AUTHENTICITY CALLING PODCAST

The Dark Night of the Soul Doesn't End - It Teaches You How to Live in the Dark.

Featuring RAE~VEN | Soul Midwife, Alchemist & Guide

What happens when a soul midwife who has spent 16 years inside her own Dark Night of the Soul sits down with a physician who left medicine to heal what medicine couldn't name?

You get a conversation that doesn't flinch. That doesn't rush to the resolution. That stays - right there in the tender, alchemical middle of becoming.

IN THIS EPISODE:

RAE~VEN has not escaped her initiation. She's learned to be present with the darkness rather than flee it. And that, she says, is the medicine itself.

We go deep on soul retrieval, the practice of reclaiming the pieces of yourself left behind in trauma, and why becoming your own alchemist means learning to process pain as it happens rather than losing yourself to it.

RAE~VEN opens up about her AuDHD unmasking journey, her experiences with hypomania, chronic inflammation, complex trauma, and depression - not as a list of diagnoses to fix, but as a unified story of a woman learning to stop abandoning herself.

We explore Kundalini awakening, empathic boundaries for healers and helpers, and the simple practices that allow intense emotional energy to move through the body safely.

And we talk about what happens to physicians, nurses, and healthcare workers who hold space for death and loss every single day, without anyone ever teaching them how to hold space for themselves.

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

You are a healer who is also healing. You are a high-achiever who is exhausted by performing wellness. You have been holding space for everyone, except yourself. You sense that what you're moving through is not a breakdown, but an initiation.

"The goal isn't to get through the darkness faster. It's to stop abandoning yourself while you're in it." — RAE~VEN

CONNECT WITH RAE~VEN: heartfeltwholeself.com

READY TO STOP SURVIVING YOUR AWAKENING?

Ralitza Spassova, MD offers a complimentary first call: a real conversation about what's possible for you. No performance required.

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With appreciation for all that you do, and all that you are when you're doing nothing at all (the part we often forget to honour and celebrate,

Ralitza Spassova, MD | authenticityMD.com | @authenticitycalling

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The Grief Nobody Names - Leaving the Life You Built to Find the One You Were Meant to Live

Featuring Dr. Gayla Gates | Physician, Grief Guide & Transformation Architect

What do you do when the life you worked decades to build no longer fits the person you've become?

Most people stay. They shrink. They perform.

Dr. Gayla Gates left.

And in leaving: her 10-year medical practice, her old identity, the version of herself the world expected her to remain... she discovered that this kind of grief is real, it's valid, and nobody is talking about it honestly enough.

This conversation does.

IN THIS EPISODE:

Dr. Gates joins Ralitza for one of the most expansive conversations the Authenticity Calling Podcast has held, moving through personal grief, ancestral healing, Human Design, and the radical act of choosing yourself when every external structure tells you to stay put.

We open with the excitement of Dr. Gates launching her new brand: a movement devoted to helping people navigate life's biggest transitions with grace, compassion, and grounded support. Then we go somewhere deeper.

Dr. Gates speaks openly about the losses that shaped her calling: her mother, her father, her aunt, her dog. And the Sacred Holiday Grief Initiative she created to hold space for others in the emotional intensity of the holiday season, when grief has nowhere to hide.

We explore the tension every healthcare professional knows intimately: the weight of the work versus the absolute human necessity of joy, play, and self-permission. Energy hygiene. Emotional responsibility. The myth that sacrifice is the price of service.

The heart of this episode is identity grief. The slow, disorienting mourning that happens when you outgrow a role that once defined you, and the courage it takes to let it go anyway. Dr. Gates names what so many high-achievers feel but cannot say: that holding on because you should is a quiet death of the soul.

And we close in the body and the blueprint: Human Design, masculine and feminine energies, and what becomes possible when aligned structure meets embodied wisdom.

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

You are grieving an identity, not just a person. You have achieved everything you were supposed to, and still feel empty. You are a healthcare provider who has been told your needs come last. You sense that the transition you're in is not a failure; it's a calling. You are ready to stop thinking about change and actually make it.

"Breakthroughs don't come from thinking about it. They come from booking the session, showing up, and letting yourself be seen." — Ralitza Spassova, MD

CONNECT WITH DR. GAYLA GATES: Instagram: @gayladgates LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drgaylamd

YOUR NEXT STEP STARTS WITH ONE CONVERSATION.

Ralitza Spassova, MD offers a complimentary first call: a real, unhurried conversation about where you are, what's possible, and what it might look like to stop waiting.

Book yours at www.AuthenticityMD.com

Your first call is always complimentary.

With Appreciation,

Ralitza Spassova, MD | authenticityMD.com | @authenticitycalling

Values Over Vanity: Building a Career and a Movement That Actually Mean Something

Featuring Santana Inniss | Founder, The Glow Initiative

What if coaching wasn't a luxury reserved for those who could afford it? What if your career could be built entirely on curiosity, justice, and integrity, and STILL change the world?

Santana Inniss is proving both are possible.

IN THIS EPISODE:

Ralitza and Santana open with a candid conversation on AI safety and the real risks of tech tools in the hands of children - a thread they promise to pull further in a future episode.

Then the conversation shifts to Santana's career journey: one guided not by titles or income targets, but by an unwavering commitment to personal values. She shares how aligning who you are with what you do is not idealistic; it is the most strategic move you can make.

From there, we go into The Glow Initiative - GlowI - a platform redefining who gets access to transformational coaching. In its first year alone, GlowI provided over 200 hours of coaching to women who could not otherwise afford it, matching them with volunteer coaches in a model designed for sustainable impact, community reinvestment, and systemic change rather than profit.

They also get honest about coaching as a profession: the energy it requires, the presence it demands, and why authentic connection will always outlast the promise of quick financial gain.

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

You are a coach wondering how to make your work mean more. You lead or work within a nonprofit and want to see coaching done differently. You are a woman who has never had access to a coach and didn't know where to start. You believe systemic change begins with one empowered woman at a time.

"Coaching can be a tool for empowerment, community reinvestment, and transformation — if we build it that way."

CONNECT WITH SANTANA INNISS: Website: glowi.org LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/santanainniss Book a Discovery Call: glowi.zohobookings.com

READY FOR YOUR OWN CONVERSATION?

Ralitza Spassova, MD offers a complimentary first call: a real, unhurried conversation about where you are and what becomes possible when you stop waiting.

Book yours at www.AuthenticityMD.com

Your first call is always complimentary.

With appreciation for all that you do, and all that you are when you're doing nothing at all (the part we often forget to honour and celebrate),

Ralitza Spassova, MD | authenticityMD.com | @authenticitycalling

The Pharmacist Who Knew Too Much — And Chose Truth Anyway

Featuring Angela Orr | Pharmacist of 39 Years, Transformation Mentor & Author

What do you do when the system you dedicated your life to starts to feel like the problem?

Angela Orr spent 39 years inside the pharmaceutical industry. She knows how it works. She knows what gets prescribed, what gets ignored, and what never makes it into the conversation at all.

Then came the diagnosis that changed everything.

And she chose a different door.

This is not an episode about being anti-medicine. It's about something far more unsettling and far more liberating: the possibility that you are more involved in your own healing than anyone ever told you.

Angela and Ralitza go deep into the science that mainstream healthcare rarely has time for. The Heart Math research on heart-brain coherence. The role of cortisol in conditions we've been taught to manage rather than reverse. The way epigenetics is quietly rewriting everything we thought we knew about genetics and destiny.

