The Sigma Femme Podcast with Sara Daves

In this episode, Sara sits down with Honesty Liller for a conversation about identity, self-trust and the courage it takes to create beyond the role people already know you for.Honesty is widely known for her leadership as CEO of the McShin Foundation, where she has spent nearly two decades serving individuals and families impacted by addiction. Now, as she steps more fully into her work as a transformational coach, she expands her impact beyond one title, while staying rooted in the lived experience that shaped her.Together, Sara and Honesty explore the pressure of being the strong one, the ways self-abandonment can hide inside competence and service, and what it means to trust your next chapter before it is fully formed.The conversation moves through recovery, leadership, authorship, entrepreneurship, imposter syndrome and the daily practices that can help you stay grounded so you can build a life that reflects the fullness of who you are becoming.We explore* Expanding beyond the role people know you for* The pressure of being the strong one* Self-abandonment in leadership, service and motherhood* The difference between performance-based confidence and grounded self-trust* Starting a coaching business while already holding a visible leadership role* Writing, recovery and trusting the creative process* Daily practices that support steadiness, presence and integrity* Letting your next chapter take shape before every piece feels certainTimestamps00:00 – Honesty’s story of recovery, leadership, and purpose05:17 – Building confidence through daily habits and routines09:58 – How suppression of needs can manifest in the body11:14 – Self-abandonment, motherhood, and reclaiming the self14:04 – Writing Scattered Pink and trusting the process19:04 – Morning rituals, self-care, and protecting the nervous system24:36 – Self-trust, co-creation, and believing in your own dream28:45 – First steps for women with big dreams30:07 – Collaboration, community, and finding your tribeAbout Honesty LillerHonesty Liller is a transformational coach, speaker, author and CEO of the McShin Foundation. For nearly two decades, she has served individuals and families impacted by addiction through recovery advocacy and nonprofit leadership.Through her coaching work, Honesty supports women in building confidence, strengthening daily habits and creating lives rooted in self-trust, structure and personal responsibility. Connect with HonestyLearn more about Honesty and connect with her here: https://www.honestyliller.com/Book: Scattered PinkJoin Sigma Femme Society to receive the free e-book, Sigma Femme: A Guide To Sovereign PowerRead Sara’s article: The End of the Alpha Era — and the Emergence of the Sigma Femme Get full access to Sara Daves at sigmafemmesociety.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, Sara and Judith Dreyer explore dreams, symbolism, intuition and the subtle ways wisdom speaks through the body. Judith is an author, teacher and longtime guide in the realms of dream work, Chiron medicine and holistic healing. Together, they explore the deeper meaning of dream time, not only as nighttime dreaming, but as an expanded field of intuition, symbolic language, inner knowing and spiritual relationship.The conversation moves through Judith’s dream work teachings, the role of recurring symbols and synchronicity, the intelligence of the body and the importance of grounding spiritual insight in daily life. Sara and Judith also reflect on their shared history, including Judith’s book The Gift From Chiron, the meaningful guidance Judith offered Sara during a threshold season in Floyd, and the ways mystery continues to speak when we are willing to listen.In this episode, we talk about:* Dream time as more than sleep, including intuition, vision, meditation and symbolic awareness* The body as an instrument of discernment* How recurring dreams, signs and symbols can reveal deeper truths* Why spiritual insight becomes more meaningful when it is grounded in lived action* The relationship between healing, inner listening and more precise intuition* Synchronicity, mystery and learning to trust what arrives through symbol* Chiron, symbolic language and the wisdom carried through the wound* How feminine intelligence often