Finding Harmony Podcast

Marie Manuchehri was a thirty-seven-year-old oncology nurse when, mid-task at a patient's bedside, her clairvoyance switched on — and never switched off. Thirty years later, she has spent more time than most of us at the edge between living and dying.

In this conversation with Harmony Slater and Russell Case, Marie explains why joy is the condition that opens intuition rather than the reward for it, how to tell a genuine knowing from ordinary fear, and what she has noticed in the rooms of people who were about to cross over. She also shares the moment she told her nursing supervisor what was happening to her — certain it would end her career.

Key takeaways:

Joy isn't a reward for doing the work — in Marie's model it's the condition that makes intuition possible

Intuition is a high-frequency state, which is why it goes quiet in fight-or-flight, where most people live

Fear is not intuition. If a message arrives with a story attached, it's coming from the mind

Her technique: deliberately move your energy down out of the brain and into the pelvis, so the third eye has room

Her abilities opened at 37, on a day shift she hadn't chosen, in a hospital she loved

She doesn't remember her sessions afterward, which she considers a mercy

"You can only love your neighbour as much as you love yourself"

For empaths: stay in your own lane, stay in your own joy, stop carrying the world

Marie Manuchehri is an intuitive, healer, and medium who began her healing career while working as an oncology nurse in a Seattle-area hospital. Her perceptions and her ability to move energy have assisted many people in healing their bodies.

Marie loves to educate those who are also on the healer's path, and teaches many courses focused on intuition and the awareness of energy — tools for recognising and understanding your own intuition, and for offering new perceptions to those seeking healing. She's devoted to teaching people about the real, positive impact their own psychic abilities can have on transforming their lives and their psychology, as well as the lives of others.

In her private practice, Marie cares for clients around the world, providing insight into their health concerns as well as mediumship to help them connect with loved ones on the Other Side. She hosts the bi-monthly Joyful Intuitive Podcast and is the author of Intuitive Self-Healing and How to Communicate with Your Spirit Guides.

Connect with Marie
Website: energyintuitive.com

Instagram: @MarieManuchehri

Facebook: @MarieManuchehri

YouTube: @MarieManuchehri — youtube.com/user/mariemanuchehri

Podcast: The Joyful Intuitive Podcast

Books: Intuitive Self-Healing · How to Communicate with Your Spirit Guides

 

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DISCLAIMER: This conversation is shared for educational and inspirational purposes and is not medical advice. Nothing discussed here is a substitute for diagnosis or treatment by a qualified healthcare provider. Please don't change a treatment plan without talking to your doctor.

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Harmony Slater and co-host Russell Case sit down with executive coach, theater artist, and University of Virginia lecturer Denise Stewart for a conversation about story, voice, and confidence.

With more than three decades of experience as an actor, playwright, and director, Denise now coaches CEOs, physicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, and university students on how to access their own stories — not a polished script, but the real, specific, unglamorous truth that actually connects.

Topics covered:

Why code-switching and accent shame shape how we show up to speak

The difference between a "vulnerable moment" and a "weak performance"

Why vague stories ("it was a hard time") lose an audience, and how to dig for the moment underneath

Aristotle's six elements of story — plot, character, spectacle, diction, music, and theme — as an entry point into your own history

"Story pulling" instead of storytelling: how to help someone else open up without interrogating them

Why some audiences need vulnerability and others need authority, and how to tell the difference

Protecting the stories you haven't "earned" the right to tell yet

How Denise coaches Tibetan entrepreneurs, neurosurgeons, and early-stage founders to pitch from story instead of platitude

About Denise Stewart: Denise Stewart is an executive coach and lecturer at the University of Virginia's Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, where she teaches public speaking, improv, and storytelling. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from UVA and has spent over 15,000 hours in public speaking and theatrical performance, including touring her one-woman show Dirty Barbie and Other Girlhood Tales to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her clients include entrepreneurs, physicians, scientists, and Fortune 500 teams.

Connect with Denise: denisestewartstudio.com | Instagram @swamphatchedbutterfly | Substack: The Last Nerve

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What happens when four days alone in the desert — no food, no phone, just water and a sleeping bag — bring you face to face with your own unconscious? Filmmaker Jan Becker joins Harmony and Russell to talk about Vision Quest, his documentary chronicling one of humanity's oldest rites of passage, and how a project that began with his friend Christian Oliver became something far more personal after Christian's sudden death.

Guest Bio

Jan Becker is a German-born filmmaker based in Los Angeles. After years working as a cinematographer, he turned to directing documentaries shaped by his long-standing interest in meditation, Jungian psychology, and trauma and recovery work. Vision Quest, his latest film, follows a small group — including his close friend, actor and filmmaker Christian Oliver [VERIFY] — through a traditional four-day, four-night fasting ritual in the high desert. What began as a passion project between friends became, after Christian's sudden death, a tribute to his memory and an exploration of grief, healing, and the questions that outlast us.

