New Human Living podcast

Les Jensen

New Human Living ® Global Spiritual Podcast, with Les Jensen, who has been interviewing luminaries for the past 16 years.On the New Human Living podcast, we enjoy insightful conversations with guests who are shaping the future of human consciousness. They include leading authors, business power players, coaches, PhD’s, and basically a bunch of soul-filled people like you and me who strive to lead a more enriched life from a place of personal power. Please join us as we carry out engaging interviews that awaken the power in you! The New Human Living platform is dedicated to serving humanity. Learn more at NewHumanLiving.comEach hour-long podcast becomes available for listening on Wednesdays starting at 7:00 p.m. U.S. Mountain time, which is 2:00 a.m. GMT the following day on Thursday. (Note: we're currently operating in the Mountain Standard time zone). If you'd like to confirm your time zone, check out a site such as WorldTimeBuddy.com.

  1. 1d ago

    The Wild Scribe: Words that Emerge When Human and Earth Voices Intertwine, with Mary Reynolds Thompson

    Send us Fan Mail Listen in now as our guest, Mary Reynolds Thompson, discusses her book, The Wild Scribe: Words that Emerge When Human and Earth Voices Intertwine, and learn how writing can become a doorway into deeper relationship with the natural world.  LISTEN DEEPLY to awaken your wild imagination and free your untamed voice as your visions comingle with the voice of the Earth. Let hawks, forests, childhood sanctuaries, and beloved animals shape the very rhythm of your words into authentic “wild language.”  Using writing as a tool for presence, healing, and ecological stewardship, Mary Reynolds Thompson shows how to move beyond observation and into relationship with the land. Drawing on decades of experience in teaching eco-writing and poetry therapy, she provides ten themed sessions for inspiration, each with stories and reflections, writing prompts, and exercises that address topics such as grounding, seasonal awareness, and animal embodiment. Character sketches of plants and animals, haiku and haibun writing, and reflective exercises for processing solastalgia and climate grief deepen the experience.  At its heart, The Wild Scribe invites us to open a dialogue with the more-than-human world. Blending the beauty of nature writing with the immediacy of guided practice, this book speaks to anyone who feels the ache of disconnection and the desire to participate in the renewal of Earth and self. It is a call to remember that when we rewild our words, we rewild the world within and around us.  Mary Reynolds Thompson, CAPF, CPCC, is the founder of Live Your Wild Soul Story and an award-winning writer, internationally recognized speaker, and facilitator of journal and poetry therapy. A pioneer in the spiritual ecology movement and the author of Reclaiming the Wild Soul, Mary lives in Marin County, California. Learn more at https://maryreynoldsthompson.com.

    The Wild Scribe: Words that Emerge When Human and Earth Voices Intertwine, with Mary Reynolds Thompson
  2. Oct 15

    Empathy Leadership: The Powerful Skill that Drives Winning Results, with Doug Noll

    Send us Fan Mail Listen in now as our guest, Doug Noll, discusses his book, Empathy Leadership: The Powerful Skill that Drives Winning Results, and learn how empathy has become the defining strategic advantage in modern leadership.  In today’s workplace, empathy isn’t a soft skill - it’s the competitive edge that distinguishes great leaders and thriving organizations. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and real-world narratives, Doug reveals how calm authority, emotional intelligence, and compassionate communication are strategic advantages in effective leadership.  Empathy Leadership: The Powerful Skill that Drives Winning Results is a revolutionary framework that prioritizes emotional connection as the foundation for success. Through practices like reflective listening and affect labeling, leaders learn to recognize emotions in real time, diffuse tension, and strengthen trust and collaboration in the workplace.  For leaders at every level, Empathy Leadership provides the actionable insights and tools to lead with both head and heart - demonstrating how empathy leverages emotional connection to build and maintain high-performing teams and authentic human connection.  Doug Noll, JD, MA is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, the world's most prestigious mediation organization, and recipient of IAM's Syd Leezak Award of Excellence. As Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University's Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution (ranked #1 in the nation), Doug teaches graduate courses on decision-making under stress and conflict resolution. Author of five books including the bestselling De-Escalate (45,000+ copies, translated into five languages), Doug now brings his neuroscience-based methodology from prisons and boardrooms to corporate leadership through his latest book, Empathy Leadership: The Powerful Skill that Drives Winning Results. Learn more at: https://dougnoll.com/

