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 Goddess in Training is a podcast about what it really looks like to live by your intuition — even when it’s messy, uncertain, or completely off-script. Hosted by Sarah Stevenson, these are unfiltered conversations and personal stories about following inner nudges, making bold choices, and learning to trust yourself in a world that teaches you not to. It’s not always graceful, but it’s real. If you’re craving deeper self-trust, grounded wisdom, and the kind of honesty that makes you exhale — you’re in the right place.

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  • The Costa Rica Project:

    The Costa Rica Project:
    Apr 22 2026

    Show Notes

    Host: Sarah Stevenson, Goddess in Training

    Episode type: Solo

    Topics covered: Trusting intuition when outcomes are uncertain · the Costa Rica project · necrotizing fasciitis and the stop that changed everything · sitting in liminal space · what divinely inspired energy is actually for · the energy you spend is never wasted

    🎵 Music credit: Intro and outro music: Madre Ayahuasca by ArkawaUsed with permission. More at arkawamusic.com🌐 Visit www.goddessintraining.online for more tools to support your intuitive journey.

    When Divinely Inspired Things Don’t Work Out

    There’s a foundation being poured in Costa Rica this week.

    Concrete and rebar going into the ground on a piece of land I helped bring to life — a project that arrived the way the best things do: suddenly, fully, like it was always meant to be mine.

    For over two years I poured everything into that vision. Time, money, heart. A romance. A business. Trips every two to three months. The kind of momentum that doesn’t feel like effort because something larger is doing the pulling.

    And then my body stopped me.

    Necrotizing fasciitis. Two weeks in a hospital. Surgery. And somewhere in all of that, the energy I’d carried for that project — the vibration, the life-giving excitement — quietly dissolved.

    I came home and ended the romance. I stopped going back. And I sat with the question I couldn’t shake:

    If it was divinely inspired, why didn’t it work out?

    That’s what this week’s episode is about. Not a tidy answer — but the honest, ongoing work of a transition doula sitting with herself in a liminal space. What does it mean when something that felt so real, so full of divine momentum, shifts? Does it shake your trust in your intuition? Does it make you question the guidance you thought you were receiving?

    I don’t think the energy was wasted. I think it was tuition.

    And I’m beginning to see what it was actually preparing me for.

    If you have your own “Costa Rica” — something that moved you, fueled you, and then stopped — this episode is for you.

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    25 min
  • He Died Twice and Came Back Louder

    He Died Twice and Came Back Louder
    Apr 15 2026
    Guest: Dorian Slay — pop artist, leukemia survivor, witch Connect with Dorian: Spotify | Apple Music | Instagram | YouTube🎵 New album: In My Villain Era — available May 1, 2026 on all major streaming platformsTopics covered: Surviving acute myeloid leukemia and two near-death experiences, bone marrow transplant from a perfect-match donor in Wales, the ghost of a little girl named Jocelyn, witchcraft as a lifeline, making Ascension as a ritual of return, gaslighting and reclaiming your narrative, embracing your villain era, Beltane as a release date, upcoming music and LA plans🎵 Music credit: Intro and outro music: Madre Ayahuasca by ArkawaUsed with permission. More at arkawamusic.com🌐 Visit www.goddessintraining.online for more tools to support your intuitive journey.THE VILLAIN WHO CAME BACK TO LIFEThere’s a moment in this week’s conversation where Josh — who performs as Dorian Slay — is describing the second time he died. He’s wandering a hospital hallway with a little girl in a Dorothy costume named Jocelyn, annoyed that the floor they’re on is boring and suggesting they check out the mental ward instead. He has an IV pole. He does not yet know he is dead.That is who Josh is. Even in death, he was looking for a better party.I met Josh when I first moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains, when I wandered into a witchcraft class he was teaching — protection spells — and we became fast friends. So when he told me he was recording music, it landed as exactly right. Everything about Josh is a spell.The Road to AscensionJosh was living in Houston when he got sick. What felt like the flu turned out to be acute myeloid leukemia. By the time a neighbor found him, unresponsive on the floor, his hemoglobin was 1.8. He was airlifted, pronounced dead, placed in a medical coma. His soul, by his account and his partner’s, remained very much present in the apartment — crying in front of the mirror, not because he was dead, but because his skin was breaking out.First word out of intubation: Starbucks.The bone marrow transplant that followed brought its own near-death experience, its own ghost (ruby slippers in a cabinet, tags still on, dust an inch thick), and the slow work of relearning to walk. Twice. His debut album Ascension emerged from all of it — ethereal, witchy, released on a full moon in August 2025.Enter the VillainIn My Villain Era, arriving May 1st on Beltane, was forged in the aftermath of a relationship that left him questioning his own perception of reality.“I’m at a point now where I’m okay with being the villain in somebody’s story,” he told me. “They’re a clown in mine.”So many of us navigating midlife, the dissolution of relationships, the slow work of reclaiming our own narrative, have had to find our way to exactly that place — the moment you stop trying to control someone else’s version of you and return to your own knowing. Josh got there and made a dance album about it.The sound has evolved from the atmospheric shimmer of Ascension into something more cinematic — what he describes as what you’d get if Lady Gaga and The Weeknd had a gay baby. The songs include Villain, Spite, Misbehaving, and Peanut Butter and Jelly, which is about being dirty in the kitchen and which his mother has not yet fully heard.Songs Are SpellsWhen I asked whether he’d ever used actual spell language in his lyrics, he laughed and said songs and spells aren’t so different. Both are intentional. Both call something forward. Both carry a frequency that lands in the body before the mind catches up.Ascension was a spell for return. In My Villain Era is a spell for liberation.Near the end of our conversation, he said: “Coming back from the dead twice really changes your outlook. Life is precious. Never take it for granted. Always tell the people you love that you love them.”And then: “I know that doesn’t sound very villain of me.”It doesn’t, Josh. But I think that’s the whole point.If this episode moved you, share it with someone in their own era of reclamation. And if you want to support the work here at Goddess in Training become a paid subscriber as energy exchange. Either way, I’m so glad you’re here.Goddess in Training is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thanks for reading Goddess in Training! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Goddess in Training at goddessintraining.substack.com/subscribe
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    42 min
  • The Layer Underneath

