In this episode of Radically Alive Women, we welcome Sally Gepp, a New Zealand barrister and King's Counsel specialising in environmental and resource management law. This interview is conducted by Julia Neumann.

Sally looks back at a fulfilling legal career of 25 years. In this episode, she shares authentically and vulnerably about her journey, her motivations, and how her personal experiences shape her professional life.

She also discusses the crucial role of strong legal frameworks in environmental protection, particularly focusing on Te Waikoropupu Springs in Golden Bay, New Zealand.

The conversation delves into the challenges of being a female lawyer, including self-doubt and societal expectations, and touches upon the importance of speaking up regardless of other people's disagreement.

Sally offers insights on how others can get involved in environmental advocacy and showcases the potential for collaboration and change through legal means.

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00:00 Introduction and Guest Background

00:33 Balancing Career and Family

02:47 Environmental Advocacy and Legal Work

04:06 Motivations and Challenges in Environmental Law

06:59 Legal Frameworks and Accountability

09:22 Courtroom Dynamics and Legal System Reflections

14:23 Personal Reflections and Systemic Change

24:17 Overcoming Self-Doubt and Gender Norms

29:22 Mentorship and Encouragement for Young Lawyers

30:43 Call to Action for Environmental Protection

For more information:

Sally Gepp KC, Barrister, sallygepp.co.nz

Te Waikoropupu Springs

Save Our Springs

- website, saveoursprings.nz

- Facebook page, facebook.com/saveourspringsnz

Radically Alive Women, radicallyalivewomen.com

Julia Neumann, julia-neumann.com

In this episode of Radically Alive Women, Joydah Mae Bernardo shares her journey as a mother, voice artist, and heart-led leader in a conversation with Julia Neumann.

Joydah was born in the Philippines and raised in a village by her grandmother.

The conversation covers her powerful presence in music, her story of moving to New Zealand at the age of 17, and the motivations that drive how she shows up in her life and with her music.

Joydah shares about the deep connections between music, consciousness, and indigenous wisdom, and how these elements contribute to community building and personal healing. She also reflects on her experiences with cultural expectations, reclamation of her power, and her upbringing in a village with many mothers, as well as the shadows of village.

The episode includes a guided humming exercise as a means of voice activation.

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For more information:

Joydah Mae -

Website, joydahmae.com

YouTube, youtube.com/channel/UC2NaCCWkTSJmHMdP2xDjycQ

Instagram, instagram.com/joydah

Facebook, facebook.com/joydahmaebernardo

Band camp, joydahmae.bandcamp.com/music

Radically Alive Women, radicallyalivewomen.com

Julia Neumann, julia-neumann.com

Ana Norambuena⁠ is (and not limited to) a Woman, Mother, Trainer and Coach.

In this conversation with ⁠Hannah Abouzahrah⁠, she brings the gold she has to offer on the topic of childraising on the bridge from modern culture to ⁠Archiarchy⁠ (an emerging culture).

This is a starting conversation that touches on a broad range of themes including:

- Moving from holding space for a child's survival into empowering them to thrive

- Nuclear family and village

- Discomfort in rapid learning environments (feedback & coaching)

- Authentic connection with children

Further Information

Liquid state: just like a caterpillar liquifies in order to transform into a butterfly, we too experience the liquid state of transformation in all 5 bodies. Read more ⁠here⁠.

⁠Ontree Centre⁠: an emerging village in NZ "...guardians of the land pioneering a cultural shift towards Archiarchy, a new way of relating to each other and the world around us. "

⁠www.radicallyalivewomen.com⁠

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In this episode, Business Rebirth Guide Leela Black returns to Radically Alive Women Edgecast to speak with Julia Neumann on the topic of “Women and Money”.

Leela shares about the importance of the life-death-rebirth cycle, the significance of women claiming financial sovereignty, and practical ways to cultivate a healthier relationship with money.

Emphasising the ancestral impact of women not having had their own money, and the necessity to redefine societal constructs around money, Leela talks about her personal practices and philosophies that have enabled her to empower herself and others, fostering financial freedom and authentic living. Join Leela and Julia as they navigate through empowering stories, actionable advice, and transformative insights. This episode encourages women to embrace their receptivity, unique voices, stewardship, and financial power by honouring sacred money as a game on their own terms.

