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 Healed Shame Still Comes Back | Frank Spinelli • 464
2w ago00:47:29Tap to summarizeWhat if the healing work you already did doesn't mean the shame is actually gone?Dr. Frank Spinelli breaks down why old shame can resurface years after you thought you'd worked through it, even after real therapy, real progress, and real proof you'd changed. This conversation goes past the idea that healing is something you finish into what it actually takes to live alongside shame long term, not just survive it once.What you'll learn:Why the critical voice in your head was never yoursHow trauma loops try to fix the past through repetitionWhy staying busy can mask shame for years at a timeThe daily practice that keeps old wounds from running the showDr. Frank Spinelli is a physician and author of The Shame Compass. He survived childhood abuse, later confronted his abuser as an adult, and built a framework for working with shame after his own healing cracked back open during the pandemic.Find Frank's book "The Shame Compass" and all links at: mindlove.com/464Ready to build a daily practice for working through your shame instead of white-knuckling it alone? Join the free Mind Love Collective for consistent transformation, one call a month all year. 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 Creative Block Is a Spiritual Closing | Charlotte Donlon • 463
3w ago00:46:59Tap to summarizeWhat if the thing keeping you from writing isn't discipline or time — it's that your creative life and your spiritual life are running on the same energy, and both are closing?Charlotte Donlon breaks down why most creative blocks aren't blocks at all — they're spiritual closings. And when you stop creating, it doesn't just affect your art. It affects everything: your mood, your relationships, your sense of self.What you'll learn:Why not writing makes you worse at everything elseHow your creative soul and spiritual life mirror each otherThe nourishing rhythms practice that replaces "write every day"Charlotte Donlon is an author, certified life coach, and trained spiritual director who has spent 15 years working at the intersection of creativity and contemplative spirituality. Her book Spiritual Direction for Writers offers a framework for writers who feel called to create but keep getting in their own way.Find Charlotte's book Spiritual Direction for Writers and all links at: mindlove.com/463Ready to nourish your creative soul 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 →How to Actually Want Sex Again | Kayna Cassard • 462
4w ago00:55:23Tap to summarizeWhy do so many people desperately want to want sex but can't get their body to go there?Kayna Cassard breaks down why the gap between wanting to want and actually wanting is a nervous system problem, not a desire problem. This conversation goes into the specific conditions your arousal system needs that nobody ever taught you about.What you'll learn:Why wanting to want sex keeps you stuck in a shame spiralThe difference between responsive desire and low libidoHow your sexual arousal system is a reward system, not a switchWhat your body actually needs before desire can show upKayna Cassard is a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified sex therapist who spent over a decade as a pelvic pain patient while specializing in sexual health. She created the Arousal Architecture framework after thousands of client hours revealed that most people aren't broken... they just don't know what their system actually needs.Find Kayna's book "Arousal Architecture" and all links at: mindlove.com/462Ready to figure out what your arousal system actually needs with people doing the same work? Join the free Mind Love Collective for just one themed call a month and real support when you need 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 →The Real Reason You Can't Explain Who You Truly Are | Anita Stubenrauch • 461
Jul 700:51:20Tap to summarizeAre you describing yourself, or are you actually revealing yourself?Anita Stubenrauch breaks down why the language you reach for first is almost always the thing keeping you smaller than you are. This conversation goes beyond voice and messaging into the pre-language charge that exists inside you before you've found words for it, and why giving it the wrong words too soon is how you lose it.What you'll learn:Why the truest things about you are the hardest to describeHow to find the electric charge inside you before language limits itWhy your bio, your pitch, and your self-description are all borrowed frameworks you never questionedAnita Stubenrauch is a visionary creative and former Apple speechwriter who authored Apple's Credo. She now works with founders, executives, authors, and changemakers to uncover ideas with the greatest potential and give them language that actually carries the charge.All links from this episode at: mindlove.com/461Ready to find the words that actually fit who you are right now? 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 Worst Decisions Aren't a Character Flaw | Dr. Izzy Justice• 460
Jun 3000:57:39Tap to summarizeWhat if everything you've blamed on your personality or your willpower is actually just your brain running at the wrong frequency?Dr. Izzy Justice has done over 22,000 functional brain scans, and what he's found challenges almost everything we've been taught about why we make the choices we make. This conversation goes beyond mindset advice into the actual electrical activity inside your brain — and what you can do to change it in seconds, not months.What you'll learn:Why your worst decisions have nothing to do with your characterHow brain noise is stealing your memory, creativity, and presenceThe neurohack that outperforms 20 minutes of meditationDr. Izzy Justice is a neuroscientist and performance coach who has spent decades studying functional brain states in elite athletes and executives. His book Life Explained: Chasing 10 Hertz became a bestseller by making brain science actually usable.Find Dr. Izzy's book Life Explained and all links at: mindlove.com/460Ready to work on your brain state with real accountability? 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 You Can’t Hate Yourself Into Changing | Jessica Ortner• 459
