From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Human Design and Nature: How to Harness Your Energy and Do What You Love 29.05.2026 50min

In today’s episode, it’s the end of May, Rachel’s energy is buzzing, and things are happening all around! Rachel talks about the momentum that this month brings to the Scandinavians, and just how that momentum has met her: it’s come bearing so many ideas and epiphanies.Rachel has been initiating a million things lately, and she talks about different projects she has going on the farm, how her day looks juggling the store, podcast, garden, gym, and being a mom, and what her human design tells her about the way she works. It all culminated into a realization: she’s spent so much time in the garden lately that she hasn’t had any time for real work. But what if spending time in the garden is the real work? What if nature can provide everything that we are looking for? This is a positive episode filled with inspiration and the chance to cultivate a life that meets your needs and uplifts you. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Story Time: Surgery, Fear of Death, and a Dysregulated Nervous System 22.05.2026 1t 3min

If you are a mother, you probably know the feeling of fear well. In today’s episode, Rachel talks about the biggest trauma her nervous system is still experiencing today - the fear of something happening to her children. Lea had surgery this week which was a huge experience for their entire family. Rachel shares the entire story from start to finish, and beautifully puts the terror moms can feel into words. It’s a vulnerable episode about the root cause of our fears, a mother’s never-ending love, and how to regulate your nervous system when the ground beneath you feels shaky. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Introducing Family Lore 20.05.2026 3min

Family Lore is a weekly narrative podcast that celebrates and investigates ancestral mystique. Each episode begins with a guest sharing a fascinating family legend, followed by a historical deep-dive to uncover the truth and meaning behind the tale. Available now: link.pscrb.fm/f0281/FLFD To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ask Rachel: How to (really) Build Confidence in Your Kids 15.05.2026 53min

Can we build confidence in our children? Or is confidence something they have to figure out for themselves? This episode brings us another segment of Ask Rachel, where Rachel answers questions from listeners that have called in. She shares her future vision and dreams for the store at Ala Farms and how to deal with roosters so they don’t ruin your life. Then she answers a really beautiful question on how to build confidence in our children- especially if they are very sensitive. The answer may not be in lifting them up and talking about how perfect they are, but instead being a safe place for them to lean into their insecurities and find their own footing. It’s a fun and open episode that will lift you up and inspire you to love hard and reach for your dreams. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Initiating, Resting and Life as a Side Quest 08.05.2026 50min

In today’s episode of From the Heart, Rachel shares her process of getting things done and how she stays productive in her daily life. It looks a lot like this: manifesting with the energy of a thousand suns, side questing on the way to another side quest, and then falling apart on the couch with a tub of ice cream once all is said and done. We all have different ways that we generate and create. But it all comes down to how we can rest and recover. Do you know what true rest looks like? Are you depleting yourself more than you’re filling yourself up? This is a fun episode of story-telling (and even some duck poop) that will inspire you to work hard, rest hard, and keep building the life that reflects you. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Absurdity of the World, Prepping, and Why You Need To Rely On Yourself 01.05.2026 58min

In today’s episode, Rachel shares many opposing thoughts that we are all thinking right now: the world is absurd, crazy and scary - but the world is also full of so many beautiful things. Everywhere we look there is war, genocide, starvation, and terrifying men in positions of power. But there are also children laughing, flowers blooming, and ducks in Rachel’s house! How can these polarities exist at once? And even more so, how can we find happiness and joy amidst the chaos and uncertainty? Whatever you are doing to take care of yourself right now is beautiful. Whether that looks like small self-care practices or prepping a bunker for the apocalypse (Rachel shares a bit more of her journey here, too!), it all counts. At the end of the day, the only one coming to save you is you. Tune in for an episode that will empower you to remember that you are the one you have been waiting for. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Would You Choose The Man, The Bear… Or a Woman? 24.04.2026 52min

In today’s episode, Rachel answers a very specific question: does she hate men? The answer to this is… no, not all men. But the truth is, the male population as a whole is not giving women a lot to feel confident in right now. From charlatans in the healing space preying on the vulnerable, to the lack of prosecutions resulting from the Epstein files, and the shocking rape academy online, we live in a misogynistic system that is meant to protect men and allow women to be harmed and abused. But what can we actually do about it? This episode is a call for all of us - especially the “good men” out there - to step up and make a change. Have the hard conversations with your friends, say something when you see something, and don’t lay down and accept things as they are. We must make a change for our wives, our sisters, and our daughters - and it starts with doing the work in mundane moments of our own lives. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

