Shadow Playground is a podcast focused on the enablers for living a life full of playful vitality, as well as the blockages -- conflict, fear, shame, shadow, judgment, being serious, norms, etc. -- that hold us back from unleashing our unfiltered playful selves. We look at how playfulness & shadow can actually co-exist beautifully together, for instance how we might bring a playful spirit to our most important & challenging moments.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
Shadow Playground
Claim This Podcastby Ez Bridgman
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27 episodes
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Shadow Playground is a podcast focused on the enablers for living a life full of playful vitality, as well as the blockages -- conflict, fear, shame, shadow, judgment, being serious, norms, etc. -- that hold us back from unleashing our unfiltered playful selves. We look at how playfulness & shadow can actually co-exist beautifully together, for instance how we might bring a playful spirit to our most important & challenging moments.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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6/19/2022
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Recent Episodes
July 21, 2026
What Comes Up When You Step Into Your Brilliance with Emily Hinks
<p>What happens when success, visibility, and leadership bring up fear, self-doubt, and the pressure to make yourself smaller? In this episode, Ez speaks with Emily Hinks about building Mischief Makers into a global facilitation agency, redefining success, and navigating the shadows that can emerge as we step into our brilliance. They explore female leadership, neurodivergence, resilience, community, and why the fear of being disliked cannot guide our biggest decisions.</p><p><br></p><h3>About Emily</h3><p>Emily Hinks is the founder of <strong>Mischief Makers</strong>, a global facilitation agency helping teams collaborate in more creative, human, and effective ways. She is also the co-founder of <strong>Routes In</strong>, a nonprofit helping young people from underrepresented backgrounds enter the creative industries.</p><p><br></p><h3>In this episode</h3><ul><li>Redefining success beyond growth and revenue</li><li>The “mirror ceiling” faced by women in leadership</li><li>Moving through imposter syndrome and fear of visibility</li><li>Building resilience as a founder</li><li>Starting ambitious ideas through small experiments</li><li>Working with ADHD and dyslexia as strengths</li><li>Creating systems and communities that support your brilliance</li></ul><h3><br></h3><h3>Simple practices</h3><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>Turn up the confidence dial:</strong> Name your accomplishments without minimizing them.</li><li><strong>Create secret KPIs:</strong> Define success using the experiences and impact that truly matter to you.</li><li><strong>Notice the hesitation:</strong> Catch the moment when you make yourself smaller before speaking clearly.</li><li><strong>Start lightly:</strong> Explore an idea through one conversation, gathering, or experiment.</li><li><strong>Design for your brain:</strong> Build structures that make it easier to use your natural strengths.</li><li><strong>Borrow a better mirror:</strong> Stay close to people who can reflect your brilliance back to you.</li></ul><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
March 9, 2026
Ceremony and Belonging with Moe Clark
<p><br></p><p>-GUEST BIOGRAPHY-</p><p>Métis multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is a nomadic songbird with wings woven from circle singing and spoken word. Originally from Treaty 7, she’s called tio'tia:ke (Montreal) home for over a decade. Her last solo album “Within” toured North America in 2017 and her video poem “nitahkôtan” won best indigenous language music video at the ImagiNative film festival and later featured at Skabmagovat Film Festival (FI). Apart from performance, she facilitates creative workshops; she directed the first bilingual edition of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, and in 2016 she launched nistamîkwan: a transformational arts organization. Her work has appeared the world over, including the Lincoln Centre (US), UBUD Writers & Readers Festival (ID) and Origins Festival in London (UK).</p><br><p>PRACTICES:</p><ul><li>Open a space with warmth and intention so participants feel welcomed, grounded, and aware that something meaningful is beginning.</li><li>Acknowledge the land, territory, and peoples connected to the place to situate the gathering within a larger web of history and relationship.</li><li>Call in helpers such as ancestors, spirits, community members, or guiding energies to support the intention of the ceremony.</li><li>Turn ordinary actions into rituals by bringing attention and intention to them.</li><li>Stand facing the wind and ask it to clear your mind or move stagnant thoughts and energy.</li><li>Relate consciously to the elements such as earth, water, wind, and fire as living forces that support life and transformation.</li><li>Adapt rituals to modern circumstances so their spirit continues even when traditional conditions are not available.</li><li>Use music as a ceremonial tool by listening deeply, singing together, or letting rhythm guide reflection.