King Hero's Journey with Beth Martens

About King Hero's Journey with Beth Martens

For archetype, purpose and business coach, author, coach trainer, podcaster, and founder of the House of Free Will, Beth Martens, her calling is a life or death thing.
To do a free ‘King Hero’ Archetype Quiz to learn where you are on the path of purpose, find her book, “Journey: A Map of Archetypes to Find Lost Purpose in a Sea of Meaninglessness”, and to apply to become a member in the House of Free Will visit her website at https://www.bethmartens.com.

Publisher

Beth Martens

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Jan 2020

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

458 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   Beth of Fresh Air #47 — Expose the Narcissist: The Dark Truth with Micah Ellars

   I've been reluctant to tackle narcissism on Beth of Fresh Air because it's become such a hot-button topic. The word narcissist gets thrown around so casually these days that practically anyone who is vain, selfish, difficult, or overly impressed with themselves can earn the label. It's even become trendy! But what happens when we look beyond the popular use of the word and examine Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and the deeper architecture of personality that may be operating underneath it? Today, filmmaker, acting coach, and inner work teacher Micah Ellars is joining me to explore some very dark territory. We're going to expose the narcissist through the lens of archetypes, False Personalities, and Gurdjieff's work on self-remembering. What does narcissism actually look like? How do you recognize the patterns? And how can someone appear so convincing, charming, wounded, powerful, or sincere while their behaviour tells an entirely different story? What we'll explore What NPD actually is, how it differs from ordinary vanity and self-absorption, and why recognizing a persistent pattern matters more than casually applying a label. The archetypes of narcissism. How do the archetypes become organized around maintaining an identity, acquiring power, securing attention, or controlling relationships? The extreme architecture of False Personality. We'll explore narcissistic behaviour through Gurdjieff's understanding of mechanicalness, identification, and the many competing "I's" that make up the personality. The terror of being seen. What happens when the carefully constructed image is threatened? Why can exposure provoke such extreme reactions? Who are you actually talking to? One moment you may encounter charm, the next victimhood, rage, superiority, or apparent vulnerability. How do you recognize which personality is operating, and what happens when you mistake it for the whole person? The question of conscience and humanity. What happens when identification with False Personality becomes so extreme that genuine relationship, empathy, and self-observation seem almost inaccessible? We'll examine what it means to become profoundly disconnected from one's humanity. Can the narcissist come back? Why is meaningful change so difficult in deeply entrenched narcissistic patterns? What would genuine self-recognition require, and what possibilities remain for someone willing to undertake that work? Micah and I will also explore why understanding the archetypal architecture of narcissism may help us recognize patterns that otherwise remain hidden behind a convincing mask. And perhaps one of the most important questions of all: What happens when a person becomes so identified with the personalities they've constructed that they can no longer recognize who's acting through them? This is going to be a fascinating and potentially unsettling conversation about identity, agency, conscience, the masks people wear, and the enormous cost of living through False Personalities. Come down the rabbit hole with us! *** MORE FROM BETH www.bethmartens.com (https://bethmartens.com/) If we're just meeting I’m Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and  business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family’s firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life. Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight. Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life’s work and walk their Hero’s Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.

2. 

