In conventional terms, Ashmi Pathela is an artist, writer, and coach. But in her soul, she knows she's here to assist in the massive shift in global consciousness that is taking place right now. Millions of people around the world are awakening to the truth of who they are, and she believes we're all here to create a new world. Ashmi began her career on Facebook’s early marketing team. Since then, she launched a creative agency and lifestyle brand with Randi Zuckerberg and served as Chief of Staff to the CEO at a tech company. Though these were dream jobs in many ways, she ended up burnt out and unfulfilled. She realized she'd been sprinting through life – driven by achievement, ego, and an intense hunger for purpose. She lost my connection to my heart.Ashmi left Silicon Valley in 2017 to travel the world, to Lisbon, Tel Aviv, Cape Town, Bali, and Western Australia… But of course, the greatest journey was within. It opened her eyes to a new way of living - in joyful alignment with her heart. And nothing less. This led Ashmi to painting and writing, helping people reconnect with their soul. She is also the creator of Covival, a blog and grounded spiritual community for living from the heart.Ashmi and I met nearly a decade ago during each of our first jobs at Facebook, and we've each come a very long (and unexpected) way! In this episode, we talk about Ashmi's experience with serious burnout, leaving Silicon Valley, becoming a "nomad" and living in Bali, the impact of using intuition and creativity to connect to and live through her heart, overcoming the fear of being seen, and the work of spiritual remembering. For daily writing and inspiration, follow Ashmi on Instagram @ashmi.path. Or check out her art and blog on her website www.ashmipathela.com.

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ashmi pathela on burnout, living from the heart, and taking an intuitive approach to big life changes

Katie Dalebout is a writer and podcaster, and the founder of let it out, a community for sharing *soft stories*, the tender tales that connect us. Her weekly interview show that began in 2013 now has over 4 million downloads and in 2019 she started Spiraling, a co-hosted anxiety show.Her book let it out (Hay House in 2016) is an interactive guide to journaling. She’s spoken at Kripalu, Soho House, and The Wing and now runs a journaling based creative clinic and leads an online workshop for independent podcasters.Katie and I met when I took her Let [a Podcast] Out course and became fast friends during a time when we were both navigating huge transitions. In this episode, we talk about how integrating after a breakup inspired her latest Kits project, her nomadic period of travel, pivoting after a career bump, letting go & surrender, comparison and finding relief and power in staying in our own lane, and the importance of mental health and community for creativity. @katiedalebout@letitoutttHow to Journal free workshopLet it Out Kits!The Art of Breakups KitsSootheSolve - launching today!    

katie dalebout on breakups, pivoting, comparison, and the power of creative community

Lenea Sims is a creative self-development coach and the founder of Inner Play – an online self-development summer camp for adults!  Lenea believes our greatest responsibility is accessing our highest selves and sharing our creative gifts with the world. She also believes we don’t have to suffer through boring meditation circles to do that. Her gift? Making self-development accessible, fun, and playful so you actually *want* to do it. Her work has been featured in Paper Magazine, Essence, and on stage at SXSW.Lenea is JOY and WISDOM and BRIGHT COLORS! In this episode we talk about how burnout from her identity as a high-achieving student led her to a focus on feeling good, using energy work to dissolve stuckness and unleash creativity, the healing power of hobbies, bringing joy to wellness, and how to channel purpose through creativity and showing up. @leneasims@innerplay.funFind Inner Play courses, events and merch here.  

lenea sims on unleashing creativity, healing through joy, and finding purpose in whole-hearted living

FROM THE EPISODE@millanasnow energy healer ABOUT JENNYJenny Gaither is the Founder of Movemeant Foundation - an internationally recognized 501c3 dedicated to helping girls and women build self-worth and confidence through movement. Through Movemeant Foundation, Jenny has dedicated over 10 years of her life to serving fitness communities throughout the country by providing middle schools girls with a body-positive, confidence-building curriculum and by hosting over 15 large-scale, outdoor, charity fitness festivals called We Dare to Bare, in major cities, such as San Francisco, New York, Nashville, and LA. Additionally, Jenny and her Movemeant team continue to partner with brands like Athleta to gift underserved communities around the world with individual athletic scholarships to make fitness accessible, approachable, and fun. Last but not least, Movemeant built a Covid-19 Relief Fund providing Covid-19 Financial Relief Grants to fitness and wellness instructors. With these awards, Movemeant provides financial assistance of up to $1,000 to teachers and instructors who are in need of tools and resources to bring their new digital business ideas to life. Movemeant will also be hosting a series of webinars by accredited business coaches and mentors for fitness and wellness instructors to continue their education in essential business needs, such as website creation, marketing, sales, social media, finances, and more. In addition, Jenny is a Confidence-Life Coach as well as a Business Coach. Jenny built a curriculum and a community called Brave Babe Blueprint for women to gain easy access to accountability, actionable steps, tools, and guidance in order to face their fears and build self-worth to achieve a confident sense-of-self both professionally and personally. In addition to her Brave Babe Blueprint program, Jenny also helps young, female entrepreneurs build successful online businesses while providing them with the tools to beat fear, self-sabotage, self-doubt and imposter syndrome.Jenny is one of a handful of Master SoulCycle instructors and has been teaching at SoulCycle for ten years between SF and NYC. Jenny currently resides in New York City where she also teaches boxing at Shadowbox at the Flatiron and Dumbo locations. Last but not least, Jenny's career and passion for dance led her to curate a cardio, hip hop class for all-levels called Notorious FIT. Jenny showcases her Notorious FIT hip hop class at fitness festivals such as, Shape Magazine's annual LA celebrity event, Shape Body Shop, and teaches Master classes around the world. Jenny is now offering Notorious FIT virtual classes!WHERE TO FIND HERInstagram @jennygaitherMovemeant Foundation Covid-19 relief grants and resources for fitness and wellness instructorsNotorious FIT virtual dance classesShadowbox virtual boxing classes

