web01.fireside.fm Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:53:16 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Permission Slip - Episodes Tagged with “#Thepermissionslip” https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/tags/%23thepermissionslip Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0500 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. en-us episodic You are allowed. Matt Kosterman 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. yes Conscious living, Embodiment, Transformation, Inner healing, Trauma release, Psychedelic integration, Energy work, Nervous system regulation, Authentic expression, Conscious relationships, Spiritual awakening, Shadow work, Self-remembrance, Intuitive guidance, Healing trauma, Mind-body connection Matt Kosterman matt@reknowing.com S2 | E5 Karen Kubicko, Psychic Intuitive, Reiki Master & More https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s2e5-kubicko c6550dd8-3979-4fa2-ac70-66132d3d069b Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 2 Matt Kosterman I sat down with Pittsburgh-based psychic, hypnotist, and past life regressionist Karen Kubicko to talk about how two near-death experiences — one during an emergency C-section and another in a car accident — blew open her spiritual gifts and set her on a path of soul-level healing work. Together we explored past life regression as a tool for breaking deep-rooted patterns like abuse cycles, fear, and anxiety, and we got into how empathic sensitivity, spirit guides, and intuition can be understood, managed, and reclaimed. This one is a grounded, practical, and deeply personal look at what it means to wake up to the truth that we are far more than our current human experience. 1:12:35 yes Karen Kubicko grew up steeped in Catholic school traditions — but something always felt bigger just beneath the surface. In 11th grade, on her first day at a new public school, she heard a voice tell her she'd had a past life with a complete stranger in the hallway. She dismissed it. Decades later, that moment makes perfect sense. In this episode, Karen walks me through the pivotal experiences that cracked her open: a near-fatal emergency C-section that may have briefly stopped her heart, a vision of her deceased grandparents holding her newborn daughter, and years later, a car accident in which an archangel took her on a tour of what felt like her future. Each experience deepened her abilities and ultimately led her to train directly under renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Brian Weiss at the Omega Institute in New York. Today, Karen offers "whole soul readings," past life regression sessions, intuitive development classes, and Reiki — all aimed at helping people identify and clear the root causes of patterns that are holding them back in this lifetime. Whether it's recurring abusive relationships, irrational fears, chronic anxiety, or a general sense that something is missing, Karen's work helps clients trace those threads back to their source — and release them. Our conversation goes deep on several fascinating topics: How past life regression works and what a session with Karen actually looks like * The empath problem — why highly sensitive people absorb other people's emotions, how childhood trauma (hypervigilance, unsafe environments) keeps the "feelers" turned all the way up, and practical tools to dial them back down * Discernment — how to tell the difference between your own inner voice, ego chatter, and genuine intuitive guidance * Spirit guides and channeling — Karen's experience receiving information, and how she sets clear boundaries with the beings she works with * Dr. Brian Weiss and the origins of past life regression therapy — how a skeptical psychiatrist accidentally regressed a patient 5,000 years and changed the field of healing forever * Manifesting and timeline choice — the idea that every moment offers a choice between vibrational states, and how awareness of that gap between stimulus and response is itself a form of freedom Karen and I also connect the dots between indigenous wisdom traditions, empathic experience, and the growing global awakening — weaving in references to Paul Selig, Bashar/Darryl Anka, and the power of trusting what you receive, even when it first shows up as a horse and buggy in your living room. This is a beautiful, wide-ranging conversation for anyone curious about the soul's journey across lifetimes — and how understanding that journey can heal the one you're living right now. About Karen Karen Kubicko is a past life hypnotherapist, and intuitive psychic reader passionate about teaching and helping others heal through working with their spirit guides, angels, and healing the patterns found in their own past lives. She is the author of: Life Is Just Another Class—One Soul’s Journey through Past Life Regression, an account of 16 of her own past lives and Making True Love—Healing Relationship Patterns Through Past Life Regression which explores common root causes of relationship issues, plus provides insight on how to heal these patterns so you can find true love. Karen also utilizes her psychic skills to intuitively see someone’s whole soul experience including their past lives. Karen completed the Past Life Therapy Professional Training course with Dr. Brian Weiss. She received her hypnotherapy certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists. She has personally remembered over 200 past lives and has helped numerous others remember their own past lives. Connect with Karen Email: Karen@KarenKubicko.com Website: www.KarenKubicko.com Book a Personal Session: https://calendly.com/karen-kubicko YouTube: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.youtube.com/@KarenKubicko Instagram: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.instagram.com/karenkubicko Facebook (page): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.facebook.com/KarenAKubicko LinkedIn: Karen Kubicko ~ https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kubicko/ X (Twitter): @KarenKubicko ~ https://x.com/KarenKubicko Pinterest: Karen Kubicko ~ http://pinterest.com/karenkubicko/ RedBubble (art & merch): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.redbubble.com/people/KKubicko Karen can be seen supporting her youngest child on the LMN Lifetime television show Ghost Inside My Child (S2 E1, 2014). For more on Karen Kubicko, please visit: https://www.karenkubicko.com/about-karen/ Special Guest: Karen Kubicko. past life regression, hypnotherapy, psychic intuitive, near-death experience, spirit guides, soul healing, Karen Kubicko, Brian Weiss, empath, empathic sensitivity, intuition development, Reiki, channeling, root cause healing, ancestral healing, hypervigilance, abuse recovery, whole soul reading, past life therapy, spiritual awakening, consciousness, chakras, archangels, Omega Institute, EFT tapping, manifesting, timeline shifting, Pittsburgh psychic, metaphysics, inner knowing Karen Kubicko grew up steeped in Catholic school traditions — but something always felt bigger just beneath the surface. In 11th grade, on her first day at a new public school, she heard a voice tell her she'd had a past life with a complete stranger in the hallway. She dismissed it. Decades later, that moment makes perfect sense.
In this episode, Karen walks me through the pivotal experiences that cracked her open: a near-fatal emergency C-section that may have briefly stopped her heart, a vision of her deceased grandparents holding her newborn daughter, and years later, a car accident in which an archangel took her on a tour of what felt like her future. Each experience deepened her abilities and ultimately led her to train directly under renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Brian Weiss at the Omega Institute in New York.
Today, Karen offers "whole soul readings," past life regression sessions, intuitive development classes, and Reiki — all aimed at helping people identify and clear the root causes of patterns that are holding them back in this lifetime. Whether it's recurring abusive relationships, irrational fears, chronic anxiety, or a general sense that something is missing, Karen's work helps clients trace those threads back to their source — and release them.
Our conversation goes deep on several fascinating topics:

How past life regression works and what a session with Karen actually looks like

  • The empath problem — why highly sensitive people absorb other people's emotions, how childhood trauma (hypervigilance, unsafe environments) keeps the "feelers" turned all the way up, and practical tools to dial them back down
  • Discernment — how to tell the difference between your own inner voice, ego chatter, and genuine intuitive guidance
  • Spirit guides and channeling — Karen's experience receiving information, and how she sets clear boundaries with the beings she works with
  • Dr. Brian Weiss and the origins of past life regression therapy — how a skeptical psychiatrist accidentally regressed a patient 5,000 years and changed the field of healing forever
  • Manifesting and timeline choice — the idea that every moment offers a choice between vibrational states, and how awareness of that gap between stimulus and response is itself a form of freedom

Karen and I also connect the dots between indigenous wisdom traditions, empathic experience, and the growing global awakening — weaving in references to Paul Selig, Bashar/Darryl Anka, and the power of trusting what you receive, even when it first shows up as a horse and buggy in your living room.
This is a beautiful, wide-ranging conversation for anyone curious about the soul's journey across lifetimes — and how understanding that journey can heal the one you're living right now.

About Karen

Karen Kubicko is a past life hypnotherapist, and intuitive psychic reader passionate about teaching and helping others heal through working with their spirit guides, angels, and healing the patterns found in their own past lives. She is the author of: Life Is Just Another Class—One Soul’s Journey through Past Life Regression, an account of 16 of her own past lives and Making True Love—Healing Relationship Patterns Through Past Life Regression which explores common root causes of relationship issues, plus provides insight on how to heal these patterns so you can find true love.
Karen also utilizes her psychic skills to intuitively see someone’s whole soul experience including their past lives. Karen completed the Past Life Therapy Professional Training course with Dr. Brian Weiss. She received her hypnotherapy certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists. She has personally remembered over 200 past
lives and has helped numerous others remember their own past lives.

Connect with Karen

Email: Karen@KarenKubicko.com
Website: www.KarenKubicko.com
Book a Personal Session: https://calendly.com/karen-kubicko
YouTube: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.youtube.com/@KarenKubicko
Instagram: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.instagram.com/karenkubicko
Facebook (page): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.facebook.com/KarenAKubicko
LinkedIn: Karen Kubicko ~ https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kubicko/
X (Twitter): @KarenKubicko ~ https://x.com/KarenKubicko
Pinterest: Karen Kubicko ~ http://pinterest.com/karenkubicko/
RedBubble (art & merch): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.redbubble.com/people/KKubicko
Karen can be seen supporting her youngest child on the LMN Lifetime television show Ghost Inside My Child (S2
E1, 2014).

For more on Karen Kubicko, please visit: https://www.karenkubicko.com/about-karen/

Special Guest: Karen Kubicko.

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]]> Karen Kubicko grew up steeped in Catholic school traditions — but something always felt bigger just beneath the surface. In 11th grade, on her first day at a new public school, she heard a voice tell her she'd had a past life with a complete stranger in the hallway. She dismissed it. Decades later, that moment makes perfect sense.
In this episode, Karen walks me through the pivotal experiences that cracked her open: a near-fatal emergency C-section that may have briefly stopped her heart, a vision of her deceased grandparents holding her newborn daughter, and years later, a car accident in which an archangel took her on a tour of what felt like her future. Each experience deepened her abilities and ultimately led her to train directly under renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Brian Weiss at the Omega Institute in New York.
Today, Karen offers "whole soul readings," past life regression sessions, intuitive development classes, and Reiki — all aimed at helping people identify and clear the root causes of patterns that are holding them back in this lifetime. Whether it's recurring abusive relationships, irrational fears, chronic anxiety, or a general sense that something is missing, Karen's work helps clients trace those threads back to their source — and release them.
Our conversation goes deep on several fascinating topics:

How past life regression works and what a session with Karen actually looks like

  • The empath problem — why highly sensitive people absorb other people's emotions, how childhood trauma (hypervigilance, unsafe environments) keeps the "feelers" turned all the way up, and practical tools to dial them back down
  • Discernment — how to tell the difference between your own inner voice, ego chatter, and genuine intuitive guidance
  • Spirit guides and channeling — Karen's experience receiving information, and how she sets clear boundaries with the beings she works with
  • Dr. Brian Weiss and the origins of past life regression therapy — how a skeptical psychiatrist accidentally regressed a patient 5,000 years and changed the field of healing forever
  • Manifesting and timeline choice — the idea that every moment offers a choice between vibrational states, and how awareness of that gap between stimulus and response is itself a form of freedom

Karen and I also connect the dots between indigenous wisdom traditions, empathic experience, and the growing global awakening — weaving in references to Paul Selig, Bashar/Darryl Anka, and the power of trusting what you receive, even when it first shows up as a horse and buggy in your living room.
This is a beautiful, wide-ranging conversation for anyone curious about the soul's journey across lifetimes — and how understanding that journey can heal the one you're living right now.

