Take Back Your Mind

Today, Michael speaks with Deborah Santana. Deborah is an author, activist, philanthropist, and spiritual seeker whose life journey bridges music, service, and deep personal transformation. In her memoir,  Loving the Fire: Choosing Me, Finding Freedom, she shares the path of leaving a 34-year marriage to music legend Carlos Santana, reclaiming her authentic self, and walking through life's challenges with courage, faith, and spiritual practice. Through her foundation, Do A Little, whose name is based on the Bishop Desmond Tutu's aphorism, "Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world," Deborah supports women, girls, and communities through education, healing, and empowerment.
Conversation Highlights Include:
-What it means to "love the fire," and how life's challenges can become a doorway into real spiritual growth and transformation.
-The moment of choosing yourself, and what it takes to step into a more authentic and purpose-aligned life.
-How a lifelong spiritual foundation and meditation practice can anchor you through major life transitions.
-Recognizing when you've outgrown certain relationships or roles, and allowing yourself to evolve with honesty and compassion.
-A clear and practical way to begin claiming your truth through stillness, self-inquiry, and reflection.
-Why fear can keep you stuck in familiar patterns, even when you know something in your life needs to change.
-How to stay engaged in the world while remaining grounded in a deeper spiritual awareness.
-A simple daily practice that strengthens intuition and helps you stay centered and connected throughout the day.
-The importance of listening inward instead of being guided by external expectations or validation.
-How living with courage, service, and intention creates deeper fulfillment and a meaningful impact on others.
Next, Michael closes with a guided meditation that invites  you to remember your true identity beyond conditions and reconnect with your inner awareness. 
🪷 Get Deborah's memoir, Loving The Fire, here - https://deborahsantana.com/ and across social media. Explore her philanthropic work here - https://deborahsantana.com/do-a-little.
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🌟 Support the podcast by supporting Agape! Take Back Your Mind is brought to you by more than just great conversations—it's powered by purpose! Our primary sponsor is the Agape International Spiritual Center. Founded in 1986, Agape is committed to individual transformation and to being a beneficial presence on the planet. Discover more here: https://agapelive.com/.
If this show uplifts your spirit, please help us keep it going:
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Your generosity helps us to keep sharing meaningful conversations that uplift and transform!
Our secondary sponsor is NutriRise, the makers of Michael's AdaptoZen high-vibe nutrition and supplement line, designed to nourish your body temple from the inside out. Check them out here: https://nutririse.com/collections/adaptozen.🌿

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Today, our first letter comes from Karely in Oakland, CA: Karely finds herself drained by certain people's energy and struggles to return to her center afterward. She asks how to stay grounded, protect her energy, and remain aligned without shutting others out.
Our next letter comes from Lisa from Johannesburg, South Africa: Lisa reflects on the idea of "luck" and wonders how it fits into a spiritual life shaped by intention and awareness. She asks whether luck can be influenced—or if it's simply part of the mystery we're meant to trust.
Next, Michael offers a brief teaching and a guided meditation focusing on the affirmation: "Everything is working together for my good."
✨ What's your Life Question?
Have questions about your relationships, finances, life purpose, or how to understand  world events through a spiritual lens? Submit your Life Question to [email protected] — your question could be featured in an upcoming episode to inspire others on their journey!
✍️Love Take Back Your Mind? This podcast grows through your support. If you've been inspired by an episode, we'd love to hear from you! Consider leaving a 5-star review or drop a comment. It helps others join this journey of growth and connection.
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📱 Follow Michael on social media for daily wisdom:
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🌟 Support the podcast by supporting Agape! Take Back Your Mind is brought to you by more than just great conversations—it's powered by purpose! Our primary sponsor is the Agape International Spiritual Center. Founded in 1986, Agape is committed to individual transformation and to being a beneficial presence on the planet. Discover more here: https://agapelive.com/.
If this show uplifts your spirit, please help us keep it going:
💖 Donate at https://agapelive.com/ and mention "podcast"
📱 Or text GIVE to 424-321-6243 with "podcast" in the message
Your generosity helps us to keep sharing meaningful conversations that uplift and transform!
Our secondary sponsor is NutriRise, the makers of Michael's AdaptoZen high-vibe nutrition and supplement line, designed to nourish your body temple from the inside out. Check them out here: https://nutririse.com/collections/adaptozen.🌿

