About Chris

Chris is a financial coach motivated to empower individuals and families to build financial confidence and long-term security. His 20 year experience as an investment specialist informs his expertise when discussing financial issues, always ready to share practical tips and insightful examples. His aim at all times is to help people make informed decisions about their money.

Chris employs strategic thinking to identify opportunities for growth and help clients plan for the future. He teaches financial concepts that facilitates confidence and capability. He is also interested in the community impact of wealth development not just as numbers, but as a way to improve lives, create opportunities, and foster resilience. He focuses on broadening the concept of "wealth" and exploring what freedom, security and legacy actually mean in real life.

In this episode we reference another interview Chris did that is worth listening to: PODCAST INTERVIEW: Real Talk with Dede Beyond the Numbers: Money, Inv… - Real Talk with Dede - Apple Podcasts

Connect with Colin

Website: https://manresaschool.co.uk/

LinkedIn: / ighodaro-wealth-invest/

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: https://jeanhf.com

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership https://wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

Jean Hamilton-Fford and Joanne Sprott welcome Colin D Smith, “The Listener” and host of Listening Matters, for a warm conversation about the attention we bring to one another.

Together, they explore the space a pause can open and the difference between preparing a reply and staying present. Listening begins before the first word—and sometimes continues in silence.

About Colin

In a world full of noise, Listening Matters.

Colin Smith is a listener, conversationalist and explorer of what becomes possible when we give one another our full attention. His work is less about teaching people how to listen and more about creating the conditions in which people can slow down, feel heard, think more clearly and discover what might emerge between them.

Colin would love to explore what happens when we stop trying to fix, advise, teach or even get somewhere with another person—and simply meet them.

He's increasingly curious about listening as a way of being rather than a skill: the role of presence, silence, not knowing, and what can emerge in the space between two people when neither quite knows where the conversation is going.

He references a few things in this episode:

BOOK: "Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind" by Nancy Kline

BOOK: "Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection" by Charles Duhigg

TED TALK: Celeste Headlee: 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation (https://www.ted.com/talks/celeste_hea...)

We also talk about the group he hosts, Listening Matters. If you'd like to know more about that, please connect with Colin.

Connect with Colin

Website: https://dexteritysolutions.co.uk/

LinkedIn: /colindsmith1

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: https://jeanhf.com

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership https://wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

Jean, Joanne, and Jillian begin with that question and follow it into relationships, self-trust, AI, boundaries, and the distance between good intentions and their impact. A warm, candid conversation about staying open while paying attention to what experience has taught us.

This is a link to the article Jillian mentions: https://www.bizcatalyst360.com/can-we-still-afford-to-trust-one-another/

You can also find the YouTube videos here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: JeanHF

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

Dr. Sandra Evers joins Jean, Jillian, and Joanne for a deeply human conversation shaped by her years living among a Malagasy community in Madagascar. Together they explore grief, ritual, loneliness, curiosity, cultural difference, and a way of belonging that includes both the breathing and those who remain present after death.

It is a conversation about connection, the people who continue to live within us, and what other cultures might teach us about being less alone.

About Sandra

Until 2019, she worked as associate professor of Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Now she is an independent scientist & author.

She is the initiator of the Anthropology of Children & Youth. Her studies and applied work were focused on improving peoples lives & giving voice to the voiceless ranging from children to people of slave descent in Madagascar, the Seychellois living under a repressive regime, the Chagossians etc.

Be sure to visit her website where you will find her book about her experiences with the Malagasy, "Children Taught Me to Speak"

Connect with Sandra

Website: https://sandrajtmevers.nl

LinkedIn: Dr Sandra Evers | LinkedIn

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: https://jeanhf.com

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership https://wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast featuring Jean Hamilton-Fford

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: JeanHF - Inner Alignment Meaningful Impact

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

Jean and Jillian are joined by confidence coach Jennifer Fiedler for a wide-ranging conversation about creativity, self-trust, authenticity, visibility, and the inner resources we often fail to recognize in ourselves.

Drawing on Jennifer’s experiences in film, international work, and coaching, they explore the role of safety in creativity, making “critical connections” between past experience and present challenges, giving ourselves permission to be seen, and moving from external approval toward a more grounded relationship with ourselves.

