The Creative Soul Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this solo episode, Leya shares her reflections, lessons, and celebrations for her 30th birthday! We talk about:

• The importance of reflection on your birthday
• Highlights from her 29th year
• Being proud of how far you've come
• The lessons she learned in her twenties
• Dealing with purpose anxiety, identity, home, and belonging
• The next phase she's moving into for her thirties
• How to deal with being human

We end the episode with a special herbal reading to guide us through the end of the year and new year!

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• Herbal Astrology Oracle by Adriana Ayales

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Connect with Leya @leyavandoren

Rachael Cohen is a spiritual guide, space holder, Nature connector, intuitive activator, energy transformer and author. She is the creator and founder of Infinite Succulent and Our Infinite Nature. When her experiences as an environmental educator, wild animal specialist and mother left her anxious and distraught over society’s destruction of Nature, Rachael learned to cultivate a creative relationship with plants and Nature that transformed her life and awakened her spiritual gifts.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Creating with nature
• How to deal with eco anxiety and existential dread
• Staying connected in a disconnected world
• Heart chakra imbalance in the world
• Following our authentic joy
• Nature practices to regulate your nervous system
• Why we DO belong on earth

Connect with Rachael:

Website: ourinfinitenature.co

Instagram: @ourinfinitenaturerachael

Rachaels Books:

• Self-Care for Eco Anxiety
• Everyday Plant Magic
• Infinite Succulent

Anat Peri is an Inner-Child Healing Expert in the coaching and wellness space whose background blends traditional healing arts and modern psychology, with somatic and inner-child reparenting techniques that have enabled her to guide hundreds of practitioners, business owners, and their teams, through her TCS Method.

In this episode we talk about:

• The importance of feeling your feelings
• Why feeling your feelings feels so "taboo"
• The Five Personality Patterns or safety strategies
• Giving your inner child permission to grieve
• The five stages of healing
• How to reparent yourself
• Why reparenting is an act of self-love

Connect with Anat:

Website: https://trainingcampforthesoul.com/

Instagram: @anat.peri

Ashley Sondergaard is a self care coach, a yoga teacher, an astrology enthusiast and host of the Yoga Magic podcast. For 9 years, she has studied yoga, meditation, astrology and mindfulness practices that prioritize self-care and self-discovery. After having her two girls, Ashley discovered the hard way that taking care of yourself first is the only way to take care of others. Today, she supports her students & clients in up leveling their everyday routines into magical self-care rituals.

In this episode, we talk about cosmic self care which are ideas for self care based off your natal chart, motherhood and the lessons its taught her, finding expanders along your path, and what led her to starting the Yoga Magic podcast and the benefits of podcasting.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Buy Yourself The F*cking Lilies by Tara Schuster

The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr

Nikki Novo

Connect with Ashley:

@ashleysondergaard.yoga

@yogamagicpodcast

www.ashleysondergaard.com

Rukmini Poddar is an artist, designer, and educator. Her creative passion lies at the intersection of emotional wellness and creative storytelling. She is also a self-proclaimed 100dayproject artist and author of the book, 100 Obscure Emotions. 

She believes what is most personal is most universal. The sooner we realize how alike we are, the more we can create a culture of empathy and personalism. She draws regularly and posts on her Instagram: @rockinruksi

In this episode, we talk about what the 100 day project taught her, leaning into your creative cycles and resistance, how she grew on Instagram and what it's like to create for other people, how to grow and evolve as an artist, the importance of quantity over quality, and the enneagram.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• On Being with Krista Tippett
• Poetry Unbound
• Jon Batiste - We Are
• Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
• Personality Types by Don Richard Riso
• The Road Back To You by Ian Morgan Cron & Suzanne Stabile

Connect with Rukmini:

https://dearruksi.com/

Anne Ditmeyer (@pretavoyager) is an American creative coach and workshop facilitator based in Paris, France. She pulls from her background in design, anthropology, art history, and global communication as she helps people Write Your Own Rules and Map Your Path through fun, engaging experiences that encourage exploration and play. She's been blogging at Prêt à Voyager (translation: ready to travel) since 2007 where she explores the intersection of travel and design, as well as on her Biz Blog at anneditmeyer.com.

In this episode, we talk about community building, creative constraints, how she became French, how blogging and travel helped develop her perspective, creating your work style as a creator, learning to value yourself and your skills, and paying inspiration forward.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• London Writer's Hour
• Creative Mornings Field Trips
• The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
• More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
• The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
• Adobe 99U

Connect with Anne:

https://www.anneditmeyer.com/

https://www.pret-a-voyager.com/

In this month's solo episode, Leya shares authentically about her process on learning how to trust the process as it unfolds. She also shares about duality, specificity in the details, the two antidotes to any creative block, the importance of having a daily creative practice, and the possibilities of the unknown.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Janne Robinson

Mari Andrews

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www.leyavandoren.com

Rachael Ferrera is a Certified Reiki Practitioner, Life Guide, and Spiritual Teacher. Founder of the Align & Shine movement, Rachael specializes in helping ambitious artists, creatives, and multi-passionates to level-up their lives and careers by learning to deeply love themselves, trust their intuition, and follow their unique paths.

Rachael is also an artist who believes in the powerful intersection of mindfulness and creativity. She is an actress and singer who originated a role on Broadway, has performed on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and can be seen on Netflix.

In this episode we talk about how to remove obstacles to your creativity, how to deal with “should’s” and “supposed tos” as a creative, how saying NO to Harvard and saying YES to the path of the unknown led Rachael to where she is today, her love for reiki, the power of breath, and discovering portals to your creativity. 

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Connect with Rachael:

Website: effortlesseasecoaching.com

Instagram: instagram.com/therachaelferrera

Free Align & Shine Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/effortlesseasecoaching

Alyssa Lauren is an astrocartographer and the founder of Nomad Astrology which combines her love of travel with the magic of astrology. She helps other's align with their soul purpose and find an energetically supportive destination where they can thrive. 

In this episode we talk about how travel mirrors the creative process, what astrocartography is and why you might use it, how to listen to your intuition and see where you feel called, and Alyssa shares some of the travel experiences she's had using her astrocartography chart as a guide.

Connect with Alyssa:

@nomad_astrology

www.nomadastrology.com

Creative Resources Mentioned:

The Line with Ashley Wood

Malorine Mathurin is an Intuitive Astrologer who uses her clairvoyant, clairsentient, and clairaudient skills in her Akashic Records, Tarot, Numerology, and Divination readings to help her clients. Malorine has studied various forms of Divination and spirituality through her Caribbean roots and ancestry and is a self-taught Astrologer and Cartomancer with over 25 years experience. Malorine has been featured in Mind Body Green as one of the 40+ black spiritual thought leaders to follow and learn from.

In this episode we talk about how she discovered and developed her psychic gifts, growing up in the Caribbean community in New York, the akashic records: what it is, how to access it, and why you might consult it, past lives, the different clair senses, and spiritual fatigue and how she decompresses.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• The Artists Way by Julia Cameron
• Healing Pluto Problems by Donna Cunningham
• Deviant Moon Tarot
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

Connect with Malorine:

@moonladyastrology

Book a reading:

130moonlady@gmail.com