SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Ashlee Tegen to discuss the September New Moon theme of Surrendering to the Unknown through Ashlee’s article, “When You Don’t Know What’s Next, Write.”

Ashlee reframes journaling as a way to hear what you think, not just record your day, and shares her favorite gratitude practice using three columns (past, present, future) to honor what shaped you, find stability in the moment, and “future manifest.”

She explains how journaling became a judgment-free safe space during an eating disorder, marital struggl...

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.

Centered on the September New Moon theme of Surrendering to the Unknown and Julie’s article “Trusting the Unseen,” they discuss how perimenopause challenges productivity-driven “masculine” conditioning (control, structure, constant action) and calls women toward “divine feminine” qualities like intuition, flow, and trust. Julie shares the queen archetype as inner power, presence, boundaries, and self-validation rather than dominance.

Julie outlines the menstrual cycle as seasonal phases—follicular/spring, ovulation/summer, luteal/autu...

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 New Moon theme of Surrendering to the Unknown through Ashley’s article “Surrender Is Not Collapse.”

Ashley shares how she once rejected the word “surrender,” associating it with being walked on and feeling armored, and how her birth experiences reshaped surrender into trust without gripping, allowing missteps and growth.

They discuss parenthood as a practice of release, learning to say “I’m not okay,” asking for help, and lettin...

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 September New Moon theme of Surrendering to the Unknown through Michelle’s article, “Surrender The Outcome, Not Your Power.”

Michelle shares how the common definition of surrender can feel like “giving up power,” which may be retraumatizing, and reframes surrender as trusting the work you’ve done while releasing control of outcomes. Together they discuss how overcontrol can show up as helicopter parenting, micromanaging, or relationship control, often rooted in safety needs...

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 New Moon theme of Surrendering to the Unknown and Renee’s article “The Moment Before Everything Changes.” They explore the “goo phase,” the uncomfortable in-between where the old life no longer fits and the new hasn’t arrived, and why comfort zones stall growth until nudges become impossible to ignore.

Renee explains that the unknown responds to movement, that people may miss opportunities while waiting for bigger signs, an...

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 September’s New Moon theme of Surrendering to the Unknown through her article “The River Between Certainty and Trust.”

Heather explains the Cards of Destiny as a map of a soul contract and clarifies how September’s energy is calculated by combining the month (9) with the year (1) to form 10. She contrasts the visible, celebratory 10 of Diamonds (Leo/Jupiter, abundance and fulfillment) with the Seven of He...

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 her article “Release the Grip” and the September New Moon theme of Surrendering to the Unknown.

Dani shares how releasing survival-based productivity, control, and urgency creates more joy, safety, and freedom, emphasizing the law of attraction and the law of allowing, showing up from flow rather than force. They explore trusting divine source, “everyday modern-day magic,” and the uncomfortable “in-between” before an uplevel where community support helps prevent ba...

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 September New Moon theme of Surrendering to the Unknown and Patricia’s article, “Where Surrender Becomes Strategy: The Wealth Frequency of Clean Decisions.” Patricia explains the coherence field as internal architecture created when physical systems, finances, emotions, boundaries, mental clarity, and relationships align around integrity, and that true coherence moves from mind to heart to body and into the earth.

Together they explore releasing the illusion of control through detachment, navigating...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Ebonie Allard to discuss the September New Moon theme of Surrendering to the Unknown and Ebonie’s article, “Your New Life Will Cost You Your Old One.” Ebonie shares how, after six years living her dream life in a Spanish beachfront penthouse, a sudden call meant she would lose her home, just as she committed to a pilgrimage to Egypt where she became seriously ill.

With her business struggling and no sales, she sold or gave away nearly everything and now lives nomadically through...

In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Arin Dosh, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s In-House Astrologer, to explore the September New Moon theme of Surrendering to the Unknown. Arin breaks down the September 10, 2026 Virgo New Moon (18° Virgo), highlighting the paradox of Virgo’s need for certainty and the invitation to find clarity through participation.

She explains Mercury’s move into Libra, the New Moon’s sextile to Mars in Cancer, and its conjunction with asteroid Circe, emphasizing intuition, healing, and learning through experience. Arin previews key transits through the next Full Moon, including Mercury’s aspects to...

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 the theme Hitting Rock Bottom” as a prolonged, quiet unraveling rather than a single collapse, especially for entrepreneurs facing high-stakes uncertainty.

Chris shares how she landed her first client quickly, then went months without another, triggering fears about money, employability at 55 after a COVID redundancy, and the pressure of supporting two children and leaving her marriage. They connect this experience to corporate burnout, the health costs of nonstop work, and the di...

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 August Full Moon theme of Hitting Rock Bottom, with a trigger warning for child loss.

