Weaving Your Reality

Jamie Varon's writing has been seen across the internet for over a decade, from her early days of personal blogging all the way to features in publications such as Teen Vogue, HuffPost, GOOD, Complex, and many more. Over the years, both her long-form essays and short-form prose have garnered millions of reads and views, using her signature style of combining personal story with universal themes. Jamie also shares her thoughts on building a life you really love with her many followers on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (@jamievaron).

In addition to her writing, she has a long-standing career as a branding expert, course creator, and graphic designer.

This episode is a beautiful exploration of divine intervention, transforming comparison and trusting your path as a creative.

We discuss:

Rewriting your story and transforming your self-talk

Soul lessons around body image and career

Quitting on stressful ambitions

Finding love within

Being "divinely spared"

How intuition led Jamie to meet her husband

Trusting the magic in the void

Transforming comparison

The miraculous power of transforming the energy of gossip and complaint into creation

Metrics don't define your worth

Jamie's experience growing up as a spiritual channel

Can spirit and ambition co-exist?

Redefining your definition of success

Intentionally using social media as a powerful tool

Focusing on experiences over outcomes

Trusting that your creativity is abundant

Receiving tasks from Source

Mentioned:

Jamie's book "Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World"

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197 Reggie Riverbear: Coming Home To Yourself Through Voice, Finding Your Community and Trusting Spirit As A Business Strategy

196 Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business | Marketing with Magic and Serendipity – JENNY BLAKE

Connect with Jamie Varon:

Jamievaron.com

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@jamievaron on Twitter

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Thank you for sharing this sacred space with me.

Doe Paoro is a singer, songwriter, and sound healer. Her driving inspiration in music is the belief in its power as a universal source of healing.

I discovered Doe on TikTok (@doeknowsthings) where she shares powerful codes on healing, trusting your path, and witchy money wisdom.

We discuss:

Developing trust in the divine plan

Moving from trying to a channeled state

Sharing music form authenticity

How a trip to India changed everything for Doe

How Tibetan opera singing influenced Doe's music

Surrendering how things should be to make space for how they could be

Music as a source of healing

The power of music in the death hour (for people in hospice)

Music as a remembering of the unnameable deeper truth within

Ease and softness as the way

Divine surrender

How plant medicine helped Doe when nothing else could

The experience of offering music for plant medicine ceremonies

Ksenia shares the divine shift in perspective around selling the tiny cabin

Following the path of least resistance

Trusting the unconventional way

Doe's experience getting on and creating a massive community on TikTok

Withcy money wisdom

Transforming jealousy into joy

Redefining success

Being receptive to other people's joy as a manifestation technique

Trusting the growth edge

Connect with Doe Paoro:

Doe Paoro on Spotify

Instagram: @doepaoro and @activatingthevoice

TikTok: @doeknowsthings

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Reggie Riverbear is a multi-faceted artist and ceremonialist giving voice to the Return of Eden. I discovered Reggie through her powerfully moving music on Spotify, and since then have been lucky to experience a few one-on-one song medicine sessions with Reggie. It's been one of the most profound experiences on my healing journey, and I'm honored to share Reggie Riverbear's magic with you.

We discuss:

How Reggie found an authentic way to integrate her self-expression on social media

How an imaginary friend motivates Reggie to share on social media

Reggie's experience of overcoming isolation and finding her spiritual community

How Riverbear Medicine came through as a container for Reggie's work

Reggie's experience of the Spirt world as a child

Spirit music

The full body activation involving that connected Reggie to her medicine and guided her to sing

Being connected to greater intelligence through song

Connecting to a liberated version of human experience

The transition from princess to a queen archetype at 33

How the hummingbird medicine guided Reggie to the right producer for her album

Being a channel for Rainbow Medicine

Song as a heart medicine

How vibration makes up our physical reality

Releasing perfection and competition

Using your voice to come home to yourself

Ksenia's experience with Reggie's medicine song sessions

Changing the frequency of your being through song

Reggie's experience taking a break from singing to reconnect to the full spectrum of the medicine of song

How the shift from performance to prayer changed everything

The story of This Is A Prayer For The People – how it came through in Malaysia

Being part of nature through song

Reggie's experience launching a Mystery School with Blu

Creating sacred business offerings guided by Spirit

Sisterhood as the medicine for this time

Creating pathways for conscious business, one choice at a time

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Resources:

@sebatierra

What is cacao ceremony?

