About the show
I love everything to do with consciousness - personal growth books, meditation, psychedelics, bodywork, Tantric retreats, chakras, Human Design, channeled works, you name it! For the past fifteen years, I’ve been on a deep healing journey. I regularly engage relative strangers in conversation about topics relating to consciousness, transformation and psychedelics (sometimes to their annoyance). I've been dancing around starting a podcast for a couple years now. My imposter syndrome has kept me thinking I don't have anything worthwhile to share, while I vainly attempt to find a community with whom I resonate.
I've been fortunate to work with some really gifted practitioners during my journey. They not only gave me tools to heal, they gave me PERMISSION to heal. My intention in producing and distributing The Permission Slip podcast is to share knowledge of their talents with the rest of the world. Many of us have been programmed to believe that healing only comes from those in the medical profession who have gone through a particular set of training protocols. This is not true. Doctors and therapists and the like are (mostly) well-meaning and very good at what they do. Sometimes, more often than we are maybe lead to believe, what they recommend or do is not what is truly needed for healing.
In the spirit of the following passage, I'm committing to a minimum of six podcasts that will be discussions with practitioners and healers from whom I've derived personal benefit. The purpose of this effort is therefore to shed light on the diverse ways of healing as well as moving into right relationship with oneself.
Credits
Renee LaVallee McKenna for the inspiration to create this in the first place.
Abby Bruce (ma soeur) for the encouragement along the way.
Damian Wiseman for the audio engineering expertise.
Episodes
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S1 | E16 Lisa Parker - Founder, Trilome®
January 8th, 2026 | Season 1 | 1 hr 11 mins
#ayahuascahealing, #bodykeepsthescore, #embodiment, #holistichealing, #humandesign, #kambomedicine, #nervoussystemregulation, #psilocybintherapy, #psychedelicintegration, #somatictherapy, #thepermissionslip, #traumahealing, #traumarelease
In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Lisa Parker, founder of Trilome, to chat about trauma held in the body, nervous system regulation, and the integration of bodywork with psychedelic medicine.
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S1 | E15 Janell Riedl - Pilates Instructor & Intuitive
January 1st, 2026 | Season 1 | 1 hr 15 mins
#alternativemedicine, #breathwork, #chicagowellness, #consciousmovement, #corestrength, #embodiment, #emotionalrelease, #energywork, #fascia, #healingjourney, #holistichealth, #intuition, #mindbodyconnection, #nervoussystem, #personalgrowth, #pilates, #somatichealing, #spiritualhealing, #transformation, #traumarelease
In this episode, I talk with my Pilates instructor and friend Janell Riedl, whose intuitive, body-based work has helped unwind decades of tension and trauma for me. We explore how the body holds emotion, how release actually happens, and how Janell blends Pilates, energy work, and nervous-system awareness into a powerful healing practice. This is a conversation about letting go, trusting your body, and following the path that leads you back to yourself.
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S1 | E14 Dominica Fisher - Director of Meditative & Creative Exploration at Bîan
December 25th, 2025 | Season 1 | 58 mins 56 secs
#consciousness, #emotional intelligence, #energy work, #healing, #intuition, #manifestation, #meditation, #personal growth, #reality creation, #shamanism, #spirituality, #wellness
I sat down with Dominica Fischer — intuitive, meditation teacher, creator, and Director of Meditative & Creative Exploration at BÎAN. We explore her upbringing, her lifelong visions, how meditation unlocked her innate gifts, and how she now sees the very code of reality assembling itself. We unpack manifestation, the Bengston Method, and what it actually means to create your life with clarity, emotional presence, and power.
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S1 | E13 Jessica Brown - Author, Clinical Nutritionist, Compassion Teacher
December 18th, 2025 | Season 1 | 49 mins 7 secs
#consciousness, #depersonalization, #derealization, #emotional eating, #energy work, #glp-1, #inner child, #mental health, #noetic field, #nutrition, #personal growth, #self-compassion, #spirituality, #thelovingdiet, #trauma, healing
Join me as I chat with Clinical Nutritionist, Author and Noetic Gield Practitioner Jessica Brown to explore how childhood wounds, trauma, and belief systems shape our health, our eating patterns, and our sense of self. Jessica shares her extraordinary healing journey from a persistent state of depersonalization/derealization into deep spiritual and energetic work, and how it lead her to helping others clear unconscious beliefs through the heart. We dive into compassionate inquiry, the inner eater, GLP-1 medications, and why the body’s intelligence is always trying to bring us home.
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S1 | E12 Laura O’Malley - Channel & Happiness Coach
December 11th, 2025 | Season 1 | 1 hr 32 mins
#5d, #ascension, #awakening, #christ #consciousness, #conscious #channeling, #consciousness, #duality, #ego, #energy #work, #entity #channelling, #fear, #higher #self, #human #evolution, #kundalini, #laura #o’malley, #meditation, #news #detox, #non-duality, #plant #medicine, #psychedelics, #soul #fractals, #source #energy, #spiritual #emergence, #spiritual #growth, #the #guides, #vibrational #frequency
In my second episode with Conscious Channel and incredibly happy human Laura O’Malley, we explore kundalini energy, awakening, the nature of duality, and why so many people are opening up right now. The collective she works with comes through with powerful, direct teachings on vibrational readiness, fear, free will, the purpose of Earth, and how to navigate this moment in human evolution with clarity and choice.
