Fairy Tea

What if the life that looks right is the very thing keeping you from the life that feels alive?

In this episode, I sit down to create butterfly postcards with Danny and have a conversation about surrender, imagination, identity, and the strange, beautiful courage it takes to let an old version of yourself die before you know what comes next.

We talk about the abyss. The chrysalis. The ego’s obsession with control. The eroticism of being alive. And what becomes possible when we stop treating life as something to master and begin meeting it as something to play with.

This conversation felt like a portal into a world where we are allowed to dream again. Where art is not decoration, but remembrance. Where transformation doesn’t happen through force, but through surrender.

Maybe the butterfly already exists inside us. Maybe we just have to trust the becoming.

Highlights:

• Why surrender may be the most powerful creative act we can make?
• The difference between living as someone else's idea and living as your soul.
• How imagination shapes both anxiety and possibility.
• The butterfly as a metaphor for personal and collective transformation.
• The role of art in helping us remember what cannot be explained.
• Why the future may not be something we predict—but something we create together.

About Guest:

Danny Canton II is a New York-based visual artist and the creator of REVELATION, a photography-based body of work that reveals the invisible world and infinite potential within and around us. His practice traces back to a 2010 awakening, an experience in which, as he describes it, reality dissolved and he could see beyond the firmament and to a second, artistic awakening in New York in 2021. Rooted in the physical, quantum world, his imagery evokes microscopy, sacred geometry, neural networks, and cosmic structure, and divinity of the Soul.

Fairy Tea is produced by Six-Two Studio.

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Fairy Tea is a deeply personal podcast where I share the raw, honest messiness of life, exploring how to break free from societal expectations and follow the heart’s calling. Blending storytelling, spirituality, folklore, and self-discovery, Fairy Tea is both magical and real, whimsical yet grounded. It’s a space to embrace uncertainty, face challenges without fear, and stay curious about the possibilities ahead. Through my experiences, I invite listeners to see that a new way of living is possible — one that is intuitive, soulful, and uniquely their own.

Instagram: @fairytea.podcast or @akayourfairygodmother
Email: [email protected]

Today, I’m sitting down with fellow artist Sierra, creating butterfly postcards and having a conversation about what it means to create from alignment rather than ambition, why rejection can quietly become a compass, and how the moments that feel like everything is falling apart often become the beginning of something far more authentic.

From the role of art as a bridge between the visible and invisible, to childhood experiences of questioning reality, synchronicities in nature, shadow work, and the delicate balance between structure and surrender, this conversation moves through the spaces we rarely give ourselves permission to inhabit.

At its heart is a shared belief: that creativity isn't something we force—it is something we learn to receive.

If you've ever felt caught between logic and intuition, certainty and mystery, or the pressure to have life figured out while quietly sensing there's another way, this conversation offers a gentle invitation back to yourself.

Highlights:

• Why the things that don't work out often become our greatest teachers.
• The relationship between creativity, intuition, and the unseen.
• The butterfly as a metaphor for personal and collective transformation.
• Art as a conversation with something larger than ourselves.
• Shadow work, synchronicity, and learning to trust your inner world.
• Why slowing down may be the most productive thing we can do.

About guest:

Sierra Iturrino is a visual artist from Hudson Valley, New York. Through depicting imagery of powerful female entities and insects engulfed in soft, otherworldly atmospheres, her work transmutes and reclaims a sense of silent power. Her intricate mark-making is a reflection of the detailed rhythms of the natural world, as she seeks to honor our relationship to the planet and its creatures through magnifying the microscopic.

Fairy Tea is produced by Six-Two Studio.

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Fairy Tea is a deeply personal podcast where I share the raw, honest messiness of life, exploring how to break free from societal expectations and follow the heart’s calling. Blending storytelling, spirituality, folklore, and self-discovery, Fairy Tea is both magical and real, whimsical yet grounded. It’s a space to embrace uncertainty, face challenges without fear, and stay curious about the possibilities ahead. Through my experiences, I invite listeners to see that a new way of living is possible — one that is intuitive, soulful, and uniquely their own.

Instagram: @fairytea.podcast or @akayourfairygodmother
Email: [email protected]

What happens when we let all the different parts of ourselves belong?

In this episode, I’m making butterfly postcards with my guest Tinne as we talk about movement, friendship, travel, music, and the quiet ways people become part of our lives.