A thoughtful, lively conversation about owning what we bring to the table — with room for chopsticks, low-budget movies, and Jennifer’s unforgettable “hurricane of hideiosity.”

About Jennifer

As a veteran of grueling hours, nonstop stress, ego-driven drama, and the pervasive pretentiousness of Hollywood, when she knew she was burnt out, she dropped out and ran away. On an epic global adventure, Jennifer discovered that Hollywood had left her with a mindset that radiated confidence, and was why she trusted herself, had no fear when facing uncertainty, and was at ease being unapologetically authentic. She is the full-time caregiver for her dad, a confidence coach, and podcaster.

Jennifer says that owning our accomplishments to understand what we are capable of, seeing similarities rather than differences that bring the unknown into the known, perceiving our intrinsic value to eliminate the need for constant comparison, and listening to our inner voice to stop questioning ourselves and our decisions, helps us establish confidence, self-trust, and authenticity.

Connect with Jennifer

You can find Jennifer here:

Website: https://cosmicbitch-slap.com

LinkedIn: / jennifer-fiedler-055b03107

About Jean Hamilton-Fford

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

You can find Jean here:

Website: https://jeanhf.com

LinkedIn: / jeanhamiltonfford

About Jillian Starman

Dr. Jillian Starman is a business coach, trainer, and founder of Wise Women Leadership. She is dedicated to helping women navigate transition with confidence and clarity as they overcome challenges, set healthy boundaries, and move intentionally into their next chapter. Her work is rooted in the belief that every woman deserves to feel empowered, capable, and fully supported as she steps into her potential.

Connect with Jillian

You can find Jillian here:

Website: https://wisewomenleadership.com

The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast: / @wisewomenleadership

LinkedIn: / jillian-starman

About Joanne Sprott

Joanne Sprott is an intuition mentor who works with women and men who are ready to expand their own Spirit selves, declare their emotional independence, and launch their creative passions. She uses the archetypal imagery of Tarot, other oracles and mythological symbolism, along with an open energetic space for humans to shine.

Connect with Joanne

You can find Joanne here:

Website: https://joanne-e-sprott.com

LinkedIn: / joannesprott

In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones, Jean, Jillian, and Joanne explore grief as part of the human experience: the loss of people, relationships, identities, places, work, pets, and former versions of our lives. They also reflect on grief delayed by survival, the moments of stability that can finally give us access to it, collective grief following the loss of public figures, and the choice some people make to celebrate a life rather than remain centered in sorrow.

This is a thoughtful conversation about carrying loss, remembering well, and making room for the many ways grief can move through us.

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast featuring Jean Hamilton-Fford

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: JeanHF - Inner Alignment Meaningful Impact

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast featuring Jean Hamilton-Fford

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: JeanHF - Inner Alignment Meaningful Impact

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones, Jean, Jillian, and Joanne explore the shifting dance of attention, energy, capacity, priorities, rest, joy, and change. From work-life balance and burnout to alignment, boundaries, and the seasons of life, the conversation moves toward a more human possibility: adapting our steps as the music changes.

Because life rarely stays still long enough to balance neatly.

Sometimes, the wiser move is simply to keep dancing.

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast featuring Jean Hamilton-Fford

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: JeanHF - Inner Alignment Meaningful Impact

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

Our guest is Hela Wozniak-Kay. In this episode we speak about identity, creativity, intuition, and memory as well as a few other things.

About Hela Wozniak-Kay

Hela says, 'Life's too short to wear just one hat. And I have a wardrobe full of beautiful virtual hat boxes - each with a colorful chapeau: The Connectress, Lady Spurtle, The Crafty Crafter, Closet Florist, Curious Cook, Shoestring Stylist, iPhoneSnapper, Wordsmithstress and The Wonderful Mrs Wozniak-Kay (inspired by The Marvelous Mrs Maisel)

Every hat reveals another facet of the same diamond that’s endlessly curious, joyfully creative and always connecting people, places, possibilities and memories.

She also aspires to: Leave a hint of perfume on the pillow and a scent that lingers, always say thank you, and make people feel special and VIPs in your club class lounge.'

