⁠Allie Carr⁠ is a copywriter, creative director, and the voice behind ⁠Is Good⁠, a Substack and meme account born out of a love for recommending things with her whole chest. Her work spans your favorite brands in beauty, wellness, and entertainment.

In this episode, Saara and Allie get into what play actually means as a life philosophy and why losing it means losing the plot. They talk about dark nights of the soul and the ego death that comes with them, what happens when your art becomes your career and you stop wanting to create for yourself, and the simplicity of feeling your feelings without making them mean anything. They also explore the intersection of pop culture and spirituality, Allie's relationship to her angels and guides, and why allowance has to come before surrender.

Connect

• Allie: https://www.instagram.com/theburlingtoncoatfactory/

• Saara: https://www.instagram.com/saaralampwalla/

Cat Boyko is a somatic and embodiment coach for women, specializing in high-achieving women in leadership who are ready to come home to their bodies after years of running on overdrive. Her path has taken her from musical theater to fashion design to a decade as an executive producer in advertising before burnout brought her to the work she does now.

In this episode, Saara and Cat get into what it actually means to feel safe in your own body and why that's the foundation for everything else. They talk about the window of tolerance and why pushing past your edges isn't always the move, boundaries as the most loving thing you can do for yourself, and the shadows that show up in female leadership. They also explore what happens when you stop trying to solve feelings with your brain, the link between chronic fawn and disease, and why play is only available to us when we actually feel safe.

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• Cat: https://www.instagram.com/theembodiedboss/
• Saara: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/saaralampwalla/⁠⁠

In this solo episode, Saara shares the tools and practices she comes back to over and over again. She breaks them down through the lens of the four bodies (physical, mental, emotional, and energetic) and gets specific about what she actually does, from hypnotherapy and breathwork to infrared sauna blankets and rage pages. She talks about why physiological needs are the foundation everything else is built on, how she stacks practices for compounding effect, and having a creative project to channel your energy into.

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• Saara: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/saaralampwalla/⁠⁠

In this solo episode, Saara gets real about what it's like when everything hits at once. She recaps three seasons from the past several years where life felt completely upside down. From experiencing three deaths in a month while working a demanding job, to a string of breakups that led to selling everything and moving to Nashville, to a turbulent year in a broken condo that eventually led her to Austin. She talks about the pattern she's noticed of breakdowns leading to breakthroughs, what she's going through right now, and why taking care of your body might be the most overlooked thing when you're in survival mode.

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• Saara: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/saaralampwalla/⁠

In this solo episode, Saara shares what she's learned so far in the process of pursuing her mission, from a year of experimenting with different businesses and creative mediums to committing to the podcast as a weekly practice. She talks about the experimentation phase and why it's necessary even when it feels like spinning your wheels, what happens when distractions show up right after clarity, and why consistency with one thing matters more than dabbling in many. She also gets into the balance between self-development work and actually doing the work, educating on your craft, and the best advice she's received on the reality of building.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome02:24 My Story07:12 You May Not Know What Your Thing Is09:35 Signs It Might Be the Thing11:57 Overnight Success Myth14:23 Staying in the Game16:43 Getting Clear Then Getting Tested21:35 Side Quests as Resistance26:26 Study What You're Building28:46 Too Much Inner Work, Not Enough Reps31:07 Closing

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• Saara: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/saaralampwalla/

In this solo episode, Saara opens up about her personal relationship to spirituality, how it began in childhood darkness, and how it has evolved as she's moved from desperation to discernment. She talks about the shadow side of being a seeker, what happens when spiritual tools become a means of control, and the pattern she's noticed of outsourcing agency to frameworks, teachers, and gurus. She also gets into what she feels is missing from the conversation around aligned action, the gap between intuitive insight and consistent effort, and what she wants Rich Souls to stand for as she continues to build it.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Why This Episode

02:25 Darkness as a Gateway to Spirituality

04:04 The Transition from Desperation to Discernment

06:51 New Age11:10 What I Want This Podcast to Be

13:35 The Psychic in Nashville

17:16 When Spiritual Tools Lead to Disconnect

19:18 Outsourcing to Others

21:36 Alchemizing in the Present

23:33 The Problem with the "Aligned Action" Narrative

31:07 Closing

Connect

• Saara: https://www.instagram.com/saaralampwalla/

Akash Kanojia is a finance professor at UT Austin, former management consultant, lawyer, and eight years deep in a men's emotional processing group.

