Finding Harmony Podcast

What happens when a tech executive building AI infrastructure has a profound spiritual awakening? Pete Sacco went from 368 pounds and type 2 diabetes to complete transformation—discovering that consciousness is eternal while designing the data centers powering the AI revolution.

Pete shares his "Commit, Learn, Do" framework, why AI will force humanity to become MORE human, his mystical experiences with plant medicine, and what his 7-year-old daughter taught him about Zen.

ABOUT PETE SACCO

Pete Sacco is a data center designer, AI infrastructure specialist, author, father of four, and grandfather of three. After a health crisis at age 39, he transformed his life—losing 178 pounds, reversing type 2 diabetes, reconnecting with his estranged son, and experiencing spiritual awakening through plant medicine. Author of "Living in Bliss: Achieve a Balanced Existence of Mind, Body, and Spirit."

 

KEY TOPICS

The "Commit, Learn, Do" framework for total life transformation

From 368 pounds and type 2 diabetes to complete remission

Why reconnecting with his estranged son was essential to transformation

AI and the future: We're at "2 AM" on a 24-hour timeline

Plant medicine experiences: MDMA, ketamine, and ayahuasca

The ayahuasca vision where he watched himself die

Why consciousness is non-local: "We are consciousness observing consciousness"

Why AI will make us MORE human, not less

What a 7-year-old knows about Zen that adults don't

How to find "spacious stillness" in chaos

The future of humanity in a post-scarcity world

 

CONNECT WITH PETE

Website: PeteSacco.com

Book: "Living in Bliss: Achieve a Balanced Existence of Mind, Body, and Spirit"

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What happens when a board-certified medical doctor discovers energy healing—and realizes science and spirituality have been saying the same thing all along? Medical doctor Ana Baptista, MD (hematologist, 18 years experience) bridges Western medicine and energy healing. Discover the neuroscience behind spinal energetics, why your heart is a second brain, real healing stories (chronic pain resolved in one session), and the emotional roots of disease. Learn about co-regulation, alignment, and why science and spirituality are finally collaborating. For anyone seeking deeper healing or curious about energy medicine from a scientific perspective.

IN THIS EPISODE:

[00:00] Introduction to Finding Harmony Podcast 

[01:00] Meet Ana Baptista: Medical Doctor and Energy Practitioner 

[03:00] The Impact of Unconscious Patterns on Health 

[05:00] Ana's Medical Background and Shift to Alternative Medicine 

[07:00] Growing Up with Science and Open-Minded Family 

[10:00] Discovering Communication Gaps in Medicine 

[11:00] Integrating Coaching and NLP into Medical Practice 

[14:00] Discovering Spinal Energetics 

[15:00] Experiencing Energy Work: Ana's First Session 

[17:00] The Science Behind Mind-Body Connection 

[19:00] Your Mind as Your "Claws and Teeth" 

[22:00] The Heart as a Second Brain 

[26:00] The Role of Intuition in Medicine 

[29:00] The Evolution of Medical Practice: Intuition and Science 

[32:00] The Future of Medicine: Integrating Science and Ancient Wisdom 

[40:00] Science Meets Energy Healing 

[43:00] Embracing AI as an Assistant 

[44:00] The Role of the Nervous System

[46:00] Science and Human Potential 

[50:00] Spinal Energetics and Transformation 

[54:00] Midlife Crisis and Purpose 

[59:00] Healing Through Emotional Release (Real Case Studies) 

[1:04:00] The Interconnection of Mind and Body 

[1:08:00] Disease and Emotional Roots 

[1:17:00] Alignment: Spine, Soul, and Self 

[1:21:00] Where to Find Ana Baptista

GUEST BIO:

Ana Baptista, MD is a board-certified hematologist with over 18 years of medical experience. She has worked in emergency medicine, specialized consultations, and served as medical director for clinical trials in hematology and oncology. Trained in Portugal, Ana also holds certifications in coaching, neurolinguistic programming (NLP), and clinical hypnotherapy. After discovering spinal energetics, she now integrates energy medicine with her medical background, helping clients heal through nervous system regulation and embodied practices. Ana is passionate about bridging Western medicine with alternative healing modalities, proving that science and spirituality complement rather than contradict each other.

