The Raising Sage Spiritual Podcast

S2E3 Conscious Leadership with Sonia Byrne

In this episode of the Raising Sage Spiritual Podcast, Jessica sits down with Sonia Byrne, founder of Mindful Leadership for Success, for a grounded conversation about conscious leadership, spiritual development, and bringing deeper awareness into professional spaces.
Sonia shares insights from her work supporting leadership teams and boards across the Canadian corporate and non-profit sectors, and reflects on what it means to lead with presence, perception, and perspective in environments that often prioritize certainty and performance.
Together they explore the challenges of integrating inner awareness with external leadership roles, navigating skepticism, trusting the unfolding of your path, and the courage it takes to stop hiding your gifts.
Mindful Leadership for Success consultant, Sonia Byrne, has helped leadership teams and boards in the Canadian corporate and non-profit sectors since 2009. She is known for her mindful approach to facilitating retreats, developing strategic plans and for her guidance in succession planning and other operational activities.
Through her consulting firm, Sonia Byrne & Associates, her work has led her to live and work in settings across Canada, the USA, Mexico, the UK, Europe, and the Middle East North Africa region. Sonia holds great enthusiasm for helping individuals and teams untangle the puzzle of communication, perception, and perspective.
Sonia is also hosting an upcoming retreat in St. John’s, and listeners of this episode are invited to save $100 when registering. You can learn more about Sonia’s work, her upcoming retreat, and her leadership offerings at:
www.soniabyrne.com
This episode is for anyone navigating the space between inner awareness and external leadership, and for those learning how to integrate their gifts without abandoning the worlds they already move within.

S2E2 Roots and Wings with Jess and Meg

In this episode of the Raising Sage Spiritual Podcast, Jess sits down with Meg of The Megawatt Collective to share the heart behind their upcoming offering — Roots + Wings: A Creative Connection Playshop for children and caregivers.
Together they explore the inspiration for this unique family-centered event and the deeper “why” behind it:
✨ The power of art and creativity as tools for co-regulation and connection
✨ The need for more inclusive, family-friendly spiritual spaces
✨ How energy work, mindfulness, and play nurture presence for both children and caregivers
✨ The balance of grounding and freedom — giving our families both roots and wings
This conversation is an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and remember that our children are not obstacles to our spiritual growth — they are often our greatest teachers.
🎨 Roots + Wings: A Creative Connection Playshop
📅 Saturday, January 25 | 10 AM – 12 PM
📍 The Lantern, St. John’s
💫 $88 per caregiver–child duo | $20 per additional child
To register or learn more, message Jessica (@raisingsagespiritual) or Meghan (@the.meg.megdalene).
Because the most meaningful moments are the ones we create together. 🕊️
#rootsandwings #raisingsagespiritual #megawattcollective #familywellness #creativeconnection #mindfulparenting #coregulation #stjohnsevents

S2E1 When the Voice Returns with Kat Kahulani

This episode opens Season 2 of the podcast with a conversation that moves through voice, sound, discernment, and truth as lived experience rather than concept.
Jessica and Kat explore how authenticity functions as protection, how speaking from truth naturally organizes the field around us, and why clarity can feel activating or triggering in environments where self-expression has been restricted. The conversation touches on resonance, energetic boundaries, self-reflective love, and the subtle ways the body responds when something true is spoken.
The episode closes with a powerful transmission shared by Kat. A moment meant to be felt rather than understood. One that invites the listener into resonance, balance, and remembrance beyond words.
As the year turns, this episode marks a shift in the direction of the podcast. Season 2 will hold more space for collective questions, social realities, and conversations that ask us to listen more deeply to ourselves, each other, and the world we are moving through together.
Listen with your body.Let what resonates stay.
IG: @kat_kahulani

S1E50 Put Yourself in the Equation with Sunni Leilani

In this episode, Jess sits down with poet, musician, and Sisterhood of Mū council member Sunni Leilani for a deeply heartfelt conversation about voice, spiritual practice, creativity, and the courage to live in alignment with who you truly are.
Sunni shares pieces of her journey — practicing Buddhism in her early twenties, rising in silence, ringing her bell to open space, honoring the rituals that keep her grounded, and letting her background shape the way she creates. Together they explore embodiment, intuitive expression, spiritual hygiene, and why leadership becomes effortless when you choose to fully include yourself in your own life.
This is an episode about remembering your voice, trusting your path, and allowing your presence to teach through example.

S1E49 When the Body Speaks with Charlie Wade and Amy Rezek

This episode features Amy Rezek and Charlie Wade, the first spinal energetics practitioners in Newfoundland. We explore the somatic, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of this powerful modality and how it supports deep healing through the nervous system.
Spinal energetics is a body-based practice that blends Eastern and Western wisdom. It works with the spine as both a physical and energetic channel, helping the body unwind stored tension, trauma patterns, and protective responses that were once needed for survival.
Amy and Charlie explain how the body communicates through movement, breath, shaking, sound, and subtle energetic shifts — and why none of it is random. It’s the nervous system reorganizing itself, reconnecting pathways, and remembering safety.
They talk about:
• what actually happens inside the body during a spinal energetics session
• the difference between subtle shifts and larger somatic releases
• how the sound activations speak to the energetic body instead of the mind
• understanding trauma responses and why the body expresses the way it does
• creating safety, coherence, and connection within the nervous system
• the role of the heart, intuition, and the higher self in somatic healing
• why no two sessions are ever the same
• their journey into this work and how it changed their lives
• the future of group sessions, retreats, and community healing in NL
This episode is for anyone who is curious about somatic therapy, energy work, trauma release, nervous system healing, or the deeper spiritual language of the body.