In this episode, Saara and Akash get into how his career trajectory, from law to consulting to the Federal Reserve to teaching, has always been in pursuit of his innate curiosities. They discuss sunk costs and career transitions, the value of emotional intelligence in leadership, and why most members of his men's group ended up leaving their W-2 jobs. They also explore the creative process, their shared Artist's Way experience, reading as fuel for Akash's creative fire, and what it looks like to build a life learning and communicating what you've learned.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Akash Kanojia

02:24 From Law to Consulting to Finance

12:21 Eight Years of Men's Group Work

23:33 The Artist's Way

34:59 Reading as Creative Fuel

37:44 Teaching Through Discussion

39:57 Note-Taking and Writing to Think

41:49 Inspirational Sparks

44:43 Inner Work, Outer Results

54:43 Closing Questions

Connect

• Akash: https://www.akashkanojia.com/
• Saara: https://www.instagram.com/saaralampwalla/

In this solo episode, Saara gets honest about what happened when her morning practices subtly fell away after an intense season of rapid change. She talks about how losing her routine impacted her creative process with the podcast, why the devolvement was so gradual she almost didn't notice, and what getting back on track has looked like this week. She also shares thoughts on information fasts, the timing of when you engage with people versus sitting with your own experience first, and why investing in your connection to yourself might be the most non-negotiable thing there is.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome Back / The Hater Comment

05:30 Falling Off the Rails

09:23 The Slow Devolvement

11:50 Losing Connection to Myself

16:00 Defining What Anchors You

19:00 Coming Back Without Tyranny

21:00 Dialing In Before Sharing

23:00 Going On An Information Fast

Connect with Saara

⁠⁠@SaaraLampwalla

Lisa Viapiano is a healer, mentor, and somatic practitioner whose path has wound from sports chiropractic through multiple modalities of healing into the channeling work she does today.

In this episode, Saara and Lisa talk about what it actually looks like to trust experiences that your rational mind wants to dismiss, why divine timing is about alignment rather than time, and what surrender feels like when you stop trying to think your way into it. They also get into the distortion showing up in spiritual communities right now, building trust with your own intuition, and the difference between seeking and actually landing in yourself.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Lisa Viapiano

04:04 Creating in Public

07:15 Distortion in Spiritual Communities

09:45 Building Boxes to Find Your Way Out

14:58 Collective Shadow Work

18:11 Divine Timing Is Not About Time

22:22 Collapsing Time Through Embodiment

26:50 Light Language

38:10 Patience as a Distraction

47:19 Trusting Signs

52:50 Surrender

01:16:18 Control

01:32:53 Quarantined in the Jungle in Peru

01:41:02 God

01:47:51 Closing Questions

Connect with Lisa

@DrLisaV

Connect with Saara

⁠⁠@SaaraLampwalla

Natashya Jacob is a painter, gallery worker, and self-taught artist based in Chicago whose oil paintings blend animal symbolism, surreal interiors, and a quiet mysticism that makes her inner world visible. She is also Saara's cousin.

In this episode, Saara and Tash trace the full arc from growing up between Dubai, Kansas, and Minnesota to a 12-year HR career to following an inner call to pursue painting professionally. They get into the business of art, turning your passion into a profession, the fear of leaving stability as a first-generation daughter of immigrants, and what it takes to build discipline around something that's supposed to be fun. They also talk about the role of community in the artist's journey, procrastination, and what it means to choose your challenges.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Tash Jacob

04:22 From Dubai to Kansas to Minnesota

10:21 Finding Art and Choosing HR

12:58 Leaving Corporate

15:19 Discovering Shared Mysticism

19:02 Inner World as Art

26:19 Building a Cohesive Body of Work

30:24 The Business of Art

36:57 The Fear of Leaving Stability

38:14 New Territory as First-Gen Daughters

43:54 It Just Kept Getting Louder

47:25 Grounding Practices

52:27 Discipline as a Creative

58:41 Chicago's Art Community

01:03:29 What's Next

01:04:05 Closing Questions

Connect with Tash

@TashJacobArt

Connect with Saara

⁠⁠@SaaraLampwalla