Mindful Mavens

Steph & Anja

Wisdom seekers, humor mongers, perfectly imperfect celebrants of the human condition, Steph & Anja, two friends and long-time, wellness-oriented bodywork therapists, explore light and love, dis-ease and vibrant aliveness, and everything in between.

  1. Interweaving - the funky estate sale, crochet connections, migrations, and the mystery of mycelium

    2 DAYS AGO

    Interweaving - the funky estate sale, crochet connections, migrations, and the mystery of mycelium

    Trident Cafe and Bookstore https://www.tridentcafe.com/ It’s Been a Minute Podcast Episode “Enough is Enough: is it time to leave America?” https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5665105/enough-is-enough-is-it-time-to-leave-america Parts work = Internal Family Systems YOU ARE THE ONE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR by Richard Schwartz https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781683643623 There's a Simpler Explanation for the Rightward Shift of ... The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com › 2025/12/16 › opinion › yo... The Lost Generation by Jacob Savage https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/ Meggan Watterson’s MARY MAGDALENE REVEALED https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781401954284 Isabel Wilkerson’s THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780679763888 Fantastic Fungi film https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781683837046 Mindful Mavens is produced in partnership with MadeLife (our amazing recording space) and Facilitated Wellness (where Steph & Anja both treat clients), both located in Boulder, Colorado. For more information, check them out athttp://madelife.comhttp://facwellness.com Find Mindful Mavens on Facebook and Instagram @‌mindful.mavens, email us at mail.mavens@gmail.com or leave us a voice message at http://speakpipe.com/mindfulmavens , we’d LOVE to hear your voice! And if you’re in the market for any of the books we have mentioned, visit our affiliate link at https://bookshop.org/shop/mindfulmavens . For any purchase you make from our “Storefront” we get thrown a few shekels that help us keep this podcast going. Music: “Into The Forest” by LesFM

    37 min
  2. Reviving the direwolf, traveling conscientiously, the artist's process, and the evolution of language

    5 MAR

    Reviving the direwolf, traveling conscientiously, the artist's process, and the evolution of language

    Science Friday Podcast - 2025 Recap https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/science-friday/articles/a-look-back-at-2025-in-science-from-federal-cuts-to-space-junk Nano T-Rex a whole new species https://www.npr.org/2025/10/30/nx-s1-5589172/tyrannosaurus-rex-dueling-dinosaurs-fossil-new-species Resurrecting Direwolves & the Woolly Mammoth https://www.npr.org/2026/03/04/nx-s1-5704318/colossal-woolly-mammoth-dire-wolf Bill Bryson Film: “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1412386/ Book: “To Die Beautiful” by Buzzy Jackson https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780593187234 Book: “Code Name Helene” by Ariel Lawhon https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780525565499 Book: “My Friends” by Fredrick Backman https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781982112820 Book: “A man Called Ove” by Fredrick Backman https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781476738024 Book: “The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing” by Adam Moss https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780593297582 Play: “Angels in America” by Tony Kushner https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781559363846 TV Series: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318997/ Book: “AgoSpeak: How Social Media is Transforming the future of Language” by Adam Aleksic https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780593804070 Book: “The Five Love Languages” by Eric Glas https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9798291300121 Book: “Non-Violent Comunication” by Marshall Rosenberg https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781591791706 Mindful Mavens is produced in partnership with MadeLife (our amazing recording space) and Facilitated Wellness (where Steph & Anja both treat clients), both located in Boulder, Colorado. For more information, check them out athttp://madelife.comhttp://facwellness.com Find Mindful Mavens on Facebook and Instagram @‌mindful.mavens, email us at mail.mavens@gmail.com or leave us a voice message at http://speakpipe.com/mindfulmavens , we’d LOVE to hear your voice! And if you’re in the market for any of the books we have mentioned, visit our affiliate link at https://bookshop.org/shop/mindfulmavens . For any purchase you make from our “Storefront” we get thrown a few shekels that help us keep this podcast going. Music: “Into The Forest” by LesFM

    47 min
  3. Celebrating humans braving challenges and staying present in the balmy, windy, Colorado Front Range

    26 FEB

    Celebrating humans braving challenges and staying present in the balmy, windy, Colorado Front Range

    Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A therapist, Her therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Through Line on NPR - a history of the Life of Charles Dickens and an unpacking of A Christmas Carol When Christmas Went Viral Ologies podcast Ologies with Alie Ward Mindful Mavens is produced in partnership with MadeLife (our amazing recording space) and Facilitated Wellness (where Steph & Anja both treat clients), both located in Boulder, Colorado. For more information, check them out athttp://madelife.comhttp://facwellness.com Find Mindful Mavens on Facebook and Instagram @‌mindful.mavens, email us at mail.mavens@gmail.com or leave us a voice message at http://speakpipe.com/mindfulmavens , we’d LOVE to hear your voice! And if you’re in the market for any of the books we have mentioned, visit our affiliate link at https://bookshop.org/shop/mindfulmavens . For any purchase you make from our “Storefront” we get thrown a few shekels that help us keep this podcast going. Music: “Into The Forest” by LesFM

