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Awaken your power.
by Keri Mangis
You’ve outgrown the status quo. You’re done with surface solutions. You want real change—inside and out. Awaken Your Power is your invitation to shed the layers that keep you from your truest power. Join Keri Mangis for episodes that are part truth-telling, part myth-busting, and 100% soul-awakening.
Episodes
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The Integration of Sexuality, Soma, Soul, and Service
Awaken Your Power — The Integration of Sexuality, Soma, Soul, and Service (with Dr. Elizabeth Willis) In this episode of Awaken Your Power, host Keri Mangis is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Willis, visionary educator, author, and Director of the Institute of New Paradigm Intimacy, for a rich and...
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Presence, Power, and Belonging to Ourselves
Awaken Your Power — Presence, Power, and Belonging to Ourselves (with Mellara Gold) In this episode of Awaken Your Power, host Keri Mangis sits down with Mellara Gold, a longtime meditation and mindful yoga teacher whose work centers on awareness, self-compassion, and embodied presence in a…
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Mental Illness? Or a Spiritual Emergency?
In this powerful and paradigm-shifting episode of Awaken Your Power, Keri speaks with Sean Blackwell, author of Bipolar Awakenings and creator of the Bipolar Awakenings project. Sean’s work courageously challenges the dominant psychiatric narrative, offering a radically different lens on bipolar...
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Claiming Your Voice and Your Space
In this episode of Awaken Your Power, Keri is joined by Karen Laos—speaker, coach, confidence cultivator, and host of the Ignite Your Confidence podcast. Karen has spent 25 years as a trusted C-suite advisor and keynote speaker for companies like Google, Starbucks, and NASA, and is the author of...
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The Feminine Path to Power, Healing, and Community
In this episode of Awaken Your Power, Keri talks with Maureen Spielman—spiritual psychology coach and host of the Mystical Sisterhood podcast—about what it really means to live from unity consciousness in a world that feels more divided than ever. They explore how our inner work ripples out into...
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Yoga as Self-Inquiry
Episode Description In this conversation, Keri sits down with yoga teacher and clinical social worker Karen DeBaun, owner of Yoga Moodra, to explore yoga as a practice for living—not just another form of exercise. They talk about midlife beginnings, healing from trauma, and how yoga can become a...
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Menopause: Women's Third Rite of Passage
Episode Summary In this episode of Awaken Your Power, Keri talks with Maree Lipschitz—speaker, facilitator, writer, and lifelong spiritual seeker—about the radical cultural power of female rites of passage. Drawing from decades of work with girls and women at puberty, motherhood, and menopause,...
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Awakening into Sovereignty
Awakening Into Sovereignty with Aaron Scott In this episode, Keri Mangis is joined by author and systems-thinker Aaron Scott for a far-reaching conversation about what it means to awaken inside a world built on inherited myths, conditioning, and collective illusions. Drawing from his background…
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Inner Alchemy for a Fractured World
Awaken Your Power — Episode: From Block to Powerful (with Cheryl Stelte) Episode Overview In this deeply insightful conversation, Cheryl Stelte joins Keri to explore what it means to move from block to powerful. A spiritual coach, master healer, and author of From Block to Powerful: The Spiritual...
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Awaken Your Gifts
In this conversation, writing coach and author Amy Hallberg joins Keri to explore how we awaken power by claiming our gifts—especially in times of upheaval. They trace Amy’s journey from “upholder” to norm-breaker, the humbling wisdom of being an exchange student in West Germany, and why language...
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The Alchemy of Menopause
Episode summary Menopause advocate and life strategist Zapheria Bell joins Keri to reframe midlife as a profound alchemical journey. Drawing on her “Five Passages of Menopause,” Zapheria bridges science and soul—neuroscience-informed tools, emotional clearing, and what she calls...
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Asking the Why, Bringing the How
Episode Summary In this season finale, host Keri Mangis reflects on the powerful conversations from Season 3 of Awaken Your Power. Throughlines emerge from her five incredible guests: the courage to question the status quo, to keep asking why, and to follow not just the mind but the heart and…
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All of the Truth
Jen Veralle — event experience strategist; founder of Spark Track and Mindful Drinking Movement; co-founder of Sauna & Sobriety; TEDx speaker (“Why We Should Rethink Drinking Culture”); eleven years alcohol-free and an advocate for inclusive, alcohol-optional social spaces. Episode snapshot After...
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SheBang - The Power of the (Meno) Pause
🎙️ Episode Title: Not Your Mama’s Menopause: Redefining Midlife with Shebang 🗓️ Episode Summary: In this powerful, candid, and laugh-out-loud episode of Awaken Your Power, I'm joined by Lori and Doty—founders of Shebang, the bold and unapologetic voice redefining the midlife experience for…
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Galina Singer - Disrupting Relationship, Reclaiming the Self
Guest: Galina Singer | Coach, Writer, Soulful Disruptor https://galinasinger.com/ | IG: @galinasinger 🌟 Episode Summary In this bold and deeply honest conversation, Keri welcomes coach and writer Galina Singer to explore what it really means to live beyond the status quo. Together, they examine...
