MUM (TRIP w/ Ellen Wong)

“I feel so clearly called to death and birth work in this primal way of, like, this is what I'm here for now. All of the logistics of capitalism have not been mastered and would love to put the onus of mastery to someone else to just make it possible for me to do this. Because this feels so like even the gentle way that I'm sometimes feeling guided to death work in this place. I love old people and I love talking to people about their reproductive organs and how all of these things go together. And it just seems like only in weird deathy spaces or weird birthworky spaces do I feel at home.”

A student of life, Avé is a writer, full-spectrum doula, public scholar, and wellness guide. Inspired by traditional healing and aerial perspective, the goal is guiding life with abundance towards death in solace. Oriented towards justice, Avé Lanett chooses transformation. With over three decades of multidisciplinary yoga practice, they have committed their life to sharing wellness. Most commonly known for their political, environmental, and social justice work in the LGBTQ community, their methods are rooted in health through Black Liberation. From birthwork to end-of-life support, Avé enjoys serving as a witness of becoming.

In this podcast episode, Avé shares insights on how they experienced their mother's death, their journey with grief, and the truth that experiencing grief requires the privilege of space and safety.

Learn more about Avé Lanett at Blkdreamcamp.co

Follow Avé on IG @themblkyogi, @blkdreamcamp

This episode was edited by Nina Maria Iniestra De La Riva and comes to you with the support of Erika Mai T. Apuli from Earth Rooted Assistants.

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In this MUM episode, death doula Marta Macbeth shares her experiences with loss and grief, emphasizing the importance of living joyfully after grieving. Marta introduces her new offering Exit Plan, which intends to make end-of-life planning easy and fun, addressing practical aspects such as writing letters, creating videos, and considering important details they may not have thought about.

About Marta Macbeth:

Marta Macbeth’s journey began with her father's sudden death when she was ten, a moment that deeply impacted her. Throughout life, she's faced more losses, including a best friend in her 30s and her mother at forty. In 2022, she grappled with profound grief, bidding farewell to two close friends within a month, followed by the sudden loss of her partner of twenty years.

Now 69 years old, as she enters 2024, she's in a phase of reinvention after a year of navigating grief and joy. Marta is a student of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as a mother, grandmother, and death doula, reflecting the diverse aspects of her life journey.

Link with Marta:

• ⁠Exit Plan (free) on March 23
  Get ready to tackle the serious stuff in a lighthearted way with Exit Plan - the online event that makes end of life planning a breeze.

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In this MUM episode, life coach Yvonne Chung shares about her experience with major decision-making alongside uncertainty and fear, the impact of living beyond complacency, and waking up through the death portal.

About Yvonne Chung:

Yvonne is a Korean-American child of immigrants whose work lies at the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern science--the research and the woo. She is a certified coach, self-love mentor, Human Design guide, and dream architect, here to help as many people as she can live fearlessly so they can die without regrets.

Her life has been a series of deaths and rebirths that ultimately led her deeper and deeper into her life's purpose.

In 2017, she quit her corporate job and abandoned the identity and life she was told to have in order to travel the world and discover her own path of purpose and meaning.In 2019, she answered the call of her Soul's Work and began her journey as a coach and guide. In 2021, at 32 years old, she came face to face with her own mortality, catapulting her deeper into her life's purpose.

And in 2023, she left a 7-year relationship and engagement, uprooted her life, and set out on a new life path in Mexico. Over the course of her life, she has had to make choices to leave one life in order to step into another. Life has taught her how to trust the death process and has shown her how deaths (in their many forms) can be initiations and portals toward a more expanded life. Now, her mission is to help as many people discover what it means to really live so they can get to their deathbeds with as few regrets as possible.

Link with Yvonne:

• Free Human Design Masterclass: A deep dive into your Human Design type to learn what it means to live an Aligned, Empowered, & Embodied way.


• More Offerings


• Instagram

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“This particular residency was a thematic one, and the theme was titled Meeting for Teas. So it drew artists curators and thinkers from all over. We all had this time and space to sit with Tea independently, sit with Tea communally, and talk about tea in all the different ways, including decolonizing as an aspect of tea and tea culture. And I couldn't stop crying the first two weeks when I was there, and I didn't even really know what I was crying about. To a certain degree, I kind of did, because the day that I received news that I've been accepted was the same day my Nai Nai passed away.”

Mimi Young, née Lin, is a Taiwanese Canadian animist spirit medium, Tea devotée, writer, and the founder of Ceremonie. Mimi’s work lies at the intersection of animacy and re-animation, intuition and creativity, using symbolic interpretation and ancient Chinese wisdom practices to commune with the Unseen and invite new possibilities during times of uncertainty and change.

In this podcast episode, Mimi shares excerpts from her limited edition artist's book, A Tea Stronger Than Death: Poems of Hurt and Healing While On Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain.

“Created during the 5-week thematic residency, Meeting For Teas, held at the Banff Centre for Arts + Creativity, located on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain, this collection of poems and illustrations of grey-scaled cyanotypes (sun prints) is both prayer and journey through light, shadow, and verse, giving honour to the painful and healing moments of locating oneself over and over again, with Tea, the departed, and the more-than-human.”

She also has an upcoming sliding scale 6-week transformational writing series titled UGLY WORDS.

Learn more about Mimi Young at https://shopceremonie.com/

Follow her on IG @shopceremonie

This episode was edited by Nina Maria Iniestra De La Riva and comes to you with the support of Erika Mai T. Apuli from Earth Rooted Assistants.

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“What I've learned through this work is that I can allow the emotion, the energy, to be in motion. And when I make space for that, it goes away. Even grief. Grief can take longer. There's no time frame here, but it is what it is. But if I can soften and allow that wave to come over me and I give space for it to show up, to reach the peak of the experience and to discharge, I can function much better in the world because I'm not spending so much energy trying not to feel the emotion or not to feel the feeling.”

Kimberly is the visionary Founder and CEO behind Somagetics, a trailblazing company dedicated to enlightening individuals about the profound impact of trauma and providing accessible tools for healing.