Tinne shares her path from Belgium to London to New York, and how each place shaped a different version of her. We talk about Pilates, club culture, ambition, community, sisters, chosen family, and the importance of celebrating people instead of comparing ourselves to them.

Together, we explore what it means to live a full, layered life; one where strength, softness, discipline, pleasure, freedom, and acceptance can all exist at once.

Highlights:

• How Sophie and Tinne met through Pilates.
• Tinne’s journey from Belgium to London to New York.
• Movement as a way to process and feel stronger.
• Club culture, music, travel, and social connection.
• Freedom, acceptance, and celebrating people as they are.

About guest:

Tinne Teugels is a strategist, entrepreneur, and Pilates instructor drawn to the intersections of curiosity, resilience, and reinvention.

Fairy Tea is produced by Six-Two Studio.

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Fairy Tea is a deeply personal podcast where I share the raw, honest messiness of life, exploring how to break free from societal expectations and follow the heart’s calling. Blending storytelling, spirituality, folklore, and self-discovery, Fairy Tea is both magical and real, whimsical yet grounded. It’s a space to embrace uncertainty, face challenges without fear, and stay curious about the possibilities ahead. Through my experiences, I invite listeners to see that a new way of living is possible — one that is intuitive, soulful, and uniquely their own.

Instagram: @fairytea.podcast or @akayourfairygodmother
Email: [email protected]

What happens when a woman begins to trust her body again?

In this episode, I’m creating butterfly postcards in studio with Rucsandra as we talk about embodiment, women’s health, nervous system patterns, and the ways women learn to disconnect from themselves.

Rucsandra shares her path from movement teaching to Pilates, osteopathy, and body-based work with women. We explore how fear, pain, stress, and old emotional patterns can live in the body, and how healing begins when we stop trying to force the body into submission and start listening to what it actually needs.

Together, we talk about self-authority, rest, beauty, burnout, women’s bodies, and the deeper intelligence that becomes available when we allow the body to remember its own way forward.

Highlights:

• Rucsandra’s portal-like journey to New York.
• Why many women disconnect from their bodies.
• The difference between force and true embodiment.
• Rest, self-authority, and learning to trust the body.
• The body as a guide for healing, beauty, and transformation.

About Rucsandra:

Rucsandra Mitrea is a somatic facilitator, teacher, and author whose work helps women restore trust in the body as a source of wisdom, healing, and decision-making. With more than two decades of experience in movement, nervous system regulation, and embodied transformation, she has guided thousands of women toward greater strength, radiance, and self-authority. She is the founder of the Radiant Body Program. Rucsandra is also the author of You Don’t Have to Live in Pain and Why Women Experience More Pain Than Men—And What to Do About It. Her work bridges science and the sacred, offering a new vision of the body—not as something to fix, but as something to trust.

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.rucsandramitrea.com

IG and FB: @rucsandra.mitrea

Fairy Tea is produced by Six-Two Studio.

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Fairy Tea is a deeply personal podcast where I share the raw, honest messiness of life, exploring how to break free from societal expectations and follow the heart’s calling. Blending storytelling, spirituality, folklore, and self-discovery, Fairy Tea is both magical and real, whimsical yet grounded. It’s a space to embrace uncertainty, face challenges without fear, and stay curious about the possibilities ahead. Through my experiences, I invite listeners to see that a new way of living is possible — one that is intuitive, soulful, and uniquely their own.

Instagram: @fairytea.podcast or @akayourfairygodmother
Email: [email protected]

What if the parts of you that don’t seem to fit are actually meant to belong together?

In this episode, I’m joined by Ellie as we make butterfly postcards and talk about creativity, intuition, travel, and the strange little moments that bring people into our lives.

Ellie shares her path from nursing to graphic design, and how she slowly realized that art wasn’t just something on the side, it was something she needed to make space for. We talk about the pull between structure and creativity, the magic of living in New York, and how travel teaches you to trust yourself and follow what feels alive.

Together, we explore the butterfly effect of small decisions, the beauty of chosen paths, and how even heartbreak can become the doorway into something unexpectedly meaningful.

Highlights:

• The butterfly effect of heartbreak, chance meetings, and shared lore.
• Ellie’s shift from nursing into graphic design and creative work.
• Why structure can help creativity flow more freely.
• Travel, intuition, and learning to trust your own path.
• New York as a place of possibility, connection, and reinvention.

