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Explore " humanness" with insightful episodes like "Encore Evolving Past Socially Contracted Wounds", "Talking Tarot with Anna Toonk", "Episode 105: Best of Both Worlds", "Ian Leslie on Being Human in the Age of AI" and "Evolving Past Socially Contracted Wounds" from podcasts like ""GTO Freedom for Humans", "Clairannoyance", "Slightly Unmeditated Podcast Channel", "EconTalk" and "GTO Freedom for Humans"" and more!
Episodes (37)
Talking Tarot with Anna Toonk
In our first (of many!) guest interview episodes, co-hosts Megan Lund and Ryan Marquardt sit down with one of the most multifaceted, wildly talented and unendingly knowledgable spiritual badasses in the game: Anna Toonk.
Anna guides us into the world of tarot, dancing between topics including the history of tarot, why it's appealing to clients, the importance of understanding the traditional meaning of the cards, finding your own interpretative style as a reader, whether astrology and tarot should be as interconnected as they've become, and much more. We discuss some of our annoyances about tarot and the larger spiritual community as well, from receiving requests for free readings to the horrors of dating as a spiritual professional.
Based in New York City, Anna has been a professional tarot reader for many years, but her prowess transcends the boundaries of most tarot practitioners. She's an intuitive healer, Akashic records reader, and a resilient entrepreneur. Anna is carving an evolving legacy for herself, currently broadcasting her distinct voce and curious mind via her illustrious podcast, "How to Be Human." (Not Sponsored: Anna legitimately runs one of the best podcasts available right now.) Every week, "How to Be Human" explores the common and often confusing themes of humanness including spirituality, connection, wellness, self-acceptance, and more. Anna uses her humor, honesty and intuition to discuss unanswerable questions we all share. She speaks with many brilliant guests as she searches for clarity in the most human way possible; together.
As our first guest, Anna sets the bar high. Stay tuned for many more guest episodes coming soon with fascinating, well-vetted people who help us shed light on all corners of the spiritual world, from tarot to human design, past lives to the paranormal, and beyond.
Key Takeaways in this Episode
- Meet Anna, who transitioned from a successful 15+ year career in television to spiritual work
- Acquire seasoned advice and insights about what tarot is (and isn't!), how it's used, why it's appealing, plus some tarot tips and tricks
- Hear our unfiltered annoyances, hilarious tangents and overdue vents about tarot and spirituality
Connect with Anna Toonk
- Website: annatoonk.com
- Anna's Instagram: @annatoonk
- "How to Be Human" Instagram: @howtobehumanpod
- "How to Be Human" on Apple Podcasts
- "How to Be Human" on Spotify
- "How to Be Human" Substack
Additional Resources
- Clairannoyance Instagram
- Clairannoyance TikTok (follow now - launching soon!)
- Clairannoyance Website
- Megan's Instagram
- Megan's TikTok
- Megan's Website
- Ryan's Instagram
- Ryan's TikTok
- Ryan's Website
Episode 105: Best of Both Worlds
Casual talk about the human experience as a spiritual being. Tisha and Kim share insights about navigating the human experience using both practical and spiritual tools to keep moving forward.
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Ian Leslie on Being Human in the Age of AI
When OpenAI launched its conversational chatbot this past November, author Ian Leslie was struck by the humanness of the computer's dialogue. Then he realized that he had it exactly backward: In an age that favors the formulaic and generic to the ambiguous, complex, and unexpected, it's no wonder that computers can sound eerily lifelike. Leslie tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts that we should worry less about the lifelike nature of AI and worry more that human beings are being more robotic and predictable. Leslie bolsters his argument with evidence from music and movies. The conversation includes a discussion of the role of education in wearing down the mind's rougher, but more interesting and more authentic, edges as well as how we might strive to be more human in the age of AI.
Evolving Past Socially Contracted Wounds
Let Yourself Be Pruned
Creating a Conscious Ripple with Shelly Wilson
How Do I Keep My Vibration High? (Community Q&A)
In this episode, we explore what it means to be high vibe, why "just be happy" or "just feel good" is terrible advice, and how we can raise our frequency without discounting our humanness.
