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  • How to Spot Wellness Frauds, Scams, and Grifters | with Scott Carney #93
    2025/07/24

    Welcome, beautiful humans! In this episode, I sit down with the brilliant Scott Carney—investigative journalist, bestselling author, and all-around truth-seeker—to pull back the curtain on the wild world of wellness influencers, online gurus, and the sometimes murky business of “authenticity” in the digital age.

    If you’ve ever wondered who you can trust in the wellness space, how to spot a scam, or what it really takes to make a living with integrity, this conversation is for you. We get real about the challenges of staying true to yourself, the traps of capitalism, and why supporting independent creators (like me!) matters more than ever.

    Listen to learn:

    * What red flags to watch for when it comes to wellness gurus, influencers, and online health advice.

    * How scammers and “grifters” use a mix of truth and lies to build trust…and how you can protect yourself.

    * Why authenticity and integrity are so hard to maintain in today’s online business world (and what it really costs).

    * What it actually takes to make a living as a creator without selling out (and why “enough” might be the new dream).

    * How supporting independent creators (like on Patreon) can change the game for everyone, and why your choices matter more than you think.

    * And finally, why hope, connection, and personal values might be the most powerful tools we have. Even in a world that feels rigged!

    About Scott Carney

    * YouTube: Scott Carney Investigates

    * Magnetic North, Scott Carney’s Substack

    * Scott Carney on Patreon

    * Website: scottcarney.com

    Special Offer: Patreon Relaunch!

    I’m relaunching my Patreon with a special offer: get exclusive livestream access to my upcoming live music medicine event in Cape Town (for those who can’t make it in person). Join the community, support my work, and get access to behind-the-scenes content, early releases, and more.

    * Patreon: https://alreadyfree.me/patreon

    * Access the patron-only bonus chat for this episode right here

    * Event details: https://alreadyfree.me/acoustic

    If you enjoyed this episode, please consider sharing it, leaving a review, or joining the Patreon family. Your support helps me keep creating honest, heart-centred content for you.



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  • Your life is being stolen. Here's how to reclaim it.
    2025/07/17

    Social media apps are designed to capture your attention, devouring hours of your life every day. In this solo episode, I share my struggle with digital distraction and offer a clear, grounded path back to freedom through clarity, connection, and creation. This episode is a call to wake up, reclaim your focus, and live deliberately—because we are already free!

    What You’ll Learn

    * Why social media isn’t just a harmless time sink—it’s designed to trap your attention and data.

    * How distraction fuels disconnection, fear, and exhaustion.

    * Three essentials for a good life: clarity of purpose, human connection, and creative presence.

    * An inspiring apple tree analogy for understanding true purpose.

    * How practical steps, like deleting apps, are boosting my creativity and presence.

    * Why the world needs more people coming alive in their unique gifts—not just “successful” people.

    * Details on the free 21-Day Dopamine Detox Challenge starting July 22nd, designed to help you build healthy boundaries with technology.

    Chapters

    0:00 Introduction: Dealing with Digital Distraction

    0:25 How Social Media Steals Our Time and Attention

    1:26 Personal Struggles with Social Media Addiction

    2:24 The Impact: From Connection to Disconnection

    3:50 Three Keys to a Good Life: Clarity, Connection, Creation

    4:26 Understanding True Purpose: The Apple Tree Analogy

    5:16 The Importance of Human Connection

    6:22 Reclaiming Creativity and Presence

    8:45 Making a Difference: Beyond Traditional Success

    9:31 21-Day Dopamine Detox Challenge

    10:36 Call to Action: Join the Free Reset Program

    Resources & Links

    * Join the 21-Day Dopamine Detox Challenge (Free): https://alreadyfree.me/reset

    * Starts July 22nd — daily prompts + weekly live gatherings.

    * Recommended reading that informed this episode:

    * Stolen Focus by Johann Hari

    * Indistractable by Nir Eyal

    * Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke

    Why Listen?

    If you often catch yourself “just checking” your phone only to lose hours, this episode is for you. I cut through the guilt and confusion around social media use, offering an honest look at how these platforms drain your life force—and how you can step back into freedom. It’s a grounded invitation to reclaim your attention and creativity, allowing you to live with greater presence, purpose, and genuine connection.

