Podcast
Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening
Hosted by Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach · EN
Ever felt like you’re waking up in a world that still wants you asleep?
Like you’ve always thought deeper, asked bigger questions… and saw through the illusions faster than most?
Mind Love™ is a top 0.5% podcast with over 500 episodes, and Podcast of the Year winner.
Hosted by Melissa Monte...speaker, story mentor, and self-proclaimed questioner of everything.
This show is for the spiritually curious and mentally sharp.
The ones who crave depth but reject dogma.
Who believe in energy and brain chemistry.
Who want to connect with Source but question religion.
Who want to feel more free in a world that tells them to stay small.
Inside each episode, we explore:
- Conversations that blend the sacred, the scientific, and the suppressed
- Tools to help you rewire your mind, reclaim your voice, and rewrite your inner narrative
- The questions most people are afraid to ask...about healing, identity, and what it means to wake up
New episodes every week.
Because thinking for yourself is a rebellion. And awakening is a discipline.
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Episodes
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Why You Struggle to Find Deep Connection | Michael Trainer • 455
Yesterday01:16:50Tap to summarizeWhy do you keep craving deep connection but still feel like no one really knows you?Michael Trainer breaks down why the way most of us go about connecting actually keeps us at arm's length from the thing we want most. This conversation goes beyond relationship advice into the subconscious patterns that turn genuine connection into performance.What you'll learn:Why craving depth can be the thing blocking itHow performing connection is different from actually having itWhy the containers you create determine the relationships you getMichael Trainer spent 30 years researching human connection and wrote Resonance: The Art and Science of Connection. He's studied the gap between what people say they want in relationships and what their behavior is actually building.Find Michael's book "Resonance" and all links at: mindlove.com/455Want to stop performing connection and actually build it with people who get it? Join the free Mind Love Collective for the kind of intimate community where breakthroughs happen. mindlove.com/joinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcribe →Why You Never Feel Like a 'Good Enough' Daughter | Dr. Allison Alford• 454
1w ago00:59:04Tap to summarizeWhy do daughters who do the most for their families always feel like they're doing the least?Dr. Allison Alford breaks down why adult daughters carry an invisible emotional load with no finish line, and why the guilt you feel has less to do with what you're actually doing and more to do with a cultural rubric nobody ever defined. This conversation goes beyond family dynamics into the unnamed labor of "daughtering" and why the goalpost was never meant to be found.What you'll learn:Why "good enough daughter" is a standard nobody can meetThe invisible machinery running every dreaded phone callHow enmeshment traps daughters into managing their mother's emotionsWhy guilt isn't a signal you're failing — it's a signal the rubric is brokenDr. Allison Alford is a researcher and author who has spent over a decade studying adult daughter relationships. Her work gives language to the emotional labor daughters do daily — labor that's real, significant, and almost never counted.Find Allison's book and her work at Daughtering101.com and all links at: mindlove.com/454Ready to stop measuring yourself against a standard that was never actually defined? Join the free Mind Love Collective for monthly themed calls and weekly challenge accountability. mindlove.com/joinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcribe →Your Church Taught You Self-Loathing on Purpose | Paul Davis • 453
2w ago00:56:01Tap to summarizeWhy would the most practiced religion in the western world be built almost entirely on letters from a man who never met Jesus?Paul Davis spent decades as a model Christian — church every Sunday, read the Bible cover to cover at least 20 times, mission trips, worship team, all of it. Then his legal training kicked in. As a civil litigator, he knew how to read evidence. And the evidence didn't hold up.This conversation goes deep into the historical record of how Rome selected, edited, and weaponized one version of Christianity — and what the actual teachings of Jesus were about before they got buried.What you'll learn:Why the self-loathing built into Christian doctrine was by designHow several New Testament letters are actual historical forgeriesWhat Christ consciousness actually teaches vs. what the church replaced it withPaul Davis is a former civil litigator turned biblical scholar and consciousness researcher. He spent 30 years inside evangelical Christianity before his legal training led him to deconstruct the Bible using the same evidentiary standards he applied in court.Find Paul's community and all links at: mindlove.com/450Ready to explore what's actually true about your own spiritual nature — beyond what you were taught? Join the free Mind Love Collective for monthly themed calls and weekly challenge accountability. mindlove.com/joinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcribe →Why Silencing Your Inner Critic Makes It Louder | Dr. Cindy McGovern • 452
3w ago00:54:33Tap to summarizeWhy does trying to silence your inner critic make everything worse?Dr. Cindy McGovern breaks down why the voices in your head don't respond to suppression — and why the ones you inherited from other people's fear and outdated rule systems are still running your life. This conversation goes deep into the gap between knowing something intellectually and actually living differently.What you'll learn:Why silencing your inner critic makes it louderThe difference between a victim and a volunteerHow to take inventory of which voices actually deserve the micDr. Cindy McGovern is an organizational psychologist and author who spent decades studying why smart, self-aware women stay stuck. Her work focuses on the internal permission gap — why desire alone isn't enough to change behavior.Find Dr. Cindy's book "The Permission Mission" and all links at: mindlove.com/452Ready to figure out which voices in your head are actually yours? Join the free Mind Love Collective for monthly themed calls and weekly challenge accountability. mindlove.com/joinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcribe →Your Anger Is the Key to Your Psychic Channel | Aycee Brown • 451
4w ago00:50:01Tap to summarizeWhat if the anger you've been suppressing your whole life is actually your clearest psychic signal?Aycee Brown breaks down why trauma, religion, and social programming don't destroy your psychic abilities — they just bury them. This conversation goes beyond spiritual theory into the body-based mechanism of why getting your rage out first is what actually opens the channel to spirit.What you'll learn:Why babies and dogs are more psychic than most adultsHow anger clears the way for psychic channelingThe difference between healing and self-knowledge (and why it matters)Aycee Brown is a psychic medium, astrologer, and human design reader who combines modalities most practitioners keep separate. She's the author of "Embody Your Magic" and has spent years teaching people to play the cards they've been dealt rather than wish for a different hand.Find Aycee's book "Embody Your Magic" and all links at: mindlove.com/451Want to start trusting your own psychic signals with people who get it? Join the free Mind Love Collective for real accountability and a community that actually gets it. mindlove.com/joinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcribe →Every "End Times" Prophecy Is a Mental Rehearsal | Gaia's Sarah Elkhaldy • 450
Apr 2100:59:38Tap to summarizeWhat if the reason you can't stop doom-scrolling isn't fear, but the fact that your empathy is exactly what's being used against you?Sarah Elkhaldy breaks down how predictive programming works through trauma bonds, not logic, and why the most spiritually aware people are the most vulnerable to it. This conversation goes deeper than conspiracy into the actual mechanism behind why waking up in 2026 can feel like losing your mind.What you'll learn:Why empathy makes predictive programming more effective, not lessHow your research spiral becomes its own cageThe heart-centered shift that actually breaks the control narrativeSarah Elkhaldy, known as The Alchemist, teaches spiritual sovereignty and natural law through her series Mystery Teachings on Gaia. She's spent years mapping the intersection of Gnostic wisdom, esoteric tradition, and practical awakening.Find Sarah's Mystery Teachings series on Gaia and all links at: mindlove.com/450Want to stop outsourcing your spiritual authority and do that work with others who get it? Join the free Mind Love Collective for the kind of intimate community where breakthroughs happen. mindlove.com/joinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcribe →Every UFO Sighting Is a Shamanic Initiation | Gaia's Joshua Golembeske • 449
Apr 1400:54:27Tap to summarizeWhat if the government confirming UFOs are real is actually the least interesting part of disclosure?Joshua Golembeske, head of production at Gaia and UFO disclosure advocate, breaks down why contact isn't about craft and bodies in a government warehouse — it's about what happens to human consciousness when it gets close to these beings. This conversation goes way beyond nuts and bolts into why Green Berets become spiritual, why contact runs in families, and what the evidence actually says about who these beings are.What you'll learn:Why UFO contact is one of the fastest paths to enlightenmentHow to put yourself in the state that makes contact possibleWhat integration looks like after an ontological reality breakJoshua Golembeske is head of production at Gaia and co-host of Cosmic Disclosure. He's spent years interviewing military experiencers, whistleblowers, and contact witnesses — and comes from a generational contactee family himself.Find Joshua at @UFOElder and all links at: mindlove.com/449Ready to expand what you think is possible with people who actually get it? Join the free Mind Love Collective for monthly themed calls and weekly challenge accountability. mindlove.com/joinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcribe →Stop Being "Chill" on Dating Apps: Why You Must Be Ruthless | Jennie Young • 448
Apr 700:55:49Tap to summarizeWhat if being "chill" on the apps is actually the reason you keep attracting the wrong people?Jennie Young breaks down the rhetorical patterns toxic men use on dating apps and why most women are trained to talk themselves out of their own gut reactions. This conversation goes beyond red flag checklists into the actual language mechanics that make manipulation so hard to see in real time.What you'll learn:Why the test-and-apologize pattern isn't an accidentHow the apps are designed against your best interestsThe switch-flip method that keeps your brain in charge firstJennie Young is a rhetoric professor and founder of the Burned Haystack Dating Method, a community of over 250,000 women. She built a system for decoding manipulative communication using the same tools used to analyze everything from political speech to domestic abuse cases.Find Jennie's book "Burned Haystack" and all links at: https://mindlove.com/448Ready to stop second-guessing your gut with real support? Join the free Mind Love Collective for monthly themed calls and weekly challenge accountability. mindlove.com/joinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcribe →Your Indoor Life Is as Deadly as 15 Cigarettes a Day | John La Puma • 447
Mar 3100:56:19Tap to summarizeWhat if your exhaustion, your anxiety, your chronic inflammation have nothing to do with what you're eating or how you're sleeping — and everything to do with where you're spending your time?Dr. John La Puma breaks down why indoor living has become a root cause of chronic disease and why the biohacking tools most of us rely on are leaving massive gains on the table. This conversation goes deeper than wellness tips into the biological reality of what happens when you cut your body off from light, air, and soil as actual metabolic inputs.What you'll learn:Why 93% indoors is shortening your life like 15 cigarettes a dayHow morning light sets your energy, sleep, and insulin sensitivity all at onceWhy your biohacks aren't working without this one foundation firstDr. John La Puma is a physician and the author of "Outdoor Rx." He's spent decades studying nature as a clinical tool and is one of the few doctors making the case that the environment itself is a prescription.Find John's book and website at: mindlove.com/447Want to actually use what you learned here with people who show up consistently? Join the free Mind Love Collective for monthly themed calls and weekly challenge accountability. mindlove.com/joinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcribe →Your Nervous System Is Blocking Your Spiritual Growth | Guy Lawrence • 446
Mar 2400:52:05Tap to summarizeA journalist once asked Guy Lawrence why some people meditate every day and are still dickheads. He didn't have a clean answer. This episode is that answerGuy Lawrence breaks down why your nervous system is the actual gatekeeper of spiritual transformation and why no amount of meditation, retreats, or inner work will stick if your body is still running old survival patterns. This conversation goes deeper than mindset into the biology of why spiritual growth gets blocked at the cellular level.What you'll learn:Why fluency in your patterns isn't the same as freedom from themHow your DNA literally opens or closes based on emotional stateWhat "memory without emotional charge" reveals about whether you've actually healedGuy Lawrence is a consciousness researcher and retreat facilitator who has worked with thousands of people across his live events and podcast. He's spent years studying the gap between having a spiritual experience and actually being changed by one.Find Guy's website and podcast and all links at: mindlove.com/446Want to do this nervous system work with real support around you? Join the free Mind Love Collective for the kind of intimate community where breakthroughs actually happen. mindlove.com/joinSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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