Sacred Conversations

Robin Bethel and Dr. Nicole Dolan
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Conversations exploring the sacred threads and wholeness of life, within the light and the dark. With hosts Robin Bethel and Dr. Nicole Dolan. 

  1. 3D AGO

    Creativity, Connection, and the Sacred in Stark Silhouette, with Josh Booton

    In this episode, we’re joined by Josh Booton, an award-winning poet, singer/songwriter with the band Mercy Giant, and speech language pathologist. In a rich, ranging conversation, we open into Josh’s process creating poetry and making music, his drive to empathetically connect, and how he finds moments of transcendence lit largest through contrast. This takes us, too, into a wider discussion of making art, feeling the sacred, and tapping into the unseen world. Threaded through it all: a sense of holding together all the things. And also, the gift of Josh’s poetry, subtle, lush, glorious. We hope this episode is a balm of soft creative flame and joy in these dark weeks.  To connect with Josh further, you can find him on Instagram here and find Mercy Giant here.  Look for Josh's books at your favorite indie and used books stores, or at Barnes & Noble or Amazon.  Discover Mercy Giant's music on Apple Music, Spotify, and other streaming services.  (Also, if you haven't yet collided with Jeff Buckley, and after this episode you want to, here's a start, with "Hallelujah." To read "blessing the boats" by Lucille Clifton {please do}, visit here. And to explore Larry Levis, you can find a selection of his poems here.) Thank you for joining us! We hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Sacred Conversations on Instagram Subscribe to Sacred Conversations on Youtube Connect with Nicole on Instagram Connect with Robin on Instagram ✨✨

    1h 8m

  2. 12/12/2025

    Crescendos and Whispers, of Ending and Beginning

    In this episode, we return to our energetic sense of being at a precipice, still moving, intricately, in the dark; yet now in the loudest and quietest notes of completion, and beginning. We talk of trust, and the knowing and unknowing moving us. We talk of the intensity of change we feel around the corner, and one destined threshold this long journey is taking so many of us across, preparing us to give our deepest gifts.  We also talk of upcoming new projects we’re each excited about—for Robin, creating more Imagine + Flow guided meditative imaginings and bringing them to YouTube, and for Nicole, launching a new solo podcast where she’ll be teaching depth psychology and more in a singularly beautiful way. We’ll share more about these as they find their form. :) In this beautiful solstice month, where so much hangs silent and radiant in the air, we wish you well in your own precipice-ing, and celebrating. If you’d like to share any of how this moment in time is meeting you, we’d love to hear from you.  Thank you for joining us! We hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Sacred Conversations on Instagram Subscribe to Sacred Conversations on Youtube Connect with Nicole on Instagram Connect with Robin on Instagram ✨✨

    53 min

  3. 11/16/2025

    At the Precipice, in a Luminous Dark

    In this episode, we begin in lightness then move to intensity: talking of how in this moment of time, we’ve come to stand at a precipice, with gathering crescendo, in what feels like last (and beginning) notes of wild and deep stories.  Nicole shares pieces of where this multi-year period has ultimately led her, into a new embodied nervous-system-level okayness, that grounds her in herself even through chaos. And also, into a knowing that she’s meant to help others build an inner architecture that lets them do the same.  For Robin, this period has brought with it two deep mystical stories defined by trust and devotion, which have each led her to step so deeply into her intuitive power it feels like a living in magic. In this episode, she opens into one of these, a story around money, and listening, and moving with the invisible world as much as what is seen. (She shares more about this, with deeper nuance, in an episode of her other podcast, Voice Note Me, which is linked below.) We know we’re not the only ones living through these initiations, in this moment, that build upon all the rest we’ve experienced to carry us forward into a new way of being humans on this earth together.  It’s a powerful piece of time. And we really enjoyed this conversation that touched into the current energies as we feel them. We hope it meets you well.  {If you feel drawn to hear more about this story Robin shares, you can find the Voice Note Me episode—Marrow and Pixie Dust: A Love Letter in Vignette, from Robin—on Apple Podcasts here or on Spotify here. You can also find the Voice Note Me podcast on YouTube and the other usual platforms.} Thank you for joining us! We hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Sacred Conversations on Instagram Subscribe to Sacred Conversations on Youtube Connect with Nicole on Instagram Connect with Robin on Instagram ✨✨

    56 min

  4. 11/06/2025

    Soulmates, Mirrors, and Sacred Knowing, with Anniston Riekstins

    In this episode, we speak with Anniston Riekstins, a master numerologist, a transformational mentor to women, and someone who, beautifully, believes we all carry codes of remembrance for each other. Anniston shares how her life has been radically, radiantly defined by following an inner knowing that has, again and again, pushed her beyond the limits of her logical mind into a life she loves—and she brings forward one story in particular, of the life-changing choice that ultimately led her into deep, sacred, soulmate union. We talk about this relationship and others, too, that have the power to act as mirrors and catalysts in our lives, reflecting back what we need to see and feel. We also touch on the power of women in community, the sacred marriage of divine feminine and divine masculine within that we’re each called to, and the swirling, transformational astrology and numerology of this time. Each of us had so much fun recording this conversation, and we hope you enjoy listening! You can learn more about Anniston at annistonriekstins.com and connect with her on Instagram here.  Thank you for joining us! We hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Sacred Conversations on Instagram Subscribe to Sacred Conversations on Youtube Connect with Nicole on Instagram Connect with Robin on Instagram ✨✨

