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The School of Wonder

The School of Wonder podcast is a place to gather inspiration and learn from a wide range of authors, artists, coaches and teachers. What they all have in common is the ability to teach us how to be more brave, feel more alive and treat ourselves (and others) with more compassion. Andrea Scher - best known for her award-winning blog Superhero Journal - is passionate about the sweet spot where creativity and personal growth intersect.
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Mar 12, 2024

James Crews is the editor of several bestselling anthologies, including The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, which has over 100,000 copies in print. He has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, and on NPR’s Morning Edition. James is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry—The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment—and a book of short essays, Kindness Will Save the World: Stories of Compassion and Connection. James also speaks and leads workshops on kindness, mindfulness, and writing for self-compassion. He lives with his husband on forty rocky acres in the woods of Southern Vermont. 

http://www.jamescrews.net

Mar 4, 2024

Jeff Hamaoui is Co-Founder and Chief Education and Innovation Officer of Modern Elder Academy, the first-ever ‘midlife wisdom school.’ Dedicated to reframing the concept of aging, Modern Elder Academy (MEA) supports students to navigate midlife with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility. 

With prior roles at NASA, IKEA, and Nike before permanently landing in Baja at MEA in midlife, Hamaoui is a seasoned teacher and master facilitator with an entrepreneurial mind, teacher’s heart, and seeker’s soul. 

Hamaoui is also the founder of Baja Sage, MEA’s adjacent residential community. This new type of community utilizes regenerative principles to support flourishing and resiliency across the entire community.

 

Dec 22, 2023

Jen Ripa is a grief guide, artist, and hope catalyst who supports women who have experienced the death of a significant person in their lives to create a path forward that is hopeful, joy filled,and meaningful.

Creative Cocoon Community  www.creativecocoon.org

Dec 7, 2023

Ellen Fondiler is an award-winning entrepreneur and career coach. She is the co-host of the podcast, Chart Your Career, which brings weekly astrology and career advice to listeners. Ellen is a certified Designing Your Life coach and certified Wild Writing™ instructor. Typically, clients hire her when they want something really badly… but … they’re feeling overwhelmed about how to make it happen. Ellen helps them set goals, get unstuck, and get things moving in the direction they want. She has worked as a death penalty attorney, launched four businesses, and has raised millions for charities and nonprofits. She’s living proof that your career can evolve over time and you don’t have to remain stuck doing “just one thing” for the rest of your life.

 

You can learn more about Ellen on her website or follow her on Substack or Instagram. Check out her private coaching offerings and her signature year-long program

 

Nov 29, 2023

Eric FitzMedrud is a therapist specializing in relationship and sexual issues in the San Francisco Bay Area. His specialty is helping men improve their sex lives by learning to regulate their emotions, removing sexual entitlement, and honing their sexual consent and negotiation skills. You can find out more about Eric's work here: https://www.drericfitz.com/

Oct 25, 2023

Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught artist and the author of several best-selling

journals, including Start Where You Are. She is also the author of How it Feels

to Find Yourself: Navigating Life’s Changes with Purpose, Clarity, and Heart, a

book of illustrated essays. She creates work that encourages others to

connect with themselves, one another, and the world around them. She lives

with her family in Saint Louis, Missouri. 

 

For more information, see MeeraLee.com

 

Oct 20, 2023

Lisa Anderson Shaffer is a seasoned guide for creative professionals, empowering them to cultivate their genius, unlock unprecedented success, and find profound fulfillment through the transformative practices of Human Design and Energy Work.

Oct 13, 2023

If you want to find Dante's incredible work, you can find them here: https://www.instagram.com/radicalpsychicservices/

Sep 24, 2023

Juna Mustad is a somatic coach, an intuitive and a teacher of emotional intelligence. You can see her Ted Talk about mindful anger here: https://www.ted.com/talks/juna_mustad_anger_is_your_ally_a_mindful_approach_to_anger

Sep 17, 2023

Peggy Fitzsimmons holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Arizona State University, and has worked in the fields of counseling and healing for over 25 years. Peggy counseled adolescents and adults with mental health and addiction issues in a variety of clinical settings, including private practice, wilderness therapy, psychiatric inpatient, and residential treatment. She expanded her clinical work to include holistic and mind-body approaches by training for several years in Hakomi Body-Centered Psychotherapy, as well as Intuition Medicine®, a practice of intuitive energy healing. 

Peggy also lived and worked at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in New York and was a consulting producer on Oprah Winfrey's Emmy-winning TV series Super Soul Sunday. In addition, she has utilized her expertise to help many people “get their houses in order” through intensive decluttering. 

