This week, Holly and Kristina share some personal reflections as they wrap up Season Two of Good Girl Gone Human! They check in with their own good girl parts and discuss how the podcast has been both healing and activating for this part of their healing. As they move into a break from recording, they talk about the bravery of taking a break and leaning into rest. The temptation to push through and continue to produce can lead to burnout so they are humanizing themselves as they admit t...

This week Holly and Kristina are joined by R.G. Shore, author of the award-winning book "The Ocean Inside Me: A Spiritual Memoir on Healing Racial Trauma." Being born in the East but raised in the West was the beginning of R.G.'s relationship to liminal spaces. This idea of not fitting into any one space can be a lonely and isolating place; but the gift of liminal space is that there is more room to discover that you are never just one thing. Moving beyond labels is a painful process of disco...

*This episode contains conversations around abuse, substance misuse, pediatric terminal illness, and cancer. This warning is simply to empower you with the knowledge you need to make healthy decisions about how and if you should consume this podcast content. Claire Margit is back this week for Part Two of a vulnerable and honest conversation about being a human. Claire brings depth and story to her "Professional Human Protocol" - practical tools for navigating life. Using the metaphor ...

*This episode contains conversations around abuse, substance misuse, pediatric terminal illness, and cancer. This warning is simply to empower you with the knowledge you need to make healthy decisions about how and if you should consume this podcast content. This week Holly and Kristina are joined by Claire Margit for a beautiful and vulnerable conversation. Claire is a massage therapist and teaches a workshop called Cell Story: Where Science and Soul Collide. In this episode, she shar...

This week Teresa Brenneman joins Holly and Kristina to talk about a key part of our human experience- the bodies we live in. She shares some of the tools that she's used to live a more embodied life, including the Human Design system. They discuss the idea of embodiment as buiding awareness in the body. Listening to the ways the body communicates with sensations and somatics is a process that can be started in simple and digestible ways. This process of building loving awareness helps us to b...

This week Holly and Kristina chat with Jes Lock, a Human Design Guide, Space Holder, and Podcaster. Jes shares her story of how corporate burnout initiated her into deep healing work, and how she became aware that she had transferred the same patterns that led to burnout onto her healing journey. This led her to meeting her shadow - the unconsious parts of her that were running the show. These awarenesses over time led her to the work she does now, which is using Human Design to get to know a...

This week's episode highlights the beautiful work of Dr. Rick Diamond, a Story Healer in Austin, Texas. Rick shares his lifelong love of story- from his time as an English Professor, Pastor, Author, to his work with individuals and their own stories. In creating a safe container for people to feel into both their humanity and their soul's expansiveness, Rick is able to witness people remembering who they truly are. The work of untangling our identity from the roles and scrips we've been hande...

This week Holly and Kristina are joined by Teddy Boldt, singer of Teddy at Night and Holly's older brother! Teddy shares his lifelong journey as an artist that led him to his current creative project. After playing in bands where his whole self was not fully accepted, he leaned in to the importance of authentic community. The music industry can strip people of their individual expression as a way to capitalize on their art. Teddy has found people to collaborate with who are committed to human...

Holly and Kristina return for Season Two with guest Elyse Snipes. Elyse shares how the title "therapist" has never felt like a good fit, even after working in that role for almost 20 years. Her work has evolved from doing therapy in an Airstream trailer by the beach to sitting on the beach side by side with people. This humanizing work aims to take the shame out of healing, bringing therapeutic work out into the world. They talk about the ways society views therapy and consider new entry poin...

On this episode Holly and Kristina reflect on their podcasting journey so far, sharing the ways it has confronted their good girl programming. This conversation dives into how their collaboration has been a mirror and a support for each of them in unique and different ways. The work of building the framework for a podcast has been challenging and rewarding, and they talk about ways they want to play and expand the conversations in the future. Moving away from perfectionistic good girl dynamic...

This week, co-host Holly shares more about Human Design as a way to expand and accept the wholeness of who we are. She shares her experience of picking up this system after leaving high control religion, and learning to use it in a way that promotes freedom, not fundamentalism. Human design is a framework and a language that can be used to foster self-awareness. Above all, it is an invitation to compassionately observe ourselves and our patterns and to experiment with trusting our inner wisdo...

Get to know co-host Kristina a little better in this episode of Good Girl Gone Human as Holly interviews her on one of her passions- Women's Circles. Kristina shares about the journey that led her to starting her own Women's Circle. Her orientation towards leadership and community spaces provided fertile ground for this new thing to enter her life. She is reclaiming what it means to be a leader. Although new to her life and community, Women's Circles are ancient and have been practiced in man...

Holly and Kristina are joined by their first guest, Dave Thompson. Dave is a first responder, husband, and father. He vulnerably shares his journey towards self-acceptance in a workforce that didn't seem to accept him at first. As he journeyed into this place of self-trust he also expanded his view of faith and spirituality, highlighting curiosity over certitude. This conversation expands the lens of Good Girl Gone Human to the ways the masculine is challenged to trade their humanity for a la...

This week Holly and Kristina unpack how breaking down pedestals allows us to be more human. They unpack why we might put people on pedestals and the impact it can have on our lives, and how it can lead to de-humanizing each other. The person who we pedestalize is left with the responsibility to uphold our values, while we outsource our power to them. They talk about this idea on a cultural level with examples of actors, singers, and politicians, while acknowledging how this impact also touche...

This conversation is a pause to sit with the grief that comes in this human experience. Holly and Kristina witness each other in the process of their grief, wondering how we can show up for ourselves and others when grief comes. They discuss the tension of holding both grief and hope, expanding the capacity to experience the full spectrum of these big emotions. Through stories and real-time examples, they share the tools and resources they utilize when life gets really hard and messy. There i...

This week Holly and Kristina dive into one of the big risks of dropping the "good girl" label: losing belonging. They dive into the idea of belonging- how do we belong? Belong to who? As we accept the fullness of our humanity, is there a possibility for more authentic and sincere belonging? Losing the certainty they once held, they discuss navigating the loss of community that was tied to that certainty. As we learn to take responsibility for our own belonging, there is an invitation to exper...

On this first episode of Good Girl Gone Human, Holly and Kristina discuss their healing journeys and the path to starting a podcast together. After a lifetime of working hard to be seen as "good," they are discovering what it means to accept the whole spectrum of their humanity. There is risk in puting down the label of good- the risk of being seen as "bad," the risk of losing belonging. The hope is that as we expand our capacity to embrace our own humanity, we can expand our capacity to hold...

Good Girl Gone Human is an ongoing conversation that explores what it means to re-humanize ourselves. After a lifetime of trying to be seen as “good,” Holly and Kristina are diving into the idea of what it would feel like to put that label down- and embrace the whole spectrum of their humanity. This conversation leans into the big messy questions, like: what are the risks of putting the good label down? What would happen if we did accept the whole spectrum of our humanity? They look at the wa...