Becoming Ceremony

What if awe isn’t something you chase… but something you remember?

In today’s episode, I sit down with the magnetic Sae Mickelson — a woman whose presence feels like exhaling. Sae began her career as an acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist, helping people heal through the body. But over years of clinical work, she noticed a deeper truth: most people weren’t just carrying symptoms. They were carrying untold stories.

That insight led her from treatment room to coaching — where she helps people reclaim awe, agency, and aliveness from the inside out. Her recent TEDx talk, The Awe of Being Alive, explores this beautifully, and today we take that conversation even further.

We talk about:

• The moment she realized the body was only half the story

• How helpers and healers can move from “fixing” to “witnessing”

• Why awe is a discipline, not a luxury

• The spiritual muscle behind holding space

• How business actually grows when we stop pushing and start listening

If you’re a stylist, coach, healer, or service provider who’s tired of carrying everyone else’s energy… this episode is a deep breath.

You’ll walk away with:

• A new relationship with your body’s messages

• Practical ways to reconnect with awe in ordinary moments

• Tools to stay grounded while holding space for others

• A reminder that slowing down doesn’t stall your success — it amplifies it

Connect with Sae:
Instagram: @sae_mickelson
Watch her TEDx talk: The Awe of Being Alive (available anywhere you watch TED content)

Connect with Me:
Workshops, meditation, and conscious business mentorship: www.becomingceremony.com
Instagram: @becomingceremony

May this conversation invite you to soften, listen, and remember the awe that’s been living inside you all along.

What does it take to feel safe again after betrayal?

In this intimate conversation, I’m joined by Sariah Bastian — relationship coach, somatic guide, and former yoga studio owner — to explore what healing really looks like after infidelity. Together, we talk about the difference between performing safety and practicing it, how the body carries betrayal long after the mind has moved on, and why boundaries are not walls but pathways back to self-worth.

Sariah shares the lessons she learned from running a yoga studio for over a decade, and how those embodied practices became the foundation for her 60-day Beyond Breath program — helping women rebuild trust, regulate their nervous system, and reclaim the right to feel safe in love, business, and their own skin.

If you’ve ever found yourself rebuilding after heartbreak — or holding space for clients who are — this episode will remind you that healing doesn’t erase the scar; it rewrites the story underneath it.

✨ Listen to learn:

• Why the body must feel safety before the mind can believe it

• The link between self-worth, pricing, and personal boundaries

• Daily rituals to reconnect with your body and breath

• How to forgive without abandoning yourself

Find Sariah on Instagram @sariahbastian.
Explore upcoming workshops and conscious business mentorship at becomingceremony.com or on Instagram @becomingceremony

What if every so-called detour was divine training?

In this conversation with money and leadership coach Serena Hicks, we explore how every season — from MTV and The Tyra Banks Show to multi-million-dollar coaching — became sacred preparation for her current work.

Serena shares the behind-the-scenes lessons from producing pop-culture history, the moment she knew she was meant for more, and how she reframed money as a mirror for self-worth.

If you’ve ever looked at your résumé and wondered how it all fits together — this episode will remind you: nothing’s wasted. Every job was training.

🎧 Guest: Serena Hicks
📍 Host: Ashleah Walker
Follow on Instagram: @becomingceremony

What if your future self already has the answers you’ve been chasing?
In this episode I walk you through the life-changing practice I've done three times. It's a one-to-two-week practice that has reshaped everything - from career, to relationships to spirituality.

This isn’t a vision board or a quick journaling prompt. It’s a sacred process for meeting the version of you who already has the peace, the partnership, the prosperity, and the purpose you’ve been praying for.

I talk about how I went from losing everything to building a healing-centered business, discovering the exact exercise that helped her create every major turning point in my career and life. And how to do it yourself — step by step — with questions that help you design your next five years with clarity, courage, and devotion.

If you’ve been feeling behind or uncertain, this isn’t motivation. It’s direction.

✨ Listen, write, and watch your life start to rearrange itself around what’s possible.

In this episode, I share about what it means to stay devoted when the guidance stops coming through as a spiritual entrepreneur living the human experience — and how silence can become the space where something deeper begins.

Episode 1: In this first episode, I explore what happened when I stopped operating on overdrive and why slowing down — in business, creativity, and healing — is the most powerful way to build a life that feels sacred, not stressful.