About Karen

Karen Kubicko is a past life hypnotherapist, and intuitive psychic reader passionate about teaching and helping others heal through working with their spirit guides, angels, and healing the patterns found in their own past lives. She is the author of: Life Is Just Another Class—One Soul’s Journey through Past Life Regression, an account of 16 of her own past lives and Making True Love—Healing Relationship Patterns Through Past Life Regression which explores common root causes of relationship issues, plus provides insight on how to heal these patterns so you can find true love.
Karen also utilizes her psychic skills to intuitively see someone’s whole soul experience including their past lives. Karen completed the Past Life Therapy Professional Training course with Dr. Brian Weiss. She received her hypnotherapy certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists. She has personally remembered over 200 past
lives and has helped numerous others remember their own past lives.

Connect with Karen

Email: Karen@KarenKubicko.com
Website: www.KarenKubicko.com
Book a Personal Session: https://calendly.com/karen-kubicko
YouTube: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.youtube.com/@KarenKubicko
Instagram: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.instagram.com/karenkubicko
Facebook (page): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.facebook.com/KarenAKubicko
LinkedIn: Karen Kubicko ~ https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kubicko/
X (Twitter): @KarenKubicko ~ https://x.com/KarenKubicko
Pinterest: Karen Kubicko ~ http://pinterest.com/karenkubicko/
RedBubble (art & merch): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.redbubble.com/people/KKubicko
Karen can be seen supporting her youngest child on the LMN Lifetime television show Ghost Inside My Child (S2
E1, 2014).

For more on Karen Kubicko, please visit: https://www.karenkubicko.com/about-karen/

Special Guest: Karen Kubicko.

Support The Permission Slip

]]> S2 | E1 Dr. Jodie NewDelman, Doctor of Psychology https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s2e1-newdelman b6086839-b076-46a4-a514-594de8ebc7d4 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:30:00 -0600 Matt Kosterman full 2 Matt Kosterman In this conversation with Dr. Jodie NewDelman, I explore the intersection of psychology, psychedelics, trauma, and the subtle body. We unpack how dysregulation shows up in individuals and systems, why so many chronic conditions evade traditional medical explanations, and how experiential medicine can help unwind what talk therapy alone often cannot. We discuss Internal Family Systems, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, transference and countertransference, chronic pain as stored trauma, and the difference between temporizing symptoms and addressing root causes. Jodie offers a grounded, trauma-informed perspective on psychedelic-adjacent work and what ethical, integrated care really looks like. 1:19:07 yes Dr. Jodie NewDelman shares her evolution from a hard-science neuropsychology background at UCLA studying autism genetics to embracing a more integrated biopsychosocial-spiritual model of care. We examine: • The limitations of purely symptom-based psychiatric models • ADHD and neurodivergence as neurotypes, not simply disorders • Trauma as both psychological and somatic — and how it presents as chronic pain, fibromyalgia-like symptoms, digestive disorders, and “mystery” illnesses • The Quadrintity framework (cognitive, emotional, physical, spiritual) and how imbalance across these domains manifests as dysregulation • Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy as a non-specific amplifier that accelerates subconscious material to the surface • Why preparation, safety, and integration are non-negotiable in psychedelic work • Transference and countertransference as essential considerations in altered states • The difference between being “fixed” and reclaiming agency This episode invites listeners to examine whether their current healing path is addressing root causes — or merely suppressing symptoms. • Nervous system regulation • Trauma stored in the body • Neurodivergence & ADHD • Chronic pain & somatic symptoms • Internal Family Systems (IFS) • Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy • Psychedelic preparation & integration • Transference & countertransference • Biopsychosocial-spiritual model • Experiential medicine • Personal agency in healing Dr. NewDelman's website is https://essensuate.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091764967649 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/essensuate-integration/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/essensuate/ Special Guest: Dr. Jodie NewDelman. psychedelic-adjacent therapy, ketamine assisted psychotherapy, trauma healing, somatic unwinding, chronic pain, neurodivergence, ADHD neurotype, Internal Family Systems, nervous system regulation, experiential medicine, integration work, mental health systems, biopsychosocial model, transference, countertransference, root cause healing, mind-body connection Dr. Jodie NewDelman shares her evolution from a hard-science neuropsychology background at UCLA studying autism genetics to embracing a more integrated biopsychosocial-spiritual model of care. We examine:
• The limitations of purely symptom-based psychiatric models
• ADHD and neurodivergence as neurotypes, not simply disorders
• Trauma as both psychological and somatic — and how it presents as chronic pain, fibromyalgia-like symptoms, digestive disorders, and “mystery” illnesses
• The Quadrintity framework (cognitive, emotional, physical, spiritual) and how imbalance across these domains manifests as dysregulation
• Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy as a non-specific amplifier that accelerates subconscious material to the surface
• Why preparation, safety, and integration are non-negotiable in psychedelic work
• Transference and countertransference as essential considerations in altered states
• The difference between being “fixed” and reclaiming agency

This episode invites listeners to examine whether their current healing path is addressing root causes — or merely suppressing symptoms.

• Nervous system regulation
• Trauma stored in the body
• Neurodivergence & ADHD
• Chronic pain & somatic symptoms
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy
• Psychedelic preparation & integration
• Transference & countertransference
• Biopsychosocial-spiritual model
• Experiential medicine
• Personal agency in healing

Dr. NewDelman's website is https://essensuate.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091764967649
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/essensuate-integration/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/essensuate/

Special Guest: Dr. Jodie NewDelman.

Support The Permission Slip

]]> Dr. Jodie NewDelman shares her evolution from a hard-science neuropsychology background at UCLA studying autism genetics to embracing a more integrated biopsychosocial-spiritual model of care. We examine:
• The limitations of purely symptom-based psychiatric models
• ADHD and neurodivergence as neurotypes, not simply disorders
• Trauma as both psychological and somatic — and how it presents as chronic pain, fibromyalgia-like symptoms, digestive disorders, and “mystery” illnesses
• The Quadrintity framework (cognitive, emotional, physical, spiritual) and how imbalance across these domains manifests as dysregulation
• Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy as a non-specific amplifier that accelerates subconscious material to the surface
• Why preparation, safety, and integration are non-negotiable in psychedelic work
• Transference and countertransference as essential considerations in altered states
• The difference between being “fixed” and reclaiming agency

This episode invites listeners to examine whether their current healing path is addressing root causes — or merely suppressing symptoms.

• Nervous system regulation
• Trauma stored in the body
• Neurodivergence & ADHD
• Chronic pain & somatic symptoms
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy
• Psychedelic preparation & integration
• Transference & countertransference
• Biopsychosocial-spiritual model
• Experiential medicine
• Personal agency in healing

Dr. NewDelman's website is https://essensuate.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091764967649
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/essensuate-integration/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/essensuate/

Special Guest: Dr. Jodie NewDelman.

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]]> S1 | E18 Amy Anesi - Dear Friend & Former Spouse https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e18-amy-anesi 53f9d5a8-4da1-4567-ac6b-41100022e18a Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:00:00 -0600 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman In this extended season-finale episode, I sit down with my former wife, Amy Anesi, to tell the truth about our marriage, divorce, and what came after. We speak candidly about infidelity, financial collapse, emotional trauma, and the long road of healing that followed. Rather than re-litigating the past, we examine how conscious self-work can transform even the most painful endings into functional, respectful, and even loving relationships. Amy offers perspective I cannot access alone—calling out blind spots, grounding the narrative, and modeling what emotional maturity actually looks like. This episode is not about having a “perfect divorce.” It’s about doing your work so the past stops running your life. If you’ve experienced heartbreak, shame, relational collapse, or feel stuck in an old story about yourself, this conversation offers a radically different possibility. 1:46:37 yes This season-one finale of The Permission Slip is a deeply honest, unsanitized conversation between me and my former wife, Amy Anesi. We were married for 15 years, raised two daughters together, divorced after an affair, endured bankruptcy and foreclosure in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse—and then chose a different path forward. Instead of turning divorce into a lifelong war story, we explore what it looks like to take responsibility, metabolize pain, and consciously evolve beyond blame. This episode challenges the dominant cultural narrative that divorce must be ugly, adversarial, and permanently scarring. It doesn’t. With Amy as both witness and mirror, I share my own arc—from childhood conditioning and emotional repression, through infidelity, trauma, and collapse, into somatic healing, psychedelic therapy, nervous-system work, and spiritual awakening. What emerges is not a story of redemption, but of integration. This is a conversation about accountability without self-flagellation, healing without spiritual bypass, and what becomes possible when two people choose growth over grievance—for themselves and for their children. Special Guest: Amy Anesi. conscious divorce, post-divorce healing, co-parenting after divorce, trauma integration, emotional accountability, somatic healing, nervous system regulation, psychedelic therapy, MDMA therapy, personal responsibility, shadow work, spiritual awakening, masculine healing, relational repair, breaking generational patterns This season-one finale of The Permission Slip is a deeply honest, unsanitized conversation between me and my former wife, Amy Anesi. We were married for 15 years, raised two daughters together, divorced after an affair, endured bankruptcy and foreclosure in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse—and then chose a different path forward.

Instead of turning divorce into a lifelong war story, we explore what it looks like to take responsibility, metabolize pain, and consciously evolve beyond blame. This episode challenges the dominant cultural narrative that divorce must be ugly, adversarial, and permanently scarring. It doesn’t.

With Amy as both witness and mirror, I share my own arc—from childhood conditioning and emotional repression, through infidelity, trauma, and collapse, into somatic healing, psychedelic therapy, nervous-system work, and spiritual awakening. What emerges is not a story of redemption, but of integration.

This is a conversation about accountability without self-flagellation, healing without spiritual bypass, and what becomes possible when two people choose growth over grievance—for themselves and for their children.

Special Guest: Amy Anesi.

Support The Permission Slip

]]> This season-one finale of The Permission Slip is a deeply honest, unsanitized conversation between me and my former wife, Amy Anesi. We were married for 15 years, raised two daughters together, divorced after an affair, endured bankruptcy and foreclosure in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse—and then chose a different path forward.

Instead of turning divorce into a lifelong war story, we explore what it looks like to take responsibility, metabolize pain, and consciously evolve beyond blame. This episode challenges the dominant cultural narrative that divorce must be ugly, adversarial, and permanently scarring. It doesn’t.

With Amy as both witness and mirror, I share my own arc—from childhood conditioning and emotional repression, through infidelity, trauma, and collapse, into somatic healing, psychedelic therapy, nervous-system work, and spiritual awakening. What emerges is not a story of redemption, but of integration.

This is a conversation about accountability without self-flagellation, healing without spiritual bypass, and what becomes possible when two people choose growth over grievance—for themselves and for their children.

Special Guest: Amy Anesi.