They talk about what stress actually does to the body over time, not as a warning, but as an explanation for things you may have felt for years without language for them.

They talk about neural pathways, ancestral patterns, and the moment a person finally stops outsourcing their healing to everyone but themselves.

And they talk about frequency: the idea that when you do your own work, the people connected to you, past and future, feel it too.

This episode will make you ask questions your last doctor's appointment didn't leave room for.

Good.

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

You have followed every protocol and still don't feel well. You sense that stress is at the root of more than you've been told. You are curious about what healing looks like when it starts from the inside. You are ready to stop being a passenger in your own health story.

EXPLORE ANGELA'S WORK: angelaorrconsulting.com

WHAT IF YOUR NEXT STEP ISN'T ANOTHER PRESCRIPTION?

Ralitza Spassova, MD offers a complimentary first call: a conversation that starts where most appointments end.

Book yours at www.AuthenticityMD.com

Your first call is always complimentary.

With appreciation for all that you do, and all that you are when you're doing nothing at all, the part we often forget to honour and celebrate,

Ralitza Spassova, MD | AuthenticityMD.com | @authenticitycalling

Is that why there's no description? 

Listen to find out... 

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You Think You Know Who You Are. The Horses Disagree.

Featuring Lisa DeAngelis | Coach, Author & Change Architect

Authenticity is not a destination.

It is not a personality trait, a brand, or a fixed point you arrive at and stay.

Lisa DeAngelis learned this from horses.

And once she did, she couldn't unsee it anywhere.

Lisa has spent years working at the intersection of identity, change, and the stories our nervous systems tell us before our minds have a chance to catch up. She knows why change is hard not because people lack discipline or desire, but because the brain is designed to predict, protect, and repeat. And it is very, very good at its job.

This episode goes somewhere most conversations about authenticity don't.

Into the body. Into the predictive brain. Into the science of constructed emotion and what it means that everything you feel right now is partly a memory. Into the question of what becomes possible when you stop trying to define who you are and start showing up as who you are, in this moment, in this room, with this person in front of you.

Ralitza and Lisa explore what hypervigilance actually costs us, not just in crisis but in ordinary life, in relationships, in the quiet ways we perform safety instead of feeling it. They talk about the communities that make it possible to finally put the armor down. About vulnerability as a precision instrument rather than an open wound. About the men in our lives who were never given language for what they carry.

And about Lisa's upcoming book and her Change Lab: an invitation to stop managing your evolution and start choosing it.

This episode will make you question what you mean when you say you are being yourself.

That question is the beginning of everything.

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

You have done the work and still feel like something essential is out of reach.

You adapt well on the outside and exhaust yourself doing it.

You sense that your patterns are protecting you from something that no longer exists.

You are ready to embrace change as something that happens through you, not to you.

EXPLORE LISA'S WORK:

linktr.ee/lisa.deangelis

WHAT IF ONE CONVERSATION CHANGED THE QUESTION YOU'VE BEEN ASKING?

Ralitza Spassova, MD offers a complimentary first call: not an intake, not a pitch, a real exchange between two people willing to go somewhere honest.

Book yours at www.AuthenticityMD.com

Your first call is always complimentary.

With appreciation for all that you do, and all that you are when you're doing nothing at all, the part we often forget to honour and celebrate,

Ralitza Spassova, MD | AuthenticityMD.com | @authenticitycalling

1,775 Days. No Charge. No Freedom. And He Never Stopped Choosing Hope.

Featuring Jose Angel Pereira Ruimwyk | Former CEO, Citgo Petroleum | Survivor, Advocate & Author

What would it take to break you?

Not inconvenience you. Not challenge you.

Actually break you.

Jose Angel Pereira Ruimwyk was at the top of his career, CEO of the sixth largest refinery complex in the United States, when he boarded a plane to Caracas for a business meeting.

He would not come home for nearly five years.

What the Venezuelan regime took from him was time, freedom, reputation, and proximity to everyone he loved. What they could not take, and this is the part that will stay with you long after this episode ends, was the place inside him where he had already decided how this story would finish.

One year of that imprisonment was spent in solitary confinement. He lost track of the days.

And still, he wrote letters to his wife. Smuggled them in and out of prison. Held onto the future by putting words on paper when the present was almost unbearable.

Those letters became a lifeline. They are becoming a book.

In this conversation, Jose shares not just what happened but how he survived it: the daily disciplines of positive thinking, physical movement, prayer, connection, and even laughter inside circumstances that offered almost no reason for any of it. He talks about spirituality not as a concept but as the actual force that held him together when everything else was stripped away.

And then he turns the mirror outward.

Because Jose believes, and Ralitza meets him completely in this, that most of us are living inside a prison of our own making. Mental. Emotional. Spiritual. Physical. And that the same tools that kept a man alive through 1,775 days of wrongful captivity are available to anyone willing to use them.

The choice, he says, is always there.

Even when it doesn't feel like it.

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

You are in a season that feels impossible to outlast.

You have lost your sense of how far you have already come.

You need proof, not theory, that the human spirit can endure almost anything.

You are ready to stop waiting for your circumstances to change before you do.

EXPLORE JOSE'S WORK:

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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jose-angel-pereira

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Watch his Anderson Cooper interview: cnn.com

IF HIS STORY MOVED SOMETHING IN YOU, FOLLOW THAT.

Ralitza Spassova, MD offers a complimentary first call: a space to look honestly at what is keeping you from the life you know is possible.

Book yours at www.AuthenticityMD.com

Your first call is always complimentary.

With appreciation for all that you do, and all that you are when you're doing nothing at all, the part we often forget to honour and celebrate,

Ralitza Spassova, MD | AuthenticityMD.com | @authenticitycalling

Amanda's goal is to aid individuals in visually expressing their stories. Being much more than a designer, we dive deep into her unique approach as she becomes an emotional bridge for her clients, helping them excavate deeper layers of themselves while crafting their visual identities. Featuring tales of passion and purpose, this episode explores the incredible impact of visual storytelling in brand identity design.

The dialogue traverses beyond just professional aspects, delving into personal experiences such as the importance of saying no for aligning with your own path and purpose. Amanda shares valuable insights on dealing with fears and insecurities tied to rejecting opportunities and not seeking to please everyone.

Accompany us on this inspiring journey as Amanda beautifully interlaces the realms of design and psychology, transforming visuals into an impactful communication medium and emphasizing the significant role of authenticity and sustainability in her work.

This episode is a heartening reminder to value our alignment and integrity, to trust our instincts, and to honor our truth. We invite you to join in this enlightening conversation as we navigate the journey of embracing our own narratives and trusting our paths, one step, and occasionally, one 'no' at a time.

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What If the Most Complicated Relationship You've Ever Had Was Also the One Sent to Set You Free?

Featuring Lisa Anzaldua | Holistic Psychotherapist & Neurodiverse Couples Counselor

Some conversations change the air in the room.

This is one of them.

Lisa Anzaldua has spent years inside the places most people are too afraid to look: the space between two people who love each other and cannot reach each other. The silence that grows when one person is masking and the other doesn't know what they're missing. The grief of a woman who gave everything - and somehow still felt alone.

She's also lived it.

What she found on the other side is not what you'd expect.

Ralitza and Lisa go somewhere in this episode that goes beyond technique, beyond diagnosis, beyond the comfortable language of therapy. They talk about what actually happens in the body, the field, the lineage - when one person in a relationship chooses to grow and the other isn't ready. About the difference between self-sacrifice and self-sabotage, and why so many women can't tell them apart until it's almost too late. About what it costs to keep masking in a world that was never designed for the way your mind works.

