The WakeUp Protocol

What if the Universe told you to leave everything behind — your husband, your career, your house — and backpack the world? Veronica Fernmoss, embodied spiritual mentor and one of my very first spiritual guides, joins me to share a radical story of divine intervention that predated the book Eat, Pray, Love by 14 years. We explore the science of frequency, manifestation, the body as a portal to belonging, and what it truly means to stop fitting in and start being real. ---☀️ Join The WakeUp Protocol NewsletterThis is where the podcast turns into practice. Every week, I share the specific tools, rituals, and inquiries mentioned in my episodes to help you stay sovereign and heart-led.Sign up here: www.thewakeupprotocol.com---About Our Guest: Veronica FernmossVeronica Fernmoss is an embodied spiritual mentor specializing in mind-body-spirit integration and the creator of the Love Your Life program — a self-paced, by-donation awakening offering available at www.oneloveawakening.com.In her twenties, while living a picture-perfect yet soul-dimming life in Washington D.C., Veronica received a clear download from the Universe to leave her husband, career, and home behind and backpack the world indefinitely. What followed was over a year of pilgrimage through Bali, Southeast Asia, Nepal, India, Egypt, and Kenya — a journey of spiritual awakening, Vipassana practice, and sacred connection. She has called the Pacific Northwest home ever since, living on an island in the Salish Sea.--- In This Episode, We Explore✨ The Divine Intervention: How an unmistakable message from the Universe cracked Veronica's conditioned life wide open — and why saying yes without hesitation became her greatest act of self-trust.✨ Fitting In vs. Belonging: Why Brené Brown's insight — "fitting in is the opposite of belonging" — hit home for Veronica, and how leaving a life that looked right but felt wrong was the beginning of real belonging.✨ The Frequency of Manifestation: Why manifestation is about who you're being — not what you want — and how holding love and above (David Hawkins' scale 500+) collapses the buffer between intention and reality.✨ The Nervous System as Portal: The anemone analogy — what happens when we stay contracted for too long — and why breath, movement, and touch are essential technologies for returning to safety and expansion.✨ Touch as Co-Regulation: Why consensual, non-sexual touch — from long embraces to contact improvisation — is one of the most profound tools we have for nervous system regulation and genuine human belonging.✨ Embodied Unity Consciousness: Veronica's vision for the world we are becoming — a reality where we all know we belong, community is built on love rather than performance, and the frequency we hold ripples outward whether we know it or not.---Connect with Veronica🌿 Website: www.oneloveawakening.com🌿 Free Program: Love Your Life — available by donation at her website---Support The WakeUp Protocol🌿 Share: Send this to one person who is yearning to leave a life that looks right but feels wrong.🌿 Review: If Veronica's story of choosing belonging over fitting in moved you, please leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or YouTube.🌿 Newsletter: www.thewakeupprotocol.com--- 💕 Thank you for listening! 💕

What does it take to choose life when despair feels easier? Ben Browner, founder of Revival Gatherings and the West Coast's largest men's gathering, joins me to share a story that spans Missouri blues clubs and a prison cell to building sacred community containers that remind us what it means to be truly human. We explore what it means to trade a Messiah complex for deep listening — and what it looks like to let go of control and finally just be seen.---☀️ Join The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter This is where the podcast turns into practice. Every week, I share the specific tools, rituals, and inquiries mentioned in my episodes to help you stay sovereign and heart-led.Sign up here: www.thewakeupprotocol.com---About Our Guest: Ben BrownerBen Browner is the founder and lead producer of Revival Gatherings — a growing ecosystem of sacred community events in the Pacific Northwest, including the Summer Revival, the Manifest Men's Gathering, and large-scale winter circle ceremonies. He is also the creator of the Revival Learning Cohort, training the next generation of conscious event producers.Ben's awakening was a long arc: from a painful childhood between his mother's alcoholism and his father's blues clubs, through a pivotal time in prison at 18, to dissolving a Messiah complex and learning to live as part of the mycelial web rather than above it. His work is rooted in emergence, living systems, and the radical act of being witnessed whole.---In This Episode, We Explore🧩 The Messiah Complex: How Ben's deep desire to save the world — born from watching his mother's decline — became a siloed, uninitiated mission that had to be dismantled.🎭 Music as Portal: The Rachmaninoff concerto that cracked Ben open in a prison bunk and set the entire arc of his life in motion.🧠 The Uninitiated Masculine: Why Manifest gatherings resist prescriptive transformation and instead create conditions for grief, rage, and radical joy to coexist.🤖 Living Systems Leadership: What permaculture, soil science, and mycelial intelligence taught Ben about how to steward a movement without controlling it.🧘 Gender Reconciliation: Ben's vision for titrating women's voices into men's sacred space — and why real listening is one of the most radical acts possible today.🌍 The Permanent Eco Village: Ben's deepest dream: a pilgrimage venue where the ephemeral culture of Revival is finally grounded into something lasting.---Connect with Ben🌿 Website: www.revivalgatherings.com🌿 Instagram: @revivalgatherings🌿 Men's Gathering: www.manifestgathering.com---Support The WakeUp Protocol🌿 Share: Send this to one person who needs a reminder that their pain points might actually be their greatest gifts.🌿 Review: If Ben's story of choosing life moved you, please leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or YouTube.🌿 Newsletter: www.thewakeupprotocol.com---💕 Thank you for listening! 💕

Can your darkest moments actually be the doorway back to your truest self? The multipassionate Xanna Seto joins me today to share a story of incredible resilience, moving from the deepest shadows of addiction and life on the streets to the radiant clarity of a deeply lived spiritual vocation. We explore what it means to finally stop being "attached to being right" so you can start being real.---☀️ Join The WakeUp Protocol NewsletterThis is where the podcast turns into practice. Every week, I share the specific tools, rituals, and inquiries mentioned in my episodes to help you stay sovereign and heart-led.Sign up here: www.thewakeupprotocol.com---About Our Guest: Xanna SetoXanna Seto is the steward of Serpent Song Sanctuary, a five-acre sanctuary on an island in the Salish Sea. She is a student of ancient wisdom traditions, initiated into Sri Tantra and the Pako path of Haro.Xanna’s awakening was a homecoming. After years of navigating extreme shadows—including running away at 14 to join a motorcycle group and surviving a decade of hard drug addiction—she found her way back to the light through "divine intervention" and the study of ancient languages and sound.---In This Episode, We Explore🧩 The Prophecy of Extremes: Xanna’s early realization that she would have to experience life's depths before finding her center.🎭 The Double-Edged Sword of Music: How sound can lead us into dark places or act as a powerful tool for recovery and truth.🧠 Reclaiming Sensitivity: Why Xanna used drugs to "turn off" the hyper-empathy and spiritual gifts that were discouraged in her childhood.🤖 Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): The "divine" timing of a research study based on Zen Buddhist principles that taught Xanna how to empower herself.🧘 The Language of Vibration: Why Xanna learns Sanskrit and Quechua to transmit deeper spiritual meanings through medicine music.🌍 The Spiral Path: Understanding that spiritual growth is a process of shedding skin like a snake to grow into the next version of yourself.---Connect with Xanna🌿 Website: www.serpentsongsanctuary.com---Support The WakeUp Protocol🌿 Share: Send this to anyone who needs to be reminded that their light is never truly lost.🌿 Review: Help us reach more curious souls by leaving a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or YouTube.🌿 Newsletter: www.thewakeupprotocol.com---💕 Thank you for listening! 💕

