Love & Liberate
Love & Liberate is a raw and real podcast about coming home to your body, your truth, and your power, one rebellious act of love at a time.
Hosted by Emilie Iris, embodiment teacher, self-leadership coach and artist, this is a space for the wild ones, the soft ones, the ones who feel deeply and refuse to settle. Through honest reflections, soulful tools and unfiltered conversations, we explore what it means to heal, to feel, to lead from within, beyond the spiritual fluff, beyond the systems that tried to tame us.
Expect embodied wisdom, personal stories, inspiring conversations and tangible practices to help you live, love, and lead in your own way, from your own heart.
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Love & Liberate
Guru Culture Exposed: Power, Pedestals & How to Reclaim Your Own Inner Teacher
In this episode of Love & Liberate, Emilie explores the rise of guru culture: the glorification of coaches, teachers, therapists, and spiritual leaders as saviors instead of fellow humans. With raw honesty and personal experience she unpacks the risks of putting people on pedestals, the commodification of spirituality, and the cost of outsourcing our truth.
Instead of looking outward, Emilie invites you back to your own body, emotions, and lived experience as the true source of guidance. She reflects on her own tension as a coach who refuses to be anyone’s guru, and offers a vision of interdependence, humility, and embodied truth.
We explore:
- How guru culture shows up in spirituality, coaching & therapy
- The harm of outsourcing authority and truth
- Spirituality as a commodity in a capitalist system
- Emotions as portals for transformation, not distractions
- The body as the sacred meeting point of the physical & spiritual
- Why “fallibility” and mistakes are essential for growth
- Healthy guidance vs. codependent teacher-student dynamics
- Questions to ask yourself about your relationship to teachers and coaches
While listening, reflect on:
- Who have I put on a pedestal in my life?
- Where have I outsourced my truth or authority?
- Do I feel equal to the teachers or guides in my life?
- What would it look like to trust my own body and truth more deeply?
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