    Next Step

    Take back your attention. Join the free 21-Day Dopamine Detox challenge today at https://alreadyfree.me/reset



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    12 分
  • Why You Need to Quit the Hustle & Reclaim Your Focus
    2025/07/10

    Feeling crushed by the content-every-day hustle culture mantra? I’m sharing why I’m stepping off the treadmill, how hustle culture is part of the problem fracturing our attention and destroying our connection with Spirit, and what a slower, soul-led path might look like…for you and for me!

    Hi, I’m Nathan Maingard—a heartist, troubadour, guide, and wordsmith—and I am fekin’ DONE with sacrificing my life on the altar of algorithmic insanity!

    Listen to this episode of We Are Already Free to learn the first step in getting off the infinite wheel of death by doomscroll.

    🔑 What You’ll Learn

    * Attention vs. Algorithms – why your screen is farmed for clicks, not care.

    * A Patreon Burnout Story – lessons from my collapse after “success”.

    * Slow Down, Change Faster – how nervous-system safety unlocks real growth.

    * Self → Other → All – the cycle of self-care, service, and Divine union.

    * 21-Day Dopamine Detox – a free, community-held reset starting Tuesday 22 July 2025.

    🛠️ Resources & Links

    * Join the Dopamine Detox (free): https://alreadyfree.me/g14o

    * Previous chat with Keri Nola on abundance & receptivity

    🤝 Take Part

    * Sign up for the dopamine detox before 22 July.

    * Share this episode with someone scrolling their life away.

    * Subscribe on Substack or YouTube for the longer-form, slow-dopamine content I am creating.

    Thank you for being here with me.

    With love,Nathan

    PS: I’m doing something super vulnerable here: no editing! This video is all raw, all me. Stumbles, pauses, checking my notes. It’s all here. Does it resonate? Are you with me in wanting more of the raw and real in this life? Or not? Lmk.



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    21 分
  • Coaching & Healing… or Pyramid Scheme?
    2025/07/03

    Are we actually helping people heal—or just keeping the coaching economy afloat?

    In this short solo episode, your host Nathan Maingard asks the question too few are willing to face: has the personal growth industry become just another hamster wheel of extraction, burnout, and spiritual branding?

    He shares the raw truth of trying to earn a living while staying in integrity, a powerful story from traditional Chinese medicine, and the radical alternative he’s creating with Already Free Academy—where members choose their price and extra payments fund scholarships.

    If you’ve ever felt the tension between needing support and affording it… or between wanting to serve and needing to survive—this is for you.

    🔗 Join the experiment: https://alreadyfree.academy

    Choose your price. Fund a scholarship. Change the system.

    🌿 Let’s connect:

    - IG — @nathanmaingard

    - Podcast home — We Are Already Free

    If this episode stirred something in you, share it with someone walking the same edge. Let’s build something real.



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    4 分
  • Money Mindset for Healers: Keri Nola on Balancing Giving & Receiving
    2025/06/26

    Stop running on empty. Psychotherapist-turned-mentor Keri Nola unpacks the money mindset for healers: why chronic giving burns us out, how scarcity wiring hijacks the nervous system, and the exact inner shifts that let sensitive rebels receive and hold abundance... all in today's episode of the We Are Already Free podcast with Nathan Maingard.

    What you’ll hear

    Links & free resources

    - Free Money Date Journal – keri’site/journal

    - Receptivity Portal membership – keri’site/receptivity

    - Messages from Shadow deck & sessions – keri’site/shadow

    - Reclaim Your Voice Without People-Pleasing → alreadyfree.me

    Become a friend of the podcast and leave a review: https://alreadyfree.me/review

    Listen now, take the journal prompt into your next breath, and remember: we are already free. Abundance flows when you let it land.