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Kristi Hemmer - Reclaiming Moxie: How Women Shrink—and How to Stop
🎙️ Episode Title: Reclaiming Moxie: How Women Shrink—and How to Stop 🪷 Episode Summary: In this empowering and insightful episode, Keri sits down with social entrepreneur, educator, and unapologetic change-maker Kristi Hemmer. Together, they explore what it means for women and girls to...
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Anna Dannfelt - Menopause Is Not a Disease, it's a Transformation
🎙️ Episode Title: Menopause Is Not a Disease—It’s a Rite of Passage 🪷 Episode Summary: In this fierce and freeing conversation, Keri is joined by veteran aromatherapist, coach, and wise woman Anna Denfeld to reclaim menopause as the sacred transformation it truly is. Together they dismantle…
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What Power Really Means (and What It Doesn’t)
Welcome to the season 3 of Awaken Your Power. In a world that rewards fitting in and staying small, what does it really mean to step into your power? In this solo opening, I dig into the myths and misunderstandings about power that keep so many of us from living fully. Is power the same as…
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The Power of the Liminal Spaces
Episode Title: The Power of Liminal Spaces Host: Keri Mangis Main Topics: Understanding Liminal Spaces: [05:00] Definition and emotional resonance of being "in between" states, the challenge and beauty of transitions. Cultural Context and Historical Insight: [12:30] Discusses how different…
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Embodying Soul Audiobook...
Dear Power Source subscribers, It has been a long, busy, hot summer so far! My newsletter has surely fallen down on the list of priorities! However, I have remained busy. I’ve been writing articles for Spirituality & Health Magazine, which you can check out here. I’m also writing two columns for...
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🎧Audio Guided Tonglen
We are living in a time of immense confusion, pain, and disconnect. When there are horrors in every direction, it overwhelms us, and can cause us to feel like there’s nothing we can do. It can lull us into numbness. Hopelessness is a dangerous emotion. It’s very easy to get caught in a cycle of...
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Daily Evening Meditation
Dear Power Source Subscribers: You didn’t think I’d give you a morning meditation without also offering an evening meditation, did you? 🙃 Bookend your days with these two guided meditations, and notice the shifts in your mindset, well-being, and even productivity. Namaste, Keri Get full access…
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Daily Morning Meditation
Of all the good habits you can put into place, taking just a few moments in the morning to get grounded and set your intentions can make all the difference between a day where you always feel a step behind and a day when you feel unstoppable. This AM meditation is just 11 minutes. I encourage you...
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The Three Stages of Personal Transformation
An overview of the three primary stages of alchemical transformation.
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How to Practice Metta (Loving-Kindness)
In times of uncertainty, the most important thing we can do for ourselves is be kind. In this brief 10 minute audio, I offer three Metta phrases to help you find peace, safety, acceptance, and compassion in a shifting, changing world. Take some time to listen, and then start practicing repeating...
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Developing Resilience in Times of Adversity
Dear Power Source subscribers: Here’s an audio post for you this week on resiliency. I especially had all of you stoic Midwesterners in mind, ;) but also, anyone who has a tendency to push through instead of flow with adversity. I talk about the differences between perseverance, endurance, and...
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The Power of Ignoring Every Belief You’ve Ever Believed – S2 01
"What if we begin at the beginning? If begin with "maybe nothing I've ever been told is true," then the possibility is that we can start to deconstruct some of the ladder of belief that we've been attached to, We can start freeing ourselves up to explore other places and opportunities and ideas…
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Seeking Cultural Change Through Individual Change
"And if we've learned anything, we have learned that there is no warrior coming to save us. That real life is not like the movies. There is no one person that is assigned to save the world and let the rest of us just go on living our life. It's here, it's now, change is upon us." Get full access…
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The Five Necessary Ingredients to Cultivating Wisdom
We're not here to rest. We're here to grow wiser, we're here to ask ourselves the hard questions. We're here to look at our dark sides and our shadow sides, and our blind spots. Those are the keys to developing even greater wisdom, and then sharing that with others—not through our words...
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Why NOW is the Best Time to Wake Up
wake up Waking up is not just about us. It's not just about an individual. Waking up might be a an individual journey, but the result of our waking in our own lives is a gift to the collective society and it guides the energy for where society moves next. If you would like to actively participate...
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Practicing Mindfulness for Transformation & Self-Understanding
"My mindfulness is largely a practice of curiosity. It's a practice of wonderment and wondering about this process of being human about the interconnectedness between all of us, and how certain people come into our lives and why they do and how this or that person triggers us. Isn't that...
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The Power of Discomfort: Lowering Resistance to Transformation
"Discomfort allows us to move inward, to reflect, to consider to contemplate, so that we can change and we can adjust and grow through that discomfort." Get full access to The Power Source at kerimangisauthor.substack.com/subscribe
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We Won’t Break: Building Emotional Resiliency & Equanimity
Part of a journey to wholeness, part of a journey to awakening power, is to expand our emotional experience so that we become fuller, more whole human beings. That's what my work is all about. That's what this podcast is all about. And I dare to say that that is what this time is asking us to do....
