The Girlfriend God Podcast

Ruth Barrett is an acknowledged feminist spirituality foremother, ordained Dianic High Priestess, seasoned ritualist, educator, author, and a musician whose numerous recordings beginning in 1980 have been among the pioneering musical works in the U. S. Goddess Spirituality Movement. She is author of Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation (Expanded 3rd Edition), and has contributed to other anthologies c...

Natalie Bovis is a freelance lifestyle writer, cat mom to five feisty felines, and enthusiast of all things fantastical, historical, and mythological. She has an English mum and French dad but grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a place renown for being a magical energy vortex and refuge for artists of all kinds. Natalie is an animal advocate, kitten fosterer, and fundraiser for rescue organizations. Her hobbies include hiking, travel...

Sara Aranel is an anthropologist by degree and by heart. She has been forever fascinated and inspired by the depths and complexity of human existence. She's been walking her spiritual path since her mid-teens and has always balanced her spiritual self with her curious rational mind.

As a teacher and organizer of women's circles, she experienced firsthand how important this balance is for people. In a safe space where all aspects of ...

Kori Hahn is the author of the newly released book, "A Temple of Her Own." which is not an ordinary self-help book. This book is a mix of memoir, spirituality and travel narrative which dives into the mythological world of ancient Hindu goddesses while seeing the ways to use these stories to embody their “superwoman” powers into a woman’s moder day life.

Kori is a dedicated yoga and meditation teacher, an avid surfer, an adventurou...

D’vorah Grenn, Ph.D is a Yoreshet, lineage-holder of a female Kabbalist tradition, a Kohenet/priestess, and ordained Mashpi’ah/spiritual life coach and guide. She founded The Lilith Institute, A Center for Feminist Spirituality (1997), co-directed the Women & Spirituality MA Program at ITP/Sofia University, and was a founding theorist of the Kohenet priestess movement, serving on their Founding Advisory Board. She created and t...

Laura Hirch is an independent conscious filmmaker, journalist and artist. Her works center women, healing, spirituality, mysticism and art. She calls herself a spiritual feminist and an eco feminist, and both of these paths define her creative work. She has studied journalism in Munich, where she was born and raised, and documentary filmmaking in Los Angeles.

Laura is the creator of the independently produced 6-part docuseries FROM...

Dawn Morningstar is an award-winning author, women’s self-empowerment coach, podcast host, educator, TEDx Speaker, former radio talk show host and devoted advocate for women’s self-empowerment. Dear to her heart is being co-founder of New World Women, a global women's self-empowerment sisterhood. She's also the creator of the amazing Facial Serum 18. Since her book “Venerable Women: Transform Ourselves, Transform the World”...

Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document global women's history. She built a collection of 15,000 slides and 30,000 digital images, and has created 150 visual talks on female cultural heritages from the most ancient times to the present. She is internationally known for her expertise on ancient Goddess iconography; matricultures and female spheres of power; patriarchy and allied syste...

Monette Chilson is an excavator of our sacred feminine lineage, and she founded WomanSpirit Reclamation to support women in navigating their awakening from patriarchal indoctrination through online courses and community.

She has written and spoken about the divine feminine for the past decade, authoring Sophia Rising: Awakening Your Sacred Wisdom Through Yoga and My Name is Lilith, in addition to editing Original Resistance: Reclai...

Molly Remer, MSW, D.Min, is a priestess, mystic, and poet in central Missouri. Molly and her husband Mark co-create Story Goddesses, jewelry, and ceremony and altar items at Brigid’s Grove. Molly is the author of ten books, including Walking with Persephone, Whole and Holy, Womanrunes, the Goddess Devotional, and 365 Days of Goddess. She is the creator of the devotional experience #30DaysofGoddess and she loves savoring small magic...

Yeshe Matthews is Mandala Priestess & Sibyl of Tsogyal Lhamo Drayang Ling, the Mt Shasta Goddess Temple. She is a dharma practitioner and licensed minister, avowed and ordained in several different Mystery Traditions, including Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, plant and spirit shamanism, Ifa, Mayan Cosmology, and Goddess Spirituality. With a Master's degree in Women's History from Sarah Lawrence College, she has studied wome...

Dr. Alka Arora is an associate professor in the Women's Spirituality program at CIIS, where she has been teaching since 2011. She received her PhD in Womens’ Studies from the University of Washington. For over a decade, Dr. Arora has been developing the field of integral feminist education and feminist spiritual activism, working alongside sister scholars to offer a transdisciplinary and socially engaged approach to the study o...

Dawn Marian is a spiritual teacher, intuitive healer, awakening activist, and founder of The Radiant Heart School Akashic Records Academy. She specializes in accessing soul wisdom and profound healing from the Akashic Records and training soul seekers how to channel their own Akashic Records for daily guidance, wisdom and healing.

Dawn’s diverse background includes: Usui Reiki Master Teacher, Akashic Records Trainer and Consultant...

Alaya A. Dannu, MA (aka Diya Dannu) is completing her doctoral degree in Education at Fielding University. Her topic of inquiry explores the transmission of ancestral memory across generations experienced through dreams, focusing on a re-emergent Matriarchal wisdom tradition of her foremothers. She has written several essays on the subject matter, contributing to ezines and specialized platforms such as the blog for Feminism and Re...

Jennifer Wai has been an empathic intuitive since childhood. With an acute awareness of the vibrations, inner emotions, and energies of people around her, she has made a career out of honoring the Divine Feminine and guiding people to use their intuition. She is an Intuitive Coach, an HR consultant, Akashic records reader, an Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapist, Reiki practitioner, and the founder of Hathor Communications; a produ...

Dale Allen has for 25 years shared the healing energy of the sacred feminine through her work: In Our Right Minds: Guiding Women to Their Strength as Leaders, Leading Men to Strength Without Armor. The piece was first a musical theater production, then a one-women multi-media dynamic presentation, then an award-winning film, now a forthcoming book and a next-level film production. In Our Right Minds has been widely acclaimed in all...

Recognizing the need for women to find their voices and claim their power, Marilyn Nyborg began in the early ‘80’s to work through women’s circles and activities to bring feminine wisdom to bear on the world. In 2002 she became a co-founder of Gather the Women. Marilyn brought GTW home and created Gather the Women of Nevada County. In 2016 she co-founded Indivisible Women of Nevada County. and co-led Living Room Conversations for 3...

Karen Tate. Thought leader, speaker, author and activist, Karen's work is at the crossroads of spirituality, personal transformation, and social justice.   She’s the host of the long-running Voices of the Sacred Feminine podcast, considered a treasure trove of wisdom for more than a dozen years.  A Caring Economy Conversation leader and Power of Partnership presenter with the Center for Partnership Studies, Karen also earned ce...

Today I’m super excited to welcome Ronna Deitrick to the show! We’re going to be talking about Ronna’s latest book, Rewriting Eve: Rescuing Women's Stories from the Bible and Reclaiming Them as Our Own, which just came out this month. And, as always, we drift into numerous other topics.

Ronna Detrick left the church and its dogma nearly twenty years ago but took the stories of women with her. She combines her love of writing wi...