Girlfriends without Benefits Cass, Kaylin, & Jade

Episode Overview:
This episode puts us smack dab in the middle of some major transitions, with Cass currently sitting in a room full of boxes and a moving truck on the horizon. Perfectly on-brand for today’s topic of conversation and guest healer, Elisa Palma-Hancock. 
Big news! We’re pitching Aligned Social to a major funding opportunity - results coming soon! Stay tuned and cross your fingers. The cards are talking us through our time to “play in the gray” and we know we are held regardless of the choices we make at the forks in the road. Things may not be what they seem, but you do you and keep your eye on the prize!
 Elisa has her sun in Leo, her moon in Scorpio and her rising in Sagittarius. Fire and water flow freely through her charts, something she’s learned to flow with, rather than shy away from. Her deeper sense of purpose is powerful and subtle, ebbing and flowing deep beneath the surface. She has followed her intuition from coast to coast and all over the world, making a career out of it as an intuitive life coach and Akashic records reader. Her journey has allowed her a profound balance of healing and offering information depending on the situation and needs of those around her. Labels, modalities, and boxes cannot contain the spiritual assistance we receive as physical vessels. We connect to healers and build relationships based on energy and intuition, not their resumé. 
Our discussion of transition and transformation comes full circle as Elisa shares her dark night of the soul that propelled her to look into her own trauma. She was opened to what could be in just one night of self-recognition. We are so much more than our thoughts. Life began again and she felt called to act and help people find that light for themselves. Elisa is a true example of how healing yourself will help heal others in return. Shine the light. 
The spiritual forecast is clear: treat yourself well. Self-love and compassion are a solid foundation to start with. It is not selfish to be a whole human. You carry so much; get out there and make it count. 
Links:
Elisa's FB
Elisa's Website
Soul-Centered Entrepreneur Community
Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously (Insights for a New Way of Living S. by Osho
Aligned Social
Girlfriends with(out) Benefits YouTube Channel
Quotable Moments:
“Much like labor, transition can be often painful” - Cass
“Anyone following our progress would be like ‘that’s a hot mess, you’re doing it all wrong’” - Jade
“Water has no shape, no form. You cannot contain water” - Elisa
“That’s how it all began. It took me back and brought me forward at the same time” - Elisa
“This is the person that’s going to help us right now to transition from where we are to where we want to be” - Elisa
“It feels like… you never get out of the same shit… You feel like you’re doing the things and nothing is happening. Please continue, because something finally clicks” - Elisa
BONUS: as a reminder, we are still offering a FREE astrology reading with Jade! To enter, submit a review for the Girlfriends With(out) Benefits podcast and contact us at our website to let us know where you submitted the review. We can’t wait to meet you!

