The Edge of Everyday with Sandra Bargman

Asherah, Anat, and the Recovery of Goddess Traditions with Trista Hendren of Girl God Books | June 16, 2026Who – and what – is The Goddess?"The Great Goddess Asherah, the sacred tree, Mother-Goddess of all of the gods..."— Miriam Robbins Dexter, Preface to Asherah: Roots of the Mother TreeWe can all agree that we are living through a time of immense grief, polarization, and moral exhaustion.And beneath our political events we find deeper stories about power, sacredness, domination, and what we believe about human life.Today’s conversation explores one of those forgotten stories through the figure of Asherah and the recovery of goddess traditions.Today we are #LiveintheHIve with Trista Hendren, author, speaker, visionary founder of Girl God Books and ONE POWERFUL voice and leader in the dismantling of the patriarchal mindset and the remembrance and return to the wisdom and mystery of the Divine feminine, and to the ancient truth of kinship, reciprocity, and inter-being. I’ve had Trista on before for the episode What Will It Take to Know The Girl God – listen HERE for that episode.I wanted to have her back to speak about her anthology, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree, to expand on reclaiming the Goddess traditions, and share what is alive in her work today.We touch on…I met Trista at The Goddess Conference: The Crone (2023) in Glastonbury. The information got a bit lost in some technical glitches in our conversation. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI6PGa6n4Gg6l77LkruIJGXwpoT8LzQHiSpoiler alert: We talk about Dr Lynne Sedgemore and her upcoming book, "The Goddess Enneagram", endorsed by Trista, and to be published by ChangeMakers Books. Dr Lynne will be guesting in the fall.Whether a novice or a well-seasoned Goddess lover, this book, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree is for you, with academic research, creative writing, poetry and art.Trista shares who – and what – is the goddess, and how she discovered the goddess coming from a very devout Christian upbringing.Resource: author Burleigh Muten and her well-known book about the divine feminine, The Return of The Great Goddess.The story behind the creation of Girl God Books.Trista converted to Islam – the extraordinary story as to why?The power of art! Trista has a HUGE statue of the Venus of Willendorf on her property: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_WillendorfGirl God Books has produced over 50 books and anthologies, primarily by female authors.Spirituality and politics? Trista weighs in on abortion, female sensuality and Female RAGE (and who is the Goddess Anat).Resources: Women Who Run with The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes and The Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo, Barbara Mor.Resource: Wizard Bisan | https://www.instagram.com/wizard_bisan1/?hl=enThe call to The Mother from the Palestinians.The Goddess Anat: The primal rage of the Mother. An upcoming anthology on ANAT, stay tuned.I LOVE THIS! Trista asks: Before Patriarchy did we NEED warrior goddesses?Trista is a PRO-Palestine activist. Her family is in Lebanon. The failings of our news.In honor of Father’s Day, Trista weighs in on Sacred Masculinity.Resource: Upcoming Girl God Book on Healing Spells and Rituals : https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/Perhaps Asherah's greatest gift is not simply that she was remembered, but that her roots remained alive beneath the surface all along waiting for us to remember that we, too, belong to the Mother Tree.Enjoy this episode.#TheEdgeofEverydayPodcast #TheEdgeofEveryday #ThePowerofStorytelling #Solstice #Juneteenth #FathersDay #TheGoddessMovesMe #AsherahFind Trista:ww.TheGirlGod.comFind Sandra:www.SandraBargman.com@SandraBargmanReview us in Apple Podcasts@ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-edge-of-everyday-with-sandra-bargman/id1740861679Mentioned in this episode:This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

