WeBeTheChange: Conversations with Evolutionaries

Colleen Akiko

WeBeTheChange: Conversations with Evolutionaries

We Be The Change is your weekly infusion of soulful spark—heart-nourishing conversations to help you navigate turbulent times.

Host and Essential Connection Coach Colleen Akiko talks with change-makers about how they live their truth, often against the odds, modeling a way through the noise of the day.

When life feels draining, these conversations offer a fortifying home base—stories of resilience, healing, and inspired growth, woven with insights and humor you can easily use in your own day-to-day.

You’ll hear compassionate voices cutting through the noise with grounded wisdom, practical tools and intriguing ideas. They remind us that the way we move through the world can ripple out extraordinary transformation.

Explore resources and opportunities for connection at SongRise.LIVE, including a complimentary eGuide, Out of Your Head, Into Your Light -- designed to help you calm the mental storm, reconnect with your true self, and embody the Evolutionary Luminary you already are.

Honest stories. Deep insight. Changing the world by changing ourselves.

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20 February 2026

Leisa Peterson Series: COMING OUT OF THE TRANCE; Pt 1: Scarcity, Paradox, and Transcending

What if “transcendence” isn’t about escaping the world—but waking up from its deceptive trance?WeBeTheChange host Colleen Akiko and Leisa Peterson--Wealth Coach, Author and Financial Intuitive, discuss the larger pattern behind our culture’s distress: a scarcity-based trance that keeps people reactive, divided, and exhausted. (Do we detect a familiar Ugh?)Leisa shares how her decades in...

27 January 2026

Kari Hagel Series; THE WEB OF WELLNESS: RECONNECTING TO NATURE AND SELF; Pt 1: Nature Deficit Disorder: The Hidden Epidemic

When was the last time you learned from soil instead of a screen?Middle and high school teacher Kari Hagel shares with WeBeTheChange host Colleen Akiko about the rise of nature deficit disorder.Kari, also a Health & Wellness Coach, shows how hands-on ecology—worm bins, a classroom dog, gardening and even mapping water with a drone—restores attention, engagement, and belonging.In Pt 1 of The...

17 January 2026

A FEARLESSLY FERAL LIFE; Pt 3: From Triggered to Belonging—The Willingness Shift

When the craving hits, what are you actually hungry for?In Part 3 of “A Fearlessly Feral Life,” we get practical about the sober path: the tiny act of willingness that flips the switch, the boundary that protects your peace, and how to tell a trigger from a longing for belonging. We talk family dynamics and codependency, the medicine of community (AA rooms and beyond), and what it means to choose...

04 January 2026

A FEARLESSLY FERAL LIFE; Pt 2: New Thought--A Powerful Call into the Heart of Recovery

Welcome to We Be The Change and this second segment of the series A Fearlessly Feral Life with Rev. Karen Linsley. In Part 2 we dive into New Thought as a grounded path for recovery—where principle is not bound by precedent and healing means changing our thinking to change our life. Karen traces sobriety from her Thanksgiving‑day treatment intake in 1986 to ministerial training, interim ministry,...

20 December 2025

Karen Linsley Series: A FEARLESSLY FERAL LIFE; Pt 1: Addiction-Free Principle Over Precedent

“How can I release old survival mechanisms to create a truly beautiful life?This powerful question is the heartbeat of today's conversation. We’ve all carried patterns from the past that once helped us survive, but now keep us from fully living.I am delighted to have my friend and neighbor with us, reverend and author, Karen Linsley. Her personal journey of how she stepped away from 20 solid...

05 December 2025

Brenda Heldoorn Series, LIVING AS A PORTAL OF PRESENCE: The Inner Work that Changes the Outer World; Pt. 1: Pain As A Gateway to Transformation

Have you ever felt the weight of the world on your shoulders, believing you had to face every challenge alone?Join host Colleen Akiko and her guest, spiritual director and counselor, Brenda Heldoorn--who reveals her pivotal moment of absolute surrender that led her to deep healing and a new path.In this first segment of the four-part series, you'll witness how astounding power can be released in...

28 September 2025

NAVIGATING THE NEW ENERGETICS; Pt 5: The Next Bandwidth of New Light

How are the new energetics asking you to increase capacity?Enjoy this exhilarating conversation with host and Essential Connections Coach Colleen Akiko and sacred artist, teacher and "well-being generator" Daniel Strawn. In this final episode of the series, Navigating the New Energetics, you'll hear about perturbation, real “insulation,” the Blue Princess, and a near-death vision of Earth’s new...