With an illustrious career spanning over three decades, Kimberly has worn many hats, including that of a functional nutrition practitioner, a skilled bodyworker, and a compassionate home birth midwife. Through her extensive experience with thousands of clients, she made a pivotal revelation: unaddressed trauma, held within the body, often lies at the core of various health challenges. This epiphany led to a transformation in her approach.

Kimberly is passionate about sacred transformation. In this conversation, she shares her work with terminally ill cancer patients in their dying process and birth midwifery early in her career. These experiences led her to co-create Somagetics, “a trauma-informed, body-based energetic technique that transforms defensive patterns and enables physical and emotional healing.”

In this episode, Kimberly shares, “What excites me now is the possibility of sacred transformations that can happen between birth and death. Currently, my focus is supporting people to transform old, limiting defensive trauma patterns so they can access their true divine essence. We can learn to identify the trauma patterns but identify with our eternal essential self. And that is the place where we create the life of our dreams.”

Learn more about Kimberly Ward at www.somagetics.net

Follow her on IG @somagetics_

Watch and Stay tuned in on YouTube at Somagetics

This episode was edited by Nina Maria Iniestra De La Riva and comes to you with the support of Erika Mai T. Apuli from Earth Rooted Assistants.

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In this first ever episode of Mum, host Ellen Wong shares her journey in befriending Grief, supported by the sacred mushroom, after decades of escaping and resisting.

She breaks her silence through the inception of Mum and invites you along on this journey in meeting the many deaths of our lives through stories, liberating ourselves to live LOUD and preparing ourselves to meet the end of life with openness, peace and permission.

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Death is a vital part of life. It marks the end of every day and season. It’s present in every exhale and goodbye. It guides you through all your life transitions.

Death initiates you into change – the only constant in life. Without it, there would be no growth, no new chapters, no expansion, no transformation.

Each of us are the heroes in our own journeys. We face our fears as we walk into these death portals, shedding old skins, and re-emerge anew. We do this many times in a lifetime. Our stories hold deep wisdom and offer healing.

I’m Ellen Wong – I’m a storyteller and entheogenic death companion. I walk daily with brave souls through death and rebirth.

I invite you to enter this portal of discovery with me. And together, let’s break our fearful silence and uplift our stories of death and grief , so that we can all be inspired to live our lives, LOUD.

Welcome to Mum.

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"If we can be with aging, we can also be with death. Right. Like, they go hand in hand. I feel like aging and death are sisters. They're sisters. One moves slow and one moves fast, but they walk on the same path."

In this episode, Xochitl Kusikuy Ashe – a 5th generation Peruvian medicine woman and Ellen's mentor – shares about her relationship with death and how it has been a teacher in her life.

Xochitl describes death as having sisters, which symbolize different aspects or ways in which death can occur. These sisters are metaphorical representations that help us understand death from various perspectives – the Sister of Aging, Sister of Illness, the Sister of Accidents, the Sister of Evil, the Sister of Suicide.

And just as there are sisters of Death, so are there sisters of Life. These sisters are associated with support and embrace for death. They may represent the transformative power of death and the growth that can arise from experiencing loss.

About Xochitl

Xochitl Kusikuy Ashe has been a teacher and guide in one-and-one mentorships, workshops, and ceremonies both in the U.S and internationally for the last 27 years. At 16 years old she became the first female of five generations of men to be initiated into the healing traditions of her Peruvian ancestral lineage. She is a Medicine Woman in the Peruvian Andean tradition and has worked with sacred plant medicines since the time of her initiation.  For the past 23 years she apprenticed under her Godfather, a Mazatec Medicine Man of the ancient tradition of healing with the "Nti-si tho" "Santitos" or Psilocybin mushrooms.

She is a professionally trained herbalist, IFS Therapy Practitioner (Internal Family Systems) and specializes in the ceremonial use of Cacao and Psilocybin Mushrooms. In her practice, Xochitl focuses on the healing of generational trauma and the ways in which that trauma impairs our ability to thrive, create wealth, and have a positive impact on the world.

Founder of Magical Medicine Journeys, an Indigenous women owned retreat company, that offers legal Mazatec Psilocybin Mushroom Retreats in Mexico. Xochitl’s mission is to honor the traditional indigenous knowledge and ceremony of sacred plant medicine and provide the most authentic and powerful life changing experiences.

She is faculty at Esalen Institute, The Microdosing Institute and the Shift Network.

Learn more about Xochitl at Xochitlashe.com.

Follow Xochitl on Instagram @xochitlashe.

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“I think part of just the way we're raised or our society is like, oh, well, at least we tried everything we could. I think it's that old adage of, well, we tried everything. Well, sometimes it's not about that. It's not about trying all the medications till you've basically just worn your body out. It's about maybe giving yourself the last few months to just kind of enjoy your life. Where you can enjoy your food, your friends, go to the beach, go see a show. Isn't that how you'd want to remember living?”

Judy Dubko is a Physician Assistant in Hematology/Oncology.

In this podcast episode, Judy shares about her experience working in hematology/oncology and facing death from a medical perspective. She raises the important point that sometimes letting go is a more graceful and compassionate choice than exhausting every treatment option to extend life, particularly when it comes to the cost of quality of life.

Follow Judy on IG @shengrila18

This episode was edited by Nina Maria Iniestra De La Riva and comes to you with the support of Erika Mai T. Apuli from Earth Rooted Assistants.

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In this MUM episode, harm reductionist and sex & intimacy coach Cara Kelsey shares their practice of deviancy and its connection to deathwork.

About Cara Kelsey:

Cara Kelsey is a mixed ethnicity, white, polyamorous, trans queer from the desert (O'odham Land) and the bay area (Ohlone Land). They are a harm reductionist, deathwalker, sex and creative relationship coach and somatic bodyworker. They are co-founder and resident deviant of Peace Out Loud, a community project and muti-generational, muti-cultural trans and Black led collective. They co-create spaces for grief, shame, rage, sex and joy and hold containers for unknowing and deep curiousity. They are committed to following Black and Indigenous leadership and answering calls to action and service. All of this work is possible and sustainable through a sacred and substantial grief practice. All of this work is done in an endless pursuit to put their ego to rest.

