Sit With Snit

Welcome back to the second season of the Sit With Snit podcast. This season is focused explicitly on sitting with singlehood; how to live a meaningful life while still searching for your life partner. We process ideas and topics by engaging in thought-provoking conversations with different speakers. 

For our third episode, we're sitting with one of my favorite people, Kelsey Grinstein. I always felt such a kindred connection with Kelsey and knew that I wanted to translate our connection in a new way for this podcast. Kelsey is a certified Life Coach. Her passion is partnering with her clients to discover their truest selves to accomplish their unique missions. She believes having purpose driven-goals fused with practical actions is the ultimate recipe for sustainable and meaningful growth. 

In this episode, Kelsey and I discuss the importance of cultivating the "self" and revealing your purpose. The person you want to be when you are married shouldn't need to wait until you have a ring on your finger; you can be that woman now. We hope that through this episode, more women can harness the innate strength of becoming their highest selves, and that in that process, and embrace all that makes them unique.  

Without further ado, are you ready to join us in sitting with your purpose? Feel free to reach out and DM me on Instagram and show your love by liking this episode and sharing it with friends. And don't forget, it's all lessons and blessings. ✨💗🧿

Welcome back to the second season of the Sit With Snit podcast. This season is focused explicitly on sitting with singlehood; how to live a meaningful life while still searching for your life partner. We process ideas and topics by engaging in thought-provoking conversations with different speakers. For our second episode, I'm delighted to introduce you to my dear friend, mentor, and powerhouse known as Dassi Zar. Dassi is a former doula, hypnobirthing child educator, and yoga instructor. She reinvented herself and became most known as the director and main Chabad schlucha for the downtown Manhattan community of young professionals. She's recently created a community for Jewish Women called Keter Rising, where Jewish women rise up through connection, education, and inspiration. 

I've known Dassi for almost 10 years, having met her as a college roommate of mine's sister-in-law. It's unbelievable to witness her growth as an individual and I have tremendous gratitude for the roles she's played in my journey. I knew I always wanted to foster a conversation with Dassi for this show because she is one of the few women who have taught me to embrace my flavor of Judaism and own all that comes with it. In addition, we just speak the same language and finding someone like that is rare.  In this episode, you'll hear us speak on a myriad of the complexities that come with the single life and how one of the best tools you have at your disposal is to surrender. The sooner you learn it, the better you will feel throughout your life.

Without further ado, are you ready to join us in sitting with surrendering? Feel free to reach out and DM me on Instagram and show your love by liking this episode and sharing it with friends. And don't forget, it's all lessons and blessings. ✨💗🧿

Welcome back to the second season of the Sit With Snit podcast. This season is focused explicitly on sitting with singlehood; how to live a meaningful life while still searching for your life partner. We process ideas and topics by engaging in thought-provoking conversations with different speakers. I'm still determining what came first; the idea for this season's theme or our first guest speaker, my dear friend, and colleague Remi Stern. 

Remi and I met while attending undergrad at Boston University. Both experienced a tremendous spiritual awakening in our Judaism that would later help shape the path of our lives. Nearly 6 years later, I knew I wanted to speak with her about the importance of self-love in our journeys. Remi's forte and mission as a certified life and health coach are to help bridge the gap between where we are in life and where we want to be. So without further ado, are you ready to join us in sitting with self-love?

As always, if you enjoyed this episode, let us know! Feel free to reach out and DM me on Instagram and show your love by liking this episode and sharing it with friends. And don't forget, it's all lessons and blessings. ✨💗🧿

 On the first season finale of the Sit With Snit podcast, I invite you to reflect on what these eleven episodes meant to me and what I hope they have meant for you. I don't particularly see this episode as a finale per se, but rather as an invitation to pause with me. After eleven groundbreaking and intentional conversations with thought leaders, it is time to sit and stop. Over this past year, especially when beginning this podcast journey with you all, I have learned the following: I understand now that no one else in the world knows what I should do. Of course, I have my select inner circle of confidants that I look to for guidance, and their advice better helps me shape my narrative, and still, at the end of the day, I truly know best. 

How did I get to this knowledge, you may ask? I've done a lot of inner work that I can now invite myself, my full self, into the silence. I remember reading Glennon Doyle's "Untamed" and deeply resonating when she introduced to readers the concept of "the knowing." After convincing herself that at least ten minutes a day would help her find herself in her closet since, at best, she took eighty minutes finding her lost keys. "This place is underneath; low, deep, quiet, still. There are no voices there, not even my own. All I can hear down there is my breath. It was as though I’d been drowning, and in my panic, I had been gasping for air, calling for rescue, and flailing on the surface. But what I really needed to do to save myself was let myself sink...I can know things down at this level that I can’t on the chaotic surface. Down here, when I pose a question about my life — in words or abstract images — I sense a nudge. The nudge guides me toward the next precise thing, and then, when I silently acknowledge the nudge — it fills me. The Knowing feels like warm liquid gold filling my veins and solidifying just enough to make me feel steady, certain."