About Guest:

Ellie Eisenberg is a graphic designer and lover of creativity who recently moved to NYC. She loves to travel and create and deep down is convinced that her purpose in this life is to chat, play, and enjoy the company of everyone she meets along the way!

Fairy Tea is produced by Six-Two Studio.

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Fairy Tea is a deeply personal podcast where I share the raw, honest messiness of life, exploring how to break free from societal expectations and follow the heart’s calling. Blending storytelling, spirituality, folklore, and self-discovery, Fairy Tea is both magical and real, whimsical yet grounded. It’s a space to embrace uncertainty, face challenges without fear, and stay curious about the possibilities ahead. Through my experiences, I invite listeners to see that a new way of living is possible — one that is intuitive, soulful, and uniquely their own.

Instagram: @fairytea.podcast or @akayourfairygodmother
Email: [email protected]

What if being yourself isn’t something to perfect, but something to keep practicing?

In this episode, I’m joined by Mina as we create butterfly postcards and talk about creativity, spirituality, perfectionism, and the pressure to always be doing enough.

Mina shares her path into Reiki, breath-work, and spiritual work, and how those practices have helped her move through anxiety, sensitivity, and doubt. We talk about flow state, collective overwhelm, redefining success, and the importance of creating from joy instead of obligation.

Together, we explore what it means to stay open in a world that often feels heavy, and how small, honest acts of expression can ripple outward in ways we may never fully see.

Highlights:

• Perfectionism, flow state, and learning to create without pressure.
• Mina’s path into Reiki, breathwork, and spiritual healing.
• Staying hopeful while navigating collective grief and overwhelm.
• Redefining success through connection, joy, and authenticity.
• The butterfly as a symbol of transformation and self-expression.

About Mina:

Mina (she/her), founder of Sweetie Pie Angel Club, is an Iranian-American Breathwork Facilitator, Reiki Master, artist, emotional influencer, and vibe curator based between Brooklyn and the online sphere. A Los Angeles native turned Brooklyn creative, she’s been holding healing space since 2016.

Mina’s work is inclusive, collaborative, and playful. Sweetie Pie Angel Club isn’t just about healing, but also about expression, community, and connection. Mina curates music-forward Reiki-infused breathwork events, collaborates with various interdisciplinary artists, and teaches regularly at Maha Rose and Reforesters Laboratory. She sees clients privately (online and in Bushwick), and also leads Reiki trainings.

Clients describe Mina as genuine, warm, and able to hold big space without rigidity. She believes spirituality doesn’t have to be dogmatic — it can be soft, experimental, intuitive, and fluid.

Fairy Tea is produced by Six-Two Studio.

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Fairy Tea is a deeply personal podcast where I share the raw, honest messiness of life, exploring how to break free from societal expectations and follow the heart’s calling. Blending storytelling, spirituality, folklore, and self-discovery, Fairy Tea is both magical and real, whimsical yet grounded. It’s a space to embrace uncertainty, face challenges without fear, and stay curious about the possibilities ahead. Through my experiences, I invite listeners to see that a new way of living is possible — one that is intuitive, soulful, and uniquely their own.

Instagram: @fairytea.podcast or @akayourfairygodmother
Email: [email protected]

What if the hardest chapters of your life weren’t here to break you… but to introduce you to a deeper version of yourself? This episode is for anyone moving through illness, grief, or profound life shifts — and learning how to hold all the versions of who they’ve been. If you’ve ever struggled to reconcile your past with who you’re becoming, this conversation offers a more compassionate, expansive way to see it all.

Today, I’m creating butterfly postcards in the studio with Lydia — a cancer survivor and intuitive healer — as we explore the layered transformations that shape us through life’s most intense experiences. Together, we reflect on what it means to live through something that changes you completely… and then learn how to love yourself because of it.

Lydia shares her journey through cancer, emotional upheaval, and identity shifts, revealing how illness became a catalyst for self-awareness, humility, and a deeper relationship with life itself. We talk about the courage it takes to face yourself honestly — to see where you’ve caused harm, where you’ve been hurt, and how both can become pathways to growth.

We also explore the idea of holding multiple versions of ourselves — past, present, and future — and how true healing comes from integrating them, not rejecting them. Through the lens of the butterfly, we look at the “chrysalis state” as a necessary phase of disorientation and transformation, rather than something to escape.

