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Alight

by Chara Armon

The Alight Podcast guides you in strengthening your well-being as you offer your soulful contribution to our world. Tune in for support in expressing your heart-centered calling. You can be a wise and creative presence in a rapidly changing world.

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Episodes

  1. Where I Am Now: Widowhood & Writing (75)

    Hear an update on the life circumstances I'm navigating now and my new offerings on Substack. Listen to hear: Who I am, what I offer to listeners and readers, and why. Your Soul Alight on Substack is a new free offering where I'll regularly publish my writing. Growing through Widowhood is another...

  2. Co-creating with Nature's Consciousness: Saskia von Diest, Ph.D. (74)

    Dr. Saskia von Diest teaches and facilitates nature communication. She holds a PhD in plant pathology from Stellenbosch University in South Africa and has deep experience communicating with plants and animals. In 2025 her organization, Ecofluency, won a Gold Award for Innovation from the EcoLogic...

  3. Root Cause Healing with Gonzalo Corts (73)

    After a health diagnosis prompted him to transition from working as a personal trainer and dietician to serving as a life coach and Conscious BioExistence Practitioner, Gonzalo Corts became an expert in decoding the body’s messages. As a coach and healer he specializes in helping clients discover...

  4. You Are a Tuning Fork: Sound Healing with Paula Scatoloni (72)

    Therapist, sound healer, and somatics expert Paula Scatoloni merges her conventional and holistic expertise to help students in her programs find integration and wholeness. She uses science-based sound protocols, along with shamanic, embodiment, and energy healing approaches, to support her...

  5. Channeling the Light: Rachel Pfotenhauer (71)

    From working in corporate to photographing child factory labor in Asia before beginning a longtime career as a psychotherapist, then becoming a channel of Earth and Sun through her company Vast Earth, Rachel Pfotenhauer now develops channeled herbal facial products and perfumes through her new...

  6. Collaborating with Spirit & Nature: Anne and David Darling (70)

    How did a fashion designer trained in Italy and a lacrosse coach/urban composting activist become married farmers stewarding a historic farm in collaboration with land, sheep, and plants? Tune in to hear Anne and David Darling’s extraordinary story of: Serendipity, guidance, collaborations with...

  7. Creating Your Own Medicine with Rabia Jones (69)

    Hear clinical herbalist Rabia Jones discuss her understanding of why “people really want to be able to heal themselves, more than ever,” and how this connects to self-empowerment and sovereignty. Rabia shares about her training with Dr. Tieraona Low Dog and: · How growing and preparing your own...

  8. Saying Yes to a New Chapter: Shan Massucco (68)

    Are you feeling guided to make a transition of some kind? Hear Shan Massucco discuss how. After two MBA degrees, a successful career in the beauty industry, a stroke in her 30s, and an eventual transition to working as a healer and shaman, Shan affirms: “Every human being has these abilities…

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  9. A physician's perspective on energy medicine: Dr. Dalia Elimam (67)

    Hear Dr. Dalia Elimam, an Egyptian pediatrician turned energy medicine expert, speak about the wholeness she feels as she practices both conventional medicine and energy medicine. Listen to Dr. Dalia describe: Her path of high-level conventional medicine training The surprising circumstance that...

  10. Transform your work & health: Janet Doerr (66)

    How can your intuition transform your work & life? Janet Doerr is a Medical Intuitive, Master Energy Healer, and Ascension Guide who uses her multidimensional gifts of perception, connection with the Company of Heaven, and range of healing techniques to provide transformative results for her...

  11. Light Up Our World! (65)

    Welcome to the launch of the Alight Podcast! Our episodes bolster your optimism and clarity, offer you practical skills for soulful self-care and conscious creativity, and encourage you to know and be your authentic, soulful self. We’re living in a time of great shift for people and Earth, so…

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  12. Update on the Podcast and a New Offering (64)

    Hear an update on the podcast, why the podcast has been on pause, and what my new offering is. Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes. Follow The Alight Institute on Instagram at @alight.institute...

  13. Grounding to Earth for Transformation with Rachael Te Wano (63)

    Whether Rachael Te Wano is in sessions with clients or leading travel to sacred lands, she shares tools of embodiment and self-activation. She helps her clients align with their highest potential, unravel the threads of their destiny, heal at the origin, and activate the inherent wisdom within...

  14. Manifest a Healed World: Abiola Abrams (62)

    Can we create our reality? Hear renowned coach Abiola Abrams and Chara discuss: Why it matters for us to take full responsibility for our lives and manifest consciously, not unconsciously. Why it’s important to realize that the mindset and manifestation approaches taught in recent decades…

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  15. 61 Miracles & Losses with Our Animal Companions

    Hear about the miracles, acts of kindness, and learning I've experienced recently with the passing of my dog...and about the wild animal babies showing me life's renewal. Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes. Follow…

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  16. 60 Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos: Leah Rampy

    After giving presentations on the dangers of climate change, Leah Rampy became convinced that something was missing from the conversations. With experience as a teacher, professor, corporate and nonprofit executive, and leadership consultant, she began a decades-long journey to understand what…

