We will never fully be our own, but rather an accumulative effort of all that has, is, and what will take place.   As such, we perhaps find ourselves passing each other by, unknowingly connected through these indirect acts that propel us into the lives of those we cohabit this big blue marble with. We'll never know to what extent our reach has had or has. Or the extent to which someone has on us. But what we do know is with what energy and intention we release something with.   Be and do with empathy. The hot sauce we didn't know we were lacking, but desperately crave. New pod ep with Jaime Alvarez Sobreviela @mrkatandfriends. He's one for the simple life. Family. Space. Time. Surf. Cats. Art. And imbued into each and every one of his characters is a little piece of himself, but the rest is up to you.  Taking an empathic standpoint, he, in that moment, has allowed space for not only himself on the canvas, but you the viewer. Allowing those to perceive it in whatever state they themselves are in.    Like when you sidle along on the bus seat to make space for another. And isn't that what we've all come to realize? Acknowledging and giving space to another actualizes this framework in which there's enough for all, not just me. You can find Jaime at -  http://misterkat.com/#4 https://www.instagram.com/mrkatandfriends/

Nature’s annotations. It’s up to you to take note of them or not. What’s been nipped in the bud for you this year? No pun intended given this episode’s instigator. A Magnolia tree. You can find Lisa Qu at -  https://www.sibo.app/

Like Shrek once said. Onion layers. Also, fixate over something, live, and it will happen. Full stop baby. New GN'G ep with the one and only Mohamed Danawi of Illozoo. Sassy. Sweet. Powerful. Casual. Human. You can find Illozoo and Mohamed at - https://illozoo.com/ https://danawi.com/

Sometimes all I want to do is talk. About what I don’t know. Can we just talk? Do others also yearn for this? To have the desire and the means to give form to something, yet not know quite yet with what purpose or outcome. Isn’t that where the best things come from? Teasing this in the latest ep. Touching on the spectrum of I think it’s about time and well within our worth to feel better than shit and settling for “okay”. Steeze - by definition a person's distinctive and attractive or impressive style of dress or way of doing things. We are most definitely not in our steeze. So how do we get back to it? What tools do we use? What steps do we take? All field notes. Also, on being burnt, there’s a little more of that cool-aid to be had in one of The Cut's latest pod eps. For reference here ~ https://bit.ly/3aSbBML Here’s to finding our yellow brick road.

Honestly, I haven't written that much. I mean, that's practically the extent of it. I operate more so in the sphere of my Notion workspaces where a plethora of spreadsheets, client briefs and databases keep me fulfilled. That is until it didn't. And I think that with the 3rd extension of this lockdown here, it finally hit a point where last Friday night I really felt it; so entirely and utterly deprived of any and all human closeness. There hasn't been one interaction that hasn't been instigated through either work, networking, grasping for some form of proximity through a screen, fulfilling my due diligence in both profession and family ties. And knowing that for the most part we're all in the same boat. There's nothing to be done. And that all I want is to lean up against a warm body and talk, or just close my eyes. Anyway. Person to person. You and I. That's basically what I want to talk about. So here it is, season 4. We're doing this. The promised playlist https://spoti.fi/3tRBUdq Please share your thoughts and show us some love by subscribing, or get in touch to be featured on the podcast! https://www.instagram.com/gutssnglory/ [email protected]

There’s no more body. You can WHATEVER. And my ankles need elevating. The takeaway of this episode is surrender. Surrender whether by choice or out of necessity. Surrender in this moment to seize the next. Acknowledge the skill and strength it takes to surrender, to ask for help, and to accept it. Time-bound, corporeal-based acts of surrendering heals physically, and translates on a conscious, as well as subconscious level, that you ARE. Instances of simply being is a step above surviving and the state before living. Sometimes we need to be the bud before the bloom. And sometimes we need another to help us realize this. Definitely a slower episode. Christina prompts a quick intentional movement sesh followed by a meditation and tarot pull. We went out to go in. Therapy served. Don’t know what I’d do without my bean. If you feel like you’re in this place, need to hit refresh, or just want to follow along during the meditation, this one’s for you. This is Ep 41 Bud Before the Bloom with Christina Youngi Kim. You can find Christina at: https://www.secretcacaogarden.com/ https://www.instagram.com/christinaygkim/ Please share your thoughts and show us some love by subscribing, or get in touch to be featured on the podcast! Released every other Monday - thanks for lending us an ear. https://www.gutsnglory.online/ https://www.instagram.com/gutssnglory/ [email protected]

