Dr. Lotte: Science with Soul

In this expansive and thought-provoking conversation, I'm joined by renowned herbalist, mycologist, and researcher Dr. Christopher Hobbs to explore one of the most important questions in health and healing today: Why do some people recover—while others don't?
Dr. Hobbs shares insights from decades of clinical practice and research into medicinal mushrooms, herbal medicine, and integrative healing. Together we discuss the science behind mushroom medicine, why mushrooms should always be cooked, how to choose between supplements, tinctures, powders, or food, and what modern research is revealing about microdosing.
We also explore the deeper layers of healing—belief systems, mindset, and meaning—and how these factors influence outcomes just as much as biology. The conversation weaves science with wisdom, offering a grounded yet expansive look at what true healing really requires.
In this episode, you'll discover:
✦ The real science behind medicinal mushrooms
✦ What research says about microdosing mushrooms
✦ Why mushrooms should always be cooked
✦ How to choose between supplements, tinctures, powders, or food
✦ The role belief systems and mindset play in healing outcomes
✦  How herbal medicine fits into the future of integrative healthcare
✦ Dr. Hobbs' reflections on healing, purpose, and the meaning of life
 
You'll also hear about Dr. Hobbs' Magic Mushroom course at The Shift Network, his upcoming book, and his reflections on the meaning of life itself.
If you're curious about natural healing, medicinal mushrooms, microdosing, or the deeper science behind recovery, this episode is for you. 
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About Dr. Christopher Hobbs, Ph.D, L.Ac., R.H.:
Dr. Christopher Hobbs is a fourth generation, internationally known herbalist and mycologist, licensed acupuncturist, herbal clinician, research scientist, consultant to the dietary supplement industry, expert witness, botanist, public speaker, and author of over 20 books and numerous articles with over 40 years of experience. He is the author of the recent book "Christopher Hobbs's Medicinal Mushrooms, the Essential Guide," with German and English editions. He earned his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley with research and publication in evolutionary biology, biogeography, phylogenetics, the chemistry of plants and fungi, and ethnobotany. Now faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
 
🌐 Connect Dr. Christopher Hobbs, Ph.D, L.Ac., R.H.:
✦ Dr. Hobbs's Website: www.christopherhobbs.com
✦ The Magic Mushroom Course with Dr. Hobbs - Learn More Here
✦ YouTube: @Chrisrhobbs
✦ Instagram: @Christopherhobbs1
✦ Facebook: @DrChristopherhobbs
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What if the fastest way to calm anxiety, shift your nervous system, and reconnect with others was already happening—right under your nose?
In this powerful conversation, I'm joined by Jessica Dibb, Founder, Spiritual Director, and Principal Teacher of Inspiration Consciousness School and author of Breathwork and Psychotherapy. Together, we explore how breath is not just a tool for relaxation—but a direct bridge between physiology, psychology, and healing.
Jessica shares why breath is the fastest way to create a state change, how every breath is psychophysiological, and why emerging science shows specific breathing patterns can significantly reduce anxiety—sometimes more effectively than meditation or yoga alone.
You'll also hear about:
✦ Stanford research comparing box breathing, cyclical hyperventilation, and cyclical sighing
✦ Why some people struggle to inhale or hold their breath—and what that reveals
✦ How becoming a friend to your breath creates grounding and emotional safety
✦ The idea of "The Big Breath"—bridging ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience
✦ Resonance research from the HeartMath Institute
✦ How breath affects not just you—but those around you
✦ A moving client story where breathwork helped shift asthma into remission
✦ Breathwork as a universal human language of healing
✦ The Universal Breathing Declaration, co-created with Jack Kornfield
This episode offers both science-grounded insight and lived, embodied wisdom, showing how breathwork supports emotional regulation, physical health, flow states, and deep human connection.
Whether you're navigating anxiety, chronic stress, illness, or simply longing for more steadiness in a fearful world—this conversation reminds you that healing begins with the breath you're already taking.
 