The Edge Between Performative Positivity and Genuine Happiness with Michele PhillipsWhen was the last time you actually felt energized by your life—not just getting through it?What if real happiness isn’t about eliminating darkness — but learning how to integrate it?Real happiness may begin where performance, perfection, and people-pleasing end.In this episode, we’re pushing right up against that edge.Today we are #LiveintheHive with Michele Phillips, author of Energize Your Happiness, and we’re getting into what it really takes to break patterns, reclaim your energy, and stop living on autopilot. Michele models and inspires the courage necessary to OWN your happiness and optimism, in a world committed to pessimism, outrage, and, at times, blatant cruelty.Michele is a globally recognized leadership coach, speaker, and author who helps individuals and organizations harness personal energy to create extraordinary outcomes. She is the author of Happiness Is a Habit: Simple Daily Rituals That Increase Energy, Improve Well-Being, and Add Joy to Every Day (Cedar Fort Publishing, 2013) and Energize Your Happiness: Tap into Personal Energy and Shape Your Destiny Michele is the host of the Write Your Outcome podcast, where she interviews leaders, changemakers, and visionaries about the inner work behind meaningful success—exploring how energy, intention, and conscious choice shape both leadership and life.In this episode we explore…The Happiness Habits that are so simple and yet so life changing.What is the concept of “positive psychology”? https://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/our-missionEmotion is ENERGY. What are the 20 energy rules that Michele teaches for clients to learn and master?In our patriarchal, left brain dominated society, we are not taught how to deal and work with our emotions. Is this why we’re in a crisis of consciousness?Some call it “creative flow”, others “in the zone.” Michele calls it Personal Energy Alignment. What is it? What are the steps you can take to increase your personal energy alignment?The “Ladder Up Technique” – what is it and the small, yet powerful choices you can make to energize your optimism, while completely acknowledging trauma, depression, and other challenging situations.What is the truth about happiness that people don’t want to hear?“It’s Your Game and Your Rules”! – Michele PhillipsFind Michele and order her books:www.EnergizeYourHappiness.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-phillips-9409707/Find Sandra:www.SandraBargman.comwww.MagicThreadMedia.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sandrabargman/@SandraBargmanMentioned in this episode:This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

Learning to Listen: Sex, Surrender and Letting Go with Dominatrix and Author, Dana PharantToday we are #LIVEintheHIVE with Mistress Dana Pharant, professional dominatrix. author and Surrender expert for those who “need to get their head out of their ass and back to loving life.” Dana is no stranger to The Edge of Everyday podcast– I’ve had her on the show, not once, but twice. You MUST check out those episodes:The Inner Dominatrix: Part I https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inner-dominatrix-the-edge-of-power-pain/id1740861679?i=1000667470555The Dominatrix: Part II https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dominatrix-a-special-part-2-conversation-on/id1740861679?i=1000680436830Much like the Witch Archetype, the Dominatrix Archetype is misunderstood and maligned in our Patriarchal world. In a system that fears women’s power, and vilifies women’s sexuality, both the witch and the dominatrix understand that Sexual Energy = Life Force energy, and that Sexual Consciousness is imperative for human consciousness evolution. Sexuality, in our current times, becomes most interesting not when it is purely physical, but when it collides with power, identity, shame, freedom, ritual, vulnerability, and transformation.In this episode, Dana regals us with stories and wisdom from her year-long globe-trotting as a courageous and compassionate nomad, all told in her newly released SIXTH book, Go Ask The Dolphins: A Journey of Sex, Surrender and Letting Go.The spiritual wisdom of dolphins.Is “surrender” the same as “letting go” or is it different?Control as a trauma response. The upside of Control vs Contol being as armor. How does Control serve? How is it transformed into Surrender?What was Dana’s inspiration in writing this book?What were the steps Dana took to change her life and step into her nomadic journey?We explore the theme of Obligation and what Dana discovered about this theme in the many stops in her travels.What is Surrender? How did her understanding of what Surrender is change and evolve on this journey?What are the many ways Dana works with clients in their understanding of SURRENDER? In the dungeon, through healing modalities including plant medicine, and business coaching.All this and so much more.Dana Pharant is a Woo Woo master with the power to see people's core issues. She has a strong penchant for personal development, is a borderline crazy cat lady and she helps Alpha men and women face their shit so they can feel more alive, have more sex and make more money.Dana is a Dominatrix, Sexual High Priestess, a 7 figure CEO, AND a 5x best-selling Author, with her newly released 6th book, which has been described as EAT PRAY LOVE meets 50 Shades being well on it’s way to becoming her next best seller.Find Dana:www.DanaPharant.comhttps://danapharant.substack.com/p/chapter-1-go-ask-the-dolphinshttps://www.youtube.com/@wholebodyhealing1https://www.linkedin.com/in/danapharant/Her book:https://www.amazon.com/Go-Ask-Dolphins-Journey-Surrender/dp/B0GV3B116HFind Sandra:www.SandraBargman.com@SandraBargmanhttps://www.youtube.com/@sandraamazonhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sandrabargman/Mentioned in this episode:This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