Support The Permission Slip

]]> S1 | E17 Paul Selig - Psychic, Teacher & Author https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e17-selig cbf7c619-a0ae-4223-84ed-77b930710501 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0600 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman I speak with Paul Selig about his path into channeling, the teachings delivered through his Guides, and what they reveal about consciousness, fear, and divine union. We explore the Christ as a living principle within all beings, the role of free will and presence, and why awakening is an energetic shift rather than an intellectual one. This episode offers a look at discernment, embodiment, and what it means to live from a higher octave of awareness while fully engaged in human life. 58:05 yes I discovered the channeled work of Paul Selig and his "Guides" (whom have called themselves "Melchizedek") in late summer of 2020. I had fortunately been "softened" up considerably with psychedelic work including Psilocybin, MDMA, Ayahuasca and Mescaline in addition to some deep myofascial work by that point in my healing journey. A friend shared a link to a YouTube video and it was as if a tractor beam took hold of me. I was mesmerized and, after checking their stock online, was on my way to a bookstore 30 minutes away where I purchased three books. This work is one of the three pillars of my transformation - up there with psychedelics and somatic work. And it may not resonate with you. It was one of the clearest example of "When the student is ready, the teacher appears" I've experienced. Others have told similar stories. In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Paul Selig for a conversation about consciousness, channeling, and what it means to live in alignment with a higher order of truth while fully embodied as a human being. Paul shares his personal origin story — from an accomplished academic life to an unexpected spiritual awakening that opened him to hearing and working with the Guides. We explore how his abilities unfolded gradually, the role discipline and integrity played in stabilizing the work, and why true channeling is less about being “special” and more about becoming transparent to something greater. We move into the core teachings brought through the Guides: the nature of divine union, the Christ as a universal principle rather than a historical figure, and humanity’s current reckoning with fear, separation, and self-denial. We also discuss discernment in spiritual work, the difference between inspiration and channeling, free will, presence, and how awakening does not bypass the human experience — it transforms how we meet it. This conversation is not about belief systems or spiritual bypassing. It’s about lived experience, embodiment, and the practical integration of higher consciousness into daily life. Paul's website is https://paulselig.com Special Guest: Paul Selig. channeling, Paul Selig, divine union, consciousness, spiritual awakening, Guides, Christ consciousness, fear and separation, higher octave, embodiment, presence, discernment, free will, transformation, nondual awareness, metaphysics I discovered the channeled work of Paul Selig and his "Guides" (whom have called themselves "Melchizedek") in late summer of 2020. I had fortunately been "softened" up considerably with psychedelic work including Psilocybin, MDMA, Ayahuasca and Mescaline in addition to some deep myofascial work by that point in my healing journey. A friend shared a link to a YouTube video and it was as if a tractor beam took hold of me. I was mesmerized and, after checking their stock online, was on my way to a bookstore 30 minutes away where I purchased three books.

This work is one of the three pillars of my transformation - up there with psychedelics and somatic work. And it may not resonate with you. It was one of the clearest example of "When the student is ready, the teacher appears" I've experienced. Others have told similar stories.

In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Paul Selig for a conversation about consciousness, channeling, and what it means to live in alignment with a higher order of truth while fully embodied as a human being.

Paul shares his personal origin story — from an accomplished academic life to an unexpected spiritual awakening that opened him to hearing and working with the Guides. We explore how his abilities unfolded gradually, the role discipline and integrity played in stabilizing the work, and why true channeling is less about being “special” and more about becoming transparent to something greater.

We move into the core teachings brought through the Guides: the nature of divine union, the Christ as a universal principle rather than a historical figure, and humanity’s current reckoning with fear, separation, and self-denial. We also discuss discernment in spiritual work, the difference between inspiration and channeling, free will, presence, and how awakening does not bypass the human experience — it transforms how we meet it.

This conversation is not about belief systems or spiritual bypassing. It’s about lived experience, embodiment, and the practical integration of higher consciousness into daily life.

Paul's website is https://paulselig.com

Special Guest: Paul Selig.

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]]> I discovered the channeled work of Paul Selig and his "Guides" (whom have called themselves "Melchizedek") in late summer of 2020. I had fortunately been "softened" up considerably with psychedelic work including Psilocybin, MDMA, Ayahuasca and Mescaline in addition to some deep myofascial work by that point in my healing journey. A friend shared a link to a YouTube video and it was as if a tractor beam took hold of me. I was mesmerized and, after checking their stock online, was on my way to a bookstore 30 minutes away where I purchased three books.

This work is one of the three pillars of my transformation - up there with psychedelics and somatic work. And it may not resonate with you. It was one of the clearest example of "When the student is ready, the teacher appears" I've experienced. Others have told similar stories.

In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Paul Selig for a conversation about consciousness, channeling, and what it means to live in alignment with a higher order of truth while fully embodied as a human being.

Paul shares his personal origin story — from an accomplished academic life to an unexpected spiritual awakening that opened him to hearing and working with the Guides. We explore how his abilities unfolded gradually, the role discipline and integrity played in stabilizing the work, and why true channeling is less about being “special” and more about becoming transparent to something greater.

We move into the core teachings brought through the Guides: the nature of divine union, the Christ as a universal principle rather than a historical figure, and humanity’s current reckoning with fear, separation, and self-denial. We also discuss discernment in spiritual work, the difference between inspiration and channeling, free will, presence, and how awakening does not bypass the human experience — it transforms how we meet it.

This conversation is not about belief systems or spiritual bypassing. It’s about lived experience, embodiment, and the practical integration of higher consciousness into daily life.

Paul's website is https://paulselig.com

Special Guest: Paul Selig.

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]]> S1 | E16 Lisa Parker - Founder, Trilome® https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e16-parker 22e8e876-9dfc-4b7d-891d-982562320b75 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0600 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman 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. 1:11:26 yes The irony of the fact that it took me 16 episodes to get to somebody who works with psychedelic medicines is not lost on me. Psychedelics (all of them) have been instrumental in my healing process. As somebody who hasn't had an alcoholic drink since 2001 and hadn't smoked weed since 1995, dipping my toe in the psychedelic waters was not a decision I undertook lightly. It was a short journey from the dip to the plunge, however. I'm very grateful to Lisa for agreeing to be on the show and to share the beautiful potential these medicines have for fostering healing and connection. The fact that they are Schedule I narcotics is criminal in and of itself. In this episode, I talk with Lisa Parker about her journey from chronic trauma and unexplained pain into becoming a practitioner of psychedelic-integrative bodywork. Lisa shares how early experiences of fear, dissociation, and bodily threat shaped her nervous system—and how modalities like Rolfing and other somatic work, especially in tandem with medicines such as Ayahuasca, Psilocybin and Kambo helped her reclaim safety in her body. In themes that are common across most episodes, we explore how trauma lives in fascia, why chronic pain often has emotional and energetic roots, and how combining low-dose psychedelic medicine with hands-on bodywork can accelerate healing in a safe, grounded way. This conversation moves through nervous system regulation, consent, embodied boundaries, touches briefly on Human Design, and the difference between catharsis and integration. This episode is an invitation to understand healing not as fixing what’s broken, but as remembering how the body already knows how to come home to itself. Special Guest: Lisa Parker. psychedelic integration, trauma healing, somatic therapy, nervous system regulation, bodywork, fascia, psilocybin therapy, ayahuasca, kambo, embodiment, chronic pain, trauma release, Human Design, consent-based healing The irony of the fact that it took me 16 episodes to get to somebody who works with psychedelic medicines is not lost on me. Psychedelics (all of them) have been instrumental in my healing process. As somebody who hasn't had an alcoholic drink since 2001 and hadn't smoked weed since 1995, dipping my toe in the psychedelic waters was not a decision I undertook lightly. It was a short journey from the dip to the plunge, however.

I'm very grateful to Lisa for agreeing to be on the show and to share the beautiful potential these medicines have for fostering healing and connection. The fact that they are Schedule I narcotics is criminal in and of itself.

In this episode, I talk with Lisa Parker about her journey from chronic trauma and unexplained pain into becoming a practitioner of psychedelic-integrative bodywork. Lisa shares how early experiences of fear, dissociation, and bodily threat shaped her nervous system—and how modalities like Rolfing and other somatic work, especially in tandem with medicines such as Ayahuasca, Psilocybin and Kambo helped her reclaim safety in her body.

In themes that are common across most episodes, we explore how trauma lives in fascia, why chronic pain often has emotional and energetic roots, and how combining low-dose psychedelic medicine with hands-on bodywork can accelerate healing in a safe, grounded way. This conversation moves through nervous system regulation, consent, embodied boundaries, touches briefly on Human Design, and the difference between catharsis and integration.

This episode is an invitation to understand healing not as fixing what’s broken, but as remembering how the body already knows how to come home to itself.

Special Guest: Lisa Parker.

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]]> The irony of the fact that it took me 16 episodes to get to somebody who works with psychedelic medicines is not lost on me. Psychedelics (all of them) have been instrumental in my healing process. As somebody who hasn't had an alcoholic drink since 2001 and hadn't smoked weed since 1995, dipping my toe in the psychedelic waters was not a decision I undertook lightly. It was a short journey from the dip to the plunge, however.

I'm very grateful to Lisa for agreeing to be on the show and to share the beautiful potential these medicines have for fostering healing and connection. The fact that they are Schedule I narcotics is criminal in and of itself.

In this episode, I talk with Lisa Parker about her journey from chronic trauma and unexplained pain into becoming a practitioner of psychedelic-integrative bodywork. Lisa shares how early experiences of fear, dissociation, and bodily threat shaped her nervous system—and how modalities like Rolfing and other somatic work, especially in tandem with medicines such as Ayahuasca, Psilocybin and Kambo helped her reclaim safety in her body.

In themes that are common across most episodes, we explore how trauma lives in fascia, why chronic pain often has emotional and energetic roots, and how combining low-dose psychedelic medicine with hands-on bodywork can accelerate healing in a safe, grounded way. This conversation moves through nervous system regulation, consent, embodied boundaries, touches briefly on Human Design, and the difference between catharsis and integration.

This episode is an invitation to understand healing not as fixing what’s broken, but as remembering how the body already knows how to come home to itself.

Special Guest: Lisa Parker.

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]]> S1 | E10 Rich Priddis - Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e10-priddis 6a272be0-401e-40d2-a7d5-b0b02e7e18bc Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:30:00 -0600 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman 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. 1:09:41 yes CONTENT WARNING - in this episode there is some graphic sexual language that may be triggering. In this intimate and eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Rich Priddis, a Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide and long-time ISTA (International School of Temple Arts) facilitator. Rich shares his remarkable journey from a strict Mormon upbringing—steeped in sexual shame and repression—to becoming a global teacher of sacred sexuality and embodied healing. I met Rich in the summer of 2023 where he was a lead facilitator of an ISTA retreat I attended in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. It was one of the more powerful and healing experiences I've had in my life. We explore how early religious conditioning shaped his relationship with his body, the liberation that came through tantra, cuddle parties, and sex-positive communities, and the transformative power of consent, communication, and embodiment. Rich explains concepts like the Wheel of Consent, the Body SMART model for conscious relating, and how sexual energy can be used for healing, self-acceptance, and creative awakening. We discuss shadow work, shame release, and reclaiming authentic connection to self and others through presence, truth, and love. Rich's website - https://www.richpriddis.com Special Guest: Rich Priddis. Rich Priddis, conscious intimacy, sexual healing, tantra, ISTA, embodiment, consent, shame release, shadow work, sacred sexuality, Mormon deconstruction, permission to feel, body awareness, self-love, energetic healing CONTENT WARNING - in this episode there is some graphic sexual language that may be triggering.

In this intimate and eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Rich Priddis, a Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide and long-time ISTA (International School of Temple Arts) facilitator. Rich shares his remarkable journey from a strict Mormon upbringing—steeped in sexual shame and repression—to becoming a global teacher of sacred sexuality and embodied healing. I met Rich in the summer of 2023 where he was a lead facilitator of an ISTA retreat I attended in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. It was one of the more powerful and healing experiences I've had in my life.
We explore how early religious conditioning shaped his relationship with his body, the liberation that came through tantra, cuddle parties, and sex-positive communities, and the transformative power of consent, communication, and embodiment. Rich explains concepts like the Wheel of Consent, the Body SMART model for conscious relating, and how sexual energy can be used for healing, self-acceptance, and creative awakening. We discuss shadow work, shame release, and reclaiming authentic connection to self and others through presence, truth, and love.

Rich's website - https://www.richpriddis.com

Special Guest: Rich Priddis.

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]]> CONTENT WARNING - in this episode there is some graphic sexual language that may be triggering.

