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Join us every Thursday as we share stories of struggle, resiliency and hope. We hold space for honest conversation of how Everyday Gurus, people just like you, are finding meaning and purpose in life. Everyday people finding what lights them up inside, despite challenges- or maybe because of them. Join us as we talk to the wise that walk among us! These conversations are full of wisdom, how people find their North Star.
Talented singer-songwriter Sevyn Streeter has cemented herself as a rising R&B star with the success of her solo EP Call Me Crazy, But…, which debuted at number five on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It Won’t Stop, the lead single, has topped charts and YouTube with over 22 million views. Sevyn has won three ASCAP awards for songwriting and penned works for studio superstars and icons, including Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, Babyface, Chris Brown, Mary J. Blige, and Alicia Keys. Sevyn S ...
Revolution Rest explores the power and necessity of rest in a culture that views rest as passive, unproductive, and lazy. Revolution Rest challenges that cultural view, and instead, honors rest as inextricable from play and activity; as a key component to healing and self-actualization; and as a portal to a life that is rich, abundant and beautifully human. Join me, Caitlin Dafni, as we explore the myriad ways that we can rejuvenate our bodies, minds, and souls through rest.
This weeks episode begins our emPOWRD journey! I have been listen, learning and humaning for a while now and just like you life has thrown me a few curve balls. The way I have responded has been to understand how to stay resilient, how to care for myself, so I can then show up fully for the people and situations in my life. AND I when life got real…
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What We're Putting Down and Picking Up in 2023: Erin Sepic & Diana Lockett
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Dr. Erin Sepic is a Canadian-born University of VT grad, who obtained her Doctor of Chiropractic degree in the beautiful Finger Lakes @ New York Chiropractic College. She has been practicing in VT since 2005, as she fell in love with it as an undergrad at UVM. She enjoys nearly all methods of being outdoors, (in all Seasons) and mainly engages with…
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Overcoming Terminal Uniqueness: Kate Landry
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Kate Landry is the Continued Care Specialist at a premier addiction treatment center nestled in the green mountains of Stowe, VT. Kate helps set individuals up on their recovery path after they discharge from treatment and guides them in finding an aftercare plan that rings true within. She is determined to help give away what was so graciously giv…
(So good it needed a part 2!) Beana Bern is the founder of Rootstock Retreat, a transformational gathering space, wood-fired bathhouse, and imagination farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. She's in service to supporting people to come home to themselves and the Earth through medicine retreats, elemental healing, ritual, and community. Beana Bern is…
Beana Bern is the founder of Rootstock Retreat, a transformational gathering space, wood-fired bathhouse, and imagination farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. She's in service to supporting people to come home to themselves and the Earth through medicine retreats, elemental healing, ritual, and community. Beana Bern is a creative, energetic, compas…
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Islands of Deep Rest in a Sea of Intensity
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It's been over 3 months since the last episode of Rev Rest. So what the heck have I been up to? Spoiler Alert: I'm pregnant! But that's only part of the story... In today's episode, I talk about how I practiced deep rest this summer while navigating a sea of intensity. How at times, I forgot to rest and pushed too hard, and what I learned in the pr…
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Foundations for Wellness: Rama Wes Wolter
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“Rama” Wes Wolter, LCMHC, LADC, RYT-500, is the Executive & Clinical Director of Milldale Farm Center for Wellness. He is also the Cofounder of the Vermont Be True Yoga Festival and Bhaktistock Spiritual Music Festival! Wes professionally specializes in a trauma-informed and polyvagal approach to therapy, incorporating EMDR, holistic wellness, spir…
EMPOWRD is Mary Streeter's upcoming Stress Management and Resilience Training Program. This program is based on Stress Management and Resiliency Training tools with integrated practices in mindfulness, meditation and yoga along with foundational health principles for wellbeing.By Mary Streeter
https://www.itwvolunteers.org/ Volunteering with ITW is an opportunity to support the rural healthcare system in Uganda, expand the impact of our work, and participate in cross-cultural exchange. Imaging the World is a nonprofit organization focused on high-impact projects. Our volunteers contribute directly to our mission and vision and help susta…
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Courage, Equity, Opportunity: Jameece Pinckney
