Wild Women Wisdom with Stella Mac: Recent Episodes

Stella Mac

The Wild Women Wisdom podcast is dedicated to sharing conversations with wild, wise women who are irreverent, reverent, and wildly, madly, uniquely themselves.

Rachel Bavis is a certified Intentional Creativity© teacher and child welfare attorney working with organizations, individuals, and youth to help them heal, rejuvenate, and access their inner healer to thrive. Whimsy and humor are in her tool kit, along with a paintbrush, owl rocks, and chocolate! She believes creativity and play are at the heart of knowing our own wisdom. You can find her at rachelbavis.com where you can join her Healing the Healer community and gain access to many of her wisdom-filled free videos, gratitude journals, and coloring books.

Points Covered in Episode:

Self-care
Daily rituals
The journey of entrepreneurship
Using creativity for healing
PTSD and Secondary Trauma

Shelby Frago is a private practice psychotherapist, life coach, and working artist living in the Pacific Northwest. But as you get to know her better you will discover her as a Heart Holder, Grief Tender, a Soul Listener, and a Creative Catalyst (aka a Sparkle Pirate who instigates “Intrepid Joy” wherever she can!

She is now on a mission to help other women tap into their creativity to solve problems, make meaning and inspire women of all ages, stages, and walks of life to claim the deepest and most effortless nourishment possible.

Her piece of the Red Thread is to help her beloveds traverse and transcend the wily wilderness of grief and get to the other side of “Re-membering themselves.” Excited to open up an honest and juicy conversation about the depth and breadth of loss (in ALL shapes and sizes), As a self-identified, life-long Shadow and Light tracker, Shelby seeks to root out what is missing and bring it back into the fold. She believes the jewels live in the shadow waiting to be mined.

Points Covered in Episode:

The importance of a creative legacy
Relational responsibility
Moving through grief and loss
Creative practices

Semerit Strachan, MD, is a student and faculty member at the Cultural Wellness Center in South Minneapolis, MN. She has been the Director of Medicine at the Center since its beginning in 1996 and is the Grio of the Medicine of Transformation.

Her expertise lies in creating a space for the human spirit in the medical encounter, in using culture as a resource in health and healing, and in teaching how to access inner resources to change one’s physiology or disease process. Through “what is my body really trying to tell me?” — an inquiry process in images and words—she teaches the symbolic language of the Body.

Dr. Semerit is a writer, poet, and artist. She is a Color of Woman graduate. She has been trained as a Feminine Power Coach and Facilitator. She is a native of Haiti, married to Donald, and mother to Ariele. And my Birthday Sis – welcome Semerit I’m so happy to be in conversation with you today.

Points Covered in Episode:

Ways to listen to our body wisdom
Being older and shifting focus
The importance of knowing your ancestry
The importance of liberation from your mother’s daughter and ways to do it
Listening to our intuition

Christine Arylo, MBA, is a women’s leadership advisor, transformational teacher, and best selling author who works with women to make shift happen – in the lives they lead, the work they do, and the impact they desire to make. Marrying 20 years of business experience with 15 years of feminine & yogic wisdom training, Arylo illuminates how to lead and live a different way, the "feminine way” - professionally successful, internally empowered, and personally sustainable and satisfying. Her programs on intuition, feminine power, and cultivating resilience, self-love and courage have reached over 35,000 students worldwide. A blogger and vlogger since 2007, Arylo now hosts the Feminine Power Time podcast. Christine is writing her fourth book: “Overwhelmed and Over It: Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World.

Points Covered in this Episode:

Why it’s so important that we flow with the seasons and things we can do during the Equinox.
Why time is not something we need to let go of and why it’s not natural.
Our Comparison Queens
What to do in times of chaos and overwhelm.
Harmonic Defiance: How to understand harmony and use it to make choices.
Connection vs. belonging.

Today StellaMac shares the stage with herself! She riffs on what it’s been like to create a podcast, is she “good enough”, is this truly her passion and because she loves a good writing prompt she shares one with you as you move into 2020.

Points covered in this episode:

Writing exercise
What is “good enough”
Passion and discipline
Showing Up

Angela Hernandez is an Intentional Creativity Teacher, has her Doctor of Nursing and continued her education in holistic nursing to promote her understanding of alternative methods to be a more compassionate, knowledgeable practitioner. She also served in the American Military and has witnessed the devastating effects on women in the military as well as both men and women who have a suicide rate of 22 individuals per day and 1 in 4 women get assaulted in the military. In her work as an artist and teacher, she is working with women veterans, health care workers, and women who have suffered abuse and has seen the positive effect creativity has had with all of the people she is working with.