    Empathy Leadership: The Powerful Skill that Drives Winning Results, with Doug Noll
  3. Oct 8

    Breathing: The Art and Science of Pranayama, with Mark Stephens

    Send us Fan Mail Listen in now as our guest, Mark Stephens, discusses his book, Breathing: The Art and Science of Pranayama, and learn the ancient yogic art of conscious breathing.  Mark presents an accessible and comprehensive study of pranayama. He details its roots in the pan-Eurasian shamanic tradition, the Vedas, Upanishads, early Buddhism and Jainism, and its fullest development through tantra, hatha yoga, and contemporary breathwork. Stephens offers systematic instruction for foundational practices, such as posture refinement, nasal cleansing, and pelvic floor activation. He also teaches advanced techniques for cultivating presence, interoception, and spiritual insight.  Mark shows how pranayama can benefit you across your lifespan, and he highlights its applicability to a range of health conditions, including pregnancy, ADHD, PTSD, long COVID, asthma, and other respiratory ailments. He shows how breathwork can deepen meditation, enhance intimacy, and restore our innate breathing rhythms that are often lost due to stress and social conditioning.  Uniting ancient wisdom and contemporary science, Breathing offers an immersive and empowering path to transform your body and consciousness.  Mark Stephens is the author of five bestselling yoga books, including Teaching Yoga and Yoga Therapy. Practicing since 1991 and teaching worldwide since 1996, he has studied and practiced in the ashtanga, Iyengar, and tantra traditions and has engaged deeply with yoga histories and philosophies, somatic psychology, and evidence-based sources. Mark has trained yoga teachers and therapists for three decades and served as the “For Teachers” columnist for Yoga Journal for two years. He lives on California’s central coast. You can learn more at markstephensyoga.com.

    Breathing: The Art and Science of Pranayama, with Mark Stephens
  4. Oct 1

    Releasing the Emotional Wound: Shamanic and Psychological Tools to Transcend Trauma and Rebuild Your Life, with Gina Goldfeder

    Send us Fan Mail Listen in now as our guest, Gina Goldfeder, shares her insights on Releasing the Emotional Wound: Shamanic and Psychological Tools to Transcend Trauma and Rebuild Your Life.  Emotional wounds are more than just scars from the past, as they often leave unconscious imprints on our souls. Unresolved traumas can develop an existence of their own and become our excuses for why we cannot live a fulfilling life. Yet these wounds can also serve as catalysts to nourish and transform our experience of life.  Experienced psychotherapist Gina Goldfeder explains the origin of an emotional wound and how our identification with it can obscure our self-perception. Sharing many case studies from her practice, she highlights tools for transcending pain and to facilitate healing, such as mantras, emotional ceremonies and rituals, and journaling. One of our most important challenges is to let go of our emotional wounds and create a new identity, and doing so will change the way we experience life. Grounding and stabilizing practices such as encounters with ourselves and working with the body/soul connection help to keep us anchored in our new existence.  Centered on the process of acknowledging, honoring, and learning to release the original wound, this guide will support you in turning former trauma into new opportunities for expansion and happiness.  Gina Goldfeder, PhD, is a psychologist who specializes in individual and couples psychotherapy. Working with clients for almost thirty years, she draws on her training in healing modalities informed by shamanism, such as dream interpretation, as well as psychodrama, sacred geometry, and ThetaHealing. Gina offers courses and workshops. She lives in Mexico City. To learn more visit https://ginagoldfeder.com/

    Releasing the Emotional Wound: Shamanic and Psychological Tools to Transcend Trauma and Rebuild Your Life, with Gina Goldfeder
  5. Sep 24

