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Two indie authors with 20+ years in the trenches sit down to name names on the schemes targeting writers today — from fake editors quietly running manuscripts through ChatGPT, to vanity presses dressed up as book deals, to "we'll make you a bestseller" pitches that never deliver.

Each episode breaks down one scam in plain language: how it hooks you, the red flags that give it away, and what to do if you've already been caught. It's the conversation about publishing scams you wish someone had had with you before you learned the hard way.

What would it look like if we applied the same regard and rigor we give to scale, speed, and efficiency to empathy?

This journey includes a collection of nourishing, restorative conversations hosted on Substack Live and on various podcasts with fellow humans from all over the world. Echoing the stories of growth, grace and grit.

Over the years, I have interviewed many people who have been on their own journey of healing or who have helped heal others. I have also recorded many meditations to help with the healing process ... mainly by maintaining good health and enhanced well being.

So I thought it would be fun to interleave the two themes with an interview followed by a meditation.

What if dying is actually a skill? And what if most of us are completely unprepared for the one experience that is absolutely guaranteed to happen?

On this journey we sit down with Darnella Ford, award-winning author, trauma facilitator, and restorative guide, whose twenty-year journey into the non-physical began not with a spiritual calling, but with a breakup, a depression she couldn't shake, and a night of breathwork that sent her flying through a black void at incalculable speed.

What followed changed everything she thought she knew about life, death, consciousness, and what is waiting on the other side of that final breath.

Ask Your Guides on Peace: Conversations, Reflections & Guided Meditations

Peace means something different to each of us. In this collection of recorded LIVE events from the Ask Your Guides community, meditation teachers, healers, musicians, and spiritual guides from around the world come together to explore peace from many perspectives.

Through heartfelt conversations, personal stories, guided meditations, moments of silence, and reflections on inner and outer peace, these recordings invite you to pause, breathe, and reconnect with what matters most.

Whether you're seeking calm during a challenging time, inspiration for your spiritual journey, or simply a peaceful space to listen and reflect, these recordings offer wisdom, compassion, and connection.

Originally presented as live community gatherings, these audio tracks preserve the authentic energy of those shared moments while making them available whenever you need a peaceful pause.

To learn more about the guides featured in these recordings and discover ways to connect with them, visit: http://ayg.violet108.com/

Being an introvert doesn't mean staying silent—it means discovering your own authentic way to shine.

This collection brings together three LIVE conversations exploring the gifts, challenges, and quiet courage of introverts. Through personal stories and heartfelt discussions, we explore what it means to step beyond our comfort zones, share what we love, embrace vulnerability, and discover that meaningful connection doesn't require the loudest voice in the room.

Whether you're a lifelong introvert, highly sensitive, or simply learning to trust your own voice, these conversations offer encouragement, laughter, and the reminder that courage isn't the absence of fear—it's showing up anyway!

Featuring conversations with Kacey (radio personality and national podcaster), Kevin (MeditationSpaceOnline), Ahsa Marandi, Nicole Batiste, Taylor Holliday, Marion Dorval, and Violet 108.

To learn more about the guides featured in these recordings and discover ways to connect with them, visit: http://ayg.violet108.com/

Your future isn't created overnight—it unfolds through the intentions you set, the stories you tell yourself, and the actions you take each day.

This collection brings together four recorded LIVE conversations exploring the many paths to intentional living. Together, we dive into the transformative practices of scripting, manifestation, vision boards, and even a heart-opening cacao ceremony, discovering how mindfulness, creativity, gratitude, and purposeful action can help bring our dreams into reality.

Whether you're new to these practices or have been manifesting for years, these conversations offer inspiration, practical ideas, and heartfelt wisdom from a diverse community of meditation teachers and guides.

Includes:

• The Power of Scripting
• Manifesting
• Vision Boards
• Cacao & Scripting

To learn more about the guides featured in these recordings and discover ways to connect with them, visit: http://ayg.violet108.com

Every voice has a story. Every story has the power to inspire.

