Freak Flag with Kathleen Smith!

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Off the cuff conversations with Kathleen Smith, multi-dimensional creative passionista musician, artist, healer, music supervisor and adventurer. Topics include but are not limited to arts and creativity, health & fitness, spirituality, embodiment, snacks, music & the biz, songs, the practice of making stuff (ie "make your art!), books kath is currently enjoying (or writing) and folks kath wants you to know about because they changed her life and maybe you wanna know, too! Guests include industry leaders in the health, wellness, spirituality, music and creativity spaces. Kath chats with super cool people doing super cool stuff so you can know about them, too! kathleenmusic.substack.com

  1. Aug 19

    feminism is a healing framework with jenn armbrust | freak flag episode 18

    THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE!I LOVE YOU !MAKE YOUR ART!!!WE NEED IT!!! ALWAYS!!💖 🌈 🦄 OK Freak Friends! I got to talk to literally one of my favorite feminists of all time—Jenn Armbrust of Sister—for this Freak Flag episode. I came across Jenn years ago (2016?), probably on social media, and I was in love from the start. I have all of her books, and her mini-poster “12 Principles for Prototyping A Feminist Business” is taped up in my workspace. She is a true visionary, and I am PSYCHED to bring you today’s episode! 🎥 {to watch the video version of this episode, go here}📖 {to read the transcript, go here} Jenn Armbrust is the founder of Sister and a leader in the field of feminist entrepreneurship. Jenn holds a degree in critical theory, which includes feminist theory, and has a background in entrepreneurship for over two decades, in the sectors of art, business and feminism. Since launching Feminist Business School in 2015, she has taught over 500 students and authored 3 books, Proposals for the Feminine Economy, The Business Birthing Handbook, and Feminist Flourishing Framework. Quick Sketch Show Notes: * the story of how Jenn and Kathleen ended up here on the mic together! * the movement from patterns of dis-ease to ones of ease and harmony, and what that really means for us as humans * dismantling systems of dis-ease within our bodies helps dismantle them slowly at scale * the harmony of ease and webs of interconnection * an embodied politics and feminism, a “feminism of the flesh” * what we lose and lose access to in survival mode, physiologically as well as spiritually * the spiritual and imaginal economy necessary to build a system that is beyond the binary of “capitalism” or “socialism” * the quest to embody ones’s own power and place as part of the collective experience * the economy of our imaginations * the pivotal shift for Jenn from treating her body, to training her brain * Brain re-training similar to the one she did * Jenn’s orientation that we need each other * fixing our feminist gaze on flourishing * AND MORE YUMMINESS! GET IN JENN’S FLOURISHING WORLD & FIX YOUR FEMINIST GAZE WITH US! * Join her Feminist Flourishing Club for free and *GET THE MUCH-TALKED ABOUT “Launch Party Meditation” as a thank you! * BUY JENN’S BOOKS! - *with a very special discount code!* FREAKFLAG for 20% off Feminist Flourishing Framework ebook (including bundles) through Aug. 31, 2026! *and you receive {the also-talked-about in the episode} “kathleen’s visualization” Bonus Episode for inspiration * Sign up for her mailing list! * Get on the waitlist for Feminist Business School! Hire her for 1:1 embodied business advising! * You can also read Jenn’s Substack! 🌺 🌸 🌎 IF YOU LIKE THIS EPISODE, please subscribe & rate in iTunes! ←that’s a link 🥰 Head to kathleenmusic.substack.com for the entire Freak Flag episode archive. Sign up to be on the list if you’re not already—subscribers get special goodies no one else does! 🌍👍🏻 sharing is caring! forward this to a pal & spread the love! 🌸😘 🦋 order your MEDICINE on VINYL ❤️‍🔥 DIGITAL 💖 Go to www.kathleenmusic.com to listen to MEDICINE and order your very own limited edition, signed, numbered PINK vinyl—MEDICINE FOR YOUR HEART & FREAK FLAG! 🔥 EVERYTHING IN/ON FREAK FLAG AND THE LOVE BLAST BY KATHLEEN SMITH IS ALWAYS 100% HUMAN MADE. Get full access to The Love Blast from Kathleen Smith! at kathleenmusic.substack.com/subscribe

