Weaving Your Reality

In this solo update I'm sharing the WHY behind the longest break from podcasting I've ever taken, some of the creations that I'm currently bringing into the world, and why allowing the space for Source to move through is an invitation for miracles.

Here are some of the things I share:

- Our experience at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show (and an invitation for you if you're called to Lemurian Crystals)

- How I plan travel experiences to leave space for Source to guide me

- I'm pregnant! How I'm approaching this pregnancy differently than the previous times

- Fulfilling Eric's childhood dream of going to the NBA finals

- Releasing industry standards and expectations, and approaching every podcast episode as a sacred ceremony

Episode sponsor:

Laird Superfood: Use my special link to save 15% at Laird Superfood at checkout. Go to zen.ai/ksenia15 add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset!

Related episodes:

236 Ksenia and Eric Brief with Michelle Sinnette: Why Spirituality, Taxes & Finances Are The Same Thing | Being A Business Artist | Facing Money Fears | ERC As An Opportunity for Source To Deliver Money

235 5-Step Intuitive Social Media Process for Artists, Creators, Healers, Coaches and Entrepreneurs

87 Eric Brief – All About Crystals

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My mentor Michelle Sinnette and my husband Eric Brief join me in this very special conversation about a soul calling we’ve all said YES to. After a few very internal months away from podcasting  (I’m growing a baby in my belly!), I heard clear guidance to jump back in. What we share in this conversation is an answered prayer in many ways, and we go to depths I’ve never gone before on the podcast. Thank you for sharing this sacred space with me. 

We discuss: 

• How did a spiritual mentor end up in a financial services business? 

• Why spirituality, taxes and finances are the same thing

• Living in alignment with Source in all aspects of your life

• Moving beyond the labels of “conscious business” 

• Transcending the need to “make money” 

• Being a business artist

• Building an outstanding business in a low trust industry 

• How Eric was guided to make SpiderERC a vertically integrated business 

• Being the invitation and letting go of the outcome 

• Being present for miracles instead of self-evaluation, over-strategizing and over-thinking 

• The role that Eric and Ksenia’s partnership and marriage plays in the success of the businesses Eric creates 

• The importance of feeling grounded from within before moving into action

• Your soul being in pure creation without the need to produce and perform

• Creating from fear is not creation… it is destruction 

• Seeing your business as a non-linear being 

• Moving through energetic blocks around money and stepping into freedom

• Ksenia gets real-time coaching on moving past old money stories 

We also cover all things ERC:

• What is ERC? (Employee Retention Credit) and what opportunity does it offer for you?

• Who qualifies for ERC/ERTC?

• The Recovery Startup Business Provision

• The importance of proper documentation when you file for to get your ERC/ERTC

• What sets apart SpiderERC when it comes to choosing a company to file for ERC

• Can you file ERC yourself? 

• Why accounting firms choose SpiderERC to send their clients to file for ERC

• All of the global ripples Spider is producing beyond ERC 

Episode sponsor:

Laird Superfood: Use my special link to save 15% at Laird Superfood at checkout. Go to zen.ai/ksenia15 add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset!

About Michelle Sinnette: 

Michelle Sinnette is a seer and a mentor dedicated to catalyzing the leaders of tomorrow. She teaches them to harness their intensity, intelligence, and creativity to first move through the lens of their intuition and then move into aligned action. The result - true life fulfillment and tangible achievement beyond what they or their industry ever thought possible.

Initiated fully into her intuitive gifts through two near-death experiences, Michelle now has an unparalleled ability to navigate into unseen realms for the purpose of activating more vibrant and meaningful living here on Earth. She has deep roots on the Big Island of Hawai'i and today her work takes her around the world. Her professional career has spanned the diverse fields of law enforcement, licensed therapy, neuropsychology, and business consulting. She weaves these realms together through intuitive mentorship and consulting for family empires, entrepreneurs, artists, and C-suite executives. Michelle believes that professional success is no longer the metric; it is aligned success rooted in peace. That is when we will see our full potential realized as a species.

