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In this Radically Alive Women Edgecast conversation, Julia Neumann speaks with Bernice Raabis, founder of Dance the Medicine, an international team of conscious dance professionals helping people build dance communities across the globe.Bernice shares what it’s like to live nomadically with her 14-year-old daughter as they travel the world, blending practical planning with deep bodily listening and a willingness to follow what feels radically alive. She also explains her somatic approach to tracking sensations and emotions as a practice of self-awareness, and how Dance the Medicine brings together leadership skills, DJ training, and dance facilitation to support collaboration, creativity, and...

In this Radically Alive Women conversation, Julia Neumann speaks with Annamária Sütő (“Wolf Woman”,) a Hungarian from Transylvania living independently in a small village, and her adult daughter Anna Réka Ötvös, who is frequently traveling between Siberia and Hungary, and learning to feel “home” within herself. They discuss shifting the mother-daughter relationship from blame and constant arguing to listening, gratitude, and choosing to focus energy on one’s own life.Annamária describes a turning point around age 35 when she stopped trying to change her mother from a rebel stance, made a gratitude list for what she received from her maternal line, and...

Robina McCurdy - New Zealand born, a woman firmly grounded on this earth, a global weaver of creating a regenerative culture, an community elder who is young in her heart and ageless in her wisdom. The 76-year old woman of many hats shares through a number of examples how to live life to its full extension through one's life stages and takes a fierce stand for elderhood being recognized and honoured in our culture. Being a grandmother of children - and not a biological grandmother herself - she highlights the importance of intergenerational connection that keeps eldership alive. She is...

Julia Neumann from Radically Alive Women speaks with parenting coach and "Tides" rites-of-passage facilitator Amy Weber and young woman Gabriela Fagundes about mother-daughter relationships, especially the transition of girls into womanhood. Amy describes navigating the empty nest as a mother and how "Tides" and "Rising Tides" help mothers and daughters renegotiate patterns, create space, and recognise that daughters’ transitions also change mothers’ identities. She shares how community and ritual can help normalise and celebrate menstruation, and support both the daughter’s push for freedom and the mother’s grief and identity shift as she “becomes obsolete” in stages.Gabriela shares her experience of...

This Radically Alive Women Edgecast conversation between Julia Neumann and Ellen Appleton explores “mother graduation,” the transition from actively mothering children to relating to them as independent adults. Ellen describes her deep identification with motherhood, including two wanted pregnancies, and speaks to the innate wisdom, love, and intensity she experienced as a mother. The discussion highlights how motherhood is often undervalued by society and how lack of support for pregnant women and mothers can contribute to generational trauma. Ellen shares that parenting involves repeated separations and describes the particular pain of letting her son enter manhood without clear, emotionally supportive...

Shalane Hopkins went on an extraordinary adventure: she walked the 3,000-kilometer Te Araroa trail in New Zealand in 2010, just before its official opening, and came through Christchurch around the time of the earthquake. In this honest conversation with Julia Neumann, Shalane shares her experiences, motivations, and what led her to stay in New Zealand and become a Kiwi citizen. The conversation delves into Shalane's personal growth journey, discussing her transformation from a people pleaser to someone who embraces her courage and authenticity. She talks about the importance of intuition, overcoming obstacles, and the lessons she learned while writing her...

Yael Deckelbaum is a platinum award-winning Israeli/Canadian singer songwriter and an activist for peace, and especially well known for her song “Prayer Of The Mothers”, written in 2016 to support the Women Wage Peace Movement: a song for the movement of Palestinian and Israeli mothers walking together for change and peace. You hear its tune at the beginning of the episode. Shared by millions, it inspired and keeps inspiring women across the globe to get together and take action.This episode is a powerful and deep conversation between Yael Deckelbaum and Julia Neumann. Yael talks with vulnerability about her journey in...

Nicola Hearn is a woman that walks the edge between mainstream culture, activism, and advocacy for societal change. With a background in technology, she was the heart behind Third Space Canteen, a social enterprise promoting food culture.In July 2025, one of her Instagram reels went viral in which she calls out greed and profit-orientation and calls in collaboration for societal change.Listen in for a radically alive, authentic and vulnerable conversation with Julia Neumann, in which Nicola shares about her journey of self-discovery and activism. Nicola speaks about  her experiences with patriarchy, capitalism, and the unique struggles women face in these...

Melissa McGregor is the creatress of Nature School in Mangawhai, in the North Island of New Zealand. This conversation dives into the personal inspirations that led to this creation. We also talk about what has evolved over the years and the current results of bringing feelings work into the mix.Melissa is passionate about encouraging others to get started. If this is something you are thinking about, please get in touch! "Nature School family support continues to unfold. Melissa's next step is to make irresistable offers of extraordinary parent evenings and listening spaces for parents at drop-off. These offers have come...

Birgit Frank has been researching money for over two decades and brings a fresh and playful energy into a topic that is as hidden from everyday conversations as is initmate relating. And yet - it is our relationship we have with and towards money that enables change how we allow money to flow. In this episode Birgit shares with us the concept of the Money Being - a community tool which brings connection and if applied to life through feminine qualitites it provides for enough resources for everybody. Support this work: We’re passionate about bringing these conversations to you and...