The Current

At long last, Nadia gets personal and intimate sharing her own experiences with psychedelics from the dreaded "bad trip" to a healing experience with psilocybin following a challenging life event, to the expansive journeys she's had connecting to her higher self and life path. This gets deep so buckle up! Sign up for a free info session about Psychedelic Therapy on 12/13 here (spots limited!) Would you like to learn more about the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics? Join Same Summit Retreat guides, Clare, Nick, and Nadia on Wed, 12/13 at 5:30pm PT for a free info session about psychedelic therapy and retreats. Apply for the March 2024 Costa Rica Retreat here. Learn more about upcoming retreats and join our newsletter as we add new dates by visiting www.samesummit.com. 0:45 - Invitation to our March 2024 Costa Rica Psychedelic Retreat and our Live Q&A on Wed, 12/13: Psychedelic Retreats 101 5:00 - My Personal Journey with Psychedelics 9:37 - Integrating a Peak Psychedelic Experience 12:21 - Psychedelic Experiences as a Soul Illuminator 14:09 - Addressing the Fear of 'Bad Trips' 18:58 - Learning from Difficult Psychedelic Experiences 21:32 - Healing and Processing Emotions through Psychedelics 33:31 - Exploring Potential and Identity through Psychedelics 44:04 - Psychedelics and Generational Healing 48:42 - Ketamine as a Unique Psychedelic Experience 55:34 - Caveats and Considerations in Psychedelic Work --- Leave a podcast review for a chance to receive a free intuitive channeled session with Nadia: In support of this work reaching more people, I will be choosing one person every month to receive a free 60-minute intuitive channeling session. To submit yourself for this drawing, please take a screenshot of your written review on Apple Podcasts to hello@nadialast.com. Winners will be randomly selected and notified on the 1st of each month via email. --- Website: nadialast.com Instagram: @nadialast_ Music: Chihiro by Yoste Editing: Paul Schuler, Crutch Phrase Studio Photography: Mandee Rae

In this special episode of The Current, host Nadia Last celebrates the podcast's three-year anniversary, reflecting on its evolution and her own personal growth. Nadia shares updates from two significant recent milestones in her life: her graduation with a Master’s in Counseling Psychology and her heartfelt wedding ceremony. She expresses her deep commitment to becoming a spiritual therapist, integrating various healing modalities into her practice, and her excitement about the future of group therapy. Nadia also addresses the pervasive violence and suffering in the world, encouraging listeners to anchor themselves in love and connect with nature and inner inquiry practices to maintain balance. She emphasizes the importance of nurturing love and unity in everyday interactions, and shares personal practices that help her stay grounded and connected to higher frequencies of being. If you feel connected to this show, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts and send a screenshot of your review to hello@nadialast.com. Every month, one listener will be selected to receive a complimentary, 50-minute intuitive reading with Nadia. --- Website: nadialast.com Instagram: @nadialast_ Music: Chihiro by Yoste Editing: Paul Schuler, Crutch Phrase Studio Photography: Mandee Rae, www.mandeerae.com

