Episode Description

In this powerful episode, Joshua and Adina talk with Success Coach Erica Carrico about her transformation from corporate burnout to building a multi-million dollar soul-aligned business. Erica's story demonstrates the life-changing power of remembering your true self.

Despite doing all the "right" things, Erica wasn't fulfilled. Then, at age 36, life delivered a powerful wake-up call: a kidney cancer diagnosis. Through this experience, she received the spiritual download that became her catalyst for transformation—leaving her job, ending her marriage, moving states, and starting her coaching business from a hospital bed.

In this episode, Erica shares her methodology for helping others discover their purpose. Now working with coaches and healers worldwide, Erica emphasizes that successful purpose-driven businesses must come from authentic passion. Key insights:

• Authenticity over templates: Finding your unique approach
• Maintaining focus: Avoiding comparison and staying true to your medicine
• Surrender and trust: Being a vessel rather than forcing outcomes

Key Takeaways

• Your pain can become your purpose through healing work
• Success comes from being more yourself, not copying others
• We all have original medicine that the world needs
• Building a business from the heart is necessary for sustainable success

Whether you're stuck in an unfulfilling career or seeking to live more authentically, Erica shows that with courage and inner trust, transformation is possible.

Connect with Erica at ericacarrico.com or @ericalyncarrico

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

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Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.

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Episode Description:
We didn’t plan it this way—but it was perfect. Season 9 begins with Josh and Adina pressing “record” right in the middle of a personal check-in, and what unfolded was a raw, unfiltered entry into the heart of this season’s theme: the dance of the masculine and feminine.

This spontaneous, alive conversation invites you into the sacred tension between structure and flow, logic and intuition, doing and being.

🌀 In this episode, we explore:

• What it means to let go of rigid strategies and allow the feminine to lead with slowness, receptivity, and intuition
• How to integrate the masculine as structure and protection—without dominance or burnout
• The cultural fears around the feminine: sensitivity, slowness, the unknown
• How relationships, conflict, and sexuality can become portals for healing and wholeness
• Stories, dreams, and archetypes that reveal the beauty of embracing both darkness and light

This was one of our most organic and alive recordings yet—a real-time reflection of the balance we were speaking to. It’s a deep breath, an invitation to slow down, and a call to listen differently.

Let this be your initiation into Season 9—a sacred space where presence, honesty, and integration light the fire we gather around.

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If you enjoyed this episode, please share it. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate and subscribe.

Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.

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Episode Summary:

In this candid and illuminating conversation, Joshua and Adina sit down with Ann Russo, psychotherapist, educator, and founder of AMR Therapy, to explore the deep intersections of sexuality, spirituality, mental health, and social justice. Drawing from her own non-traditional upbringing and an MA in theology, Ann shares her pioneering work in religious trauma treatment and her passion for creating inclusive spaces for healing. Together, they unpack themes of liberation from spiritual abuse, embracing authentic identity, and navigating the complexities of intimacy and self-expression.

Topics Covered:

• Healing from religious trauma and spiritual abuse
• Queer identity, non-monogamy, and sexual empowerment
• Dismantling stigma at the intersection of sexuality and spirituality
• The importance of inclusive mental health care
• Creating space for authenticity and self-liberation
• How personal healing ripples into cultural transformation
• Building compassionate frameworks for clinicians and clients
• Reclaiming wholeness through education, advocacy, and community

Guest:

Ann Russo
Psychotherapist • Educator • Founder of AMR Therapy • Creator of the Religious Trauma Treatment Model

Ann Russo is a psychotherapist, educator, and founder of AMR Therapy. Raised in a diverse, non-traditional household, she brings lived expertise, radical compassion, and unapologetic education into every space she enters. With an MA in theology and deep roots in social justice, Ann specializes in religious trauma, queer identity, non-monogamy, sexual empowerment, and inclusive mental health. She developed the Religious Trauma Treatment Model to empower both clients and clinicians in the healing process.

Website: amrtherapy.com; annrusso.org

Resource Mentioned:

Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá

Support the show

If you enjoyed this episode, please share it. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate and subscribe.

Adina Arden Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who prefers to refer to herself as a Shadow Guide and Soul Healing Specialist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Joshua Zamrin is a nomadic soul guide, somatic life coach, and sacred purpose mentor, deeply immersed in the realms of embodiment, shamanic wisdom, and mythopoetic exploration. With a background in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and compassionate communication, he weaves together ancient and modern practices to help others reconnect with their deepest truth. His work is rooted in rites of passage, initiation, and the sacred journey of becoming, drawing inspiration from indigenous traditions, soul-centered psychology, and the raw wisdom of nature.

@soulbodywholeness

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