Under the oppressive systems of white supremacy and colonialism, and the internalisation of "whiteness" in the dominant culture, how can the practice of reparative philanthropy re-story colonial narratives of power to shift to flattened hierarchies of giving and receiving? In today’s episode, we are in conversation with Hilary Giovale, a mother, writer, and community organizer. Being a ninth-generation American settler, she is descended from Celtic, Germanic, Nordic, and Indigenous peoples of Ancient Europe. As an active reparationist, her work is guided by intuition, love, and relationships to transmute harmful philanthropic practices to ones rooted in reciprocity and equitable giving. Hilary’s recent book Becoming a Good Relative shares remedies for the debilitating shame that can overtake white Americans when facing their peoples’ colonial past and our current complicity with systemic white supremacy. It offers a unique methodology, supported by African American and Indigenous Elders, which we dive into the depths in today’s conversation. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

We spend a third of our lives in the sleep state, and whilst neuroscience reduces dreams to an evolutionary advantage for day residue and emotional processing, the liminal state of lucid dreaming reveals a deeper active awareness our bodies tap into as we rest. How can lucid awareness help us connect to the spirit of the land so that we can deepen our understanding of its needs in the current time? We bring onto our show Athena Laz, the bestselling author of The Alchemy of Your Dreams, The Sisterhood of Seers Oracle Deck, and The Deliberate Dreamer’s Journal . Her most recent book Women Who Dance in the Dark releases on September 16th 2025. Her books have been translated into more than 13 languages worldwide. Athena is an intuitive, psychologist, and dream teacher who helps thousands of people worldwide connect to spirit and the psyche & rediscovering the potent and sacred power of dream work. Her work has been featured by Today, Bustle, Mindbodygreen, Publisher's Weekly, The Shift Network, Cosmopolitan Magazine, the Sunday Post, Kindred Spirit, Watkins, NY1, and many more media outlets. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

With the ways in which we have internalised systems of oppression and human domination in our dominant culture, it may seem a surprise to many of us to (re)learn the essential food provision of our trees and the intimate relationships humans have had with nut trees over generations and cultures. As we look towards re-embodying ancient ways of nourishing our communities with regenerative, polycultural agricultural and food practices, how can we begin to rekindle our connection to our tree kin? Elspeth Hay is the author of Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food, and the creator and host of the Local Food Report, a weekly feature that has aired on Cape Cod’s NPR station since 2008. Deeply immersed in her own local-food system, she writes and reports for print, radio, and online media with a focus on food, the environment, and the people, places, and ideas that feed us.  In this conversation, Elspeth maps out ways in which we can begin “re-storying” trees as food providers by reviving ancient food stories of connection, reciprocity and polyculturalism. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

As many of our workspaces begin adapting to the increasing presence of burnout culture, what power does naming the disembodying of internalised systems as reviving the feminine hold for transforming the way we work?  In this episode, we are in conversation with LeeAnn Mallorie, author and CEO of Guts & Grace, who began her career as an executive coach in 2006, working with leaders and teams from around the globe. Yet she soon found something was missing—the body. This led her on a personal journey of physical, mental, and spiritual healing, to eventually embrace the feminine side of leadership. Committed to walking her talk, she brought these lessons back to her clients in the corporate, non-profit and government sectors, with surprisingly positive results.  Today, LeeAnn explores how the introduction of more diverse values into business could be a keystone to solving some of our world’s stickiest problems. She now helps female leaders and their teams creatively face bottom-line business challenges while dissolving both meaning depletion and burnout. Her work sparks radical innovation, using practical embodiment tools that bridge the gap between the hard-driving logical mind and the deeper wisdom of the soul. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

In the loud of the ever-changing world, what does it truly mean to engage in silence with intention? How can intended, desired pause open up possibilities for deepening relationships with oneself and community beyond the realms of verbal communication? This month, we bring to our show Pamela Dangelmaier, a sought-after motivational speaker, TEDx presenter, and mindfulness coach, who has a passion for intentional silence and empowering individuals and leaders to embrace quiet moments as a gateway to clarity, creativity, and meaningful action. As a founding member of the Mindful Coach Association, published novelist, e-commerce entrepreneur, and mindfulness advocate, Pamela infuses every aspect of her life with the same practices she teaches - pausing, listening deeply, and engaging with presence. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