CONNECT WITH ANA:

Website: supportingpaths.com 

Instagram: @supportingpaths 

Location: Based in the Algarve, Portugal | Works online globally

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Your mind is your evolutionary survival mechanism—like claws and teeth for humans 

The heart has its own neural network and can sense magnetic fields independently 

Energy work is your nervous system releasing stored tension and trauma 

Chronic pain can resolve rapidly when the body feels safe to release 

Autoimmune diseases may be connected to patterns of self-criticism 

Midlife crisis is your purpose asking if you're aligned with your truth 

Medicine is an art informed by science, not just science alone • Intuition is your nervous system processing faster than conscious thought 

Disease often has emotional roots that Western medicine doesn't address 

Alignment (spine, soul, life) is the key to reducing suffering 

Science and energy medicine are complementary, not contradictory

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

"You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise Hay • Gabor Maté's work on trauma and disease • Spinal Energetics (as healing modality) • NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) • Clinical Hypnotherapy

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What if your body has been trying to tell you something all along—and you just didn't know how to listen?

Twenty-five years ago, Inna was trapped in chronic pain. Psoriasis covered her body. She could barely walk due to back issues. She struggled with anxiety, depression, and digestive problems. She was stuck in the medical system, being told her conditions were genetic and permanent, taking medications that didn't work.

Then, at age 20, she lost her baby. And in the depths of that grief and physical agony, one statement from her chiropractor changed everything: "Your body wants to be stuck."

That single sentence—which initially enraged her—became the doorway to her awakening. Because it made her realize: if her body WANTS something, it has intelligence. It has language. It's trying to communicate.

That night, she placed her hands on her back, breathed, and asked a simple question: "What does my back look like? Why am I in pain?"

What happened next awakened an ability that would eventually help tens of thousands of people across the globe. She could suddenly SEE inside her body. She understood the emotional, psychological, and ancestral patterns creating her physical symptoms. And within three weeks, she healed conditions she'd been told were permanent.

In this deeply moving conversation, we explore:

The Journey to Awakening Inna shares her full story—from growing up in Belarus and being raised to believe doctors were half-gods, to moving to Australia and being bullied, to the pregnancy and loss that became her breaking point, to the moment she took radical responsibility for her own healing and everything changed.

How Medical Intuition Actually Works Inna explains how she learned to see into people's energy fields and bodies—from the first time she saw a cartoon liver above her friend's head, to working with a medical doctor who had her place acupuncture needles based on what she was seeing, to learning how to turn the ability on and off so she didn't go insane.

The Logic of the Body This is one of my favorite parts of our conversation. Inna breaks down why the body is completely logical—not random, not punishing, but communicating with incredible intelligence. Every symptom has layers of meaning. Every disease has a story. And when you understand the logic, you can begin to heal.

What Your Symptoms Are Really Telling You We dive deep into specific body parts and systems:

Why your immune system breaks down (insecurity, inner conflict, self-neglect, stress, not being able to say no)

What back pain is really about (lack of support—both emotional AND financial)

Why skin issues appear (not feeling safe, not belonging, ancestral trauma)

How your digestive system holds loss and grief

The Power of Color Healing Inna teaches how color is directly connected to emotion, and how you can use color intentionally every single day to shift your state. She shares stories of using pink light for protection, green for manifestation, and how wearing different colors changes how you feel, think, and show up in the world.

Taking Radical Responsibility We discuss what it really means to move from being a victim of your body to being the healer of your body. This isn't about blaming yourself for illness—it's about recognizing that you have power, intelligence, and the ability to participate in your own healing.

Ancestral Trauma in the Body Inna explains how family patterns and generational trauma show up in your physical body—in your digestive system, your immune response, your nervous system. She shares her own story of recognizing her grandmother's trauma living in her body.

Practical Self-Healing Techniques Throughout the conversation, Inna shares tangible practices you can use immediately—from breathing into pain, to asking your body questions, to using color intentionally, to working with pressure points and movement.

The Difference Between Caring and Carrying One insight that really struck me was Ina's distinction between caring for people and carrying them. This is huge for healers, coaches, yoga teachers, and anyone in helping professions.