Episode Overview:
Today’s episode welcomes guest and girlfriend Erin Newman.Fair-minded and conflict-free, Erin’s still got a mysterious edge we couldn’t wait to dive into (it turns out it’s a mystery to her, too)! 
Erin is ever-evolving, from a spiritual life and business coach to dropping the “coach” and embracing her role as a healer. She recognized a pattern in clients that was actually coming up for her: the loneliness within the ascension process. As we level up, old spaces and relationships just aren’t cutting it anymore, but the elevator hasn’t fully arrived at the next floor yet. Being conscious of the deconditioning and shedding of labels may be a lonely time, but Erin knows it won’t always be that way. 
This reflects Cass’ experiences lately as she lives in the elevator of ascension and people seem to come and go with each passing floor. She is being visited by the ghosts of her own energy healing and she shares the revolutionary solstice downloads she received as her own recent ascension: the world is being ripped apart. Cass knows it’s going to get harder before it gets easier, as is often the case, but it’s always worth it to level up over staying stuck in the muck.
The conversation segues naturally into a roundtable on the ebb and flow of friendship. We’ve all experienced outgrowing friends and rising together with others, but judgment has no place in a true friendship. Kaylin shares her mama’s wisdom about the evolution of friendship, stating, “Friendship is a conspiracy amongst people at the same life point.” We can either focus on the ways we differ or choose to embrace our connection points. 
We’ve been taught to present ourselves in ways that can be palatable for as many people as possible. We’re resetting expectations of ourselves, others, and standards of television shows, old and new. Tune in for the full experience and we hope you feel a little less lonely on your journey today!
Links:
Erin's IG
Erin's FB
Erin's Website
Remove Subconscious Money Blocks
Abundance Meditation
Girlfriends with(out) Benefits YouTube Channel
Quotable Moments:
“I know the people are there. They’re probably already in your life; you just haven’t fully called them in yet” - Erin
“I don’t know if I’m holding onto what our friendship used to serve me or if you’re actually one of my people and I need to hold onto but right now we’re not going to talk as much” - Kaylin
“You have all of these skeletons coming out of the closet and you’re like ‘oh, did I really heal from that?... Does that still feel hot to touch? Does that still feel sensitive?’” - Cass
“That’s how I know if I’m around someone I want to be around is that sense of freedom I feel in their presence and a desire to give to them and exchange energy with them back and forth. Freedom, for sure” - Jade
“Sometimes use an actual fire and go sit around a bonfire but if you don’t, gather the whole family around and just relax together and stare at the flickering light” - Jade
BONUS: as a reminder, we are still offering a FREE astrology reading with Jade! To enter, submit a review for the Girlfriends With(out) Benefits podcast and contact us at our website to let us know where you submitted the review. We can’t wait to meet you!

Episode Overview:
In today’s episode, we jump right in and introduce our guest, the lovely Ariel Arnson! As a fan of our show, she had to be part of our quirky card pulls to kick things off. The Hip Hop Queens deck never fails to boost us up!
Ariel is a hard worker and super tapped into Spirit. We were introduced through Jade as they’ve been on a healing journey together since January. In what we now call “Jade’s month of personal development,” she connected with Ariel, a gifted and intuitive healer through RTT. Ariel helped tap into her need to own her words and the confidence to stand tall in her power. She explains her process and the basics of RTT (rapid transformational therapy), a relative of hypnotherapy. 
Past lives can occur even in this lifetime with the number of transformations we go through as human beings. Ariel’s story spans several of these transformations and major life events that have shaped her to be who she is today. The Universe has nudged her toward alignment along the way, with synchronicities as clear as meeting her soulmate as he was dressed as Captain Obvious. You can’t make this shit up. The more she surrendered, the more her path was laid out in front of her, and hypnotherapy allowed those final pieces to click into place.
This episode was special in many ways. Between sharing Jade’s personal soul healing in combination with Ariel’s experience and continuing to heal our witchy wounds, it’s always powerful to share the mic with fellow healers - apparently powerful enough to force a time-space continuum wrinkle. Tune in to witness the glitch that can’t be explained! Hello Spirit, we see you. Thank you for joining us today!

Links:
IG: @ariels_cosmos
Ariel Arnson Rapid Transformational Therapist  & Clinical Hypnotherapist
Sessions with Jade
Shamanic Healing Session with Cassandra
Aligned Social
Girlfriends with(out) Benefits YouTube Channel


Quotable Moments:
“I do have the gift of optimism, I do! I do!” - Jade
“Cass says, ‘Fuck.’” - Kaylin
“That’s the conscious mind clouding [and] overriding the subconscious, the emotions, the intuition, the inner knowing, the soul connection” - Ariel
“Make your adult self an advocate for your child self” - Ariel
“...yelling up at the Universe, ‘where’s my soulmate?!’ Echoes back, ‘are you a mate to your soul?’” - Ariel
“Your soul, your body resistance being like, ‘yes, but do you remember what it feels like to float in the infinite?’ But your human self is like, ‘yeah but girl, we have to stay here’” - Ariel
“That’s not weird at all, that’s beautiful! I want to know weird, freaky shit” - Kaylin
BONUS: as a reminder, we are still offering a FREE astrology reading with Jade! To enter, submit a review for the Girlfriends With(out) Benefits podcast and contact us at our website to let us know where you submitted the review. We can’t wait to meet you!