Emily the Medium, newly-minted author, is back on The Current to discuss her new book, "A Cosmic Bond." Together we delve into the journey that birthed this incredible work and discover the spiritual power of creativity. In this episode, we explore everything from the devotion required to bring an idea into physical form to Emily's in-depth writing process (or what she describes as "bringing frequency into form.") We also discuss conscious conception, intuition strengthening, surrendering to life's mysteries, and the challenges of sharing your voice amid collective unrest. Emily shares her insights on embracing rejection fears, holding diverse viewpoints, and liberating oneself from creative and purpose anxieties. This episode will empower you as you navigate your own creation cycles. 1:48 The process of writing Emily’s first book: A Cosmic Bond 3:30 The energetics of creation. 4:20 Writing the book in less than a year. 5:23 The spiritual power of creativity.  6:12 We are creator beings and the devotion involved in bringing an idea into physical form. Mentioned: The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin. 7:40 Emily’s process of channeling or bringing frequency into form. 10:00 This book is centered around the soul, spirit babies, and conscious conception. 12:00 Receiving the mission to write this book during deep meditation. 18:45 Understanding the right timing and working with start stop energy. 23:49 How to work with fears surrounding conceiving a child. 27:53 How to strengthen your intuition in more subtle and nuanced timing surrounding conception. 31:16 Surrendering to the mystery of life, becoming the passenger and learning how to say yes to life. 32:05 How to stay focused during the height of creation mode. 33:30 The loneliness and isolation that came up while writing the book. 37:00 The fear of rejection and being misunderstood in putting a book into the world. 39:02 Feeling the “postpartum” wobbles after publication. 43:20 The energetics of the collective: say what you need to say despite fears of being misunderstood. 43:53 Turning the book over to the editor and fears of not measuring up, the process of bringing someone else into your sacred, creative work. 47:33 Holding a vision for yourself and setting energetic boundaries. 50:30 Sharing your voice during a time of collective unrest and “Tower” (tarot card) destruction? 51:30 Earth is currently in the energy of polarity, taking sides, and “right”  versus “wrong.” 53:00 Holding multiple perspectives and viewpoints on the same issue. The importance of being flexible, curious, and open-minded. 56:39 Liberating yourself from the fear of rejection and calling in new levels of self-acceptance. 1:03:00 Why do you create? Moving through purpose anxiety. 1:04:15 The importance of replenishing physical, spiritual and emotional stores when the creation cycles comes to completion. 1:07:37 What is beckoning to you in this next season of life? You can read more about Emily and her inaugural book, A Cosmic Bond here: https://emilytheauthor.com. --- Leave a podcast review for a chance to receive a free intuitive channeled session with Nadia: In support of this work reaching more people, I will be choosing one person every month to receive a free 60-minute intuitive channeling session. To submit yourself for this drawing, please take a screenshot of your written review on Apple Podcasts to hello@nadialast.com. Winners will be randomly selected and notified on the 1st of each month via email. --- Website: nadialast.com Instagram: @nadialast_ Music by Yoste Photography by Mandee Rae Editing by Paul Schuler, Crutch Phrase Studio

I believe that we are all divine souls having a human experience. This human experience is designed to stretch us spiritually—an “Earth School” with a unique curriculum of relationships and experiences designed to help us grow and evolve. The goal? To remember that we are all interconnected and come from the same loving Source. To choose love in all interactions and turn up the brightness of the love that’s in our hearts and raise the vibration of our planet through consistent inner inquiry practices and presence with ourselves. Despite having momentary glimpses of this truth and surrounding myself with crystals, books, and objects that remind me of it daily, I forget it. My journey is just as clunky, full of fumbles, and laughable moments of ignorance. In this fast-paced world of endless media scrolling, I crave real-life, honest examples of humans on their individuated spiritual journeys to stimulate my self-reflection, observation, and growth. I want to ask everyone I meet, “What lesson are you currently learning in life?” One of my favorite mantras is “create what you want to see in the world.” As such, I am humbly offering my own lessons and stories from my human fumbling here in an effort to reconnect you to your heart and spiritual journey and hopefully make us all feel less alone in the shared humanity of it all. Lessons in Love, July 2023: Legacies of Family Secrets Shame as a Teacher Unapologetic Emotional Release in the Middle of a Crowded Airport At a glance: 0:45 We're all divine souls having a human experience. 2:52 That said, my spiritual journey is really clunky 6:21 Lessons learned from my grandparents and legacies of family secrets. 8:47 Shame as a teacher 13:59 Shifting generational patterns of behavior. 16:53 The power of releasing emotions: unapologetic emotional expression and how I started sobbing in the middle of the San Francisco airport. 20:02 Bachelorette reflections: the edginess of allowing yourself to be seen and celebrated 22:23 How can guilt and shame teach me to be a better person --- Leave a podcast review for a chance to receive a free intuitive channeled session with Nadia: In support of this work reaching more people, I will be choosing one person every month to receive a free 60-minute intuitive channeling session. To submit yourself for this drawing, please take a screenshot of your written review on Apple Podcasts to hello@nadialast.com. Winners will be randomly selected and notified on the 1st of each month via email. --- Website: nadialast.com Instagram: @nadialast_ Music by Yoste Photography by Mandee Rae Editing by Paul Schuler, Crutch Phrase Studio