    #MoneyMindset #Healers #GivingAndReceiving #Abundance #NervousSystemHealing #KeriNola #WeAreAlreadyFree #Therapists #SensitiveSouls #TraumaInformed



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    48 分
  • Wild, Wild Woman: How to Break Free from the Medical System into Regenerative Living with Lisa Clark
    2025/06/19
    What if the medical system isn’t broken… but working exactly as designed to keep you sick, scared, and dependent? This week on the We Are Already Free podcast, we meet Lisa Clark: a wild woman, wellness influencer, and sovereign soul who walked away from conventional medicine at age 13 and never looked back.From chronic illness and emotional suppression to regenerative farming, somatic sovereignty, and self-led healing. Lisa’s journey is a powerful reminder that true wellness comes from aligning with nature, not fighting it.Whether you’re sick of being dismissed by doctors, overwhelmed by wellness noise, or simply seeking a simpler, more empowered way of living…this episode is your sign.👤 About Lisa ClarkLisa Clark is a wellness educator, homesteader-at-heart, and outspoken voice for self-healing and sovereignty. Her deep connection to land, food, and truth shines through her work. As a wellness influencer, she shares practical tools and mindset shifts that help everyday people reclaim their health without the noise and fear of the mainstream medical system.📚 Topics Covered00:00 – Why the Medical System is Failing Sensitive Souls: For anyone feeling dismissed or broken by conventional healthcare, this intro sets the tone for reclaiming intuition and choosing a self-led healing path.00:50 – Lisa Clark’s Radical Decision: Leaving the Medical System at 13: Lisa shares how chronic childhood illness and a powerful moment in a doctor’s office sparked her path to self-healing and sovereignty.06:35 – From Google to the Garden: How Lisa Found Natural Remedies & Regenerative Agriculture: Exploring the journey from DIY natural health hacks to discovering food politics, ancestral eating, and nature’s generosity.22:39 – The Wild Woman Awakens: From Meekness to Fierce Feminine Power: Lisa unpacks what it means to reclaim the Wild Woman archetype, break people-pleasing patterns, and live from unapologetic truth.30:12 – Real Talk on Relationships, Boundaries & Knowing Who You Are: A powerful exploration of self-worth, navigating relational discomfort, and choosing authenticity over approval.32:41 – What Natural Living Actually Means (and What It Doesn’t): Lisa demystifies wellness, explaining how to simplify healing with real food, sunlight, movement, and emotional authenticity.35:19 – How Lisa Became a Wellness Influencer Without Owning a Homestead: Behind the scenes of her path as an Instagram wellness guide, living her values from a top-floor apartment.43:12 – How to Reclaim Sovereignty in a Culture of Powerlessness: Closing insights on mindset, nervous system regulation, and stepping into the life you actually want—without waiting for permission.Stay to the end for:👉 A reflection on how nature, intuition, and simplicity can heal what the system pathologises.👉 A sneak peek of her personalised Heart Essence Song, “Wild, Wild Woman”🔗 Resources & Links* Follow Lisa on Instagram: @onearthwithlisa* Free Ebook: Holistic Sun Protection* Earth-Based Home Nutrition Primer* Dopamine Detox Challenge* Mentioned books:* Women Who Run With the Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estés* The Myth of Normal – Gabor Maté (listen to previous episode with his son Daniel Maté)* Biggest Little Farm (documentary)🎵 Episode Song…Lisa’s Heart Essence Song “Wild, Wild Woman” plays at the end. Written and recorded by Nathan as a musical mirror of her journey.🌱 Connect with Nathan* Instagram: @nathanmaingard🧭 Ready to reclaim your voice and live in sovereign alignment?Book your free Clarity & Freedom Call with Nathan: https://alreadyfree.me/activation Get full access to We Are Already Free with Nathan Maingard at wearealreadyfree.substack.com/subscribe
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    59 分
  • Ex-Navy SEAL on Somatic Healing & Nervous-System Strength for Sensitive Souls - With Christopher Maher #88
    2025/06/12

    Feel like hustle culture, pushing harder and 'doing more' are slowly destroying your love for life, health, and wellbeing? Former US Navy SEAL Christopher Lee Maher learned -the hard way- that chasing “peak performance” can shred the very nervous system you need for true strength. In this episode, we unpack how body-based (somatic) practices turn chronic tension into grounded power, especially for the sensitive, empathic souls who’ve spent years pushing through.

