Sara Hurd

New Episode - Facing the Origin Story Part 3: Healing Meditation, Coherence, & Gifting Miracles The final installment of our Facing the Origin Story series is here. In Part 3, Ashlieya and Neff invite you into a heartfelt conversation about healing meditation, collective intention, coherence, radical forgiveness, and the possibility of creating meaningful change from the inside out. This episode centers on a group healing meditation they called Operation Gift of Miracle—a gathering created...

Now Available - Facing the Origin Story Part 2: Compassion with Boundaries A new episode of Builders of a Better World is now live, and it continues one of the most intimate and powerful conversations shared on the podcast so far. In Facing the Origin Story Part 2: Compassion with Boundaries, Ashlieya picks up where Part 1 ended: sitting face to face with the man she had not seen in nearly twenty years, in what she once described as a “meeting with the monster.” What unfolds is not a tidy...

New Multi-Part Series - Facing the Origin Story Part 1: From Survival to the Doorstep There are stories that shape a life before a person is old enough to choose them. In this first episode, Ashlieya shares the story of growing up in survival mode, carrying deep fear, shame, and confusion around the man she knew as her father, and slowly learning that an origin story does not have to become an identity. This episode begins with a vulnerable premise: it is not simply about trauma,...