The Amanda Collins Podcast

Join me as I chat with my friend and teacher of over a decade Laura Plumb. Learn about the beauty, simplicity and astounding health values of Ayurveda. Laura breaks it down into easy to understand terms and shows us how working with Ayurveda brings the cycles of nature to everyday significance. Ayurveda is the science that we are nature and nature has your back. Through Ayurveda we can cultivate the awareness and intuition with ourselves that is most nourishing. It is the understanding that there is nothing wrong with you, you are perfect, whole, complete and beautiful in nature. Ayurveda is an invite to remember THAT.

Jordan is a longtime friend and one of the original participants of the now 18 year old social change organization Shakti Rising. This is where she found her calling to work to bring the feminine forward into our culture. She shares the beauty and power of processing grief in a group and the beautiful work she does with horses who are master teachers. Horses teach us how to own our power in a way that is firm and loving at the same time. Join us on a journey through the magic of allowing, vulnerability, community and connection.

I am so inspired by speaking with Laura Swan. Her story of lack turned into purpose is a true example of alchemy and how enlightened conscious feminine leaders are going to change the world. Join me for a chat with Laura as she shares with us about her calling to true leadership and the benefit of creating sisterhood circles around you. We learn about the beauty that is created when you deeply and truly connect with other women and the divine feminine within yourself. By doing this work we are creating a more empowered place for our children to grow up. The rights of passage of life take on a deeper meaning when witnessed and held by yours sisters. By being vulnerable and willing to take the first step into sharing your life with others you can create meaning and healing in your life.  Laura is proof that if you believe that you can create you will.

Join me as I interview a visionary leader and my friend of over 10 years Tanya Lynn. I find out about Tanya’s beautiful journey. She shares the deep wound she had around sisterhood that is so common. We learn that by healing this wound we can create a life with purpose and meaning. I welcome you to enjoy the story of her voyage from hard edged masculinity into feminine leadership. Where vulnerability is welcome and others are inspired by it. We talk about learning to work with your feminine cycles and the increased creativity that motherhood can bring. Learn about the beauty of sisterhood circles and how you too can become a leader in your community.

It is my honor to speak with master practitioner Debora Wayne. Debora is a true gift on this planet and has helped me personally when post-traumatic stress was making my life unbearable. She explains the astounding method that she developed to get to the root of pain and allow people to live more free lives. Her method is rooted in both science and spirituality. She has so much wisdom to share. Join us as we delve into topics like belief systems, the energy we surround ourselves and fear as the gatekeeper to our birthright of a joyful life.

What would it look like to be in touch with the cycles of our bodies and life? What would the benefits be? Can having ritual in your life enhance it? Join Ian Claxton and I as we talk about ways to enjoy a more relaxed state of being, greater fertility in every meaning of the word and more awareness of our own inner workings. I just love sharing my tips and learning new ones from Ian on how to add this into your daily life: RIGHT NOW. We dive into how ritual and honoring the cycles of life are missing from our society and what can come of taking the space to invest in these practices. Ian also shares his top tips to help with men and women’s infertility issues. He is just so beautifully multi-dimensional. We go beyond traditional Chinese medicine and look at Celtic and druidic medicine, an exciting line of tree essences and so much more.

How many hours of the day do you spend battling yourself over food? Do you find that you are always sabotaging? Have you been on a path of growth but still can’t get past your food issues? There is a path to freedom from the countless hours, the drained energy and the struggle with food addiction. My guest Debbie Litcher and I spend the hour talking about her proven approach to helping women get free from their food issues. Learn what it looks like when we can learn to feel whole and perfect. When we drop the need to always fix ourselves.  We delve into why having the knowledge of what to do isn’t enough. Her methods help to find and move through what’s blocked internally that is causing failure. We talk about what happens when you stop fighting an internal battle and come home to yourself.

Join me in an engaging chat with Dave Towe about the power of work that is in line with your core values, the ripple effect and how your work can affect one person’s life or all of humanity. Dave shares how important ethical practices and mentorship are as well as the process of creating a conscious company. I am so grateful for the methods that Dave shared with me on overcoming fear, finding a way to live your calling and creating work that is medicine for ourselves and others. Anything is possible when you believe that you can do it.

