In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Susanna Barkataki, an Indian yoga practitioner in the Shankaracharya tradition who supports practitioners to lead with equity, diversity and yogic values while growing thriving practices and businesses with confidence.

She is founder of Ignite Yoga and Wellness Institute and runs Yoga Teacher Training programs around the world. Susanna is the author of the book Embrace Yoga’s Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice.

Susanna is a diversity, accessibility, inclusivity, and equity (DAIE) yoga unity educator who created the groundbreaking Honor {Don’t Appropriate} Yoga Summit with over 10,000 participants.

Learn more about Susanna and her offerings:

Visit her website: www.susannabarkataki.com and www.ignitebewell.com

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/susannabarkataki

Do you have to be fully healed to be a healer?

And how do you emerge from what may feel like the dark night of the soul?So I'm currently sitting in my childhood bedroom looking at the pile of over 10 years worth of accumulated things before my eyes. Lately, I haven't had very much motivation to organize or put things away, questioning whether or not it's even worth it when the future feels so uncertain. Because while I've had the biggest income thus far in my business already surpassing over six figures in half the time as last year, and serving the most amazing clients around the world - what people don't often see is the human behind the healer.

How do you show up to share your offerings when you don't always feel good, and when it feels like life is getting in the way of the quantum leaps taking place?

This week, I'm sharing some personal updates as I balance being a spiritual entrepreneur, a daughter of immigrants and elders with new responsibilities, and the fragility of love.

Here's what letting go is teaching me.

How to further our connection:

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In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Dez Davis, a transformational thought leader, speaker, and creator of The Rich Witch Life, a coaching and consulting company based in Los Angeles.

For over a decade, Dez has studied and applied practices of energy psychology, neuro-linguistic programming, and advanced transformational coaching to ignite the impact to income and influence potential of purpose-driven entrepreneurs, service providers, and established community organizers.

She draws upon her dynamic life experience as a Queer Woman of Color and unique expertise as a spiritually-centered high-performance entrepreneur to champion a new era of inclusivity, awakened to wealth creation, and heart-centered leadership in business.

Learn more about Dez and her offerings:

Visit her website: www.therichwitchlife.com

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/therichwitchlife

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Eliana Chinea, a Brown Latinx anti-racism educator, producer, and certified Yoga instructor who has over 10 years of experience in the wellness industry and over 400 hours of training in Yoga, trauma, and anti-racism. She began teaching and consulting after noticing a need for diversity and representation in the wellness industry. She now teaches Yoga teachers/practitioners and wellness entrepreneurs how to decolonize their practices, create equity for teachers of color, and build inclusive spaces in the community. She is the Founder of Embody Inclusivity and Project Manager of Legacy Trips.

Learn more about Eliana and her offerings:

Visit her website: www.embodyinclusivity.com

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/eliana.chinea

Visit her Patreon: www.patreon.com/constanzaeliana

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Liz Jones and Farrah the Frequency.

Liz Jones is a certified hatha and vinyasa yoga teacher, sound healer, and spiritual mentor. She helps people tap in to their truth and higher self through energy work. She’s an intuitive traveling goddess who has been to 12 countries around the world. Now she curates sacred travel experience for women of color on their spiritual journey to activate and step in to their expansion in her favorite countries around the world. 

We’re also being joined by Farrah the Frequency. She began her business during the peak of lockdowns last year after returning back from Costa Rica, and hit six figures within the first couple of months attuning others to become Reiki Master Teachers. Now, she is pivoting her focus more on creative expression and embodiment practices to nurture the inner child and align with the souls highest dharma.

Learn more about Liz and Farrah:

Join us at the Get Grounded Goddess Peru Retreat: www.wetravel.com/trips/get-grounded-goddess-peru-retreat-liz-jones-pisac-92167253

Follow Liz on Instagram: www.instagram.com/bylizjones

Website: www.bylizjones.com

Follow Farrah on Instagram: www.instagram.com/farrahthefrequency/?hl=en

Listen to our conversation to learn more about their upcoming Plant Medicine Retreat for Women of Color in Peru in November 2021!

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I reflect on the week I recently spent in Tulum, Mexico.

Now, what comes to mind when you think of Tulum?

Yogis? Pretty beaches? Sacred sites? Selfies of pretty people in pretty spots?

For real; Tulum was on the list of places I wanted to visit because of how beautiful I thought the photos were! As well as to pay reverence to the sacred sites and the spirituality of the land.