S1E48 CPR for the Spiritual Heart with Jaqueline Kennedy

In this heart-centered episode, Jess is joined by Jacqueline Kennedy of Lilac Wellness, who shares her journey from decades in cardiac care to a profound calling in spiritual and energy healing. Jacqueline opens up about her transformation into an Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) practitioner, working with nine angels to help clients release emotional blockages and reconnect with their inner light.
She introduces her angelic framework for soul healing — CPR: Caring, Practice, and Reclaiming — and how it helped her resuscitate her own spiritual heart after years of self-abandonment. The conversation dives deep into themes of self-love, intuition, sacred daily practices, and the healing power of surrender. If you're curious about working with angels, energy, or your own soul’s voice — this one’s for you.
Learn more about Jaqueline’s work and connect through her website: https://lilacwellnessmbs.wixsite.com/my-site

S1E47 Wolf Woman Rising with Rachel Roberts

In this episode of the Raising Sage Spiritual Podcast, Jess welcomes Rachel Roberts — internationally best-selling author, founder of the Wisdom School Wolf Woman Rising, flower essence coach, and sacred dance teacher.
Rachel shares her journey of weaving mythology, goddess archetypes, and earth wisdom into everyday life, and how her own path has been shaped by both ancestral landscapes and personal courage. From the vibrational medicine of flower essences to the symbolism of wolves and the paradox of light and dark, Rachel offers insights into what it means to live authentically while facing judgment and expectation.
Jess and Rachel explore themes of embodiment, spirituality in the ordinary, and the power of reclaiming the wild, untamed parts of ourselves. This is a conversation about courage, creativity, and remembering our connection to both story and spirit.
Connect with Rachel
IG: @wolfwomanrising
Website: https://wolfwomanrising.com

S1E46 Portals of Sound with Hierophunk

In this episode Jess welcomes Nic Tufts (Hierophunk) — a Nova Scotia–based artist, music producer, and wisdom keeper. Nic’s path has been shaped by extraordinary experiences, from a near-death awakening in Thailand to healing stage 3 cancer through fasting and spiritual guidance.
With a background in bioacoustics and over two decades of study in ancient and indigenous teachings, Nic now creates music designed not just for the dance floor, but for healing — frequencies that work with the body’s rhythms, spine, and nervous system to activate our internal Akashic memory.
Together, Jess and Nic explore:
Music as medicine and the science of sound
The return of Mū and Nic’s connection with teacher K’eoni Hanalei
Lessons from near-death, healing, and spiritual discipline
Why neutrality is the most powerful force for navigating today’s world
How authenticity and community bring us closer to collective healing
Listen to the end for a bonus track, Divine Chaos!
✨ Connect with Nic Tufts (Hierophunk):
Instagram: @hierophunk
Website: healmyhertz.com
Patreon: Order of Inner Light
Podcast: Sacred Machines (available on streaming platforms)

S1E45 The Ocean Within with Giseli Polimeni

In this powerful and heart-centered episode, we welcome Giseli — a consciousness mentor, energy worker, and holistic therapist — as she shares her spiritual journey guided by the sacred element of water.
From a life-changing childhood experience of telepathic communication and light realms to her present-day water activations around the world, Giseli invites us into a deeper understanding of what it means to live in alignment with nature, love, and truth.
She opens up about the painful yet empowering path of non-attachment — from releasing physical possessions to choosing her spiritual mission over staying close to her children. Through it all, Giseli has remained devoted to listening to the voice of water, trusting divine timing, and embracing emotions as portals to healing.
We also explore:
Water as a guide for consciousness and healing
Letting go of societal expectations and emotional attachments
Spiritual motherhood and trusting your path
The role of affirmations in rewiring the mind and shifting energy
Environmental awareness and the sacred simplicity of water
This episode is a gentle, powerful invitation to remember who you are, reconnect with the Earth, and let love lead the way.
🌊 Come back to your essence. Let the water speak. 🌈
IG: saltysoul13

S1E44 Sacred Storms with Anela Laahui Kahulani

In this luminous and soul-stirring episode of the Raising Sage Spiritual Podcast, host Jess welcomes Anela Laahui Kahulani (@kat_kahulani)—artist, grandmother, water guardian, and the radiant force behind the Lighthouse Portal. Joining from her home on Maui, Kat opens up about her deeply personal and cosmic spiritual awakening, which was catalyzed by a seemingly mundane yet life-altering moment: breaking her arm while sun-gazing.
From that breaking point, Kat embarked on a healing journey of remembering—of self, purpose, and power. She shares how her spiritual gifts, like weaving light, receiving Hawaiian water chants (aloha mele), and lightning-assisted energy clearings, emerged through connection with nature, ceremony, and inner stillness. The conversation flows from mystic visions of turtles and whales to profound lessons in self-love, grief alchemy, and being unapologetically “strange” in a programmed world.
Kat's storytelling is vibrant, grounded, and completely unfiltered. Interweaving ancient Hawaiian wisdom with real-life transformation. Whether you're just stepping into spirituality or searching for deeper remembrance, this episode is a radiant, heart-opening offering.