Jyoti Ma is someone I was guided to years ago — sitting at my tree, in tears, asking for direction — when my tree told me to go inside and Google “grandmother wisdom keepers.” She was the first answer that came up. And everything that has unfolded in my life since then traces back to that moment.

She is the Grandmother Vision Keeper for the Center for Sacred Studies in Northern California. She’s the co-founder of the Fountain, which builds bridges between Indigenous-led alliances and the protection of traditional medicine ways. She was largely responsible for the convening of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. She has a global intentional spiritual community called Kayumari that is almost 40 years old. She has been a student, a seer, and a servant of Mother Earth for her entire life.

And she is 79 years old and still going strong.

She also says something in this conversation that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. That the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers wasn’t just a gathering of elders; it was a catalyst seed to awakening the grandmother archetype that lives in every one of us. That wise elder inside you. She says it’s time for her to wake up now.

This one healed my soul. I think it might do the same for you.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. The world is in an ending cycle. Jyoti Ma frames what we’re living through with such clarity and steadiness that you’ll feel your nervous system actually settle. This reframe alone is worth the listen.
2. The hardest journey is from the mind to the heart. When the mind drops into the heart, everything changes. How we think, how we walk, how we relate to each other and to life itself. This episode is an invitation into that journey and it makes it feel possible.
3. You’re already in elder training. If you’re in your 50s and feeling the call to teach, to lead, to share what you know while also feeling unqualified, your’re not alone. Jyoti Ma speaks directly to this.

Want to go deeper with Jyoti Ma’s work?

🌐 The Fountain: thefountain.earth

🌐 Center for Sacred Studies: centerforsacredstudies.org

🌐 Mother Earth Delegation: motherearthdelegation.com

✨ Want to attend Guardians of the Sacred?

Jyoti Ma will be there. November 13-15, 2026. Buffalo Thunder, Santa Fe, NM. In person and livestream.

Tickets and info: guardiansofthesacred.earth

Email: connect@guardiansofthesacred.org

About Jyoti Ma

Jyoti Ma is an internationally respected spiritual teacher, seer, and visionary who has spent over 40 years in service to Mother Earth, Indigenous wisdom traditions, and the awakening of humanity.

She is the Grandmother Vision Keeper for the Center for Sacred Studies — a worldwide community she helped found in Northern California, rooted in reciprocity, collaboration, and prayer — and the co-founder of the Fountain, which flows philanthropic funding to Indigenous-led initiatives and builds bridges between sacred economies, sacred cultures, and sacred territories. She is a delegate and elder council member of the Mother Earth Delegation of United Original Nations.

She was largely responsible for convening the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. She leads the Kayumari community — an intentional spiritual community now in its 40th year — and is currently engaged in restoring the 9-part Golden Body with the Kogi Mamos of Colombia as an instrument of spiritual assistance to the Earth’s ascension.

She holds a background in transpersonal psychology. She has been initiated into five lines of prayer that go back to original times. She has walked with elders, wisdom keepers, and grandmothers from dozens of nations across the planet.

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Heather Hall-Dudney Stone grew up watching her mother, Grandmother Flordemayo, a Curandera Espiritu and founding member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, pour her life into gathering people together in the name of healing.

Now Heather does it too.

In her upcoming gathering, “The Guardians of the Sacred”, she brings elders, grandmothers, wisdom keepers, and allies from traditions all over the world together each November outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.

This conversation is about why that matters. Why gathering is not optional. Why the elders in your life - famous or not, Indigenous or not - are living libraries you are running out of time to visit. And why, as Heather’s mother says, we’re each holding a piece of the puzzle.

