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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The Real Reason You Can't Explain Who You Truly Are | Anita Stubenrauch • 461
1w ago00:51:20Tap 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
2w ago00:57:39Tap 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
3w ago00:53:48Tap 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
4w ago00:51:33Tap 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.
Transcribe →Why You Never Feel Like a 'Good Enough' Daughter | Dr. Allison Alford• 454
May 1900:59:04Tap 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
May 1200:56:01Tap 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
May 500:54:33Tap 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.
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