YSM Conversations

Danielle YS and Victoria McMahon
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Welcome to YSM Conversations — a gathering place for women who sense something deeper is calling. Together we believe that the most profound adventures begin within — and that when women gather in deep conversation, something ancient and necessary awakens. Open the door to a new conversation, through Generative Listening – weaving together generations of wisdom and listening beyond the ears to restore the intelligence your body has always carried and integrate soulfulness into the adventure of your life. This is restoring and connecting to the deeper current running beneath it all.

  1. 2d ago

    036 ~ Self-Excavating Part 3: The Prism and the Sieve

    The body is a prism. Source pours through it.Whether it leaks – or focuses into the shape of your Soul – is the whole practice.In Part 3 of the Self-Excavating series, Danielle YS and Victoria McMahon explore the intelligence of restlessness: the difference between agitated energy that leaks through you like a sieve, and excited energy the body holds and focuses – like a prism – into the direction your Soul is calling.Self-Excavating moves through the body first. The body is the container. And what you do with your energy inside it changes everything.Together YSM explores:– The sieve and the jellyfish – two diagrams of energy flow that reveal whether your life force is leaking out or circulating toward something alive in you– Vrittis and the Yogic science of energy: why scattered, nervous energy depletes – and how presence brings it back into the body as forward motion– The body as prism – how Source energy pours through you, and how the body, held as a true container, focuses that white light into the rainbow of your unique expression– The Soul in the body: the Yogic philosophy of an infinite thing within a finite being – the beautiful, necessary tension of being exactly here, in this form, on this planet– The Care Bear question – which superpower archetype is streaming through your particular prism? (A question YSM invites you to sit with – and to ask the people who know you best.)Presence builds the container. And it's the container that lets the light move through.In this episode:[00:00:00] Welcome back – Self-Excavating Part 3: The Prism and the Sieve[00:00:56] Victoria opens: the restlessness that's filled with anticipation and aliveness[00:02:45] Danielle: the sieve and the jellyfish – two modes of energy flow from the heart[00:05:01] Victoria: vrittis and the Yogic science of directed, purposeful energy[00:07:45] The three pillars of Self-Excavating: presence, Generative Listening, and curious inquiry[00:08:00] Danielle: the body as prism – Source light becomes your unique rainbow[00:10:07] The Soul within the body – the philosophy of the infinite within the finite[00:11:38] Victoria's inquiry: what is the depth and gift of being in a body container?🩵 Join our 90-day immersion, The Brilliance Container – Excavate, Experience, and Express your full brilliance:https://thewayofysm.com/thebrilliancecontainer✨ Book your free Threshold Assessment with Danielle:https://danielleys.com/calendar☀️ Visit Victoria's website:https://victoriamcmahon.com🎧 Subscribe to our channels for more Generative Listening – where listening deeply to the Self, to each other, and to the intelligence of the Universe opens a door to something genuinely new.

