“Transcending Normal” is about uprooting the B.S. stories we've been taught to believe are “normal” so that we can transcend to our higher selves. This podcast is for open-hearted, ambitious women wanting to leave the burnout culture behind to create mental, emotional, and spiritual wholeness. DesiRae Kraft is an entrepreneur, Highly Sensitive, and Intuitive alpha female who bridges spirit and logic while bringing a direct and deeply rooted sense of compassion. Through her training and lived experiences with Human Behavior, Psychology, Holistic Health, Energetic Healing, and Mindfulness, she helps guide others to create an authentic life, healthier relationships, and aligned businesses. We’ll explore various topics; uprooting and healing things like belief systems, societal expectations, mindset, mindfulness, relationships, inner work, and leadership. Sprinkled with social injustice issues to create global and social healing. Tune in Mondays for real and soul-provoking conversations as DesiRae and other self-healer seekers, thought leaders, and change-makers provide tangible tools, tips, and deep self-introspection to help you in your journey to your higher self. More at www.desiraekraft.com Connect on Instagram @desiraekraft
In next week's episode, I talk with my friend Dana Sturtevant. Dana Sturtevant, M.S., R.D. (she/her) is the co-founder of the Center for Body Trust and the co-author of the book Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation. As a registered dietitian, she helps people divest from diet culture, explore what it means to be embodied, and move toward more compassionate forms of radical care.
Her work as a speaker, educator, and trainer focuses on humanizing health care, advancing health equity, and advocating for food and body sovereignty. For the past 20 years, Dana has trained thousands of healthcare providers in Motivational Interviewing.
As a sought-after speaker and writer, Dana is a champion for weight-inclusive models of care and offers supervision, training, and consultation to help professionals and healthcare organizations.
In this episode, we talk about the book she co-authored, Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation, and also about Transcending Fat Phobia. We’re going to unpack some of this with Dana to help us reclaim our body trust and liberate us all.
Tune in as Dana, and I talk about:
Air date: 8/28/2023
Want to connect or work with Dana Sturtevant and/or the Center For Body Trust?
Order the book: Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/bodytrustcenter Work with the Center for Body Trust:The 2023 Fall schedule includes an online weekend body story retreat Oct 13-15 and an in-person provider training in Portland called Freeing the Body Narrative, Nov 2-3.
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In next week's episode, I talk with Lydia Lincklen, a Certified Life and Flow Code Coach. She experienced and overcame burnout personally, and she helps women and men manage their stress and overcome burnout to allow them to find their true authentic selves. From stress to serenity!
She's made it her mission to help other people find happiness, become their authentic self, let them enjoy life, and build resilience to stress. When she helps coach one person, she sees how it indirectly helps even more people around them. She believes in practicing what she preaches and loves seeing her clients go from burnout, stressed, and being overwhelmed to flourishing, which lights her up and gives her energy!
Lydia is from the Netherlands and lives with her husband and 5-year-old daughter in Switzerland.
Tune in as Lydia, and I talk about:
Air date: 4/17/2023
Want to connect or work with Lydia Lincklaen?
Email lydialincklaen@gmail.com
Website https://serenitycoachlydia.com/
Instagram @serenitycoachlydia
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Serenitycoachlydia2
PODCAST EPISODE LISTENER EXCLUSIVE OFFERS: Lydia is offering a FREE 20-minute Zoom call Consultation and/or 10% off using discount code PODC10. Offers are valid only through August 1, 2023. Must say you heard about her through the Transcending Normal Podcast.
Book a Free 20-minute Call: https://calendly.com/serenitycoachlydia/intro
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References:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9055794/#:~:text=Comparing%20the%20prevalence%20of%20burnout,in%20the%20pre%2Dpandemic%20period.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/01/special-burnout-stress
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In this week's episode, I talk with The Ecstatic Life Mentor, Alara Sage. Alara is an intuitively gifted mentor, teacher, and healer who coaches provocatively and soulfully. She has over 15 years of experience helping others reignite and transform their own lives.