Richie Castro

Related episodes:

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172 Part One: I forgot who I am

158 Mose: Co-creating with The Spirit of Plants, Cacao Dance and Being A Channel for Healing Through Music

152 Ceremonial Singer-Songwriter Ayla Schafer: Music as a Spiritual Force

Connect with Reggie Riverbear:

Riverbearmedicine.com

Riverbear Medicine on Spotify

@riverbear_medicine on Instagram

Florescence.earth Mystery School

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Ksenia

Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping business owners move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams.

Jenny has previously been a guest on episode 83, where we spoke about finding balance between systems and spiritual surrender.

This episode is a powerful exploration of running a business guided by intuition, serendipity and magic.

We discuss:

Overcoming fear-based thinking as an entrepreneur

High net freedom and high net growth over high net worth

What happened when Jenny gave herself permission to not earn any money

Betting it all on your creative flow: how Jenny sold a house to fund her book

"Stop swimming in the sea of shiny shoulds"

Building your business intuition

Jenny's process for making business decisions

The "sacred third solution"

Making space for nonlinear breakthroughs

The power of shifting from criticism to gratitude

Bringing gratitude into business

Marketing a book with magic and serendipity

Jenny's experience outsourcing social media

Running a business as a super introvert

Releasing micro guilt from not responding to people

For entrepreneurs who don't enjoy managing other people: how to build your delightfully tiny team

The balance between trusting the flow of life no matter what and having a steady flow of money in your business

Resources:

Ksenia Brief on Jenny Blake's Free Time Podcast

Paul Selig

How To Surrender To Your Soul's Purpose And Watch Your Influence Grow — Michael Beckwith on Mindvalley Podcast

Sqaured Away – Military spouses who are your personal assistant

Books mentioned:

Outrageous Openness by Tosha Silver

Martha Beck

The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness by Penney Peirce

Why Talking Is Not Enough: Eight Loving Actions That Will Transform Your Marriage by Susan Page

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

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

About Jenny Blake: Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping business owners move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, launches March 22, 2022. Jenny's previous book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category in 2016.

Celebrating a decade of running her own business after five years at Google, Jenny is an international keynote speaker, and licenses her Pivot Programs to clients like Google and CHANEL.

Jenny hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for Heart-Based Business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake to help others navigate change. After working at a Silicon Valley startup, then at Google for five years in coaching and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her own business.

Jenny loves yoga and buys too many books. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and angel-in-fur-coat German shepherd. Learn more and take the Free Time quiz at ItsFreeTime.com.

Will Siu, MD is a psychiatrist, speaker, writer and educator. He offers an integrative, multi-dimensional approach to psychedelic-assisted therapy and restoring wholeness.

In this episode we discuss:

Will's journey from growing up in Jehova's Witness family, to being an atheist to discovering his spirituality through psychedelics

Will shares about his first psychedelic experience

The marriage between science and felt experience

Will's approach to healing and mental illness

Will's experience with depression, suicidality and psychedelics

Addressing the pattern of seeking happiness outside

"The suffering comes when you are not embodying yourself at your fullest"

Redefining spirituality

A more expansive way to approach psychedelic integration

Stepping into your unique authentic emanation

Questioning the norm

Releasing limiting beliefs and healing deeply poverty stories

Trusting the journey

How to choose the right psychedelic therapist

If you're a therapist, how to get started on the path of offering psychedelic-assisted therapy

Episode sponsors:

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Mentioned:

Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan

Connect with Will Siu, MD:

Willsiumd.com

@will.siu.md on Instagram

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About Will Siu MD:

Will Siu MD, DPhil, completed medical training at UCLA and a doctorate in immunology at the University of Oxford. He continued with psychiatric training at Harvard Medical School, where he remained on faculty for six years, before moving to New York City to further study and practice psychedelic-assisted therapies. His work as a public educator has reached a wide audience through speaking, writing and social media outlets. Will is co-principal investigator on a pilot research study exploring MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for fibromyalgia. He maintains a clinical office in Los Angeles for patient care, trains psychiatrists/psychologists, and is an advisor to a number of companies in the wellness space.