In this intimate and eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Rich Priddis, a Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide and long-time ISTA (International School of Temple Arts) facilitator. Rich shares his remarkable journey from a strict Mormon upbringing—steeped in sexual shame and repression—to becoming a global teacher of sacred sexuality and embodied healing. I met Rich in the summer of 2023 where he was a lead facilitator of an ISTA retreat I attended in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. It was one of the more powerful and healing experiences I've had in my life.
We explore how early religious conditioning shaped his relationship with his body, the liberation that came through tantra, cuddle parties, and sex-positive communities, and the transformative power of consent, communication, and embodiment. Rich explains concepts like the Wheel of Consent, the Body SMART model for conscious relating, and how sexual energy can be used for healing, self-acceptance, and creative awakening. We discuss shadow work, shame release, and reclaiming authentic connection to self and others through presence, truth, and love.

Rich's website - https://www.richpriddis.com

Special Guest: Rich Priddis.

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]]> S1 | E8 Dr. Therese Rowley - Skilled Intuitive https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e8-rowley b7015cef-8c51-441b-aeb8-5fecc8c4a03f Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:45:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman 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! 1:21:26 yes I had the pleasure of experiencing not one, but TWO sessions with Therese at the very start of my transformational healing journey back in 2019. I was so f-ing excited to sit down with her and talk about her work earlier this week, especially with the vocabulary and understanding I have gleaned about the nature of this work in the intervening years. In this expansive and deeply personal conversation, I sit down and chat with Dr. Therese Rowley — skilled intuitive, author, and organizational change agent — whose life has woven together mystical experience, Fortune 500 consulting, and groundbreaking work in the realms of healing and multisensory intelligence. Therese shares her journey from a childhood immersed in Catholic mysticism to becoming a sought-after intuitive for individuals, leaders, and businesses. Along the way, she recounts her own dark night of the soul, lessons from chronic fatigue syndrome, and the path that led her to help others navigate spiritual, emotional, and energetic transformation. We also explore Therese’s visionary reframing of neurodiversity, particularly in children, as “multisensory intelligence” — a paradigm shift that moves beyond pathology to possibility. She explains how so-called “symptoms” may actually be signs of quantum perception and untapped human potential, and how parents, educators, and society can better support these gifts. This episode is a fascinating blend of personal story, spiritual insight, and forward-thinking ideas that challenge the boundaries between mysticism, science, and education. If you enjoy this episode, please like, subscribe, and share to help spread the word. **Dr. Rowley's Bio ** A visionary intuitive with over two decades of experience working with neurodiverse youth and their parents. Therese Rowley, CEO of Accelerated Alignment and Multisensory Intelligence, is a business consultant, intuitive expert, and advocate for multisensory youth. With a PhD in Business Transformation and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, she combines a sharp business acumen with over three decades of experience guiding corporate leaders through strategic and organizational transformations. Her consulting work includes partnering with leaders at organizations like AT&T, Kearney, Inc., and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and transforming legacy institutions, such as the YWCA-Chicago, into thriving enterprises. She has been adjunct faculty at the University of San Francisco, the University of Chicago Graham School, the Booth School’s LEAD Institute, and Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies. She founded the Conscious Business Network of Chicago in 2008 to bring together feisty, leading-edge leaders to stimulate business imagination, advancing a more conscious marketplace. A skilled intuitive with a focus on transformation, Dr. Rowley has conducted over 12,000 intuitive readings and healings, supporting leaders and others to balance and align their inner and outer worlds. She teaches clients to access and trust their intuition through courses, webinars, and articles, as well as through her book, Mapping a New Reality: Discovering Intuitive Intelligence. Dr. Rowley also brings expertise in neurodiversity, supporting parents of gifted and intuitive children through intuitive guidance and advocacy. She has long recognized that youth diagnosed as neurodiverse are uncommonly gifted. Her work gives voice to the child’s inner world, offering their parents a deeper understanding of their child’s purpose as well as practical strategies to help families appreciate, communicate with, and support them more effectively. As Executive Producer of The Misdiagnosis of Gifted Children, she sheds light on how gifted children are often misdiagnosed and medicated because the behaviors of profoundly gifted youth and the behaviors defined as ‘neurodiverse” are often identical. Parent Community Website: The Wonder Children: Transforming the Neurodiverse Experience -http://multisensoryintelligence.ai/ Facebook: The Wonder Children - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thewonderchildren Intuitive Business Website: Accelerated Alignment - https://thereserowley.com Facebook: Dr. Rowley's Conscious Business Network - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066454075257 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thereserowleyphd/ Therese Rowley, multisensory intelligence, neurodiversity, intuitive healing, quantum perception, spiritual change agent, organizational transformation, chronic fatigue healing, dark night of the soul, children’s gifts, ADHD reframe, autism reframe, conscious business, leadership coaching, forgiveness, ancestral healing, permission slip I had the pleasure of experiencing not one, but TWO sessions with Therese at the very start of my transformational healing journey back in 2019. I was so f-ing excited to sit down with her and talk about her work earlier this week, especially with the vocabulary and understanding I have gleaned about the nature of this work in the intervening years.

In this expansive and deeply personal conversation, I sit down and chat with Dr. Therese Rowley — skilled intuitive, author, and organizational change agent — whose life has woven together mystical experience, Fortune 500 consulting, and groundbreaking work in the realms of healing and multisensory intelligence. Therese shares her journey from a childhood immersed in Catholic mysticism to becoming a sought-after intuitive for individuals, leaders, and businesses. Along the way, she recounts her own dark night of the soul, lessons from chronic fatigue syndrome, and the path that led her to help others navigate spiritual, emotional, and energetic transformation.

We also explore Therese’s visionary reframing of neurodiversity, particularly in children, as “multisensory intelligence” — a paradigm shift that moves beyond pathology to possibility. She explains how so-called “symptoms” may actually be signs of quantum perception and untapped human potential, and how parents, educators, and society can better support these gifts. This episode is a fascinating blend of personal story, spiritual insight, and forward-thinking ideas that challenge the boundaries between mysticism, science, and education.

If you enjoy this episode, please like, subscribe, and share to help spread the word.

**Dr. Rowley's Bio

**

A visionary intuitive with over two decades of experience working with neurodiverse youth and their parents.

Therese Rowley, CEO of Accelerated Alignment and Multisensory Intelligence, is a business consultant, intuitive expert, and advocate for multisensory youth. With a PhD in Business Transformation and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, she combines a sharp business acumen with over three decades of experience guiding corporate leaders through strategic and organizational transformations. Her consulting work includes partnering with leaders at organizations like AT&T, Kearney, Inc., and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and transforming legacy institutions, such as the YWCA-Chicago, into thriving enterprises. She has been adjunct faculty at the University of San Francisco, the University of Chicago Graham School, the Booth School’s LEAD Institute, and Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies. She founded the Conscious Business Network of Chicago in 2008 to bring together feisty, leading-edge leaders to stimulate business imagination, advancing a more conscious marketplace.
A skilled intuitive with a focus on transformation, Dr. Rowley has conducted over 12,000 intuitive readings and healings, supporting leaders and others to balance and align their inner and outer worlds. She teaches clients to access and trust their intuition through courses, webinars, and articles, as well as through her book, Mapping a New Reality: Discovering Intuitive Intelligence.
Dr. Rowley also brings expertise in neurodiversity, supporting parents of gifted and intuitive children through intuitive guidance and advocacy. She has long recognized that youth diagnosed as neurodiverse are uncommonly gifted. Her work gives voice to the child’s inner world, offering their parents a deeper understanding of their child’s purpose as well as practical strategies to help families appreciate, communicate with, and support them more effectively. As Executive Producer of The Misdiagnosis of Gifted Children, she sheds light on how gifted children are often misdiagnosed and medicated because the behaviors of profoundly gifted youth and the behaviors defined as ‘neurodiverse” are often identical.

Parent Community Website: The Wonder Children: Transforming the Neurodiverse Experience -http://multisensoryintelligence.ai/
Facebook: The Wonder Children - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thewonderchildren
Intuitive Business Website: Accelerated Alignment - https://thereserowley.com
Facebook: Dr. Rowley's Conscious Business Network - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066454075257
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thereserowleyphd/

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]]> I had the pleasure of experiencing not one, but TWO sessions with Therese at the very start of my transformational healing journey back in 2019. I was so f-ing excited to sit down with her and talk about her work earlier this week, especially with the vocabulary and understanding I have gleaned about the nature of this work in the intervening years.

In this expansive and deeply personal conversation, I sit down and chat with Dr. Therese Rowley — skilled intuitive, author, and organizational change agent — whose life has woven together mystical experience, Fortune 500 consulting, and groundbreaking work in the realms of healing and multisensory intelligence. Therese shares her journey from a childhood immersed in Catholic mysticism to becoming a sought-after intuitive for individuals, leaders, and businesses. Along the way, she recounts her own dark night of the soul, lessons from chronic fatigue syndrome, and the path that led her to help others navigate spiritual, emotional, and energetic transformation.

We also explore Therese’s visionary reframing of neurodiversity, particularly in children, as “multisensory intelligence” — a paradigm shift that moves beyond pathology to possibility. She explains how so-called “symptoms” may actually be signs of quantum perception and untapped human potential, and how parents, educators, and society can better support these gifts. This episode is a fascinating blend of personal story, spiritual insight, and forward-thinking ideas that challenge the boundaries between mysticism, science, and education.

If you enjoy this episode, please like, subscribe, and share to help spread the word.

**Dr. Rowley's Bio

**

A visionary intuitive with over two decades of experience working with neurodiverse youth and their parents.

Therese Rowley, CEO of Accelerated Alignment and Multisensory Intelligence, is a business consultant, intuitive expert, and advocate for multisensory youth. With a PhD in Business Transformation and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, she combines a sharp business acumen with over three decades of experience guiding corporate leaders through strategic and organizational transformations. Her consulting work includes partnering with leaders at organizations like AT&T, Kearney, Inc., and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and transforming legacy institutions, such as the YWCA-Chicago, into thriving enterprises. She has been adjunct faculty at the University of San Francisco, the University of Chicago Graham School, the Booth School’s LEAD Institute, and Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies. She founded the Conscious Business Network of Chicago in 2008 to bring together feisty, leading-edge leaders to stimulate business imagination, advancing a more conscious marketplace.
A skilled intuitive with a focus on transformation, Dr. Rowley has conducted over 12,000 intuitive readings and healings, supporting leaders and others to balance and align their inner and outer worlds. She teaches clients to access and trust their intuition through courses, webinars, and articles, as well as through her book, Mapping a New Reality: Discovering Intuitive Intelligence.
Dr. Rowley also brings expertise in neurodiversity, supporting parents of gifted and intuitive children through intuitive guidance and advocacy. She has long recognized that youth diagnosed as neurodiverse are uncommonly gifted. Her work gives voice to the child’s inner world, offering their parents a deeper understanding of their child’s purpose as well as practical strategies to help families appreciate, communicate with, and support them more effectively. As Executive Producer of The Misdiagnosis of Gifted Children, she sheds light on how gifted children are often misdiagnosed and medicated because the behaviors of profoundly gifted youth and the behaviors defined as ‘neurodiverse” are often identical.