speaks through subtle knowing before it becomes languageTimestamps:00:00 – Sara and Judith’s shared history, including The Gift From Chiron and the guidance that led Sara to “speak to the mountains”03:12 – The mandala on the mountain and why symbolic action matters04:19 – Grounding intuition and dream guidance in everyday life06:13 – Judith’s expanded understanding of dream time08:13 – Childhood dreams, recurring symbols and the messages that stay with us10:45 – Dream states, other dimensions and what awakening can reveal12:44 – Synchronicity, signs and learning to pay attention14:50 – Dream journaling, recurring symbols and pattern recognition18:00 – Surrender, flow and the unfolding path22:46 – How dream work can shift perception, healing and relationships26:12 – Jung, the body, and the practical nature of dream messages27:45 – The body as a guide in discernment and healing31:30 – Closing reflections on mystery, intuition and inner knowingAbout Judith DreyerJudith Dreyer, MS, is an international author, speaker and teacher whose work bridges science, holistic healing, dream work, archetypal wisdom and spiritual inquiry. She is the author of At the Garden’s Gate, Navigating Your Dream World, and The Gift From Chiron. Her work invites people into a deeper relationship with symbolism, healing and the wisdom available through the inner life.Connect with Judith:Website: www.judithdreyer.comBooks: The Gift From Chiron, Navigating Your Dream World, At the Garden’s GatePodcast: Holistic Nature of UsJoin Sigma Femme Society.Read Sara’s story about her mandala offering to the mountains.Explore the Relational Field Leadership Cohort inside the Transcend Into Oneness Experience. Get full access to Sara Daves at sigmafemmesociety.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, Sara sits down with Lydia Griffith of Fire Horse Wisdom for a soulful conversation about identity, home, spiritual shedding and the courage it takes to let an old life fall away. Lydia was Sara’s very first yoga teacher many years ago, and together they explore what it means to outgrow a name, a role, and a version of self that once held deep purpose.They talk about Lydia’s decision to release the spiritual name she carried for twenty years, the walkabout that followed, and the deeper truth that home is less about place and more about belonging within yourself. The conversation also moves through grief, legacy, Eastern and Western astrology, the Fire Horse year, collaboration, community and the collective shift toward a more liberated and authentic way of living.In this episode, we talk about:* Releasing an old identity and the grief that can come with it* What it means to leave home and discover a deeper sense of belonging* The spiritual and emotional lessons of living without a clear destination* How Lydia’s walkabout across the United States changed her relationship to self* The Year of the Snake, the Year of the Fire Horse, and the energies of this moment* Why collaboration, community and shared wisdom matter more than ever* Home as an inner state, a regulated nervous system and a return to the selfTimestamps:00:00 – Lydia’s spiritual name, Nitya, and what it meant to release it03:22 – The Year of the Snake and the deeper process of shedding05:13 – Leaving behind old roles and taking a cross-country walkabout08:11 – Legacy, teaching and the meaning of being “eternal”12:20 – The Fire Horse year and the call to bold, authentic action17:34 – What home really is and why inner safety matters22:34 – Burning down old structures and stepping into liberation25:40 – Collaboration, community and the shift away from competition27:07 – Divine feminine and masculine energies and the larger collective transition34:33 – Lydia’s goddess retreat and where to find herAbout Lydia GriffithLydia Griffith is the founder of Fire Horse Wisdom. Her work weaves together Chinese astrology, spiritual insight and grounded wisdom to help people navigate change, reclaim authenticity and live in deeper alignment with the energies of their time.Connect with Lydia:Fire Horse Wisdom: https://firehorsewisdom.com/YouTube: https://youtube.com/@firehorsewisdom?si=fqxCIISWUlKRkfmRSubstack: https://substack.com/@firehorsewisdom Get full access to Sara Daves at sigmafemmesociety.substack.com/subscribe