In her book Release: Create a Clutter Free and Soul Driven Life,Peggy shares her vast knowledge and practical insights about decluttering with readers who want to improve their lives— by freeing themselves from clutter and living in alignment with their true soul nature. 

Sep 2, 2023

Annie Wright is a licensed psychotherapist deeply committed to supporting the well-being of those who, while they didn’t come from the best childhoods, long to finally create wonderful adulthoods for themselves.

She’s a national expert in relational trauma recovery, specifically supporting the adult children of the mood- and personality-disordered to help them explore, heal, and move forward from their pasts towards a future that feels whole and beautiful no matter where they started from.

She owns and runs a boutique therapy center in Berkeley where she offers one-on-one therapy services and where she also oversees her staff of talented, trauma-informed clinicians. In addition to this, Annie is a published mental health author, and she produces digital content and online courses designed to support relational trauma recovery.

 

May 25, 2023

Nina Badzin hosts the podcast, Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. A freelance writer and a writing group leader at ModernWell in Minneapolis, Nina has been writing about friendship since 2014, which she does currently on Substack at Dear Nina

May 22, 2023

Listen in to this great conversation about adult friendship with expert Kat Vellos!

The Friendship Course starts Friday, May 26th. You can find out more details and register here.

 

Kat Vellos is a trusted expert on the power of cultivating meaningful friendships. She’s a speaker and author of the book, We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships. She’s also the creator of the Better than Small Talk conversation cards and the Better Conversations Calendar. 

Aug 21, 2022

Big news! Waaaaay back in 2008 @kellyraeroberts and I shared an art studio in Berkeley. We had only met a few weeks before at a gathering of women who had been blogging since the early days. There was a moment when a comment was made about me in the circle and it stung. I don’t actually remember the comment and of course it doesn’t matter anyway! What I do remember is that Kelly (who was seated next to me on the couch) reached over without saying a word and squeezed my hand.

In that one gesture, she communicated so much to me. “I see you. I’ve got you.”

And that’s when we became friends.

@kellyraeroberts and I have supported one another for all these years since - in creating online courses and workshops and just generally masterminding together in our creative businesses. We have launched dozens of offerings and led thousands of women through learning experiences online. We have always wanted to collaborate together, but nothing ever stuck - until now!

https://www.andreascher.com/idea-to-done/

AND YOU ARE INVITED! 💕
To spend 8 weeks with us planning, creating and launching YOUR online offering. We call it Idea to Done because we are focused on helping you bring your project to completion. Not just a cool idea, but something you put out in the world.

Have you ever wanted to offer an e-course? A membership community? A coaching circle? Some mini-classes on your website?

https://www.andreascher.com/idea-to-done/

Jun 9, 2022

SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) is a bestselling author, artist, inspirationalist and acclaimed teacher and mentor. Her purpose in life is to be an uplifter, transformer and laser beam of love- she offers that with love through her art, words and spirit.

May 23, 2022

Jennifer Louden is a personal growth pioneer who helped launch the concept of self-care with her first bestseller, The Woman’s Comfort Book. Since then, she’s written seven additional books on well-being and whole living, including The Woman’ s Retreat Book and The Life Organizer, and her newest and most personal book Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next is available wherever you get books.

May 16, 2022

Originally from New Jersey, Maggie Doyne has dedicated her life to educating children and empowering women. At age 19, Maggie used her life savings to build a home for orphaned children in war-ravaged Nepal. Maggie then created the BlinkNow Foundation to sustain, grow, and support Kopila Valley Children’s Home and School in Nepal, and to serve as a vehicle to share her ideas with the world. She believes that in the blink of an eye, we can all make a difference.
Her work was championed by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof in a cover story for The New York Times Magazine. She has been recognized by  Elizabeth Gilbert, Katie Couric, and Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan of Sussex. She shares her memoir in Between the Mountain and the Sky: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, Healing, and Hope.
May 12, 2022

Katy Sewall is a radio producer and host. When she moved to Rome, it was after 11 years at KUOW Public Radio, NPR Seattle, where she was Senior Producer (and occasional host) of Weekday with Steve Scher. She has interned with RadioLab and toured with A Prairie Home CompanionHer series The Radio Retrospective, about radio's Golden Age, has aired on radio stations all over the United States. She also a writer and a podcast consultant. Reach her at radiokaty at gmail.com.

