Today, I brought back my best friend, Taryn, to talk about the creative self and how important it is to have an outlet in your life. Creativity has always been a big part of our relationship. We met in Los Angeles years ago while pursuing singing and songwriting. To this day we both prioritize our creativity even when it’s been hard to. I felt especially impressed to talk about the importance of stories and claiming our experience by living in them (as inspired by Stephanie Sellers) and I'm more committed now than ever to living a creative life.

Natasha Olaniyan, author of How to Meditate with Inky Pathways, is a therapeutic artist and life coach. With a lifelong interest in the mind, body, and spirit, she supports the well-being of others by combining a wide variety of natural healing methods and spiritual practices with art. Listen in as we chat about making creativity accessible, choosing creativity as a form of self-care, slowing down to hear your intuition, and more!

Today, I want to talk about ambition. Right now, I’m in the middle of my own reckoning with it. If you’re feeling the same way, then this episode is for you. We’re beginning to dismantle what ambition means and how it shows up. It’s not us that’s the problem but the environment. I don’t want to feel like I have to contort, trim, or lessen who I am to fit an idea the world presents to me. So I’m opting out. Demolishing ideas and beliefs to rebuild one brick at a time. My question becomes….does ambition have a place in my life if it’s not the hustle and grind way? Let’s talk about this.

Family Mobbing is a phenomenon where daughters in families are estranged or shunned and singled out because they don't follow the family’s explicit or implicit rules. It’s something Stephanie A. Sellers experienced in her own family and why she’s here today to discuss her book, Daughters Healing from Family Mobbing. Stephanie holds a doctorate and has been on the faculty at Gettysburg College since 2000, during which time she was the inaugural director of the Women's Center from 2009 to 2015. She has been a volunteer counselor advocate in shelters and a community organizer for decades.

If you're unsure about wanting children and how to make that decision, this episode is for you. As a driven and creative woman, I was frightened by the idea of motherhood. I wondered if it meant losing my sense of self. Or postponing my goals until my children were grown. I worried about how society, and even my husband, would perceive me. In this episode, I'll share what almost made me reject the idea of having children, how I eventually realized I wanted them, and the most surprising parts of motherhood.

If you consider yourself a creative spirit this episode is for you. Join me and Jamie Varon as we talk about Taylor Swift, the advantage of starting your creative journey later in life, the fear of exposing yourself and being honest, overcoming guilt and shame for expressing yourself, and how believing you deserve the life you want isn't an outcome. It's only the beginning. Jamie is the author of Radically Content, a designer, digital course creator, and creative consultant living in Calabasas, CA.

My most unbelievable manifestation story yet: how I got tickets to Taylor Swift’s sold-out Eras Tour after getting on a train to MetLife Stadium ticketless and without a prospect of getting one. Read on, or listen in, to hear a miraculous tale about not taking no for an answer, the power of desire, and unquestionable kindness. I hope this inspires you to believe, be brave, and be fearless in pursuing what you desire.

Motherhood. Entrepreneurship. Often, women are unsure if they can do both. Or if they even want both. Growing up, I believed motherhood meant losing yourself. And becoming invisible to the world. Boy, was I wrong. With a little girl now of my own, my idea of what women are capable of expanded. That’s why I love this conversation with Hayley Clark, founder of Honey Mark. As a mama of 4 and a successful business owner, I had to talk to her about being a woman, mother, and dreamer.

If you ever wanted a masterclass in the Law of Attraction and spirituality then this episode with Kute Blackson is for you. He’s a beloved inspirational speaker and transformational expert with an incredible story. He’s the author of The Magic of Surrender and takes us through a magical journey. We talk about: what we can learn about surrender from the greatest people in the world, ego and how to embrace resistance, surrendering to death, and more.

We’re joined this week by a very special guest: Rha Goddess. Rha is CEO of Move the Crowd, the entrepreneurial soul coach behind hundreds of changemakers, cultural visionaries and social entrepreneurs, multiple New York Times Bestselling author, and an activist, focusing on issues of racial justice and equality, electoral politics, and more. She discusses how to live in concert with the truth and how to slow down and listen to Source/God/Universe, and delivers a powerful message about our own power, the power of money, and how to reframe success.

We’re joined this week by positive psychology multi-hyphenate Emily vanSonnenberg. She is a university psychology course creator and lecturer, psychological and behavioral healer, creativity consultant, and yoga instructor. Emily discusses her journey to working in positive psychology, five life changing questions, the difference between happiness and true happiness, and the power of perception.

When it comes to self-care, we often overcomplicate things, thinking we have to make huge changes. Our guest this week, Danika Brysha, Wellness Entrepreneur, Body Positive Fashion Model signed with IMG Models, and a Self-Care + Lifestyle Design Coach, is the perfect person to explain why self-care starts small. She shares how her own journey led to the creation of a self-care checklist and why we should take things one day at a time. Danika encourages us to look inside ourselves and start asking important questions because we already have the answers inside us.

As we kick off the month of October and begin to look toward the end of the year, I thought it would be important to get some insights into what it means to free your life of clutter, both emotionally and physically. So I brought in our guest this week, Peggy Fitzsimmons, author of Release: Create a Clutter Free and Soul Driven Life.* Learn why “most people think decluttering is about forcing themselves to get rid of things against their will. What actually happens in the process is that things let go of us,” what causes emotional, mental, and emotional clutter and how to free ourselves of that to live in alignment with our true soul nature; along with some practical tips on how to de-clutter.

Our guest this week, Rachel Jepsen, nonfiction writer and executive editor for Every, is the perfect person to speak on finding your voice and what that looks like. I know many members of the Good Space community have some type of involvement in, and passion for, creativity in some way. For me, that's through my writing and through The Good Space. Rachel shares with us why she feels that "chaos isn’t only necessary to create anything, harnessing chaos is possible and our ultimate creative state." By the end of this post, I hope you’ll feel inspired and encourage to step further into your creative voice.

My goal since I’ve lived in New York City is to figure out how to exist in a serene peaceful bubble without needing to move. Life can get crazy so I wanted to talk this week about feeling more peace even when things around you feel hectic. It’s been three years and I’ve gotten better but realized a few key things: feeling peace is a lifelong commitment, slow down, be ok with going against the grain. If you feel like you've been searching for a more peaceful life, this is your sign to go for it. You don't need to wait for everyone else to start. You’ll have wasted so many precious years not having peace.

A while ago, I received a request from a Good Space community member to bring Sarah Baldwin, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and an Embodied Coach, on the show! So, this week, she joined me for a conversation I think we could all use, what emotional trauma really is, and how to actually begin healing it. We discuss how to know if you're dealing with your own trauma, where it can stem from, and how we can teach our bodies to feel safe again. Sarah also takes us through how our bodies carry trauma what can happen if trauma does go left untreated and gives practices you can use to begin your own healing.