Sigma Femme is a movement for the restoration of feminine intelligence, internal authority and relational coherence.In this episode, Sara Daves explores relational field intelligence as the capacity to perceive what is happening between people while it is happening, and to understand how the internal state shapes what becomes possible in that space. She looks at the unseen dynamics that influence conflict, leadership, trust and participation long before anything is fully spoken.This conversation brings language to the living space between people, where tension gathers, safety is felt, meaning forms and interactions begin to organize. Sara explores why leadership is relational before it is strategic, how emotional charge can become structure and why internal governance changes relational outcomes.In this episode:* What the relational field is and how it shapes human interaction* How internal state influences conflict, trust and participation* Why leadership is about what forms around you, not only what you say* How emotional charge becomes structure and drives escalation* Why reflective listening changes the field* The difference between reacting to events and understanding conditions* How sovereignty creates a steadier, more coherent sphere of influenceGo deeper:Join Sigma Femme Society for deeper writings, teachings and the larger body of this work: https://sigmafemmesociety.substack.com/subscribeExplore the Relational Field Leadership Certification: https://www.saradaves.com/relational-field-certification Get full access to Sara Daves at sigmafemmesociety.substack.com/subscribe

Sigma Femme is a movement for the restoration of feminine intelligence, internal authority and relational coherence.In this episode, Sara Daves explores the Alpha, Beta and Sigma archetypes as patterns women develop inside a culture that rewards adaptation. Some women learn to secure connection through accommodation. Others learn to secure value through capability and performance. Over time, both paths begin to reveal their limits.This conversation brings language to the moment a woman stops organizing her life around pleasing or proving and begins returning to herself. Sigma emerges as a more integrated way of living, where care remains intact, strength remains available and identity is no longer built through self-erasure or overcompensation.In this episode:* Beta as connection shaped through self-abandonment* Alpha as power shaped through constant proving* The limits of both strategies over time* Sigma as integration, self-possession and coherence* How these patterns shape relationships, ambition and identity* The shift from adaptation to truthGo deeper:Join Sigma Femme Society to receive the free ebook, “Sigma Femme: A Guide to Sovereign Power,” and access the Sigma Femme Circle: https://sigmafemmesociety.substack.com/subscribeExplore more: Read the book: https://www.saradaves.com/booksVisit the website: https://www.saradaves.com Get full access to Sara Daves at sigmafemmesociety.substack.com/subscribe

Sigma Femme is a movement for the restoration of feminine intelligence, internal authority and relational coherence.In this episode, Sara Daves explores one of the deepest cultural distortions of our time: the split between the feminine and the masculine. She looks at these as distinct forms of intelligence, each with its own function, gifts, and power and traces how modern culture collapsed equality into sameness, leaving many women disconnected from their essence and many men cut off from their depth.This is a conversation about distortion, repair and right relationship. Sara examines how patriarchy deformed the masculine, how feminine intelligence was devalued in the process and why healing cannot come through blame. It comes through restoration.In this episode:* The feminine and masculine as distinct forms of intelligence* How equality became confused with sameness* Why empowerment was recoded through masculine standards* The difference between the masculine and patriarchy* How distortion shaped relationships, family systems and culture* Why the path forward is restoration, not rejectionLinks:Join Sigma Femme Society: https://sigmafemmesociety.substack.com/subscribeRead the book: https://www.saradaves.com/booksVisit my website: https://www.saradaves.com/ Get full access to Sara Daves at sigmafemmesociety.substack.com/subscribe

Sigma Femme is a movement for the restoration of feminine intelligence, internal authority and relational coherence.In this opening episode, Sara Daves introduces the core ideas behind Sigma Femme and explores how cultural conditioning has distorted feminine power. She looks at intuition, embodiment, sovereignty and the deeper intelligence women access when they stop organizing themselves around external expectations.In this episode:* What Sigma Femme means and why the language matters* How conditioning disconnects women from their own perception* Why borrowed models of empowerment leave so many women disconnected from themselves* What the Sigma symbol reveals about integration, wholeness and inner coherence* How embodiment and intuition restore feminine authority from the inside outLinks:Join Sigma Femme Society: https://sigmafemmesociety.substack.com/subscribeExplore the work:https://sigmafemmesociety.substack.com/Read the book: https://www.saradaves.com/books Get full access to Sara Daves at sigmafemmesociety.substack.com/subscribe