Heather Hoffman aka @activationvibration is a cosmic channel and spiritual intuitive who specializes in reminding and reconnecting people to their Soul – to embody their best version of Self.

We discuss:

Heather's business journey and how a plant medicine ceremony changed everything

Why she walked away from a successful business

The journey of intuitively simplifying how you show up online and in business

Letting go of business to make a space for a calling

Translating experiences from the spirit realm into the human experience

Living in full permission to be yourself

Overcoming childhood trauma and finding freedom

Transmuting darkness

The power of releasing attachment to success

Embodying your full name

Being a vessel for Spirit

Working with the energy of rebellion

Programming yourself to be confident on camera

Vibrating in harmony with your name and essence Heather's experience making encoded music

Alchemizing the fear of being seen and owning your voice

Episode sponsors:

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Mentioned:

30-day Clarity challenge via Alex Banayan

Connect with Heather Hoffman:

Activationvibrations.com

@activationvibration on Instagram

@activationvibration on TikTok

Activation Vibration on YouTube

Activation Vibration on Facebook

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Tom Boyd is a digital strategist known as @bonusfootage on TikTok and Instagram, where his content helps creators unlock their creative power, tell better stories and build brands.

He's been writing, directing and producing for digital landscapes for over 12 years.

Tom hosts Creators Are Brands, a podcast that explores how storytellers are building brands online, from the mindsets, to the tactics, to the business side.

Tom is one of my absolute favorite creators for all things creativity, content and creator economy, and in this episode we discuss:

How to develop your creative muscle and show up consistently on social media

The balance between "playing the game" and doing what feels right in your gut

Choosing creative longevity over virality

Want to get on TikTok? Tom shares how to get started

How to measure the success of your content and the one vital metric that we don't talk about enough

Tom's content creation process

Tom takes us behind the scenes of one of his most popular series on TikTok

Tom shares the story behind a video that unexpectedly went viral

The importance of choosing yourself over waiting to be discovered

Why the key to growing on social media is being generous

Why investing into the first 3-5 seconds of your videos is the key to short form video strategy

The video that led to Will Smith's team to reach out to Tom

Choosing internal expansion over external validation

The key difference between artists and creators

Why it's important to get clear on your goals before creating content

Episode sponsor:

Zencastr, my #1 podcasting tool since day one of this podcast. Zencastr provides crystal clear sound and gorgeous HD video. What I love about it is that it records separate audio and video tracks for me and the guest, so the editing process is a lot more customized. Plus, there's secured cloud backup, so you never lose your interviews. It's super easy to use — there's nothing to download, my guests just click on the link and we start recording. Go to zencastr.com/pricing and enter promo code KSENIA to get 30% off your first three months with PRO account.

Connect with Tom Boyd:

www.tomboyd.co

Creators are Brands podcast

Instagram: @bonusfootage

TikTok: @bonusfootage

Twitter: @BOYDERyo

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In this solo episode, I share my takeaways from the #11daysofsharing social media challenge, as well as the way I'm approaching social media strategy for 2022.

Whether you participated in the challenge or not, if you're craving clarity and motivation to show up at the full force of your presence on social media this year, this episode is for you.

Some of the things I cover:

The most effective content formats for 2022

My journey of hosting the #11daysofsharing and moving through it with you

The power of being repetitive on social media

The miracles that unfold when you just show up and trust the process

How to create your own algorithm and trust the medicine that is flowing through you instead of becoming a slave to external metrics

My vision for showing up on social media beyond the 11 days of sharing

Restriction and discipline as a pathway to freedom

The power of accountability

One of the most effective organic ways to grow your followers on social media

Update on Eric Brief's social media growth

Reframing "growing on social media" and "losing followers" into generously showing up and sharing your medicine with the world no matter what

Mentioned:

The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin

Rasa – an adaptogenic coffee alternative with an incredible blend of herbs, adaptogens and mushrooms that can help support your adrenal health. Use code KSENIA for 15% off your order.

