Why Isn't Everyone Doing This? with Emily Fletcher

What does it actually mean to work with the divine feminine as a lived force?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, Emily sits down with Alana Fairchild, spiritual teacher and oracle creator, for a grounded, illuminating conversation about Isis, feminine power, truth, and rebirth.

Together, they explore the divine feminine as a source of creative intelligence, spiritual authority, and radical honesty. Not something symbolic or abstract, but something that requires courage, embodiment, and responsibility. Alana shares how archetypes like Isis and Kuan Yin carry distinct medicines for our time, and why real transformation asks us to love what is being revealed rather than bypass it.

The conversation moves through sacred sexuality, shadow, initiation, and the difference between power that dominates and power that restores. Midway through the episode, Emily and Alana open a shared prayer and oracle transmission, inviting listeners into a direct experience of reflection and remembrance.

This episode offers a deeper understanding of how feminine wisdom works, both personally and collectively, and how to stay rooted in love as truth surfaces.

If you are navigating change, revelation, or a sense that something ancient is returning, this conversation will help you meet it with clarity and steadiness.

Key Moments:
00:00:00 — Opening devotion & how Alana’s work became a living teacher
00:07:12 — The origin of Alana’s oracle work & feminine transmission
00:15:42 — Isis as power, rebirth, and uncompromising truth
00:24:30 — Sacred sexuality, wholeness, and feminine authority
00:33:10 — Shadow, initiation, and remembering who you are
00:45:10 — Live prayer & oracle transmission for listeners
00:54:12 — Truth being revealed — personally and collectively
01:05:40 — Loving what’s unveiled instead of bypassing it
01:17:10 — Closing reflections on devotion, resilience, and rebirth

About Alana Fairchild

Alana Fairchild is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, writer, and creator of over 20 oracle decks, including the Isis Oracle, Kuan Yin Oracle, and Sacred Rebels Oracle. Her work bridges mysticism, psychology, and embodied spirituality, offering pathways of healing, empowerment, and remembrance rooted in the divine feminine.

Discover Alana’s oracle decks and teachings:https://www.alanafairchild.com

Follow her work on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/alanafairchild

Where This Work Continues

The themes in this episode: embodiment, devotion, feminine power, and living initiation, are central to Ziva Level 3, an advanced container for integration and embodied leadership that includes initiatory experiences and pilgrimage work in Greece.

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What if your purpose isn’t something you need to find, but something you remember by letting go of who you thought you were supposed to be?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, Emily sits down with Sadhvi Bhagawati, spiritual leader, humanitarian, and longtime resident of Rishikesh, India, for a conversation that spans identity, dharma, devotion, service, and the quiet joy of surrender.

Sadhviji shares her journey from a successful Western life to answering an inner call that led her to the banks of the Ganges more than three decades ago, not as an escape from the world, but as a deeper way of being in it. Together, they explore what dharma really means beyond career or calling, why success so often leaves people feeling empty, and how purpose emerges naturally when we stop striving and start listening.

The conversation moves into the profound collective experience of the Maha Kumbh Mela, where hundreds of millions of people gather not around identity, politics, or achievement, but shared remembrance. Sadhviji explains how these ancient gatherings dissolve the illusion of separation and offer a lived experience of unity that can’t be understood intellectually, only felt.

Emily and Sadhviji also explore the Vedic understanding of immortality, not as something physical, but as the wisdom of knowing yourself beyond the body, the story, and the personal narrative. They talk about releasing identity without abandoning responsibility, how service becomes effortless when it’s aligned, and why happiness isn’t something we earn, it’s what remains when we stop resisting life.

This episode is not about becoming someone new.
It’s about remembering who you already are.

In This Episode, We Explore:
• What dharma really means beyond career or productivity
• Why success often fails to deliver fulfillment
• Surrender as strength, not passivity
• The Maha Kumbh Mela and collective remembrance
• Identity, ego, and the freedom of letting go
• Immortality as consciousness, not the body
• Service as a natural expression of alignment
• Finding peace without bypassing responsibility

About Sadhvi Bhagawati:
Sadhvi Bhagawati is a spiritual leader, author, and humanitarian based in Rishikesh, India. She is President of the Divine Shakti Foundation, Secretary-General of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, and a key organizer of the Kumbh Mela. She is the author of Hollywood to the Himalayas and Come Home to Yourself, and is known worldwide for bridging Eastern wisdom with modern life through service, devotion, and interfaith leadership.

Where This Work Continues
The themes in this episode — dharma, embodiment, service, and lived wisdom — are central to the work we do inside Level 3, an advanced mastermind designed to support deep integration, regulation, and spiritual leadership, with initiatory experiences that include pilgrimage in Greece.

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What if the missing ingredient in healing isn’t effort, insight, or intensity — but safety?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, Emily sits down with psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and stress researcher Dr. Dave Rabin for a deep, grounding conversation about trauma, healing, psychedelics, and the nervous system.

Dr. Dave explains why the body must feel safe before real transformation can occur, how vulnerability is not a weakness but a biological gateway to healing, and why many modern approaches to growth fail because they bypass the nervous system entirely. Together, they explore the science behind touch, oxytocin, the vagus nerve, and the body’s innate pharmacy — and why regulation, not catharsis, is what allows change to last.

This conversation bridges cutting-edge neuroscience with ancient wisdom, reframing healing as a process of listening, softening, and restoring trust in the body. If you’ve been doing the work — meditating, journaling, therapy, breathwork — but still feel tense, guarded, or dysregulated, this episode offers a radically compassionate reframe.

