The Conscious Consultant Hour with Sam Liebowitz

This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Rachel S. Heslin, author, speaker, and student of the psychology of identity and human experience for more than four decades.

Rachel is the author of Navigating Life: 8 Different Strategies to Guide Your Way and Rituals of Release: How to Make Room for Your New Life, both available in multiple languages. Her TEDx talk, "A Defense of Victim Mentality," turns condemnation into compassion in just six minutes, and hints at the kind of thinking she brings to territory most of us prefer to avoid. This month brings the release of her newest work, Hearts Are Meant to Be Broken: A New Approach to Grief, a book that could not be arriving at a more needed moment.

Rachel's exploration of grief did not come from theory. It came from paying close attention to what happens in a life when loss, of any kind, is not given room to move through us. In her new book, she pushes back on the tidy stages and cultural timelines we have inherited, and offers instead an approach that honors grief as something we are meant to feel deeply rather than manage efficiently. Her title carries the whole thesis: hearts are meant to be broken, not as damage, but as opening. Loss, when met rather than avoided, can crack us into a wider, more honest, more tender version of ourselves.

Together, Sam and Rachel explore why our current cultural approach to grief has left so many people quietly disconnected from their own hearts, and what becomes possible when we let loss teach us instead of trying to move past it. They discuss why this conversation matters more now than perhaps ever, in a world carrying so much collective and personal loss, and how a different relationship with grief can shift not only our healing but our capacity to love. This episode is an invitation to soften around what has broken you, to trust that the heart knows how to grieve when we finally let it, and to consider that what breaks us open may be what allows us to become whole.

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This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Robert Weisz, Ph.D., retired clinical psychologist, consultant, and trainer whose fifty years of practice have moved fluidly across the worlds of Ericksonian hypnosis, shamanic healing, mindfulness, and nondual wisdom.

Robert is co-author of the newly released Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing: A Guide for Patients and Therapists. He has taught through Southwestern College, the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Webster University, the University of Wyoming, and New Mexico Highlands University, and served as co-founder and director of the Milton Erickson Institute for Clinical Hypnosis and Behavioral Sciences of New Mexico for forty years.

Robert's path into this work began well before his career did. Born in Lima, Peru, in 1944 to German-Jewish parents who had fled the Holocaust, he spent his early years moving through Peru, Bolivia, and Chile before immigrating to the United States at thirteen. That early experience of exile and adaptation seeded a lifelong curiosity about the human mind and the resilience of the spirit. His doctoral research in sleep and dreams gave way to decades of clinical practice, community mental health work, and a deep involvement with Ericksonian hypnotherapy. Alongside all of this, drawn by the healing potential of altered states, he spent thirty years studying with shamans and healers in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, and the United States, letting that ancient knowledge shape and inform his clinical understanding.

Together, Sam and Robert explore what it means to help people heal at the meeting place of body, mind, and spirit. They discuss the somatic wisdom the body carries long after the thinking mind has moved on, the emotional patterns that live beneath cognition, and the mindful presence that allows what is held to finally be released. Drawing on Robert's new book, they look at how mindfulness-based somatic emotional processing offers patients and therapists a grounded, integrative path into deep healing. This episode is an invitation to trust the intelligence of the body, to soften into what wants to be known, and to remember that healing rarely happens through the mind alone.

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This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam is delighted to welcome back internationally acclaimed writer, poet, and mystical teacher Andrew Harvey.

The author of more than forty books, including Son of Man, The Hope, Love is Everything, Turn Me to Gold, and Radical Regeneration with Carolyn Baker, Andrew is also the founder of the Institute for Sacred Activism, an organization devoted to inviting concerned people to meet our global crises as inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change.

He returns to the show with a powerful new book, The Magdalene Revolution: The Return of the Sacred Feminine and the Birth of Radical Equality, a work that may be the boldest and most timely of his long career.

In The Magdalene Revolution, Andrew offers a radically fresh reading of Mary Magdalene, drawing on decades of scholarship in sacred texts, the Gnostic gospels, and the mystical traditions. He examines how she has been portrayed in the New Testament, sometimes splendidly and sometimes dangerously distorted, and recovers the truths revealed about her in works such as the Gospel of Mary.

Together, Sam and Andrew explore what this revolution asks of each of us in a world in profound transition. They discuss the return of the sacred feminine, the sacred marriage of feminine and masculine within every human being, and the embodied path of love and equality that the Magdalene Revolution invites us to live. They also touch on sacred activism as the natural expression of this awakened consciousness and the courage required to participate in birthing a new humanity. This episode is an invitation to step into a wider, fiercer, more tender vision of Christ consciousness, and to recognize that the healing of our world may begin with the restoration of the feminine voice that was silenced, but never lost.

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This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Rev. Lisa Barnett, visionary founder of the Akashic Knowing School of Wisdom and custodian of the 8 Galactic Lineage Akashic Access Keys.

For more than three decades, Lisa has dedicated her life to guiding individuals through deep spiritual transformation using the wisdom of the Akasa, the great library that holds every soul's history, agreements, and plan. As the acclaimed author of four bestselling books, she has helped students and clients around the world tap into a source of guidance that has been available to humanity across cultures and ages, yet often forgotten in modern life.

At the heart of Lisa's work is the conviction that each of us carries a soul path uniquely our own and that aligning with it opens the door to greater fulfillment, clarity, and abundance. Through her teachings, she illuminates the often-hidden dimensions of our lives: the soul contracts that shape our relationships, the karmic patterns that quietly influence our choices, and the past-life vows that can echo into the present in ways we rarely recognize. Her groundbreaking 5-Step Akashic Access Prayer System gives students a practical way to step into their own soul record and receive the kind of personal, divine wisdom that no outside teacher can ever fully provide.

Together, Sam and Rev. Lisa explore what it means to consult the Akashic Records as a living source of guidance rather than a mystical curiosity. They discuss how this ancient body of wisdom can support healing, decision-making, and the unwinding of patterns that no longer serve us and how restoring access to the records is, in Lisa's view, part of humanity's larger awakening in this moment. This episode is an invitation to remember that the answers we seek are not only outside of us and that within each soul lives a library written long before this life began, quietly waiting to be read.

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This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Jay Fiset, best-selling author, global speaker, mastermind mentor, and psychedelic educator, advocate, and guide.

Over the years, Jay has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs and leaders, helping them grow not only their businesses but themselves. His approach has always reached beyond conventional strategy, drawing on unconventional and deeply effective methods for unlocking clarity, creativity, and genuine transformation. Today, his work has expanded into one of the most important conversations of our time: the responsible, intentional use of psychedelics for healing, connection, and human potential.

Jay's path into this work began close to home. High school sweethearts with his wife Cory, partners in life and business for more than three decades, the two found themselves quietly leading parallel lives as kids, careers, and the loss of aging parents took their toll. Just before their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, they were not sure their marriage would survive. A single, powerful MDMA journey became an unexpected doorway into reinvention, renewal, and the deepest love of their lives. Out of that experience, Jay and Cory founded The Connection Experience, a series of retreats supporting committed couples in using psychoactives to reignite intimacy, healing, and presence in fundamentally healthy relationships.

Together, Sam and Jay explore the myths and the magic of the psychedelic revolution unfolding around us. They discuss what these medicines can and cannot do, the cultural confusion still surrounding them, the importance of skilled guidance and integration, and the evolving legal landscape. Jay also shares stories from his own life and from the couples he and Cory have worked with, offering an honest look at the do's and don'ts of these experiences. This episode is an invitation to look beyond the hype and the fear and to consider what becomes possible when ancient medicines meet modern lives with care, intention, and an open heart.

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