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In this episode of Radically Alive Women, Yana Kirakovskaya, founder of Auckland-based "Papaya Stories" shares her inspiring journey as a global citizen, creative, and mother.
Papaya Stories brings people together through unique storytelling experiences like Silent Disco City walks and other audio tours, such as Māori historical tours. These are uniquely tailored experiences, fostering connection, joy and authenticity. The creative storytelling services extend globally, aiming to enrich lives and foster community connection.
The conversation also delves into the fear of success, facing rejection, embracing one's true self, daring to be "crazy", dancing with life, and how being true to oneself...

Melody Mortiaux is a naturopath / medical herbalist, and has a wealth of knowledge around women’s health, women’s cycles, menstruation and menopause.
In this RAW episode she shares generously about:

the menstrual cycle
perimenopause
menopause
symptoms of perimenopause
estrogen and progesterone as well as other hormones and their role in a Woman’s moon and life cycle
the liver’s sacred role and how to look after its past age 35
detox pathways in women and men
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

Togther with Julia Neumann, she taps into the bigger picture of perimenopause and menopause as a massive invitation to come fully...

Sybille Biedert is the founder of Embodied Freedom and co-originator of Radically Alive Women.With Embodied Freedom, Sybille joins her background as an Open Floor teacher and years of immersion into 5-Rhythms with distinctions from Possibility Management to empower humans to come fully into their bodies. In this episode, Sybille returns to RAW Edgecast with her research on conscious dance and Feelings distinctions, and how their combination serves to create connection, collaboration, and in general: aliveness.Sybille speaks about her observations on the dancefloor and beyond, sharing from her personal journey especially with Anger, Fear, and Sadness. This is an intimate and honest conversation...

Claire Eccleston is a midwife of life. Amongst many hats she wears, she is a mother and a grandmother and takes a radical stand in the birth space. She advocates the reverence for a Woman's body and bringing back the knowledge and wisdom through its inherent physiology. 
In this conversation with Annika Korsten, she takes a leap into where birth stands today in many Western cultures, including aiming to control birth, the use of technology and machinery, and the link with a disconnect from the land. The ancient art  of birth work, on the other hand,  stresses the importance of touch, senses and "Being...

In this episode, Alice Belz and Julia Neumann proudly present to you the first ever Radically Alive Women publication: Their co-authored Workbook for Women "Her Conscious Anger".
In the first half of the conversation, Alice and Julia speak to the context of the book, giving some background why it matters to them to make conscious Anger accessible to Women across the globe.
In the second half, from approx. minute 15, they read from a Chapter of their book - for you to have a direct experience of how conscious Anger could serve you in your life: To say what you...

Oonagh Browne is the Founder of The Cacao Ambassador. Her true service is for Humans to remember the greatness of who we are.
Having read this, you may already sense how this episode is a massive invitation to come home to yourself and into the Greatness of who you are.
In this conversation with Julia Neumann, Oonagh shares of her extraordinay life path from Ireland to New Zealand, from the corporate world into her true calling. She speaks about unplugging from the linear life plan, doing radical shifts, unlearning the patriarchal rulebooks, and embarking on the quest of "who am...

Yaki Wo⁠ is the Mother of two, a forest therapy guide, and a regenerative practitioner. Besides being a Mother, her main work is introducing people to regenerative development and practice for future positive leadership. She is originally from Hong Kong and today lives in Australia.
In this episode, Yaki shares how she got to develop Future Positive, or “Future+”, a programme she birthed in collaboration with Beijing based “Wild Bound”. It is a programme to bring regenerative practice, which she defines as cultivating essence-to-essence relationship between whole living beings, to architects and urban planners.
Yaki shares her journey from feeling...

This episode is a conversation amongst the three main spaceholders of RAW Edgecast. Hannah Abouzahrah holds space for Annika Korsten and Julia Neumann to speak about their One-Year-Long Journey, travelling and living largely together and partly separately, as Women committed to honesty and inhabiting their own culture.In November 2023, Annika and Julia co-created and lived in the first Women’s Bridge-House together with 4-5 other Women, in Golden Bay, New Zealand. In early December 2023, they sat off on a journey North by car and via ferry across the Cook Strait. What followed was a travel to visit other Women across...

Listen in for this conversation amongst 3 Women about shifting from Modern Culture child raising and family systems to a different culture. Annika Korsten holds space for mothers of young children, Hannah Abouzahrah and Ewa Sczepaniak, to speak about their visions and bold experiment of combining their families on the edge of creating something different.
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Topics covered are:

The pain of raising children in a nucleus family, 
expectations getting in the way of the Vision,
the change of social life and contacts after child birth, the impact also...

In this episode, we are honoured to host Clare Dubois at RAW Edgecast once again. Clare is the founder of Treesisters.org, a global women's organisation for reforestation. She left Treesisters in October 2022, with burnout and mould poisoning, coupled with her transitioning through menopause. Since leaving the organisation, Clare has been facing her trauma work and surrendering to the death of her past self.
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In this conversation with Annika Korsten, Clare shows up as a walking permission for...