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Season 2: The Art of Authentic Living
New episodes will be released every Thursday.
We recorded this healing conversation with Keisha Delva, Mental Health Therapist, Channel, Liberation Coach, a few days after the Capital riots. It was the conversation that we needed to hear as we discussed why our solidarity is the biggest threat to white supremacy, how anti-blackness shows up in womxn of color, and why privilege is not liberation but an illusion of liberation.
Dr. Lourdes Ashley Hunter, Scholar, Innovator, Executive Director of Trans Women of Color Collective, is a goddess that we are grateful to speak to about re-imagining new worlds with abolition feminism and without violence to marginalized communities. This was an electrifying call to reframe how you think about showing up in the world- and not to focus so much on appearing to be a good person, but knowing how to grow with your mistakes.
It was wonderful to speak with Joy Malonza, Founder of Downballot.org. Joy broke down neoliberal politics in the US context and the relationship between a free market economy and a strong police state. Other topics we touched on was the power of incremental change to dismantle systems of oppression, Obama and representational politics and so much more.
We are blessed to have Pฤฑnar Ateล Sinopoulos-Lloyd, Co-founder of Queer Nature & Indigequeers, share their life story, taking us on a journey from Turkey, Silicon Valley, Peru, all the way to Boulder, Colorado (although thatโs not where the story ends, just where the episode did!) Pinar is a queer youth and neurodivergent who shared their mental health journey, and healing from colonization (bulimia, depression) with the support of Indigenous medicines and matriarchal community. This conversation is important in raising awareness about the off feeling we get when we see Indigenous medicines co-opted by colonizers and pharmaceutical companies, and how we can be in reciprocity with Indigenous communities.
Mimi Young, Shamanic Witch, ๅทซ (Wu) Occultist, speaks with us about a day in the life of a witch, sharing with us what everyday rituals and everyday magick can look like. Mimiโs ancestral work also discusses the connection between food and our ancestors. Throughout this conversation, we were profoundly hit by Mimiโs wisdom in how low calorie spirituality shows up in the west, and why learning is the gift, and how being enlightened is the reward - not profit or clout.
Our conversation with xoฬchicoatl bello, ancestor-in-training, ceremonialist, circle keeper, and healing practitioner, was an exuberant discussion full of joyful love. We touched on how we can connect to our ancestors through plant healing. We are so grateful to speak with xoฬchicoatl and we hope you receive wisdom on ways to connect to the sacred.
How do we show up as our highest self in business? As womxn of color, we can struggle with how to be authentic in the workplace. Ash Johns, Psychospiritual Life Coach, Ancestral Healer, and Conscious Business Strategist, drops real gems on how we can heal ourselves so that our spirit guides will lead us intuitively to success. We also explore what ancestral healing work and business have to do with each other. Spoiler alert: itโs never *just* about business.
In this conversation with Aisha Nash, Body Image Educator, we explore how society and white supremacy affect how we view ourselves, and the steps we can take to build an acceptance-based relationship with ourselves and our bodies. This episode is for anyone that has struggled with their relationship with their body.
This deep conversation with Marika Clymer, Medicine Woman and Energetic Healer, looks at the shadow of the colonizer within and how these shadows impact our fight for collective liberation.
Full of laughs and wisdom, Ellen Bowles and Imani Quinn, Co-Hosts of The Woke Mystix Podcast and Co-Authors of Astrology SOS, share their philosophy on how to create authentic partnerships in work and in life with other womxn of color, communicating in times of conflict, and when toxic femininity and masculinity rears its head.
This conversation on beauty narratives takes a look at how we can do so through the ancestral tradition of gwansang, Korean face reading. We loved speaking with Tamsin Lee, East Asian Medicine Doctor, Researcher, and Face Reader, about beauty as ancestral blessings and beauty as energy. We also chatted about what it means to protect our healing journey and knowing that our stories arenโt for everyone.