Can you know things you "shouldn't" possibly know? In a riveting intersection of science and spirit, Brett Hill shares the story of a psychic hit so strong he chose to let his own store get robbed just to prove to his rational brain that the information was real. In this episode, we explore how to move from an "outside-in" life to an "inside-out" reality, where love and beauty become the literal physics of our daily existence.---☀️ Join The WakeUp Protocol NewsletterThis is where the podcast turns into practice. Every week, I share the specific tools, rituals, and inquiries mentioned in my episodes to help you stay sovereign and heart-led.Sign up here: www.thewakeupprotocol.com---About Our Guest: Brett HillBrett Hill is a lifelong explorer of the intersection between technology and consciousness. Balancing a high-tech career with deep spiritual practice—including founding The Quest Institute—he teaches that "being" is a state accessed through an intentional architecture of somatic techniques.For Brett, awakening isn't a single destination but a series of "quickenings" that shift how we process reality. He blends grounded methodology with an uncommon gift for empathic intuition—often experienced as psychic revelation—to create clear roadmaps for his clients’ personal and spiritual evolution.---In This Episode, We Explore🧩 The Physics of Intuition: Why psychic hits aren't "magic," but a science of the universe we don't fully understand yet. 🎭 Inside-Out Living: Shifting from a world that happens to you to a reality that manifests through you. 🧠 The Executive Brain: How to use the executive function of the mind to become an observer of your own triggers and reactions. 🤖 Spiritual Corporate Life: How to maintain presence and centeredness in a world that rewards aggression and over-assertion. 🧘 Somatic Touchstones: A practical 10-second technique for "re-tuning" your nervous system through beauty 5-6 times a day. 🌍 The Frequency of Love: Calibrating your life to higher octaves of connection, rapport, and peace.---Connect with Brett🌿 Website: themindfulcoach.com 🌿 Newsletter: themindfulcoach.com/letters (Practical wisdom on how to be more "you" in the world)  🌿 Coaching: Inquire about Brett's coaching programs on his website---Support The WakeUp Protocol🌿 Share: Send this to one person who is balancing a high-pressure career with a deep spiritual calling. 🌿 Review: If Brett’s story of the "record store robbery" shifted your perspective, please leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or YouTube. 🌿 Newsletter: www.thewakeupprotocol.com---💕 Thank you for listening! 💕

Can curiosity be a spiritual practice? In a time of deep political and digital division, Mónica Guzmán argues that the "root of all evil is distance between people". In this episode, we explore how to bridge that distance by dropping our masks, sitting with our discomfort, and reclaiming the "muscle" of curiosity.---☀️ Join The WakeUp Protocol NewsletterThis is where the podcast turns into practice. Every week, I share the specific tools, rituals, and inquiries mentioned in my episodes to help you stay sovereign and heart-led.Sign up here: thewakeupprotocol.com---About Our Guest: Mónica GuzmánMónica Guzmán is the author of I Never Thought of it That Way, the founder of Reclaim Curiosity, and a bridge-builder at Braver Angels. A Mexican immigrant and a liberal daughter of conservative parents, Mónica has dedicated her career to understanding how we can have "fearlessly curious conversations".For Mónica, awakening isn't just an intellectual shift; it’s a "slow dawning" of light. It involves looking inward to "know your own code" and learning to see others—even those we deeply disagree with—as bottomless mysteries rather than enemies to be "othered".---In This Episode, We Explore🧩 The SOS Framework: Understanding the natural human dynamics of Sorting, Othering, and Siloing that keep us divided.🎭 The Mask vs. The Soul: Why we start wearing "masks" around age seven and how "taking the mask off" invites others into curiosity.🧠 Curiosity as a Muscle: Moving past the idea that curiosity is a trait—it is a practice that requires courage.🤖 Technology as a Wedge: How AI and social media drive distance and why AI is currently "incapable of courage".🧘 Spiritual "Inward Curiosity": Mónica’s practice of visualizing negative emotions, like impatience, as children needing a hug.🌍 The Global Commonality: What Mónica learned from the silence of Quaker meetings and the values of Buddhism in Thailand.---Connect with Mónica🌿  Website: moniguzman.com🌿  Book: I Never Thought of it That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times 🌿  Instagram: @moniguzmanBuy it on: Bookshop.com / Amazon 🌿  Podcast: A Braver Way ---Support The WakeUp Protocol🌿  Share: Send this to one person who is struggling to talk to someone they love across the political divide.🌿  Review: If Mónica’s perspective on "unsiloing" moved you, please leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or YouTube.🌿  Newsletter: thewakeupprotocol.com---💕 Thank you for listening! 💕

For this episode of The Wake Up Protocol, I’m joined by Leif Hansen, a transformational facilitator, creator, and deeply curious human working at the intersection of consciousness, creativity, and technology.Leif has spent decades exploring what helps humans truly flourish; through embodiment, play, spiritual inquiry, and authentic connection. His path has been shaped by a deep questioning of inherited structures and an ongoing devotion to discovering how we stay awake, sovereign, and heart-led in a rapidly changing world.His awakening didn’t arrive as a single moment.It unfolded through creativity, relationship, plant medicine, and a long inquiry into the nature of self, love, and presence.Through years of facilitation, inner work, and communal practice, Leif came to see that awakening isn’t separate from the world we live in. It’s not something that happens outside of technology, culture, or modern life. It happens within them.Together, we explore awakening through play, creativity, and deep presence, as well as Leif’s emerging work at the edge of AI and spiritual development. We talk about false binaries, human versus machine, sacred versus secular, and why the real question is not whether technology is good or bad, but what consciousness we bring to it.We explore AI as a mirror of the psyche, creativity as a spiritual technology, and why play dissolves ego structures and reopens intuition. Drawing from his spiritual lineage and lived experience, Leif reminds us that awakening is never just personal, it’s always in service to the whole.This conversation is an invitation to stay human, stay curious, and stay relational in a world that’s becoming increasingly digital.This episode explores:✨ AI as a mirror for consciousness and shadow ✨ Digital mysticism and the sacredness of the virtual realm ✨ Creativity and play as spiritual technologies ✨ Awakening through plant medicine and inner inquiry ✨ Moving beyond fear-based tech narratives ✨ Staying soul-led in a rapidly changing world ✨ Relational intelligence and authentic connection ✨ Awakening for the benefit of all beingsLeif’s story is a reminder that awakening isn’t about escaping the world. It’s about meeting it, with curiosity, courage, and love.If you’re wondering how to stay grounded, creative, and awake in the age of AI, or sensing that this moment in history is asking something deeper of you… this episode is for you.The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter☀️ This is where the podcast turns into practice ☀️ Weekly guidance, tools, and invitations ☀️ Sign up here: www.thewakeupprotocol.comConnect with Leif🌿 Website: www.leifhansen.me 🌿 Future Lab: www.leifhansen.me/about-futurelab 🌿 Book: Digital Mystics: Dancing with AI, Love and Spirit Toward a Thriving Collective Futurewww.leifhansen.me/digital-mystics/book 🌿 Co-Evolve Summit (Humanity + AI): www.leifhansen.me/co-evolve-summitHelp Us Reach More People💕 Share this episode with someone curious about consciousness, creativity, or technology 💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter: www.thewakeupprotocol.com 💕 Rate and leave a review to help this work reach the people who need itThank you for listening 🌿