  2. 09/08/2025

    🌈 sep 15 show + new music 🎹

    helloooo my loves - couple of things cookin’ for ya in the near and farther future! * LIVE FROM THE BABE-O-SPHERE - ks sings songs live! 9.15.25, 7p, santa fe * BREAK UP EP - currently cookin’ * VOLUPTUOUS RETREAT - May 15 - 18, 2026, santa fe nm all the details below, per usual. loving you & your ferocious heart! xo KS LIVE FROM THE BABE-O-SPHEREMon. Sept. 15, 2025 7 - 930p, $10-20 at the doorSanta Fe, NM I created & run a women’s songwriting collective in Santa Fe, and some of us are playing songs out in the world on Monday Sept 15 at 7p. It’s a lovely house concert series called Casa Fiesta, hosted by a really cool dude named Peter. He does concerts Sundays & Mondays all summer & early fall—you can text the phone number above to be added to his overall invite list. We’re doing songwriters-in-the-round.BYOB if you wish, and you can also bring a dish to share. Cozy Community Vibes, baby!!! There is a regular crew of folks who go to all of these shows, so I’d suggest showing up a little bit early to make sure you get a seat. {You can just show up—no need to text the number beforehand.} Can’t wait to sing you some songs, NM friends! BREAK UP EP A few months ago, I realized I had a handful of break-up songs, nearly ready to go. Mostly from 2011, these songs were hiding in my voice memos until I discovered them this spring while I was digging around, looking for material to bring to my women’s songwriting collective (aka writers’ group). Though the sister record to MEDICINE has been written for a while now (her name is HER MAJESTY, btw), it’s not quite time to make that one. SO! How about a lil’ BREAK UP EP?! Gently into the studio I’ve been tiptoeing. A tiny clutch of songs. Some feelings.And sounds. From my broken {in the past} heart to yours. So far the songs are:sufferingdown for daysthinking of yousomething gone{fool’s gold?}{letting you go}{my favorite part} Those last three in { } brackets are maybes, tbds. Not sure on timing yet, but I’m optimistically gently aiming for Christmas. WILL KEEP YA POSTED! 💖 VOLUPTUOUS WOMEN’S RETREATMAY 15-18, 2026Santa Fe, NM MARKYOURCALENDARS,I AM LEADING A WOMEN’S RETREAT,BABY!{After a few years off!!!}With my dear sister healer genius goddess Daniella!Get on the list now for all kinds of goodies & info. VOLUPTUOUS: It’s not a size, or a strategy: it’s a sumptuous, scrumptious frequency. Breathwork, creative expression, & sacred sisterhood in the beautiful mountains of northern New Mexico. Gonna. Be. Magic. CAN’T WAIT TO BE VOLUPTUOUS TOGETHER!!!!! ❤️‍🔥 3 THINGS * Sam Fender episode of Song Exploder - could. not. stop. crying. life, death, art, influences, the magical ways we affect each other— this episode has it all. I suggest you have a few tissues ready. Or at least listen in your car (like I did) so you can feel free to weep. * EXPANDED WILD HEARTS, healing immersion weekend (i.e. retreat)Sep 12 - 15, 2025, Mammoth, CAMy gal pal Jenna is a brilliant breathwork healer. She holds impeccable space. If I could be everywhere all the time, I’d go to this—fun, sisterhood, nature & healing are *very certainly* to ensue. * THE LIBRARY - Sept. 13 & 14, 9 - 1130a *online*My buddy Michael teaches a really fun online workshop called THE LIBRARY, and he’s running it again this upcoming weekend. It’s a super magical way of accessing the zero-point field of Everything-Everywhere-All-At-Once in your very own way to gain inspiration, information and wisdom. Shawn & I participated in the pilot run in May, and it was SO FUN and SO HELPFUL and SO MAGICAL, I had to let you know about this opportunity to do it yourself! 🌍👍🏻 sharing is caring. forward this to a pal & spread the love. 🌸😘 www.kathleenmusic.com 🔥 🦋 order your MEDICINE on VINYL ❤️‍🔥 and/or DIGITAL 💖 🌈 I LOVE YOU! MAKE YOUR ART! LOVE WHAT U LOVE! WANT WHAT U WANT! SHARE WHAT U CAN!! 💖❤️‍🔥🔥🌎🦄👑🌊🌸🐍😘 Get full access to The Love Blast from Kathleen Smith! at kathleenmusic.substack.com/subscribe

