In Alter Ego, Athena Rosette explores the parts of us that exist outside the norms of expectation, interviewing one guest weekly. Do you have an alter ego hiding under the surface?
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Beyond Alter Ego: Integration with Tonya Dawn Recla
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So I have an Alter Ego… what’s next? Tonya Dawn Recla of Super Power Experts is here to talk with us about what is on the other side of Alter Ego. During her career as a government Special Agent, she explored the human psyche, honed her Super Powers, and cracked the code of enlightened self-actualization. We talk about: * Integrating the self * Awa…
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Hannah 2.0: Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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How does identity shift through a diagnosis of breast cancer? Who are we if not our bodies? Who are we if not our gender? Join Hannah and I as we look at life before and after cancer for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Also: if you’d like a guided meditation on transcendence, this is for you BeAlterEgo.com/meditate…
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“How do I channel my Inner Goddess in bed?” I get this question SO MUCH from women in my life. So lets talk about it! I love you, ladies! I’m thrilled that you’re on this journey to RECEIVE! More joy, more laughter, and more pleasure is headed your way. Here we go! Catch the show notes for links and a full sharable blog post for your other Goddess …
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Want to do something you have never done? You can actually speak it into existence. Athena’s speaking at Podcast Movement’s PMx (Ted like talks for podcasters) this year! How did she go from someone who only started a podcast a year ago, to someone who speaks at the largest podcasting event in the US? It’s more simple than you’d think. It takes som…
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JP Sears has become a YouTube satire superstar by built his Alter Ego as “Ultra Spiritual”. What many find surprising about him after closer inspection, is that his satyrical character stands beside his sincere profession as an emotional healing coach, international teacher, world traveler, and curious student of life. JP and I talk about the accid…
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“Who you are is actually a declaration.” Denise is someone with a Big Idea. She lived for years with this idea locked away and unexpressed, until she couldn’t take it any more. It was time for her to speak, to take this Big Idea out into the world, and to face the one thing that had been stopping her all along: Herself. Denise had to shift and grow…
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Damcho Dyson is a woman who flows with duality. She was an artist, a baby spiritualist, Buddhist and Christian, and became interested in how mystics transform suffering and become closer to God. With a sudden feeling that she wanted to become a nun, she erased 1200 of her drawings in a live installation and left her world behind to go to Tibet and …
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THANK YOU for sharing your stories, your ears, and your souls with us at the Alter Ego Podcast for ONE WHOLE YEAR! I am so thrilled to have the honor of sharing your secrets in a sacred space, one that I hope truly honors you for YOU. Keep the stories coming. In this episode we reflect on some of YOUR favorites. And I give you a dance party Faceboo…
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58: Mika Madness surprises and scares with her message of self discovery through horror.
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Mika is no stranger to being an outsider. Growing up as a Black Latina woman, who listened to Slayer and Metallica more than P. Diddy, and has an obsession with horror… breaking stereotypes was the norm. Mika Madness shares her story of self discovery, how her Alter Ego saved her from her abusive relationship, and what going viral as a horror conte…
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I was lucky lucky lucky to be backstage on set of Energia Entertainment’s “Ladies Night Euphoria” with the Strippers, Lawyers, Medical Marijuana educators, Nurses… all of these men and their Alter Egos share the stage for this special edition. Join the Community!! https://www.facebook.com/groups/BeAlterEgo/ Alter Ego Embodiment Meditation: BeAlterE…
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2x US King of Samba, Amrahu Ibraheem, talks about the balance of the Profane and the Profound in the Brazilian character of the Malandro, the notion of life as ‘a spirit having a human experience’, and respectful representation of Brazilian Culture by Americans. Join the Community!! https://www.facebook.com/groups/BeAlterEgo/ Ladies Night Euphoria:…
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What if they find out who you are. I mean, really? I’m talking about the you that you don’t show them. Under the surface. You know, all of those things that you don’t want them to see? What will it take to give yourself permission to be fully you? Use #MyVoice and @BeAlterEgo on Twitter to tell me. I want to know. I mean, really. Join the Community…