Michelle shares how losing her son in October 2018 exposed the limits of motivation and toxic positivity as she faced depression, PTSD, anxiety, and feeling disconnected from herself and motherhood.

She explains how choosing to train for a 10K - rather than relying on surface-level goals - helped her uncover a deeper “five layers...

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 continue their conversation about money and expand on Renee’s August Full Moon article “Where The Illusions End” for the “Hitting Rock Bottom” issue.

Renee shares that rock bottom often arrives slowly through toleration, compromise, and self-abandonment, and discusses how addiction and numbing behaviors can derail one’s soul path until life becomes unsustainable, drawing on personal stories about family loss, substance use, and rebuilding after bankruptcy.

They explore roc...

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 August Full Moon theme of Hitting Rock Bottom through Dani’s article “Break Open, Not Down.”

Dani shares that she has never experienced what most would call rock bottom and once felt guilty about that, but has come to understand survival mode can be subtle and that intuition, reframing, and trust have helped her navigate grief and hardship.

Nicole and Dani discuss how transforma...

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 August Full Moon theme of Hitting Rock Bottom through Patricia’s article “The Coherence Field: Wealth Beyond Collapse.”

Patricia defines the coherence field as a practical and mystical mechanism for tapping into a greater field to harvest information for aligned decisions, emphasizing honesty about desire and returning to the sovereign self. They discuss reframing “collapse” as feedback and recalibration, and Patricia shares a vivid jaguar dream that became a turning point in facin...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Ashlee Tegen, the August Full Moon cover contributor and a self-love relationship coach, to discuss her article “You Don’t Have to Break to Begin Again” and the theme of Hitting Rock Bottom as something that can quietly build beneath outward “functioning.”

Ashlee shares her experience with anorexia, infidelity, separation, and a moment of suicidal crisis interrupted by a late-night therapist call that led to emergency counseling and deep personal work. They explore surrender, self-honesty, boundaries, and rebuilding identity beyond motherhood and marriage.

Ashle...

In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Arin Dosh, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s In-House Astrologer, to discuss the August Full Moon theme of “Hitting Rock Bottom” through the August 27 Pisces lunar eclipse, the final Pisces eclipse until 2034.

Arin explains how this eclipse signals completion, emotional culmination, and dissolution of illusions and escapist patterns, with Mercury exalted in Virgo opposing the eclipse to demand discernment and practical truth. She highlights the eclipse’s square to Uranus in Gemini as destabilizing but liberating, and notes influences from fixed stars Fomalhaut and Deneb Adige and the asteroid M...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Chris Melville, SOVEREIGN Magazine®'s In-House Coach, to discuss Chris’ August New Moon article, “What Growing As a CEO Really Asks of You” and the surprising loneliness and lack of structure that can appear when leaving corporate for solopreneurship.

They explore missing performance reviews, external validation, and the shift to self-accountability, with Nicole sharing her preference for in-time feedback over annual reviews and how patterns are addressed without micromanaging. Chris reflects on how entrepreneurs can avoid uncomfortable needle-moving work, and shares practical strategi...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Kiki Rae, a trauma-informed wealth embodiment mentor and founder of Quantum Breath Academy, to explore the August New Moon theme of Growth and her article on “Why Growth Often Means Loss: What Happens Before the Quantum Leap”.

Kiki explains that up-leveling can require a “quantum crumble,” where identities, patterns, and relationships that no longer fit must fall away, and gripping to them can block expansion. They discuss nervous system regulation, capacity, and the reality that business and financial growth aren’t linear, including seasons of...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Michelle Vande Hey, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s “Love Your Life” columnist, holistic life coach, and host of the Love Your Life on Purpose podcast, for the August New Moon issue theme of Growth. Michelle shares why she wrote “Change Is Inevitable. Growth Is Optional,” shaped by coaching women after child loss and her own experience with the death of her son, emphasizing that while we may not choose our circumstances, we can choose how we move forward.

They discuss how trauma can be held in the nervo...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Renee Merkle, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Channel and Quantum New Earth columnist, to explore the August New Moon theme of Growth through Renee’s article “The Courage to Outgrow What Once Fit.”

Renee shares that real growth often feels like release rather than accumulation, describing her leap from a supportive corporate accounting role into solopreneurship after ignoring intuitive nudges and experiencing a slipped disc that made desk work impossible.

Together they discuss “quantum” growth, internal shifts that reorganize life before external change appears...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of 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 August New Moon theme of Growth.

Dani unpacks her article “Growth Lives Inside,” challenging the difference between real internal growth and performing growth online through vanity metrics, polished content, and “spiritual performance.” She shares why authenticity, energetic responsibility, and embodying what you teach matter, and why visibility issues often stem from deeper wounds.