Environmental justice work speaks to the visceral nature of systemic oppression, lived through the bodies of Indigenous and local communities at the frontlines of climate crises and ecological degeneration. To defend the land, water and other natural resources is not a question of choice but survival for many communities protecting their territories from extractive industries. How do we then, as allies and advocates, choose to take the risk of offering our voices and organising with environmental defenders, in the movement to collective freedom and justice? This month, we bring onto the show Abby Reyes, an author and recognized leader in driving community climate solutions. Her first book, Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice releases today, May 6, 2025, from North Atlantic Books. Truth Demands is a salve for anyone navigating the open waters of grief and essential reading for the emerging climate activist and those becoming more ecologically aware. The book chronicles Abby’s own healing journey and pursuit of justice after the loss of her partner and two other land rights advocates when they were murdered near Indigenous U’wa territory in Colombia in 1999.  Born and raised in Virginia, Abby began her climate work conducting rural environmental legal assistance in the Philippines, her father’s homeland, and later walked alongside the Colombian U’wa Indigenous pueblo in their fight against big oil – an experience at the center of Truth Demands. Today, she is the Director of Community Resilience Projects at University of California, Irvine, where she supports leaders from climate-vulnerable communities and their academic partners to accelerate community-owned just transition solutions. A graduate of Stanford University and UC Berkeley Law, she clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, co-chaired the board of EarthRights International, and is an advisor to the National Association of Climate Resilience Planners.  Abby has been recognized as a “Model of Resistance” by Barnard’s Scholar and the Feminist Conference, has a TEDx talk on How to Come Home and has discussed her work with the Law & Political Economy Project. She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area. This conversation centres the themes of Truth Demands addressing embodiment as resistance, chronic fatigue and exhaustion in environmental justice work, and body reorganisation through rest. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

With increasing awareness of the environmental and health benefits of plant-based food practices, what power does re-rooting the values of the western vegan movement hold in tending to the generational wound of food injustices for BIPOC communities? How can we begin to trace ancestral ways of cooking to build more sustaining connections to the land and our bodies, whilst retaining the stories and flavours of our homelands? We ground these questions in this episode with Sharon Gardner, a plant-based nutritionist, a cookery school teacher, and the founder of Core of Life (UK), and Wholistic Wellness with Sharon. Sharon holds a Degree in Health Sciences and also holds a diploma in teaching Pilates, which she uses as a tool to teach people how to use their body, so that it benefits them in their everyday life. Her work involves supporting individuals on their wellness journeys through facilitating and empowerment. As a plant-based chef and holistic wellness practitioner with Caribbean heritage, Sharon loves to share her knowledge and story through infusing the “vegan flavours of the Caribbean” in the dishes she creates and shares with all those she has the pleasure of working with.  Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode resources, shownotes and episode archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

Water bears life, cleanses old wounds and carries stories of resilience and hope between generations. Water is intuitive, liquid magic that holds our hydrophilic bodies in development as children and brings familiarity to the world as adults. Yet, our reductionist scientific training strips the enchanting beauty of the element, reducing it to a “resource” that can be tested on, fragmented and controlled as a commodity. How can we then open up the sciences to alternative ways of tending to the needs of our waters and lands that hold space for stories, re-connection, pause and appreciation of inherent beauty? This month, we bring onto the show Mary Trudeau, a professional engineer specialising in water management and urban water infrastructure, and is the Director of an environmental consulting company. She is also the author of a children's book, A Tale of Two Planets, written to inspire awe and wonder for our amazing planet. Mary has worked in the environmental field for over 30 years and believes the first step to resolving our many challenges is to reconnect with the wonder and beauty of life on Earth, rekindling reverence and remembering, with humility, our place as planetary caretakers. Mary's diverse interests are reflected in her formal education, with degrees including a Bachelor of Applied Science (Civil Engineering), an Arts Degree (English Literature) and a PhD (Physical Geography). She is a part time professor at the University of Ottawa.  Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode resources, shownotes and episode archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

In our personal and collective efforts to resist and transform burnout culture, many of us engage in embodiment and mindfulness practice, only to re-enter the cycle of burnout in our working lives. How can we shape and design our workspaces so they invite more space for regenerative growth - one grounded in nature’s principles of reciprocity, diversity, rest and care? What can a workspace intimately connected to the needs of the body look like within head-centric ways of working? In this month’s episode, we bring to the show Monica Sander Burns, a certified Forest Therapy guide and founding partner of Society of Trees, an organization helping to bring the rejuvenation of nature therapies to the workplace. Monica has guided hundreds of participants through Nature therapy sessions that have been designed to replenish and restore a depleted workforce. In our conversation, Monica maps out what a biophilic workspace can look like, embedding nature immersion in our working lives that interweaves human and ecosystem wellbeing as remediation to workplace burnout culture. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode resources. Connect with us on Instagram and Facebook.

