Episodios

  • Bradley Denis McDevitt: A Story Waiting to Flourish

    Bradley Denis McDevitt: A Story Waiting to Flourish
    Dec 8 2023

    In this week’s episode, Ximena talks with theater artist and depth psychology scholar, Bradley Denis McDevitt about his creative consulting firm Carolina Commons Creative. We discuss the “Theater of Self” program, where he helps not just actors but businesses and individuals discover their sense of Self utilizing acting techniques as well neuroscience and depth psychology to enhance metacognition, and somatic and emotional intelligence.


    Bradley is also a ICF-accredited development coach, dedicated to fostering personal and professional growth, especially for young people. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife and two daughters.


    Resources for this episode:


    For more information about Bradley McDevitt and his coaching practice, please visit https://carolinacommons.org/


    John Vervaeke
    https://johnvervaeke.com/


    Iain McGilchrist
    https://channelmcgilchrist.com/



    Thank you for listening to this episode. I am so thrilled and honored to be sharing stories about the Soul of Place and what we can each do to reconnect to our roots. I would love to get your feedback and opinions. Please share this episode with anyone who may need to hear this message. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen to podcasts. My name is Ximena Dussan-Aya Pearson. Until next time! Keep inviting the soul of the world into your lives!
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    54 m
  • Sofia Talvik: The American Archetype of Roaming the Endless Highway

    Sofia Talvik: The American Archetype of Roaming the Endless Highway
    Dec 2 2023

    In this week’s episode, Ximena hosts singer-songwriter Sofia Talvik. We discuss her Swedish roots, her American sound, and her many journeys and experiences roaming the endless highway in her 1989 Winnebago Warrior. Her roots are deeply embedded in her relationship with her husband. Home is where her husband lives. A musical nomad, moving from place to place, slowly but steadily building her audience through her heartfelt and personal performances she got to know experience the USA in a way a few people do.


    Resources for this episode:


    For more information about Sofia Talvik, please visit https://sofiatalvik.com/


    Thank you for listening to this episode. I am so thrilled and honored to be sharing stories about the Soul of Place and what we can each do to reconnect to our roots. I would love to get your feedback and opinions. Please share this episode with anyone who may need to hear this message. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen to podcasts. My name is Ximena Dussan-Aya Pearson. Until next time! Keep inviting the soul of the world into your lives!
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    54 m
  • Raíces: Mother Nature Gifts to You

    Raíces: Mother Nature Gifts to You
    Sep 29 2023
    In this week’s episode, Ximena talks to Maribel Valadez, single mother, Entreprenuer, and native of Aguascalientes, Mexico about how her small business, Raíces: Mother Nature Gifts to You. Raíces captures and brings the true aromas and essences of her home town of Aguascalientes, Mexico through beautiful hand-crafted soaps, shampoo and conditioner bars. Nature gifts us so many natural resources that come from the ground up. The creation of Raices comes from the natural resources that come from the roots of the earth by the Grace of God. All the products are made with love and personally handcrafted in the beautiful state of Aguascalientes, Mexico. The delicate elaboration process of our soap takes several days, and each soap is made with several different essential oils that release a beautiful and relaxing aroma. In addition, our soaps are specially made to heal, enhance and stimulate a natural flow of energy throughout the body. Resources for this episode: Stay tuned for the website: For more information about Raíces, please visit https://www.raícesbeauty.com/ Thank you for listening to this episode. I am so thrilled and honored to be sharing stories about the Soul of Place and what we can each do to reconnect to our roots. I would love to get your feedback and opinions. Please share this episode with anyone who may need to hear this message. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen to podcasts. My name is Ximena Dussan-Aya Pearson. Until next time! Keep inviting the soul of the world into your lives!
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    49 m
  • Dr. Chalquist on Terrapsychological Inquiry: Restorying our Relationship with Nature, Place, Planet

