Be The Frequency Podcast

Hosted by Shalane Carter

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Sep 2026

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Be The Frequency is the convergence of spirituality, healing and success. With solo episodes on the wisdom from over a decade of entrepreneurial experience in businesses, conversations with people who have created a life of their dreams and episodes on how to healing what is keeping you from living a life that is in alignment with your highest self this podcast is going to be for every one who wants a friend in their corner as they are growing, evolving and healing!

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September 29, 202653 min

167. Escape Your “Truman Show” Life: The Quantum Biology & Nervous System Behind Real Manifestation

Get Out of Your “Truman Show”: Why Manifestation Fails in a Closed Nervous System (Quantum Biology + RAS + Heart Coherence)Dr. Shalane Carter uses The Truman Show to explain how many people live inside rigid routines and expectations that feel safe but keep life unchanged, arguing you “can’t manifest in a closed system.” She says manifestation is not just ritual or “law of attraction” performance; it requires biological, quantum, and spiritual alignment involving the nervous system, the brain’s reticular activating system (attention filter), neuroplasticity, and the heart’s electromagnetic field and coherence. Repeated familiarity leads to habituation and autopilot, somatic bracing, and a contracted field that only allows what feels safe, collapsing possibility prematurely. By introducing novelty, adaptability, and openness—like changing routes, saying yes, disrupting patterns—people expand what the brain and field can perceive and receive. She emphasizes intention without passivity, recommends the phrase “this or something better,” and promotes her Master Manifester course plus related business and health offerings.Timestamps:00:00 Truman Show Metaphor02:04 Why Manifesting Stalls03:04 Science Not Theater05:03 Open The Possibility Field06:58 Autopilot Nervous System10:11 Body Field And Epigenetics14:18 Quantum Superposition Explained18:18 Change Your Route19:34 RAS And New Inputs25:01 Neuroplasticity Through Novelty27:14 Rapid Life Upgrades27:40 Novelty For Nervous System29:07 Pottery Beginner Mind29:48 Break The Fitness Plateau31:27 Possibility Thinking For Health33:23 Heart Coherence And Field36:08 Nature Teaches Adaptation38:40 Vital Force And Manifestation40:18 This Or Something Better44:05 Truman Show Doorway45:48 New Filters For Change47:30 Master Manifester Overview49:34 Programs And Final Sendoff Connect with Dr. Shalane on Instagram: Master Manifester Course Take the "Which Chakra is Your Super Power in Business?" Quiz Book a Quantum 8 Health Consultation with Dr. Shalane Carter

September 22, 202631 min

166. Stop Building a Life From Survival: Shift From Necessity to Desire (Nervous System + Manifestation)

In this episode, the Dr. Shalane shares how many people unknowingly build a life from survival and necessity rather than true desire, often realizing it years later. Reflecting on her own path—creating a successful cosmetology business quickly out of financial need—she explains how choices made from necessity shape different outcomes than choices made from future-focused desire. She describes how her life changed after applying manifestation principles she teaches in her course Master Manifestor (currently on sale), emphasizing practical metaphors and the importance of somatic “felt” truth. She outlines three key decision filters: notice how an opportunity feels in the body (safe-and-small vs safe-and-expansive), determine whether it aligns with future goals, and assess whether the people and opportunities align with the future self’s values, using examples from relationships, friendships, business trades, and brand alignment.Timestamps:00:00 Necessity vs Desire01:05 My Survival Built Success03:48 Manifestation Course Plug04:08 Metaphors Make It Click06:54 How My Life Shifted08:51 Pillar One Somatic Safety11:36 Safe Small vs Safe Big17:52 Pillar Two Future Alignment21:12 Pillar Three People Fit26:28 Values Based No Decisions29:02 Small Choices Big Change29:45 Wrap Up And Subscribe Master Manifester: https://mttguup2nuzrqu0jugtl.app.clientclub.net/courses/offers/29be34ca-62fb-4dfc-a398-38f0a2c0c7ff Connect with Dr. Shalane on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dr.shalanecarter/ You Are The Medicine Membership:https://www.skool.com/you-are-the-medicine-6666/aboutTake the "Which Chakra is Your Super Power in Business?" Quiz:⁠https://chakraquiz.shalanec.com/quiz⁠Book a session with Dr.Shalane Carter:⁠https://spinalenergetics.shalanec.com/inperson-spinal-energetic-session418043⁠Book a Quantum 8 Health Consultation with Dr. Shalane Carterhttps://quantum8method.shalanecarter.com/landing-page