Why Healing Pulls You Toward Knowing Yourself Ina's closing wisdom is so powerful: "Healing always pulls you toward knowing you. You cannot heal without self-knowledge. The more you dive in, the more you realize what a layered person you are and how beautifully colorful and complex you are on the soul level."

This episode is for anyone dealing with chronic health issues, anyone who feels stuck in their body, healers and coaches who want to understand the deeper layers of what's happening with their clients, yoga teachers, energy workers, bodyworkers, and anyone curious about the profound intelligence of the body.

GUEST BIO:

Inna Segal is an internationally recognized healer, bestselling author, speaker, and intuitive guide. Born in Belarus and raised in Italy and Australia, Ina's journey to becoming a medical intuitive began after her own healing crisis at age 20. For over 25 years, she has worked with tens of thousands of clients across six continents, helping them decode their body's messages and activate their innate healing abilities. She is the author of The Secret Language of Your Body and is currently writing a book on the 8 Stages of Healing.

CONNECT WITH INNA:

Website: innasegal.com

Free Masterclasses: innasegal.com/secret

Instagram: @innasegalauthor 

Book: The Secret Language of Your Body

SPECIAL OFFER: Inna is offering FREE masterclasses for Finding Harmony listeners on:
• The Secret Language of Your Body
• Color Healing
• Ancestral Trauma
• Childhood Patterns
• Soul Guidance & Purpose

Register at: innasegal.com/secret

KEY INSIGHTS:

Your body has an intelligent language—symptoms aren't random
• Taking radical responsibility for your health is transformative
• The body is completely logical—every symptom has layered meaning
• Color is directly connected to emotion and can be used for healing daily
• Your immune system responds to how safe and supported you feel
• Back pain often relates to lack of support (emotional and financial)
• Skin issues connect to feeling safe in your own skin and belonging
• Ancestral trauma lives in your physical body and can be healed
• You can develop your intuitive abilities through practice
• Healing always pulls you toward deeper self-knowledge
• The difference between caring for people and carrying them is essential

RESOURCES MENTIONED: • The Secret Language of Your Body by Inna Segal
• Network Chiropractic (now Network Spinal Analysis)
• Spinal Energetics
• Caroline Myss and Anatomy of the Spirit
• Donald Epstein's 12 Stages of Healing
• Ina's free masterclasses at innasegal.com

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What happens when a scholar who studies death for a living discovers she must learn to truly live in her body? This haunting conversation explores literature, yoga, and the long road to embodiment.

IN THIS EPISODE:

Introduction to Finding Harmony Podcast

Meet Jessica Murphy: Gothic Literature Scholar & Ashtanga Practitioner

Teaching English Literature at the University of Iceland

Jessica's Literary Works: Wishbone, Ossa Vivi, Moss & Rose

Poetry, Novellas, and the Gothic Genre

Victorian Literature vs. Romantic Period: Claiming Jane Austen and the Brontës

Existentialism, Death, and Childhood Philosophy with Her Father

Father's Influence: TM, Hippie Culture, and Zen Catholicism

Coming to Ashtanga Yoga at Age 39

The Challenge of Backbends vs. Hip Openers & Arm Balances

Using the Body to Be Embodied: Balancing Cerebral and Physical Work

Kapotasana and the Death Drive: Flirting with Mortality

Eating Disorder History and Ongoing Body Image Work

Why Backbends Bring Up Old Wounds and Feelings of Not Enoughness

The Beginner's Mind in Yoga Practice

Creating False Equivalencies: Yoga Series as Academic Degrees

LSD, Academic Structures, and Her Father's Generation

Jack Kerouac's Journey and the Beats

Memorization in Education: What We've Lost

Reciting Shakespeare: "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"

William Blake's "The Tiger": Fearful Symmetry

Reading from "The Face in the Window" (Gothic Short Story from Ossa Vivi)

