Be. Play. Love.

Katie Hendricks, PhD & Sophie Chiche
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What if personal transformation didn't have to be HARD? What if you could PLAY your way through obstacles in life and relationships? That's what the conversations on Be. Play. Love. reveal to you. Listen in and learn how to embrace your whole self. Pull up a chair and let's explore how to… - Live your life fully in your purpose - Interrupt old patterns and befriend your feelings - Experience "play" as a way of being Join us each week if you want to live consciously, joyfully, and transform your life and relationships, (especially when confronted with the unexpected and unknown!) Hosted by Katie Hendricks PhD. You may know her from Oprah and her long-time collaboration with husband and co-author Gay Hendricks. Katie pulls from 50+ years of clinical movement therapy. Co-hosted by Sophie Chiche, serial entrepreneur, former senior contributor to HuffPo, whose work has been featured on Ellen and Good Morning America.

  1. 08/26/2025

    An Aligned Exhale: How to Conclude With Conflict

    Most people wait for burnout, conflict, or disaster before ending something that's no longer in alignment. We've both done that in the past, pushing forward because things were "still going well," even when a quiet inner voice was saying it was time to move on. But sometimes, the most life-giving move is to complete a chapter while there's still joy, ease, and connection in it. In this special final episode, we pull back the curtain on our decision to end the podcast, while it's still thriving. We explore why completion can be the most creative act of all. For us, it's been about endings without drama, the art of listening to our "inner advisor," and the unexpected magic that unfolds when you step into the unknown with clarity and curiosity. We reflect on more than two years of deep, unfiltered dialogue, the guests who bared their hearts, and the body of work we've created together. We discuss how this podcast has captured many of our most important conversations, and why it now feels like a beautiful exhale, making space for what's next. Things You'll Learn In This Episode  -Why we end things while they're still thriving What does it take to step away from something good, without fear, doubt, or regret—and trust that it's time to move on? -How to listen to your "inner advisor" What's the difference between a passing whim and the deep clarity that tells you to take a new path? -The power of letting go before burnout Why stopping while you're energized can be the most generous, creative choice you make. -Stepping into the unknown with wonder How clarity, curiosity, and trust can make the next chapter even more vibrant than the last.       About Your Hosts Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is a pioneer in body intelligence and conscious loving with over 40 years of experience. Known internationally as a presenter and seminar leader, she focuses on authenticity, responsibility, and appreciation in conscious living. She co-authored 12 books, including best-sellers Conscious Loving and Conscious Loving Ever After, and she has appeared on over 500 radio and TV programs. Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has worked with thousands of individuals and teams globally. With a focus on helping people live fully expressed lives, she guides clients and facilitates group sessions to remove obstacles and design meaningful lives. Sophie has developed unique methods, mindset shifts, and healing modalities to create lasting change.   Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm so the show reaches more people!