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Reminders of our Humanness
Jenny is a Nehiyaw and Finnish-Canadian artist, musician, community advocate,
student, producer and radio co-host, and Auntie. In this podcast, she will be
telling you more about her work and passions, such as art, Indigenous advocacy
and community building, and more. We explore how Jenny builds a community
of Indigenous students at UofT, how art is folded into her life, how being an
Auntie in a restorative justice framework works and more. Join Sheila and I as we get to know a real UofT hero.
Jenny is a Student Life Coordinator at Indigenous Student Services at U of T @firstnationshouse
Ciimaan/Kahuwe’yá/Qajaq Indigenous Language Initiative at U of T (CKQ)
Some of the cool topics we talked about on this episode:
Learn more about Cree Code Talkers here
Here you can find out more about the Jingle Dress
Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Jenny promoted and recommended other very talented Indigenous artists. Be sure to check them out!
Erica Violet Lee https://twitter.com/ericavioletlee?s=20
Thirza Cuthand https://www.thirzacuthand.com/
Ruth Cuthand https://www.ruthcuthand.ca/
Keitha Keeshig-Tobias https://www.instagram.com/keithakeeshigtobias/?hl=en
Theresa Burning https://ifwtoronto.com/artists/theresa-burning/
Graham Paradis https://www.instagram.com/mkwaboogit/?hl=en
Native Women In the Arts http://www.nwia.ca/
This is Jenny’s own radio show on CIUT, if you enjoyed her here, which we’re sure you did, go support her on her show, Indigenous Waves Radio Show
If you’re like Jenny and Jerico who take comfort in otter videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEjC7Ropp_Y
The Benefits of Travel
Why do we travel? Why is it such an invigorating experience? The novelty of new environments takes us out of the comforting and familiar grooves of our lives and thrusts us into a heightened awareness. You are present now. The mundanity of life is no more as you surrender your wellbeing to total strangers. Join us as we share some of the reasons we enjoy traveling, how we think it helps us become better humans, and of course how it expands our minds!
Thanks again for stopping by and we hope you enjoy this episode of Expansive Minds.
Featured artist: Dylan Sadler
A creative from Florida who produces his own sounds, creates NFTs, and whose photos are worthy of one of Emancipator's album covers. If you are into chill beats, good vibes, and amazing photography, please check out his links below. We highly recommend his story works project if you're into crystal art.
Intro/Transitions : First Light - Home
End Track 1: BHN (Be Here Now) - Home
End Track 2: Saw your soul - Home
Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/3LbTv
Bandcamp - https://dylansadler.bandcamp.com/
Photography - https://dylansadler.com/
Linktree - https://linktr.ee/eucansipthis
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18 | In the World, Not of the World | Lightin' Up with The Real Khiry
What’s up, fam! Episode 18 of the Lightin’ Up Podcast is now LIVE!
On today’s episode, I sit down with my friend The Real Khiry to discuss being IN the world, but not OF the world. Khiry is a rapper, activist, philanthropist, MC, & all around BADASS here in Phoenix, AZ & I am truly honored to shine light on all that he is!
Khiry & I discuss the work that he does, how he stays motivated, being authentic, balancing spirituality with our human nature, & so much more. One of my favorite things about Khiry is that he’s here for the entirety of the human experience. Khiry will post pictures of his bible followed by a video of him performing at the strip club. & honestly, I’m here for it all.
That’s why I titled this episode “in the world, not of the world.” Khiry & I discuss how we are spiritual beings having a human experience. But so many people get so wrapped up in the spiritual aspect that they forget that they also came here to be HUMAN! That means feeling our feelings, having fun, & sometimes drinking a glass of red wine.
Thank you for tuning into this episode! I think everyone will be able to take something with them on their journey from this conversation. Grab your candle, sage, palo santo, sweet grass, & sacred smoke, & let's LIGHTIN' UP TOGETHER! 🕯As always, take what feels good & if it don't apply, LET IT FLY.Please note that this podcast is for entertainment purposes only, and nothing in this episode (or any other episode) should be taken as medical, legal, or other professional advice. Please always listen to your own intuition first & foremost when making any decision, & reach out to the proper professional in appropriate circumstances. Check out Khiry on Instagram at @therealkhiry
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Episode 48: Inner Spirit Outer Human
Casual talk about the push-pull of being both a spiritual and a human being. Tisha talks with life coach Kim from the Find Your Center Podcast about the struggles we face as a spiritual being navigating the human world.