After a week spent at a business retreat with one of my coaches, Melissa Ruiz, I am reminded of how much of a façade social media can be. While I can only speak for myself, it just breaks my heart to see how much gentrification and colonization I see of this land.

Now, I used to be one of those tourists with the big backpacks that have made traveling for the fun of it a part of their lifestyle.

But now that I’m older and have my own business, I’ve become more interested in hearing about the history and culture of a place directly from the locals. I love trying to get a glimpse of different lands through the eyes of the ancestors who lived on those lands.

.How to further our connection:

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In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Jeff Harry, Positive Psychology Play Whisperer and Founder of Rediscover Your Play. He combines positive psychology and play to help teams/organizations create psychologically safe workspaces through play and assist individuals in addressing their biggest challenges through embracing a play-oriented approach to work.

Some of the topics he covers include how to deal with toxicity in the workplace, how to address office politics, how to play with your inner critic, how to help your staff rediscover their flow, and how to navigate these uncertain times through play.

For his work, Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers of 2020. His work has most recently been featured in the NY Times, Mashable, Upworthy, & Shondaland.

Learn more about Jeff and her offerings:

Visit his website: www.rediscoveryourplay.com 

Follow him on Instagram: www.instagram.com/jeffharryplays

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In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Vanessa Codorniu, an acclaimed psychic medium with 25 years of experience and more than 10,000 individual sessions. She is a Bruja and Latinx teacher of intuition and clinical hypnosis, with a focus on healing ancestral trauma/patterns through hypnosis. A secret weapon for CEOs and entrepreneurs all around the U.S. and the Latin American world, Vanessa is most passionate about helping individuals develop their own inner resources, especially through intuition development and mindfulness tools.

Vanessa is the founder of Intuitive LeverageTM, an 8-week intuition bootcamp that gives structure to the invisible so participants can make their sensitivity their greatest advantage in life and business. Nacimos Magicos – Born Magical is her 8-week Intuitive Journey Deepening Our Gifts, Honoring Our Ancestors and Reclaiming Our Sacred Inheritance through The School of The Healing Artes.

This renowned Argentine-American started doing readings at age 16 after her family confirmed that she was seeing and knowing things accurately about people who were no longer with them. She guides seekers to break through fears and connect to the practical power of their intuition so they can serve the world powerfully with their gifts. She created her school to stand for diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility for underrepresented BIPOC communities, and hopes to continue supporting the next generation of leaders and healers for years to come. Listen for more on her podcast, The Biz Bruja Podcast.

Learn more about Vanessa and her offerings:

Visit her website: www.thebizbruja.com 

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thebizbruja

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Kristen Noelle, a transformational mindset and business coach & astrologer, speaker, and entrepreneur. She is the author of the bestselling book Stop Chasing Start Attracting. Kristen helps small business owners, entrepreneurs and side-hustlers release their money blocks so that they can effortlessly quantum leap into the next level of their life and business.

She has helped hundreds of her clients double their income in a matter of months, using her proprietary three pillar method the Cash Flow Trinity™.

Kristen is also a certified Business and Feng Shui Consultant and has an extensive background in both marketing and Chinese Metaphysics. Kristen's deepest mission is to help all visionaries step into their soul's purpose so that they can make the income and impact they were placed here to make.

Learn more about Kristen and her offerings:

Grab her book: www.book.kristennoelle.co 

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/kristennoelle.co

Check her out on YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/421leekristen

Aloha from the beautiful Island of Oahu.

I am currently here in Hawaii, where I was actually supposed to return home a week ago. But I decided to extend my trip by at least another week. 

And while it can be so easy to simply see the highlight reels of my life, soaking up the sun, being at the beach, hiking, snorkeling with sea turtles, all the things, it's important to also know that being here is actually a big challenge for me. Because I'm so used to being in the role of somebody who gives and is holding space for others that I am still learning what it's like to hold space for myself to be safe with allowing myself to receive so that I can pour from my overflow.

So I wanted to specifically talk today about comparison, as the thief of joy. 

For many of us who are stepping into our medicine and our sacred offering, it could be so easy to get into the loop of, “ Oh, so and so is doing something similar to me or I will never get there because they have far more experience and a lot more confidence than me.” 

Well, guess what? A lot of the people who you look up to have had to go through these initiations themselves and are constantly going through it.

Apply to Roots to Rise, my 12 week storytelling & leadership program to tell your story, grow your legacy, and launch your sacred offerings from a place of alignment: ww.yourstorymedicine.com/rootstorise

How to further our connection:

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