The Wild Sovereign Soul Show

The Wild Sovereign Soul Show is the top 1.5% globally ranked podcast for old souls in this new world to reclaim your wildness, actualise your sovereignty, and awaken your soul so that you can create the life your heart longs for. Be inspired, guided, and activated by deep, soul-stirring explorations with remarkable thinkers, wisdom keepers, visionaries, and healers. We’ve been running since 2014 so there are hundreds of mythical, magical, and mystical episodes to choose from that weave together ancient ways for modern days… shamanism, archetypal work, rewilding, embodiment, alchemy, psychedelics and plant medicine, astrology, non-dual spirituality, shadow work, and so much more. In short, Wild Sovereign Soul is the antidote for old souls struggling to find their way in this new world. Listen now to join us for the mythical adventure that your soul has been calling you into. Our love and blessings, Lian & Jonathan

How to identify the dangerous hidden predator in men - Hugh Newton 02/11/2026

How to identify the dangerous hidden predator in men - Hugh Newton 🚨Please note: there’s a moment in this conversation that contains reference to abuse in childhood Men’s work facilitator Hugh Newton names the predator in men as a genuinely dangerous survival force, how it drives manipulation, coercion, and harm when unrecognised, and how men can learn to spot it before it damages others and themselves. Hugh’s life began in the midst of a war in Zimbabwe, then known as Rhodesia, and growing up in such harsh conditions meant that he had to work hard to overcome his complex childhood trauma. He began his self development journey over 30 years ago, and his work now focuses on supporting men to meet the parts of themselves that most people would rather deny. In this episode, Lian and Hugh, explore the predator within as a cold, calculating instinct that lives beneath behaviour as a real force that can injure, dominate, and destroy when it operates without awareness or restraint. They explore how this part forms through childhood predation, abuse, and sustained danger, why it learns to hide, disguise itself, and detach from feeling, and how it can shape men’s relationships, sexuality, and sense of power. From there, the conversation turns to how predation shows up in everyday life, not just in extreme acts, but through emotional cruelty, sexual pressure, manipulation, subtle undermining, and the inner predator turned inward as relentless self attack… and what it actually takes for a man to face this force safely, take responsibility for it, and prevent it from harming others. Listen if you want to recognise the part of men that goes cold, focused, and dangerous, and understand what actually stops it from hurting the people closest to them. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: Why the predator shuts down feeling in the body, and how that emotional coldness makes harm possible How predatory behaviour often looks ordinary, polite, or successful while still leaving a wound What happens when a man stops denying this force and makes it answer to conscience rather than letting it act unchecked Resources and stuff spoken about: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/40042050

The truth about divergent souls in a conformist world - Lian Brook-Tyler 02/04/2026

The truth about divergent souls in a conformist world - Lian Brook-Tyler This episode is Lian’s All The Everything show… her solo space where she dives deeply into a theme that is alive for her, which, if you know her work, could move anywhere… from the most scientific to the most spiritual, and very often a weaving of both… which is exactly why the show carries its name. It is created for those who feel called toward a soulful life shaped by meaning, depth, truth, and love… for those who feel unsatisfied with quick answers or surface level takes. This is a rich rabbit hole that Lian journeys through alongside you. She speaks from her own lived experience and unfolding process… while inviting you into your own as you listen. The intention is that you leave feeling less alone in your seeking… more oriented within your life… and more able to trust what you already sense is true. Listeners often share that they leave these conversations feeling more settled, clearer, and more deeply connected to what matters most… both within themselves and in the world around them. The LIVE making of All The Everything is recorded live on YouTube… to join Lian for the one: Make sure you’re , and/or are a and we’ll let you know when the next one is happening. In this episode, Lian, explores a question that can split a life in two… are you here to conform, or are you here to diverge? She speaks to the moment you realise you cannot keep shaping yourself to fit, the cost of going along when something inside you is saying no, and what happens when you finally stop pretending that path is yours. From there, she follows the deeper pattern beneath it… The ancient roots of the words themselves, a stark 1950s experiment that shows how easily humans deny what they can clearly see, and figures like Socrates and Joan of Arc who answered an inner call that would not let them stay inside the lines. The conversation moves into the real price of divergence… grief, rupture, being misunderstood, and why “find the others” is not poetry, it is survival. Listen if you have ever stayed silent to belong, then felt the hollowing afterwards, or sensed your soul asking for a life that costs more and gives more. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll receive from this episode: How group pressure makes people say what they know is untrue, and what this reveals about conformists, divergents, and the ones caught between Why divergence is not about being difficult or different, but about an inner truth that will not be negotiated What becomes possible when you stop waiting for permission, claim your own authority, and let your truth be your vital role in the community Resources and stuff Lian spoke about: Make sure you’re , and/or are a and we’ll let you know when the next one is happening. Register your interest for the upcoming . Share what showed up for you listening to this show, including any questions, either in the or in . This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/39994700

Uncover the truth about women's fertility myths - Dr. Aumatma Simmons 01/30/2026

Uncover the truth about women's fertility myths - Dr. Aumatma Simmons In this week’s show Lian is joined by Dr. Aumatma Simmons. Dr. Aumatma is a double board-certified Naturopathic Endocrinologist revolutionizing fertility care. After witnessing countless couples struggle with invasive treatments, she pioneered a functional approach that addresses root causes - without drugs or financial strain. She's helped hundreds of "medically hopeless" couples conceive naturally. Beyond her clinical practice, Dr. Aumatma has trained hundreds of physicians, authored a best-selling book, is the host of an award-winning podcast, and created Madre Fertility—the world's first Smart Fertility Analysis. Featured across major networks as the leading Holistic Fertility Expert, she's expanding her "fertile systems" approach to help professionals create abundance without burnout. In this episode, Lian and Dr. Aumatma explore fertility through a lens that most women are never shown. They touch on the moment her body refused pregnancy in a relationship that looked perfect on paper, the years of painful cycles that only made sense in hindsight, and the cultural myths that tell women their bodies are failing when they are often communicating something vital. From there, the conversation turns to what fertility is really responding to… safety, stress, sleep, hormones, relationships, and whether a woman’s life is in alignment. They look at how birth control can mask deeper issues, why endometriosis so often goes undiagnosed for years, and how menstrual cycles act as early messengers long before fertility becomes a concern. Listen if you have ever had your symptoms dismissed, worried you were “too old”, or sensed that your body was telling the truth before your life caught up. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How fertility fear is shaped by age myths, and what changes when you look at real hormonal signals instead Why painful or irregular cycles are often early warning lights, not inconveniences to suppress The way safety, nervous system regulation, sleep, community with other women, and nourishment quietly shape fertility and overall health long before conception is even on the horizon Resources and stuff spoken about: Join Dr. Aumatma on: Dr. Aumatma’s Book: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/39895325

The path to liberate your soul to live free - Lian & Jonathan 01/23/2026

The path to liberate your soul to live free - Lian & Jonathan This week marks a significant turning of the wheel for Wild Sovereign Soul, not only have we rebirthed as The Wild Sovereign Soul Show, which is the first phase of our wider rebirthing of *everything* we do, it’s also the first episode of our co-founders Lian Brook-Tyler and Jonathan Wilkinson sitting down together for their monthly, free-flowing conversations honouring the path of the Wild Sovereign Soul. It’s challenging to live in this crazy modern world, the Wild Sovereign Soul path is what we know will help. Each month, they’ll be meeting live themes from the modern world head on, weaving together what they’re currently consuming and creating, how wildness, sovereignty, and soul are showing up in their own lives, along with questions from listeners and the team, and the patterns they’re seeing across our students and clients. There is room for curiosity, disagreement, and humour, alongside reflections drawn from their own experiences and initiations, as well as insights from ancient wisdom traditions, astrology, Gene Keys, shamanism, and much more. The show offers grounded perspective, practical insights, and stirring activations for staying soul-led, aware, and responsive inside a modern culture that continually asks us to flatten and deaden ourselves. Each episode is also an invitation to journey deeper with the themes within the . In this episode, Lian and Jonathan reflect on twelve years of shaping this work, and on the moment it became clear that Wild Sovereign Soul wasn’t another rebrand, but a naming of what had always been at the heart of what they do. Just some of what they speak includes…. The increasing pain and struggle that so many of us are experiencing right now - even more so than they began this work 12 years ago, the soul as North Star, the choices that forge sovereignty, thawing bodies numbed by modern domestication, the moments that awaken soul through loss and love, and the ordinary places this path shows up, in nature, in boredom, and in the decision to say yes or no when it truly matters. Listen if you have ever felt out of place in the modern world, sensed there was a truer life waiting, or wondered what it actually takes to live it. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll receive from this episode: Things aren’t getting easier, they’re only getting crazier and the Wild Sovereign Soul path is what brings us back to ourselves, each other and our own souls How reclaiming wildness restores instinct, belonging, and aliveness in a world that trains us to live from the neck up Why sovereignty always asks a price, and how choosing it reshapes fear, agency, and the way you meet challenge What happens when the soul becomes your North Star as a lived orientation that changes everything Resources and stuff Lian spoke about: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/39811670