Apr 20, 2022

Justin Talbot Zorn has served as both a policymaker and a meditation teacher in the U.S. Congress. A Harvard- and Oxford-trained specialist in the economics and psychology of well-being, Justin has written for the Washington PostThe AtlanticHarvard Business ReviewForeign Policy, and other publications. He is cofounder of Astrea Strategies, a consultancy that bridges contemplation and action, helping leaders and teams envision and communicate solutions to complex challenges. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife and three children.



Leigh Marz is a collaboration consultant and leadership coach for major universities, corporations, and federal agencies as well as a longtime student of pioneering researchers and practitioners of the ritualized use of psychedelic medicines in the West. In her professional work, she has led diverse initiatives, including a training program to promote an experimental mindset among teams at NASA and a decade-long cross-sector collaboration to reduce toxic chemicals in products, in partnership with Green Science Policy Institute, Harvard University, IKEA, Google, and Kaiser Permanente. She is the cofounder of Astrea Strategies. Leigh lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and daughter.

Dec 23, 2021

Darshana Avila is a somatic sex and intimacy coach and has created the Map of Erotic Wholeness as a path to personal liberation in service to our collective sexual liberation.

Her unique style of somatic sex and intimacy coaching weaves together an integral approach drawing upon trauma-informed, nature-based, and a justice-oriented approach – all of which invites more presence, pleasure, and passion into the lives and relationships of those she guides.

  • Website: darshanaavila.com
  • Instagram: @EroticWholeness 
  • Netflix: Sex, Love and Goop -- Watch the trailer here 
Dec 13, 2021

Katarina (Kato) Wittich has had the great privilege to act as a midwife for many other humans as they journey toward wholeness and self love. She is a certified Rosen Practitioner, Yuen Practitioner, and Family Constellations Facilitator. It is her joy to be a perpetual student of the mystery and beauty of humanness, of our experience of ourselves as separate, and yet woven together in ways we can barely comprehend but can directly experience through the group practice of Constellations.
 
Her work is featured in episode five of the Netflix series "Sex, Love & Goop", in which she leads constellations for a couple who wish to avoid repeating the inherited family patterns which have damaged their previous relationships. Kato is grateful to have had the opportunity to facilitate in the first mainstream television exposure for this profound and life changing work, in which you can witness the impossible wonder of our interconnectedness, unlimited by time or physicality.  For more information watch the episode on Netflix or go to RosenConstellations.com 
 
In the rest of her life, she is a screenwriter, director, painter, dancer and general lover of all things creative, embodied and human.

 

Dec 11, 2021

Kristin Condon is an actress, former ballet dancer and current inspirational mover of bodies on Openfit/Myx Fitness digital platform where she teaches Pilates and yoga, and how to treat your body and your mind with a little more grace, dignity and joy. To balance out all that movement, she also loves to get still in a soundproof booth to bring books to life through a microphone, which she has been doing for over seven years. She splits her time between Red Hook, Brooklyn and a little cabin in Milford, PA. 

 

Nov 30, 2021

Lea Redmond reveals the extraordinary hiding in the ordinary: a saltshaker, a penny, hand gestures, clouds. Lea creates books, toys, games and small adventures that invite humans of all ages to be curious, playful, and kind. Visit Lea’s world of wonder at LeaRedmond.com.

 

Nov 17, 2021

Jeffrey Davis is an author, team culture consultant, educator, and CEO of Tracking Wonder Consultancy. For over 25 years, he's inspired thousands of change-makers, leaders, and creatives to unlock their best ideas through the pursuit of curiosity, innovation, and wonder. He is the author of the books Tracking Wonder (Coming out with Sounds True in November, 2021), The Journey from the Center to the Page (Penguin; Monkfish Publishing) the poetry collections City Reservoir (BarnBurner Press) and Coat Thief (Saint Julian Press), and other books. Jeffrey believes in the power of wonder to transform lives, spark influence, and help human beings thrive creatively in times of rampant challenge and change. Ultimately, he challenges people not to give up on their ideals and dreams. He lives with his wife and two daughters in a farmhouse in the Hudson Valley of New York. To learn more, visit trackingwonder.com.

Nov 8, 2021

Andrea Scher is an author, artist and life coach whose work is driven by her belief in the transformative power of creativity for joy and wellbeing. For nearly two decades, through her award-winning blog Superhero Journal, her Creative Superheroes podcast, and her bestselling e-courses, Andrea has thrilled others with their own power to find magic all around them.

Her new book, Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy (HarperCollins) straddles the world of creativity and mindfulness - playfully inspiring readers to live more vibrant lives full of presence, joy and connection. 

You can learn more about Andrea on her website or follow her on Instagram!

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