September 15, 202633 min

165. Why Travel Expands Your Nervous System, Spiritual Growth, and Business Leadership

After returning from a short “European tour” (Switzerland and Italy), Dr. Shalane Carter reflects on travel as a spiritually expansive experience that shifts your nervous system and perspective, noting that 80–90% of the world has never flown and that polls found about 11% of Americans have never left their home state. She share how they used the practices taught in their Master Manifestor course to manifest more travel opportunities, and argue that leaving routine disrupts autopilot living, increases presence, and reveals how home environments can drive reactivity (including the claim that feeling better eating bread in Europe is often a nervous-system/state change, not different wheat, since much European wheat is imported from the US). She describe travel’s growth lessons—exposure to different belief systems and sacred sites, humility through discomfort and unpredictability (language barriers, trains, getting lost), perspective from witnessing different living conditions, and solitude that reveals personal patterns—then invite listeners to follow @drshalinecarter and join their email list for first access to upcoming retreats. Timestamps:00:00 Why Travel Matters02:00 Travel Stats and Fear03:21 Breaking Autopilot Mode04:51 Europe Bread Myth08:00 Sacred Sites and Rituals14:05 Discomfort Builds Humility14:54 Train Story in Switzerland21:50 Different Lives Expand Beliefs26:08 Solitude Reveals Patterns29:02 Bringing Lessons Home31:34 Retreat Invite and Wrap Up Connect with Dr. Shalane on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.shalanecarter/ You Are The Medicine Membership: https://www.skool.com/you-are-the-medicine-6666/about Take the "Which Chakra is Your Super Power in Business?" Quiz: ⁠https://chakraquiz.shalanec.com/quiz⁠ Book a session with Dr.Shalane Carter: ⁠https://spinalenergetics.shalanec.com/inperson-spinal-energetic-session418043⁠ Book a Quantum 8 Health Consultation with Dr. Shalane Carter https://quantum8method.shalanecarter.com/landing-page

August 25, 202657 min

164. Quantum Biology, Biophotons & Why the Body Isn’t a Machine

Dr. Shalane Carter argues the body is not merely a mechanical system but a self-organizing quantum field that communicates through biophotonic light, electromagnetic fields, and frequency, claiming DNA emits measurable coherent light and the heart’s electromagnetic field can influence others’ nervous systems. She traces the “machine model” of medicine to Descartes (1637) and Newtonian physics, says medical education lags research, and contends the framework fails to explain phenomena like spontaneous remission and placebo effects. She introduces quantum biology examples (photosynthesis coherence, enzyme tunneling, animal navigation) and cites Bruce Lipton’s view that the cell membrane reads environmental electromagnetic signals affecting gene expression. She highlights Fritz-Albert Popp’s biophoton research on coherence and disease and uses quantum-field arguments to explain homeopathy via water “information,” referencing Del Giudice/Preparata and Luc Montagnier’s claims about electromagnetic signals persisting in water. Timestamps: 00:00 Your Body Emits Light 01:10 Why Medicine Misses Fields 03:26 What Is the Body 07:44 Descartes Machine Model 11:03 Education Lags Research 13:02 Quantum Physics Basics 15:50 Quantum Biology Emerges 24:54 Quantum Effects In Life 29:01 Rethinking Organ Removal 29:52 Body as Living Field 30:37 Cell Membrane Signals 31:47 Emotions Shape Gene Expression 33:20 Biophotons and Coherent Light 35:57 Disease as Light Disruption 37:34 Energy Medicine in Practice 40:15 Homeopathy Placebo Objection 42:49 Water Memory Mechanisms 47:49 Law of Similars Resonance 49:56 Symptoms as Communication 51:52 Practitioner Field Matters 54:03 Quantum Field Takeaways 56:08 Closing Thoughts Connect with Dr. Shalane on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.shalanecarter/ You Are The Medicine Membership: https://www.skool.com/you-are-the-medicine-6666/about Take the "Which Chakra is Your Super Power in Business?" Quiz: ⁠https://chakraquiz.shalanec.com/quiz⁠ Book a session with Dr.Shalane Carter: ⁠https://spinalenergetics.shalanec.com/inperson-spinal-energetic-session418043⁠ Book a Quantum 8 Health Consultation with Dr. Shalane Carter https://quantum8method.shalanecarter.com/landing-page

