In the final Cosmic Co-Op episode of 2024, I had the immense pleasure and privilege to sit down and chat with Siobhan Diores of Soft Power to unpack the messy and liberating path of people emerging as radical leaders. Along the way, we get into some big questions, like what does it mean to be a student of change? Not just the comfortable, Instagrammable kind that gets you pats on the back, but uncomfortable, unpopular, deeply activating change?

We also explore how creativity serves as both a balm and a battering ram by carving out space for authenticity and community in a system that thrives on disconnection. Siobhan shares her journey from witchy birth doula to co-founder of a church rooted in care, creativity, connection, and change. Along the way, we talk about portals, spirit babies, and the nuanced realities of reproductive choices, radical leadership, and interpersonal accountability.

The new moon in Capricorn is a tender chapter-marker as we close out another calendar year and are inevitably pulled to personal reflection and forward thinking, and this episode is as much about the personal as it is about the collective. It’s about how we make decisions when the stakes feel impossibly high, and how we can shift the narrative of what it means to live intentionally within a system that asks us to choose survival over selfhood.

In this episode, I have a juicy conversation with my fellow Libra rising and astro baddie, Neha Jha. Neha is a board-certified master life & success coach, hypnotherapist, EFT tapping practitioner & Reiki master who blends astrology, Human Design, and meditation teachings to lead her students to their most authentic, fully realized selves.

We talk about a wide range of topics, from the deep darkness of the moon in Scorpio to attachment theory to the reality of living in the American South. I loved learning even more about Neha’s journey as an anti-capitalist business owner and spiritual jack of all trades, and I know you will, too.

Stella is a queer & nonbinary rebirth & wealth coach who focuses on empowering queer, trans, and BIPOC folks toward personal financial liberation through a trauma-informed lens. They are a certified Trauma of Money practitioner and self-proclaimed “wealth activist” who has been helping folks redefine wealth for over 7 years, and they have been an internet mutual of mine for the last handful of years.

We had a fantastic conversation about addressing financial shame, the sacred motivating force that is anger, whether or not “human nature” exists, and we tackle a contentious, yet commonly asked question: does building wealth in late-stage capitalism make you a capitalist?