In this raw and soul-stirring episode of Surviving Roots, Cari Fund sits down with Michelle Garside—co-founder of Soul Camp Creative, a sacred strategy house helping purpose-driven people and organizations tell their most authentic stories.
Michelle has spent her career creating transformative spaces like Soul Camp, The Enchantment Experience, and The Connecticut Women’s Club. But beneath all that success is a story of radical truth-telling, recovery, and what it really means to belong.
Together, Cari and Michelle dive deep into the loneliness that hides beneath high achievement, the spiritual disconnection that fuels addiction, and the messy, beautiful process of coming home to yourself.
Michelle opens up about her recovery from bulimia, addiction, and alcoholism—and how shame became the doorway to her power. She shares the story behind her upcoming 2027 book, Not Awakened, which challenges the illusion of “perfect enlightenment” and invites us to embrace our full, human messiness instead.
✨ Inside the episode:
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The loneliness that success can’t fill
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Motherhood as a spiritual practice of imperfection
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Recovery and radical truth-telling
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The healing power of community and belonging
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“God comes through guys”—how love can become a mirror for awakening
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The anti-guru message behind Not Awakened
💬 “Loneliness is a spiritual hole.”
💬 “We become the choices that we make.”
💬 “Maybe we’re not meant to be enlightened—maybe we’re meant to be human.”
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