In this deeply personal episode of Broken and Healed, Michelle sits down with Kimberly Harter, a wellness coach, Ayurvedic counselor, NLP practitioner, and energy worker whose decade-long journey through chronic illness became the catalyst for profound spiritual awakening.
After years of debilitating symptoms — from extreme light and sound sensitivity to surviving on just ten foods — Kimberly discovered that true healing begins when we stop outsourcing our power and start listening to the body’s wisdom.
Together, Michelle and Kimberly explore:
🌿 The “perfect storm” that led to Kimberly’s collapse and awakening
💫 How brain rewiring, breathwork, and cold water therapy supported her recovery
🔥 The deeper soul contract hidden within chronic illness
🌬️ Reclaiming sovereignty and becoming your own healer
💔 Why illness can become the most powerful initiation of your life
If you’ve ever felt trapped inside your body, unseen by medicine, or lost in your healing journey — this conversation is for you. Kimberly’s story is proof that even after a decade of pain, rebirth is possible.
✨ Mentioned in this episode:
DNRS (Dynamic Neural Retraining System)
Reiki, Ayurveda, and intuitive healing modalities
Somatic practices, meditation, and nervous system regulation
🎧 Listen now and remember: Sometimes, the body’s breakdown is the soul’s way of whispering — there’s another way. Go find it.
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Michelle Katz is a high level film/tv producer, author, and trained story-teller but more than anything - she has transmuted an 11 year illness/spiritual rebirth into her debut memoir : Awakening in An Age of Metals.
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In this episode of Broken and Healed, Michelle Katz sits down with Kelly Meehan, a renowned spirit baby medium, medical intuitive, healing visionary, and host of Spirit Baby Radio with over 220 episodes. Together, they dive into the unseen realms of conception, pregnancy, and birth, exploring how spirit baby communication offers profound insight into fertility, loss, and parenting.
Kelly shares her journey of discovering her intuitive gifts as a teenager, her path into medical intuition, and how she helps families connect to their own inner wisdom. She and Michelle discuss:
🌱 Spirit baby communication — what it means to listen to the soul of a baby before, during, and after birth
🧬 Medical intuition and self-healing — why we are all capable of accessing our own inner physician
💔 Sacred grief and loss — supporting families through miscarriage, stillbirth, and early loss with love and presence
👶 Birth trauma and nervous system imprinting — how the way we are born shapes our health, emotions, and patterns for life
🌍 Rethinking birth trends — induction, cesareans, and why cultural narratives around birth need to change
✨ Healing as parents and as a collective — how coming back to body, intuition, and love transforms generations
This conversation is raw, heartfelt, and deeply illuminating. Whether you’re on a healing path, a parent, or simply curious about the unseen energies of life, Kelly’s wisdom offers a reminder that we are far more connected — and far more powerful — than we’ve been led to believe.
Website: https://www.spiritbabyacademy.com/about-kelly.html#/
Podcast: Spirit Baby Radio https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spirit-baby-radio/id1257285448
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In this raw and unflinching episode of Broken and Healed, we step into the courageous story of Patricia Garza Pinto, founder of Divine Your Power and a holistic healer whose life has been shaped by the shadows of early sexual abuse and the light of radical transformation.
From the age of four, Patricia endured repeated trauma inside her own home—a reality that led her through violence, addiction, shame, and despair. But what makes her story extraordinary is not only her survival, but how she transmuted pain into purpose. Today, Patricia helps women awaken their inner strength, reclaim their energy, and live in alignment with their highest truth.
We talk about:
Patricia’s voice is a testament that the unspeakable can be spoken, and that even the deepest wounds can become portals of awakening.
⚠️ Content Advisory: This episode includes discussion of childhood sexual abuse and may be triggering for survivors. Listener discretion is advised. Not suitable for children.
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In this powerful episode of Broken and Healed: Where Science and Spirituality Meet the Miraculous, Michelle Katz sits down with Levi Barker, a world-renowned Iboga provider and director of the Iboga Wellness Center in Costa Rica. Levi has guided thousands of people through transformative healing journeys using iboga, a sacred plant medicine from West Africa.
