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It’s an honor to have Renee Linnell back on Rising Women Leaders!
In Renee’s latest book, Still on Fire, she shares stories of magic, miracles, travel and romance… from traveling over 50 countries, love affairs with men half her age, being rescued by angels, getting stranded at 22,000 feet in the Himalayas, Renee takes us on a wild adventure in her book, sharing soul-soothing wisdom she gained along the way.
Where her first book, The Burn Zone was an exploration of what happens when we don't listen to our Inner Guidance, Still on Fire is an exposition of what happens when we do.
May this conversation support you to remember who you truly are and reignite a passion for being alive on Earth at this time.
“Freedom, I have discovered, is letting go and jumping into the stream of life. Being willing to be uncomfortable and trusting that divine choreography will always lead us to the next right unfolding. It is looking for the good in everything we gaze upon or stumble upon… finding the miracles in each moment instead of the grievances.”
In this episode we discussed:
How Renee shifted her mindset from victim to warrior
What is soul sickness? and how to realign with your soul’s truth
How to survive as a sensitive being on this planet
Renee’s wild and powerful stories of magic, travel, romance and miracles
Why we need to shine our light and how to navigate losing people in our life who can’t resonate at the same frequency
How to let go of people pleasing and caring so much of what others think of us
What finding our power really means
Listening to our intuition - and tips to realign with love and freedom when fear or self-doubt appears
Links in this episode:
Renee’s previous Rising Women Leaders episode 068: Your Difference is Your Destiny
Buy the book: Still on Fire or The Burn Zone
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Renee Linnell is a serial entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded five companies and has an MBA from New York University; before that she was a model and professional dancer. Having an unorthodox childhood and being surrounded by death at a young age led her on a spiritual quest that took her all over the world, culminating in her ordination as a Buddhist monk (by a bi-polar guru with delusions of grandeur so she’s not 100% sure the ordination counts.) What began as writing for catharsis in 2013—as she struggled to regain her sanity after being brainwashed in a Buddhist cult—turned into her first memoir, The Burn Zone: A Memoir (She Writes Press, 2018). Still on Fire is the sequel. Her mission is to remind people Who They Truly Are and to reignite their passion for being alive. For more information, please visit https://reneelinnell.com
It was an honor to sit down for this heart opening conversation with a personal mentor and friend, Porsha Beed.
It was just before the pandemic when I first met Porsha in a song circle in Sebastopol, CA. I was touched by the songs her and co-founder Aaron Johnson shared with our group and how effortlessly they brought us into our hearts. I attended their daylong anti-racism workshop and went on to work privately with Porsha to move through my own grief around racism, look at my own blind spots as a white woman with privilege and come into deeper alignment with how I show up for my work, friends and larger community.
I think a lot of white people do end up (sadly) avoiding relationships with people of other races because of the shame and guilt that often arises. When we focus on the fear and guilt, we take the focus away from truly getting to know and caring for person of another race.
Porsha is here and reaching for us to heal this divide. May this conversation open a door for us all to look within, to heal, and to create a better future for all the generations to come.
In this episode we discussed:
Approaching anti-racism work through song and building relationships
Healing and tending to grief
Letting go of perfectionism and embracing willingness
Spirituality and love at the center of anti-racism and social justice movements
Healing shame to let down barriers and form true relationships
Stories of healing from Porsha’s work
The importance of self-forgiveness
All about Porsha’s upcoming deep dive series, “Can You Hear Me?” (Links below)
How Porsha overcomes fear and doubt and anchors back into her roots and reasons behind this work
A beautiful song to remember our connection to spirit
Links in this episode:
Join Porsha for one of her upcoming deep dives:
Song Power Hour with Songleader Lyndsey Scott ( September 28 5-6pm PT): https://fb.me/e/1KfDTZtFL
Can you Hear me deep dive 1( October 1, 12-2 pm PT): https://fb.me/e/3QDkZhoMP
Can You Feel Me? deep dive 2 (October 7, 5-7pm PT): https://fb.me/e/20vk01lUX
Can You Hold Me? deep dive 3 (October 15, 12-2pm PT): https://fb.me/e/2JJSm0kRv
Stay in Touch with Porsha:
You can connect with Porsha, register for her offerings and learn more about her work at info.canyouhearme@gmail.com
Instagram: @porshabeed
Facebook: porshabeed
Holistic Resistance - https://www.holisticresistance.com
Grief to Action - https://www.grieftoaction.com
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Porsha Beed (she/her) is a co-founder of Holistic Resistance and Grief to Action. Porsha is a practitioner of love, grief work, and deep heart/soul work. She is a mentor, love prophet, poet, spiritual healer and facilitator who pulls from a spiritual ancestral lineage and the earth as guides to support and hold her as she works towards a vision of healing work that aids in the dismantling of racism and oppression. She weaves her African heritage and queer experiences into seeds that she sows in her authentic creative expressions through facilitation, ritual practices, poetry, and song.
After spending years preparing for motherhood and holding space for women to heal their womb and their own birth stories it's such an honor to share our birth story with you today.
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As I am about to cross the threshold into motherhood, I sat down to speak with mother, ceremonialist, and birthkeeper Gabriella Cerince. (You can also listen to our last episode from 2020 on Ceremony, Seasons, & the Modern Witch right here).
Gabriella shares her birth story (with her now 6-month old daughter,) and the fine line one walks between fear, trust & intuition in the process, and how she was invited to set boundaries both during and after birth as she stepped into her new role as Mother.
Gabriella has great reverence for mothers, women and mothers-to-be and is working towards a world where our direct line of connection to our mothers and Earth mother can be healed and tended to. This conversation reminds of connecting to our innate power as women as we walk through potent initiations in a full-spectrum life…
In this episode we discussed:
Gabriella’s home birth story
The initiations & mysteries of pregnancy
What Gabriella is learning through motherhood
How Birth is an opportunity to heal our lineages and the World
How Gabriella is navigating her Mother Wound as a new mother