And about what becomes possible when you stop.

This episode will sit with you.

Not because it gives you answers - but because it asks you the questions you've been avoiding.

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

Something in your relationship has always felt just slightly out of reach. You have spent years adapting, translating, softening, and you're tired. You love someone whose mind works differently than yours and you don't know how to bridge the distance. You have confused loyalty with self-erasure. You are ready to love from your wholeness instead of your wounds.

EXPLORE LISA'S WORK: thrivingbeyondcassandrasyndrome.com

SOMETHING STIRRED IN YOU READING THIS?

That's worth following.

Ralitza Spassova, MD offers a complimentary first call: not a pitch, not a program preview, a real conversation about what's alive in you right now.

Book yours at www.AuthenticityMD.com

Your first call is always complimentary.

With appreciation for all that you do, and all that you are when you're doing nothing at all, the part we often forget to honour and celebrate,

Ralitza Spassova, MD | authenticityMD.com | @authenticitycalling

The Story You Keep Telling Yourself You'll Write Someday

Featuring Krystal Hille | CEO, Hille House | Activator, Publisher & Story Alchemist

What if your story isn't just yours?

What if the experiences you've been quietly carrying, the ones you've hesitated to speak aloud, are precisely what someone else needs to find their way home?

Krystal Hille has built her life and her work around that question.

This episode is not about writing a book. It's about what gets in the way of writing a book, and why that resistance is almost always worth looking at.

Krystal and Ralitza have a history that runs deeper than a podcast conversation. They are co-authors. They are mirrors for each other. And in this episode, they bring that intimacy into the open, talking honestly about what it takes to tell the truth on a page, and what healing has to happen first before the story is ready to be shared.

Krystal's work as an activator is something that doesn't translate easily into a bio. She helps people see their own story from the outside, not to make it more marketable, but to find the thread inside it that belongs to everyone. The shift from "this happened to me" to "this is for you" is where books stop being memoirs and start becoming medicine.

They explore the stories we were conditioned to keep quiet. The cultural programming that tells certain people their lives are not worth documenting. The Aquarian age invitation to reclaim your voice anyway. And the surprisingly practical question of where, inside an ordinary day, the time to write one actually hides.

This episode will not tell you how to write a book.

It will make you wonder why you haven't started yet.

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

You have a story living inside you that you haven't given yourself permission to tell.

You've started writing and stopped more times than you can count.

You want your work to transform readers, not just inform them.

You are ready to stop waiting until you feel ready.

EXPLORE KRYSTAL'S WORK:

Find your author archetype: hillehouse.org

Book an activation call: hillehouse.org/activate

YOUR STORY DESERVES A REAL CONVERSATION FIRST.

Ralitza Spassova, MD offers a complimentary first call: an unhurried space to explore what's possible when you stop waiting for permission.

Book yours at www.AuthenticityMD.com

Your first call is always complimentary.

With appreciation for all that you do, and all that you are when you're doing nothing at all, the part we often forget to honour and celebrate,

Ralitza Spassova, MD | AuthenticityMD.com | @authenticitycalling

Katja shares her 4-year immersion in the Gene Keys, offering insights into the Delta program, the power of small intimate circles, and the transformational impact of understanding one’s shadow, gift, and siddhi. Together, she and Ralitza illuminate the way personal growth often unfolds - non-linear, deeply individual, and anchored in radical self-honesty.

This episode navigates the terrain of emotional intelligence, somatic healing, and the intimate link between physical symptoms and unprocessed feelings. Katja and Ralitza explore attunement, the art of holding space without fixing, and the energetic shifts that occur when individuals meet themselves with compassion instead of judgment.

The conversation widens into teachings on generational evolution, including the significance of the 55th Gene Key and the emerging wave of children born without certain ancestral imprints - ushering in a future where fear-based systems lose their power. They discuss heart-centered communication, neurodiversity, and the unique frequencies of individuals with autism or schizophrenia, revealing new ways of relating beyond labels and into presence, resonance, and truth.

From body awareness to spiritual alignment… From shadow work to feminine intuition… From generational trauma to the new consciousness being born through us… This episode is an invitation to step fully into the next evolution of your humanity.

It’s not just a conversation - it’s an activation.

If you’re ready to deepen your awareness, expand your heart, and explore the frequencies shaping your future:

➡️ Listen to the full episode now and allow the insights to land where your soul is ready to receive.

➡️ Tag us with your biggest breakthrough moment. Your shares amplify the collective field.

➡️ And if you feel the pull to explore your Gene Keys or somatic healing journey, reach out - this work is meant to be lived, not just understood.

This episode is your reminder: You are not here to fix yourself. You are here to remember yourself.

And that remembrance begins the moment you choose to listen.

In this deeply insightful episode, Ralitza Spassova is joined by embodiment coach Katia to explore what it truly means to live your truth through the body. More than a conversation - it’s a cellular awakening.

Together, they unravel the lived experience of authenticity, feminine power, and navigating the complexities of a world designed for disconnection. Katia introduces her transformational methodology, Embodied Repatterning, a somatic process that facilitates timeline shifts and energetic recalibration. Ralitza vulnerably shares her own breakthrough - how one session with Katia helped her step into a more aligned, sovereign version of herself.

This episode flows through themes of:

✨ Authenticity beyond performance - letting go of masks, people-pleasing, and the cost of living in distortion ♾️ Feminine energy & flow - honoring joy, surrender, and the non-linear journey to wholeness

🧠 ADHD redefined - from diagnosis to divine design, highlighting sensitivity as a superpower

🔄 Burnout & presence - exposing the productivity trap and reclaiming the sacred pause

🧘 Intuitive self-care & emotional regulation - simple practices that bring you back to your center, power, and joy.

Through the lens of trauma-informed coaching and lived embodiment, they dismantle false narratives around success, healing, and identity. Katia’s wisdom about “unbecoming” to become your true self is paired with Ralitza’s reflections on integrating both strategic and somatic paths of transformation.

🎧 Tune in if you're ready to shift from surviving to sovereign living. This is a reclamation of your energy, your attention, and your truth - one embodied breath at a time.

Katia Vassi is a Nervous System Alchemist, Feminine Embodiment Mentor, and founder of Embodied Repatterning™ — a multidimensional method helping women regulate, rewire, and reinvent themselves from the inside out. Her work is for the woman who’s done performing, pretending, or playing small. Through a powerful fusion of somatics, subconscious reprogramming, and feminine embodiment, Katia helps high-achieving women break free from survival patterns, reclaim their magnetism, and awaken the art of becoming fully alive.

Katia awakens the fire in your belly, the power in your voice, and the pleasure in your becoming. Her work is a living transmission of aliveness, authenticity, and The Art of Becoming.

Follow her magic on Instagram @katiavassi and Facebook facebook.com/katiavassi Authenticity Embodied Podcast as well

What If the Things That Set You Off Are Actually Trying to Set You Free?

Featuring Channy Mockin | Coach, Inner Child Practitioner & Conscious Relationship Guide

A trigger is not the problem.

It never was.

Channy Mockin has built her work around a truth most people spend years running from: the moments that undo us are the moments most trying to heal us. And she learned it the hard way, inside her own relationship, during pregnancy, in the exhausted and tender and impossible stretch of early motherhood.