Highlights:

• Embracing past, present, and future selves as part of one evolving identity
• How illness and adversity can become catalysts for self-awareness and growth
• The role of acceptance in transforming pain into something meaningful
• Seeing the chrysalis state as a necessary phase of confusion before clarity
• Reframing beauty as something that comes from within, not external standards
• The power of small, intentional shifts in creating personal and collective change

About Lydia:

Lydia Slavutin was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She graduated Bard College in 2009 with a BA in Creative Writing and Literature. Slavutin currently resides with her cat Pocket in Greenpoint, BK where she also runs a shop named Sol Invictus - Unconquerable Sun. Her favorite affirmation is: find and follow your inner light.

Fairy Tea is produced by Six-Two Studio.

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Fairy Tea is a deeply personal podcast where I share the raw, honest messiness of life, exploring how to break free from societal expectations and follow the heart’s calling. Blending storytelling, spirituality, folklore, and self-discovery, Fairy Tea is both magical and real, whimsical yet grounded. It’s a space to embrace uncertainty, face challenges without fear, and stay curious about the possibilities ahead. Through my experiences, I invite listeners to see that a new way of living is possible — one that is intuitive, soulful, and uniquely their own.

Instagram: @fairytea.podcast or @akayourfairygodmother
Email: [email protected]

What if the chaos in your life wasn’t something to fix, but something to trust?

Today, I’m creating butterfly postcards in the studio with my guest Melissa as we explore the quiet, powerful transformations woven through her life. Through motherhood, art, and community, we look at how growth doesn’t happen all at once but that it unfolds in layers, over time.

Melissa shares her journey of navigating different identities and environments, and how each phase has shaped her. We talk about the role of community, not just as something we desire, but something we have to actively learn how to be part of and the subtle ways it challenges and expands us.

This episode is for anyone moving through change, craving deeper connection, or learning how to hold multiple versions of themselves at once.

Highlights:

• The role of community in shaping who we become across different phases of life
• Navigating multiple identities — motherhood, art, and self-expression — at once
• Creating space between you and your thoughts to find clarity and calm
• The snowfall metaphor as a way to understand and release mental overwhelm
• How pressure and discomfort often initiate meaningful personal growth
• Balancing control and surrender in the midst of everyday life

About Melissa:

Melissa Callender is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, yoga teacher, and postpartum doula whose work explores patience, transition, and embodied attention. Working primarily through blind contour drawing and text, her practice centers on slowness as both method and ethic. Offering herself an invitation to remain present with what is unfolding rather than rushing toward resolution.

Drawing from her background in yoga and meditation, Melissa’s work is deeply informed by listening: to the body, to breath, to subtle internal rhythms. Her interdisciplinary approach reflects a longstanding interest in thresholds, thresholds between rest and effort, holding and releasing, certainty and unknowing. Alongside her visual practice, she is a writer whose work often parallels similar themes of care, inner life, and the quiet labor of becoming.

Melissa is a BFA graduate from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied design and woodworking. She now teaches yoga and meditation, and leads workshops that integrate creativity, embodiment, and reflection. Through both her art and teaching, she creates spaces that value process over product and tenderness over mastery, encouraging a softened relationship to attention, time, and imperfection.

Find Melissa on Instagram: @yoga_lilac, lessons_in_patience

Fairy Tea is produced by Six-Two Studio.

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Fairy Tea is a deeply personal podcast where I share the raw, honest messiness of life, exploring how to break free from societal expectations and follow the heart’s calling. Blending storytelling, spirituality, folklore, and self-discovery, Fairy Tea is both magical and real, whimsical yet grounded. It’s a space to embrace uncertainty, face challenges without fear, and stay curious about the possibilities ahead. Through my experiences, I invite listeners to see that a new way of living is possible — one that is intuitive, soulful, and uniquely their own.

Instagram: @fairytea.podcast or @akayourfairygodmother
Email: [email protected]

What if transformation isn’t about choosing one identity — but allowing yourself to evolve beyond all of them? This episode is for anyone navigating identity shifts, questioning where they belong, or learning how to evolve without losing themselves. If you’ve ever felt torn between where you come from and who you’re becoming, this conversation offers a grounded way to hold both.

Today, I’m creating butterfly postcards in the studio with my guest Max as we reflect on the transformations that shape us over time. Through his story, we explore what it means to outgrow identities, face life’s challenges, and step into new ways of living.