Link with Cara:

• Siren and Deathling


• Deviance as Holy: a subversive storytelling project told through art and media that is not only focused on, but wholly devoted to, deviance.


• Peace Out Loud


• Instagram

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“As someone even on the journey, and I know there are many people who may hear this transmission who really feel like this aligns with them, but there's a piece that I have around knowing Jaxon. His essence, his frequency, and his beautiful soul are always present there, no matter what his physical experience is going to be. And that I know, whatever direction we go, whatever decision my sister and my brother-in-law make about what's best for their families is the right path. And we're on Jaxon's path.”

Samantha Williams (she/her) is a Reiki Master and Certified Channel with a profound calling to provide companionship and advocacy to both special needs children and their families, inspired by her personal journey with her nephew. As a compassionate witness and guide, she integrates energy healing and spiritual mentorship–supported by rituals for physical, emotional, and spiritual self-care–to nurture both the individuals and the family unit and foster compassionate communication through a network of support that creates space to celebrate each child’s unique gifts and journey.

In this podcast episode, Sam shares about her family’s grief surrounding her three-year-old nephew Jaxon’s impending hemispherectomy and the journey she has been on while supporting her sister Morgan and brother-in-law Ben through Jaxon’s developmental challenges.

This was a heartfelt and timely conversation centered around compassionate support while navigating complex emotions and decisions as a family. And Sam shares an important key piece – that it truly takes a constellation of care to be able to support everyone involved and to honor the needs and the breaking points of each individual.

Learn more about Samantha Williams at Involutionhealing.com

Follow her on IG @involutionhealing

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In this MUM episode, PAT counselor Catherine Warnock shares about Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy, ego dissolution versus ego death, and how the sacred mushroom can support in easing the journey towards end of life.

About Catherine Warnock:

Catherine Warnock is a Licensed Professional Counselor registered in the states of New Mexico, Texas, Washington, and Colorado. Specializing in helping people resolve their trauma, she developed Emotional Triggers Treatment (ETT) and received training in Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy (PAT) at Therapsil in Canada. Catherine has been offering PAT retreats and plant therapy microdosing coaching services since 2022. She also offers training courses to other healing practitioners interested in learning how to guide clients safely and effectively with PAT for relief from anger, anxiety, depression, guilt/shame, relationship issues, unresolved grief, chronic pain, and end-of-life issues.

Link with Catherine:

• Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Preparation Guide Pamphlet


• PAT practitioner trainings


• PAT client retreats

MUM Offerings:

• Water + Fire Grief Circle: a free 60-minute monthly grief/prayer ritual to support our community

MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

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"What does it mean to live uninhibited, especially knowing that your time is coming to an end? I held space for people who are my own age. I held space for people who were older than me. Numerous diagnosis also like Alzheimer's and dementia. And it really made me slow down and learn to be present. I would show up in these spaces. I'd be going into people's homes, I'd be going into skilled nursing facilities. And each experience was like its own container. And again, death is part of that container."

Stacey Schultz (they/she) is a board certified massage therapist and Rosen Method Bodyworker who has had experiences working with people at their end of life in hospice. And through her life journey, she has come to be an outspoken advocate for those who have experienced religious/spiritual harm.

In this conversation, we discuss the challenges of having religious upbringings, the process of questioning our beliefs, and healing from religious trauma. Stacey shares about her journey in leaving the religious community and discovering who she really is, and how that journey is now woven into her healing practice.

Learn more about Stacey at staceylschultz.com.

Follow Stacey on Instagram @stacey.l.schultz.

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"We hear celebration of life in reference to funerals when it comes to people's death. And I don't think we should wait until someone dies to celebrate their life. We should learn to celebrate now ourselves, the people we love. Also, why do I have to wait to die to rest in peace?"

Lily Truong is an existential Earthling existing as a first-generation Vietnamese-American queer femme, a squishy human with a squiggly brain psychotherapist, healing arts practitioner, coconut ninja, lover of life, companion of death, dot connector, community builder, rebel anarchist, cool rich auntie, and proud cat mum.

Lily's dad died when she was two. Her partner was murdered in 2020. And her mother died in 2021 on Mother's Day.

Lily has been walking with death her whole life. In this episode, Lily shares about her personal experience with grief while supporting her mother through her death journey, and how this experience has changed her perspective on life. She also talks about how her mother's unexpressed grief affected her understanding of death as a child.

Lily and Ellen discuss the importance of celebrating life now rather than waiting for death, as well as prioritizing rest and peace in everyday life. And they reflect on the transformative nature of grief and the need its expression.

About Lily Truong

Lily Truong is a pre-licensed therapist working in community mental health and private practice, whose ultimate intention is to share the transformative possibilities and benefits of counseling and communal care with those in search of healing. She operates through a social justice lens with the perspective of a first-generation Vietnamese-American queer femme weaving between the intersections of Eastern philosophies of mindfulness and contemporary depth-oriented theories in clinical practice. As a mental health counselor and healing arts practitioner, she is passionate about decolonizing and deconstructing oppressive ideologies; healing relational wounds and intergenerational trauma; reconnecting to ancestry to honor the lands and our lineages; merging inner worlds with outdoor environments by integrating nature’s healing into therapeutic practice; embracing life as an embodied experience; discharging shame for radical self-acceptance, bridging the interconnective synergy of mind/body/spirit through psychosomatic awareness and integration; and promoting diversity consciousness, community empowerment, and compassionate action.

Learn more about Lily's work at heavyhearts.club

Follow Lily on Instagram @cocolily.

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In this MUM episode, medicine person Ekua Adisa shares about the conscious practice of skilled grieving and the 7 steps in creating a solo grief ritual (get ready to jot down notes!) that allows time and space for the body beyond verbal expression. Both Ellen and Ekua also discuss the non-linear, spontaneous experiences of grief in the day-to-day.

