The wildest part of Machan Taylor’s story isn’t the backstage access or the legendary names. It’s the quiet moment when she realizes the life that looks “made” from the outside is still built on old trauma, old shame, and a nervous system that never learned safety.

I sit down with Machan, a singer, songwriter, educator, and author of the memoir “Naked Out Loud,” to talk about what happens when you stop saving face and start telling the truth. We get into her Japanese American upbringing, the early rupture of leaving Japan as a child, and the long shadow of not belonging. Machan shares how family dysfunction and an alcoholic father shaped her self-worth, and how those patterns echoed later in an abusive marriage she ultimately had to leave to survive. We also talk candidly about panic attacks, anxiety, and the way trauma can imprint on the body for years.

From there, the conversation opens into the healing tools that helped her rebuild from the inside out: chanting and Buddhism, meditation and yoga, intuition and energy, and the sacred, demanding work of psychedelic-assisted therapy. Machan explains her guided experiences with MDMA and psilocybin, why intention and integration matter, and how those sessions helped her find the “original” wound that talk therapy never fully reached. We end with the part I want every midlife listener to hear: reinvention is real. Machan goes back to school at 54, becomes a professor at NYU, keeps performing, and proves that turning 70 doesn’t mean shrinking your life.

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Tantra Talk Part 2

Tantra has a branding problem, and it’s costing a lot of us the exact thing we’re craving in midlife: peace in our bodies, clarity in our desires, and real connection that doesn’t require performing. I’m back with Rosa, founder of the London School of Tantra, to strip the topic down to its roots. Tantra, as Rosa defines it, is a tool for weaving and expanding consciousness, a path of liberation that includes sexuality without being reduced to it.

We talk about how tantra got popularized in the West through neo-tantra, why desire was treated as “bad,” and what changes when you stop shaming your wants. Rosa breaks down key concepts like Shiva and Shakti, kundalini life force energy, and polarity in relationships, with a grounded take that keeps it practical instead of preachy. If libido feels flat, intimacy feels tense, or you’re tired of leaking energy through people-pleasing, this part will hit home.

Then we get into Rosa’s framework: the 12 fundamentals of the human experience. We walk through the base fundamentals that create safety (boundaries, desire, rejection, emotional connection), the core that brings your magnetism back online (authenticity, presence, love, play), and the source tier that expands everything (surrender, intuition, sexuality, energy). You’ll also hear why real change takes work at the subconscious level, the nervous system level, and the behavior level, plus a guided foundation breath you can try today.

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Rosa Maxwell is the founder of the London School of Tantra, the UK’s largest female-founded Tantra school, and a leading voice in the modern Tantra movement

An international facilitator and sex magic expert, Rosa is the creative force behind the school’s visionary approach that unites science, spirituality, and sexuality. With over a decade of experience in psychology, coaching, and embodiment, Rosa bridges ancient wisdom with modern neuroscience to create world-class training for facilitators and profound transformation for her students. Her work helps people regulate the nervous system, awaken erotic energy, and experience true freedom—living, loving, and leading from authenticity and liberation.

When she’s not holding space, Rosa can usually be found with a cacao in hand, dancing barefoot somewhere warm, or dreaming up new ways to make spiritual work more accessible, inclusive, and deeply human.

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Your body can look calm while your nervous system is in full survival mode, and if you’ve ever wondered why talk therapy alone doesn’t always create lasting change, this conversation clicks things into place. We sit down with Rosa Maxwell, founder of the London School of Tantra and an international facilitator known for trauma-informed coaching that weaves together embodiment, nervous system regulation, spirituality, and sexuality without the fluff.

Rosa shares the behind-the-scenes story most people never see: just a few years ago she’s dealing with depression, severe anxiety, numbness in her body, and trauma flashbacks that derail her life in the corporate world. EMDR helps stop the flashbacks and ease PTSD symptoms, but it doesn’t automatically reconnect her to pleasure, desire, and aliveness. That search leads her to Tantra, and what starts as curiosity about sex becomes something much bigger: a daily practice of coming back home to herself, peeling away what isn’t truly her, and building real inner safety.

We also unpack a powerful moment for Jen at a retreat in Greece where a sudden burst of rage triggers a freeze response. Rosa explains what’s happening through the lens of fight, flight, freeze, dissociation, and co-regulation, including why gentle grounding and being witnessed can shift the body faster than logic ever will. If you’re exploring somatic healing, inner child work, IFS-informed practices, or midlife spirituality, you’ll leave with language and insight that makes your own patterns feel understandable, not shameful.

Part two goes deeper into Tantra fundamentals and myths, so make sure to hop over and listen now! If this resonates, share it with a friend and leave a five-star rating and review so more people can find the path back to embodiment.

Rosa Maxwell is the founder of the London School of Tantra, the UK’s largest female-founded Tantra school, and a leading voice in the modern Tantra movement.

