Podcasts by Alive

Interview with John Schieke | Awakening in Sobriety from 2021-11-23T05:00

An existential crisis can throw the average adult into a state of uncertainty at best and inner turmoil at worst. Kay's next guest, John Schieke, was just six years old when he started to p...

Interview with Sarah Lindgren | Awakening Through Healing from 2021-11-09T09:00

In episode 41, Sarah Lindgren talks with Kay about how early trauma influenced so many of the decisions she made throughout her life. Until, that is, she became conscious of how healing can soot...

Interview with Catalina Osorio Galvis | Awakening into Grace from 2021-10-26T05:00

Please note: This episode contains descriptions of violence, sexual abuse, alcoholism and drug use.

In this episode of the podcast, Columbia native Catalina Osorio describes how her ear...

Interview with Lisa Stokke | Awakening and Mothering from 2021-10-12T05:00

In this episode of Alive & Kicking, Lisa Stokke talks with Kay about being parented, parenting adults and the unique challenges of mothering in the age of awakening.

As founder and Exe...

Interview with Valerie Irons: Awakening Beyond Unrequited Love from 2021-09-28T05:00

Born in Memphis Tennessee to a navy captain father, Valerie Iron's early life was rich with travel, culture and experience. But despite her joy for that life, a journey into the dark night ...

Interview with Majid Zafer | Awakening through Intentional Upleveling from 2021-09-14T05:00

After achieving the financial goals he set for himself by the time he was in his late 20s, Majid Zafer was looking at very early retirement. But the feeling he was chasing through accomplishment...

Interview with Sarah Starnes | Awakening with Nature from 2021-08-31T05:00

Despite growing up in the suburbs, Sarah Richelle Starnes describes her formative years as wild, feral and imbued with nature. Her immersive relationship with the natural world expresses itself ...

Interview with Kay Eck | Awakening Through the Creative Process from 2021-08-17T05:00

In celebration of the release of her second book Dear Human (available now) , Kay invites Ashley Livingston to ask her the questions she's been asking the Alive & Kicking guests.
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Interview with Todd Fink | Awakening Through Inquiry and Annihilation from 2021-08-03T04:00

Growing up poor but delightfully untethered, Todd Fink's most memorable educational and spiritual experiences happened in nature. It was there, in nature, that the seeds were planted for hi...

Interview with Taylor Godfrey | Awakening to Trauma, The Human Experience, and Spiritual Communities from 2021-07-20T04:00

Growing up on an enlivened farm with her grandparents as guardians, no set religion other than cycles of nature, Taylor Godfrey's life was unconventional from the start. An early connection...

Interview with Dack Quigley | Awakening to Divine Potential from 2021-07-06T05:00

Dack Quigley had an unconventional, some would say near perfect, upbringing. His parents urged him to do whatever he wanted to do, celebrated his every choice and loved him unconditionally. As a...

Interview with Sue Gaskell | Awakening through Inner Child Healing from 2021-06-22T16:00

Sue Gaskell was born on the living room floor as the 10th of 11 children in Derbyshire, UK in 1946, and her life did not necessarily get less dramatic or difficult.  She endured tragedies, break...

Interview With Carmen Santiago-Keenon | Awakening Through Generational Trauma from 2021-06-08T05:00

Born at four pounds and addicted to cocaine to a teen mother in trouble, Carmen Santiago-Keenon suffered a childhood filled with abandonment, danger and abuse. After being removed from her home,...

Interview with Max Friedstein | Awakening to Shifting Lifestreams from 2021-05-25T05:00

Having graduated from the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, Max Friedstein believed his career as a professional dancer was about to begin. But a mysterious and debilitating medical c...

Interview with Tasha Gomes&Lisa Scott | Awakening Family Style from 2021-05-11T05:00

Growing up with immigrant parents in a small, homogenous midwestern town bonded sisters Tasha Gomes and Lisa Scott together in more ways than one. But it wasn't until Lisa left home to expe...

Interview with Zon Carvalho | Awakening to Joy Beyond the Shadows from 2021-04-27T04:00

Though his childhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil was rich in culture, art and community connection, Zon Carvalho felt called to a deeper spiritual experience. After years of chasing redemption from ext...