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  17. 59 Remaking a World in Crisis: Osprey Orielle Lake

    Osprey Orielle Lake is the founder and executive director of the Women's Earth and Climate ActionNetwork (WECAN). She works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to…

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  18. 58 Animals as our teachers: Kate Neligan

    Kate Neligan is an equine-partnered life and business coach, healer, and animal communicator who is devoted to the human-animal bond. Kate pairs her intuitive gifts with those of horses and goats to help people access their own inner power and life purpose. She works with both high-performing…

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  19. 57 We're Called to Transform

    Do you ever think about how all cultures have important myths and stories about transformation? Tune in to hear: Why transformation is core to who we are as humans Signs of transformation already occurring in our world Why transformation is something we have to choose Why individual…

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  20. 56 You're Part of the Democracy of Frequency

    What does it mean to be part of the democracy of frequency? We all get to choose, in any moment, what frequency we are holding: rage or despair, joy or peace; fear or irritation, love or inspiration, discontent or gratitude. As we can learn from wise voices such as recent Nobel Peace Prize…

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  21. 55 How to Stand Tall Instead of Wilting in These Times

    Whether you believe our world is healing or floundering toward disaster depends on which evidence you notice. In this episode, hear me discuss the views of the climate experts I recently heard advocating for perspectives of hopelessness. This episode helps you consider whether you want to wilt or...

  22. 54 Courage is Contagious

    In this episode, hear inspiring 'good news' stories from around the world and how courage is contagious in the best way. Hear whose courage has lit my path. Then join me in reflecting on whose courage influences you, and how you want your acts of courage and regeneration to spread beneficially to...

  23. 53 Being an Advocate for Plants: Paul Moss

    Paul Moss is co-founder and executive director of The Plant Initiative https://plantinitiative.org a nonprofit organization started in 2020 that works collaboratively with others to advance respectful treatment of plants. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota in the department of...

  24. 52 Regenerative Collaboration: Principles & Actions

    In this sequel to Episode 44, Regenerative Collaboration in Science & Spirituality, I talk about how we can see the story of Regenerative Collaboration gaining strength in today’s world. Tune in to: Consider 4 Principles of Regenerative Collaboration. Learn 3 ways to participate: there are many...

  25. 51 Do You Feel Blocked from Contributing?

    What does it mean to you to contribute to regeneration for people and planet? Are you contributing in the ways you want to? And are you thriving at the level you desire? How can you translate what our podcast speakers say into your own life so that you and Earth both benefit? In this episode, I...

  26. 50 Let Informed Optimism Light Your Way

    Do you feel discouraged about our future on Earth but want to feel optimistic? Listen to hear good news about people around the world who are supporting one another and restoring Earth. Experience how your outlook changes when you're informed about signs of well-being and regeneration. Kindly…

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  27. 49 Architects of a New Humanity: Rhetta Morgan

    Reverend Rhetta Morgan is an interfaith minister, facilitator, artist and healer. Her work encompasses the intersections of spirituality, creativity and activism, all rooted in an intention to work and live in a more just world. She currently facilitates Anti-Bias work for the Anti-Defamation...

  28. 48 The Restorative Power of Endarkenment: Deborah Eden Tull

    Deborah Eden Tull is a Zen meditation and mindfulness teacher, author, activist, and sustainability educator. She spent seven years training as a Buddhist monk and has been living in sustainable communities for over 25 years. She teaches engaged awareness practice, which emphasizes the connection...

  29. 47: Shifting to a 'We' Culture: Nina Simons

    Nina Simons is the co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Bioneers is a nonprofit that uses media, convening, and connecting to lift up visionary and practical solutions for many of our most pressing social and ecological challenges,...

  30. 46 Humanity's Journey with Earth: David Nicol

    Hear David Nicol, Ph.D. eloquently describe the big picture of humanity's long journey of relationship with Earth and how we're now ready to create dynamic transformation to benefit all life. David discusses how those of us alive today are undergoing the personal and collective initiation of...

  31. 45 How to Connect to Earth for Mutual Benefit

    Listen to Rachel Pfotenhauer discuss how you can directly connect to Earth to strengthen your well-being and hers. This interview originally aired on the New Earth One Network in February of 2022 and is now available here on the Humans and Earth podcast. Kindly leave us a review so more people…

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  32. 44 Regenerative Collaboration in Science and Spirituality

    We’re experiencing a revolution in our understandings about how life on planet Earth really works. Hear why collaboration is actually how things are meant to function on Earth, and why that’s good news for anyone who cares about healing our planet and human well-being. I talk about what this…

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  33. 43 Choose Green Brain Over Red Brain

    Life on Earth is complex right now! Whether you are alert to refugee crises, signs of environmental damage and climate change, severe storms, health effects from air and water pollution, or social and political turmoil, you could make a list of a lot of things that worry you or even lead you to...

  34. 42 Blissipline for Thriving on Earth with Karen Lorre

    Karen Lorre helps people release unconscious blocks so they can have priceless results. She is the best-selling author of three books, Chronic Pleasure, Effortless Enchantment, and Chronic Pleasure in Relationships. Karen’s work has been endorsed by Deepak Chopra, Bruce Lipton, and Gay Hendricks....