An international facilitator and sex magic expert, Rosa is the creative force behind the school’s visionary approach that unites science, spirituality, and sexuality. With over a decade of experience in psychology, coaching, and embodiment, Rosa bridges ancient wisdom with modern neuroscience to create world-class training for facilitators and profound transformation for her students. Her work helps people regulate the nervous system, awaken erotic energy, and experience true freedom—living, loving, and leading from authenticity and liberation.

When she’s not holding space, Rosa can usually be found with a cacao in hand, dancing barefoot somewhere warm, or dreaming up new ways to make spiritual work more accessible, inclusive, and deeply human.

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Your nervous system isn’t the enemy, and “try harder” isn’t the answer. Jen Lovell sits down with somatic healing practitioner and author Lori Montry to get honest about what midlife really reveals: the coping patterns that once helped us survive can start running the show, leaving us stuck in stress, overwhelm, people pleasing, emotional eating, and that quiet sense of “What is wrong with me?”

Lori shares her own path from high achievement on the outside to feeling unsteady on the inside, and she reframes the shame loop with one simple truth: you’re not the problem. We dig into nervous system regulation as a real, body-based foundation for sustainable behavior change, including why trauma-informed support matters and how survival mode can show up as both high alert and functional freeze. This is practical and science-aware, from safety and capacity to the role energy plays when you feel exhausted even after sleep.

Then we walk through Lori’s Freedom Framework: regulate first, discover what’s true for you, then build a life that matches it. You’ll hear an actionable way to start today with simple self check-ins throughout the day, what to look for in your body, and how to respond with care instead of control. We also talk about how authenticity can change relationships, sometimes in challenging ways, and why community support can make the discomfort doable.

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Lori Montry is a somatic healing practitioner, author of You’re Not the Problem, and the creator of the Freedom Framework, a nervous system–based roadmap for sustainable behavior change. She helps people who feel stuck in stress, overwhelm, or self-sabotage understand the survival patterns driving their choices so they can build the safety, capacity, and clarity needed to take aligned action in every area of their lives.

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Your family could lose years of photos, messages, money, and answers because of one simple thing: a locked phone. That is the gut-punch question we start with, and it leads to a surprisingly empowering plan for anyone living in the digital age.

We talk with Niki Weiss, a digital thanatologist, founder of ENDevo, and host of the Digital Legacy Podcast, about how to build a “final playbook” that protects your loved ones from chaos when life happens. Niki walks us through a real-time pressure test, including how to set up iPhone Legacy Contact (and where Android users can start with Google Inactive Account Manager), why multi-factor authentication can trigger mayhem, and how to avoid turning your estate into a scavenger hunt. We also dig into the real-world stakes: blended families, underage kids, caregivers juggling aging parents, and the hidden subscriptions and accounts that can surface at the worst moment.

From there, we widen the lens into modern estate planning and digital asset management: password managers, digital vaults, quarterly digital hygiene, and the must-have “crucial doc box” that’s fireproof and waterproof. Niki also brings the future into the room, with conversations about digital twins, griefbots, and who actually owns an AI version of you. We close with beliefs, medical directives, and end-of-life options like Medical Aid in Dying, because your values should guide your plan, not fear or avoidance.

If you want less anxiety now and less burden later, start here. Subscribe or follow the show, share this with someone you trust, and leave a five-star rating and a review so more people build their playbook before it is urgent.

Niki Weiss is the Founder and CEO of ENDevo, a digital
thanatologist, project management leader, and host of the
Digital Legacy Podcast. She helps people and organizations
prepare for the realities created when human life, technology,
risk, and legacy collide.
Her work brings structure to questions most people postpone:
What happens to our lives, businesses, data, decisions, and
digital identities when we die or can no longer act for ourselves?
As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday life,
Niki is also examining a more urgent question: how do we keep
human agency, ethics, and meaning at the center of
technological change?
Drawing on experience in healthcare, hospice, project
management, risk analysis, AI governance, and digital legacy,
Niki turns emotionally complex subjects into conversations that
are practical, direct, and surprisingly energizing. Her approach is
grounded in one belief: preparation is not about fear. It is how
we protect the people, choices, and meaning that matter most.

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If you’ve hit midlife and suddenly your brain feels louder, foggier, and faster to snap, you’re not imagining it. I’m joined by Theresa Lear Levine, founder of Becoming More Me, international best-selling author, and an EFT master practitioner and hypnotherapist who helps ADHD entrepreneurs and high achievers create lasting calm, clarity, and confidence through nervous system and subconscious rewiring.

We get real about late-diagnosed ADHD, including what changes when a lifelong suspicion becomes an official label. Then we dig into the question so many women are asking right now: is it ADHD or perimenopause? We talk about how hormonal shifts, especially erratic estrogen changes, can amplify ADHD symptoms like brain fog, emotional dysregulation, task initiation problems, and memory lapses. If you’ve spent years compensating with perfectionism, urgency, anxiety, or people pleasing, this conversation helps you name what’s happening without turning it into shame.