This episode doesn't offer a tidy framework. It offers something rarer: two women being honest about how hard it actually is to love well, starting with yourself.

Channy and Ralitza go into the places relationships rarely get to go in polite conversation. The criticism we direct at our partners that belongs to something older. The communication we think we're offering and the communication that's actually landing. The 95% of our lives quietly running on programming we received before we were old enough to question it.

They talk about the inner child not as a concept but as a practice: what it looks like to pause in a moment of activation and meet the younger part of yourself that got scared first.

They talk about ADHD inside a relationship, and what happens when both partners are navigating a nervous system that the world wasn't designed for.

They talk about the difference between over-communicating and actually being heard. About compassion for a partner that doesn't require excusing what hurt you. About the affirmations and mindset tools that sound simple and work quietly and change things slowly, then all at once.

And they talk about time. The impossible scarcity of it when there is a baby in the house and a self that still needs tending.

This episode is not about having it figured out.

It's about what becomes possible when you stop pretending you do.

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

You keep having the same argument and cannot find the door out of it.

You love your partner and sometimes cannot stand them and feel guilty about both.

You know your reactions are about more than what just happened.

You are in the thick of new parenthood and wondering where you went.

You are ready to stop managing your triggers and start listening to them.

CONNECT WITH CHANNY:

Instagram: @channymcoaching

READY TO MEET YOURSELF MORE HONESTLY?

Ralitza Spassova, MD offers a complimentary first call: a real conversation about what's underneath what's happening.

Book yours at www.AuthenticityMD.com

Your first call is always complimentary.

With appreciation for all that you do, and all that you are when you're doing nothing at all, the part we often forget to honour and celebrate,

Ralitza Spassova, MD | AuthenticityMD.com | @authenticitycalling

Allan, former Zen Monk with his background in communications coaching and psychology, offers a profound understanding of personal growth and resilience. He is known for his innovative strategies and practical advice, guiding listeners on a journey towards fulfillment and success. Allan is also the author of Mind Gone Wild – Finding Freedom Within the Chaos and The Soulmate Revolution.

Ralitza, a former Medical Doctor turned transformational coach and podcast host, brings a unique perspective rooted in authenticity and intuition. Her experiences in academia and coaching have shaped her into a compassionate guide, helping individuals navigate challenges and embrace their true selves. Ralitza is a co-author in the upcoming book Beyond Coincidence where she shares her secrets of alignment and finding flow-state within.

Together, Allan and Ralitza create a dynamic and engaging podcast experience. Their discussions span topics from self-discovery to societal issues, all while fostering a sense of connection and empowerment among their listeners.

"We Need to Talk" is not just a podcast; it's a platform for meaningful conversations, personal insights, and actionable takeaways, curated by two inspiring voices dedicated to making a positive impact on the world. This Episode Overview In their dynamic discussion, Ralitza and Allan delved into the core principles of Impact, Legacy, and Coaching that's in integrity. They emphasized the power of self-reflection, attentiveness, and leading from the heart. Allan's motivation for starting the podcast stemmed from a desire to share real-life coaching experiences authentically, highlighting the importance of moving beyond direct teaching.

The conversation shifted to the nuances of communication, where both speakers emphasized the significance of being present and authentic. They explored the challenges posed by societal norms and the need for deeper connections amidst superficial interactions.

Personal journeys towards self-awareness and growth were also explored, with Allan and Ralitza sharing insights from their own experiences. They discussed the dynamics of helping others and the importance of recognizing personal limitations in this process.

Overall, the podcast encapsulates a rich tapestry of themes ranging from coaching dynamics to personal growth, all underscored by a commitment to authenticity and connection.

Navigating the Feminine and Masculine Energies with Authenticity

Together, we delve deep into the often misconstrued ideas of femininity and masculinity in a conversation that unravels the toxic societal interpretation of these energies. Discussing the counterproductivity of dwelling heavily in one type of energy, we analyze the disconnect that emerges when these essential life forces aren’t balanced. Tune in for insights on how a balanced mix of masculine structures and feminine energies can free the mind and lead to effective actions, helping you navigate life's exhilarating ups and downs.

Overcoming Trauma Response: Connect with Your Inner Child with Emily Wilcox

Join Emily as she shares her transformative journey from struggling with trauma responses influenced by childhood conditioning to a state of self-awareness and healing. Learn the importance of reconnecting with your inner child and dealing with emotional baggage constructively. Gain insights on shadow work, inner child healing, and the role of professional guidance in your self-awareness journey. This deeply personal narrative is a reminder that in the process of healing, perfection is self-rejection and every step taken, even those riddled with failures, is a step towards growth.

To explore more about Emily Wilcox and her unique approach to money healing, visit her website www.EmilyWilcox.com and diagnose your money wounds at MoneyWoundsQuiz.com.

In this episode, Ralitza and Allan delve into the transformative journey of personal growth and self-love as the foundation for healthy, fulfilling relationships. They explore the intricacies of codependency, emphasizing the necessity of maintaining individual truth and sovereignty. Their heartfelt discussion unveils the power of overcoming insecurities, the joy of self-discovery, and the significance of emotional and spiritual intimacy in human connections.

🔸 Key Takeaways:

Codependency: Understanding its impact beyond romantic relationships and recognizing the common negative emotions that accompany it.

Self-Love: Building a healthy relationship with oneself as a prerequisite for nurturing genuine connections with others.

Personal Growth: Embracing personal responsibility and the importance of continuous self-improvement.

Acknowledgement Revolution: Launching a movement to express gratitude and appreciation, enhancing communication and understanding.

Emotional and Spiritual Intimacy: Recognizing these as core elements of meaningful human connections.

✨ Call to Action: Join Ralitza and Allan in this journey of self-love and personal growth. Connect with us to be part of the "Acknowledgement Revolution" and transform your relationships.

Let's build a community where emotional and spiritual intimacy thrive. Together, we can achieve deeper connections and authentic love.

🌟 Connect with Us:

Allan's Booking Link: https://allanknight.com/calendar

Ralitza's Booking Link: https://www.authenticitymd.com/book-online

Alyssa shares her personal experience with multiple false diagnoses including fibromyalgia, which left her feeling hopeless, helpless and in chronic disabling pain. In a pivotal moment, Alyssa decided to take life into her own hands and push for the truth until she found it. Through a miraculous journey of surgery, coaching and transformation, Alyssa now lives pain-free. She supports others to live an empowered, confident and full life through her coaching programs. Find Alyssa here: https://www.facebook.com/alyssa.wiebe.37

Kathryne shares the origins of her work, where an experience in her son’s early years opened her eyes to the emotional world of boys and the biases shaping their experiences. A poignant moment in Japan - where an unexpected wave of fear arose - led her to reflect on how instinct, conditioning, and motherhood intertwine. This exploration deepened through past-life regression, allowing her to release old guilt and step into greater freedom.

Ralitza complements these stories with her own path: transitioning from medicine into intuitive coaching, energy work, and clean Korean skincare. She speaks to the shifting landscape of masculinity, the need to cultivate emotional intelligence in boys and men, and her vision of a world where every human reconnects with the healer within.

Together, they explore spirituality, intuition, and the power of slowing down enough to hear one’s inner truth. Ralitza introduces the Gene Keys as a map for moving from shadow to gift, sharing how her own key of Determination reshaped her understanding of challenge and breakthrough.

The episode closes with a reflection on authenticity, sensitive leadership, and the courage to rewrite inherited narratives. Kathryne offers a glimpse into her podcast, Unlocking the Parenting Code: All About Boys, dedicated to male mental health and conscious parenting.