This is a rare chance to hear intimate accounts of being with, learning from and steeping in the medicine of our ancestors' wisdom.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. Elders are living libraries. Go get the wisdom while you can. Your grandmother. Your aunt. The local senior center, church or volunteer opportunity. The wisdom is there. Are you humble enough to go get it?
2. Gathering is not a luxury. It’s medicine. It’s steeping in wisdom and ceremony with people who understand the greater unfolding of life’s mystery. This episode makes the case for why showing up in person for the things that matter is worth every inconvenience.
3. First them, then us. When you’re in the presence of an elder, they eat first, sit first, and are given the best. It’s a practice of reverence and Robyn shares a story of learning it the hard way.

✨ Want to attend Guardians of the Sacred?

November 13-15, 2026. Buffalo Thunder, Santa Fe, NM. In person and livestream.

Tickets and info: guardiansofthesacred.earth

Email: connect@guardiansofthesacred.org

Elder Fund donations: givebutter.com/EldersFund

About Heather Hall-Dudney Stone

Heather Hall-Dudney Stone is the Executive Lead and Event Director of Guardians of the Sacred, an annual multi-day gathering that brings together Indigenous elders, grandmothers, wisdom keepers, and seed stewards from around the world. She is the daughter of Grandmother Flordemayo — a Curandera Espiritu, founding member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, and founder of The Path, an organization dedicated to the conservation of heirloom and heritage seeds. Heather has spent her life in service to her mother’s living legacy and the wisdom traditions she carries.

🔗 Connect with Heather and Guardians of the Sacred

🌿 Website: guardiansofthesacred.earth

💌 Email: connect@guardiansofthesacred.org

🌿 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guardiansofthesacred

📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61579864503995

About Robyn Ivy

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living. A trusted mentor, intuitive, and fierce advocate for a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer — honing her powerful skills as a witness.

She guides clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth, and meaningful change. Her workshops, groups, and programs give you the insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively, and from your truest wisdom.

You'll often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees, or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now-grown sons Rook and Cole has been the greatest joy of her life.

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My friend Julia got married a few weeks ago in British Columbia.

She and Richard dated 40 years ago. Went their separate ways. Found each other again. And standing there in front of a lake with mountains behind them, saying yes to each other — I've never seen anything quite like it.

Watching them, I kept thinking about love. Not the Hallmark version. The real one. What it takes to open yourself to it. What it costs when you don't. And what it looks like when someone is so fully in it that everybody around them gets a little elevated just being in the room.

This episode is about that. What love actually is, what it asks of you, and where you might have more room for it than you think.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. Love is something you open to. It doesn't require a perfect mood or a high-vibe day. It can look like stillness. Presence. Paying attention. This episode helps you see where you're already doing it — and where you've quietly closed.
2. Love has more forms than we give it credit for. A hard conversation. A boundary. Showing up for someone. A month away because your heart told you to. Once you see them all, you start noticing love everywhere.
3. There are so many places to send your love. To the people in front of you. To the ones who've passed. To the earth itself. This episode leaves you with real, practical ways to give and receive more of it.

⏰ Timestamps

(00:00) Why we haven't talked about love much here — and why now

(03:00) Getting close to episode 200 — what's coming next

(05:00) Where the podcast is headed: artists, theologians, wisdom keepers

(06:00) Julia and Richard: a love story 40 years in the making

(11:00) Standing at that lake watching his joy

(13:00) What love did to everyone at that wedding

(16:00) Love as presence, stillness, and vessel — not just a feeling

(17:00) The Occupy Mind movement — and why we need to come back to the heart

(21:00) What crosses all traditions: contemplation, humility, love, the great mystery

(24:00) Trusting love through heartbreak, rebuilding, and the both-and

(27:00) The 90-year-old who just finished the Appalachian Trail — love as courageous action

(29:00) Mehdi in Greece — love guiding you toward what your body needs

(30:00) The tsunami of love — what Mimi Samus taught me

(33:00) Sending love through the roots of trees — the science behind it

(35:00) Worthy questions: who needs your love today? Where are you running low?

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About Robyn Ivy

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living. A trusted mentor, intuitive, and fierce advocate for a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer — honing her powerful skills as a witness.