Points covered in this episode:

Power in balance and the impact it creates for women in the military
The power of creativity in recovery
The lives of Veterans
How we can help

Caron McCloud is a writer, artist, designer, teacher, and entrepreneur. She is an award-winning performing poet and has been the poetry teacher for Leading a Legendary Life, Color of Woman and Red Madonna. She has over a dozen chapbooks to her credit and a book Rachel’s Bag: In Search of the Qabalah of Our Mothers which examines the radical actions of Old Testament women. She is currently in the editing process for a collection of her poetry and is completing a book on Qabalah, Living the Tree of Life. Now living in Port Townsend, Caron was born in Oakland, California, spending most of her life in the San Francisco Bay area where she had art galleries and was in partnership with her mother Eden McCloud who founded a women’s clothing design and manufacturing company. Experience in these businesses led her to teaching and public speaking.

Points covered in this episode:

What a faith walk looks like.
Why writing and poetry paint pictures.
Caron talks about her creativity legacy
Caron’s life with artist Sue Hoya Sellars in San Francisco in the 1960’s
Caron shares an identity exercise

015: Enjoy Part 2 of my fabulous conversation with Catt Z! Catt helps you access your intuition through the Cosmic Smashbook Process, using a combination of intentional creativity and art journaling.

She was in the computer industry for fifty years as a software designer and decided it was time to break out of the box. So at the age of 60, she became an Artist and life hasn’t been the same since.

Catt is a wild woman, pioneer, gypsy, lover of dogs, traveling, and starting over. She loves stepping into dangerous territory and bringing others with her on the journey.

Catt brings the fun, wisdom, magic, adventure, and courage to assist you in healing yourself enough so you may go out and heal others.

Points covered in this episode:

Cosmic Smashbooking - what is it and Catt shares how to do a page.
How creativity and Cosmic Smashbooking can help your own healing
Showing up for yourself to find your voice
Defining or redefining you as an older woman OR any age.
Doing vs Being

014: Artist. Visionary. Founder of Cosmic Smashbooking.

Catt Z helps you access your intuition through the Cosmic Smashbook Process, using a combination of intentional creativity and art journaling.

She was in the computer industry for fifty years as a software designer and decided it was time to break out of the box. So at the age of 60, she became an Artist and life hasn't been the same since.

Catt is a wild woman, pioneer, gypsy, lover of dogs, traveling, and starting over. She loves stepping into dangerous territory and bringing others with her on the journey.

Catt brings the fun, wisdom, magic, adventure, and courage to assist you in healing yourself enough so you may go out and heal others.

Points covered in this episode:

Cosmic Smashbooking - what is it and Catt shares how to do a page.
How creativity and Cosmic Smashbooking can help your own healing
Showing up for yourself to find your voice
Defining or redefining you as an older woman OR at any age.
Doing vs Being

013: Lys Anzia was a human rights journalist and founder of the award-winning online magazine WNN - Women News Network dedicated to bringing human rights & women's rights news to the United Nations & over 600 NGOs.

Before that, Lys was the first woman on the programming board for the early beginnings of Public Television Channel12 KBDI in U.S. Denver, Colorado at its conception in 1979. Today Lys is working as an artistic agent, connecting artists and art collectors around the world. This startup is just about to premiere online as Parama International Art.

Over the years Lys was also an award-winning historical playwright; a Pushcart Prize nominee; and a United Nations expert panelist on media.

Points covered in this episode:

What social justice is and it is integrated with creativity
Women as artists
Narrating Self-criticism vs self-love
Statistics on women in galleries and museums

012: Mary McCrystal, is a depth psychologist, group facilitator, teacher, artist, and initiated practitioner of indigenous healing practices. Dr. Mary has a private psychotherapy practice Northern CA. as well as the author of Maidens in the Red Tent & Re-visioning the Feminine Through Intentional Creative Process. As a clinical supervisor and trauma specialist, she knows first hand the importance of embodied self-care practice to sustain personal wellbeing.

Points covered in this episode:

What is the Sacred Feminine?
The power of creativity in shifting your story.
Standing in your own sovereignty
Embracing the feminine in therapy

011: Kerry Lee, also known as The Alchemical Artist, is an intuitive artist and creative catalyst in community where she guides her clientele to discover or rediscover their innate truths and natural gifts which help lead to a pathway of living a life of purpose, fulfillment, and daily joy. She works with corporations for team building events and is currently in collaboration with public and private school educators, administrators, children and parents with the focus of resiliency and building community by using the Intentional Creativity Method to create art with purpose and meaning.