This conversation weaves motherhood, emotional healing, and soul-led evolution into a unified call to create a more compassionate and awake world - starting with ourselves and the boys we love.

Kathryn's Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/unlocking-the-parenting-code-all-about-boys/id1781568167

Kathryn's Website: sonhoodcoaching.com

Contact Jennifer Demiri @j.d.consulting @jendemiri and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-demiri-88b19867/?originalSubdomain=au

Ralitza and Alfina share their own stories of overcoming the challenges of their previous professions—medicine and teaching—and the burnout that led them to pursue careers in coaching and transformational work. Alfina recounts her path from academia to Italy and back to Australia, where she found her calling in counseling and education. She highlights her work with Alison Armstrong on understanding relationships and gender dynamics.

The conversation takes a profound turn as they discuss the importance of balancing energies for physical and mental health. Alfina’s journey to managing her chronic illness through feminine rest and recharge is both enlightening and inspirational. They explore the concept of authenticity and self-care, with Alfina revealing how she learned to accept care from others and the significance of mentors in their writing journey.

Throughout the episode, the hosts emphasize the power of connections in personal transformation. They introduce the idea of a 7-day program for personal development and stress the importance of radical self-acceptance, moving away from self-judgment, and embracing authenticity. Alfina shares her struggles with self-worth and the impact of a toxic work environment on her mental health, and how she found healing and transformation through kinesiology.

Ralitza and Alfina also touch on the significance of self-care, positive manifestation, and the need to surrender control to achieve desired outcomes. They discuss the concept of the 'Suffering Gap'—the space between one's current state and idealized expectations—and the importance of self-acceptance in closing this gap. The hosts highlight the role of vulnerability in coaching, urging coaches to practice what they preach and be open about their own journeys.

This episode is a powerful call to action for listeners to embrace their imperfections, practice radical self-acceptance, and empower others with the lessons learned from their own experiences. Join Ralitza and Alfina as they inspire you to trust your inner wisdom, balance your energies, and embark on a path of authentic living.

Find Alfina on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alfina.lofaro

Ayo shares her four-year journey of writing the book — blending deep research, neuroscience, and heart-centered truth — to create a practical roadmap for women ready to lead, rise, and redefine success.

Together, Ralitza and Ayo discuss:

✨Why authenticity in leadership is the new currency of influence.

✨The vital role men play in supporting gender equality.

✨How to break free from the patterns that keep women shrinking in business, relationships, and purpose.

✨The transformative exercises inside the book that guide readers to discover their own authentic voice.

Every copy of The Future of Business is Female comes with a full year of group coaching in Ayo's private group, plus the chance to receive a free one-on-one session with Ayo herself - making this more than just a book, but a movement for female leadership and collective empowerment.

Now, Ralitza is inviting you to go deeper:

✨ Join the official Book Club for “The Future of Business is Female” ✨

Be part of an intimate community of visionary women diving into each chapter together, with opportunities to connect directly with Ayo, ask questions, and receive real-time coaching insights.

📖 Step into your power. Invest in your evolution.

Purchase your copy today and join the book club to be part of this rising wave of conscious female leadership. Join the Book Club: https://www.authenticitymd.com/book-onlineticitymd.com/book-o... (select Book Club and book all sessions individually).

👉 Buy the book here

Connect with Maria: https://www.facebook.com/MariaCook5ElementAcupuncture/

May 30, 2024 is the official launch of Beyond Coincidence: Visionaries Unlock the Mysteries of Synchronicities and Success, a co-authored book by various female professionals which covers the beautiful experience of synchronicity and success, with guides, stories and so much more to support you in creating a life of success and synchronicity for yourself. Get your copy here: 

Teresa opens up about her journey from constant doing to conscious being, recounting a health crisis that forced her to prioritize self-care over productivity. She shares a pivotal experience of opening her “steel core,” allowing long-repressed emotions to surface, and how reframing grief and loss transformed her perspective on life. Ralitza emphasizes the societal pressures many women face to sacrifice themselves first, encouraging listeners to embrace integration, self-care, and surrender as essential components of growth.

The conversation also explores therapeutic techniques for emotional mastery, including hypnotherapy, NLP, and TLT. Teresa and Ralitza discuss the challenges of guiding clients through transformation, the importance of holding space for resistance, and the profound impact of awareness and reframing on emotional healing.

Listeners will leave this episode with actionable insights on mindset shifts, emotional resilience, and aligning with one’s life path, plus a deep appreciation for the power of self-care and intentional growth.

Next Steps for Listeners & Guests:

- Learn more about astrocartography and how it can inform your personal and professional journey

- Explore language and mindset techniques to shift your subconscious programming

- Celebrate the importance of self-care, emotional integration, and surrender on the path to transformation Connect with Teresa here:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teresa.syms.5

Website: https://teresasyms.com/

I hope it inspires you to live a more authentic life that's true to your passions, purpose and potential in this lifetime so you can enjoy every part of life's magical path.

Why do we get stuck and how is this actually the greatest gift for you? 

Dive into our conscious conversation around resistance, freedom, boundaries vs honouring and so much more! 

Let's dive in! 

Connect with Sweta on https://www.inspire-possibilities.com/  Facebook Instagram

Risk tolerance and being connected to her intuition was a guiding light to Emily's ability to flow through life's invitations, while discerning between the invitation to live wild and free and to trust the safer path that may be more pricy.

We address the discernment of money vs safety and how it translates into entrepreneurship. Emily strongly believes in taking care of our needs, while using luxury funds (or spare change) to invest in our evolution.

Appreciation, abundance and how we can outgrow our limiting stories, money mindset shifts, and evolving through the industrial revolution mentality into our current economic crisis.

Turning around negative talk around and creating a healthy money mindset:

"We can't afford that"

"That's too expensive"

"Wouldn't it be nice to have..."

Wow, they can have it therefore I can have it too...

This is a juicy podcast that takes us around the world and into the depths of our limitations to get us free and abundant!

You can find Emily on Facebook Instagram @emilydawnslife  Website https://www.emilyatdawn.com/

From the first breath, listeners are pulled into the raw magnetism of two women committed to living, loving, and leading with truth. Ralitza and Hilary dive into the deep waters of their personal growth journeys, weaving in Hermetic principles, emotional mastery, and somatic awareness. Their dialogue becomes a living example of balancing logic with intuition - masculine structure with feminine flow.

Hilary opens up about a series of personal “energy leak” experiences - strep throat, a literal leaking roof - and shares how she reframed them as signs of energetic imbalance and invitations into deeper alignment. Ralitza mirrors this by revealing her own recent spiritual “rewiring,” describing a season that felt like a full-body rebirth.

The conversation expands into the power of releasing. Ralitza’s Instagram follower purge and Hilary’s Marie Kondo - inspired decluttering become metaphors for emotional liberation. Both women speak to the beauty of completion - fitting for a numerological year 9 - and the necessity of gratitude when letting old forms, identities, and attachments fall away.

Together, they unpack how intention and energy dance with each other. Hilary reflects on discovering the masculine energy she needed to cultivate internally, while Ralitza shares the importance of harmonizing intention with openness. Their exchange is both profound and practical - an energetic transmission as much as a conversation.

The episode closes with a promise: their next recording will go even deeper, exploring the transformational power of inner child work and how reconnecting with our earliest selves unlocks emotional freedom.

