RTW Weekly Signal | Week of August 10, 2026

🌊 RTW Weekly Signal

Week of August 10, 2026

Your weekly dispatch from the Ride The Wave Media network. Here's what dropped, what's building, and what you should have in your queue by the time you finish reading this.

🎙️ YES AND LAND — New Episode This Week

The Great Mouse Detective and Leading Without Ego | Marianne Johansen on Authentic Leadership

Published Thursday, August 6, 2026

Most leadership content tells you to be more confident, more visible, more strategic. Marianne Johansen's story tells you to do all that — and then get out of your own way. She was hired to lead a school during the first week of COVID while pregnant with her first child. There was no playbook. There was no runway. There was just a decision to trust her team and move.

Ryan frames this one through The Great Mouse Detective, which is a smarter choice than it sounds. Basil is the genius who can't operate alone. Dawson is the steady presence who doesn't compete — he complements. Olivia refuses to be left behind. That's not a cartoon. That's every high-functioning team you've ever been part of, if you were lucky enough to be in one.

Marianne is a pianist who writes freestyle rap songs for her students and runs a Title I arts integration magnet school in Jordan School District. Her three takeaways — bring what you have, build teams that pull equal weight, and trust the process when plans break — are the kind of thing people put on whiteboards and forget. She's lived them, which is why they land.

👉 Listen to the full episode | New episodes every Thursday.

🎬 PARALLEL FREQUENCIES — In the Pipeline

Parallel Frequencies is quiet on the feed this week, but the Dark Tsunami pipeline has been running. Episode 101 — a deep breakdown of time travel crime thrillers, the "one last job" mythology, and what happens when a story forces a character to literally witness his own mistakes — just cleared Stage 2. It's a Blane-and-Coco conversation that starts as genre analysis and ends somewhere much harder about self-reflection, exit ramps, and why the traps we build always follow us.

The show has a back catalog of 110 episodes. If you're not listening, start. The catalog holds — whether you want to go deep on Rosemary's Baby as a gaslighting blueprint, unpack why The Bride is the most important Frankenstein film in 50 years, or understand how the CBS series Mom survived the departure of its lead by becoming a masterclass in ensemble elasticity.

👉 Browse the full Parallel Frequencies catalog | Watch at YouTube.com/@parallelfrequenciesdaily

🔮 PRACTICALLY MAGICK — Season 4 in Progress

Courtney Pearl dropped the Season 4 framework episode two weeks ago — "Magic Is Real: The Words, Will & Way" — and it's the clearest articulation of her practice she's ever put to tape. If you've been spiritually adjacent but skeptical, this is the episode that explains why manifestation works for some people and hits a wall for others. The answer isn't visualization. It's the subconscious belief running underneath the words, and whether it actually matches what you're saying out loud.

The Season 4 premiere tarot episode — Courtney on Make Me a Believer breaking down what separates real readers from people taking advantage of desperate clients — is also in the feed and worth your time. Tarot without the mystique. Just the work.

Worth noting: Courtney's September 10th Practical Magic 2 screening event in Riverton, Utah is happening. Details in the feed. New Tuesday tarot readings at the Conjuring Tree are live.

👉 Listen: Magic Is Real — Words, Will & Way | More at ridethewave.media/practically-magick

💋 LADY FACE A.M. — Coming Soon

Lady Face AM is the RTW network's newest show — and five episodes are locked, loaded, and sitting in the vault right now.

Here's what's already processed and ready to drop:

• Ep 001 — DIY Botox, Microneedling & Chemical Peels: What Actually Goes Wrong at Home
  Board-certified NP and national Allergan trainer Celeste Hicken breaks down exactly what happens in a clinic when a DIY aesthetic procedure goes sideways. The counterfeit Botox case is not theoretical. It happened.
• Ep 002 — Perimenopause Symptoms: Why Your Doctor Might Miss What's Actually Happening
  Your labs said "normal." Your body said something else. The dimmer switch metaphor will reframe everything you think you know about hormonal transition.
• Ep 003 — Ketamine for Depression: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You
  Not a last resort. Not recreational. A 45-minute session that actually changes neural pathways — and why Matthew Perry's tragedy had nothing to do with clinic-supervised therapy.
• Ep 004 — Men's Aesthetic Medicine: What Guys Actually Want (And What They Don't)
  Spoiler: it starts with testosterone, not Botox. And the entry point to aesthetic medicine for men is almost always a life problem, not a vanity one.
• Ep 005 — Body Image vs. Body Ownership: Why Women Need to Stop Chasing the Wrong Goal
  Three women. A bilateral mastectomy. A BRCA diagnosis. And the most honest conversation about what it means to actually inhabit your own body, not perform it.

The show launches soon. Stay close. These episodes are worth waiting for.

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