Beloved Futures

What if the patterns shaping your life didn’t begin where you think they did?What if the key to transforming them has been with you all along – in your breath?In this episode of Beloved Futures, Aubrey Morgan Yee sits with breathwork and trauma expert Alyse Bacine for a grounded and illuminating conversation on healing at the root. Together, they explore how our earliest experiences – from the womb through childhood – shape the beliefs, patterns, and emotional imprints we carry into adulthood. Through the lens of breath, body, and energy, this conversation offers a pathway out of repetition and into true transformation.…About Our GuestAlyse Bacine is a Breathwork & Trauma Expert with over 24 years of experience, and the creator of The Metamorphosis Method™ – a comprehensive approach to healing that works across the mind, physical body, and energy field.With a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and over a decade as a school counselor, Alyse combines clinical depth with intuitive precision. Her work focuses on identifying and clearing core wounds, including the Birth Story, Mother, Father, and Sibling wounds, allowing clients to create lasting change rather than temporary relief.Through breathwork, energy work, and trauma resolution, she supports individuals in dissolving limiting patterns and stepping into their highest potential.What We Explore in This EpisodeIn this deeply practical and expansive conversation, Aubrey and Alyse explore how trauma is formed not only through major events, but through subtle unmet needs, inherited patterns, and early relational dynamics.Together, they explore the role of suppressed emotion, the intelligence of the body, and the breath as a bridge between the conscious and subconscious mind – offering access to clarity, release, and integration.Key TakeawaysCore wounds – Patterns like “I’m not enough” or “something is wrong with me” often form through subtle unmet needs, not only overt trauma.Breath as technology – Conscious breathing brings us into the present, unlocks suppressed emotion, and bridges conscious awareness with subconscious imprinting.The body holds the story – Trauma is stored in the body and must be felt, not just understood, to be resolved.Presence as power – Healing expands our capacity to stay with ourselves, feel safely, and respond from awareness rather than pattern.Energy awareness – Becoming conscious of your energy allows you to shift your internal state and reclaim agency in real time.This episode is an invitation to slow down and listen inward. To notice what is repeating. To follow the thread back to its origin.Because healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about remembering who you were before the pattern began.With Love & Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan Yee–GUEST INFOLearn more about Isis’s work:Website: www.alysebreathes.comInstagram: @alyse_breathesPodcast: Reclaiming ConsciousnessFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What if the stories we carry are shaping not only our lives, but the future of the world itself?What if learning to work with story is one of the most essential skills of our time?In this episode of Beloved Futures, Aubrey Morgan Yee sits with storyteller, teacher, and visionary Leah Lamb for a rich and expansive conversation on the power of story as a living, animating force. Together, they explore storytelling not as entertainment, but as technology – a vehicle for connection, healing, and transformation. This episode is both teaching and transmission. It’s an invitation to become more aware of the stories we are telling, receiving, and amplifying.…About Our GuestLeah Lamb is a storyteller, educator, and the founder of the School for Sacred Storytelling, where she guides conscious creators in using story as a tool for personal healing, creative expression, and collective transformation.Drawing from her background in theater, filmmaking, wilderness studies, and healing arts, Leah revives storytelling as an ancient practice that connects us to Earth, spirit, and one another. Through her courses, retreats, and community spaces, she has supported over 1,000 participants in unlocking the transformative power of their own narratives.She is also the creator of The Whale Dreamer and steward of the Whale Dreaming Council, a gathering space exploring relationship, imagination, and collective futures through the consciousness of whales.What We Explore in This EpisodeIn this deeply layered conversation, Aubrey and Leah explore storytelling as a multidimensional practice – one that operates psychologically, spiritually, and culturally all at once.Key TakeawaysStory as operating system – The narratives we inherit and repeat shape our reality, often unconsciously.Sacred storytelling – Stories in service to life, connection, and the flourishing of future generations.Mythic language – Symbol, metaphor, and archetype as the language of spirit and the imaginal realm.Discernment of stories – Not all stories are trustworthy; sacred stories carry an arc that brings us home.Community & coherence – Stories of care, resilience, and interdependence as foundations for new worlds.This episode is an invitation to become more conscious of the stories we are living inside of. To ask:What am I in service to?What stories am I amplifying?And what futures are those stories shaping?Because the future is not only built through action. It is spoken, imagined, and remembered into being.With Love & Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan Yee–GUEST INFOLearn more about Isis’s work:Instagram: @leahlamb, @schoolforsacredstorytelling, @thewhaledreamerWebsite: https://schoolforsacredstorytelling.com/, https://www.thewhaledreamer.com/ Audiobook: Sacred StorytellingFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What if the forces shaping our world are not only external, but living patterns moving through us?What if healing begins the moment we can name what we are inside of?In this episode of Beloved Futures, Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Cassie Mitchell to continue their journey through Aubrey’s debut book, Our Beloved Futures. Entering the chapter The Golden Seal: Rendering Forms, they explore the alchemical moment within the chrysalis, where dissolution gives way to new form, and what it asks of us in this time of planetary transformation.…About the ConversationAt the heart of this dialogue is a powerful reframe: the systems we are witnessing are not separate from us, but expressions of patterns we have inherited and can transform.Aubrey and Cassie explore wetiko – a “mind virus” or thought-form rooted in greed, and disconnection – as an extractive orientation to life that shows up in scarcity thinking, hoarding, domination, and the constant sense that there is never enough. Through personal stories and ancestral threads, Aubrey shares how these patterns live in the body and psyche, and how awareness becomes the first act of healing.From there, the conversation expands into possibility:How do we rebuild cultures of care in a world shaped by disconnection?How do we relearn trust, relationship, and community in small, embodied ways?What happens when we choose kindness, even in the most ordinary interactions?What We Explore in This EpisodeThis episode speaks to the power of micro-moments – eye contact, warmth, generosity – as the threads that begin to reweave the social fabric. And they remind us that the future will not be built solely through systems, but through relationships.Key Takeaways:Wetiko as thought-form – Naming the extractive, scarcity-based pattern moving through individuals and systems.From shame to awareness – Seeing these patterns within ourselves as the beginning of freedom.Cultures of care – Rebuilding trust, connection, and relational life in a fragmented world.Community as practice – Small acts of kindness and presence as foundational to collective healing.Remembering our genius – Each person carries a unique, living intelligence that does not conform to standardized definitions of success.Parenting & presence – “See the child in front of you” as a guiding principle for nurturing authentic expression.New futures of work & value – Questioning systems that only value what can be monetized, and imagining economies that support creativity and flourishing.As the episode closes, Aubrey offers a powerful invocation:“Become a freedom writer. A poet of peace. We are consciousness itself becoming self-aware… Devote yourself to the critical work of self-forgiveness.”This is the work of the golden seal.To remain open in the midst of dissolution.To choose joy, even as the world trembles.To unlearn, unravel, and reimagine what it means to be human – together.With Love & Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan YeeFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What if the anxiety gripping the world is not entirely yours?What if this moment of dissolution is not the end, but the chrysalis?In this episode of Beloved Futures, Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down once again with her dear friend Cassie Mitchell to continue their exploration of Our Beloved Futures. They enter Chapter Two: Waking from the Nightmare – a meditation on anxiety, consequence, hatred, and the radical cultivation of inner peace during times of global reckoning. As headlines intensify and the collective nervous system hums with instability, they explore how to stay informed without being consumed, protect innocence where we can, and cultivate resilience not as rigidity, but as a grounded, bendable strength.…About the ConversationAt the heart of this dialogue is the chrysalis – the stage where the caterpillar dissolves into formlessness before becoming something entirely new. Aubrey speaks to this moment as an age of consequence, where both personal and collective choices are revealing their effects. This reckoning is not only happening “out there.” It is happening within each of us.Aubrey offers a powerful reframe: peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to move through conflict without creating additional harm.What We Explore in This EpisodeIn one of the episode’s most moving moments, Aubrey reads her poem from the chapter – a raw invocation of courage in the face of historical amnesia, violence, and moral collapse. Yet even here, the invitation is not despair. It is tenderness. It is choosing to meet this time not with hatred, but with clarity and love.Key TakeawaysAnxiety as frequency – Not every thought or fear belongs to you. Discernment is a practice.Homeopathic news – Staying aware without flooding your nervous system.The Age of Consequence – Personal and planetary reckoning as both challenge and opportunity.The Chrysalis Moment – Dissolution as necessary for emergence.Peace as resonance – Hate transfers; peace resonates with our original nature.Response-ability – Releasing reaction to cultivate grounded, compassionate response.Small acts matter – A hug, a home-cooked meal, forgiveness, breath. These are not trivial gestures. They are culture-making.For anyone feeling destabilized by the pace of change, this episode offers a steady hand: Root into your present moment. Tend your inner life. Protect innocence where you can. Let peace begin as an inner resonance and ripple outward from there.We are in the chrysalis. And courage, in this time, is choosing love again and again.With Love & Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan YeeFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What if uncertainty is not something to conquer, but something we are entrusted with?What if the very instability we fear is an initiation into deeper relationship – with Earth, with our children, with our own souls?