The Rebel Matriarch Podcast

Samantha Sanford

The Future is Female-Led and on The Rebel Matriarch Podcast we are showcasing powerhouse women leading the way as representatives of what's possible for women. We are gifted their time and wisdom as they share their stories, journeys, passions and visions for women across the world! They are committed to pulling the curtain back on what they're doing in life and business so that EVERY woman has a chance to see herself in another woman's story - and be inspired. As a listener you'll get access to powerful and practical tools, resources, and contemplations to support your own evolution, today!

  1. 4h ago

    Mystics Unhinged Series #11 The F**k It Frequency: Light Language, Wild Women & Coming Home to Yourself With Ellissa Lapier

    What if the version of you you've been trying so hard to become was never missing in the first place? In this wildly expansive conversation, Samantha sits down with returning guest Ellissa Lapier to explore light language, Reiki, spirit communication, nervous system healing, intuition, Kundalini practices, and what it really means to embody the "F**k It Frequency." Ellissa shares the unexpected awakening that activated her light language gifts, how spirit guides began showing up in her healing sessions, and why she believes every woman has access to profound intuitive abilities. Together they dive into: ✨ Light language and energetic healing ✨ Connecting with spirit and loved ones who have passed ✨ The intelligence of the body ✨ Kundalini yoga and nervous system regulation ✨ Perimenopause as a spiritual initiation ✨ Releasing the good girl identity ✨ Reclaiming the Wild Woman within ✨ The creation of Ellissa's "F**k It Frequency Method" This conversation is equal parts mystical, practical, hilarious and deeply empowering. If you've been craving permission to trust yourself more, slow down, reconnect with your body and stop living according to everyone else's expectations, this episode is your reminder. The Wild Woman isn't crazy. She's free. Here is the link to the hypnosis for calming your nervous system. https://on.soundcloud.com/hB1Af3psdMUWs1JY5f Allow me to introduce you to Ellissa Lapier: Ellissa is an energetic healing specialist and somatic integration mentor who helps women reconnect with their bodies, balance their energy, and support the body’s natural rhythms and stress recovery. Through a blend of Kundalini-inspired practices, energy medicine, and intuitive guidance, she creates a nurturing space where clients can release stored tension, restore inner harmony, and awaken their natural vitality. With a background in trauma-informed education, Human Design, and quantum energy practices, Ellissa weaves together somatic-inspired techniques, hypnotherapy, timeline therapy, Reiki, and light language to facilitate transformation on both energetic and soul levels. Her sessions empower women to dissolve energetic blocks, cultivate resilience, and step into their personal power with clarity and confidence. A passionate lifelong learner and spiritual alchemist, Ellissa is deeply devoted to helping women break free from unhealthy cycles, reclaim their sovereignty, and awaken their dormant goddess codes - guiding them to fully embody their highest expression. Connect with Our Guest - Ellissa Facebook: ⁠facebook.com/ellissa.lapier⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/enchantingspiritqueen⁠  Website/Work WIth Her: ⁠www.enchantingspiritqueen.com⁠ TikTok: ⁠www.tiktok.com/@enchantingspiritqueen⁠ Connect with Samantha Sanford - The Rebel Matriarch Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/rebelmatriarch/⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/samantha.haddad.58/⁠ Youtube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@rebelmatriarch⁠

    1h 7m
  2. Jun 19

    Mystics Unhinged Series #10 The Sacred Voice: Priestess Remembrance, Sisterhood Healing & Reclaiming Your Truth with Renate Sophia Müller 