This is a conversation for anyone standing at the edge of their next becoming - ready to shed, ready to receive, and ready to rise.

https://www.theaestheticdoctor.com/

We explore Ralitza's journey towards becoming a transformational coach, and how the introspection spurred by 2020 helped her to discover her innate gift for coaching. Amid the global slowdown, Ralitza chose to channel her energies into inspiring others to realize and live their unique purposes.

The essence of 'Authenticity Calling' is encapsulated in its mission to inspire listeners to wholeheartedly embrace their life's purpose. In this episode, Ralitza emphasizes the importance of authenticity and selflessness in the pursuit of a fulfilling life. Discover what it takes to lead a life that’s enkindled by the soul, proving deeply satisfying in every aspect.

With anecdotes from her experience as a Life Alchemist, Ralitza delves into her role in helping individuals decode their life experiences and uncover the profound wisdom hidden within. Listen in for a truly powerful conversation about self-growth, life purpose, and masterminds, an intriguing concept that fosters an understanding of self, purpose, and mission.

This episode explores the balance between feminine and masculine energy, the power of vulnerability and authenticity, and the significant role of gratitude as the foundation of all change. Journey through a candid discussion on overcoming self-doubt and embracing boldness, and appreciate the courage it takes to share your truth with the world.

'Authenticity Calling' goes out to all those in pursuit of living ON PURPOSE and serving others from a place of abundance. This episode promises to bring alignment, flow, and fulfillment in your life. So, tune in, and remember to pass on its wisdom to those who would appreciate it. Here's to living truthfully.

I won't give it all away, but there was a sudden wake-up call for this gorgeous soul, and because of her ability to see the silver lining, and focus on the possibilities, she created a successful Transformational Coaching career from what others may have taken much harder! 

Sweta also generously offers to hold me in her safety, as she coaches me to the depths of my inner child experiences due to a recent trigger about my experience in the dating world... it gets juicy! 

Check it out! Let us know your thoughts, questions, and comments. Share this podcast with someone you know who could benefit from hearing it. Share the love, inspiration, and alignment so we can all live a little more compassionately, abundantly, and radiantly. 

With so much love and appreciation for all that you are, 

Ralitza Spassova, BSc, MD  Authenticity Calling Podcast Host, Life Alchemist & Transformational Coach 

Get in touch with Sweta Patel

Book your free Possibilities Session with Sweta Patel here

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In this soul-stirring episode, Ralitza sits down with Kiera-Louise Harrison - celebrity makeup artist turned somatic coach - for a profound exploration of what it means to truly belong to yourself. With raw honesty, Kiera shares how her vitiligo diagnosis became a spiritual initiation: an invitation to redefine beauty, reclaim personal power, and stop outsourcing worthiness to societal standards.

Together, they unravel the deep undercurrents of shame, the silent impact of self-rejection, and the journey from external validation to inner sovereignty.

Through laughter, truth-telling, and embodied wisdom, they dive into:

🔮 The spiritual meaning of vitiligo as a mirror for belonging

💄 Letting go of beauty ideals to embrace sacred embodiment

🌀 Embracing the "shadow feminine" - the victim, critic, and mean girl within

🧬 Healing unconscious shame through family constellation work

❤️‍🔥 The power of self-trust, intuitive dating, and manifesting aligned partnership.

This conversation is a call to radical self-acceptance, to recognize your wholeness beneath the filters, roles, and past stories. Vulnerability becomes the portal. Faith becomes the fuel.

🎧 Tune in to remember this: Your authenticity is your beauty. And your truth is enough.

More about Kiera-Louise Harrison

Trauma-informed somatic coach, pro makeup artist, and mentor for female entrepreneurs. I help women embody confidence and own their power so that they can lead more authentic and fulfilling lives.

Get in touch with Kiera on Instagram @iamkieralouise

In this Authenticity Calling Podcast episode, we explore the benefits of mindfulness and meditation for reducing stress and improving overall well-being. We discuss how mindfulness can enhance self-awareness, self-regulation, and focus, leading to a healthier mental and emotional state. The episode also provides practical tips for incorporating mindfulness meditation, movement and regular exercise into daily life, emphasizing the importance of setting aside time for practice and utilizing breathing techniques. Tune in to learn more about the transformative power of mindfulness, exercise, meditation, and powerful aligned action for promoting mental and emotional health.

Get inspired, and take aligned action, after listening to this empowering and supportive podcast. Share your key takeaways and questions in the show notes.

You can find Nikita Sharma on Instagram @nikita.liftlovelaugh or on her website at https://www.liftlovelaugh.com

In this raw and inspiring conversation, Dr. Rebecca Reid and Ralitza Spassova share their journeys of navigating love, intimacy, and spiritual partnership through the lens of conscious dating. They unpack how vulnerability, boundaries, and self-reflection transform the dating experience, turning triggers into teachers and relationships into sacred mirrors.

Rebecca introduces her new 6-week group coaching program, Dating for Witches, a playful yet deeply spiritual container for women ready to approach dating with magic, intention, and authenticity. Ralitza calls listeners into the Sexy Successful Mastermind, where high-achieving women learn to embrace both their feminine radiance and their masculine drive - so they can stop overworking in love and start HAVING FUN while calling in their true divine partner. This episode is more than a dialogue - it’s an invitation.

If you’re ready to drop the old patterns, reclaim joy in dating, and align with the love you’ve been waiting for, the path starts here.

✨ Reach out to Dr. Rebecca Reid on Instagram to join Dating for Witches @dr.rebeccareid https://www.madeformiracles.ca/

💫 Connect with Ralitza Spassova to step into the Sexy Successful Mastermind www.AuthenticityMD.com @authenticitycalling on iG https://www.authenticitymd.com/sexysuccessfulmastermind

Your divine union begins within. Let’s do the work - and have fun along the way.

As they prepare for their talks at the Awakening Her Festival, they explore what it truly means to activate one’s difference - not as a liability, but as a lived superpower. Michelle articulates her 5-phase transformational process that guides individuals from fear to freedom, helping them reclaim emotional intelligence, self-trust, and their innate gifts in a world that rewards speed over presence.

A central theme is the power of discomfort as an initiatory force. Rather than bypassing so-called “negative” emotions, Michelle reframes them - especially anger - as intelligent, protective signals that catalyze healing and growth. Drawing from her background in functional and Chinese medicine, she highlights the deep connection between emotions and physical organs, emphasizing that wholeness requires honoring the full emotional spectrum, not just the palatable parts.

Ralitza expands the conversation into the realm of feminine energetics and surrendered leadership. She shares her philosophy of inspired, surrendered, aligned action - where life’s opportunities are not tests to pass or fail, but practices that refine presence, trust, and embodiment. By slowing down, collapsing and expanding timelines, and living in communion with divine inspiration, individuals can reduce stress, increase coherence, and access a more graceful path to impact.

The dialogue concludes with a forward-looking reflection on AI and humanity’s evolution. As AI shifts toward more logical, masculine structures, both agree that human connection, community, and self-love become even more essential.

Michelle shares her rapid 90-second process for transforming emotional and physical pain, while Ralitza voices a shared optimism: that through embodied awareness, authentic expression, and conscious collaboration, humanity has the potential to step into a new level of integrated, “superhuman” consciousness. This conversation is a call to slow down, feel deeper, trust more fully - and lead from truth.

Find Michelle here: https://www.instagram.com/michellecannan/?hl=en

Website: https://www.michellecannan.com/

From corporate banking to conscious sex education, Dina shares her deeply personal journey into a field many shy away from, but all are connected to.

