Episodes

  • Abundant Wealth: Elizabeth Husserl and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Abundant Wealth: Elizabeth Husserl and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Apr 10 2025
    Elizabeth Husserl is a registered investment advisor representative, financial advisor, and cofounder of Peak360 Wealth Management, a boutique wealth planning firm. She is the author of The Power of Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with Money. She holds an MA in East-West psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and has led workshops at major tech companies, including Airbnb, Unity, and Google. Here she and Dawson discuss:
    • How to put “joy” and “money” in the same sentence
    • Asking yourself: What, to me, represents wealth?
    • The mandala of the 12 dimensions of wealth
    • “Financial DNA,” or the ways that family beliefs shape money behaviors
    • Exercise: Go back in your lineage, what beliefs did your ancestors hold?
    • How to have a conversation with money to work through moments of scarcity
    • Money as a spiritual guide
    • Money as a doorway to self-knowledge
    To learn more about Elizabeth's work: www.elizabethhusserl.com Find Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/ And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #money #wealth #abundance #powerofenough #relationshipwithmoney
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    46 mins
  • Channeling and Intuition: Helané Wabbeh and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Channeling and Intuition: Helané Wabbeh and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Apr 3 2025
    Helané Wahbeh, ND, MCR, is the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Wahbeh is the author of some 90+ peer-reviewed publications and the book The Science of Channeling: Why You Should Trust Your Intuition. Her VET-MIND study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and examined the mechanisms of meditation for combat veterans with PTSD. Her current research interests include healing stress and trauma and extended human capacities. She is a Board Member and Past President of the Parapsychological Association and has been meditating for two decades. Here she and Dawson discuss:
    • Noetic Signature: experience of our inner wisdom
    • How to differentiate from your ego and your higher self?
    • Exercise: To what question would you like intuitive information?
    • Noetic knowing shows up in one of 12 different ways
    • Meditation: An introduction to the inner world
    • The ability all humans have to access energy and information
    • Types of channelings
    • Why studies correlate childhood trauma with psychic experiences and mediumship
    • How two studies in UK found that psychic abilities run in families
    • Study comparing the full genome of a psychic to controls
    • Study discovery: a unique noncoding gene on chromosome 7 in the psychic group
    To learn more about the Institute of Noetic Sciences: https://noetic.org/ Find Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/ And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #channeling #intuition #noetic #ions
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    49 mins
  • Insight and Mindfulness: Andrew Holecek and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Insight and Mindfulness: Andrew Holecek and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Mar 27 2025
    Andrew Holecek offers seminars internationally on meditation, lucid dreaming, and the art of dying. He has studied sleep yoga, bardo yoga, and other traditional practices with living masters in India and Nepal. Holecek is a talented writer who has published books, Dreams of Light and Dream Yoga, and had articles appear in Psychology Today, Parabola, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, Utne Reader, Buddhadharma, Light of Consciousness, and many other periodicals. He also hosts the popular "Edge of Mind" podcast and is the founder of the Night Club Community, a support platform for nocturnal meditations. Here he and Dawson discuss:
    • Chongyam Trungpa: “Meditation isn’t a sedative, it’s a laxative”
    • Andrew's background
    • The aspects of the unconscious mind
    • Cognitive scientists tell us 95 percent of what we do is driven by unconscious patterns
    • How to start making the unconscious processes conscious
    • How can you attain something you already have?
    • The problem with the concept of a Spiritual Path
    • The Saint who said: “Enlightenment was my biggest disappointment”
    • Underneath all the experience is openness
    • Why we are a localization of consciousness
    • Andrew's definition of meditation: habituation to openness
    • The 5 nocturnal meditations
    • Using your sleep for your psychospiritual development
    To learn more about Andrew's work: https://www.andrewholecek.com/ Find Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/ And to preorder Dawson's next book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #unconscious #spiritualpath #consciousness
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    46 mins
  • Lighting Up Your Soul: Mandy Morris and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Lighting Up Your Soul: Mandy Morris and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Mar 20 2025
    Mandy Morris is a bestselling author, speaker, and coach specializing in personal development and manifesting techniques. She is the author of several books including The Guilt Within and The Promise. Known for her empowering work on aligning thoughts, emotions, and actions to create a fulfilling life, she inspires global audiences through her books, courses, and workshops. Mandy’s compassionate approach blends science and spirituality, helping individuals uncover their highest potential and live purposefully. Here she and Dawson discuss:
    • Mandy's story
    • What challenge do you believe you can’t get through?
    • What small change will you commit to 100%?
    • From that day to me finding my husband was 2 weeks
    • Ask: “Why are we manifesting what we don’t want?”
    • Transmutation of trauma into light
    • Being in the head rather than in the heart
    • Mastering yourself: life will never be perfect
    • What lights your soul up?
    • Look for just the next step, you don’t need to see the destination
    • Clearing the clutter
    Learn more about Mandy at: https://www.mandymorris.love/ Find Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/ And to preorder Dawson's next book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #trauma #mindfulness #manifestation
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    48 mins
  • When Everything Falls Apart: Fleet Maull and Dawson Church in Conversation