For this episode of The Wake Up Protocol, I’m joined by Blake Chalfant, a writer, coach, podcaster, and deeply reflective human. He has devoted his life to understanding how we lose and reclaim our sense of purpose, creativity, and connection to ourselves. Blake stepped away from a conventional path early in life and began questioning how we lose, and reclaim, our connection to purpose, attention, and creative power. His awakening unfolded as a long apprenticeship with resistance, habit, and the many ways we abandon what matters most.Through years of inner work and guiding others through threshold moments, Blake came to see that awakening doesn’t end with awareness. It asks for integration, discipline, and devotion to what you’re here to build.Together, we explore awakening through magic mushrooms, courageous leaps, and the hidden cost of living out of alignment, because, as Blake shares, it’s a full-time job to pretend to be someone you’re not.We talk about attention as the fundamental resource of our lives. Calling as a solution for our time, and why awakening is never just personal. Drawing from the Buddhist lineage he practices, Blake reminds us that the work is always to awaken for the benefit of all beings.The conversation also touches on the tension between spirituality and business, and why people with heart and integrity are needed in the arenas that shape our world.Because if they don’t step in… someone else will.This episode explores✨ Awakening through magic mushrooms and inner reckoning✨ Attention as the foundation of choice and freedom✨ The cost of pretending to be someone you’re not✨ Calling as a solution for our collective moment✨ Courageous leaps and life rewards✨ Grounding spiritual vision into concrete action✨ Business as an arena for integrity and service✨ Awakening for the benefit of all beingsBlake’s story is a reminder that awakening isn’t just about seeing more clearly.It’s about living what you see — day after day — with honesty, courage, and care.If you’re feeling called to create, struggling to stay focused, or standing at the edge of a new chapter and wondering how to follow through… this episode is for you.The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter☀️ This is where the podcast turns into practice☀️ Weekly guidance, tools, and invitations☀️ Sign up here: www.TheWakeUpProtocol.comConnect with Blake🌿 Website: https://www.blakechalfant.com🌿 The Forge: https://www.blakechalfant.com/the-forge🌿 Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/blake.chalfant🌿 Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@AxisofGeniusPodcastHelp Us Reach More People💕 Share this episode with someone navigating purpose, focus, or finding their calling💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter: www.thewakeupprotocol.com💕 Rate and leave a review to help this work reach the people who need itThank you for listening 🌿

In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Zach Bloom, high-performance coach, and a man who knows firsthand what happens when the religion of perfection finally collapses.Zach’s path began in elite hockey and high achievement, where success was always just one finish line away, and peace never arrived. Beneath the striving lived a deep hunger for connection, belonging, and relief from the constant pressure to perform.His awakening came through contrast.Through addiction, sobriety, and the slow dismantling of an identity built on winning, striving, and self-abandonment.What alcohol once offered in fleeting moments of ease and connection, Zach eventually learned to access through recovery, meditation, and deep inner work. When everything fell apart, something far more honest came online.Together, Nadja and Zach explore what it means to wake up inside a culture obsessed with achievement.They talk about sobriety as a spiritual path, the wounded masculine, and the quiet grief beneath perfectionism. Zach shares how the 12 steps became a framework not just for recovery, but for mysticism, leadership, and self-trust. And why real success is an inside job.This episode explores:✨ Sobriety as a spiritual and relational practice✨ The collapse of perfection and performance-based identity✨ Addiction as a hunger for connection✨ The wounded masculine and emotional honesty✨ Recovery as remembering what was always there✨ Meditation, surrender, and inner stillness✨ Leadership rooted in service, not ego✨ Redefining success beyond achievementZach’s story is a reminder that awakening doesn’t always come through expansion. Sometimes it comes through surrender, through hitting rock bottom, and through choosing truth, presence, and service over striving.If you’re exhausted from chasing success, questioning who you are without achievement, or sensing that something deeper is calling you home… this episode is for you.The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter☀️ This is where the podcast turns into practice☀️ Weekly guidance, tools, and invitations☀️ Sign up here: www.TheWakeUpProtocol.comConnect with Zach🌿 website: ZachBloom.com🌿 Instagram: instagram.com/zachbloomofficial🌿 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/zach-bloom🌿 Facebook: facebook.com/zachjbloomHelp Us Reach More People💕 Share this episode with someone navigating recovery or burnout💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter: thewakeupprotocol.com💕 Rate and leave a review to help this work reach the people who need itThank you for listening 🌿

In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Darek Mazzone, Polish-born DJ, filmmaker, and cultural connector whose life has been shaped by the way music opens the heart.Darek’s journey began in communist Poland, secretly listening to records from Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, and Vietnam. Sounds that became portals into worlds he could feel long before he could travel to them.That early spark grew into decades of championing global music on Seattle-based radio station and online platform KEXP, and into a life devoted to listening as a spiritual practice.Darek’s awakening didn’t arrive in a single moment. It unfolded through travel, service, and deep presence.From humanitarian work in refugee camps in Jordan and villages in Nepal, to Sufi rituals in Morocco and Turkey, to the ancient musical traditions that inspired his nonprofit, SAMA: Music + ArtEach chapter revealed music as something far older than entertainment, an ancient technology for healing, connection, and belonging.Together, Nadja and Darek explore music as medicine, the spiritual power of rhythm and trance, and how shared vibration dissolves separation and restores our sense of humanity.They talk about community, ritual, and why awakening so often happens together, on a dance floor, in ceremony, or in a single song that opens something inside of you.This episode explores:✨ Growing up in communist Poland and secretly listening to illegal international music ✨ Music as a lifeline, portal, and early form of awakening ✨ Rhythm, trance, and embodied presence across cultures ✨ Music as one of humanity’s oldest healing technologies ✨ Humanitarian work, service, and what music restores in times of crisis ✨ Community, ritual, and collective experience through sound ✨ Listening as a spiritual practice in a noisy world ✨ Human connection beyond language, borders, and belief systemsDarek’s story is a reminder that awakening doesn’t only happen in silence, it can also happens in rhythm, in movement, and in remembering how to listen.If you’re longing for a deeper connection to your true self, meaning beyond words, or a more embodied way of experiencing the world, this episode is for you.The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter☀️ This is where the podcast turns into practice☀️ Weekly guidance, tools, and invitations☀️ Sign up here: www.TheWakeUpProtocol.comConnect with Darek🌿 KEXP: kexp.org🌿 SAMA: Music + Art: samamusicarts.org🌿 Film: SAMA To Listen: samamusicarts.orgHelp Us Reach More People💕 Share this episode with someone who loves music and meaning💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter: thewakeupprotocol.com💕 Leave a review to help this work reach the people who need itThank you for listening 🌿