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee is joined by her beloved brother Chévanni Davids – father, founder, listener, feeler, and steward of the Reimagined Learning Community in South Africa – for a profound and tender inquiry into what it means to live in a time of volatility with reverence rather than control. Together, they explore how modern education conditions us toward certainty, productivity and control, and how reimagining learning invites us back into presence, relational intelligence and embodied knowing.…About Our GuestChévanni Davids is a father, writer, facilitator, and educator exploring new pathways for learning, community, and human becoming. Rooted in Ubuntu and regenerative ways of knowing, his work invites individuals and families to move beyond rigid systems toward relational, self-directed, and soul-led education. Through gatherings, dialogues, and immersive learning spaces, he supports people in reconnecting with curiosity, care, and the living world, helping reimagine education as a practice of liberation.He is the visionary behind the Reimagined Learning Community, based in South Africa – an unschooling network and educational space grounded in the philosophy that children are complete, autonomous human beings capable of directing their own lives. What We Explore in This EpisodeIn this expansive dialogue, Aubrey and Chévanni explore the concept of being “entrusted with uncertainty” as a sacred responsibility in our times of climate crisis, social upheaval, and collapsing systems. They speak to uncertainty not as chaos, but as the soul’s language – a portal into possibility, ecological empathy, and collective attunement.Key TakeawaysUncertainty as initiation – moments of collapse, grief, and disruption as portals to deeper coherence.Unschooling as liberation – shifting from certainty-based curriculum to life-based learning.Witness to “withness” – moving beyond passive observation into embodied allyship and relational presence.Letting go as ritual – releasing material attachments as practice in non-clenched living.For anyone parenting, teaching, grieving, navigating uncertainty, or longing to live beyond the spell of hyper-control, this episode offers a radical invitation: to soften the fist, to trust the breath, and to meet this moment not with panic, but with presence.With Love & Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan Yee–GUEST INFOLearn more about Chévanni’s work:Instagram: @che_reimagined & @reimaginedlearningFacebook: Re-Imagined Learning CentreWebsite: www.reimaginedlearningcommunity.comFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What if the future is not something happening to us, but something moving through us?What if remembering our place within a living cosmos is the beginning of true empowerment?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits in intimate conversation with her dear friend and longtime creative companion Cassie Mitchell, continuing the unfolding of the Our Beloved Futures book. Together, they open a deeper layer of the book’s architecture, philosophy, and prayer – exploring futures thinking as liberation, ecological belonging, and sacred participation in the ongoing creation of the world. This episode is both reflection and invocation – a remembering of ourselves as participants in a living Earth, and an invitation to imagine futures rooted not in domination, but in reverence.…About the ConversationIn this contemplative and expansive dialogue, Aubrey speaks to the courage required to remain authentic in the creative process, especially when navigating feedback, doubt, and the pressure to make one’s work easily digestible. She shares how Our Beloved Futures was never meant to be a conventional book, but a transmission – a frequency that works on the reader beyond linear logic.The conversation moves between the intimate and the planetary: from the vulnerability of trusting one’s inner voice, to the profound responsibility of recognizing that the future is shaped through imagination, relationship, and collective dreaming. Aubrey invites us to shift from the “modern mind,” rooted in separation and extraction, into an ecological or Indigenous mind – one that understands interdependence, reciprocity, and the aliveness of the world. At its heart, this episode asks us to remember: we are not observers of the future. We are co-creators within it.What We Explore in This EpisodeThis episode offers a deepening into the philosophical and energetic foundations of Our Beloved Futures. Aubrey reflects on the nonlinear, initiatory nature of writing, the chakra system as a map of collective becoming, and the power of metaphor – particularly the butterfly – to help us understand the necessary dissolution of old systems and identities. Woven throughout is an invitation into futures work as empowerment, imagination, and sacred responsibility, grounded in our relationship with a living Earth.Key TakeawaysWriting as soul retrieval – the creative process as a journey of remembering, integration, and transformation.Words as living frequencies – language as spell, transmission, and embodied experience beyond intellect.The chrysalis moment – understanding collapse, uncertainty, and dissolution as part of emergence.Futures as empowerment – recognizing our role and agency in shaping what comes next.Co-creating with a living planet – remembering ourselves as participants within an animate, intelligent Earth.For anyone moving through personal or collective transition, creative becoming, or the longing to live in deeper alignment with life, this episode offers a steady and visionary reminder: the future is not fixed, and we are not powerless. Through imagination, devotion, and relationship, we participate in the emergence of our beloved futures.With Love & Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan YeeFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What does it mean to remember who we are – beyond modern time, beyond forgetting, beyond fragmentation?What becomes possible when ritual, prayer, and sacred memory are restored as living technologies for our collective future?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee is joined by Isis Indriya – minister, culture creator, ritual educator, and bridge-builder for the Oracle Clan – for a luminous conversation on remembrance, lineage, and the living transmission of ancient wisdom. Rooted in Egyptian cosmology, Hermetic philosophy, and devotional practice, this dialogue invites us into a deeper relationship with ritual not as performance, but as prayerful participation in the ongoing creation of the world.…About Our GuestIsis Indriya is a minister, culture creator, bridge-builder, and fireplace keeper for the Oracle Clan. She is an educator of ritual, divination, Egyptian cosmology, and Hermeticism, and the founder of the Academy of Oracle Arts, a global school devoted to the restoration of sacred wisdom traditions and initiatory learning.Isis teaches and facilitates rituals and ceremonies worldwide, both online and in community, and leads pilgrimages to Egypt as a living classroom of remembrance. Through her temple space, she hosts community prayers and gatherings, holding space for reverence, transmission, and collective healing. Her work is rooted in devotion, discernment, and the careful stewardship of ancient knowledge in modern times.What We Explore in This EpisodeTogether, Aubrey and Isis explore the role of the oracle in times of transition, the responsibility of holding sacred knowledge with humility and care, and the importance of restoring ritual as a communal, embodied practice.Key TakeawaysRitual as living technology for coherence, prayer, and collective orientationThe oracle as listener, translator, and servant of life – not authority over itEgyptian cosmology as a map of harmony, balance, and sacred orderThe importance of lineage, humility, and discernment in spiritual leadershipRemembering Earth as temple and community as ceremonyFutures shaped not by domination, but by devotion, reverence, and careFor those drawn to ritual, ancestral wisdom, sacred study, and the slow remembering of what has always been alive beneath the surface of modern life, this episode offers a grounded and luminous invitation to walk with integrity, listen deeply, and tend the future as something holy.With Love & Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan Yee–GUEST INFOLearn more about Isis’s work:Website: www.academyoforaclearts.comInstagram: @isis_indriya, @academy.of.oraclearts & @studio_omariFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What if the future is not something we wait for, but something we remember how to co-create?What if our words, our bodies, and our imaginations are already shaping the worlds to come?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with longtime collaborator and trusted companion Cassie Mitchell for a deeply intimate conversation about Aubrey’s book Our Beloved Futures. Together, Aubrey and Cassie explore the birth of Our Beloved Futures – from its mythopoetic origins and shamanic writing process, to the moments of doubt, feedback, and profound soul-retrieval that shaped its final form. Aubrey shares how the book emerged not as a linear argument, but as a frequency – an invitation into remembrance, ecological belonging, and collective imagination.…About the ConversationIn this rich and expansive dialogue, Aubrey reflects on writing as a devotional practice – one that channels wisdom beyond the intellect and asks the writer to trust their own genius, even when it is not universally understood. She speaks to words as living forces, carrying frequencies that work on us beneath conscious thought, and to the future as a collective dream we are already co-dreaming with the Earth.From personal stories of creative vulnerability to sweeping reflections on planetary transformation, this episode offers a grounded yet visionary lens on what it means to live, imagine, and create in times of profound change.What We Explore in This EpisodeThis episode offers a contemplative glimpse into the nonlinear, shamanic writing of Our Beloved Futures, where the creative process becomes an act of soul retrieval and devotion to authenticity. Aubrey reflects on words as living frequencies, the chakra system as a map for collective becoming, and the butterfly as a guide through collapse and emergence. Woven throughout is an invitation to shift from modern mind to ecological mind – remembering ourselves as empowered co-creators, dreaming the future alongside a living Earth.Key Takeaways:Conversation as medicine – why Aubrey thrives in dialogue and relational inquiry rather than solo transmission.Density as devotion – how contemplative writing invites readers to slow down, breathe, and listen between the words.Trusting your genius – honoring the truth that not all work is meant to be legible to everyone.Words carry power – language as frequency, disruption, and re-patterning.Futures are plural – the future is not fixed, but shaped through imagination, choice, and collective dreaming.Ecological mind – remembering ourselves as relational beings within a living, intelligent world.Find the others – how authenticity becomes a beacon for imaginal cells to gather and build what comes next.For anyone navigating creative doubt, planetary grief, spiritual awakening, or the longing to participate consciously in what is unfolding, this episode offers a resonant invitation: to clean and clear the vessel, listen deeply, and trust that your presence matters in the shaping of our beloved futures.With Love & Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan YeeFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What if the intelligence we seek is living all around us – in the soil, in the trees, in the quiet, patient spirits of the plants?What becomes possible when we slow down, listen deeply, and allow the natural world to re-teach us who we are?