I've never once experienced the voice of the sacred as condemning. Not once.

So when my friend and colleague Katie Belgard says her doubt has been a doorway - not a disqualification - that lands as deeply true to me. Because if you're willing to swallow things whole, I'm not sure I want to be your guide.

Katie is a political organizer and strategist whose work changes material conditions for real people. She came into goddess practice with questions and zero interest in trading one kind of certainty for another. She stayed because the practice kept turning her back toward her own inner knowing instead of handing her a manual.

We talk about awe as a doorway. About altars found on the side of the road. About the difference between doubt and discernment - and why slowing down long enough to hear an answer you don't want is sometimes the whole practice.

If you've felt drawn to the sacred but wondered whether your skepticism, your critical mind, or your grounded engagement with the world disqualifies you - this one's for you.

This is the conversation I've wanted to have on this podcast from the beginning. I hope it finds you exactly when you need it.

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What does it mean to work with plant medicines as actual medicine - not spiritual bypassing, not escape, but deep healing work? In this episode, I sit down with medicine woman Haley Lamberth to talk about Iboga, Ibogaine, Ayahuasca, and Kambo - powerful medicines used for addiction recovery, trauma healing, and profound transformation.

Haley shares how her path as an endurance athlete prepared her for the physical and spiritual ordeal of ceremony, why she's drawn to medicines that "hit like a truck," and what it looks like to hold space with reverence for lineage, earth, and ancestors. We explore the masculine and feminine qualities of different medicines - Ibogaine's unbending sternness versus Ayahuasca's nurturing presence - and why honoring both energies matters in healing work.

This conversation gets real about the discomfort of transformation, the importance of sustainability in medicine work, and how childhood connections to rocks and trees can become a lifelong path of communion with the sacred. Drawing from her mixed heritage including Ojibwa roots, Haley speaks about why honoring the earth isn't just practice for her - it's obvious, foundational.

If you've ever been curious about plant medicine or wondered how the divine feminine and masculine show up in ceremony, this episode is for you.

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What if the systems change work we've been doing has been missing something essential? What if the sacred feminine isn't just related to systems thinking - what if it is the same work, calling us by different names?

In this conversation, Tuesday sits down with educator and systems change leader, Daniela Papi-Thornton, to explore the territory where strategic thinking meets spiritual wisdom. Daniela has taught at institutions like Yale and Oxford, but she's done hiding the sacred dimensions of transformation work - and in this episode, she shares what happened when she stopped contorting herself to fit into conventional professional spaces.

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