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Dr. Hayden Reynolds is a Queer Nun: Sister Hera Sees Candy. The order she belongs to, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence®, devote themselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment. They believe all people have a right to express their uniqu…
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La Comadre Pansha is the perfect satire of the religious, slightly inappropriate, and very outspoken Mexican Tia that shines a light on differences between the younger Mexican generation and the fading views of the older, more traditional generation. Free Meditation: BeAlterEgo.com/meditate Join the Community!! https://www.facebook.com/groups/BeAlt…
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Nightmare… What I love about Nightmare is that he is unabashedly himself. And that self happens to be a beautiful black show pony. But before he was Nightmare, before he was Superhorse, and way back before he ever became “Mr. Leather Colorado”, he was just Jimmy. Jimmy shares his transformation with us, and why he’s never going back to just being J…
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51: Cross Dressing and Gender Roles: Justin Olguin
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When I first met Justin, I thought we were going to talk about character voices and guitar playing… then I stumbled onto an even juicer element of his life: Cross Dressing. …WHAT?! It’s pretty amazing what you can learn about people when you ask questions with an open heart and a genuine desire to listen. So here’s your chance: listen in, he’s awes…
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Late-night private reflections… made public. I wasn’t planning on sharing this specific recording, but here’s the immediate reflections following the sacred naming ceremony I created to capture the significance of what transpired that night. WARNING! I am almost in a trance-like state while recording this, deeply reflecting and meditating on the pi…
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Just a quickie… to tell you that today is a BIG day. This recording takes place just before the name change ceremony. Athena shares about what is happening for her in this moment and the excitement to taking on a new identity for herself in the world. Show notes at: www.BeAlterEgo.com Join the Community!! https://www.facebook.com/groups/BeAlterEgo/…
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48: The Distracted Philosopher, Regis Jack
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Regis Jack is “One man, multiple personalities, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for all (and sometimes Y).” In his day job, Shane works in the tight laced corporate world, and found himself desperately needing to express a side of himself that was not possible in this non-understanding environment. As a result, Regis Jack was born: “It’s OK …
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47: Does your name shape your experience?
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Why Change your name? I changed mine… Celebrating Athena’s official name change! This episode is about: * The significance of our names and how it affects our potential * The history and multicultural significance of taking new names in adulthood * Language and how it relates to consciousness, manifestation, numerology, and identity Plus, I’ll shar…
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Alter Ego 45: Iron Cowboy James Lawrence
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James Lawrence is an extreme athlete who’s alter ego, the Iron Cowboy, plays a critical role in helping him to achieve success. He holds two world records, one for the most half triathlons completed in a year, and the second for the most full triathlons completed in a year. In 2015, James went on to race an astonishing 50 full ironman triathlons, i…
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Alter Ego 44: JP Sears Ultra Spiritual
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JP Sears has become a YouTube satire superstar by built his Alter Ego as “Ultra Spiritual”. What many find surprising about him after closer inspection, is that his satyrical character stands beside his sincere profession as an emotional healing coach, international teacher, world traveler, and curious student of life. JP and I talk about the accid…
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“Alt Twitter” has taken the internet by storm in the last few months in the wake of Trump administrations crackdown on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) sharing of scientific data regarding climate change. Mysterious scientists, environmentalists, and citizens concerned with honesty and transparency have acted in response by creating a …
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Alter Ego 42: Mushroom Medicine and the Shadow: Shonagh Home
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Shonagh Home is a shamanic therapist, teacher, author, and poet. She was initiated by nature into work with Psychotropic Mushroom Medicine, and is able to go into trance, giving her body over to other intelligent forces and beings. We speak of the shadow side, and Shonagh delves into the mystery of “Know Thyself” via the shadow in order to heal wha…
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Alter Ego 41: Uwe Albrecht and Innerwise