</li><li>Let community witness moments of change, growth, or vulnerability so transformation is supported rather than isolated.</li><li>Spend time with natural places such as rivers, trees, or open landscapes and observe what they teach.</li><li>Hold natural elements like water, stones, or ice with attention to deepen awareness of change and interconnection.</li><li>Incorporate moments of celebration into everyday life rather than saving them only for special occasions.</li><li>Encourage people to ask for support and reach toward community when they need help.</li><li>Practise collective care by creating spaces where people can support one another emotionally and spiritually.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>IDEAS: </p><p><br></p><ul><li>Ritual practices help people remember that they are part of a larger web of life and creation.</li><li>Belonging is not a fixed state but an ongoing process of seeking and strengthening relationships.</li><li>Healing often happens through remembering connections that have been forgotten or neglected.</li><li>Kinship can extend beyond humans to include animals, landscapes, plants, and everyday encounters.</li><li>Ceremony does not require perfection; mistakes, humour, and discomfort can all be part of the sacred process.</li><li>Hyper-individualistic culture can weaken the sense of belonging that rituals normally strengthen.</li><li>Reciprocity and relationship matter more than appearance or performance.</li></ul><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
November 30, 2025
BDSM, Kink and Somatic Healing with Priestess Francesca
<p>-GUEST BIOGRAPHY-</p><p>Priestess Francesca is an internationally renowned relationship coach, sexy educator, dominatrix, and sassy writer on all things hard (cocks and emotions). She’s walked the path most are too scared to even peek at and is here to turn your repressed fantasies into powerful tools for healing, growth, and straight-up self-acceptance.</p><br><p>Her insights have been featured in <strong>Cosmopolitan</strong>, <strong>Business Insider</strong>, <strong>Health Magazine</strong>, and on <strong>top 1% podcasts </strong>worldwide. </p><br><p>In addition, Francesca’s groundbreaking ideas have been shared at universities like <strong>Salve Regina</strong> and <strong>Sarah Lawrence</strong>, and at prominent festivals such as <strong>Envision</strong>, <strong>Dom Con</strong>, and <strong>Toronto Tantra Festival</strong>. </p><br><p>Her mission is simple: Help you own your desires, embrace your full self, and see sex as a powerful tool for transformation. <strong>Because pleasure isn’t just play:</strong> it’s your power move.</p><br><p>LINKS: </p><br><p>Trauma, Kink & Somatic Healing:<a href="https://www.priestessfrancesca.com/masterclass-optin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Watch Now For Free</a></p><p>Threshold Ritual: <a href="https://www.priestessfrancesca.com/deep" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Download the Free Guide</a></p><p>Freak School 1:1 Intensive: <a href="https://www.priestessfrancesca.com/freakschool" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Claim Your Permission</a></p><br><p>PRACTICES:</p><ul><li>Ask yourself: why do you heal?</li><li>Make it safe to not be safe.</li><li>Do a height check before engaging in these practices. Do you know what a yes or a no feels like in your body? When you do, how liberated is your throat around your truth? Can you speak it? How do you respond when someone has a tornado in the face of your truth? How anchored can you remain?</li><li>Let your fantasy inform your reality by allowing your imagination to be present in it.</li><li>Fill out feedback sheets after scenes.</li><li>Negotiate aftercare and integration before a scene.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>IDEAS: </p><p><br></p><ul><li>Pearls of beauty are often found in the depths of darkness. There is grace and beauty in places that feel scary.</li><li>If we wholeheartedly believe something doesn’t exist, we won’t look for it.</li><li>Night vision is needed when looking into dark depths; you have to see beneath the surface.</li><li>When you meet in a place of darkness where society’s rules can’t hold, you drop deeper and the heart can crack open.</li><li>Healing is becoming more okay with who you naturally are.</li><li>Everyone carries desires related to BDSM; we often don’t give ourselves permission to find something hot.</li><li>A strong goal orientation can become oppressive.</li><li>You don’t need to figure out exactly what you’re healing—don’t turn healing into recess homework.</li><li>You have to trust that your desire will reveal its fruit to you.</li><li>We live in a society full of ideas about what sex should look like.</li><li>Therapy often tries to move you away from recreating traumatic experiences, away from what hurt you. But what if part of healing is going into it differently?</li><li>We will hurt each other without meaning to; restorative repair is essential.</li><li>There are often gendered stereotypes within “conscious sexuality” communities.</li><li>This is healing work. If we can deepen intimacy when we’re naked, we can deepen intimacy when we’re clothed.</li></ul><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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