What Lights Us Up

Is there a career change that has been in the back of your mind but you’ve been too afraid to go for it? Tune in to hear the inspiration you need to say yes to trying something even before you are ready and that you can reinvent yourself at any age.

Julie Hartigan is a NYC based chef, media personality, brand consultant, and lifelong travel lover who is not only a professional travel advisor but also hosts culinary travel trips of her own all over the world. She talks about how she transitioned in her 40’s from a stable career in tech engineering to building a personal brand around her passion for food culture and what that career change has led her to creating and who’s she been able to meet in her life.  

Christina and Julie connect over their love for culinary travel and how staying open to wherever or whomever we meet can light us up and give us memories that we will have for life. Julie even talks about starting a whole new path of her business in her 50’s. This episode is full of advice from someone who has walked the path that you can re-create yourself and your path at any age. 

To collaborate with Julie or to book travel with her: https://juliehartigan.com

Follow Julie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliehartigan/

Visit Christina’s website at: https://christinaminutillo.com

Travel to Italy with Christina at: https://christinaminutillo.com/retreat/

Are you craving more adventure in your life? Tune in to hear the inspiration you need to embrace that inner calling to follow your heart to your greatest adventure.

Jacqueline De La Espriella is a wanderlust outdoor enthusiast with a life goal and dream to visit every continent on this planet and to hike some of the world’s highest peaks. She talks about how she found her path to solo travel by chance and what that chance decision helped her discover about herself and the world. 

Christina and Jacqueline connect over their love for off the beaten path travel and how immersing ourselves in local culture as we travel can invite expansion into our life. This episode is full of tips on how to strategically create a plan so that you can walk your path to your greatest adventure whatever or wherever that may be.

Follow Jacqueline and her adventures on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delae810/

Visit Christina’s website at: https://christinaminutillo.com

Travel to Italy with Christina at: https://christinaminutillo.com/retreat/

Do you wonder what just saying yes will lead you to? Tune in to hear the kick you need to just say yes to any opportunity that comes your way because it may just lead you to your passion.

Cheryl Logsdon and Bianca Monreal Mattar are a mother-daughter duo behind the Southern California based salsa company, OC Salsa Rica. They talk about their journey from being laid off in their corporate careers to building a company from their salsa recipe after being discovered at a local farmers market by a big name grocery chain. They talk through the experience of having one door shut that led to another door opening which allowed them to create their own way to making something good happen.

Christina connects with the mother daughter duo about their mutual passion for food and what sitting around the table invites into our life. This episode is full of inspiration for what saying yes can invite into our life.

Taste OC Salsa Rica at: https://www.ocsalsarica.com/

Follow OC Salsa Rica on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ocsalsarica/

Follow OC Salsa Rica on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCSalsaRica/

Visit Christina’s website at: https://christinaminutillo.com

Travel to Italy with Christina at: https://christinaminutillo.com/retreat/

Are you feeling stressed and burned out from your everyday routine? Tune in to hear the inspiration you need to make a change that invites physical and mental strength so that you can gain control of your mentality and life.

Gaia Mariani is a yoga therapist, helping people to transform through understanding their own physiology, energetics, and subconscious mind. She talks about her own journey of moving from Italy to the US and working in a corporate career that led her to physical burnout which shut her body down literally. She talks about how that burnout led her to following her joy in yoga and how yoga gave her the strength to heal her mind and body.

Christina and Gaia talk about the trend of retreats and the importance of experiencing the authentic culture of the location you travel to. They talk about the cultural differences between the US and Italy and connect over their shared experience of creating community around food. This episode is full of tips for ways to find joy in your everyday life so that you can turn stress into strength.

Connect with Gaia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wellandwhole.life/

Book Gaia’s yoga services or retreats: https://www.wellandwhole.life/

Check out Gaia’s free yoga therapy content on you tube: www.youtube.com/@wellandwholelife

Visit Christina’s website at: https://christinaminutillo.com

Travel to Italy with Christina at: https://christinaminutillo.com/retreat/

Are you feeling like you lost your identity after a relationship breakdown? Tune in to hear the inspiration you need to start to get to know yourself so you can learn to love again.

Rachel Teeling is a women’s relationship and self-worth coach, helping women thrive after the breakdown of a relationship to help them find love again after heartbreak. She talks about her own story of moving from excruciating heartbreak from a relationship with a partner that owned her identity to an empowering relationship she built with herself after working with a life coach which inspired her to help other women like herself find love.

