Momma Goddess Podcast

�Lisa Schrader, the Founder of Awakening Shakti, has impacted the lives of thousands of people over the past 10 years as a sacred sexuality workshop leader, author, speaker and coach. Her work has been featured on Oprah, Oxygen and VH1. She is the author of Kama Sutra 52: A Year's Worth of the Best Positions for Passion and Pleasure from Quiver Books. She has a private coaching practice supporting clients worldwide and is certified through the International Coach Federation. For more information, visit awakeningshakti.com. TOPICS: How to bring the element of pleasure to any task + Why trusting your divine feminine is vital for ecstasy + Learn a new way of making love + Why it's truly a courageous leap to truly honor your own heart & rhythm + How your body and sexual energy are so important for health, happiness & wellbeing.

Born and raised in Austria, Michaela received two Degrees in Psychology from the University of Vienna and received further extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Hypnosis, NLP, and Yoga. Upon moving to the United States in 1994, Michaela quickly became counselor to the stars in Hollywood, California, working with the world’s best-known celebrities, including actors, producers, writers, musicians, and international business founders. Michaela began studying with David Deida in 1997 and in 2007 began co-teaching with him, focusing on women’s empowerment in the 21st Century. Michaela is currently the only counselor in the world personally trained and authorized by David Deida. Recently, Michaela began making available her unique services to those outside the Hollywood elite, offering women’s workshops, couples intensives, relationship counseling, and co-ed trainings. Learn more about Michaela at www.michaelaboehm.com  TOPICS: Why we it’s important that pleasure is a priority + Why women are built fo

Alan Cohen, M.A., is the author of 24 popular inspirational books and CD's, including the best-selling The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore, the award-winning A Deep Breath of Life, and the classic Are You as Happy as Your Dog? He is a contributing writer for the New York Times #1 bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul, and his books have been translated into 24 foreign languages. His work has been featured on Oprah.com and in USA Today, The Washington Post and 101 Top Experts. Alan's radio program Get Real is broadcast weekly on Hay House Radio, and his monthly column From the Heart is featured in magazines internationally. Alan is a featured presenter in the award-winning documentary Finding Joe, based on the teaching of visionary mythologist Joseph Campbell.  TOPICS: What soul pleasure is + How to trust and relax into life more + Why passion & desire are so vital to our well-being + How joy can be your compass + How to navigate fear & rejection + How to live in the love frequency and say yes

Sara Gottfried M.D. teaches men and women how to reset their hormones naturally with food so that they can rock their mission. She is a Harvard-educated physician, speaker and author of the New York Times bestseller The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive and Vitality Naturally with The Gottfried Protocol (Simon & Schuster, 2013). She is regularly featured in national media, from O Magazine to 20/20. Known for effortlessly blending the seriousness of one’s health with playfulness and humor, Dr. Gottfried is a systems-based functional medicine coach, MIT-trained bioengineer, mom/wife and certified yoga teacher. In our highly-anticipated interview, Dr. Gottfried will share the science of how GM foods may hijack your energy, weight, mood, fertility, and sex drive. Learn more at http://www.saragottfriedMD.com  TOPICS: How pleasure can help balance your hormones + What is happening on a cellular level when you're experiencing pleasure + 3 step process to experience more pleasure + Digital prescript

Marc David is the Founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, a leading visionary, teacher and consultant in Nutritional Psychology, and the author of the classic and best-selling works Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well Being and The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss. His work has been featured on CNN, NBC and numerous media outlets. His books have been translated into over 10 languages, and his approach appeals to a wide audience of eaters who are looking for fresh, inspiring and innovative messages about food, body and soul. The Institute for the Psychology of Eating is the world’s only teaching organization dedicated to a forward thinking, positive, holistic approach to nutritional psychology. IPE is unique and revolutionary in its approach – teaching students and professionals how to effectively work with the most common eating challenges of our times in their internationally acclaimed Eating Psychology Coach Certification Training. Learn m

Jen Louden is a personal growth pioneer who help launch the self-care movement with her first book The Woman’s Comfort Book. She's the author of five more books on well-being and personal wisdom that have inspired more than a million women in 9 languages. Jen has been a regular columnist for Body & Soul magazine, a radio show host on Martha Stewart’s network, and a spokeswoman for companies like Real Networks and SC Johnson, and she sat on Orpah's couch. She helps creative people who want to change the world get to it. She believes self-love + world-love = wholeness for all. Visit Jen at www.JenniferLouden.com  TOPICS: You will learn how to listen to your life + How to value savoring + Why integration & wholeness are so important to happiness + Why using your senses is so important + How you can serve the world more.