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About Jessica Dibb: Through life-long exploring of pathways for physical and psychological health and development, awakened consciousness, and living from love, Jessica Dibb's work centers conscious breathing—synthesizing depth psychology, consciousness studies, science, individualized spirituality, and somatic, emotional, and cognitive energy and wholeness. Extensively trained in ballet and yoga, during pre-med studies at UC Irvine, she had an epiphany: Breathing is a universal and unifying medicine in every situation, for everyone.
Jessica is the author of Breathwork and Psychotherapy: Clinical Interventions for Healing and Transformation. She advocates rigorous training and ethical standards that support powerful, safe, multi-dimensional, nuanced Breathwork to access our deepest potential. She founded a 1200+ hour Breathwork and Psychospiritual Facilitation Program at Inspiration Consciousness School; and is the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance founding co-director and ethics chair; and she created Breath Immersion—From Science to Samadhi conferences.
Jessica develops innovative processes for embodying psycho-spiritual wholeness using Breathwork with established and emergent wisdom teachings to cultivate presence, wisdom, and love throughout our lifespan—in relationship with all life and this breathing planet.
 
🌐 Connect with Jessica Dibb
✦ Jessica's Website: inspirationcommunity.org
✦ Book - Breathwork and Psychotherapy: Clinical Interventions for Healing and Transformation
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What if the energy of the coming year could help you consciously close one chapter—and step into the next with clarity, intention, and grace?
As the holiday season invites reflection, completion, and new beginnings, this special episode offers a powerful way to orient yourself for the year ahead.
In this conversation, I'm joined by renowned numerologist Felicia Bender to explore the numerological landscape of 2025 and 2026, including the transition from a 9 Universal Year into a 1 Universal Year. Together, we unpack how Universal Years and Personal Years work, how to calculate your Personal Year, and how these cycles can provide meaningful context for reflection, intention-setting, and growth.
Whether you're winding down the year, feeling called to release what no longer serves you, or quietly sensing that something new is beginning to stir, this episode offers grounded insight and perspective—perfect for the reflective energy of the holidays.
 ✨ What You'll Gain from This Episode:
✦ A clear, accessible explanation of numerology, including Universal Years and Personal Years
✦ How the collective energy of 2025 and 2026 sets the stage for endings and beginnings
✦ How to calculate your Personal Year and understand its role in your life cycle
✦ How Universal and Personal Years interact—and why timing matters
✦ Gentle guidance for reflecting, recalibrating, and entering the new year with intention
This episode is ideal for anyone seeking clarity, perspective, and alignment as one year closes and another begins.
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Felicia Bender, also known as The Practical Numerologist®, has an incredible gift for bringing numerology down to earth — helping us understand not just the meaning of the numbers, but how to apply them in our everyday lives, in our relationships, our purpose, and our spiritual growth.
Felicia Bender - The Practical Numerologist® uses numerology to validate and define your pathway and purpose in life in an empowered way that's fun, inspiring, and actionable.
She's the author of several books and is the resident numerologist for AstroStyle.com  Felicia is a go-to numerology expert featured in many media outlets, including the L.A. Times, Refinery 29, Women's Health, and more.
 
🌐 Connect with Felicia Bender, Ph.D.:
✦ Felicia Bender's Website: FeliciaBender.com
✦ Find Out Your Life Path Number – Click Here!
✦ Instagram: @FeliciaBender
✦ YouTube: @FeliciaBender
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In this powerful episode, Dr. Lotte sits down with professional intuitive, past-life rememberer, Numerologist, spiritual coach, and Host of The Higher Self Hotline, Zoey Greco—whose spiritual awakening began in infancy, surrounded by angels and memories of lifetimes before this one.
Together they explore intuition, the language of the Clairs, angelic communication, past-life memory, and how numerology can help you understand your soul contract, personal year cycles, and divine timing. Whether you're just beginning to recognize your intuitive gifts, learning how the Clairs function within you, or already navigating a spiritual awakening, this conversation offers grounded wisdom, validation, and tools to deepen your connection with your Higher Self.
If you've ever wondered:
"Am I intuitive?"
"How do I know if the signs I'm receiving are real?"
or
"What is my soul here to learn?"
…this episode will help you recognize that intuition isn't rare — it's innate.
 