A note to listeners: This episode contains explicit language. 
🌟 It's not too late to sign up for Michael's 5-week live course: Quantum Healing Activation: https://events.agapelive.com/.
Today, Michael speaks with Adam Roa.  Adam is a poet, artist, and transformational voice known for articulating emotional truths people feel but often struggle to express. His spoken word poem, You Are Who You've Been Looking For, has reached over 250 million people, becoming the most viewed live poetry performance in history. Through his work, Adam helps individuals access authentic confidence, deepen self-awareness, and reconnect with their own inner truth through vulnerability, creativity, and self-reclamation. His highly-anticipated first book of poetry,  _CrazyLove_ , comes out in May. Get on the pre-order waitlist here: https://www.adamroa.com/crazylove.
Conversation Highlights Include:
-How heartbreak became a turning point, creating space for deeper awareness and emotional healing.
-The realization that art is not just expression, but a powerful tool for transformation and inner connection.
-What happened internally when success arrived, and how external validation did not resolve deeper feelings of disconnection.
-A more honest look at self-love as an evolving relationship, not a destination you arrive at once and for all.
-Why growth often feels like a spiral, where challenges resurface not as failure, but as opportunities for deeper integration.
-What it means to let go of rigid structure and begin trusting your own inner guidance moment by moment.
-Insights from the darkness retreat and what emerges when all external distractions are removed.
-How cultural conditioning and survival patterns shape emotional expression, and how awareness begins to loosen their grip.
-The tension between authenticity and performance, and what it takes to tell the truth even when it feels uncomfortable.
Next, Michael closes with a guided meditation that invites you into stillness, presence, and deeper self-awareness.
🪷 Connect with Adam here  - https://www.adamroa.com/ - and across social media. Pre-order CrazyLove here: https://www.adamroa.com/crazylove.
✨ What's your Life Question?
Have questions about your relationships, finances, life purpose, or how to understand  world events through a spiritual lens? Submit your Life Question to [email protected] — your question could be featured in an upcoming episode to inspire others on their journey!
✍️Love Take Back Your Mind? This podcast grows through your support. If you've been inspired by an episode, we'd love to hear from you! Consider leaving a 5-star review or drop a comment. It helps others join this journey of growth and connection.
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🌐 Stay connected with Michael: Visit https://michaelbeckwith.com/ and sign up to receive occasional inspiration and updates—and as a gift, you'll receive his powerful guided meditation, "Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable." Explore even more at https://agapelive.com/.
📱 Follow Michael on social media for daily wisdom:
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🌟 Support the podcast by supporting Agape! Take Back Your Mind is brought to you by more than just great conversations—it's powered by purpose! Our primary sponsor is the Agape International Spiritual Center. Founded in 1986, Agape is committed to individual transformation and to being a beneficial presence on the planet. Discover more here: https://agapelive.com/.
If this show uplifts your spirit, please help us keep it going:
💖 Donate at https://agapelive.com/ and mention "podcast"
📱 Or text GIVE to 424-321-6243 with "podcast" in the message
Your generosity helps us to keep sharing meaningful conversations that uplift and transform!
Our secondary sponsor is NutriRise, the makers of Michael's AdaptoZen high-vibe nutrition and supplement line, designed to nourish your body temple from the inside out. Check them out here: https://nutririse.com/collections/adaptozen.🌿

🕯️ Sign up for Michael's 5-week live course: Quantum Healing Activation: https://events.agapelive.com/.
Today, our first letter comes from Manfred in Germany: Manfred wrestles with a profound spiritual question: if everything is an expression of God, how do we make sense of evil, suffering, and human atrocities? He asks how free will, incarnation, and Divine Presence coexist in a world where such darkness exists.
Our next letter comes from Anonymous: Twenty years after an abortion, Anonymous is still carrying deep guilt and wondering about the soul of her unborn child. She asks how to find true forgiveness, heal emotionally, and understand this experience from a spiritual perspective.
Finally, Michael leads a meditation on remembering who you are.
✨ What's your Life Question?
Have questions about your relationships, finances, life purpose, or how to understand  world events through a spiritual lens? Submit your Life Question to [email protected] — your question could be featured in an upcoming episode to inspire others on their journey!
✍️Love Take Back Your Mind? This podcast grows through your support. If you've been inspired by an episode, we'd love to hear from you! Consider leaving a 5-star review or drop a comment. It helps others join this journey of growth and connection.
🎧 Never miss an episode!
Be sure to Subscribe or Follow the show and turn on notifications so you're the first to know when new episodes drop every Wednesday and Friday.
🌐 Stay connected with Michael: Visit https://michaelbeckwith.com/ and sign up to receive occasional inspiration and updates—and as a gift, you'll receive his powerful guided meditation, "Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable." Explore even more at https://agapelive.com/.
📱 Follow Michael on social media for daily wisdom:
Facebook: @Michael.B.Beckwith
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IG: @michaelbbeckwith
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TikTok: @officialmichaelbeckwith  
https://www.tiktok.com/@officialmichaelbeckwith 
YouTube:
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🌟 Support the podcast by supporting Agape! Take Back Your Mind is brought to you by more than just great conversations—it's powered by purpose! Our primary sponsor is the Agape International Spiritual Center. Founded in 1986, Agape is committed to individual transformation and to being a beneficial presence on the planet. Discover more here: https://agapelive.com/.
If this show uplifts your spirit, please help us keep it going:
💖 Donate at https://agapelive.com/ and mention "podcast"
📱 Or text GIVE to 424-321-6243 with "podcast" in the message
Your generosity helps us to keep sharing meaningful conversations that uplift and transform!
Our secondary sponsor is NutriRise, the makers of Michael's AdaptoZen high-vibe nutrition and supplement line, designed to nourish your body temple from the inside out. Check them out here: https://nutririse.com/collections/adaptozen.🌿