Parent Community Website: The Wonder Children: Transforming the Neurodiverse Experience -http://multisensoryintelligence.ai/
Facebook: The Wonder Children - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thewonderchildren
Intuitive Business Website: Accelerated Alignment - https://thereserowley.com
Facebook: Dr. Rowley's Conscious Business Network - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066454075257
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thereserowleyphd/

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]]> S1 | E7 Lizzi Cutler - Intuitive https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e7-cutler 3e5f399c-4d07-4f08-a79b-9d04f327e2b9 Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:00:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman 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. 1:13:33 yes In this episode, I reconnect with Lizzi Cutler, an intuitive and transformational energy worker who once guided me through a powerful healing process that helped clear energetic blocks around abundance—blocks I didn’t even uncover during years of therapy or plant medicine journeys. Lizzi shares her story of growing up in suburban Chicago, always feeling like an outsider and spiritually aware from a young age. Her path led her through yoga, meditation, and eventually discovering her unique intuitive gifts, which she now uses to help clients identify and clear deeply embedded energetic patterns. Lizzi describes her work as communicating soul-to-soul, often receiving playful, grounded messages in her own language. Her approach is part energetic scanning, part intuitive guidance, and part energetic “cleaning lady,” as she calls it—helping people release energetic blockages that manifest as chronic scarcity, emotional pain, or confusion. We discuss the importance of listening to the body for intuitive yes/no responses, the trap of trying to manifest from a place of resistance, and the need for more play in our adult lives. Lizzi’s clients range from spiritual seekers to medical professionals, all seeking clarity, healing, and permission to live in alignment with their higher selves. Lizzi's Bio Lizzi Cutler is a transformational coach with a proven track record of helping high achievers and individuals seeking deeper personal growth overcome stress, remove emotional and energetic blockages, and elevate both their personal and professional lives. Known for delivering lasting results, Lizzi uses a variety of techniques, including energy work, guided visualization, and emotional clearing, to empower her clients to release tension, realign their focus, and unlock their full potential. Her approach is infused with hope and optimism, creating an environment where clients can break through limitations and see new possibilities. Whether you're aiming for peak performance or seeking balance in your everyday life, Lizzi’s holistic, results-driven methods offer a path to breakthrough achievements, renewed confidence, and sustained success. Her mission is to equip high performers with the tools for self-awareness, balance, and long-term personal and professional growth, while fostering a sense of hope for a brighter future. https://lizzicutler.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/lizzicutler/ Lizzi Cutler, Energy healing, Intuitive coach, Emotional blocks, Abundance mindset, Spiritual healing, Human design, Subconscious programming, Clearing scarcity patterns, Channeling higher self, Trauma release, Psychedelic integration, Healing through the body, Somatic intuition, Inner child work, Quantum healing, Manifestation myths In this episode, I reconnect with Lizzi Cutler, an intuitive and transformational energy worker who once guided me through a powerful healing process that helped clear energetic blocks around abundance—blocks I didn’t even uncover during years of therapy or plant medicine journeys. Lizzi shares her story of growing up in suburban Chicago, always feeling like an outsider and spiritually aware from a young age. Her path led her through yoga, meditation, and eventually discovering her unique intuitive gifts, which she now uses to help clients identify and clear deeply embedded energetic patterns.
Lizzi describes her work as communicating soul-to-soul, often receiving playful, grounded messages in her own language. Her approach is part energetic scanning, part intuitive guidance, and part energetic “cleaning lady,” as she calls it—helping people release energetic blockages that manifest as chronic scarcity, emotional pain, or confusion. We discuss the importance of listening to the body for intuitive yes/no responses, the trap of trying to manifest from a place of resistance, and the need for more play in our adult lives. Lizzi’s clients range from spiritual seekers to medical professionals, all seeking clarity, healing, and permission to live in alignment with their higher selves.

Lizzi's Bio

Lizzi Cutler is a transformational coach with a proven track record of helping high achievers and individuals seeking deeper personal growth overcome stress, remove emotional and energetic blockages, and elevate both their personal and professional lives. Known for delivering lasting results, Lizzi uses a variety of techniques, including energy work, guided visualization, and emotional clearing, to empower her clients to release tension, realign their focus, and unlock their full potential. Her approach is infused with hope and optimism, creating an environment where clients can break through limitations and see new possibilities. Whether you're aiming for peak performance or seeking balance in your everyday life, Lizzi’s holistic, results-driven methods offer a path to breakthrough achievements, renewed confidence, and sustained success. Her mission is to equip high performers with the tools for self-awareness, balance, and long-term personal and professional growth, while fostering a sense of hope for a brighter future.

https://lizzicutler.com

IG: https://www.instagram.com/lizzicutler/

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]]> In this episode, I reconnect with Lizzi Cutler, an intuitive and transformational energy worker who once guided me through a powerful healing process that helped clear energetic blocks around abundance—blocks I didn’t even uncover during years of therapy or plant medicine journeys. Lizzi shares her story of growing up in suburban Chicago, always feeling like an outsider and spiritually aware from a young age. Her path led her through yoga, meditation, and eventually discovering her unique intuitive gifts, which she now uses to help clients identify and clear deeply embedded energetic patterns.
Lizzi describes her work as communicating soul-to-soul, often receiving playful, grounded messages in her own language. Her approach is part energetic scanning, part intuitive guidance, and part energetic “cleaning lady,” as she calls it—helping people release energetic blockages that manifest as chronic scarcity, emotional pain, or confusion. We discuss the importance of listening to the body for intuitive yes/no responses, the trap of trying to manifest from a place of resistance, and the need for more play in our adult lives. Lizzi’s clients range from spiritual seekers to medical professionals, all seeking clarity, healing, and permission to live in alignment with their higher selves.

Lizzi's Bio

Lizzi Cutler is a transformational coach with a proven track record of helping high achievers and individuals seeking deeper personal growth overcome stress, remove emotional and energetic blockages, and elevate both their personal and professional lives. Known for delivering lasting results, Lizzi uses a variety of techniques, including energy work, guided visualization, and emotional clearing, to empower her clients to release tension, realign their focus, and unlock their full potential. Her approach is infused with hope and optimism, creating an environment where clients can break through limitations and see new possibilities. Whether you're aiming for peak performance or seeking balance in your everyday life, Lizzi’s holistic, results-driven methods offer a path to breakthrough achievements, renewed confidence, and sustained success. Her mission is to equip high performers with the tools for self-awareness, balance, and long-term personal and professional growth, while fostering a sense of hope for a brighter future.

https://lizzicutler.com

IG: https://www.instagram.com/lizzicutler/

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]]> S1 | E6 Laura O'Malley - Channel https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e6-omalley 7652ac03-c020-4845-b05a-daaa13206215 Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:00:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman 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. 1:29:06 yes It turns out I had two connections to Laura (at least that I know of) in the 3D. We were first introduced in the summer of 2022. I had my first intuitive reading with her in September of that year. Laura is an absolute gem of a human - probably the happiest person you will ever meet. She and the guidance she brings through from beyond the veil has been absolutely instrumental in keeping me grounded and assisting in my integration of several very powerful psychedelic experiences. Laura is a former schoolteacher who followed the call of her soul into the realm of conscious channeling and intuitive healing. In this installment of The Permission Slip Laura shares the raw, beautiful story of her awakening—how she moved from burnout and people-pleasing into alignment with her deepest truth. Her journey is one of radical trust: leaving the known, shedding the "good girl" identity, and allowing a completely different kind of intelligence to lead. We talk about what it means to receive guidance from beyond the veil, how to discern divine truth from fear, and why so many of us are being called to live and lead in new ways. Laura shares how the channeling process works for her, how she holds space for others in their own expansion, and why accessing your multidimensional self doesn’t require escaping the human experience—it deepens it. This episode is an invitation to step into your own intuitive power, remember who you really are, and allow the unseen world to guide the seen. Laura's Bio An elementary school teacher, a nanny, an energy healer and a happiness coach! Laura navigates this world in an attempt to help, to heal, and to guide us to MORE- more happiness, more self love, more confidence, more success, more self-awareness, more understanding of the truth of your power here! She began her career as an elementary school teacher, has her MA in Curriculum and Instruction, and worked with preschool - 8th graders. With the help of her husband, she has passionately survived guiding her four boys into adulthood! Her spiritual journey began in the fall of 2014 when she found herself living the picture perfect life, but never feeling worse. “I was sad, depressed, feeling utterly hopeless, not to mention completely stressed out, and I truly had no idea why.” She had been experiencing severe physical dizziness and had spent over a year searching for answers within the medical community. The cause was never determined. It was in her surrender that Divine intervention provided a book suggesting meditation, and she fell onto this path hard and fast overcome by a sense of peace. Continuing this journey, she became a Level III Reiki Master, and found the connection to her inner-voice. She began to really listen, not with her ears but with her her whole self, and what followed was PEACE, CLARITY and understanding of her purpose. Guidance came through loud and clear as she began communicating with her spirit guides (we ALL have them!) and then with other aspects of Source Energy (the nonphysical realm). Laura is a teacher, a coach, and a source of information for anyone searching for truth and happiness. She loves what she does, and believes this path will lead anyone to what they truly desire, which is HAPPINESS! She connects and COMMUNICATES with Source Energy daily, and uses this connection to teach, inspire and help others understand their own connection. Laura works with individuals and groups, channeling instruction on the Law of Attraction, the Importance of Self Love, Stepping into Your POWER, and understanding the connection you have and the guidance you are receiving RIGHT NOW with and from the nonphysical realm, and how this impacts your happiness. She is grateful for every experience, every connection she makes with the individuals who seek her guidance. And she knows that each connection is intentional for her learning, as well. She is committed to bringing enlightenment to all those who find her and help each discover his or her own path to peace, love, joy, and the truth of this existence. Website https://www.getintothelight.com Instagram @get.into.the.light YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@lauraomalley-inthelight9321 Special Guest: Laura O'Malley. Conscious channeling, Divine feminine flow, Intuitive awakening, Multidimensional guidance, Soul-led life, Channeling spirit, Feminine embodiment, Higher self connection, Intuition and surrender, Spiritual awakening, Channeling as practice, Leaving the matrix, Inner voice activation, Embodied mysticism, Laura O’Malley It turns out I had two connections to Laura (at least that I know of) in the 3D. We were first introduced in the summer of 2022. I had my first intuitive reading with her in September of that year. Laura is an absolute gem of a human - probably the happiest person you will ever meet. She and the guidance she brings through from beyond the veil has been absolutely instrumental in keeping me grounded and assisting in my integration of several very powerful psychedelic experiences.
Laura is a former schoolteacher who followed the call of her soul into the realm of conscious channeling and intuitive healing. In this installment of The Permission Slip Laura shares the raw, beautiful story of her awakening—how she moved from burnout and people-pleasing into alignment with her deepest truth. Her journey is one of radical trust: leaving the known, shedding the "good girl" identity, and allowing a completely different kind of intelligence to lead.
We talk about what it means to receive guidance from beyond the veil, how to discern divine truth from fear, and why so many of us are being called to live and lead in new ways. Laura shares how the channeling process works for her, how she holds space for others in their own expansion, and why accessing your multidimensional self doesn’t require escaping the human experience—it deepens it. This episode is an invitation to step into your own intuitive power, remember who you really are, and allow the unseen world to guide the seen.

Laura's Bio

An elementary school teacher, a nanny, an energy healer and a happiness coach! Laura navigates this world in an attempt to help, to heal, and to guide us to MORE- more happiness, more self love, more confidence, more success, more self-awareness, more understanding of the truth of your power here!

She began her career as an elementary school teacher, has her MA in Curriculum and Instruction, and worked with preschool - 8th graders. With the help of her husband, she has passionately survived guiding her four boys into adulthood! Her spiritual journey began in the fall of 2014 when she found herself living the picture perfect life, but never feeling worse. “I was sad, depressed, feeling utterly hopeless, not to mention completely stressed out, and I truly had no idea why.” She had been experiencing severe physical dizziness and had spent over a year searching for answers within the medical community. The cause was never determined. It was in her surrender that Divine intervention provided a book suggesting meditation, and she fell onto this path hard and fast overcome by a sense of peace.