What Doyle calls "The Knowing," I call my neshama, my G-dly infinite spark. When I allow myself to get quiet and sit with things without fear or judgment, my soul speaks to me and fills me in on everything I need to know, and now I invite us all to engage in such an experience until the next season of the Sit With Snit podcast. So, are you ready for some reflection with your girl? 

 This week on the Sit With Snit podcast, we will be exploring the channels of freedom with a dear friend, spiritual mentor, and licensed clinical social worker, Ariella Azaraf. Ariella and I met through our time working together at Meor Manhattan and building neighbors on the Upper West Side. In addition to her private practice work, Ariella is also the head of mental health and Manhattan Day School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I truly feel there is no better person more equipped to help students navigate their internal worlds than Ariella, and after hearing our conversation, you will feel the same. With specialties ranging from anxiety to self-esteem and more, Ariella's approach to her practice involves a strengh-based perspective where we all can harness our potential and break free from the confines of what is nonessential to our being. Ariella and I are fluent in the language of fusing spirituality with psychology, and we hope that through our dialogue, you can tap into the essential part of who you are and liberate yourself from that which holds you back. Are you ready to sit with freedom? 

 This week on the Sit With Snit podcast, we will be hearing from a dear friend and mentor of mine, Rebecca Marcus. As an esteemed Licensed Clinal Social Worker, having received her master's degree from New York University Silver School of Social Work focusing on clinical practice and trauma, Rebecca is an expert in her field and a lifelong learner. I always turn to Rebecca whenever I feel frustrated with my own mindfulness practices; I turn to Rebecca to bring in a voice of acceptance, clarity, and compassion. We conveyed the notion that meditation is a practice that involves no judgment and being present. Dan Harris, the author of 10% Happier, writes that “meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.” Rebecca helps us understand this phenomenon while simultaneously sharing tools to ground ourselves in our minds and body, tuning into the present moment. Sit with us and stay tuned as Rebecca leads us in short and worthwhile mindfulness practice. 

 This week on the SIt WIth Snit podcast, we will be sitting with my dear friend Izzy Sakhaie as we explore what joy means to us and how it plays its role in the Jewish holiday of Purim. Purim is usually my favorite holiday; the depth of revealing the hidden secrets within ourselves and the world always struck a chord with me. However, Purim last year was the benchmark that began this new phase of life called the "Pandemic" and it was when I closed a chapter of my life. Without knowing it, Purim 2020 would be the last time I would see many of my close friends for the foreseeable future and my former Upper West Side lifestyle for sunny Miami. It brings up a lot for me and Izzy and I are excited to make space for us to discuss the meaning of this holiday, what joy is, and how we can distinguish doubt within ourselves. So, are you ready to sit with joy?

On this week's episode of the Sit With Snit podcast, we will be sitting with Alex Abel Segal, Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Chai On Life magazine, an online publication for the passionate Jewish woman. Alex holds editorial experience in publications such as Seventeen Magazine to StyleWatch & People. For the young professional who aims to live the quintessential Manhattan experience, Alex is your ideal mentor. What made me respect Alex, even more was how she embraced her innate desire to connect to her spiritual identity, which is no easy task. Putting the glamorous and independent city lifestyle on hold, Alex would soon find herself in Israel. There, she met her husband and shortly after moved across the world to Moscow, Russia, where she would later live and start her family. Rather than divorcing herself from her past and her G-d given talents, she elevated them. By creating a means where Jewish women can share their experiences, show up as thought leaders, and ultimately inspire others alike, Chai on Life was born.  So if you've been sitting on an idea for far too long or feel that maybe it's just a passion project, look no further. So, are you ready to sit with courage?

On this week's episode of the Sit With Snit podcast, we will be sitting with Sami Sage, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Betches Media. Host for The Betches Sup, Morning Announcements, and Diet Starts Tomorrow podcasts. We decided to transition our Instagram DM relationship behind the mic for a meaningful discussion, one surrounding a phenomenon in our society that hits home for both of us. Dieting is very common in American culture. Almost half of all Americans have tried to lose weight in the past 12 months (the rate is higher among women), studies show. Diet culture focuses on body image, claiming one will be happier if they are thinner, often setting impossible or unattainable goals. Hardly anyone speaks about the aftermath of serving "perfection" on an unattainable platter (no pun intended.) Sami's bravery in sharing part of her story with us gives me the strength to start sharing mine. I'm ready to open the door from my past with love and acceptance; are you prepared to sit with snit?

We, as human beings, are ever-evolving creatures. We also happen to be creatures of habit; we like when things stay the same because, well, they are predictable. But, that sameness is the antithesis of why we are here. We are meant to elevate ourselves, level up always, and take our potential greatness into actuality. With that in mind, I present to you the new and re-branded Sit With Snit Podcast, where we will be elevating the physical, one topic at a time. On this mini-sode, you will hear about the trajectory of my own transformative experiences that have brought me to this exact moment, with you, on the other side of this podcast. So without further a do, are you ready to sit with transformation?