Mystics in the Matrix
This is a podcast with humble roots in my experience with circle-based communities, committed to sharing our wisdom traditions, cultural richness, ancestral teachings, and hard-won personal insights in the service of co-making a beautiful world. The intention within my heart as host is to curate a welcoming and sensual space that brings ease to the nervous system, as well as the heart/brain activation that sparks creativity, openness, and receptivity. This podcast is an etheric meeting place for those free-lancing ‘mystics’ of our current cultural, technological, and mycelial matrix. The highly sensitive, the deeply insightful, those ‘taken up’ on the wings of imagination, attuned to the subtle music of the earth, open to brushing up against other bodies, beings, ideas, and lifeways with curiosity rather than fear. Those whose hearts live in stubborn refusal to harden, choosing to remain soft and permeable, and in service to the Sacred aspects of Life. Those who delight in the path of wisdom, embrace multiple ways of knowing, accept what is not known with humble uncertainty, and practice the subtle art of spell-breaking in a spellbound world. The conversations herein are walkabouts in the woods, lanterns in hand, in which we explore what interconnects us, what separates us, the structures in our world that harm and those that heal, and the beautiful, good things that make life bearable, incredible, magical. These conversations live outside of the halls of academia, they hold paradox rather than polarization, they espouse curiosity with one another and with life, and recognize the folly of metanarratives. May hearts, brains, and bodies ‘light up’ around this charitable fire. I invite you into spaciousness, fellowship, care-fullness. There is room at this table for you, the candles are lit, and a lending library is open.
Episodes
16 episodes
Finding the Feminine Face of God and Healing the Sisterhood w/ Anasuya Isaacs - Part 1
In this episode the brilliant Anasuya 'Too Much' Isaacs shares with us about her journey to find the Feminine Face of God that led her across the globe, exploring multiple faith traditions, in search of the MOTHER. She shares the full circle re...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:27:08
Healing (?) and the Beauty and Generativity of Incompleteness w/ Sophie Strand
This is a conversation with author, poet and brilliant ‘compost heap of ideas’, Sophie Strand. Sophie is kind, generous of spirit and invitational. Our time together was an unhurried meander, getting a sense of each other before we approached t...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:10:46
Mystics in the Matrix - the Podcast Rebrand!
The podcast formally known as I'll Have What She's Having has been reborn and retitled, the Mystics in the Matrix. This serves as my introduction to the Mystics in the Matrix, the 'why' behind the re-naming, and the inte...
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Season 3
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8:54
The Alchemy of Interconnection and Holding Paradox in Covidien Times w/ Johanna Rivera
This is a conversation between two dear friends, whose red thread connection stretches over land, sea, and challenging times. Listen to Joahnna Rivera and Amber Samaya share from their hearts about the complexity of navigating Covidien times, t...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:23:18
Embodying the Artist Archetype and Ushering In a New Paradigm w/ Sylvia Becker-Hill
In this episode I sit down with Artist, Teacher, Coach and Women's Empowerment Advocate, Sylvia Becker-Hill to talk about the shift away from patriarchy and towards a new paradigm where justice, human and other than human life, kindness, and a ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:24:39
Ecological Identity and Soul Songs with Farrah Theresa
In this episode, I connect with a very dear soul sister and friend, Farrah Theresa. Farrah is a nature connection guide, permaculturalist, and musician. Her and I speak about 'ecological identity' and the various threads that lead into an...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:38:09
The Desire Map, Listening to the Voice of the Soul + Shifting the Conflict and Drama Triangle w/ AnnMarie McKenzie
You’re on an adventure for the soul. Whether that means you’re chasing mountain tops or conquering complex life situations or business challenges, you want to make every moment count. You find satisfaction is being an explorer. You don’t just l...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:32:37
A review of COVID19 + embracing the One Health paradigm w/ bioscientist and artist, Dr. Irene de Brice
It has been quite a powerful and dynamic week and month for many of us as we face a rapidly shifting world in light of the COVID19 'pandemic'. There are other things pulling at our hearts like Indigenous land sovereignty, global climate destabi...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:42:35
Living the Adventure of Voluntary Simplicity w/ Amanda Shale (and Frank!)
As a young girl a framed drawing of two bears sharing a tricycle accompanied with the words ‘simple pleasures, life treasures’ hung on Amanda Shale’s bedroom wall. It is no wonder then, that later in university when she learned about the intent...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:41:33
Midweek Musing - Your Sacred Dreams
Today I felt inspired to share with you a song I wrote two years ago - a song about remembering our sacred dreams. Re-entering the trajectory of them. The power and essence of them. The way in which they are always there inside - the pilot ligh...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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9:40
Moving Beyond 'Reconciliation' and Honoring Indigenous Sovereignty and Lifeways w/ Melaney Gleeson-Lyall
Melaney is a Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm)/Nanoose, Snaw’naw’as woman who, from birth, was fostered out and then adopted into a White settler family during the 60s scoop. Later in her life, Melaney reconnected to her Indigenous culture, wisdom, famil...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:28:53
Sacred Fear Alchemy and Resourcing Safety w/ Jenn Plotnikoff
In this episode of I'll Have What She's Having, I get to talk with the powerful and brave, Jenn Plotnikoff. Jenn is a Sacred Fear Alchemist and the best of the best kind of coach, and she gives us some deep insights into how our relationship wi...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:53:52
Learning to Lead, Learning to Follow, and Radical Social Work w/ Sarah Leanne Hart
Sarah Leanne Hart is a lot of incredible things all wrapped up in one very ripped and very caffeinated package! An accomplished pro climber, MEC Ambassador, facilitator, public speaker, student of radical social work, globetrotter, and coffee e...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:27:11
Mid-Week Musing - There's Something R I G H T with you
Midweek Musings are short segments in which I share reflections, poetry and prose, creative exercises, and many other supportive goodies. This week I reflect on the idea - There's something R I G H T with you. That's right - you...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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18:46
Tending, Sending and Mending with Juliette Woods
Today's podcast guest, Juliette Woods, is an incredible mix of mystic, mother, spiritual guide, creative, and earth spiritualist. In our conversation we talk about...The concept of a 'slow-cooked' life and regenerative ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:52:32
Intro - Welcome to the Podcast!
The podcast formally known as I'll Have What She's Having has been reborn and retitled, the Mystics in the Matrix.This serves as my introduction to the Mystics in the Matrix, the 'why' behind the re-naming, and the intention and energy ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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8:54