More on Ekua Adisa:

Ekua Adisa is a gender fluid medicine person at the intersection of Black Southern traditions and indigenous African practices that center ancestor veneration, conjure, earth magic, channeling, plant medicine, ritual, and community care. Ekua is also deeply influenced and inspired by the teachings of Native people indigenous to so-called North America, as well as various Buddhist lineages. As an intuitive medium, an energy worker, and a ritualist, Ekua’s pleasure-purpose work is inviting and supporting collective and individual grief work with ritual somatic practices, supporting people to connect with their ancestors for guidance, making and sharing plant medicine, and supporting the dead to transition with grace, elevation, and dignity. As a death care worker, they are excited to deepen into the work of supporting people to confront impermanence and prepare for their own eventual end spiritually and logistically. Ekua has twenty years of experience hosting and facilitating groups primarily in liberation movement spaces, and fifteen years experience as a healing practitioner practicing with various modalities.

Link with Ekua:

• Ekua’s 7 Step Guide


• Website


• Instagram @ekuaadisa

MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

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"I think it's important as an elder queer person and I wear that very proudly, that I do think our stories are important because I didn't come from a place that where we had these tools. So as an elder queer person, it's also not too f*****g late for me to honor it now, right? And to go living this next however long on this plane as my authentic self, including name. And to just do that because I understand the healing frequencies that it sends back. That sends healing back to those that couldn't. And it models for generations to come."

TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) is a two spirit, nonbinary, queer, native indigenous person of color and has been in recovery since 1989. They are the founder of Vamonos, a care and harm reduction practice that specializes in working with and supporting: people at the margin, 2SLGBTQ+, substance overuse/misuse, facilitator abuse, psychedelics in recovery, integration support + safety, and breathwork + movement.

TanyaMarck shares their journey of self-discovery and acceptance as a two-spirit individual. They reflect on their childhood experiences, including a summer romance at the age of ten, and how it shaped their understanding of love and identity.

They also explore the significance of an intimate ceremony and the merging of their two spirits, ultimately embracing their whole self and sharing their story to inspire compassion and understanding.

Learn more about TanyaMarck at tanyamarck.com.

Follow them on IG @tanyamarck.

Email at toviedo856@gmail.com.

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“Grief can come in all forms of different emotions and expressions. And so we express it in the community, right? You can do it by yourself, but I think it's cool to do it with a friend or in the community because then you witness each other. And that's the ancestral way we're supposed to grieve together and not get freaked out about me screaming and losing my… if you're weeping and screaming, people are coming like, oh, get your s**t together.”

Gris Alves is a Mindfulness Teacher, Thanatologist, Integrated Recovery and Healing Guide, Earth Based Ceremonialist and Trauma-Informed 500HR RYT Yoga Teacher; Host of The Tales of Recovery bi-lingual podcast, and currently training in Gabor Mate's Compassionate Inquiry Therapy Process. She has been leading humans in spiritual, health, and addiction recovery programs for over 27 years. Helping others process trauma, embody and ritualize grief, deconstruct and release limiting beliefs that stem from the social conditioning and programming that hinder our integrated well-being.

In this episode, Gris shares her personal journey in walking with her mother through the end of her life. Even as someone who had formally studied death and grief, she shares that the experience of companioning her mother through this portal was still challenging and also heartbreakingly beautiful.

Learn more about Gris Alves at grisalves.com.

Follow them on IG @grisalves and @talesofrecovery

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“Suddenly I just didn't know who I was without that anymore. It was a real unmooring. But I think that I felt completely untethered to this world. I had nothing holding me here anymore, and that was really weird. I did not expect that. I think I expected to be sad about my dad being gone, but I don't think I expected—I literally do not know who I am anymore, and I don't know what my attachment is to life because I've lost so much of my context that I didn't even know was that big of my context.”

Karen Shih is a fellow first-generation Taiwanese American death doula (in the making), a triple Gemini, and a deeply devoted dog auntie.

In this episode, Karen shares about the death of her father, which led to her stepping out of her career to honor her grief.

Karen shares, “After my dad died unexpectedly in October of 2015, I completely hit pause on my life (which is a huge privilege on a variety on levels that I think most people can't do or maybe wouldn't even choose to do if they could). I quit my job, watched a lot of Grey's Anatomy, traveled to Taiwan, and eventually left New York and my life there behind. It felt like I stripped my life and identity down to nothing and had to start from scratch. The next 7+ years felt like a slow incubation as I navigated my inner jungle and surfaced a path and myself choice by choice.”


Learn more about Karen Shih at https://www.life-changing-magic.com/

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This episode was edited by Nina Maria Iniestra De La Riva and comes to you with the support of Erika Mai T. Apuli from Earth Rooted Assistants.


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“The presence of grief means that we need space, and our need for space means we need to honor our rest. We need to honor these natural cycles. And that is a key piece of our personal liberation effort.”

Welcome back to Season Two of MUM. We ended Season One early in response to the genocide occurring in Gaza.

As we return for this second season, MUM creator and host Ellen Wong reflects on the relationship between personal and collective liberation.

If liberation is being in right relationship with all that is and honoring the natural cycles that govern our bodies and world, then celebrating death and embracing grief must be part of our liberation efforts.

How are you focusing your energy and gifts in service of our collective liberation?

Ellen’s note – the documentary she mentions in the episode is called “Trees and Other Entanglements” and the story she tells is of Carolyn Finney, Ph.D., author and environmentalist.

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In this MUM episode, joy witch Justine Anweiler reflects on her close and emotional relationship with her late grandmother, who was the person that always saw her for who she truly was. She shares the witnessing of her grandmother’s double rebirth.

About Justine Anweiler:

Justine is a joy witch, originally from Mohkinstsis, commonly referred to as Calgary, AB Canada – and the founder of The Witchen. Her purpose lies in softening human connection by deepening our relationship with Mother Earth. Most recently, she does this by sharing cultural stories about traditional food and its unique mythology.

Link with Justine:

• The Witchen: The Witchen specializes in oral, visual, written, and digital storytelling. Justine works with expansive entrepreneurs who hold the vision to build a better future.


