Monday's Interview -- Aurora Anurca Farber

Aurora Anurca Farber is a Spiritual Mentor, Alchemical Priestess and Love Catalyst who helps Awakening Divine Feminine Leaders ignite their “Feminine Fire—-the 3 heart flames of POWER, LOVE, and WISDOM—-so that they can burn away limiting beliefs, align with their feminine rhythm and intuitive wisdom and become catalysts of mythic power, purpose and prosperity in the world.  

She is also the a co-author of 4 books in the The New Feminine Evolutionary series: The New Feminine Evolutionary; Pioneering the Path to Prosperity; Sacred Body Wisdom and Sovereign Unto Herself.   She is also a featured writer and artist in Voices Of The Avalonian Priestesses. 

Through private coaching, online programs, women circles and retreats, Aurora creates “sacred spaces” for women to be held, witnessed and loved exactly as they are right here, right now. Her guiding vision is a world of women claiming their creative powers, loving their body temples, and being beacons of fierce wisdom as they burn away archaic, limiting beliefs and light the world on fire with love.

Tuesday's Interview -- Dr. Kevan Manwaring

Dr. Kevan Manwaring (PhD) is probably best known as the author of The Bardic Handbook (2006). Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Arts University Bournemouth, he is the author of several books including The Long Woman (2004); Windsmith (2006); The Well Under the Sea (2008); Lost Islands (2008); Oxfordshire Folk Tales (2011); Northamptonshire Folk Tales (2013); Ballad Tales: an anthology of British Ballads Retold (2017); The Knowing: a Fantasy (2017); Silver Branch: bardic poems & letters to a young bard (2018); and Heavy Weather: tempestuous tales of stranger climes (2021). He lives in the ancient landscape of the Wiltshire Downs, amid standing stones, red kites, and brown hares. He blogs and tweets as the Bardic Academic. 

To contact Kevan, please email: kevan@kevanmanwaring.co.uk

Wednesday's Interview -- Rebecca Cavender

Rebecca is a professional, international best-selling writer, business oracle, and proudly autistic.

With her intuitive copywriting and oracular skills, she has helped small, heartfelt businesses--just starting out--grow to become multiple six-figure sacred businesses with long-term, loyal communities.

But what really matters to her is catalyzing and honoring highly sensitive and empathic autistic folks' authentic, written expression -- whether in their soulful business or personal musings.

Over the years, she has taught over 2,000 people the art of intuitive writing & copywriting in courses, workshops, retreats, writing circles, masterclasses, and in her Facebook group, Write Your Fire. 

She lives on the edge of the ocean with her husband, daughter, two cats and two dogs, upon the traditional & unceded land of the Coast Salish people (specifically Squamish & Musqueam) in what's known as West Vancouver, British Columbia. 

Thursday's Interview -- Michael Trotta

Michael is a storyteller, natural learning specialist, fly-fishing junkie, student of native traditions and the Hero’s Journey, proud dyslexic, facilitator of rites of passage programs, artist, community builder, and coffee lover (the cheap kind). 

After a love-hate relationship as a public school teacher, In 2005, he traded in his thirty-year life plan for the unknown. Instead, he co-founded Sagefire Institute with his wife Lynn. Using nature and story as the foundation for their work helping thousands of humans, big and small, create lives rooted in who they truly are. 

Michael's love of myth and mischief has provided him with some amazing opportunities putting him in front of audiences all over the country - and a few far away places, too.  

It's a well known fact he was raised by coyotes and is now raising one of his own on the bones of an old farm built  along a river somewhere in Westchester County, New York. 

Friday's Interview -- Eimear Stassin

Eimear is a trainer, soul-based coach, storyteller and writer. In Irish Mythology, Eimear is said to possess the six gifts of womanhood. Eimear sets out to expand and re-write these ancient stories to bring HER fullness and wholeness back into balance.

Her career began in Corporate Financial Services working in Ireland, Australia and UK. In 2004, she took an internal career change into Learning & Development. A move which planted the seeds for her future freelance calling. 

At the beginning of 2017 she finally listened to the tug of her soul to seek nourishment and dove head first into Entrepreneurship.  When stepping onto this path, it continues to return her home to her ancient roots, to the soul truth of who she is becoming.  She helps ignite the spark of remembrance in others to rewrite their soul stories, so that they can bring their fire to the world.

Eimear is from Dublin, Ireland and lives in Central Scotland with her husband, three children and puppy Riley.  You can find out more at www.eimearstassin.com and www.stassin.co.uk

Saturday's Interview -- Astara Jane Ashley

With years of deep healing and embodiment work behind her, Astara knows herself and her sacred purpose: to midwife women’s stories and wisdom—through their books—into a new cultural narrative that serves the Collective by amplifying the Rise of Divine Feminine energies.

Her background in corporate publishing, Transpersonal psychotherapy, and Art therapy offers Astara’s clients the support they need to unearth their soul’s message, open their creative channel, and write their book from a place of authenticity and trust in the divine plan of their own becoming.

Astara’s teachings are based on ancient knowledge and feminine principles of unity, connection, love, inclusivity, collaboration, community, equitability, and expansion. She has immersed herself in esoteric wisdom traditions as a Priestess Initiate of the 13 Moon Mystery School and as a Scent/Anointing Priestess. 

Her private writer's group, Published Priestess, is a global sisterhood of authors who, in a safe space and strongly-held container, share their truth and write from the heart. 

Astara is the creator of the best-selling “New Feminine Evolutionary” collaborative book series, consisting of 7 books and hundreds of contributing authors. Through these potent writing collaborations, she helps women claim their power, voice, and visibility as leaders in their field. 

Flower of Life Press is devoted to dismantling systems of oppression and centering the voices of women of color. Our upcoming anthology, “Ancient-Future Unity: Reclaim your Roots, Liberate your Lineage, Live a Legacy of Love,” releases in September 2021 and features the raw and real stories of 26 black feminine leaders.

Sunday's Interview -- Shamim Allu

On September 21^st 2013 Shamim’s life as it had been to that point ended with 5 bullets and grenade shrapnel. She became another statistic of mindless terrorism at the Westgate Mall in Kenya.

As deliverance came to her in the form of a towering figure in a Red Cross tabard she realized that this was not the end but a rebirth. Through a sedated haze she could see herself standing up and declaring to the world – I AM ALIVE and I WILL BE THE FIRST PERSON TO MAKE MY WORLD A PEACEFUL HOME. Guns, grenades and hate were her baptism by fire into what would become her resolve to stand tall and strong advocating for togetherness and kinship under any and all adversity.

Shamim’s life was handed back to her by her mum and dad’s prayers and the selfless, courageous Kenya Red Cross crew that rushed her to the MP Shah hospital for critical medical assistance under threat of constant gunfire as they evacuated Shamim and her fellow victims from what would have been certain death.

Shamim is now a Radio Broadcaster in Kenya and the founder of  Trees for Peace.  It is said that the strongest Trees grow in the fiercest wind – and her wind has come and gone, leaving her scarred but stronger.