Listen Now

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Meenadchi, a facilitator and somatic practitioner whose work centers the softness of meeting our best selves and deepening into our collective light. Using a blend of family constellation therapy and Non-Violent Communication, Meenadchi weaves workshops in which participants are invited to reconnect with the intuitive wisdom of our bodies and to cocreate intergenerational healing by changing the way we speak to ourselves, each other, and the universe. Meenadchi is the author of Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication (2019). Main Topics Discussed: Healing intergenerational trauma together Giving yourself permission to release your limiting beliefs Knowing whether your trauma is speaking, or your intuition Learn more about Meenadchi: Website: www.meenadchi.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/marshmallowamman Free gift of somatic healing practice to release ancestral baggage: https://mailchi.mp/9b129f043eec/kox11pm3nf Lavender chai recipe mentioned in the episode: www.meenadchi.com/my-chai-and-scones Email me at hello@yourstorymedicine.com or send me a message on Instagram @jumakae. Download my free guided meditation on how to connect with your ancestors  bit.ly/ancestorinthemaking FREE upcoming workshop on May 19, 2022: “How to Charge For Your Worth” www.yourstorymedicine.com/iamworthy

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Didier Sylvain, a life alignment coach, leadership trainer, and creative healing practitioner based in Los Angeles. His life mission is to create and hold transformative learning space for people to claim their power and give their greatest gifts to the world. He leads Coherence, a leadership activation experience for creatives-of-color, as well as other deep dive programs that guide individuals and groups to become fuller and more integrated versions of themselves. He has coached and taught leadership at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame. Didier is also a multidisciplinary artist, music producer, PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology (Columbia University), and certified practitioner of sound healing and qigong. Main Topics Discussed: Celebrating the voice you were gifted with Finding the force (ex. music) that integrates every part of you How to emcee your life Achieving coherence Learn more about Didier: Visit his website: www.didiersylvain.com Follow him on Instagram: www.instagram.com/__didiersylvain__ Flyscapes https://open.spotify.com/album/5FAx7Vx4Ukd4tyurzecRLa?si=ad39182e0ecb41bc Email me at hello@yourstorymedicine.com or send me a message on Instagram @jumakae. Download my free guided meditation on how to connect with your ancestors  bit.ly/ancestorinthemaking Join us for our FREE workshop on Finding Clarity In Your Medicine on Thursday, April 28, 2022: www.yourstorymedicine.com/ancestor

I know I said that I would be dropping episodes every other week to honor spaciousness, but I felt so called to share my experience of facilitating my most recent retreat with you that took place in Joshua Tree, CA - land of the the Serrano, the Cahuilla (Kuhweeah), the Mojave, and the Chemehuevi people prior to settler colonialism.. And it just so happens that our retreat took place when Aries entered the New Moon. While I’m no astrologer, I was told that the significance of this time is that it’s a transition or closure of events that took place last year in June and July. As we sat around the fire, tears welled in my eyes reflecting on what my life has been like in these past nine months, like a baby literally being reborn. Main Topics Discussed: How does the journey of reconnecting with our ancestors reward us with life and relationships beyond our wildest imagination Releasing the need to compartmentalize yourself, and embracing how multidimensional you can be Getting scorched by fire: the season of consuming information is done  I encourage you to go to www.yourstorymedicine.com to binge on the other episodes, where we've now categorized them based on topics, so that you can begin your journey of remembrance and reclamation today. Email me at hello@yourstorymedicine.com or send me a message on Instagram @jumakae. Download my free guided meditation on how to connect with your ancestors  bit.ly/ancestorinthemaking Join us for our FREE workshop on Finding Clarity In Your Medicine on Thursday, April 28, 2022: www.yourstorymedicine.com/ancestor RETREAT TEAM: Plantberri’s Instagram Page (Rathana): www.instagram.com/plantberri Karissa of Olive La Vida Photography: https://www.olivelavida.com/ Kati, Ceremonialist: http://www.katherineinezmesa.com/ Joshua Tree Sound Alchemy: https://www.joshuatreealchemy.com/

