Radical Soul

I hope you’re lucky enough to have a friend or friends who specifically check on your mental health. Folks who genuinely want to hear about your anxiety, depression, attempts to focus, regulate sleep, etc. It’s pretty wonderful to have permission to talk about these things.Spiritual activist Bex Mui is taking it one step further. She wants to talk about your spiritual health. I

When Goddess Erica and her husband opened up their marriage, her husband helped demonstrate how she deserved to be treated. “I don't want to say that he gave me the standards, but he helped me get to a point where I realized that l my low bar is worship,” she explained in our interview.But this realization wasn’t the only thing that led to Erica claiming her Goddess title. Be

A friend and artist Addie Hirschten recently released her first book, The Alchemy of Symbols: How to Use the Power of Images to Transform Your Life. The book is about living an intentional life filled with symbols: noticing how symbols affect you and paying attention to how the universe may be speaking to you through them, and/or how you also may be speaking to yourself. Addie asks

In a special episode of Radical Soul, my partner David Britton interviews me for a change! He asks me about growing up as a pastor’s kid and my move away from Christianity.For the past fifteen years, we’ve been there to witness each other’s spiritual evolutions. The result is a unique glimpse into the ways two people who love each other can impact each other, as well as what

Janet Hardy has a very public body. As a traveling kink educator and public player, it’s no leap to believe that thousands of people around the world have studied her body in public scenes or demonstrations. And as an author, much of Hardy’s work has centered around her own embodied experiences. As such, she has given us access to her body in a profoundly intimate way.Now in he

Tristan Taormino’s new memoir A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten combines her relationship with her father who died from AIDS, coming into her own queer identity, and becoming the sex educator and porn creator that she is today.As her astrologer who read her birth chart explained, Tristan is living in her dharma.There’s a beautiful theme of learning to trust her intuition thr

Kai Cheng Thom’s most recent book, Falling Back in Love With Being Human, is a series of letters to people or groups of people who are hard to love. Which is everyone. She addresses trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) and trans women. She writes to sex workers and their clients. She has letters to mass shooters and their victims. She writes to J.K. Rowling. She writes to

“Healing our relationship to desire, and being able to acknowledge, verbalize, and celebrate our desires is key to living a life of joy, presence, and meaning,” explained conflict navigator and healer Opulence Abundance in a recent newsletter/blog post.We spoke about Opulence’s relationship with desire for the podcast, along with the relationship between yoga and the caste sy

Quick announcement about rebranding this podcast to the Radical Soul Podcast.Follow me on Twitter, Instagram, or Threads. And if a certain newsletter or episode of this podcast resonated for you, please share it with others.Thank you so much for your support, and expect new content soon! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acces

My latest guest for Left-Handed Journeys is spirit, also known as spiritchild. We talked about:* spirit’s spiritual roots as a Yaruba or Santerio priest.* Traveling as a freedom artist and giving back to communities he visits.* spirit’s work as a Somatica practitioner, helping people embrace their core desires.* What it means to be a spiritually-rooted person and a revolutionar