In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Mary Cadera, a psychotherapist and longtime executive leader who listened when her nervous system told the truth her job could no longer hold.Mary spent years in high-profile roles doing meaningful work on paper… while living in a constant state of hyper-arousal. Always bracing. Always scanning. From the outside, it looked like success. Inside her body, it felt unsustainable.Her awakening wasn’t a single moment.It was a slow, honest realization that the cost of success wasn’t just time or energy, but sleep, presence, and safety inside her own body.What followed was a courageous, intentional transition out of corporate leadership and into work that aligns with her values, her purpose, and her capacity to feel regulated, connected, and at home in herself.Together, Nadja and Mary explore what it means to build a life that actually feels safe from the inside.They talk about nervous system regulation, the myth of constant happiness, money and safety, and why true fulfillment begins when we stop overriding ourselves and start listening.This episode explores:✨ The nervous system cost of high-performing careers✨ Hyper-arousal, vigilance, and chronic stress✨ Burnout as a signal, not a failure✨ Money, success, and the illusion of safety✨ Listening to the body instead of overriding it✨ Regulation as the foundation for alignment✨ Redefining fulfillment beyond status or payoff✨ Creating a life that feels safe, present, and trueMary’s story is a reminder that awakening doesn’t always look dramatic.Sometimes it looks like choosing yourself quietly, steadily, and for good.If you’re feeling the toll of chronic stress, questioning the pace of your life, or sensing that your work no longer matches who you’re becoming, this episode is for you.The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter☀️ This is where the podcast turns into practice☀️ Weekly guidance, tools, and invitations to support regulation and integration☀️ Sign up here: www.TheWakeUpProtocol.comConnect with Mary🌿 www.cadera.meHelp Us Reach More People💕 Share this episode with someone navigating burnout or a career transition💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help this work reach the people who need itThank you for listening 🌿

2026 isn’t asking you to fix the world, it is however asking you to remember who you really are and act in accordance with your truth!In this special episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann is joined by spiritual guide, Akashic Soul Channel, and podcaster Ahna Hendrix for a rare and timely Akashic Records forecast for the year ahead.This conversation is not a typical prediction or trend report. Instead, it is a soul-centered transmission that invites listeners inward at a time when the outer world continues to feel unstable, loud, and uncertain.Through the Akashic Records, Ahna shares guidance for navigating 2026 as a foundational year. A year of returning to inner authority, cultivating self-trust, and learning how to stay anchored in love while collective systems continue to shift and break down.Together, Nadja and Ahna explore what it means to live from the inside out. To build resilience through self-connection. And to remember who you are, even when the world around you feels like it’s changing faster than you can keep up.In this episode, you’ll hear:The central theme the Akashic Records hold for 2026 and why returning to the self is essentialWhy fear is not the enemy and how it plays a role in collective awakeningThe energetic significance of mid-2026 and why self-care and community will matter more than everHow love is expressed not only through softness, but through boundaries, truth, and actionThe importance of community without losing discernment or sovereigntyWhy the future timeline is still open and how individual choice shapes what comes nextThis episode is an invitation. Not to escape what’s happening in the world, but to meet it from a grounded, embodied, and sovereign place within yourself.If you’ve been feeling the call to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with your own inner guidance, this conversation will meet you exactly where you are.The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:☀️ This is where the podcast turns into practice!☀️ Weekly guidance, tools, and invitations to help you integrate what you’re learning.☀️ Sign up here: www.TheWakeUpProtocol.comConnect with Ahna:🌿 Website: ahnahendrix.com🌿 Events: ahnahendrix.com/events🌿 YouTube: youtube.com/@AhnaHendrixHelp Us Reach More People:💕 Share it with someone who feels ungrounded or overwhelmed by the year ahead💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol podcast on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help this work reach the people who need itThank you for listening! 🙏💕✨

In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Cori Lovejoy, a cultural connector, spiritual seeker, and deeply thoughtful human who has lived life on both sides of a binary most of us never question.Cori spent nearly five decades navigating the world in a male body while carrying a truth she didn’t yet have language for… a truth shaped by shame, fear, and relentless self-suppression.Her awakening didn’t arrive gently.It came through plant medicine, profound inner reckoning, and moments where staying alive required choosing courage over everything familiar.What followed was not just a gender transition.It was a spiritual one.A journey into self-love, embodiment, and what it truly means to be human in this world.Together, Nadja and Cori explore what it means to live beyond binaries, not only in gender, but in identity, belonging, and self-expression.They talk about shame and sovereignty, consciousness and contrast, and the quiet but radical power of choosing to stay, choosing to live, choosing to tell the truth.This episode explores:✨ Living beyond binaries and prescribed identities✨ Shame, self-suppression, and reclaiming sovereignty✨ Living life in a male vs female body✨ Awakening through courage and radical honesty✨ Embodiment as a pathway to self-love✨ The role of plant medicine in inner reckoning✨ Choosing life when everything familiar falls away✨ Style, art, and community as expressions of truthCori’s story is a reminder that awakening doesn’t mean becoming someone new.It means allowing yourself to finally be who you’ve always been.If you’re questioning an old identity, navigating a transition, or longing to live with more honesty, softness, and courage, this episode is for you.The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:☀️ This is where the podcast turns into practice! ☀️ Weekly guidance, tools, and invitations to help you integrate what you’re learning.☀️ Sign up here: www.TheWakeUpProtocol.comConnect with Cori:🌿 Instagram - Personal: @cori.lovejoy   🌿 Instagram - Community: @DressUpBellingham 🌿 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/corilovejoyHelp Us Reach More People:💕 Share it with someone who feels ungrounded or overwhelmed by the year ahead💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol podcast on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help this work reach the people who need itThank you for listening 🌿

In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Dr. Erin Hileary, a somatic therapist, transpersonal coach, artist, and lifelong explorer of consciousness whose path has been unfolding for more than two decades.Erin’s journey began back in her Burning Man days, when she first started tuning into energy, intuition, and the unseen patterns shaping a life.From Reiki and Vipassana meditation, to yoga, bodywork, and a doctorate in consciousness studies, to single motherhood, loss, and the kind of life initiation that asks you to use everything you’ve learned.Every chapter led her toward ONE embodied realization:Consciousness isn’t something you study.It’s something you live.Together, Nadja and Erin explore what it means to live awake in a world of constant stimulation, distraction, and disembodiment.They talk about emotional energy as creative fuel, belief systems as reality-shapers, and how learning to listen to the body becomes a direct path to truth, sovereignty, and aligned action.This episode explores:✨ Consciousness as awareness and presence✨ Emotional energy as fuel rather than something to suppress✨ Somatic wisdom and the body as an access point to truth✨ Flow state, creativity, and art as spiritual practice✨ Yin and yang, masculine and feminine balance✨ What it means to be human in the age of AI✨ Tantra as devotion to life, not performance✨ Living an “enlightened lifestyle” rather than chasing enlightenmentErin’s story is a reminder that awakening doesn’t come from transcendence or escape. It comes from inhabiting your life fully… body, breath, desire, and choice.If you’re feeling disconnected from your body, questioning your direction, or sensing that your creativity and presence want more space… this episode is for you.Connect with Erin🌿 Website: erinsutra.comExplore Erin’s Work🌿 Somatic therapy and transpersonal coaching🌿 Consciousness studies and embodiment practices🌿 Retreats, book clubs, and sacred site experiencesThe WakeUp Protocol NewsletterReceive grounding tools, nervous system support, and behind-the-scenes reflections: thewakeupprotocol.comHelp Us Grow the Podcast💕 Share this episode with someone navigating a life transition💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help this work reach more awakening soulsThank you for listening 🌿