Continuing this journey, she became a Level III Reiki Master, and found the connection to her inner-voice. She began to really listen, not with her ears but with her her whole self, and what followed was PEACE, CLARITY and understanding of her purpose. Guidance came through loud and clear as she began communicating with her spirit guides (we ALL have them!) and then with other aspects of Source Energy (the nonphysical realm).

Laura is a teacher, a coach, and a source of information for anyone searching for truth and happiness. She loves what she does, and believes this path will lead anyone to what they truly desire, which is HAPPINESS! She connects and COMMUNICATES with Source Energy daily, and uses this connection to teach, inspire and help others understand their own connection. Laura works with individuals and groups, channeling instruction on the Law of Attraction, the Importance of Self Love, Stepping into Your POWER, and understanding the connection you have and the guidance you are receiving RIGHT NOW with and from the nonphysical realm, and how this impacts your happiness.
She is grateful for every experience, every connection she makes with the individuals who seek her guidance. And she knows that each connection is intentional for her learning, as well. She is committed to bringing enlightenment to all those who find her and help each discover his or her own path to peace, love, joy, and the truth of this existence.

Website https://www.getintothelight.com
Instagram @get.into.the.light
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@lauraomalley-inthelight9321

Special Guest: Laura O'Malley.

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]]> It turns out I had two connections to Laura (at least that I know of) in the 3D. We were first introduced in the summer of 2022. I had my first intuitive reading with her in September of that year. Laura is an absolute gem of a human - probably the happiest person you will ever meet. She and the guidance she brings through from beyond the veil has been absolutely instrumental in keeping me grounded and assisting in my integration of several very powerful psychedelic experiences.
Laura is a former schoolteacher who followed the call of her soul into the realm of conscious channeling and intuitive healing. In this installment of The Permission Slip Laura shares the raw, beautiful story of her awakening—how she moved from burnout and people-pleasing into alignment with her deepest truth. Her journey is one of radical trust: leaving the known, shedding the "good girl" identity, and allowing a completely different kind of intelligence to lead.
We talk about what it means to receive guidance from beyond the veil, how to discern divine truth from fear, and why so many of us are being called to live and lead in new ways. Laura shares how the channeling process works for her, how she holds space for others in their own expansion, and why accessing your multidimensional self doesn’t require escaping the human experience—it deepens it. This episode is an invitation to step into your own intuitive power, remember who you really are, and allow the unseen world to guide the seen.

Laura's Bio

An elementary school teacher, a nanny, an energy healer and a happiness coach! Laura navigates this world in an attempt to help, to heal, and to guide us to MORE- more happiness, more self love, more confidence, more success, more self-awareness, more understanding of the truth of your power here!

She began her career as an elementary school teacher, has her MA in Curriculum and Instruction, and worked with preschool - 8th graders. With the help of her husband, she has passionately survived guiding her four boys into adulthood! Her spiritual journey began in the fall of 2014 when she found herself living the picture perfect life, but never feeling worse. “I was sad, depressed, feeling utterly hopeless, not to mention completely stressed out, and I truly had no idea why.” She had been experiencing severe physical dizziness and had spent over a year searching for answers within the medical community. The cause was never determined. It was in her surrender that Divine intervention provided a book suggesting meditation, and she fell onto this path hard and fast overcome by a sense of peace.

Continuing this journey, she became a Level III Reiki Master, and found the connection to her inner-voice. She began to really listen, not with her ears but with her her whole self, and what followed was PEACE, CLARITY and understanding of her purpose. Guidance came through loud and clear as she began communicating with her spirit guides (we ALL have them!) and then with other aspects of Source Energy (the nonphysical realm).

Laura is a teacher, a coach, and a source of information for anyone searching for truth and happiness. She loves what she does, and believes this path will lead anyone to what they truly desire, which is HAPPINESS! She connects and COMMUNICATES with Source Energy daily, and uses this connection to teach, inspire and help others understand their own connection. Laura works with individuals and groups, channeling instruction on the Law of Attraction, the Importance of Self Love, Stepping into Your POWER, and understanding the connection you have and the guidance you are receiving RIGHT NOW with and from the nonphysical realm, and how this impacts your happiness.
She is grateful for every experience, every connection she makes with the individuals who seek her guidance. And she knows that each connection is intentional for her learning, as well. She is committed to bringing enlightenment to all those who find her and help each discover his or her own path to peace, love, joy, and the truth of this existence.

Website https://www.getintothelight.com
Instagram @get.into.the.light
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@lauraomalley-inthelight9321

Special Guest: Laura O'Malley.

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]]> S1 | E5 Alefiyah Lindo - Intuitive https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e5-lindo 964fc0a0-2afd-4e38-9a71-1ba6c1be4c87 Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:00:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman 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. 1:01:49 yes The guest on upcoming Episode 6, Laura O'Malley, introduced me to Alefyah Lindo in early 2024. I was laid up in bed, literally unable to walk on the day of our first appointment. She was kind enough to come to my home and did her best to assist me. Since then we've worked together several times, most recently in a "Deep Dive" into some stubborn remaining blocks. In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Alefiyah–modern mystic with roots in social work and psychotherapy, healer, and feminine wisdom guide—for a soulful conversation about what it means to truly live from the heart. Alefiyah shares her journey of awakening through the heartbreak of being raised a woman in the highly patriarchial Middle East and how she came to embrace her path as a mystic while navigating motherhood, marriage, and the pull of modern life. Together, we explore how feminine power doesn’t shout or hustle—it listens, receives, and guides from a deeper intelligence. We talk about the difference between intuition and fear, the ways our bodies speak long before our minds catch up, and how trusting the unseen is a radical act in a culture that worships control. Alefiyah offers practical wisdom on how to cultivate embodied presence, honor your cyclical nature, and live in alignment with what she calls the “current of truth.” This episode is an invitation to let the heart—not the mind—be your compass, and to reclaim your inner mystic in a world that has forgotten the sacred. Alefiyah's Bio I am a Mind-Body-Energy Intuitive, and I access other aspects of my being than just my mind. I use a Holistic and Non-Dual approach. My practice includes highly effective techniques, intuitive guidance, and almost 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist. Finding Buddhism and doing a 10-day silent Vipassana Meditation retreat in my early 20s started my spiritual journey. Early in my career in attachment and trauma work, I started incorporating mind-body techniques in my practice, like mindfulness-based stress reduction, breath work, yoga, etc., to help my clients decrease symptoms, as I encountered the limitations of talk therapy. Ten years ago, I learned about the Chakra energy system taught by Caroline Myss. Then as I reached a plateau, I discovered EFT, which was my entry into energy work, and pivotal for my healing journey. I also became fascinated by the Lymphatic System and the world of Fascia (connective tissue), and their interconnection to our physical and mental health. Our lymphatic system and fascia are closely connected to the energy meridians running throughout our body. During my study of energy medicine, teachers like Marie Manuchehri, Dr. Jennifer Vest, and Suzanne Giesemann have helped me become more skilled in my energy-intuitive abilities, recently extending it to animal/inter-species communication. I have an undergraduate degree from Purdue University, a master's degree from University of Illinois and I am a licensed therapist in Illinois. My 20+ year journey has allowed me to gain a deep understanding of many disciplines, and I am in a unique position to take all that training and create tailored care for my clients. Every technique or skill I teach my clients is something I have personally used and found extremely helpful at some point in my life. And in a nutshell, I LOVE what I do! Even though my ethnicity is Indian, it wasn’t until I was an adult and studied yoga and Ayurveda did I learn the meaning of Namaste, saying it with the posture of our hands together by our heart. It means “the light in me bows to the light in you.” Namaste! 🙏🏾 Website https://www.alefiyahlindo.com Special Guest: Alefiyah Lindo. Embodied mysticism, Feminine wisdom, Heart-centered living, Modern mystic, Alefiyah Lindo, Intuition vs fear, Embodiment practices, Healing through presence, Divine feminine, Cyclical living, Soul guidance, Sacred surrender, Emotional intelligence, Intuitive leadership, Energetic alignment The guest on upcoming Episode 6, Laura O'Malley, introduced me to Alefyah Lindo in early 2024. I was laid up in bed, literally unable to walk on the day of our first appointment. She was kind enough to come to my home and did her best to assist me. Since then we've worked together several times, most recently in a "Deep Dive" into some stubborn remaining blocks.
In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Alefiyah–modern mystic with roots in social work and psychotherapy, healer, and feminine wisdom guide—for a soulful conversation about what it means to truly live from the heart. Alefiyah shares her journey of awakening through the heartbreak of being raised a woman in the highly patriarchial Middle East and how she came to embrace her path as a mystic while navigating motherhood, marriage, and the pull of modern life. Together, we explore how feminine power doesn’t shout or hustle—it listens, receives, and guides from a deeper intelligence.
We talk about the difference between intuition and fear, the ways our bodies speak long before our minds catch up, and how trusting the unseen is a radical act in a culture that worships control. Alefiyah offers practical wisdom on how to cultivate embodied presence, honor your cyclical nature, and live in alignment with what she calls the “current of truth.” This episode is an invitation to let the heart—not the mind—be your compass, and to reclaim your inner mystic in a world that has forgotten the sacred.

Alefiyah's Bio

I am a Mind-Body-Energy Intuitive, and I access other aspects of my being than just my mind. I use a Holistic and Non-Dual approach. My practice includes highly effective techniques, intuitive guidance, and almost 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist. Finding Buddhism and doing a 10-day silent Vipassana Meditation retreat in my early 20s started my spiritual journey. Early in my career in attachment and trauma work, I started incorporating mind-body techniques in my practice, like mindfulness-based stress reduction, breath work, yoga, etc., to help my clients decrease symptoms, as I encountered the limitations of talk therapy. Ten years ago, I learned about the Chakra energy system taught by Caroline Myss. Then as I reached a plateau, I discovered EFT, which was my entry into energy work, and pivotal for my healing journey. I also became fascinated by the Lymphatic System and the world of Fascia (connective tissue), and their interconnection to our physical and mental health. Our lymphatic system and fascia are closely connected to the energy meridians running throughout our body. During my study of energy medicine, teachers like Marie Manuchehri, Dr. Jennifer Vest, and Suzanne Giesemann have helped me become more skilled in my energy-intuitive abilities, recently extending it to animal/inter-species communication.

I have an undergraduate degree from Purdue University, a master's degree from University of Illinois and I am a licensed therapist in Illinois.
My 20+ year journey has allowed me to gain a deep understanding of many disciplines, and I am in a unique position to take all that training and create tailored care for my clients.
Every technique or skill I teach my clients is something I have personally used and found extremely helpful at some point in my life. And in a nutshell, I LOVE what I do!
Even though my ethnicity is Indian, it wasn’t until I was an adult and studied yoga and Ayurveda did I learn the meaning of Namaste, saying it with the posture of our hands together by our heart. It means “the light in me bows to the light in you.”
Namaste! 🙏🏾

Website https://www.alefiyahlindo.com

Special Guest: Alefiyah Lindo.

