The Sandbox

The Sandbox

Authenticity ✦ Paradox ✦ Play ✦ Transformation

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July 11, 2025 84 mins
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I am thankful for having the opportunity to get in front of the microphone these last five years and spill my soul, interview fantastic guests, and learn. Thank YOU, dear listener, and may our paths cross again! Until then, blessings as we journey on.


My email: aprilific@gmail.com

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Welcome to the Sandbox! Today, Megan and April talk with Reverend Rose Hope, who has been featured on several national news platforms regarding her NDEs (near-death experiences). In this episode, Rev. Rose Hope discusses these events as well as several other key themes of her new book, The Arc. She expounds on the amazing life she has found (and believes is available for us all) in the Now moment.


GIVE-AWAY: The Sandbox is offe...

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  • Link to the free VIA Character Strengths Survey
  • Access for $27 to Barney & Flow monthly portal
  • Courtney Starkey is currently hosting guided hypnosis every evening live on her YouTube channel to connect with animal wisdom. That's a lot of value for free!
  • Telepathy Tapes, podcast and YouTube channel

UPDATE🎁: Since I'm pulling back on social media and allowing myself to be "lost" in the void a...

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What do you do when you had a great conversation but then it seems like a bit too much to edit in post-production that you just lose energy for it? 😫 One option is to honor that instead of shame it, cut the episode in half, and publish part now and the rest later. Now how 'bout that, eh? 😁

📖 The author and book we reference several times in the conversation (but somehow never name) is DeeAnne Rose Hope Riendeau and her book T...

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https://ifs-therapist.vercel.app/


SandboxAlchemy.com for tarot, astrology, dream interpretation, positive psychology, and more. ✨

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BarneyandFlow.com (Check out their a la carte AstroStyle workshop and while you’re there, explore all the support they’ve made free in the Nervous System portal!

Podcast episode: “Getting Unstuck in Your Manifestation” on High Sound

Inner Tide Video on Anchoring thru Wardrobe

Courtney Starkey IG & YouTube 2/10/25 Livestream

**Now through 2/20/25, request a free one-card tarot reading by emailing your question to dragonrosetarot@gma...

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Welcome to the Sandbox! Today, we’re diving into the Language of Aesthetics with the incredible Monty. She’ll share her insights on how you can tap into this inner dialogue to unlock your own Soul-Self aesthetic. 

Monty’s Word: Jouska

Monty’s Teachers: 

  • Kate Northrup (https://relaxedmoney.com/backdoor/)

  • Rob Brezsny (https://freewillastrology.com/) and his book Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Co...

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Capricorn-rising KP Kaszubowski is a poet, filmmaker, and astrologer. In this episode she talks about how writing connected her to her body and how she discovered astrology as a powerful meaning-making practice she feels called to use with solemnity and ethical consideration. KP shares a lyrical essay she wrote and gives us all a sneak peak into her current work. We discuss what a punk-rock approach to astrology means and the grit ...

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Astrologer and women's circle facilitator Peggy Foster lights up the podcast with an engaging conversation on what it means to be kind to oneself. In her work as a television reporter, radio personality, voice-over artist, worker bee in corporate America, and now astrologer, she's gleaned a lot of life gems about simplifying and showing up as one's authentic self through art, creativity, and community. To check out her ...

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new.750words.com

Dana: selfhelpwitch.com site and podcast (Ep. 50) "Have fun and expect nothing"

Caroline: peaceinchaosny.com

Saturn: A New Look at An Old Devil by Liz Greene

Spirituality with Ashley Podcast (Ep. 25)

The Astrology Podcast

Seventy-eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack

Deck: The Tarot of Curious Creatures

MontyMontan.com

Mel Robbin's Podcast episode "How to Make Your Life Exciting Again"

S...

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February 27, 2024 38 mins

Chelsey’s Word(s): Divine Feminine

Chelsey’s Teachers: 

Ways to Connect with Chelsey:

www.debbsandflow.com

https://instagram.com/debbsandflowyoga

https://www.tiktok.com/@debbsandflowyoga


Ways to Connect with April:

Website to book readings or browse offerings (such as dream interpr...

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Nancy Illman revisits the Sandbox to talk about her memoir, Instigator of Joy: Becoming My Own Fairy Godmother, available for pre-order soon at www.nancyillman.com.  In this interview Nancy talks how she was able to write a book despite her ADHD and why she believes the pay-off to be found in excavating and sharing one’s story is worth navigating the challenges.


Nancy’s Word: Mycelium

Nancy’s Teachers: 

  • Proof of Heaven ...

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You can also watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pL0CP6aber4


Enneagram 4 Danielle Park talks about why tarot is such an important practice for her, how she addresses card reversals in a reading, and how to cope with anxiety. To close out the episode, Danielle also does a card pull for the listeners to answer the question, “How can we, as a collective, grow our capacity to meet what’s next?”


One of my favorite...

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To watch this on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2PAojf5-sFg


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Guys, you will not believe this! I didn't realize this until just now as I am entering the metadata for the episode but this is Season 4, Episode 4! 44! The relevance will become clear if you listen to the end of today's show :-)


Mentions:

  • "Food Cravings Hypnosis on a World Champion At...
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  • Synchronous moment, I received Karen Curry Parker’s newsletter entitled, “Wholing not healing”
  • Pea the Feary’s IG post I referen...
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(Suggestion: Play at 1.5x speed or faster.) April Dawn is a 3/5 Splenic Projector, Enneagram 1, dream interpreter, Life Path 7. In this episode she explores several topics, including the premise that something can't be both a "should" and a "want to." Here's celebrating Pluto's entrance into Aquarius... (where incidentally April's South Node and IC are...this should be juicy!).


Ecstatic Fore...

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Erick Godsey's newsletter Feasting Friday  

Free mini-course Secrets of the Seven Stars at ancientastrology.org

Emotion Code and heart wall

Dark Pixie astrology newsletter

Affiliate link for tickets to the Ecstatic Forest Festival in Elgin, TX April 19-23, 2023: https://uniquemindfulevents.com/ref/aprilp/


Ways to Connect with April:

Instagram: @thesandboxpod and @april.the.poet

TikTok: @aprilific

Website to book readings ...

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Aisha Ecasia is a gifted astrologer, Akashic Record reader, and camping enthusiast. 🏕️ Her most unique title though is likely that of Control the Flow Guru.  On this podcast she is introducing to the world the menstruation-controlling technique she's practiced for over two decades. Below you'll also find the YouTube link to her Control the Flow presentation.   

Aisha’s Word: Scintilla, def: a spark, a flash, a ...

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