    30 min
  4. Self-sufficiency, Circadian Rhythms, and other Brilliant Little Things

    19 FEB

    Self-sufficiency, Circadian Rhythms, and other Brilliant Little Things

    “Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Mainteance” by Robert Persig https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780063342330 “Always trust your gut. Your brain can be fooled, your heart is an idiot sometimes, but your gut doesn't know how to lie.” Heart Math Institute - https://www.heartmath.org/ Thich Nhat Hahn - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh Podcst: “The Wild” with Chris Morgan https://open.spotify.com/episode/0WYQLzmoSxqDRce5s3V3BX?si=356c7376b09844ea “Encountering DragonFly; Notes on the Practice of Re-enchantment” by Brooke Williams https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781943370290 “Roam: Wild animals and the Race to Repair Our Fractured World” by Hillary Rosner https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781952338311 Podcast: LifeKit “How to Optimize Your Circadian Rhythms” https://open.spotify.com/episode/0LPw7OiuALg2w10L8N6owZ?si=4a39030a5b97471e Daily Camera Opinion piece by Milton Slater: “ How Do You Want to Live Our Last Five Years?” https://www.dailycamera.com/2025/12/17/aging-last-five-years-health-fitness-activity-boulder-opinion/ The Dairy Center for the Arts https://thedairy.org/ “Every Brilliant Thing” https://thedairy.org/series/betc-every-brilliant-thing/ On Broadway https://everybrilliantthing.com/ Life kit episode on light & darkhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/0LPw7OiuALg2w10L8N6owZ?si=2wmNyY2_Q0KBVZ_D0-DyTg Mindful Mavens is produced in partnership with MadeLife (our amazing recording space) and Facilitated Wellness (where Steph & Anja both treat clients), both located in Boulder, Colorado. For more information, check them out athttp://madelife.comhttp://facwellness.com Find Mindful Mavens on Facebook and Instagram @‌mindful.mavens, email us at mail.mavens@gmail.com or leave us a voice message at http://speakpipe.com/mindfulmavens , we’d LOVE to hear your voice! And if you’re in the market for any of the books we have mentioned, visit our affiliate link at https://bookshop.org/shop/mindfulmavens . For any purchase you make from our “Storefront” we get thrown a few shekels that help us keep this podcast going. Music: “Into The Forest” by LesFM

    37 min
  5. Botany, witchy works, aphantasia... oh my!

    12 FEB

    Botany, witchy works, aphantasia... oh my!

    PLANT PEOPLE podcast: episode “extreme botany” from 5/19/2025 https://open.spotify.com/episode/34ZK0lgTXvNod5iJjjV2Fb Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Signature of All things https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780143125846 YEAR OF WONDERS is a 2001 historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks, inspired by the true story of the English village of Eyam, which quarantined itself during the 1666 plague https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780142001431 Fire Cider recipe:  https://www.citymarket.coop/recipe/rosemary-gladstars-fire-cider Podcast series by BBC called Witch https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mc4p Podcast called LIFE KIT https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5566800/how-the-local-library-can-save-you-money Podcast RadioLab on Aphantasia https://radiolab.org/podcast/aphantasia Charley Morley LUCID DREAMING https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781788172523 Robert Monroe Journeys Out of the Body https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780385008617 Monroe Institute https://www.monroeinstitute.org/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=16137331382&gbraid=0AAAAADp2d0LOGEbqXdSs0DgmzPXepfKfr&gclid=Cj0KCQiA7rDMBhCjARIsAGDBuED0XAn5quRgqMiftSsiQ-gfAUqt8c_tZUa5oo3sn-3mzKM60MHsBOUaAiNeEALw_wcB Listening to Ayahuasca by Rachel Harris, PhD. https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781608684021 MAPS Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies https://maps.org/advancing-research/ EMDR https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/treatments/eye-movement-reprocessing Colorado Public Radio’s Aging Matters Series -  https://www.cpr.org/tag/aging-matters/ Mindful Mavens is produced in partnership with MadeLife (our amazing recording space) and Facilitated Wellness (where Steph & Anja both treat clients), both located in Boulder, Colorado. For more information, check them out athttp://madelife.comhttp://facwellness.com Find Mindful Mavens on Facebook and Instagram @‌mindful.mavens, email us at mail.mavens@gmail.com or leave us a voice message at http://speakpipe.com/mindfulmavens , we’d LOVE to hear your voice! And if you’re in the market for any of the books we have mentioned, visit our affiliate link at https://bookshop.org/shop/mindfulmavens . For any purchase you make from our “Storefront” we get thrown a few shekels that help us keep this podcast going. Music: “Into The Forest” by LesFM

    47 min
  6. A Treatise on “Wicked, For Good,” imagining a better future, and what to do when the universe complies

    5 FEB

    A Treatise on “Wicked, For Good,” imagining a better future, and what to do when the universe complies