    55 min

  5. 09/21/2025

    Grounding into Intuition, with Gwyneth Flack

    In this episode, we speak with Gwyneth Flack, a warm, wise intuitive guide who dedicates much of her work in the world to helping people connect to their intuitive and creative powers. We talk of sacred stories and thresholds she experienced in her own relationship with energy, intuition, and awareness—including one near-death experience she had at four years old—and we also touch on some of the tools she uses to help others develop these spaces in their lives. Gwyneth brought beautiful groundedness, openness, and laughter to our conversation, and we hope you enjoy listening! You can learn more about Gwyneth and her work here, and connect with her on Instagram here.  Her book Limitless: Transform Your Life with Intuition and Creativity is available here. Thank you for joining us! We hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Sacred Conversations on Instagram Subscribe to Sacred Conversations on Youtube Connect with Nicole on Instagram Connect with Robin on Instagram ✨✨

    1h 5m

  6. 08/22/2025

    In Deep, Wild-Hearted Community

    In this episode, we touch on some of what has been meeting us in the last months, with Robin briefly sharing a few broad notes before we turn to a profound gift Nicole has recently experienced: stepping into deep, soulful community with a group of women at a retreat for mothers of kids with autism. This life-changing experience offered a homecoming, allowing Nicole to be seen and held in all her fullness and all her sacred wild. And as she felt her own belonging with these remarkable women, she saw reflected back to her the luminous beauty of belonging to this particular tribe.  Her story speaks to the sacred power of community, of being fully met. It speaks to the gifts we and our children have to give, and receive, when allowed our fullest expression. And in a number of ways, for Nicole, this marks the completion of a circle.  So much in this time is simultaneously crescendoing, and falling away, being remembered, and being reborn. As you move through your own circles and thresholds, we send you so much love. And we hope you enjoy listening!  Thank you for joining us! We hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Sacred Conversations on Instagram Subscribe to Sacred Conversations on Youtube Connect with Nicole on Instagram Connect with Robin on Instagram ✨✨

    26 min

  7. 08/07/2025

    "The Inner Work" and Moving from Fragmentation to Wholeness

    In this episode, we revisit our earlier conversation on wholeness and paths of transformation, to add a few thoughts we felt were initially missing! Robin returns to language we hear so often in psycho-spiritual spaces: “doing the inner work,” a phrase often used to generally describe moving through difficult inner places in ways that lead to transformation. To Robin, this phrase often feels fitting, like when people seek more structured containers or deliberate processes to help them heal and grow, but for many other paths of inner transformation, such as the less defined path she’s mostly traveled, it feels off center and not quite right. Nicole brings her own perspective here, with notes of harmony and contrast, which then brings us into what she wanted to add to our original conversation, on wholeness, and what is richly alive for her right now: moving from healing in fragmentation to healing in wholeness; with wholeness as a psycho-spiritual nervous system field that that speaks to our capacity to hold all the things, together. We were glad to return to these ideas of wholeness and transformation once more—albeit again imperfectly. :) We hope you enjoy listening! Thank you for joining us! We hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Sacred Conversations on Instagram Subscribe to Sacred Conversations on Youtube Connect with Nicole on Instagram Connect with Robin on Instagram ✨✨

    30 min

  8. 07/23/2025

    Initiations and Openings, with Andrew Monroe Rice

    In this episode, we speak with Andrew Monroe Rice, a novelist, a poet, and a spiritual mentor. Andrew has moved through addiction and recovery, sacred life passages and descents, and experiences within men’s work that broke him wide open—and through this, he discovered an inner gold he has poured into art and the life around him. In our conversation, he shares notes from his journey, including his time first opening into, and later helping facilitate, men’s rites of passage: a sacred container of community that changed his life. Andrew’s wisdom weaves through his presence, his poetry—some of which he shares here—and his work in the world. It was lovely for us to speak with him, and we hope you enjoy listening.  You can learn more about Andrew's books, retreat offerings, and spiritual companionship work at https://resentmentville.com. And you can read the poem he references in this episode—The Journey by Mary Oliver—here: https://static.oprah.com/images/201104/omag/the-journey.pdf Thank you for joining us! We hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Sacred Conversations on Instagram Subscribe to Sacred Conversations on Youtube Connect with Nicole on Instagram Connect with Robin on Instagram ✨✨

    1h 11m
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Conversations exploring the sacred threads and wholeness of life, within the light and the dark. With hosts Robin Bethel and Dr. Nicole Dolan. 

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  • Creator
    Robin Bethel and Dr. Nicole Dolan
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Sacred Conversations
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