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Sol Rising

Sol Rising

By: Amanda McKoy Flanagan
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Sol Rising: All In on Love, Loss, and Connection is a bi-weekly podcast where you will hear candid, honest, vulnerable conversations sure to pull at your heart strings and enlighten your soul! Conversations revolve around our basic, fundamental, human instinct for connection. Amanda and her guests explore how emotions—pain, fear, loss, and grief, as well as joy, excitement, happiness, and love—work to either create connection or to hinder it, personally in relationships and collectively out in the world. It's time to let your soul rise!2025 Relationships Social Sciences
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  • S5E14 The Great Awakening with Vialet B. Rayne
    Sep 4 2026

    Can you feel it? Has the energy of collective awakening reached you? Are you curious about those nudges you're feeling, the signs you're getting, and all this consciousness talk? Yes? Then this is the episode for you!

    Join Amanda and her guest, Vialet B. Rayne, Spiritual Educator, speaker, author, podcast host, and psychic medium for a high-level conversation about the mass awakening happening right now and how you can step into what you are feeling called to become.

    These two spiritual friends also discuss:

    🔥 Signs that you are on the cusp of an awakening

    🔥 Why it's scary to step into awakening and how to move through the fear

    🔥 What it looks like to step into awakening vs. avoiding it (escapism)

    🔥 Questions you might start asking yourself during an awakening

    🔥 What it feels like in your body when something feels right or wrong

    🔥 The egos place in awakening and how to put it in its place when it tries to convince you to stay safe

    🔥 The importance of spiritual teachers keeping their egos in check and remaining teachable and humble

    Vialet B Rayne is the founder of Discover Your Spiritual Gifts and Sacred Temple Mystery School. With a background that bridges higher education, business leadership, intuitive development, and energy healing, she has dedicated her life to helping individuals awaken their spiritual gifts, deepen their connection to Spirit, and live with greater purpose and authenticity. Vialet is the host of the award-winning Sacred Magic Podcast, recipient of the 2024 COVR Gold Award, and has guided thousands of students through classes, workshops, certifications, and mystery school teachings focused on consciousness, healing, intuition, and spiritual empowerment. Her mission is simple: to create sacred spaces where people feel seen, empowered, connected, and supported on their spiritual journey.

    Visit Vialet's main website.From there, you can link to her other sites.

    Listen to the Sacred Magic Podcast

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    Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com

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    38 mins
  • S5E13 Gettin' Griefy with Kera Sanchez
    Aug 21 2026

    Has the loss of someone or something close to you radically changed your life? Has it changed the way you view death and/or the spirit world? Do you believe that "Grief sucks but life doesn't have to?"

    Kera Sanchez, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Get Griefy Magazine does! Join Amanda and this rock star changemaker for a great conversation about how even though loss events can be brutal, you don't have to suffer forever—in fact, you can grieve and laugh at the same time!

    Their fun and lively conversation also explores:

    🔥Why creators need to take risks that may trigger people and say things that result in backlash in order to stay true to our mission

    🔥The serendipitous spirit-led moments that occur right before a person dies—they, or you, say something or do something that is a bit out of character yet necessary

    🔥How tragic events can serve us if we choose to attach a personal meaning to them

    🔥How to recognize a nudge to do something in alignment with your soul

    🔥Spiritual ideas around grief and the afterlife are now being discussed in real and relatable language and the importance of people in the grief space being consciously aware of how the messages are received by the mainstream

    🔥The difference between toxic positivity and hope

    🔥The need for a different type of grief support as time passes vs. the acute phase, and respecting everyone's individual place on the continuum of grief.

    Following the unexpected death of her mother in 2022, Kera Sanchez channeled her personal experience with loss into meaningful resources for others navigating grief. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Get Griefy Magazine and the Get Griefy Small Business Collective, she is the also the author of two guided journals, Legacy Letters and No Legacy Lost, both created to help individuals preserve memories, honor loved ones and process their grief journeys.

    A former high school educator, Kera now dedicates her work to grief advocacy and education. She is also the founder of Grief U for EDU, a professional development program designed to equip secondary educators with the tools and understanding needed to support grieving students and colleagues.

    In recognition of her impact, Kera was named the 2025 People's Choice Grief Educator of the Year by Talk Death. Through her writing, teaching, and advocacy, she champions a simple but powerful philosophy: grief sucks—life doesn't have to.

    Follow Kera on Instagram, LinkedIn,Facebook and YouTube

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    Read the magazine, become a member, and learn about the Small Business Collective here

    Sol Rising is also on YouTube. Check it out!

    Follow Sol Rising on Instagram

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    Get Amanda's book, Trust Yourself to Be All In on Amazon or amandamckoyflanagan.com

    Sign up for Amanda's monthly newsletter to receive your free guide, 5 Pillars for an Empowered Life After Loss on her website

    Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com

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    44 mins
  • S5E12 Radical Responsibility with Casey Stevens
    Jun 26 2026

    Do you take responsibility for the events that unfold in your life? Are you blaming the world and its people or focusing the lens internally, magnifying ways in which you contribute to your struggles? And do you believe you have the power to tap into higher consciousness as a pathway to change your circumstances?

    Join Amanda and her guest Casey Stevens, a spiritual psychotherapist who bridges the worlds of science and spirit for a conversation that will either make you think twice about your power to create the life you want or ground you deeper into the awareness that you've always been your answer!

    The ladies also discuss:

    🔥 The obligation we have to shift from an "external orientation" to internal to benefit our soul's growth as well as the collective

    🔥 Witnessing areas of your life where you are suffering and deciding what you are willing to do about it

    🔥 The importance of remembering your "why" when healing gets hard, and it will

    🔥 The great awakening that is here right now—a DNA upgrade and spinal cord recalibration (aka Christ Consciousness)—a pathway to awakening intuition and self-awareness

    🔥 The constant evolution of the soul and the requirement to continue expanding the capacity of your nervous system to hold it

    🔥 How relationships trigger moments that indicate it's time for more work

    🔥 For practitioners: The importance of meeting clients where they are and allowing intuition to guide the session rather than showing up with an agenda

    Follow Casey on Instagram and visit her website to learn how to work with her.

    About Casey

    Spiritual psychotherapist Casey Stevens believes all people desire and deserve to experience love, inner peace and live a healthy, prosperous, joyful life. She guides clients to optimize their unique human potential through healing Self-awareness, patterns of human behavior and Consciousness. Through her holistic and clinical multi-dimensional approach, she helps clients cultivate a deep connection with their sacred inner wisdom so they may lead an awakened, meaningful life.

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    Sol Rising is also on YouTube. Check it out!

    Follow Sol Rising on Instagram

    Follow Amanda on Instagram

    Get Amanda's book, Trust Yourself to Be All In on Amazon or amandamckoyflanagan.com

    Sign up for Amanda's monthly newsletter to receive your free guide, 5 Pillars for an Empowered Life After Loss on her website

    Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com

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    43 mins
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