Join Aine and I as we chat about having it all. A business that feeds your heart and soul as well as your family and the community around you… Aine shares her fascinating story: from some darker days that sprung into the beginnings of her beautiful home based business that has international distribution and employs people in her community .As a mother and entrepreneur she has some amazing insight into keeping the balance between family life and business. We discover that our childhood talents and focus can be our special gifts as an adult to change the world, by acting locally and with a high intention for good starting with yourself and your family.

Join me as I talk with Paul Congdon about how he went from rock bands to Reiki and followed the flow of the flow of the universe into building the amazing magazine Positive Life. Paul shares his journey of saying yes, listening to intuition and getting out of his own way to work that he was clearly destined for. The organic nature of how Paul went from corporate spiritual entrepreneur is so inspiring! Paul explains how he created the group event that he was longing for and the following that built naturally after it. As he kept reaching for what inspired him he inspired others and now has an amazing network of people he interacts with including leaders like Echkart Tolle. Paul is such an inspiration and a manifestation of what conscious business that includes following your intuition looks like.

I talked with my good friend Sharon Plache who has devoted her life to working within the pleasure principle to live an empowered, blissful and easeful life. Her professional career in the healing arts has flourished over 30 years as she has incorporated mind, body and spiritual practices from all over the world. Sharon shares with us how she has trained her brain and modeled her life to be about pleasure over effort. I just love that Sharon has harnessed her passion in life and works to create and experience beauty in all ways possible. Sharon’s belief is that by creating and seeing the beauty in life, and others, we can produce the inner connection of joy and bliss we all seek.

Join Gia George and I as we share a cup of tea and a juicy chat of creating and allowing play and pleasure in your life. Gia shares that through creating a lifestyle and relationships that you love you get to create pleasure. We dive into the concept of creating space in your life to move through and allow pain,to surrender to it and love through it to move into peace and pleasure of life. We can open our minds to the freedom that is present in every moment tofind the wisdom of the heart and share yourself with others.

I had such an amazing and beautiful conversation with Lara Eisenberg about her path of healing trauma to living a life of pleasure. We chat on why it is so important for women to heal ourselves and thus our connection to other women, as well as having a frank conversation about sensuality and sexuality in a male dominated world. While focused on women our conversation can be applied to any person’s life. Lara shares her tools and valuable insight on how to get past our cultural and familial trauma to integrate pleasure into our cellular memory.

  Listen in iTunes and Subscribe! In this podcast, it’s such a wonderful adventure in pleasure to talk with my dear friend James Knight. We dive into what pleasure is and how to find it within yourself. Self-love, pleasure and self-awareness are so interconnected and James shares tools on how to use these concepts to manage stress and always be able to return yourself, your true north. Don’t you just love being around someone that’s beaming from the inside and is an immaculate source of happiness? What if you had the tools to be an authentic beacon of light in that very same way?      

Listen in iTunes and Subscribe! In this podcast, join us as we uncover what is means to be truly authentic, with ourselves, with others, and in our lives. It’s a continual practice to become more and more aware of our honest needs and truths. Listen in for recommendations to learn how to become more honest with yourself and embrace living an authentic life in each moment.

Listen in iTunes and Subscribe! In this meditation, you will be guided on a journey into the power and healing available to you through the art of forgiveness. Learn what it feels like to come into a deeper place of forgiveness for yourself and others in order to set yourself free, come back to love, and create space for the new in your life.

Listen on iTunes and Subscribe! This podcast offers a peek into the world of accessing your intuition and allowing it to fluidly guide you in your life. Listen in to identify ways in which you might be disconnecting from yourself and ways in which you can deepen your self-connection in order to create more fluidity and grace on a daily basis. Though life has its ups and downs, learning how to follow the golden thread of your intuition will guide you every step of the way and subsequently, create greater flow and flexibility in whatever you are experiencing.

Listen in iTunes and Subscribe! In this meditation, take a journey into the realms of your higher self. This is the place in which we truly create what we desire, receive our soul’s messages, and connect with the Universal consciousness of Love.

Listen on iTunes and Subscribe! Sensuality can be expressed through every stage and chapter of our lives. This podcast offers an invitation to step into the power and fulfillment of our sensuality. Listen in for practical ways to invite a deeper sense of sensuality into your daily life through nurturing and celebrating yourself just as you are.

Listen on iTunes and Subscribe! Happiness is an inside job. In this podcast, we look at how to take our power back and step into the inherent birthright that is our joy and happiness. Learn how to adopt a positive lens to your life situations to expand your self-love, self-worth, and connection to yourself.