ILA Radio

What if healing isn’t a single turning point—but a slow returning to yourself, moment by moment, breath by breath?

In this deeply intimate episode of ILA Radio, host Laura Alyn sits down with Samantha Mandel—producer, creator, and co-host of Skirts Up—to explore how illness, intuition, and creativity reshaped her sense of identity.

Samantha shares how functional seizures disrupted her life, how silence became its own teacher, and how the process of making a podcast with her best friend became a portal: a way to speak her truth, reclaim her agency, and meet herself anew.

For more on this episode, Samantha, and Laura, please visit:

https://theornelian.com/2025/12/08/45-trusting-the-patterns-samantha-mandell-on-intuition-podcasting-and-healing/

What if the life you’re meant to live isn’t revealed through grand breakthroughs but through the smallest choices you make every day?

In this expansive episode of ILA Radio, host Laura Alyn sits down with Cynthia Garcia, a bioengineer and project manager whose path shows how logic and intuition, structure and creativity, can coexist without contradiction.

If you’ve ever felt pulled between who you are and who you want to become, this episode offers a fresh way to imagine that tension—not as conflict, but as collaboration.

Tune in and discover how alignment, curiosity, and micro-choices can transform the shape of your entire life.

For more on Cynthia, Laura, and the magic behind this episode, please visit: https://theornelian.com/2025/12/02/43-trusting-your-values-cynthia-garcia-on-forming-connections-health-and-engineering/

What if knowing isn’t something you prove—but something you practice?

And what if the clarity you’re searching for comes not from certainty, but from curiosity, courage, and the lived intelligence of experience?

In this revelatory episode of ILA Radio, host Laura Alyn sits down with Albert Bramante, a multifaceted thinker, researcher, and actor/talent agent, to explore the unexpected intersections between academia, the entertainment industry, and lifelong learning.

For more on this episode, on Albert, or on Laura, please visit:

https://theornelian.com/2025/11/29/42-trusting-the-research-albert-bramante-on-academia-entertainment-industry-and-live-long-learning/

What if knowing isn’t something you think—but something you recognize?
And what if the deepest truths arrive not through study, but through play, trust, and the quiet intelligence of lived experience?

In this revelatory episode of ILA Radio, host Laura Alyn sits down with Wanako Oberhuber—educator, researcher, and integrative thinker—to explore the three major pathways of human understanding: academic knowing, playful knowing, and intuitive knowing.

For more on this episode and its participants:

https://theornelian.com/2025/11/25/41-trusting-the-situation-wanako-oberhuber-on-academic-knowing-playful-knowing-and-intuitive-knowing/

In this electric episode of ILA Radio, host Laura Alyn sits down with Scott Trumpolt—employee compensation expert, former corporate HR leader, and independent consultant—for a conversation that will permanently expand how you think about independence, career fulfillment, and mentoring.

For more on this episode, the host, and guest, please visit:

https://theornelian.com/2025/11/21/40-trusting-your-instincts-scott-trumpolt-on-mentorship-building-security-and-finding-joy/

In this electric episode of ILA Radio, host Laura Alyn sits down with Alexandra Beller—former professional dancer, choreographer, Certified Movement Analyst, teacher, and somatic innovator—for a conversation that will permanently expand how you think about intuition, embodiment, creativity, and learning.

For more about the episode, Alexandra, and Laura:

https://theornelian.com/2025/11/18/39-trusting-your-body-alexandra-beller-on-dance-intuition-and-education/

In this electric episode of ILA Radio, host Laura Alyn sits down with Tigrilla Gardenia—nature-inspired mentor, certified life coach, engineer, musician, and world ambassador for plant advocacy—for a conversation that will permanently expand how you think about intuition, embodiment, creativity, and purpose.

For more on the episode: https://theornelian.com/2025/11/14/38-trusting-your-plantness-tigrilla-gardenia-on-music-deep-patterns-and-intuition/

For more on Tigrilla:

https://tigrillagardenia.com/

In this episode, Viv Stan shares how she’s learned to trust herself through art, observation, and deep self-reflection. From Aries’ experiential joy to Pisces’ spiritual intuition, she explores the many ways of knowing—how discernment begins in the body, how emotions guide decision-making, and how intuition whispers truths the mind cannot calculate.

Viv Stan reflects on her journey of learning to honor her feelings, follow through on commitments, and stay centered even in moments of overwhelm. She discusses the transformative power of creativity, the lessons from nature, and the importance of listening to the heart over overthinking or overanalyzing.

🎧 Listen in and remember: honor your feelings, trust your instincts, and let your body and heart guide your next steps—thinking alone won’t get you there.

In this episode, ILA Radio welcomes Elder Nerd The Black a.k.a. David Lum’ahn Mosley, an artist, technologist, and nature-lover who sees the world as living information.

With an Aquarius Rising and a Virgo stellium, David bridges the analytical and the intuitive, building apps from instinct, composing music from myth, and speaking in shapes when words can’t hold the meaning.

This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt both grounded and galactic—who codes by night and communes with trees by day, who feels truth in their body as much as they think it through their mind. Together, we explore discernment through the twelve ways of knowing, from emotional and empirical to spiritual and archetypal, discovering how each becomes a key in the song of self-understanding.

🎧 Listen in and remember:
you are allowed to be both reason and rhythm—designed to know the world through every sense you have.

For more on David, visit:

https://beacons.ai/a.fictional.mind

In this episode, ILA Radio welcomes Heather Melville, a creative, engineer, and seeker who has learned to rebuild trust with herself through fasting, van life, and communion with nature.With a Leo stellium and a heart attuned to both fire and feeling, Heather lives at the intersection of creativity and discipline—balancing the mind’s logic with the body’s wisdom. From her background in stage lighting and electrical engineering to her spiritual practices of fasting and psilocybin journeys, she reminds us that true nourishment begins in listening to the heart.This episode is for anyone learning to trust themselves again after heartbreak—for those who’ve overthought, overfed, or overanalyzed their way out of peace. Through stories of simplicity, stillness, and self-follow-through, Heather reveals how emptiness can bring clarity, how nature teaches patience, and how creative energy returns once we honor what the heart knows.🎧 Listen in and remember:you can’t think your way into trust—you have to live, feel, and listen your way back to it.

For more on Heather, this episode, and ILA Radio, please visit:

https://theornelian.com/2025/11/04/35-trusting-yourself-again-after-heartbreak-heather-melville-on-fasting-van-life-and-nourishment/