Some humans move through the world with the kind of clarity you only earn by getting lost, turning inward, and listening to life in a whole new way.In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Daniel Wise, a coach, business consultant, traveler, and lifelong seeker whose awakening unfolded through decades of synchronicities, heartbreaks, spiritual books, and long stretches of alone-time traveling the world.Daniel’s path began with a simple invitation: “Pay attention!”From hitchhiking across France to sitting in Buddhist monasteries…from reading The Way of the Peaceful Warrior on a hostel floor to navigating the tender transitions of fatherhood, identity, and purpose…Every chapter brought him closer to ONE truth:The real journey is always inward!Together, Nadja and Daniel explore what it means to live awake in a world that constantly tries to pull us back to sleep. How to trust intuition over logic, how to walk through uncertainty with curiosity, and how to take full responsibility for the life your soul is asking you to build.Daniel talks about:✨ How travel can function as a rite of passage✨ Escaping the “logical mind” and learning to feel again✨ Synchronicities that confirmed his awakening✨ Why many adults never complete a rite of passage✨ Moving from victimhood to agency: “If it is to be, it is up to me”✨ Conscious parenting and raising kids✨ The role of meditation, journaling, and nature in staying aligned✨ Redesigning identity and purpose as you approach midlife transitionsDaniel’s story reminds us that awakening doesn’t require a single dramatic event. Sometimes it begins in the smallest pause… the space between breaths… the moment you stop forcing and start listening.If you’re navigating a transition, feeling the pull for something more, or sensing that an old identity no longer fits… this episode is for you. Connect with Daniel🌿 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/charityexecutivesearch/Work with Daniel🌿 Coaching for senior executives and leaders preparing for retirement, reinvention, and a more conscious next chapterThe WakeUp Protocol NewsletterReceive grounding tools, energy practices, and behind-the-scenes updates:http://www.thewakeupprotocol.comHelp Us Grow the Podcast💕 Share this episode with someone navigating a life transition💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help this work reach more awakening soulsThank you for listening 🌿

Some humans radiate a frequency you can’t forget... equal parts joy, vision, and grounded love. They don’t just talk about possibility… they live it, breathe it, and build with it.This week’s guest, Lee Kindell is one of those rare beings.In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Lee Kindell, founder of MOTO Pizza, visionary entrepreneur, and joyful alchemist of service, creativity, and love.While most people were shutting down during the pandemic, Lee was opening up. What began as a small side project turned into a thriving movement. A community-centered Detroit-style pizza experience built around kindness, intention, and a 120-year-old sourdough starter named Betty.This conversation is about awakening through purpose, presence, and heart. Lee shares how his journey from running a youth hostel to building MOTO Pizza became a living practice of manifestation and love in action. He talks about the role of ayahuasca in his awakening, how he defines love as “harmony and efficiency,” and why positivity and laughter are the most powerful forms of service.Together, Nadja and Lee explore what it means to live awake in the modern world, to lead with joy, to stay curious in chaos, and to use creativity as a bridge between spirit and matter.Lee offers insights on:✨ How humor and play can raise your vibration✨ Turning challenge into creative purpose✨ The role of service, community, and gratitude in awakening✨ How humor and play can raise your vibration✨ Manifestation through alignment, not control✨ Bringing consciousness into business and everyday lifeLee’s story reminds us that awakening isn’t just found in ceremony or meditation, it’s baked into the everyday acts of creation, kindness, and connection.This episode is for anyone learning to lead from the heart, to find purpose in the ordinary, and to remember that love in all its forms is the true recipe for life.Connect with Lee:🌿 Instagram: @motopizzashop 🌿 MOTO Pizza: www.motopizza.comThe WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:Subscribe for updates, tools, and future episodes: http://www.thewakeupprotocol.comHelp Us Grow the Podcast:💕 Share it with three friends who need a reminder of what love in action looks like💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help us spread the messageThank you for listening 🌿

What if spiritual awakening starts by question the way we were taught the world was supposed to be?For Katie McKenna, a licensed psychotherapist, trauma and eating disorder specialist, and integration guide, that questioning became the doorway. Raised in the Midwest and educated in Catholic school, she began to look beyond the scripts she inherited: the expectations of how life should look, who she should be, and what it meant to find happiness. That curiosity led her into new ways of seeing, new communities, and ultimately, a deeper relationship with her own truth.In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Katie to explore what happens when we begin to peel back the layers of conditioning, and what it means to integrate the new self that emerges.Together, they explore how to stay connected to wisdom after awakening, how to bring expansion into daily life, and how to honor the parts of ourselves that are still catching up to who we’re becoming.Katie shares her own journey of healing, from navigating an eating disorder and building a relationship with her intuition, to helping others integrate trauma and return to a sense of embodied wholeness.Katie offers wisdom on:✨ Why questioning is the beginning of awakening✨ What “integration” really means and why it’s essential for healing✨ How to tell the difference between fear and intuition✨ Practices to access inner guidance and self-trust✨ How to ground expansive experiences like psychedelics or Burning Man✨ The role of embodiment in returning to your true selfThis conversation is a reminder that awakening isn’t about transcending your humanity, it’s about embracing it, one question, one truth, and one breath at a time. Connect with Katie🌿 Website: mckennacounseling.com🌿 Instagram: @Katie.mc.kennaThe WakeUp Protocol NewsletterSubscribe for updates, tools, and future episodes: TheWakeUpProtocol.comIf This Episode Resonates💕 Share it with three friends who need to hear Katie’s story💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help us spread the messageThank you for listening 🌿

There’s a reason your system feels like it’s buzzing, glitching, or stretching… You’re waking up. And there’s a way to meet it with more clarity, coherence, and grace.In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann sits down with Derek Pennett, a light body technician, Reiki master, advanced frequency healing practitioner, and multidimensional cosmic messenger.Derek doesn’t just talk about multidimensionality; he lives from that frequency, while grounded in a human body, so he can help others do the same.His work spans star systems, soul blueprints, dimensional overlays, and quantum coherence… and yet, his grounded presence makes the most complex metaphysics feel accessible and deeply human.In this conversation, Derek shares his own journey of awakening and how he helps others realign with the truth of who they are, not just mentally or emotionally, but energetically and dimensionally. From subtle shifts in consciousness to full-on lightbody repairs, Derek invites us to remember the soul technology that’s already within.He offers insights on:✨ What it means to live as a multidimensional being in a 3D world✨ Why your body might be glitching… and how to support it✨ The role of divine architecture in awakening✨ Frequency upgrades, soul retrievals, and lightbody recalibrations✨ Why self-trust is the compass for navigating this new paradigmWhether you’re newly awakening or deep in the quantum weeds… this conversation is a transmission and an activation.Connect with Derek🌿 Linktree: The Cosmic Messenger🌿 Make an Appointment🌿 Facebook: Derek Pennett🌿 Instagram: @the_cosmic_messengerThe WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:Subscribe to our newsletter for updates, tools, and future episodes:TheWakeUpProtocol.comIf This Episode Resonates:💕 Share it with three friends who need to hear Derek's story💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help us spread the message Thank you for listening! 