Visual Imagination and Playing with Language

Meeting Her Husband: Two 19th Century Literature Scholars in Iceland

Looking for Someone Like Herself vs. Someone Opposite

Balancing Creative Writing with Academic Pressures

The Difference Between Tenure Track and Department Member Positions

Her Husband's Prolific Academic Output: Philosophy and Literature

Writing as a Labor of Love vs. Academic Requirement

Being "High on Life": Creativity and Sensitivity

Why Creative People Struggle with Depression and Anxiety

The World Feeling Like "Too Much": Colors, Sounds, People

Artistic Pursuits as Protection from Overwhelming Sensations

The Quiet Life with Cats and Writing and Yoga

Russell's Invitation (That Got Declined)

Victorian Tea Ceremonies and Paying for Art

The Japanese Tea Ceremony as Art Form: Greg Kinsey's Story

Bad Art, Bad Writing, and Bad Asanas

Harmony's Inner Circle Mentorship Program Invitation

This episode is a deep, insightful exploration of navigating life as a highly sensitive creative person, balancing intellectual pursuits with embodied practice, and finding home in your body after years of disconnection.

 

GUEST BIO:

Having taught at Vanier College, Dawson College, and Université de Montréal in Montréal, Qc, Canada in the past, Jessica Murphy, Ph.D. currently lives in Reykjavík, Iceland and teaches English literature at the University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands). Her areas of interest and expertise are Victorian and Romantic literature as well as detective novels, gothic fiction, and children's literature. In addition to publishing a novella entitled Wishbone (available on Amazon) and having her poetry published in an anthology featuring the works of poets from around the world entitled Words Apart: A Globe of Poetry, she has co-authored an epistolary novella, Moss and Rose and a collection of gothic short stories, Ossa Vivi, with Mae Kellert. Her scholarly publications include "'[T]he world's a beast, and I hate it!': Naturalism in Amy Levy's The Romance of a Shop" and an article on Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale. At present, she is working on a chapter on the double in Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted that will be included in a book, published by Routledge, featuring various essays on the doppelgänger. A cat lover and an avid Ashtangi, she has been practicing Ashtanga yoga for the last seven years.

CONNECT WITH JESSICA:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjcats/

Books available on Amazon and major retailers

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Gothic literature and yoga philosophy both explore transformation, duality, and the shadow self

Backbends can bring up body dysmorphia and old wounds—this is part of the healing work

The poses that challenge us most teach us the most about ourselves

Writing autobiographical fiction can be a powerful healing practice

Highly sensitive creative people often need embodied practices to balance intellectual work

Surrender doesn't mean giving up—it means releasing control of outcomes

You can care for people without carrying their burdens

Success in yoga isn't about mastery—it's about growth and self-discovery

Memorization and recitation connect us to literary tradition and embodied knowledge

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Are you feeling like you're standing on the edge of something new as we enter 2026? Maybe you're uncertain about what's ahead or how to step forward with confidence. This episode is your cosmic guide to the year ahead.

 

Join host Harmony Slater and spiritual astrologer Monica Lorraine for a deep dive into the major astrological shifts happening in 2026 and what they mean for your emotional healing, relationships, and personal growth. Unlike predictive astrology that focuses on fear and fate, Monica uses astrology as a tool for emotional insight, self-trust, and aligned decision-making.

 

In this episode, you'll discover:

 

The three major planetary shifts happening in 2026 and how they'll impact your life

Why the first half of the year is all about emotional healing and inner safety (Jupiter in Cancer)

How the summer brings a powerful shift toward confidence and self-expression (Jupiter moving into Leo)

What it means to release perfectionism and control (North Node in Pisces) and move toward trust

The transition from external validation to authentic self-acceptance (South Node moving into Leo)

How Saturn in Pisces has been teaching you emotional boundaries since 2023

Why Saturn moving into Aries in February 2026 is calling you to take brave action

The difference between spiritual astrology and traditional astrology

How to work with your personal birth chart to understand where these shifts are happening in YOUR life

Practical ways to prepare for the fiery, action-oriented energy coming in summer 2026

 

Whether you're new to astrology or a seasoned student of the stars, Monica breaks down complex concepts into grounded, practical wisdom you can use immediately. This conversation will help you move through 2026 with more clarity, confidence, and alignment.

 

Resources mentioned: Monica is offering exclusive free online astrology gatherings for Finding Harmony listeners in January, February, and March 2026. 

Visit: https://www.soulaligned.net/harmony-2026.html

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