This week, Molly shares a special episode recorded from Maui just after the fourth and final live retreat of 2025 — with the retreat magic still swirling in her.

Molly takes you behind the scenes to the intuitive calling that led her to begin offering live retreats in the first place and offers a glimpse into what becomes possible when compassionate people gather in real time and space to do high-level somatic healing work.

She describes her very first retreat in Alaska with a notebook full of carefully planned teachings — and then (in a moment of deep intuition) she threw the whole plan away to allow something more powerful to take shape.

This episode is a love letter to beautiful transformation that can happen in spaces of live community healing — and a glimpse into what’s coming next, including Molly’s upcoming book tour and a call for musicians that align with the Compassionate Revolution.

Key Highlights:

• how live healing work generates a magical energy and deep tectonic shifts of the psyche
• the intuitive nudge that led Molly to start hosting live retreats… and why she threw out her plans as soon she felt the energy of the group
• how ancestral survival strategies get passed down — and how they can be released with honor
• how Molly is envisioning live retreats in 2026 (including a music and a sound healing element)
• a call for aligned musicians who want to build something beautiful together

Musicians: If you feel aligned with the heart-led purpose of the Compassionate Revolution and want to join an experiment weaving music into somatic healing work (including recordings and live gatherings), reach out to Molly and her team at support(at)boundaried(dot)com.

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For retreat updates, book tour news, and Boundaries resources for compassionate people, visit Molly at: www.boundaried.com.

Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path.

Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

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Molly sits down with Christi Byerly, MCC, founder and CEO of Awaken Coach Institute, to explore how religious trauma, fear-based theology, and high-control faith systems shape a child’s identity, sense of worth, and ability to trust. Christi shares her personal story of growing up in a strict fundamentalist Christian environment where obedience, hierarchy, and punishment were normalized – and how that upbringing led to depression, anxiety, and lifelong confusion about goodness, desire, and love.

Together, Molly and Christi unpack the invisible ways spiritual abuse fractures a compassionate person’s inner world, how fear becomes a first language, and why so many survivors struggle with boundaries, self-trust, and worthiness well into adulthood.

This is an episode about waking up from fear and waking into love – reclaiming your voice, your body, your desires, and your right to a spacious, grounded, joyful life.

Molly and Christi discuss:

• how hierarchies and obedience-based teachings shape a child’s developing brain.
• why compassionate people are more vulnerable to spiritual abuse.
• how fear-based theology disconnects us from our intuition, emotions, and desires.
• why self-care feels wrong for survivors of fundamentalism.
• what it means to move from hierarchy and fear into love and equality.
• the spiritual (and beautifully human) process of awakening.

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Today’s Guest:

Christi is the CEO and founder of Awaken Coach Institute, an ICF-accredited coach training school that is, at its heart, a school of love. Awaken Coach Institute trains coaches, healers, helpers, and compassionate humans to listen deeply, grow spiritually, and awaken to their own inner wisdom. Christi has helped shape the journeys of hundreds of coaches and clients. Explore free classes, group programs, Q&A calls, book updates, and Christi's upcoming 2026 Spain retreat at: https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/.

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For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at: www.boundaried.com.

Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path.

Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

This week, Molly is joined by Brenda Knight, award-winning publisher, author, intuition-led trailblazer, and founder of Books That Save Lives (a mission-driven publishing house devoted to changing minds, healing hearts, and creating a more compassionate world).

Brenda is the publisher of Molly's new book, The Great All, and a deep force in today’s world of writing and media. Her story is one of courage, intuition, integrity, and following the “omens” that led her toward her purpose.

Together, Molly and Brenda explore the twists, initiations, and inner guidance that shape a life – and the extraordinary ripple effects of choosing compassion over conformity.

Molly and Brenda discuss:

• Brenda’s extraordinary journey from a dirt road in West Virginia to HarperCollins, and why reading became her portal to possibility.
• moments when integrity can speak louder than ambition.
• a behind-the-scenes story of Paulo Coelho’s classic, The Alchemist.
• how veteran and first-responder stories inspired Books That Save Lives (BTSL).
• the birth of The Great All, and Molly’s weird, wondrous, divinely timed idea that wouldn’t let go.
• why parables and teaching stories work at a soul-level and why The Great All feels like essential guidance for navigating today’s world.

Today’s Guest:

Brenda Knight began her career at HarperCollins, working with luminaries Paolo Coelho, Marianne Williamson, Mark Nepo, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Knight was awarded IndieFab’s Publisher of the Year in 2015. Knight is the author of Random Acts of Kindness, The Grateful Table, and Women of the Beat Generation, which won an American Book Award. Knight is Publisher at Books That Save Lives. She also teachers at the San Francisco Writers Conference, Writing for Change and serves as President of the Women’s National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Follow her on Instagram @LowerHaightbk and @BooksThatSaveLives.

BTSL includes an invitation to the Heart Wisdom panels in their newsletter. If you’d like to join, sign up at: https://www.booksthatsavelives.net/contact-us/.

An extra thanks to Duncan MacLeod, the business side of BTSL! He oversees operations, finance, and fulfillment. He’s also an author, and cares deeply about the BTSL mission. He is the author of Money Magic: Easy and Surprising Ways to Not Be Broke.

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Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at: www.boundaried.com.

Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path.

Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.