S2 | E3 Christopher Sunyata, Men's Coach, Meditation Teacher & Engineer

S2 | E8 Luke Lindstrom, Conscious Channel and Intuitive Healer

I first crossed paths with Luke Lindstrom at a Paul Selig workshop last fall, and from the moment we started talking I knew I wanted to get him in front of a microphone. Luke is 28 years old, grew up outside of Detroit, and by his own description was barely functioning by the time he finished high school — isolated, angry, lost in pornography addiction, and cycling through therapists who never asked the right questions. What turned things around wasn't a prescription or a traditional talk therapy breakthrough. It was a somatic therapist in Texas named Steven Terrell who looked at Luke in their very first session and said, simply: you are so angry. That moment of being truly seen cracked something open. From there, Luke's path wound through Loyola University, Sivananda yoga, a deep immersion in the channeled teachings of Matt Kahn, and eventually his own emergence as a conscious channel — someone who describes the experience as a kayaker being guided by a stream, personality and divine intelligence meeting somewhere in the middle. He's built a YouTube channel and social media presence around that work, and he posts multiple times a week. What I find most striking about Luke isn't the channeling itself — it's the lived honesty he brings to everything adjacent to it. He talks openly about pornography addiction and the years it took to genuinely resolve it, not through white-knuckling but through learning to meet himself with love and curiosity. He talks about being 28 and never having been in a romantic relationship, and he doesn't frame that as a wound — he frames it as clarity. He believes you can't receive a real partnership until you've stopped needing one to feel whole. We also go deep on his day job as a peer support worker in a mental health residential facility, and what it's taught him about stigma, humility, and the razor-thin line between stability and homelessness. Luke's perspective on the unhoused people he encounters — both at work and around his Old Town neighborhood — is one of the most grounded, unsentimental expressions of unity I've heard on this show. He's not theorizing about oneness. He's making friends with the guy outside the grocery store. We also touch on Ho'oponopono, Paul Selig's attunements, somatic body work, the chemical imbalance myth, antidepressants, judgment as a form of avoidance, and the way pain in the body just wants to be acknowledged. A rich, wide-ranging conversation recorded on Valentine's Day — the first day of the Fire Horse in the Chinese calendar. Felt auspicious. Special Guest: Luke Lindstrom. Support The Permission Slip [https://patreon.com/mattkosterman]

S2 | E7 LeRoy Gordon, Fitness and Yoga Instructor, a Reiki Healer and a Men's Group Leader

LeRoy Gordon's life reads like no one would believe — Cabrini Green housing projects to Walter Payton High School, college athlete to police officer, pro wrestler on Canadian and international tours to yoga teacher and men's circle facilitator. In this conversation, LeRoy opens up about growing up without a present father, enduring physical and emotional abuse, and the core wound of needing to be seen that drove everything from his athletic pursuits to his relationship patterns. We dig into how he almost joined the Navy SEALs out of sheer restlessness, how a CM Punk sighting at a WWE show finally gave him permission to chase his childhood dream of pro wrestling, and how the pandemic brought that chapter to a close and cracked open a new one. LeRoy shares how Landmark Forum was his first real taste of sitting with other people and processing what he'd been through, how an MDMA ceremony on his birthday helped him finally connect with his mother in a three-hour conversation that changed everything, and how ayahuasca and men's group work took him even deeper. We also get into his experiments with polyamory and how the radical communication it demands made him a better partner across the board, his recent ADHD discovery and how it reframed decades of restlessness and relationship patterns, and how Reiki, tarot, and yoga have become the unexpected through-line tying it all together. LeRoy is now leading his own men's circles, teaching yoga at Fourth Movement Studio in Logan Square, and building something that bridges the worlds of physical transformation and inner healing — and this conversation is a front-row seat to how he got there. Bio LeRoy Gordon is a fitness coach, yoga instructor, and men's group facilitator in the city of Chicago. After over six years of working the professional wrestling circuits of the US and Canada, LeRoy shifted his focused from his physical pursuits to healing his heart and mind with the help of men's work and plant medicine. He has led men's circles for nearly five years. He hopes to guide and inspire men to be the most open hearted and authentic versions of themselves so that they may continue the work of reducing harm and helping our communities thrive. Email: Leroygordoncoaching@gmail.com [Leroygordoncoaching@gmail.com] Instagram: /royflashgordon Threads: /royflashgordon Substack: https://sovereignsols.substack.com [https://sovereignsols.substack.com] Special Guest: LeRoy Gordon. Support The Permission Slip [https://patreon.com/mattkosterman]