Kerry Lee considered herself “creativity constipated” for thirty-five years as she was only able to create when being given guidance in a class. The Intentional Creativity Method released that block with her very first painting. Her past life in this life included several decades working in the corporate world as an award-winning business development executive, event planner and the co-founder of a specialty coffee house and micro-roastery in the San Francisco Bay area where she lives.

Points covered in this episode:

Creating Community Murals brings the community together and Kerry Lee talks about doing this in New Zealand at the time of their first ever mass shooting.
What is Intentional Creativity?
Moving from a corporate environment to claiming herself as an artist.
Kerry takes us through an exercise “Igniting Your Dream Vision”.

010: The conversation continues with Mandisa Amber Wood who is a California Bay Area, artist, dancer, educator, a food justice activist, and a Ph.D. student in the Sustainability Education program at Prescott College. She is a tenure-track faculty member at a local California community college in the Philosophy/Humanities Department. Her courses are grounded in theories and approaches that are inclusive and accessible to those impacted by systems of oppression, while also providing a critical lens for the analysis of structural racism, femicide, and other social issues. Mandisa incorporates intuitive painting, performance, regenerative and permaculture design, and transformative learning in all of her teachings. Her emergent sacred research focuses on the embodied practices of women who perform indigenous dance forms for personal and collective healing. Mandisa is initiated in the Lucumí tradition; a nature-based spiritual tradition indigenous to West Africa and present throughout the diaspora. She is grateful for the opportunity to travel, teach, and learn in places where love is a key to resilience, wellbeing, and liberation.

Points covered in this episode:

Intersectional Feminism
Shifting Structural Oppression
Cultural Appropriation
Resources shared by Mandisa
Love vs fear

009: Mandisa Amber Wood is a California Bay Area, artist, dancer, educator, a food justice activist, and a Ph.D. student in the Sustainability Education program at Prescott College. She is a tenure-track faculty member at a local California community college in the Philosophy/Humanities Department. Her courses are grounded in theories and approaches that are inclusive and accessible to those impacted by systems of oppression, while also providing a critical lens for the analysis of structural racism, femicide, and other social issues. Mandisa incorporates intuitive painting, performance, regenerative and permaculture design, and transformative learning in all of her teachings. Her emergent sacred research focuses on the embodied practices of women who perform indigenous dance forms for personal and collective healing. Mandisa is initiated in the Lucumí tradition; a nature-based spiritual tradition indigenous to West Africa and present throughout the diaspora. She is grateful for the opportunity to travel, teach, and learn in places where love is a key to resilience, wellbeing, and liberation.

Points covered in this episode:

Intersectional Feminism
Shifting Structural Oppression
Cultural Appropriation
Resources shared by Mandisa
Love vs fear

008: At 10 years old, SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) announced to her mother that she was supposed to be a beacon of hope and write books for the world. She wrote her first book in her playhouse that summer and SARK has been living, doing and being transformation ever since.

She is the best selling author and artist of seventeen books (and writing her most succulent now) selling over three million copies. Her art, programs, products, and services have sold around the world. She is an acclaimed teacher and mentor, and her wisdom has touched and transformed the lives of millions. SARK has been praised by people like Dr. Wayne Dyer, Julia Cameron, Louise Hay and so many more.

Dr. Maya Angelou wrote about SARK "We, in this world, and this weary old world itself, have a great gaping need for SARK. Let's call for more and more SARK to fill every child's book bag and each attaché case."

Points covered in this episode:

The paradox of holding both joy and sadness
Your Inner Wise Woman
Joyful Solutions and how to implement them
The Inner Critic Care System
The importance of writing and creativity
And a FREE GIFT from SARK

007: Enjoy Part 2 of Stella Mac’s interview with Carmen Baraka.

Carmen is also known as Spirit Warrior and whose lineage as an Apache - Cherokee Native American, Columbian Peruvian Indigenous woman, and leader of awakening through circle and ceremony for over 30 years, works to honor and empower women and girls, She works to promote the interconnectedness that is so needed for the Spirit progression of us all.

Her work is through her Grandmothers and Ancestors who guide her on her Journey. Both her grandmothers taught her and enlightened her in their own way, she carries both of their Medicine in everything she does. Whether It’s in Ceremony or shifting energy for healing, there is always a combination of her Apache and indigenous roots. Carmen is an artist, writer

Points covered in this episode:

How does being uncomfortable talking about money impact us as women?
Ways to change our mindset around money.
How our values play into the way we deal with money and wealth. Sign-up at https://stellamac.com/ and get a values and future letter exercise to help you align your money desires with your values and priorities.
Money and shame.
How language impacts manifesting wealth and debt.
Committing to yourself.

