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Reading a piece on empathy that begins: Souls infected with the spirit of greed and plunder try to sell you the notion that empathy is dangerous and destructive.... from my new book Wildflowers Praying at Midnight. All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide and at my website. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, Substack journal, YouTube channel, apparel, poetic keynotes and talks, book readings are available at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...                     Send us a text Support the show

Reading from my new book Wildflowers Praying at Midnight, released December, 2025. This piece begins with: Ukuzola. Calm now. Here is our medicine.... All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide and at my website. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, Substack journal, apparel, poetic keynotes and talks, and book/poetry readings are available at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...                    Send us a text Support the show

Reading a piece that begins with, They say you must die for your art...., from my book, Dear Artist: A Love Letter. All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, Substack journal, apparel, poetic keynotes and talks, and book/poetry readings are available at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...                   Send us a text Support the show

Reading in both English and Spanish a fresh new unpublished piece titled, We are the Garden and We are Beautiful / Somos El Jardin y Somos Hermosos. This poem was written as part of a keynote message for a community celebration (pachanga) and communion. All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, Substack journal, apparel, poetic keynotes and talks, and book/poetry readings are available at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...                  Send us a text Support the show

Reading a fresh new unpublished piece titled, Bless You Who Set Our People Free. This poem was written as part of a keynote message for a Community Development Resources of Ventura all-staff celebration of 400+ early childhood support and education workers, Ventura, California, April 25, 2025. All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, Substack journal, apparel, keynotes, talks, and book/poetry readings are available at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...                 Send us a text Support the show

Reading a fresh new unpublished piece titled, Sanctuary Until Sunrise. This poem was written as part of a keynote message for LA Best Babies Network's Family Strengthening Network Annual Summit, attendance 500+, June 11, 2025. All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, Substack journal, apparel, keynotes, talks, and book/poetry readings are available at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...                Send us a text Support the show

Reading part 2 of the passage titled, Rest Feeds Your Revolution, from my book, Freedom: Medicine Words for Your Brave Revolution. You may listen to part 2 in podcast episode 299. All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, Substack journal, apparel, keynotes, talks, and book/poetry readings are available at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...               Send us a text Support the show

Visionary artist Delphine Diallo joins me in Sacred Conversation. We cover the cosmos in this one. AI as both a colonizing and liberating instrument. History as a mirror. Ancestral remembrance. Embodied spirituality. Bruce Lee. And so much more. May this soul medicine nourish you. You may find Delphine's work on Instagram at @delphinediallo. .... Sacred Conversations are periodic episodes of my podcast in which I reach out to people whose work and life inspire me, and we simply have a soulful conversation. Prerecorded for video and available on my YouTube channel. No scripted, transactional, extractive, one-sided interview dynamic. Just two people with a care and curiosity for each other’s journey and creative work, asking each other about what stirs in us, and enjoying the ancient, mutually healing art of listening deeply. Again, not an interview. A spiritual communion. The idea is for us to relax and enjoy an organic conversation, like over tea or breaking bread, and to get to know each other along the way.  .... All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, Substack journal, apparel, keynotes, talks, and book/poetry readings are available at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...               Send us a text Support the show

Reading a piece from my book, Freedom: Medicine Words for Your Brave Revolution. This passage is titled: Rest Feeds Your Revolution. This is part 1 of the reading, with more to follow. All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, Substack journal, apparel, keynotes, talks, and book/poetry readings are available at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...              Send us a text Support the show

Today we share chapter eight, titled: Ceremonial Life, of the audiobook of my bestselling book, Daughter Drink This Water: A Book of Sacred Love. Available on Audible. All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, apparel, keynotes, talks, and book/poetry readings are exclusively at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...     Send us a text Support the show

Reading a piece from my book, Your Caring Heart: Renewal for Helping Professionals and Systems. This passage is titled: Love the Ones You Serve. All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, Substack journal, apparel, keynotes, talks, and book/poetry readings are available at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...             Send us a text Support the show

Reading a piece that begins with: Synchronicities. Everything is intimately, energetically interwoven.... All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, Substack journal, apparel, keynotes, talks, and book/poetry readings are available at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...            Send us a text Support the show

Reading a piece that begins with: A golden sky covers you today.... All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, Substack journal, apparel, keynotes, talks, and book/poetry readings are available at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...           Send us a text Support the show

Today we share chapter seven, titled: Spiritual Life, of the audiobook of my bestselling book, Daughter Drink This Water: A Book of Sacred Love. All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, apparel, keynotes, talks, and book/poetry readings are exclusively at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...          Send us a text Support the show

Today we share chapter six, titled: Wholeness, of the audiobook of my bestselling book, Daughter Drink This Water: A Book of Sacred Love. The complete audiobook is available for download exclusively at my website. All of my books are available at booksellers worldwide. Birthing Life personal phone sessions, book specials, apparel, keynotes, talks, book/poetry readings, worldwide book/poetry reading tour, and virtual book/poetry readings are exclusively at my website. Thank you for posting your copies and readings of my books and writings, tagging #jaiyajohn, encouraging others to purchase, and sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful. jaiyajohn.com...         Send us a text Support the show