as i am deepening my spiritual journey and experimenting with different methods to heal and grow while living the new-york-hustle i have decided to share stories of how i incorporate my spiritual practice into my day-to-day life.  this episode is about how my spiritual lessons helped me survive a stressful layover.

Ruoyi Jiang is the founder and owner of Chop Suey Club in Lower East side, a boutique with a unique curation of contemporary chinese designs. she talks about how culture is something that needs to be experienced and is no longer "inherited", but a choice.

#23 Vivien Ong is a model from singapore. i met her as a cheerful and warm yogi and was surprised to hear that she was diagnosed with depression at age 13. a traumatic experience while hospitalized made her consciously want to start her healing journey. she talks about how she healed form self-mutilation, anorexia, and taking anti-depressants for 5 years... and how she keeps her healthy self-esteem being a model, in the tough fashion industry. 

Hope Alcocer is a women's empowerment advocate and an award-winning entrepreneur. she simultaneously launched her consulting business and a women's empowerment online magazine at age 22 after suffering a traumatic brain injury and was unable to hold down a typical 9-to-5 at the time. Hope tells us how two broken engagements, her brother's tragic accident, and battling an eating disorder fuel her success. Hope published 2 books in 2 years and last year rebranded + relaunched her company as wonder woman media.

episode #21 Romana Soutus is a queer, playwright and performer. i met them when i overheard them talking about how they became a playwright to wright roles for strong, queer and fem individuals. they share their story of growing up in three cultures and how it affects how they think and express themselves.they also share how their priest father is processing their gender queerness and gynosexuality. the best part is the "queer 101" they give me at the end of this episode. we'll also clarify the whole "pronoun-thing", gender identity, what the hell "sis" is, and what all of that has to do with ingrown hairs.

episode #20 Daniel Silverstein is the Founder of zero waste daniel... a uni-sex, zero-waste, athleisure fashion brand. the collections are fabricated completely from pre-consumer waste from new york's garment industry in a transparent brooklyn storefront factory. in this episode you will hear: why and how Daniel went form designing cocktail and red carpet dresses for celebrities, to creating zero waste daniel what sustainability and zero-waste mean to him... in business and personal life his thoughts about the current state of the fashion industry his 3 best business tips about his collaborations... and how thinking outside the boxand staying true to your valuesalways pays off "i can't need to make work that hurts people, or oppresses people, that makes someone hate their body or their face, or that polluted someones water. i'm willing to work with what we've got, i don't care how long it takes, i care that you look good. i care that its made here, that it's made fair." - Daniel Silverstein  

Non Kuramoto is a japanese actor, comedian, writer, and feminist-art-slut. she uses laughter and absurdity as tools to elevate voices of asian women, experimenting with various art forms to find the funny. Non made her off-broadway debut in the sex myth: a devised play. her play, the fart play (i'm sad): a dance, was produced at nasty women unite festival. she is currently producing "nonsense" a comedy show at new women space. Non speaks very openly about growing up in the us and japan and how it influenced her artistic side, about the hustle of being an asian female comedian / actress, especially when theatre is still very much a "white man's club",  and about her open marriage!

Jessica Kelly is the founder of Thr3efold. Jessica worked in the fashion industry for companies like Alexander Wang, Oscar de la Renta, to name a few, but after a trip to Zimbabwe, where she visited factories, she saw that there is a problem that she just had to find a way to fix. the problem is not the lack of ethical factories, but rather that there is just no way to find them online. she created Thr3fold, which is currently working on creating a platform to search ethical and sustainable factories, around the world and manage the production. Jessica shares her story, what sustainability means to her, gives us really great business advice, for anyone who is looking to start their own business, including her favorite marketing book and apps, that help her run her business.

have you ever wondered what a "digital nomad" is, what they do, or maybe how to be one? Cat will answer all those questions and tell her story: why and how she grew her successful business, as an artist and educator, while being location-independent. 

have you ever asked yourself how one actually go about producing and releasing an album? Sarah is doing just that. she just moved to new york 4 months ago and will be realizing her first album, that she produced in nashvill, in january 2019. she openly answers all my questions and talks about navigating her new life in the city and while (trying) to stay in the NOW.