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Exiles and an Iron Lung
In this week's episode, Sara's well being is in question and Moose tells a fascinating story about an 86 year old lady. Kat reminds us that we become our mothers and Moose questions some of the philosophy behind her Enneagram schooling. Kat and Moose revisit some childhood fears and Moose unveils the exiles that exist within us. Our VP of Marketing has revised our IG bio and we're looking for more Patrons, especially one who wants to get a tattoo with us! We're considering interviewing our listeners, because they're awesome (Adam).
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Interview with Corey McComb, Productivity Is For Robots
Episode 10: Where's My Standing Ovation?
Casual talk about supporting ourselves and, in turn, each other to foster community - spiritually, motivationally, and humanly.
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Episode 8: The Monotony's Gotten Me
Casual talk about the challenges of staying positive in a difficult time, how monotony sometimes brings us down, and why it's okay to be human and spiritual at the same time.
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Bill Plotkin on the Journey of the Soul
Soul initiation is an essential and hazardous spiritual adventure that most modern cultures have forgotten. Eco-psychologist Bill Plotkin discusses this mythopoetic, life-altering journey which he beautifully explicates in his new book, Journey of Soul Initiation. I chose to commence GG Season Four with this riveting, deep and edgy dialogue on the transformative and profound path of forging a true adult. Bill’s wisdom, humility and radical honesty shine through as he describes his own soul journey and the evolvement of guiding others through the mind-heart-and-life-transforming process of preparation, descent, metamorphosis and enactment. His book also features an in-depth exploration and radically new understanding of Carl Jung’s Red Book. May this episode inspire and awaken all who hear it.
Bill Plotkin, Ph.D., is a depth psychologist, wilderness guide, and agent of cultural evolution. As founder of western Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute in 1981, he has guided thousands of seekers through nature-based initiatory passages, including a contemporary, Western adaptation of the pan-cultural vision quest. Previously, he has been a research psychologist (studying non-ordinary states of consciousness), professor of psychology, psychotherapist, rock musician, and whitewater river guide. Bill is the author of Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche (an experiential guidebook), Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (a nature-based stage model of human development through the entire lifespan), Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche (an ecocentric map of the psyche — for healing, growing whole, and cultural transformation). He has a doctorate in psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Recognizing You Have Superpowers
With inspiration from the one and only Michael Franti, Cali and Barb muse on what it means to stay human and forge meaningful connections with the people around us, as the world continues to spiral with challenge, conflict, and uncertainty. By letting go of expectations, giving up the illusion that we can control other people, and instead embracing our differences in upbringing, opinion, and belief systems, we can unlock our superpowers and find our happy place, while also allowing others to express who they are for a more authentic exchange of communication.
Season 2, Episode 2: Maggie and Danielle, Critical Conversations, Engaging Community and Politics
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In this episode, Maggie and Danielle connect over having a new imagination for what it’s like to live in these COVID days. Having once thought, “perhaps this will all blow over,” we are now knee deep in changing family dynamics, changing what it looks like for kids to “go to school” with distance learning, and adults shifting to a more long-term working from home situation. Normal is being redefined.
Even still, nearly six months in to COVID-19, things feel raw and exposed.
With the end of summer and the beginning of the school year, there is a sense that “I’m not ready.” Maggie named that she is feeling ill-equipped to teach children and also help to them deal with social isolation… Simply put: We are not able to meet all the needs for all the kids.
Danielle names there is a hard balance: how do we manage screen time and engage with our kids and work (from home)? We are having to trust our kids lot more and these family dynamics are continuing to develop as we find ways to deal with losses and managing emotions.
In the midst of a continued need for social distancing, how do re-form, or form from for the first time, community? Just how well were we connected before COVID?
As we enter into the political season it feels more divided than ever across our nation—people seem to be lining up to pick sides!
We can ask ourselves: How much capacity do I have in this season, in a global pandemic, being maxed out with personal and/or work life, do I have to engage people who aren’t like me… or who disagree with me, when I still want to connect and be seen and heard?