Doing things a little differently this week. For our birthdays, Christina Youngi Kim, my Taurus sister, bday twin, and cacao queen extraordinaire is the one asking the questions. I know, right now, there are a lot of us trying to keep afloat our social agendas, or maintain a state of normalcy, by way of what our tech facilitates. Zoom calls, virtual events, online classes. But I’ve also heard the burnout in that a 20 person Zoom call is just tiring, and at some point, the novelty of the screen fizzles out in comparison to that in-person event. But right now that’s just how it is. Rather than hold my previous engagements and agenda to what is doable within the restrictions of this pandemic, I’ve just adapted it. My days are slower, gentler, yet there’s also more fear and agitation. Sometimes I honestly just feel bipolar. Instead of seeing all that we live for, as on hold, let yourself be molded to what allows you to continue forward, to what feeds you, supports you. I make an event out of my weekly phone calls with those in my life whom I hold dear. Morning check-ins whilst finishing up a yoga stretch. Afternoon coffee chats. Heck, I even jabber away in the shower to a friend, wondering if the steam is eventually going to screw my iPhone over. If we were still on landlines, the bills would be outrageous. Christina and I hold our mini-meditation sesh on Thursday’s. We intentionally breathe together, and slurp cacao. Those people you don’t feel the need to entertain, to “do” with, but can just “be” with, those are a gift. We’re thinking of sharing some of these moments on the pod. No strings attached, just a good amount of musings, tangents, debates, recipes, fangirling, planning.etc. It’s a weird, abstract feeling. Ever since we’ve been in quarantine, the number of steps with which we expand our sense of existence out into this world with has significantly decreased to, perhaps that 700sq ft apartment, alongside morning runs and the weekly grocery pickup. And yet, I feel that my own existence is becoming fuller. That there’s much to do, much to experience, laugh and cry about. That I come from two people who loved each other dearly, that I’ve been given all that I have, and that there’s so much adventuring to be done. Pandemic or not. Anyway, this has been a tangent in itself. Here’s an episode giving space to whatever we were in that instance. Just between two friends. Don’t forget to give yourself moments like these. P.S. Christina leads a killer meditation. This is Ep 40 Of Friends with Christina Youngi Kim You can find Christina at: https://www.secretcacaogarden.com/ https://www.instagram.com/christinayoungikim/ Please share your thoughts and show us some love by subscribing, or get in touch to be featured on the podcast! Released every other Monday - thanks for lending us an ear. https://www.gutsnglory.online/ https://www.instagram.com/gutssnglory/ [email protected]

Today we’re sitting down with Patrick Kelly, perfumer, and founder of Sigil Scent. With only our senses as a means through which we perceive the world, touch, sight, hearing, taste, and smell serve as the footholds through which we understand and carve our reality. Patrick, a wielder of one of such senses, alchemizes tinctures, essential oils, and absolutes in the act of preserving the moments and places we wish not to forget. There are things we can be certain of. The crispness and tang of life, the suggestive smokiness of what was, and that, though not in the same way, the repetitive blossom and its wilt is the way of things. As such, it’s our home from which Patrick draws upon in bottling these memories for us to wear. That these earthly matters in their transmuted forms will be our remembrance, a premonition, and predecessor as we too, move throughout our cycles. Once it was clear what we were up against and everything went on lockdown, Patrick has been singlehandedly formulating sanitizing hand mists from out of his downtown studio. As of the last batch update, the sanitizing hand mists are composed of 190-proof organic, lab-certified gluten free wheat-derived alcohol, distilled water, a small amount of essential oils (less than 2%), 3% hydrogen peroxide solution, and pure bloody intention. Over $4000 has been raised for @lalgbtcenter’s food pantry and COVID-19 relief efforts as a result of Patrick and his work. This is Ep 39 Earthly Matters with Patrick Kelly. You can find Patrick and Sigil Scent at: https://www.sigilscent.com/ https://www.instagram.com/sigilscent/ Please share your thoughts and show us some love by subscribing, or get in touch to be featured on the podcast! Released every other Monday - thanks for lending us an ear. https://www.gutsnglory.online/ https://www.instagram.com/gutssnglory/ [email protected]