Amidst political instability, humanitarian and ecologies crises and social fragmentation, where do we begin to create space for designing our freedom dreams for ourselves and our communities? How do we give ourselves permission to dream of a liberated future within creatively restrictive systems?  In this first episode of 2025, we bring onto the show Dr Michelle Pledger, the founder of Living for Liberation, an organisation that supports liberation of self, systems and society, and academic focusing her research on cultivating culturally responsive teaching and classroom management for culturally and linguistically diverse students. Michelle is committed to disrupting inequity in education and cultivating a community of practitioners who honour the lived experiences of all their students and educators. Her book, LIBERATE! Pocket-Sized Paradigms for Liberatory Learning is a must read for any educator who aspires to design educational experiences that are responsive to culturally and linguistically diverse young people. Whether it is through the vehicle of project-based learning, culturally responsive-sustaining pedagogy, or freedom facilitation, her hope is to develop educators and students who think critically, act empathetically, and live a life of liberation. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode resources and archives. Follow the show on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

Take a pause and ask yourself - have you tuned into your senses today? Have you been able to take a moment to tap into the senses that help regulate and make meaning of our inner landscapes as portals to the ever-changing outer worlds? As we begin to come to the end of the year, we hold space in this reflection episode for the sacredness of the places of our bodies in helping us navigate and make sense of these challenging and constantly changing times. By weaving together sensuous experiences throughout the episode, our host Agrita Dandriyal grounds the body as the primary place we make sense of our inner and outer landscapes in a call for deep remembering of our roles and responsibilities as current stewards and future ancestors of the land. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access all episode resources, shownotes and archives. Follow the podcast on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything). Support us by giving the podcast an iTunes rating so that we can reach other wonderful humans like you!

Whilst living in realities polluted with ableist, colonial and capitalist values of human domination and subordination of the more-than-human, where can we seek inspiration and hope for manifesting alternative futures of inclusivity, vulnerability and reciprocal care? How can tracing trails of injury and resistance to generational disablement of human and more-than-human communities equip us with the necessary tools for building a disabled future that is grounded in the values of living with and caring for the body and the environment? This month, we are joined by the wonderful Sunaura Taylor, an artist, writer and author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (The New Press, 2017) and Disabled Ecology: Lessons from a Wounded Desert. Taylor has written for a range of popular media outlets and her artworks have been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. She works at the intersection of disability studies, environmental justice, multispecies studies, and art practice. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in the Bay Area with her daughter Leonora, husband David, and their two cats, Rosie and Pirate.  In this heart-felt episode, Sunaura offers us ways of mapping out disabled ecologies by framing our ecological crises as a multispecies disablement that extends out to biotic and abiotic bodies, human and more-than-human life, and across generations. Using the themes of her book Disabled Ecology: Lessons from a Wounded Desert as a grounding, Sunaura sows seeds of hope and radical imagination for a disabled future, which resists ableist and colonial systems of power to foster values of alternative caregiving and meaning-making of the diversity and beauty of our worlds. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything). Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access all episode resources, shownotes and archives.

As we mourn human-induced ecological loss and violence to the more-than-human world, what space do we hold for grieving what we have lost in ourselves by creating walls that were once blurred boundaries between our bodies and the ecosystem? How do we create joy from what remains of our lost capacities to communicate and connect to other bodies through languages of the heart? This month we bring to the space Leah Rampy, a writer, retreat leader, and educator who weaves ecology, spirituality, personal stories, and practices to help others deepen their relationship to the natural world. With experience as a teacher, professor, corporate and nonprofit executive, and leadership consultant, she began a decades-long journey to understand what lies beneath our unwillingness to change our interactions with the natural world. Her growing commitment to reweaving soul and Earth has been informed by leading over a dozen pilgrimages and many more retreats, extensive reading and research, her contemplative practice, and she shares her wisdom of the living world through her book Earth and Soul: reconnecting amid climate chaos. Leah has taught in public schools and universities, held leadership roles in Fortune 100 companies, offered executive coaching and leadership consulting through a company she founded, and led a nonprofit organization. Leah holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum from Indiana University. The episode explores the complexities in grieving ecological loss and degradation community fragmentation and environmental inaction, particularly bringing focus on the paradox of reconnecting to the natural world we were never apart from. Our conversation invites moments of reflection on how we see our ecological crises through a human lens but also how we see ourselves placed in the ecosystem, from moral responsibility to collective identity. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything). Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access all episode resources, shownotes and archives.

