SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George connects with Ashley Dahlem, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Birthwork, Body Wisdom & Cyclical Care Columnist, to explore the November New Moon theme “Desire for Love” through Ashley’s article “Beneath the Roles.”

Ashley shares how women often disconnect from their desires by taking on caretaker roles, and how trust asks for listening, presence through intensity, and returning to center. They discuss pregnancy, birth, and postpartum as teachers of surrender, receiving, and self-trust, along with practices like faith, somatic work, movement, and dance to remember inner wisdom.

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Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Michelle Vande Hey, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Love Your Life Columnist, to explore the November New Moon theme “Desire for Love” and Michelle’s article “Love: The Power Within.”

Michelle shares how many people seek love externally through approval, validation, and responsiveness, when love begins with feeling worthy and connected within ourselves and spiritually.

They discuss how delayed texts or emails can trigger stories of being unloved, and how embodying “love is patient” creates space for others and for ourselves. Nicole reflects on childh...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Renee Merkle, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Channel and Quantum New Earth Mentor Columnist, to discuss the November New Moon theme “Desire for Love” through Renee’s article “What the Heart Has Always Known.”

Renee explains that humans are born with unconditional love but adopt family and societal conditioning that makes love feel conditional and tied to worthiness, using a “factory settings” and “uninstalling programs” tech analogy.

Nicole and Renee share personal examples involving parental drug addiction and how inherited patterns shape relationships, t...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Cards of Destiny Columnist Heather Ruth, a Master Numerologist and founder of Pure Soulful Coaching, to explore the November New Moon theme “Desire for Love” and Heather’s article “She Already Knows: Desire, Intuition, and the New Moon’s Opening.”

Heather shares how desire and intuition arise as a full-body knowing below the neck (root, sacral, and gut), rather than only the mind or heart, and reflects on long-term love evolving beyond romanticized stories.

They discuss the Queen of Clubs energy...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes SOVEREIGN Magazine® contributor Aja Daigneault, a relationship and manifestation coach. She is a practicing witch who helps women heal the “witch wound” and break toxic relationship patterns. They discuss the November New Moon issue theme, “Desire for Love,” and Aja’s article, " Healing the Witch Wound and Reclaiming Love.”

Aja shares how hiding her spirituality and seeking love externally led to trauma and misaligned relationships, and describes a pivotal hot yoga moment that sparked self-forgiveness and spiritual awakening through her connection with Persephon...

In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Arin Dosch, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s In-House Astrologer, to explore the November New Moon theme “Desire for Love” through the Scorpio New Moon on November 9, 2026 (16° Scorpio).

Arin explains the moon’s vulnerability in Scorpio and how this lunation invites deep self-examination around intimacy, emotional needs, and whether desire stems from genuine love or fear, control, or validation.

She outlines key tensions with Mars in Leo squaring the new moon, Mars entering its retrograde shadow, and Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, plus upcoming transits including Venus sexti...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes back Chris Melville, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Mindset and Leadership Business Mentor, to expand on the October Full Moon theme “You Are Worthy and Enough” and her article “The Problem Isn't Your Worth, It is Your Scoreboard,” exploring how entrepreneurs often seek external validation through fluctuating metrics like revenue, clients, engagement, scale, and speed.

They discuss why business growth isn’t linear, the importance of acknowledging behind-the-scenes work, and how tracking sales patterns and building a pipeline can reduce feast-or-famine cycles, including considerations like payment plans...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Akashka Love, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Soul Activist and Energetic Justice Columnist, to discuss the October Full Moon theme “You Are Worthy and Enough” and Akashka’s article on “A Cosmic Perspective on Your Right to SOUL SELF-LOVE.”

Akashka shares foundational perspectives on how unworthiness and disintegration can reflect “energies of ill intent,” emphasizing that soulful self-love is rare, and any amount is a victory, and names shame as a central wound.

In “Steps to Your Sovereign Self,” she guides a cleansing visualization using a...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Julie Beck, SOVEREIGN Magazine’s Perimenopause (Peri-Power) Columnist and Spiritual Life Coach, to discuss the October Full Moon theme “You Are Worthy and Enough” and Julie’s article “The Wisdom Within: Reclaiming Worth in Perimenopause.”