✨ What We Explore in This Episode:
✦ Angel messages and soul memory
✦ The Clairs: clairvoyance, clairaudience, claircognizance, and clairsentience
✦ How to recognize your strongest intuitive channel
✦ Past life remembrance and soul identity
✦ Numerology: personal year cycles, energetic portals, and timing
✦ How trusting intuition accelerates clarity, alignment, and purpose
✦ How to strengthen your intuitive connection and inner knowing
 
This is a conversation for seekers, sensitives, healers, old souls, and anyone curious about the unseen dimensions guiding our lives. 💫
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Zoey Greco is an intuitive empath and spiritual coach, whose work connects individuals to the divine guidance and unconditional love that awaits them in every moment from Universal Energy. As an Intuitive Energy Healing Practitioner, Sound Healing Guide, and Intuitive Development Mentor, Zoey uses her gifts of clairvoyance, healing, and empowerment, to help individuals step into their purpose, gain clarity on their lives, and find fulfillment and abundance in all forms.
 
🌐 Connect with Zoey Greco:
✦ Zoey Greco's Website: ZoeyGreco.com
✦ Podcast – The Higher Self Hotline
✦ Instagram: @TheZoeyGreco
✦ TikTok: @TheZoeyGreco
✦ Facebook: @TheZoeyGreco
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In this powerful episode of Dr. Lotte: Science with Soul, Dr. Lotte sits down with Rev. Sue Frederick, best-selling author, intuitive, and creator of Angel Up: The Angels' Guide to Ascension. Together they explore the profound messages Sue has received from the angels, her cancer journey, the meaning of ascension, and the universal guidance available to all of us.
You'll hear how the angels spoke to Sue on the night of her diagnosis, why 2025 begins a new numerology cycle, how America is moving through its collective dark night, and what the angels most want humanity to understand in these times.
This episode is filled with healing, hope, spiritual clarity, and deep angelic wisdom. If you're seeking peace, direction, connection, or a deeper understanding of your soul's path, this conversation will expand your heart and remind you that you are never alone.
 
Topics include:
✦ How the angels guided Sue's newest book, Angel Up
✦ The two core messages the angels want humanity to hear
✦ What it means to Angel Up
✦ The 7 Stones of Ascension
✦ Soul agreements, grief, and the soul's higher view
✦ Guardian angels and spiritual support
✦ America's 9-year numerology cycle
✦ How beginners can connect with angels
✦ Children who see angels
✦ Numerology for 2025
✦ How angelic messages offer healing, clarity, and purpose
 
If this conversation speaks to your heart, I invite you to listen or watch the full episode. These messages were meant to be heard — and you never know who in your life might need this light today. If the episode resonates, please share it with a friend and leave a review for the show. Your support helps this healing conversation reach more people who are searching for guidance, hope, and connection.
 
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Today's guest is a true beacon of divine light in our world.
Rev. Sue Frederick is a spiritual teacher, master numerologist, ordained Unity Minister, and the author of several life-changing books — including her latest, Angel Up! The Angels' Guide to Ascension. In this powerful new guide, she offers profound teachings from the angelic realm to help us rise above grief, fear, and confusion — and live from our soul's highest wisdom. Sue's work has touched thousands, and her story of divine guidance, healing, and purpose will uplift your heart and awaken your spirit.
To learn more about Sue, please visit CareerIntuitive.org/
 
🌐 Connect with Rev. Sue Frederick:
✦ Rev. Sue Frederick's Website: CareerIntuitive.org
✦ Book – Angel Up! The Angels' Guide to Ascension
✦ Book Trilogy: The Angel Up! The Complete Ascension Trilogy
✦ YouTube: @SueFrederick
✦ Facebook: @SueFrederick
✦ Soul Path Calculator: Click Here
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