Alive & Kicking: Stories of Waking Up with Kay Eck
I have found that the best way to heal is to tell the truth of my own story and that the best way to help is to listen to another’s truth. Speaking our stories sets us free. Alive & Kicking is a podcast where I talk to people about their path of waking up to the truth of who they really are, what they really want and why they came here. What we learn is that the breakdowns we experience aren't failures; they're accelerators to the breakthroughs. And, what we thought of as our disasters was later revealed as our deliverance. When we willingly step into the open space of real and vulnerable dialogue, healing becomes possible for us all.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 64 minutes
- Episodes
- 47
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
Interview with BakeR Gendron | Awakening Without Labels
Please note: This interview contains depictions of violence and sexual abuse. Please listen with care for yourself and others.
This week's guest is BakeR Gendron, whose life took her from a small town…
Interview with John Schieke | Awakening in Sobriety
An existential crisis can throw the average adult into a state of uncertainty at best and inner turmoil at worst. Kay's next guest, John Schieke, was just six years old when he started to ponder the …
Interview with Sarah Lindgren | Awakening Through Healing
In episode 41, Sarah Lindgren talks with Kay about how early trauma influenced so many of the decisions she made throughout her life. Until, that is, she became conscious of how healing can soothe th…
Interview with Catalina Osorio Galvis | Awakening into Grace
Please note: This episode contains descriptions of violence, sexual abuse, alcoholism and drug use.
In this episode of the podcast, Columbia native Catalina Osorio describes how her early life forged …
Interview with Lisa Stokke | Awakening and Mothering
In this episode of Alive & Kicking, Lisa Stokke talks with Kay about being parented, parenting adults and the unique challenges of mothering in the age of awakening.
As founder and Executive Director …
Interview with Valerie Irons: Awakening Beyond Unrequited Love
Born in Memphis Tennessee to a navy captain father, Valerie Iron's early life was rich with travel, culture and experience. But despite her joy for that life, a journey into the dark night of the sou…
Interview with Majid Zafer | Awakening through Intentional Upleveling
After achieving the financial goals he set for himself by the time he was in his late 20s, Majid Zafer was looking at very early retirement. But the feeling he was chasing through accomplishment was …
Interview with Sarah Starnes | Awakening with Nature
Despite growing up in the suburbs, Sarah Richelle Starnes describes her formative years as wild, feral and imbued with nature. Her immersive relationship with the natural world expresses itself in my…
Interview with Kay Eck | Awakening Through the Creative Process
In celebration of the release of her second book Dear Human (available now) , Kay invites Ashley Livingston to ask her the questions she's been asking the Alive & Kicking guests.
Kay Eck is the author…
Interview with Todd Fink | Awakening Through Inquiry and Annihilation
Growing up poor but delightfully untethered, Todd Fink's most memorable educational and spiritual experiences happened in nature. It was there, in nature, that the seeds were planted for his unique a…
Interview with Taylor Godfrey | Awakening to Trauma, The Human Experience, and Spiritual Communities
Growing up on an enlivened farm with her grandparents as guardians, no set religion other than cycles of nature, Taylor Godfrey's life was unconventional from the start. An early connection to her su…
Interview with Dack Quigley | Awakening to Divine Potential
Dack Quigley had an unconventional, some would say near perfect, upbringing. His parents urged him to do whatever he wanted to do, celebrated his every choice and loved him unconditionally. As a resu…
Interview with Sue Gaskell | Awakening through Inner Child Healing
Sue Gaskell was born on the living room floor as the 10th of 11 children in Derbyshire, UK in 1946, and her life did not necessarily get less dramatic or difficult. She endured tragedies, breakdowns…
Interview With Carmen Santiago-Keenon | Awakening Through Generational Trauma
Born at four pounds and addicted to cocaine to a teen mother in trouble, Carmen Santiago-Keenon suffered a childhood filled with abandonment, danger and abuse. After being removed from her home, boun…
Interview with Max Friedstein | Awakening to Shifting Lifestreams
Having graduated from the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, Max Friedstein believed his career as a professional dancer was about to begin. But a mysterious and debilitating medical condit…
Interview with Tasha Gomes & Lisa Scott | Awakening Family Style
Growing up with immigrant parents in a small, homogenous midwestern town bonded sisters Tasha Gomes and Lisa Scott together in more ways than one. But it wasn't until Lisa left home to experience the…
Interview with Zon Carvalho | Awakening to Joy Beyond the Shadows
Though his childhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil was rich in culture, art and community connection, Zon Carvalho felt called to a deeper spiritual experience. After years of chasing redemption from external…
Interview with Amy Merritt | Awakening and the Role of Compassion
Despite great loss and grief throughout her life, Amy Merritt chooses to lead with empathy, love, and deep compassion for others. Cultivating goodness out of a garden of challenge is her superpower.…
Interview with Be Bradley | Awakening In the Shadows
High vibrational conscious artist Be Bradley has learned to speak only from what he knows. His honesty and openness regarding the dark aspects of human nature and the truth of the spiritual path hav…
Interview with Kirsten Barfoot | Awakening in Grace
Kirsten Barfoot arrived knowing she had a mission but felt held back, treated as an outsider as she moved as a child from South Africa to New Zealand to Australia. Throughout her life, the lens, or e…