She guides clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth, and meaningful change. Her workshops, groups, and programs give you the insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively, and from your truest wisdom.

You'll often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees, or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now-grown sons Rook and Cole has been the greatest joy of her life.

I took a little sabbatical around here. An unexpected one. A grief sabbatical.

After a trip to North Carolina, we lost our cat Fiona, unexpectedly in the middle of the night to congestive heart failure we didn’t know she had.

A 14 year old ragdoll, who was beyond fluffy, fabulous and looked five years old right up until she didn't. She was beloved by our family. She died two days after the anniversary of my mom's passing. Of the same thing my mom died of. So yep, it’s been a lot.

But this episode isn't really about Fiona, or my mom, or even me. It's about the fact that grief is the elephant in the room for most of us, and we just don't have good ways to move through it together anymore.

We've lost the rituals. We've lost the ceremony. We're expected to, like, just keep going. And most of us do. And most of us are carrying a lot because of it.

Grief is about so much more than death or the loss of a loved one. It's about losing a role, losing your freedom, losing the world you thought your kids were going to grow up in. It's about the friend who moved away, the version of yourself you had to say goodbye to, the hope that quietly went missing somewhere along the way.

I've been in the world of grief my whole life. My dad was a pastor who did funerals. I've walked my parents home. I've sat with people who were passing. I've held the hands of an elder who had lost hope and let him cry. I know this territory.

And I think it's time we talked about it differently.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. Grief has more forms than we name. Loss of a person, yes. But also loss of a role, an identity, a possibility, a version of the world you counted on. If you've been feeling something you can't quite call grief, this episode might give it a name.
2. We're missing our rituals for this. Other cultures and other eras built ceremony around grief. We largely haven't. And that absence is costing us more than we know. This episode is an invitation to change that.
3. Let grief do what it needs to do. It's a rock tumbler. Who you become inside it is someone you'd never want to give back. That doesn't make it less hard. It makes it worth staying for.

⏰ Timestamps

(00:00) The grief sabbatical — why we've been gone

(03:00) Fiona, the ragdoll cat, and what we lost

(08:00) Watching my boys bury her — and what that did to me as a mother

(13:00) Stewardship — a word you're going to hear more of from me

(16:00) The rituals we're missing around grief and death

(19:00) Anderson Cooper's grief podcast and why it took a CNN anchor to open this conversation

(21:00) The many forms grief takes — it's not just about death

(25:00) The mediumship evening — and the elder who had lost hope

(27:00) Sitting with him, holding his hands, letting him cry

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About Robyn Ivy

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living. A trusted mentor, intuitive, and fierce advocate for a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer — honing her powerful skills as a witness.

She guides clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth, and meaningful change. Her workshops, groups, and programs give you the insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively, and from your truest wisdom.

You'll often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees, or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now-grown sons Rook and Cole has been the greatest joy of her life.

Shannon Simmons just won the national championship in women's pole vault for the 50 to 54-year-old Masters division.

She took 20 years off from the sport. Came back two and a half years ago. And won.

But this conversation isn't really about pole vaulting. It's about what happens when you come back to something you thought was behind you. What it takes. What it makes possible. And why the thing you put down might still be waiting for you.

Shannon is one of my clients and one of my Ohio people — and I was lucky enough to be on the track with her and her daughter the weekend before nationals. I photographed them together. Her daughter is now learning to pole vault. Shannon looked at the photos and cried because she could see her daughter looking at her in a way she doesn't get to see on the day-to-day.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. Your past is a blueprint, not a dead end. The skills, discipline, and depth you built doing one thing — pole vaulting, parenting, building a business — are transferable to everything else. Shannon calls it the blueprint. This conversation shows you exactly what that looks like in practice.
2. Being in a different place than everyone else doesn't mean you're behind. Sometimes you're just doing something different. Or ahead. This episode has a Tour de France metaphor that will reframe how you see your own path.
3. Coming back to something you loved is its own kind of winning. Shannon didn't pick up a new sport. She came back to the one that lit her up — and it became the thread that pulled everything else together. Her kids, her marriage, her identity. One reclaimed passion. Everything else followed.