    Dr. Chalquist on Terrapsychological Inquiry: Restorying our Relationship with Nature, Place, Planet
    Sep 15 2023
    In this week’s episode, Ximena talks with author, professor, Dr Craig Chalquist about his research method of Terrapsychology. A method by which we can begin to restore and restory our relationship between our psyche, nature, place and planet. How can we each find our own personal myth or story? How are the stories of our culture impacted by the place we inhabit? Craig Chalquist, PhD chairs the Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation master’s program at National University. He writes and lectures at the intersection of story, psyche, place, and lore. His most recent book is the second edition of Terrapsychological Inquiry: Restorying Our Relationship with Nature, Place, and Planet. Resources for this episode: For more information about Dr Chalquist, please visit https://www.chalquist.com/ Thank you for listening to this episode. I am so thrilled and honored to be sharing stories about the Soul of Place and what we can each do to reconnect to our roots. I would love to get your feedback and opinions. Please share this episode with anyone who may need to hear this message. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen to podcasts. My name is Ximena Dussan-Aya Pearson. Until next time! Keep inviting the soul of the world into your lives!
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    35 m
  • Roland Palencia: UNIDAD, Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos

    Roland Palencia: UNIDAD, Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos
    Aug 25 2023
    In this week’s episode, Ximena hosts professor, activist, and filmmaker Roland Palencia. We talk about Roland’s most recent documentary UNIDAD: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU), a film which chronicles the early 1980s queer Latino activism in Los Angeles. It is a conversation about the need to belong, about being uprooted from your homeland, only to find roots in a foreign land. It is a conversation of how we can find ways to share our stories that unite and glue us together and keep us together. How can future generations of gay and lesbian Latinos continue to spread their roots? Roland Palencia, MA, is a Professor at California State University Northridge’s (CSUN) -Tseng College in the Diverse Community Development Leadership MA program, and an award-winning filmmaker. He is the former Community Benefits Director and corporate trainer at L.A. Care Health Plan, the largest public health plan in the nation. He is also the former Executive Director of Clinica Monseñor Oscar A. Romero and Equality California, and former multi-County Regional Director at The California Endowment and Chief of Operations and Vice-President at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. In 2001, he was honored as a “Local Hero” by KCET (PBS affiliate) and Union Bank of California. In the early 1980s, he became one of the founders and a pioneer of the blossoming LGBTQ Latine movement in the greater Los Angeles area, including co-founding Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU) and VIVA!, a Queer Latine artist collective. Palencia has been featured in a number of books and publications such as “Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians” by Stuart Timmons and Lilian Faderman (2006). “Central Americans in Los Angeles” by Rosamaria Segura (2010); and “The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle” by Lilian Faderman (2015). The 165-page Master thesis by David Guzman, M.A., (CSUN 2014) records Palencia’s life journey as a Guatemalan political refugee and community activist. His Executive film Producer credits include “TransVisible: Bamby Salcedo’s Story,” a documentary depicting the life and activism of the nationally renowned Trans Latina activist Bamby Salcedo,“UNIDAD: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos,” which chronicles the early 1980s queer Latino activism in Los Angeles, and “Art as Activism,” which depicts the history of Self-Help Graphics & Arts, the seminal East L.A. based arts organization founded in 1970. Palencia received a B.A. in History from UCLA and a Masters in Depth Psychology & Creativity from Pacifica Graduate Institute based in Montecito, CA. Thank you for listening to this episode. I am so thrilled and honored to be sharing stories about the Soul of Place and what we can each do to reconnect to our roots. I would love to get your feedback and opinions. Please share this episode with anyone who may need to hear this message. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen to podcasts. My name is Ximena Dussan-Aya Pearson. Until next time! Keep inviting the soul of the world into your lives! You can find me at www.ximenapearson.com
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  • Debra Goldman:Stories of my Inner Landscape

    Debra Goldman:Stories of my Inner Landscape
    Aug 18 2023
    In this week’s episode, Ximena hosts visual artist Debra Goldman. We discuss the story of her inner landscape and how it has been shaped and informed by her relationship to nature, place, and the horizon line. Our inner landscapes continue to evolve and alter themselves by our connection to land. Debra has been a practicing visual artist for over thirty five years. Making a home in Iowa, New York, Colorado and for the past eighteen years in Washington state, has deeply informed her relationship to ‘place’ and to the symbolic language that she used in her creative work. She raised her two children on a small, organic farm in Whatcom County and has taught in Universities in three different regions of the country. Thirty years after completing her MFA from Pratt Institute, she returned to graduate school to immerse herself in the vast terrain of depth psychology. It was during this intensive study that the roots of her earliest influences became conscious to her. The evolution of her inner landscape is ongoing and has been richly informed by all of these experiences. She continues to explore how to engage in the story of these times we are living. Resources for this episode: For more information about Debra, visit: https://www.debragoldmanstudio.com/ For Debra’s upcoming workshops, visit: https://www.storyarttransformation.com/ Watch the podcast on YouTube at https://YouTube.com/@rootstoriesofthesoul Thank you for listening to this episode. I am so thrilled and honored to be sharing stories about the Soul of Place and what we can each do to reconnect to our roots. I would love to get your feedback and opinions. Please share this episode with anyone who may need to hear this message. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen to podcasts. My name is Ximena Dussan-Aya Pearson. Until next time! Keep inviting the soul of the world into your lives!
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    57 m
  • David Starr: Beauty & Ruin, A Meeting of Song and Literature

