Vanlife, All Roads Lead Back To Me with Candyss Love

Vanlife, All Roads Lead Back To Me with Candyss Love

Episode Summary

Today Candyss and I go super soul deep.  We have a very profound exchange about some of the pivotal moments in Candyss’s life that laid the path toward her soul growth journey, how relationships are our very best teacher and mirror in every way and how embracing our deepest shadow work allows for the greatest light.  We also get into how Candyss is staying present and conscious during her current relationship that is unfolding, the life-changing lessons her dog kid Cleo has gifted her with and the power of humans creating vibrations in this world and the heavens.  Finally, I surprised Candyss with a request to hear her angelic voice, if even just a couple of notes.  What she delivers literally brings heaven into earth by calling in loving spirits from each of our lives.  She brings us into her world of dedicated personal and soul growth in such a loving and vulnerable way. We met soul to soul and I hope it translates out to you in the airwaves.  The light that we created in this conversation is tangible, it’s magnificent and it’s magestic.  This is the divinity of humans having a raw and wild ride on Earth’s plain.   

Show Notes

  • What drew Candyss to a military career
  • The deep truth in her choice to become a police officer
  • What does safety truly mean?
  • Candyss’s vanlife vibe through Instagram
  • The van build
  • Lori gets to crack Candyss up!
  • How pain in relationship can be the best teacher
  • “The lesson is in the confusion, the chaos, the pain and the trauma.”
  • Every person is your own personal mirror 
  • Programming of an idea of relationship from little on
  • “We use relationships, as crutches as opposed to vehicles of growth.”
  • When it is that you can actually see someone else
  • The magic of what happens when we feel trust
  • “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”
  • Our animals are pure energetic reflections
  • How our grip on control affects our soul growth
  • We look for distractions in our animal relationships
  • All spectrums of life are a part of the human experience
  • Even when things are working, they’re working
  • When you can drop soul deep in partnership
  • We are constantly creating in this world and others with every single interaction
  • Candyss honors us with her beautiful angelic voice on the spot
  • Candyss calls in powerful loved ones no longer in physical form
  • Who is your dream guest and why?

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Vanlife, The Adventure Allens Create Life Their Own Way

Vanlife, The Adventure Allens Create Life Their Own Way

Episode Summary

Chris and Taylor Allen are an absolute delight!  They totally radiate love, joy and positivity, even after experiencing some devastating tragedies very early on in their relationship.  We dive into the pillar of their strength together, how they navigated life-threatening hospitalizations, the ways that vanlife has supported them throughout those experiences, vanlife community and diversity and how they leaned into the learning curve of living small and mobile.  We also get to hear their perspective on diversity and representation for people of color in vanlife and how it has evolved and progressed.  They share exciting ideas for supporting others through caravans for representation, an inclusive Ebook about how they’ve done vanlife on their own terms and a developing tour guide business in the works for them.  Seriously, we have such a ball in this episode!  As my inaugural vanlifers for the podcast, I feel immense gratitude we made this connection.  They have such love, openness and beautiful wisdom, there are many areas to draw from in this conversation!

Chris and Taylor also gave us some fantastic vanlife tips and tricks.  Click on the link in the show notes below to receive this free download!

Show Notes

  • The beautiful couple energy emanating from The Allens
  • How The Allens met and what made it align so quickly
  • Online dating mishaps and persistence
  • Going old school and what made them jump all in
  • Partners as part of a whole, two halves working together
  • Learning experiences in the beginning created their groove
  • Tragedy early on in vanlife
  • From boatlife to vanlife
  • How Chris used his recovery to learn about vanlife
  • Community was a key to Chris’s recovery
  • Chris keeps calm as an EMT
  • Humor as medicine
  • Taylor goes through a medical trauma
  • Chris held it down through Taylor’s recovery
  • The van’s supportive role in both recoveries
  • What the vanlife community means to Chris and Taylor
  • The philosophy of adapt and overcome
  • Vanlife encourages creativity and innate human skills
  • The evolution of diversity in vanlife
  • The evolution of representation
  • New podcast called Nomads at the Intersection
  • Another called Black Nomads Meet featuring People of Color
  • Making uncomfortable conversations more comfortable
  • Covert vs overt racism
  • “If the vanlife community can transform in the celebration of diversity, that’s representation that the whole world can do it.”
  • Developing caravans for representation
  • An E-book in the works from a couple that started vanlife in a different way
  • The benefits of being in a caravan
  • There’s no book to how to live in the van correctly
  • Vanlife tour guides
  • Baha caravan!
  • Who are your dream guests and why?
  • The Adventure Allens are a safe space for your questions
  • Vanlife can look any way you want it to look

