Rachel Alexandria (former psychotherapist turned Soul Medic) and I nerd out on everything Enneagram in this episode that I believe has something for everyone... whether you've never even heard of the Enneagram before today or you're an experienced student and user of it.

We not only share our own personal experiences but we get into each different type, how to best figure out what your type is, wings, stress/growth directions, the triads, and the three instincts. Rachel also shares a new-to-me way of understanding and remembering the 9 Enneagram Types that I found really interesting!

Rachel apprenticed learning the Enneagram nearly 20 years ago and currently teaches classes called Enlightening with the Enneagram to a variety of small companies and organizations, and also created a video program called Tapping for Your Enneagram Type.

Connect with Rachel and learn more:

• Her website: rachelalexandria.com
• Instagram: @rachelralexandria
• Youtube: @RachelRAlexandria
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rachelalexandria/

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• On her website: DaniOBrienBuckley.com
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Michael Weiss-Malik is the inventor and founder of Groove Thing, the world's first internal music player. He's also a client of mine, and now a friend. I was really excited to hear more about his professional story because we have a lot in common! He shares with us his journey of becoming pretty burned out in his corporate career and how this career crisis and (a short-lived) sabbatical turned into him inventing Groove Thing and eventually launching it as a business. It is a true intersection of his passions: music, sex, and tech.

We also dive into the vulnerability of becoming a business owner in the sex toy and broader sex positive industries, and how that has brought even more fulfillment and alignment in his life and career.

Connect with Michael and learn more about Groove Thing:

• Michael on LinkedIn
• TryGrooveThing.com

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• On her website: DaniOBrienBuckley.com
• Dani's Coaching Services
• IG: @daniobuckley
• Dani's Way Substack for Personal Essays, Insights, and Opinions

Britt Fohrman guides people towards confident embodiment as a teacher, coach, doula, photographer, and alchemist in the often overlapping realms of pleasure, grief, sexuality, love, birth, and ceremony. But in this interview we focus our attention on her personal story - one that is woven with challenging the status quo and doing life on her own terms.

Britt exemplifies living life another way by boldly following her intuition and defying the dominant paradigms that surround us. We talk about asking for help and creating a village. We talk about the role of pleasure in healing. She vulnerably shares her experiences and we dive into rich topics around navigating death and grief, as well as motherhood.

After her beloved husband's death, Britt didn't give up on her dream to be a Mom. She chose an unconventional, but wildly beautiful and inspiring, path that has her now basking in the sweetness (and challenges) of single mom life.

Learn more about and connect with Britt:

• Her website: TheJuicyLadies.com
• Instagram: TheJuicyLadies

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• On her website: DaniOBrienBuckley.com
• Dani's Coaching Services
• IG: @daniobuckley
• Dani's Way Substack for Personal Essays, Insights, and Opinions

In 2022 at the age of 33 years old, Mikhail Wolf Shearman was in a life-changing motorcycle accident, that eventually led to the amputation of his entire right arm and chronic nerve damage and pain that he continues to deal with to this day. His life was turned upside down but he's chosen a path of abundance and living life to the fullest.

In this episode we get into not only the details of this accident and how it has impacted him and his outlook on life, but we also dive into his life story and the many ways he's turned tragedy and trauma into opportunity and healing. This includes topics ranging from drug use both medicinally and recreationally, death of a parent (as a teenager), navigating grief, addiction, and so much more!

Wolf has one of the most contagious and inspiring outlooks on life that I've encountered and it was a true pleasure having this conversation with him - especially the many (many!) similarities we found along the way in our life journeys and experiences.

Connect with and learn more about Wolf:

• Wolf on Instagram
• The Photon Collective Podcast on Spotify
• The Photon Collective Podcast on Instagram

Other resources mentioned in the episode:

• The 3 Books Wolf Recommends:
  • The Four Agreements
  • The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
  • The Power of Now
• Book Dani Mentions: The Body Keeps Score

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• On her website: DaniOBrienBuckley.com
• Dani's Coaching Services
• IG: @daniobuckley
• Dani's Way Substack for Personal Essays, Insights, and Opinions

Cianna P. Stewart produces and hosts Dying Kindness, a podcast for people who are going to die someday. (Hint... that's all of us!) Cianna's goal is to help people make key decisions now in order to be kinder to those they'll leave behind.