They explore how perimenopause can bring physical, emotional, and spiritual changes to the surface, revealing conditioned beliefs, externalized self-worth, and the pressure to constantly “do,” which can lead to burnout and disconnection.

Julie encourages women to slow down, assess what feels heavy or draining, prioritize self-care, listen to intuiti...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Patricia Wald-Hopkins, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Wealth Consciousness Columnist, to discuss the October Full Moon issue, “You Are Worthy and Enough,” and Patricia’s article “The Wealth of Enoughness: Embodied Receiving is the Architecture of Multidimensional Wealth.”

They explore how childhood “architecture” and false blueprints shape beliefs about money, success, and worthiness, and how wealth can be generated from the inside out through coherence and tuning into the sovereign self and desire.

Patricia shares practical definitions within the coherence field method (emotional...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George connects with Ashley Dahlem, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Birthwork, Body Wisdom & Cyclical Care Columnist, to explore the October Full Moon theme “You Are Worthy and Enough” through Ashley’s story of sobriety and healing.

Ashley recounts waking in a haze after drinking, realizing she was no longer safe, and choosing to stop drinking by entering rehab and devoting a year to herself. They discuss how a core wound of “not enough” fueled masking and addiction, and how community support, coaches, and self-trust helped Ashley reclaim her inner know...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Michelle Vande Hey, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Love Your Life Columnist, to discuss her article “If Knowing Your Worth Isn’t Working” from the October Full Moon issue, “You Are Worthy and Enough.”

They explore how worthiness has become a common message that many people intellectually “know,” yet struggle to embody through actions like self-care and boundaries. Michelle defines embodiment as giving tangible form to an idea, and contrasts “trauma-informed” box-checking with truly “trauma-sensitive” practice that returns power to participants.

Nicole connects embodiment to rea...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Cards of Destiny Columnist Heather Ruth, a Master Numerologist and founder of Pure Soulful Coaching, to discuss her article “A Worthy Inquiry of the Evolved Intuitive” for the October Full Moon issue themed “You Are Worthy and Enough.”

Heather shares how October’s numerology highlights receptive partnership energy, intuition, and spiritual illumination, inviting deeper self-reflection and compassion. They explore how people outsource worth through external validation, material markers, and inherited expectations, and why “New Earth” begins within through presence, authenticity, and slowing down...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Ashlee Tegen to discuss “You Are Worthy and Enough” for the October Full Moon issue and her article “Seeing Yourself Clearly.”

Ashlee explains using the Full Moon as a mirror through journaling to illuminate hidden truths and identify beliefs shaped by childhood, society, school, or religion that create “distorted lenses,” including internalized critical voices.

She and Nicole describe learning to recognize when self-talk is not authentic, using awareness and body-based cues to notice shame, and shifting to a compassionate inner voice. Ashlee shares...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Renee Merkle, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Channel and Quantum New Earth Columnist, to explore the October Full Moon issue theme “You Are Worthy and Enough” and Renee’s article “You Are Not Broken: Your Programming Is.”

Renee shares that love, worthiness, and value are innate and do not need to be earned, while much suffering comes from inherited conditioning and “3D matrix” programming, such as impossible beauty standards and the belief that we must fit a mold or seek external validation.

They discuss sh...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Dani Devren, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Spiritual Business Mentor and Modern Day Philosopher Columnist, to explore the October Full Moon theme “You Are Worthy and Enough” and Dani’s article “You Were Always Enough.”

Dani shares how childhood family roles shaped her people-pleasing, “fixer” identity and tied self-worth to productivity, then reflects on losing her brother-in-law to suicide and learning she could not fix grief, only hold space with love, presence, and support.

They discuss how alignment and joy can trigger others, the need f...

Trigger Warning: Host Nicole George welcomes SOVEREIGN Magazine® contributor Jessica “Jess” Frederic, a licensed clinical social worker, somatic therapist, and yoga teacher, to discuss the October Full Moon issue “You Are Worthy and Enough” and Jess’s article “My Weight Wasn’t the Problem: My Disconnection Was.”