Connect with Michelle Sinnette: 

www.legacycacao.com

Instagram @legacycacao

www.spidererc.com

About Eric Brief: 

Eric Brief is an entrepreneur, artist and crystal lover. 

Connect with Eric Brief: 

www.spidererc.com

Instagram @ericbrief

About Ksenia Brief: 

Ksenia Love Brief is a storyteller, mentor and artist on a mission to weave a web of remembering through sacred one-on-one sessions, as well as intentional content across various mediums.

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00:00:42 Intro, summary and a few tips for listening to this episode

00:07:45 Eric and Michelle join Ksenia in conversation

00:07:45 The interview begins here

00:18:00 The why behind creating SpiderERC as a service – what led Eric to ERC (Employee Retention Credit)

00:34:00 Why Michelle joined SpiderERC as an intuitive mentor 

00:39:40 Being present for miracles instead of self-evaluation, over-strategizing and over-thinking 

00:40:32 Letting go of the outcome and trusting people’s divine timing 

00:46:00 The role that Eric and Ksenia’s partnership and marriage has played in the success of SpiderERC and other businesses Eric creates

00:50:11 Creating from fear is not creation… it is destruction. Releasing the fear of “needing to be successful” and shifting into doing what you’re meant to do

00:52:45 Employee Retention Credit from a spiritual perspective: the world is shifting 

00:54:00 The complexity of claiming your ERC credit, some examples of businesses who have qualified and received their ERC credit, and who ERC is for

01:04:30 Do you qualify for ERC? How does this whole thing apply to you? 

01:06:15 The ERC timeline: how much time is left to apply for this credit

01:10:35 Employee Retention Credit summary: who it’s for, who might qualify, and how to take advantage of this opportunity 

01:22:28 Why SpiderERC and not your accountant or another ERC company (Michelle’s perspective) 

01:26:00 Why accountants are not typically ERC experts 

01:28:35 ERC as a puzzle 

01:29:40 Why accounting firms are referring their clients to SpiderERC to claim ERC credits 

01:31:20 Moving through energetic blocks around money and stepping into freedom

01:39:51 All of the global ripples Spider is producing beyond ERC 

01:42:08 ERC affiliate program and Ksenia’s experience with referring businesses to SpiderERC 

01:43:46 Ksenia gets real-time coaching on moving past old money stories

If you've been feeling stuck, overwhelmed or just unclear about how to show up on social media – and wondering if you should show up at all – this one's for you.

In this episode, I will share a 5-step intuitive social media process that is inspired by some of the downloads that have been coming through during my one-on-one energy/social media strategy work with incredible entrepreneurs, artists and healers (shoutout to all the incredible souls that say yes to this courageous, vulnerable work.)

I guess you could say what I do is "shamanic" social media. In essence, I connect the different realms and hold the mirror of possibility for the client's highest self-expression in this world, using the lens of social media. I continue to be blown away by what comes through in these sessions – it's way beyond me or anything my brain could have come up with.

I don't get a chance to work with everyone in an intimate one-on-one way, but I feel that this work is incredibly important, especially at this time. That's why I'm so excited to share this process and this guidance with you here on the podcast!

Mentioned:

Journal entry that changed my life: Spirit of Content

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219 Social Media Energy Code For When You Feel Stuck

192 My Approach To Social Media Strategy in 2022 | Reframing "Social Media Growth" and Unleashing The Full Force Of Your Presence

189 Trust The Life Force Without Having To Understand It | #11DaysOfSharing on Social Media

186 Join Me For 11 Days Of Sharing On Social Media | Hyping You Up To Share Your Medicine with The World

151 Social Media Energy Download: This Makes All The Difference [Spirit of Content]

146 Conscious Social Media: A 7-Step Guided Journey Into What Really Matters

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I really enjoyed this conversation with Nathan Maingard – podcast host, transformational guide and wordsmith.

This is the first interview under the updated podcast cover art, and that's intentional: the depths to which we journey in this episode takes the sacred space that is this podcast to a new level!