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Jason Grechanik, a plant-medicine practitioner, tabaquero, and host of The Universe Within Podcast. Jason’s life’s path has been shaped by devotion to the plants, deep listening, and a humble willingness to let nature lead. Together, Aubrey and Jason explore what it means to walk a path of apprenticeship – the patience it requires, the honesty it reveals, and the profound transformation that unfolds when we meet the world with reverence.…About Our GuestJason Grechanik is a plant-medicine practitioner and tabaquero whose path began with a curiosity about plants as food, life, and medicine. In his early twenties, he studied herbalism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and healing traditions from around the world. This exploration eventually led him to the Amazon rainforest, where he spent nearly ten years working at The Temple of the Way of Light, one of the most respected ayahuasca healing centers in Peru.Jason currently leads dietas and plant-medicine retreats in Peru and abroad, working with Amazonian tree medicines as well as trees native to North America and Europe. He is also the creator and host of The Universe Within Podcast, which features interviews with elders, healers, teachers, and practitioners from around the world.What We Explore in This EpisodeIn this expansive conversation, Aubrey and Jason explore the profound relationship between humans and plants – what we learn when we approach them with humility, and what they reveal when we quiet the mind long enough to listen.Key TakeawaysThe path of the dieta – understanding isolation, silence, and fasting not as deprivation, but as gateways to clarity and deep communion with plant spirits.Apprenticeship as devotion – why true learning requires patience, humility, and a willingness to be transformed.Plants as mirrors for consciousness – how vegetal intelligence reflects the parts of ourselves we are ready to see and heal.Healing as remembering – the insight that plants don’t “fix” us; they help us recover our inherent wholeness.Safety, ethics, and lineage in medicine work – the importance of proper guidance, preparation, and integration when entering plant-medicine spaces.For anyone drawn to plant wisdom, spiritual apprenticeship, or the subtle terrains of inner healing, this conversation offers a grounded, honest, and illuminating glimpse into the heart of the vegetal world.With Love & Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan Yee–GUEST INFOLearn more about Jason’s work:Website: https://jasongrechanik.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasongrechanik/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UniverseWithinPodcast: The Universe WithinFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What becomes possible when the Dharma meets the wounded places of our world with tenderness, and also with righteous, necessary fire?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Mary Thanissara – Buddhist teacher, former monastic, author, activist, and carrier of profound devotional lineage – for a spacious, intimate, and stirring conversation. This dialogue becomes a remembering: of feminine wisdom long suppressed, of inner authority reclaimed, and of the Dharma as a living, breathing force for liberation.…About Our GuestThanissara began practicing in the Burmese tradition in 1975 and later ordained in the Ajahn Chah lineage, becoming one of the first Western women to join the siladhara order in the UK. She spent twelve years as a Buddhist nun, helping establish both Chithurst and Amaravati Monasteries and pioneering Dharma retreats for families and children.Thanissara and her husband and  partner, Kittisaro, live in Sonoma County, California where they founded Sacred Mountain Sangha Non Profit which hosts regular practice spaces, retreats, Dharma trainings and its emergent contemplative activist focus, Liberation Spirituality, to support a revolutionary Dharma to meet these times. She holds an MA in Buddhist Psychotherapy and is the author of Garden of the Midnight Rosary, a collection of mystical, devotional poetry. Her work integrates Dharma, depth psychology, trauma-informed healing, and sacred activism – with a particular emphasis on restoring the feminine principle within spiritual life and systems of power.What We Explore in This EpisodeThis conversation moves between the intimate and the mythic – tracing Thanissara's journey from early monastic life to decades of teaching, activism, and trauma-informed spiritual care. Through stories, lineage memories, and fierce clarity, Thanissara calls us back to an embodied, relational, and sacred Dharma.Key TakeawaysThe wounded feminine within Buddhism – how patriarchal structures shaped Thanissara’s early monastic life and why reclaiming the feminine is essential for collective liberation.Trauma, silence, and spiritual bypassing – understanding how traditions can unintentionally reinforce harm, and how courage, truth-telling, and relational repair restore the integrity of the path.Right timing and sacred cycles – how awakening often unfolds in spirals, not straight lines, and why deep practice requires patience, attunement, and compassion.The Dharma in a burning world – how Buddhist practice meets climate emergency, social injustice, and global grief – not as escape, but as embodied engagement.Whether you are a longtime practitioner, newly exploring Buddhist teachings, or simply longing for a more truthful and loving way of being, this conversation with Thanissara invites you into a deeper relationship with presence, integrity, and sacred courage.With Love & Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan Yee–GUEST INFOLearn more about Thanissara’s work:Websites: https://sacredmountainsangha.org/ and https://dharmagiri.orgSubstack: https://thanissara.substack.comFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What if the greatest awakening of your life came disguised as loss, emptiness, or collapse?What if everything you built was meant to fall apart, so you could remember who you truly are?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Peter Kennedy – entrepreneur, author, and seeker – for a deeply honest and transformative conversation about the inner journey that began after the outer world he built came undone. Once the CEO of a global company, Pete found himself facing the limits of success, addiction, and control. His descent through loss and plant medicine ultimately became a pilgrimage home to his own heart – chronicled in his book The Remembering: A Journey Back to Self.…About Our GuestPeter Kennedy is a father of five, entrepreneur, spiritual seeker, and author of The Remembering. Once driven by a relentless pursuit of success (culminating in the $140M exit of his tech startup), Peter’s awakening came not from achievement, but from surrender. A life-changing temazcal ceremony in the jungles of Brazil cracked open the armor he had spent decades building and set him on a path of deep healing and spiritual transformation. Through plant medicine, somatic therapy, and confronting the parts of himself he had long exiled, Peter began to remember who he truly is. Today, he is the co-founder of EvolveWell Inc., a conscious technology company redefining growth from the inside out. Peter’s journey is a testament to the power of letting go and the beauty of becoming whole.What We Explore in This EpisodeIn this rich and soulful exchange, Aubrey and Peter trace the contours of awakening through the lenses of loss, identity, and integration. They invite us to see transformation not as a destination, but as a daily devotion to awareness, love, and truth.Key TakeawaysFrom control to surrender – how Peter’s journey through Iboga and other plant medicines revealed the fear underlying success and control.The myth of busyness – dismantling the cultural illusion that productivity equals worth, and discovering presence instead.Love as the ultimate integration – the moment Peter brought compassion to the parts of himself he once rejected, he reshaped his relationship with his family and the generational healing that would follow.Remembering God – finding spirituality beyond religion, in direct relationship with the divine within.Authenticity as power – why embracing our “weirdness” is the medicine the world needs most.Whether you’re navigating a dark night of the soul, awakening to your true nature, or simply longing to live more authentically, this conversation will remind you that even in the unraveling, you are already home.With Love & Gratitude, Aubrey Morgan Yee–GUEST INFOLearn more about Peter’s work:Website: https://evolveweird.comInstagram: @therememberingbookLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterkennedy182Book: The Remembering: A Journey Back to SelfFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What does it mean to live in alignment – with self, with others, and with the Earth?How might restoring harmony within become the path to restoring peace on our planet?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Kumu Ramsay Taum, a respected Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) teacher, cultural practitioner, and visionary leader whose life work bridges ancient wisdom with modern systems. Together, they explore how Hawaiian ancestral wisdom offers a roadmap for personal and collective healing, and how Hawai‘i itself can serve as a model for a peaceful and regenerative world.