    What happens when a woman finally stops silencing herself? In this deeply activating episode of Mystics Unhinged, Samantha sits down with priestess, mentor, podcast host and Sacred Voice guide Renate Mueller for a raw and powerful conversation about reclaiming your voice, healing sisterhood wounds and remembering who you truly are. Together they explore: ✨ Childhood trauma and finding your voice ✨ The sisterhood wound ✨ Why women struggle to speak their truth ✨ Nervous system safety and self-expression ✨ Priestess leadership ✨ The Rose Lineage ✨ Mary Magdalene teachings ✨ Sovereignty and personal power ✨ Healing betrayal and abandonment ✨ Sacred feminine leadership ✨ The power of mentorship ✨ Creating safe spaces for women ✨ Voice activation and mission work ✨ Reclaiming yourself after toxic relationships ✨ Trusting your intuition ✨ Living as your authentic self This conversation culminates in a powerful channeled transmission and energetic activation from Renate and her spirit team, bringing through messages of healing, remembrance, sisterhood and self-trust. If you've ever felt unseen, unheard, silenced, rejected or afraid to take up space... This episode is for you. Your voice is not a problem. Your truth is not too much. Your medicine is needed. Allow me to introduce you to Renate Sophia Müller   Renate Sophia Müller is the founder of Sacred Voice, a Sacred Voice Activator, Soul Guide, and Podcast Producer for feminine leaders. Her mission is to help thousands of women liberate their voices and step into their most authentic self-expression. Passionate about singing, speaking, and podcasting, Renate believes every woman has a unique message to share with the world and deserves to express it unapologetically. Her work is devoted to starseeds, lightworkers, mission-led souls, and feminine leaders who are here to create meaningful impact and lead with authenticity. Women who work with Renate often experience a profound liberation of their voice, greater confidence in expressing their truth, and the freedom to be fully themselves without fear of judgment. Through her guidance, they learn to embody their message, build soul-aligned podcasts that attract their tribe, and become powerful messengers of light who share their wisdom with the world. Connect with Our Guest - Renate Sophia Müller   Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/renatesophiamueller Instagram: www.instagram.com/renatesophiamueller Facebook: https://facebook.com/mueller.renate.pf App: https://sacredvoicesession.netlify.app Connect with Samantha Sanford - The Rebel Matriarch Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/rebelmatriarch/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samantha.haddad.58/Threads: https://www.threads.com/@rebelmatriarch  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@rebelmatriarch

    1h 18m
  3. Jun 17

    #35 She Who Refuses To Disappear: Breaking The Rules, Following Intuition & Creating A Life You Actually Love with Sarah Croft

    What happens when a woman stops living the life she was told to want? In this powerful season finale of The Rebel Matriarch Podcast, Samantha sits down with intuitive photographer Sarah Croft for a conversation that quickly becomes about so much more than photography. Together they explore: ✨ Breaking free from societal expectations ✨ Learning to trust your intuition ✨ The courage required to reinvent yourself ✨ Motherhood and identity ✨ Following unconventional dreams ✨ Women's truth and self-expression ✨ Anxiety, fear and personal growth ✨ Living a life that actually lights you up ✨ Why most women have forgotten who they are ✨ The importance of being seen ✨ Raising children who trust themselves ✨ Creating a life beyond the checklist Sarah shares her journey from devoted mother and wife, living the life she thought she was supposed to want, to building a purpose-driven business rooted in creativity, intuition and deep connection. This conversation is a reminder that you are not here simply to survive. You are not here to spend your life checking boxes. You are not here to disappear beneath responsibilities, expectations and other people's opinions. You are here to fully live. To create. To explore. To evolve. To become. If you've ever looked around at your life and quietly wondered: "Is this really it?" This episode is for you. Allow me to introduce you to Sarah Croft Sarah is an essence photographer  in transformative retreat and sacred women's spaces. She sees what other's don't. Bringing clarity, revelation and a little divine rebellion. She sees the depth and essence in the work of soul-led women.  Sarah is here to deepen the activation and embodiment in spaces where women are lead to rise, to shine through breakthrough, expansion and raw truth.  She creates with women who are all in for depth, shifts, and movement. Soul sisters, who are here for zero fluff, not just pretty pictures, nothing standard or normal about them, but instead for the spaces where souls are stirred, and opening is invited and celebrated. Where lasting, rippling impact is the intention.  Sarah is here for women claiming who they truly are, leading by heart, having it all, bringing their gifts to the world and owning their power. These images have a power all their own. They carry codes, intention, and love born from presence and intuition. They activate and they 'hit home'. They carry the energy of being fully seen and of deep continuing embodiment. They truthfully touch, awaken and draw in, the souls of those searching for your exact work in their journey.  Connect with Our Guest - Sarah Croft Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/18hY4RmCd3/?mibextid=wwXIfr  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarah_jane._photography/ Website: www.sarahjanephotography.org  Connect with Samantha Sanford - The Rebel Matriarch Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/rebelmatriarch/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samantha.haddad.58/Threads: https://www.threads.com/@rebelmatriarch  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@rebelmatriarch

    1h 5m
  4. Jun 12

    Mystics Unhinged Series #9 The Pleasure Revolution: Reclaiming Your Womb, Your Body & Your Feminine Power with Jaime Pallotolo