August 18, 20261 hr 8 min

164. Your Spine Is a Quantum Antenna: The Science Behind Spinal Energetics, Fascia & Nervous System Healing

Dr. Shalane Carter explains why spontaneous movements, sounds, and emotional releases in spinal energetics and somatic sessions are the nervous system completing unfinished survival responses stored in the fascia and spine. She describes fascia as a body-wide bioelectric communication network organized around piezoelectric collagen, with the spine acting as a central “anten na” generating electrical signals through movement and stress. She links spinal and fascial tension to disrupted safety signaling via spinal afferents, discusses polyvagal theory’s dorsal vagal shutdown, sympathetic activation, and ventral vagal regulation, and draws on trauma research from Peter Levine and Bessel van der Kolk about discharge and completion. She also connects cerebrospinal fluid, pineal crystals, and biophotons to coherence in cellular communication, references cross-cultural parallels in yoga, TCM, and Western esoteric traditions, and offers practical language for explaining this work to skeptical clients. Timestamps: 00:00 Why It Looks Weird 00:52 Movement as Nervous System Release 03:56 Episode Purpose and Audience 07:40 Hard to Explain Experiences 11:54 Origins of Spinal Energetics 17:10 What Sessions Look Like 20:30 Spine as Quantum Antenna 23:02 Fascia as Bioelectric Network 26:52 CSF and Biophoton Light 30:59 Ancient Traditions Agree 33:17 Polyvagal Theory Basics 35:32 Dorsal Vagal Shutdown 36:12 Sympathetic Fight Flight 37:34 Ventral Vagal Safety 38:28 Dimmers and Stress Weight 40:47 Spine as Safety Highway 42:50 Trauma Stored in Tissue 45:07 Shaking and Discharge 50:04 Creating Safe Sessions 52:48 Explaining to Skeptics 56:00 Why Structure Reverts 58:56 Nonlinear Healing Path 01:01:19 Practitioner Growth Business 01:03:35 Spine as Central Channel 01:07:06 Final Takeaways and Share Connect with Dr. Shalane on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.shalanecarter/ You Are The Medicine Membership: https://www.skool.com/you-are-the-medicine-6666/about Take the "Which Chakra is Your Super Power in Business?" Quiz: ⁠https://chakraquiz.shalanec.com/quiz⁠ Book a session with Dr.Shalane Carter: ⁠https://spinalenergetics.shalanec.com/inperson-spinal-energetic-session418043⁠ Book a Quantum 8 Health Consultation with Dr. Shalane Carter https://quantum8method.shalanecarter.com/landing-page

August 11, 202656 min

162. Outliving Biohacking: The Biology of Joy, Connection, and Purpose

Dr. Shalane Carter contrasts an intensely optimized biohacker who is miserable with a spontaneous, socially connected person, arguing that peer-reviewed research suggests joy, laughter, meaning, and community predict longer life and better health. She clarifies she is not anti-health—sleep, nutrition, movement, and stress management matter—but says cultural obsession with protocols can create chronic stress, compulsions, anxiety, and loneliness that undermine longevity. Citing findings on loneliness increasing premature death risk, wellbeing reducing mortality risk, laughter boosting immune markers and lowering cortisol, and optimism extending lifespan, she reframes “outliving” as being fully alive now. She references Blue Zones research emphasizing family ties, communal meals, and belonging, and encourages listeners to prioritize connection, novelty, curiosity, purpose (ikigai), and saying yes to meaningful experiences over more supplements and metrics. Timestamps: 00:00 Two Lives Compared 02:26 Outliving Through Joy 04:07 Recalibrating Wellness Culture 06:46 Biohacking Benefits and Basics 08:17 Optimization Stress Trap 13:43 Loneliness Beats Biomarkers 17:04 Joy as a Protocol 18:12 Smiles Predict Lifespan 20:01 Laughter Boosts Immunity 26:06 Coherence and Quantum Biology 27:37 Loneliness Risk Revisited 29:31 Loneliness and Modern Life 30:25 Wellbeing Predicts Longevity 32:09 Meaning Over Optimization 33:43 Oxytocin and Social Healing 35:56 Community Beats Protocols 36:35 Blue Zones Connection Secrets 41:11 Joy as Clinical Medicine 43:25 Novelty Curiosity and BDNF 46:48 Optimism Adds Years 48:41 Outliving in Daily Practice 50:11 Laugh Love Risk Connect 53:43 Weekly Challenge and Farewell Connect with Dr. Shalane on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.shalanecarter/ You Are The Medicine Membership: https://www.skool.com/you-are-the-medicine-6666/about Take the "Which Chakra is Your Super Power in Business?" Quiz: ⁠https://chakraquiz.shalanec.com/quiz⁠ Book a session with Dr.Shalane Carter: ⁠https://spinalenergetics.shalanec.com/inperson-spinal-energetic-session418043⁠ Book a Quantum 8 Health Consultation with Dr. Shalane Carter https://quantum8method.shalanecarter.com/landing-page

