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Today’s guest Andréa Ranae Johnson (www.andrearanae.com) is a vision-led facilitator and coach who works with coaches, healers and other service-based leaders who wish to amplify their impact in the world by bringing an anti-oppressive lens to their work. She has an amazing program called “Coaching as Activism” that we highly encourage you to check out if you’re in the service industry. Her work is all about exploring our leadership and liberation.  To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.

Another 4 episodes have passed and your host, Luna Love, is back to dive deep with you on the subject of “Self Intimacy: The Root of all Connection”. In this episode we’ll look at Luna’s '4 levels of Intimacy' and how simple presence, acknowledgement, and allowance with our experiences can lead to richer, more meaningful relationships with others and your environment. Luna also has recently launched her 3rd Annual Muse Mastermind, a 9-month transformational women’s leadership experience that you can look into and participate in that can support you in your leadership through self-intimacy journey. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.

Today’s guest Nathi Eustaquio (www.nathieustaquio.com) is an Transition Coach for Immigrant Women. She is an avid advocate for women's' rights and a proud immigrant herself. Nathi is the founder of "Empowering Immigrant Women". During her years as a counselor, Nathi found new instruments and techniques that combined with her experience as an immigrant were the perfect recipe for understanding the struggles lived by immigrant women. Her passion became to help women thrive and remind them how powerful they are.  To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.

In this episode with Elisa Iannacone (www.elisaiannacone.com), cinematographer and photojournalist with a strong focus on social justice, we talk about her latest project, The Spiral of Containment: Rape's Aftermath and her journey in personal healing. This project addresses the impact of rape through photography and sound. It will be displayed on Worldwide Women’s Day March 8-11th at the OXO Tower Bargehouse in London, alongside the exhibition book. Event info here (http://www.oxotower.co.uk/events/spiral-containment-rapes-aftermath/). To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.  

In this episode with Tamara Wilder (www.paleotechnics.com) we receive much wisdom from her array of personal experiences in the wildness of her inner and outer nature. Tamara is an educator and paleotechnologist who provides programs in ancient technologies, primitive skills, and ancestral arts to grade school kids and adult learners.  Since having a life shattering experience with an IUD 3 years ago, she has also been focusing on women's health and IUD Awareness issues and shares her experience here with us today.  To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.

In this episode with Brontë Velez (www.leadtolife.org), a black-latinx multimedia artist, facilitator and designer, we talk about worship, healing, personal journeys and making our healing processes collective and community based. Brontë's praxis (theory + action) lives at the intersections of critical geography, black liberation ecologies and creative placemaking.  She lives by the call that "Black wellness is the antithesis to state violence." Moving by way of this prayer, her work intends to compost the violences forged by environmental racism through radical imagination. This year this commitment grows through Lead to Life - a series of public rituals she is a part of to transform guns into shovels and hold ceremonial tree plantings across Atlanta and Oakland.  To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.

Another 4 episodes have gone by and in this episode your host, Luna Love (www.lunaloveleadership.com) shares about owning your personal authority, letting go of people pleasing and stepping into the embodiment of sovereignty as an innate birthright we all have. Much of this deep work is related to the decolonization of our minds and bodies, as we reclaim these sacred spaces as sovereign. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.

In this episode with Veronica Yanhs (www.desireslaidbare.com) we hear her journey from childhood to discover her sense of power and confidence through you’ll never guess it... submission. This episode is inviting the topic of kink forward to bring you to your edges. Veronica is the founder of Desires Laid Bare, a membership community where she helps people explore their kinky desires in safe and responsible ways. Harnessing the power of a guided experience into the world of kink, to a community where people on similar journeys can connect, she helps people from all walks of life explore what is fulfilling for them. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com. Listen to the episode anywhere podcasts are heard.  

In this episode with Sonali Fiske (www.sonalifiske.com) she shares her personal journey and passions that meet today’s societal need for diversity and inclusion. We had a riveting discussion about some pertinent topics on race, using our voices, and so much more. Sonali mentors underrepresented female leaders and supports women of color to take up more space through sharing their wisdom & traditional knowledge by sharing their voices on TEDx Stages, keynotes at a women's conferences and podcasts and radio. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.

In this episode with Shanda Catrice (www.shandacatrice.com) we hear her rich personal story and talk about how she came into self alignment, having your inside and outside match, core love wounds, psychospiritual connections to health and disease, as well as what what most fun finding out your love style. This was such a fun and moving call that we hope to have her back on the show. Shanda is a Certified Energy Healing Practitioner, Radical Love Coach and Spiritual Intuitive. She is a fiercely compassionate truth teller and visionary who inspires women to live and love authentically. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.

