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The Power Of Subtly. How Flowers Can Change Your Life | Katie Hess

I’ve been eagerly waiting to chat with Katie Hess, the brilliant mind behind Lotuswei and its transformative flower elixirs for healing and consciousness expansion. From a visual perspective, I've always understood that within beauty, there is truth. The more we overlook the splendour of the natural world, the deeper our suffering runs.
It only makes sense that by embracing the bioenergetic essence of flowers, we can initiate real, systemic change in our bodies and beyond.
 
In this conversation, you'll hear: 
- How subtle shifts create the most significant change. 
- What makes you truly powerful as a human being. 
- And, my story of unexpected and profound change after using Lotuswei flower elixirs. 
 
About
Katie Hess is an expert of flower alchemy - using the healing power of flowers to awaken our true potential. She travels in search of rare flowers with the healing qualities most needed today, from the forests of British Columbia, to sacred sites in India, rainforests in Costa Rica, hot springs in Iceland and the jungles of Taiwan.
 
Katie captures the activating lifeforce potential of flowers and translates it into an accessible method to bring more happiness into our daily lives.  One of the most sustainable forms of natural medicine, flower remedies are known for their short-term benefits like clarity, focus and sleep, with long-term benefits of rapid personal growth.
 
Having gathered empirical research from thousands of private clients, Katie created a flower essence library with over 150 elixirs now used by people in more than 50 countries.
 
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How To Escape The Matrix | Adama

You're in for a treat with this episode.
 
I found Adama through a short clip on Instagram, and it cut through the noise like a knife. I knew that I had to connect with her. Adama has been helping raise consciousness on this planet for over 40 years. She lives what she preaches, and you can feel the depth of this embodiment with every word.
 
Adama is a force of nature, and after our conversation, I felt like I was walking on water. You will, too. If you don't know her work, buckle up.
 
About 
After earning a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Florida, along with Presidential and Scholastic Honors, I returned to Atlanta to study Conscious Cosmic Citizenship with African elder Josiah Osuagwu from 1982 to 1985, continuing private tutelage for 17 years. My focus was on Creator-Knowledge, Creation-Knowledge, and Self-Knowledge as essential for Liberation and Emancipation, aiming to reorient, regenerate, and re-educate individuals and collectives about their roles in Conscious Living. In 1984, I began performing with SOLAR at the New Orleans World Fair and as a solo artist in 1985, using rhythm, movement, and verse to inspire audiences. My performances include appearances with the Staple Singers, Melba Moore, and Aisha Khalil, as well as at major venues like Fox Theater, Emory University, and the National Black Arts Festival, along with radio interviews on WDET and WRFG.
 
I consulted for the Wholistic Stress Control Institute, teaching life skills and poetry to youth in Atlanta, including over 2,000 young people in 1999 through various youth centers and schools. I also served as president and co-owner of Mother Earth’s Adornments, Inc., which offered custom adornments, vegan cuisine, and spiritual consultation.
 
I currently produce and host the radio program "The Meeting of The Inner Circle" on 89.3FM WRFG Atlanta, providing inspirational programming on liberation, resurrection, and life-support. As a strict vegetarian for over forty years, I am also an Inspirational Lifestyle Change and Wholistic Wellness Consultant, helping others with spiritual and nutritional support for healing and regeneration.
 
As CEO of Integrity Global Enterprises, Inc., I produce Mother Earth’s Blessing products, including healing clays, oils, and herbal teas. I also run the Mother Earth’s Blessing Wholistic Life Center, which offers coaching, classes, and empowerment sessions. The center focuses on disease reversal, cleansing, and cellular regeneration. I also provide numerological and destiny card readings and aim to inspire action against destructive industries through live streams and documentaries promoting conscious living.
 
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Why Our Health Discussions Are Incomplete: The Missing Piece | Dr Kathy Yeo

This is one of the most enriching discussions about health I've had—not by dissecting the intricate mechanisms of health, but by exploring a deeper understanding. Despite the marketing from the ever-growing 'Health & Wellness' industry, there is nothing they can tell or sell you. The truth is, no ritual, supplement or bio hack can replace the essential communion with our bodies, and no scientific study can rekindle our intrinsic connection to nature.
Joining us is the remarkable Dr. Kathy Yeo, a true polymath artist and seasoned holistic practitioner. She approaches healing through the lens of relationships, emphasising that a broader perspective on health reveals what’s often missing in the reductionist, mechanistic view of healthcare: meaningful connection. These connections to ourselves, to nature, and the cosmos at large, is HEALTH.
I always gauge the quality of a conversation by how much I remember of it. When I can't recall the details until I revisit the recording, I know we’ve engaged in a genuine flow—an unfolding of ideas and insights.
It's a conversation about so much more than health but reconnection.
 
Dr Kathy Yeo.
 