Levi’s personal story of detoxing off Suboxone with the help of iboga
The key differences between ibogaine (studied for clinical detox) and iboga (the whole plant medicine used in Bwiti practice)
How iboga supports lasting transformation in addiction recovery through psycho-spiritual and emotional cleansing
Why iboga is gaining recognition as a potential ally in neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s and traumatic brain injury (TBI)
An introduction to Heantos — a Vietnamese herbal formula that eases opiate withdrawals and supports dopamine balance
Michelle’s own reflections on how iboga worked on her nervous system, teaching her about resistance, surrender, and healing on a cellular level
Iboga is more than a detox tool — it’s becoming recognized for its potential in addressing:
Addiction (opiates, alcohol, prescription drugs)
Depression, anxiety, and trauma
OCD and compulsive patterns
Neurological repair and deep emotional release
This episode is for educational and inspirational purposes only. Iboga is a powerful plant medicine that is not appropriate for everyone and requires medical evaluation. Nothing here should be considered medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before making decisions about your health, treatments, or use of plant medicines.
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Frank Ferrante’s life reads like a modern parable of transformation. Growing up in Brooklyn and surviving decades of addiction, Hepatitis C, and deep trauma, Frank’s story was captured in the unforgettable documentary May I Be Frank. But behind the camera, his path to healing was anything but linear.
In this intimate and wide-ranging conversation, Frank opens up about:
Growing up in the Catholic school system and the wounds that shaped him.
The desperation that led him to stumble into Café Gratitude, mistaking it for an AA meeting—an encounter that would forever change his life.
Why recovery isn’t just about food or sobriety, but about support, community, and connection.
His mystical understanding of prayer—not as petitioning, but as summoning the divinity within.
The lessons of imperfection in art and healing: why waiting for the “perfect” moment can keep us from creating or transforming at all.
Frank’s wisdom resonates with the timeless teachings of spiritual masters like Neville Goddard: transformation must happen inside before it is ever reflected outside. Together we explore the nature of belonging vs. fitting in, the epidemic of chasing health, the role of community in healing (from Blue Zones to Café Gratitude), and what it means to live authentically in a culture obsessed with perfection and financial success.
Frank’s words are a reminder that the opposite of addiction is connection, and that often, our deepest wounds hold the key to our greatest calling.
This episode feels like a big hug—a conversation about humanity, resilience, and the mystery of what happens just before a miracle enters your life.
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In this episode of BROKEN AND HEALED I sit down with Kris Newby, the award-winning science writer, producer of the GROUNDBREAKING documentary Under Our Skin, and author of the EXPLOSIVE book Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons and we dive deep into a subject that hits very close to home. What begins as a personal story of illness—hers and her husband’s—quickly unfolds into a much darker tale of cover-ups, corrupted science, and institutional gaslighting. If you or someone you love has been told your symptoms are psychosomatic, or if you’ve ever wondered why it’s so hard to get a straight answer about Lyme disease or any other disease, this conversation is important. We go beyond the diagnosis and into the systems designed to keep patients sick, silent, and spinning in circles. And we talk about how to break free.
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In this deeply inspiring conversation, spiritual life coach Connie Costa shares how she broke free from the inner critic and societal expectations to reclaim her truth, her health, and her joy — and how moving to Italy transformed not just her soul, but her body. From her early days as a traditional psychotherapist in Los Angeles to building a spiritually aligned coaching practice and living her dream life in Sicily, Connie opens up about the fierce blowback of stepping into your authentic voice, the radical difference between the food and lifestyle in Italy versus the U.S., and how slowing down to truly live can heal what you thought was unfixable. If you’ve ever felt silenced, stuck, or disconnected from your body and your purpose, this episode is your reminder that everything can change the moment you decide to listen to your soul.
You can find Connie here: https://www.conniecosta.com/
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What happens when a physician inside the system starts asking the wrong questions — and finds answers no one wants to hear?
In this gripping conversation, Dr. Jay Bernstein — physician, CDC and military whistleblower — joins Broken and Healed to expose the truths behind vaccines, systemic corruption in medicine, 9/11, and the devastating personal toll of speaking out.
We talk about the courage it takes to tell the truth, even when it costs you professionally… the connection between medical gaslighting and chronic illness… and why the path to real healing often begins when you stop listening to the institutions that failed you.
This episode is a raw, unflinching look at what it means to blow the whistle on a system that profits from silence.
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In this powerful episode of Broken and Healed, I sit down with Kristin Windsor — a survivor, healer, and advocate who has walked through the depths of dissociative identity disorder (DID), brain injury, and complex trauma, and emerged as a beacon of hope. Kristin shares her extraordinary journey of reclaiming her voice, integrating her fractured sense of self, and awakening spiritually through profound inner work.
We talk about the limits of labels, the power of presence, and how neuroplasticity, soul work, and radical self-love can transform even the most unimaginable pain into purpose. Kristin’s story reminds us that healing is always possible, no matter how impossible it may seem — and that our greatest wounds can open the door to our greatest awakening.
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