Connect with Jan

Website: visionquestfilm.com

Instagram: @vision_quest_movie

Watch: Vision Quest — pay-per-view on Amazon Prime & Google Play

Key Takeaways

A vision quest is four days and nights alone in nature with only water — an ancient rite of passage most modern people never experience.

Jan describes nature as communicating in images rather than words — a Jungian lens on the unconscious.

Grief can reshape a creative project's purpose without erasing its original intention.

Confidence and clarity often come after the discomfort, not before it.

Fear in isolation is usually the mind, not the environment, doing the talking.

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Kayse Gehret, founder of Microdosing for Healing, joins Harmony and Russell for an honest, wide-ranging conversation about using sub-perceptual doses of plant medicine as a tool for nervous-system regulation, emotional resilience, and self-trust. Kayse shares her own journey with a seizure disorder, the real difference between microdosing and macrodosing, how she helps clients find their personal “sweet spot,” and why she believes microdosing can be a Trojan horse for a completely different relationship with healing — one where you learn to trust your own body instead of outsourcing wellness to something external.

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This episode discusses psychedelic substances (psilocybin, LSD, mescaline/San Pedro, ayahuasca, DMT, and Amanita Muscaria) in the context of a personal microdosing practice, a teenage seizure disorder, and a decision to discontinue prescribed medication against medical guidance.

This content is educational and reflects one guest's personal experience — it is not medical advice, and no marketing copy below states or implies that microdosing treats, cures, or replaces prescribed treatment for any condition. 

The episode also includes paid-partner discount codes 

In This Episode:

The real difference between microdosing and macrodosing — and why structure matters

Kayse's personal journey with a seizure disorder and how her healing practice evolved

Why age, mindset, and creative temperament change how people respond to microdosing

Working with different medicines: psilocybin, LSD, Amanita Muscaria, and San Pedro/Huachuma

Couples who microdose together, and how it shows up in a relationship

The difference between a pharmaceutical model of healing and a microdosing protocol

How to recognize when you're intellectualizing instead of feeling during a journey

Kayse's facilitator training program and how to learn to hold this work for others

 

Guest Bio:

Kayse Gehret is the founder of Microdosing for Healing https://www.microdosingforhealing.com/professionaltraining - a group coaching practice and professional facilitator training program supporting people in using sub-perceptual doses of plant medicine for nervous-system regulation, emotional resilience, and spiritual growth. After healing her own teenage seizure disorder through a structured microdosing practice, she has since supported several hundred clients and now trains coaches, therapists, and facilitators through a 12-week certification program.

Connect with Kayse:

Website: microdosingforhealing.com
Podcast: Microdosing for Healing: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/microdosing-for-healing/id1685078335

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This episode includes paid-partner discount codes for Kayse's facilitator training program (HARMONY500) and Golden Rule Mushrooms (harmony10), companies Harmony partners with. 

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What if the reason you feel stuck, scattered, or stagnant isn’t something inside you — but the energy of the space you live in? In this episode, host Harmony Slater sits down with energy healer, medium, and author K. Margaret Solorio, creator of the Home Frequency Reset, to explore how the design, objects, and “energetic dust” of our homes quietly shape how we feel.

K. Margaret came to this work from an unlikely place: more than 20 years in biotechnology in the wine industry, until the upheaval of COVID cracked her life open and led her to meditation, Reiki, and eventually to clearing and resetting the energy of people’s homes — often remotely, without ever seeing the space. This is a warm, practical conversation for anyone doing a little summer clearing and longing to make their home feel calmer, lighter, and more their own.

In This Episode

Why the energy around us can affect us as much as the energy within us

The “energetic dust” that collects in our spaces — and how to clear it

How a remote home clearing actually works (blueprints, downloads, and the seven chakras mapped onto rooms)

Positive energetic anchors: why your bowls, towels, and favorite cup matter more than you think

The nature-light-air trio that comes up in every single clearing

Decluttering with grace — small 5–15 minute investments instead of overwhelming overhauls

Single-tasking, focused attention, and rewriting your relationship with time

How K. Margaret wrote her book in 15 minutes a day — and what it taught her about ease

Guest Bio
K. Margaret Solorio is an energy healer, medium, author, and the creator of the Home Frequency Reset. After more than two decades in biotechnology in the wine industry, a profound COVID-era awakening led her to meditation, Reiki, and mediumship, and to a calling that reaches beyond individuals into the spaces they inhabit. She helps people clear and reset the energy of their homes — often remotely — creating environments that feel calm, supportive, and aligned with the lives they long to create. She is the author of “Make Ease Your Vibe.”

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