BONUS: Improve Your Mindset, Feel Magnetic, and Create Your Dream Life 23.04.2026 1t 6min

If you want to try Activations, now is the perfect time. Visit activations.com/rachel for more. When you envision your most authentic self, who do you see? What is that person like? What are their daily habits? How do they feel? In this bonus episode, we are re-releasing one of our favorite past episodes with Mimi Bouchard, the creator of Activations. Mimi transformed her life from one of self-hate and drug use to living her fullest potential, and she is here to share how you can do it too. Together Rachel and Mimi discuss the science behind manifestation, the importance of getting to know yourself, how to embody the feeling of your future self, and Mimi’s simple two-step formula to transformation. Ultimately, it comes down to shaping your self-image to align with your core beliefs, training your brain to notice opportunities, and living your future now. You don’t have to wait one more minute. Tune in for an insightful episode that will help you design the life of your dreams. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Decades of Life and How to Appreciate Each One 17.04.2026 47min

Does it feel like time is just moving quicker and quicker? Are you yearning to slow down the clock and enjoy each moment as it comes your way? In today’s episode, Rachel is about to celebrate her husband’s 40th birthday. After meeting in their twenties, having two children, and spending decades together - this feels like a big milestone. Rachel shares her thoughts on growing older as she takes a trip down memory lane. With every passing year it feels like time is moving faster. How can we slow it down? How can we appreciate each decade as it comes our way (and especially the challenging ones with young children)? One day we will look back and miss it all. This episode will have you feeling nostalgic and remind you to appreciate every single moment - because it’s all we have. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Prepping For The End of The World (And For Everyday Life) 10.04.2026 57min

What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and had no power? Or the grocery stores had no food? Or there wasn’t any clean water anymore? What would you do if all of a sudden you were expected to live a completely different lifestyle than you are used to? Can we really rely on the government or anyone else to take care of us? In today’s episode, Rachel talks about prepping for the end of the world. Over the past couple of months, she has felt a deep urge to protect her family and be ready for a potential crisis. She discusses her beliefs growing up in Sweden, and how they have changed over the years and after experiencing Covid. Then she shares real actions her family have taken to feel less panicked and more ready for anything that may come our way. Ultimately, the goal is to feel grounded and taken care of - with that power coming from you instead of anywhere else. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How Gardening Changed My Life (and why you should grow your own food, too!) 03.04.2026 1t

Today’s episode will inspire you to put your hands in the soil and grow something. Rachel shares her entire history with gardening, from how she got started to her intuitive process now. The beautiful thing about gardening is that you can just begin, and nature will take it from there. Tending to a little plot of land has changed Rachel’s life for the better. This daily work of time spent in the garden working with her hands is shifting something so primal inside of her - and showing her maybe there is another way to live. Maybe growing our own foods is the way out of the existing system that is draining us and taking us away from our children. If we want something to change, we have to be that change. You can start right now by growing some food. Tune in to get inspired. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ask Rachel: Behind Everything, There’s a Mother 27.03.2026 1t 5min

It’s time for another Ask Rachel episode of the podcast - and the questions that came today were really incredible. It was a very mother-centered episode, with guests asking about setting boundaries with their mothers, how to find moments of self-care when you’re a new mother, and how we can really make a change in the world when we are so immersed with raising our kids. Rachel also opens up about a topic she doesn’t speak on much - her relationship with her own mother. It’s a very intimate episode focused on the people who hold so much, and somehow continue to keep giving. Tune in to open your heart. If you have a question for Rachel, you can call her at +1(720) 443-1771. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to Becoming You with Suzy Welch 23.03.2026 2min

Are you standing at a crossroads? Today, we’re sharing Becoming You, hosted by the brilliant Suzy Welch. Known for her wildly popular self-discovery class at NYU, Suzy is the guide we all need when the "big life questions" start feeling heavy. Find Becoming You with Suzy Welch everywhere you get your podcasts. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spring Equinox: A Ritual to Find Balance, Air Things Out, and Set Your Intention 20.03.2026 44min

Happy Spring Equinox! Today marks the balancing of night and day, the halfway point between winter and summer solstice, a new astrological year, and of course, the first day of spring. With this untapped potential, this episode offers you a full practice and ritual. It’s an opportunity to grab your journal and pen, reflect on what happened to you over the winter, and manifest what you want to invite into the new season. It’s time to metaphorically air things out and plant new seeds. Spring brings things to life, it allows for new opportunities, and it holds the potential for so much change. Let’s not waste it! By the end of the practice you will have journaled with Rachel, set a clear intention, and planted a prayer to mark this fresh new season. Click here to listen to BABIECA! by Guitarricadelafuente To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Arrival of Spring: What Unfinished Business Do You Have? 13.03.2026 43min