    Key takeaways:

    - Somatic swap-outs: Replace sugar, caffeine and overstimulation with breath-work, running, Qigong and deep sleep to calm the vagus nerve and regulate cortisol.- Break hyper-independence: Why “God helps those who help themselves” is half the sentence—and how asking for help heals stored stress faster than lone-wolf grinding.- Liver as the helper: Maher links Traditional Chinese Medicine with modern stress science, showing how unexpressed anger congests the liver and traps emotional charge.- From fascia to freedom: Rolfing, yoga and daily movement loosen “piano-string” fascia, letting energy flow and pain fade.- Intrinsic value > external validation: Military success, 1.8 % body-fat, and chronic pain taught Maher that real worth is felt, not proven.

    Guest bio

    Christopher Lee Maher is the creator of True Body Intelligence, author of Free for Life and a former US Navy SEAL who rebuilt his body and mind through Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taoist internal arts and structural bodywork. He now guides high-performers and highly sensitive individuals alike to release lifetime stress loads and reclaim nervous-system freedom.

    Chapter guide

    00:00 Why pushing harder can hollow you out

    04:41 Recognition of value: chasing it vs. becoming it

    11:02 Negative vs. positive stress-management tools

    19:30 Speaking directly to men—and why the message still lands for every sensitive soul

    22:56 Breaking lone-wolf conditioning through Rolfing & yoga

    34:50 Meridians, organ emotions and the somatic lens

    42:00 Becoming the message: seven years of daily practice

    48:15 Ending coach-client codependency

    51:31 What “We Are Already Free” means to Christopher

    55:40 Nathan’s reflection & next steps for listeners

    Resources & links

    - BookFree for Life by Christopher Lee Maher

    - Free stress-relief gift – truebodyintelligence.com/stress-free-gift

    Work with Christopher – programs & retreats at TrueBodyIntelligence.com

    Follow – Instagram @christopherleemaher

    We Are Already Free

    We Are Already Free cuts through the noise with raw conversations and practical tools that help sensitive souls regulate, set clear boundaries, and live from embodied worth. Follow the show to get straight-talk episodes in your app every week, and let your nervous system feel the difference.



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    57 分
  • The Magic of Yes: Lori Pappas’ Journey from Fierce Competitor to Wise Woman
    2025/06/05

    You’ve done everything they said would make you feel whole. You’ve worked harder than anyone around you. You’ve achieved, provided, held it all together. But deep down, something’s missing. You’re tired of being strong. You’re ready to feel. To soften. To stop the endless striving.

    This episode of We Are Already Free is a lifeline. Lori Pappas built an award-winning software company in a man’s world, led teams of hundreds, and checked every external box of success. Then, in her fifties, she walked away from it all - career, marriage, country. She moved to rural Ethiopia. Alone. She founded a charity that’s since served over 100,000 people. In her sixties, she met the love of her life. Now, at 75, Lori is no longer trying to be impressive. She’s becoming real.

    This conversation is a masterclass in unhooking your worth from your performance... and saying yes to the life that’s actually yours.

    What you’ll hear in this episode:

    – How Lori’s childhood trauma shaped her hustle– The cost of success when it’s built on disconnection– Why silence and curiosity became her greatest teachers– Somatic tools to calm the mind and reconnect with your body– How love can find you... after you’ve stopped looking– Why “yes” is one of the most powerful spiritual tools we have

    Timestamps05:33 The trauma that set her path: exorcisms and institutionalisation13:13 How she succeeded by armouring up16:00 A silent hilltop in Ethiopia and the collapse of her false self27:00 Dating at 60+: how she met the love of her life33:11 Somatic healing, mantras, and non-directed attention41:48 Losing identity in success, reclaiming it in presence49:00 Trust, service, and the uncomfortable truth about helping56:49 Reflection + Dopamine Detox invitation

    Resources– The Magic of Yes by Lori Pappas- Lori's Website: https://www.loripappas.com/– Free 21-Day Dopamine Detox Challenge - alreadyfree.me/reset



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    59 分