…About Our GuestKumu Ramsay stands as a bridge between worlds – an Indigenous wisdom keeper rooted in ancestral knowing, yet fully engaged within the infrastructures of modernity. His work does not seek to escape the systems of extraction and imbalance, but to meet them, reweave them, and offer a path forward grounded in Aloha, accountability, and alignment. In spaces where metrics have too long replaced meaning, Kumu Ramsay calls for a deeper reckoning: not merely accounting, but radical accountability; not just reference, but reverence; not only return on investment, but a return on intellect, intention, and integrity. His voice is both ancient and emergent, advocating for economic and ecological systems that reflect the sacred interdependence of all life. Through a lens of peace, sustainability, and relational wisdom, Kumu Ramsay helps communities remember who they are, where they stand, and how to move in harmony with both land and law, spirit and structure.What We Explore in This EpisodeIn this powerful conversation, Kumu Ramsay and Aubrey explore the inner technologies of alignment and harmony, Ho’oponopono, and how ancient Hawaiian wisdom holds keys for navigating today’s fragmented world. Key TakeawaysHo‘oponopono as inner technology – the practice of restoring right relationship within, before attempting to heal what’s outside of us.Living Pono – understanding alignment as a dynamic, moment-by-moment attunement to what is proper and balanced in each circumstance.Mana as life force – accessing, rather than accumulating, the universal energy available to all living beings.Hawai‘i as the world’s spiritual navel – envisioning the islands as a global center for peace, reconciliation, and ecological renewal.Navigating multiple realities – reimagining time, destiny, and choice through the Hawaiian lens of cyclical and multidimensional awareness.Whether you are walking the path of reconciliation, exploring your relationship with the Earth, or seeking a deeper sense of purpose, this conversation will invite you to slow down, listen, and remember your place in the great web of life.With Love & Gratitude, Aubrey Morgan Yee–GUEST INFOLearn more about Kumu Ramsay’s work:Website: https://www.ramsaytaum.com/ Instagram: @ramsaytaumFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What if leadership wasn’t about extraction, but about regeneration—of people, culture, and the planet? What becomes possible when we root our organizations in joy, reciprocity, and nature’s blueprint? In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Jackie Mirkopoulos, a regenerative venture capitalist and leadership consultant guiding a new model of business rooted in reciprocity, embodiment, and joy.   ... About Our Guest Jackie Mirkopoulos is a regenerative venture capitalist and dynamic public speaker dedicated to shaping a harmonious future through her work in leadership development, her social impact fund as well as her newly founded leadership consultancy, Seven Neighbours.  Weaving visionary insights with lived experience, she challenges conventional thinking and guides leaders to align with nature’s blueprint in order to create thriving organisations, healthier cultures, and increased profits. With her trademark warmth and distinct sense of humour, Jackie invites audiences to step away from outdated hustle mentalities and into a state of flow, resonance, and co-creation with nature.  Her expertise spans health and wellness, company culture, land stewardship, and philanthropy - each driven by a deep commitment to building community and fostering meaningful change. With her captivating, authentic, and consistently engaging approach, Jackie always leaves audiences not only thinking differently but also feeling inspired and empowered to lead differently. Aubrey and Jackie met at Project Biome, where Jackie serves on the Board of Directors. What We Explore in This Episode In this conversation, Jackie invites us to reimagine leadership, wealth, and business through a regenerative lens.  One that honors our humanity, reconnects us to nature, and centers joy as a transformative force. Drawing on her personal story, body-based wisdom, and experience stewarding both land and capital, Jackie shares a vision for organizations that nourish rather than extract, and for leaders who are rooted, resilient, and ready to co-create the future. Key Takeaways Nature as blueprint for leadership – how Jackie draws from permaculture, embodiment, and natural systems to guide regenerative business transformation. From extraction to reciprocity – why true sustainability starts within, and how organizations can shift from burnout culture to life-honoring practices. Wealth stewardship in transition – the challenges and opportunities facing next-gen leaders as they inherit wealth and reimagine legacy. Joy as a regenerative force – why joy isn’t optional, but essential for resilience, creativity, and cultural change. Human-first systems change – how reconnecting with our bodies, emotions, and inner work is key to transforming business from the inside out. Whether you're a leader, a culture shaper, or someone dreaming of a more regenerative world, this conversation will remind you what’s possible when we lead from joy, reciprocity, and embodied wisdom. May this conversation illuminate the path you’re walking and inspire you to lead from the inside out. With Love and Gratitude, Aubrey Morgan Yee GUEST INFO You can find Jackie here:FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What if money was never meant to be a measure of worth, but a sacred current of life itself? What becomes possible when we remember our economic lives as part of a holy, relational web that includes all beings, seen and unseen? In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Pat McCabe, a sacred storyteller and spiritual visionary whose work bridges Indigenous wisdom, ceremony, and activism. ... About Our Guest  Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing.  She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human. What We Explore in This Episode In this conversation, Pat invites us to radically reimagine our relationship to money, land, and life itself. Drawing from deep Indigenous wisdom, ceremony, and personal revelation, Pat shares a vision for healing our economic systems and restoring a way of being rooted in fearless generosity, spiritual sovereignty, and the sacred hoop of life. Key Takeaways: Money as Spirit: Rather than seeing money as transactional or neutral, Pat introduces it as a sovereign spiritual entity—one that has awakened and now chooses to serve only life, light, and love.  Omnibeneficence and the sacred hoop – how every being has a unique role to play in the web of life, and what it means to live in right relationship with all our relatives. The Power of Ceremony & Spirit Logic: When we move from fear-based decision-making to spirit-led action, miracles become possible. Money arrives not through control, but through alignment. Unlearning the death ways – why the extractive systems we’ve inherited must be composted, and how we begin to return to life-honoring ways. Fearless generosity as survival strategy – what buffalo teach us about facing storms, and why soft hearts and collective courage are essential in these times. Whether you're a philanthropist, changemaker, or simply longing for a more sacred way of living, this conversation will open your heart, expand your imagination, and reorient your compass toward thriving life. This conversation is a blessing in itself. May it touch you in the exact place it’s needed. With Love and Gratitude, Aubrey Morgan Yee GUEST INFO: You can find Pat McCabe here: Website:  https://www.patmccabe.net/  EPISODE RESOURCES:  https://www.landjusticefutures.org/motherhouse - a learning & movement space for Mother Law & Complicit No More. FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

How do we move beyond fear and separation to reclaim our sovereignty and reconnect with the intelligence of the Earth?What if the key to human health is not just within us, but beneath our feet—in the living soil?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Zach Bush, MD, a renowned, multi-disciplinary physician of internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice care and an internationally recognized educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease and food systems. ...Zach Bush, MD founded Seraphic Group and the non-profit Farmer’s Footprint to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health. His passion for education reaches across many disciplines, including topics such as the role of soil and water ecosystems in human genomics, immunity, and gut/brain health. His education has highlighted the need for a radical departure from chemical farming and pharmacy, and his ongoing efforts are providing a path for consumers, farmers, and mega-industries to work together for a healthy future for people and the planet.His work in for-profit and nonprofit arenas is creating avenues for collaborative action for all stakeholders in our global community for a regenerative future of health for the planet and our children.In this conversation, Zach and I explore the ways in which our bodies, our communities, and our ecosystems are reflections of one another. We discuss the collapse of control-based systems, the disempowerment embedded in modern health narratives, and why true healing requires a return to sovereignty, coherence, and connection with the natural world. Zach offers a radical shift in perspective, moving beyond the paradigm of disease and survival into a new era of health, belonging, and regeneration.Key Takeaways:🌿 The microbiome as the foundation of health—how soil and gut health are inextricably linked.🌿 Why modern medicine is failing us—the dangers of pharmaceutical dependency and chemical agriculture.🌿 Regenerative agriculture & planetary healing—why shifting farming practices is key to reversing chronic disease.🌿 Moving beyond fear & control—how to reclaim personal sovereignty and health through deep reconnection with nature.🌿 The spiritual awakening of our time—why true healing requires us to step beyond outdated paradigms and embrace a new way of being.Zach offers a radical shift in perspective, moving beyond the paradigm of disease and survival into a new era of health, belonging, and regeneration. His message is both disruptive and deeply hopeful, calling us to step beyond outdated paradigms and embrace a future rooted in sovereignty, connection, and renewal.With Love and Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan YeeGUEST INFOYou can find / follow Zach Bush MD here:Website: www.zachbushmd.com Instagram: @zachbushmd EPISODE RESOURCES Farmer’s Footprint: www.farmersfootprint.usFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