How to have a soulful Christmas - Lian Brook-Tyler 12/17/2025

How to have a soulful Christmas - Lian Brook-Tyler All The Everything is Lian’s solo show where she dives deep into a topic, often woven around a myth or fairytale that she’s been journeying with. The LIVE making of All The Everything is recorded live on YouTube… to join Lian for the one: Make sure you’re and are a and we’ll let you know when the next one is happening. Lian explores what creates a soulful Christmas, beginning with the way the season stirs old memories and sudden tenderness, then circling through the frantic pace that pulls so many of us away from what we actually long for. She speaks about ancient midwinter traditions flickering beneath the surface of modern life, the hush that falls when the light begins to change, and the quiet ache that arrives when we slow down enough to notice what is really happening inside us. From there the conversation moves into the practices that help you hold your ground in the middle of family dynamics, sensory overwhelm and the expectations that seem to gather in the dark of December, settling finally on how vision, community and small daily gestures shape the kind of Christmas you actually want to live. Listen if you have ever felt both joy and dread rising together, wondered why familiar patterns return each year, or longed for a holiday that welcomes every part of you. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll receive from this episode: How the old rhythms under Christmas reveal themselves once you stop trying to perform the holiday and start listening for what is already moving beneath it Why acknowledging longing, memory and discomfort can create a steadier, warmer Christmas than pushing for cheer ever could What happens when you root your Christmas in real soulful practices rather than pressure, and how this transforms the way you experience community, self-care and the season itself The Soul Practices Lian invited you into: 🌿 AWAKENING YOUR WILDNESS PRACTICES Wild Practice 1: Sunrise or Moon Greeting Make an intentional devotional choice to go outside each morning or night (depending on whether you’re a morning or night person). Go out even for a very short amount of time (even one minute). Greet the sunrise or the moon. Pause and commune with that great being. Let the light (sunlight or moonlight) touch your face. Imagine your breath matching its ancient rhythm. Allow its blessing into you. Receive the gift of light. Wild Practice 2: Choose a Place in Nature & Make an Offering Choose a place in nature (a sit spot, special tree, or a place you feel drawn to). If you don’t have one, go and find one. Take a small offering that won’t damage the environment or wildlife. Offer it intentionally (for example, seeds for birds). Whisper your gratitude. Make this an intentional act of giving at Christmas in a way that is wilder and older. The offering can be for the place itself or the creatures who live there. Wild Practice 3: Mini Wild Wonder Walk Go for a short walk (even five minutes). Do not set a goal or destination. Allow your belly button to lead you. Notice your body and your breath as you walk. Notice what shifts as you return to belonging to the earth. Come out of the busy, material world and return to your body and the earth. Do this intentionally, even briefly. 👑 ACTUALISING YOUR SOVEREIGNTY PRACTICES Sovereign Practice 1: Inner Child Christmas Inquiry Ask your inner child: What do you wish for Christmas this year? What do you fear? What do you crave? What do you long for? What would allow you to feel safe and welcomed? Allow your inner child to answer you. This can be a daily practice, especially in the mornings. Keep your inner child present with you through the Christmas period. Sovereign Practice 2: Throne of Sovereignty (Before Family Gatherings) Before a family gathering (or before guests descend): Stand or sit with both feet on the ground. Breathe into your belly. Imagine yourself sitting on the throne of your life. Feel yourself rooted to the earth. Imagine a crown on your head, opening to spirit and allowing it to flow through you. Let this remind you of being centred, grounded, and guided. Return to this embodied memory whenever you feel pulled out of centre or old patterns arise. Sovereign Practice 3: Permission to Leave the Room If a situation becomes tense, difficult, or painful: Give yourself permission to leave the room. It can be brief. Even knowing you have permission can be enough. Use simple excuses if needed (loo, letting dogs out, stepping into the garden). Take a moment to ground yourself, reconnect with your inner child, and return to yourself. Recognise this as a sovereign choice. ✨ AWAKENING THE SOUL PRACTICES Soul Practice 1: Read a Nourishing Poem Read a poem that nourishes you. Poets mentioned: David Whyte, Mary Oliver (or your own favourites). Make it a daily ritual, ideally in the morning. Notice the line that speaks to you that day. Journey with that line throughout the day. Ask: What is it wanting your soul to know? What is it opening your soul to? Let the poem be a soul touchstone through the day. Soul Practice 2: Soulful Meditation / Being With Your Soul Meditate in whatever way feels nourishing. It does not need to be long (even five minutes). Avoid forcing or obligation. Create beauty: Light a candle. Gaze into the flame. Simply be with yourself and your soul. This may not even feel like “meditation” — it is a moment of communion with your soul. Soul Practice 3: Listen Deeply Listen to something nourishing: Music An audio (e.g. Richard Rudd / Gene Keys) Let one phrase, melody, or sound shape the tone of your day. Allow it to move through you. Notice what your soul is being called to. Let it remind you of your inner light, especially in bleak or wintry times. The questions Lian asked: Question 1 “If I could shape Christmas around what my soul actually longs for this year, what would it look like?” Question 2 “Will you hold that vision?” Will you hold the vision of what Christmas would look like if your soul was met and fulfilled in what it longs for? It is a sovereign choice to hold a soul-aligned vision. Resources and stuff Lian spoke about: To join Lian for the next LIVE making of All The Everything: Make sure you’re and are a and we’ll let you know when the next one is happening. Share what showed up for you listening to this show, including any questions, either in the or in . This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/39424865

The urgent truth about why western culture needs traditional shamanism - Isaac Wortley & Eddy Elsey 12/10/2025

The urgent truth about why western culture needs traditional shamanism - Isaac Wortley & Eddy Elsey This week’s show is with Isaac Wortley and Eddy Elsey, both practicing apprentices of a traditional Mongolian lineage holder, who founded Mother Tree Shamanism. Isaac is an English shaman, who experienced a calling from a very young age. This led him to search out an authentic traditional teacher of Mongolian shamanism. Over ten years ago, he was initiated by his teacher, the founder of Mother Tree Shamanism, and has been an apprentice ever since. He has also studied traditional Mongolian/Tibetan medicine for last three years. He currently lives in the Midlands in England providing shamanic and traditional medicine services for people in the West. Eddy has been studying as an apprentice with Mother Tree Shamanism for the last 3 years after transitioning to traditional shamanism from his previous background in neo-shamanism. He lives between the Midlands and London, and works as a traditional massage therapist. He is passionate about helping people discover authentic and traditional forms of spirituality. In this episode, Lian, Isaac and Eddy explore why traditional shamanism matters so deeply for those of us in the West. They touch on Eddy’s descent into illness through neo-shamanic practice, the shock of meeting Mongolian shamans who can name events and symptoms with startling clarity, and the gap between learning shamanism in a weekend and a cosmology that allows a traditional shaman guide a herder to lost cattle on the steppe. From there the conversation turns to the forgotten role of the shamanist, the everyday person who knows how to live in balance - a first aider rather than a surgeon, metaphorically speaking, and what spiritual hygiene might look like in British life rather than faraway cultures. Listen if you have ever felt your life unravel around the edges from shamanic work, wondered whether your symbols and visions are actually helping, or wished for community instead of having to do it all on your own. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How understanding spiritual hygiene and universal law changes the way you move through sacred sites, daily rituals and the hidden consequences of your practice Why becoming a shamanist, with grounded cosmology and everyday balance, may soothe the hunger to be a practitioner more than yet another training ever could What happens when shamanism becomes practical again, from dealing with health and relationships to the tangible, measurable changes that follow real ritual Resources and stuff spoken about: Mother Tree Shamanism on & Eddy‘s & This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/39321050

How to transform your life with daily spiritual practice - Caitlín Matthews 12/04/2025