Episode Overview:
Put the fucking phone down. Too much screen time is making you awkward and sad. Go talk to a live person. 
Or listen to a live podcast! Cass breaks the ice with her honesty about using her phone to disassociate a little too much lately, Kaylin pulls the most divinely aligned cards from her Hip-Hop Divas deck for each of us, and Jade leads us into the importance of today’s guest as we embark on a journey to unblock the energetic flow. AGAIN.
Cass is pulling out all the stops to get “unstuck.” We sit together through some pendulum work in today’s episode, which is worth watching on our YouTube channel! Releasing the energy around our emotions can be a confusing and scary process but it’s so much easier to walk through with your girlfriends by your side.
Without further ado, allow us to introduce our latest guest, Emmy Mathis!
Emmy comes to us with her own shamanic healing and spiritual knowledge. The parallels between her path and Cass’ are endless, both having healed from a past of unnecessary pharmaceuticals and trauma. She shares her challenges around staying grounded in her body while helping others to do the same. Working together to move through trauma requires a genuinely symbiotic relationship, something Emmy has had the opportunity to learn over the past 7 years as she heals from a history of domestic abuse. She is an incredibly safe space for those who are unpacking and unlearning as they heal from the injustices life throws their way. 
Thank you to Emmy for stopping by to be vulnerable and share your story. We can learn so much from each other when we connect authentically. To dive even deeper, find us at any of the links below and we’ll meet you back here next week!
Links:
Connect Directly with Emmy @ emmymathis@gmail.com
About Emmy Mathis
Being and Finding a Trauma-Informed Practitioner: A Donation-Based Roundtable Discussion
Sessions with Jade
Shamanic Healing Session with Cassandra
Aligned Social
Girlfriends with(out) Benefits YouTube Channel
Quotable Moments:
“There’s no shortage of emotions that are stuck, so feel free. Here’s a 6-hour podcast of all Cass’ stuck emotions, enjoy!” - Cass
“We want you to be kind to yourself because we are thinking kind thoughts about you all day” - Jade
“I really like to talk about things I don’t know how to do” - Emmy
“I’ve definitely internalized some of the brokenness of the system, of what our expectations of me as a human in capitalism should be” - Emmy
“I am phenomenal in bed… I’m actually a really good cook and my oral is off the charts” - Emmy
“You have this special relationship with these people that you created, and you also have the shared experience as well. You can love and do better for them than you ever had” - Kaylin
“Vulnerability can also mean our capacity to be wounded” - Emmy drops the mic
BONUS: as a reminder, we are still offering a FREE astrology reading with Jade! To enter, submit a review for the Girlfriends With(out) Benefits podcast and contact us at our website to let us know where you submitted the review. We can’t wait to meet you!