    When Everything Falls Apart: Fleet Maull and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Mar 13 2025
    Fleet Maull, PhD, is a consultant, motivational speaker, social entrepreneur, and authorized teacher in the Zen and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. He is the founder of the Prison Mindfulness Institute and the Heart Mind Institute. He is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Fearlessly Live Your Highest Purpose, and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good and Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull. Here he and Dawson discuss:
    • Fleet's background
    • Exercise 1: What dark part of your life feels like it can never be fixed?
    • Exercise 2: Regulate breath, posture, voice, get ourselves out of fight flight
    • Finding a nugget of time when you’re in wellbeing, and build on that
    • Why healing the world starts with our individual work
    • How genetically we’ve inherited the collective trauma of the human race
    • Plugging back into quantum field
    • The three views of human nature
    • The goals at Heart Mind Institute
    • What are the three simplest foundational practices (breathwork, witness perspective/mindfulness, and bodywork)
    To learn more about Fleet and the Heart Mind Institute: https://www.heartmind.co/ Find Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/ And to preorder Dawson's next book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #heartmindinstitute #collectivetrauma #mindfulness
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    50 mins
  • Healing the Incurable: Ofer Niv and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Healing the Incurable: Ofer Niv and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Mar 6 2025
    Ofer Niv is a transformational healer, mentor, and guide who specializes in shamanic energy work. He was born and raised on a kibbutz in Israel, Ofer served as a Commander in the Israeli army and studied philosophy and math before moving to the US. He studied computer science at UCLA and then worked for more than 35 years as in IT at Wells Fargo. A personal health crisis motivated him to search for healing beyond conventional medicine, and he now guides others in their healing journeys. Here he and Dawson discuss:
    • Ofer's background
    • The question to ponder: What in your body seems like something you can't change?
    • Finding the source of problems; the seed might be in a previous lifetime
    • Could your condition have a spiritual and energetic origin?
    • High-frequency light
    • Divine light oneness
    • Scalar waves
    • How our individual mediation sessions radiate out to the world
    • In meditation, see your light radiating out
    For more about Ofer Niv's work: https://alchemicalflame.com/ Find Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/ And to preorder Dawson's next book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #healing #shamanicenergy
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    46 mins
  • Releasing Chronic Pain: Rick Olderman and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Releasing Chronic Pain: Rick Olderman and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Feb 27 2025
    Rick Olderman is a sports and orthopedic physical therapist, and the author of Pain Patterns and several other books. He has 30 years of clinical experience with chronic pain patients. Here Rick and Dawson discuss:
    • The definition of acute versus chronic pain
    • The 3 problems that cause almost all back pain
    • Exercise: identifying chronic back pain by lying down, legs bent vs flat
    • Why the posture with knees bent feels better?
    • Fascial myofibroblasts have 6x the flexibility of regular fascia
    • Old injuries
    • What to do if you’re walking poorly and triggering pain?
    • Tension in lower back
    • Unlocking your knees
    Rick has so much wisdom to share; you can find him at: https://rickolderman.com/ View Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/ And to preorder Dawson's next book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #painpatterns #sportstherapy #orthopedic #chronicpain
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    45 mins
  • Natural Supplementation for Transformation: Leah Linder and Pam Conboy with Dawson Church in Conversation

    Natural Supplementation for Transformation: Leah Linder and Pam Conboy with Dawson Church in Conversation
    Feb 21 2025
    Leah Linder is a naturopathic physician with a focus on botanicals and nutrition, and expertise in natural supplement formulation and manufacture. She is also a Master Gardener. Pam Conboy is a doctoral student in naturopathic medicine. She has spent her professional years educating practitioners about nutritional supplementation. Both are ordained ministers and shamanic practitioners. Here they and Dawson discuss:
    • Research on psilocybin for PTSD and addictions
    • Microdosing
    • Plant medicine for profound understanding of something beyond self
    • Lifestyle management
    • Serotonin receptors which synthesizes other neurotransmitters
    • Transcendence of self
    • Dopamine and oxytocin
    • Failure to seek social support
    • The many layers of trauma
    For more information about Leah and Pam: https://www.setasseminary.org/ View Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/ And to preorder Dawson's next book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #naturalsupplementation #trauma #psilocybin
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    47 mins