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German Doctor, Uwe Albrecht, and Athena talk about duality, living in expanded states of consciousness, and healing through a comprehensive system which Uwe developed, named Innerwise. Innerwise began from feeling dissatisfied with the scope of possibilities offered by conventional medicine, and the hope to be able to create a kind of medicine that…
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Bronkar Lee is a beat boxing, inverted juggling, speaker, author, coach extraordinaire. He didn’t meet his biological father until age 28, and his journey to and beyond that point has been a big driving force in becoming the peak performer he is today. We’ll take that journey with him, all the way to the now and how he is able to let his true essen…
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Alter Ego 39: Wish Man: Make a Wish Founder, Frank Shankwitz
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Frank Shankwitz, the founder of the Make a wish Foundation, shares his transformational journey with us. Before going on to create Make a Wish, he literally died, and was brought back to life with another chance, and the mandate: Give Back. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BeAlterEgo Follow us on Facebook @alteregopodcast…
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Alter Ego 38: Athena’s Reflections: Secret Life Series
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You’re stuck on a farm in the woods, the gate is locked, and you can’t get out of this secret marijuana farm until they let you out. The only reception is a 20 minute drive on top of a hill where you need to use some janky device to boost your reception up to one bar… That was my world. So many people reached out to me, wanting to know how making t…
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Alter Ego 37: Green Rush: The Secret Life of Marijuana (part 3)
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Meet real people, people just like you, who have found a way for this fringe lifestyle to support them over the years. I was graciously let into 4 farms over the course of these interviews. Some of these farms are already in the process of legalization, some aren’t. To see the behind the scenes of these operations was enlightening, and I got the se…
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Alter Ego 36: Trimmigrants: The Secret Life of Marijuana (part 2)
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Commonly referred to as “trimmigrants”, trimmers come from all over the world to Northern California for a short period of time to make some quick cash. They spend months on back-woods farms to process the marijuana after it’s been harvested, and manicure it from the raw plant into the smokeable bud. Jenna has been doing this for almost a decade, w…
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Alter Ego 35: Grower Life: The Secret Life of Marijuana (Part 1)
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On the cusp of legalization, an anonymous female marijuana grower shares a rare behind-the-scenes view into her life. At the very end of her 9-month-long season, we talk about weed, what it’s like to live in the woods, shrouded in secrecy, in the heart of the emerald triangle: Humboldt county. Humboldt is world famous for growing the most incredibl…
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Alter Ego 34: Logan and the Imposter Syndrome
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Have you ever felt under-qualified? Like you don’t know what you’re doing? Like an imposter? It’s more common than most of us would like to admit. Many of us begin something new by feeling the need to prove ourselves. Logan Sullivan shares how he overcame the Imposter Syndrome in his career with an Alter Ego that knew what it took to do his job, ev…
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Alter Ego 33: Momentum, Sex Dungeons, and Walking Across the Country
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Jordan and I met at Burning Man and have known each other for several years. We rather quickly get around to the surprising normalcy of being inside a sex dungeon camp, internal conflicts of belonging, how he got his name as “Momentum”, and his walk across the country to win back an ex-girlfriend, only to find himself in the process.…
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All of us want love. For some, early on in our lives the channels of love and approval got fused together. I learned early on that I was “bad” and “a sinner”. So if I just changed what I wanted to do, how I expressed myself, and who I was, THEN I could get love. Many of us seek affirmation, approval, and acceptance as a substitute for love. We can …
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Alter Ego 31: Devra as Michael Jackson
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She’s bad! She’s bad! You know it… She’s Devra Gregory: One of the most successful female Michael Jackson impersonators there is. Dev talks about expanding her mind into the role of becoming a celebrity, and gives the behind the scenes of the spiritual aspects of her life. Michael Jackson. Wicca. Dance. She’s bad!…
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Alter Ego 30: Ouroboros: the Discomfort of the Ever-Evolving Individual
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The ouroboros is a symbol from ancient Greece, adopted down through history into alchemy, depicting a serpent or dragon eats its own tail. I get down and dirty with you. Facing fears, exponential development, and the growing pains that accompany us all.