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About Shannon Simmons:

Shannon Simmons holds a Master's degree in Christian Ministry and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Ministry Leadership. She serves as the Director of Grace College in Akron, where she is passionate about equipping others for leadership and ministry. Her background also includes degrees in nutrition and massage therapy — a reflection of her love for whole-person health and wellness.

When she's not working or studying, you'll find her outdoors hiking or boating. She is a National Champion in Masters Track and Field in the pole vault. And above all, she cherishes her husband, their two children, and the joy of living in the woods of Hinckley, Ohio.

About Robyn Ivy

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living. A trusted mentor, intuitive, and fierce advocate for a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer — honing her powerful skills as a witness.

She guides clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth, and meaningful change. Her workshops, groups, and programs give you the insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively, and from your truest wisdom.

You'll often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees, or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now-grown sons Rook and Cole has been the greatest joy of her life.

Good things are happening for the people I love most right now and I feel so many different emotions.

My son just left for a new job out of state. A dear friend is buying a house and moving to North Carolina and though I am genuinely thrilled for each of them…I also noticed my heart ache with the missing of them just thinking about them leaving.

Turns out what I really want is for them to go off and live their best lives but also do that from my basement/town and be upstairs/over for dinner.

Good thing last week I did an episode about changing the lens on our lives lol.

So I've been feeling funny, a little off all week. Sort of fragile. It's the grief. Living underneath it all, amongst the change..even when it’s really wonderful change, which it usually is. Most of us just never learned to look for it there.

This one's for anyone who's been feeling a little off and couldn't quite say why.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. Even good change has grief in it. The anxiety, the edginess, the feeling of being off is grief. Naming it changes how you relate to it.
2. The thing you're avoiding feeling is running your behavior. So much of our weird behavior traces back to a door we don't want to open (because feeling it means feeling it.) But the door doesn't disappear just because you closed it.
3. Check in with four parts of yourself: Body, mind, heart, soul. Each one needs something different right now. A hard workout. A good cry. Pizza with a friend. A poem. Asking separately what each part needs is a real practice — and it's something you can do today.

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About Robyn Ivy

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living. A trusted mentor, intuitive, and fierce advocate for a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer — honing her powerful skills as a witness.

She guides clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth, and meaningful change. Her workshops, groups, and programs give you the insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively, and from your truest wisdom.

You'll often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees, or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now-grown sons Rook and Cole has been the greatest joy of her life.

This week I'm bringing you something I'm actually doing with clients right now — because what's the point of getting on here and talking about transformation if I'm not living it and working it in real time?

The topic is the lens through which you're seeing your life.

Not just your own lens. The lens other people put on you. The parent who had decades of criticism on tap. The voice you internalized from someone who maybe didn't even know they were handing you a pair of dirty glasses. And the way that lens — scratched up, clouded, dropped in something you'd rather not think about — is quietly running the show while you wonder why things look the way they do.

Here's what I know after years of doing this work. You are always looking through a lens. The question is whether you know which one you have on. And if you do — you can swap it out.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. How to identify the lens you're currently looking through. Robyn gives you the actual homework she assigns her clients — a simple exercise with a piece of paper and a circle that tells you more about how you're running your life than most things you could do in 10 minutes.
2. Where your lens came from and why it's still on. The critical parent. The voice you internalized at 7 years old. The story someone told you about who you are that you've been trying to outrun ever since. This episode helps you see it clearly so you can finally do something about it.
3. How to swap it out. The lens can be unscrewed. It can be changed. And when it is, what you see gets very different. Robyn knows this as a photographer and as someone who's done it herself.

