Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening
Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach
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Mind Love is a podcast that explores consciousness, spirituality, and science for those seeking deeper understanding. Hosted by Melissa Monte, it blends sacred wisdom with scientific insights to help listeners rewire their minds and reclaim their voices. The show features conversations that challenge dogma and encourage personal growth, offering tools for inner transformation. It is a top-ranked podcast with over 500 episodes and has won Podcast of the Year.
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Why Healed Shame Still Comes Back | Frank Spinelli • 464 28.07.2026 47Min.What 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Your Creative Block Is a Spiritual Closing | Charlotte Donlon • 463 21.07.2026 46Min.What 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
How to Actually Want Sex Again | Kayna Cassard • 462 14.07.2026 55Min.Why 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
The Real Reason You Can't Explain Who You Truly Are | Anita Stubenrauch • 461 07.07.2026 51Min.Are 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Your Worst Decisions Aren't a Character Flaw | Dr. Izzy Justice• 460 30.06.2026 57Min.What 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Why You Can’t Hate Yourself Into Changing | Jessica Ortner• 459 23.06.2026 53Min.How 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 challenge See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
“Spiritual But Not Religious" Is Keeping You Shallow | Liz Bucar • 458 16.06.2026 51Min.What 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Your Birth Chart Is Your Soul's Unfinished Business | Gaia's Richard Wisniewski • 457 09.06.2026 1Std. 2Min.What 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Your Brain Is Designed for Flow (But This Hijacks It) | Christy Whitman • 456 02.06.2026 58Min.If 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Why You Struggle to Find Deep Connection | Michael Trainer • 455 26.05.2026 1Std. 16Min.Why 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Why You Never Feel Like a 'Good Enough' Daughter | Dr. Allison Alford• 454 19.05.2026 59Min.Why 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Your Church Taught You Self-Loathing on Purpose | Paul Davis • 453 12.05.2026 56Min.Why 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Why Silencing Your Inner Critic Makes It Louder | Dr. Cindy McGovern • 452 05.05.2026 54Min.Why 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Your Anger Is the Key to Your Psychic Channel | Aycee Brown • 451 28.04.2026 50Min.What 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Every "End Times" Prophecy Is a Mental Rehearsal | Gaia's Sarah Elkhaldy • 450 21.04.2026 59Min.What 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Every UFO Sighting Is a Shamanic Initiation | Gaia's Joshua Golembeske • 449 14.04.2026 54Min.What 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Stop Being "Chill" on Dating Apps: Why You Must Be Ruthless | Jennie Young • 448 07.04.2026 55Min.What 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Your Indoor Life Is as Deadly as 15 Cigarettes a Day | John La Puma • 447 31.03.2026 56Min.What 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
Your Nervous System Is Blocking Your Spiritual Growth | Guy Lawrence • 446 24.03.2026 52Min.A 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/join See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. -
How to Find Safety When the World Feels Like It’s on Fire | Dr. Deepika Chopra • 445 17.03.2026 1Std.How the hell do you practice optimism when you have no control and no answers?Dr. Deepika Chopra breaks down why real optimism isn't about staying positive when life is perfect—it's what you build when everything falls apart. This conversation goes beyond toxic positivity into the actual neuroscience of resiliency and why sensitive people might have an advantage you've never considered.What you'll learn:Why optimism is built in struggle, not blissHow to use your sensitivity as strength, not weaknessThe "to-da list" that rewires your brain for self-masteryDr. Deepika Chopra is a clinical psychologist known as "The Optimism Doctor." She's spent her career studying the gap between blanket positivity and what actually helps people survive hard things. Her research focuses on real optimism as a skill that gets cultivated through struggle, not handed to you through privilege.Find Deepika's book "The Power of Real Optimism" and all links at: mindlove.com/445Ready to build real optimism with consistent support? Join the free Mind Love Collective for monthly themed calls and weekly challenge accountability. mindlove.com/join See 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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