    26 min

  2. 08/19/2025

    Complete to Create: How to Stop Having Unfinished Business w/ Gay Hendricks

    Most people are either rehashing the past or obsessing over the future - never living in the present moment. The result? Walking around with major incompletions that keep us from connection, creativity, and wholeness. Carrying unfinished conversations, unspoken words, unresolved feelings, and unfelt experiences. And that robs us of something precious…all the incredible things we could be creating right now! Completion isn't about perfection or checking every box. It's the deep, often uncomfortable practice of letting go of past regrets, imagined futures, buried emotions, and the need to control what can't be controlled. When we learn how to complete and release, we create space for what's trying to emerge right now, and that's where the richest experience can be found. Why is it so hard to live in the present moment? How do we detach from the past and the future? In this episode, Gay Hendricks returns to talk about one of life's most powerful skills: knowing how and when to let go. We discuss how to complete things and why that makes room for essence, energy, presence, and genius.    Things You'll Learn In This Episode  -Why we stay in the past (or worry about the future) What's really behind our resistance to being in the present moment? Why are the past and future safe distractions from the wild creativity of now? -The hidden cost of incompletions How do unspoken feelings, unfinished business, and mental replays block our ability to manifest new ideas, deepen relationships, and feel fully alive? -The 10-second sweaty conversation that changes everything What's the one unarguable sentence that can complete years of stuck emotion, tension, or confusion in a relationship, in just seconds?   Guest Bio Gay Hendricks has served for more than 30 years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and bodymind therapies. Along with his wife, Dr. Kate Hendricks, Gay is the author of many bestsellers, including Conscious Loving, At The Speed Of Life, The Big Leap, and the New York Times bestseller, Five Wishes. Dr. Hendricks received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford in 1974. After a twenty-one-year career as a professor at the University of Colorado, he founded The Hendricks Institute and later co-founded its charitable organization, Foundation for Conscious Living. He was also the founder of a virtual learning center for transformation and a publishing company, and was a co-founder of a conscious entertainment company. Throughout his career he has done executive coaching with more than 800 executives, including the top management at such firms as Dell Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola and KLM. His book, The Corporate Mystic, is used widely to train management in combining business skills and personal development tools. Gay is also a mystery novelist, with a series of five books featuring the Tibetan-Buddhist private detective, Tenzing Norbu. In recent years, he has co-created a popular podcast called The Big Leap with Gay Hendricks and Mike Koenigs. He has appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including OPRAH, CNN, CNBC, 48 HOURS, and others. Learn about the Coaches Portal here.    About Your Hosts Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is a pioneer in body intelligence and conscious loving with over 40 years of experience. Known internationally as a presenter and seminar leader, she focuses on authenticity, responsibility, and appreciation in conscious living. She co-authored 12 books, including best-sellers Conscious Loving and Conscious Loving Ever After, and she has appeared on over 500 radio and TV programs. Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has worked with thousands of individuals and teams globally. With a focus on helping people live fully expressed lives, she guides clients and facilitates group sessions to remove obstacles and design meaningful lives. Sophie has developed unique methods, mindset shifts, and healing modalities to create lasting change.   Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify, and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm, so the show reaches more people!

    44 min

  3. 08/12/2025

    How to Use Your Voice to Heal, Express, and Connect (Even If You Can't Sing) w/ Noga Rappaport-Varadi

    We think our voices are just how we speak, how we communicate, how we're understood, but they are so much more than that. They are our own unique vocal fingerprint, our own frequency, and a way people identify us, but it goes even deeper. Our voices are instruments that communicate our inner landscape, and they can be vehicles for aliveness, creativity, healing, and wellbeing. What's funny is that we talk all the time, but many of us have never really heard our own voices. That's because our true voices often get lost in society's rules about what sounds wrong or right, or the polite way to communicate. So, how can we start letting our real voices out, and why is that simple act such a powerful healing modality? With the right practices, we can unlock our inner instrument and even turn it into a powerful orchestra. How do we release the need to sound perfect? How do we reconnect with the raw, honest sounds that live underneath the scripts we've been taught? In this episode, we're joined by singer, composer, vocal improviser, and vocal educator, Noga Rappaport-Varadi. She shares how to embrace our voice and use it as another expression of our essence, one that reconnects us not only to our creativity but to our sense of play, presence, and power. Things You'll Learn In This Episode  -Why we silence ourselves How does cultural and childhood conditioning shut down our voice, and how does that play out in everything from business meetings to relationships?  -What gibberish can teach us about healing How can non-verbal vocalizations like face-flapping and humming disrupt anxiety and regulate the nervous system? -How to "conduct" your inner orchestra What happens when you stop suppressing your inner voices and start playing with them instead? -The last socially acceptable taboo Free vocal expression (not singing, not speaking, just sounding) still terrifies us. How do we slowly, gently reclaim it?    Guest Bio Noga Rappaport-Varadi is a singer, composer, vocal improviser, and vocal educator who has spent decades helping people rediscover the power and presence of their own voices. As the founder of Catalyze, a Geneva-based center for creative expression, she's developed transformative group experiences that blend vocal improvisation, movement, embodiment, and play. Drawing from her own classical background and her journey of unlearning perfectionism, Noga invites people to meet the many voices within them and give each one a sound. Through her concept of the inner orchestra, she guides people to become the conductor of their own internal symphony. Her work bridges vocal freedom with emotional healing. She has toured internationally as a performing artist, collaborated across cultures and languages.      About Your Hosts Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is a pioneer in body intelligence and conscious loving with over 40 years of experience. Known internationally as a presenter and seminar leader, she focuses on authenticity, responsibility, and appreciation in conscious living. She co-authored 12 books, including bestsellers Conscious Loving and Conscious Loving Ever After, and she has appeared on over 500 radio and TV programs. Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has worked with thousands of individuals and teams globally. With a focus on helping people live fully expressed lives, she guides clients and facilitates group sessions to remove obstacles and design meaningful lives. Sophie has developed unique methods, mindset shifts, and healing modalities to create lasting change.     Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm so the show reaches more people!