In This Episode, We Explore:
•Why safety is the foundation of all healing
•How the nervous system responds to touch and presence
•What “psychedelic” really means (beyond substances)
•Why vulnerability is biologically necessary for change
•The role of oxytocin, the vagus nerve, and regulation
•Ancient medicine meeting modern neuroscience
•Learning to trust the body over external metrics

Key Moments:
00:00:00 — Why vulnerability is the gateway to healing
00:04:18 — Redefining “psychedelic” through neuroscience
00:09:42 — Why safety must come before transformation
00:15:36 — Touch as the fastest language of the nervous system
00:22:14 — Oxytocin, trust, and the biology of calm
00:29:08 — Why willpower doesn’t heal trauma
00:36:41 — Eastern wisdom finally validated by Western science
00:43:27 — Self-touch, co-regulation, and restoring agency
00:50:12 — Listening to the body vs. outsourcing intuition to devices
00:57:19 — Building safety as a daily practice
01:04:03 — What real integration actually looks like
01:11:22 — Healing as remembering how to feel safe again

About Dr. Dave Rabin
Dr. Dave Rabin is a board-certified psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and co-founder of Apollo Neuroscience. He has spent over 15 years researching chronic stress, trauma, and non-invasive healing modalities, including MDMA-assisted therapy, touch-based regulation, and nervous system resilience.
Website: www.drdave.io
Instagram: @drdaverabin

Where This Work Continues
Level 3 is where regulation becomes lived practice — a mastermind with advanced training, integration, and initiatory work, including a sacred pilgrimage through Greece.

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What if stepping back wasn’t failure, but strategy?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, I sit down with Neha Ruch, founder of Mother Untitled and author of The Power Pause, for one of the most validating conversations I’ve had about ambition, identity, and motherhood.

Neha names something so many women feel but rarely have language for: the tension between wanting a meaningful career and wanting to be deeply present with our children, without burning ourselves out or betraying ourselves in the process. She reframes the idea of a “career pause” as an empowered, intentional choice, not a step backward, but a recalibration.

We talk about why motherhood has been intellectually and culturally diminished, how internalized capitalism keeps women stuck in guilt loops, and why the most ambitious thing you can sometimes do is choose what matters most right now. This conversation is honest, nuanced, and deeply relieving, especially if you’ve ever felt like you were failing at something when you were actually just listening to your intuition.

If you’ve ever felt pulled between ambition and presence… this episode is for you.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why motherhood has been “dumbed down” culturally
• The concept of the Power Pause, and why language matters
• How to make intentional choices without shame or guilt
• Ambition vs. intuition (and why it doesn’t have to be either/or)
• Internalized patriarchy and capitalism in working motherhood
• Seasonality, boundaries, and redefining success
• Why presence matters more than hours

About Neha Ruch

Neha Ruch is the founder of Mother Untitled, a leading platform for ambitious women navigating parenthood, and the author of The Power Pause. Her work is reshaping how society understands stay-at-home motherhood, ambition, and identity. Neha has been featured on Oprah, USA Today, and beyond.

Where This Work Continues

This episode touches on questions we explore more deeply inside Level 3 — how to redefine success, work with seasons instead of against them, and make choices that actually support the life you’re living now.

Level 3 focuses on the inner practices that help those choices feel steady and sustainable.

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What if healing didn’t have to be solitary?What if family — messy, imperfect, deeply conditioned family — could actually be part of the medicine?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, I sit down with Lauren Tauss, psychedelic facilitator, teacher, and one of the clearest communicators I know in this space. Lauren has a rare ability to bring humor, rigor, compassion, and responsibility into conversations that are often either sensationalized or sanitized.

We talk about why “life itself is psychedelic,” how healing is inherently relational, and what becomes possible when we stop treating transformation as something that happens in isolation.

Lauren shares her own deeply personal journey — from anorexia and control to surrender, embodiment, and trust — and how psychedelic-assisted therapy helped rewire her relationship with her body, her family, and life itself.

This conversation isn’t about glorifying substances or breaking taboos for shock value. It’s about maturity. Integration. And learning how to say hello to yourself — instead of checking out.

If you’ve ever been curious, cautious, skeptical, or quietly fascinated by psychedelic healing… this episode will meet you with intelligence and heart.

In this episode, we explore:
• Why Lauren says “life is the biggest psychedelic”
• The difference between using medicine to say hello vs. goodbye
• How relational healing changes family systems
• Why shame, addiction, and “drug” culture need a language upgrade
• The connection between meditation, surrender, and psychedelic work
• Healing body image, control, and fear at the root• What integration actually means (and why it matters more than the experience)

Key Moments:
00:00:00 — Why isn’t everyone tripping with their family?
00:03:35 — “Life is the ceremony”: redefining what psychedelic really means
00:06:26 — Hello vs. goodbye: the two reasons people partner with substances
00:07:47 — Compassion over judgment in addiction and numbing
00:09:15 — Lauren’s first ayahuasca experience and healing anorexia
00:12:27 — “It’s time to retire your extra-small life”
00:14:41 — Body as gift: remembering the blessing of being alive
00:15:49 — Why meditation is surrender school (and prepares you for life)

Where This Work Continues

If this conversation stirred something in you, especially around integration, relationship, or embodiment, you may feel drawn to Level 3.

Level 3 is where we focus on building the inner stability, nervous system resilience, and daily practices that allow deep experiences (psychedelic or otherwise) to actually change how you live.

Learn more about Level 3 here:
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More from Emily & Ziva:
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•Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com
•Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com
•Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation
•Visit upgradedformulas.com/emily and use code EMILY for 20% off everything at UpgradedFormulas.com

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