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The New Normal Is Nothing Normal

The New Normal Is Nothing Normal

Episode Summary

In today’s episode we catch up with Amy Rehagen, The Raw and Wild Heart’s very first guest for our very special 1 year anniversary and Season 2 reboot!  This conversation is like a 2020 variety show.  We are definitely having a fun and friendly conversation where we touch on dating and relationships in relation to deepening our higher consciousness, thriving in quarantine,  the Covid evolution of humanity, astrological love and shifts happening, the evolution of our friendship and selves, doing the deep soul work for the collective consciousness.   I hope you feel the vibes!

 Show Notes

  • It’s a hard won birthday celebration!
  • Quarantine buddies
  • Mass media for healthcare
  • Importance of immunity
  • When the healthcare system actually supports you.
  • Basic human health
  • Lori is the supplement Queen. Cleanse your body
  • Online dating, yay or nay
  • Meeting people IRL
  • 2020 energies of relationship with self
  • Learning personal lessons through relationship
  • Dating in quarantine
  • The importance of Having a touch person
  • Breaking out of the not enough culture. Embracing vulnerability
  • Finding the strength to cold call people
  • Hormones equal health
  • The social dilemma in relation to online dating
  • Soul growth awakening
  • Amy chose to use astrology to drop in and learn about herself and her connections
  • Soul calling from Covid shifts
  • Using podcasts and groups to learn and grow
  • Get in your flow
  • The ‘what if’ brain
  • The soul gifts of quarantine
  • Moving from the age of Pisces to Aquarius
  • Doing the work to drop in
  • Abundance over scarcity mindset shift
  • How can we be a part of the world in a healthy way
  • Wounded culture where we sacrificed ourselves beginning to heal
  • The people that drop in and raise the consciousness for everyone
  • Working your adaptability muscle
  • Serenity prayer
  • Something was going to shake the world and it came in our lifetime
  • How we might look back at this time fondly
  • Where are we now with dating
  • Creating expectations in online dating
  • Soul pairings in 2021
  • Community and money mindset
  • Lessons in relationship even when it’s not your soul pairing
  • Teach our kids about success in relationships
  • Who is your dream guest and why?

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Online Dating For Old Timers

Online Dating For Old Timers

Episode Summary

My guest today is the lovely Amy Rehagen!  We are exploring our now mainstream world of online dating from a generation who began romancing IRL and have now been thrust into the age of digital connection.

Show Notes:

We are exploring our now mainstream world of online dating from a generation who began romancing IRL and have now been thrust into the age of digital connection. We are going to discuss the acquired taste of online dating, not just how to survive, but how to thrive in today’s fast-paced, distraction-filled and sometimes isolating world of technology and romance. And we’ll probably hear some really great stories along the way!  I’d like to note that I said the wrong name in regard to The Law of Fuck Yes or No.  It was not coined by Marc Maron, it was coined by Mark Manson.  I like Marc Maron for lots of reasons as well so they are both worth a listen to!

  • Wisdom that comes with age and how to apply it to dating
  • How online dating has affected the ability to meet in real life
  • Online dating is a flaky business
  • Sex and the City example
  • Mark Manson’s law of fuck yes or no
  • Honesty in online dating
  • Transitioning relationships and healthy dating
  • Elizabeth Gilbert love
  • Downfall of the accessibility of online dating
  • The vulnerability in online dating
  • The downfall of expectation and ghosting
  • Difficulty in being present with technology
  • Putting intention into dating profiles and swiping
  • Paying for online dating, putting intention into investing
  • The physical energy of meeting in real life vs. online
  • Bad online dates
  • How do we make online dating work for us in a healthy way?
  • Main rules for self-preservation
  • Being open to all types of human connection in online dating
  • Timing in online dating
  • The value in not settling
  • Finding healthy compromise in relationships
  • Sweet online dating stories
  • Who would your ideal guest be and why?

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