In this episode, we dive deep into the world of Human Design and its transformational potential. Join us for a live Human Design reading with exceptional business mentor and spiritual guide, Kat Lee. Through her unique and honest life experiences, we explore how understanding your Human Design chart can illuminate your purpose, creating a profound impact on how you understand your life experiences. 5:05 The four systems Human Design draws from: Western Astrology, the Chinese I Ching, the Jewish Kabbalah Tree of Life, and the Hindu-Brahmin Chakra system. 8:37 Defining the Crown chakra or head center. 10:55 Defining the Ajna center and the 23-43 “freak-to-genius” channel highlighting Kat’s unique and futuristic ideas. 14:13 Kat's perspective around healing trauma in business and the toxicity of capitalism. 18:13 The difference between conscious and unconscious gates (red and black) and the significance of 88 days prior to when you were born. 20:55 Unpacking Kat's unconscious sun and earth gates (gate 6, the gate of friction and gate 36, the gate of crisis) and how these both relate to her upbringing and professional path. 22:38 Is "work" allowed to feel easeful and naturally aligned to our gifts? Kat explores how she learned to define work watching her parents as hard-working immigrants growing up. 25:02 Nadia explores the themes of finances in Kat's chart as she has gate 45, the gate of the financial educator and gatherer, and the full 21-45 channel of money. 35:10 Unpacking gate 26, the gate of the Marketer and Kat's experience bringing integrity into Marketing with clients. 40:44 Defining the Throat (communication) and Heart (willpower) centers. 50:17 Defining the G-center or identity center. 55:35 Unpacking the Spleen center and Kat's experiences with an undefined Spleen. 57:55 Kat's two channels connecting her Sacral motor to her G-center, channels 2-14 and 5-15. 1:02:13 The open Solar Plexus center (emotions) and the power of empathy. 1:06:39 Unpacking Kat's 5/2 profile. For those curious, Kat is a 5/2 Sacral Manifesting Generator born under Gate 45 (the gate of the gatherer). Her life path is the Left Angle Cross of Confrontation. She has the 23-43, 21-45, 2-14 and 5-15 channels. You can connect with Kat by visiting her website or Instagram. She also has a wonderful podcast called Empowered Curiosity. --- Leave a podcast review for a chance to receive a free intuitive channeled session with Nadia: In support of this work reaching more people, I will be choosing 2 people every month to receive a free 60-minute intuitive channeling session. To submit yourself for this drawing, please take a screenshot of your written review on Apple Podcasts to hello@nadialast.com. Winners will be randomly selected and notified on the 1st of each month via email. --- Website: nadialast.com Instagram: @nadialast_ Music by Yoste Photography by Mandee Rae Editing by Paul Schuler, Crutch Phrase Studio

Curious about the lives your soul has lived before this one? I'm thrilled to introduce an intuitive healer that I've had the pleasure and the privilege to work with over these past couple of years, Betsy Granville. In this vibrant and grounded conversation, Betsy shares how we can connect more deeply with our soul-self, and past lives, to bring about greater healing in our lives personally and relationally. 3:08 Betsy explains her work as a blending of psychic healing, mediumship, and channeling. 7:12 Being spirits or souls in a human body. 8:12 Unpacking Nadia’s partner and friend’s experiences working with Betsy around a big career decision and a miscarriage respectively. 9:12 How working intuitively can be a very practical experience. “It should be practical because the practical realities of our lives are the grist for the mill of our evolution and expansion and awakening.” 10:18 The major themes Betsy’s currently seeing in her work. 13:21 The rise of collective consciousness. 20:27 Nadia’s past life experience with her current partner. 25:17 Betsy’s formative experiences connecting with past lives. 38:25 Betsy’s pathway into intuitive work. 57:15 How to recognize and work with intuitive practitioners in integrity. 1:03:50 Betsy’s book recommendations for those starting out on their spiritual or intuitive path. 1:05:44 How Betsy protects her energy in this work both professionally and personally. 1:11:42 Each of our individual roles in the spiritual evolution of our planet at this time. You can connect with Betsy by visiting her website: www.betsygranville.com --- Leave a podcast review for a chance to receive a free intuitive channeled session with Nadia: In support of this work reaching more people, I will be choosing 2 people every month to receive a free 60-minute intuitive channeling session. To submit yourself for this drawing, please take a screenshot of your written review on Apple Podcasts to hello@nadialast.com. Winners will be randomly selected and notified on the 1st of each month via email. --- Website: nadialast.com Instagram: @nadialast_ Music by Yoste Photography by Mandee Rae Editing by Paul Schuler, Crutch Phrase Studio

Today, The Current takes on a new energetic vibration, frequency, and direction. This podcast is a reminder that you are a divine being. You have, and have always had, everything that you need within you. All you need to do is take a moment of stillness to tune inward and connect to your heart. My hope is is that this podcast drops you into the energetic frequency of inspiration and optimism. Despite all of the difficulty, pain, suffering, and density that exists on this planet, I hope this podcast helps you turn up the volume and amplification of the light that exists within you. That is not to say that difficulty will no longer exist on this plane, of course it will. But we will also be able to see the beauty that exists here in ways that we've never been able to see before. We will be able to access healing in ways that we've never been able to access before. We will be able to access our soul frequency and attunement more than we've ever been able to access before. Despite the illusion of separateness on Earth, we are always connected and we are never alone. Not only are we connected to our fellow humanity, we are connected to all the souls we've incarnated with prior to this lifetime. We are connected to many, many divine beings as I am when I record these episodes that you can likely feel in the energetic vibration of my voice. This podcast is an energetic portal for reconnecting to your heart to share that energy and frequency with others so that we can build a more beautiful and spiritually-connected world. There are many tools and modalities that I will share here, because this show is about your healing, our collective healing, and also your expansion into potentiality. Into the possibilities that are infinite for you in this lifetime, and the lifetimes to come. We'll continue to expand on therapy, spirituality, inner child work, Human Design, mind-expanding substances, intuition, past lives, intergenerational patterns, dreamwork, sexual healing, connection to our bodies, animals, plants, nature, and Earth, creativity, self-expression, and real stories about healing and consciousness expansion. Thank you for being along for this incredible ride. I see you and I am deeply grateful that you’re here. --- Leave a podcast review for a chance to receive a free intuitive channeled session with Nadia: In support of this work reaching more people, I will be choosing 2 people every month to receive a free 60-minute intuitive channeling session. To submit yourself for this drawing, please take a screenshot of your written review on Apple Podcasts to hello@nadialast.com. Winners will be randomly selected and notified on the 1st of each month via email. --- Website: nadialast.com Instagram: @nadialast_ Music by Buddha Kid Photography by Mandee Rae Editing by Paul Schuler, Crutch Phrase Studio

Brooke Baxter is a Reiki Master, Animal Communicator, Energy Healer, Natural Horsewoman, and Natural Nutrition Consultant. She is also a mother, wife, friend, and daughter. Brooke’s work is awakening humanity to all of our innate abilities to communicate with animals. When asked what animal communication is, she replied, “Animal communication includes what you and I are doing right now. We are exchanging information and energy. We’re doing it with our words out loud but we’re also doing it as we mingle our energy in this space. Our hearts are connecting and our intentions and like-mindedness are awakening to one another. Animal communication is an extension of that exchange of information.  Animal communication is the most basic form of communication on the planet. All sentient beings share it. And it isn’t a magical special gift that just a few people have. It’s not a superpower and it isn’t limited in any way. Every single one of us can do it—we were born to. We already are in many cases but don’t realize it. And all of the animals around us, this is their language. It’s a matter of us letting go of some of the words we get caught up in and some of the conditioning of our human society and getting back in touch with the vibrations, the intentions, the thoughts, the sensations, the memories that we can transmit to one another non-verbally. It includes body language, but it isn’t just body language. It really is an exchange of ideas and feelings and thoughts.” Nadia received an animal communication reading from Brooke for her two dogs, Otis and Murphy, and they share in depth about this profound, eye-opening, and sometimes hilarious experience! Our animals really notice so much about our thoughts and feelings living alongside us. All living beings on our planet come from the same place. We are all source love energy. Walking a spiritual path means opening our hearts to all living species and living more thoughtfully and meaningfully alongside them with curiosity and humility. Thank you, Brooke, for this deeply personal and meaningful conversation! I’m so grateful our paths crossed in this lifetime. To connect with Brooke please visit her website or send her an email at brooke@fourlegsandasoul.com --- Website: nadialast.com Instagram: @nadialast_ Music: Chihiro by Yoste Photography www.mandeerae.com

