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Earth Speak Founders Natalie Ross & Shawna Cason on Creating Community in a Disconnected World [episode 85]

Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends

Release Date: 04/23/2022

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Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends

Natalie shares how somatic experiencing changed her life, how she learned to market within a somatic framework, and how she helps clients learn to do the same.  As a guest on Luis Mojica's podcast, Holistic Life Navigation, she shares her story of coming out of a lifelong functional freeze. She gives voice to often misunderstood experiences that lead people to be called lazy, when they're actually in a debilitating trauma response. You can connect with Luis at and listen to his podcast on any podcast app. It's called Holistic Life Navigation. If you want to stay in touch with Earth...

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Herbalist Joe Hollis shares his story about getting out of the system of capitalism and into a more direct relationship with the Earth over his last 50 years, where he made paradise, not money. What follows is an interview with herbalist Joe Hollis of Mountain Gardens in the land of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, outside of Asheville, North Carolina. I was so fortunate to interview him in person in October 2021, just two years before his passing at age 81.  The year after this interview, a devastating fire burned down his extensive library of both books and herbs. Then, in 2024,...

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Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends

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Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends

After years of being on hiatus, co-founders Natalie Ross and Shawna Cason have decided to start publishing episodes again. Listen to find out more! Sign up for the Earth Speak email list at

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In this conversation, Natalie & Shawna share what's on their hearts and minds, and explore the next phase of Earth Speak. You’ll also hear about: How did we get here and how do we co-create more aliveness in the future   How to support different communities and move away from marginalization Capacity, somatics, and co-creating community  ♥♥♥ The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll: Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit Learn to trust your intuition Activate your Earth...

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Natalie Ross & Shawna Cason share about our hard-wired need for connection and why they created the Earth Speak Collective. You’ll also hear about:
  • Simple practices to reclaim and reconnect with your spiritual self 
  • Remembering your inherent creative power 
  • How the modern world has severed us from community and cultivated disconnection  
  • The witch wound 

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  • Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
  • Learn to trust your intuition
  • Activate your Earth magic
  • Expand your healing & divination skills
  • Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
  • Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
  • Embody & express your creative power & truths
  • Experience safe space without agenda or judgment

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This week we are sharing an interview from the Wandering Yogi Podcast, with Lydia Willig and Earth Speak founders Natalie Ross and Shawna Cason. 

Natalie is a dreamer and story weaver. She seeks to remind folx of the fierce beauty and power in the re-remembering of our deep and wild connection to the Earth, to ourselves, and to the magic and mystery of the Spirit realm. 

Shawna finds inspiration from all aspects of life but most notably nature and human connection. She brings experience and awareness from being a white assuming mixed-race black woman living in America. As a student of Psychological Ethnic Anthropology, she enjoys liberating folks from aspects of what makes them feel othered by society. 

Wandering Yogi Podcast host, Lydia Willig, is a  trained yoga & Ayurveda teacher, and mindful outdoor guide. She is intent on sharing eco-conscious wellness practices with the world, both on and off the mat, for greater health and harmony. Such an embodied yoga practice fulfills every level of your being- body, mind, and spirit- and prioritizes the well-being of all beings! Through her podcast, Lydia shares how the yogic path of wellness can bring us into deeper harmony with our most natural selves.

 

In this episode, we talk about:

  • How Shawna dreamed about being a pastor 
  • An early memory and deep knowing of being a witch 
  • What the soil can teach us 
  • Healing from the machine 
  • The force of aliveness that runs through us and connects us all
  • On wanting to feel part of something greater than ourselves 
  • Connecting to our own Indigenous roots 
  • Visions for what is possible 
  • On showing up for one's self 
  • How journaling can help us to know ourselves more deeply
  • On being seen
  • Cultivating energetic agency 
  • Simple practices to reclaim and reconnect with your spiritual self 
  • Remembering curiosity and play 
  • On doing what lights you up 
  • Our hard-wired need for connection
  • How the modern world has severed us from community and cultivated disconnection  
  • The witch wound 
  • Creating an intentional, Earth-based, spiritual community 
  • What is the Earth Speak Collective 
  • Remembering your inherent creative power 
  • Co-creating community with the Earth Speak Spirit Council 
  • On the gatekeeping of spiritual practices 
  • Radical non-judgment 
  • And so much more 

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