What if your life could shift with a single act of courage... like saying yes to a TEDx talk that changes everything?In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, co-hosts Nadja Haldimann and Colin Shanteau sit down with Traca Savadogo: TEDx speaker, strategist, storyteller, and expert in the neuroscience of transformation.Traca’s story is one of reinvention through curiosity. Years ago, she gave a TEDx talk that went viral, and it changed everything. That one act of vulnerability opened a new chapter in her life. It led her to Toastmasters, to exploring the science of neuroscience, and ultimately to becoming a powerful guide for people navigating change, resistance, and reinvention.In this conversation, Traca shares what it takes to rewire survival patterns, interrupt the autopilot, and create real momentum through micro-moments of aligned action.Her presence is warm, wise, and deeply empowering. Traca reminds us that transformation doesn’t require a massive leap, it begins with one small YES to the truth of who you are.She shares insights on:✨ Rewiring the nervous system and honoring resistance✨ How storytelling becomes a catalyst for transformation✨ Trusting yourself through small, intentional actions✨ Moving from fixing to listening, and what that opens✨ The quiet power of presence in your everyday life✨ Why lasting change starts in the body, not just the mindThis episode is a love note to your future self, the one who already knows it’s time to begin again.Connect with Traca🌿 LinkedIn: Traca Savadogo🌿 Traca's TEDx talkThe WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:Subscribe to our newsletter for updates, tools, and future episodes: TheWakeUpProtocol.comIf This Episode Resonates:💕 Share it with three friends who need to hear Traca’s story💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help us spread the message Thank you for listening! 

What happens when you glimpse the other side and come back forever changed?In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann sits down with Tracie Bell, a designer, photographer, mystic, and author of the forthcoming travel memoir ‘When Your Mother Calls You Home’.Twenty years ago, Tracie had a near-death experience that cracked her wide open. In that moment between worlds, she encountered unconditional love, infinite intelligence, and the deep knowing that her soul had more to do in this lifetime.What followed was a profound journey of awakening. One filled with grief, synchronicity, psychic openings, ancestral remembrance, and the kind of beauty that only emerges when you slow down and truly listen.In this intimate conversation, Tracie shares:What her near-death experience revealed about the nature of consciousnessHow she now lives guided by presence, intuition, and deep trust in the unseenThe role of creativity and devotion in integrating spiritual experiencesHow grief and beauty can coexist, and even become gateways to the divineWhat it means to come home to your soulTracie’s story is not just about surviving, it’s about returning. To truth, to aliveness, and to the mysterious unfolding of a soul-led life.If you’ve ever felt the veil thin, or longed to reconnect with your own light, this conversation will speak to something ancient and sacred within you.Connect with Tracie:🌿 Website: www.tracieball.com🌿 Instagram: @findingtracie🌿 Book (Preorder for Kindle): When Your Mother Calls You HomeThe WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:Subscribe to our newsletter for updates, tools, and future episodes: TheWakeUpProtocol.comIf This Episode Resonates:💕 Share it with three friends who need to hear Tracie's story💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help us spread the messageThank you for listening! 

What if your later years weren’t about slowing down, but finally coming fully alive?In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, co-hosts Nadja Haldimann and Colin Shanteau sit down with Jayne Dinsmore, a visionary artist, mystic, and guide who is truly living her most joyful, vibrant life in what she calls her “golden years.”Jayne’s story is one of rebirth. After the loss of her husband, what began as a time of deep grief became a profound spiritual awakening. She opened to visions, to divine connection, to the creative impulse flowing through her, and most importantly, to the truth of who she really is.Now in her mid-seventies, Jayne is painting, channeling, dancing, and living in sacred communion with her soul tribe. Her joy is contagious, her wisdom is embodied, and her presence is a radiant reminder that it’s never too late to wake up to the beauty of life.Jayne shares insights on:Tuning into the I AM Presence and receiving spiritual guidanceTurning grief into a portal for divine connection and creationReclaiming creativity as a path of healing and self-expressionThe joy of living in community and being truly seenListening to the voice within and following it with devotionLetting go of fear, and letting love leadThis episode is an invitation to remember that joy is available at every age. That your soul is always ready to bloom. And that the golden years might just be the ones where you fully come home to yourself.Connect with Jayne:🌿 Website: lumière.art 🌿 Facebook: @jayne.dinsmore.1🌿 Instagram: @lumierejaynedinsmoreThe WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:Subscribe to our newsletter for updates, tools, and future episodes: TheWakeUpProtocol.comIf This Episode Resonates:💕 Share it with three friends who need to hear Jayne's story💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help us spread the messageThank you for listening! 

What if you didn’t have to force anything... just feel more, play more, and let life meet you there?In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann sits down with Dr. Garret Kusch, a former professional soccer player turned chiropractor, author, and founder of the Trinity Health Program. His story moves from the relentless drive of elite athletics to a life rooted in alignment, energy, and deep inner listening.After years of chasing performance and external success, Garret began asking a different question: What if the body already knows the way? What if healing doesn’t come from forcing, but from feeling?Together, they explore his evolution from the field to the healing room, and how slowing down opened the door to flow, clarity, and true health.Garret shares insights on:Moving from performance-driven success to inner alignment and flowHow the nervous system and frequency shape the reality we experienceThe importance of creating space in body and mind, for truth to ariseListening to what the body is actually trying to sayWhy mindset, movement, and nutrition are one integrated systemThe trap of chasing results and the power of surrendering to presenceHow to lead from energy, not effort, and trust what alignsThis is a grounded, expansive conversation about healing, integration, and the surprising gifts that come when you stop striving and start tuning in.Connect with Garret:🌿 Instagram - @drgarretkusch🌿 TikTok - @drgarretkusch🌿 Facebook: Garret Kusch🌿 Website: metabolic-balance.caThe WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:Subscribe to our newsletter for updates, tools, and future episodes: TheWakeUpProtocol.comIf This Episode Resonates:💕 Share it with three friends who need to hear Garret's story💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help us spread the messageThank you for listening! 