• Instagram

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In this MUM episode, Death Midwife and Artist Rebecca Mullins shares about death work being collective liberation work,and how her experience of her mother’s sudden passing led to the creation of a ritual offering that supports the dead in crossing over.

About Rebecca Mullins:

Rebecca Mullins is a Death Midwife, Multidimensional Artist, Animist, Grief Guide, Parent, Ancestral Liberator, Energy Practitioner, Conscious Culture/Paradigm Disrupter.

She serves her community from a decolonial, liberatory & Soul centered place. She works with the seen and unseen realms and energies to create art and ritual tools, plus guides people in traversing life and meeting death in a sacred, conscious, compassionate, honest & heart-led way.

Her body of work and service is guided and informed by the elemental, ancestral (human + non-human) and cosmical planes - for this she’s deeply grateful.

From Rebecca, “The prayer I hold for us all is fullness & liberation of the Soul. May the work I create and offer the world empower folks to walk the braiding path alongside one another.”

Link with Rebecca:

* Rebecca’s Website

* Instagram

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Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.

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In this MUM episode, deathworker Hope De La Mora shares the profound impact of the deaths in Hope's life starting at a young age, the deep grief experienced when we lose our animal soul companions, and how talismans can keep the energy of our loved ones close with us.

Content Warning: We discuss suicidality which may be triggering for some individuals. Please exercise conscious discernment when listening.

About Hope De La Mora:

Hope De La Mora (founder of Hope Ascendant) is a Metaphysical Minister, Ritualist, Death Liberationist, Talisman Maker, and Quantum Healer deploying self-channeled healing and attunement modalities.

Hope grew up in a dynamic way where multiple inputs and cultures informed Hope’s growth and abilities (from both an epigenetic and experiential perspective). This ultimately led Hope to the study of cultural anthropology and history, which continues to inform Hope’s work for both the living and the dying.

Hope and death became friends at a very early age through the untimely (and in some cases intentional) deaths of friends and close family. Between 2010 and 2013, Hope would become the caregiver and death doula for both of Hope’s Grandparents who were like parents to Hope and the primary force cultivating Hope’s development.

However, it was not until the 2020’s that Hope would begin listening to the whispers of this calling to deathwork, finally becoming formally trained through INELDA in 2023, just as Hope was companioning Edward, Hope’s 19 year old non-human guardian + familiar along his walk to the death portal.

Hope’s heartwork is in service to both the living and the dying ~ for the living, the subtle art of unlocking one’s innate metaphysical wisdom + stepping onto one’s path of gnosis, and for the dying, the rituals and sacred memorial objects that provide comfort to the living and a sacred space for the dying. Hope’s service is not just limited to humans, either.

Finally, Hope has a deep calling to expand awareness + advocacy for death and dying praxis in vulnerable populations, such as the incarcerated and the undomiciled, as well as begin conversations on how we may better companion and serve neurodivergent individuals in the process of death, dying, and grief.

Link with Hope:

* Hope’s Services

* Instagram: @hope_ascendant

* Instagram: @traditionsindeath

* Facebook

* YouTube

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In this MUM episode, Somatic Coach and Bodyworker Amy Jones shares about her relationship with her mother, grandmother and Grief, how dreams and signs from loved ones indicate ongoing presences bridging realms, and exploring the depths of emotion post-loss.

About Amy Jones:

Amy Jones is a weaver of story and ritual. She is a Somatic Coach and Bodyworker, utilizing her many years of training to inform her work. She is the creator and host of Rituals Of Our Mothers, a podcast dedicated to exploring and healing the daughter/mother relationship, and interlacing the simple yet profound sacred acts of ritual and self-care into meaningful memory. In April of 2022, Amy published The Blue Oracle and The Cave of Woes, a love story depicting the depths of human struggle and victory told through the melodies of poetry. Find Amy on Instagram or Facebook @ritualsofourmothers

Link with Amy:

Rituals of Our Mothers Podcast

The Blue Oracle and The Cave of Woes Book

Instagram

Facebook

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In this MUM episode, Bridget Ferris, a licensed clinical social worker based out of Philadelphia, shares how her journey led her to a fulfilling career in social work, focusing on grief counseling and providing support to those facing the end of life or dealing with loss.

About Bridget Ferris:

Bridget Ferris experienced the sudden death of a friend in 2011 as a young adult and has been drawn to grief work ever since. She is a licensed clinical social worker based out of Philadelphia, PA who has been walking shoulder to shoulder with individuals and families navigating health crises and various stages of grief via her work in adult hospitals for the past 10 years. She has also spent many hours volunteering at Camp Erin, a children’s bereavement camp as a Grief Chief or clinical lead for various groups of children. She is drawn to grief work because she recognizes that people are in deep pain and feels the American culture does not support people the way they need. She hopes to have an impact on people’s lived experience with grief by normalizing and building community with those living with it.

She recently started a private psychotherapy practice with a focus on grief to continue this important work.

Link with Bridget:

* Website

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In this MUM episode, Kyley Caldwell, a money coach and trauma alchemist, shares her grieving process about a former best friend, how anger can take shape and help into setting boundaries, and embracing self-love amidst fears of abandonment.

About Kyley Caldwell:

Kyley Caldwell is a money coach, trauma alchemist, and all around magic maker and seeker. Her sacred work is helping us turn towards the parts of ourselves that we’ve been taught to reject, so that we might remember that we are whole.

Link with Kyley:

* Money Magic Masterclass: Money freedom requires that we feel safe with and within ourselves, and that is a deep journey of trauma release and self-compassion.

* Website

* Instagram

* TikTok

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Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.

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In this MUM episode, Somatic Coach and Bodyworker Amy Jones returns to discuss her complicated relationship with her womb space, the therapeutic value of body work, and the process and implications of hysterectomies.

Content/Trigger Warnings: sexual trauma

About Amy Jones:

Amy Jones is a weaver of story and ritual. She is a Somatic Coach and Bodyworker, utilizing her many years of training to inform her work. She is the creator and host of Rituals Of Our Mothers, a podcast dedicated to exploring and healing the daughter/mother relationship, and interlacing the simple yet profound sacred acts of ritual and self-care into meaningful memory.