August 4, 202656 min

161. Breaking the Script: From External Validation to Inner Alignment with Maggie Ledbetter

Maggie Ledbetter reflects on realizing they had been manifesting other people’s intentions and living a predetermined script centered on good grades, a good college, and a high-paying job at a respected company. They describe this as self-abandonment disguised as determination, dedication, or discipline, noting that someone can appear successful while hating their life. The conversation contrasts building a life that looks good on paper or Instagram with one that actually feels good to live. It also highlights how the body responds similarly to different stressors—whether a physical threat like a tiger, a boss scheduling constant last-minute meetings, having too much on one’s plate, or living out of alignment—producing the same physical results. Timestamps: 00:00 Living Others Script 00:05 The Success Pipeline 00:36 Self Abandonment Drive 00:42 Success Yet Miserable 00:46 Looks Good vs Feels Good 00:57 Stress Shows Up Physically Telegram Break out of Burn out Group with Maggie Ledbetter: Connect with Dr. Shalane on Instagram You Are The Medicine Membership : Take the "Which Chakra is Your Super Power in Business?" Quiz

July 28, 202651 min

160. Natural Health Revolution: Embracing Your Innate Healing Power

Dr. Shalane Carter introduces her “You Are The Medicine” membership as a searchable, app-like community on School designed to bridge gaps between Western medicine’s symptom-suppression model and holistic, whole-person healing. She explains how Western care often relies on billable diagnoses and lifelong medications, while traditions like Ayurveda, TCM, and homeopathy consider constitution, emotions, environment, and stress. She discusses the historical shift away from herbalism after the 1910 Flexner Report and argues people have been disempowered from ancestral remedy knowledge. After initially launching the program as a course in early 2026, she refunded members and rebuilt it into a living library organized by 25+ body systems and 50+ conditions with videos, remedy options, links, and a weekly community Q&A (“Tea Time”). She outlines three pricing tiers ($7, $27 founders, $97) and shares a personal example using Arnica and other natural tools for neck pain. Timestamps: 00:00 Why Health Feels Hard 01:51 Western Medicine Limits 03:56 Whole Person Healing 09:10 Flexner Report Shift 12:37 The Missing Link 15:57 Trust Your Body 21:09 Neck Pain Case Study 26:22 Building The App 27:55 Inside The Library 30:12 Community Focus 36:48 Membership Tiers 42:01 Natural Medicine Philosophy 47:43 Launch And Next Steps Connect with Dr. Shalane on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.shalanecarter/ You Are The Medicine Membership: https://www.skool.com/you-are-the-medicine-6666/about Take the "Which Chakra is Your Super Power in Business?" Quiz: ⁠https://chakraquiz.shalanec.com/quiz⁠ Book a session with Dr.Shalane Carter: ⁠https://spinalenergetics.shalanec.com/inperson-spinal-energetic-session418043⁠