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Investing in Creativity & Curiosity During Times of Crisis
I'm so glad to be able to do this podcast right now. It means so much to be able to chew through some of these difficult things that are going around in our head as we all deal with the effects of the Coronavirus. If you are an artist or creative or a visionary or a leader in any capacity right...
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When Growth Looks More Like Unravelling: Navigating COVID-19
Think of this period of time as a form of revelation, as a form of truth now coming to the surface because it can't be hidden under business. It can't be hidden under power. And we can't hide. Our true selves are going to come to the surface. Get full access to The Power Source at...
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Our Stories: Find the Healing; Share the Value
It's really important to go write right now. It' doesn't matter what shape it takes in the end. You have a thought, write it down, save it for yourself. And you can come back to it later. And maybe the only point of that thought was that it comforted you right now. And maybe it's something more,...
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Who Am I Really: Discussion on Identity + Yoga Nidra
This podcast is divided into 2 parts—the first 15 minutes are devoted to a discussion on identity. Starting at about the 15 minute mark, I transition into a 30-minute Yoga Nidra —a long, guided meditation through the Koshas—the "sheaths" or "layers" of the body. I wanted to do this episode today,...
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Awaken Your Magic: Heal Yourself, Align with Your Values, and Change the Culture.
Introduction 2:08 About Emily's Book - Damsel No More: The Secret to Slaying Your Anxiety and Loving Again After an Abusive Relationship. 4:45 Healing Through Writing - Gaining Perspective & Forgiveness 7:39 - Why Healing Doesn't have to be Painful 10:12 - Life Stories as Goldmines 11:08 -...
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The Power of Living & Sharing Truth
Authenticity is a willingness to pursue your interests, your values, what makes you happy, and then also a willingness to speak your truth and express your needs without apologizing for it. Get full access to The Power Source at kerimangisauthor.substack.com/subscribe
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Navigating A Dark Night of the Soul
You did not choose this life for it to be easy. You did not choose this life to escape or get by on habit and routine. You wanted to come here to change, to evolve, to grow, and to learn. And sometimes just because of the nature of life, things get backed up. We've been on autopilot for way too...
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Honesty, Authenticity & the Willingness to Keep Going – 10
In this episode, Dyanne Kelley and I talk about what it takes to keep moving on a journey toward greater truth and authenticity. We agreed that it begins with deciding that we are worth saving. We also discuss the value of women's stories, the emotional challenges such as guilt and shame, and...
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Finding Strength in Self-Love & Sovereignty – 09
In this episode, I chat with my friend and founder of Mxe, Heather Corndorf. Here's just a snippet of what she had to say: "Heather: Right and that these are all the the core values are, these are internal words at MXE, and it's our vision. So, on the surface, it looks like we're, you know…
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The Power of Intuition: Family, Friends, Food & Work – 08
There's all kinds of information out there, but then there's also this incredible power we all have just innately, and that's our intuition. Get full access to The Power Source at kerimangisauthor.substack.com/subscribe
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Regenerating Power Through Silence and Solitude – 07
A lot of what this podcast is talking about so far is power as it relates to our place in the world—our courage to stand up for things, our ability to influence, lead and persuade, our strength as we move out into the world with our voice and our sense of personal authority. But there is another...
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The Power of Reflection and Hindsight – 06
Personal growth was not only for childhood. We are all walking around, wounded in some way. For this planet to heal, and for us humans to continue to evolve, we must begin ourselves. If we don't fully recognize our human stories for what they have to teach us, hoping instead, that by ignoring…
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Growing Power Through Ownership and Healing-Ep 05
Growing our power is a process of deepening our knowledge of ourselves and this world and our place within it. Get full access to The Power Source at kerimangisauthor.substack.com/subscribe
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Removing the Obstacles to our Personal Power-Ep 04
But now I've learned the importance of empowering myself. When it comes from within, it's a completely different kind of power. It is not a contingent or conditional power. It simply is a part who we are. Get full access to The Power Source at kerimangisauthor.substack.com/subscribe
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Anger’s Fire: How to Receive and Digest the Message-Ep 03
Anger's Fire "Anyone can become angry, that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way that is not within everyone's power. And it's not easy." Aristotle anger Anger is a challenging emotion…
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How to Slip the Grip of Reputation-Ep 02
Figure out what it is that truly will make you happy from inside and stop chasing after reputation and status, which are as transitory as a media cycle, as impermanent as a snakeskin. Get full access to The Power Source at kerimangisauthor.substack.com/subscribe
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Resisting the Pull and Power of the Status Quo-Ep 01
Resisting the Pull and Power of the Status Quo The status quo is a force of power that keeps a society stuck. But, to best challenge the societal status quo, we must first challenge our own. Why is it that as we grow up, we become incurious? As we move from childhood to adulthood, we slowly lose...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
You’ve outgrown the status quo. You’re done with surface solutions. You want real change—inside and out. Awaken Your Power is your invitation to shed the layers that keep you from your truest power. Join Keri Mangis for episodes that are part truth-telling, part myth-busting, and 100% soul-awakening.
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