    What if your body isn't broken? What if she's simply been waiting for you to listen? In this deeply provocative and profoundly healing conversation, Samantha sits down with womb and pelvic care practitioner Jaime Pallotolo for a conversation every woman needs to hear. Together they explore the forgotten wisdom hidden inside the female body, the power of pleasure as medicine, and why so many women have become disconnected from their own sensuality, desire and life force. This episode dives into: ✨ Womb wisdom and feminine embodiment ✨ Self-pleasure as a healing practice ✨ The connection between trauma and disconnection ✨ Women's bodies, sexuality and shame ✨ Reclaiming your relationship with your vulva ✨ Learning how to trust your body's signals ✨ Nervous system safety and sacred touch ✨ Near-death experiences and spiritual awakening ✨ The forgotten art of receiving ✨ Why pleasure is not selfish ✨ The power of saying no ✨ Returning home to your feminine essence This is not a conversation about sex. It's a conversation about aliveness. About reclaiming the parts of yourself you've abandoned. About remembering that your body is not a problem to solve. She is sacred territory waiting to be explored. If you've ever felt disconnected from your body, numb to your pleasure, ashamed of your desires, or exhausted from constantly giving to everyone else, this episode will change the way you see yourself forever. Allow me to introduce you to Jaime Pallotolo Jaime Pallotolo is a Womb Shaman, Energetic Master, and creator of Body-Led Manifestation guiding high-achieving women and visionaries into deep presence, safety, and intimacy with their bodies. Having survived sexual abuse, an abusive marriage, nine years of excessive uterine bleeding, and two near-death experiences, Jaime carries an embodied knowing of what it means to advocate for your body and what becomes possible when you finally trust it. Through Body-Led Manifestation, Jaime teaches women how to recalibrate the dominant vibration within their body, uprooting trauma from their tissues, dissolving inherited cellular imprints, restoring safety in their body, and revitalizing the capacity to receive more without doing more. Her clients have secured over $32 million in investments, manifested viral TEDx talks, bestselling books, and multiple six-figure cash months through embodied recalibration. Her work is devoted to unwinding tension, trauma patterns, and energetic attachments held deep within the tissues, dissolving inherited cellular imprints, revitalizing pleasure, libido, and feminine life-force.  Through ceremonial pelvic care, shamanic spiritual facilitation, and energetic mentorship, she supports women navigating medical PTSD, sexual abuse, adenomyosis, and excessive uterine bleeding allowing the body to soften, lead, and be witnessed at its own sacred pace. She rehabilitates leadership at the level of the body and the quantum field so expansion becomes magnetic, spiritual power becomes grounded, and the impossible becomes inevitable. Jaime offers 1:1 immersions, in-person retreats, online courses, and speaking engagements. Connect with Our Guest - Jaime Pallotolo Website: www.jaimepallotolo.com Womb Wealth: www.jaimepallotolo.com/wombwealth  Connect with Samantha Sanford - The Rebel Matriarch Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/rebelmatriarch/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samantha.haddad.58/Threads: https://www.threads.com/@rebelmatriarch  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@rebelmatriarch

    1h 34m
  5. Jun 10

    #34 Religious Trauma, Money, Purpose & The Return To Joy: How A Course In Miracles Changed Everything | Kathrin Niesel

    What if your purpose isn't something you need to find? What if your purpose is simply to become fully expressed? In this deeply powerful conversation, Samantha sits down with Kathrin Niesel to explore joy, freedom, self-expression, money, spirituality and what happens when women stop living from obligation and start living from alignment. Together they dive into: ✨ A Course In Miracles ✨ Religious trauma and healing ✨ Sexuality and feminine self-connection ✨ The relationship between joy and abundance ✨ Why so many women feel disconnected from themselves ✨ Money, frequency and emotional attachment ✨ The hidden cost of distraction ✨ Purpose, individuality and self-expression ✨ Releasing shame, fear and guilt ✨ Creating a life that feels deeply alive This is a conversation about reclaiming your power. Not through force. Not through hustle. But through radical self-awareness, self-responsibility and learning how to trust yourself again. If you've ever felt exhausted, disconnected, stuck in survival mode or unsure of your purpose, this episode will leave you seeing yourself and your life differently. Allow me to introduce you to Kathrin Niesel Kathrin Niesel is a mentor and guide devoted to helping women reconnect with the truth of who they are beyond conditioning, fear, and the belief in separation. Rooted in the principles of Oneness and inspired by her own journey through years of personal development, healing work, and spiritual study, she discovered that lasting transformation arises not from endlessly trying to fix ourselves, but from remembering our true nature. Through deep self-inquiry, embodiment, and spiritual insight, Kathrin supports women in moving beyond self-doubt, people-pleasing, and the search for worth outside themselves. As they reconnect with the truth within, they often experience greater peace, self-trust, freedom, authentic self-expression, and a profound sense of wholeness—not by becoming someone new, but by awakening to who they have always been. Connect with Our Guest - Kathrin Niesel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/18hY4RmCd3/?mibextid=wwXIfr  Connect with Samantha Sanford - The Rebel Matriarch Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/rebelmatriarch/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samantha.haddad.58/Threads: https://www.threads.com/@rebelmatriarch  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@rebelmatriarch