Today we’re sitting down with Alisa Pospekhova,  the International Marketing Director at Hourglass Cosmetics and founder of Kindroot, functional, adaptogenic plant lozenges. All I can say is when you’ve found someone who’s also been held back at TSA for traveling with questionable adaptogenic and root powders, well you know you’ve crossed paths with a fellow herb nerd. This episode’s for those that have long been practicing herbalism and plant medicine as a means of service, to both themselves and their community. As we step into this period in which the relationships between our states of being are put under even further scrutiny, we’re realizing that we are not well, and haven’t been for a very long time. We carry it in our postures, how we manage our time, connect with others, perceive others, the wider world, and generally the way in which we go about running ourselves into the ground. Our world only a reflection of this. Obviously, this being said, the circumstances have left us feeling powerless, but that’s not to say we don’t hold influence when it comes to our well-being, educating ourselves, and seeing ourselves, thus acting, as a part of a greater community. If we haven’t lost all sense of time, then this should serve as the perfect segway for the week to come. We spill the tea in this episode (do people still say that!? Gen Z here but my baby sister’s more tapped in than me). Herbs, plants, apprenticeships, international business and marketing, more herbs obviously, recipes, and all that Kindroot has brought forth since its founding. In questioning something, there’s initiative, through initiative there’s strength, and strength gives us the means to keep going. And I think that’s what a lot of us forget when there’s no end in sight but uncertainty, that the keep-going-part is the hardest thing. So here’s an episode that’ll hopefully provide a few practices you can employ, a few herbs you can lean on, and remind you that certainty does not make all decisions, nor does it call upon strength. This is Herb Nerds with Alisa Pospekhova. You can find Alisa and Kindroot at: https://www.kindroot.com/ https://www.instagram.com/kindroot/ Please share your thoughts and show us some love by subscribing, or get in touch to be featured on the podcast! Released every other Monday - thanks for lending us an ear. https://www.gutsnglory.online/ https://www.instagram.com/gutssnglory/ [email protected]

Today we’re sitting down with Lauren Popish, fellow podcaster and founder of The Wave, a podcasting studio that is catering towards your every podcasting need. So I’d say, for most of us, it’s been around a month in which our earthly foundations have been shaken to their core, Lauren being no exception. Trading the East coast for the West right before this all went down, she’d only just launched The Wave in what seemed the most kismet of moments given that her day job for a real estate company that she worked under as product manager just laid her off. So we go from moving across the country, to losing the stability of being employed, to basically having to pivot big time with this new podcasting studio because, I still can’t believe I am saying this, we’re in a pandemic. After having adjusted the pod’s scheduling a bit, Lauren’s the first guest that I am interviewing during this time. It’s perhaps more of a reactive episode in that we’re all just coping day by day, hour by hour. Sustaining this emotional rollercoaster we’re all going through calls for presence, meaningful movement, intentional consumption, but most importantly, connection. So why not brew a little something up, breathe a little deeper (I feel like all I’ve been doing lately is telling people to breathe!!), and tap into someone who’s feeling out her days and getting reacquainted with her voice. Realizing that small can be good, cozy is something deserved, and that any wave, big or small, is still a wave. This is I am The Wave with Lauren Popish. You can find Lauren and The Wave Studio at: https://thewavepodcasting.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thewavepodcasting/ https://www.instagram.com/laurenpopish/ Please share your thoughts and show us some love by subscribing, or get in touch to be featured on the podcast! Released every other Monday - thanks for lending us an ear. https://www.gutsnglory.online/ https://www.instagram.com/gutssnglory/ [email protected]