Books by Leela (formerly Lysa) Black:

Heart Medicine: The 13 Principles of Feminine Business

Empath Healer: The 13 Principles of Healing Presence (Shine Series Book 3)

Divine Purpose: The 13 Principles of Ascension (Shine Series Book 2)

Heart Healing: 13 Principles of Emotional Self Healing (Shine Series Book 1)

Music Album "Unravelling" by Lysa Black and Coral Stone (check Leela's Facebook page linked below).

For more information:

https://heartmagic.co.nz/

⁠https://www.facebook.com/LysaCBlack/⁠

https://www.instagram.com/lysa_black_/

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Jay Bennett, Leonhard Geupel and Martin Šalanda joined this conversation with Julia Neumann to share of their experience in creating the "Gaian Men's Bridgehouse" at the center of New Zealand's North Island in December 2024/January 2025.

It is an unusual topic for "Radically Alive Women" to broadcast about Men's culture.

We chose to do it anyway because we care about the radical aliveness of men just as much. As you will notice, it is truly heart-opening to witness how these men embody love through their shared experience, and we want this to be available to many more.

We were particularly touched by men learning to relate with each other, to feel together, and to lean on each other, and the side effect of that for their relating with women: An adult relating becomes possible where the man doesn't need anything from women. He gets to share his feelings and emotions also with men, which frees him from "needing" emotional support from the women in his life. It becomes optional. Goodbye, codependent relationship!

May many men be inspired by this conversation and by what becomes possible when men dare to dive deep together and become intimate and vulnerable with each other.

Topics discussed:

• How building intimate connections with other men helps break cultural norms and personal barriers.
• Being a Yes to other men.
• Shifting out of the lone wolf strategy (protective layers of men).
• Learning to express emotions such as sadness, fear, and anger openly with one another, which could have been reserved for interactions with women.
• The fear of opening up to a man because of the potential harshness.
• Going on adventures, including nature quests.
• Collaborative efforts to create deeper bonds and emotional healing.
• Creating a haling field from impulses.
• Collective experiences that led to a significant shift in how they relate to themselves, each other, and the Earth.
• The importance of creating a purpose-driven environment that encourages vulnerability and authenticity among men.

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For more information on the topic of this conversation:

Jay Bennett, substack.com/@athedge

Leonhard Geupel, leonhardgeupel.mystrikingly.com/

Martin Šalanda, www.martinsalanda.org/

Bridgehouse, bridgehouse.mystrikingly.com/

Julia Neumann, julia-neumann.com

Radically Alive Women, radicallyalivewomen.com

Margaret McCallum is a Soul Midwife and Death Doula.

In this episode she shares the freedom and aliveness of Death becoming part of everyday life. She suggest that by opening to the challenges and nudges from life in the current moment and choosing to die the little deaths life becomes fuller & richer and the big death in the end can become an easeful space of surrender. In that place the inner knowing by the soul - when the time has come - can simply let go and life can complete itself. She invites anyone walking alongside the dying to acknowledge each individual's process by not making it any different for the individual yet to hold a space for the possibility of a different perpective and approach.

In the end of the discours the space opens to the beauty and peace of silence; of finding silence from within through pauses in everyday life.

Prior to this interview, Annika interviewed Margaret and the sound did not come out as clean. Here you can read the valuable transcript of this first interview:

https://medium.com/@annikakorsten/an-interview-on-living-and-dying-with-margaret-mccallum-a1c1a5887b7b

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More Information:

https://www.margaretmccallum.com/

'Hello, little Deaths - Margaret McCallum

Sovereign Birth and Self-Response-Ability: Claire Eccleston. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rGpk8mWEnweFHLS23uSlY

Richard Rudd - https://genekeys.com/resource/the-triple-flame/

Radically Alive Women, www.radicallyalivewomen.com

Annika Korsten, www.annikakorsten.org

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This interview was held by Annika Korsten.

This is an excerpt from a work-talk (some talking, some workshop elements) delivered by Julia Neumann in 2021. It explores the sovereign birth right of omen to tsan din their sovereignty, and the strategies women may employ to stay Princesses and avoid being in their power.

The emphasis of this first part is on conscious joy as a resource to make a radical shift from waiting for "the prince on a white horse" to being a wild white horse oneself.

We dug this treasure out of our archives for you and hope you enjoy!

You can watch the full recording here: https://youtu.be/p0T2IC_dY_8.

For more information:

www.julia-neumann.com

www.radicallyalivewomen.com

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