    1h 23m
  6. Jun 5

    Mystics Unhinged Series #8 Fake Gurus, Ancestors & Spiritual Discernment | Jag Sandhu Unhinged

    This episode contains discussion of trauma, childhood abuse, sexual violation, grief, death, war, generational trauma, PTSD, spiritual manipulation, narcissistic relationships and mental health experiences. Listener discretion is advised. What happens when spiritual awakening collides with discernment? In Episode 8 of Mystics Unhinged, Samantha sits down with psychic medium, healer and ancestral guide Jag Sandhu for a powerful conversation about intuition, fake gurus, spiritual ethics, ancestral wisdom and the responsibility that comes with psychic gifts. This isn't a polished spiritual conversation. It's raw. Unfiltered. And deeply needed. Inside this episode: → how to identify false teachers and spiritual manipulation → why discernment is your greatest spiritual protection → the dangers of psychic dependency → ancestral communication and receiving guidance → breaking generational trauma patterns → healing inherited stories → intuition versus fear → spiritual awakening in a world full of misinformation → what it means to be a cycle breaker Jag shares personal stories of ancestral connection, family lineage healing, psychic development and the lessons she's learned after decades of working in the spiritual space. If you've been questioning who to trust, what is real, and how to reconnect with your own inner knowing, this conversation is essential listening. Allow me to introduce you to Jag Sandhu Jagz Sandhu believes that many of the struggles people face are not personal failures—they are inherited patterns waiting to be understood. A Psychic Clairvoyant, Energy Healer, Trauma-Informed Coach, and former Sky TV Psychic, Jagz has spent more than 25 years helping people uncover the stories, identities, and family conditioning that quietly shape their lives. Known for blending intuitive insight with grounded conversations about healing, identity, and self-leadership, she challenges the idea that awareness alone creates change. Instead, her work focuses on what happens when we question old roles, reclaim our voice, and step into a more authentic expression of who we are. Jagz is also an author and the host of Chai Time with Jagz, where she explores the experiences and defining moments that shape who we become. Connect with Our Guest - Jag Sandhu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamjagzsandhu/  Beacon: https://beacons.ai/jagzsandhu  Connect with Samantha Sanford - The Rebel Matriarch Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/rebelmatriarch/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samantha.haddad.58/Threads: https://www.threads.com/@rebelmatriarch  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@rebelmatriarch

    1h 24m
  7. Jun 3

    #33 Radical Self-Responsibility & Sovereignty | Why Women Must Stop Giving Their Power Away with Carissa Bennett