  2. Sep 3

    035 ~ Self-Excavating Part 2: The Field Bigger Than the Two of Us

    What if the "Self" in Self-Excavating isn't just you?In Part 2 of the Self-Excavating series, Danielle YS and Victoria McMahon arrive at a reframe that changes everything: the capital S Self at the center of this practice isn't the individual ego — it's the Whole Self, in connection with all Beings, with the field itself.The container for Self-Excavating has never been just you. It's been you, and another, and the field you create together, and Source — nesting inside each other all the way down.Together YSM explores:• Capital S Self: the reframe at the center of everything — how "Self-Excavating" shifts from solitary to collective the moment you understand which Self is actually doing the unearthing• Containers within containers: the Russian nesting doll of held space — personal container, the container of relationship, the field of YSM, and Source as the largest container holding all of it simultaneously• The archaeological site and finer tools: how returning to the same field with more practice yields finer and finer discoveries — what changes when you've spent two years learning each other's layers• YSM as a Self-Excavated container: the realization that YSM itself was built through Excavation — two people in conversation, discovering a field larger than either of them, available to anyone who listens• Shine, doubt, shine again: the honest rhythm of what Self-Excavating actually looks like — not linear, not always triumphant, but always revealing the next layer of WholenessYSM is expanding. And this episode ends with an invitation: come Excavate together, live.In this episode:[00:00:00] Victoria opens: picking up from Part 1 — now into the ideas behind Self-Excavating[00:00:32] The phrase revisited: does "Self-Excavating" mean doing it alone?[00:01:08] Capital S Self — rejiggering what "self" in Self-Excavating really means[00:02:07] On the soul-being container: designed to move forward in growthful ways[00:03:37] Containers within containers: personal, relational, the field, and source[00:05:42] The ease of being held: Danielle on the Russian nesting doll of space[00:06:14] The archaeological site: finer tools with more practice and time in the field[00:07:13] YSM specifically: two years of learning each other's layers[00:08:06] YSM as a Self-Excavated container — and the field that holds all who listen[00:09:19] Victoria's own Excavation through YSM: no longer concerned about being visible[00:10:01] "Source is smiling. They got it."[00:10:14] Shine, doubt, shine again — the honest rhythm of Excavating[00:11:24] Interwovenness: pulling one thread reveals everything else[00:12:03] What was Excavated about YSM itself: from conversation to field[00:15:46] The expansion: YSM is growing — inviting the field into live events[00:16:39] The masterclass invitation: Self-Excavating, September 8, 2026✨ Save your spot — Self-Excavating: A Live Masterclass with YSMTuesday, September 8 · 4:00pm PT / 7:00pm ET · Live on Zoom · $11https://danielleys.com/ysm-masterclass✨ Book your free Threshold Assessment with Danielle:https://danielleys.com/calendar🌿 Visit Victoria's website:https://victoriamcmahon.com📺 Subscribe to our channels for more Generative Listening — where listening deeply to the Self, to each other, and to the intelligence of the Universe opens a door to something genuinely new.

  3. Aug 27

    034 ~ Self-Excavating Part 1: The Archaeology of Your Soul

    She sat at the edge of being witnessed and buried herself under rocks instead.This is how Self-Excavating begins — not with bravery, but with the body knowing exactly what it needs.In Part 1 of the Self-Excavating series, Danielle YS and Victoria McMahon open with this story and explore what it reveals about the archaeology of the Soul, the difficulty of being seen, and why the gems glimmering inside us were always meant to be unearthed slowly.Self-Excavating is not a solo endeavor. It's the practice of unearthing what's within, layer by layer, held by witnesses, by Source, and by the field that was always already around you.Together YSM explores:• Danielle's medicine circle story: a fire, a witnessing, and burying herself under rocks at the edge of being seen — and how even that act of hiding was its own form of Excavation• The Grandmother Spider teaching: why surfacing from the depths too quickly overwhelms the system — and how the gems you unearth require slow, careful integration into the light• The archaeology of the Soul: what it actually means to Excavate who you are — layer by layer, piece by piece, at the pace you were designed for• We are never actually alone in Self-Excavating: the moments of deepest inward turn are often the moments of most profound connection — to others, to Source, to the whole field• Light and darkness as inseparable: you can't have one without the other, and Self-Excavating means holding both — not choosing between them, but receiving them wholeWhen the circle held Danielle in her burying — without anyone trying to unbury her — the field was already doing its work. That's Self-Excavating.In this episode:[00:00:00] Welcome to the Self-Excavating series[00:00:52] The highest-level metaphor: the archaeology of the Soul — unearthing glimmering gems[00:01:24] Danielle's medicine circle story: a fire, a witnessing, and burying herself under rocks[00:03:18] Victoria receives the story: on the difficulty of being witnessed and being seen[00:03:28] The Grandmother Spider teaching: surfacing from the depths and integrating the light[00:05:48] "By design, we have these layers" — the pace of Excavation[00:07:36] Self-Excavating in relationship: we are never truly alone in the work[00:09:07] On stamina: what guides, witnesses, and source make possible in the depths[00:11:37] Victoria revisits the burying: both responses are deep Excavation[00:12:14] The circle's acceptance: held without being fixed[00:12:46] Light and darkness: you can't have one without the other✨ Save your spot — Self-Excavating: A Live Masterclass with YSMTuesday, September 8 · 4:00pm PT / 7:00pm ET · Live on Zoom · $11https://danielleys.com/ysm-masterclass✨ Book your free Threshold Assessment with Danielle:https://danielleys.com/calendar🌿 Visit Victoria's website:https://victoriamcmahon.com📺 Subscribe to our channels for more Generative Listening — where listening deeply to the Self, to each other, and to the intelligence of the Universe opens a door to something genuinely new.