Jess shares how losing 100 pounds didn’t resolve her feelings of not being enough, revealing patterns of shame, “food noise,” and autopilot coping that pointed to deeper emotional disconnection and nervous system dysregulation.

They explore how busyness, especially for mothers, can become a socially acceptable form of avoidance, and why awareness alone...

In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Arin Dosh, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s In-House Astrologer, to discuss the October 25, 2026 Full Moon at 2° Taurus and the issue theme “You Are Worthy and Enough.”

Arin explores Taurus/Scorpio themes of value, self-worth, security, embodiment, vulnerability, and transformation, and shares reflective questions about internal versus external validation.

She outlines key transits and tension points, including the full moon square Pluto in Aquarius, Venus retrograde in Libra opposite Chiron in Aries, and upcoming aspects involving the Sun, Mercury retrograde, Mars, Venus emerging as a morning star, Ven...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes back Chris Melville, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Mindset and Leadership Business Mentor, to discuss her October New Moon article, “The Business You Have Isn’t the One You Think It Is,” and how a constructed reality and subconscious beliefs shape how entrepreneurs operate.

Chris explains that the brain often prioritizes safety over growth, reinforcing limiting beliefs, commonly “I’m not enough” and “things like this don’t happen to people like me”. And, why labeling discomfort as “imposter syndrome” can mask gaps in clarity, expertise, or messaging.<...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Akashka Love, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Soul Activist and Energetic Justice Columnist, to introduce the October New Moon theme of Constructed Reality through her article “Creator Keeps Your Head Held High.”

Akashka explains her perspective as a seer who perceives a person’s sacred blueprint and describes constructed reality as false programs and predator energy that distort sovereignty, choice, and self-worth. She offers foundational definitions of terms like starseed and colonization as interferences that disconnect people from their original frequencies and invites listeners into a deconstr...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Julie Beck, SOVEREIGN Magazine’s Perimenopause (Peri-Power) Columnist and Spiritual Life Coach, to explore the October New Moon theme of Constructed Reality through Julie’s article, “From Conditioning to Conscious Living.”

Julie shares how perimenopause can expose misalignment by stripping away roles, routines, and external validation, prompting women to question conditioned definitions of success, worthiness, and identity.

Drawing from her own burnout and client work, she discusses creating time and space to reflect, slowing down instead of filling the void with more doin...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Dani Devren, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Law of Attraction, Manifestation, and Energy Alignment Columnist, to explore the October New Moon theme of Constructed Reality through Dani’s article, “You Built This.”

Dani shares how her awakening was a slow unraveling sparked by an Akashic Records soul realignment reading, and discusses unlearning conditioning, choosing beliefs intentionally, and building courage over confidence while honoring compassion for others.

They explore intuition as an inner “signal,” how understanding frequency and energy supports self-trust, and a practical to...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Patricia Wald-Hopkins, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Wealth Consciousness Columnist, to explore the October New Moon theme of Constructed Reality through Patricia’s article, “Constructed Reality: The Architect of Multidimensional Wealth.”

Patricia explains the Coherence Field Method as a focused way of working with a portion of the greater field to tune what you want to create, emphasizing that reality responds to our energy, frequency, and coherence over time.

They discuss how environments can mirror internal states, how difficult fields can stem from...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George connects with Ashley Dahlem, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Birthwork, Body Wisdom & Cyclical Care Columnist, to explore the October New Moon theme of Constructed Reality through Ashley’s article, “Beyond the Story: Returning to What is Real.”

They discuss how a mother’s beliefs about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum are shaped by family, culture, media, healthcare narratives, and everyone present in the birth space, and how inherited stories can influence the nervous system and embodied experience.

Ashley shares how she helps clients identify and question the...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Michelle Vande Hey, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Love Your Life Columnist, to explore the October New Moon theme of Constructed Reality through Michelle’s article, “Liberation for One. Liberation for All.”