For her Bachelor's degree, she has a double major in Bioinformatics and Theatre Arts. She was the first student to graduate in Bioinformatics (the application for Human Genome Project). For her academic success, Dr. Kathy was offered to study pre-med at Leeds University, England, and participated in Tribolium Genome Sequencing Consortium research at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Dr. Kathy graduated from Life Chiropractic College West in San Francisco Bay Area as a recipient of the Student Achievement Award and finished the program six months early.  Her training was focused on Applied Kinesiology and Osteopath (Craniopathy and Visceral Manipulation Reflex Technique). Her post-graduate studies include functional medicine, clinical nutrition, bioenergetic medicine, German drainage therapy, living food medicine, and various detox protocols.
 
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How Questions Shape Your Life | Stephen Jenkinson

It's not often I feel nervous. I worked for many years as a photographer and met people from every stratum of society, from the wealthy and famous to the outcast and downtrodden. One thing I learnt early on is that nerves resulted in bad imagery. So when it came time for this podcast with Stephen Jenkinson, a man whose work I've followed for nearly a decade, I was nervous. It's not that Stephen is difficult to talk to or combative; it's because Stephen is a master of the English language, and each word he uses is carefully chosen based on its etymology. He also doesn't let you get away with anything if he believes you've incorrectly identified something. My nerves quickly abaited once I felt Stephen's generosity of spirit.
 
This is one of the most meaningful conversations I've had. Stephen traverses:
- What we have lost in our modern societies, if there is a way back, and if there were, to what we think we are to return to.
- Death and our lack of education around the ultimate which every life faces.
- What it truly means to cultivate a mindset that sees us creating genuine connections to one another to create communities that will benefit future generations.
Most of all, Stephen reminded me that our lives are shaped by the questions we ask rather than the answers we seek—in his own words, "I'm far more in favour of the wonder of the question than the certainty of the answer." As the great poet E.E. Cummings phrased it, "Always the most beautiful answer to he who asks the most beautiful question."
It was an honor to speak with Stephen, and I know you'll get something significant from his life-long pursuit of asking the most beautiful questions. 
It was an honor to speak with Stephen, and I know you'll get something significant from his life-long pursuit of asking the most beautiful questions. 
 
About
Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW ~ Culture activist/ farmer/author ~
Stephen teaches internationally and has authored seven books of cultural critique. He is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded with his wife Nathalie Roy in 2010. The School’s new project, The Scriptorium (2025), is creating an archive and library of his life’s work.
Apprenticed to a master storyteller as a young man, he worked extensively with dying people and their families. He is former programme director in a major Canadian hospital and former assistant professor in a prominent Canadian medical school. Stephen has Masters’ degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work).
In 2023 Stephen received a Distinguished Alumni Honours Award from Harvard University for “helping people navigate grief, exploring the liminal space between life and death, and connecting humanity through ceremony and storytelling.”
In August 2025, Sounds True will release Stephen’s newest book: Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart’s Work. 
He is also the author of Reckoning (co-written with Kimberly Ann Johnson in 2022), A Generation’s Worth: Spirit Work While the Crisis Reigns (2021), Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble (2018), the award-winning Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul (2015), Homecoming: The Haiku Sessions (a live teaching from 2013), How it All Could Be: A workbook for dying people and those who love them (2009), Angel and Executioner: Grief and the Love of Life (a live teaching from 2009), and Money and The Soul’s Desires: A Meditation (2002). He was a contributing author to Palliative Care – Core Skills and Clinical Competencies (2007).
Since co-founding the Nights of Grief and Mystery project with singer/ songwriter Gregory Hoskins in 2015, he has toured this musical/ tent show revival/ storytelling/ ceremony of a show across North America, U.K., Ireland, Israel, Australia and New Zealand. They released their first Nights of Grief & Mystery album in 2017, and at the end of 2020 released two new records: Dark Roads and Rough Gods. A new album release is planned for 2025.
Stephen Jenkinson is also the subject of the feature length documentary film Griefwalker (National Film Board of Canada, 2008, dir. Tim Wilson), a portrait of his work with dying people, and Lost Nation Road, a shorter documentary on the crafting of the Nights of Grief and Mystery tours (2019, dir. Ian Mackenzie).
He was a stone sculptor turned wood-carver, and learned the arts of traditional birch bark canoe building. His first house won a Governor General’s Award for architecture. He now lives on a small scale organic farm in an off-grid straw bale house. The 120 year old abandoned granary from across the river which appeared in Griefwalker was dismantled last year and re-erected at the Orphan Wisdom farm, where it is again a working barn.
 
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What Makes You Magnetic | Dr Robert Glover

In this conversation, we dive into a topic that feels more confusing than ever: the dynamics of male-female relationships and the broader concepts of masculinity and femininity. Despite living in what we consider modern times, our contemporary ideologies and beliefs do not change the millions of years of evolutionary biology that deeply influence our unconscious attractions and behaviours.
 