Making livelihoods from artistic passions is essential for sustaining art communities and preserving the art itself, but many artists find the joy of creating being lost within the struggles of survivorship and power imbalances of our capitalistic world. What can de-commodifying creativity look like for artists seeking more fluidity and joy-making in their creation processes but also balancing their business needs? This month, we bring back to the space the wonderful Maanarak of Grey, the artistic alias of Radinka Ustasia, a multidisciplinary artist from the Caribbean island of Bonaire. From 2010-2023 Maanarak has lived, studied, and worked in the Netherlands, with the highest qualification she obtained there being a Bachelors of Science in International Development Management, majoring in Rural Development and Innovation, at Van Hall Larenstein in Velp. During her study program, she minored in Art and Creativity at work and this is where she started an exploration of combining her competing passions.  In this episode, we extend from the previous episode's themes of artistic expression and playfulness in activism and development to explore the ways in which we can balance capitalistic tendencies to monetise joy and basic financial needs in our lives, and challenge urges to perfect and structure as a way to expand our limitless imaginations. Connect with Maanarak on Instagram (@maanarak.art). Follow us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything). Visit mindfullofeverything.com for episode resources and archives.

Whilst being in natural spaces is a birthright for all, with nature being us and us being nature, BIPOC communities often find themselves alienated from the ‘natural world’ so guarded by privilege and power, it almost seems impossible to feel seen or even safe. How then can reviving deep cultural connections to the land through improved eco-education remediate historical harms of environmental injustices faced by our communities? This month, we invite to the space Nayo Shell, the visionary founder of EcoWell Co., a transformative platform established in 2020 with a mission to deepen our connection with nature through wellness practices and eco-education. A Maryland-native holistic wellness teacher, environmental scientist, urban planner, and climate activist, Nayo is dedicated to amplifying eco-consciousness and resilience to climate change. Through her multifaceted background, she endeavors to bridge the gaps between our minds, bodies, spirits, and the Earth, igniting mindful, radical (r)evolutionary change from within. As the host of the Meditation Matters Podcast and curator of the EcoWell Co., Nayo inspires individuals and communities to embrace collective transformation towards a resilient, harmonious world. In this wildly open and animated conversation, we centre re-storying as an essential tool for countering eco-narratives rooted in colonial power, particularly re-instilling confidence and courage in people of colour to engage in environmental placemaking. Nayo weaves together embodied intention-setting practices to offer people of colour ways of finding place and belonging in nature, as a way to reclaim lost identity as interconnected beings. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with Nayo on Instagram (@ecowellco). Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

When growing up in a culture that instills individualistic healing modalities in us as children, what then can restorying grief tending as a communal praxis do for caring for our individual and collective selves? We centre this crucial question in this month’s episode with Camille Sapara Barton, exploring key pathways in inspiring cultural shifts for grief work in times of sociopolitical divides and ecological degradation. Camille is a writer, artist and somatic practitioner, dedicated to creating networks of care and liveable futures. Rooted in Black feminism, ecology and harm reduction, Camille uses creativity, alongside embodied practices, to create culture change in fields ranging from psychedelic assisted therapy to arts education. Based in Amsterdam, Camille designed and directed Ecologies of Transformation (2021 - 2023), a masters programme exploring socially engaged art making with a focus on creating change through the body into the world. They curate events and offer consultancy combining trauma informed practice, experiential learning and their studies in political science. Camille’s debut book "Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community", published last month by North Atlantic Books, offers deeper insight into their work and informs the themes of this conversation. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access all episode resources and archives. Connect with Camille on Instagram (@camillesaparabarton). Stay tuned with latest releases on our Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

