What happens when life forces you to stop completely?

In this episode, we sit down with Krista Clive-Smith: entrepreneur, author, and personal branding expert, to explore how a sudden and severe health crisis transformed her life and work.

After being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and multiple autoimmune conditions, Krista went from peak performance to being completely immobilized for months. In that time, she faced intense physical pain, mental challenges, and a moment where she nearly gave up.

But through that experience, something shifted.

By reframing her mindset and surrendering control, Krista began to see her situation not as something happening to her, but for her, and ultimately through her. What followed was a renewed sense of purpose and a drive to build solutions rooted in her own experience, including new technology to help others facing similar challenges.

This is a conversation about resilience, perspective, and what becomes possible when you stop resisting, and start listening.

Topics We Explore:

• Living through extreme illness and loss of control
• The mental shift from “why me” to “what for”
• Surrendering and allowing life to work through you
• Turning adversity into purpose and creation
• Building tools from lived experience (Crohn’s app)
• Finding clarity when everything is stripped away

Connect with Krista Clive-Smith: https://www.kristaclivesmith.com/

Learn More about The Viking Academy: https://www.vikingacademy.com

What if you’re not here to learn, but to remember?

In this episode, we sit down with Susan Stone: shaman, healer, and author of The Magical Nature of Humans, to explore the idea that we are souls having a human experience, slowly waking up from a kind of “amnesia.”

From early spiritual awareness to addiction, recovery, and deep healing work, Susan shares how life’s challenges aren’t random: they’re part of a greater unfolding designed to help us reconnect with who we truly are.

We dive into unlearning, intuition, karma, and the shift happening in human consciousness, and what it really means to live from a place of awareness instead of fear.

Topics We Explore:

• Souls, amnesia, and remembering who we are
• Why we’re here to unlearn, not learn
• Addiction, recovery, and spiritual awakening
• Intuition vs. fear: how to tell the difference
• Karma, past lives, and clearing old patterns
• Seeing life as a “cast of characters”

Connect with Susan Stone: https://theartsportroyal.com/

Learn More about The Viking Academy: https://www.vikingacademy.com

What if everything you thought you knew about food… was wrong?

In this episode, we sit down with Robert Saik: agrologist, entrepreneur, and global agriculture expert, to uncover the truth behind the modern food system and the myths shaping how we eat.

With over four decades in agriculture and as the author of Food 5.0: How We Feed the Future, Robert breaks down the reality behind organic labels, GMOs, and the fear-driven narratives that dominate today’s food conversation. What emerges is a perspective that challenges conventional beliefs, and reveals how little most of us actually understand about where our food comes from.

From the role of technology and AI in farming to the future of feeding a growing population, Robert offers a grounded, fact-based lens on one of the most important systems in our lives.

This isn’t about fear: it’s about clarity. Because once you understand the truth about food, you can’t unsee it.

Topics We Explore:

• How fear and misinformation shape our perception of food
• The truth about GMOs, organic labels, and food marketing
• The real challenges of feeding a growing global population
• How AI, robotics, and technology are transforming agriculture
• How to think critically about what you eat

Connect with Robert Saik: https://www.robertsaik.com/

Learn More about The Viking Academy: https://www.vikingacademy.com