Alexandra is the Co-Founder & Chief Goddess of en*theos. She’s a passionate student of Optimal Living and loves rockin’ & optimizing her Goddess life. She also loves inspiring & empowering peeps to rock their most authentically awesome lives. That’s why she created Rock Your Goddess Life, Optimal Parenting 101, The Pleasure Advantage, Blissitations. You can tune into her inspiring weekly videos on her YouTube channel: YouTube.com/MyGoddessLife + TOPICS:  

Carrie Contey co-founded the Slow Family Living movement. Her scholarly and hands-on research gave birth to, CALMS: A Guide to Soothing Your Baby & What Babies Want: Calming and Communicating With Your Baby. Carrie earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a specialty in prenatal and perinatal psychology.  TOPICS: 

Mary Jackson has been a home birth Midwife since 1975. She has attended over 2,000 births in the Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Ojai, California areas. She is currently co-leading the Castellino Prenatal and Birth Training and is participating in cutting edge research about imprints that occur around the time of conception, pregnancy and birth and how they affect us throughout the rest of our lives and what it takes to heal from challenges in these experiences. (She’s also Alexandra and Brian’s midwife! :)  TOPICS: 

Naomi Aldort is the author of the book Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves. She is an engaging public speaker who travels worldwide and shares her wisdom in lectures, conferences, colleges and private events. Naomi’s guidance has transformed the lives of families around the world.  TOPICS: 

Dr. John Douillard has been teaching and lecturing internationally for 25 years and publishes a free wellness video-newsletter filled with the latest studies and research. He was the Director of Player Development for the New Jersey Nets in the NBA and currently directs the LifeSpa Ayurvedic Retreat Center in Boulder, CO, where he lives with his wife and six children.  TOPICS: How to create perfect health for your kids + Ayurvedic healing secrets to optimize your child’s health + How to prevent colds and flus + Why it’s so important to connect with natural biorhythms + How to eat seasonally and why it matters + 4 steps to boost your child’s immune system.

Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a board-certified family physician who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods. He is the author of Eat to Live and Super Immunity.  TOPICS: The #1 thing you need to do before getting pregnant + How to disease-proof your children + Why folic acid can cause cancer + Learn why high protein diets can lead to gestational diabetes, weight gain, toxemia & caesareans + How to reduce asthma, ear infections, colds and allergies + Why parents’ food addictions are harming their children + How nutrition overwhelms genetics + What you should feed your baby for the first two years.

Ingrid Bauer has been teaching and writing about compassionate parenting for over two decades. She’s an activist for unhindered birth and breastfeeding, a Nonviolent Communication certified trainer and also the author of Diaper Free. She is a mother of four children and is dedicated to sharing Compassionate communication with parents and families.  TOPICS: 

Dr. Sarah Buckley is a family physician and widely recognized authority on pregnancy, birth & parenting. She is the mother of four children and the author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.  TOPICS: What you need to know before conceiving your baby + Why gut flora and fat are so important for your pre-conception diet + What you need to know about tests and ultrasounds and why they might be harmful for your baby + The 4 hormones you need to know about to have an ecstatic birth and why birth is meant to be pleasurable + Why cord cutting may be harmful to your baby's health and what to do instead + Learn what placenta transfusion is and why this can help your baby's health + Why co-sleeping and bed sharing is important to the health of both baby and mother + How to prepare and step into parenthood powerfully.

Robbie Davis Floyd is a medical anthropologist specializing in the anthropology of reproduction. She is the author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage and her most recent collection is Birth Models That Work.  TOPICS: Birth as a rite of passage + How the medical system doesn't support women in having natural birth and what you can do about it + How you can enjoy your birth and have it be a transformational life experience + How a modern woman can navigate all the information about pregnancy and birth + How our culture's beliefs and values impact our pregnancy and birth + How to step into your power around how you want to give birth.

Sheila Kamara Hay is the creatrix and visionary behind Ecstatic Birth. She is a mother of three and serves on the board of Choices for Childbirth, a not-for-profit organization that raises awareness among expectant mothers about their options for childbirth.  TOPICS: How birth can be ecstatic + Why pleasure is so important in having the birth experience you desire + Why the way you live your life is the way you give birth + How to navigate your perfectionist tendencies + How to trust yourself and stop trying to please others so much + How to heal from a traumatic birth and prepare for an ecstatic birth.

Dr. Maggie Ney is a licensed, board-certified naturopathic doctor and co-director of the Women’s Clinic at Akasha. She specializes in female hormone balancing and healthy aging.  TOPICS: Pre-conception nutrition and how to prepare the optimal environment for your baby + Key supplements every pregnant woman should take + How to balance your hormones and experience a healthy and joyful pregnancy + The importance of rest + Tips for a natural birth