The Spiritual Forum
Welcome to The Spiritual Forum, a space curated by Rev Carol Saunders for extraordinary conversations that explore the realms of spiritual living. Join us weekly for heart-to-heart dialogues with captivating individuals, delving into themes like love, faith, awakening, forgiveness, healing, spiritual practices, and divine encounters. These transformative narratives aim to inspire, fostering a deep connection to the profound experiences that shape our lives. Rev Carol’s guests include authors, filmmakers, experts, and everyday individuals who authentically share their journeys toward wholeness. These discussions transcend the ordinary, offering insights into navigating the complexities of our current world with authenticity and grace.
Welcome to The Spiritual Forum, a space curated by Rev Carol Saunders for extraordinary conversations that explore the realms of spiritual living. Join us weekly for heart-to-heart dialogues with captivating individuals, delving into themes like love, faith, awakening, forgiveness, healing, spiritual practices, and divine encounters. These transformative narratives aim to inspire, fostering a deep connection to the profound experiences that shape our lives. Rev Carol’s guests include authors, filmmakers, experts, and everyday individuals who authentically share their journeys toward wholeness. These discussions transcend the ordinary, offering insights into navigating the complexities of our current world with authenticity and grace.
Episodes

Friday Dec 05, 2025
Breaking Free from the Culture of Excess with Jerry Dale EP 339
Friday Dec 05, 2025
Friday Dec 05, 2025
Jerry Dale, who once thrived in the high life as a record label rep, talks about the allure of fame and the dark underbelly of the music industry. Discover how his life shifted from mingling with icons like Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez and Snoop Dogg to embracing a life rooted in faith. Learn how some doors closed while others opened, leading him on a redemptive path of spiritual purpose, trust, and surrender.
✍ Amazon Link to buy Jerry Dale's book : https://www.amazon.com/Music-Porn-Jesus-Journey-Redemption/dp/B0DVG7HYMR
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Bio - Life Coach Jerry is a dedicated personal development mentor known for guiding individuals through transformational mindset shifts, emotional healing, and purpose-driven living. Through his coaching, speaking, and online content, he empowers people to break limiting patterns, build confidence, and create meaningful change in their lives. With a compassionate and practical approach, Jerry supports clients in uncovering clarity, strengthening resilience, and stepping into their highest potential.
#JerryDale #MusicIndustryTruth #FromFameToFaith #SpiritualRedemption #PurposeJourney #TrustAndSurrender #FaithOverFame #HealingFromWithin #TransformationPath #ConsciousAwakening #LetGoToGrow #InnerShift #SpiritualPurpose #RedemptiveJourney #AwakeningStory

Friday Nov 28, 2025
Our Light, Our World: An Advent Reflection EP 338
Friday Nov 28, 2025
Friday Nov 28, 2025
Host Carol Saunders offers a thought-provoking Advent message. Amidst global suffering, we are reminded to shine brightly as lights of hope, peace, love and joy. She offers a prayerful journey that addresses human and animal issues, encouraging the active creation of a kinder, more compassionate world reflective of the Christ Light.
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#AdventReflection #SeasonOfLight #BeTheLight #HopePeaceLoveJoy #FaithInAction #SpiritualJourney #CompassionateLiving #LightInTheDarkness #ChristLight #InspirationDaily #SpiritualAwakening #MindfulLiving #PeaceOnEarth #KindnessMatters #HealingTheWorld #peacetoallbeings #animalsmatter #christinyou #adventseason

Monday Nov 24, 2025
Crossing Political Aisles: Conversations for Unity with David Joseph EP 337
Monday Nov 24, 2025
Monday Nov 24, 2025
As Thanksgiving approaches, join Carol Saunders and David Joseph in a discussion about Braver Angels' mission to bring people together across political aisles and find common ground. In a landscape of political polarities, explore the power of heartfelt listening, the potential within political debates, and how gratitude can transform your heart. Rumi invites us to meet in a field beyond the ideas of right and wrong. Can we make this a reality?
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Bio --.Braver Angels is leading the nation's largest cross-partisan, volunteer-led movement to bridge the partisan divide and strengthen our democratic republic. David Joseph joined Braver Angels in early 2020 during COVID and became a State Coordinator in the state o Michigan from 2022 until July 2025. He continues to be active as a moderator and part of the leadership team.
#BraverAngels #CommonGround #PoliticalHealing #HeartfeltListening #BridgeTheDivide #Thanksgiving2025 #GratitudePractice #UnityInDiversity #TransformYourHeart #RumiWisdom #HealthyDebate #CompassionInPolitics #CivicDialogue #HealingConversations #BetterTogether #CarolSaunders #DavidJoseph #PolarizationSolution #ListenToUnderstand #ConnectionOverConflict