  3. 05/02/2025

    we are the cosmos with susan deleo | freak flag episode 17

    Freak Flag is a free publication! If you like the podcast and/or Kathleen’s music, please subscribe below. In these days of algorithmic uncertainty, being on an artist/creator’s mailing list is one of the BEST ways you can support the art you love and enjoy. THANK YOU ! I LOVE YOU ! MAKE YOUR ART!!!💖🌈🦄 OOOWEEEE FREAK FRIENDS!!!! *Thrilled* to bring you this super cosmic episode of Freak Flag with Galactic Astrologer Susan Deleo, recorded earlier this year in Feb 2025. We dove deep and got nerdy af on lots of verrrry cosmic stuff—planets, stars, galaxies, birth charts, the holographic nature of reality, past lives, soul journeys, galactic beings and Angels, etc. Susan Deleo is a Galactic Astrologer with a background in music, Transcendental Meditation and experimental filmmaking. After practicing as a Registered Nurse for over 2 decades, she realized the limits of Western medicine and expanded her repertoire to include polarity therapy, Shamanism and Yoga Nidra. She loves to help people live their authentic soul journeys through the lens of astrology and energy healing.No notes this time, folks—join us in our conversational spaceship and let’s hit the STARS!! 🌟GET IN SUSAN’S WORLD FOR A FUN, GALACTIC & SUPER VALIDATING TIME: * her site - book a private sesh from anywhere, highly recommend! * her insta - here you can also scope the *magical* gem & wire jewelry she creates and sells at local markets in Albuquerque and via her IG 🦄 🌎 🌌 IF YOU LIKE THIS EPISODE, please subscribe & rate in iTunes! ←that’s a link I hope you enjoy today’s Freak Flag episode—that maybe it inspires YOU to embody the cosmos that you ARE, here in this body, on this Earth, to the benefit of us all (and most of all, YOU, who chose this brilliant journey for yourSelf & all of us!). Head to kathleenmusic.substack.com for the entire Freak Flag episode archive. Sign up to be on the list if you’re not already—subscribers get special goodies no one else does! 🌍👍🏻 sharing is caring! forward this to a pal & spread the love! 🌸😘 🦋 order your MEDICINE on VINYL ❤️‍🔥 DIGITAL 💖 Go to www.kathleenmusic.com to listen to MEDICINE and order your very own limited edition, signed, numbered PINK vinyl—MEDICINE FOR YOUR HEART & FREAK FLAG! 🔥 Get full access to The Love Blast from Kathleen Smith! at kathleenmusic.substack.com/subscribe

  4. 07/24/2024

    be a living prayer with rachael maddox | freak flag episode 16

    HELLOOOO MY DARLINGS!!! I am *thrilled* to bring you today’s Freak Flag episode, a conversation with Rachael Maddox, trauma specialist and wealth doula (my term, not hers!) for world-changing visionaries. Rachael Maddox is a Head Witch. Business Alchemist with 13 years experience. Somatic Trauma Specialist who's supported over 1000 people on their post-traumatic growth journeys. 2-time Best-Selling Author. Serial Creative. Mom to a very small rascal. And wife to a real life wizard.  She’s turned on by supporting World Changing Witches with world-changing visions cultivate world-changing wealth, so that together, we can birth a more regenerative, just and beautiful world. Our conversation INSPIRED THE ***HECK*** OUTTA ME!!! I showed up to the mic that day a little bit crunchy, a little bit depressed—I mean, THE WORLD RIGHT NOW—and by the end of the hour, I felt aliveness and inspiration return. The beautiful world we all want to create and live and thrive in TRULY IS possible—it is trying to birth through us and our individual and collective lives right here, right now—and talking with Rachael about her body of work and wisdom reminded me of that. We hit on the below points, plus SO MUCH YUM MORE! {For full show notes *with links*, head to this post on substack!} * what is world-changing wealth * the inherited trauma of capitalism and the systems we currently live in * claiming personal responsibility for our own power so that we can part of the liberated, beautiful world we want to live in * a practical somatic practice for updating & healing trauma * mercy inside of accountability * the political polarization we see today is actually a trauma response * being a living prayer for the world we want to live in, by being in community with others who hold the same values and living big * it goes deeper than abundance or scarcity mindsets—it is systemic GET IN RACHAEL’S WORLD * Business Witchery CEO Coven - Rachael's 6-month accelerator for ambitious visionaries, the Business Witchery CEO Coven, begins August 12th, 2024. * Business Witchery: 7 Rituals to Uncensor Your Wildest Wisdom. {this is the program I talked about taking this past spring— transformational!} * UNLEASH YOUR GENIUS with free trainings from Rachael. * Rachael’s Instagram * Stay tuned for the release of her third book, Business Witchery, Halloween 2024! I hope you enjoy today’s Freak Flag episode—that maybe it inspires YOU to be whatever kind of living prayer you desire to be, or reminds you that walking in your very own beauty way makes a difference. To have more conversation around this, head over to my Insta and comment on the post about this episode! Head to kathleenmusic.substack.com for the entire Freak Flag episode archive. Sign up to be on the list if you’re not already—subscribers get special goodies no one else does! 🌍👍🏻 sharing is caring! forward this to a pal & spread the love! 🌸😘 www.kathleenmusic.com 🦋 order your MEDICINE on VINYL ❤️‍🔥 DIGITAL 💖 Get full access to The Love Blast from Kathleen Smith! at kathleenmusic.substack.com/subscribe