S2 | E6 Wendy Perkins Shoef, ADHD Microdosing and Neuro-Pleasure Coach and More

In this episode, I sit down with Wendy Perkins Schoef — ADHD coach, microdosing guide, and neuro pleasure coach who specializes in working with solo entrepreneurs. Wendy shares her remarkable origin story: raised by a single Catholic mom in LA, navigating an ADHD brain through college and careers spanning real estate, biometrics, and web development, before finding her true calling after a divorce sent her on a journey of sexual self-discovery and eventually into orgasm coaching and nervous system work. We dig deep into her holistic framework of Goal, Set, Setting, and Intention — the foundation she uses whether she's helping a client build their business, choose a microdosing protocol, or regulate their nervous system. We talk about the differences between psilocybin and LSD as microdosing tools, why LSD is a "non-specific amplifier," and how the right substance choice depends entirely on what's going on in your body, mind, and environment. We also get into the profound connection between sexual energy and creative energy, the jaw-pelvic floor link, yoni dearmouring, the stigma around prostate work for men, and harm reduction resources for those exploring psychedelics. Wendy also opens up about parenting her son Max, who was born with a brain injury, and how that experience has deepened her understanding of the nervous system and shaped her approach to her work. About Wendy Wendy is an ADHD microdosing and neuro-pleasure coach, researcher, and co-host of the Psychedelic Revelations podcast. She works with brilliant, creative, capable people who are also a little bit fried—navigating chronic stress, ADHD, burnout, or all of the above. The ones who’ve read the books, tried the supplements, made the to-do lists, and yet still feel tired but wired, overthinking everything, spinning in place while their responsibilities grow by the hour. Wendy’s approach is rooted in a core belief: your nervous system is sacred, pleasure is a birthright, and ADHD symptoms are signs of a dysregulated nervous system—not a broken brain. Through microdosing support, nervous system regulation, embodied practices, and a BIG helping of tech support, she helps people remember their own divine intelligence and step back into who they truly are so they can make the impact in the world they’re meant to do. Her work blends research, lived experience, and a deep reverence for the body’s wisdom to support transformation that actually lasts. Website: https://thesuccessdoula.com [https://thesuccessdoula.com] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendygoesdeep/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendygoesdeep/] Instagram: https://instagram.com/thesuccessdoula [https://instagram.com/thesuccessdoula] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thesuccessdoula [https://www.youtube.com/@thesuccessdoula] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesuccessdoula [https://www.facebook.com/thesuccessdoula] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wendygoesdeep [https://www.tiktok.com/@wendygoesdeep] Special Guest: Wendy Perkins Shoef. Support The Permission Slip [https://patreon.com/mattkosterman]