In this episode we cover the many things you can logistically do to prepare for death, but we also dive into talking about death with your loved ones, facing death, navigating grief (for yourself and with others), and a whole lot more.

We even get into some specific tips around what to actually say to those who are grieving and how you can best support them. Cianna and I share our own experiences and journeys with loss and death as well. This is a special and important episode, I hope you enjoy listening to it it as much as I did recording it!

Connect with Cianna:

• DyingKindness.com - Sign up for Cianna's newsletter and get the Death Binder Essentials template too!
• Podcast episode "Getting the Conversation Started"
• Dying Kindness Facebook Group

Additional Resources Mentioned on the Episode:

• The Death Deck
• "A Man on the Inside" on Netflix
• You're Going to Die (podcast, website, resources, and Bay Area events)
• You're Going to Die Weekly Online Grief Release
• Megan Devine, Refuge in Grief Website and Instagram

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Learn more about, contact, or work with the host, Dani O'Brien Buckley:

• On her website: DaniOBrienBuckley.com
• Dani's Coaching Services
• IG: @daniobuckley
• Dani's Way Substack for Personal Essays, Insights, and Opinions

In this episode I sit down with Reid Mihalko, internationally known sex and relationship geek. Reid has led thousands of workshops and play parties, and his work spans across the globe - and he's also been featured on Lisa Ling's "Our America" and NETFLIX's "Chelsea Does..." with Chelsea Handler.

Reid tells us about his back story and how he got to being such a passionate expert in this field, while also generously sharing about his personal experiences along the way.

We get into a variety of topics, tips, and insights around dating and relationships - but specifically into the concept of "dating your species" and what that means and how that can greatly impact (for better or for worse) your dating, romantic, and love life.

Connect with Reid:

• Website: ReidAboutSex.com
• Instagram: @reidaboutsex
• Facebook: @reidaboutsex
• YouTube: ReidAboutSex
• Reid's accountability process

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Learn more about, contact, or work with the host, Dani O'Brien Buckley:

• On her website: DaniOBrienBuckley.com
• Dani's Coaching Services
• IG: @daniobuckley
• Dani's Way Substack for Personal Essays, Insights, and Opinions

I sit down with a long-time friend and fellow adventurer, Stephanie Koder. In this interview, we touch on her passion and career as a climate change expert and environmentalist (currently with The Nature Conservancy).

After a break-up, Stephanie took the leap to live nomadically while figuring out where she wanted to land, and that has now turned into 15+ months of traveling and working remotely. We talk about what it's been like for her, how she plans where she'll visit next, tips she has - especially for being a solo female-bodied traveler, why she keeps doing this and how she manages it with work, and a whole lot more!

Editors Note: This interview was recorded in early December 2024.

Connect with and learn more about Stephanie:

• Stephanie on LinkedIn
• Stephanie on Instagram

Resources Stephanie shared on the episode:

• Trusted Housesitters (this includes her affiliate link and a 25% discount code!)
• Ecofriendly Luggage
• Wifi Hotspot for Travel
• Pepper Spray
• Travel Door Lock
• Tactical Pen
• Carbon Monoxide Detector

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Learn more about, contact, or work with the host, Dani O'Brien Buckley:

• On her website: DaniOBrienBuckley.com
• Dani's Coaching Services
• IG: @daniobuckley
• Dani's Way Substack for Personal Essays, Insights, and Opinions

In this episode, Zephira and I go deep into the topic of setting and holding boundaries in relationships. What is a boundary? How do we create and share them with the people in our lives? How do we uphold them? Why is this important? So many questions and so many answers explored.

We also cover themes around non-violent communication, relationship agreements, domestic violence, and a whole lot more. This is an insightful, vulnerable, and educational episode that I think everyone can benefit from - no matter how experienced you may or may not be in creating, holding, and communicating boundaries.

Connect with Zephira:

• Boundaries and Being Instagram Page
• Boundaries and Being TikTok Page
• Zephira on Facebook

Resources Mentioned in the Episode:

• Dr. Kathy Simon website and resources page (where you can download the list of human of needs)
• Project Survive through City College of San Francisco
• Shalom Bayit (Peace in the Home)
• National Domestic Violence Helpline
  
  

Stay up to date on latest news and episodes from Another Way:

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• On her website: DaniOBrienBuckley.com
• Dani's Coaching Services
• IG: @daniobuckley
• Dani's Way Substack for Personal Essays, Insights, and Opinions