Soul + Practice: Raw Conversations & Real Practices with Kathy Escobar & Phyllis Mathis
Soul + Practice: Raw Conversations, Real Practices, is hosted by Kathy Escobar and Phyllis Mathis. It’s centered on raw conversations about our crazy world, and real practices that keep us grounded deep in our souls. Kathy Escobar and Phyllis Mathis write, speak, pastor, and counsel, and are dedicated to creating spaces that foster healing and change. Keep listening to your soul. Keep practicing.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 114
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Ep. 115: Back to Basics
It's been a rough week in the USA and even though we pretty much say that every week we record, this past week has been extra bad with assassinations, school shootings, and social media awful. This e…
00:40:44 |
Mon 15 Sep 2025
Ep. 114: We’re Back! Season 8!
We’re back! We always take a break in the Summer and re-group, decide if we’re going to keep on keeping on or not, and in these wild times, the answer is YES! This space helps us and we hope it helps…
00:33:51 |
Mon 08 Sep 2025
Ep. 113: So Much Goodness to Practice—Wrap & Reflections on Season 7
It’s a wrap, friends! We had a great run of guests and topics from February-May centered on resourcing during these extra tumultuous times, and now it’s time for a Summer break! We loved looking back…
00:32:22 |
Mon 26 May 2025
Ep. 112: Nurturing Healing with Ourselves, Others, the Land with Julie-Anne Mauno
Julie-Anne Malette-Mauno is a French Canadian settler living on Treaty 9 territory in Northeastern Ontario, Canada with her family. She has 7 children. She writes poetry and her love for the boreal f…
00:50:13 |
Mon 19 May 2025
Ep. 110: The Gentle Revolution Every Soul Needs
The Subversive Soul: The Gentle Revolution Every Soul Needs—Phyllis’ new book-- is coming out July 22nd! In this episode we process some of the key ideas in the book and are reminded on why soul and …
00:42:37 |
Mon 12 May 2025
Ep. 109: An Unholy Alliance with Fascism with David Artman
It’s always fun to learn from new friends and realize how connected we all are in different ways. David Artman is a retired minister, author, podcaster, and a leading voice in Christian Universalism …
00:50:54 |
Mon 05 May 2025
Ep. 108: Practices, Engaged Buddhism, and Community with Lisa Pettit
Oh, we needed this! Spending time with Dr. Lisa Pettit--who has been a student of Thich Nhat Hanh for 20+ years and is a kindred and community leader in the Compassionate Dharma Cloud Monastery in …
00:48:54 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
Ep. 107: Staying the Course with Jose Escobar
In this episode, Kathy’s awesome husband, Jose joins us to share a little bit about his life as a pilot, military lawyer, and pro-bono attorney at a legal aid clinic during these wild times—what help…
00:48:47 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
Ep. 106: Equity (and Human Connection) is a Practice with Melvin Bray
We loved our conversation with our friend Melvin Bray—Atlanta-based author, educator, dad, husband, and creator of the 12 Steps Truth and Transformation Model that are modified 12 steps for equity wo…
00:54:02 |
Mon 14 Apr 2025
Ep. 105: Our Dropperfuls with Angie Fadel
Weaving webs of community, healing, mutual aid, earth wisdom, and other practices that help us make it in this harsh world are needed now more than ever. Angie Fadel joins us this week, sharing some …
00:53:21 |
Mon 07 Apr 2025
Ep. 104: Dumpster Fire Ethics of Flourishing with Amanda Udis-Kessler
We love making new friends, and Amanda Udis-Kessler, author, former sociology professor, songwriter, and anti-oppression trainer, helped us gain some clarity and hope around living out ethics of flou…
00:43:39 |
Mon 31 Mar 2025
Ep. 103: What the $(!@#&^% is Happening in the Universe with Polly Baker
There’s so much more going on in the sky than most of us are aware of! In this fun and eye-opening episode our friend Polly Baker, who’s a spiritual director who integrates astrology in an incredibl…
00:50:35 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Ep. 102: Alternative Realities, Lies, and Gaslighting
In this check-in episode, we process how we can stay grounded and clear when we’re constantly being gaslit with alternate facts and realities. While this is happening on a national level right now, m…
00:44:00 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
Ep. 101: Resourcing, Together with Nikki Kennedy
When we were thinking about this season and what we needed, one of the first people that came to mind was our friend Nikki Kennedy. A trauma-therapist and community builder, she is a wise kindred and…
00:48:16 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
Ep. 100 - Learning from the Redwoods with Tara Taylor
100 Episodes of Soul + Practice, what?!? What better way to honor it than with an amazing conversation with our friend Tara Taylor, who is a volunteer docent at Armstrong Woods in Northern California…
00:45:17 |
Mon 03 Mar 2025
Ep. 99 - Turning Over Tables
Whoa, can you say 2025 and what unhealthy unchecked destructive power looks like in action? What we are experiencing right now in the US is an age-old story but it is illuminated in new and horridly …
00:40:02 |
Mon 24 Feb 2025
Ep. 98: Mental Hygiene for these Wild Times
We need all the help we can get and some consistent, clear practices for our mental health really matter right now. In this episode, Phyllis fleshes out some of what she wrote in a recent substack, a…
00:35:48 |
Mon 17 Feb 2025
Ep. 97: Existential Flu (and a new 2025 season)
Well, we're back. A lot of horrid has happened since we were last together at the end of 2024 and we feel clear we need as much resourcing as we can. In this episode we process something Phyllis wrot…
00:34:55 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
Ep. 96: 2024!
Our last episode of 2024 is about 2024! Remembering, celebrating, grieving, laughing through 6 simple questions we both reflect on and hope that others maybe consider, too! It's good to pause and lo…
00:34:13 |
Mon 30 Dec 2024
Ep. 95: Making it in this Weary World
The world sure feels weary right now and in this episode we process through some of the main themes in Kathy's book "A Weary World: Reflection for a Blue Christmas"--Honoring Reality, Practicing Hone…
00:46:15 |
Mon 02 Dec 2024
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