How to transform your life with daily spiritual practice - Caitlín Matthews This week’s show is with Caitlín Matthews. Caitlín is an internationally renowned author, a teacher of shamanic training programme, a facilitator of Systemic Ritual® and the co-founder of the Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies (FÍOS). Caitlín is the author of over 80 books, including Diary of a Soul Doctor, Singing the Soul Back Home, the Art of Celtic Seership, Celtic Devotional and The Celtic Book of the Dead. Her books have won a number of awards. She is known internationally for her work on the spiritual, mythic and ancestral traditions of Britain and Ireland. She teaches and works with communities and spiritual institutions worldwide from Iceland to Portugal and from USA to Australia. Caitlín is a co-founder of the Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies (FÍOS), which is dedicated to the sacred arts that shape the landscape of the soul, via vision, dream and memory. FÍOS hosts masterclasses with exemplars of living, oracular sacred traditions that are rarely recorded in writing or given an honourable place in modern society. Caitlín has had a shamanic healing practice in Oxford for the last 30 years, working in the community to deepen connections to the ancestral traditions which are our heritage. In this conversation, Lian and Caitlín explore what a real, living spiritual practice looks like in the midst of modern life, touching on the way people become porous when they have no spiritual resource, and the jittery fear that grows when we only trust material safety. They share what actually helps in the every day: small repeatable practices, honest prayer that uses different prepositions, and rooting myth and archetype back in the land beneath your feet so you stay human rather than trying to become a god. Listen if you have ever longed for a daily practice that feels real, wondered where to begin, or worried that you are somehow “not authorised” to walk a spiritual path. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How simple, daily gestures of attention to body, land, weather and soul can turn spiritual practice from a guilty obligation into a steady resource that stops you feeling like that unglazed china cup Why Caitlin’s way of praying for, with, from and to reshapes responsibility, dissolves the fear of “doing it wrong”, and widens who and what you understand yourself to be in relationship with What happens when you root archetypes, myths and personal practice in actual soil, seasons and place rather than abstract psychology: the stories come alive, your own life steadies, and you remain a person in service to the myth rather than being swallowed by it Resources and stuff that we spoke about: For Caitlín’s books & courses see: For more of Caitlín’s writing on a range of topics, including a year-long course, Blessings of the Celtic Year, see her Hallowquest Sanctuary at This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Episode on the Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/39219365

How to decode your dreams and change your life - Jane Teresa Anderson 11/27/2025

How to decode your dreams and change your life - Jane Teresa Anderson In this week’s show Lian is joined by Jane Teresa Anderson BSc Hons. Jane Teresa is a dream analyst, dream therapist, author, podcast host, and mentor, living in Hobart, Australia. Published by Hachette, Little Brown (Piatkus), Random House, and Harper Collins, Jane Teresa Anderson is the author of and dreaming, and her 2024 debut fiction novel, . She is a frequent guest in the media and an accomplished radio dream talk-back expert, interpreting callers’ dreams for more than 1,500 shows across commercial and ABC stations. Jane Teresa hosts a long-running podcast series, The Dream Show with Jane Teresa Anderson, where she analyses her guests’ dreams and shares dream interpretation tips and insights. The Dream Show celebrated 16 years (and 290 episodes) in May 2025. With an Honours degree in Zoology specialising in developmental neurobiology from the University of Glasgow, (graduating as Jane Teresa Newton), Jane Teresa has been researching dreams since 1992 and developing and teaching dream alchemy practices (exercises) that shift perspective and reprogram unconscious limiting beliefs. In early 2017 she established as a platform to deliver her courses online. Jane Teresa’s approach to dream analysis, dream therapy, and dream alchemy is based on her independent research and on deep work with clients since 1992. She consults by Zoom. In this episode, Lian and Jane look at dreams in the most grounded and personal way. Jane shares her journey from neurobiology to a radio experiment that became a major research project. They explore how dream images grow from the last day or two of lived experience, how the mind pulls old memories into the mix, and why this approach differs so deeply from symbol-driven or archetypal methods. The conversation turns towards what actually makes sense in practice… how personal dreamwork reveals what the mind is trying to update and how a symbolic image changes the moment you speak it aloud. Listen if you have ever been chased by a recurring dream, wondered whether outlandish scenes mean anything, or sensed that your dreams are trying to move something in you that daylight has not touched. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How personal dreamwork differs from symbol-based or archetypal interpretation, and why it lands more cleanly Why telling a dream aloud brings new clues to the surface and begins to shift the inner pattern What happens when you rewrite a dream image through simple dream alchemy and feel the effects the next day Resources and stuff spoken about: Join Jane Teresa on & This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/39123140

How to be rooted in a world that’s forgotten - Tad Hargrave 11/19/2025

How to be rooted in a world that’s forgotten - Tad Hargrave This week’s show is with Tad Hargrave. Tad is a hippy who developed a knack for marketing (and then learned how to be a hippy again). Since 2001, he’s been weaving together strands of ethical marketing, Waldorf School education, a history in the performing arts, local culture work, anti-globalization activism, an interest in his ancestral, traditional cultures, community building and supporting local economies into this work of helping people create profitable businesses that are ethically grown while restoring the beauty of the marketplace. Tad did improv comedy semi-professionally for 25 years, co-ran Edmonton’s progressive community building network TheLocalGood.ca, founded streetcarshows.com and the Jams program of yesworld.org. He speaks Scottish Gaelic and helped to launch and co-facilitate the Nova Scotia Gaels Jam. He is from Edmonton, Alberta (traditionally known, in the language of the Cree, as Amiskwaciy [Beaver Hill] and later Amiskwaciwaskihegan [Beaver Hill House]) and currently lives in Duncan, BC (Quw’utsun territory). In this episode, Lian and Tad explore how living stories form culture, meaning they’re more than psychological metaphors, they’re teachings tied to the land and beings around us. They touch upon Tad’s Waldorf childhood and the years he drifted, the Gaelic homecoming that pulled him to Scotland and an elder storyteller. They follow the thread from archetype to architecture… sun, soil, and seasons. From there the conversation turns to how stories remember what a culture must not forget, why punishment poisons, and how initiation is smuggled into folktales so boys and girls grow into people. Listen if you have ever felt imprinted by myth then somehow lost your connection to it, wondered why archetypes can feel lacking, or longed for belonging. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How Tad’s own hunger for ancestral story led him from activism to Gaelic study, reawakening a lineage of belonging How old stories once carried medicine, mapping the plants, elements, and ethics that kept a people alive Why myth without land becomes psychology, and what returns when stories are rooted back in place Resources and stuff spoken about: Find out more about Membership for Join Tad on & See Tad’s This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/39049160

The hidden power in mythic stories of desire and love - Stephanie MacKay 11/12/2025

The hidden power in mythic stories of desire and love - Stephanie MacKay In this week’s show Lian is joined by Stephanie MacKay. Stephanie is a mythologist, wilderness guide, and cultural craftswoman devoted to the long, slow work of remembering how to belong—to land, to lineage, to story, and to each other. As founder and director of Fianna Wilderness School, she has spent the past 15+ years guiding rites of passage, seasonal myth circles, and nature-based mentorship rooted in the wilds. Stephanie’s work braids together her Celtic ancestry, years of deep study with Martín Prechtel and the Animas Valley Institute, and a fierce love of story as medicine. She is dedicated to uncovering the vestiges of intact cultural origins within the body of ancient European stories. Drawing from the wellspring of these old mythologies, she seeks to uncover the hidden pathways that lead us to our cultural origins—reviving traditions long forgotten and reawakening the deep cultural wisdom carried in our bones Whether she’s guiding wilderness quests, tending seasonal myth circles, or walking the long road of cultural regeneration, Stephanie’s devotion is to the deep remembering of who we are and how we belong—through mythic threads that call us back into sacred relationship with the world. In this episode, Lian and Stephanie explore how old stories court the soul. They touch Angela Carter’s Red Riding Hood and Stephanie’s visceral surprise of feeling Eros as a living thread, the way Lian was moved by Skeleton Woman and the Fisherman’s skin against skin, and what union in stories like these is really calling us towards. They trace how desire becomes devotion: noticing where longing really points, letting projection soften so love grows more human and more sacred, and beginning with small ceremony that says ‘yes’. Listen if you are moved by myths of great love or sense that what you hunger for is older and deeper than romance. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How Eros in fairy tales reveals the soul’s appetite for the sacred, and why that changes how we read love stories in ordinary life Why projection makes partners carry the sacred, what breaks when they cannot hold that projection, and what becomes possible when the sacred is welcomed directly What happens when you treat ceremony as a first language, even a few words and an offering, and let the next step show itself Resources and stuff spoken about: Visit website This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/38975690

How to heal the wounded men: trauma, numbness & masculinity - Hugh Newton 11/06/2025