Together, they uncover the surprising medical history of vibrators, bust myths about orgasms, and dive into the sacred technologies of the female body.

Listeners will learn: The different types of orgasms - clitoral, G-spot, cervical, and more - and how to access them.

The mental, emotional, and immune-boosting benefits of self-pleasure Why sexual energy is a creative force - and how to set intentions with it

How trauma healing and sensual discovery often go hand-in-hand Why cultivating self-confidence in pleasure changes your energetic magnetism

Plus, Ralitza and Dina announce an exciting collaboration on a new course fusing authenticity and conscious sexuality, bridging sensual embodiment with aligned leadership.

This episode isn’t just about sex, it’s a reclamation of feminine power, pleasure, and purpose.

✨ Tune in if you're ready to deepen your connection to your body, expand your capacity for joy, and walk the path of sacred self-discovery.

Find Dina here:

https://www.instagram.com/dina.alexander/ https://www.successblizz.love/

From navigating AI censorship to unpacking personal stories of desire and identity, they dive into the raw, real, and often uncomfortable territories of sexiness that most people never talk about.

Carla introduces 10 irresistible flavours of SEXY - each an archetype that women cycle through naturally:

High-Vibe & Energetic

Magnetic & Head-Turning

Playful & Cheeky

Confident & Commanding

Dark & Mysterious

Elegant & Polished

Wild & Untamed

Sweet & Enchanting

Fierce & Empowered

Slow & Sensual

Together, they explore how shame, societal programming, and past relationship patterns can block these expressions - and how reclaiming each flavour opens new pathways for embodiment, intimacy, and personal power. Ralitza shares her visceral response to the “dark and mysterious” archetype, igniting a deeper discussion about nervous system safety, identity, and the transition into the new energetic era of 2026.

Listeners are invited into a compassionate, permission-filled space to examine their own behaviors, triggers, and desires, while learning how to show up more consciously for themselves and their relationships.

A bold, liberating conversation that brings humour, honesty, and heat to the journey of becoming fully expressed.

Find Carla Crivaro here:

Instagram: @carlacrivaro

Email: carla@crivaro.com

Website: www.carlacrivaro.com

In this deeply resonant conversation, Rebecca and Ralitza explore the sister wound and witch wound - two energetic imprints that influence how women experience love, connection, and trust in modern relationships. Together, they unpack how inner healing and shifting beliefs about the divine masculine and feminine can transform how we attract and experience partnership.

Rebecca introduces her new group coaching experience, “Dating for Witches,” designed for highly successful, spiritually attuned women ready to move beyond relational patterns, heal old wounds, and embody a higher form of love. The discussion challenges outdated gender narratives and offers a path toward wholeness, reverence, and divine partnership - where both masculine and feminine energies are honored.

From confronting trauma and people-pleasing to redefining modern witch energy beyond ritual into inner alchemy, this episode is a masterclass in conscious relationship evolution.

✨ Key Themes:

• Healing the sister and witch wounds in dating

• Redefining masculinity and embracing the divine masculine

• The power of inner work and group transformation

• Feminine empowerment without control or competition

• True “witch energy” as spiritual sovereignty and deep self-awareness

Listen if you’re ready to transform love from a wound into a sacred union.

In this powerful conversation, Ralitza Spassova sits down with Deb Hansen—author of Borderlands: Stories from an El Paso Shelter, interfaith chaplain, and life coach—to explore the transformative journey of answering a spiritual calling.

From her unexpected path from corporate life to the borderlands of El Paso, Deb shares how surrendering to uncertainty led her into profound experiences of solidarity, interfaith collaboration, and allyship across cultures and histories.

Together, Ralitza and Deb dive into: The power of trusting intuition even when skepticism rises. Stories of resilience, vulnerability, and compassion at the US-Mexico border. Healing through cultural humility, interfaith solidarity, and indigenous wisdom. How surrender and authenticity open new pathways for connection and transformation. This episode invites you to reflect on your own “borderlands”—the liminal spaces where fear and possibility meet—and discover how leaning into vulnerability can unlock deeper healing, purpose, and humanity.

Deb Hansen is a first-time author. Borderlands: Stories from an El Paso Shelter is a memoir of her first three winters volunteering at the U.S./Mexico border. She recently completed her fifth winter offering hospitality and practical support to people seeking refuge from violence, poverty, and political and climate instability.

In private practice, Deb offers soul work and continues to explore the field of collective trauma healing. Having been part of a multi-faith delegation to Palestine – Israel in the fall of 2024, she is increasingly drawn to the work of peace, relationship, repair, and reconciliation.

Deb describes herself as a life-long border-crosser when it comes to culture, language, religion, ethnicity, and worldview. She’s endlessly fascinated by the process of transformation that allows life to renew itself. Deb’s path has had a number of purposeful twists and turns. She imagined herself teaching French in higher education, but instead, did creative work with IBM for many years in marketing and communications that included a stint in Paris at IBM’s Headquarters for Europe, Middle East, and Africa. After leaving the business world, her path eventually led to a creative Interfaith seminary and hospital chaplaincy/spiritual care in Detroit. She has a strong connection to the land and the seasons and cycles of life in northern Michigan where she spends half the year.

Website: debhansen.org Borderlands: Stories from an El Paso Shelter, available wherever books are sold.

Dr. Ott shares insights into the summit's unique offerings, including yoga nidra under the full moon and sound baths, emphasizing the importance of self-care and community for physicians. The conversation delves into the challenges of physician burnout and the role of coaching in fostering wellness and resilience.

Tune in to discover how this summit is reshaping the landscape of physician wellness and providing a space for rejuvenation and connection. Sign up here: https://www.thephysiciancoachingsummit.com/welcome/

I'm your host, Ralitza Spassova.

I'm so happy you found your way here. This episode shares a little bit about how this podcast came to be, and the journey I've embraced to bring it to you! 

May this podcast bring a new level of alignment, inspiration and authentic expression! The Authenticity Calling Podcast has been calling me to create it since 2020! I’ve put my heart, soul, blood, sweat and tears into my growth over the last 5 years to bring you the truth, as far as I’ve discovered it, from my perspective. On the Authenticity Calling Podcast, I interview REAL people, who were once stuck and have answered THEIR calling and cultivated thier most authentic expression in this lifetime. Some will share their story, others their unique gifts and crafts, and in some episodes, you’ll hear me either receive coaching or offer it to my guests. You can listen, receive, and take aligned action as you get inspired to answer your Authenticity Calling journey! This is a co-creative space, so if you feel inspired to be part of it, please DM me to set up an interview. If you have questions or suggestions for topics please send them my way. I’d love to dive into whatever serves you, the audience, and all of our growth. Please like, rate, review, comment and share it on your social media or directly with a friend, family member or colleague who may find it helpful.  Thank you for being part of this exciting and expansive journey! With so much appreciation for all that you are, Ralitza Spassova ❤️✨💫

👉 If you’re in immediate distress, contact your nearest emergency or crisis line.

🌟 Transforming Trauma Into Truth with Terri Kozlowski

In this transformative episode of the Authenticity Calling Podcast, Ralitza sits down with soul coach and author Terri Kozlowski for a deep, heart-opening conversation on healing, authenticity, and the journey from fear back into love.

