WeBeTheChange: Conversations w/Conscious Evolutionaries

Colleen Akiko

WeBeTheChange: Conversations w/Conscious Evolutionaries

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

Host Colleen Akiko—Essential Connections Coach, Keynote Concert Presenter and Recording Artist—talks with change-makers about how they live their truth, often against the odds, modeling a way forward.

When life feels draining, these conversations offer a nourishing 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. Real change—from within.

You're invited to join the conversation--just press play.

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25 November 2025

Brenda Heldoorn Series, LIVING AS A PORTAL OF PRESENCE, Pt 3: Moving Beyond the Doom Loop

Part 3 of Living as a Portal of Presence: The Inner Work that Changes the Outer World.How can a little notebook disarm the ego’s grip?In this short but potent episode, spiritual counselor Brenda Heldoorn shares a surprising exercise with host Colleen Akiko that dismantled her negative self-talk. With openness and humor, she names the “Doom Loop” for what it is, and offers a direct pathway through...

24 October 2025

Brenda Heldoorn Series, LIVING AS A PORTAL OF PRESENCE; Pt 2: Embracing the Inner Shift

What if our total collapse could pivot us to our most radiant becoming?In this vulnerable, luminous continuation of Brenda Heldoorn's conversation with Colleen, we explore what it truly means to surrender—not as defeat, but as a threshold where rock bottom becomes sacred ground.Brenda shares her lived experience of a suicide attempt that became a catalyst for profound awakening—a moment that...

12 October 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...

12 September 2025

NAVIGATING THE NEW ENERGETICS, Pt 4: Spiritual Awakening into Humanity’s New Light

What if you were designed to handle more light—but need to upgrade your wiring first?This We Be The Change episode is a fun yet profound conversation, exploring the intersection of spirituality, development, energetics and collective consciousness. Join host Colleen Akiko and sacred artist and teacher Daniel Strawn as they discuss silver and gold forces, ritual vs. ceremony, sacred architecture,...

30 August 2025

Artist Daniel Strawn Series, NAVIGATING THE NEW ENERGETICS; Pt 1: Finding Our Bearings in Uncertainty

How do we make sense of all the information fragments flying around us?How do we discern what's going on in us and outside of us?Welcome to this new We Be The Change series, Navigating the New Energetics. In this opening segment, Finding Our Bearings in Uncertainty, host Colleen Akiko talks with Daniel Strawn—sacred artisan and artist, teacher, mentor, and a lifelong spiritual explorer.This first...

01 August 2025

How's Mom?

The Earth has recorded its HOTTEST. YEAR. EVER.When I heard that on the Stephen Colbert Show, I wondered... How do the EPA decision-makers and other climate deniers bury their heads in such sizzling hot sand?What if all the truth questers met at the top center of the media bias chart, to explore together the most neutral, current and reliable information there is. Who's got the grit for that?I'm...