  4. Aug 20

    033 ~ Your Superpower Part 3: When the Superpower Finally Claims You Back

    Knowing your superpower isn't about being more. It's about being whole.In Part 3 — the finale — of the Your Superpower series, Danielle YS and Victoria McMahon land the conversation at the question they've been circling from the beginning: why does it actually matter to know your superpower? The answer they find is both simpler and more radical than expected.Claiming your superpower is not about adding something new. It's about being you — fully, clearly, completely — so the gift that was always rising can finally be offered on behalf of the whole.Together YSM explores:• Danielle's story: the slow recognition of asking questions as a superpower — how what felt like "nothing special" has quietly been the most powerful thing she offers, all along, and what acceptance (not excitement) looks like when a gift finally gets named• Victoria's retroactive arc: from candy striper, to Friday night chess club, to the psychiatrist's ward that became the through-line of everything — a superpower that was guiding her long before she had a name for it• The embodiment: the difference between recognizing a superpower, claiming it, and fully inhabiting it — and how the body signals when the superpower is ready to come through• "Spiritual robbery" — the teaching that changed how Danielle holds her own gift: the moment you want someone's Crossing for them more than they want it for themselves, you steal the very thing they came here to develop• The somatic discernment available in every interaction: resonance vs. depletion, leaning in vs. letting go — and how learning to read the difference is how you wield your superpower on behalf of all, not in spite of othersWhen your superpower is finally claiming you back — you'll know it through the body, not the mind.In this episode:[00:00:56] Picking up at the signpost: why does it actually matter to know your superpower?[00:02:17] Victoria's question for Danielle: when did you first recognize your superpower?[00:02:40] Danielle's story — slow recognition and acceptance[00:04:03] Recognition → access → wielding: the three stages of embodiment[00:04:40] The superpower waiting in the wings — it was always there, ready to be noticed[00:05:11] Victoria's story: candy striper, chess club, and the psychiatrist who changed everything[00:08:14] Retroactively pointing to the through-line — the superpower revealed across a lifetime[00:09:10] Why it matters: knowing your superpower is knowing yourself in your fullness[00:11:00] How do we create a container for the superpower to come through?[00:12:42] Through the body — somatic self-training as the access point[00:15:16] Danielle integrates the series: supra power, resonance, and the readiness signal[00:17:39] "Spiritual robbery" — what happens when you wield your gift for someone who isn't ready[00:19:27] Closing: something's coming forward soon✨ Book your free Threshold Assessment with Danielle:https://danielleys.com/calendar🌿 Visit Victoria's website:https://victoriamcmahon.com📺 Subscribe to our channels for more Generative Listening — where listening deeply to the Self, to each other, and to the intelligence of the Universe opens a door to something genuinely new.