    Content advisory: This episode includes discussion of sexual abuse, trauma, rape (in philosophical and healing context), victim consciousness, and shadow work. Please listen with care. What if the freedom you’re seeking is hidden inside the responsibility you’ve been avoiding? In this profound Rebel Matriarch conversation, Samantha sits down with Carissa Bennett - founder of SoulSync - for a deeply expansive discussion around sovereignty, radical self-responsibility, shadow work, collective consciousness, and what it truly means to reclaim your power. This is not surface-level personal development. This is the kind of conversation that challenges your perception of healing, victimhood, responsibility, and reality itself. Inside this episode: → what true sovereignty actually means→ radical self-responsibility as liberation→ why collective change starts within→ how shadow work creates freedom→ soul-led business architecture→ conscious leadership in a chaotic world→ trauma, perception, and personal power→ why women must stop outsourcing their power This episode will stretch your thinking. It may challenge your current worldview. And that’s exactly the point. Because Rebel Matriarch leadership requires the willingness to sit inside discomfort long enough for truth to land. Allow me to introduce you to Carissa Bennett Meet Carissa Bennett, founder of Soul Sync Solutions - a systems architect, mentor, and guide devoted to helping visionary women bridge soul, business, technology, and embodiment into one coherent reality. Her work exists for the women who know they’re here for more than building a business. They’re here to build a living legacy. The coaches, healers, facilitators, leaders, and mission-driven entrepreneurs who can feel the magnitude of what wants to move through them, but need the structure, systems, clarity, and energetic congruence to fully hold it. Through conscious mission/business architecture, mentorship, multidimensional leadership work, and streamlined technology ecosystems, she helps women create missions and movements that are both deeply aligned and sustainably scalable.  Her work weaves together strategy, visibility, identity expansion, automation, and sacred leadership so their external reality can finally support the depth of who they truly are. When women work with Carissa inside Soul Sync, they experience freedom from the tech overwhelm and backend noise that’s been draining their energy. They gain systems that nurture their community even while they sleep, the confidence of knowing nothing is falling through the cracks, and more capacity to do what they actually came here to do, lead, create, heal, and serve. Women who enter her world often leave with greater clarity, self-trust, magnetism, emotional freedom, and energetic coherence alongside tangible mission transformation. Their mission/business becomes lighter to hold, more sustainable to grow, and finally structured in a way that supports both their mission and their humanity. Connect with Our Guest - Carissa Bennett Soul Sync Solutions - https://soulsyncsolutions.co/soul-sync-membership  Carissa Bennett FB -  https://www.facebook.com/carissarbennett Carissa Bennett Instagram -  https://www.instagram.com/carissabennett.co/  Soul Sync Solutions Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/soulsyncsolutions_/ The Beauty Way Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/7GACOVlUZmUDCIewDxGCSj?si=68b98c13f2d242dd Connect with Samantha Sanford - The Rebel Matriarch Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/rebelmatriarch/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samantha.haddad.58/Threads: https://www.threads.com/@rebelmatriarch  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@rebelmatriarch

    1h 19m
  8. May 29

    Mystics Unhinged Series #7 The Truth About Trauma Is Not What You’ve Been Told With Stacey Anne Boyan

    Content advisory: This episode includes discussion of childhood trauma, abuse, family violence, nervous system dysregulation, emotional collapse, and trauma memory resurfacing, please listen with care. What if healing isn’t about fixing yourself? What if nothing was ever broken? In this deeply activating episode of Mystics Unhinged, Samantha sits down with Stacey Anne for one of the most profound conversations of the series. Together, they dismantle everything women have been taught about trauma, healing, pain, and personal transformation. This is not a conversation about endlessly “doing the work.” It is a conversation about remembrance. Inside this episode: → the truth about the pain body→ childhood trauma and identity formation→ nervous system regulation and emotional completion→ why healing feels so hard→ the myth of being broken→ returning home to yourself→ self-kindness as radical medicine→ wholeness as your natural state Stacey shares raw truths from her own lived experience while offering an entirely new lens on trauma, regulation, and embodied remembrance. This conversation is not here to comfort. It is here to recalibrate. Allow me to introduce you to Stacey Anne Boyan Stacey Anne Boyan of Me_Thee_We is a psychic channel, speaker, facilitator, and creator of transformational spaces centered around wholeness, embodiment, conscious thriving, and the return to Self. With a background spanning nursing, bodywork, somatic practice, metaphysics, hypnotherapy and energy work her toolkit bridges the practical and the mystical – creating spaces that are deeply grounded, profoundly honest and illuminating within their simplicity. Through one on one sessions, group containers and immersive experiences, she guides people beyond traditional “healing” narratives and into deeper self-awareness, nervous system safety, presence and remembrance.   Her approach is rooted in knowing that nothing within us is broken and that wholeness already exists, beneath the story, fragmentation, and conditioning, we are truly FREE. She brings lived experience depth, transparency and the willingness to illuminate patterns, call you on your BS with clarity and compassion.  She will hold conversations and experiences that bridge the soul-human reality, so we can land embodied. At the heart of the work is one central truth… you are whole, holy, & complete and always have been, so let’s find your gold so you can put your crap down.  Connect with Our Guest - Stacey Anne Boyan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StaceyAnneBoyan  Connect with Samantha Sanford - The Rebel Matriarch Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/rebelmatriarch/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samantha.haddad.58/Threads: https://www.threads.com/@rebelmatriarch  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@rebelmatriarch

    1h 50m

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The Future is Female-Led and on The Rebel Matriarch Podcast we are showcasing powerhouse women leading the way as representatives of what's possible for women. We are gifted their time and wisdom as they share their stories, journeys, passions and visions for women across the world! They are committed to pulling the curtain back on what they're doing in life and business so that EVERY woman has a chance to see herself in another woman's story - and be inspired. As a listener you'll get access to powerful and practical tools, resources, and contemplations to support your own evolution, today!