This is Spirit Jim. We are living in a time where men are shamed for their strength and attacked for their

masculinity, where feminine energy has been hijacked by the hustle culture, and women are praised for

their burnout, and where so-called success is often just a mask for spiritual starvation. In today's powerful episode, Paul welcomes

back Julie Dean Richards, author, speaker and attorney whose personal story challenges everything

we've been taught about power, gender, healing and identity. Julie embodies what it means to be strong, feminine and whole

in a world that's lost its connection to nature, soul and self. Paul and Julie explore the alchemy

of pain, the crisis of modern masculinity, the spiritual causes of burnout, the mystical path of feminine embodiment, the ancestral

wisdom of birth and death, and the deep soul contracts that shape our journey through trauma,

motherhood and awakening. This conversation is a call to reclaim what's real, raw and rooted,

and to remind us that the most sacred work

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Well, hello, as you heard from Penny's beautiful introduction, I have one of my favorite women in the whole world on the podcast again today,

Julie Dean Richards. And I'm sure this is going to be a very interesting conversation. I just told

Julie a second ago, I'm excited to have a good dialogue with her. I always love her fiery, bubbly,

beautiful energy. So Julie, welcome back. Oh, thank you so much, Paul. It's such a

pleasure to be here as always. Awesome. Well, my first question is a real tricky one. What have you

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