Together, they discuss how triggers can reveal unmet values and unresolved trauma, and...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, Nicole George welcomes back Patricia Wald-Hopkins, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Wealth Consciousness columnist, to explore the August New Moon theme of growth and Patricia’s article on “Coherence” as the stabilizing force of multidimensional wealth.

Patricia explains the Coherence Field as the result of inner work reaching a threshold where mastery is reflected outward, enabling precise 3D creation, sustainable legacy building, and cleaner manifestation without constant rupture or forced expansion.

She describes coherence as spanning dimensions - drawing on whatever realms are needed to support present-mo...

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 August New Moon theme of Growth through Julie’s article “Growth: The Season You Are Becoming.” Julie shares how her own perimenopause and burnout led her to slow down, set boundaries, and prioritize self-care, emphasizing that growth is often subtle and only visible in hindsight.

They discuss how perimenopause varies widely in symptoms, how over-giving and chronic busyness create “energy leaks,” and why acceptance, boundaries, and care are essential. Ju...

In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Arin Dosh, SOVEREIGN Magazine® In-House Astrologer, for the August New Moon issue themed “Growth,” exploring the Aug. 12 New Moon solar eclipse at 20° Leo—the first eclipse in the new Leo–Aquarius nodal cycle.

Arin explains how this South Node (Ketu) eclipse emphasizes purification, release, and refining identity, creativity, visibility, and leadership, with Jupiter and Mercury in Leo amplifying confidence, insights, and narrative shifts. She outlines key transits through late August, including Mercury’s sextiles to Uranus and Venus, Mercury–Jupiter, Mars square Neptune, Venus–Jupiter support, Venus op...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes back Dani Devren, SOVEREIGN Magazine’s Multidimensional Law of Attraction, Manifestation, and Energy Alignment columnist, to discuss the July Full Moon “Finding Your Tribe” issue and Dani’s article, “I Collect People.” Dani shares what she means by “collecting people” through soul recognition and deep connection, and how her evolving spiritual journey has made her more discerning about the energy she allows into her community.

She introduces the upcoming launch of the Soul Aligned Village, a friendship-first space hosted through WhatsApp’s “Village Green,” where members are invit...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, Nicole George reconnects with Patricia Wald-Hopkins, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multi-dimensional Wealth Consciousness Columnist, to explore the July Full Moon theme “Finding Your Tribe” through Patricia’s article “The Resonant Field: Finding Your Tribe Through the Path of the White Lioness.”

Patricia explains the White Lioness as a womb-centered embodiment of the sovereign self and divine feminine presence that clarifies one’s signal so belonging is revealed through resonance rather than effort, fear-based survival patterns, or shared struggle.

They discuss shifting the meaning of “tribe” from protection and scarc...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Renee Merkle, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Channel and Quantum New Earth Mentor Columnist to explore the July Full Moon theme “Finding Your Tribe” through Renee’s article, “The Field That Forms When You Are Yourself.” Renee shares how early experiences of loss, exclusion, and not fitting in shaped her sensitivity around groups, and how she later realized true belonging must come from within.

She reflects on leaving a toxic, longtime friend group after her Saturn return and how choosing authenticity over acceptance changed her life—finis...

Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Chris Melville, SOVEREIGN Magazine®'s In-House Coach, to explore the theme “Finding Your Tribe” for the July Full Moon issue. Chris shares how a chaotic childhood led her to become the “good child,” carrying others’ burdens through people-pleasing, overthinking, and masks like being the helper or jokester to belong.

She reflects on a late-40s “dark night of the soul” after her marriage broke down, and the added challenge of cultural belonging as an American living in the UK. Together, they discuss discernment in c...

In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Arin Dosh, SOVEREIGN Magazine® In-House Astrologer, to discuss the July 29, 2026 Full Moon at 6° Aquarius and its “Finding Your Tribe” theme. They explore how Aquarius illuminates community, belonging, and shared vision, with Saturn (ruler of the lunation) retrograde in Aries raising questions around independence, responsibility, leadership, and boundaries. A close conjunction to Pluto in Aquarius intensifies emotional truth and highlights power dynamics within groups, while the Sun conjunct Jupiter in Leo opposes Pluto, amplifying tensions between personal truth and collective pressure.

Arin outlines key transits after the Ful...

In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Chris Melville, SOVEREIGN Magazine®'s In-House Coach, to explore the July New Moon theme “A Sense of Belonging” through Chris’s article, “You’ll Only Belong If You Stay.” Chris shares joining an online networking group during lockdown and feeling out of place among six- and seven-figure business owners, then finding her voice by continuing to show up and connecting in the chat with others at similar stages. She reflects on past corporate PR experience with high-profile talent as proof that skills transfer and discomfort is often just new...