For those who seek, psychedelic journey work has the expansive potential to help you meet your truest self. The part of you that sits behind emotions, thoughts, experiences, job titles, and identities. We call this the Self. And it’s from the seat of the Self that true healing and awakening can begin. Licensed therapist, Clare Johnson, and licensed nurse practitioner, Nick Baker, are both certified psychedelic guides working in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy. Today, they’re back on The Current to discuss their upcoming psychedelic retreat: a 6-day experience in the heart of the Costa Rican rainforest in March 2024. The retreat will take place at an eco-luxury sanctuary for legal plant medicine ceremonies situated on 200 private acres of lush, verdant land. The entire property is fed by the largest waterfall in Costa Rica, the Diamante Falls. Learn more and apply to this retreat at www.samesummit.com This episode is also intended to be a guide if you’re considering attending any psychedelic retreat. We cover a lot of ground including: How to recognize if a facilitator is in integrity (are they leading you to their answers or your own inner wisdom?) How to set intentions without gripping to rigid expectations of your journey Real life examples of the rewarding and challenging aspects of this work The power of psychedelic journeying in a safe group setting How Clare and Nick allow versus guide people into their own psychedelic experience What to expect and ask for during preparation and integration How to know if this work is right for you PS Nadia will be assisting this Costa Rica retreat! --- Website: nadialast.com Instagram: @nadialast_ Music: Chihiro by Yoste Photography www.mandeerae.com

Human Design Reflectors make up only 1% of the population. Reflectors are designed to be at the center of our organizations and communities letting us know how things are going as they are uniquely attuned to the health and wellbeing of the whole.  MG's and Generators create, build, and do. Manifestors initiate. Projectors deeply see individuals and systems. Reflectors are connected to it all. They have the unique ability through their 9 open centers to connect to everything, everywhere, all at once. The key for Reflectors is to remain objective and unidentified from the energy they are continuously picking up—and this can be difficult! On this episode, Sam and I interview Becca (@hdundefined) and Jules (@msjulianajames) who are two Reflectors in business partnership together. They share grounded and differentiated takes based on their lived experiences as Reflectors several years into their individual experiments. Together we cover: Becca and Jules each describe how Reflector energy feels for them How to identify Reflector disappointment What Reflector surprise feels like Specific ways to work with waiting a full lunar cycle before making big decisions How to lean on "sounding board" authority for all the decisions in between Recognizing and trusting when environments and relationships no longer feel good Myth busting: despite having only open centers, Reflectors can do a lot! Becca and Jules discuss their energy management throughout the day as entrepreneurs Reflector love bomb: what Becca and Jules love most about being Reflectors How to support the Reflectors in your life Learn more about Becca and Jules' work here. --- Interested in diving deep into all the nuances of Human Design? Open enrollment for the Spring '23 cohort of Human Design Training closes March 8! Reserve your spot here. --- About Nadia: Nadia Last is an intuitive therapist, spiritual mentor, and host of The Current podcast. Nadia also co-teaches Human Design Training alongside Sam (learn more about Sam below). You can book a reading with Nadia or learn more about 1:1 mentorship here. About Sam: Sam Pfotenhauer is a healer, coach, human design reader and psychic channel, as well as the host of the Wild River podcast. She is one of Nadia’s closest friends and they co-teach Human Design Training together. You can find her on Instagram at @wildriver and learn more about her offerings here. --- Website: www.nadialast.com Instagram: @nadialast_ Music: Chihiro by Yoste Photography: www.mandeerae.com