Homesteading & Sustainable Living: Creating Your Life and Business As a Labor of Love
Release Date: 12/05/2023
#100 When the Impossible Opens: Trust, Love & Miracles in Business with Sherryl Perry
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What happens when life cracks open your heart — and the business you’ve built is no longer held up by willpower, effort, or your ability to handle everything yourself? In this intimate conversation, yoga teacher and wellness guide Sherryl Perry shares how grief reshaped her relationship with her spiritual business, her community, and her sense of what’s possible. Instead of pushing harder, Sherryl began to ask for help, soften into support, and lead with love — and what followed was nothing short of extraordinary. Unexpected financial backing. Community care. New forms of work....
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#99 Simple
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In this quiet reflection, Steph revisits a passage from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse — a book she carried across the ocean to Portugal. In it, Siddhartha describes the effortless way he moves toward what he desires: not through striving, but by allowing himself to be drawn. This episode is a meditation on simplicity, desire, and the natural way we create. Steph explores how, like Siddhartha, we can return to the childlike ease of being guided by what we love — letting the current carry us, instead of forcing the flow. A reminder that creation doesn’t have to be complicated. It can be as...
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#98 Following Grief, Ritual & Beauty with Day Schildkret
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When grief feels overwhelming, what might happen if you trusted the small, alive nudges in your heart? In this episode, I sit with Day Schildkret — author, artist, teacher behind Morning Altars — as he shares how loss, nature, ritual, and impermanence guided him into creating art, books, and a global movement rooted in meaning. In this episode you’ll learn: How Day used morning altars and impermanent art in nature to metabolize grief and invite beauty back into his life. Why rituals and marking time are essential for healing, rest, and creative flow. What it took to transform an...
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#97 Thought
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What if every moment of beauty, pain, love, and wonder in your life comes from one source? In this episode, Steph Benedetto explores the mysterious force of thought—the creative energy of the universe that shapes every experience we have as humans. This intimate reflection traces the shift from being consumed by personal thinking to glimpsing the deeper power beneath it. Thought is both the grand illusion and the miracle that makes our lives possible. In this episode you’ll hear: How thought creates the sparkle in a baby’s eyes, the warmth of love, and even our darkest moments. The...
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#96 Business as an Act of Love: A Conversation with Mark Silver
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What if every act in your business could be an act of love? This gentle yet radical conversation with Mark Silver, Sufi teacher, healer, and founder of Heart of Business, invites us to reimagine business as a sacred practice, rather than a grind. We explore what it means to bring love to business, not as a buzzword, but as a living, breathing force of integrity, honesty, and kindness. Here’s some of what we explore: Why “ethical marketing” might not go far enough. How to sell without shaming or triggering trauma in your audience. What a Sufi healer in business can teach you about...
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#95 Dance
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What if the freedom you crave, the uninhibited expression that brings tears to your eyes when you witness it in others, was already yours? In this soulful reflection, I share a moment of unexpected revelation sparked by movement and music. If you’ve ever longed to feel fully alive in your body, your voice, your creativity, this one’s for you. Subscribe to the Wildspire podcast:
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94 Walking with Fear: A Conversation with Jenny Gaitelband
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What if fear wasn’t the enemy but a guide? Jenny Gaitelband shares how to walk with fear, find true safety, and choose love over anxiety. Meet Jenny Gaitelband, Mentor & Coach Jenny Gaitelband is a mentor and coach for managers and CEOs to move from burnout and high stress to finding clarity and meaning in a tailor-made life and career. She is a member of the European Organization for Psychotherapy EABP, graduate of the Coaching Academy in Canada and Wingate college for sports trainers. Jenny has 12 years and over 10,000 hours of experience in therapy, supervision and coaching individual...
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#93 Sharing | Wildspire Sparks
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What inspires us to share? Wonderings about the impossible task of sharing our world, and what we discover in the process. Subscribe to the Wildspire podcast:
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#92 When Everything Falls Away: The Art of Opening With Mitch Hash
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A quest for opening began with tension in the body, expanded to include the mind and spirit, becoming a rewarding spiritual journey of discovering okayness, with Mitch Hash of The Art of Opening. Connect with Mitch Youtube: Website: Subscribe for new podcast updates:
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#91 Impossible
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Are you stressing yourself out about how to solve your life challenges so that you can feel good and safe in the future? This is why it’s impossible and what to do instead to find peace of mind. Subscribe to the Wildspire podcast:
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