As spring inches closer, Rachel has a personal realization about this time of year: it is always filled with a mixture of grief and celebration. With her daughter’s birthday and the anniversary of her best friend’s passing both taking place, there are always many conflicting feelings being felt at the same time. This week brought its share of challenges - but did the universe do that on purpose so all the feelings could be felt? Rachel shares the entire story. From losing her beloved chicken Lotta, to taking care of Ringo after his surgery, and Finn experiencing a burst ear drum, Rachel’s attention has been on the care of those that she loves. What is demanding your attention right now? What unfinished business do you have as spring approaches? If you’re holding a lot of everything right now, this episode will help you know where to shift your energy - and what deserves your love and attention. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Making Joy a Priority: The Farm Store, Garden Updates, and Working Towards A Dream 06.03.2026 51min

Welcome to another episode of From the Heart. Today Rachel begins with a meditation - something all our hearts need - to settle into the moment and open ourselves up to receive. When the world feels dark, when our days feel like a never-ending to-do list, we have to make sure that we are making joy a priority in the small moments we have for ourselves. There is no other way to carry on. Rachel talks about how she is leaning into joy as her life accelerates. Spring is getting closer, she’s preparing to open her farm store, lead a retreat and fulfill her own garden projects, and all these activities are keeping her anchored in joy. You have full permission to appreciate the beauty you have in your life. It’s the only way you can exist alongside the darkness of the world and be part of the change. At the end of the show, Rachel gives an update on Ringo after his recent surgery. Tune in for a fun episode filled with life updates, dreams, and joy as rebellion. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are We Living The Apocalypse? And How to Survive the Patriarchy 27.02.2026 51min

Maybe the apocalypse isn’t what you see in the movies. It’s not power grids collapsing, fires burning everywhere, and zombies coming for us all. Instead, it looks like society being okay with abuse and asking us all to move on. In today’s episode, Rachel has entered a new level of feminine RAGE. She talks more about the abuse women and children suffer at the hands of men and the micro-aggressions from non abusers that keep us all from holding the bad men accountable. It’s time for the men to step up. Rachel’s shares hard conversations she’s had with her own husband and how you can speak to your partner about what a just and equitable world looks like. If we are going to survive the patriarchy, we need our men to listen. Tune in for an emotional and fiery episode that may be the spark we need. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Epstein Files, Feminine Rage, and Toppling the Patriarchy 20.02.2026 49min

With the Epstein files and all the atrocities that they hold coming to light, we can no longer be silent and complacent in a world built on patriarchy, pedophilia, and women as second class citizens. In today’s episode, Rachel unpacks her own experience diving into the realities of the files. As a mother, as a woman, and as a business owner, she shares stories of people she almost worked with that were in the files, and experiences from when she was young that shaped her. If you are not feeling the rage then you are not listening. Tune in for an episode that will inspire you to look closely at the fabric of the society we live in and know in your heart: it’s time to burn it all to the ground. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Intuitive Parenting: When to Set Boundaries, Ask for Advice, and Lead with Love 13.02.2026 45min

If you’re a parent, you may have heard a million different theories on how to best raise children. But here’s the thing: none of those people have ever been in your shoes and they’ve never raised your kids. In today’s episode, Rachel talks about parenting from intuition and from your own lived experience. Do we really need advice from experts, ChatGPT, or a hundred parenting books telling us what to do, or is this something we just innately know? Is it okay to lecture other people’s kids? Can we be friends with our kids or do we always have to be that authoritarian figure? Maybe parents don’t need more boxes to check on the parenting checklist. Maybe they just need more support so they can do what they already know how to do. Tune in for an episode that will guide you on your own journey in parenthood and remind you to always lead with love and compassion. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ask Rachel: The Biggest Love That Could Ever Exist 06.02.2026 1t 6min

It’s time for another episode of Ask Rachel. Today’s show brings with it a beautiful mix of deep questions from listeners. How can we handle the intense anxiety, fear and intrusive thoughts that come with having a new child and thinking something bad may happen to them? Is there anything we can do to lessen the burden of losing our pets? In a world filled with so many horrible things, how can we regulate our nervous systems and make it through the day feeling somewhat whole? It’s an episode that will help you meet your dreams, live fully, and most of all: love as deeply as you can possibly love. Tune in to hear it. If you have a question for Rachel, call her at +1(720) 443-1771. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices