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Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Speaking our stories sets us free. Listening lets us know we aren't alone. On the Alive & Kicking podcast I talk to ordinary people walking the extraordinary path of waking up to their highest truth. We learn that breakdowns aren't failures, setbacks aren't mistakes and calm follows the storm, always. Join us as we step into real and vulnerable dialogue and reveal the healing that's possible for us all.
Episodes
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Valerie Irons -- Cancer, Choices & Knowing
Valerie is the first Alive & Kicking guest to return to the podcast. When I interviewed her back in 2021, the topic of conversation was late-life love. Just a…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Jade Orth -- Adaptability, Loss & Self-Discovery
Jade Orth is a family advocate who is currently working in the foster care and adoption realm, driven by a mission to bring together resources, community…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Joan Advent -- Pain, Personal Cosmology & Desire
Joan Advent’s journey has taken her from addiction, sexual trauma, spiritual abuse, and poverty consciousness to the safety and freedom of true…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Lisa Espinosa - Trauma, the Divine Mother & Fearjoy
As a spiritual career coach, speaker, podcast host, and the award-winning author of Answering Your Inner Calling, Lisa has been guiding heart-led helpers…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Jen Lee -- Healing, Christianity & Queerness
Jen’s ongoing journey is one from head, to heart. As a manual physical therapist, she has made a career of working to understand the presentation of chronic…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Lazor Lanson -- Acting, Movement & Presence
Lazor Lanson is an actor, creator, and wellness educator exploring the intersection of movement, fascia, performance, and human potential. Professionally…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Brian Schlaak -- Schoolrooms, Seeking & Shamanism
Brian grew up an Army brat, living around the world and in the U.S. until he was 13. His peripatetic childhood included a year in the late 60s attending a…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Jenny Glick -- Safety, Longing & Truth
We open a brand new season with a conversation with Jenny Glick. Born to teen parents who themselves were atheist despite having roots in strong religious…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Michael Shapiro -- Sensitivity, Service & Skateboarding
Born in a small town in Arizona, Michael Shapiro was a highly sensitive and inquisitive child. When he was just three years old, his biological father…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Michelle Dunk -- Perfectionism, Surrender & God
Early on, Michelle Dunk became a perfectionist to manage what she calls her self-manufactured pressures and fears. When her father went into recovery when she…
Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay EckWe're Back!
I've been meeting so many amazing people that I had to return to the Alive & Kicking podcast to share them with you. See what we have in store for you! Video…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with BakeR Gendron | Awakening Without Labels
Please note: This interview contains depictions of violence and sexual abuse. Please listen with care for yourself and others. This week's guest is BakeR…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with John Schieke | Awakening in Sobriety
An existential crisis can throw the average adult into a state of uncertainty at best and inner turmoil at worst. Kay's next guest, John Schieke, was just six…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Sarah Lindgren | Awakening Through Healing
In episode 41, Sarah Lindgren talks with Kay about how early trauma influenced so many of the decisions she made throughout her life. Until, that is, she…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Catalina Osorio Galvis | Awakening into Grace
Please note: This episode contains descriptions of violence, sexual abuse, alcoholism and drug use. In this episode of the podcast, Columbia native Catalina…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Lisa Stokke | Awakening and Mothering
In this episode of Alive & Kicking, Lisa Stokke talks with Kay about being parented, parenting adults and the unique challenges of mothering in the age of…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Valerie Irons: Awakening Beyond Unrequited Love
Born in Memphis Tennessee to a navy captain father, Valerie Iron's early life was rich with travel, culture and experience. But despite her joy for that life…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Majid Zafer | Awakening through Intentional Upleveling
After achieving the financial goals he set for himself by the time he was in his late 20s, Majid Zafer was looking at very early retirement. But the feeling he…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Sarah Starnes | Awakening with Nature
Despite growing up in the suburbs, Sarah Richelle Starnes describes her formative years as wild, feral and imbued with nature. Her immersive relationship with…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Kay Eck | Awakening Through the Creative Process
In celebration of the release of her second book Dear Human (available now) , Kay invites Ashley Livingston to ask her the questions she's been asking the…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Todd Fink | Awakening Through Inquiry and Annihilation
Growing up poor but delightfully untethered, Todd Fink's most memorable educational and spiritual experiences happened in nature. It was there, in nature, that…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Taylor Godfrey | Awakening to Trauma, The Human Experience, and Spiritual Communities
Growing up on an enlivened farm with her grandparents as guardians, no set religion other than cycles of nature, Taylor Godfrey's life was unconventional from…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Dack Quigley | Awakening to Divine Potential
Dack Quigley had an unconventional, some would say near perfect, upbringing. His parents urged him to do whatever he wanted to do, celebrated his every choice…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Sue Gaskell | Awakening through Inner Child Healing
Sue Gaskell was born on the living room floor as the 10th of 11 children in Derbyshire, UK in 1946, and her life did not necessarily get less dramatic or…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview With Carmen Santiago-Keenon | Awakening Through Generational Trauma
Born at four pounds and addicted to cocaine to a teen mother in trouble, Carmen Santiago-Keenon suffered a childhood filled with abandonment, danger and abuse…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Max Friedstein | Awakening to Shifting Lifestreams
Having graduated from the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, Max Friedstein believed his career as a professional dancer was about to begin. But a…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Tasha Gomes & Lisa Scott | Awakening Family Style
Growing up with immigrant parents in a small, homogenous midwestern town bonded sisters Tasha Gomes and Lisa Scott together in more ways than one. But it…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Zon Carvalho | Awakening to Joy Beyond the Shadows
Though his childhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil was rich in culture, art and community connection, Zon Carvalho felt called to a deeper spiritual experience. After…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Amy Merritt | Awakening and the Role of Compassion