#11DaysOfSharing on Social Media Challenge Prompts Day by Day on kseniabrief.com

Related episodes:

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

110 Aaron Rose: Intentional Frequency Exchange Online & Shadow Work On Instagram

172 Part One: I forgot who I am

173 Part Two: I'm remembering who I am

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I first experienced Kalpana's healing presence during a Conscious Social Media Method group program – she was one of the first people to take it back when I launched it in 2019. This interview is a beautiful conversation spanning healing, connecting to your roots, and technology as a mirror for consciousness.

If you're planning to listen to this conversation while driving, heads up: at 19:30, Kalpana guides us through a short meditation practice – please don't do it while driving!

We discuss:

Our connection to nature in the digital age

Bringing indigenous perspectives to technology, business and branding

Technology as a pathway and a mirror for consciousness

What is ecosomatics?

Forming a relationship with nature through your body

Speaking to God through plants

Rituals of connecting to the land you're on and your ancestral roots

Walking a path to remembering

Kalpana's experience with reindigenization

The power of devotional singing

What it was like to grow up in Colombia and then move to Houston as a child

How Kalpana became a disciple of Amma, the hugging saint, and what her name means

What is it like to spend time at Amma's ashram in India?

Living a devotional life

Bringing prayer with you everywhere you go

Holding the intention of being of highest service

Being with what is

Merging timelines

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Connect with Kalpana:

@ariasaleja

@nowadaysonearth

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Related episodes:

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161 Rasa Founder Lopa van der Mersch: Business As Its Own Energetic Being, Plant Consciousness and Energy Intelligence

136 Cedric Bertelli: Somatic Healing and Emotional Resolution

This conversation with Dry Farm Wines founder Todd White is a potent exploration of bringing consciousness practices to work, manifestation rituals and cultivating inner peace.

We discuss:

The game-changing shift from striving to thriving in business

How a monumental, soul-shattering failure led Todd to discovering meditation

Manifesting with intention

How meditation creates space for peace and abundance

Todd's morning manifestation rituals

Accepting challenges as steps to higher peace

Treating work as a creative process

Todd's approach to stopping email madness

Optimal performance at work

Experiments in building conscious company culture offline and now on Zoom

What Todd and Dry Farm Wines discovered once people started working remotely

The problem about distributed workforce

What is natural wine?

Why commercial wines have become increasingly toxic

How Dry Farm Wines are different from all other wine brands I've ever tried

If you are into wine, make sure you check out Dry Farm Wines – biodynamic, sugar free wines that taste and feel alive. After switching to Dry Farm Wines, I've had no headaches or other side effects of consuming alcohol. It's my go-to soil to glass natural wine subscription! Get an extra bottle for 1 cent when you use this link with your order: dryfarmwines.com/ksenia.

Episode sponsors:

Rasa – an adaptogenic coffee alternative with an incredible blend of herbs, adaptogens and mushrooms that can help support your adrenal health. It gives you energy without the jitters, and it tastes really good. My favorite flavors are Spicy Rose Cacao and Super Happy Sunshine. To get started, use code KSENIA20 for 20% OFF your first purchase at wearerasa.com.

Zencastr, my #1 podcasting tool since day one of this podcast. Zencastr provides crystal clear sound and gorgeous HD video. What I love about it is that it records separate audio and video tracks for me and the guest, so the editing process is a lot more customized. Plus, there's secured cloud backup, so you never lose your interviews. It's super easy to use — there's nothing to download, my guests just click on the link and we start recording. Go to zencastr.com/pricing and enter promo code KSENIA to get 30% off your first three months with PRO account.

Mentioned:

Todd White on Ben Greenfield's podcast

The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl

Connect with Dry Farm Wines:

dryfarmwines.com/ksenia

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Ksenia's email list

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