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Jameece Pinckney is the President & CEO of HyQuest Consulting Solutions LLC, a government contractor, headquartered in Gainesville, VA. She is a visionary, public speaker, thought leader, trainer, and always ready to serve her community. In fact, Jameece is the Founder & Chairman of the OPHELIA Foundation, a grass roots non-profit established on th…
Dr Jo Dee Baer America's Top Foundational Health Coach and Holistic Nutritionist: Focusing on Foundations of Health; Foundations of Living; and Foundations of H.O.P.E. As an Alternative Healing pioneer of 42 years creating energy, vitality, and longevity. Dr. Jo Dee has empowered clients to lose in excess of 1,000,000+ lbs of toxic fat and over 200…
This week Mary Streeter and Erin Sepic discuss their stories in the International Bestselling book, Ignite Your Wisdom. They also touch on the emotional state of our country in response to recent gun-violence tragedies. When an event triggers a sense of hopelessness, how can we maintain our self-compassion and be intentional about how we show up to…
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Accessing Stillness in Everyday Life with Dr. Erin Sepic
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On today’s show I’m speaking with Dr. Erin Sepic. Dr. Sepic is a Chiropractor, Kinesiologist, brain development and movement nerd, as well as a professional Intuitive, Healer and Coach. She lives and works in the beautiful state of VT. Her core values are Growth and Spirituality, and as you'll find, she is a passionate storyteller. I wanted to brin…
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Embodying Extraordinary Love: MaryAnn Swan
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MaryAnn Swan helps women who feel out of place in their lives come home to their truest self so they can experience more love, joy, and acceptance, for themselves, the people they interact with and the journey they are on, regardless of the circumstances. A former schoolteacher with over two decades experience in healing and energy work, she is a s…
JB is the founder and CEO of Ignite Publishing, leaders in empowerment publishing, and visionaries in Igniting a billion lives with a billion words. Ignite books are bestsellers around the world with over 500 authors reaching international best-selling status. Her most rewarding work is helping women transition from doing what they must to doing wh…
Sarah is a coach in the Art of Storytelling. As an international bestselling author she knows what elements makes a story that captivates. Now she helps women create powerful, authentic stories that help their unique voice shine. As a world traveler, Sarah has been collecting stories from around the globe since childhood and now is on a mission to …
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Radical Responsibility: Diana Lockett
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How do you keep your heart open? In this week's episode, Diana Lockett takes us on her journey of radical responsibility and shares how she opened up her heart. She is a visionary heart leader that has the gift of awakening high-performing women to release stress and anxiety so they can live a love-filled and inspired life. Diana is a 4 x Internati…
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This Hard and Beautiful Life with Mary Streeter
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She had put together all the ingredients of a "happy life" - a beautiful family, home and career. Standing in the middle of it all, Mary realized how sad she actually felt. The discovery and practice of a powerful tool helped infuse her life with more intention and meaning. Then, just as her last kiddo was leaving the nest and Mary was rekindling h…
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Opportunities Instead of Obstacles: Kevin Ellis, BoneCoach™
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Kevin Ellis, better known as Bone Coach™, is a certified integrative nutrition health coach, podcaster, YouTuber, bone health advocate, and is the founder of BoneCoach.com. Through a unique 3-step process and world-class coaching programs, he has helped women with osteopenia and osteoporosis in over 1500+ cities around the world get confident in th…
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Our Worth was Never in Question with Tara Ryan
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Tara is an Anti-Diet Health Coach. After years of yo-yo dieting and finding that the answer lay in HEALTH & not in dieting, she is passionate about helping women ditch diets (and diet culture) for good! Tara helps women learn to eat and live without restrictions or guilt around food by helping them build realistic, healthy habits that they can be c…
Welcome to this week's musing! Mary previews the release of her upcoming book, Ignite Your Wisdom. A collection of stories that will Inspire, Encourage, Uplift and Transform you. Mary's Note: "Such an honor to be a part of this compilation book. I stand with an amazing group of Ignite authors as we tell stories of the human journey. Rich with conte…