Alara Sage works with ambitious female leaders and professionals who are highly successful but feel unfulfilled and lonely in love, life, and relationships.
She helps them reawaken their sexual power as a woman so that they can magnetize deep intimate connection, pleasure, and wealth…without sacrifice.
More importantly, she has walked the walk. Alara is passionate about helping women become impactfully present and experience greater influence, power, and bliss by embracing their Woman.
If you’re an ambitious, high-achieving female who’s waiting to connect deeper with yourself, have some more fun in life, and become a vibrational match to your desires (hint: it’s being more vulnerable), you won’t want to miss this feminine, playful, powerful and pleasurable episode!
Tune in as Alara and I talk about:
**Want to connect with Alara Sage?
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New episodes are released bi-weekly on Mondays.
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In next week's episode, I talk with Kristin Darga. Kristin Darga is a CEO, Author, Speaker, Exec Coach, and founder of Black Label Coaching and Impact Founder who spent over 5 years telling the real, gritty, and unsexy stories of entrepreneurship.
She’s guided over 500 founders, CEO’s and their teams in the business. Her media company and her award-winning book, Impact Founder, provide an outlet for entrepreneurs to share their hardships AND...THEIR TRIUMPHS!! She is a contagious, creative, and visionary leader determined to activate people’s capacity to make profound changes.
Kristin and I met years ago through the Colorado/Denver Entrepreneurial Community. We’ve been to friends' weddings together, celebrated birthdays, and connected deeply on feminine leadership and empowerment, and we’ve both been through the ups and downs of building and growing a business.
Tune in as we talk about what no one talks about in Entrepreneurship, hitting rock bottom in business, and owning our value as female leaders.
If you’re a female leader that’s an entrepreneur, or in corporate, you’ll not want to miss this real, no b.s., authentic talk with two female leaders and friends.
Tune in as Kristin, and I talk about:
Want to connect with Kristin Darga?
Her Website: blacklabelcoaching.com and impactfounder.com
Her Book: Impact Founder: Inspirational stories of entrepreneurs who risk everything for what they believe in
Work with Her: Kristin would love to consult and coach with you or your company or deliver a keynote at your next event. Contact her directly and create a strategy together.
Thank you for listening! If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, leave a rave review, and share with your friends! https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1661989514
New episodes are released bi-weekly on Mondays.
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Today's episode is all about giving yourself permission that it's OK to not be OK and to feel it all when life throws you an emotional dumpster fire.
The last few months I've been moving through some heavy emotions and many compounded things that have brought me to my knees. As I've been speaking with my other open-hearted female leader friends who are going through the same thing, this seems to be an energetic theme right now.
In our conversations, I've also noticed this theme that as ambitious, female leaders there is an initial fear that pops into our minds that we should have our shit together and handle it all alone.
Listen in as I remind us all... It's ok to not be ok. It's ok to not have your shit together. It's ok to not be perfect all the time. It's ok to let balls drop.
It is normal for any human, female leader or not, to feel things like anger, sadness, confusion, shame, grief, and betrayal. It is normal to have a variety of emotions all at once and even at different times of the day.
Let's transcend that what is actually normal, is your automatic response to what is coming up for you if you’re going through a shit storm, hellfire, or an emotional roller coaster in life, this month, week, or today. The Universe sends us invitations to move through the hard to get to the great.
In this episode:
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In next week's episode, I talk with Georgia Grey, who is a Holistic Nutritionist and owns Whole Body Healing Nutrition. Georgia works with people who do not feel well, specializing in Lyme Disease, autoimmune disease, and hormone imbalance.
Georgia and I both have auto-immune diseases and talk about things we’ve learned along the way, ways we all can listen intuitively, eat mindfully and thrive holistically in our lives. If you have an auto-immune disease, it can feel like a long journey toward thriving. Listen in to learn ways to take your power and health back, living holistically, eating intuitively, and thriving with, or without, an Auto-Immune Disease!