We are so blessed to have wise elder, Sweet Medicine Nation (www.sweetmedicinenation.com / @sweetmedicinenation ) on the show to talk about her generation’s journey in feminine leadership, walking in the Divine Feminine Era and the First Commitment we all have, to awaken the purpose within us.  Sweet Medicine is a Wisdomkeeper, Global Spiritual Grandmother awaking the Daughters and Sons of this Earth to their Original Instructions. She has been assisting for decades people of today all over the Great Mother with prescribed ancient rites of passage. This episode is rich with a natural wellspring of wisdom flowing through our guest. There are a few technical glitches but stick with us, it’s worth it. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.

We took a little Holiday break and are happy to be back with a series of new episodes this year to light you up. We start off with your host @lunaloveleadership is here to talk with you about starting off the new year right, living a full-spectrum life, and things to look forward to in Ladies Who Lead’s growth. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com. Listen to the episode anywhere podcasts are heard.

We love LRD! Lara-Rose Duong (@lararoseduong / www.lararoseduong.com) switches our tune to “Love is Money”. She shares her journey and family background that has supported her in her life’s work. LRD marries spiritual & financial practices to activate women's inner Rich Witch. She's a priestess, a belly laugher, and is guided by Love. If you peek into her natal chart, you will see that Chiron says she's here to help heal the collective money honey wound. With the divine feminine in heart, she is holding space to help shift our relationship to this beautiful resource. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.  

Ayana Young (@for.the.wild / www.forthewild.world) shares with us her journey from the privilege of the OC to tending raw land in the Northern California Redwoods. She speaks to her journey becoming an empowered earth steward, leading biodiversity enhancement workshops and facilitating educational panels across North America. We talk sacred rage, being wild, our love of the redwoods and so much more. Ayana is a lover and protector of wild nature. She is the founder of Sisters Bonded in Action and For The Wild, a Research Foundation who share the same name with the podcast she hosts. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.  

Today’s guest, Sunder Ashni ( @ashnilivingthedream  / www.sunderashni.com) invites us to allow the petals of our being to gently unfurl revealing each of our unique essences, so we can share the gifts we have come to give. Ashni is a Brooklyn born medicine woman, who shares her gifts through being a Flower Essence therapist, a Reiki Master, Light Language Transmitter. Her presence on our show reminds us to dance, feel, listen to one another, listen to ourselves and embrace our journey and innate gifts. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.  

Are you ready to be heard? Today’s guest Venetia Pristavec (www.venetia.com / @venetiap ) imagines a world in which everyone fully owns their own story and isn’t afraid to share it. Venetia is a startup brand storyteller, musician and all around creative entrepreneur who creates and amplifies narratives she believes the need to be heard. She is a work in progress and shares the journey of becoming through different mediums. Her most current incarnation can be found through her GLO album. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.  

On this episode we feature Charla Miller (www.beautyhealsyou.com), Charla is a beauty artist and author of the book Wonder and Beauty. She is here to share her story of healing through her intimate relationship with horses and how we can integrate beauty into our lives from the inside out. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.  

A treat for the storyteller in all of us, our guest this week is writer Mya K. Douglas (@writermya / www.writermya.com). Mya is an eleven-time, bestselling celebrity author who made history on April 4th as the first person to release three books in one day. She shares her personal story, creative wisdom, and how we really can write our own story and develop our own character in life. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.

Another 8 episodes have passed and your host Luna Love (www.lunaloveleadership.com) is here to share on healthy allyship, the #metoo movement, and what we can all do to show up in our inner and outer service work with greater alignment to our feminist values. She discusses the messy, not fun, things that come up and how we can educate ourselves on systemic white supremacy that affects us all. We look at ways in which we can walk side-by-side in these efforts together, with the willingness to learn. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com

Are you a boss ass witch here to reclaim and de-stigmatize your feminine power? Corinne Loperfido is (www.corinneloperfido.com). Corinne has always been about breaking boundaries and social norms. Whether she's making a costume or producing an event, she is geared towards giving people an otherworldly experience to open their eyes to new possibilities. Recently she began a new project called Pussy Power House, which presents interactive events and workshops by a community of women standing together to promote self love + personal expression while building community! To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com.