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S1 | E11 Shweta Shyamani - Mind Body Therapist
November 11th, 2025 | Season 1 | 58 mins 53 secs
#emotionalhealing, #energyhealing, #feminineenergy, #healingjourney, #hypnotherapy, #mindbodyconnection, #permissiontoself, #rtt, #selfdiscovery, #spiritualgrowth
I talk with healer and hypnotherapist Shweta Shyamani about leaving a high-powered career, finding purpose through energy work, and why real healing begins when we finally let ourselves feel.
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S1 | E10 Rich Priddis - Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide
November 3rd, 2025 | Season 1 | 1 hr 9 mins
#consciousintimacy, #consent, #embodiment, #healingjourney, #ista, #mattkosterman, #richpriddis, #sacredsexuality, #selflove, #sexualhealing, #shadowwork, #shamerelease, #tantra, #thepermissionslip
Rich Priddis opens up about breaking free from religious conditioning to embrace conscious sexuality, embodiment, and deep healing. A powerful story of courage, consent, and coming home to the body.
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S1 | E9 Ben Goldberger - Breathworking Psychotherapist
October 4th, 2025 | Season 1 | 1 hr 13 mins
#breathwork, #holotropicbreathwork, #menswork, #mindbodyconnection, #nonordinarystates, #personaltransformation, #psychotherapy, #somatictherapy, #spiritualawakening, #traumahealing
Licensed psychotherapist and breathwork facilitator Ben Goldberger joins me to talk about non-ordinary states of consciousness, men’s work, and the healing power of breath. A grounded, soulful exploration of how we move toward wholeness—one breath at a time.
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S1 | E8 Dr. Therese Rowley - Skilled Intuitive
August 15th, 2025 | Season 1 | 1 hr 21 mins
#ancestralhealing, #consciousbusiness, #forgivenessjourney, #intuitivehealing, #multisensoryintelligence, #neurodiversity, #parentingneurodiversekids, #quantumperception, #spiritualhealing, #thepermissionslip, #thereserowley
Join me in this wide-ranging, illuminating conversation with Dr. Therese Rowley on her journey as a skilled intuitive, her healing work, and her revolutionary perspective on neurodiversity as multisensory intelligence. One could even call her a modern day mystic!
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S1 | E7 Lizzi Cutler - Intuitive
August 6th, 2025 | Season 1 | 1 hr 13 mins
#abundancemindset, #consciousnessshift, #energyhealing, #innerchildhealing, #intuitiveguide, #lizzicutler, #permissiontoheal, #quantumhealing, #selfhealing, #somaticwisdom, #spiritualawakening, #thepermissionslip
Lizzi Cutler shares her intuitive journey and energetic healing work, offering insight into how clearing deep-rooted blocks and listening to the body can open the door to abundance, clarity, and empowered self-love.
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S1 | E6 Laura O'Malley - Channel
July 11th, 2025 | Season 1 | 1 hr 29 mins
#awakeningjourney, #channelingwisdom, #consciouschannel, #divinefeminine, #intuitiveliving, #lauraomalley, #mattkosterman, #multidimensionalself, #soulguidance, #thepermissionslip
My dear friend Laura O’Malley & I get together in person to talk about her radical transformation. She was schoolteacher, mom and wife who appeared to have it all yet hid her depression from the world. Listen as she tells the story of divine guidance that changed everything and unlocked her multidimensional gifts that she now shares with the world.
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S1 | E5 Alefiyah Lindo - Intuitive
July 4th, 2025 | Season 1 | 1 hr 1 min
#alefiyahlindo, #divinefeminine, #embodiedwisdom, #heartcentered, #mattkosterman, #modernmystic, #mysticpath, #soulguidance, #thepermissionslip, #trustyourheart
In this episode, I speak with Alefiyah Lindo about embodying mysticism, reclaiming feminine wisdom, and listening to the voice of the heart in a world addicted to logic.
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S1 | E4 Melissa Ford - Executive Coach
June 27th, 2025 | Season 1 | 1 hr 3 mins
#authenticleadership, #consciousleadership, #emotionalintegrity, #fiercelove, #mattkosterman, #melissaford, #radicalhonesty, #stoppeoplepleasing, #thepermissionslip, #truthtelling
Melissa Ford & I get together to discuss the sacred power of fierce love, the necessity of truth-telling in leadership, and how to stop abandoning ourselves in service to others.
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S1 | E3 Jonathan Tripodi - Body Memory
June 20th, 2025 | Season 1 | 1 hr 16 mins
#bodymemory, #consciousembodiment, #emotionalhealing, #healingthroughsurrender, #jonathantripodi, #mattkosterman, #somatichealing, #storedtrauma, #thepermissionslip, #traumarelease
In this episode, I explore with Jonathan Tripodi, my brother from another mother, how the body stores unresolved trauma and how deep healing happens when we surrender to what the body remembers.
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S1 | E2 Julie Murphy - Financial Advisor
June 13th, 2025 | Season 1 | 1 hr 4 mins
#abundancemindset, #consciousfinance, #emotionalwealth, #financialhealing, #juliemurphy, #mattkosterman, #moneymindset, #stopperformingstartreceiving, #thepermissionslip, #traumaandmoney
In this episode, I talk with financial advisor Julie Murphy about healing our money wounds, aligning with emotional truth, and creating abundance by giving ourselves permission to stop performing and start receiving.
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S1 | E1 Renee LaVallee McKenna - Spiritual PsiKologist
June 7th, 2025 | Season 1 | 1 hr 1 min
#addictionrecovery, #consciousliving, #energyhealing, #innerchildwork, #psychedelicintegration, #spiritualawakening, #traumahealing
In this premiere episode, I share my journey from depression and disconnection to healing and purpose, joined by Renee LaVallee McKenna as we explore addiction, transformation, and the power of giving yourself permission to change.