Friday Nov 14, 2025
Living at Peak Performance with Dr. Christine Silverstein EP 336
Friday Nov 14, 2025
Friday Nov 14, 2025
What if you could train your mind like an Olympian? In this episode of The Spiritual Forum, Carol Saunders welcomes Peak Performance Coach Dr. Christine Silverstein, who shares how techniques such as mental rehearsal, positive self-talk, and self-hypnosis can elevate not just sports performance, but also your daily life. This conversation highlights the importance of cultivating independence and reveals techniques to transform anxiety into empowerment and face challenges with confidence.
✍ Amazon Link to buy Dr. Christine Silverstein Book - https://www.amazon.in/Wrestling-Through-Adversity-Christine-Silverstein/dp/B0CFM32LSG
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Bio – Dr. Christine M. Silverstein, peak performance coach, RN, clinical hypnosis expert, and director at the Summit Center for Ideal Performance, is an inductee into the Nursing Hall of Fame at Columbia University for her extraordinary global contribution to nursing care. For 29 years she has worked as a Hypno-Coach with clients of all ages, specializing in assisting children, teens, and young adults to reach their ideal performances in health, athletics, academics, business, and performing arts, using Mindful Toughness® skillsets, including self-hypnosis, relaxation exercises, mental rehearsal, mental recall, positive self-talk, and feedback loop analysis. Her innovative, evidence-based holistic programs, such as Winning Ways for Teens, Operation Heal, Fertility Enhancement Coaching, and Winning Ways for Wrestlers, have assisted many clients to reach their performance goals. As a researcher, historian, and keynote speaker, she has presented her work on peak performance coaching and the history of psychiatry and psychiatric nursing in scientific journals, at professional conferences, workshops, and on local stages. In her latest award-winning book, Wrestling Through Adversity: Empowering Children, Teens, & Young Adults to Win in Life, she shares her personal and professional memoirs and teaches her powerful techniques to promote mental health.
#DrChristineMSilverstein #CarolSaunders #MindfulToughness #WrestlingThroughAdversity #TheSpiritualForum #PeakPerformance #HealingThroughResilience #TraumaRecovery #MentalHealthMatters #PositiveSelfTalk #FaithAndFocus #WinningWays #HolisticPerformance #mentalrehearsal #selfhypnosis #sportstraining #trainyourmind #becomeachampion #WinningMindset #TrainYourMind #PeakPerformance #MentalStrength #BecomeAChampion

Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
From Prison to Promise: A Journey of Faith with Oswald Newbold EP 335
Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
Founder of Libra-Life International Oswald Newbold II joins Carol Saunders to share his remarkable journey from incarceration to inspiration, a living testament to second chances and divine purpose. Once a young man seeking direction, Oswald's life dramatically transformed through faith, education, and service. Today he empowers justice-impacted individuals worldwide, showing that even from behind prison walls and with a seemingly hopeless life sentence, the human spirit can awaken to a higher calling and be set free.
Co-author Breaking Chains, Building Futures: Pathways to Redemption, Education, and Excellence. https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Chains-Building-Futures-Redemption/dp/139432104🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts & rate us to spread the light! – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spiritual-forum 📍 Join our upcoming retreat at Unity Village: https://thespiritualforum.org/retreat ❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/
Bio – Oswald Newbold II is the founder of Libra-Life International, a nonprofit advancing justice for marginalized communities and those impacted by the justice system. Earlier this year, he received the Second Chance Hero Award for his leadership. In 2022, he co-authored The Joseph Anointing: From Prison to Prosperity, and now contributes to Breaking Chains, Building Futures: Pathways to Redemption, Education, and Excellence, a collection of stories from fourteen justice-impacted individuals. Once ashamed of his name, Oswald now proudly embraces its meaning — Divine Power of God — recognizing that it was always part of his divine assignment.
#OswaldNewbold #CarolSaunders #LibraLifeInternational #SecondChances #FaithAndRedemption #PrisonReform #SpiritualHealing #JusticeTransformation #FromPrisonToPurpose #SpiritualForumPodcast #TheSpiritualForum #BreakingChains #EducationAndFaith #RedemptionStories #MentorshipMatters #DivinePowerOfGod #SpiritualJourney #HealingThroughFaith #TransformationStory #PurposeDrivenLife #FaithLeadership #GodsAssignment

Friday Oct 31, 2025
Quantum Physics & Spirituality with Philippe Brouillard EP 334
Friday Oct 31, 2025
Friday Oct 31, 2025
In this second part of our conversation with Philippe Brouillard, founder of VitaQuantum and author of Rethinking Happiness: Unlock the Secrets of Spirituality and True Freedom through Quantum Physics, we dive deeper into the fascinating intersection of Quantum Physics and Spirituality. Philippe explores what’s missing in the manifestation practices showcased in The Secret, why illness often returns, and how we can move from the limited, Newtonian reality steeped in separation to the Quantum world of infinite possibilities. This is a profound exploration of science meeting spirituality and the transformative awakening that follows.
✍ Amazon Link to buy Philippe Brouillard’s book : https://www.vitaquantum.com/rethinkinghappiness 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts & rate us to spread the light! – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spiritual-forum ❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/ Bio - Philippe Brouillard is an international English & French speaker, teacher and PhD candidate in Quantum Science of Health, Prosperity and Happiness. His thesis is: How to remove the unconscious veils so that people rediscover their true purpose and happiness. Philippe is obsessed about the practicality and science of spirituality to understand Consciousness and the meaning of life. As a researcher, he constantly explores new horizons, seeking fascinating experiences such as Buddhist retreats in Nepal, pushing his physical and mental limits by doing the Everest Base Camp, interacting with Buddhist monks, practicing Vipassana meditation, or even retreats in the dark, just to name a few. Always eager for discoveries, he tirelessly strives to unearth new experiences, approaches or techniques that he can then share with his community, in a continuous drive for personal growth and enriching sharing. He is also the Author of a book in French: Rethinking Life: When Quantum Science and Spirituality Join, Happiness Materializes which is already a best seller in the French world. @philippebphd #TheSpiritualForum #QuantumTransformation #HappinessFromWithin #SpiritualGrowth #MindfulLiving #AwakeningJourney #HigherConsciousness #PhilippeBrouillard #InnerPeace #Transformation #freeyourself #freeyourmind #empowerment #escapethematrix #vitaquantum #happinessjourney