Interview with Amy Merritt | Awakening and the Role of Compassion from 2021-04-13T04:00

Despite great loss and grief throughout her life, Amy Merritt chooses to lead with empathy, love, and deep compassion for others.  Cultivating goodness out of a garden of challenge is her superp...

Interview with Be Bradley | Awakening In the Shadows from 2021-03-30T05:00

 High vibrational conscious artist Be Bradley has learned to speak only from what he knows. His honesty and openness regarding the dark aspects of human nature and the truth of the spiritual pat...

Interview with Kirsten Barfoot | Awakening in Grace from 2021-03-16T05:00

Kirsten Barfoot arrived knowing she had a mission but felt held back, treated as an outsider as she moved as a child from South Africa to New Zealand to Australia. Throughout her life, the lens,...

Interview with Stephanie Martin | Awakening and Safe Spaces from 2021-03-02T05:00

As a gregarious child whose parents didn't know quite how to raise her, Stephanie Martin had to learn to create the safe space to be herself, for herself. The skill she cultivated early on ...

Interview with Fred Burks | Awakening and the Understory from 2021-02-16T04:00

Fred Burks' interesting ride on Planet Earth has been fueled by a clear understanding that his mission is to shine a light into the shadows, not to condemn but to heal. His journey has take...

Interview with Elizabeth Rago | Awakening and Living Well from 2021-02-02T04:00

A loving home with attentive parents did not preclude writer Elizabeth Rago from facing crippling anxiety after a series of traumatic events rocked her family. Her ongoing recovery journey has f...

Interview with Lexie Wilson | Awakening and Connection from 2020-12-29T04:00

It makes sense that the dynamic Lexie Wilson would one day help individuals learn to disentangle themselves from toxic relationships. She first had to free herself from the controlling religion ...

Interview with Jillian Bieritz | Awakening Embodied Love from 2020-12-15T04:00

For Jillian Bieritz - astrologer, stylist and yoga teacher - stepping into love has been a slowly evolving skill. Never feeling fully embodied, she turned to the rave scene and drugs at a young ...

Still Kicking: Talking About Children | Live Recording with Alexa Schill from 2020-12-10T23:00

Recorded live on December 10th, 2020,  returning guest Alexa Schill chats with Kay about children -- Who they are, what they need, what gifts they have come to share, what challenges they face, ...

Interview with Christine Howard | Awakening and Conscious Healing from 2020-12-01T04:00

Christine Howard's life-long cultivation of her awareness of the world beyond the physical helped her survive and heal a life of intense abuse and trauma.  Through a sudden stint in the mil...

Interview with Caitlin Slade | Awakening Self Compassion from 2020-11-17T04:00

Caitlin Slade resonates with Theo Von's quote, "I was born with an uncomfortable spirit."   As a brilliant home school success story, Caitlin pushed herself relentlessly toward ac...

Still Kicking: Ecosystems Within and Around Us | Live Recording with Aaron Ogden from 2020-11-12T20:00

Via Facebook Live on 11/11, Kay asks Aaron to help us understand the lives we are living right now through astrology,  ancient yogic philosophy, breath awareness, earth mirrors, inner-insight, p...

Interview with Kevin Miles | Awakening&Entrepreneurship from 2020-11-03T04:00

Conscious entrepreneur and innovator Kevin Miles joins Kay to talk about how life as an Army brat, preacher's kid, college athlete, and Morehouse College grad informed his non-traditional v...

Interview with Christi Cousin | Awakening at the Intersection of Law and Mysticism from 2020-10-20T04:00

Just in time for Halloween, which happens to be her birthday, Christi Cousin joins us from New Orleans at the intersection of religious and psychic traditions. She says she was rigidly religious...

Still Kicking: Relationships, The 2020 Crucible | Live Recording with Matthew Patti from 2020-10-16T19:00

Buckle up! Kay Eck and returning guest Matthew Patti talk about relationships and how the current climate has pressed them up to our noses!

Matthew Patti is a visionary, futurist, mode...