We spoke with Movement and Meditation Teacher Shanรจl Dear about what it can mean to move for pleasure, not exercise for punishment, and how we can show up as our authentic selves in colonized spaces. We love her energy and the work that she is doing to build accessible community in the yoga and wellness space.
Amanda Diaz, Sex Herbalist and Founder of Mamaโs Potion, speaks to us about authenticity when it comes to how we can honor our sexual well-being. This conversation is a real one where Amanda shares what healthy sexual expression can look like for women of color loving themselves, and deepening their romantic relationships, particularly ones of a long-term nature. We also hear from Amanda how her journey in herbalism, working with plants and ancestors, helped unveil her true self as a sex bruja passionate about womenโs sexual health and pleasure.
Season 1: The Art of Creative Living
It was a powerful experience to speak with Alishia McCullough, a millennial Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist and National Certified Counselor, about how shame can prevent womxn of color from walking in our truth. This one is for all womxn who were told to take up less space.
Shirin Eskandaniโs life, like all of our Summit Speakers, is an example of embodying her creative potential. Prior to building her coaching business, she was an award-winning opera singer performing at Carnegie Hall and the Met Opera before she realized life coaching was her calling. As Shirin says in our chat, dreaming is essential to creating the unimaginable.
Fear can hold us back from showing up in the world. It can keep us in a comfortable space but we do not (always) grow in the comfort zone. Discomfort is where the inner work happens. Decolonization and Liberation Educator Constanza Eliana Chinea knows this and shares her experiences in creating decolonized offerings.
Reclaiming our ancestral practices is also deeply healing work, and Ayurvedic Alchemist, Navi Gill, shares with us why creativity needs a clear channel to come through for us to reclaim the medicine within us for transformational healing. Naviโs deep healing work is based on her ancestral knowledge of Ayurveda, yoga, and meditation and woven with life skills coaching.
Reclaiming our ancestral practices is deeply creative work. Listen to our conversation with Ellenie Cruz, on how she switched career paths from schoolteacher to Educator, Herbalist, and Doula. Ellenie promotes the art of ancestral practices to heal self, family, and community. She uses her given and learned talents to serve and impact her community through the Atabey School of Cultural Healing by offering courses that center BIPOC.
Creativity is not about how skillful you are or how successful you think you have to be. It is an expression of freedom and joy. Tejal Patel, Yoga, and Social Justice Educator, spoke with us about how we can build community through wellness spaces that offer us the creativity to express ourselves. Tejal is one of the decolonization leaders in the yoga and wellness space where she co-created the Yoga Is Dead podcast and also created the @abcdyogi community as a platform for South Asian yoga and meditation teachers.
We are all seeking community where we are seen and supported for who we are now and who we will be in the future. Inner Child Advocate and Self-Trust Coach Tiffany Trieu spoke about the incredible energy of curiosity, and how sometimes listening to our inner child means knowing how to be vulnerable in community and ask for help.
Prince Puja aka Puja Singh Titchkosky is a beautiful example of liberation who is here to share their powerful truths about gender fluidity. Puja is a queer, nonbinary trans, Indian-Canadian, yoga, meditation, and music teacher based in LA. Their work focuses on helping people tune into the power of the Universe, slow down, practice presence and find their unique voice in order to more fully and joyfully express themselves in any and all areas of their life.
It was a pleasure to speak with Andrea Jin about her journey to becoming a comedian. Spoiler Alert: drop out of business school. We love Andreaโs honesty about learning how to be confident in herself and how to look at trying to do something creative that you love without fear of failure.
You may have the car and the house. You may have the respect of your parents and peers. But what does outward success matter compared to inward success? Contemporary Artist and Poet Farah Billah shares her beautiful energy with us and her path to realizing happiness is not only a commitment to herself but to making the community around her more loved.
Yoga Teacher and Community Builder Rebeckah Price is the real deal. She founded I rise yoga + wellness as a way to connect and foster the inclusion of POC and other historically marginalized groups in the yoga and wellness spaces. Rebeckah trusted what her gut was telling her - that wellness for some should not come at the expense of wellness for all - and she did something about it.