What if the song you can’t stop playing isn’t random? What if it’s pointing to something you want - or someone you’re becoming?
DJ Hesta Prynn’s Music Is Therapy is a podcast about identity - and how music shapes the way we see ourselves, make decisions, and move through the world.
Hosted by Hesta Prynn, an NYC-based DJ and licensed therapist, each month focuses on one area of life - money, love, self-worth, relationships, career - using music not as entertainment, but as a tool.
Through personal storytelling, conversations with experts, and Hesta’s Music Connection Therapy method, the show explores how the songs you love can help you shift how you show up in your life.
This is not just a podcast. It's unconventional therapy for your entire life.
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DJ Hesta Prynn’s Music Is Therapy is a podcast about identity - and how music shapes the way we see ourselves, make decisions, and move through the world.
Hosted by Hesta Prynn, an NYC-based DJ and licensed therapist, each month focuses on one area of life - money, love, self-worth, relationships, career - using music not as entertainment, but as a tool.
Through personal storytelling, conversations with experts, and Hesta’s Music Connection Therapy method, the show explores how the songs you love can help you shift how you show up in your life.
The Money Identity You Inherited (with Jean Chatzky)
Season 1 · Episode 2
Thursday, January 15, 2026 • Duration 31:20
How can understanding a “money identity” unlock your real financial confidence?
Financial expert Jean Chatzky joins DJ and therapist Hesta Prynn to explore how childhood experiences shape our money behaviors and why understanding your "money identity" is the key to financial confidence. Through personal stories and practical strategies, they discuss overcoming scarcity mindsets, taking smart risks, and building wealth with integrity—plus Jean reveals why tracking your spending for just one month can transform your relationship with money.
Have a question you want DJ Hesta Prynn to answer? Email us at musicistherapypod@gmail.com
How did a Jay-Z lyric change DJ Hesta Prynn's net worth?
Licensed therapist and DJ Heta Prynn shares how a Jay-Z lyric about credit and property ownership transformed her relationship with money, inspiring her to buy her first New York City apartment. In the premiere of Music as Therapy, she introduces a method that uses music to bypass mental resistance and unlock new identities, launching with Money Month—a series on rewiring financial beliefs through song.
Have a question you want DJ Hesta Prynn to answer? Email us at musicistherapypod@gmail.com
Money is usually discussed in terms of numbers, strategy, and spreadsheets. But we rarely talk about what money actually feels like in the body.
In this episode of Music Is Therapy, Hesta Prynn sits down with Kate Northrup, best-selling author and creator of Relaxed Money, to explore why money is a nervous system experience rather than a math problem.
Recording from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland—surrounded by world leaders and billionaires—Hesta shares a raw, personal look at her own relationship with wealth. From the "Rick Ross" Porsche strategy to the yacht fantasies that mask deep-seated insecurities, this episode pulls back the curtain on why high-achieving people continue to feel anxious, even when they're winning on paper.
This conversation reframes abundance as a state you practice internally, proving that you can't buy your way into feeling safe—you have to regulate your way there.
In this episode, we dive into:
The Nervous System of Wealth: Why your body doesn’t understand your bank balance—it only understands safety.
The Porsche Paradox: Hesta’s candid story about trying to outrun financial anxiety in a luxury SUV.
The Responsibility Trap: Why worrying feels like "productive work" while it’s actually keeping you financially stuck.
Childhood Blueprints: How early conditioning and survival responses are still making your adult money decisions.
The Magnetism of Calm: Why pressure, urgency, and the "hustle" often repel the very abundance you’re chasing.
Safety First: Practical ways to signal safety to your body so you can think clearly and act from power, not fear.
This episode is for anyone who has ever wondered why more money hasn’t led to more calm—and what to do instead.
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What Wealth Was Supposed To Mean (with David Gelles)
Season 1 · Episode 4
Friday, January 30, 2026 • Duration 28:49
Billionaires all seem to have one thing in common.
It’s not what you think.
In this episode of Music Is Therapy, Hesta Prynn sits down with New York Times journalist and author David Gelles — who has spent years inside boardrooms and private rooms with billionaires, CEOs, and cultural power players — to explore what actually drives wealth, success, and influence.
From Bernie Madoff to Jack Welch to Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, David has seen radically different expressions of power and money up close. What connects them isn’t strategy, manifestation, or obsession with money — it’s confidence. And what that confidence is attached to turns out to matter far more than the money itself.