How to heal the wounded men: trauma, numbness & masculinity - Hugh Newton In this week’s show Lian is joined by Hugh Newton. Hugh’s life began in the midst of a war in Zimbabwe (then known as Rhodesia). Growing up in such harsh conditions meant that he had to work hard to overcome his complex childhood trauma. Hugh began his self-development journey 30 years ago, and has been passionate about both supporting men to step into the fullest versions of themselves, and strengthening and uplifting the African continent that he loves so much. Hugh works as the lead male facilitator at Celebration of Being, and was a certified leader at A Band of Brothers for 7 years. He’s also a trained shadow work facilitator and coach. His body of work supports men to show up as their best selves in the world, overcome their wounding, and build rich, nourishing lives for themselves and those they love. In this episode, Lian and Hugh explore men, trauma, and the long road back to wholeness. They touch Hugh’s childhood on a remote Rhodesian farm under civil war, the day a nine-year-old was trained and armed to protect his mother and sister, the years of numbness that followed, and the moment he named the predator within and chose to meet it. They turn to what creates healing: men’s work that faces danger with love, simple daily honesty instead of performance, and steady boundaries that make intimacy possible. Listen if you are or love a man who can’t feel, wondered why good men go numb, or wanted to understand how even the deepest wounds in men can become strength. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How men’s childhood survival strategies become adult numbness, and the concrete steps that begin to thaw it without collapsing into chaos and overwhelm Why naming the predator within changes behaviour, desire, and trust in relationship, and the practices that keep it in the heart rather than the shadows What happens when women respond to men’s early, imperfect vulnerability with steadiness and praise… and how that accelerates genuine masculine healing Resources and stuff spoken about: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/38897045

The ‘small print’ of working with powerful myths and archetypes - Caitlín Matthews 10/29/2025

The ‘small print’ of working with powerful myths and archetypes - Caitlín Matthews This week’s show is with Caitlín Matthews. Caitlín is an internationally renowned author, a teacher of shamanic training programme, a facilitator of Systemic Ritual® and the co-founder of the Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies (FÍOS). Caitlín is the author of over 80 books, including Diary of a Soul Doctor, Singing the Soul Back Home, the Art of Celtic Seership, Celtic Devotional and The Celtic Book of the Dead. Her books have won a number of awards. She is known internationally for her work on the spiritual, mythic and ancestral traditions of Britain and Ireland. She teaches and works with communities and spiritual institutions worldwide from Iceland to Portugal and from USA to Australia. Caitlín is a co-founder of the Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies (FÍOS), which is dedicated to the sacred arts that shape the landscape of the soul, via vision, dream and memory. FÍOS hosts masterclasses with exemplars of living, oracular sacred traditions that are rarely recorded in writing or given an honourable place in modern society. Caitlín has had a shamanic healing practice in Oxford for the last 30 years, working in the community to deepen connections to the ancestral traditions which are our heritage. In this conversation, Lian and Caitlín explore the very real but mostly forgotten ‘small print’ of working with myth and archetypes. They touch the older meaning of myth as something that never happened and is always happening, the danger of lifting archetypes out of their living stories, and the cost of hubris when we claim what is not ours. They look at what actually helps: context, reciprocity, and clear human boundaries. They name moments that have taught them: Lian’s unexpected meeting with Athena on a sunlit hill above the sea, Caitlin’s doorstep story that fused life with the horse goddess, and the terrible Bali tale that shows why respect matters. Listen if you have ever felt the call of a god or goddess and wondered how to answer it whilst keeping both your wonder and your wits. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How sacred contracts, offerings, and manners keep archetypal work sane, grounded, and mutually respectful Why context and lineage matter, and what goes wrong when archetypes are severed from their myths What happens when identification replaces relationship, and the simple practices that restore right distance Resources and stuff that we spoke about: For Caitlín’s books & courses see: For more of Caitlín’s writing on a range of topics, including a year-long course, Blessings of the Celtic Year, see her Hallowquest Sanctuary at … Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/38768035

How to honour the differences between men and women - Serdar Hararovich 10/22/2025

How to honour the differences between men and women - Serdar Hararovich In this week’s show Lian is joined by Serdar Hararovich. Serdar is a Relationship & Secure Attachment Specialist offering integrative, attachment-based coaching and healing. He supports both men and women to heal early attachment wounds, establish inner security, reclaim their deepest self, and cultivate the emotional skills required for deep, soulful, and secure love. Serdar works with a wide variety of individuals - including, but not limited to, therapists, relationship coaches, and other practitioners. The common thread among his clients is a deep desire to go beyond the surface - people tired of quick-fix techniques and oversimplified approaches to healing. Those ready to do the kind of work that awakens their deepest potential - allowing them to master the art of true intimacy and experience the kind of love that transforms everything. In this episode, Lian and Serdar explore what it really means to honour the differences between men and women without turning them into prescriptions or performances. They touch the gap in how partners want to communicate between dates, why anxious attachment can pile five issues into one talk, and what withdrawal can really signal. They look at emotional safety in plain terms, the pull of projection and transference, and how simple, steady awareness shifts the tone of a relationship. They look at what actually helps: recognising difference without blame, letting curiosity replace judgement, and using relationship as a mirror for self-knowledge. Listen if you’ve ever wondered why men and women so often miss each other, felt uneasy naming masculine or feminine traits, or wanted a way to see those forces as sacred, human, and alive rather than stereotyped. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How honouring difference deepens intimacy without falling into polarity roles Why curiosity and emotional safety make real understanding possible What happens when you stop performing gender and start living it as energy and truth Resources and stuff spoken about: … Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/38620405

Plato’s allegory of the cave: how to journey from shadows to truth - Lian Brook-Tyler 10/15/2025

Plato’s allegory of the cave: how to journey from shadows to truth - Lian Brook-Tyler In this episode, Lian tells the ancient allegory of Plato’s Cave, a story of awakening and the painful beauty of learning to see. Each month, Lian’s shared a mythical tale as a doorway into your own soul. These stories are one of the oldest ways ancestral wisdom has been carried down to us, a living inheritance that continues to speak when we meet them with reverence. And this one feels especially poignant, because it will be the last story Lian tells in this way. Our community is evolving into its next form, UNIO: the Community for Wild Sovereign Souls. UNIO now becomes the living home for the Wild Sovereign Soul path, where together we reclaim our wildness, actualise our sovereignty, and awaken our souls. Rather than gathering for story and ceremony, we’ll now meet twice each month in our community Guidance Circle so Jonathan and Lian can meet you exactly where you are and with whatever challenges you’re experiencing from relationships and health, to money and parenting, to guide you to meet the material for liberation your soul is calling you to so that you may become truly free, living the life your heart longs for. You can find out more, and walk with us, at The allegory tells of prisoners bound in a dark cavern, of shadows mistaken for truth, and of one who dares to turn toward the fire and climb into the blinding light of the sun. Lian tells the story of what happens when old beliefs begin to crack, when freedom calls but belonging pulls us back, and when the warmth of truth burns before it heals. Together, we follow the soul’s climb from illusion to insight, from comfort to clarity. Listen if you’ve ever felt caught between the safety of what you know and the wild unknown of what could be. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll receive from this episode: The prisoners’ world of shadows shows how easily belief can bind us, and how truth begins the moment we dare to question what we see. The climb from the cave reminds us that awakening is rarely gentle… it asks for courage, endurance, and the willingness to let old certainties fall away. Plato’s allegory endures because it still speaks to our souls today, carrying ancestral wisdom about seeing clearly, walking together toward truth, and remembering the light that was always waiting. Resources and stuff Lian spoke about: : Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/38561765

How to manifest beyond vision boards: metaphysics & morality - Mike Bais 10/08/2025