Theresa breaks down three emotional states high achievers rarely learn to access: calm, clarity, and confidence, plus why most of us default to pressure as fuel. We also explore practical tools for nervous system regulation, including EFT tapping (and how to use it privately when you’re out in the world) and hypnotherapy for rewriting subconscious beliefs that keep you stuck. Finally, we talk procrastination and completion, including Teresa’s “seven minutes to finish what you started” method and why finishing early can feel strangely unsafe for an ADHD brain.

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A 22-year-old entrepreneur goes out in Lansing, Michigan, and is found the next day in the Grand River. The case is ruled an accidental drowning, but the timeline, the surveillance footage, and one chilling detail keep sticking in our throats: eleven seconds after Brandon Mitchner and his business partner leave the camera frame, the partner reappears alone, runs to a gas station, then takes a cab home without calling for help. If you’re a true crime listener, you already know why that matters.

Jo Figueras joins us with a perspective you do not hear every day, because she is the psychic medium Brandon contacts to deliver messages to the people he loves. We talk through the wild synchronicities that connect Jo to Brandon’s best friend Jason, and then to Brandon’s mom Shirley, who has fought for answers while carrying the weight of grief for years. We also dig into what Shirley does with that grief, including her advocacy for a “duty to act” law and the push for safety changes where Brandon was last seen.

Then the conversation turns spiritual in the most amazing way. Jo shares the one line Brandon gives her when she asks for the truth: “Justice is a human construct.” We unpack closure vs peace, why the nervous system still hurts even when the facts feel “settled,” and what it looks like to heal when the world never delivers a clean ending. We also share what Jo is building now for intuitive development, including Intuition Lab and her coaching certification that blends somatics, human design, and self-trust.

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Jo Figueras is a Psychic Medium, Akashic Records Reader, Intuitive Development Coach, and Silversmith with over a decade of experience guiding individuals through deep soul-level inquiry and integration. Jo writes Guided Journals and host workshops & retreats to explore them. She frequently shares content on all things Akashic Records, reincarnation, numerology, astrology, Human Design, mediumship & channeling.

Jo has worked at the intersection of intuitive development, personal transformation, and coaching since 2016. My work has always been centered on helping my clients recognize the wisdom they already carry within themselves as I guided them through spiritual mentorship and intuitive readings. At the core of thousands of interactions, I’ve taught my clients to strengthen their self-trust by deepening their self-awareness.

Over the years, she began to notice a gap in both the coaching and spiritual industries. Coaches regularly encourage clients to "trust their gut," yet very few are taught how intuition actually works, how it communicates through the body, or how to help clients build the evidence necessary for lasting self-trust.

​The Intuition Lab Coaching Certification was born from years of observing patterns across thousands of client conversations and integrating insights from Human Design, astrology, numerology, nervous system practices, intuitive development, and spiritual mentorship into one practical framework.

​To give her clients the most detailed access to their energetic blueprint, my work has guided me to create the Soul Architecture framework incorporating numerology, astrology, Human Design and the energy of the Akashic Records, as well as The Four Pillars of Intuitive Development™ - Empathy, Felt Truth, Intuitive Perception, and Pattern Recognition. I have spent years translating complex spiritual concepts into teachable tools that coaches can confidently integrate into their existing work.

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"Parasite Flu 2026" Explosive diarrhea...Time to revisit the need for a parasite cleanse...Parasites are the topic nobody wants to bring up, but the symptoms show up everywhere: sugar cravings you can’t control, insomnia that never fully lifts, IBS, skin flares, brain fog, and that feeling that your body is working against you. Jen Lovell sits down with Kim Rogers, known online for making parasite education painfully practical, to talk about why “I eat organic” doesn’t automatically protect you and why a negative test doesn’t always mean you’re in the clear.

We get into the real-world sources people forget: produce that may not rinse clean, seafood and undercooked meat, and water exposure that happens through showers, brushing your teeth, or even handling contacts. Kim breaks down the different categories people lump together as “parasites,” shares what die-off can feel like, and explains why adding a binder like activated charcoal is a crucial step many doctors never mention. We also talk about preparation that supports detox, including the simple but powerful goal of keeping your drainage pathways open so your body can actually move toxins out.

Then we zoom out to the midlife angle: how physical stressors can shape mood, mental health, and your sense of peace, plus the claim that parasite activity can spike around the full moon through serotonin changes. You’ll also hear practical guidance on household factors like pets and shared microbiomes, plus how maintenance and seasonal routines can make this feel doable instead of overwhelming. If you’re ready to take your health and clarity seriously, listen, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

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Kim Rogers, "The Worm Queen," is the Co-Founder of RogersHood and inventor of the viral ParaFy Parasite Cleanse. She has built a community of over 1 million supportive followers and a company with 30+ employees all while healing her self of multiple chronic illnesses using natural methods! On the frontlines of a global medical awakening, Kim is passionately trail blazing a movement to help others become their own patient advocates and heal themselves!

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