Michelle shares how the death of her son shaped her view that platitudes like “everything happens for a reason” and other spiritual explanations can feel invalidating in grief, even when something meaningful comes after tragedy.

Together they discuss how manifestation language can become harmful when it implies people “created” experiences like homelessness...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Renee Merkle, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Channel and Quantum New Earth Columnist, to explore the October New Moon theme of Constructed Reality through Rene’s article, “The Reality You No Longer Are Available For.”

Renee shares how lifelong conditioning from family, school, and culture creates subconscious programs. Especially around money, safety, and scarcity and recounts how witnessing her parents’ paycheck-to-paycheck struggle shaped her early money beliefs.

She explains that reality shifts as internal programming changes, describing her own panic during a 2023 busin...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Cards of Destiny Columnist Heather Ruth, a Master Numerologist and founder of Pure Soulful Coaching, to discuss the October New Moon issue theme Constructed Reality and Heather’s article “Weaving Your Reality, Thread by Devoted Thread.”

Heather explains that constructing reality begins with believing you are the creator of your experience and fortifying your authentic inner essence rather than surrendering power to external systems. She shares that the October 2026 New Moon offers a “preview” of 2027’s 11/2 energy—intuition, feeling, union, and mirroring - ca...

In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast host Nicole George, reconnects with contributor Velva Dawn Silver, a Transformational Coach, Healer, and Author, to discuss the October New Moon theme of Constructed Reality and her article, “The Architecture of Rebirth: Reconstructing Reality From Within.”

They describe a collective “helter-skelter” period of chaos and dismantling as a spiritual mirror of internal disorientation, with relationships, careers, and identities shifting as old coping mechanisms fail and shadow triggers intensify.

Velva Dawn shares tools for navigating this collapse-creating space, stopping doomscrolling, prioritizing stillness and nature, listening to the body and nervo...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s The Spiritually Aware Families Columnist, award-winning author and shamanic healer Efrat Shokef to discuss her article “Unweaving Internalized Beliefs About Parenting and Raising Our Children.”

They explore “constructed reality,” the role belief systems play in providing structure and belonging, and how spiritually aware, intuitive, highly sensitive children invite parents to question what they have internalized. Efrat shares three invitations for navigating chaotic times: 1) Shift from certainty to questioning, “Is this mine?”, 2) Take responsibility for healing and unweaving inherited beliefs, and 3) deepen reciproci...

Trigger Warning: Please note: Lea uses God in this podcast quite frequently to describe oneness. Please use your preferred word for your higher power.

In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Lea Carole Ronen, a spiritual advisor and energy strategist, to discuss the October New Moon theme of Constructed Reality and Lea’s article “Beyond the Conditioned Lenses.”

Lea shares how hearing an Ashtanga teacher’s story helped her realize she could choose what makes her happy, leading her to leave Wall Street without a fixed plan, follow “breadcrumbs” through travel and study, an...

In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Arin Dosh, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s In-House Astrologer, to explore the October 10, 2026 New Moon at 17° Libra and the theme of “constructed reality.”

Arin explains how Libra highlights relationships, agreements, and social expectations, prompting reflection on the stories, assumptions, and beliefs shaping our lived experience. With Venus retrograde in Scorpio and opposing Saturn retrograde in Aries, the lunation emphasizes reviewing attachment, trust, responsibility, and autonomy, while a Venus–Mars–Pluto T-square intensifies themes of desire, control, and power dynamics.

Support comes through a sextile to Jupiter in Le...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes back Chris Melville, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Mindset and Leadership Business Mentor, to explore the September Full Moon theme of Solving Problems and Chris’s article, “Stop Solving, Start Looking.”

Chris explains that many daily business “problems” are surface-level symptoms, while real progress comes from identifying deeper root causes. Often mindset issues or lack of clarity in what you are selling, illustrated by a client mislabeling confusion about her offer as “imposter syndrome.”