Friday Oct 24, 2025
Quantum Happiness & Transformation with Philippe Broulliard - EP 333
Friday Oct 24, 2025
Friday Oct 24, 2025
The world holds us captive in narratives of victimization. What does it mean to be free, spiritually and intellectually? Discover a fresh perspective on breaking the chains with Philippe Brouillard as he takes us on a journey into the depths of quantum physics, the nature of suffering, and the potential to achieve real happiness and societal transformation. This is the first part of a two-part series with guest Philippe Brouillard.
✍ Amazon Link to buy Philippe Broulliard’s book : https://www.vitaquantum.com/rethinkinghappiness 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts & rate us to spread the light! – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spiritual-forum❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/Bio - Philippe Broulliard is an international English & French speaker, teacher and PhD candidate in Quantum Science of Health, Prosperity and Happiness. His thesis is: How to remove the unconscious veils so that people rediscover their true purpose and happiness. Philippe is obsessed about the practicality and science of spirituality to understand Consciousness and the meaning of life. As a researcher, he constantly explores new horizons, seeking fascinating experiences such as Buddhist retreats in Nepal, pushing his physical and mental limits by doing the Everest Base Camp, interacting with Buddhist monks, practicing Vipassana meditation, or even retreats in the dark, just to name a few. Always eager for discoveries, he tirelessly strives to unearth new experiences, approaches or techniques that he can then share with his community, in a continuous drive for personal growth and enriching sharing. He is also the Author of a book in French: Rethinking Life: When Quantum Science and Spirituality Join, Happiness Materializes which is already a best seller in the French world. #TheSpiritualForum #QuantumTransformation #HappinessFromWithin #SpiritualGrowth #MindfulLiving #AwakeningJourney #HigherConsciousness #PhilippeBroulliard #InnerPeace #Transformation

Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Spiritual Attunement Through the Surgical Process with Amelia Vogler - EP 332
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Can energy medicine transform your surgical experience? Grounding and Energy Medicine Specialist Amelia Vogler reveals how the surgical process can be spiritually supported before, during and after surgery for optimum results. She explains how energetically aligning the body, mind, and spirit can reduce fear, accelerate recovery, and awaken your innate healing intelligence. We explore how her integrative approach bridges science and spirituality — from creating micro-intentions with her patients for every surgical step to providing energetic support for what physically takes place in the body's nerves and tissues during surgery. Even surgeons find her methods produce extraordinary results!
✍ Amazon Link to buy Theresa Cheung's book : https://www.amazon.com/NightBorn-Debut-Novel-Theresa-Cheung/dp/1917704453
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📍 Join our upcoming retreat at Unity Village: https://thespiritualforum.org/retreat ❤️ Support this mission: https://thespiritualforum.org/Bio – Amelia Vogler is an integrative Health Coach trained at Duke University with a Master’s from North Carolina State University. As a Grounding and Energy Medicine Specialist and surgical consultant, she is among the few worldwide to earn the distinguished credential of Specialist in Energy Medicine (SEM), with specific training in Energy Medicine in Surgery. She offers clients a uniquely comprehensive approach to healing as her sessions are both spiritually attuned and therapeutically grounded, designed to support the whole individual throughout the surgical process. Amy also has had a private practice for 17 years where she helps people reclaim lost parts of themselves, guiding them toward healing, belonging, and thriving.
#AmeliaVogler #EnergyMedicine #SpiritualHealing #SurgerySupport #HealingTouch #MindBodySpirit #HolisticHealth #ConsciousHealing #MedicalIntuition #EnergyHealing #SoulHealing #Grounding #SpiritualityAndScience #HealingJourney #IntegrativeMedicine #SpiritualWellness #PostOpRecovery #InnerLight #VibrationalHealing #SacredHealing #surgicalpreparation #conscioussurgery #spiritualityandmedicine

Rev Carol Saunders
Experienced Minister, Spiritual Leader, Speaker, Blogger and Podcast Host, with a demonstrated history working in spiritual organizations. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Public Speaking, Dialogue Facilitation, Spiritual Coaching, Writing, Pastoral Counseling, Premarital/Marriage coaching, Sacred Ceremonies and Conflict Resolution. Strong media and communication professional in the spiritual awakening business. For more information, Visit the about Rev Carol Saunders in the menu above