  5. Aug 13

    032 ~ Your Superpower Part 2: Training Your Dragon

    Your superpower doesn't just need to be trained. It needs to trust you. In Part 2 of the Your Superpower series, Danielle YS and Victoria McMahon pick up where the cliffhanger landed — how do you responsibly wield a superpower? — and discover that the answer lives not in rules or role models, but in relationship. A two-way relationship between you and the gift that has always been yours. Training your superpower is like training a dragon: you don't control it. You build enough trust that it comes through you — and eventually, on behalf of something larger than either of you. Together YSM explores: • The somatic moment that opened this conversation — what Danielle's body was registering when Victoria said "I have self-trained in my superpower capacities," and what that pulse in the sternum was actually pointing toward • Why "superpower" might actually be "supra power" — from the Latin supra, meaning above or beyond: not power over, but power with and power on behalf of all • The heroine's journey as a map for returning to your superpower: not going back to who you were before, but returning enriched — carrying everything the Crossing gave you • The surprising places where superpowers are hiding: inside religious traditions, spiritual teachings, and ancient practices — waiting to be excavated from the dogma and restored to their original vitality • What self-training is actually building toward: not mastery of your superpower, but the trust that allows it to move through you The superpower isn't waiting for you to control it. It's waiting to know you're safe to carry it. In this episode: [00:00:56] Picking up the cliffhanger — how do you responsibly wield a superpower? [00:02:00] The somatic pulse — what Danielle's body registered in that moment [00:03:00] Into the chasm: a woman self-training on her own heroine's journey [00:03:33] Your superpower as a relationship — mutual, and built on trust [00:04:00] Dragon rider analogy: the trust that has to exist in both directions [00:04:58] Superpower as "supra power" — the etymological reframe [00:06:40] Power on behalf of all — the new paradigm, or an ancient one restored [00:08:17] Returning to the source: restoration is different from going back [00:09:30] When you return to your origins, you bring your whole journey with you [00:10:17] Superpowers inside spiritual traditions — the gems buried under dogma [00:12:07] Threading back: why it matters to know your superpower — the signpost ✨ Book your free Threshold Assessment with Danielle: https://danielleys.com/calendar 🌿 Visit Victoria's website: https://victoriamcmahon.com 📺 Subscribe to our channels for more Generative Listening — where listening deeply to the Self, to each other, and to the intelligence of the Universe opens a door to something genuinely new.

  6. Aug 6

    031 ~ Your Superpower Part 1: What's Your Superpower, Sweetie?

    You know it. You just don't call it a superpower yet. In Part 1 of the Your Superpower series, Danielle YS and Victoria McMahon open a conversation that starts with a deceptively simple question — what is your superpower? — and quickly becomes something most women have never been taught: the gifts you've been dismissing as ordinary are often the most extraordinary thing about you. And they've been rising all along. Your superpower isn't the dramatic thing. It's the thing you can't not do — the one everyone keeps coming to you for while you brush it off as "nothing." Together YSM explores: • The organic nature of superpowers: how they rise before you name them, magnetizing the exact relationships that reveal what they're really made of • Danielle's superpower of asking questions and deep listening — how a gift she barely recognized quietly attracted both the most nourishing conversations and the most imbalanced ones • Victoria's superpower of full presence — what it costs (the old pull toward over-caretaking) and what it offers (the most profound conversations, usually with strangers in line) • How superpowers can attract imbalanced relationships — and why the superpower itself isn't to blame, only the unconscious wielding of it • The first moment of Self-training: what shifts when you stop being your superpower by accident and start choosing how you bring it forward What if the thing you keep brushing off is the gift your people need most? In this episode: [00:00:56] Welcome back — opening the field: what is your superpower? [00:03:00] The organic nature of a superpower — it rises before you name it [00:04:15] Superpowers attract relationships: balanced and imbalanced [00:05:15] How we move forward: choosing what we do with our gifts consciously [00:06:00] Victoria's superpower of full presence — cost and benefit [00:09:37] The self-training begins: reading your body to know when to lean in [00:11:08] "I have self-trained in my superpower capacities" [00:11:34] Magic, Harry Potter, and the art of training your power responsibly [00:12:13] The cliffhanger — what does responsible wielding actually mean? ✨ Book your free Threshold Assessment with Danielle: https://danielleys.com/calendar 🌿 Visit Victoria's website: https://victoriamcmahon.com 📺 Subscribe to our channels for more Generative Listening — where listening deeply to the Self, to each other, and to the intelligence of the Universe opens a door to something genuinely new.