If you’re a high-achieving female recovering from burnout and perfectionism, you definitely don’t want to miss this episode!
If you’re a high-achieving female recovering from burnout and perfectionism, you won’t want to miss this episode!
Tune in as Georiga, and I talk about:
LINKS:
Want to connect with Georgia?
Her Website & Goods: https://wholebodyhealingnutrition.com/
Her Instagram: @wholebodyhealing
Her TikTok: @wholebodyhealing
Her Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whole-body-healing/id160740790
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In today’s episode, we discuss what you would do this year if you knew you were fully supported.
What leaps are you finally ready to take in 2023?
No matter where we are in our journey toward creating an authentic life taking leaps, big or small, can feel scary. We will face fears when we embrace messy actions and step out of our comfort zone. We’ll jam out on taking leaps, knowing you’re supported, facing your fears, and ten things to remember when doors close this year —> all so you can be to open more Hell Yes desires into your life.
In this episode:
Thank you for listening! If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, leave a rave review and share with your friends! https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1661989514
New episodes are released every Monday.
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In this week's episode, I talk with one of my dear friends Amanda Testa. Amanda is not only a Sex, Love, and Relationship coach but a trusted healer and guide who’s served hundreds of clients over the years with masterful skills in coaching, pleasure embodiment, and somatic trauma resolution.
She helps her client tenderly heal their relationship with their sexuality, shamelessly embrace pleasure, own their sexy confidence, and cultivate deeply connected relationships with her fiercely loving support.
Tune in as Amanda, and I talk about:
Join us for laughter, friendship, and real talk as we help you uncover how to love yourself and your body and activate more ways to bring pleasure into your life.
Trigger warning: We touch on sexual trauma and abuse and how common it is for women as we do inner healing around sexuality. DesiRae briefly and vulnerably shares, without details, my journey with healing from sexual shame, trauma, and abuse. I share this from a place of healing and to share my voice to empower us all to love ourselves and create space for healing from it. I received help from my psychotherapist. Please check in with yourselves before diving in if you have the space to hear that.
Want to connect with Amanda?
Her Website & Goods: You can find more about Amanda Testa, her Pleasure Foundation Membership, and more at https://www.amandatesta.com/thegoods/
Her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abtesta/
Her Podcast: https://www.amandatesta.com/podcast/
Free Gift from DesiRae: If you want more ways to tap into your feminine pleasure, grab DesiRae’s free guide to Embody your Sensual and Spiritual Side! https://desiraekraft.com/fuel-for-the-fire/
Resources:
National Sexual Assault Hotline: https://www.rainn.org/resources
References:
Gentry QM, Nolte KM, Gonzalez A, Pearson M, Ivey S. "Going beyond the call of doula": a grounded theory analysis of the diverse roles community-based doulas play in the lives of pregnant and parenting adolescent mothers. J Perinat Educ. 2010 Fall;19(4):24-40. doi: 10.1624/105812410X530910. PMID: 21886419; PMCID: PMC2981190.
Gruber KJ, Cupito SH, Dobson CF. Impact of doulas on healthy birth outcomes. J Perinat Educ. 2013 Winter;22(1):49-58. doi: 10.1891/1058-1243.22.1.49. PMID: 24381478; PMCID: PMC3647727.
Thank you for listening! If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, leave a rave review and share with your friends! https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1661989514
New episodes are released every Monday.
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My Personal Account → @desiraekraft
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Hey, hey, ladies! Today we’re going to talk about embodying your confidence, stopping negative self-talk in its tracks, and loving ourselves as we age. It’s an invitation to be in awe of our bodies and beauty and to love MORE of who you are. Creating a ripple in ourselves and our lives. Towards the end of the episode, we’ll do a 5-minute feminine embodiment exercise. Don’t worry if you’re running around as you’re listening to this; you can always come back to it later!