Danielle says the reality is we just don’t want to know people who are like us and yet we do just want people to know people like us. We want to agree because it feels good. And when we disagree, we aren’t just having disagreements [about politics], people believe that these things are connected to the core of who they are.
Danielle challenges us as we engage in debate and discourse this political seasons to ask ourselves: Am I in my body? Am I present with what I'm thinking? When you’re in your body you have a harder time accusing and dehumanizing another person. Honor humanity by being a human: be in your body.
What if I am in my body and my neighbor isn’t in their body? Start by asking questions, “You don't seem to be with me right now, where are you?” Start with curiosity. Acknowledge what you see them, it disarms them.
If we can have a conversation with someone without being seen and heard, what was the point of the conversation?
If someone hears what you said, they're going to remember what you say. They remember it in their bodies, for good or bad.
Danielle’s tips for engaging with others in this political season who may disagree with you:
- Practice hospitality to the other person.
- Offer yourself kindness. — If you’re not ready to engage or in a place to engage, then don’t.
- Have self-awareness—what am I feeling? And where am I feeling it in my body?
- Stay with it: Danielle believes that our culture wants to disconnect from the conversation around race, racism and white supremacy because there is a sense of SHAME. But we need stay with it: take breaks, do work on your own, but then reengage in this important conversation.
- Don’t engage over social media because you remove the human part of being human—our bodies. Our bodies regulate with other bodies. When one person’s body is dis-regulated it disrupts other bodies present. Therefore engaging over social media takes away our ability to regulate our bodies.
Anger can be arousing and exciting over social media. And yet anger can cause damage that will require repair that you may not be able to over social media.
When we enter into a place that requires repair there can be this sense of despair, hopelessness, "this isn’t going to get better.” We need sit in that for moment and mourn. We need to feel the weight of our grief for there can be no movement out of grief without engagement. We must allow space for our anger to transform into grief so that our grief turns to lament and morning which leads to repair and reconciliation and healing.
There’s been much debate around Abortion / Pro-Life this political cycle and it is not as black and white as much as we’d like it to be, it’s so much more nuanced. There is this sense that if we are supporting the dismantling of systemic racism and white supremacy that somehow we’re also supporting abortion. Danielle asks why do you think these two are linked?
We can not do “the work” for others. If we give someone the completed work or “the answer,” without the scaffolding, framework and structure, it has no place to land.
Maggie talks about story work engagement and how others may be able to “see” clearly what’s happening but the person who is sharing does not. To just name or tell them what’s happening without building the framework to support that idea, it won’t hold and stick for the person. Danielle says this is why math teachers tell you to “show your work” and not just give the answer. You have to know the steps involved in how and why you got there. When you compare your answer with another person on how you got to a conclusion, you can look and see where things are the same and where they aren’t the same and use that as a basis for repair, if needed.
We simply need community. We need someone else’s eyes and ears, to guide and walk with you. And we can still do that even in COVID. We can still make phone calls, send text messages, have FaceTime/zoom meetings… We still have the ability to connect and reach out.
Some ground rules for difficult conversations around politics:
- Honesty — Honesty requires truth-telling
- Honoring Boundaries - honoring the agreed upon time frame or topic of discussion
- Openness — Are you willing to really hear another person’s point of view?
Maggie shared about “My Mouth is a Volcano” children’s book she read to her kids about interrupting and honoring other people’s important words. We must be wiling to listen.
Danielle says we need to watch out for Name Calling, it’s a red flag! If you go to name-calling, you have gone off the rails in your conversations/discussion. When you feel yourself slipping into name calling, it’s important to reflect on what you’re defending. What is hurting that you feel like you want to hurt someone else?You may need to take a break "a grown-up timeout" and reevaluate how to reengage and if repair is needed. Perhaps a therapist is needed. There’s no shame in asking for help!
We learn and grow experientially. And we do so together.
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Danielle is reading: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes du Mez
Maggie is reading: Untamed by Glennon Doyle and My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menekem.
Danielle is listening to: “Last Shot” from the Hamilton Soundtrack.
Maggie is listening to: In the van: Phineas and Ferb music. The Bema Discipleship with Marty Solomon
Danielle is inspired by: her kids!
Maggie is inspired by: the beauty and glory of the Pacific Northwest!