How to manifest beyond vision boards: metaphysics & morality - Mike Bais In this week’s show Lian is joined once again by Mike Bais. Mike is Lian’s own Kabbalah teacher, a physiotherapist, counsellor, university lecturer and author, also having had his own practice for many years. He is a trained priest in the esoteric christian tradition, which lead him to follow the mystical side of this lineage called the A.S.A. (Apostolic Succession of Arimathea). He believes that the Teachings of Christ are universal and should not be limited to a religious structure. His esoteric training comes from the western mystery tradition and the Toledano Kabbalah. Living in the Netherlands (Utrecht) he extensively worked with teachers and groups in the UK. After some decades of study and practice in the western esoteric tradition, the inner work came together in these three streams or disciplines that make up the Circle of Avalon. Mike sees it as his life’s work to teach these traditions to whomever wishes to receive them. He is a mystic and teacher by nature and through his groups, individual sessions, workshops and writing, transmits them in the most pure and true way he knows. Mike is the author of 3 books: , and . In this episode, Lian and Mike look at manifestation through its deeper metaphysical roots. They touch on how morality shapes what we bring into being, the psyche as the passage between the unseen and the physical, and the limits of trying to manifest from the surface of the mind alone. Together they reflect on how unconscious manifestation plays out all the time and why consciousness changes everything. They look at what actually helps: focus that holds steady in a distracted world, alignment across mind, body, and soul, and devotion to a principle that keeps us centred when life pulls us apart. Listen if you’ve ever questioned why vision boards only go so far, wondered what really makes manifestation work, or felt the tension between your desires and what serves something greater. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How the psyche acts as a filter for manifestation, shaping not just what we want but why we want it Why alignment across body, psyche, and soul is the difference between scattered wishing and true creation What happens when focus and devotion become your North Star in a culture set up to scatter attention Resources and stuff spoken about: Mike’s websites: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/38455090

Shamanism vs animism: how to live spiritually in modern times - Nicholas Breeze Wood 10/02/2025

Shamanism vs animism: how to live spiritually in modern times - Nicholas Breeze Wood In this week’s show, Lian is joined by Nicholas Breeze Wood. Nicholas has practiced shamanism for over 40 years, combining it with the 'earthier' end of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as with 'medicine' teachings from Native North American peoples. He has worked with many gifted medicine people and shamans over the years, and is deeply apprenticed to his own spirit helpers, whose teachings never fail to awe and surprise him. Nick’s shamanism is a fusion of traditional Himalayan and Mongolian forms, combined with teachings from his own spirits. He works especially deeply with ritual objects - such as bronze shaman's mirrors, phurba daggers and many other Mongolian and Tibetan shamanic and Buddhist ritual objects - for which he holds traditional teachings and, where required, traditional initiations. Despite being a ‘rather uneducated Buddhist,’ he is an ordained Tibetan Buddhist lama, a type called a ngakpa, whose role is similar to a shaman’s. Ngakpas are non-monastic, non-celebrate lamas who live in the community, specialising in ritual and magic for people within their community. Nick is the editor of - a leading international magazine about shamanism - which has been published since 1993. He is also a musician and artist. He is the author of several books including, 'Walking with the Tiger,' 'Sacred Drums of Siberia,' 'A Little Book of Revealing,' 'Voices From The Earth,' 'The Book of the Shaman,' 'The Shaman Box,' and 'The Resplendent Other'. He runs the large Facebook group 3Worlds Shamanism, has done a podcast called the on and off since 2006 and also has a somewhat neglected YouTube channel, also called 3Worlds Shamanism. In this conversation, Lian and Nick trace the line between animism and shamanism. They explore how industrial life thinned our old ways, and what simple rites restore a living conversation with the more-than-human world. They look at what actually helps: a small daily offering that slows you down, a tree-side ceremony that teaches you to listen, and the humility of walking behind the sacred rather than in front. Listen if you have felt the pull back to nature and wondered whether it means animist, shamanist, or simply human… answering an innate way of seeing. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How a living-matter view changes our lives, and why calling it “animism” might clarify the pull you already feel Why simple offerings reshape your pace and attention, and how reciprocity steadies you when life gets noisy What happens when humility leads, and the subtle signs that tell you a deeper calling is knocking Resources and stuff spoken about: Visit Nick’s websites: . This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/38437145

How to be seen: small changes that make your unique presence work for you - John Kippen 09/24/2025

How to be seen: small changes that make your unique presence work for you - John Kippen In this week’s show Lian is joined by John Kippen. John is an entrepreneur, professional magician, speaker, resilience and empowerment coach and published author. John was dealt a bad blow in 2002 when he was diagnosed with a large benign brain tumor. Its removal, although successful, left him with permanent facial paralysis which stopped his forward momentum forcing him into hiding for more than 12 years. As John hit bottom, he rediscovered his childhood love for performing magic and storytelling. Now filled with passion and hope, he discovered that his facial paralysis had become his greatest superpower. This new mindset gave John the strength to live life with joy and become a sought after resilience and empowerment coach who uses the lessons and tricks he learned overcoming his adversity to inspire and assist his clients to get out of their own way and live their best lives. His two mottos are “Being Different is your Superpower!” and “Feed your Heart with your Art”. In this episode, Lian and John explore identity, being seen, and the simple choices that change a room. John shares the day a brain tumour changed his face, the eight years he avoided mirrors, the child who asked what adults wouldn’t, and the moment he chose to name the change to his face before anyone else did. Together, they look at what actually makes the difference: saying the obvious thing first so people relax, letting repetition and craft rebuild confidence, and making the person in front of you the point. Listen if you have ever dodged photos, worried about what strangers notice, or wondered how to begin again after a big change that impacts you at the level of your identity. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How naming the visible difference at the start eases tension, answers unasked questions, and opens real connection Why steady practice, honest story, and self-acceptance can rebuild identity after a big change, without waiting for perfect conditions or permission What happens when you put the person in front of you first with presence, names, and attention: tension drops, curiosity softens, and trust grows Resources and stuff spoken about: There’s a free book but you can only get it by listening to the episode :) Visit This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/38291215

Ancient technology & modern science: the power of the shamanic drum - Sophie Messager 09/18/2025

Ancient technology & modern science: the power of the shamanic drum - Sophie Messager In this week’s show, Lian is joined by Sophie Messager. Sophie bridges worlds that rarely meet. A former reproductive physiologist with a PhD, she traded her microscope for holistic practices after experiencing the transformative power of an empowered birth. Her decade-long journey as a doula, birth educator, and author of deepened her exploration of the rhythms surrounding women’s transitions. Now a holistic life transition mentor, Sophie guides women through significant life thresholds – from birth to perimenopause and beyond. Her unique combination of scientific expertise and spiritual insight allows her to serve as a compassionate space holder for those seeking to harmonise their analytical and intuitive selves. In this episode, Lian and Sophie explore the ancient and immediate power of the drum… how it once belonged to priestesses and women of the land, how it was silenced by culture and religion, and how it is now returning as medicine for body, mind, and birth. Together, they trace the threads of history and lived experience, revealing why rhythm has always been a companion in times of transformation. Sophie shares her journey from research scientist to doula, and the moment a single drumbeat opened a path that has carried her ever since. They speak of birth rooms where drumming restored sovereignty, of hospitals where rhythm returned power to a woman’s body, and of the everyday rituals that root us in calm and clarity. They also explore what happens when women collectively reclaim the drum: the nervous system shifts, the mind quiets, and a deeper wisdom becomes audible. At its heart, this is a conversation about remembering… rhythm as medicine, voice as courage, and community as the ground of healing. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How women once held the drum as a sacred tool of fertility, labour, and trance… and what was lost when that rhythm was silenced Why a steady beat can shift brainwaves, calm anxiety, and even transform the experience of birth How reclaiming the drum today awakens both personal sovereignty and a wider cultural remembering Resources and stuff spoken about: Visit Buy Sophie’s book: Sophie’s online courses about perinatal & life transitions rituals: Join Sophie on social media: . This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/38211615

The healing home: how to design your house as a sanctuary - Paula Robinson 09/10/2025

The healing home: how to design your house as a sanctuary - Paula Robinson In this week’s show Lian is joined by Paula Robinson. As an intuitive interior designer, Paula understands the profound effect that the spaces where we live and work have on our health, happiness and success in life. Often called the ‘space whisperer’, she helps people to create living and working environments that transform their lives on all levels. Paula has been an interiors columnist for The Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph and Move Or Improve? magazine, and is the author of "" and "". Paula is happiest in nature - especially by the sea - and loves designing outdoor spaces. She is passionate about the environment, sustainable design, re-purposing furniture and objects, and supporting craftspeople over mass-producers. In this episode, Lian and Paula explore how our homes shape our bodies, minds, and mythic lives… the primal ways space soothes or unsettles us, and the quiet work of making a dwelling that heals. Together, they trace the path from head to heart, from trend to truth, and from copybook rules to the felt sense of sanctuary. Together, they journey through refuge and prospect, the simple power of moving a chair, and why bedrooms and workspaces ask for special care. Paula shares how intuitive design emerges, how objects carry the craft and energy of their makers, and how plants, animals, light, and air restore a room’s vitality. At the centre of this conversation is a gentle invitation… listen to what your home is already telling you, let your instincts set the first mark, then let practicality refine it. Beauty follows when a space begins to mirror the soul that lives there. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: Start with feeling, then refine with form: notice how each room lands in your body, create refuge and prospect by seeing both door and view, then let measurements and plans serve what already feels right. Small changes shift everything: rearrange to interrupt stale traffic patterns, personalise even temporary spaces, and enliven rooms with plants, natural light, fresh air, mirrors, and the quiet presence of animals. Design as living story: choose objects that speak to you, honour their makers and materials, and when a house feels unsettled, consider energetic space clearing so the home and its history can move with you rather than against you. Resources and stuff spoken about: : Paula has kindly offered our listeners 20% off her virtual one-hour consultation if you quote BEING MYTHICAL when booking. She also offers a free 30-minute Discovery Call. Buy Paula’s book: Join Steve Pavlina on This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/38129255

