Sacred & Sovereign

The Return of the Priestess: Reclaiming Feminine Leadership with Elayne Kalila

Elizabeth Brett

For centuries, women have been removed from spiritual leadership, their wisdom erased, their power diminished. But what if the priestess was never lost—just waiting to be remembered?

In this episode of Sacred & Sovereign, I sit down with my beloved mentor, Elayne Kalila Doughty, an ordained priestess and focalizer of the 13 Moon Mystery School and the Rosa Mystica Mystery School. She is the Dean and Founder of the Priestess Presence School of the Sacred Arts & Temple, which serves a global sisterhood of over 100,000 women. With over 30 years of experience, she trains, initiates, and ordains modern-day priestesses, ceremonialists, and feminine leaders across all professions. Her work is devoted to helping women reclaim their wisdom, harness their transformational power, and step into sacred leadership in a world that needs it now more than ever.

If you've ever felt a deep, unexplainable call to something more—something ancient—this episode is for you.

We’re breaking down:

  • The erasure of the priestess and how patriarchal history stripped women from spiritual leadership
  • Why the modern-day priestess is rising and what this means for you
  • How ritual, ceremony, and sacred practice bring us back to wholeness
  • The role of the priestess today—and how you may already be walking this path

And in the most breathtaking part of this conversation, Elayne guides us through a powerful journey into an ancient temple, where we meet the priestesses of the past and remember what has always been within us.

Tune in to hear:

  • How Elayne’s own journey from therapist to priestess unfolded
  • Why women are still deprogramming from thousands of years of suppression
  • What it truly means to be a spiritual leader in today’s world
  • A guided ceremonial journey to reconnect with your own ancient wisdom

If you’ve ever felt like something has been missing—like there is a part of you waiting to be reclaimed—this episode will open a door for you.

It’s time to remember.



Resources & Next Steps:

📩 Explore Elayne’s Work: Visit elaynekalila.com or PriestessPresence.com to learn more about her offerings.

🎙️ Listen to Elayne’s Podcast: The Red Podcast—a space for bold, inspired, and outrageously courageous women leaders.

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About the Host
Elizabeth Brett is a former NBC reporter turned modern-day priestess, mama, activator & guide. She’s been interviewed on The Today Show, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Shape Magazine, and Cosmo Radio, has changed countless diapers along with her career multiple times, and now guides women to remember who they were before the world told them who to be. She believes this is the key to wild abundance & soul-level fulfillment.

Her work is an invitation—one that challenges the rules of womanhood and motherhood as we know them, offering a new paradigm where success isn’t just measured by achievement but by the depth of one's aliveness.

Elizabeth lives in Austin, TX, with her beloved husband and two magical kids. She's known to show up in the school pick-up line wearing a unicorn horn, and loves a spontaneous dance party.

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