Connect with Hela

You can find Hela here:

Website: https://sistersnog.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hela-wozniak-kay/

About Jean Hamilton-Fford

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

You can find Jean here:

Website: https://jeanhf.com

LinkedIn: / jeanhamiltonfford

About Jillian Starman

Dr. Jillian Starman is a business coach, trainer, and founder of Wise Women Leadership. She is dedicated to helping women navigate transition with confidence and clarity as they overcome challenges, set healthy boundaries, and move intentionally into their next chapter. Her work is rooted in the belief that every woman deserves to feel empowered, capable, and fully supported as she steps into her potential.

Connect with Jillian

You can find Jillian here:

Website: https://wisewomenleadership.com

The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast: / @wisewomenleadership

LinkedIn: / jillian-starman

About Joanne Sprott

Joanne Sprott is an intuition mentor who works with women and men who are ready to expand their own Spirit selves, declare their emotional independence, and launch their creative passions. She uses the archetypal imagery of Tarot, other oracles and mythological symbolism, along with an open energetic space for humans to shine.

Connect with Joanne

You can find Joanne here:

Website: https://joanne-e-sprott.com

LinkedIn: / joannesprott

In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones, Jean, Jillian, and Joanne explore intuition as a whole-body intelligence. The conversation moves through frequency, light, toroidal energy, biofields, navel intelligence, safety, trust, lived experience, and the many physical signals through which intuition may make itself known.

From flashes of color, words, and numbers to sensations in the gut, heart, shoulders, ears, and skin, this is a rich exploration of the many languages intuition may use — and the ways our relationship with it can change across a lifetime.

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast featuring Jean Hamilton-Fford

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: JeanHF - Inner Alignment Meaningful Impact

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones, Jean, Jillian, and Joanne explore trust, shared effort, uneven contribution, autonomy, and the structures that make joint work either nourishing or exhausting. The conversation also moves into building a team with complementary strengths and managing expectations.

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast featuring Jean Hamilton-Fford

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: JeanHF - Inner Alignment Meaningful Impact

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones, Jean, Jillian, and Joanne explore manifest sustainability: the intentional, consistent, and persistent practices that support what is taking shape while tending the personal ecology beneath it. Together, they consider rhythm, capacity, choice, and the difference between keeping something going and allowing it to grow in a way that can truly continue.

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast featuring Jean Hamilton-Fford

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: JeanHF - Inner Alignment Meaningful Impact

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

In this episode of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones, Joanne leads a rich conversation into the space between them.

Together, we explore the difference between destiny and fate, and the way fate can become the hammer that turns direction into something fixed and immovable. We consider destiny as a living orientation rather than a rigid script, and ask what becomes possible when we remain conscious participants in the life unfolding before us.

The conversation also moves through choice, agency, ownership, worry, anxiety, and the deeper meaning of sovereignty. Is sovereignty simply the freedom to choose, or is it the inner authority from which choice becomes possible? Can we remain sovereign when our circumstances are limited? Can destiny guide us without becoming a prison?

This is a thoughtful, spacious episode about the relationship between what calls us and the self that answers.

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast featuring Jean Hamilton-Fford

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: JeanHF - Inner Alignment Meaningful Impact

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

The conversation moves through continuity, connection, intersections, patterns, spider webs, and the shapes we create as we move through the world. Some lines are inherited. Some are chosen. Some are interrupted, redrawn, or followed long before we fully understand where they are leading.

Together, Jean, Joanne, and Jillian reflect on the visible and invisible lines that connect us to memory, meaning, creativity, ancestry, intuition, and one another. This is a conversation about staying with the thread, noticing the pattern, and trusting that even the smallest line may belong to something much larger than we first imagined.

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast featuring Jean Hamilton-Fford

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: JeanHF - Inner Alignment Meaningful Impact

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

This conversation moves beyond polished ideas of coping and into the real terrain of awareness, decision, structure, problem-solving, adaptation, and staying present without disappearing inside what life is asking of us.

Together, they explore resilience as something more grounded than endurance. Not a performance. Not a fixed personality trait. Not the pressure to hold everything together at any cost. Instead, resilience becomes a living practice of meeting reality, making the next honest move, and remaining in relationship with the self through change, pressure, disruption, and becoming.

