Dr. Nicole Rawls
Organizational Death Doula · Cultural Strategist · StoryWeaver
~It's time we learn to work with death as a way to create new life
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Dr. Nicole Rawls
Welcome! My name is Dr. Nicole Rawls and I am a storyteller who comes from a line of storytellers who weave and tell stories in many different ways, and as an anthropologist, astrologer and artist I work with astrology and ethnography to explore the stories of what it means for us to be human, to help us imagine and create the structures that can support and sustain that life.
Life requires death, and I help individuals and organizations move through life-death cycle of societal and organizational transitions as an Organizational Death Doula, Cultural Strategist, and StoryWeaver. For life is about creation, so we must learn to work with words as well as get our hands in the dirt and bring those words into existence.
My work is focused on exploring the question: What does it mean to be human outside the colonial project? I use my anthropological and spiritual training, along with my twenty years of experience to help individuals and organizations deconstruct from oppressive systems and dream and build the worlds we actually want to inhabit.
I am the founder of the Embodied Futures Institute and the creator of Embodied Strategic Dreaming. I am also currently completing my first book, “Reclaiming My Wild: A Modern-Day Marronage Folktale.”
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It is time to tell new stories so we can create the futures we say we want. So it is a time of the storytellers and story weavers to tell and weave new stories for our humanity.
To tell new stories we need to embody our humanity and believe the reality we are in so we can dream and create the societies that can actually hold and support life.
How do we learn to embody the knowledge we have learned?
What does it mean to strategically dream as a way to world-build the societies we say we want to live in?
Can we allow ourselves to play in the dreamscape(s) and bring those dreams into reality?
If we are our ancestors’ wildest dreams, how do we dream WITH them as a liberatory practice?
These are some of the questions I explore in my Patreon, the online arm of my Embodied Futures Lab, as a way to create a space for people to imagine our world differently and then dare to bring those imaginations into reality.
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Yappin w/ the Stars - The Podcast
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Full Moon in Sagittarius:
What God Do You Believe In?
Astro Forecast May 31-June 13, 2026
“Make your daddy dead. Real dead” What happens when you realize your daddy, the daddy, don’t really like you?
Today we got a full moon in Sag and it is one that is illuminating things that started 6 months ago. This is the second full moon this month - that’s why some call it the blue moon - as May started by illuminating the depths of where Scoprio can go and now we end the month illuminating some truths that have to be faced with Sagittarius. Sag is the fire, masculine, mutable side of Jupiter, the planet over truth/law/order/God - What do you believe in? Where is your faith? Jupiter is over in Cancer where he has not been necessarily comfortable, and is in a loose conversation with Chiron in Aries, who is talking with Mercury in Taurus. Lilith is in Sag as well, the one who is called a demon for daring to question patriarchal authority, so forbidden knowledge is coming up to be played with. We are all asking different questions about what actually makes sense, especially when it comes to care, authority, and the body. The patriarch is making a play to take the lead on what it means for us to be human and care for one another, asking us essentially to give the God of Abraham, Yahweh ANOTHER chance. Cause see the God you believe in shapes how you believe in yourself. The full moon is illuminating where that concept of God sits cause this is a time of change, therefore a time of needing to pivot, which means this is also a time of FAITH. So, what happens if that means you got to “make your daddy dead. Real dead?”
This is the weekly forecast for May 31st-June 6th: New Moon in Sag: What God do you believe in?
Welcome back to Yappin' with the Stars, the show where I talk about what it means, and takes, for us to become human once again in a world that is tryin to convince us all this is it.
And it is not.
So, lets talk with the cosmos and see what else is possible.
I'm your host and guide, Nicole Rawls — a storyteller who comes from a line of storytellers who weave and tell stories in many different ways, and as an anthropologist, astrologer and artist I work with astrology and ethnography to explore the stories of what it means for us to be human. Cause right now the present is up for grabs, so who is leading the stories that will bring us into our futures?
Every Sunday, we check into the chaos we call society and ask:
What's the cosmos showing us this week?
Where are we being called to move, create, burn, build, OR reflect on.
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For new beginnings to emerge, space must be made. Which means endings have to be honored. My work helps individuals and organizations move through this death process as a way to create new life.
I am an Organizational Death Doula, Cultural Strategist, Anthropologist, and Storyweaver. My work is for leaders, visionaries, artists, and/or organizations who understand that the present is up for grabs, and you/they want to be the ones leading the stories which will lay the foundations for the systems and structures that create our futures.
Using my praxis-based methodology “Embodied Strategic Dreaming” - which integrates structural analysis, embodied intelligence, and cultural context - I help you see the crossroads you are at as an opportunity to write your own story and enact it.
If you are ready and have a budget for 1-on-1 strategic work, book a consultation call and let's begin.
Note: I do not offer a sliding scale or barter for 1-on-1 services at this time.