  35. 41 Experiencing Plant Essences

    Do you know what plant essences are, how they differ from essential oils, and how to use them? And are you aware that energy or frequency medicine of this type is increasingly being documented by scientific research? Tune in to hear: Definitions of what plant essences are and how we can…

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  36. 40 Nature Communication as Cultural Repair with Saskia von Diest

    Dr. Saskia von Diest has been communicating with various forms of nature for the last ten years, much of which she spent researching how intuitive interspecies communication can be used in agriculture. She holds a PhD in plant pathology from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and her…

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  37. 39 When You Can't Save the Turtle

    This is a story about a way to respond when you feel helpless to assist the natural world but want to feel more empowered. It’s about an endeavor to save a small turtle trapped in traffic, and how to proceed when your efforts to help don’t go as planned. Listen to hear how to respond to the world...

  38. 38 Transform Your World with Nervous System Regulation: Dr. Cathleen King

    This interview is for anyone who is a change-maker, anyone who wonders why conflict resolution in our world seems stuck, anyone who has experienced trauma, or anyone who feels held back in your own process of inner shift. Dr. Cathleen King is an expert on trauma recovery, inner healing, and how...

  39. 37 Earth Care & the Language of the Heart: John Lockley

    John Lockley is a shaman trained in the Xhosa tradition of South African shamanic culture. He is one of the first white men in recent history to become a fully initiated sangoma in the Xhosa lineage. He is the author of the book Leopard Warrior. Find him at johnlockley.com Hear John discuss: How…

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  40. 36 Don't Let What's 'Practical' Limit What You Create

    Do you ever have the experience of suggesting a restorative, healing, or otherwise helpful idea and hearing someone tell you it sounds good but isn’t practical? We don’t need to let our sense of what’s practical limit our creation of solutions to the problems people and planet are facing. We are…

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  41. 35: Retreat and Vision with Earth

    Hear why and how to go on retreat with Earth. Whether you have half a day or a week available, you can retreat with Earth in your back yard, a city park, or a more distant location. Use your retreat with Earth to: Vision the regeneration you desire to see on our planet Inquire how you can...

  42. 34 Renew Yourself & Our Planet: Free online conference

    I've created a new online conference: “Co-create New Earth to Renew Yourself & Our Planet” You can learn about it in this episode of Humans and Earth. The conference offers insights and tools for creating flourishing for yourself, humanity, and all beings in the natural world. Our speakers range...

  43. 33 How to Access Earth's Stability

    As we emerge from the recent climate talks, enter the holiday season, continue to deal with the pandemic, and observe our world continually shifting, you can turn to Earth as a source of stability. In this episode I discuss: Why historians will view our current times as extraordinary. How even...

  44. 32 Consciousness Shifts for Regeneration

    You’re likely already contributing to the current consciousness shifts that are creating regenerative solutions for people and planet. This episode talks about the old types of consciousness we are outgrowing and the new types of consciousness that favor regeneration and well-being for all life....

  45. 31 How to Be Present to Earth and Yourself

    Are you living according to your heart's and soul’s priorities or are you caught in the busyness buzz? It happens to most of us. It’s a cultural problem of workaholism that strains our minds and bodies and causes us to ignore the needs of Earth, our life support system. In this episode, I share...

  46. 30 Rooted to Earth with Sam Pfotenhauer

    Sam Pfotenhauer is a Human Design reader and intuitive guide. Through her business Wild River, she facilitates spaces for inner inquiry and connecting to earth, body, and intuition. Sam is also an environmental lawyer. After graduating from Tulane Law School in 2017, she practiced as a securities...

  47. 29 How to Fall in Love with Earth

    As I enjoy the late summer and early fall abundance of fruit in my garden, I’m reflecting that those of us who are not directly experiencing crisis right now need to hold a space of peace, love, and gratitude to uphold all who are experiencing crisis. Like most of us, I've had my share of crisis...

  48. 28 Earth Tending with Amy Dempster

    Amy Dempster teaches about the healing power of the earth. Her blog, Following Hawks, is a resource for learning how to communicate with nature and share healing gifts with the earth. Together with the Spirits of the Land in the mountains of northwest Montana, she tends seven portals on the land...

  49. 27 Why I'm Going Back to Using My Real Name in This Work

    You may know me through the Humans and Earth podcast as Helen Claire Harmon. It's a pseudonym I adopted when I launched the podcast in August of 2020 to differentiate my work in The School for Humans and Earth from my work in higher education. This brief episode explains why I've decided to…

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  50. 26 Finding Your Resilience with Flower Essences: Ameya Cohen

    Ameya is the Founder of the Woman Rising Mystery School, an international school for women to re-member earth wisdom, ancient mysteries, and walk the Path of the Rose. Through Ameya's extensive training and embodiment, she expertly guides women to activate their Soul essence and awaken the Grail...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The Alight Podcast guides you in strengthening your well-being as you offer your soulful contribution to our world. Tune in for support in expressing your heart-centered calling. You can be a wise and creative presence in a rapidly changing world.

HOSTED BY

Chara Armon

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