In this episode, they explore:

• How Stephen’s most volatile relationship became one of his greatest spiritual gifts
• The difference between “this happened to me” vs “this happened for me”
• Shame, secrecy, and the surprising freedom that comes from putting your entire raw story out there
• Attachment to identity (including the material world) and the slow, painful yet liberating process of letting go
• Relationships as initiations: master dark arts teachers, mirrors, and loving someone enough to let them go
• Monogamy as choice (not obligation), and what happens when we don’t tell the truth about what we want
• Emotional waves, satori moments, and why enlightenment still includes washing dishes

About Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards

Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards is an international speaker and author with a PhD in Spiritual Counseling. His book The Venus Fly Trap explores love, obsession, liberation, and the wild edge where spirituality meets raw human reality—told with humor, honesty, and sexual liberation.

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• Access the first three chapters of The Venus Fly Trap
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Joshua reflects on how many of us never set out to “be spiritual” — we simply wanted to feel better. He breaks down what healing actually means, why the journey moves in spirals, and his controversial perspective on the need for far fewer people to be concerned with trying to help the world- how true and effective service only becomes possible when the nervous system is resourced, the ego is integrated, and inner wholeness is reclaimed.

Along the way, he shares personal origin-story threads — identity wounds, chronic symptoms, coping patterns, and the long initiation into embodiment — and offers a map for how your deepest wounds can become your greatest teachers, and eventually your greatest gifts of service for others.

In this episode:

• The natural progression of the path: Healing → Wholeness → Service (how it’s appropriate to focus on one area depending on your life stage, and what you can expect)
• A mature understanding of and relationship with your ego: healing fragmentation so your ego becomes a servant of your soul
• “Wholing” as an embodied practice: resourcing from within and strengthening connection to the part of you that is already unbroken
• Sovereignty and the “vertical axis”: becoming internally resourced through God/Soul/inner adult rather than external dependency
• Service as embodied leadership: becoming the medicine and letting life initiate you into your contribution
• The three types of purpose: Default Purpose, Created Purpose, and Soul Purpose

Reflection question:

Where in your life are you being called right now — healing, wholeness, or service — and what would it look like to honor that season fully?

Want to go deeper?

If you want to explore this arc in a more embodied way, Joshua will be hosting another online Mystery Class and Embodiment journey for leaders to support whatever season you find yourself in. Join the newsletter to stay updated on the details!

If you’d like access to a library of free resources to get started, deepen, or master your personal journey into your body and soul, check out the Living Embodiment Collective.

To explore Joshua’s offerings and resources, visit https://www.soulbodywholeness.life/

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People are always wanting to know more after seeing some of his work on social media, so he decided to de-mystify it by sharing the methodologies that changed EVERYTHING for him.

Joshua traces the arc from early years of trying to “fix” life through fitness and diet, to ongoing initiations into embodiment, purpose, and soul-aligned living. Along the way, he unpacks the intelligence that is always guiding our attention inwards- towards our trauma and conditioning that are stuck energy in the body- how we can liberate, integrate, and use that energy to become our most authentic selves of love, joy, and service- our Genius Frequency.

He also covers why true transformation requires both depth (our shadows and our truths) and breadth (building safety, spaciousness, and capacity).

You’ll hear what an EEE session can look like, why it is often described as breathwork + bodywork + energy work (but without the work), and how the body prefers to process at the level of sensation, movement, sound, and regulation rather than endless mental and verbal analysis and processing.

In this episode:

• Joshua’s brief personal origin story connection to the work
• What Genius Frequency is, and how EEE fits inside of it
• How trauma, symptoms, and “dis-ease” can be reframed as intelligent guidance instead of enemies
• How EEE differs from talk-based processing
• Breadth vs. depth, and why integration requires both
• What clients often experience: safety, remembering, clarity, rest, vitality, and aligned action

Want to go deeper?

If you’d like access to a library of free resources to get started, deepen, or master your personal journey into your body and soul, check out the Living Embodiment Collective. This is where you can also access low cost recorded EEE guided journeys and mystery classes.

If you want to explore working with Joshua 1:1, EEE is offered through Somatic Alchemy sessions (and also woven into Joshua’s coaching, purpose initiation containers, and group guided experiences). Check out more at https://www.soulbodywholeness.life/

If you’d like to learn more about Genius Frequency Methodologies or purchase any at home embodiment programs, check out GeniusFrequency.com Make sure to use discount code JOSHUA.

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Thomas shares what Sacred City actually is, a self-development community devoted to helping people experience at least one meaningful, “life is magical” moment per day. Together, they explore Sacred City’s monthly upward-spiral rhythm of remembering who we are (song ceremonies / kirtan), embodying who we are (dance portals), and embracing who we are (celebrations), along with the deeper ethos underneath it all: courageous authenticity- being fully yourself even at the threshold of fear.