    47 min

  4. 08/05/2025

    The Inner Rubber Ducky: How to Interrupt Your Inner Critic with Play

    We live in a world that trains us to focus on negativity. A world that wants us to contract, to judge, and expect the worst from ourselves (and others). That's why being self-critical is our default. We absorb the script early: that we're not good enough, not lovable enough, not deserving of ease or joy. Over time, that internal voice becomes automatic, so automatic that we don't even hear it anymore. Then your inner landscape shifts into wholeness, and you start to notice it more. How do we shift ourselves out of that default state of negativity? Sometimes, it's as simple as anchoring ourselves with something that reminds us that we are deserving of wonderful things. A beloved stuffed animal, a goofy rubber ducky, or a simple action that interrupts the spiral, these anchors remind us of what's still possible: connection, curiosity, happiness, and love. When we surround ourselves with reminders of our softness and our worth, we start to rewrite the default script. In this playful and profound episode, we delve into how small, meaningful objects and seemingly simple rituals can evoke powerful emotional shifts. From feeding a roadrunner named Angus to discovering the magic of face-flapping, we unpack the hidden brilliance behind anchoring practices that help us come home to ourselves.    Things You'll Learn In This Episode  -Your inner critic is running on autopilot Most of us default to self-judgment. How do we gently interrupt that loop using physical movement, play, and sensory cues? -A rubber duck can change your life Symbolic objects are a powerful way to remind ourselves of the magic of connection. How can a childhood toy or scented fabric anchor us to self-kindness and creativity when we feel stuck? -Noticing the drift How do we develop the subtle but powerful witness muscle that helps us recognize when we've left our center? What's the quickest way to come back?     About Your Hosts Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is a pioneer in body intelligence and conscious loving with over 40 years of experience. Known internationally as a presenter and seminar leader, she focuses on authenticity, responsibility, and appreciation in conscious living. She co-authored 12 books, including best-sellers Conscious Loving and Conscious Loving Ever After, and she has appeared on over 500 radio and TV programs. Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has worked with thousands of individuals and teams globally. With a focus on helping people live fully expressed lives, she guides clients and facilitates group sessions to remove obstacles and design meaningful lives. Sophie has developed unique methods, mindset shifts, and healing modalities to create lasting change.     Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm so the show reaches more people!

    41 min

  5. 07/29/2025

    How to Shed The Weight (of What Wasn't Said)

    For so many people, excess weight isn't about laziness or lack of willpower — it's about carrying unspoken stories. It's about living in a body that holds the weight of feelings your voice never got to share. Because when you can't tell the truth — or even acknowledge what's real — your body will speak for you. But what if the path to healing and releasing the excess weight is actually about allowing yourself to feel what you've buried? When you finally let yourself feel the big feelings, you stop accumulating them. You don't have to numb out. You don't need to overeat, overspend, scroll endlessly, or surround yourself with things you don't need. You don't have to create padding — emotional or physical — between you and the world. The problem is, society doesn't want you to feel your feelings. When you're asleep to your own inner world, it's easier to move you through a life that isn't really yours. But what if you did something different? What if you turned those long-buried truths into tears — and, ultimately, into wholeness and aliveness? In this episode, Sophie shares her own journey through weight loss, and how it was really about releasing what she'd been suppressing. We also explore how to turn coping mechanisms you once needed to survive into tools for healing and coming home to yourself.   Things You'll Learn In This Episode  -The real reason you might be overeating What if your late-night binges aren't about hunger at all — but about the feelings you're afraid might break you open? How does food become a veil between us and the truth? -From hypervigilance to intuition If you grew up needing to read the room for safety, how can you shift that survival skill into a superpower — and trust your inner knowing instead? -How to hold structure and flow at the same time Is it possible to be both strategic and intuitive? Logical and creative? How can straddling both worlds transform your career and relationships?  -Feeling as liberation Why is letting yourself fully feel sadness or anger one of the most radical acts of self-love — and how can it set you free?   About Your Hosts Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is a pioneer in body intelligence and conscious loving with over 40 years of experience. Known internationally as a presenter and seminar leader, she focuses on authenticity, responsibility, and appreciation in conscious living. She co-authored 12 books, including best-sellers Conscious Loving and Conscious Loving Ever After and she has appeared on over 500 radio and TV programs. Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has worked with thousands of individuals and teams globally. With a focus on helping people live fully expressed lives, she guides clients and facilitates group sessions to remove obstacles and design meaningful lives. Sophie has developed unique methods, mindset shifts, and healing modalities to create lasting change.   Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm so the show reaches more people!