006: Enjoy part 1 of Just Shift Already! A 2-part conversation with the fabulous Carmen Baraka!

Carmen is also known as Spirit Warrior and whose lineage as an Apache - Cherokee Native American, Columbian Peruvian Indigenous woman, and leader of awakening through circle and ceremony for over 30 years, works to honor and empower women and girls, She works to promote the interconnectedness that is so needed for the Spirit progression of us all.

Her work is through her Grandmothers and Ancestors who guide her on her Journey. Both her grandmothers taught her and enlightened her in their own way, she carries both of their Medicine in everything she does. Whether It’s in Ceremony or shifting energy for healing, there is always a combination of her Apache and indigenous roots.

Points covered in this episode:

How does being uncomfortable talking about money impact us as women?
Ways to change our mindset around money.
How our values play into the way we deal with money and wealth. Sign-up at https://stellamac.com/ and get a values and future letter exercise to help you align your money desires with your values and priorities.
Money and shame.
How language impacts manifesting wealth and debt.
Committing to yourself.

005: Julie Steelman earned her way out of the corporate world at the young age of 47 by generating some serious cash - over a $100 million in iconic corporate brand sales. She discovered she had a unique feminine financial intelligence™, one that is based on a spiritual, co-creative approach, developing a new style of earning power for women. As a young child, Julie wanted to go to Africa and knew she needed money to make that happen. She then followed her wild instinct to be financially free and now Julie teaches women to change their financial destiny as well as being a wildlife photographer who gets to go to Africa whenever she wants!

Points covered in this episode:

How does being uncomfortable talking about money impact us as women?
Ways to change our mindset around money.
How our values play into the way we deal with money and wealth. Sign-up at https://stellamac.com/ and get a values and future letter exercise to help you align your money desires with your values and priorities.
Money and shame.
How language impacts manifesting wealth and debt.
Committing to yourself.

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004: Today StellaMac is in conversation with Dominique Peters, whose mission is being a compassionate warrior of sexual healing and as a certified yoga teacher, Intentional Creativity® Teacher, Reiki master, and Tantra Coach she helps people transform their sexual stories so they may connect more deeply to their body, heart, inner wisdom, and sensual life force energy.

Points covered in this episode:

Dominique teaches up a breathing technique to get in touch with our body’s wisdom.
Healing sexual stories.
What is Tantra?
Tools and resources for healthy sexuality.
Pornography and sexuality.
Sexuality, sensuality and the intimacy connection.

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003: Amy Ahlers, master coach, and best selling author shares a conversation with Stella Mac about bullying – internal and external, and how women can rise to leadership. Amy offers insights into how we can stop self-bullying, gain self-confidence and what women’s leadership is all about.

Points covered in this episode:

How do you do it all?
Self-bullying – how do we break the loop?
A daily ritual and mantra we can use.
Why are women in leadership positions so vital?
Self-confidence. What is it and how do become more self-confident.
A Free master class: 5 Shifts Women Must Make to Rise to leadership. Register here: www.onlinemeetingnow.com/register/?id=ttmhiuglwj

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002: Stella Mac is in conversation with Shiloh Sophia, an accomplished artist, author, teacher, and all-around renaissance woman. They discuss the importance of creativity and intention in our lives.

Points covered in this episode:

Brain chemistry and creativity and how to create new pathways.
Creating a women’s community.
Shiloh takes us on a visualization.
Why story is so important in our lives and how to create our own stories.

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001: Shann Vander Leek, Producer and Founder of Podcast Bath, shares a conversation with StellaMac about her new podcast.

The Wild Women Wisdom Podcast showcases conversations with women from all walks of life and is hosted by StellaMac. Stella is the Director of Cosmic Cowgirls and Co-Director of the Color of Woman Teacher Training, as well as working in her private coaching practice. In the last 15 years, she has taught and witnessed the transformation of hundreds of women. She’ll be sharing unfiltered conversations with wild, wise women who are irreverent, reverent, and wildly, madly, uniquely themselves.

Today we discuss Stella's inspiration for her new Podcast as well as who her podcasts are created for. You'll learn about some of the fascinating experts she'll be speaking with and get Stella's take on the Feminine Perspective.

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Meet StellaMac as she talks about the importance of women's voices being heard. She asks: How do you definite yourself? Is it through the voices of others? And she invites us to say NO MORE to silencing your voice. Points covered in this episode:

What were you most criticized for when you were young and how has that turned into what your gift is now?
The Feminine Perspective - what does it mean?
Why conversations are so important.
The importance of the language of women.

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