Julia's Blog & Podcast Show Notes
What did the word *woke* mean before the overculture got hold of it?
In this conversation, Julia Carmen sits down with her granddaughter, Juliana Guerrero — high school English teacher, writer, and curandera in her own right — for one of the talks they share a few times a year. They begin with t...
 What does it mean to walk in both worlds when the outer culture is pulling harder than ever in one direction?
That is the question a listener sent in. And Julia it live — by pulling a card. Grandmother Dragonfly arrived: *I am big in energy and small in movement. I nurture you and those around ...
What do people sense in a Wizard — before they can name it?
In this episode of the Indigenous Wisdom Podcast, Julia Carmen continues the 2026 Archetype Series with the Wizard: an archetype that lives quietly at the intersection of the seen and unseen, moving between worlds with a subtlety that i...
What do you do with the love that didn't always come in the form you needed?
Twenty years ago, Julia Carmen wrote an essay about being asked to care for her 80-year-old mother. She didn't want to do it. She called her sister. She briefly considered trading mothers with a friend.
What followed those fo...
Today, Julia revisits one of her most cherished stories: a memory from 1957 in the Mission District of San Francisco, when she was four or five years old and her TĂa Francisca was living with the family.
This is a story about what happens when two people show up in a kitchen with a willingness t...
This month in our archetype series, Julia sits with Mother Earth.
Julia explores what it actually means to carry this energy—the gift of it, the weight of it—and how Grandmother Dragonfly shows up as a companion for this archetype. She talks about the difference between nurturing from fullness ve...
What does it mean to own something you made — in a world where anything digital can be copied in an instant? And what does that question have to do with the music your ancestors carried? In this episode, Julia Carmen sits down with Catherine Gairard, a French-Peruvian harpist and songwriter who crea...
In this episode, Julia Carmen introduces the Alma Class: a year-long container for those who are hearing the knock—that inner call to come home to themselves.
This is not a curriculum. It's a remembrance. The Alma Class is for anyone who has felt that movement within, that sense that something deep...
What does it mean to honor where you come from while walking between two worlds? In this conversation, Julia Carmen sits down with Lily Espinoza—educator, author, and advocate for Latinx students in higher education—to explore identity, legacy, and what it takes to stay centered when the world asks ...
This month, Julia continues the archetype series, diving into The Alchemist.
If you've ever had the experience of things just coming together for you — opportunities that seem to flow in without force, knowing something before you can explain how you know it — this episode might explain a lot.Â
Th...
In this episode, Julia Carmen of The School Without Walls invites you to experience Cafecito y Chisme.
Cafecito y Chisme calls are free 30-minute discovery calls offered through the School Without Walls. These are opportunities to gain a greater understanding of Julia's work, and which offerings may ...
Today's guest previously joined Julia to talk about dancing to the tune of your own soul, in episode 79, which we shared in a replay last week. In this follow-up conversation, soul empowerment coach and light language healer Birgitta Visser opens up about what it really looks like to walk away from ...