S2 | E5 Karen Kubicko, Psychic Intuitive, Reiki Master & More

Karen Kubicko grew up steeped in Catholic school traditions — but something always felt bigger just beneath the surface. In 11th grade, on her first day at a new public school, she heard a voice tell her she'd had a past life with a complete stranger in the hallway. She dismissed it. Decades later, that moment makes perfect sense. In this episode, Karen walks me through the pivotal experiences that cracked her open: a near-fatal emergency C-section that may have briefly stopped her heart, a vision of her deceased grandparents holding her newborn daughter, and years later, a car accident in which an archangel took her on a tour of what felt like her future. Each experience deepened her abilities and ultimately led her to train directly under renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Brian Weiss at the Omega Institute in New York. Today, Karen offers "whole soul readings," past life regression sessions, intuitive development classes, and Reiki — all aimed at helping people identify and clear the root causes of patterns that are holding them back in this lifetime. Whether it's recurring abusive relationships, irrational fears, chronic anxiety, or a general sense that something is missing, Karen's work helps clients trace those threads back to their source — and release them. Our conversation goes deep on several fascinating topics: How past life regression works and what a session with Karen actually looks like * The empath problem — why highly sensitive people absorb other people's emotions, how childhood trauma (hypervigilance, unsafe environments) keeps the "feelers" turned all the way up, and practical tools to dial them back down * Discernment — how to tell the difference between your own inner voice, ego chatter, and genuine intuitive guidance * Spirit guides and channeling — Karen's experience receiving information, and how she sets clear boundaries with the beings she works with * Dr. Brian Weiss and the origins of past life regression therapy — how a skeptical psychiatrist accidentally regressed a patient 5,000 years and changed the field of healing forever * Manifesting and timeline choice — the idea that every moment offers a choice between vibrational states, and how awareness of that gap between stimulus and response is itself a form of freedom Karen and I also connect the dots between indigenous wisdom traditions, empathic experience, and the growing global awakening — weaving in references to Paul Selig, Bashar/Darryl Anka, and the power of trusting what you receive, even when it first shows up as a horse and buggy in your living room. This is a beautiful, wide-ranging conversation for anyone curious about the soul's journey across lifetimes — and how understanding that journey can heal the one you're living right now. About Karen Karen Kubicko is a past life hypnotherapist, and intuitive psychic reader passionate about teaching and helping others heal through working with their spirit guides, angels, and healing the patterns found in their own past lives. She is the author of: Life Is Just Another Class—One Soul’s Journey through Past Life Regression, an account of 16 of her own past lives and Making True Love—Healing Relationship Patterns Through Past Life Regression which explores common root causes of relationship issues, plus provides insight on how to heal these patterns so you can find true love. Karen also utilizes her psychic skills to intuitively see someone’s whole soul experience including their past lives. Karen completed the Past Life Therapy Professional Training course with Dr. Brian Weiss. She received her hypnotherapy certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists. She has personally remembered over 200 past lives and has helped numerous others remember their own past lives. Connect with Karen Email: Karen@KarenKubicko.com [Karen@KarenKubicko.com] Website: www.KarenKubicko.com [http://www.KarenKubicko.com] Book a Personal Session: https://calendly.com/karen-kubicko [https://calendly.com/karen-kubicko] YouTube: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.youtube.com/@KarenKubicko [https://www.youtube.com/@KarenKubicko] Instagram: @KarenKubicko ~ https://www.instagram.com/karenkubicko [https://www.instagram.com/karenkubicko] Facebook (page): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.facebook.com/KarenAKubicko [https://www.facebook.com/KarenAKubicko] LinkedIn: Karen Kubicko ~ https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kubicko/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kubicko/] X (Twitter): @KarenKubicko ~ https://x.com/KarenKubicko [https://x.com/KarenKubicko] Pinterest: Karen Kubicko ~ http://pinterest.com/karenkubicko/ [http://pinterest.com/karenkubicko/] RedBubble (art & merch): Karen A. Kubicko ~ https://www.redbubble.com/people/KKubicko [https://www.redbubble.com/people/KKubicko] Karen can be seen supporting her youngest child on the LMN Lifetime television show Ghost Inside My Child (S2 E1, 2014). For more on Karen Kubicko, please visit: https://www.karenkubicko.com/about-karen/ [https://www.karenkubicko.com/about-karen/] Special Guest: Karen Kubicko. Support The Permission Slip [https://patreon.com/mattkosterman]

S2 | E4 Pascale Falempin, Pilates & Breathwork Instructor

In this episode, I sit down with Pascale Falempin—former professional dancer, Pilates instructor, and breathwork facilitator—to explore the path of embodiment from a deeply lived perspective. Pascale grew up in Corsica, surrounded by nature and simplicity, before stepping into the intensity and cultural expansion of Paris and eventually into a career in dance. What unfolds is a story that will feel familiar to many: a gradual disconnection from the body in pursuit of performance, achievement, and external validation—and the eventual return. We dive into the intelligence of the body as something far more than mechanical. Pascale speaks to the subtle ways the body communicates, how trauma and conditioning get stored, and how breath becomes a direct access point into unwinding those patterns. This is not about forcing transformation—it’s about listening, allowing, and creating the conditions for the body to reveal what it already knows. We also explore the paradox of modern life: being highly functional yet deeply disconnected. Pascale shares how her work integrates movement, breath, and awareness to help people come back into relationship with themselves—not as an idea, but as a felt experience. This conversation moves beyond concepts. It’s about the lived reality of embodiment, the courage it takes to feel, and the quiet power of coming home to yourself. Pascale can be found on Instagram - @powerhousepascale Special Guest: Pascale Falempin. Support The Permission Slip [https://patreon.com/mattkosterman]