Thomas offers powerful metaphors for why “telling the truth” can sting at first, but ultimately clears the field for real intimacy, presence, and creativity. Joshua reflects on where we let things “fester” in life, and how half-truths can keep us stuck, even when they look spiritual.

They also dive into ego, shadow, and paradox: how mature spirituality is not about transcending humanness, but shining awareness on the whole human experience.

If you’re craving a grounded conversation on community, devotion to truth, and what it looks like to live your values without trying to control the world, this one is for you.

In this episode

• Courageous authenticity: being yourself even when it is terrifying
• Pain vs. suffering, and what it means to sit through attachments breaking down
• Ego as a healthy servant of soul (not something to eliminate)
• The origin story of Sacred City, from kirtan circles to a growing community ecosystem
• Tantra as devotion to the truth of the present moment in relationship

About Thomas

I love the moments when I remember what matters most to me, then have the courage to actually live from that place. This is the foundation of my music and my daily life. I’m inspired by those who yearn to live this way. To live courageously authentic lives. This deeper pull continues to motivate me to steward Sacred City, a community of people building a magical place by remembering, embodying, and embracing who we truly are.

Website: http://www.sacredcity.co
IG: @thomasishuman @sacredcity_

Check out the somatic transmission event mentioned in the intro: From Collapse to Courage: A Somatic Transmission for New Earth Leaders
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Adina shares the vision behind Remembering the Muse — a nine-month shadow integration journey for highly sensitive creative visionaries — inspired by Inanna’s descent through the underworld, where each “gateway” invites deeper honesty, vulnerability, and self-reclamation.

Together, they explore why true healing is not a finish line, but an ascending spiral of deepening capacity, trust, and embodiment. They speak candidly about the challenges of marketing depth work with integrity, the cultural misunderstanding of trauma and sensitivity, and the ways imagination, art, and the felt sense become portals to soul meaning beyond the mind.

This episode goes beyond surface-level spirituality and explores:

• Why transformation is real, but outcomes cannot be “promised” in the way modern marketing demands
• How highly sensitive people can move from collapse and overwhelm into capacity and presence
• Complex trauma and the hidden patterns that shape identity and nervous system strategies
• The “vertical axis” of resourcing: learning to trust the present moment as the portal to Spirit
• Diagnoses, labels, and pathologizing as distortions of deeper psycho-spiritual truth
• Shadow work as liberation: turning shadow work into “shadow play”
• Imagination as the soul’s language

If you feel the call of mysticism, creativity, and honest self-confrontation, this conversation is an invitation to step through the next gateway — and remember the muse within you.

For more info on Adina’s work:
Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and a very curious person.

Website: http://www.firebirdcreative.me
Instagram: @fire.bird.creative
Podcast: Blue Hour

Check out the group offering mentioned in the intro:
From Collapse to Courage: A Somatic Transmission for New Earth Leaders
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Christina shares her origin story as an intensely sensitive child and “mental projector” in Human Design, describing how overwhelm, anxiety, and emotional flooding led to patterns of numbing, coping, and identity confusion.

From there, Christina opens up about the path of deconditioning that reshaped everything- and the gradual reclamation of sovereignty, self-love, and a lived relationship with God that turns life itself into a mirror for awakening.

Together, Joshua and Christina unpack how life is not a problem to fix, but a sacred intelligence that expands our capacity for truth, compassion, and presence.

This episode goes beyond surface-level spirituality and explores:

• How we are entering a nuanced chapter of needing to take “messy action”
• Perfectionism as a protection strategy
• Energetic sovereignty, people-pleasing, and the nervous system “catalog of strategies”
• Presence as the deep unknown, beyond any spiritual concept
• Reality as holographic mirror: how identity shapes perception
• Trauma alchemy as a pathway into wholeness, not self-improvement
• Past-life and ancestral healing, soul retrieval, and “fear as the raw material for higher states”
• Entrainment fields: how coherence in one being awakens coherence in others
• Death and rebirth cycles as ecstatic liberation, not punishment

Joshua also shares about his first tea ceremony in Christina’s temple space, where profound primordial remembrance and spontaneous channeling opened a major portal of purification and soul activation.

This episode is an invitation to stop treating your shadows as enemies, trust the intelligence of your initiations, and remember that your essence itself IS the medicine.

For more info on Christina’s work:

Christina Marie is a priestess for the path of essence embodiment, sacred business and devotional service. She is the steward of Becoming Medicine, a mystery school and temple offering multi-dimensional support for mission-motivated souls devoted to the path of mastery.

She holds high-level space to midwife New Earth leaders across initiatory thresholds of birthing their medicine, actualizing their legacy timelines and walking their God-guided prophecy path of dharma, destiny and Divine Union.