We discuss:

• How a conscious social media Google search brought together Nathan and me
• What is was like growing up barefoot and naked in a small village in South Africa
• Choosing to be the healer in your lineage
• Overcoming the lineage of violence
• "Trauma travels through the lineage until someone is brave enough to feel it"
• Nathan's school experiences and being bullied as a hyper sensitive child
• Trusting that your parents did the best they could
• The beauty that came out of Nathan's parents' divorce
• Nathan's experience with family constellation therapy
• Overcoming addiction to hard drugs
• Some of the healing modalities and plant medicines Nathan has worked with, and the lessons they brought (kambo and psilocybin)
• Nathan's spoken word piece that went viral
• How Nathan is answering the call to pivot from music career
• How Nathan is practicing being in balance of feminine and masculine energies

About Nathan Maingard:

Born at home to a writer and a craftsman in a tiny cottage on the tip of Africa, Nathan Maingard was raised barefoot and naked. As a highly sensitive person formed by the sounds of wild ocean and musical poets, he was nearly crushed by the limiting boxes society pushed him into. Through his inner healing journey of finding his 'enoughness', he has grown into an empowering wordsmith, healing facilitator, and transformational guide. His gift is to support down-to-earth seekers and free people as they feel, heal, and grow.

Related episodes:

• 233 Weaving A New Reality (Podcast Update)
• 232 Miracles Abound: Recap Of My Healing Journey To Turkey
• 216 Cultivating a Sacred Connection to Source, Your Soul & Social Media Audience – ALYSON CHARLES INTERVIEWS KSENIA on Ceremony Circle Podcast
• 201 Lion Tracker Boyd Varty: Following The Track Of Your Life and Creative Process In The Digital Age
• 170 TikTok's Grooviest Couple Is Bringing Healing to The World – GROOVE WITH GAIA aka CAM AND ELI on Movement, Mindfulness & Plant Medicine
• 123 Rebecca Naylor: Kambo, The Consciousness Expanding Frog Medicine

Mentioned:

Jeremy Loops music

Immaculée Ilibagiza

Rasa adaptogenic coffee alternative

Connect with Nathan Maingard:

Instagram: @nathanmaingard

https://nathanmaingard.com

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I've been in a deep process of surrendering and incubating an upgraded podcast name and cover, and I'm so excited to share this update with you. In this solo episode, I share:

• Alchemization of WEB8 podcast name
• How someone calling me out led to a big expansion
• New podcast cover!
• Some of the symbols within the WEB8 podcast cover art
• The most important "to do" list I've ever had: "surrender to God"
• Not saving things up "for later" – unclogging my creative field

Related episodes:

213 Introducing WEB8: New Podcast Name, New Era

186 Join Me For 11 Days Of Sharing On Social Media | Hyping You Up To Share Your Medicine with The World

118 Sophie Chiche: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

Mentioned:

Shaq and kitty cat – viral TikTok

Animal Power Book by Alyson Charles

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When you have a feeling that there's an adventure, a journey you're meant to take, but you don't know where to start… get patient and listen. The guidance always drops in.

In this episode, I share the boundless miracles that have unfolded for me and my family in the last couple of weeks as we journeyed through Turkey. We cover:

- Getting quiet and listening listening to the land

- My experience being guided to go to Turkey and following through on it

- Planting seeds for a healthy pregnancy

- Releasing the story that ancestral healing needs to be hard

- My experience with prescription ketamine medicine

- Supporting each other on our own individual journeys as one of the pillars of my relationship with Eric

- The miracles that unfold when we say YES before we know the HOW

- My favorite way to use my intuition when shopping

- A magical 600-year-old garden I got to visit in Istanbul

- Creating family memories

- Disconnecting from external drama and re-plugging into the peace within

- How this year already feels very different like anything I've experienced in the past

Related episodes:

231 Manoj Dias: You Already Are Everything You Seek To Be | Meditation As A Catalyst For Healing

181 Intentional Journaling Prompts To Create A Vision For The New Year and Reflect on This Year

180 Rebecca Naylor: The Universe As A Treasure Map, Learning To Trust The Mystery and Water As A Consciousness Carrier

123 Rebecca Naylor: Kambo, The Consciousness Expanding Frog Medicine

Mentioned:

Open meditation, breathwork and movement app

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My guest is Manoj Dias – author, teacher, speaker and co-founder of Open, a modern meditation organization based in California. I have been using Open to participate in the January meditation and breathwork challenge, and it's quickly becoming my favorite mindfulness app. If you'd like to experience it for yourself, download the Open app here.

We discuss:

How Manoj found himself on the intersection of meditation and technology

How meditation came into Manoj's life

From corporate marketing to being a meditation teacher

Transforming the story of "there's something wrong with me"

How Open is giving spirituality a different marketing campaign

Meditation as a gateway to a life of clarity and ease

Manoj's cultural and religious background, and what it was like growing up in the Buddhist tradition

How Manoj knew that he'd just met his spiritual teacher

The journey of listening to your body

Expanding from a drop-in meditation studio to a global app

Finding the balance between rhythms of creation and rest as an entrepreneur

Trusting your body's wisdom

Finding harmony between the heart and the mind

Manoj's decision to go from teacher to a tech entrepreneur

Connect with Manoj Dias:

Manojdias.com.au

@manojdias_

Open meditation, breathwork and movement app

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Related episodes:

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191 Kalpana Alejandra Arias: Ecosomatics, Reindigenization and Living A Devotional Life In The Digital Age

96 David Harshada Wagner: Plug Into The Mystical Path In The Midst Of It All

85 Dr. Andrew Weil – Expanded Consciousness, Breathwork & Matcha

In this episode I'm interviewed by Tom Boyd for his show Creators Are Brands. It's packed with gems! Description from Creators are Brands:

In a world where everyone is telling us to speed up, we talk about intentionally slowing down to create more of what you love, how to create your own algorithm, we talk about her integrated holistic way of working with sponsors (that i encourage you to borrow), why she stopped selling courses even though they were bringing in crazy money, how to re-frame feelings of jealousy or comparison of other creators, why she's quitting being an influencer, and stay to the very end and she shares a strategy for connecting with your audience through every digital thing you make.

We discuss:

Rethinking content creator business

Building a sustainable brand on social media

Finding meaning and longevity in digital self-expression

Relationships over transactions

Social media as a stepping stone on the way of remembering who you are

The metrics that actually matter

Trusting the content you're "meant to" share over logical strategy

How to reframe comparison on social media

Allowing social media to be a mirror of places you are meant to grow

Redefining success

Seeing triggers as opportunities for growth

Do you need to create a separate instagram account for your podcast?

Clearing out your creative shelf

Give yourself the grace to move through what you're moving through

Ways to connect to the joy of creation

How Ksenia is currently approaching podcast and social media brand sponsorships

Related episodes:

225 Retiring From Being An Influencer: Identity Alchemy, Soul Journey As A Public Figure and Releasing Addiction To Hustle

193 Tom Boyd of @bonusfootage: All Things Content Creation, Short Form Video and TikTok Growth

186 Join Me For 11 Days Of Sharing On Social Media | Hyping You Up To Share Your Medicine with The World

Resources:

Meditation and breathwork challenge on Open

Social Media Challenge: 11 days of sharing

Hashtag Mindful class on Skillshare

Connect with Tom Boyd:

www.tomboyd.co

Creators are Brands podcast

Instagram: @bonusfootage

TikTok: @bonusfootage

Twitter: @BOYDERyo

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In this episode recorded over a cup of ceremonial cacao, I catch up with Florencia Fridman, my "cacao mama". Her beautiful cacao ceremony offerings served as a doorway for me to connect to the spirit of cacao, and since then I've had the joy of doing a cacao ceremony training with Flo, as well as traveling to Guatemala with the cacao brand she runs with her brother, Cacao Laboratory.