How do we challenge the deeply entrenched systems of oppression while reimagining a future built on justice, wisdom, and reciprocity? What does it take to move beyond resistance and into the creation of something truly new? In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Pooven Moodley, an international human rights and environmental lawyer and social justice activist who has spent his life on the frontlines of the struggle for freedom, equity, and environmental justice. ... Pooven’s journey began as a young activist in the anti-apartheid movement before pursuing a legal career, starting at the Legal Resources Centre, where he engaged in landmark human rights litigation. He has since held leadership roles in Natural Justice (Executive Director), ActionAid (International Head of Campaigns), and Oxfam GB (Country Director, South Africa), supporting grassroots movements and challenging corporate and governmental exploitation. Among his notable achievements, he co-led the successful campaign to stop South Africa’s proposed nuclear deal with Russia, fought for women’s land rights in Africa, and played a key role in securing the UN’s recognition of the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, for which his coalition won the 2023 United Nations Human Rights Prize.  He is a Council Member of the ICCA Consortium, Chair of the Defending the Territories of Life initiative, and serves on the boards of Awana Digital, the Institute for Natural Law, and 350.org. As a co-founder of the Earthrise Collective, he continues to integrate legal advocacy, Indigenous knowledge, and movement-building to co-create a regenerative and justice-centered future. In this conversation, Pooven and I trace the threads of his lifelong work in human rights and environmental justice, from his early years in activism to his leadership in global campaigns for land and Indigenous sovereignty. We explore the deep intersections of legal advocacy, activism, and ancestral wisdom, the shifting energy of our time, and the profound spiritual reckoning required to dismantle oppressive systems while co-creating a future rooted in justice, reciprocity, and liberation. Key Takeaways: 🌿 The fight for justice and human rights—how Pooven’s journey from the anti-apartheid movement to global activism shaped his perspective on systemic change. 🌿 Dismantling empire from within—why legal advocacy alone isn’t enough and how we must also reclaim ancestral wisdom and alternative ways of being. 🌿 The Earthrise Collective and the power of gathering—how wisdom keepers, activists, and change-makers are coming together to seed a new way forward. 🌿 Sacred activism & planetary transformation—how ancient wisdom traditions and modern resistance movements are converging in this moment of reckoning. 🌿 The role of South Africa in the global shift—the deep spiritual and energetic significance of the land and the unfolding transformation happening there. Pooven is a beacon of courage, clarity, and wisdom, and this conversation is both a sobering and deeply hopeful exploration of what is possible when we commit to truth, justice, and the sacred work of repair. It is an invitation—to look deeper, to move beyond resistance into creation, and to step into our role as stewards of a just and thriving future. With Love and Gratitude, Aubrey MFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

How do we listen to the dreams that guide us toward a new way of being?What happens when women gather to hold the Earth in devotion and love?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Julia Weigert, a code carrier of the Sophia Consciousness, Magdalene Rose Priestess and Steward of Gaia....Julia and I met and became friends while in a circle of women studying the wisdom lineages of Magdalene, Isis, Morgana and other ancient Priestess lines. It is her mission to support women on the path of fully embodying their multidimensionality as living bridge of the divine and earthly realm. As a women’s ceremonialist and mentor, she guides women to live in tune with the rhythms of nature, reclaim their sovereign power and reconnect with their soul essence & wisdom. As Reiki Master Teacher and energy healer she holds and facilitates space for potent transformational processes allowing others to access their innate soul wisdom. Her true passion lies in being an endless pilgrim, guiding others on sacred sojourns designed to catalyze a profound exploration of self. In the embrace of ancient lands enchanted by magick, Julia facilitates experiences of expansions of consciousness and awakening to one's own purpose in the greater tapestry of the cosmos.  In this conversation, Julia and I follow the threads of a dream she had that saw women around the world gathering to become the beating frequency of Gaia. Holding a mandala as Earth transforms and becomes anew in the lineage of the cosmos. Key Takeaways:🌿 The wisdom of dreams and how they serve as guidance for our life’s path.🌿 The Magdalene lineage and its connection to ancient priestess traditions.🌿 Dragons as guardians of the Earth’s energy lines and the need to restore lost connections.🌿 The transformative power of sacred pilgrimage and working with Gaia’s ley lines.🌿 How to trust the visions and synchronicities that call us toward our purpose.This conversation is a beautiful reminder that we are all part of a greater cosmic weaving and that by listening deeply—whether to our dreams, the land, or the whispers of ancient wisdom—we can reclaim our place as stewards of the sacred. A beautiful conversation with a beautiful soul. Enjoy...With Love and Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan Yee GUEST INFOYou can find / follow Julia Weigert here:Website: www.soulwisdom.chIG: @soul_wisdom_by_juliaFB: @Soul WisdomPodcast: The Sacred Travel Podcast on Youtube, Spotify, AppleEPISODE RESOURCES Monthly Gatherings: The Magdalene Dragon MandalaFree Program: 22 Days of Mastering Your Creatrix PowersSacred Travel Experiences 2025: FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What does it mean to be a poet in the midst of the polycrisis? How do we find meaning in the mess humanity has created?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Sophia Rokhlin, a graceful, beautiful soul that is deeply committed to preserving Indigenous wisdom and advancing community-based conservation efforts....Sophia Rokhlin, MSc, is an author and aspiring animist supporting the conservation of traditional ecological knowledge through community-based solutions for land regeneration and protection. She is Community Manager with Ma Earth, and Development Coordinator at the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance (ASHA). Sophia is a co-author of When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance (Watkins, 2019). Her research and writing has been featured in publications and podcasts including the Duncan Trussell Family Hour, The New York Times, Acne Paper Magazine, PBS, BBC, and others.In this conversation, Sophia and I delve into themes of grief, resilience, and the beauty that emerges from collapse as we discuss what it means to be a poet in the polycrisis, the pain and poignancy of watching your beloved place (in her case Asheville NC) become the latest climate disaster zone, and how to find meaning in the mess weʻve created by finding a mess youʻre willing to devote yourself to.Key Takeaways:🌿 The power of grief as a gateway to action and a deeper connection to the Earth.🌿 How traditional ecological knowledge and animist perspectives guide meaningful conservation work.🌿 Lessons from Sophia’s work with ASHA and Ma Earth on community-led land regeneration.🌿 How climate disasters reveal the fragility of our systems—and the strength of our communities.🌿 The importance of choosing a “mess” to tend to in the collective work of repair and healing.This conversation is poetic, poignant, and deeply rooted in the sacred connection we share with the Earth and each other.  Sophia offers a graceful perspective on how to confront our global challenges with courage and devotion, which I know you will love! With Love and Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan YeeGUEST INFOYou can find / follow Sophia Rokhlin here:Website:   www.sophiarokhlin.comInstagram:  @sophiarokhlinEPISODE RESOURCES •When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance by Sophia Rokhlin & Daniel PinchbeckFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com/Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: https://aubreyy.substack.com/FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

How do we confront the destructive systems that govern our world while envisioning pathways to a sustainable, equitable future? What does it mean to transition from a death economy to a life economy? In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with John Perkins, the best-selling author of Confessions of an Economic Hitmanand a lifelong advocate for global transformation....John Perkins has been one of my heroes since I first came across his book Confessions of an Economic Hitman in the early 2000ʻs. This book felt profound and dangerous and I kept thinking it had to be fiction. It’s not. John is brave and bold and has shared with stark clarity the reality of the western, imperial, political-economic machine.As Chief Economist at a major consulting firm, John was advisor to the World Bank, UN, IMF, Fortune 500 corporations, and government and business leaders in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States. Before that, heapprenticed with shamans when he lived in the Amazon rainforest from 1968 to1971 and has since studied with shamans from many different cultures. His eleven books on economics, shamanism, and transformation includetheConfessions of an Economic Hit Man trilogy,Shapeshifting, The World Is as You Dream It,andTouching the Jaguar.They have been on theNew York Timesbestseller list for more than 70 weeks, sold millions of copies, and are published in at least 38 languages. John has spoken at shamanic gatherings, economic forums, and universities around the world and has been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, NPR, A&E, the History Channel, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Der Spiegel, and many other publications, as well as in numerous documentaries including The End of Poverty?, Zeitgeist Addendum, andApology of an Economic Hit Man.His awards include the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace (along with Lady Gaga and Pussy Riot) and the Rainforest Action Network Challenging Business asUsual Award. He is a founder and board member of the Pachamama Alliance and Dream Change.Together, John and I delve into the systems driving inequality and environmental destruction and discuss how we can shift toward regenerative economic models that honor life and equity. This conversation is both sobering and inspiring—a call to action for those ready to imagine and build a world rooted in love, equity, and sustainability.Key Takeaways:Understanding the death economy: a system rooted in exploitation, consumption, and short-term gains.Transitioning to a life economy: aligning economic systems with the well-being of all life.Lessons from Confessions of an Economic Hitmanand the courage required to confront entrenched power structures.Practical steps to transform systems of inequality into models of equity and sustainability.The role of individual and collective action in building a regenerative future.John is filled with the life-force of a man who is on purpose. Using his gift of writing to share the truth about empire and the web of systems that are destroying our planet and our humanity. You will love this conversation... settle in with a cup of tea and an open mind.With Love and Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan YeeGUEST INFOYou can find / follow John Perkins here:Website: https://johnperkins.org/Instagram: @johnperkFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

