisa Levart is on a mission. Goddess on Earth, her life long assignment, celebrates contemporary women while drawing upon ancient stories to elevate their life journeys. Her archetypal imagery is created through the eyes of love to inspire other women to be their most powerful selves. For over twenty years, Lisa has traveled the world creating iconic portraits that reveal the spirit of independent girls, ferocious women, powerful warrior activists and epic elders, and weaves together the personal and collective journeys of women's lives. Her work has been exhibited widely and is represented in the permanent collection of the 9/11 Memorial Museum in NYC. Projects have generously been supported by the NY State Council of the Arts and in 2015, 2018 and 2020 her work was recognized by the Julia Margaret Cameron Award's for Women Photographers. Her first book, Goddess on Earth: Portraits of the Divine Feminine, won a Gold Nautilus Book Award and was named one of the 100 Best New Women's Spirituality Books by the California Institute of Integral Studies. In June 2021, Goddess on Earth Oracle, A Divination Deck and Guidebook With Spirited Wisdom From Your Sisters will be released.

Dr. Martha Libster - Listen to her interview ...

Dr. Martha Libster is an international expert in the practice of nurse-herbalism, integrative nursing, and botanical self-care. Her work advances the art and science of nurse-herbalism and has been disseminated through publications, presentations, and community events on five continents. Her practice models on integrative nursing, health culture diplomacy, and precision botanical self-care have contributed to global health transformation, policy reforms, and wellness innovations. Dr. Martha is the author of 9 books. Her award-winning history, Herbal Diplomats (2004), documents the lost history of 19th century American nurses' leadership during a nationwide healthcare reform movement focused on botanical self-care. Dr. Martha is now expanding her nurse-herbalist work to the public through her Self-care Institute and Self-care League. Her latest book, Gentle Medicine for Balance in Body and Peace of Mind, was released in 2020. It introduces her Elements of Care® program, a self-care program that builds on nursing's centuries-old practice of precision self-care with plants as partners. www.GoldenAppleHealingArts.com www.DrMarthaLibster.com

Artist Pam Kray - Listen to her interview ...

Pam Kray is film/video/multimedia artist, writer and editor. Pam has exhibited in the United States and internationally through numerous solo screenings and festival participation and has collaborated artistically with filmmakers, audio composers, painters, sculptors, dancers and theatrical producers. Her works include short and feature narrative, experimental and documentary films and videos. Her video documentary, Mushroom Seekers (2002), premiered at Anthology Film Archives in New York, again at the Telluride Mushroom Festival, and has screened repeatedly in the U.S. and Europe. Working in themes as diverse as gambling and wild mushroom picking, she has brought her observations of humans and their occupations together with her interests in plants as investigations of life, particularly in America. She hopes that her work in American studies strikes more universal points of understanding. To view Pam's film-video work online, go to: pamkray.com

Author Cyndi Dale - Listen to her interview ...

Considered the "Teacher of Teachers", Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned author, speaker, intuitive energy healer, professor of energy medicine, and author of 27 books about energy medicine, intuition, and spirituality. She has worked with over 70,000 clients and presented hundreds of seminars and workshops across the Americas and in Russia, England, Wales, Amsterdam, Iceland, Costa Rica, Belize, Morocco, Peru, Scotland, and more. She is also a favored teacher and healer for China, leading in-person and on-line classes, and has been published in over 18 languages. Her books include the bible of Energy Medicine and the winner of four internationally recognized Publisher's Awards, The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy, and Llewellyn's Complete Book of Chakras, the largest compendium of chakra knowledge ever produced (2016). Her latest release is Energy Healing for Trauma, Stress & Chronic Illness (Llewellyn, July 2020). Advanced Chakra Healing, a reissue of a popular book first printed fifteen years ago, is slated for release by Llewellyn in August 2021. Along with Dana Childs, Cyndi is also writing a book to be published in 2022 by St. Martin's Press about making food and health choices through the chakras.