In a culture that inhibits adult creative integration, how can grounding community development work in play, creativity, vulnerability and inner child healing help materialise knowledges into transformative development practice? This month, we invite to the space Maanarak of Grey, the artistic alias of Radinka Ustasia, a multidisciplinary artist from the Caribbean island of Bonaire. From 2010-2023 Maanarak has lived, studied, and worked in the Netherlands, with the highest qualification she obtained there being a Bachelors of Science in International Development Management, majoring in Rural Development and Innovation, at Van Hall Larenstein in Velp. During her study program, she minored in Art and Creativity at work and this is where she started an exploration of combining her competing passions. In this episode, we discuss the place that artivism holds in sustainable development and the ways in which art and science can be interwoven to make the development sector more accessible, fluid and equitable through the powerful tool of play. By getting in touch with our inner child and the playful modes of creation we once had access to as children, Maanarak guides us in exploring the deeply healing forces of art that invite opportunities to be vulnerable and in touch with ourselves, our communities and our ecosystems to bring about long-lasting systemic change. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode resources and archives. Connect with Maanarak on Instagram (@maanarak.art). Follow the podcast on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

In a world of co-optation, violent othering and systemic oppression, how can tracing the histories of resistance and collective resilience of communities (including those we are not from) liberate and expand imaginations beyond the confines of sociopolitical structures? What can life look like if we, as humans, abide again by nature’s laws of interconnectedness, cyclical healing and symbiotic living? In this month’s episode, we are joined by Hajar Yazdiha, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California and faculty affiliate of the USC Equity Research Institute. Hajar researches the politics of inclusion and exclusion, examining the forces that bring us together and keep us apart as we work to forge collective futures. She is author of the book, The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement with Princeton University Press. She is also a public scholar whose writing and research has been featured in outlets including The New York Times, Time Magazine, LA Times, ABC News, The Hill, and The Grio. In this wonderfully inspiring conversation, Hajar dismantles the politics of togetherness and othering by interweaving her lived experiences, the collective memory of the Civil Rights Movement and the innate creative abilities of the human being to illustrate how systems have historically oppressed and violated certain groups, but also how these groups have resisted and transformed these systems of harm. It is in these stories of struggle and resilience that hope emerges, a sense of shared hope and relief that we can remake the liberation created and experienced by generations before us. Visit mindfullofeverything.com for all episode resources and archives. Follow the podcast on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

Why is it crucial that we open up the individualised clinical model of therapy so that it incorporates the multidimensionality of intergenerational trauma healing? In what ways can we begin to shift therapy narratives to ancestral joy and resilience to restore balance and hope in community efforts of system resistance and reimagination? Today we are joined by Katya Lovejoy, a clinical hypnotherapist, trauma coach, and mental health educator who supports highly sensitive people to reclaim a sense of wholeness and empowerment after trauma. Katya holds degrees in neuroscience and social work, as well as esoteric trainings from lineages around the world. She approaches trauma healing from an individual, ancestral, and collective lens, and utilises subconscious, somatic, and spiritual approaches to finding release and resolution. Katya is committed to the liberation and empowerment of all people, and is on a mission to end the transmission of intergenerational trauma in families and communities by sharing the most effective modalities for sustainable transformation.  In this beautifully inspiring episode, Katya explores with us the power of tapping into our ancestral bodies and lineages to draw out deep inspiration and joy from the rituals and ways of being of previous generations, human and more-than-human. Katya steps out of the linearity of the conventional therapy model to invite opportunities to open up the therapy space for stories and nostalgic remembering of a time which preserved the dynamism and animacy of connected living, whilst also holding space for accountability and remediation of ancestral practices which no longer serve our time. Biggest thank you to Katya for holding space for Agrita during this difficult period of mourning for her and her family after the recent passing away of her grandfather. We hope this conversation reaches the hearts of everyone who has, or currently is experiencing, grief over the passing of a loved one, particularly elders who have taken position as ancestors, and that the compassion and love that is tied to intergenerational trauma healing holds space for you to process your emotions and move forward. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to connect with Katya and access full episode resources. Connect with the podcast on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

How can the emulation of nature’s processes of regeneration seed hopeful inspiration into new beginnings? In what ways can we tap into the regenerative capacities and energies of our material bodies to engage in reparative changemaking that feeds imaginations of a reality that break cycles of internalised scarcity and overconsumption to nurture cultures of care, mutuality and rest? In our first episode of 2024, we are joined by the host Agrita Dandriyal to explore the ways in which we engage in the complex regeneration of our material and non-material capacities with the beginning of each new year. Being deeply inspired by the microcosms of her family’s gardens and the political space of her body, Agrita calls for a remembering of the eco-cultural roots of regeneration in values of reciprocal care and resilience so that we can reclaim the reparative power of the age-old concept and materialise our dreams of equitable and restful realities. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode resources, shownotes and archives. Follow the podcast on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).