In April of 2022, Amy published The Blue Oracle and The Cave of Woes, a love story depicting the depths of human struggle and victory told through the melodies of poetry. Find Amy on Instagram or Facebook @ritualsofourmothers

Link with Amy:

* Rituals of Our Mothers Podcast

* The Blue Oracle and The Cave of Woes Book

* Instagram

* Facebook

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In this MUM episode, Spiritual Medium Jaime Breeze shares how relationships with pets transcend physical life and can continue through reincarnation. Jaime sheds light on how she communicates with animals on the other side, providing comfort to those who are grieving their animal companions, and emphasized the importance of acknowledging grief, encouraging individuals to honor their feelings and the memory of their pets through rituals and journaling.

About Jaime Breeze:

Born with an inner sense of ‘knowing’, Jaime was aware of the Spirit World from a very young age. At 3 years old, she began speaking openly about her past lives and about ‘others’ around her that nobody else could see. By the age of 16, Jaime had begun working with Spiritual Healers that taught her how to develop her natural gifts, harness her insights, and learn different healing modalities. Over the years, Jaime’s fascination with Heaven, reincarnation, and with those who have crossed over, along with her training, has allowed her skills to flourish.

In early 2016 however, Jaime suffered a great loss and battled with her first true experience of grief. After seeking guidance from grief counsellors and therapists, Jaime began to understand that navigating her grief would truly test her in ways she had never been tested before. There were no books to read, exercises to complete or steps to follow in order to help make the pain go away. Even the personal knowledge of life after death still did not bring her the healing or peace she so desperately needed.

Months later while visiting with a friend, an image of a young man who we will call “Luke” appeared out of nowhere in front of her. Luke psychically communicated to Jaime who he was, how he passed and that he needed to deliver a message to his sister who was still on earth. Jaime couldn’t deny what was happening so she quickly started telling her friend all about it. Her friend listened intently to what Jaime was relaying from this Spirit. To Jaime’s surprise, her friend knew exactly who Luke was and was actually friends with Luke’s sister who lived on the other side of the country! Jaime’s friend quickly delivered this sacred message to Luke’s sister whom had longed for some sign from her brother since the day he had passed. Reassured by his efforts to contact her, she now knew that although his physical form had moved on, he would always be there for her in spirit.

Until this point in her life, Jaime had never experienced such a strong connection to a spirit. The energy Luke showed her, the love he had for his sister, and his concern for her was unfathomable. Not only did Luke find a portal of sorts to connect with his sister, he also gave Jaime back her hope and excitement for life again. It was during that moment that other spirits began appearing and Jaime realized she was to be a Spiritual Medium on a professional level. She knew that the time had come to embrace her gift and help both herself and others to communicate with those who had passed. Mediumship brought back a zest for life for Jaime. She now knew she needed to experience and understand what ultimate grief was before the doors to the other side could fully open. She understood now that her past experiences of lost love combined with her true understanding of grief and all its many intricacies gave her the life the purpose, she had long desired. Her intention, her goal, was now clear. Through the deliverance of messages and signs from those departed, she would use her skills to help people feel joy and purpose in their lives again and bring an element of peace and comfort to those souls left on earth to grieve.

Link with Jaime:

* Beyond the Rainbow Bridge Masterclass: A Pet Medium’s Guide to Understanding Your Companion’s Journey Through Death and the Afterlife

* Instagram

* Website

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MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

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Welcome to Season 3 of Mum! In this episode, host Ellen Wong and guest Śivani Howe (medium and intuitive artist) discuss the nuances of living versus surviving, and how the relationship with death impacts the way people live their lives. They talk about the collective navigating rapid transformation of the present, holding conflicting emotions of joy and grief, and the societal shift towards higher awareness. It emphasizes the importance of loving in moments of difficulty and maintaining boundaries while embodying love. Practical advice is offered for navigating these turbulent times through community, self-awareness, and embracing one's higher mind.

About Guest: Śivani Howe is a Medium, Intuitive Artist, Sannyasin and the Spiritual Director of Ishtadev Niwas Ashram, an off-grid retreat center and farm wherein she guides individuals through all aspects of living and embodying their true potential through foundations of love, service and Yoga Ecology. She has travelled the world speaking, channelling messages of love and teaching in ways that raise one’s consciousness and quality of life.

Śivani will share about how connecting to our guides before we transition is often a very supportive way of creating awareness before we leave the body. Śivani's upcoming online program - Roots & Wings offers 6 months of Spiritual Wellbeing Capsules which include live and recorded yoga asana practices, channelled messages and spiritual talks to help you maintain moments of calm and genuine solace throughout your day. Mum listeners can be offered a 10% Discount, using the code weraw10.

Link with Śivani:

* Youtube Channel: @sivanihowe

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In this episode, host Ellen Wong and guest Laura Miner (end-of-life doula and educator) discuss the importance of honoring individuals' end-of-life choices and the profound spiritual experiences associated with death. They talk about the challenges, emotions, and the spiritual component of end-of-life care, highlighting how these elements are incorporated into educational courses on death work, and conclude with reflections on the transformative nature of death and the celebration of life at its final stages.

What Matters in the End: 7-week course on death, dying and grief.

Laura pulled together what she learned over the last 20 years and created the training she wished she had. It's a 7-week live deep dive for finding peace of mind and navigating the physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges of end-of-life care.

Mum listeners receive a 10% discount via Venmo. Send $445 (regularly $495) – add “MUM” and your email in the description. Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/lauracminer

About Guest: Laura Miner is an end-of-life doula, educator, and former hospice worker with over 20 years' experience in the field. She brings joy and a lightness of spirit to her work, drawing on her personal experiences with the dying. Caring for her mom as she died of cancer in their home had a profound impact on her life, and she's been on a mission to open minds and hearts to the powerful potential of the final chapter of life ever since. She maintains a certification in Thanatology through the Association for Death Education and Counseling since 2016. Laura feels alive wandering in nature and loves salsa dancing.