This is why your soul-led business isn't successful - Tad Hargrave 09/04/2025

This is why your soul-led business isn't successful - Tad Hargrave This week’s show is with Tad Hargrave. Tad is a hippy who developed a knack for marketing (and then learned how to be a hippy again). Since 2001, he’s been weaving together strands of ethical marketing, Waldorf School education, a history in the performing arts, local culture work, anti-globalization activism, an interest in his ancestral, traditional cultures, community building and supporting local economies into this work of helping people create profitable businesses that are ethically grown while restoring the beauty of the marketplace. Tad did improv comedy semi-professionally for 25 years, co-ran Edmonton’s progressive community building network TheLocalGood.ca, founded streetcarshows.com and the Jams program of yesworld.org. He speaks Scottish Gaelic and helped to launch and co-facilitate the Nova Scotia Gaels Jam. He is from Edmonton, Alberta (traditionally known, in the language of the Cree, as Amiskwaciy [Beaver Hill] and later Amiskwaciwaskihegan [Beaver Hill House]) and currently lives in Duncan, BC (Quw’utsun territory). In this episode, Lian and Tad explore the hidden terrain where creativity and commerce collide… the trap many artists, healers, and visionaries fall into without even realising. Together, they map the archetypal dynamics between the artist and the entrepreneur, illuminating the often-unseen pattern that keeps soulful work from fully flourishing in the world. Tad shares his potent visual model of collapsing and posturing — revealing how both are twin expressions of the same wound, and why neither offers true freedom. Lian reflects on the parallels with shadow work, the conflation of collapsing with nobility, and the ache many feel when faced with the false binary of authenticity versus success. They also touch on the ancient roots of these archetypes, and the wounding of both beauty and provision in our modern age. At the heart of this conversation is a deeper possibility: a marriage of the artist and entrepreneur, not rooted in proving or hiding, but in composure… wholeness… a quiet trust in one’s being. It’s a profound remembering of how businesses — like children — are born from the union of devotion and provision, creativity and care. A call to beauty as the ground beneath it all. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How the ‘trap’ reveals itself through posturing and collapsing — and why both are driven by the same underlying fear Why the true work is not balancing opposites, but moving beyond the binary into composure, where nothing needs to be proved or hidden How the artist and entrepreneur are ancient archetypes… and how their marriage creates the conditions for beautiful, ethical, and effective work in the world Resources and stuff spoken about: The trap - image of the quadrant, and quadrant with thrid column Find out more about Membership for Join Tad on & See Tad’s This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/37999520

The White Snake Spirit: a reminder of the power of love and prayer - Lian Brook-Tyler 08/27/2025

The White Snake Spirit: a reminder of the power of love and prayer - Lian Brook-Tyler In this episode, Lian shares the ancient and evocative Chinese myth of the White Snake Spirit, a story of prayer, healing, and a love that endures across lifetimes. Each month, Lian tells a mythical tale… as spell, as memory, as invitation... to be felt, stirred, remembered as a magical doorway into your own soul. These stories are one of the oldest ways ancestral wisdom has been carried down to us, a living inheritance that continues to speak when we meet them with reverence. She first shared this live with our beloved community in UNIO, our Academy of the Soul, in which we continue to journey more deeply together with it in a month-long quest. To join us for the next mythical quest, you can join UNIO here: The tale of the White Snake Spirit is one of the most beloved and enduring stories in Chinese folklore. Here, a humble herbalist faces plague and despair, a wife reveals her hidden power, and devotion is tested through death, deception, and decades of prayer. Passed from tongue to tongue across generations, this myth carries not only a love story but the deep ancestral knowing that prayer itself is a living force able to heal, protect, and transform. The question at its heart is profound: can love survive truth, time, and the weight of destiny? The answer, when it comes, shakes even the heavens. Through this myth we are offered a mirror: of prayer that carries across lifetimes, of love that cannot be broken, and of stories as vessels of ancestral wisdom that still work their medicine within us today. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll receive from this episode: The Power of Devotion: Xu Xian’s decades of prayer at the pagoda show how steady, daily offerings can move heaven and earth. Prayer as Living Force: In this tale, prayer is not passive but a current of devotion that heals, restores, and even brings miracles into being. The White Snake Spirit reminds us that myths are not relics but vessels of inherited wisdom, carrying truths about prayer, love, and transformation from the ancestors into our own lives. Resources and stuff Lian spoke about: : This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/37895075

The calls & pitfalls of the growth of shamanism - Nicholas Breeze Wood 08/06/2025

The calls & pitfalls of the growth of shamanism - Nicholas Breeze Wood In this week’s show, Lian is joined by Nicholas Breeze Wood. Nicholas has practiced shamanism for over 40 years, combining it with the 'earthier' end of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as with 'medicine' teachings from Native North American peoples. He has worked with many gifted medicine people and shamans over the years, and is deeply apprenticed to his own spirit helpers, whose teachings never fail to awe and surprise him. Nick’s shamanism is a fusion of traditional Himalayan and Mongolian forms, combined with teachings from his own spirits. He works especially deeply with ritual objects - such as bronze shaman's mirrors, phurba daggers and many other Mongolian and Tibetan shamanic and Buddhist ritual objects - for which he holds traditional teachings and, where required, traditional initiations. Despite being a ‘rather uneducated Buddhist,’ he is an ordained Tibetan Buddhist lama, a type called a ngakpa, whose role is similar to a shaman’s. Ngakpas are non-monastic, non-celebrate lamas who live in the community, specialising in ritual and magic for people within their community. Nick is the editor of - a leading international magazine about shamanism - which has been published since 1993. He is also a musician and artist. He is the author of several books including, 'Walking with the Tiger,' 'Sacred Drums of Siberia,' 'A Little Book of Revealing,' 'Voices From The Earth,' 'The Book of the Shaman,' 'The Shaman Box,' and 'The Resplendent Other'. He runs the large Facebook group 3Worlds Shamanism, has done a podcast called the on and off since 2006 and also has a somewhat neglected YouTube channel, also called 3Worlds Shamanism. In this episode, Lian and Nicholas explore what it means to walk the path of shamanism in the modern West. Together, they trace the winding threads of Nicholas’ life… from the windswept fields of his Midlands childhood to the birth of Sacred Hoop magazine, through encounters with medicine wheel teachings, Mongolian and Himalayan shamans, and the long shadow of Castaneda. What unfolds is not a how-to or a prescription… but a living braid of animism, discipline, and devotion. Nicholas reflects on the unexpected gift of dyslexia and how neurodivergence shaped his initiatory path, as a different kind of perception… one that enabled a direct, embodied relationship with the unseen. He and Lian explore the tension between psychotherapeutic frameworks and authentic shamanic practice, and the danger of mistaking surface form for deep structure. What makes a shaman, he says, is not sensitivity or interest, but being chosen by the spirits themselves. Woven through the conversation is the question of lineage. What does it mean to carry teachings from other lands onto this one? How do we honour both the transmission and the soil we stand upon? From the cosmology of the medicine wheel to the pitfalls of cultural appropriation, from core shamanism to the necessity of cosmological bone… this episode offers a rare encounter with an elder who has walked the shamanic path for many decades. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: Why the word “shaman” is often misused… and how understanding deep structure versus surface form can clarify what is truly sacred. How neurodivergence can shape perception in ways that become part of our gift, especially when navigating the unseen or the unknown. What it might mean to birth a Western lineage… one rooted not in imitation, but in integration, initiation, and real relationship with land and spirit. Resources and stuff spoken about: Visit Nick’s websites: . This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/37651785

The land, the story, the soul: How to reclaim what was lost - Stephanie MacKay 07/31/2025

