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Power & Play: The Shortcut Series (with Ruby Ray)
Power & Play: The Shortcut Series is a podcast about self-liberation through reclaiming power and cultivating pleasure — not as separate goals, but as a single, embodied path.
Each episode explores a shortcut to liberation: leverage points where responsibility, embodiment, shadow work, and play collapse years of struggle into clarity, agency, and aliveness.
Hosted by Ekat (Ruby Ray), a women’s liberation coach trained in executive leadership and somatic, trauma-informed, and sacred sexuality modalities, this podcast is for women who are done living at 20% of their power — and ready to get (and stay) high on their own supply.
Power & Play: The Shortcut Series (with Ruby Ray)
Episode 2: Inquiry as Liberation (Mind Games That Set You Free)
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In this episode of Power & Play: The Shortcut Series, we explore one of the biggest and most overlooked power leaks in women’s lives: believing our thoughts without question.
Building on Episode 1’s theme of responsibility as liberation, this conversation looks at how negative thinking, overthinking, and story-making quietly run our emotions, behavior, and sense of what’s possible — and how inquiry becomes a direct shortcut to reclaiming power.
You’ll learn:
- Why much of our suffering is created by thoughts that argue with reality
- How believing disempowering stories gives our power away
- Why thoughts are tools, not truths
- How inquiry loosens the grip of painful beliefs
- The difference between self-surveillance and real inner work
- How “purified thought” (śuddha-vikalpa) differs from positive thinking
- Simple ways to train the mind in everyday life — through meditation, neutral spaces, and identity re-orientation
This episode offers practical, grounded tools for interrupting mental loops and reclaiming agency — without bypass, self-blame, or spiritual platitudes.
Next episode: Pleasure Alchemy — how nourishing the nervous system and following your desire supercharges liberation.
🔗 Resources mentioned
* Guided meditations on my Substack: “Don’t Know Mind” meditation and more.
* Guided yoga nidra: Healing source energy
* Meditation app: Insight Timer
💬 Work with me directly
If you want support applying this work to your life, relationships, or leadership, I work privately with women, nonbinary folks, femmes and couples. You’re welcome to reach out to explore whether it’s a fit.
IG: @iamrubyray
Website: rubyray.co