Eat for your purpose! Staci Rieder is an integrative health coach, intuitive guide, personal chef, and postpartum doula. She has been creatively preparing delicious, organic, and allergy-free food for families for over 20 years. She has studied and practiced health and nutrition most of her adult life and has a very eclectic array of knowledge. She…
Julie St. Onge Founder of New England Coaching Services LLC & The New England Betrayal Trauma Conference. Julie heads up a team of eight coaches to facilitate disclosures, assist couples in the stabilization process, aid those struggling with addiction, and provide safety and stabilization for hurting partners. “I came to a place in life where I wa…
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Freedom From Within with Farheen Beg
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Farheen Beg - lover of sleep, life coach and reiki practitioner - shares her transformative story of rest. How the context of her childhood - as a 1st generation South Asian Canadian born to Pakistani immigrants - shaped her ability to rest (or not rest) in early adulthood. Why she’s never going back to, as she calls them, “the years of depletion.”…
We're back with another banter episode with Mary Streeter and Michael Thompson! This conversation starts with a deep discussion on how it feels to navigate perceived roles while also finding our own desires in life. What choice do we have in the way our life unfolds? How can we stop compromising our integrity and our truth and CHOOSE to be uncomfor…
Anna Leavitt is a mother, spiritualist, healer and medical professional originally from Savannah, Georgia and now residing in Northern Vermont. She has worked in the medical field as an ultrasound technologist since 2009 and has offered spiritual intuitive counseling and energy healing since 2017. Through her experiences with spirit from a young ag…
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I Don't Have to Earn My Rest with Gillian Roy
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How does a full-time working mother of two 5-year-old twins, who also runs her own real estate business, find time for rest? In this conversation, my hilarious and straight-talker sister, Gillian Roy, explains how she carves out micro-windows of time to nourish and rejuvenate herself. Plus: What our parents taught us about rest. How Gillian embrace…
Staci Rieder is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health and Wellness Coach through The Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She has been on a life long journey of learning and sharing natural modalities to improve the quality of life and to live from the heart. She is passionate about food, plants, cooking, yoga, meditation, hiking, gardening and h…
Deborah has lived in Somers, NY since the early 90’s, raising her family there. She is a public school teacher. Yoga and astrology are among her many passions. She earned her 200 YTT at Ohra in 2017 and is a Level 3 graduate of Debra Silverman Astrology. Check out her website at www.inwardjourneyretreats.com.…
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Rest as a Portal to Healing & Essential Vitality with Dr. Kirstin Hotelling Zona
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English Professor and Master Life Coach, Dr. Kirstin Hotelling Zona, tells us her story of rest, when rest became a life raft - a path back home to herself - and to the brilliant life she now lives. Kirstin explains how sexuality and rest interact; how rest is a portal to essential vitality, healing, and profound love. Plus, what Kirstin is teachin…
Mary discusses her practices of self-care and how to keep our actions intentional. "You dont have to light yourself on fire to keep someone else warm".
How does our need for rest change with the changing seasons of our lives? In this episode, Caitlin talks about the metaphorical winters of our lives, why they can be so tough, and how to skillfully navigate their inevitable arrival. Caitlin talks about the hardest, longest winter she's ever experienced, what happened when she tried to ignore the wa…
This week's episode is with Morgan Streeter! Morgan discusses her journey traveling the country at a young age and the struggles of maintaining an individual identity as a mother and professional in corporate America. Her transition from a nomadic lifestyle to the world of 9-5 finance is real, raw, and relevant.…
Tessa Harrington shares her personal journey as a young mother, talks body acceptance and discusses her anxiety both during and after her pregnancy. She is passionate about opening the discussion surrounding the trials and tribulations of motherhood and body image in a world where media seems to make everything appear "perfect". Tessa is here to re…
In this episode and the next, Caitlin explores the rhythms of rest - How our needs for rest can vary quite a bit based on our individual constitution, and how our needs for rest are in tune with the seasonal rhythms of nature. Caitlin highlights the season of winter, a period to hibernate and rejuvenate, a time to go inward and develop our inner re…
Heather Bedell is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in Vermont who primarily works with youth. In this episode, she discusses her journey and how she has used her experiences and education to break barriers and fight systems of oppression. “We all experience pain and suffering and deserve to have people in our corner and have equal access…