Interview with Yolanda Lozano | Awakening with Sound and Light from 2020-10-06T03:00

As a child, Yolanda Lozano crisscrossed the US - Mexico border often enough that by the time she returned to this country permanently at the age of 16, she had little sense of language or cultur...

Still Kicking: Navigating The Rabbit Holes | Live Recording with Diana Schieke from 2020-10-02T11:00

Kay Eck and returning guest Diana Schieke meet at Kava Diem River Cafe in St. Charles, Illinois on September 30, 2020. Recorded with a live audience and live-streamed via Facebook. The topic of ...

Interview with Brandon Courter | Awakening Vulnerability from 2020-09-22T04:00

Men's mental health and the true relationship between vulnerability and strength are just some of the important topics Brandon Courter discusses in this episode with Kay Eck. Undiagnosed le...

Still Kicking: Walking Through 2020 with Clarity, Courage&Peace | Live Recording from 2020-09-20T12:00

Kay Eck and returning guest Lisa Marie Trunkenbolz meet at Kava Diem River Cafe in St. Charles, Illinois on September 16, 2020. Recorded with a live audience and live-streamed via Facebook. On t...

Interview with Neda McGuire | Awakening to Mortality from 2020-09-08T04:00

Gerontologist and end of life doula Neda McGuire brings her willingness to talk about hard things to this conversation as we track her journey from her homeland in Iran through growing unrest le...

Interview with Quenby Schuyler | Awakening to Let Go from 2020-08-25T05:00

Writer and local farm to table chef Quenby Schuyler joins Kay on this not to be missed 11th episode of Alive & Kicking. Quenby talks about the hard "smacks" life delivered along he...

Interview with Thea Sullivan | Awakening Your Intuition from 2020-07-28T05:00

As an award-winning poet, nonfiction writer, and writing teacher, Thea Sullivan chased her career down all the predictable avenues until the voice of her intuition took her in a completely diffe...

Interview with Lydia Stokke | Awakening for the Next Generation from 2020-07-13T03:00

As a 24-year-old food activist, Boulder, Colorado transplant Lydia Stokke represents the next generation of conscious creators, bringing a fresh perspective of awakening in today's consumer...

Interview with Sage Acharya | Awakening and Conscious Relationships from 2020-06-30T04:00

Growing up empathic with a strong sense of obligation, Sage Acharya's understanding of herself crumbled when she immigrated to the United States from London, England. With awareness and a g...

Interview with Ashley Livingston from 2020-06-16T04:00

Ashley Livingston grew up in fear of not measuring up to the well-established standards of her family's Evangelical Christian faith. Today she talks to Kay Eck about the pain of rejecting h...

Interview with Alexa Schill from 2020-06-11T04:00

Children's author, yoga and meditation instructor Alexa Schill joins Kay Eck to talk about growing up with an abusive, schizophrenic parent, substance abuse, managing anxiety throughout lif...

Interview with Lisa Marie Trunkenbolz from 2020-06-05T02:00

In the inaugural episode of Alive & Kicking, Kay Eck speaks with yoga teacher, studio owner, artist, writer and wildly-progressive being Lisa Trunkenbolz about her moment of awakening on the...

Interview with Matthew Patti from 2020-06-05T01:00

From their locations in France and Australia, Kay Eck and Matthew Patti discuss awakening to live your best life. Matthew shares his own path from sport, to medicine, to quantum exploration and ...

Interview with Diana Schieke from 2020-06-05T01:00

Kay Eck talks with Diana Schieke about growing up in Germany and the U.S. and her personal experience of waking up. Kay and Diana discuss disordered eating, coming to peace with difficult feelin...

Interview with Diana Schieke from 2020-06-05T01:00

Kay Eck talks with Diana Schieke about growing up in Germany and the U.S. and her personal experience of waking up. Kay and Diana discuss disordered eating, coming to peace with difficult feelin...

Interview with Matthew Patti from 2020-06-05T01:00

From their locations in France and Australia, Kay Eck and Matthew Patti discuss awakening to live your best life. Matthew shares his own path from sport, to medicine, to quantum exploration and ...