In this episode:
Want more tools to Activate You Confidence as an open-hearted, ambitious woman? Grab DesiRae's free guide here: https://desiraekraft.com/fuel-for-the-fire/ Join me next week on 1/23/23 as I interview my dear friend Amanda Testa! Amanda Testa is not only a Sex, Love, and Relationship coach; she is a trusted healer and guide who’s served hundreds of clients over the years with masterful skills in coaching, pleasure embodiment, and somatic trauma resolution.
We’ll talk about uprooting the limiting beliefs we’ve been taught to believe about our sexuality, we’ll pull the sheets back on bedroom talk and intimacy, and you’ll walk away with some new tips to feel more empowered, grounded, and seen around your sensual and sexual body.
See you then, ladies!
Thank you for listening! If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, leave a rave review and share with your friends! https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1661989514
New episodes are released every Monday.
P.S. Are we connected on Instagram yet?
My Personal Account → @desiraekraft
The Podcast Account → @transcendingnormal.podcast
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In this first episode:
Who am I? My name is DesiRae. I’m a Highly Sensitive and Intuitive alpha female living in Denver, CO, with my husband and two dogs. In 2012 a tragedy in my life evoked a spiritual awakening, and in 2016 I left the corporate world and built a 6 figure coaching business guiding women to create a soul-aligned life, work, and relationships. In 2019 After becoming burned out building a business that was not sustainable and seeing how the saturated coaching industry was also creating unethical practices, I felt called to do things a different way… only to be met with the global pandemic. Now on the other side, I’m on a bridge in-between where I’m creating a new ecosystem re-branding my coaching business, starting this podcast, and completing my master's program to become a future psychotherapist. Showing up imperfect, well-rested, and open-hearted.
I am SO excited to tell you a bit more about how I got here today, where I started, what happened when I finally “made it”, and moving through the death and rebirth of our constant evolution through self, life, relationships, and business. I’ll share the challenges, FEARS, and wounds I’ve had to heal toward creating mental, emotional, and spiritual wholeness. Spoiler: We never fully arrive.
“Healing is not a one-time event. It can begin with a one-time event — typically some form of sudden loss that disrupts our projection of what the future might be. However, the true work of healing is allowing that disruption to wake us from a deep state of unconsciousness, to release the personas we adapted into and begin consciously piecing together the full truth of who we were meant to be.” - Brianna Wiest, Author
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Thank you for listening! If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, leave a rave review and share with your friends! https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1661989514
New episodes are released every Monday.
P.S. Are we connected on Instagram yet?
My Personal Account → @desiraekraft
The Podcast Account → @transcendingnormal.podcast
More at www.desiraekraft.com
Disclaimer
“Transcending Normal” is a new podcast about uprooting the B.S. stories we've been taught to believe are “normal” so that we can transcend to our higher selves.
This is for open-hearted, ambitious women wanting to leave the burnout culture behind to create mental, emotional, and spiritual wholeness.
DesiRae Kraft is an entrepreneur, Highly Sensitive, and Intuitive alpha female who bridges spirit and logic while bringing a direct and deeply rooted sense of compassion. Through her training and lived experiences with Human Behavior, Psychology, Energy Work, Holistic Health, and Mindfulness, she helps guide others to create an authentic life, healthier relationships, and aligned businesses.
We’ll explore various topics; uprooting and healing things like belief systems, societal expectations, mindset, mindfulness, relationships, inner work, and leadership. Sprinkled with social injustice issues to create global and social healing.
Tune in for real and soul-provoking conversations as DesiRae and other self-healer seekers, thought leaders, and change-makers provide tangible tools, tips, and deep self-introspection to help you in your journey to your higher self.
The first episode launches 1/11/23, with New episodes dropping weekly on Monday mornings MST.
More at www.desiraekraft.com
Connect on Instagram @desiraekraft