Terri shares her powerful story of overcoming childhood trauma - including sexual assault - and how she learned to recognize fear-based patterns, release generational conditioning, and reclaim her innate truth. Together, they explore the impact of ancestral wounds, the masks we wear for protection, and the lifelong process of reconnecting with our original essence: love.

You’ll hear Terri’s insights on shifting from “Why me?” to “Now what?”, reframing shame, upgrading your mindset every decade, and choosing love-based responses even when fear is louder. Her healing journey, her relationship with her husband, and her work as a soul coach show what becomes possible when we meet our wounds with compassion, courage, and consciousness.

This episode is a reminder that authenticity is not something we create - it’s something we return to. And the moment we release the stories that were never ours, we step back into who we’ve always been.

📚 Terri’s Books Mentioned: • Raven Transcending Fear • Soul Solutions for Awakening Awareness

🔥 Call to Action

If you’re ready to break old patterns, dissolve inherited fear, and return to your truest self, this episode is your invitation.

👉 Listen now and share it with someone who may need this message today. Your authenticity is calling - and it’s time to answer.

Carla opens up about her transformation from anxious wife and mother to an empowered woman leading with love, sovereignty, and authenticity. Together, Ralitza and Carla explore the journey from religious conditioning and mental health struggles to sexual awakening and emotional freedom. The conversation flows through divorce, co-parenting with compassion, exploring open relationships and polyamory, and the power of aligning with one’s truth to dissolve anxiety and embody self-love.

If you’ve ever felt trapped in a life that wasn’t fully yours, or longed to live with more pleasure, authenticity, and vibrancy - this episode is your invitation to come home to yourself.

💫 Tune in to discover how releasing shame, honouring desire, and embracing your authentic self can transform anxiety into alchemy.

About Carla Crivaro: Carla Crivaro is a Sex, Love & Relationship Coach who supports leaders and founders in reigniting passion, rebuilding confidence, and creating deeply fulfilling relationships that elevate every part of life. Raised Catholic in northwest England with Italian roots, Carla’s personal journey through anxiety, divorce, and sexual awakening has shaped her mission to help others heal their relationship with themselves and their desires. Through her 1:1 coaching, group programs, and in-person events, she guides people to feel vibrant, empowered, and fully alive - in and out of the bedroom.

🌐 www.carlacrivaro.com 📸 Instagram: @the.sexuality.sanctuary 🔗 LinkedIn: Carla Crivaro 📺 YouTube: @carlacrivaro

Find Marianne: https://marianneknox.com/ https://marianneknox.com/book-free-experiential-session/

From corporate banking to conscious sex education, Dina shares her deeply personal journey into a field many shy away from, but all are connected to.

Together, they uncover the surprising medical history of vibrators, bust myths about orgasms, and dive into the sacred technologies of the female body.

Listeners will learn: The different types of orgasms - clitoral, G-spot, cervical, and more - and how to access them.

The mental, emotional, and immune-boosting benefits of self-pleasure Why sexual energy is a creative force - and how to set intentions with it

How trauma healing and sensual discovery often go hand-in-hand Why cultivating self-confidence in pleasure changes your energetic magnetism

Plus, Ralitza and Dina announce an exciting collaboration on a new course fusing authenticity and conscious sexuality, bridging sensual embodiment with aligned leadership.

This episode isn’t just about sex, it’s a reclamation of feminine power, pleasure, and purpose.

✨ Tune in if you're ready to deepen your connection to your body, expand your capacity for joy, and walk the path of sacred self-discovery.

Find Dina here: https://www.instagram.com/dina.alexander/ https://www.successblizz.love/

A near-death experience showed Jianna what she's capable of in this lifetime. Doctors told her she'd never play volleyball again and despite the science, research, and all evidence pointing towards her inability, Jianna fought for what she KNEW was possible. 

She describes her first car accident throwing her into her masculine power to push through, and embrace the impossible. Her SECOND car accident inspired her divine feminine and now she has fully claimed her embodied calling. 

Let's all step into the light and shine! 

You can find Jianna at @jiannabonomi_ on Instagram

Contact Jesse here: 

https://www.instagram.com/fit.coach.jesse https://www.facebook.com/jesse.sansaloneleclerc

Erica is just a small-town girl, growing up in rural Wisconsin, she learned early on her love for natural healing and caring for others. Living on a farm for most of her childhood, she learned a lot about nature, natural remedies, and the health benefits of living close to your food. She credits her parents for instilling in her a love of learning, adventure, and holistic health, which she has carried into her nursing career and beyond that, into her health coaching. After going through her own hormone imbalances and watching it happen to loved ones as well, she has dedicated her coaching career to helping empower women to understand their bodies, and heal the relationship with their hormones.

She helps female coaches who struggle with perfectionism, self-doubt & fear of failure and anxiety show up with confidence, resilience, and authenticity by biohacking their hormones and optimizing brain function using the Female Empowerment Blueprint.

On this episode of Authenticity Calling, Erica shares her experience of what it takes to become a better health provider, including slowing down to ask the right questions. 

Erica empowers women by encouraging them to listen to their own body, for important signs and symptoms. We talk about acne, PMS, chronic pain, ADHD and more!

You can find Erica on Instagram @workwoman.erica or contact her for more info via email info@hormonehealthcoach.co

Together, they explore the transformative potential of integrating intuition, holistic practices, and community connection into healthcare. From unlocking natural intuitive abilities to addressing fear, shame, and relational dynamics, this dialogue challenges conventional paradigms while offering a vision for a more human, soul-centered healthcare system. They highlight the importance of personal responsibility, the irreplaceable power of human connection, and the need for healthcare professionals to care for themselves first in order to heal others.

This episode is a beacon for anyone navigating the path of blending science and spirit, reminding us that true healing begins within - and that a new era of medicine is already emerging.

Find Dr. Rebecca Reid at @dr.rebeccareid and https://www.madeformiracles.ca/

SATISFACTION!

Or can I?

These are my 5 tips for living a more satisfying life from an Interview With Drew Gerber "I Can’t Get No Satisfaction: Ralitza Spassova Of Up To Health On Why So Many Of Us Are Feeling Unsatisfied & What We Can Do About It"

Check it out here: https://medium.com/authority-magazine/i-cant-get-no-satisfaction-ralitza-spassova-of-up-to-health-on-why-so-many-of-us-are-feeling-e473bf1decd5

Sending you lots of love and appreciation for you just as you are, - Ralitza Spassova

Check out the YouTube Video here https://youtu.be/P_CLozOHpKM

Ralitza and Tracy emphasize the transformative power of curiosity, self-discovery, and self-improvement on the journey to authenticity. They highlight how embracing individuality and uniqueness within teams fosters stronger connections and emotional well-being in the workplace. Authentic leadership, they argue, is not about perfection but about showing up fully, embracing vulnerabilities, and encouraging the same in others.

Throughout the conversation, they touch on the importance of balancing a corporate career with personal passions, the role of intuition, and the necessity of slowing down to practice self-awareness. Tracy and Ralitza provide actionable insights on how to challenge self-judgment, communicate needs effectively, and leverage diverse perspectives in marketing and coaching.

The episode concludes with a heartfelt discussion on the importance of human connection and emotional support in professional environments, and how investing in these areas can lead to increased innovation and employee retention. Ralitza and Tracy's shared experiences and insights offer listeners a compelling call to embrace their authentic selves and create spaces where others can do the same.

Join Ralitza and Tracy as they explore the essence of authenticity and provide practical advice for integrating it into everyday life and work.

Find Tracy here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandsthatspeak/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tracy.l.borreson