Website: https://becomingmedicine.co/

Instagram: @becomingmedicine

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For more info and offerings on my work: http://www.soulbodywholeness.life

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David is a certified Purpose Guide, Neurodynamic Breathwork Facilitator, and trauma informed somatic practitioner.

David opens up about what he refers to as his “Calling to Clarity”- the story of how he spent a major portion of his life in a fog, seeking love, connection, and validation through the haze of drugs, alcohol, and sex addiction.

And the precise moments of Divine grace- a clearing of the haze and the revelation of clarity- the transformational shift of identity from the outer to the inner. The moments where he was able to finally come home to his Soul.

David and Joshua explore themes around:

• Identity crisis
• Addiction
• How clarity requires clearing, simplifying, and removing
• The raw human version of spiritual awakening
• The immortal will, creativity, and sacred memory of the human spirit
• The multi-dimensional nature of relationships and karmic connections
• The role of music and culture in personal discovery

This episode is also an experiment in a new type of authenticity for the podcast, as it was more of a conversation between two brothers. David shares his story not from a place of polished preparation, but rather from dropping into the raw present moment.

It was a living, breathing relationship he got to re-experience with his story, connecting new dots and revealing new insight.

Resources

To learn more about David’s work: http://purposeiscalling.life/

Follow him on IG: @yourlegacycalls

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For more info and offerings on my work: http://www.soulbodywholeness.life

Listen to the podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5JGUdae..
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In this deep and wide-ranging conversation, Joshua sits down with men’s coach Hannah Jo McCartney to explore intimacy, sexuality, emotional alchemy, and relationship as a path to soul evolution.

Hannah Jo specializes in helping men recreate their relationship to their sexuality, emotions, and desires. She is a co-founder of The Studio X in Santa Barbara, California where she supports clients in person and worldwide through virtual coaching and community.

Hannah Jo shares her personal origin story into what she and her community call the PolyTantric Method- a living, embodied framework that weaves together somatics, tantra, transpersonal psychology, shadow work, and relational practice.

Together, Joshua and Hannah unpack how relationships, desire, and sexual energy can become vehicles for awakening, rather than identities, labels, or pleasure-driven pursuits.

This episode goes far beyond surface level conversations about polyamory or tantra. Instead, it explores:

• Relationship as a mirror for soul growth, not a fixed category
• Polyamory reframed as “the capacity to love many,” not promiscuity
• Why emotional triggers are accelerants for healing
• Men’s deconditioning work around emotion, desire, shame, and masculinity
• Sexual energy as a force for purification, coherence, and purpose
• Sovereignty, discernment, and truth-telling in complex relational spaces
• The role of the solar plexus, internal masculine, and self-responsibility
• How embodiment and somatic awareness transform intimacy from the inside out

Hannah Jo also speaks candidly about her work with men-supporting them to reconnect with their feeling bodies, rewrite internalized “man programs,” and come into deeper alignment with their authentic values, relationships, and life purpose.

The conversation closes with Hannah Jo guiding a powerful Trinity of Awareness Meditation- an alchemical and practical practice of deep self-compassion.

This episode is an invitation to question inherited relationship models, reclaim emotional truth, and relate from the deepest layers of the body and soul- beyond labels, beyond scripts, and beyond fear.

For more info on Hannah Jo’s work:

Website: http://thestudiox.com

Instagram: @hannahjomc

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For more info and offerings on my work: http://www.soulbodywholeness.life

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This grounded and intimate conversation is perfectly timed for the new year, as they explore the rich topic of returning to what truly matters in one’s life.

Together, they discuss:

— the painful unraveling process that often follows awakening but precedes true life fulfillment and alignment,

— how modern culture pulls us away from our values, our bodies, and our sense of meaning,

— and what it actually takes to come home to oneself.

Chris shares his journey from a fast-paced, externally driven life rooted in achievement and validation to a deeply intentional way of living shaped by nature, slowness, embodiment, and inner authority.

This conversation moves through themes of masculine presence, internal vs. external locus of control, the nuances of service to self vs. service to all, and the ironic freedom of living in resonance rather than urgency.

Expect a rich exploration of values, identity, and the long, honest process of unwinding what can no longer go with you as you grow, expand, and evolve.

Takeaways

• The journey of unwinding is essential for personal growth.
• Nature plays a crucial role in self-discovery and honest reflection.
• Slowing down is the panacea medicine we all need right now.
• The story of the Ironman triathlete as a metaphor for reclaiming personal power.
• Solidness and fortification in oneself allows for authentic service to others to reveal naturally.
• Generosity and reciprocity are vital in our interactions.
• Service to the All is interconnected with Self-service, or service to one’s Soul.
• Sovereignty requires a deep knowing of oneself and fortifying one's values with attention and intention.