We discuss:

How Florencia got into ceremonial cacao

Florencia's experience going to a mystery school in Guatemala

Answering the call to work with ceremonial cacao

Understanding the medicine of cacao through Maya Cosmovision

Cacao as a sacred food that helps us connect deeper with our relationship with Spirit

The one time that an Amazonian Indigenous elder asked Florencia for a cup of ceremonial cacao

The relationship between the spirits of plants and the dream world

Flo's earliest memories of connecting with the Spirit realm

The first time Florencia met her spirit guides

Ksenia shares how she overcame the fear of the unseen beings

Florencia's experience moving from Argentina to USA as a kid

Going off your path to come back stronger than ever

How a marriage led Florencia to exploring shadow work

Finding your own way outside of a romantic partnership

How ending a marriage propelled Florencia to commit to her spiritual path

Experiencing the energetic blueprint of freedom

Facing self-sabotage and shame and exploring internal conflict

Owning and honoring your ancestry and DNA

How Florencia's relationship with cacao has evolved

The magic of drinking cacao with local plants

Plants that work synergistically with cacao – like blue lotus and mugwort

Florencia's rituals with cacao

Spirit-led relationship with business

Balance between humility and owning your worth

Rituals to nourish a brand

Welcoming it all and generously allowing emotions to move through your experience

Choosing to live a fully expressed human experience

Lessons from plants and two months in Ecuador that Florencia is integrating

Activating your voice and trusting your path

Social media through the lens of Spirit

Activating the new dream

Florencia's community platform Florecer and the vision for it

Episode sponsors:

Op e n

Open is a meditation and breathwork app I've been loving. I've been wanting to re-commit to a daily meditation practice and this January, I will be doing a daily meditation + breathwork challenge with Open! Learn more and join me here: https://go.o-p-e-n.com/KSENIABRIEFCHALLENGE. With my link, you will get free access to breathwork, meditation and movement practices for the month of January, and a chance to win an Open in-person retreat in 2023 (valued at $2k-$5k).

Zencastr

Have you ever bought anything after hearing an ad on a podcast? I know I have. Whether you want to diversify your ad spend, add a new marketing stream, or test out podcast ads, Zencastr – a longtime partner of this show – now has its own Creator Network that makes it easy for brands to connect with podcasters with aligned content and audiences. Interested in sponsoring podcast ads for your business and maybe even this show? Go to zen.ai/WEB8 and fill out the contact form so that Zencastr can help you bring your business story to life.

Resources:

Cacao Lab Ceremonial Cacao - use code BREAKFASTCRIMINALS for 15% off

What is cacao ceremony?

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (Sacred Activism) by Charles Eisenstein

Caro Arevalo

Chiricaspi plant

Anima Mundi Blue Lotus Flower to add to your ceremonial cacao

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Naku healing center in Ecuador

Related episodes:

14 Florencia Fridman: Cacao Ceremony and Maya Cosmo-Vision, Align Making Money With Your Divine Purpose

223 How Jessica Scheer Helped An Indigenous Spiritual Leader Grow A 550K Community On TikTok: Bridging Ancient Wisdom and Technology

169 Anima Mundi Founder Adriana Ayales: Meeting the Sacred in Plants, Business and Money

145 Michelle Sinnette: New Paradigm of Business with Legacy Cacao Founder

104: Caro Arevalo – Stay True To The Essence You Want To Share with The World

98 Mark Elmy: Mayan Astrology as a Key To Decoding The Matrix

Connect with Florencia Fridman:

@florencia.fridman

Florecer, flourishingoneness.com

Cacao: Food of the Gods Documentary

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Katie Hess is a flower alchemist, TEDx speaker, author of Flowerevolution and founder of LOTUSWEI, one of the world's leading floral apothecaries. Katie Hess is one of my favorite people in the world, and I use LOTUSWEI products daily – they have been an incredible ally on my journey of stepping into my truth and into my voice.