⏰ Timestamps

(00:00) What we're doing today — and why it comes straight from client work

(01:00) The narcissistic parent and what five decades of that does to a person

(04:00) If you've spent your life trying to be good enough for someone — this is for you

(06:00) The voices we internalize and how quickly they take hold

(08:00) The staff, standing upright, and accessing the confident part of yourself

(09:00) Where your clients are when they come to Robyn — and what she works on with them

(12:00) Soul and strategy — how intuitive work meets practical next steps

(13:00) The homework: draw a circle and name your lens

(15:00) What does your lens feel like, look like, sound like right now?

(16:00) Drop your glasses in honey. Drop them in poop. What does that change?

(17:00) The phrases you say on repeat — and what they're telling you

(18:00) How the lens runs your life without you noticing

(19:00) Both parents gone and the strange liberation that comes with that

(20:00) You can unscrew it. You can swap it out. And when you do, everything shifts.

🔗 Connect with Robyn Ivy

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About Robyn Ivy

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living. A trusted mentor, intuitive, and fierce advocate for a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer — honing her powerful skills as a witness.

She guides clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth, and meaningful change. Her workshops, groups, and programs give you the insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively, and from your truest wisdom.

You'll often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees, or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now-grown sons Rook and Cole has been the greatest joy of her life.

I just got back from Ohio.

A week of porch sits with coffee, walks in the woods, long lunches, and the kind of deep conversations that only happen when you're not rushing anywhere. I had no idea northeastern Ohio had so much nature to give. The rock formations alone blew my mind.

And somewhere in the middle of all of it, the same conversation kept coming up. With my friend Shannon. With two friends both in PhD programs. With a client I was walking with in the park. All of it circling back to the same question.

What if you already have what you need?

Not someday. Not after the next certification or the next course or the next thing someone outside of you gives you permission to do. Now. With what you already have. What you've already lived, already learned, already survived.

That's what this episode is about.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. You already know how to do hard things. You've solved problems, trusted your gut, asked for help, used your wits. That toolkit doesn't disappear when something new shows up. This episode helps you remember it's still there.
2. How to get your groove back when you've lost it. The staff exercise Robyn shares is simple, a little surprising, and genuinely works. When you feel disconnected from your confidence or your creativity, here's how to reach back for it.
3. What to do with disappointment. It came up in Ohio over and over. What happens when things go differently than you wanted, and it's real and it hurts? How do you talk to yourself? How do you recover? This episode gives you something to work with.

⏰ Timestamps

(00:00) Back from Ohio and stepping into summer

(03:00) What Shannon and I kept coming back to all week

(05:00) What the world teaches you about what you're missing

(07:00) The staff and why Robyn uses it to access her confidence

(09:00) The PhD friends and what happens when the identity isn't enough

(11:00) How to use a friend as a lifeline when you've lost your mojo

(13:00) The trick of agreeing with yourself to find out what you actually want

(14:00) The Airbnb kitchen and what it has to do with your resourcefulness

(16:00) You can do hard things because you already have

(19:00) What to do when you're in doubt, insufficiency, or your victim place

(20:00) How to handle disappointment and tell a different story about it

(23:00) Your resource bundle, your tool belt, your gathered wisdom

(24:00) What do you want to do with the next 90 days

(27:00) The staff exercise, closing practice, and invitation

🔗 Connect with Robyn Ivy

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🎧 The Robyn Ivy Podcast – Listen on Apple | Spotify

💌 Email – robyn@robynivy.com

✨ Want support figuring out what's next?

Book an Intuitive Clarity Session: robynivy.com/clarity

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Taking new 3-month and 6-month mentoring clients. Email me at robyn@robynivy.com

Business owners who could use an intuitive edge: same place. robyn@robynivy.com

About Robyn Ivy

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living. A trusted mentor, intuitive, and fierce advocate for a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer — honing her powerful skills as a witness.

She guides clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth, and meaningful change. Her workshops, groups, and programs give you the insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively, and from your truest wisdom.

You'll often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees, or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now-grown sons Rook and Cole has been the greatest joy of her life.