Shows
Phoenix LessonsSlow Down! How One Rock Climber Got Her Feet on the Ground ~ Keely CarolanKeely Carolan, a twenty-three year old rock climber and climbing coach, nearly lost her vocation and avocation when her body started to break down. Instead of giving up her dreams, she learn how to slow down, listen to her body, and embrace life at a new pace. You will be encouraged by her story of rising from the ashes to living out this new wisdom so early in life.2025-07-1829 min
Phoenix LessonsHow Music Saved My Life with Cami & AmandaCami and Amanda talk about times and ways music helps them tap into their deep joy. When we are sitting in the ashes, we often distract ourselves from the pain and discomfort, which can be health... to a point. Learn the difference between distraction and turning your attention to the under-current of passion within you.2025-07-0328 min
Phoenix LessonsSigns of Life with Shannon KnightShannon Knight is a psychotherapist, host of The Tarot Diagnosis podcast, and the creator The Symposium, a community of tarot and psychology. Can you use symbolic tools to help you through the ashes? Shannon is also the author of two work books, with a third coming soon: Dark Shadow, Golden Shadow exploring shadow work through tarot. 2025-06-2047 min
Phoenix LessonsHaving the Hard Conversations with Cami & AmandaHow do you talk to your beloved aunt about politics? What do you do when a good friend says something you cannot imagine they believe? We live in polarizing times. But that doesn't mean we have to lose out on relationships which are important to us! Cami and Amanda riff on ways to help with the most difficult conversations. 2025-06-0639 min
Phoenix LessonsAt The End of My Hope with Cami and AmandaCami and Amanda talk about what how even the helpers need help from time to time. Where do you turn when hope that you have held onto (sometimes for ages) in a certain area fades away? How do you know when to let go of hope and look for another answer? Info on the group coaching program at phoenix-lessons.com2025-05-3045 min
Phoenix LessonsTaking Risks in Life and Business with Brooke WarnerBrooke Warner is passionate champion of authors and co-host of the Write-minded podcast. She started her publishing career in 2000 and worked for traditional publishers for 13 years. In 2012, she left her job as Executive Editor of Seal Press to co-found She Writes Press. She tells the story of why she left traditional publishing in her TEDx talk: “Green-Light Revolution.” Find out more at brookewarner.com2025-05-1634 min
Still WithinCami Ostman on Living an Aligned LifeCami Ostman, therapist, author, runner and founder of The Narrative Project and the Phoenix Lessons joins me on this episode to explore how the stories we carry shape our lives. We discuss leaving things that are out of alignment, breaking free from limiting narratives, and rising from the ashes to transform. In this conversation, Cami honors how hard life can be, reflects on what it takes to change (particularly when it comes to attachment wounds), and what is at stake if we let the parts of ourselves holding us back run us. We discuss practices to help tune into our...2025-05-0940 min
Phoenix LessonsTiming in the Ashes with Cami & AmandaCami and Amanda riff on how hard it is to be patient in the ashes. How do you handle not knowing what is coming next or when that next phase will begin? 2025-05-0228 min
Phoenix LessonsA Leg to Stand On with Colleen HaggertyColleen Haggerty, author of A Leg to Stand On: An Amputee's Walk Into Motherhood, discusses her journey through losing her leg in a car accident and subsequent path to forgiveness and freedom. Colleen now uses her hard-won wisdom to help others as a Soul Tender. Find out more at colleenhaggerty.com or watch her Tedx Talk: Forgiving the Unforgivable.2025-04-1842 min
Phoenix LessonsWords Matter: Forgiveness with Cami & AmandaHave you ever been in a long conversation with someone only to discover that the words or phrases you are using mean something totally different to the person across the table than they mean to you? We certainly have. So we're doing a series of episodes about some of the words we have found where our definitions don't necessarily line up. First of the docket: Forgiveness. 2025-04-0445 min
Phoenix LessonsClimbing with Love and Light- Bobby McLaughlin & Stacey SolainOne of Bobby McFarland’s Phoenix moments led him to become a living kidney donor, a UNOS Transplant Living ambassador, and the leader of a living donors’ climb up Kilimanjaro. Stacey Solain was working with organizations providing clean water access around the globe when her Phoenix moment began. Now, together, they are creating spaces for all of us to live in love and light.2025-03-2137 min
Phoenix LessonsBeauty and the Beast with Cami & AmandaThe classic story of Beauty and the Beast (or Phantom of the Opera or Twilight or 50 Shades of Grey) has been popular for centuries. But how does this idea that the female can and needs to be quiet, good, pure enough, love strongly enough to turn the beast into a handsome prince effect us? Amanda and Cami set fire to this concept and advocate for a different way of being in relationship. 2025-03-0754 min
Phoenix LessonsA Feast for the Phoenix with Ash RodriguezAsh Rodriguez, a Seattle-based award-winning food writer, photographer, author of three cookbooks, and host of the James Beard nominated series, Kitchen Unnecessary, talks about her spiritual journey beyond the world of food. She’s getting in touch with where our food comes from as a forager and Nature and Forest Therapy Guide amidst her process of rising anew. Learn more at ashrod.earth. 2025-02-2842 min
Phoenix LessonsOff the Grid with Cami & AmandaCami, with the help of her brothers, built a yurt on a piece of property formerly owned by her grandparents. This experience, which she expected to navigate alone and 'off of the grid,' became a moment of reconnection for the whole family. Cami and Amanda explore the value of restful connection in the ashes and how we can all create restful moments in our lives, with or without escaping to the wilderness. 2025-02-2133 min
Phoenix LessonsLessons from the Phoenix with Cami & AmandaPhoenix lessons are the stories and teachings of those who can show us how to climb out of the ashes and fly again. Cami and Amanda unpack the Phoenix story and the stages of the life/death/life cycle that we all experience from time to time. Is there something in your life that needs to (metaphorically) burn? Are you stuck in the ashes? Are you ready to soar again as a new version of yourself? Let's find out.2025-02-1431 min
Phoenix LessonsAn Arthurian Story with Cami & AmandaThe story of King Arthur, Sir Gawain, and the Lady Ragnell tells the tale of kings, knights, and curses leading us to some deep truth about female agency. What do women want? And how does the power of their choices effect the patriarchal world around them? Put yourself in the place of the first cursed, then freed Lady Ragnell and decide how your Phoenix story will end. 2025-02-1440 min