Kristina Casarez is a spiritual activist, wellness educator, story-teller + creative strategist who bridges branding, intuitive design, and soul-aligned visuals through her Design Studio - Yoo+Mee. Her work, writings, and Heartist Community are inspiring her readers on a journey back home to their empowered, higher-potential, whole, living from the heart selves.  

Through her background working with diverse corporations such as Gap Inc, Apple & more, Kristina enlivens creatives & spiritual seekers looking to live with more intuition, empowerment, purpose, confidence, high vibrations, and grace.

Her work is a response to her journey and to the current vibrational-state of the world we live in, share, navigate, and journey in and through daily. She is an advocate for the BIPOC community, and continues to support healers, and creatives by volunteering design services and scholarships within her studio.  

In This Episode:

• Kristina shares her origins story and her ancestral lineage and how that shaped her worldview.  
• How Kristina uses archetypes in her work.
• How design and healing were the basis of her new design studio. 
• The stories that Kristina’s parents told that she had to unwind and heal.
• How Kristina was able to become an artist despite society’s story of the “starving artist.”
• Kristina shares the story of her breakdown and that there’s beauty in the breakdown.
• Kristina’s experience in corporate America which was the catalyst to her awakening and healing journey. 
• Doing the healing work.
• How did Yoo + Mee come to be and the connection to her ancestors? 
• Kristina shares her design process and her creative process. 
• How Kristina lives in alignment with her human design as a manifesting generator and how understanding her human design has helped her with her work and career. 
• Honoring yourself, your energy, and who you really are is the key to life.  

 Full Show Notes:

• Yoo + Mee Design Website 
• Yoo + Mee Design Instagram
• The Heartist Community: Digital Portal. FREE for the whole month of May. Login and sign up for free
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website (NEWSLETTER FORM AT THE BOTTOM)
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

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