With Dagmar Stansova

In this episode of Beth of Fresh Air, the Evolve series turns toward the world of performance art—a powerful force shaping modern culture, consciousness, and collective attention.

Performance art holds immense potential. It can open portals to beauty, truth, and connection with the Divine. At the same time, it can function as propaganda—guiding perception, reinforcing narratives, and subtly eroding culture under the banner of art.

Together, Beth and Dagmar explore the deeper nuances of the performing arts, asking questions that often go unexamined:

• The historical evolution of the stage, the voice, and the spectacle
• The difference between organic artistic expression and cultural engineering
• The archetype of pain, sacrifice, and trauma that surrounds many performers
• Why modern societies have become spectators rather than creators
• How performers come to be “chosen,” and what that initiation demands

This conversation is an invitation to discernment—an inquiry into what has been gained, what has been lost, and what might still be reclaimed when art arises from life itself rather than systems of control.

A thoughtful, Evolve episode for artists, creatives, observers, and anyone sensing that something fundamental has shifted in how we relate to art, performance, and meaning.

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I’m Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family’s firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life.

Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.

Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life’s work and walk their Hero’s Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.

I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air.

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