    The Layer Underneath
    Apr 8 2026
    Guest: Juliana Sloane — hypnotherapist, depth hypnosis practitioner, shamanic counselor, and Buddhist meditation teacherConnect with Juliana: Website | Meditation Classes & Retreats | Guided Meditations on Insight Timer | Instagram🌿 April 30–May 3 — Women's Glamping Retreat in Northern California: Deep Rest RetreatTopics covered: Depth hypnosis, shamanic journey work, plant medicine integration, Buddhist practice, silent retreat, anxiety, trance states, evidence-based healing, spiritual emergence🎵 Music credit: Intro and outro music: Madre Ayahuasca by ArkawaUsed with permission. More at arkawamusic.com🌐 Visit www.goddessintraining.online for more tools to support your intuitive journey.There is a version of healing most of us know well. You talk. You trace the thread. You gain insight into why you are the way you are. And the insight is real — it matters. But sometimes you get back in the car, drive home, and the pattern is still there. You understand it now. But understanding hasn’t moved it.This is exactly where my conversation with Juliana Sloane begins.Juliana works in the space beneath conscious thought — through depth hypnosis, shamanic journey work, and Buddhist meditation. She calls her approach evidence-based magic, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about that phrase. These are ancient practices now being studied in fMRI machines and controlled trials, and researchers keep finding what the lineages have always known: they reach something talk-based approaches often circle around without ever quite touching.It’s said that 95% of our habits and beliefs are subconscious. We wouldn’t build a house with only 5% of our tools. But that’s more or less how most of us approach healing.What struck me most in this conversation was how Juliana described the role of silence — of actually stopping. She referenced a 2009 study showing Americans were already consuming the equivalent of a quarter of War and Peace daily in information, before smartphones, before the scroll. Her teacher once told her before a two-month retreat: you don’t know what will happen in your life. This may be the only time you can sit like this. She took that advice. It changed everything.So many of us are running fast precisely because stopping feels dangerous. But as Juliana said so gently — the pause isn’t standing between you and your healing. The pause is the healing.We also ended somewhere unexpected: a real conversation about the world right now. Juliana brought in the Buddhist understanding that this human realm needs just the right balance of suffering and joy — enough friction to keep us motivated to wake up. And then she said quietly: I wonder if the balance has tipped. She’s not someone who traffics in despair. But she’s not someone who looks away either. Her answer kept returning to the personal — our own healing, our own practice, our own commitment to being a compassionate presence from wherever we stand.We are on a ride right now, she said. This is serious business. And also: there is still hope.Both things are true. That is, perhaps, its own kind of evidence-based magic.You can find Juliana at julianasloane.com. Her meditation classes are largely donation-based and available online. And if a few days of silence in nature is calling you, her April 30–May 3 Women’s Glamping Retreat in Northern California might be exactly what your nervous system needs. Find her guided meditations on Insight Timer and follow her on Instagram.If this conversation moved something in you, I’d love to know. And if you’ve been finding value in this space, consider becoming a paid subscriber or leaving a one-time cacao offering as energy exchange. It keeps this work alive.With love, SarahGoddess in Training is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Goddess in Training at goddessintraining.substack.com/subscribe
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    47 min
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