In this first episode, Caitlin explains why resting is one of the most seditious things we can do in this culture, and how that is especially true for women. Plus, some fun facts about lions! *Please note that when Caitlin talks about "culture" in this episode, she is referring to the mainstream, capitalist culture of the United States. Inherent in…
"Everything will work again if you unplug for a little while - including you..." Happy Holidays! This is the last episode of the year - Mary will be spending the next couple of weeks decompressing, enjoying time with family, and continuing production of the "Driving Change" series. What have you learned this year?…
Renn Havill (@coachrennhavill) is the graduate assistant volleyball coach at Glenville State College and the editor of the Zen Mama & Everyday Gurus podcast. Renn is a Northern Virginia native that transferred to Northern Vermont University - Johnson in 2019 to continue her collegiate volleyball career and complete her bachelors degree. She graduat…
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Continuing the Conversation: Morgan & Jesse Streeter
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To celebrate the podcast's one year anniversary, Morgan and Jesse Streeter join to continue the conversation that started it all. Zen Mama & The Addict* was started by mother and daughter, Mary and Kate Streeter, as an open discussion about the impact of addiction in their family. The podcast has now blossomed into ZEN MAMA & EVERYDAY GURUS, a plat…
This week we have three guests! We welcome Sanchit Maruti, Bethany Mahler, and Laisha Mitchell to the show. Sana at Stowe is a premier addiction treatment center located in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Their mission is to help individuals with substance use disorders achieve recovery through compassionate, high-quality, evidence-based medical ca…
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Living Radiantly & Dying Gracefully: Kelly Skinner
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Kelly Skinner is a 500hr E-RYT Bhakti Yoga Teacher, Mindfulness & Energy Practitioner, and End of Life Doula who resides in Northern VT. She trusts that in this lifetime, she is here to help beings awaken to live radiantly and die gracefully. To her, there is nothing more rewarding than seeing another being fall in love with her own true nature, an…
Tim Ricciardello is a clinical social worker that provides a sacred, safe space to process and heal psychological wounds. In this episode, Mary and Tim discuss balance, community, healing, and so much more. Community is an opportunity to acknowledge our shared struggles, share our story, and have others hold space. It is harder to carry around our …
Revolution Rest is a conversation that will explore the power and necessity of rest. We’ll zoom way out: Why is rest one of the most seditious things we can do in today’s culture? And we'll zoom way in: from sleep, to yoga and meditation, to healthy relationships with our technology, to the wisdom of nature, we will explore the myriad ways that we …
Mary shares her ideas on how we can find clarity that we are on our chosen path, even when it is hard and life feels unmanageable. How we can stay resilient when we want to hit the easy button and check out. How our resistance and negativity can be a sign to lean into practices that focus our attention on the contentment and positivity in our lives…
Caitlin Dafni is a Life Coach and runs an online coaching practice from her home in coastal Maine. She offers individual and group coaching programs to help clients clarify their purpose and build their life around it. Caitlin has spent the last 15 years exploring and immersing herself in the healing arts - yoga, ayurveda, meditation, integrative n…
Welcome back to the show! In this episode, Kimberly Dubrul and Mary Streeter discuss being mothers of addicts, the impact of Al-Anon on Kimberly's healing, and prioritizing self-care. Kimberly is a wife, mother, devoted life and well-being coach of almost 20 years. She’s dedicated to helping others to see and live in their full strengths, to live t…
Jen Deraspe is the founder of Nurture Through Nature , a holistic life coach, certified Qi Gong and yoga instructor, and certified facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie. She has studied and worked in health, wellness, and personal development since 1983. In this episode, Jen discusses the depths of her healing through athletic training/sports medi…
Thank you Melody for joining Zen Mama & The Addict for another episode! You can listen to this episode on Marystreeter.co/listen. "Melody Joy is a Modern Day Mystic and Pleasure Activist. Her heart centered clarity and fierce wisdom assists those ready to transform and deepen their divinity, regardless of where they are on the path. She brings natu…
Christine O’Neill, MMSc, PA-C, PCC is a former clinician and burnout survivor who now serves others as a burnout interventionist, executive leadership coach, Certified Dare To Lead™ Professional, and yoga teacher. She is passionate about helping overwhelmed professionals learn how to make a difference while having a life using values-based prioriti…
