Have you ever looked back at a painful chapter of your life and realized… it was actually the beginning of something wonderful perhaps your awakening?

Today’s episode is all about turning life’s hardest moments into personal power. I’m joined by spiritual life coach Becca Briggs from Astoria, Oregon, who shares her courageous journey from surviving a toxic relationship to helping others heal deep emotional wounds and reclaim their lives. We talk about how childhood patterns quietly shape our adult relationships, why unhealed pain lives in the body, and how awareness — not avoidance — becomes the gateway to real transformation.

Becca shares powerful client breakthroughs, a simple body-scan practice to reconnect with stored emotions, and how creative tools like art journaling can help transform struggle into growth, compassion, and self-trust. Because pain isn’t something to compare or hide… it can become the very force that leads us back to love.

Let’s dive into Pain to Power….Call IT in With Dar!

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Today I’m joined by Michael McAdams — a lifelong spiritual seeker whose path began in a Pentecostal upbringing and grew into a deep exploration of listening to Spirit and trusting inner guidance.

We talk about his remarkable book An Angel Told Me So, filled with messages shared through his mother over more than 20 years, and the wisdom he’s gathered about keeping an open mind while staying grounded. He reads some sections from the book that I can’t wait for you to hear.

This conversation is gentle, thoughtful, and truly heart-opening — especially if you’ve ever felt there might be something more guiding your path. So let’s call it in. “Call IT In With Dar!”

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This interview is with Edie Weinstein, a social worker, therapist, journalist, and interfaith minister who knows firsthand how life can change in an instant. At 55, she survived a heart attack and received a stent in her artery—a moment that became a profound wake-up call. Instead of letting fear define her future, Edie leaned into mindset, trauma awareness, and deep self-compassion as part of her healing.

She’s also the founder of Hug Mobsters Armed with Love, spreading the emotional and cardiac benefits of safe, intentional touch, and the creator of a strength-based therapeutic approach that helps people reclaim what’s right with them—using tools like vision boards and intentional focus.

Edie has even taken her message to the world stage with a TEDx talk on the healing power of touch, and checked off some pretty incredible bucket-list dreams along the way—including interviewing the Dalai Lama.

This is a conversation about healing, resilience, and choosing connection over fear—especially in the second half of life. “So let’s Call IT In With Dar”!

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If you’ve ever felt like you’re holding it all together on the outside while quietly falling apart on the inside, today’s conversation is for you.

Kathryn Eipl is an emotional strategist and creator of the Neuro-Resonance Method™, and her journey from corporate burnout and breakdown to embodied healing is both raw and incredibly hopeful.

This episode is all about nervous system regulation, emotional truth, and remembering that nothing is wrong with you—you’re just ready for a different way. So join us In Call IT in with Dar right now!

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Today’s guest is a powerhouse for every woman who’s ever felt trapped in her own mind while her body was falling apart. Ellen Bereza spent 24 years as a biotech executive working in stem cells and genetic testing—until secondary progressive MS changed everything. But her story of loss began long before that. She lost her father to MS, then her mother to breast cancer, and just months later began experiencing the first signs of the same disease that took her dad. What followed wasn’t a miracle cure—it was years of grief, fear, and learning how to live when life doesn’t go back to normal.

Today, Ellen is a Certified Hypnotherapist, mindset strategist, and advanced student of Dr. Joe Dispenza, and the creator of Rehab for Overthinkers—a transformational workshop for women living with chronic illness who are stuck in fear, mental overload, and “what if” thinking. Her work blends neuroscience, subconscious re-patterning, and real-life experience to help high-functioning women stop fighting their minds—and finally create relief, clarity, and emotional steadiness from the inside out. If you’ve ever felt like your thoughts were making your symptoms worse… This conversation is for you. Let’s “Call IT in”!

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What if the quiet nudge inside you—the one whispering there’s more—isn’t wishful thinking… but wisdom?

Today on Call IT in With Dar, you’re going to meet a woman who knows, firsthand, what it means to rise from survival into self-expression. My guest, Lorraine Pursell, shares her powerful journey from an abusive marriage and deep depression to a thriving life of modeling, counseling, and helping women all over the world live what she calls their Great Big Life.

After more than 30 years as a women’s counselor and coach, Lorraine is passionate about helping women stop living the life others expect of them—and finally say yes to the life that’s been calling their name. In this conversation, we talk about how dreams don’t arrive with a roadmap, but they do arrive with clues. Lorraine breaks down how identifying what you truly desire, taking small aligned steps, and trusting your intuition can create real, lasting change—at any age.

She also shares some of her beautiful tools, including her powerful “Column of Light” exercise, and tells inspiring stories of women who’ve shifted careers, reclaimed their bodies, reversed age-related issues, and finally stopped postponing joy.

And because Lorraine believes dreams need nourishment, not pressure, she’s offering listeners a free 30-day Dream Life Guide with her most powerful affirmations and a visualization to help you quiet imposter syndrome and step forward with clarity and confidence.

If you’ve ever thought, “Is this all there is?”—or felt that pull toward something more meaningful—this episode is for you.

Let’s call it in… your dreams, your truth, your Great Big Life with “Call It in With Dar”!

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Today I’m joined by Dr. Alison J. Kay, an internationally recognized expert in holistic healing, energy medicine, and applied mindfulness. Alison is an award-winning, #1 international bestselling author and the creator of the Vibrational UPgrade™ System, a powerful approach that blends ancient wisdom from Asia with modern science to help people live with more ease, clarity, and fulfillment.

In our conversation, entitled “A New Set Point for Innocence” Alison shares her personal journey into energy medicine and meditation, and why she believes that nearly 95% of our daily choices are unconscious—shaped by past experiences, societal conditioning, and subtle energetic patterns. She invites us to move out of “robotic mode” and into conscious living by working with subtle energy, mindfulness, and awareness. We explore the role of the heart chakra in receptivity and co-creation, how to recognize when you’re out of alignment with your higher purpose, and what it truly means to allow yourself to ask for more—more vitality, more joy, more possibility. Alison also introduces a free vibrational clearing and activation, designed to help open new pathways for growth and transformation.

This is a beautiful, expansive conversation about self-awareness, trust, and upgrading your inner energy so your outer life can rise to meet it. You’re going to love her grounded wisdom and compassionate perspective. SO call in your smiling heart! “Call IT in With Dar”!

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Today’s guest, Deb Dutcher, is proof that love doesn’t have an expiration date. A former high-tech VP turned Certified Health Coach—and now a boomer online dating coach—Deb helps widowed and divorced women in their 50s and 60s find love again with confidence and clarity. She’s the best-selling author of Sexy, Lean and Strong After 50 and the creator of The Finding Mr. Adorable Journey, a system she developed after leaving her second marriage at 68—and meeting her own Mr. Adorable just three weeks later.

Named one of the Top Ten Senior Dating Experts of 2024 by DatingAdvice.com and featured on DatingNews.com, Deb combines real-life dating wisdom with practical, empowering guidance. In this episode, she shares how to avoid repeating old patterns, create an honest and compelling online profile, and stay open to love—no matter your age. If you’re ready to believe again, this conversation is for you. “Call IT in With Dar!”

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