In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Renee Merkle, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Channel and Quantum New Earth Mentor Columnist to explore the July New Moon theme “A Sense of Belonging” through Renee’s article, “You Were Never Meant to Fit Here.” Renee shares her lifelong experience of fitting in everywhere, but not truly belonging, and frames this “subtle ache” as common for cycle breakers who are here to interrupt outdated systems rather than replicate them.

The conversation challenges linear cultural expectations for women and encourages listeners to choose themselves by asking open-ended questio...

In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, Nicole George reconnects with Patricia Wald -Hopkins, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multi-dimensional Wealth Consciousness Columnist, to explore the July New Moon theme “A Sense of Belonging” through Patricia’s article, “The Ecology of Belonging: Wealth Inside the Golden Spiral.” Patricia shares her realization that true belonging is not a physical place or social construct, but a state of being that begins with belonging to oneself and one’s body.

She explains the White Lioness and Golden Spiral as womb-centered energetic practices that generate an essence field rooted through the chakras, supporting sover...

Trigger Warning: The content in this magazine could contain references of topics and difficult subject matter that may be triggering. Please honor yourself, inner knowing, and proceed with whatever help or guidance you feel is intuitively aligned.

In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes back Dani Devren, SOVEREIGN Magazine’s Multidimensional Law of Attraction, Manifestation, and Energy Alignment columnist, to discuss the July New Moon “A Sense of Belonging” issue and Dani’s article “A Born Tribal Leader.” Dani shares how her lifelong drive to create connection stems from a deep desire to belong and a...

In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Arin Dosh, SOVEREIGN Magazine® In-House Astrologer, to explore the July 2026 Cancer New Moon (July 14 at 21° Cancer) and its theme, “A Sense of Belonging”. Arin discusses Mercury retrograde in Cancer as a review of past emotional narratives, and a square to Saturn in Aries that highlights tensions around boundaries, independence, responsibility, and unmet needs, alongside fixed-star themes of duality and discernment. The conversation situates the lunation within a rare summer alignment of outer-planet aspects and a powerful Mars–Uranus conjunction (July 4), suggesting rapid collective change and system shifts. Arin outl...

In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Chris Melville, SOVEREIGN Magazine®'s In-House Coach, to discuss the June Full Moon theme of “Determination and Resilient” and Chris’s article “Resilience Beyond Bounce Back.”

Chris reframes resilience as the ability to stand through the long, quiet periods after setbacks rather than simply “bouncing back,” emphasizing that resilience is rooted in individual behavior and values. They explore how to stay grounded when effort doesn’t match results by detaching from self-judgment, looking logically for what isn’t working, and treating outcomes as data to refine strategy...

In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Dani Devren, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multi-dimential Law of Attraction, Manifestation, and Energy Alignment Columnist to explore the June Full Moon theme “Determined and Resilient” through Dani’s article “Misunderstandings and Manifestation.”

They discuss how forcing outcomes through relentless pushing, “thinking positive,” and control can lead to burnout and anxiety, and contrast survival-driven effort with soul-aligned determination rooted in calm, presence, and trust. Dani explains how the body signals misalignment, why affirmations can produce different outcomes depending on inner state, and how material success doesn’t guarantee happines...

In this episode of SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Renee Merkle, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multidimensional Channel and Quantum New Earth Mentor Columnist to discuss the June Full Moon theme of “Determination and Resilient” and Renee’s article, “The Alchemy of Resilience: Turning Pain into Power.”

Renee shares her personal story of being born prematurely with a hole in her heart, losing her twin brother at 10 days old, and enduring a difficult childhood marked by family loss and instability, which she says strengthened her faith and sense of mission. She explains how tragedy can serve as an initiati...

In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, Nicole George reconnects with Patricia Wald -Hopkins, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Multi-dimensional Wealth Consciousness Columnist, to discuss the June Full Moon theme “Determined and Resilient” and Patricia’s article “The Eight Guardians of Wealth: A New Earth Approach to Legacy Creation.”

Patricia explains how the eight Gaia archetypes can be used to reset and stabilize prosperity, beyond money, by checking which “guardian” is needed when life feels out of balance. They recap the archetypes (including the White Lioness, Peacekeeper, Gatekeeper, Miracle Worker, Light Bringer, Alchemist, Visionary, Lover, and Entertainer) and emphasize acknowle...

In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George connects with contributor Soph Newman, a transformational coach and soul-centered astrologer, to discuss the June Full Moon theme “Determined and Resilient” and Soph’s article on moving from survival to soul. Soph explains birth charts as a soul blueprint and schemas as protective beliefs formed when emotional needs are inconsistently met, linking how unmet needs can distort the higher expression of chart placements.

They discuss why charts must be read as a whole, how to discern whether choices come from fear (survival) or soul, and how the sou...