This collection brings together three recorded LIVE conversations from the Ask Your Guides series, featuring meditation teachers, authors, storytellers, and wisdom keepers from around the world. From the original "OG" gathering that launched the series, to an inspiring roundtable of beloved teachers, to an evening celebrating the art of storytelling, each conversation offers thoughtful insights, heartfelt moments, and meaningful conversations designed to uplift, encourage, and inspire.

Whether you're discovering these remarkable guides for the first time or reconnecting with familiar voices, these recordings invite you to slow down, listen deeply, and enjoy the wisdom that emerges when people come together with openness, curiosity, and compassion.

Includes:

• The OG! Edition
• Insights from Five Inspiring Teachers
• Storytellers Edition

To learn more about the guides featured in these recordings and discover ways to connect with them, visit: http://ayg.violet108.com

Your animal companion carries an energetic body that most people have never been taught about. Alongside the seven chakras they share with us, animals carry an eighth — the Brachial Chakra — a center unique to all animals and found in no human. It lives in the shoulder area of your animal's body, and it is the energetic seat of trust, of bonding, and of the sacred relationship between you.

In this talk, Sagittarius Way guides you through your animal's complete energy map — their eight major chakras, twenty-one minor sensory centers, and six bud chakras in their paws and ears. You will understand why animals seem to know things before we do, why they absorb our anxiety and grief, and what signs tell you their energy needs support. You will leave this talk with a new lens through which to love your animal — and an understanding of why they chose you. No prior experience with energy healing or chakras is needed. Only love for the animal in your life.

Music Weightless Food - Cora Zea

Does your dog startle at the smallest sound, or your cat seem distant and hard to reach some days? Animal behavior that feels confusing or hard to shift often has an energetic root. The same seven chakras that shape human emotion and vitality also run through your animal companion's body, and when one of these centers is blocked or overactive, it can show up as anxiety, withdrawal, restlessness, or a loss of trust.

Over seven Chakra's, this course walks you chakra by chakra, root to crown, so you can recognize exactly how each energy center shapes your animal's behavior, emotions, and vitality, and your own. Each day pairs a short teaching on that chakra's influence with a guided practice designed to release stagnant energy and restore calm and connection between you and your animal companion.

Whether you're a devoted pet guardian, an energy healer, an animal communicator, or simply someone who wants to understand your animal's subtle language more deeply, this course gives you practical, felt-sense tools you can return to again and again, not just information to read once and forget.

By the end, you'll recognize how grounding, safety, trust, communication, and spiritual connection move through your animal's energy field, and you'll have gentle, repeatable ways to support their healing while tending to your own. You'll walk away steadier, more attuned, and more confident in reading what your animal is really asking for.

Follow me here to stay updated on future courses, and if this work resonates with you, I'd be so grateful for a review. It helps this healing reach more hearts and paws.

A former US Navy Commander didn't abandon logic to find the afterlife. She brought it with her.

This journey follows Suzanne Giesemann's transformation from a rigid, evidence-demanding military officer to one of the most respected voices in modern mediumship, not through blind faith, but through discipline, questioning, and undeniable proof.

Across six guided segments, you'll move through the same arc Suzanne herself walked: from skepticism, to evidence, to daily practice, to peace. Each piece stands alone as its own short journey, and together they form a complete path for anyone who wants awakening without abandoning their critical mind.

What You'll Experience:

• Origin — How a career built on left-brain precision led to the most undeniable proof of her life
• Reframe — Why emptying your mind may be the very thing keeping you disconnected, and what to do instead
• Discovery — The moment she realized the gift she'd been dismissing as fanciful was real
• Release — How to face fear on the spiritual path without losing your center
• Practice — A three-minute daily ritual that requires no experience and no leap of faith
• Integration — How to hold your peace around people who don't believe a word of this

For those who want proof, not promises. For those who question everything, including their own experience. This is a path built for you.