Jun 2300:53:48Tap to summarizeHow many times have you understood exactly why you do something and still couldn’t stop doing it?Jessica Ortner breaks down why self-knowledge alone can’t override a nervous system in survival mode, and why the missing piece isn’t more willpower or better habits. It’s safety. This conversation goes beyond the usual tapping explainer into the actual neuroscience of why your body keeps running patterns your mind has already rejected.What you’ll learn:Why understanding your patterns doesn’t stop themHow tapping sends a biological signal of safety your nervous system actually responds toWhy self-sabotage is misguided self-love, not a character flawJessica Ortner is co-founder of The Tapping Solution and co-author of Rewired, the most research-backed book on EFT tapping to date. She’s spent 19 years studying why people stay stuck despite doing all the right things.Find Jessica’s book Rewired and all links at: mindlove.com/459Ready to work on your nervous system patterns with real support? Join the free Mind Love Collective for monthly themed calls and weekly challengeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcribe →“Spiritual But Not Religious" Is Keeping You Shallow | Liz Bucar • 458
Jun 1600:51:33Tap to summarizeWhat if leaving religion behind is actually what's keeping your spiritual life shallow?Liz Bucar breaks down why the "spiritual but not religious" identity — however well-intentioned — strips away the very container that makes practices actually work. This conversation goes beyond deconstruction into what gets lost when we cut community, ethics, and history out of our spiritual lives.What you'll learn:Why your spiritual practices may have hidden adverse effectsHow religious containers make practices more ethical and effectiveWhy dissolving ego alone is a contradiction in termsLiz Bucar is a religious studies scholar and author whose research focuses on wellness practices and their overlooked religious roots. Her book Beyond Wellness examines what gets lost when spiritual practices get extracted from their original context.Find Liz's book "Beyond Wellness" and all links at: mindlove.com/458Ready to go deeper into your spiritual practices with people who actually 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 →Your Birth Chart Is Your Soul's Unfinished Business | Gaia's Richard Wisniewski • 457
Jun 901:02:39Tap to summarizeWhat did most people think astrology was supposed to tell them — and what does it actually reveal about why they keep repeating the same patterns?Richard James breaks down why most people are using astrology to confirm who they already think they are, and why that's exactly what's keeping them stuck. This conversation goes beyond sun signs and horoscope apps into the soul-level map your chart was always meant to be.What you'll learn:Why your sun sign is the least important part of your chartWhat your South Node reveals about unresolved karma from past livesHow every planetary transit is an invitation to grow, not a warning to fearWhy fear-based astrology apps are designed to keep you anxious and clickingRichard James is an evolutionary astrologer and host of Starcast Weekly on Gaia. He's spent years helping people use their birth charts not as personality labels but as maps of the soul's specific work in this lifetime.Find Richard at richardjamesastrology.com and all links at: mindlove.com/457Ready to stop reading your chart like a horoscope and start reading it like a soul contract? 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 Brain Is Designed for Flow (But This Hijacks It) | Christy Whitman • 456
Jun 200:58:37Tap to summarizeIf you feel like you've been doing the inner work for years and you still keep getting knocked out of flow — this episode is going to explain why.Christy Whitman breaks down what's actually hijacking your natural state and why it happens at the worst possible moments, right when you're closest to your next level. This conversation goes way beyond the peak performance version of flow most people talk about. We get into the real mechanism — what's happening neurologically and energetically when one thought sends you spiraling, and how your own survival brain is the thing standing between you and the life you're trying to build.What you'll learn:Why judgment triggers fight-or-flight and pulls you out of flowHow your desires are actually designed to surface your blocks firstThe 90-second process for moving through a bushwhack and getting back into alignmentChristy Whitman is a New York Times bestselling author and founder of the Quantum Success Coaching Academy. She's spent over 20 years teaching the energetic principles behind why people stay stuck even when they think they're doing everything right.Find Christy's book "The Flow Factor" and her free 30-day word program at watchyourwords.com — and all links at: mindlove.com/456Ready to do this work alongside people who actually get it? Join the free Mind Love Collective for real accountability and a community that won't let you stay stuck. 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 Struggle to Find Deep Connection | Michael Trainer • 455
May 2601:16:50Tap 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.
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