  7. Jul 30

    030 ~ Inner Space × YSM: Victoria’s Self-Excavation (Part 2) — Where the Vision Takes Shape

    She saw something she hadn’t seen before.And seeing it — changed everything that came next.This conversation was originally recorded for Inner Space, Danielle’s solo podcast. YSM is sharing it here because it’s the clearest example we have of what Self-excavation yields — and a direct preview of what we’re building together this fall. Start with Part 1 (YSM episode 029) if you haven’t yet.In Part 2 of Victoria’s Soul Signature Excavation, Danielle YS and Victoria McMahon pick up right where the excavation landed — and watch together as what’s been uncovered begins to take shape: named, structured, and offered.This is what it looks like when you’re witnessed into form.Together YSM explores:• The realization that arrived mid-sentence in Part 1 — landing now, and becoming the ground for everything that follows• What makes the Women’s Wisdom Circle different: designed around commitment, not easy access — and why that distinction is personal• “1.0 is build a bridge to yourself” — why Victoria’s first offering has to be the bridge before she can hold it for others• Victoria names her business identity live: “Victoria McMahon — The Embodiment Geek”• Making requests to the unseen forces — and the Pillars of Creation: where there’s enough raw material, stars are born“In my desire to build the bridge to others, the work for others is building their bridge back to themselves.” — Victoria McMahon🌿 Join us live for Self-Excavating: an online masterclass on September 8th, 2026. What you heard across these two episodes is what this work makes possible.Register: https://danielleys.com/ysm-masterclass✨ Book your free Threshold Assessment with Danielle:https://danielleys.com/calendar📝 Subscribe to Victoria’s writing:https://substack.com/@vibrantsoulcoaching📺 Subscribe to our channels for more Generative Listening — where listening deeply to the Self, to each other, and to the intelligence of the Universe opens a door to something genuinely new.

  8. Jul 23

    029 ~ Inner Space × YSM: Victoria’s Self-Excavation (Part 1) — The Gap Between Knowing and Becoming

    You know what you’ve gathered. What you’ve built. What you’ve become.What you may not know yet is what’s waiting to come forward — when someone is truly present with you.This conversation was originally recorded for Inner Space, Danielle’s solo podcast. YSM is sharing it here because it’s the clearest example we have of what Self-excavation actually looks like — and a direct preview of what we’re building together in fall 2026.In Part 1 of Victoria’s Soul Signature Excavation, Danielle YS guides Victoria McMahon through her own Self-excavation — a live demonstration of Generative Listening turned inward, using Danielle's Infinite GLOW Model (Gather, Let Go, Open Gaps, Weave) to bring forward what’s already known, but not yet expressible.What surfaces is not what either of them expected.Together YSM explores:• The Gather phase in action — years of embodiment wisdom laid out live: teaching, therapy, yoga, Tai Chi, somatic coaching, the Creation Templates practice• The gap between renewing yourself and expressing what you’ve become — and why it can feel like standing at the edge of a chasm• “No bridge” — the somatic revelation, what the body says when you ask it directly, and what lives inside that answer• The shift from trying to build the bridge yourself to entering into relationship with the gap — and why that changes everything• A vision beginning to surface mid-excavation: why Victoria’s pull toward the Women’s Wisdom Circle was always about something bigger than she knewSome things only come forward when you’re witnessed. This is what that looks like.🌿 Join us live September 8th, 2026 for Self-Excavating, our free online masterclass.Register: https://danielleys.com/ysm-masterclassPart 2 continues next — pick it up right where this lands.✨ Book your free Threshold Assessment with Danielle:https://danielleys.com/calendar📝 Subscribe to Victoria’s writing:https://substack.com/@vibrantsoulcoaching📺 Subscribe to our channels for more Generative Listening — where listening deeply to the Self, to each other, and to the intelligence of the Universe opens a door to something genuinely new.

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Welcome to YSM Conversations — a gathering place for women who sense something deeper is calling. Together we believe that the most profound adventures begin within — and that when women gather in deep conversation, something ancient and necessary awakens. Open the door to a new conversation, through Generative Listening – weaving together generations of wisdom and listening beyond the ears to restore the intelligence your body has always carried and integrate soulfulness into the adventure of your life. This is restoring and connecting to the deeper current running beneath it all.

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  • Creator
    Danielle YS and Victoria McMahon
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    36
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Danielle YS and Victoria McMahon
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    YSM Conversations