July 21, 20261 hr 22 min

159. Building a 'Third Place" Community: Inclusion, Leadership, and Intentional Connection with Meg Mashore

In this Be The Frequency interview, Dr. Shalane Carter speaks with Meg Mashore, co-founder of Common Ground Pottery and owner of Rox Management, about building community through a “Third Place” pottery studio. Meg shares that the studio was community-first and pottery-second, emphasizing inclusivity without trying to be for everyone, and the necessity of accepting failure, ego checks, and the pressure of stewarding a 24/7 space. T hey discuss how adult friendships are harder to form, why pottery uniquely grounds people away from technology, and how community can extend into supporting neighboring local businesses. Meg connects her drive for community to losing her mother, a family matriarch, and to COVID’s community loss, and reflects on parenting, grit, people-pleasing as control, and living with intention as the key to a fulfilled life. Time Stamps: 00:00 Meet Meg Mashore 01:37 Building Community Isn’t Easy 04:57 Inclusive But Not For Everyone 05:57 Third Place Theory 10:14 Downsides and Pressure 17:47 Why Adults Need Community 23:43 Why Pottery Works 27:41 Pottery As Workout 28:19 Kids Classes And Adults 29:33 Membership Tiers Waitlist 30:06 Second Location Necessity 31:39 Third Space Community 32:55 Supporting Local Businesses 34:10 Remembering Small Moments 41:17 Trauma Trust Barriers 43:59 Boarding School Community 46:05 Motherhood Career Balance 49:57 Starting Studio Later 51:56 Teen Walks Connection 53:40 Empty Nesting Feels 54:32 Pottery Studio Origins 55:29 Accidental Entrepreneurship 56:45 Fear Bravery Pride 01:00:05 Teaching Kids Grit 01:03:01 Adversity Without Trauma 01:05:51 Boarding School Confidence 01:10:39 Not Being Liked 01:13:59 People Pleasing Control 01:19:51 Intentional Living Wrap Visit commongroundpottery.com to check connect, find community and make pottery with Meg! Connect with Dr. Shalane on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.shalanecarter/ Ascension Manual: A 90 Day Guide to a Higher Vibrational Living on Amazon: ⁠https://amzn.to/3tUwOm1⁠ Take the "Which Chakra is Your Super Power in Business?" Quiz: ⁠https://chakraquiz.shalanec.com/quiz⁠ Book a session with Dr.Shalane Carter: ⁠https://spinalenergetics.shalanec.com/inperson-spinal-energetic-session418043⁠ Book a Quantum 8 Health Consultation with Dr. Shalane Carter https://quantum8method.shalanecarter.com/landing-page

July 14, 202654 min

158. Soft Life Era vs. Avoidance: Why Your Body (and Business) Need Challenge | Hormesis, BDNF & Dopamine

Dr. Shalane Carter argues that the “soft girl era” is a needed correction to burnout but has also become, in healing and spiritual spaces, a permission slip to avoid growth by calling stagnation “rest” and dressing avoidance in language like alignment and feminine energy. She distinguishes genuinely restorative rest from avoidance that atrophies vitality, explaining that the body is designed for challenge through hormesis, where moderate stressors build strength. She describes how challenge, novelty, and exertion support brain adaptability via BDNF and how dopamine is tied to anticipation and effort, so removing effort flattens motivation and fulfillment. Drawing on yoga, exercise, and examples from an education founder challenging children physically, she frames difficulty as initiation that builds resilience and nervous system safety. She invites listeners to choose one manageable challenge they’ve been avoiding to reclaim aliveness without returning to hustle culture.Timestamps:00:00 Soft Life Reality Check03:28 Rest Versus Avoidance06:24 Hormesis Stress Makes Strong10:20 BDNF Challenge Grows Brain16:15 Dopamine Needs Effort20:01 Life Force Through Use22:13 Kids Wired For Challenge31:45 Feminine Power Not Passive39:50 Challenge As Initiation47:27 One Percent Stretch Practice52:05 Closing Resources And Next StepsConnect with Dr. Shalane on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/dr.shalanecarter/Ascension Manual: A 90 Day Guide to a Higher Vibrational Living on Amazon:⁠https://amzn.to/3tUwOm1⁠Take the "Which Chakra is Your Super Power in Business?" Quiz:⁠https://chakraquiz.shalanec.com/quiz⁠Book a session with Dr.Shalane Carter:⁠https://spinalenergetics.shalanec.com/inperson-spinal-energetic-session418043⁠Book a Quantum 8 Health Consultation with Dr. Shalane Carterhttps://quantum8method.shalanecarter.com/landing-page