    43 min

  6. 07/22/2025

    FACT: The Framework That Turns Fear Into Freedom

    Fear isn't just a fleeting feeling that visits quietly. It hijacks your nervous system, clouds your judgment, and makes even the smallest decisions feel paralyzing. It's a fog that clouds your decisions, disconnects you from your body, and shuts down your creativity and sense of possibility. Triggered by something unexpected, challenging, or painful, fear can make us feel stuck, but there is a way out. There's a surprisingly simple but profoundly transformational framework we can use to regain clarity, agency, and aliveness, even in moments of deep uncertainty. FACT is a way to access creativity and possibility in the face of fear, and today, we'll show you how it works in action! The truth is, you can find steadiness not in fixing everything, but in facing what's true, accepting your experience, choosing how you want to respond, and taking action. It's a practice of reclaiming yourself moment by moment. How do we engage with all the emotions that come up when we're uncertain or afraid? What's the easiest path to new possibilities and choices? This episode is a guide to using FACT, a simple four-step framework that helps you stay connected to yourself, even when fear takes hold.   Things You'll Learn In This Episode  -"I'm fine" is a lie The default response to stress might keep you stuck. How do you listen to your body and create room for what you're really experiencing?  -How to accept the unacceptable Most people focus on finding solutions. Can feeling exactly what's happening lead to more possibilities?  -The truth about our fears Our fears are often based on operating under what other people say. How do we stop focusing on what's "normal" and start honoring what's real for us? -Living from fear without realizing it How does fear show up as over-achieving, anger, numbness, or people-pleasing? How do we shift into agency, one tiny choice at a time? Learn more about the FACT Framework.      About Your Hosts Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is a pioneer in body intelligence and conscious loving with over 40 years of experience. Known internationally as a presenter and seminar leader, she focuses on authenticity, responsibility, and appreciation in conscious living. She co-authored 12 books, including best-sellers Conscious Loving and Conscious Loving Ever After, and she has appeared on over 500 radio and TV programs. Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has worked with thousands of individuals and teams globally. With a focus on helping people live fully expressed lives, she guides clients and facilitates group sessions to remove obstacles and design meaningful lives. Sophie has developed unique methods, mindset shifts, and healing modalities to create lasting change.   Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm so the show reaches more people!

    35 min

  7. 07/15/2025

    Your Body Knows the Family Secret, Use These Tools to Uncover It w/ Christina Trifero