 What does it mean to hold space for liberation, healing, and the sacred during times of profound change?How do we navigate the dissolution of systems and empires while staying rooted in love and life?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee is joined by the vibrant and inspiring Rev. Briana Lynn (RBL) who studies, teaches & facilitates experiences on the intersection of ancient earth-based sacred healing, revolution, liberation & social justice, AND nature, eros, & magic.Rev. Briana Lynn has unrelenting passion for authenticity, equality, learning & deepening our connection to life, nature & The Great Mystery. She is an accomplice to the liberation of all beings through naming the polycrisis (ecocide, genocide, femicide, suicide, homicide) & by sharing her learnings as a part of the polyresponse (including but not limited to) anti-racism work, decolonization in personal & community practices, deconstructing the patriarchy in every facet of life, & personal trauma healing.Her current contributions include, international liberation teachings, key-note public speaking, 1:1 mentorship, large group facilitation, & overnight nature quests.Briana has developed a safe, liberating, inclusive & practical spiritual & social justice community space for Rites of Liberation in The Mystery Schoolshe started. She also offers a 1:1 year-long Rites of Liberation Mentorship for those wanting support in personal, professional & their role in systemic liberation.Rev. Briana Lynn is fierce in her compassion, she is pulsing with life-force and shamanic knowledge, dedicated to healing the earth and bringing humanity to our next evolution as creative beings in right relations with the more than human world.In this conversation, Briana and I talk about the rooted reverence field being co-created by Free Palestine, the meeting of this moment in America as we witness the necessary dissolution of empire and the commitment to LOVE and centering life that accompanies a deep devotion to earth and her mysteries.Key Takeaways:• Liberation begins with unlearning oppressive systems and fostering accountability in ourselves and our communities.• The power of connecting with the Earth, our ancestors, and sacred practices as a way to heal and grow.• How to integrate Eros and creative energy into our lives for personal and collective transformation.• The importance of creating spaces of refuge and safety for marginalized communities in the face of systemic challenges.• A call to embody radical hope, cultivate community resilience, and co-create a thriving future.I know you will enjoy this conversation and find within it the spaces of radical hope and radical accountability that are needed for the great turning. In this you will find your own invitation to your greatness.With Love and Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan YeeGUEST INFOYou can find / follow Rev Briana Lynn here:Website: https://www.theearthtemple.com/rblhttps://liberation-ms.com/Instagram:@the.earth.temple@[email protected] AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What does it take to steward the Earth and our communities through times of profound change? How do we balance the urgency of the meta-crisis with the hope of regeneration? In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee engages in a powerful conversation with Matthew Monahan, a visionary leader, regenerative farmer, and founder of the global initiative Ma Earth.Matthew Monahan is a dreamer who knows how to bring dreams to life. After building a successful tech venture with his brother early in life, he actualized a vision to build a leading-edge regenerative farm in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Mangaroa farms is now a resilient community food hub and education centre, transitioning dairy & pine into regenerative agriculture & native forests. Driven by his love of the earth and understanding of the moment we are in as a species, Ma Earth was born to hold space to “share ideas and build tools for planetary health and regeneration.” Simple and profound. Matthew travels the world meeting with leaders and innovators to understand how new and emerging finance technologies can meet the pressing needs of a planet in meta-crisis. He is a visionary leader who holds a powerful, calm presence in the midst of urgency. The kind of person you want to be in the mess with… and most importantly he is my dear friend.In this episode, Matthew and I talk about how to meet this moment with grace, what it means to be a good steward during times of collapse and how we can collectively rise to transform the systems that sustain life on Earth.Key Takeaways:The importance of transitioning from extractive practices to regenerative models in both farming and finance.How emerging technologies like blockchain can be used ethically to support ecological and cultural resilience.Practical steps individuals can take to contribute meaningfully to local and global regenerative efforts.The critical need for a cultural shift that pairs technological innovation with deep, systemic change.I know you will enjoy this episode. It’s full of clear-eyed confrontation with the toxicity of modernity and the hopeful truth that there are good people all around the world opening cracks through the trouble to help us collectively emerge into something else…With Love and Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan YeeGUEST INFOYou can find / follow Matthew here:Website: https://maearth.comInstagram: @maearthmedia @mangaroafarms @biometrustOther: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maearthEPISODE RESOURCES Matthew Monahan is bringing together the seemingly disparate worlds of regeneration and finance through his podcast The Regeneration Will Be Funded, a project of his greater vision – Ma Earth. Ma Earth recently launched its second round of grants to Earth Regenerators using quadratic funding methods with community crowdfunding on Gitcoin. FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

How do we reconnect with the land and pave the way for a just and regenerative future? What does it mean to rematriate the Earth and hold space for future generations?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Abi Huff, a visionary committed to community care, land rematriation, and creating systems that honor the Earth and all living beings....Abi Huff is a force of love. Her work and life are infused with the desire to see our communities thriving and our planet healthy. Abi believes there is much work to do as we direct our energies towards a Just Transition and bright future for all. Accessibility to resources is an imperative piece to building a stable foundation on which our communities can thrive. Abi is dedicated to the rising of future generations and movement towards a regenerative economy which holds our planet and all life sacred. This life affirming vision is the weaving of all of our movements and collective work which aim to create the shifts we wish to see. Abi utilizes her spectrum of experience, cosmology, and deep commitment to the unseen generations to come in her work with C.E.L.T. – the Center for Ethical Land Transition.In this episode we talk about the rematriation of land, the feeling of being with liberated land, the importance of deep listening to the more than human world and how to hold our children in the light of hope as we navigate difficult and often dark times. Throughout the conversation, Abi shares her personal journey—from growing up surrounded by a lush food forest in her childhood to working on salmon restoration and eventually leading movement-based work in healing and land justice.Join us for a conversation that is not only grounding but filled with hope, as we explore the sacredness of land, deep listening practices, and ways to hold our children and communities in the light of love and possibility.Key Takeaways:The meaning and importance of rematriation of land and why it matters now more than ever.How connecting with the Earth and her ecosystems can deepen our sense of belonging and healing.Tools for holding space for future generations, even in times of darkness and difficulty.The power of regenerative economies and creating land transitions that are both ethical and just.I’m so grateful to Abi and all she stewards. I hope you will find solace, inspiration and regeneration in our words... With Love and Gratitude,Aubrey Morgan YeeGUEST INFOYou can find / follow Abi here:Instagram: @_ethical_land_transitionEPISODE RESOURCES Center for Ethical Land Transition https://centerelt.org/Mother Law Starter Series https://www.landjusticefutures.org/starter-seriesFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Alnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and writes about the crossroads of politics and spirituality in troubled times. His work has been published in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, Fast Company, Kosmos Journal, New Internationalist, and the Huffington Post among others. Alnoor’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, structural change and narrative work. He is the founder of a community in the jungles of Costa Rica - Brave Earth: A Center for Applied Cultural Transition. He is also Co-director of Transition Resource Circle, Council Chair for Culture Hack Labs and co-author of Post Capitalist Philanthropy: The healing of wealth in the time of crisis.Most of all he is my hanai brother and dear friend. A person I turn to when I need to untangle my thinking about the world and my place in it. He is a guardian of the futures and a mystical anarchist, a philosopher and mythopoetic truth teller. A rare being, always becoming into a new version of himself. He is someone I am deeply grateful to be woven with in this lifetime… May this conversation move you to lean into your own becoming, so that your life becomes a prayer of purpose to the unfolding of the ages. May we all be useful to these times. Links:Brave EarthRewording FellowshipTransition Resource CircleRojava - Autonomous CommunityBooks:Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall KimmererIdeas to Postpone the End of the World - Ailton KranekT.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone - Hakim BeyDesigns for the Pluriverse - Arturo EscobarTiokasin Ghosthorse - Various writingsSophie Strand - Various writingsBayo Akomalofe - Various writingsLess is More: How Degrowth will save the world - Jason HickelsSociology of Freedom - Abdullah Öcalan Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble - Stephen JenkinsonFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Linguist, author and film maker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures, a pioneer of the new economy movement, and the convenor of World Localization Day.She is the author of several books, including ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’, an eye-opening tale of tradition and change in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”. Together with a film of the same title, Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 40 languages, and sold half a million copies.Her latest book is ‘Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness’. Other publications include ‘Bringing the Food Economy Home’ and ‘From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture’.Helena is also the producer of the award-winning documentary ‘The Economics of Happiness’.Educated in Sweden, Germany, Austria, England and the United States, Helena specialized in linguistics, including studies at the University of London and with Noam Chomsky at MIT. Her work, spanning almost half a century, has received the support of a wide range of international figures, including Jane Goodall, HH the Dalai Lama, HRH Prince Charles and Indira Gandhi.From 1975, Helena worked with the people of Ladakh, to find ways of enabling their culture to meet the modern world without sacrificing social and ecological values. She was the first outsider in modern times to become fluent in the language.She has helped to initiate localization movements on every continent, particularly in South Korea and Japan, and co-founded both the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.Helena is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Right Livelihood Award (aka the “Alternative Nobel Prize”), the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.”Helena has lectured in seven languages and appeared in broadcast, print and online media worldwide, including MSNBC, The Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian. She has written numerous articles and essays, and her work has been the subject of thousands of articles worldwide.Most recently, Helena was profiled in The New York Times, titled ‘What if Local and Diverse Is Better Than Networked and Global?’