Podcast Interview: Exploring the Afterlife, Meditation, and Connecting to the Spiritual Realm

I recently sat down with Iman Hasan for one of my favorite podcast talks yet. What made this conversation different from a lot of the other ones I've done in the past is that Iman and I come from very different backgrounds: I'm Jewish and she's Muslim. 

These days, there's a lot of discord between people who have different belief systems. A lot of othering and cutting off and demonizing, often with a trigger finger and without full understanding of where the other person is coming from and why their belief systems are shaped the way they are. And if you've been in the Jamie-sphere for any amount of time, you know that's a hot button issue for me. Because it shouldn't - and it doesn't have to - be that way.

 Iman and I have differing opinions on a lot of things, but none of that matters because at our core, we both want the same thing: to love each other and the world around us, and to learn as much as we can from each other to let it inform and expand our opinions. One thing we both agree on is that one of the most dangerous things happening in the world today is the shrinking perspectives within our culture.

We can blame social media and we can blame the news, but at the end of the day, the growing collective inability to hear each other without shutting down, labeling the other as bad, and cutting them off is our responsibility. There has never been a more important time in history to be open to listening to the other side - especially if that other side scares or triggers us.

 Iman and I cover A LOT of ground in this podcast. We talk about meditation vs plant medicine, IVF vs natural conception, what happens when we incarnate vs what happens when we die, being earthly vs being deeply spiritual and how to meld the two, faith in something bigger vs faith in ourselves, manifesting and the mindset of success, and so much more.

We are two women with differing belief systems and ways of living, sitting down together and having a beautiful conversation about some of those differences - and a lot of our similarities. We went deep, we covered a lot of ground, and we laughed. A lot.