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]]> The guest on upcoming Episode 6, Laura O'Malley, introduced me to Alefyah Lindo in early 2024. I was laid up in bed, literally unable to walk on the day of our first appointment. She was kind enough to come to my home and did her best to assist me. Since then we've worked together several times, most recently in a "Deep Dive" into some stubborn remaining blocks.
In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Alefiyah–modern mystic with roots in social work and psychotherapy, healer, and feminine wisdom guide—for a soulful conversation about what it means to truly live from the heart. Alefiyah shares her journey of awakening through the heartbreak of being raised a woman in the highly patriarchial Middle East and how she came to embrace her path as a mystic while navigating motherhood, marriage, and the pull of modern life. Together, we explore how feminine power doesn’t shout or hustle—it listens, receives, and guides from a deeper intelligence.
We talk about the difference between intuition and fear, the ways our bodies speak long before our minds catch up, and how trusting the unseen is a radical act in a culture that worships control. Alefiyah offers practical wisdom on how to cultivate embodied presence, honor your cyclical nature, and live in alignment with what she calls the “current of truth.” This episode is an invitation to let the heart—not the mind—be your compass, and to reclaim your inner mystic in a world that has forgotten the sacred.

Alefiyah's Bio

I am a Mind-Body-Energy Intuitive, and I access other aspects of my being than just my mind. I use a Holistic and Non-Dual approach. My practice includes highly effective techniques, intuitive guidance, and almost 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist. Finding Buddhism and doing a 10-day silent Vipassana Meditation retreat in my early 20s started my spiritual journey. Early in my career in attachment and trauma work, I started incorporating mind-body techniques in my practice, like mindfulness-based stress reduction, breath work, yoga, etc., to help my clients decrease symptoms, as I encountered the limitations of talk therapy. Ten years ago, I learned about the Chakra energy system taught by Caroline Myss. Then as I reached a plateau, I discovered EFT, which was my entry into energy work, and pivotal for my healing journey. I also became fascinated by the Lymphatic System and the world of Fascia (connective tissue), and their interconnection to our physical and mental health. Our lymphatic system and fascia are closely connected to the energy meridians running throughout our body. During my study of energy medicine, teachers like Marie Manuchehri, Dr. Jennifer Vest, and Suzanne Giesemann have helped me become more skilled in my energy-intuitive abilities, recently extending it to animal/inter-species communication.

I have an undergraduate degree from Purdue University, a master's degree from University of Illinois and I am a licensed therapist in Illinois.
My 20+ year journey has allowed me to gain a deep understanding of many disciplines, and I am in a unique position to take all that training and create tailored care for my clients.
Every technique or skill I teach my clients is something I have personally used and found extremely helpful at some point in my life. And in a nutshell, I LOVE what I do!
Even though my ethnicity is Indian, it wasn’t until I was an adult and studied yoga and Ayurveda did I learn the meaning of Namaste, saying it with the posture of our hands together by our heart. It means “the light in me bows to the light in you.”
Namaste! 🙏🏾

Website https://www.alefiyahlindo.com

Special Guest: Alefiyah Lindo.

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]]> S1 | E4 Melissa Ford - Executive Coach https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e4-ford b7e0379b-ece6-4dbe-ac84-b57f935fe446 Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman 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. 1:03:06 yes I was guided to Melissa by a friend all the way back in 2012, as I struggled mightily in the aftermath of divorce, foreclosure and bankruptcy. I had several one-off appointments until completing the Landmark Forum, where it became very clear I needed EXACTLY what she had to offer. I spent 13 months meeting with her regularly for guidance and the occasional kick in the ass. I'm glad I did. She helped build the solid foundation that carried me through years of transformation. Melissa Ford is master coach, author, and unapologetic truth-teller. Tune in for a conversation that cuts right to the core. Melissa and I explore what it really means to lead from love, not people-pleasing, and how most of us have been trained to abandon ourselves in the name of "service." She shares her journey from corporate performer to soulful coach, and how choosing truth over comfort led to the most honest, powerful work of her life. We unpack what fierce love actually looks like in practice: saying the hard thing, standing for someone else’s greatness, and being willing to risk their discomfort for their transformation. Melissa talks about why conflict is often sacred, how real leadership begins with integrity to self, and why approval is a poor substitute for real connection. This episode is an invitation to stop performing, stop rescuing, and start leading from a place of radical honesty and love that includes you. Melissa's Bio I’m a business and life coach who works with entrepreneurs, executives, career changers, artists, you name it. Clients seek me out to address leadership and productivity challenges, role transitions, growth and profitability concerns, and other issues that have them feeling unfulfilled or stuck in their professional lives. In my 20+ years of coaching, I’ve developed a holistic approach to helping my clients. While they are initially focused on a single “problem” or “project,” I help them take a step back and examine the thought patterns that get in the way of crafting creative solutions and approaches to move forward in their work. A bit about me: I’m a certified PCI Coach and graduate of ACS. I have an English degree from the University of Illinois and a law degree from DePaul University. My legal training has made me an analytical coach with a bullseye focus, pinpointing exactly what will propel clients forward. When I’m not coaching, I can be found “vacationing” at professional development events, visiting my grown daughter in NYC, working out with my personal trainer (aka, my son), and enjoying the love and friendship of my husband. Website https://melissafordcoaching.com Special Guest: Melissa Ford. Fierce love, Truth-telling in leadership, People-pleasing recovery, Melissa Ford coach, Authentic leadership, Radical honesty, Inner authority, Personal sovereignty, Conscious communication, Coach and client dynamics, Servant leadership redefined, Conflict as transformation, Emotional integrity, Boundaries and love, Embodied truth I was guided to Melissa by a friend all the way back in 2012, as I struggled mightily in the aftermath of divorce, foreclosure and bankruptcy. I had several one-off appointments until completing the Landmark Forum, where it became very clear I needed EXACTLY what she had to offer. I spent 13 months meeting with her regularly for guidance and the occasional kick in the ass. I'm glad I did. She helped build the solid foundation that carried me through years of transformation.
Melissa Ford is master coach, author, and unapologetic truth-teller. Tune in for a conversation that cuts right to the core. Melissa and I explore what it really means to lead from love, not people-pleasing, and how most of us have been trained to abandon ourselves in the name of "service." She shares her journey from corporate performer to soulful coach, and how choosing truth over comfort led to the most honest, powerful work of her life.
We unpack what fierce love actually looks like in practice: saying the hard thing, standing for someone else’s greatness, and being willing to risk their discomfort for their transformation. Melissa talks about why conflict is often sacred, how real leadership begins with integrity to self, and why approval is a poor substitute for real connection. This episode is an invitation to stop performing, stop rescuing, and start leading from a place of radical honesty and love that includes you.

Melissa's Bio

I’m a business and life coach who works with entrepreneurs, executives, career changers, artists, you name it. Clients seek me out to address leadership and productivity challenges, role transitions, growth and profitability concerns, and other issues that have them feeling unfulfilled or stuck in their professional lives.

In my 20+ years of coaching, I’ve developed a holistic approach to helping my clients. While they are initially focused on a single “problem” or “project,” I help them take a step back and examine the thought patterns that get in the way of crafting creative solutions and approaches to move forward in their work.

A bit about me: I’m a certified PCI Coach and graduate of ACS. I have an English degree from the University of Illinois and a law degree from DePaul University. My legal training has made me an analytical coach with a bullseye focus, pinpointing exactly what will propel clients forward. When I’m not coaching, I can be found “vacationing” at professional development events, visiting my grown daughter in NYC, working out with my personal trainer (aka, my son), and enjoying the love and friendship of my husband.

Website https://melissafordcoaching.com

Special Guest: Melissa Ford.

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]]> I was guided to Melissa by a friend all the way back in 2012, as I struggled mightily in the aftermath of divorce, foreclosure and bankruptcy. I had several one-off appointments until completing the Landmark Forum, where it became very clear I needed EXACTLY what she had to offer. I spent 13 months meeting with her regularly for guidance and the occasional kick in the ass. I'm glad I did. She helped build the solid foundation that carried me through years of transformation.
Melissa Ford is master coach, author, and unapologetic truth-teller. Tune in for a conversation that cuts right to the core. Melissa and I explore what it really means to lead from love, not people-pleasing, and how most of us have been trained to abandon ourselves in the name of "service." She shares her journey from corporate performer to soulful coach, and how choosing truth over comfort led to the most honest, powerful work of her life.
We unpack what fierce love actually looks like in practice: saying the hard thing, standing for someone else’s greatness, and being willing to risk their discomfort for their transformation. Melissa talks about why conflict is often sacred, how real leadership begins with integrity to self, and why approval is a poor substitute for real connection. This episode is an invitation to stop performing, stop rescuing, and start leading from a place of radical honesty and love that includes you.

Melissa's Bio

I’m a business and life coach who works with entrepreneurs, executives, career changers, artists, you name it. Clients seek me out to address leadership and productivity challenges, role transitions, growth and profitability concerns, and other issues that have them feeling unfulfilled or stuck in their professional lives.

In my 20+ years of coaching, I’ve developed a holistic approach to helping my clients. While they are initially focused on a single “problem” or “project,” I help them take a step back and examine the thought patterns that get in the way of crafting creative solutions and approaches to move forward in their work.

A bit about me: I’m a certified PCI Coach and graduate of ACS. I have an English degree from the University of Illinois and a law degree from DePaul University. My legal training has made me an analytical coach with a bullseye focus, pinpointing exactly what will propel clients forward. When I’m not coaching, I can be found “vacationing” at professional development events, visiting my grown daughter in NYC, working out with my personal trainer (aka, my son), and enjoying the love and friendship of my husband.

Website https://melissafordcoaching.com

Special Guest: Melissa Ford.

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]]> S1 | E3 Jonathan Tripodi - Body Memory https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e3-tripodi e5648269-d723-46f0-b70f-99731b50dfbf Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:00:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman 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. 1:16:58 yes It was late 2019 and, in spite of a lot of personal growth work, including a beautiful solo psilocybin journey, guided MDMA journey with an underground therapist and a 12 day Ayahausca retreat in the Ecuadoran Andes, I was still in excrutiating physical pain. I was guided to Jonathan Tripodi, mystical fascial magician and talented astrologer by a power greater than myself. A five day intensive that ended three days before the 2020 Covid lockdowns gave me a great deal of relief and left me well-equipped to navigate the next six months and beyond. Tune in for an expansive conversation with Jonathan, creator of Body Memory Recall (BMR) where we explore the profound wisdom held within the human body. Jonathan shares his journey from athletic performance and massage therapy to a spontaneous emotional awakening that changed everything. That moment revealed to him what so many of us miss: that the body is not just a vessel—it’s a living archive of every experience we’ve never fully felt. From that awareness, Jonathan developed a somatic healing modality that helps people access and release the unconscious memories, traumas, and emotions stored in their tissues. Our conversation uncovers the deeper truth about pain, memory, and the body’s capacity for transformation. We discuss why surrender—not control—is the key to healing, how breath and gentle touch can unlock what the mind cannot access, and why true freedom often begins with vulnerability. Whether you’re holding onto pain you can’t explain, or you’ve tried to think your way to healing and hit a wall, this episode offers a radically different approach: drop into the body, trust its timing, and allow what’s ready to rise. This is an invitation to feel what’s been waiting, and to finally let it go. Jonathan's Bio For 30+ years Jonathan has explored body memory and its relationship to chronic pain, stress, illness, and behavior. His Body Memory Recall – BMR – approach has supported thousands of individuals to heal old wounds and experience, renewed states of of health, peace, power, joy, and wisdom. International Author, Healer, & Educator 30+ Years Experience Specializing in the transformation of Suppressed Pain, Emotion, & Trauma Author of Freedom from Body Memory (https://jonathantripodi.com/book-freedom-from-body-memory/) Founder of the Body Memory Recall (BMR) Approach Creator of 365 Online Learning (http://members.jonathantripodi.com/) for Transformation & Awakening Featured on GAIA (https://jonathantripodi.com/gaia-healing-matrix/) Featured on E-Motion (https://jonathantripodi.com/e-motion-2/) BS Physical Therapy BA Sports Science Website https://jonathantripodi.com Instagram @freedomfrombodymemory YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/bodymemoryman Special Guest: Jonathan Tripodi. Body Memory Recall, Somatic healing, Trauma release, Emotional memory in the body, Unconscious trauma, Jonathan Tripodi, Somatic therapy, Healing through surrender, Body wisdom, Breathwork and trauma, Releasing stored emotions, Chronic pain and trauma, Mind-body connection, Nervous system healing, Conscious embodiment It was late 2019 and, in spite of a lot of personal growth work, including a beautiful solo psilocybin journey, guided MDMA journey with an underground therapist and a 12 day Ayahausca retreat in the Ecuadoran Andes, I was still in excrutiating physical pain. I was guided to Jonathan Tripodi, mystical fascial magician and talented astrologer by a power greater than myself. A five day intensive that ended three days before the 2020 Covid lockdowns gave me a great deal of relief and left me well-equipped to navigate the next six months and beyond.
Tune in for an expansive conversation with Jonathan, creator of Body Memory Recall (BMR) where we explore the profound wisdom held within the human body. Jonathan shares his journey from athletic performance and massage therapy to a spontaneous emotional awakening that changed everything. That moment revealed to him what so many of us miss: that the body is not just a vessel—it’s a living archive of every experience we’ve never fully felt. From that awareness, Jonathan developed a somatic healing modality that helps people access and release the unconscious memories, traumas, and emotions stored in their tissues.
Our conversation uncovers the deeper truth about pain, memory, and the body’s capacity for transformation. We discuss why surrender—not control—is the key to healing, how breath and gentle touch can unlock what the mind cannot access, and why true freedom often begins with vulnerability. Whether you’re holding onto pain you can’t explain, or you’ve tried to think your way to healing and hit a wall, this episode offers a radically different approach: drop into the body, trust its timing, and allow what’s ready to rise. This is an invitation to feel what’s been waiting, and to finally let it go.