Max shares his personal evolution — from moments of uncertainty to embracing new paths and passions. We talk about the tension of loving where you come from while also questioning it as it evolves and changes, and what it means to examine your roots honestly, without turning away from them.

We also explore the broader desire for change — not just personally, but collectively. What does it look like to move toward a world rooted in freedom, understanding, and real representation?

If you’ve been feeling in-between versions of yourself, this episode offers a steady reframe:

Highlights:

• Navigating global turmoil with love, resilience, and purpose.
• Embracing change as a rebellion against societal expectations.
• Living in alignment with core values like love, freedom, and safety.
• The impact of attention and intention on personal reality.
• The importance of conscious awareness in co-creating a new narrative.
• Personal stories of healing and metamorphosis through noticing small symbols.

About Max:

Max Lyman is a multi-passionate Massachusetts born, New York based software engineer. In his free time he likes to climb, hike and run — spending as much time as possible outdoors and surrounded by friends. He really likes the melancholic romance of rainy days and good books.

Fairy Tea is produced by Six-Two Studio.

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Fairy Tea is a deeply personal podcast where I share the raw, honest messiness of life, exploring how to break free from societal expectations and follow the heart’s calling. Blending storytelling, spirituality, folklore, and self-discovery, Fairy Tea is both magical and real, whimsical yet grounded. It’s a space to embrace uncertainty, face challenges without fear, and stay curious about the possibilities ahead. Through my experiences, I invite listeners to see that a new way of living is possible — one that is intuitive, soulful, and uniquely their own.

Instagram: @fairytea.podcast or @akayourfairygodmother
Email: [email protected]

What if transformation wasn’t something you rushed, but something you lived, slowly, over time? This episode is for anyone navigating change, questioning their path, or feeling the pressure to “figure it all out” too quickly. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by growth, or unsure how to trust your own evolution, this conversation offers a steadier, more grounded way forward.

Today, I’m creating butterfly postcards in the studio with energy worker Manu — someone whose life reflects decades of lived transformation. Together, we explore what it really means to evolve, not through instant awakenings, but through years of experience, trial, and integration.

Manu shares her personal journey, from early spiritual sensitivity to becoming her own experiment — revealing how intuition, healing, and consciousness develop over time. We talk about mentorship, synchronicity, and the courage it takes to trust your path without needing a blueprint.

We also examine the tension between modern spirituality and real life — how growth isn’t about escaping the world, but how to stay grounded within it. From heartbreak and chance encounters to deeper questions around lineage, culture, and identity, this conversation invites a more honest relationship with change.

Highlights:

• The process of spiritual awakening and the importance of grounding practices.
• How authenticity can drive societal change.
• Why embracing chaos is crucial for personal and collective growth.
• The symbolism of the chrysalis and butterfly for transformation.
• How technology aids in connecting with broader realities.
• Practical tips for navigating fear and embracing change.
• The role of authenticity and vulnerability in spiritual teaching

About Manu:

Manu River Del Prete is an energy healing facilitator, channeller, psychic ability coach, Galactic Akashic reader, past life regression therapist, and Feng Shui and Space Clearing practitioner. She has devoted over three decades to exploring invisible energies. Through her teaching, coaching, and practice—from medical intuition to life alignment and shifting—Manu integrates psychic, physical, and metaphysical energies. She assists clients in experiencing an awareness they already possess, through which greater health and well-being can be achieved.

For the past 10 years, Manu has taught energy healing certification classes (Reiki, Integrated Energy Therapy & Earth Evolution Reiki), various levels of intuition and psychic development, and Akashic reading certification courses with a specialization in Galactic history.

Her teachings empower people to break away from hierarchical models in spiritual and metaphysical arts while preserving and respecting ancient lineages. Her approach is down to earth, authentic, accessible to all, and evolving alongside the collective expansion of consciousness.

Website - www.manuriv3r.com

Fairy Tea is produced by Six-Two Studio.

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Fairy Tea is a deeply personal podcast where I share the raw, honest messiness of life, exploring how to break free from societal expectations and follow the heart’s calling. Blending storytelling, spirituality, folklore, and self-discovery, Fairy Tea is both magical and real, whimsical yet grounded. It’s a space to embrace uncertainty, face challenges without fear, and stay curious about the possibilities ahead. Through my experiences, I invite listeners to see that a new way of living is possible — one that is intuitive, soulful, and uniquely their own.

Instagram: @fairytea.podcast or @akayourfairygodmother
Email: [email protected]