This conversation challenges hustle culture, money mythology, and the idea that wealth automatically delivers worth. It asks a quieter, more unsettling question: what are we really hoping money will fix?
In this episode, we explore:
The Common Factor: What billionaires actually share — and why it’s morally neutral.
Money vs. Worth: Does wealth doesn’t create self-worth, or does it reveal where you already place it.
The Patagonia Paradox: How Yvon Chouinard built a billion-dollar company without chasing money — and then gave it away.
The Cashmere Prison: Why extreme wealth often creates fragility, not safety.
Music as Identity Training: How sound helps confidence move from concept into the body.
The Real Fear: Why the deepest anxiety isn’t having less — it’s ending up wrong.
This episode is for anyone who wants more — but doesn’t want to lose themselves getting there.
Why Do We Fight So Much? (with Randy Scott Slavin)
Season 1 · Episode 5
Friday, February 6, 2026 • Duration 51:32
I interviewed my husband about our relationship.
Am I insane? Probably. But we’ve been married twelve years, and I had questions.
This episode is for anyone who’s ever loved someone and thought, Why is this still so hard?
Marriage is usually discussed in terms of compatibility, communication, and compromise. But we rarely talk about what happens when two people who love each other realize they have no idea what they’re actually building together.
In this episode of Music Is Therapy, DJ Hesta Prynn does something unprecedented: she interviews her own husband, filmmaker Randy Scott Slavin, for raw couples therapy on tape.
What starts as a sweet story about how they met through music turns into something deeper — and more uncomfortable. They fight all the time. She doesn’t know why. And when she finally asks the hard questions — Why do we fight so much? What are we building? Do you still want to choose this? — the answers crack something open.
This conversation is messy, vulnerable, and uncomfortably real. It’s a reminder that loving someone and knowing how to build a life with them are two different things — and that sometimes you have to admit you forgot to dream together.
If you’ve ever had a fight in the car on the way to a rave, this episode is for you.
In this episode, we dive into:
The Magic Man Shift: How one song helps Hesta choose consciousness over autopilot in her marriage
How They Met Through Music: A breakup song, 13,000 stop-motion photos, and “Pictures of You” as their wedding song
The Real Reason You're Still Single (with Damona Hoffman)
Season 1 · Episode 6
Friday, February 13, 2026 • Duration 31:47
Shift your state first. Then go find the person.
This episode is for anyone who’s swiping, spiraling, or wondering why dating feels so fucking hard right now.
Dating is usually discussed in terms of apps, algorithms, and luck. But we rarely talk about the state you’re in before you even start swiping—and how that state determines everything that comes next.
In this episode of Music Is Therapy, DJ Hesta Prynn sits down with dating expert Damona Hoffman to explore why dating has actually gotten worse (it’s not just you), and what to do about it. From pre-date playlists to the "three must-haves and one deal breaker" rule, Damona breaks down the strategies that actually work—including the one thing most people get wrong: looking for someone else to fix their mood instead of fixing it themselves first.
This conversation is practical, honest, and full of actual tools you can use today. It’s a reminder that dating isn't fate—it’s strategy, intention, and showing up in the right state.
If you’ve ever opened Hinge while feeling like shit and wondered why nothing worked out, this episode is for you.
In this episode, we dive into:
The State Before the Swipe: Why swiping for a confidence hit is like grocery shopping while starving—you’re going to make bad choices.
Pre-Date Playlists: Why you need a "hype track" and why Olivia Rodrigo is officially banned from your pre-game.
The "Thank You" vs. "Dazed and Confused" Test: Are you looking for the soulmate or are you just stuck in the cycle?
Three Must-Haves + One Deal Breaker: How to get clear on what you actually want (not what your mom or your friends want).
Your Dates Are Too Long: Why 60–90 minutes is the sweet spot. No dinners, no marathons.
Stop the Endless Texting: How to actually get from the app to IRL without losing the spark.
Return to Analog (with Mark Groves)
Season 1 · Episode 7
Friday, February 20, 2026 • Duration 01:17:05
What if your phone is having an affair with you?
In this episode of Music Is Therapy, DJ Hesta Prynn sits down with Mark Groves — human connection specialist, founder of Create The Love, and host of the top-ranked Mark Groves Podcast (19M+ downloads) — to talk about why we’re all feeling so far apart, even when we’re physically together.
Fresh off sobbing through Hadestown — where Orpheus writes a song so beautiful it melts walls and reminds people they’re capable of love — Hesta asks:
Where is that song in 2026?