. Download the article: FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Hi beloveds,I’m trying a new thing that’s a little out of my comfort realms, a solo cast to share some of the thoughts that have been moving through me as I feel my way through these turbulent times. I hope it brings you a feeling of connection, of being seen and held. We are woven and weaving.Always.I love you.FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Ebyän is a visual storyteller and poetess of Somali-Italian descent. She is the founder of Mother Tongue and teaches at the intersection of decolonization, eco-sensuality, and feminine mysticism. Ebyän’s offerings are deeply inspired by the animist spirituality of her Nubian ancestral heritage, weaving us closer to the enchantment that is available in all Life. She is my dear friend and I am so grateful to her embodied wisdom in these times of the great unraveling. Join us for a potent conversation about decolonization, the dark feminine, art in activism and finding your voice in the midst of collapse.https://www.mothertongue.earth/@[email protected] AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Rutendo Ngara is an African Indigenous Knowledge Systems practitioner and transdisciplinary researcher. I am so blessed to know her as a dear friend and earth traveler. She traverses clinical engineering, healthcare technology management, socio-economic development, mathematics, leadership and fashion design; to the interface between science, culture, cosmology and paradigms of healing. She has a passion for weaving art, science and spirituality towards healing of the Collective and restoration of the Whole. She is a co-steward of the Earthrise Collective, a gathering of wisdom keepers sharing devotion to earth.FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Anu Gupta is a scientist, educator, lawyer, and the Founder of BE MORE with Anu. He is also my dear friend, and a fellow seeker of peace within and with-out. We met at Brave Earth last year during our time in the Reworlding Fellowship. Together we tackled the wetiko mind-virus within, delving with vulnerability into places of authenticity and truth in our shared quest to birth more Beloved Futures for the planet.Anu is a sought-after expert in breaking bias, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), entrepreneurship, mindfulness, and compassion. He has worked with over 200 companies reaching over 20,000 professionals. He has logged over 10,000 hours of meditation and developed "BE MORE wth Anu” - a science-backed, compassion-based approach after conducting decade-long research on the causes of and solutions to racial and gender inequality. He has spoken about this work at TED, SxSW, and the Oprah Conversation. And has a JD from NYU Law, MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge, and BA in International Relations & Islamic Studies from NYU. You can follow him on Instagram @mindful.anu.Links:https://www.bemorewithanu.com/[email protected] MORE with Anu - is an ed-tech company that empowers people to break bias so they can advance diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging, reduce wasted costs, and enhance bottomline performance in their organizations and communities. BE MORE with Anu envisions a global beloved community that embodies equity and belonging by breaking bias, healing trauma, mending policies, and channeling resources equitably.Breaking Racial Bias® is a five-week course by BE MORE with Anu where you can develop actionable skills to take systemic racism head-on and advance racial equity and belonging in your workplace and communities. Join our community of diverse professionals from around the world and transform systemic racism from the inside out.FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Layla El Khadri is an author, artist, dancer, international speaker and mentor, deeply committed to inspiring humanity to wake up and rise! Layla works with the Yin principles of feminine leadership to help women and men access their full presence and potential in this lifetime. Merging ancient wisdom with cutting edge studies, Layla’s work is some of the most transformational and activating leadership work available for those ready to take their mindset, emotional intelligence, and embodiment potential to the next level. In this conversation we dive into what this looks like in daily practice, how learning to skillfully surf the waves of your emotion is key to full embodied empowerment and what is needed to find peace in the world, starting within… Enjoy!www.laylaelkhadri.com@laylaelkhadriFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Chris Thorsen is a calm presence and a masterful elder who has advised senior leaders for more than 50 years. He is a pioneer in the application of Aikido, The Art of Peace, and Bohm’s Dialogue to the embodiment of leadership mastery, team synergy, and organizational strategy. Chris has developed a practice for helping humans intentionally generate and sense the energetic fields that support creative breakthroughs. In this conversation we go deep into the heart of leadership, energy and consciousness. Enjoy!https://inquiryintoconsciousness.com/FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Lynn Murphy is a strategic advisor for foundations and NGOs working in the geopolitical South. She was a senior fellow and program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where she focused on international education and global development. She resigned as a “conscientious objector” to neocolonial philanthropy. She holds an MA and PhD in international comparative education from Stanford University. She is also a certified Laban/Bartenieff movement analyst.More than any of this, Lynn is a sister, friend and guide to so many. She is a trickster, lover, circle tender and someone who embodies the beauty way with deep grace and elegance - and a lot of play. I am so grateful to her for her vision, tenacity and commitment to bridging from these worlds to the nexts.You can find her work at:www.transitionresourcecircle.organdwww.postcapitalistphilanthropy.orgShe is proudly not on social media...FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

What does it look like when we reimagine learning separate from the structure of ‘school’? When we admit that schooling is more about normalizing dominant culture than it is about seeing the children for their uniqueness, we can begin to reimagine the structures and containers of learning that serve more Beloved Futures. From Chevanni Davids, my dear friend and founder of Reimagined Learning:“Our times have normalized the compartmentalization and the siloing in people, thoughts, and practices. We live in a world overwhelmed by isolation and scarcity. This is an existence we refuse to live by. The time for Re-imagining is rife, We need one another more than ever. The way we  learn, live and commune is where it all begins. Reimagined learning is a community of Activists, Makers, Farmers, Healers, Rebels, Gamers, Hackers, Poets, Singers, Dancers, Painters, Researchers. Who is doing some MAD QUESTION ASKING...As to our times, specifically how we are learning and why we learn, realizing that learning was never mainstream but multiple streams and rivers that flow to and through a multiverse of experiences re-and context. We aim to support education that is rooted in restoring, healing, and Reimagining Life as we know it.”Find Chevanni on Instagram@reimaginedlearningorvisit his Websitehttps://vannas911.wixsite.com/reimaginedlearningFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Simi Shea has been practicing natural therapies and astrology since a soul awakening trip to Ireland in 1999.These lands awoke her to her healing potential and abilities, and so began her journey of rememberance. Starting with Remedial massage, over the last 20 years Simi has created a very specific tool kit to assist her and her clients return to their soul’s calling. She practices 13 sign astrology, also known as Siderial Astrology. 13 sign, Siderial AstrologyOur blueprint is mapped in the stars. From this we can see our life’s path, strengths, weaknesses, purpose, significant life transits and cycles. 13 sign astrology includes the lost archetype of 13 which was removed, but is here for reclamation again, the blueprint of our unique organic nature to dream in a new reality aligned with our souls’ purpose.Her mission is to offer ultimate care and assist others on their journey of awakening to who their truly are- by nurturing and supporting them to their unveiled, organic and aligned and most exquisite dreaming potential.To follow and work with Simihttps://simishea.com.au/@simisheaFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Dr. Zachari Cahn has been a dear friend and brother of mine for just about 3 decades. We met as young adults and have continued and deepened our friendship across space and time. A highly accomplished functional medicine doctor, he is also deeply committed to men’s work through the Mankind Project and holistic healing of relationships through counseling and coaching that brings together wellness modalities for body, mind and spirit. Zachari and his wife Tatiana (an equally accomplished and skilled healer) hold Masters degrees in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, the top rated accredited Chinese Medical School in the US and Doctorates from the Pacific College of Health & Sciences.  