What if your body already held everything you needed to remember who you are?In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann sits down with Linda Wallace, a writer, artist, and feminine embodiment coach whose work guides women back to themselves through love, creativity, and spiritual devotion.Linda’s journey isn’t one of striving or fixing, it’s a deep remembering. A return to the truth that the body is not something to escape or control… but something to listen to. To honor. To love.Together, they explore Linda’s path from a high-achieving creative director to a soul-led mentor, and the radical shift that happened when she stopped abandoning herself in pursuit of external success, and instead chose to build a life rooted in self-love, sovereignty, and divine feminine wholeness.Linda shares insights on:How the body holds our deepest truth, and the wisdom to come home to ourselvesWhy self-love is not a destination, but a devotionReclaiming the sacredness of your own experience through creative expressionHealing as a remembering, not a fixingHow to stop outsourcing your power and start trusting your inner knowingWhat it means to live as the artistic creation of your own life This is a tender, inspiring conversation, a call to soften, to listen, and to come home to yourself. If you’ve been feeling disconnected from your truth, your creativity, or your body… let Linda’s story be a loving mirror and a gentle invitation to begin again.Connect with Linda:🌿 FREE Gift: The 12 Sacred Threads for more love, more joy, more you.       ➡️ Download it here! 🌿 Website: lindawallacecoaching.com 🌿 Instagram - Art: @lindawallacestudio🌿 Instagram - Coaching: @the.creating.her🌿 Substack: https://creatingher.substack.com🌿 Facebook: Send a DM to Linda for an invite to her private group: Creating HerThe WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:Subscribe to our newsletter for updates, tools, and future episodes: TheWakeUpProtocol.comIf This Episode Resonates:💕 Share it with three friends who need to hear Linda’s story💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help us spread the messageThank you for listening! 

What if corporate success wasn’t about climbing higher… but about living freer?In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, co-hosts Nadja Haldimann and Colin Shanteau sit down with Justin Maguire III, Design Leader at Atlassian, a leader, designer, artist, elite athlete, and sailor who has spent decades dancing between the worlds of high-performance, soulful creativity, and embodied freedom.Justin’s journey has taken him across many landscapes, from long-distance Iron Man triathlons and executive boardrooms to months at sea on a sailboat in Alaska and Mexico, where he often lives and works off-grid.But underneath the titles and achievements lies a deeper pursuit: one of presence, aliveness, and inner alignment.Together, they explore Justin’s path of radical self-inquiry, one that challenges cultural norms around success, burnout, and doing “enough,” and instead invites us to build a life that feels deeply true.Justin shares insights on:Redefining success through creativity, spaciousness, and joyHow embodiment fuels intuition, clarity, and innovationUsing art, movement, and nature as medicine for burnout and disconnectionThe tension between ambition and wholeness in leadershipDesigning a life that prioritizes freedom and presenceLearning to trust the seasons of creativity and contractionThis is a rich, honest conversation about what it really means to live a soulful, creative life, even in the heart of the fast-moving tech industry and high expectations.Justin reminds us that there is no “right” way to be human… only your way.Connect with Justin:🌿 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jumaguire/The WakeUp Protocol newsletter:Subscribe to our newsletter for updates, tools, and future episodes: thewakeupprotocol.comIf this episode resonates:💕 Share it with three friends who need to hear Justin’s story💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help us spread the messageThank you for listening! 

What if grief wasn’t something to get over… but something to walk with, tenderly, as a teacher and guide?In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann sits down with Suzi Zobrist, a spiritual mentor, ceremonial guide, and earth-honoring practitioner whose work is rooted in feminine remembrance and deep listening.At 30, Suzi was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and underwent a radical hysterectomy, a moment that could have broken her, but instead became a profound invitation to choose life.Together, they explore Suzi’s intimate path of healing, one that weaves ritual, beauty, and presence into the spaces where grief, trauma, and soul remembrance meet.Suzi shares insights on:Moving through illness and grief as a sacred rite of passageThe medicine of nature, silence, and the bodyTending to trauma like a fire, not something to fix, but to be withThe role of ceremony in reconnecting with intuition and inner truthHealing as feminine reclamation, slow, spacious, cyclicalBuilding capacity to sit with discomfort without bypassing or rushingThis is an intimate, spacious conversation. One that invites you to slow down, soften your breath, and remember the sacredness that lives inside the ordinary.Connect with Suzi:🌿 Instagram: @suzizobrist🌿 Website: suzizobrist.com🌿 Podcast: Tending The SacredThe WakeUp Protocol newsletter:Subscribe to our newsletter for updates, tools, and future episodes: thewakeupprotocol.comIf this episode resonates:💕 Share it with three friends who need to hear Suzi’s story💕 Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platform💕 Leave a review to help us spread the messageThank you for listening! 

What happens when you start questioning everything you were taught about who you are, what’s real, and how we’re meant to heal?In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann sits down with Gil Bar-Sela — a psychedelic guide, facilitator, and trainer from Israel whose work bridges ancient wisdom, queer identity, and modern healing.Together, they explore how Gil’s journey — from apprenticing with a medicine woman in the lineage of María Sabina to guiding others through expanded states of consciousness — has led him to challenge mainstream narratives around healing, identity, and belonging.Gil shares insights on:Growing up queer in Israel and how it shaped his relationship with identity and freedomApprenticing in a sacred psilocybin lineage and what it taught him about ceremony, healing, and humilityQuestioning the status quo of Western models of therapy and transformationMerging psychology with indigenous wisdom in his medicine workHow community, compassion, and deep listening can transform personal and collective conflictWhy integrating expanded states is just as important as accessing themThis is a spacious, thought-provoking conversation that invites you to look at your own assumptions — and consider the possibility that healing isn’t about fixing, but about remembering.Connect with Gil:website: gilbarsela.comInstagram: @gilbarselaThe WakeUp Protocol Newsletter: thewakeupprotocol.comSubscribe to our newsletter for:+ Behind-the-scenes insights from the podcast+ Extra spiritual tools and resources we don’t share anywhere else+ Invitations to community gatherings, masterclasses, and special eventsIf this episode resonates:✨ Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter✨ Share it with three friends who need to hear Gil's story✨ Leave a review to support the show💕🙏💕

What if the success you’ve been chasing isn’t the life you actually want?In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann sits down with Jason Moss, a business mentor, intuitive entrepreneur, and former atheist whose spiritual awakening began with a cancer diagnosis in his early twenties.We talk about what happens when life cracks you open and forces you to re-evaluate everything you thought mattered: success, identity, control, and what it really means to live in alignment.Jason shares his journey of leaving behind hustle culture and learning to build a successful business and a life, rooted in trust, flow, and inner knowing.We explore:+ How a cancer diagnosis became the catalyst for Jason’s spiritual awakening+ The hidden costs of chasing “success” and how to redefine it on your own terms+ Moving from operator mode to owner mode so your business supports your life+ Why slowing down unlocks deeper clarity, creativity, and purpose+ The power of listening to your heart and letting your frequency lead+ Jason’s 3-step method for scaling without burning outThis episode is medicine for anyone who’s built the life they thought they wanted, only to realize it no longer fits.Connect with Jason:Website: jasonmoss.com  Free Guide: 7-Figure Scaling GuideInstagram: @jasonmossofficialYouTube: @jasonmossofficialFacebook: jasondanielmossThe WakeUp Protocol Newsletter: thewakeupprotocol.comSubscribe to our newsletter for:+ Behind-the-scenes insights from the podcast+ Extra spiritual tools and resources we don’t share anywhere else+ Invitations to community gatherings, masterclasses, and special eventsIf this episode resonates:✨ Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter✨ Share it with three friends who need to hear Jason's story✨ Leave a review to support the show