    Your Birthright Codes: Spiritual Gifts, Karmic Contracts, and Your Divine Purpose, with Emi'Lea

    Send us Fan Mail Listen in now as our guest, Emi’Lea, shares her wisdom on Your Birthright Codes: Spiritual Gifts, Karmic Contracts, and Your Divine Purpose.   Inner guidance often appears as a whisper—an intuitive knowing that emerges when logic falls short. Beneath the surface of daily life, the soul carries a map: a record of lifetimes and lessons that reveal who you truly are. Emi’lea offers ways to read this map by connecting the wisdom of your past lives with the challenges and opportunities for growth in your daily life. Drawing from memories that extend beyond this lifetime, the author illuminates how the soul prepares for incarnation, encoding specific gifts, lessons, and frequencies into our energetic DNA.  Introducing the concept of birthright codes—your soul’s unique energetic blueprint— Emi’lea shares how to align with your highest path, awaken intuitive abilities, and live with greater clarity and purpose. Drawing on her work as a therapist and healer, she provides practical tools, examples, and spiritual insight to help access the profound knowledge that is already within you. Her method supports emotional healing at the seed point of innocence, allowing long-held patterns to dissolve and make room for new possibilities.  As energy clears and birthright codes activate, your soul’s gifts begin to awaken. Once the lessons carried across lifetimes are integrated, life can unfold with a renewed sense of freedom, harmony, and divine remembrance—the return to love.  Emi’lea, MA, LMFT, is a medium, energy healer, life-path intuitive, and a licensed marriage and family therapist. She is the founder of the Ascension Institute, where she guides clients to awaken their birthright codes—the soul’s energetic blueprint—and roadmap to their highest potential. A mother of two, Emi’lea lives in California. Learn more at https://www.theascensioninstitute.com/about.

    Your Birthright Codes: Spiritual Gifts, Karmic Contracts, and Your Divine Purpose, with Emi'Lea
  6. Sep 17

    Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to Modern Times, with Tobias Churton

    Send us Fan Mail Listen in now as as our guest, Tobias Churton, shares his extensive examination of Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to Modern Times.  Gnosticism was a contemporary of early Christianity, and its demise can be traced to Christianity's efforts to silence its teachings. The Gnostic message, however, was not destroyed but simply went underground. Starting with the first emergence of Gnosticism, the author shows how its influence extended from the teachings of neo-Platonists and the magical traditions of the Middle Ages to the beliefs and ideas of the Sufis, Jacob Böhme, Carl Jung, Rudolf Steiner, and the Rosicrucians and Freemasons. In the language of spiritual freemasonry, gnosis is the rejected stone necessary for the completion of the Temple, a Temple of a new cosmic understanding that today's heirs to Gnosticism continue to strive to create.  The Gnostics believed that the universe embodies a ceaseless contest between opposing principles. Terrestrial life exhibits the struggle between good and evil, life and death, beauty and ugliness, and enlightenment and ignorance: gnosis and agnosis. The very nature of physical space and time are obstacles to humanity's ability to remember its divine origins and recover its original unity with God. Thus the preeminent gnostic secret is that we are God in potential and the purpose of bona fide gnostic teaching is to return us to our godlike nature.  Tobias Churton is a filmmaker and the founding editor of the magazine Freemasonry Today. He studied theology at Oxford University and created the award-winning documentary series and accompanying book The Gnostics, as well as several other films on Christian doctrine, mysticism, and magical folklore. He lives in England. Learn more at https://tobiaschurton.com.

    Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to Modern Times, with Tobias Churton
  7. Sep 10

    Somatic Herbalism: Healing Trauma through Plant Medicine and Polyvagal Theory, with Elizabeth Guthrie, PhD

    Send us Fan Mail Listen in now as our guest, Elizabeth Guthrie, PhD, discusses herbalism in a different light in her new book  Somatic Herbalism: Healing Trauma through Plant Medicine and Polyvagal Theory. Featuring more than 100 hands-on activities, this book's unique approach combines herbalism, polyvagal theory, and somatic therapy for profound healing and posttraumatic growth.  Elizabeth gently guides you on your wellness journey, revealing which plant allies will calm your vagus nerve and help your nervous system move toward a more restorative state. These botanicals, paired with therapeutic exercises, create a customized support system for coping with stress and processing negative experiences. Through breathing techniques, journal prompts, meditations, and more, you will learn what it means to listen to your body and what its sensation language can tell you about your emotional responses. With guidance from herbs like rose and dandelion, you will cultivate safety and shift your paradigm, building resilience and reconnecting with your body, mind, and spirit. Elizabeth Guthrie, PhD, is a clinical herbalist and certified professional aromatherapist. She holds a PhD in Natural Medicine with specializations in naturopathic psychology and herbal medicine, and a Master of Public Health degree in Functional Nutrition. Elizabeth has also been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Herbalists Guild and has authored Essential Oils for Trauma and The Trauma Informed Herbalist. Learn more at TraumaInformedHerbalist.com.

    Somatic Herbalism: Healing Trauma through Plant Medicine and Polyvagal Theory, with Elizabeth Guthrie, PhD
  8. Sep 3

    Ascension Harmonics: Invoke the Divine Name for Vibrational Activation and Healing, with Jonathan Goldman

    Send us Fan Mail Listen in now as our guest, Jonathan Goldman, discusses his book, Ascension Harmonics: Invoke the Divine Name for Vibrational Activation and Healing, and learn how intoning the rediscovered Divine Name can activate healing, balance the subtle energy field, raise consciousness, and create a direct connection to the divine.  Jonathan Goldman shares his rediscovery of the Divine Name as being a harmonically related universal sequence of vowels that is non-denominational and can be experienced by everyone. The Divine Name was first prohibited and then lost for nearly 2,500 years before being rediscovered by Jonathan. This sacred sound, when vocalized, can resonate the physical body, align the chakras, create protection, guidance, and healing, as well as provide a direct link to the higher realms of consciousness. This 'hotline to the divine' is the most powerful sound Jonathan has encountered in his nearly 50 years researching and teaching sound healing and now he shares it with you. Intoning this most sacred sound can raise consciousness, invoke spiritual transformation, heal the body, and balance and activate the subtle energy field. Jonathan gives a step-by-step process for effectively intoning the Divine Name with intention and prayer, enabling you to receive vibratory activation and healing.  Jonathan presents the latest research on the effects of this sacred sound on DNA and water. He reveals how to integrate biofield resonance with universal spiritual teachings to access the ascension harmonics of the Divine Name and bring humankind to the next level of evolution.  Jonathan Goldman, MA, is a founding pioneer and international authority in the field of sound healing with more than 50 years of experience. He facilitates Healing Sounds Seminars throughout Europe and the United States. A Grammy nominee with more than 30 bestselling, award-winning recordings and books, he is the president of Spirit Music, Inc., and director of the Sound Healers Association. Goldman lives in Boulder, Colorado. Learn more at http://www.healingsounds.com/

    Ascension Harmonics: Invoke the Divine Name for Vibrational Activation and Healing, with Jonathan Goldman

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New Human Living ® Global Spiritual Podcast, with Les Jensen, who has been interviewing luminaries for the past 16 years.On the New Human Living podcast, we enjoy insightful conversations with guests who are shaping the future of human consciousness. They include leading authors, business power players, coaches, PhD’s, and basically a bunch of soul-filled people like you and me who strive to lead a more enriched life from a place of personal power. Please join us as we carry out engaging interviews that awaken the power in you! The New Human Living platform is dedicated to serving humanity. Learn more at NewHumanLiving.comEach hour-long podcast becomes available for listening on Wednesdays starting at 7:00 p.m. U.S. Mountain time, which is 2:00 a.m. GMT the following day on Thursday. (Note: we're currently operating in the Mountain Standard time zone). If you'd like to confirm your time zone, check out a site such as WorldTimeBuddy.com.