  5. 06/16/2024

    love, rebellion and cracking open with kathe izzo {the love artist} | freak flag episode 15

    Kathe Izzo is also known as The Love Artist, in homage to her conceptual performance work and essays focusing on intimacy and love. She is an interdisciplinary intuitive working in diverse environments including deeply personal one-on-one mentorship, psychedelic / noosphere leadership and the metamorphosis of the traditional art world. Izzo is initiator of The MA Platform, a 24/7 continuous chain of femme consciousness praying across borders and around the world. Kathe is a magical punk rock performance art fairy grandmother witch (this is how I see her), and if you’re feeling called to work with her in any way, I *highly* recommend! I have personally spent time in her 6-month High Garden container, and it was just the thing for the moment. Get in Kathe’s World:- her Instagram, The Love Artist- her Substack & newsletter, My Brainiac Amor- High Garden, Kathe’s intimate, magical, 6-month depth support- High Garden FAQ/Q&A Also mentioned in this episode:- “To Begin With, The Sweet Grass” - poem by Mary Oliver- I Am That Witch Get Freak Flag in your inbox--subscribe today on Substack or wherever you listen. Follow Kathleen on Insta | YouTube | TikTok Email us with suggestions of episodes you'd like or people you'd like us to interview! kathleenmusic@substack.com I LOVE YOU! MAKE YOUR ART! xxo kathleen Get full access to The Love Blast from Kathleen Smith! at kathleenmusic.substack.com/subscribe

  6. 05/10/2024

    align to what you love with chela davison | freak flag episode 14

    Hello Freak Friends!!! We’ve got another episode of Freak Flag for your ears today. Last April (yes, 2023!), I got to chat with brilliant coach Chela Davison about her path to coaching and her process working with people. I worked with Chela as my coach for most of 2022, and I can personaly say she is a brilliant, effective, and quite *magical* coach. She REALLY really helped me at a moment when I needed someone to hold me and point out some of my blind spots. here’s a bit about Chela: Chela Davison is an Integral Master Coach and Master Certified Coach who works with socially conscious entrepreneurs, creatives, and practitioners to help them align their soul’s purpose with their work in the world. To support clients in doing the necessary inner work to break old patterns and create enlivening new opportunities, she offers coaching, courses and education including Lead your Self, a program and community that helps members to realize their Calling. She is the former President and Lead Teacher of the Integral Coaching Certification Program at Integral Coaching Canada, where she trained and certified hundreds of coaches worldwide. Chela is a writer, speaker and host of the What is Leadership? Podcast. She lives on the unceded territories of the Squamish Nation in British Columbia Canada with her husband, two sons, two dogs and six hilarious chickens.  We got super nitty-gritty about her coaching process and the conscious, structured, titrated process of how Chela works with people in her coaching containers. abbreviated show notes below: * the privilege of Chela’s upbringing in a family system that had a teaching of “do what you love, and the money will follow” * gravity as unconditional love * Integral Theory and Integral Coaching and its lineage * working with people’s unconscious patterns so that they have choice in transformation * some of my experience working with Chela and how transformative it was * resistance as a normal part of the change process, and finding ways to relate to it as a “challenging but welcome friend” * the way she works with clients and deals with the delicate and nuanced space of context: things like systemic influence, cultural influence, inherited influence, as well as someone’s personal operating system, their resistance & ways of dealing, limitations they have or perceive that might not be so written in stone * Chela’s beef with mindset language. * “if you can see your limiting beliefs, those are not your limiting beliefs.” * Chela’s ability to to see things in others they can’t, and using that to help them choose their path based on what they love to do and are passionate about. GET IN CHELA’S WORLD!- her website- her newest offering, The Generosity Experiment - her podcast “What Is Leadership” on iTunes- her Substack “A Little Bit Much” (free with an option to pay) Get full access to The Love Blast from Kathleen Smith! at kathleenmusic.substack.com/subscribe