    Cynthia Arevo surprising sutdent at her high school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qit1cS0YmLo Dr Caroline Myss https://myss.com/ “Energy Anatomy” https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781564558800 “Anatomy of the Spirit” https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780609800140 “Letting Go” by David Hawkins https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781401945015 Uri Talmor https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/uri-talmor-louisville-co/137242 “No Bad Parts” by Richard Schwartz, PhD https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781683646686 Mindful Mavens is produced in partnership with MadeLife (our amazing recording space) and Facilitated Wellness (where Steph & Anja both treat clients), both located in Boulder, Colorado. For more information, check them out athttp://madelife.comhttp://facwellness.com Find Mindful Mavens on Facebook and Instagram @‌mindful.mavens, email us at mail.mavens@gmail.com or leave us a voice message at http://speakpipe.com/mindfulmavens , we’d LOVE to hear your voice! And if you’re in the market for any of the books we have mentioned, visit our affiliate link at https://bookshop.org/shop/mindfulmavens . For any purchase you make from our “Storefront” we get thrown a few shekels that help us keep this podcast going. Music: “Into The Forest” by LesFM

    46 min
  7. Human connection, dinosaurs, ancient structures, across time and space

    29 JAN

    Human connection, dinosaurs, ancient structures, across time and space

    Gottmans books: https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780553447712 https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780593579657 https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780316113007by Sue Johnson (Emotionally Focused Therapy) Science Friday https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/t-rex-species/ https://www.nps.gov/dino/index.htm Dinosaur Ridge geological feature between Boulder and Golden Colorado https://dinoridge.org/?gad_source=1 John Muir Wilderness Essays https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781423607120 Correction - John Muir was the first (or one of the first) European to see Glacier Bay. First Nation People were his guide to get to Glacier Bay. Yellowstone television series, Prequels: 1883 and 1923 Chichen Itza = Mayan temple from 455 A.D. Denver Museum of Nature and Science @‌Bassforge.us “Welcome to the Rabbit Hole———-Metaphysics for 👽’s and Aquarians📍Austin, TX” https://www.stephaniekelseytherapy.com/blog-2-1/248jia7pj9s7osn010lxusnuyxaowk is where you can find Steph’s blog, specifically the one mentioned in this episode: “Podcasting -Who knew we could do it?” Mindful Mavens is produced in partnership with MadeLife (our amazing recording space) and Facilitated Wellness (where Steph & Anja both treat clients), both located in Boulder, Colorado. For more information, check them out athttp://madelife.comhttp://facwellness.com Find Mindful Mavens on Facebook and Instagram @‌mindful.mavens, email us at mail.mavens@gmail.com or leave us a voice message at http://speakpipe.com/mindfulmavens , we’d LOVE to hear your voice! And if you’re in the market for any of the books we have mentioned, visit our affiliate link at https://bookshop.org/shop/mindfulmavens . For any purchase you make from our “Storefront” we get thrown a few shekels that help us keep this podcast going. Music: “Into The Forest” by LesFM

    34 min
  8. Premature aging bias and suggestions to rewind the clock

    22 JAN

    Premature aging bias and suggestions to rewind the clock

    “Quantum Healing” by Deepak Chopra https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781101884973 Dr Ellen Langer https://www.ellenlanger.me/ Mel Robbins Podcast episode: “How to use your mind to heal your body with the #1 Harvard Psychologist” https://open.spotify.com/episode/53CjVH9Va5lh4eyyiwqUNv?si=qgaD6belTF6JVqZtrpMPyw Dan Buettner “The Blue Zones, 2nd Edition - 9 Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest” https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781426209482 Grizzly Rose https://grizzlyrose.com/ “Younger Next Year” by Chris Crowley https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781523507924 “Yoga While You’re Making Coffee” Book Steph mentions, couldn’t find original reference Colorado Athletic Club - Flatirons https://wellbridge.com/colorado-athletic-club-flatirons/?utm_source=rl&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=flatirons The Mindset Mentor Podcast episode - “ the Hidden Cost of Comfort - Why Staying Safe Is the Biggest Risk of our Life” https://open.spotify.com/episode/5cnDkhhD1kp4U5CdfItuoG?si=ZGWynDE9RJaBZOwEyQxO4Q Susannah Conway “Unravel Your Year” booklet https://www.susannahconway.com/ #decemberreflections Mindful Mavens is produced in partnership with MadeLife (our amazing recording space) and Facilitated Wellness (where Steph & Anja both treat clients), both located in Boulder, Colorado. For more information, check them out athttp://madelife.comhttp://facwellness.com Find Mindful Mavens on Facebook and Instagram @‌mindful.mavens, email us at mail.mavens@gmail.com or leave us a voice message at http://speakpipe.com/mindfulmavens , we’d LOVE to hear your voice! And if you’re in the market for any of the books we have mentioned, visit our affiliate link at https://bookshop.org/shop/mindfulmavens . Music: “Into The Forest” by LesFM

    28 min
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Wisdom seekers, humor mongers, perfectly imperfect celebrants of the human condition, Steph & Anja, two friends and long-time, wellness-oriented bodywork therapists, explore light and love, dis-ease and vibrant aliveness, and everything in between.

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  • Creator
    Steph & Anja
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    147
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Mindful Mavens