Laura’s Links:

* Website

* Facebook

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In this episode, host Ellen Wong and Death Doula and educator Alua Arthur discuss her NY Times bestselling book, “Briefly Perfectly Human”, racism in death work, what self-care in service looks like, and how her life experiences have informed her work. Learn about the inherent activism in death work, the significance of witnessing others' pain, and the necessity of honoring death to be in right relationship with humanity and the earth.

About Guest: Alua Arthur is the most visible death doula in America today. She is a recovering attorney and the founder of Going with Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization. Her TEDTalk titled, “Why Thinking About Death Helps You Live a Better Life,” went online in July 2023 and has already received over 1.5 million views. A frequent guest on TV and radio, Arthur has been featured on CBS’s The Doctors and in Disney's Limitless docu-series with Chris Hemsworth, as well as other national media outlets, such as Vogue, InStyle, the Los Angeles Times, The Cut, The New Yorker, New York Times, Marie Claire, and CNN. She has appeared on dozens of podcasts, and a Refinery29 video feature on Arthur and her work received ten million views across social platforms. She travels the country and world as a keynote speaker, addressing audiences at medical and end-of-life conferences, universities, seminaries, senior citizens’ communities, and more, and is perpetually in the quest for donuts.

Alua’s Links

* Order her book Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End

* Going with Grace

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In this episode of MUM, host Ellen Wong engages in an open-hearted discussion with death laborer and author meital yaniv. The conversation centers around their book, 'Bloodlines,' which explores the impact of the Israeli apartheid regime through the lens of meital’s personal experiences and ancestral history. Topics include the deep-seated trauma and unaddressed grief carried by generations, the indoctrination within Israeli society, and meital’s own life experience as an ex-israeli/ex-zionist. Ellen and meital emphasize the importance of compassion, the practice of grief, and the global implications of dismantling militarized identities for collective healing.

About Guest: meital yaniv (b. 1984, Tel-Aviv, occupied Palestine) is learning how to be in a human form. they do things with words, with moving and still images, with threads, with bodies in front of bodies, with the Earth. They are a death laborer tending to a prayer for the liberation of the land of Palestine and the lands of our bodies. they keep Fires and submerge themselves in Ocean and Sea Water often. yaniv is learning to listen to the Waters, birdsongs, caretakers, and ancestors as they walk as a guest on the home and gathering place of the Cahuilla-ʔívil̃uwenetem Meytémak, Tongva-Kizh Nation, Luiseño-Payómkawichum, and Serrano-Yuhaaviatam/Maarenga'yam. yaniv is the author of bloodlines. They make offerings through true name collective.

About the book “Bloodlines”: Bloodlines is an epic and intimate dive into the israeli apartheid regime from the perspective of an ex-israeli/ex-zionist soldier. Born into a sephardic and ashkenazi lineage of in/famous war heroes and pillars for the state of israel, meital yaniv traces their paternal family narrative from surviving the Holocaust of the second world war to migrating to Palestine and their subsequent indoctrination as zionist colonizers and defenders of the state of israel. yaniv directs our attention to the cycles of history and how genocide not only repeats but grows monstrously in the crevices of state belonging. Through a bold and radical poetics that unsettles language and definition, they foreground vulnerability while traversing the nuance of voice and inner forms of address. yaniv unravels the coordinates of belonging to write in the fissures of israeli identity. bloodlines is an invitation to contemporary israelis to unstitch the military uniform from their bodies and to reckon with their atrocities against generations of Palestinian lives and livelihoods. It is also a demand that the ongoing catastrophes in Palestine end now. With uncompromising courage and in lucid manifestation, yaniv urges israelis to join them in drowning in the wounds of their ancestors as well as the wounds they've inflicted, and in so doing, bring the state of israel and israeli identity to "a loving and caring death.”

The prayer of bloodlines is to bring the israeli identity and state to a loving and caring death.

Meital’s Links & Offerings:

IG: @bloodlines_book

One-on-one Energy and Death work offerings through:

https://www.truenamecollective.com

Upcoming gatherings

October 11-13 Yom Kippur in Ukiah, CAOctober 18-20 Writing workshop and grief circle at Mendocino Art Center, CA

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MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

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In this episode of MUM, host Ellen Wong invites Mariah Gannessa, founder of Four Visions, to speak about the Warrior Spirit, experiencing spiritual death through medicine ceremonies, and living life in totality in all of its flavors and colors. They exchange stories of their relationships with plant medicine, and discuss how sacred plant allies can support grief.

About Guest: Mariah Gannessa was born and raised in Northern California and now resides in Cundinamarca, Colombia. She has spent the last decade immersed in the healing cultures of the Amazon and has dedicated her life’s work to the plants and indigenous peoples of the rainforest. Inspired by her many years of apprenticeship deep in study and service with the Inga tribe of Putumayo and working intimately with them to preserve and share their traditions, Mariah founded Four Visions, a platform dedicated to the amplification of indigenous cultures and integrating ancient plant medicine into the modern world. Mariah is also the President of Magic Fund Amazon, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of Amazonian lands, peoples, and their cultures.

Four Visions just launched a very special collection of rare, Amazonian plants, roots, barks, flowers, and seeds. Our prayer is that our offerings provide our community with the tools, resources, and access to support your deepened connection with Nature and all of Creation.

You can explore the Rainforest Herbal Apothecary and let the plants speak to you by visiting our website.

Special discount for MUM listeners: 20% off your first purchase at fourvisions.com with the code "MUM"

Mariah’s Links & Offerings:

* Four Visions - Apothecary

* Instagram

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In this episode of MUM, host Ellen Wong interviews Abbie Rosner (writer) about new models for elderhood, confronting mortality, and how the Boomer generation is discovering and re-discovering psychedelics as a treatment. You’ll hear about:

* what falls away as elders age and the connection to nature and love

* ancestral connection and sacred medicines

* creating a new kind of elderhood

About Guest

Abbie Rosner is a writer focused on how older adults are discovering and re-discovering the drugs of their youth. She is currently working on a book about how older adults are re-inventing elderhood through their work with psychedelics.