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Alter Ego 29: Magic with Joshua Logan
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Magic. Sleight of hand. Mentalism. What is the importance of Alter Ego in Magic? Today we hear from Magician Joshua Logan, who performs magic for audiences around the world! He’s been published in Magic Magazine, Wired Magazine, has developed magic videos for EllenTube and DreamworksTV. This year on April Fools Day, Joshua Logan and Doug Hofkins op…
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Alter Ego 28: “More, please?” with Ms. Monday Jones
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Artemis Simon is back with a special Q&A episode! We received a lot of questions from YOU after her episode 26: “Sex Work with Ms. Monday Jones”. I recommend listening to that one first so this has context. We talk about everything from the importance of aftercare in BDSM play, to her hard limits and boundaries. Artemis changed my view of sex worke…
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Alter Ego 27: The Traveler and his Bucket List: Chase Boehringer
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Can we decide to get up one day, and change the way we’re living, who we are, and have a completely different lifestyle? Chase did. He went from being a “normal person”, fitting in the system, wanting to commit suicide, to making a decision: “I don’t want to be this way”. So he started with a bucket list of all the things he wanted to do before he …
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Alter Ego 26: Sex Work with Ms. Monday Jones
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Today’s guest changed my view on sex workers. I wasn’t aware of my stigma toward sex work until I had this opportunity to talk with Artemis Simon. Sex work, I learned, is not ALL about primal, disconnected, base needs. Sometimes its about healing, mentorship, education, growth, and vulnerability. Artemis has offered me a new view: Sex worker as men…
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Alter Ego 25: Hollywood Blvd’s Marilyn Monroe
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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to walk in the shoes of Marilyn Monroe? Theresa Ireland knows a good deal about that. I have her on the show to share the glitz, glam, and the dirty underbelly of what it’s like to be a professional Marilyn on the streets of Hollywood Blvd. She has been featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC’s Night Line, Hollywood…
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Alter Ego 24: Michelle in Decompression
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She came, she saw something burn, she learned a super important life lesson…she even got a surprise from a white rabbit. What did Michelle bring home from Burning Man? She lays it all out for us here in this candid Post-Burn interview, where Athena and Michelle share some of their favorite takeaways from their adventures to the playa. This is the f…
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Alter Ego 23: Michelle at Burning Man
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Michelle has been Mormon her whole life… until now! Now she’s accompanying me to one of the most provocative places on earth: Burning Man. Michelle never could have imagined coming to Burning Man. This episode features recordings of her experiences taken at Burning Man as her world view shifts beyond what she ever could have guessed. This is part 2…
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Michelle has been Mormon for her whole life… until very recently. And now she’s coming with me to Burning Man! Today marks the beginning of a 3 part series where I follow Michelle’s journey through the before, during, and after experience of her first trip to the Burn. We talk about her life, and what has brought her from the place of raising a con…
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Monk, Cookie Boy, Chameleon, Unicat, Fin…Burning Man. It’s one of the most talked about communities on the planet. I went again, and took my recorder with me. This year I spoke with people at my camp to talk with them about their Burner Names. Many people adopt a burner name on the playa, usually it is gifted upon you for a variety of reasons. In t…
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Alter Ego 20: OnyX, the Great Neutralizer
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Sean badger is OnyX. Moving as a child from the inner city to a small town, Sean found himself as the only black child in a small white neighborhood. OnyX is a persona, an alter ego he’s constructed to help him find balance in a polarized world. It has since helped him cope with his military experiences, and even raising children. If you like the p…
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Alter Ego 19: Glitter Butch: Liat Wexler
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Liat Wexler is a trans man, and Glitter Butch!!! Liat’s personal preference is to identify with the pronouns “them, they, and theirs”. To be clear, Liat’s identity as a trans man isn’t their alter ego, it is who they are. But many trans people have had the experience of feeling the need to adopt an alter ego within the context of “societal norms”, …
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Alter Ego 18: Becoming Superhuman: Val Dufour
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Val Dufour is becoming superhuman. He’s on a quest to be a breatharian. Val believes that food and water are not necessary for survival, and humans can, through practice, be sustained by vital life force. He shares his journey of belief, desire, and becoming with us.
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Alter Ego 17: Miss Anne, Historic Reenactment
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Miss Anne lives in Victorian times, she wears petticoats, decency skirts, and uses the language of the fan. In modern times, Miss Anne is Anne Osborn; a Historic Reenactress and Costumer. Anne has many alter egos that span from 5k years ago to the present, but the one we focus on is from the Victorian Era. She illuminates subjects from marginalia (…
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