With over 6 years of training and 20 years practicing researched based natural compounds, acupuncture, herbs, nutrition, massage, western clinical diagnosis and pharmacology (drug/herb interaction), they are among premiere providers of alternative healthcare in Asheville. But perhaps their greatest accomplishment of all is a thriving, juicy, fulfilling marriage that is a life long work in progress, full of lessons and gifts… and their three beautiful young daughters. In this vulnerable and powerful conversation, we dive into the countless miracles that had to occur for us to even use words in the first place, the healing potential when having difficult conversations with our loved ones, the potency of deep listening and how, what Zachari calls, ‘life-giving interpretations’ can shift your mindset and heal the adversaries within, bringing freedom and joy into your life and your relationships. To find Zachari and Tatiana: https://www.ashevillealternativewellnesscenter.com/If you are interested in our 2024 couples retreat, email: [email protected] AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Seraina Duveen is a Mystic, Transformational Mentor, Peace Artist, Eros Temple Holder, Community Weaver and my dear friend. In this conversation we begin with the radical statement that “Peace on Earth is possible” and weave our way through how to access and work with Eros, what it means to make peace in world of chaos and violence and how to begin to move out of emotional stuckness into the natural and vibrant movement of your life force. She shares about her life’s work…“In my work I am focused on the creative power of an everyday intimacy with life, creating an ancient future of peace, harmony and beauty on earth.My offerings are here to serve humanity in its journey into soul liberation, remembering our inherent power of being alive Co-Creators with every action, feeling, dream and movement we are part of.I am the ignator and CEO of OŪN MOVIR / ONE MOVEMENT - Mystic Life Academy. I host a Podcast Series, organize Art Projects, Sacred Pilgrimages, Tantric Retreats, and am seeding the wisdom of a sacred life wherever I go. Since 1999 I offer different reconnecting and transformational events, currently writing a manifest in 10 units for a creative and holistic life.I have designed 10 different Online Courses all on the subject of our individual and collective awakening, remembering the healing wisdom within true connection and the sensual intimacy of a soul lead everyday life.My connective networks weave into different countries all over the world, co-creating with artists, activists, change bringers, leaders, healers, community weavers, temple holders, earth whisperers, ….. Humans who have worked with me share how their lives have been deeply touched, transformed and inspired through their experiences, returning to their innate wisdom, erotic joy for life, and strong will to participate within the human experience in its most alive way.”You can find Seraina and her offerings at:https://www.onemovement.earth/FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Justine Kiva Epstein is an organizer, facilitator, writer, naturalist, tracker, rites of passage guide, ad-hoc ritualist, council carrier, and bird enthusiast attending to the cry of the earth and people for ancestral healing, cultural renewal and systemic reimagination. In her own words..."I am descended from an expansive mix of peoples from the European continent, most prominently the British Isles, Ireland and Germany, as well as Lithuania and Russia of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. My ancestors crossed the Atlantic in many waves and due to many different circumstances over the past ~400 years. I am very much still in the process of uncovering the individual and collective stories of my people, both before their passages and after, and how their lives and legacies shape the world and my place within it. I live with an enduring sense of responsibility to uncover and acknowledge the truth of my ancestors’ lives and actions and the larger narratives and ideologies of racialized capitalism and dominance that they lived within, and in some cases built — and to do what I can with my time here on earth to reckon, grieve, heal and transform those legacies into something more humane, whole, and just.My deep longing for justice and the dream of a world of balance and regeneration have guided me to ask what is mine to do in service to healing, liberation and repair for myself and my people? I have found that the most meaningful and impactful work I can do is to turn towards my ancestors and the money I have inherited in their names, and begin to uncover their stories, and release that unjustly accumulated wealth into the communities most directly harmed by its creation.Over the past few years organizing with Resource Generation I have begun to redistribute my own inherited wealth and mobilize other people withwealth and class privilege to join me. I am currently redistributing 50% of what I have access to and am working to increase my giving in thecoming years while organizing my family and extended family towards reparative action and right-relationship with money, land and power." (Bio from https://www.morganhcurtis.com)Justine’s work and collaborations…https://resourcegeneration.org/https://walking-water.org/https://www.morganhcurtis.com/justine-epsteinhttps://www.morganhcurtis.com/ancestors-moneyhttps://m4bl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/defining-reparations.pdfhttps://www.morganhcurtis.com/decolonial-dames-of-americahttps://www.facebook.com/shadetreefoundation/FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Kamuela Enos is the director of the Office of Indigenous Innovation at the University of Hawai'i System. He was formerly director of Social Enterprise for MAʻ O Organic Farms, a farm that understands the ways that land feeds beyond just providing food. He was born and raised in Waiʻ anae on the island of Oʻahu. Kamu is a radical thinker and bridge builder, helping to translate the incredible intelligence of ancient/future indigenous technologies to the language of modernity. I’m sure you will enjoy this life giving conversation where we envision ways that indigenous wisdoms frame potent pathways guiding us towards the Beloved Futures. ResourcesOffice of Indigenous InnovationFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

My dear friend Alnoor is one of the most intelligent, articulate, prescient and generous humans I have had the privilege to know. He is an activist, journalist, political strategist, community organizer, Sufi mystic and psychic-architect of big dreams for our transition to post-capitalist, life-affirming futures of interdependance and grace. From 2012 to 2019 he was the co-founder and executive director of the global activist collective The Rules. He is currently the Council Chair for Culture Hack Labs, co-found of Transition Resrouce Circle and a visionary behind the incredible community - Brave Earth/Tierra Valiente, a center for applied cultural transition in the rain forests of Costa Rica. Alnoor breaks down the roots and rhizomatic shoots of the meta-crisis we face in this collective moment of existential threats to humans, other than humans and the planet. Offering pathways to become relevant and useful in this time - the time of the Kali Yuga - by harnessing the courage it takes to face our reality directly... with full compassion for our shared complicity. He invites us to see this lifetime as an assignment rather than an affliction. To take full responsibility for our place in the cosmos and our choice to be here at this time. This is a powerful conversation that you will not soon forget. "Your life is a comedic, shamanic, creative act and you must find your god-hood in the midst of the carnival."  ~ Alnoor LadhaThe Rules: https://therules.org/Brave Earth/Tierra Valiente: https://www.braveearth.com/Transition Resource Circle: https://www.transitionresourcecircle.org/Culture Hack Labs: https://www.culturehack.io/FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Chris Block is currently the Chronic Homelessness Initiative Director at Tipping Point Foundation. Previously, he was the CEO of American Leadership Forum (ALF) Silicon Valley. In all things he is a systems transformer and radical change maker. Armed with pure presence and an ability to move with ninja like grace through some of the stickiest systems, like homelessness, Chris helps us understand the practice of making space as a key aspect of truly transformative leadership. He is a student of Zen Buddhism and Aikido also as pathways to emergent leadership. I know you will enjoy this conversation with one of my favorite humans and a true master of Beloved Futures thinking and being.Resources:Tipping Point Chronic Homelessness InitiativeFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Bio taken from the Kahakulei Institute: Aunty Puanani Burgess is a poet, priest, aunty, and friend to many. She has been a community activist in the Native Hawaiian sovereignty movement for over fifty years. As the designer and facilitator for Building the Beloved Community - a process that brings ceremony, storytelling, and circles of trust and respect - Aunty Pua has shared Native Hawaiian practices throughout the world to bring healing and reconciliation. She served as the Myles and Zilphia Horton Chair for the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee and as a community scholar in residence at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawai'i. Aunty Pua is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest in the International Daihonzan Chozen-ji. I hope you enjoy this beautiful conversation with a wise elder whom I am very blessed to call my friend.“You want to make a difference? Then start by looking within.” – Aunty Puanani BurgessResources:A video about Building the Beloved Community made by one of Aunty Pua’s young studentsFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

Ashanti is an activist poet, decolonial dialogue facilitator, published writer, my partner in facilitation at the Culture Hack Labs Rhizome Fellowship and the founder of Learning 2 Unlearn  - a decolonial narrative consultancy. She was a prominent student leader at Stellenbosch University during the 2015/2016 #FeesMustFall student movement in South Africa. And following the 2020 #BlackLives Matter uprising, the idea for Learning 2 Unlearn was born.   Ashanti shares with us her experience of growing up as a young black woman in the relative comfort of of post-apartheid South African suburbia and the radical awakening she had as a student during the Fees Must Fall student uprising. From her work with decolonizing narratives to spoken word poetry to her recent stint on the Parisian runway at fashion week, Ashanti is a powerful beam of light. This is a vibrant episode, alive with the passion and purpose of a beautiful human whom I am blessed to call my soul sister and friend. Resources:  Learning 2 Unlearn  @ashanti_kunene FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures

For this first episode of the Beloved Futures podcast, Aubrey talks with her dear friend Yael Marantz. Yael is a strategist, systems-thinker, biomimicry practitioner and community builder. She has over a decade of experience in communications, design-thinking and innovation. As she awakened to the intelligence and solutions found in Nature and launched Mimetika, a biomimetic-led consultancy pioneering life-centered design.Understanding the implications of our meta-crisis, Yael immersed herself in communities and cultures outside of the dominant system while completing her masters on how we can reimagine communities through Nature's genius.Yael is a founding steward of Brave Earth (Tierra Valiente), center for applied cultural transition, and Fuerza De Amor, a community resilience network, in Costa Rica.Yael serves as the Managing Director of Culture Hack Labs and devotes herself to creating narratives in service to life to create systems change. She is a Moon Dancer, self professed mermaid and one who lives life as ceremony in devotion to the earth and all her forms.Resources:Brave Earth - https://www.braveearth.com/Culture Hack Labs - https://www.culturehack.io/Fuerza De Amor - https://www.fuerzadeamor.org/@yaelmFOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.comInstagram: @aubrey.morgan.yeeSubstack: ourbelovedfutures.substack.comBook: Our Beloved Futures