Why does everyone — including her — feel emotionally distant from the people they love?
Mark doesn’t sugarcoat it.
He breaks down exactly how social media mirrors abusive relationship dynamics, why healing can’t happen in isolation, and why the best thing you can do on a date might be leaving your phone at home.
This conversation is about presence. Choice. Attention. And what it actually means to show up — not once, but daily.
In this episode, we dive into:
Social Media as Abusive Partner: How Instagram mirrors unhealthy relationship dynamics — nothing is ever enough, the algorithm is mysterious, and intermittent rewards keep you hooked
The Phone as the Third Person: Why Mark leaves his phone at home on dates and takes one day a week using a Light Phone
Instagram Sabbatical: Mark’s six-month break after asking, “I’m not an anxious person — so why do I have anxiety?”
“Everything Must Be Healed in Relationship”: Why you can’t fix yourself alone and then bring perfection into partnership
Insert Choice Where You Think There Is None: Mark’s challenging reframe on feeling stuck, resentful, or disconnected
The Manipulation of Hooks: Why both of us refuse to build platforms on “Here are 5 things you NEED to know” urgency
The Return to Analog: Vinyl, dumb phones, tactile experiences — and what they say about our craving for real presence
Meditate to Get Good at Life (with Emily Fletcher)
Friday, March 6, 2026 • Duration 01:07:52
This episode is for anyone who has ever said “I can’t meditate.”
Maybe you tried it once. Maybe you felt like you were doing it wrong.
You’re not.
In this episode of Music Is Therapy, DJ Hesta Prynn sits down with meditation teacher Emily Fletcher, founder of Ziva, to talk about what meditation actually is, what it does to your nervous system, and why 60,000 people have learned it from her, including some of the world's highest performers and people who were convinced they couldn’t.
The conversation goes much deeper than meditation.
We talk about coherence in the nervous system, music as emotional technology, why many manifestation teachings skip the rage and grief step, and what it actually takes to change your internal state.
There’s also a moment where Emily turns the mic around and reflects something back to Hesta that lands hard.
Hesta cries. She left it in.
If you’ve ever felt like you’re failing at stillness or at life, this episode is for you.
In This Episode, We Discuss• Why meditation can give the body rest deeper than sleep • The difference between ritual and ceremony • What coherence vs. dissonance means in the nervous system • The “stress prison” and why humans default to fight-or-flight • Why authenticity vibrates higher than “love and light” • Why many manifestation teachings skip the rage and grief step • The role of pleasure and life force energy in manifestation • What Taylor Swift concerts might teach us about ceremony at scale • Why AI may function as amplified intelligence depending on human consciousness • The vulnerable moment where Emily reflects something powerful back to HestaOne Tool From the EpisodeThe Three-Song Dance Party (from Emily Fletcher’s Ziva Magic manifestation formula)Emily teaches a practice for moving emotional energy through the body using music. A rage or grief song — feel the blockA release song — move the energyA pleasure or hype song — embody the dreamMusic moves emotions through the body much faster than thinking about them.Featured Song:
Round the F*ck Up (with Dan Savage)
Season 1 · Episode 8
Friday, February 27, 2026 • Duration 39:28
Dan Savage is a sex and relationship advice columnist, creator of the Savage Lovecast, and one of the most honest voices on love alive today. He also hates the electric guitar. Hesta will never forgive him. This one gets personal.
Featured Song: "The Devil Is a Lie" – Rick Ross ft. Jay-Z: The anthem for rejecting limitation and claiming power (and the song that inspired Hesta’s Porsche).
Featured Song: "Thank You" – Led Zeppelin Howard Stern called it the most romantic song of all time. "If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you." The kind of love we’re all looking for.
Music as State-Shifter: From China by Tori Amos* to You've Got the Love by Florence and the Machine*, how the right song pulls you back into being human
This Episode Is For You If:
You’ve checked your phone instead of looking at your partner
You feel like you’re living parallel lives with someone you love
You’ve asked, “When did we stop being present?”
You suspect your anxiety might not be your personality
These aren't Hesta's favorite songs or the songs she DJs. These are songs that built her.
Now she wants yours. Make your list — ten (or so) songs that made you you. Email it to musicistherapypod@gmail.com. Tell her if she can share it. She wants to know who's out there.
Connect with Emily Fletcher
Website: zivameditation.com use code BLISS15 for 15% off all Ziva offerings
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