Episode Overview:
Fluidity: go with the flow. The moments you’re unsure where life will take you are precisely the ones that may hold beautiful experiences you didn’t know you needed.
Kaylin updates us on the successes of ice cream week: her son’s stand sold out in less than an hour and he was rolling in the dough, a whole $15.75! 
Cass shares the joys of Canadian candy - who knew their KitKats were so delicious?! Is a family trip to Canada a vacation or not? Not.
Jade is coming off of vacation mode with bits of work in between the bursts of outdoor family fun. So much beautiful transformation happening, inside and out!
Now that we’ve got our little ducks in a row, let us introduce our guest for the week: Monique Sadarangani!
Monique is a badass lawyer and single mama who has worked hard to put in the healing work and build the life she knows is meant for her. Through a variety of spiritual modalities, she has learned that it is never too late to overhaul your life. She shares not only her experiences with childhood wounds and staring the possibility of death in the face, but also explores the practices that have helped her find her way back from it all. Astrology and birth charts can be just the confirmation you need to kickstart your journey, but your own intuition will be your best guide. Buck the system, ignore what society tells you is “right,” and follow your gut to manifest your best life. 
The spiritual ascension journey is a long and winding road to health and happiness. Thank you to Monique for joining us as living proof that you are in full control of your destiny. Now get out there and take life by the reins! We’ll see you back here next week!
Links:
Monique’s Instagram
Monique's Facebook
Estate and Family Lawyer
FREE Astrology Reading
Sessions with Jade
Shamanic Healing Session with Cassandra
Aligned Social
Girlfriends with(out) Benefits YouTube Channel
Quotable Moments:
“Cheese should be a happy experience, do we all agree?” - Cass
“We’re in this matrix of society and they’re telling us what’s right and what’s wrong and how to do things and how to behave and how we can go about achieving things and what is not worthwhile and that is just not the case. You can achieve whatever you want” - Monique
“It’s not because they had some special talent. It’s because they went after it” - Monique
“I’m going to get better. This isn’t the end for me” - Monique
“It’s an ever-evolving journey. Once you open your mind to it, it doesn’t necessarily end” - Kaylin
BONUS: as a reminder, we are still offering a FREE astrology reading with Jade! To enter, submit a review for the Girlfriends With(out) Benefits podcast and contact us at our website to let us know where you submitted the review. We can’t wait to meet you!

Episode Overview:
We’re shaking up our systems as summer schedules are in full effect! We’re paddling hard to keep our heads above water so our personal updates will be scarce. Or so we think. We’re excited for a summer of guest appearances to learn from various perspectives. 
The parallel timelines between the three of us are always a little wild, but we add a few more to the mix as we introduce our guest for the week: mindfulness and deep healing guide, Sydnie Mulcahy!
Sydnie’s astrological chart tells us she’s lived a lot of lifetimes, amounting to her “go go go-getter” perfectionist attitude. She provides 1:1 coaching services and packages based on the individual needs of the client. Through yoga, meditations, and workshops combining it all, Sydnie loves helping people on their deeper healing journey. 
How did she get here? Even though the pressure from her fast-paced, high-stress, public relations career was already racking up excessive time and energy, she proceeded to take on grad school in the evenings and the pressure burned her right out. To heal herself and show herself the care she deserved, Sydnie dove into yoga and meditation. The more she connected with her spirit guides, the clearer the message became: keep going down this path to share it with other people. Now, she is able to balance a meaningful 9-5 and provide passionate, healing work to fulfill all sides of herself. 
Her passion for working with those just beginning their healing journeys becomes particularly interesting when they share religious views, leading to an interesting discussion on religion vs spirituality. Is there room for both in healing? Absolutely. Sydnie’s healing services are for everyone and are meant to bring people together. The modalities she uses are based on individual needs, but chakras are her specialty, balancing the body, mind, and spirit. 
Listen in to hear what she says about our chakra needs and check out her website in the links below to book a session for yourself!
There are so many parallels between Cass and Sydnie, we wouldn’t be surprised if she becomes a shaman one day. Keep in touch to find out! 
Links:
Sydnie’s Instagram
Sydnie Mulcahy Wellness
Sydnie Facebook
Sessions with Jade
Shamanic Healing Session with Cassandra
Aligned Social
Girlfriends with(out) Benefits YouTube Channel
Quotable Moments:
“We’re making it our bitch, so take that!” - Kaylin
“I actually pride myself that I’ve caused three men in my life to get vasectomies” - Jade
“At four, do you get a Purple Heart?” - Cass
“I found that when I carved that space out for myself, I was really able to explore other ways that I could help other people by helping myself, so it was a win-win” - Sydnie
“It was so amazing to watch their face shift from a polite confusion at the beginning to a deep understanding after the meditation” - Sydnie
“I try to be the type of person I could have used at the beginning of my journey” - Sydnie
BONUS: as a reminder, we are still offering a FREE astrology reading with Jade! To enter, submit a review for the Girlfriends With(out) Benefits podcast and contact us at our website to let us know where you submitted the review. We can’t wait to meet you!