    David Starr: Beauty & Ruin, A Meeting of Song and Literature
    Jun 16 2023

    In this week’s episode, Ximena hosts singer-songwriter David Starr. We discuss his album Beauty & Ruin released February 2020, inspired by the novel Of What Was, Nothing is Left written by David’s grandfather in 1972. We discuss David’s roots growing up in the Ozark hills of Arkansas. We touch on the universal themes tragedy, family dysfunction, and denial. We talk about the collaborative project between him, John Oates, and a number of other singer-songwriters to capture the essence of his grandfather’s story.



    David Starr is a Colorado-based, Americana and blues singer/songwriter with over 10 albums to his credit. The Arkansas native has honed his decades-long career touring internationally and sharing the stage with esteemed artists such as John Oates (Hall & Oates) and John McEuen, as well as opening for acts like America, Jim Messina, and more. In 2022, he was a showcasing artist at Folk Alliance International, AmericanaFest, and Southwest Regional Folk Alliance. His latest project "Better Me", features acoustic-driven songs such as the title track and “Closer To You,” and the feisty blues-rock “Poison The Water". For his 2020 "Touchstones" project, Starr covered the music that shaped his own, including "I've Got To Use My Imagination" (Gladys Knight) and "These Days" (Jackson Browne). His critically acclaimed album "Beauty & Ruin" is a collection of songs inspired by "Of What Was, Nothing Is Left", a novel written by Starr’s grandfather in 1972. Produced and arranged by John Oates, it is a southern gothic tale beautifully told through Starr’s own musical lens. His prestige extends beyond the stage, having launched Starr’s Guitars in Little Rock, before relocating to Cedaredge, CO in 2001, where it is now a beloved institution. Starr is also a founding member of the board for the Grand Mesa Arts & Events Center in Cedaredge, an intimate event space aimed at attracting musicians and visual artists to Colorado’s Western Slope.



    Resources for this episode


    For more information about David, visit

    https://www.davidstarrmusic.com



    Watch the podcast on YouTube at https://YouTube.com/@rootstoriesofthesoul



    Thank you for listening to this episode. I am so thrilled and honored to be sharing stories about the Soul of Place and what we can each do to reconnect to our roots. I would love to get your feedback and opinions. Please share this episode with anyone who may need to hear this message. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen to podcasts. My name is Ximena Dussan-Aya Pearson. Until next time! Keep inviting the soul of the world into your lives!
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    52 m
  • Charles Morse: Soil and Soul

    Charles Morse: Soil and Soul
    Jun 9 2023

    In this episode, Ximena hosts educator, organic farmer, and Depth Psychologist Charles Morse. We discuss the topic of Soil & Soul within the larger framework of the impact that industrial farming and agriculture has on our psyche and soul. How can we bridge agriculture with depth psychology as a means to reconnect with the soil and our land.



    Charles Morse has worked as an educator, organic farmer, and depth psychologist. He is particularly interested in exploring how the advent of agriculture has shaped the human psyche and humanity's relationship with the natural world. He lives in British Columbia and is currently pursuing a PhD in depth psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute.


    Resources for this episode

    Follow Charles at www.thegreenfire.net



    Watch the podcast on YouTube at https://YouTube.com/@rootstoriesofthesoul



    Thank you for listening to this episode. I am so thrilled and honored to be sharing stories about the Soul of Place and what we can each do to reconnect to our roots. I would love to get your feedback and opinions. Please share this episode with anyone who may need to hear this message. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen to podcasts. My name is Ximena Dussan-Aya Pearson. Until next time! Keep inviting the soul of the world into your lives!
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    56 m