   10 Oct 2026

   Beth of Fresh Air — Episode 46: Hallowed Be with Marisa Love

   We’ve entered death season. The final quarter of the year is here. The growing season is ending. Plants die back. Leaves fall. What has completed its cycle begins returning to the earth. And human attention turns toward death too. Halloween arrives with its ghosts, skeletons, monsters, gore, murder, cannibalism and fascination with everything frightening, grotesque and macabre. Why? This week on Beth of Fresh Air, Marisa Love is joining me to go down a particularly spooky rabbit hole and look at what this season is actually doing to us. We’re going to take a much deeper look at Halloween, investigate some of the myths and stories surrounding cannibalism, and ask why fear becomes entertainment at precisely this point in the natural cycle. Why does our culture invite us to rehearse death, horror, violence and terror for fun? Who benefits when enormous numbers of people willingly give their attention, imagination and emotional energy to frightening imagery at the same time? And what happens to consciousness when we do? We’ll explore the possibility that there are modern psyops riding on top of something much older and more archetypal: the closing of a cycle, the completion of a spiral wrung (or as Gurdjieff calls it, an octave). There’s a real death happening around us every autumn. A year of growth is coming to completion. The body is responding to changes in light, temperature, food and environment. We’ll talk about the idea that seasonal changes can affect the body’s processes of elimination and detoxification, and what we actually know—and don’t know—about that. And then we’re taking cannibalism somewhere you might not expect. In addition to exploring folk and fairy tales that depict it, we'll be asking this question. What if consuming another person doesn’t only mean eating their flesh? What happens when we consume someone else’s terror, humiliation, suffering or destruction as entertainment? Can our fascination with fear itself become a kind of psychological cannibalism? And if attention is one of our most valuable resources, what happens when we willingly feed it to images designed to shock, frighten and hypnotize us? Marisa and I will look at Hallowed Be from a whole bunch of angles: nature, death, seasonal cycles, physiology, folk tales, ritual, cannibalism, Halloween, media, manipulation, fear, consciousness and the strange human desire to be entertained by the things that terrify us. Death season is here. Something is ending. The question is what we do with it. More from Marisa: https://www.instagram.com/the_ladybug_line (https://www.instagram.com/the_ladybug_line)www.theladybugline.com (http://www.theladybugline.com/) *** MORE FROM BETH www.bethmartens.com (https://www.bethmartens.com/) If we're just meeting... I’m Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and  business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family’s firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life. Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight. Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life’s work and walk their Hero’s Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us. I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air.

3. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Beth of Fresh Air — Episode 45: Originate with Micah Ellars

   No matter where you're at there was an origin, where seeds were planted, successful and failed experiments were made. Exploring how things have grown and developed gives the explorer a sense of place, coherence, and greater self awareness. In this episode of Beth of Fresh Air, I'm sitting down with Micah Ellars to hear more of his origin story and explore how his years in filmmaking, acting, directing, and acting coaching eventually led him to use those same tools with people who have no particular desire to become actors at all. Instead of 'name and fame', they want to remember themselves. We'll talk about Micah's journey through film and acting, including his recent work as an actor in a film, and how his understanding of the craft has evolved through his years in "the Work" of self-remembering. Watch the trailer of Micah's recent role in A True Myth (https://youtu.be/z1sKsItZ-PE?si=M47h1ygy27h8zgVR) In the interview we'll exploring these questions: What is the difference between mechanical acting and conscious acting? Why can someone who doesn't care about becoming a "good actor" sometimes become a better one? Why is repetition the mother of skill? And what happens to a human being when extreme self-consciousness takes over? We'll get into the King archetype and the nature of real agency, including an announcement about a new event we're creating around the King. And then we'll take you behind the scenes of one of the most interesting experiments Micah and I have been doing together. Self Remembering With Archetypes Earlier this year, we ran the first-ever Self Remembering With Archetypes workshop series, combining archetypal work, self-remembering, acting mechanics, scene work, and deprogramming. It showed us something extraordinary. Acting mechanics make the False Personalities more easy to see. The archetypes reveal the architecture that False Personalities organize themselves within, while scene work allows us to actually embody that architecture and experience it firsthand. We'll discuss how once you put these personalities on the stage, you begin to see the comedy, the drama, and sometimes the absolute horror of the situation. LOL. False Personalities shape themselves around the archetypes, and learning to perceive that structure can reveal what has been imprisoning you your whole life. That's why Micah and I are so excited about this work—and why we're doing another Self Remembering With Archetypes course beginning in October. This BoFA episode is an opportunity to understand the problem you may never have known was there, and to experience why we're using acting, scene work, archetypes, and self-remembering to make it visible. We'll also be announcing something new around the Child and Rebel archetype loop, so, if you haven't already, make sure you take the King Hero Archetype Quiz before you join us (https://www.bethmartens.com/king-hero-archetype-quiz-sign-up). There's a lot to explore. Let's Originate. *** MORE FROM BETH www.bethmartens.com (https://www.bethmartens.com/) If we're just meeting... I’m Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and  business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family’s firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life. Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight. Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life’s work and walk their Hero’s Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.

Who has been a guest on King Hero's Journey with Beth Martens

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Brandon Sterling
• Benjamin Balderson
• Jeff Brown
• Justine Lalonde
• Hope Tipton

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YouTube views

85,028

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

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Spotify

4.8 / 5

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Podcast Authority Score: 73 / 100

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Engagement

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