More on Abbie Rosner:

* AbbieRosner.com

Sources

Baby boomers, contemplating their mortality, are taking psychedelics again (ARTICLE)

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In this episode, host Ellen Wong and Nelly Reznik (a psychic medium) shares her journey into mediumship and discussed disenfranchised grief from the death of a colleague during their budding romance. They discuss the nature of spirit psychic communication and its often mundane and humorous aspects, Nelly’s grandfather's Holocaust survival story, and the connection between ancestral trauma and psychic abilities.

About Guest: Nelly Reznik (she/her) is a Soviet-born psychic medium and spiritual teacher living in Brooklyn, NY. She began to develop her psychic ability following a tragic event in her twenties that caused her to confront death and mediumship in a new way. Since then, she has done thousands of private readings for over 700 people, and has taught and supported other intuitives through classes on psychic development, mediumship, intuition, and through private mentorship. You can catch her performing her show in New York, Comediumship, which combines her stand up comedy with live audience readings.

Nelly’s Links

* Comediumship: a live show that combines stand up comedy with audience readings

* Intuition Immersive: a 6-week intuition program

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MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

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If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her mentorship program and her spirit medicine programs.

In this episode, host Ellen Wong invites Mallory Hartzler, a death doula, who shares her recent experiences companioning two important beings in her life through their end of life – her dog Jackson and her grandfather, who was diagnosed with dementia. Mallory describes death as expanding beyond the edge of our skin.

About Mum’s Guest

Mallory Hartzler is a human-centered designer, death doula, and grief educator who founded Edge of Skin, a practice centered on end-of-life care and supporting people through the profound transitions of death and grief. She is dedicated to creating a more just and equitable world by making human connection and compassionate care more accessible. She is a seeker of truth, a curator of perspectives, and a dreamer with a passion for investigation, discovery, and sharing of collective wisdom. Through Edge of Skin, Mallory weaves together her work in design and end-of-life care to honor both life’s transitions and the magic of human connection.

Mallory’s Links

Instagram: @edgeofskin

www.edgeofskin.com

About mum:

We are on Youtube! Subscribe to our channel.

MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

Follow Mum on Instagram ⁠⁠@mumthepod⁠⁠.

If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her mentorship program and her spirit medicine programs.

In this episode, host Ellen Wong invites Steve Rio, the Co-founder of Enfold, to talk about the nature of the 5-MeO-DMT experience. Ellen shares about her experience at Enfold this April.

About Mum’s Guest

Steve Rio is the Co-Founder of Enfold. He’s a transformational performance coach, psychedelic guide, spiritual teacher, musician, entrepreneur and investor. His life’s work focuses on raising consciousness and helping people realize their full potential. Steve sits on the board of TheraPsil, is an advisor to Numinus, Holos Global, and Nikean Foundation.

Steve’s Links

* Enfold website: https://enfold.org

* Enfold on Instagram: https://instagram.com/enfoldinstitute

* Steve on Instagram: https://instagram.com/steverio

About MUM

We are on Youtube! Subscribe to our channel.

MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

Follow Mum on Instagram ⁠⁠@mumthepod⁠⁠.

If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her mentorship program and her spirit medicine programs.

In this episode, host Ellen Wong invites Lana Pribic, the co-founder of Kanna Wellness and host of Modern Psychedelics Podcast, to talk about her integration process after her 5-MeO-DMT experience, her medicine journey and how it has supported in anchoring her back in her heart.

About Mum’s Guest

Lana Pribic, M.Sc., is an ICF Professional Life Coach, co-founder of Kanna Wellness, and host of the Modern Psychedelics Podcast. With over 230 hours of professional training and four coaching certifications, Lana specializes in psychedelically-informed coaching, guiding individuals through profound inner transformation. Based in Ontario, she merges the power of psychedelics, consciousness, and self-discovery to facilitate deeply impactful experiences. When she's not immersed in her work, you'll likely find her dancing to electronic beats, creating art in the kitchen, practicing patience with her cat, curating her dream wardrobe, or diving into a book.

Lana’s Links

* Kanna Wellness: https://kannawellness.com

* Modern Psychedelics Podcast: https://modernpsychedelics.net/podcast

* Lana on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/modernpsychedelics

About MUM

We are on Youtube! Subscribe to our channel.

MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

Follow Mum on Instagram ⁠⁠@mumthepod⁠⁠.

If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her mentorship program and her spirit medicine programs.

In this last episode of Season 3, host Ellen Wong invites Rebirth + Wealth Coach Stella Gold to talk about the intersection between grief, death, wealth advocacy, and liberation work.

About Mum’s Guest

Stella Gold (they/them) is a Rebirth + Wealth Coach for changemakers and comes from a lineage of activists. They are the founder of My Gold Standard, a believer in wealth activism, pro liberation from all oppressive systems, and collective care. My Gold Standard's work is a blend of wealth and business coaching, grief and death, and spirituality. They believe in using business as an ecosystem for financial solidarity for ourselves AND the collective. What they are truly about is resourcing ourselves & the collective in creating a more just and liberated world, and rebirthing a new way forward.

Stella’s Offerings

My 1:1 Wealth Expansion for Entrepreneurs six month container is open for enrollment. I truly believe money is a powerful resource for change AND if you are more resourced financially, you can sustain your impact to ripple back into your communities using your business as a vehicle that serves. To learn more and apply follow this link here: https://www.mygoldstandard.co/entrepreneurs

Stella’s Links

My Gold Standard: https://mygoldstandard.co

Instagram: https://instagram.com/mygoldstandard

About MUM

We are on Youtube! Subscribe to our channel.

MUM is produced by ⁠Ellen Wong⁠ and edited by ⁠Stepfanie Aguilar.⁠ Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.

Follow Mum on Instagram ⁠⁠@mumthepod⁠⁠.

If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit ⁠tripwithellen.com⁠ to learn more about her mentorship program and her spirit medicine programs.