What if the true path to fulfillment was hidden beneath the pain we’re taught to avoid?In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann and co-host Colin Shanteau sit down with Terry Pooler, a life fulfillment coach, author, and visionary whose journey cracked open after a friend called her, unexpectedly healed from suicidal thoughts following a psilocybin journey. A moment that sparked Terry’s deep dive into the healing potential of plant medicine.Terry’s journey led her from corporate success and disconnection to deep self-inquiry, emotional release, and the realization that we are all already connected, just not taught how to feel it. Her story is one of reclaiming inner freedom, embodying the divine, and guiding others back to themselves through the wisdom of the body, breath, and truth-telling.Together, they explore:How being kidnapped to Iran and returning solo to the U.S. shaped Terry’s resilienceWhat it felt like to climb the corporate ladder and why she walked away from successThe moment of awakening sparked by a friend’s healing psilocybin experienceWhy emotions aren’t the problem—they’re the path to healingThe difference between emotional processing and true emotional healingHow breath and movement create inner safetyReclaiming the body as a path to intuition and real connectionWhy your truth lives in the body, not the mindThe role of community in healing, integration, and remembering who we areThis episode is for anyone feeling disconnected from their truth, tired of performing for love, or ready to move beyond old programming and into embodied liberation.Connect with Terry Pooler:Learn more about fulfillment coaching: http:www.fearlessandconnected.comGet Terry’s book Fearless and Connected: The Human Experience: https://a.co/d/fZzEVExThe WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:Subscribe to our newsletter for updates, tools, and future episodes: https://www.thewakeupprotocol.comIf this episode resonates:Share it with three friends who need to hear Terry's storySubscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platformLeave a review to help us spread the message💕🙏💕

What if the body is your way back to your true self?In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann sits down with Titus Kahoutek, a coach, trainer, and deep listener of the human experience who works with leaders and teams to help them reconnect with their bodies, find inner safety, and move through life with more presence.Together, they explore the profound shifts that can occur when we slow down enough to listen deeply to our bodies, to life, and to the subtle intelligence that’s always guiding us.Titus shares his journey through:How psilocybin became a portal to stillness, trust, and truthWhy nervous system regulation isn’t the goal—safety in the body isThe difference between managing your state vs. embodying your truthHow to stop outsourcing validation and start listening to your soulWhy slowing down changes your relationship to time, power, and purposeA powerful reframe of spirituality that centers presence over performanceThis conversation is a quiet, spacious invitation to remember what’s always been with you: your body, your breath, and the flickering pulse of your soul.Connect with Titus: kahoutekcoaching.comThe WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:Subscribe to our newsletter for updates, tools, and future episodes: https://www.thewakeupprotocol.comIf this episode resonates:Share it with three friends who need to hear Titus’ storySubscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platformLeave a review to help us spread the message💕🙏💕

What if your business wasn’t built on strategy, but on synchronicity, creativity, and trust in the unseen?In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann and her co-host Colin Shanteau sit down with Hilary Hahn, a spiritual business mentor, intuitive artist, and mother who’s built a life rooted in magic and devotion.Together, they explore what it means to follow creative nudges, move with the rhythm of your body, and let your work emerge from a place of alignment, not pressure. Hilary shares the real behind-the-scenes of growing a soul-led business, from the initiations that cracked her open to the simplicity that now holds her steady.She shares how to:Let synchronicity and beauty guide your next stepsBuild a business around your values, not your fearsUse art and journaling as portals for manifestationTrust quiet seasons and honor your natural rhythmEmbrace visibility without losing yourselfLive from a place of devotion, not depletion This conversation is for anyone walking the edge between the mystical and the practical, especially if you’ve felt the call to create something deeper, slower, and more true.Connect with Hilary:Visit Hilary’s Website:https://hilarylhahn.com/Download the Million Dollar Brand Activation Guide: https://hilarylhahn.myflodesk.com/future-you-meditationReturn to Your Essence Journal:https://hilarylhahn.myflodesk.com/manifestation-digital-journalThe WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:Subscribe to our newsletter for updates, tools, and future episodes:https://www.thewakeupprotocol.com If this episode resonates:Share it with three friends who need to hear Hilary’s storySubscribe to The WakeUp Protocol on your favorite platformLeave a review to help us spread the message💕🙏💕

What happens when you choose to build a life on presence, listening, and love instead of performance or perfection? In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann sits down with two heart-centered humans, Susan Powell and Jay Darling. A couple whose partnership in love and life is rooted in respect, playfulness, and presence.Susan is a holistic health educator and elder who supports indigenous communities in healing. Jay is a musician and self-described “possibilitarian” who uses sound, movement, and mirth to foster connection and transformation. Together, they offer a grounded conversation about healing through relationship with ourselves, each other, and the earth.Susan and Jay share reflections on: + Building a life that honors nature, trust, and sacred timing+ The quiet knowing that emerges when we slow down+ The power of discernment vs. judgment+ Creating safety through truth-telling and deep listening+ What it means to let love move through grief, aging, and transformation+ Embodied communication and conscious partnershipThis conversation feels like a warm cup of tea for the soul. It reminds us that awakening doesn’t have to be loud; it can be gentle, relational, and deeply human.Connect with our Guests:Use email to connect with Susan: [email protected] WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:+ Subscribe to our newsletter for updates, tools, and future episodes: https://thewakeupprotocol.comIf this episode resonates:+ Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter+ Share it with three friends who need to hear Susan and Jay's story+ Leave a review to support the show💕🙏💕

What if everything you believed about yourself suddenly shattered in the middle of the night? In this powerful opening episode of The WakeUp Protocol, co-hosts Nadja Haldimann and Colin Shanteau sit down with Shalynn Flavell, an intuitive hypnotherapist whose spiritual path began with a cancer diagnosis at 21 and deepened years later with a spontaneous awakening at 2AM. Her story is of surrendering through acceptance, intuition, and the unraveling of identity.Together, they explore the radical path of remembrance, the stripping away of identity, and the magic that begins when we stop controlling and start allowing.Shalynn shares her journey through:+ Receiving a cancer diagnosis at 21 and choosing deep acceptance over fear+ A middle-of-the-night ego death that dissolved everything she believed about herself+ Hypnotherapy as a gentle, powerful bridge between head and heart+ How our subconscious needs clear ingredients to create the life we want+ Releasing the grasp of meaning-making and learning to live in presence+ The truth that healing begins the moment we choose acceptanceThis conversation is rich, grounding, and full of medicine for anyone on the path of awakening, especially those navigating loss, identity shifts, or the quiet pull toward something more real.Links to Shalynn:+ Learn more about Shalynn’s work and book a session: https://templehypnosis.com+ Reach out via her site to join her upcoming group coaching program on acceptanceThe WakeUp Protocol Newsletter:+ Subscribe to our newsletter for updates, tools, and future episodes: https://thewakeupprotocol.comIf this episode resonates: ✨ Subscribe to The WakeUp Protocol Newsletter ✨ Share it with three friends who need to hear Shalynn's story ✨ Leave a review to support the show💕🙏💕