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When Prayer Violates Free Will with Katie Kieffer
Find out what prayer is, and how it can (consciously or unconsciously) interfere with the Universal Law of free will–harming both the pray-er and the person being prayed for.
Give Your Soul What it Wants with Katie Kieffer
Your Soul desires experience that expands you. Learn how to do this without disrupting your Zen in this episode.
Play as Gateway to Authentic Truth Meditation
Your authentic self and authentic truth lay beneath your learned & conditioned identity. Play is a fun and effective gateway to the experience of authentic truth.
Embracing the Discomfort of Change Dr Jenn Phoenix Hatfield
Right now, the “invitation” to change in unexpected is up for everyone. How can you embrace the changes that are coming, even if you wouldn’t have chosen them?
Expanding into Wholeness Meditation
In this podcast & meditation, learn how to live in wholeness and soul vibration, and use the meditation to help make this your new normal
Embrace Thriving and Wholeness with Katie Kieffer
We are shifting as a species from survival to thriving and wholeness, here’s how to make that shift!
About Kristine
Kristine Madera is an Amazon #1 bestselling author who writes fiction and nonfiction shaped by travel, culture, and lived cross-cultural experience.
Inspired while volunteering at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Calcutta, her novel God in Drag examines what happens when spiritual faith fractures in the sacred city of Varanasi. Read the first chapter of God in Drag HERE
She birthed her upcoming novel, The Snakeman’s Wife, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Papua New Guinea.
Be on the lookout for her Etiquette Express Guides, a series of short, practical travel guides that help readers understand the customs, social expectations, and everyday dos and don’ts that make travel smoother and more connected.
Her travels have taken her across India, Asia, Europe, Australia, and Papua New Guinea as both a backpacker and Peace Corps Volunteer. A portion of her book proceeds supports cross-cultural education scholarships.
You don’t need to “master” a culture to move through it well.
You just need a few steady skills:
- How to stay curious,
- How to adjust without performing
- How to recover gracefully when you miss a cue—because we all do.
This free PDF guide gives you 12 simple, human skills you can use anywhere: whether traveling abroad, navigating a new city, joining a host family, starting a new job, or even re-entering your own life after a trip.