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: JeanHF - Inner Alignment Meaningful Impact

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast featuring Jean Hamilton-Fford

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

Interviewed by Joanne Sprott and Jillian Starman, Jean speaks about the deeper threads that shape her work: voice, creativity, inner authority, lived wisdom, perception, identity, and the stories we carry beneath the surface of daily life.

The conversation moves through the terrain of being human with honesty and tenderness. It touches the thresholds Jean often works with — the places where old identities begin to loosen, where clarity returns, and where a more honest relationship with life, work, and becoming can begin.

Raw, spacious, and deeply human, this episode offers a closer look at the voice behind Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones and the wider body of work Jean is creating through writing, mentoring, speaking, and presence-led inquiry.

About Jean

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, speaker, creative business mentor, and host of Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones. She works with people and businesses at the threshold — the place where old identities, old strategies, and old ways of carrying life and work begin to fall away. Her work invites a return to clarity, voice, creative power, and a more honest relationship with becoming.

Connect with Jean

Website: JeanHF - Inner Alignment Meaningful Impact

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones Podcast featuring Jean Hamilton-Fford

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

Joanne is someone who has lived between language and mystery — indexing books, reading symbols, listening for patterns, and helping people reconnect with the inner voice beneath the noise.

Together, they explore the quiet intelligence that lives beneath the surface of everyday experience — the places where old patterns, inherited beliefs, emotional memory, and inner knowing begin to speak. This is a conversation about listening more honestly to the self, reclaiming the parts of us that have been silenced or overlooked, and recognizing the body not as a problem to manage, but as a living source of information, truth, and return.

As always, Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is unedited, real, and spacious — a place for conversations that do not rush toward neat answers, but make room for the complexity, tenderness, and wisdom of being human.

About Joanne

Joanne Sprott is an intuition mentor who works with women and men who are ready to expand their own Spirit selves, declare their emotional independence, and launch their creative passions. She uses the archetypal imagery of Tarot, other oracles and mythological symbolism, along with an open energetic space for humans to shine.

Connect with Joanne

Website: https://joannesprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones featuring Joanne Sprott

Connect with Jean

Website: JeanHF - Inner Alignment Meaningful Impact

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

Jillian’s work supports women entrepreneurs and leaders as they navigate business, family, personal growth, boundaries, confidence, resilience, productivity, and the very human pressure to keep moving even when something inside is asking for a different rhythm.

This conversation moves beneath the polished language of leadership and into the lived reality of becoming. Jean, Joanne, and Jillian explore the space between an old identity falling away and a new one not yet fully formed. They talk about boundaries, energy, success, productivity, and the cost of trying to lead from a life that no longer fits.

Together, they consider what happens when women stop organizing themselves around old definitions of success and begin listening for the life that is actually asking to be lived.

About Jillian

Dr. Jillian Starman is the founder of Wise Women Leadership. She is a business coach and trainer who works with women entrepreneurs and leaders, particularly women navigating transition, growth, boundaries, confidence, resilience, productivity, and purposeful action. Through coaching, training, speaking, and her podcast work, Jillian helps women move from feeling stuck into clearer, more grounded leadership.

Connect with Jillian

Website: Wise Women Leadership wisewomenleadership.com

Podcast: The P.E.A.R. Project Podcast Welcome to the P.E.A.R Project

LinkedIn: Jillian Starman, Ph.D. Jillian Starman, Ph.D. | LinkedIn

About Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones

Rooted Voices, Sacred Bones is a raw conversational podcast hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, Jillian Starman, and Joanne Sprott. Together, we explore the inner architecture of being human: voice, creativity, inner authority, memory, intuition, identity, and the deeper stories that shape the way we live, create, and lead.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here: Rooted Voices Sacred Bones featuring Jillian Starman

Connect with Jean:

Website: JeanHF JeanHF - Inner Alignment Meaningful Impact

LinkedIn: Jean Hamilton-Fford Jean Hamilton-Fford | LinkedIn

Connect with Joanne:

Website: Joanne Sprott https://joanne-e-sprott.com

LinkedIn: Joanne Sprott Joanne Sprott | LinkedIn