Nicole and Chris also discuss fear in personal life and how nervous en...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Julie Beck, SOVEREIGN Magazine’s Perimenopause (Peri-Power) Columnist and Spiritual Life Coach, to discuss the September Full Moon theme of Solving Problems and Julie’s article, “Navigating the Midlife Transition: Is There Really a Problem to Solve?” Julie shares how perimenopause can begin with subtle shifts and a sense of disconnection, and questions the pressure for quick fixes, emphasizing slowing down and listening to the body while still getting concerning symptoms checked by a healthcare practitioner.

Julie recounts her 2021 burnout experience, including vertigo and stutt...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Dani Devren, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Law of Attraction, Manifestation, and Energy Alignment Columnist, to discuss the September Full Moon theme of Solving Problems and Dani’s article, “Problems Are Invitations.”

Dani shares how shifting the word “problem” to “invitation” changes the energy of a situation, supports nervous system calm, and relates to manifestation through feeling safe and aligned. They explore Dani’s sequence: Pause, ask “What is this showing me?”, Take One Aligned Action, and Release the Outcome. Plus examples of resistance as redirectio...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Patricia Wald-Hopkins, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Wealth Consciousness Columnist, to explore the September Full Moon theme of Solving Problems through Patricia’s article, “The Precision of Fire: Solving Problems in the Architecture of Multidimensional Wealth.”

Patricia explains the Coherence Field as a multidimensional architecture integrating mental clarity, emotional regulation, physical stewardship, ancestral patterns, spiritual orientation, and earth grid embodiment, and contrasts reactive “hot and heavy” decision-making with precision that arises from regulated awareness and patience. Nicole shares how waiting and staying nonreactive supported an e...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George connects with Ashley Dahlem, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Birthwork, Body Wisdom & Cyclical Care Columnist, to explore the September Full Moon theme of Solving Problems through Ashley’s article, “The Problem We Don’t Solve: Letting Grief Sit at the Table.”

Ashley shares the story of her 16-year-old bonus daughter, Mackenzie, who was diagnosed with stage four glioblastoma after a seizure and passed in December 2023, and explains why grief isn’t something to conquer or move through linearly.

Together they discuss allowing grief and joy to coexist...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Michelle Vande Hey, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Love Your Life Columnist, to discuss the September Full Moon theme of Solving Problems and Michelle’s article “Solve, Don’t Fix.”

Michelle shares why she identifies as a creative problem solver and recounts a high-stakes moment caring for her nephew with significant disabilities when his G-tube was pulled out and she had to keep the opening from closing while replacing it one-handed.

Together they explore moving beyond an either/or “fix it” mindset into a both/and...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Renee Merkle, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Channel and Quantum New Earth Columnist, to discuss the September Full Moon theme of Solving Problems and Renee’s article, “Your Focus Becomes Your Reality.”

Renee explains that people often feel stuck not because of circumstances but because of their focus on the problem, and that open-ended questions to the Universe (such as “What is possible here that I’m not seeing?”) can invite solutions.

Together they explore reframing “problems” through New Earth awareness, seeing repeating pat...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Cards of Destiny Columnist Heather Ruth, a Master Numerologist and founder of Pure Soulful Coaching, to discuss the September Full Moon theme of Solving Problems and Heather’s article, “Discernment: The First Problem the Cards Helped Me Solve.”

Heather explains the Cards of Destiny as a map of a soul contract and shares her journey from chronic fight-or-flight and absorbing others’ perceptions to developing discernment, boundaries, and structure. She describes rejecting her Six of Diamonds “money” destiny, her patterns of ignoring finance...

Trigger Warning: Nicole George welcomes Dr. Jeanine L. Williams, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Ancestral Medicine Columnist and founder of Ancestor’s Bosom, recorded during her launch of Ancestor’s Bosom Herbal Apothecary.

Framed by the September Full Moon theme of Solving Problems and the energy of a lunar eclipse, they explore “When the Problem Is the Portal: Solving Problems the Ancestral Way” by distinguishing personal burdens from ancestral patterns, including inherited grief, abandonment, and the mother wound. Dr. Jeanine explains that healing begins with curiosity, ancestral practice, and connecting with one’s origin, and that clarity can come through medit...