    What if the aches in your body aren't entirely yours? The shoulder pain, the gut tension, or the sense of incompletion might not just be physical. It could be the echo of a secret held for decades, maybe even generations? Because here's the thing: families hold secrets, but those secrets have a way of leaking out or leaving breadcrumbs. And if you're connected to your intuition, you can sense that there's something that's not being said. Most of us were taught to look forward, to toughen up, to leave the past behind. But what if that very suppression is why we can't move forward? What if freedom lives not in forgetting, but in remembering? In this episode, we're joined by spiritual strategist, energy healer, and psychic medium, Christina Trifero. We unpack the heavy cost of secrecy and the methods we can use to bring the unknown and unspoken out into the open. We also discuss how to be a healer without hero-ing yourself or compromising your own essence.    Things You'll Learn In This Episode  -Secrets live in the body Could physical pain or chronic tension be carrying an emotional secret? How does naming what was once unspeakable change your relationship with your body? -Intuition vs. inheritance What's the difference between your soul's knowing and your family's emotional programming? How can you tell what's truly you and what's been passed down? -How not to be a vessel for other people's pain If you're deeply empathetic or energetically sensitive, how do you hold others without absorbing their suffering?   Guest Bio Christina Trifero is a Spiritual Strategist, energy healer, and psychic medium. After a long career building companies in Silicon Valley, she now uses her natural (and super-natural) gifts as an integrated intuitive, touching 1000s of lives globally. Combining lifetimes of experience, Christina uses a variety of ancient and modern techniques to communicate with your highest self so that you can have a clearer, aligned, and elevated life. Christins is constantly learning alongside you. She is an internationally certified as a clairvoyant and medium, taught by accredited universities, completed fascinating courses-- like "The Art and Science of Lucid Dreaming" taught by Fabrian Bogzaran, PhD at California Institute of Integral Studies, facilitated narrative trauma healing groups with incarcerated men at San Quentin Federal Prison, and has a Masters education from Fordham University where she studied Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, Sociology, and Communications. Christina is in service of the best possible outcome for your whole self and humanity. Visit https://www.spiritual-curiosity.com/ to learn more.      About Your Hosts Katie Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT, is a pioneer in body intelligence and conscious loving with over 40 years of experience. Known internationally as a presenter and seminar leader, she focuses on authenticity, responsibility, and appreciation in conscious living. She co-authored 12 books, including best-sellers Conscious Loving and Conscious Loving Ever After and she has appeared on over 500 radio and TV programs. Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has worked with thousands of individuals and teams globally. With a focus on helping people live fully expressed lives, she guides clients and facilitates group sessions to remove obstacles and design meaningful lives. Sophie has developed unique methods, mindset shifts, and healing modalities to create lasting change.   Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm so the show reaches more people!

    51 min

  8. 07/08/2025

    The Making of Katie Hendricks: A Life Built on Curiosity and Embodied Wisdom

    We all have secrets, painful experiences, and even childhood challenges that affect us to this day. What if keeping them is what's keeping us unwell? Our culture teaches us to bottle in our truth, mask our emotions, and manage our image. But the body keeps score, and over time, that suppression turns into stress, disconnection, and even illness. What if healing is about processing these things through our bodies? That's the lens Katie brings, not just as a psychologist or embodiment teacher, but as someone who's lived it. Katie grew up in an environment where expression wasn't welcome. Where looking the part was rewarded, but speaking your truth came with consequences.  And yet, through a deep commitment to curiosity and movement, she found her way to something radically different. By tuning into her body's signals and honoring the impulses society taught her to ignore, Katie uncovered a deeper intelligence. One that didn't just help her heal, it helped her become. It also helped her pioneer a whole new way of understanding ourselves.  It's what turned a shy, observant girl into a pioneer in body intelligence and relational honesty. It's also what led her to her purpose: helping others reconnect to their truth, not just through talking, but through breath, sensation, and somatic expression. In this episode, Katie shares how secrets manifest in the body and how unprocessed emotions distort our relationships. We also discuss how pivotal moments from childhood, when metabolized, can become the very path to our genius.   Things You'll Learn In This Episode -Secrets make you sick What's the hidden cost of withholding your truth, and how does transparency heal more than therapy ever could? -The body as a bridge Most people are so switched off from their bodies that it makes healing hard. How does tuning into physical sensation give you access to clarity, freedom, and your deeper self? -From pain to power Do people who thrive have harder childhoods? How do they learn to transmute their wounds into wisdom? -Sound encased in skin Music isn't just something we experience; it's a part of us. How do we find our own internal rhythm?

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What if personal transformation didn't have to be HARD? What if you could PLAY your way through obstacles in life and relationships? That's what the conversations on Be. Play. Love. reveal to you. Listen in and learn how to embrace your whole self. Pull up a chair and let's explore how to… - Live your life fully in your purpose - Interrupt old patterns and befriend your feelings - Experience "play" as a way of being Join us each week if you want to live consciously, joyfully, and transform your life and relationships, (especially when confronted with the unexpected and unknown!) Hosted by Katie Hendricks PhD. You may know her from Oprah and her long-time collaboration with husband and co-author Gay Hendricks. Katie pulls from 50+ years of clinical movement therapy. Co-hosted by Sophie Chiche, serial entrepreneur, former senior contributor to HuffPo, whose work has been featured on Ellen and Good Morning America.

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    Katie Hendricks, PhD & Sophie Chiche
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    102
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