Joining us is Dr. Robert Glover, a therapist, coach, speaker, and educator with over 40 years of professional experience in relationship counselling. He is the author of the groundbreaking book, No More Mr. Nice Guy.
 
If you’re looking for clarity and insight into what truly drives our behaviours and what makes us genuinely magnetic as individuals, Dr. Glover is the expert you need to hear from. Robert embodies his teachings, approaching the subject with love, non-judgement, and utmost clarity. In a world often clouded by confusion and cynicism, he offers a pathway that encourages us to find ourselves rather than seeking validation through others.
 
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Unquestioned Beliefs & Values Are Controlling Your Life | Solo Cast

How to become your authentic self with the simple method of enquiry.
 
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Reality Beyond Assumptions. How To Make Sense Of The World | Mark Gober

It's always the individuals on the fringes of society and their disciplines who drive us forward, and while they're frequently labelled as heretics or even insane, they undeniably pose a threat to the established order. Mark Gober is one such individual.
As the author of the acclaimed “Upside Down” series, which encompasses seven books on topics ranging from consciousness and politics to UFOs and cosmology, Mark invites us to reconsider our fundamental beliefs. His first book, “An End to Upside Down Thinking” (2018), received the IPPY award for best science book of the year and garnered endorsements from researchers affiliated with prestigious institutions like Harvard, Princeton, UVA, and UCSF.
Through his work, Mark encourages us to confront uncomfortable questions that challenge the very foundations of our most deeply held beliefs and institutions. While many may find such inquiries unsettling, they are essential for humanity's evolution and our journey toward realising our true potential.
 
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Protectors or Predators? How Small Choices Create Significant Change | Damien Mander

From being a sniper in the Australian special forces and serving and surviving 3 years in the Iraq war to being a world-renowned anti-poaching and environmentalist, Damien Mander's story is one of deep integrity and transformation.
 
After a trip to Africa and seeing first-hand the unjust cruelty and devastation of poaching, Damien liquidated his life savings to establish the International Anti-Poaching Foundation, now known as Akashinga. It's an incredible story with an impact that will last long after Damien is gone.
 
In a world awash in unbodied words and actions. Where manufactured outrage and energy are given over to insignificance. Damien Mander shows us what is possible when we take embodied, heart-based, service-orientated action. No words are necessary. If we truly care about generations to come, there needs to be a shift in awareness away from that of exploiters of our earth to the essential role of guardians.
 
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The Man Who Can Predict The Future With 80% Accuracy | Stephan Schwartz

Stephan Schwartz's research questions everything we think we know about consciousness and time. Since the dawn of humanity, there have always been 'seers'—those individuals who seem to possess the uncanny ability to predict future events. Fast forward to today, and modern science, grounded in the principles of atomism and materialism, often leads us to dismiss our ancestors’ insights as mere superstition. But what if we’re the ones who are wrong? What if our understanding of reality is built on shaky assumptions?
 
This is where Stephan's groundbreaking work comes in. Through meticulous research, he reveals that we have the potential to extend our consciousness into different realms, freeing ourselves from the constraints of time and location and offering glimpses into the future with an astonishing accuracy of up to 80%. And here's the thing—this isn’t a brand-new concept. Research on such phenomena began back in the late 60s. The CIA even had a task force dedicated to agents projecting consciousness to pinpoint Russian missile sites during the Cold War, and they were successful!
 
Stephan's research challenges our limiting beliefs about what it means to be human. It invites us to ponder profound questions about the true nature of consciousness and the passage of time. But there's more at stake here. His insights also serve as a stark warning for the future—unless we prioritise human flourishing over corporate profits, we will pave a dangerous path. This conversation goes inside the intriguing intersection of science, consciousness, and the potential futures that await us.
 
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Stop Trying To BioHack Nature & Instead Reconnect To The Earth | Carrie Bennett

Carrie Bennett is a foremost educator in the emerging field of Quantum Biology. As we start to comprehend the profound negative health impacts of living in a modern world, it's vital to reconnect with the rhythms and songs of the earth from which we evolved.
Carrie is an exceptional communicator who emphasises the importance of this connection to nature and unravels the science behind its significance for our health.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
The importance of structured water
The nuances of our solar connection and skin cancer
The harmful effects of sunglasses
The benefits of full-spectrum sunlight
Why optimal health shouldn't cost you anything
With multiple degrees in biology, nutrition, and bodywork, Carrie's insatiable curiosity has propelled her to become a leader in Quantum Biology education. She adeptly combines extensive research with accessible explanations of the complex quantum mechanisms affecting our bodies, guiding individuals on how to harness light, water, and nature for optimal well-being. Carrie is a highly sought-after speaker and guest lecturer, currently seeing clients through her online practice. Additionally, she serves as the lead faculty member and sits on the Board of Advisors for the Quantum Biology Collective, the world’s premier certification program for Applied Quantum Biology in clinical practice.
 
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