Jonathan's Bio

For 30+ years Jonathan has explored body memory and its relationship to chronic pain, stress, illness, and behavior. His Body Memory Recall – BMR – approach has supported thousands of individuals to heal old wounds and experience, renewed states of of health,
peace, power, joy, and wisdom.

International Author, Healer, & Educator

30+ Years Experience Specializing in the transformation of Suppressed Pain, Emotion, & Trauma
Author of Freedom from Body Memory
Founder of the Body Memory Recall (BMR) Approach
Creator of 365 Online Learning for Transformation & Awakening
Featured on GAIA
Featured on E-Motion
BS Physical Therapy
BA Sports Science

Website https://jonathantripodi.com
Instagram @freedomfrombodymemory
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/bodymemoryman

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]]> It was late 2019 and, in spite of a lot of personal growth work, including a beautiful solo psilocybin journey, guided MDMA journey with an underground therapist and a 12 day Ayahausca retreat in the Ecuadoran Andes, I was still in excrutiating physical pain. I was guided to Jonathan Tripodi, mystical fascial magician and talented astrologer by a power greater than myself. A five day intensive that ended three days before the 2020 Covid lockdowns gave me a great deal of relief and left me well-equipped to navigate the next six months and beyond.
Tune in for an expansive conversation with Jonathan, creator of Body Memory Recall (BMR) where we explore the profound wisdom held within the human body. Jonathan shares his journey from athletic performance and massage therapy to a spontaneous emotional awakening that changed everything. That moment revealed to him what so many of us miss: that the body is not just a vessel—it’s a living archive of every experience we’ve never fully felt. From that awareness, Jonathan developed a somatic healing modality that helps people access and release the unconscious memories, traumas, and emotions stored in their tissues.
Our conversation uncovers the deeper truth about pain, memory, and the body’s capacity for transformation. We discuss why surrender—not control—is the key to healing, how breath and gentle touch can unlock what the mind cannot access, and why true freedom often begins with vulnerability. Whether you’re holding onto pain you can’t explain, or you’ve tried to think your way to healing and hit a wall, this episode offers a radically different approach: drop into the body, trust its timing, and allow what’s ready to rise. This is an invitation to feel what’s been waiting, and to finally let it go.

Jonathan's Bio

For 30+ years Jonathan has explored body memory and its relationship to chronic pain, stress, illness, and behavior. His Body Memory Recall – BMR – approach has supported thousands of individuals to heal old wounds and experience, renewed states of of health,
peace, power, joy, and wisdom.

International Author, Healer, & Educator

30+ Years Experience Specializing in the transformation of Suppressed Pain, Emotion, & Trauma
Author of Freedom from Body Memory
Founder of the Body Memory Recall (BMR) Approach
Creator of 365 Online Learning for Transformation & Awakening
Featured on GAIA
Featured on E-Motion
BS Physical Therapy
BA Sports Science

Website https://jonathantripodi.com
Instagram @freedomfrombodymemory
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/bodymemoryman

Special Guest: Jonathan Tripodi.

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]]> S1 | E2 Julie Murphy - Financial Advisor https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e2-murphy 7bfe3a10-e4f2-4e42-8a07-201345d993fd Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:00:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman 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. 1:04:28 yes I was introduced to Julie Murphy in 2019 and she has been instrumental in assisting me in healing from generational money wounds and moving into a life of abundance and optimism around money. In this episode of The Permission Slip, I converse with this powerhouse financial advisor and truth-teller who believes real wealth starts from within and knows. Julie shares how her journey through divorce, motherhood, and personal awakening helped her break free from the conditioning of both the financial industry and her Catholic upbringing. She talks candidly about the energetic blocks that keep people stuck in financial struggle—often rooted in fear, guilt, and shame—and how aligning money with authenticity, emotion, and soul purpose creates true abundance. This is money talk with a heart-centered twist. We explore how the inner child influences financial decisions, why unprocessed emotions sabotage prosperity, and what it takes to live from a place of alignment instead of obligation. Julie offers grounded, no-nonsense wisdom about how to give yourself permission to stop performing, start receiving, and honor your unique path—even if it means disrupting everything you’ve built. Whether you're burned out, financially stuck, or yearning for more freedom, this episode is a call to stop "shoulding" all over yourself and start living from your truth. Julie's Bio Transforming Lives Through Financial Empowerment Julie Murphy is a Chicago-based CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, founder and CEO of JMC Wealth Management, Inc. (https://jmcwealth.com) She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. With over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, Julie and her team have successfully guided thousands of clients across the U.S. and internationally. Her expertise spans critical areas of financial and life planning, including portfolio management, asset allocation, risk management, college planning, business and retirement planning, estate planning, and insurance solutions such as life, disability, and long-term care coverage. What sets Julie apart is her holistic approach to financial planning. Rather than focusing solely on numbers, she helps clients uncover their emotional and psychological relationship with money. Her transformative, time-tested program, PACT—which stands for Picturing Yourself, Accepting Reality and Awakening, Choosing to Change, and Taking Action—has empowered countless individuals to align their finances with their true goals and values, creating profound shifts in their lives. Website https://jmcwealth.com Instagram @awakenwithjulie LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliemariemurphy/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@JulieMurphy Special Guest: Julie Murphy. Financial empowerment, Emotional wealth, Trauma and money, Money mindset, Conscious finance, Inner child and finances, Financial healing, Abundance mindset, Divorce and money recovery, Heart-centered wealth, Money shame release, Authentic success, Money and self-worth, Energetics of money I was introduced to Julie Murphy in 2019 and she has been instrumental in assisting me in healing from generational money wounds and moving into a life of abundance and optimism around money. In this episode of The Permission Slip, I converse with this powerhouse financial advisor and truth-teller who believes real wealth starts from within and knows. Julie shares how her journey through divorce, motherhood, and personal awakening helped her break free from the conditioning of both the financial industry and her Catholic upbringing. She talks candidly about the energetic blocks that keep people stuck in financial struggle—often rooted in fear, guilt, and shame—and how aligning money with authenticity, emotion, and soul purpose creates true abundance. This is money talk with a heart-centered twist.
We explore how the inner child influences financial decisions, why unprocessed emotions sabotage prosperity, and what it takes to live from a place of alignment instead of obligation. Julie offers grounded, no-nonsense wisdom about how to give yourself permission to stop performing, start receiving, and honor your unique path—even if it means disrupting everything you’ve built. Whether you're burned out, financially stuck, or yearning for more freedom, this episode is a call to stop "shoulding" all over yourself and start living from your truth.

Julie's Bio

Transforming Lives Through Financial Empowerment

Julie Murphy is a Chicago-based CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, founder and CEO of JMC Wealth Management, Inc. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
With over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, Julie and her team have successfully guided thousands of clients across the U.S. and internationally. Her expertise spans critical areas of financial and life planning, including portfolio management, asset allocation, risk management, college planning, business and retirement planning, estate planning, and insurance solutions such as life, disability, and long-term care coverage.
What sets Julie apart is her holistic approach to financial planning. Rather than focusing solely on numbers, she helps clients uncover their emotional and psychological relationship with money. Her transformative, time-tested program, PACT—which stands for Picturing Yourself, Accepting Reality and Awakening, Choosing to Change, and Taking Action—has empowered countless individuals to align their finances with their true goals and values, creating profound shifts in their lives.

Website https://jmcwealth.com
Instagram @awakenwithjulie
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliemariemurphy/
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@JulieMurphy

Special Guest: Julie Murphy.

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]]> I was introduced to Julie Murphy in 2019 and she has been instrumental in assisting me in healing from generational money wounds and moving into a life of abundance and optimism around money. In this episode of The Permission Slip, I converse with this powerhouse financial advisor and truth-teller who believes real wealth starts from within and knows. Julie shares how her journey through divorce, motherhood, and personal awakening helped her break free from the conditioning of both the financial industry and her Catholic upbringing. She talks candidly about the energetic blocks that keep people stuck in financial struggle—often rooted in fear, guilt, and shame—and how aligning money with authenticity, emotion, and soul purpose creates true abundance. This is money talk with a heart-centered twist.
We explore how the inner child influences financial decisions, why unprocessed emotions sabotage prosperity, and what it takes to live from a place of alignment instead of obligation. Julie offers grounded, no-nonsense wisdom about how to give yourself permission to stop performing, start receiving, and honor your unique path—even if it means disrupting everything you’ve built. Whether you're burned out, financially stuck, or yearning for more freedom, this episode is a call to stop "shoulding" all over yourself and start living from your truth.

Julie's Bio

Transforming Lives Through Financial Empowerment

Julie Murphy is a Chicago-based CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, founder and CEO of JMC Wealth Management, Inc. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
With over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, Julie and her team have successfully guided thousands of clients across the U.S. and internationally. Her expertise spans critical areas of financial and life planning, including portfolio management, asset allocation, risk management, college planning, business and retirement planning, estate planning, and insurance solutions such as life, disability, and long-term care coverage.
What sets Julie apart is her holistic approach to financial planning. Rather than focusing solely on numbers, she helps clients uncover their emotional and psychological relationship with money. Her transformative, time-tested program, PACT—which stands for Picturing Yourself, Accepting Reality and Awakening, Choosing to Change, and Taking Action—has empowered countless individuals to align their finances with their true goals and values, creating profound shifts in their lives.

Website https://jmcwealth.com
Instagram @awakenwithjulie
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliemariemurphy/
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@JulieMurphy

Special Guest: Julie Murphy.

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