The land, the story, the soul: How to reclaim what was lost - Stephanie MacKay In this week’s show Lian is joined by Stephanie MacKay. Stephanie is a mythologist, wilderness guide, and cultural craftswoman devoted to the long, slow work of remembering how to belong—to land, to lineage, to story, and to each other. As founder and director of Fianna Wilderness School, she has spent the past 15+ years guiding rites of passage, seasonal myth circles, and nature-based mentorship rooted in the wilds. Stephanie’s work braids together her Celtic ancestry, years of deep study with Martín Prechtel and the Animas Valley Institute, and a fierce love of story as medicine. She is dedicated to uncovering the vestiges of intact cultural origins within the body of ancient European stories. Drawing from the wellspring of these old mythologies, she seeks to uncover the hidden pathways that lead us to our cultural origins—reviving traditions long forgotten and reawakening the deep cultural wisdom carried in our bones. Whether she’s guiding wilderness quests, tending seasonal myth circles, or walking the long road of cultural regeneration, Stephanie’s devotion is to the deep remembering of who we are and how we belong—through mythic threads that call us back into sacred relationship with the world. In this episode, Lian and Stephanie explore the deep, woven threads that bind our personal myths to the land beneath our feet. Together, they journey through the ways in which stories live within us… ancient seeds waiting for the right conditions to sprout. Stephanie reflects on how her own path led her from disconnection back into a living relationship with land and story, and how myth can offer us both memory and medicine. They explore the longing many of us feel to recover our cultural roots, and how stories act as carriers of ancestral wisdom across time and place. From childhood connections to the land, to the rediscovery of myth as a portal into belonging, they speak of how both land and story hold the potential to restore us to ourselves. Along the way, Lian and Stephanie reflect on myths such as Cinderella and Iron John… tales often dismissed yet still holding profound keys for our times. At the heart of this conversation is a reverence for the slow, relational work of remembering: tending to the land beneath us, listening for the stories that call us home, and understanding that these are not separate acts… but parts of the same ancient dance between earth and soul. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How reconnecting with the origins of our surroundings… even something as simple as a table or a weaving… can begin to restore our relationship with land and story. Why stories carry ancestral memory and wisdom, offering us a way back to belonging even when our cultural roots feel severed. How working with myth both psychologically and spiritually invites us into deeper relationship… with ourselves, with the land, and with the unseen. Resources and stuff spoken about: Visit website This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/37575355

The myth of Pygmalion: How to bring beauty to life - Lian Brook-Tyler 07/23/2025

The myth of Pygmalion: How to bring beauty to life - Lian Brook-Tyler In this episode, Lian shares the ancient and evocative myth of Pygmalion, a story of longing, creation, and the mystery of what brings something… or someone… to life. Each month, Lian tells a mythical tale… as spell, as memory, as invitation... not to be analysed or consumed, but to be felt, stirred, remembered as a magical doorway into your own soul. She first shared this live with our beloved community in UNIO, our Academy of the Soul, in which we continue to journey more deeply together with it in a month-long quest. To join us for the next mythical quest, you can join UNIO here: In this telling, Lian explores the mythic figure of Pygmalion… a sculptor who turns away from the women of his world and instead pours his longing into the creation of his own ideal. Together, we walk with her through the temple of Venus, through stone and flesh, through the spaces where our own unspoken dreams might come to life. This is more than a tale of a man and a statue… it is a meditation on what we create when we shape from love, and how the act of creating shapes us in return. It reminds us of the timeless dance between the human and the divine… how longing leads us to the altar, how offerings made in faith and beauty may yet be answered. Listeners are invited to reflect on their own sacred longings, and how these desires might be the soul’s way of sculpting something real into existence. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll receive from this episode: The longing beneath creation: Pygmalion’s yearning reminds us that what we create from devotion holds the power to awaken not just the object of our love, but something within us too. The mystery of transformation: As in myth, so in life… what seems lifeless may stir to breath beneath our touch, when desire meets ritual and prayer. The sacred act of shaping: Whether in art, relationships, or the soul’s unfolding, we are always creating… and in turn being created. Resources and stuff Lian spoke about: : This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/37470105

Beyond polarity & projection: How to heal your attachment wounds - Serdar Hararovich 07/17/2025

Beyond polarity & projection: How to heal your attachment wounds - Serdar Hararovich In this week’s show Lian is joined by Serdar Hararovich. Serdar is a Relationship & Secure Attachment Specialist offering integrative, attachment-based coaching and healing. He supports both men and women to heal early attachment wounds, establish inner security, reclaim their deepest self, and cultivate the emotional skills required for deep, soulful, and secure love. Serdar works with a wide variety of individuals - including, but not limited to, therapists, relationship coaches, and other practitioners. The common thread among his clients is a deep desire to go beyond the surface - people tired of quick-fix techniques and oversimplified approaches to healing. Those ready to do the kind of work that awakens their deepest potential - allowing them to master the art of true intimacy and experience the kind of love that transforms everything. In this episode, Lian and Serdar explore the roots of how we relate, beginning with the early wounds that shape our adult relationships. Serdar shares his own story of growing up with emotional neglect, the drinking and disconnection that followed, and the practical and healing work that allowed him to form deeper, more secure relationships. Together, they look at the role of corrective experiences in healing attachment wounds, and how both inner work and relational skill-building are essential for intimacy. They discuss the dynamic between the masculine and feminine in healing, and the different experiences that can arise when working with male or female facilitators. From there, the conversation opens into the complex terrain of polarity teachings, how these can support or distort healing, and what happens when identity becomes performative rather than rooted in authenticity. Throughout the conversation, Lian and Serdar invite reflection on what it truly means to heal, to relate with curiosity, and to understand the impact of gendered conditioning without becoming confined by it. This is a nuanced and compassionate conversation that offers both clarity and challenge. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: Healing requires both inner work and relational skill-building. It's not enough to simply know the theory… we need lived experiences that re-pattern our nervous systems. Curiosity is one of the core qualities of secure attachment. When we stop assuming and start asking, intimacy becomes possible. Polarity teachings can offer insight, but without healing first, they risk deepening the mask. The real work is becoming someone who can relate with truth, not performance. Resources and stuff spoken about: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/37396640

How to reclaim the Feminine: The Mother, the Virgin, the Whore - Coco Oya Cienna-Rey 07/09/2025

How to reclaim the Feminine: The Mother, the Virgin, the Whore - Coco Oya Cienna-Rey This week’s show is with Coco Oya Cienna-Rey. Coco is the author of Digging for Mother’s Bones from Womancraft Publishing, is a UK based mother, grandmother, creative, mystic, soul guide and writer. Her creativity is informed by her journey as a devotee of the Tantric path (an embodied path of self-liberation) and her personal journey with trauma. Coco has always felt a call to channel the Voice of the Divine Feminine and is published in several bestselling anthologies. Often thought provoking, yet always heartfelt her work speaks of the sacred wisdom stored in the body, the non-linear nature of trauma and the embodiment of soul. She believes that our innate connection to the natural world can heal humanity. As a deeply sensitive, highly empathic gifted intuitive Coco can be found weaving her soul-coaching embodiment work at In this episode, Lian and Coco explore the profound journey from trauma to remembrance, from collapse to creative power. Together, they trace the raw, mythic arc of a woman who was silenced by pain… and reborn through the arms of the Great Mother. This conversation moves like an initiation, stirring deep memory in the body, revealing the erotic and mystical core of feminine being. Coco shares the story behind her book’s birth: a story that begins in abuse and mental illness and unfolds through a spontaneous Kundalini awakening, a near-death experience, and the long road of integration. She reflects on the sacred technology of the womb, the truth of the Virgin and the Whore as one, and the living presence of the Mother as the centre of all creation. Along the way, she speaks to the wildness of true feminine energy… not as something performative, but as a force of love capable of reshaping the world. Lian and Coco weave personal memory with mythic remembrance, questioning how we reclaim the power of receptivity in a world that has trained us to close. This is an episode that stirs the womb and speaks to the place in every woman that longs to feel… to open… to remember that she is not only enough, but the very axis of life itself. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How the sexual wounds of the planet are not abstract, but live in the body… and how remembering the womb’s creative power begins to restore them Why integrating the Virgin and the Whore is essential to reclaiming the whole feminine… not as metaphor, but as lived, embodied truth The importance of receptivity as a sacred feminine capacity, and how shifting from the front of the body to the back can open the space for life to be received again Resources and stuff spoken about: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/37289255

How to heal a man: Superheroes, shadows & sacred circles - Karl Brooks 07/02/2025