  7. 11/17/2023

    follow the joy with rob bell | freak flag episode 13

    Freak Friends, it is my super pleasure to bring you an episode with the inimitable ROB BELL (!) today! We chatted a few days after my album MEDICINE came out, and we had a grand ol’ time. He recently released a new book called WHERE’D YOU PARK YOUR SPACESHIP & we chatted it up about following the thread of joy and inspiration, even when it leads to unknown places. Rob Bell is the New York Times Bestselling author of fourteen books and plays which have been translated into 25 languages. His latest is an intergalactic tale of love, loss, and bread called WHERE'D YOU PARK YOUR SPACESHIP? His visual art can be seen on Instagram @realrobbell, his band is HUMANS ON THE FLOOR, and his podcast is called The RobCast. Rob lives with his family in Ojai, California.  No show notes this time—just put this baby on and enjoy the ride! Get in Rob’s world below: * insta * web - you can buy all the things here, including WHERE’D YOU PARK YOUR SPACESHIP, printed or audio! *10/10 recommend!!!* * the robcast - the podcast. episode 301 “and then all of them passed” (itunes link) is one of my perennial faves. 🌈 🦄 ✨ IF YOU LIKE THIS EPISODE, please subscribe & rate in iTunes! Go to www.kathleenmusic.com to listen to MEDICINE and order your very own limited edition, signed, numbered PINK vinyl (only available until Dec. 1, 2023)! Get full access to The Love Blast from Kathleen Smith! at kathleenmusic.substack.com/subscribe

  8. 10/08/2023

    affirmations : the flower essences of the word world | freak flag episode 12

    hey hey PALS! new episode comin’ atcha. I have literally been daydreaming about this episode since the very inception of Freak Flag in Jan. 2022, and I decided NOW IS THE MOMENT. “DO IT NOW—YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN THE WORLD WILL EN” {It was better as a graphic, but I have the screenshot on my phone and my phone is not with me. C’est la vie—you get the idea.} No guest, no notes, no intro, no outro—I am going rogue & recording a lil’ Kath Chat. TOPLINE: Affirmations are the flower essences of the word world. Gentle and strong. Subtle until they’re not. Kind of like all that “think it and it shall be” stuff but EVEN SOFTER. No need to white knuckle this stuff, my dear. You can just have a handy lil’ phrase to pick up a few times a day, and faster than you might imagine, things will shift. love ya. make ur art. subscribe and/or share with a pal if you’re feelin’ it. Get full access to The Love Blast from Kathleen Smith! at kathleenmusic.substack.com/subscribe

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Off the cuff conversations with Kathleen Smith, multi-dimensional creative passionista musician, artist, healer, music supervisor and adventurer. Topics include but are not limited to arts and creativity, health & fitness, spirituality, embodiment, snacks, music & the biz, songs, the practice of making stuff (ie "make your art!), books kath is currently enjoying (or writing) and folks kath wants you to know about because they changed her life and maybe you wanna know, too! Guests include industry leaders in the health, wellness, spirituality, music and creativity spaces. Kath chats with super cool people doing super cool stuff so you can know about them, too! kathleenmusic.substack.com

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  • Creator
    kathleen smith
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Kathleen Smith & Pink Jumpsuit Media, Inc.
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