We discuss:

Gathering of healer warriors

Developing a new model of medicine

"Healer heal thyself" as the number one core value

Ksenia shares her experience with LOTUSWEI flower elixirs

Creating the energetic space for business expansion

Internal resilience that comes from struggle

How flower elixirs work: Botanical wifi

How live blood analysis is showing cutting edge new research around the impact of flowers on health

Uprooting self-violence and tuning into the frequency of self-love with Divine Within LOTUSWEI series

Ksenia's game-changing mindset shift while adjusting to life with a new puppy

Dogs as profound mirrors and teachers

Ksenia's experience discovering biological dentistry and deciding to do a root canal removal surgery

Katie's experience discovering cobalt trace mineral

Flowers that can help you connect to your inner knowing

How Katie connects to plants and flowers and alchemizes LOTUSWEI products

Flower essences that can help you tap into particular Earth energy grids to resource information

Building the muscle of self-trust

Unhooking from being right into the spacious realm of the unknown

Living in the question

Making love with the plant world through air

The miracles that can happen when you start working with flowers

The journey to choosing your self

The lessons Katie and Ksenia are currently moving through

Our bodies as a temporary home

Softening the "I got it" mentality and stepping into receiving

Flowers for hopelessness and grief

Finding a home wherever you are

The gift of receiving

Connecting to intuitive electrical communication

Being in the question

The dance between business and spirit

What to do when you feel torn about being on social media

Ksenia shares her rituals around social media

The power of saying no and the courage to opt out

Katie does a live mini flower reading for Ksenia

Episode sponsor: Zencastr

Have you ever bought anything after hearing an ad on a podcast? I know I have. Whether you want to diversify your ad spend, add a new marketing stream, or test out podcast ads, Zencastr – a longtime partner of this show – now has its own Creator Network that makes it easy for brands to connect with podcasters with aligned content and audiences. Interested in sponsoring podcast ads for your business and maybe even this show? Go to zen.ai/WEB8 and fill out the contact form so that Zencastr can help you bring your business story to life.

Resources:

LOTUSWEI.com use code KSENIA15 for 15% off through 2022

Divine Within

Sacred Heart

Sacred Awareness

Radance Orchid

Radiant Energy Mist

Pear Blossom

Pieris Elixir

Indian Paintbrush Elixir

Fringed Orchid Elixir

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222 Embodying Main Character Energy (Dropping The "Nice Person" Role)

220 Anna Gannon: How To Start Developing Intuitive Abilities and Share The Frequency of LOVE On Social Media

12 How To Build A Successful Conscious Business Infused with Ancient Wisdom with Katie Hess of LOTUSWEI

Connect with Katie Hess:

LOTUSWEI.com

@lotuswei

@iamkatiehess

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kseniabrief.com

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About Katie Hess:

Katie Hess is an expert of flower alchemy - using the healing power of flowers to awaken our true potential. She is the author of Flowerevolution and founder of LOTUSWEI, a leading flower elixir apothecary. She travels in search of rare flowers with the healing qualities most needed by today's world, from the forests of British Columbia, to sacred sites in India, rainforests in Costa Rica, hot springs in Iceland and the jungles of Taiwan.

Katie captures the lifeforce and activating potential of flowers and translates it into an accessible method to bring more happiness into our daily lives. One of the most sustainable forms of natural medicine, flower remedies are known for their short-term benefits like clarity, focus and sleep, with long-term benefits of rapid personal growth.

Having gathered empirical research from thousands of private clients, Katie created a flower essence library with elixirs now used by people in more than 50 countries. She teaches mindful-awareness practices at Flowerlounge events around the world, and hosts the Flowerlounge Podcast, featuring experts in unconventional paths to self-awareness, with listeners in more than 75 countries. She's founder of the Self-Arising Nature Center in Phoenix, Arizona, a center for flower essence education, experiences and practitioner training.

Whether it's hosting retreats, leading meditations, or her travels to find the planet's most powerful flowers, the essence of Katie's work is to awaken people to their own inner wisdom. Find out what your favorite flower means about you at www.lotuswei.com.