2020-01

EPISODE 85: Nicole C. Ayers' Love Notes to Our Always Love-Worthy Bodies

 
Nicole C. Ayers has been playing with words as long as she can remember. She loves editing for her clients at Ayers Edits but now she is touching hearts with her own writing inspired by her own journey to loving her body. 
 
Nicole has three books that will be out on February 21, 2020: Love Notes to My Body, Love Letters to My Body: Writing My Way to (Self-)Love, and Writing Your Way to (Self-)Love: A Guided Journal to Help You Love Your Body, One Part at a Time. There is so much to love in these books including the amazing illustrations by Nicole's dear friend Mica Gadhia which help open our hearts even wider to Nicole's inspiring words.
Find Nicole and her books at www.nicolecayers.com and connect with her on Instagram: @nicolecayers

EPISODE 84: Becca Stevens' Divine Breadcrumb Trail to Love, Hope & Unfettered Dance

"We are allowed to hope."
Becca Stevens is a true Superhero of Love in the daily business of healing hearts.  She is an author of the book Love Heals. She is a priest in Nashville, Tennessee, but luckily she also regularly comes to All Saints Church in Pasadena, CA where Bridget met her. 
Over 20 years ago she started Thistle Farms, an international nonprofit organization to provide a sanctuary and healing for women survivors of prostitution, trafficking and addiction. She and her superhero work have been featured in the New York Times, PBS, ABC World News, NPR, and CNN. She leads with hope.  She leads with love.
Becca talks about why she started Thistle Farms, how she is committed to healing south of our borders with her Thistle Farms Global projects.  She talks about freedom and dance and how she follows the divine breadcrumbs to keep herself dancing. 
Find Becca and learn more about Thistle Farms.  Her sermon The Invitation to Freedom in Our Lives at All Saints Church Pasadena can be found here on YouTube.  
Becca wanted everyone to check out The Monkey Project, a wonderful Peruvian project that Thistle Farms is supporting and that she talks about in this interview as well.
 
Discover composer Jacob Narverud, whose song is featured at the end of the Podcast. Dance Your Dance was sung by the All Saints choir on November 10, 2019. An excerpt from Becca's sermon on that same date is featured as well.  Check out the words to Dance Your Dance:
 
 
DANCE YOUR DANCE
 
Who knows why dolphins leap for joy?
Or eagles fly to the sun?
We should be light as the morning air
But who can tell us how?
 
Ask the wind
Ask the wave
Ask everything that flies or sings
Ask the moon
Ask the stars
Ask the brave one who fights for Love
 
Dance your dance
Dance your dance
Dance your dance
 
Our lungs were made for singing
Our legs were made to climb
Our arms will open wide enough to welcome the whole bright world
 
Dance your dance
Dance your dance
Dance your dance
 
Drop your worries to the floor
And kick them to the corner hard
Then march to the center of the space you have cleared
Grab hands and dance in joy
 
Dance your dance
Dance your dance
Dance your dance
Dance your Dance in Joy
 
 
 

EPISODE 83: Christina Dunbar Heals Hearts & Empowers Women Through Storytelling

Christina Dunbar didn't feel like she had a voice for a very long time.  She came here with her family from Russia as a young child, a fish out of water. She took silent solace in ballet until her body blossomed in such a way that she could no longer follow her ballerina dreams. Her life twisted and turned in such a way that she became a stripper to support herself. 
Life events then gave her back her voice, inspiring her to tell her own stories. Now she leads women through the healing and empowering process of birthing the stories in their hearts through her renowned Los Angeles workshops, and brings some of them even to public stages with She Takes the Stage and Red.  She brought her own story, one-woman show Dirty Me Divine to stages in Los Angeles, San Francisco and soon will be bringing it to New York.
Visit Christina at her website: christinadunbar.com

EPISODE 82: A New Year Spark of Light, Nadia Salamanca

Happy New Year episode made all the happier by this extraordinary woman, Nadia Salamanca, who has endured several dramatic tragedies in her life and yet you would never know it. She doesn't even appear to be singed by the fires -- including the burning down of her home and studio in the Thomas Fire in 2018.  She is a bright beautiful light and she inspires women far and wide with her work.
Find out more about Nadia and her Spark & Ignite It program at her site: nadiasalamanca.com
Click here to view the video that Nadia's husband, Mikki Willis, made that we refer to in the interview: What if Your Son Chose This?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7rujK0iOJU
Follow Nadia on Facebook and Instagram for more beautiful sparks of light!