🕯️ Sign up for Michael's 5-week live course:  Quantum Healing Activation : https://events.agapelive.com/. 
Today, Michael welcomes Dr. Dain Heer. Dain is the co-creator of Access Consciousness,  a global movement empowering people to recognize they are not broken. A bestselling author and founder of International Being You Day, he has spent over two decades facilitating transformation worldwide. Through practical tools and energetic awareness, Dain invites people to step out of judgment and into the freedom of truly being themselves.
Conversation Highlights include:
-Exploring the radical idea that nothing is wrong with you, and how that question alone begins to dissolve self-judgment.
-Understanding how the questions you ask shape your reality—and why asking "What's right about me?" opens new possibilities.
-A deeply personal story of moving from depression and despair to a sense of peace, aliveness, and renewed purpose.
-Simple, practical tools that help interrupt negative thought patterns and create space for something lighter to emerge.
-What it actually looks like to be yourself in real life—not perfect, but present, aware, and able to navigate anything that arises.
-Recognizing how self-judgment is learned over time, and how it keeps people stuck in cycles of trying to fix themselves.
-Learning to ask "Who does this belong to?" as a way to release thoughts and emotions that may not even be yours.
-Why liking yourself can feel challenging, and how it becomes the foundation for real change and self-trust.
-The five elements of intimacy—honor, trust, allowance, vulnerability, and gratitude—as a path to valuing yourself.
-How choosing to be yourself shifts relationships, strengthening aligned connections, and naturally releasing others.
-Imagining a world where people truly like themselves—and how that one shift could transform everything.
Finally, a closing meditation guided by Michael to help you return to stillness and awaken to your True nature.
🪷 Connect with Dain and check out his courses and events here https://drdainheer.com/. For information on International Being You Day here: https://www.accessconsciousness.com/en/micrositesfolder/international-being-you-day/. 
✨ What's your Life Question?
Have questions about your relationships, finances, life purpose, or how to understand  world events through a spiritual lens? Submit your Life Question to [email protected] — your question could be featured in an upcoming episode to inspire others on their journey!
✍️Love Take Back Your Mind? This podcast grows through your support. If you've been inspired by an episode, we'd love to hear from you! Consider leaving a 5-star review or drop a comment. It helps others join this journey of growth and connection.
🎧 Never miss an episode!
Be sure to Subscribe or Follow the show and turn on notifications so you're the first to know when new episodes drop every Wednesday and Friday.
🌐 Stay connected with Michael: Visit https://michaelbeckwith.com/ and sign up to receive occasional inspiration and updates—and as a gift, you'll receive his powerful guided meditation, "Raise Your Vibration and Be Untouchable." Explore even more at https://agapelive.com/.
📱 Follow Michael on social media for daily wisdom:
Facebook: @Michael.B.Beckwith
https://www.facebook.com/Michael.B.Beckwith 
IG: @michaelbbeckwith
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TikTok: @officialmichaelbeckwith  
https://www.tiktok.com/@officialmichaelbeckwith 
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMWuqEKXLY4m60gNDsw61w 
🌟 Support the podcast by supporting Agape! Take Back Your Mind is brought to you by more than just great conversations—it's powered by purpose! Our primary sponsor is the Agape International Spiritual Center. Founded in 1986, Agape is committed to individual transformation and to being a beneficial presence on the planet. Discover more here: https://agapelive.com/.
If this show uplifts your spirit, please help us keep it going:
💖 Donate at https://agapelive.com/ and mention "podcast"
📱 Or text GIVE to 424-321-6243 with "podcast" in the message
Your generosity helps us to keep sharing meaningful conversations that uplift and transform!
Our secondary sponsor is NutriRise, the makers of Michael's AdaptoZen high-vibe nutrition and supplement line, designed to nourish your body temple from the inside out. Check them out here: https://nutririse.com/collections/adaptozen.🌿