jenny gaither on the power of movement, community, and self-compassion

Tina Essmaker (@tinaessmaker) is a coach, speaker and writer who helps creative professionals transition to the other side. With a Bachelor’s of Social Work and professional coach training, Tina’s approach is warm and practical, meeting clients where they are and guiding them forward. The creative world is her specialty, but her work is open to all who are navigating ambiguity, change, and transition and desire to thrive on the other side.Tina and I met when I was still working at Instagram and she was the editor of The Great Discontent. I loved her and her writing so much that when she first posted about becoming a creative life coach,  I signed up right away. I was looking down the barrel of all my big life changes that inspired this podcast, and she created a really gentle, inspiring and supportive experience.We talked in December over Zoom - before it was cool - but so many of the themes we discussed are perfect for this quarantine period we’re in. We talk about navigating the space that often comes with transitions, flowing over forcing, finding alignment, the illusion of control and how letting go can be empowering. You’ll hear her story of how she went from growing up in Michigan to social work to starting a magazine for creatives to what she does today working as a coach and writer. She shares some of her philosophies and tools to help you if you are some kind of transition which newsflash we all are, like ways to manage your energy and structure time.Set up a consult with Tina here: https://calendly.com/tinaessmaker/15min?month=2020-04Subscribe to Tina's newsletter here: https://tinyletter.com/coachtina. Read Tina's work on Working Not Working (and send her a question), 99u, and (my favorite) Medium. 

tina essmaker on creative career transitions, alignment, and setting ourselves up for success

We are back with Instagram's favorite writer and therapist Lisa Olivera! You probably know Lisa thanks to the little beams of light and relief she sends into our feeds every day. Lisa is such a smart, gentle and generous heart who seems almost magically in tune with the zeitgeist, sharing daily messages of support with her IG community that somehow address exactly what we're going through. In this episode we talk about Lisa's path to becoming a therapist and writer, the importance of witnessing the process, the sometimes frustrating non-linear nature of healing, getting in touch with our passions, giving yourself permission to let small things be meaningful, how to support friends through hard times, tackling co-dependency, and how to show up in the in between times.

Epiosde 05: Lisa Olivera in LIMBO - becoming a therapist and writer, witnessing the process, discovering your purpose, supporting friends through challenging times, letting hard things be hard, and showing up in the in between

Erin Gilmore is a hilarious, open, and wise San Francisco-based yoga teacher who meets her students with a message of profound self-acceptance (and a great playlist). She's trained in trauma-informed yoga and is the founder of the monthly all women's class, StrongWomenSF, that benefits Planned Parenthood. In this episode, we discuss Erin's journey through depression and an eating disorder on her way to yoga, her daily practice of overcoming perfectionism and being "confidently messy," making money as a creative and asking for what you're worth, having a crush on your passion and taking action on your dreams, creating your own pace, and the rage of a smudged nail.

Episode 04: Erin Gilmore in LIMBO - overcoming perfectionism and being "confidently messy," having a crush on your passion, making money as a creative, taking action on your dreams, and the practice of trauma-informed yoga

Trina Robinson is a creator who explores memory through film, archival materials, and text. he has most recently been on tour with The Moth, telling the story behind her video essay The Call – the discovery and exploration of the lives of her enslaved ancestors in Kentucky. In this episode we talk about Trina’s long-haul creative process (she’s been researching the stories behind her film and talk for a decade), how she has become a vessel for her ancestors, the power that comes with committing to creating and committing to sharing your voice, and how to navigate the context switching between work and art and life that are all equally important and fulfilling in different ways.

Episode 03: Trina Robinson in LIMBO - the power of storytelling, becoming a vessel for your ancestors, committing to creativity, and navigating work and art

This week's guest is the powerful, luminous and hilarious Lindsey Simcik. Lindsey is a multi-faceted creator - a writer, actress, and the co-founder and host of The Almost30 Podcast, a Top 100 iTunes Podcast for all things health, wellness, entrepreneurship, self-development, and humor. In this episode we talk about honoring the sacredness of being single, developing a creative practice, quitting jobs with intention, navigating identity, and her pathway to spiritual wellness.

Episode 02: Lindsey Simcik in LIMBO - honoring the sacredness of being single, developing a creative practice, quitting jobs with intention, navigating identity, and her pathway to spiritual wellness

LIMBO's first guest is Berna Anat, financial hype woman and creator of a financial literacy media series for young people at @heyberna. We discuss money shame, paying down debt, becoming financially literate, quitting your job and traveling the world for a year, loneliness, being other, starting your own business, and the joy and fear of never-ending transitions.

Episode 01: Berna Anat in LIMBO - dancing through money shame and financial literacy, long-term travel, loneliness, and starting a business

LIMBO podcast is an intersectional collection of conversations celebrating being in between - frank, witty, and soulful perspectives on life's big and small changes as they're happening. An optimistic, but honest, pause and reflection while the end is still unwritten. Going beyond the before and after and into the DURING. We will talk about purpose, creativity, discovery, love, family, money, abundance, spirituality - and how our relationships to it all are evolving. Stories will be serious, not serious, messy, beautiful, silly, real. Success or a completed hero's journey is not a prerequisite. Alex Hollander is a creator whose purpose is to help people feel seen, heard and inspired through storytelling. She recently left a job running innovation communications at Instagram and Facebook after nearly eight years and is now helping companies created by and for underrepresented groups through brand and messaging development, content marketing, media strategy, community building, and writing. She is currently in NYC where she writes, cooks, goes to therapy, and hangs out with her friends and dog @mopuppymoproblems.

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