Resources

Specializing in men’s development, Chris utilizes thousands of hours of experience in emotional healing, trauma facilitation, somatics, breathwork, masculine embodiment, relationship and communication coaching, business, entrepreneurship and leadership mentoring. He has worked with over 2000 clients in physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual development.

For more info: http://chrismarhefka.com

Follow Chris on IG: @chrismarhefka

Check out Thirteen Pines: http://thirteenpines.com/

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For more info and offerings on my work: http://www.soulbodywholeness.life

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Brooke is a Hypnotist, Vedic Astrologer, and Modern Feminine Mystic based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, NC.

Her healing practice is rooted in healing and creating lasting change from the subconscious mind so that we can awaken to our true nature and create a better environment for fulfilling our Dharma and desires.

This conversation explored her journey through loss, healing, and the discovery of her soul purpose and dharma work. Brooke shares her foundational experiences of passion and embodiment through somatics and dance, the soul awakening impact of her familial trauma, and how her reclamation of the Divine Feminine completely changed her spiritual trajectory.

The discussion delves into the more nuanced levels of understanding of big spiritual concepts, such as surrender and trust- and the need to shift one’s center of identification to break free from mental conceptual understanding and steep into embodied inner knowing.

They explore what’s happening in the collective shift in consciousness, emphasizing the significance of continuing to show up, with consistency and determination, in order to truly find lasting peace and fulfillment.

Brooke also shares insights into her current offerings and the importance of storytelling in her work.

Takeaways

• Brooke's journey began with a loss of passion for dance and severe life altering family trauma- the catalyst for awakening
• How Kali represents the divine feminine and the concept of time.
• The need to practice and experiment with your soul gifts.
• The importance of storytelling in healing and self-discovery.
• The nuance of embracing desire as part of the human experience.
• The collective consciousness is shifting towards healing and embodiment.
• Astrology can help break down fear patterns and validate personal experiences.

Resources

Brooke specializes in helping restless and overworked visionaries transform people-pleasing and self-abandonment into radiant aliveness and expansive authenticity through the oracular power of the belly-heart-mind and the Vedic astrological birthchart.

Follow her on IG: @brookeunderwoodenergy

Explore how to work with her: https://brookeunderwood.my.canva.site/

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For more info and offerings on my work:

http://www.soulbodywholeness.life

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They explore the themes of how it has been initiating him into higher levels of self-mastery, as well as the original blueprint of the integration of masculine and feminine energies- a true sacred union.

The conversation delves into themes of modern day initiation, rebirth, and the mystical aspects of soul-based business.

Tears were shed and emotions were deeply FELT on this one.

Takeaways

• The many shadows in the spirituality world of sacred union
• Mentorship plays a crucial role in personal transformation.
• Many business strategies that work for the status quo might lead to your misaligned burnout.
• Initiation and rebirth are integral parts of the personal growth journey.
• You can’t separate soul-centered entrepreneurship from your spirituality.
• Trusting the process and surrendering to the unknown are required everyday.
• The importance of authenticity and alignment in business practices.
• The role of spiritual practices in supporting personal and professional growth.

Resources

If you’re looking to be mid-wifed through a Soul guided creation process, check out Christina’s work:

Follow her on Instagram: @becomingmedicine

Check out her website: www.becomingmedicine.co

Follow me on IG: @soulbodywholeness

For more info and offerings on my work:

http://www.soulbodywholeness.life

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I’m Joshua Zamrin, and in this origin story episode, I share a deep introduction to who I am, my journey, and the vision behind this podcast.

We explore my personal story- from growing up highly sensitive and navigating existential angst, through pivotal life changing portals of alchemical suffering, and the transformative experiences that led me to fully step into my soul’s purpose.

I also share why I’m creating this space: a sanctuary for authenticity, presence, and connection amidst the noise, strategy, and over-stimulation of the post modern world.

This episode isn’t just about listening with your mind- it’s an invitation to feel, breathe, and be present in your body as we co-create this space together.

I introduce the heart of the podcast: bridging spirit and soul into the body and the world, creating a space for reflection, embodiment, and genuine connection.

If you’re ready to come home to yourself, your body, and your soul’s calling, this episode is the first step on our journey together.

For more info and offerings: www.soulbodywholeness.life

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Welcome to a temple where Soul-Embodied Leaders and Visionaries connect and share from the heart.

While most podcasts seek to follow a structured interview-like format, this podcast will be a dynamic and evolving devotional platform to truth.

Expect raw and real unscripted conversations, where mythical humans show up to meet the edge of their fears and share about their full-spectrum life experiences.

Topics will range from soul to somatics, from psyche to dharma, from mytho-poetics to temple arts, and much more.

Join me your host, Joshua Zamrin, Somatic Life Coach and Soul Purpose Guide, as I share the gold and medicine from my own personal underworld journeys, and as I dive into portals of divine transmission and authenticity with my guests.