Keep Going with Zadra

The New Moon in Scorpio is the first new moon in the Celtic new year, when the year begins in the dark and Scorpio asks us to turn raw fear, grief, and hidden desire into strength. In this episode, you’ll learn why the places that sting are a map to where you can grow fastest, and a six-step practice to use them.

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The Hunter’s Moon rises in Taurus, the fixed earth sign of stability, self-worth, and tangible resources. With Venus retrograde and the Sun in Scorpio, this full moon asks what you truly value and how you can build lasting, sturdy abundance. In this episode, we explore intuition as another form of logic, what it means to have your own back, why your worth is never your net worth, and why caring for the earth still matters when the scale of the work feels overwhelming. We close with a Samhain-season invitation to look at your physical space, your connection to na...

The New Moon in Libra is about balance, relationships, and planting seeds. In this episode, we explore how "work-life balance" may be the wrong goal, a different way to relate to your past self, and a simple shift called 10/10 RN that helps you prepare the soil of your life in the present moment to plant seeds for your future.

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The full moon in Aries, the Harvest Moon, is doing its low-hanging optical-illusion thing, and somewhere in there Zadra almost fires off an angry email to a romance novelist. This episode covers keeping your temper in check during Aries season, the difference between the Equinox and the Equilux, and three ideas pulled straight from real life: what a 1,000-piece puzzle taught Zadra about pacing a big project, the vision behind building a community of 1,000 mission-driven members, and what almost getting defensive about a fictional life coach revealed about the gap between coaching and therapy — and how much work is st...

Today I discuss one of my favorite tools to help you find wiggle room with a problem.

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# Should I Stay or Should I Go?

The full Sturgeon Moon lands in Pisces on August 27, 2026 and coincides with a dramatic partial lunar eclipse — the perfect backdrop for a Pisces-flavored question: how do you know when it's time to stay, and when it's time to go?

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- Why speaking a big idea out loud can instantly turn it from joy into obligation — and the protective-belief that shows up right after

- The identity gap between where you are and the...

As we move into Leo season, we are asked to step into our sovereign energy, be our true confident selves, and choose our future from our own direction. What gets in the way of that and how do we overcome it?

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This Full Moon in Aquarius, paired with Jupiter conjunct the Sun in Leo, is an invitation to think about your life as a movie you're both starring in and writing. We talk about the cast of characters in your story (and how each one reflects you back to yourself), why every script goes through edits, and how to move from autopilot living to deliberate, values-driven choices. Plus: a practice for nonprofit and mission-driven listeners on envisioning the best possible outcome — not the safe one — and believing in it as you make day-to-day decisions.

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In this first-ever guest conversation on Keep Going with Zadra, host Zadra Rose Ibañez sits down with executive leadership coach Cynthia Jamieson for a candid conversation about leadership, self-trust, and what happens when a "successful" career stops feeling like success. Cynthia shares the story of the corporate coaching session that changed her life in 45 minutes, why she believes self-trust is "the answer to everything," and the practical tools she uses with clients — and herself — to regulate under pressure and reconnect with what actually matters. Zadra and Cynthia discuss their overlapping work with missi...

Keep Going with Zadra is published with the schedule of the moon, deliberately, as an example of how we are each able to define what “consistent” means for ourselves.The Strawberry Moon in Capricorn invites us to find the balance of public ambition and private comfort, revisit existing goals rather than abandon them for something new, and assess relationships for the coming season.We examine the difference between being disappointed ("I am disappointed" — an identity) and feeling disappointment ("I feel disappointed" — a moment that passes), and what that distinction changed for me this week.I share what causes a breakdown — an unfulfi...

In today's episode, recorded from the road, we discuss the Super New Moon, the energy of Selling, and the concept of "Four People in the Room."

Enjoy this short, but sweet, episode and drop me an email or a DM with any questions you may have about this concept.

Happy listening!

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* Zadra celebrates the new year on Samhein - October 31 / November 1, not "December 31" as was mentioned in the episode.  Your "new year" can begin anytime you like! Even on a random Tuesday in June. 

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Zadra Rose closes the series under a Blue Moon in Sagittarius — the sign of the seeker, the philosopher, the one who aims higher. 

This episode moves from awareness into action, introducing the concept of who before how: the idea that identity and feeling must come before action, not after. Using a real-world grant writing example, Zadra walks through the model from circumstance to result — and then backwards from result to thought — to show exactly how this works in practice. She also expands on what calmly saving the world actually means, and closes with an invitation for listeners to prac...

Zadra Rose traces her path into non-profit work and how an article on green roofs set two decades of work in motion. 

This episode explores why the intersection of nonprofit and sustainability is such a uniquely powerful place to grow as a human, not just as a professional. 

Zadra goes deeper on The Model (Circumstance, Thought, Feeling, Action, Result), unpacks how collective industry beliefs limit what we think is possible, and shares why the person you're becoming through this work is as important as the work itself.

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This episode opens under the energy of Beltane and a Full Moon in Scorpio — a combination that calls us to go deeper, find our passion, and tell the truth. Host Zadra Rose draws on her years working in the nonprofit sector to name something that doesn't get said often enough in sustainability and mission-driven work: conviction without tools is depleting and misguided. She shares an honest account of what it looked like to love her work and still be quietly falling apart — and introduces the idea that our circumstances don't cause how we feel...

We've all heard "practice what you preach," yet what would it look like to preach what you practice? Instead of measuring yourself against some aspirational standard, I invite you to look honestly at what you're actually doing — and start there.

As the first new moon of the astrological new year lands in Aries (the sign of fresh starts and personal truth), this is the moment to take stock: not of who you wish you were, but of who you already are. The practices you celebrate, the ones you hide, the ones that aren't serving you, and the on...

Full Moon in Libra: What is Legacy without Children?

Recorded for the April Full Moon, this episode explores legacy sans children — what it really means, who it's for, and how to live it.

⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode touches on death, children, and child loss. Please listen with care if these are tender topics for you.

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In this episode, we explore the power of intention-setting during the New Moon — not as an exercise in perfection, but as a practice of deciding who you want to become and taking steps toward that version of yourself.

When setting intentions, we often tell ourselves I'm not qualified, who am I kidding, I don't have enough to offer. This is the Voice of Limitation, and it's something my clients wrestle with constantly, whether they're pitching services, applying for promotions, or launching something new.

The antidote? Giving equal airtime to the Voice of Ye...