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A lost wallet. A sister’s memory. And a simple question: what do you do with love after loss?

After Kristina Ulmer lost her younger sister Katie in a sudden car accident, she found herself holding onto something small but heavy—Katie’s wallet, still filled with the tips she earned that morning. For years, it sat untouched. Not spent. Not given away. Just… held.

Until one day, she decided to do something with it.

As a high school English teacher, Kristina exchanged the money for $20 bills and handed them to her students with a simple challenge:
use this to do something kind for someone else.

What began as a quiet classroom moment turned into something far more meaningful—the $20 Kindness Challenge. But this story wasn’t really about how big it got. It was about what happened in the small, human moments along the way.

Inside a lesson on Fahrenheit 451—a story that warned about disconnection and emotional numbness—students were asked a different kind of question: how do we stay human in a world that moves too fast?

The answers didn’t come from discussion.
They came from action.

Students created acts of kindness that reached far beyond what anyone expected—paying off library fines so senior students could graduate, sewing walker caddies for nursing home residents and spending time with people who rarely had visitors, learning what was actually needed at a women’s shelter, and giving back to food pantries they once depended on.

And something shifted.

Not just for the people receiving the kindness… but for the ones giving it.

What followed reached far beyond one classroom—into communities across the country and beyond.

$20 Kindness Challenge

Interview with Kristina Ulmer, President and Founder of the $20 Kindness Challenge

Things that make you say "Wow"!
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Some episodes start with a plan.
This one starts with a tree.

Not a mystical forest or some faraway place—just a regular neighborhood, and a tree where people come to tie ribbons. But what gets left there… it’s anything but ordinary. Names. Grief. Gratitude. Prayers. Promises. The quiet things we don’t always know how to say out loud.

We’re sitting down with Karen, a modern shamanic practitioner and the caretaker of what’s become known as the Good Juju Tree. And while we talk about shamanism, this conversation isn’t about labels or beliefs—it’s about connection.

To yourself.
To the land.
To something bigger than you… whatever that means in your world.

We get into what shamanism actually looks like in everyday life (and what it’s not), how ritual can be simple and grounding instead of heavy or mysterious, and why paying attention—to animals, to place, to your own nervous system—might be one of the most powerful things we’ve forgotten how to do.

There’s a story in here about a whale encounter that stops you in your tracks. The kind that feels like it was meant to happen. The kind that changes direction.

And we also keep it real—talking about things you can actually do: getting your feet on the ground, quieting the noise, letting your mind unload, finding your way back to yourself in small, doable ways.

This one feels a little different… but also exactly the same.

Because at the end of the day, it’s still about how we move through this world— and how we take care of ourselves, each other, and the spaces we’re a part of.

Come sit with us for a bit. 🌿

Shamamama
Blue Moon Shadow Shop

Interview with Karen Adamski, Certified Crystal Healer & Shamanic Practitioner

Things that make you say "Wow"!
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“Whale sex” might be what gets people’s attention… but this episode goes a whole lot deeper than that.

We recorded this one from San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja California—wind whipping, sand everywhere, and gray whales moving through the water just offshore. It’s one of the most important gray whale nurseries in the world, and you can feel that the second you arrive. There’s something about this place that slows you down and makes you pay attention.

We sat down with marine biologist Minerva Valerio Conchas to talk about what’s really happening out there. We get into gray whale migration—one of the longest on the planet—from feeding grounds near Alaska down to the warm lagoons of Baja, and why this specific place matters so much for mothers and calves.

And yes… we talk about mating. The real version. From “sandwich mating” and large mating groups to sperm competition and what scientists think females might actually be selecting for. It’s fascinating, a little surprising, and not something most people ever hear explained this honestly.

But the conversation shifts too. We talk about the bond between mothers and calves, how nursing works underwater, the physical toll on mothers, and what it takes for a baby whale to survive that long journey north—where orcas are waiting, and survival is not guaranteed.

We also zoom out to the bigger picture—climate change in the Arctic, shrinking sea ice, and what that means for the gray whales’ food supply. And we touch on the powerful local story of how this lagoon was protected from industrial development, and why it still feels… intact.

This one is part science, part lived experience, and part just sitting in awe of something bigger than us.

If you’ve ever wondered what’s really going on beneath the surface—or just need a reminder of how incredible this world still is—this episode is for you.

The recording of the Gray Whale "knocking" sound was provided by the Gray Whale Research in Mexico program, a project of The Ocean Foundation.

Baja Expeditions

Interview with Minerva Valerio Conchas,
Marine Biologist and Naturalist Guide

Things that make you say "Wow"!
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