Ep 56 | Past Life Regression and Spirit Guides: Insight, Illusion or Something Else? with Certified Hypnotist and Author Karen KubickoWhat if some of your strongest fears, habits, or even relationships didn’t start in this lifetime?Today we are #LiveintheHive with Karen Kubicko, a past life regressionist who helps clients access deeply immersive experiences that feel like memories from another time. For some, it’s healing. For others, it raises big questions about consciousness and identity.Karen is a psychic intuitive, Reiki Master, past life regression expert, certified hypnotist, instructor, and author of Life Is Just Another Class—One Soul’s Journey through Past Life Regression, an account of 16 of her own past lives and Making True Love—Healing Relationship Patterns Through Past Life Regression which explores common root causes of relationship issues, and provides insight on how to heal these patterns. Today’s spirited conversation invites curiosity more than conclusions - we’re leaning right into the edge of what we think we know about ourselves. Whether you’re curious, skeptical, or somewhere in between, this conversation lives right on that edge. Takeaways and lessons:How does your soul incarnate?Karen gives an overview of the vastness of the soul as it incarnates and becomes grounded in the earth experience/consciousness.Karen shares her childhood connections across the veil and interaction with spirit guides. She tells the story of one of her Near-Death Experiences (NDE) – an emergency C-section birth of her second child.She was compelled to explore metaphysics more deeply and discovered the work of Dr. Brian Weiss, with whom she went on to study.How is the power of forgiveness crucial to this work?Karen breaks down your spiritual “team” – spirit guides and passed-over loved ones.For those who experience themselves as non-binary, may there be a deeper understanding of being both male + female?The quantum healing experienced through this work heals not only yourself, but it ripples out to ancestors.Her first book explores how to access your own past lives. Her second book explores healing relationship patterns and root causes through past life regression.All this and SO much more…Find Karen:https://www.karenkubicko.com/https://www.youtube.com/@KarenKubickoFind Sandra:www.SandraBargman.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@sandraamazon@SandraBargman#TheEdgeofEveryday #TheEdgeofEverydayPodcast #PastLives #PastLifeRegression #SpiritGuides #NDE #NearDeathExperienceMentioned in this episode:This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

Hello Hive!Happy birthday to me!It’s April 15th, Income Tax Day, and my mother always told me I was a great return on my birthday. It’s also World Art Day! Art nurtures creativity, innovation and cultural diversity for humans around the globe, playing an important role in sharing knowledge and encouraging curiosity and courageous conversations. And ART is RESISTANCE! What better day to release my next episode, one that celebrates creativity, identity, and the power of artistic expression and storytelling.Today we are #LIVEintheHIVE with former Silicon Valley Tech CEO, musician, and non-binary trans advocate, Michele Bettencourt - for a courageous conversation on the evolution of IDENTITY.Easily one of my most favorite conversations. Michele’s willingness to share her provocative story openly, along with her articulate, salty and, intriguing story-telling, kept me rapt, laughing heartily, and deeply moved. I know you will be, too.With over a thirty-five-year career in Silicon Valley, Michele Bettencourt served as CEO and Director of multiple private and public companies, including Imperva and Coverity. She is the founder of the Michele Bettencourt Foundation which promotes fair employment for transgender individuals.Michele is a singer/songwriter/musician who, in 2018, dropped her debut album, Vampire Time, which features such esteemed collaborators as Carmine Rojas (David Bowie, Rod Stewart), Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), and Russ McKinnon (Barry Manilow, Tower of Power).Vampire Time examines the paradoxes of contemporary life—how people can feel both connected and distant, certain yet uncertain, and visible yet misunderstood, real human experiences on the edge between ordinary life and moments of transformation. Life Lessons through these stories:It’s okay to evolve. Understanding yourself is a journey, not a one-time decision.Be kind. Respecting and accepting others helps create a more compassionate and inclusive world.Creative expression can be a powerful way to share truth and process identity.In Vampire Time, the White House is upside down. In real time, too.Live by the personal mantra, “My Life. My rules.”You can usually tell when people are being kind.Cross dressing is the gateway drug to transitioning.Be an ambassador.Believe in accidental journeys.Become a “meanderthal.”Parental passing grants permission and release.What makes a transition “successful” is how you’re treated.Trans people in bathrooms. Women say the nicest things in bathrooms. Make someone’s day and call them she if that’s what they want. The ripple effect will change humanity.It’s hard to hate someone up close.Thank you, Michele.Remember, the edge is where you come alive.Find Michele + Vampire Time:https://music.apple.com/us/artist/michele-bettencourt-and-vampire-time/1831583691https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd9ZrZBQw3QAmC2k1SjKdsghttps://www.samdevorah.org/boardFind Sandra:SandraBargman.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sandrabargman/https://createmagicatwork.net/meet-the-teamMentioned in this episode:This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/