Christina and Rachel talk about spending time alone to get to know who you truly are and learn to manifest what you want to attract. This episode is full of ways to overcome heartbreak and learn to love yourself again.

Connect with Rachel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachelteelingcoaching/

Connect with Rachel on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rachel.teeling1

Check out Rachel’s The BeYou Blueprint: https://www.rachelteeling.com

Listen to the Healing with Teeling Podcast: https://www.rachelteeling.com/healing-with-teeling-podcast

Visit Christina’s website at: https://christinaminutillo.com

Travel to Italy with Christina at: https://christinaminutillo.com/retreat/

What do you see when you visualize five years from now or even at the end of your life? Did you do the things you wanted to do? Tune in to hear the inspiration you need to travel (literally) on the path to living your most authentic self. 

Shadi Sadeghi is a certified Jungian coach and emotion code practitioner helping people take a deep dive into their soul to uncover their most authentic selves while helping them manifest their deepest desires. She talks about how she was drawn to this work through her own journey of self-discovery and how she got her first client after taking the plunge to travel the world for a year, a life changing journey that was inspired from her own visualization experience. 

Christina and Shadi talk about how travel can allow us to get out of our comfort zones and expand our minds to awaken our path to the truth of who we truly are. Shadi even coaches Christina on uncovering her own beliefs around taking a break from life to travel. This episode is full of inspiration on how we can take responsibility for our life so that we can start to uncover the layers to return to our authenticity to magnetize experiences, people, and opportunities that our soul desires.

Connect with Shadi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thislifefulfilled/

Connect with Shadi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shadi-sadeghi/

Email Shadi at: [email protected]

Visit Christina’s website at: https://christinaminutillo.com

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Are you feeling unfulfilled and wanting more from life? Tune in to hear the inspiration you need to find out exactly what you can do to best show up for yourself and design the life that you ultimately want to create. 

Angie Wisdom is an award winning and master certified business and life coach who helps clients create meaningful success and a life they love. Angie talks about her journey from working in a field that she didn’t love to finding what her thing was that helped her create a life that she always wanted and that ultimately led her on a path to help others do the same. 

Angie walks us through the exact steps of finding the thing that will help get us excited to wake up in the morning and how to design our day in a way that it leads us to creating a life that we want. Angie even coaches Christina on finding her own values for growing this podcast! This episode is full of intentional wisdom on how to find what lights you up and create the life you want.

Follow Angie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angiewisdomlifecoach/

Connect with Angie at: https://angiewisdom.com

Visit Christina’s website at: https://christinaminutillo.com

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Are you going to sit back and ingest what everyone else is creating or are you going to be the creator? Tune in to get that kick you always needed to get out there and start creating something.

Richard Podgurski Jr is the ultimate creator. He has been voted best DJ in the South Bay of Los Angeles for 7 years and frequently tours big name nightclubs all over the country. He is also known for his outstanding photography and was named top 7 fine art photographers in Los Angeles in 2023. He also created a mushroom extract product to boost creativity and is currently in the works of creating a video game of his life. You’ll hear his high vibe energy as he talks through how each one of these paths of creation came to be and how to find your own inspiration for doing what you want to create.

Christina and Richard talk about how our creations can create a ripple effect of energy that can create an experience that can last beyond our physical life. There is so much advice in this episode about how to actually get off your phone and go create something that generates income.

Follow Richard on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richardpodjr/

Richard Podgurski Website: https://www.rp-photography.com

Visit Christina’s website at: https://christinaminutillo.com

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Do you believe that we all have a destiny? Tune in to hear how following one idea can change the course of your life and how being clear on your own core values is what attracts people and things to us that can create a vibrational energy that can ripple out to anyone around us.

Marco Palazzo is a former water polo professional athlete turned coach who had a passion to bring his Italian food roots to Southern California by opening a restaurant with his childhood friend from Italy. The two friends saw an opportunity to create an environment built around team chemistry to bring friends and family together around the table to enjoy good Italian food made with love.

Marco talks about his experience of immigrating to the US and the values that he lives and runs his business by which is what attracts so many to the restaurant experience he curates. Listen to the end to hear how opening Trenta Pizza & Cucina changed Marco’s life, proof that when we follow a calling it leads us on a path to our destiny.

Visit Trenta Pizza & Cucina: https://www.trentapizza.com

Follow Trenta Pizza & Cucina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trentapizzacucina/

Visit Christina’s website at: https://christinaminutillo.com

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