How to heal a man: Superheroes, shadows & sacred circles - Karl Brooks In this week’s show, Lian is joined by Karl Brooks, a long-term Be Mythical student and a much-loved member of our community within , whose journey from crisis to reclamation has been one of the most beautiful we’ve had the honour to witness. Karl has a deep connection with his inner child, who unbeknownst to him had been running most of his life behind the scenes, in his subconscious! When he began to make the unconscious, conscious, and start asking what his inner child wanted - to feel safe, see, held, respected, loved, all from an unconditional place, he found he held the key too, and no one else could fulfil the void that was ‘Karl-shaped’. He now wants to lead other men that are interested in connecting deeply within themselves, and breaking the patterns of childhood that are still causing havoc in their lives today. In this conversation, Lian and Karl explore the hidden stories that shape our sense of self, and the deep healing that becomes possible when we finally listen to the boy inside the man. Together, they journey through Karl’s childhood adventures, his breakdown and awakening, and the tender work of inner reparenting that allowed him to become a man of depth, devotion, and strength. Through rich storytelling and honest reflection, this conversation reveals the generational threads that shape our beliefs about masculinity, love, and identity… and how those threads can be rewoven. Mythic threads weave through the episode: the wounded boy whose gifts were misunderstood, the ruptures passed from father to son, and the healing that happens when those wounds are no longer hidden. This is a conversation for anyone - man or woman - who senses that something essential got lost along the way… and is ready to listen for its return. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: Childhood experiences create the inner myths we unconsciously live by, until a rupture or opening invites us to rewrite them. Imagination, when turned inward upon ourselves, can distort our self-perception… or become a tool for healing and reconnection. Healing the inner child allows us to close the ruptures of the past, creating more wholeness in our relationships, our parenting, and our sense of self. Resources and stuff spoken about: Join Karl on . This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/37202340

Vasilisa The Beautiful & Baba Yaga show how to awaken your intuition - Lian Brook-Tyler 06/26/2025

Vasilisa The Beautiful & Baba Yaga show how to awaken your intuition - Lian Brook-Tyler In this episode, Lian shares the timeless Slavic folktale tale of Vasilisa The Beautiful and Baba Yaga. Each month, Lian tells a mythical tale… as spell, as memory, as invitation... not to be analysed or consumed, but to be felt, stirred, remembered as a magical doorway into your own soul. She first shared this live with our beloved community in UNIO, our Academy of the Soul, in which we continue to journey more deeply together with it in a month-long quest. To join us for the next mythical quest, you can join UNIO here: The tale of Vasilisa is one of enchantment, resilience, and the deep wisdom that lies hidden in plain sight. A dying mother’s blessing… a magical doll… a dark forest… and the terrifying Baba Yaga, whose spinning hut and riddling tasks test the heart of a young girl thrust into a heroine’s journey. What begins as a tale of cruelty and exile unfolds into a luminous transformation… one that reveals how love, intuition, and soul-guidance can lead us through even the darkest of nights. Through this myth, we’re offered a mirror: one that reflects back our own relationship to trust, to trial, and to the quiet voice that knows the way home. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll receive from this episode: A Blessing in Disguise: The doll Vasilisa’s mother gives her is more than a keepsake… it becomes the voice of wisdom, protection, and intuition that guides her through the unknown. The Trials of the Forest: Baba Yaga’s impossible tasks become rites of passage, revealing the hidden power that awakens when we listen, surrender, and trust what lives within us. Fire as Sovereignty: The flame Vasilisa returns with is no longer borrowed… it is earned, and with it comes a transformation that burns away falsehood and reveals the queen she was always becoming. Resources and stuff Lian spoke about: : This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/37111305

Core, neo & traditional shamanism: How to choose your path - Isaac Wortley & Eddy Elsey 06/18/2025

Core, neo & traditional shamanism: How to choose your path - Isaac Wortley & Eddy Elsey This week’s show is with Isaac Wortley and Eddy Elsey, both practicing apprentices of a traditional Mongolian lineage holder, who founded Mother Tree Shamanism. Isaac is an English shaman, who experienced a calling from a very young age. This led him to search out an authentic traditional teacher of Mongolian shamanism. Over ten years ago, he was initiated by his teacher, the founder of Mother Tree Shamanism, and has been an apprentice ever since. He has also studied traditional Mongolian/Tibetan medicine for last three years. He currently lives in the Midlands in England providing shamanic and traditional medicine services for people in the West. Eddy has been studying as an apprentice with Mother Tree Shamanism for the last 3 years after transitioning to traditional shamanism from his previous background in neo-shamanism. He lives between the Midlands and London, and works as a traditional massage therapist. He is passionate about helping people discover authentic and traditional forms of spirituality. In this episode, Lian, Isaac and Eddy explore the profound healing power and depth of traditional shamanism, particularly through the Mongolian lineage they now both follow. Isaac shares the extraordinary story of how he was called from the age of ten, drawn to Mongolia without fully knowing why, and how his lifelong health issues vanished the moment he stepped onto the path he was destined for. Eddy describes how years of neo-shamanic practice led him into severe illness, and how his journey to Mongolia marked the turning point in his healing and transformation. Together, they explore the differences between traditional, core, and neo-shamanism… revealing why these distinctions matter and what is often lost in translation when Western models try to re-create ancient systems. Lian reflects on the unexpected complexity and precision of traditional Mongolian practices, and how both men have come to embody their path not as a profession, but as a sacred duty of service. They also speak to the deeper structures that make these lineages so powerful: the scientific nature, the central role of mind training, the profound teacher-student bond, and the karmic depth of walking a path that transcends lifetimes. This conversation is a reckoning with what’s been lost, and what must be remembered if shamanism is to heal rather than harm. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: Why traditional shamanism is considered a complex science of the universe… and how it differs from core and neo-shamanic approaches How understanding your own mind is essential to effective spiritual practice… and why lack of mind training can be dangerous What the teacher-student bond truly means in traditional lineages… and how it offers a level of care, guidance, and karmic support that’s rarely seen in modern spirituality Resources and stuff spoken about: Mother Tree Shamanism on & Eddy‘s & This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/37024775

The Goddess returns: Restoring Her as a metaphysical truth - Mike Bais 06/11/2025

The Goddess returns: Restoring Her as a metaphysical truth - Mike Bais In this week’s show Lian is joined once again by Mike Bais. Mike is Lian’s own Kabbalah teacher, a physiotherapist, counsellor, university lecturer and author, also having had his own practice for many years. He is a trained priest in the esoteric christian tradition, which lead him to follow the mystical side of this lineage called the A.S.A. (Apostolic Succession of Arimathea). He believes that the Teachings of Christ are universal and should not be limited to a religious structure. His esoteric training comes from the western mystery tradition and the Toledano Kabbalah. Living in the Netherlands (Utrecht) he extensively worked with teachers and groups in the UK. After some decades of study and practice in the western esoteric tradition, the inner work came together in these three streams or disciplines that make up the Circle of Avalon. Mike sees it as his life’s work to teach these traditions to whomever wishes to receive them. He is a mystic and teacher by nature and through his groups, individual sessions, workshops and writing, transmits them in the most pure and true way he knows. Mike is the author of 3 books: , and . In this episode, Lian and Mike explore the sacred return of the Goddess as both a metaphysical truth and a living force within creation. Together, they journey through the ancient traditions that once honoured her, the distortions that led to her exile, and the path of remembrance that is now unfolding… personally, collectively, and spiritually. This is a conversation that reaches far beyond symbols or stories, into the very structure of existence. Lian reflects on how the Goddess often first speaks to us through dreams, symbols, or visceral moments in nature, long before we understand her metaphysical roots. Mike offers a crystalline transmission of her role as the body of creation itself, sharing insights from the Kabbalah, the Asa tradition, and his own devotion to restoring her presence within spiritual life. They also explore the risks of over-personalising archetypal experience, the need for balance between the God and Goddess, and the humility required to truly let her transform us. At the heart of their conversation is a powerful remembering… the Goddess has never left. She is the fertile earth beneath our feet, the womb of every form, the shimmering thread of the divine clothed in matter. What has been forgotten is not her presence, but our capacity to see her. This episode is a call to reawaken that vision, and to live as if she truly is the body of the world. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you’ll learn from this episode: How the Goddess is not merely symbolic or a mythical story but a metaphysical principle, matter itself infused with the divine Why the erasure of the feminine from spiritual traditions created imbalance, and how restoring her brings both beauty and truth back to creation How to recognise the subtle ways the Goddess calls to you… and why honouring that call with humility and discernment matters more than ever Resources and stuff spoken about: Mike’s websites: Mike’s 2 part online workshop, 24th & 31st July 2025 - This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: Go Deeper: Follow us: Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show). /episode/index/show/thebornhappyshow/id/36934015

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