Despite great loss and grief throughout her life, Amy Merritt chooses to lead with empathy, love, and deep compassion for others. Cultivating goodness out of a…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Be Bradley | Awakening In the Shadows
High vibrational conscious artist Be Bradley has learned to speak only from what he knows. His honesty and openness regarding the dark aspects of human nature…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Kirsten Barfoot | Awakening in Grace
Kirsten Barfoot arrived knowing she had a mission but felt held back, treated as an outsider as she moved as a child from South Africa to New Zealand to…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Stephanie Martin | Awakening and Safe Spaces
As a gregarious child whose parents didn't know quite how to raise her, Stephanie Martin had to learn to create the safe space to be herself, for herself. The…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Fred Burks | Awakening and the Understory
Fred Burks' interesting ride on Planet Earth has been fueled by a clear understanding that his mission is to shine a light into the shadows, not to condemn but…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Elizabeth Rago | Awakening and Living Well
A loving home with attentive parents did not preclude writer Elizabeth Rago from facing crippling anxiety after a series of traumatic events rocked her family…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Lexie Wilson | Awakening and Connection
It makes sense that the dynamic Lexie Wilson would one day help individuals learn to disentangle themselves from toxic relationships. She first had to free…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Jillian Bieritz | Awakening Embodied Love
For Jillian Bieritz - astrologer, stylist and yoga teacher - stepping into love has been a slowly evolving skill. Never feeling fully embodied, she turned to…
Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay EckStill Kicking: Talking About Children | Live Recording with Alexa Schill
Recorded live on December 10th, 2020, returning guest Alexa Schill chats with Kay about children -- Who they are, what they need, what gifts they have come to…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Christine Howard | Awakening and Conscious Healing
Christine Howard's life-long cultivation of her awareness of the world beyond the physical helped her survive and heal a life of intense abuse and trauma…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Caitlin Slade | Awakening Self Compassion
Caitlin Slade resonates with Theo Von's quote, "I was born with an uncomfortable spirit." As a brilliant home school success story, Caitlin pushed herself…
Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay EckStill Kicking: Ecosystems Within and Around Us | Live Recording with Aaron Ogden
Via Facebook Live on 11/11, Kay asks Aaron to help us understand the lives we are living right now through astrology, ancient yogic philosophy, breath…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Kevin Miles | Awakening & Entrepreneurship
Conscious entrepreneur and innovator Kevin Miles joins Kay to talk about how life as an Army brat, preacher's kid, college athlete, and Morehouse College grad…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Christi Cousin | Awakening at the Intersection of Law and Mysticism
Just in time for Halloween, which happens to be her birthday, Christi Cousin joins us from New Orleans at the intersection of religious and psychic traditions…
Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay EckStill Kicking: Relationships, The 2020 Crucible | Live Recording with Matthew Patti
Buckle up! Kay Eck and returning guest Matthew Patti talk about relationships and how the current climate has pressed them up to our noses! Matthew Patti is a…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Yolanda Lozano | Awakening with Sound and Light
As a child, Yolanda Lozano crisscrossed the US - Mexico border often enough that by the time she returned to this country permanently at the age of 16, she had…
Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay EckStill Kicking: Navigating The Rabbit Holes | Live Recording with Diana Schieke
Kay Eck and returning guest Diana Schieke meet at Kava Diem River Cafe in St. Charles, Illinois on September 30, 2020. Recorded with a live audience and…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Brandon Courter | Awakening Vulnerability
Men's mental health and the true relationship between vulnerability and strength are just some of the important topics Brandon Courter discusses in this…
Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay EckStill Kicking: Walking Through 2020 with Clarity, Courage & Peace | Live Recording
Kay Eck and returning guest Lisa Marie Trunkenbolz meet at Kava Diem River Cafe in St. Charles, Illinois on September 16, 2020. Recorded with a live audience…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Neda McGuire | Awakening to Mortality
Gerontologist and end of life doula Neda McGuire brings her willingness to talk about hard things to this conversation as we track her journey from her…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Quenby Schuyler | Awakening to Let Go
Writer and local farm to table chef Quenby Schuyler joins Kay on this not to be missed 11th episode of Alive & Kicking. Quenby talks about the hard "smacks"…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Thea Sullivan | Awakening Your Intuition
As an award-winning poet, nonfiction writer, and writing teacher, Thea Sullivan chased her career down all the predictable avenues until the voice of her…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Lydia Stokke | Awakening for the Next Generation
As a 24-year-old food activist, Boulder, Colorado transplant Lydia Stokke represents the next generation of conscious creators, bringing a fresh perspective of…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Sage Acharya | Awakening and Conscious Relationships
Growing up empathic with a strong sense of obligation, Sage Acharya's understanding of herself crumbled when she immigrated to the United States from London…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Ashley Livingston
Ashley Livingston grew up in fear of not measuring up to the well-established standards of her family's Evangelical Christian faith. Today she talks to Kay Eck…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Aaron Ogden
Modern permaculture educator Aaron Ogden joins Kay from his third-generation family homestead in Ojai, California, USA. They discuss wide-ranging topics…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Alexa Schill
Children's author, yoga and meditation instructor Alexa Schill joins Kay Eck to talk about growing up with an abusive, schizophrenic parent, substance abuse…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Lisa Marie Trunkenbolz
In the inaugural episode of Alive & Kicking, Kay Eck speaks with yoga teacher, studio owner, artist, writer and wildly-progressive being Lisa Trunkenbolz about…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Diana Schieke
Kay Eck talks with Diana Schieke about growing up in Germany and the U.S. and her personal experience of waking up. Kay and Diana discuss disordered eating…
- Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
Interview with Matthew Patti
From their locations in France and Australia, Kay Eck and Matthew Patti discuss awakening to live your best life. Matthew shares his own path from sport, to…