Welcome to Season Two of the Your Story Medicine podcast. I am your host Jumakae, and my medicine is supporting change makers, conscious entrepreneurs, and radical healers in finding clarity in their message and confidence in their speaking. I want you to be able to share your story, grow your legacy, and heal generations before and after you! Main Topics Discussed: The beauty of entrepreneurship and sacred activism How we can leave behind a legacy once we become future ancestors The truth about “self-care” and finding time to rest I have been processing a lot about what “seasons” mean to me. I have just completed a workshop for the California Faculty Association called Dreaming as Strategy: Envisioning Ourselves as Future Ancestors. I stayed up late the night before putting together PowerPoints last minute (which I rarely do, by the way) because I felt like I needed it in order to prove that I was a professional or that I knew my stuff. And as fate would have it, when it came my turn to present technical glitches happened to where I had to rely on my story medicine. And without any script, I just shared, from my heart, the story of my time as a community organizer, working in transformative justice after I was released from my job as a rape crisis hotline counselor when I was in the nonprofit world. But even when I was doing transformative justice work, I felt like there was something missing. If you're not on my email list yet, I would love to gift you with one of the very first meditations I created, where we call upon our chosen ancestors. I'll be sure to leave a link in the show notes. Your feedback is an absolute gift, and I will see you in the next episode. You can email me at hello@yourstorymedicine.com or send me a message on Instagram @jumakae. Download my free guided meditation on how to connect with your ancestors  bit.ly/ancestorinthemaking Intro/Outro by Marcus Fung of Higher Calling Music www.highercallingmusic.net

Welcome to our final episode of Your Story Medicine, the podcast, at least for this season and to what this will evolve into. We shall wait and see because December is the season of rich rest.  So if you are listening to this episode, I hope that you are also carving out this time of the year to intentionally reflect on how much of the growth that you have experienced and the lessons that have learned and the stories that you get to compost as well as the new ones that you get to create for the next year. And I hope that we can all walk into 2022 feeling well rested and acknowledging how far we've come. Because it's so easy to focus on what we haven't accomplished, and where we're supposed to be in life or maybe telling ourselves a story that we're behind. Versus recognizing that there is some version of you from not that long ago that prayed for exactly what it is you have today. So take a moment to really count your blessings and be in such deep gratitude that you are here. You've made it. Main Topics Discussed: What is self trust? How is it that we can move from independence to interdependence? The beauty of being a part of a community See show notes and full transcription here: https://www.yourstorymedicine.com/blog/ep-56-interdependence-why-self-trust-is-not-enough Sign up for our weekly stories: www.yourstorymedicine.com Follow June on Instagram @Jumakae and our podcast @yourstorymedicine  Subscribe to my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/jumakae Email me: hello@yourstorymedicine.com Apply for Bud to Blossom Mastermind : https://www.yourstorymedicine.com/budtoblossom 

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Mystic, a Grammy-nominated hip hop artist. She is also an activist, scholar, community educator, and beloved daughter of Oakland, California. Having released her debut album, Cuts for Luck and Scars for Freedom in 2001, and Beautiful Resistance in 2014, she is known for including themes of healing, community, and justice in her music. She is also known as a member of Digital Underground, and called the “DU Goddess”. As a scholar, Mystic’s research has focused on the use of policymaking for equity and elementary education, and the use of culturally-relevant arts education for students of color. Main Topics Discussed: Mystic’s journey as an artist, her work with Digital Underground, and her initiative for the youth Living out love and joy as acts of resistance How artists typically process trauma The underrated value of arts education for the youth Rewriting your story from one defined by trauma to one defined by love Learn more about Mystic: Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thatgirlmystic

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Juniper Wong, a Chinese-American licensed clinical social worker turned intimacy coach and teacher who specializes in healing attachment trauma and developing deeply satisfying intimate relationships with self and others. Main Topics Discussed: An explanation of the four attachment styles Pinpointing the source of your co-dependency Meeting your needs and rewriting destructive narratives Learn more about Juniper: Visit her website: www.juniperwong.com

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Mimi Young, a Taiwanese-Canadian spirit communicator, and shamanic occultist. She is the founder of Ceremonie, an esoteric brand focused on imparting ancient and practical wisdom so clients can actively receive support from spirits and healing energies, heal negative patterns, and celebrate their path. Mimi works at the intersection of core shamanism, ancestral wisdom, dream work, chaos magic, and other Chinese mystic practices to communicate with the unseen, offering education & mentorship, private readings, and skin & aura care. Main Topics Discussed: Why embracing our darkness is just as important as embracing our light Freeing yourself from the anti-aging culture and stepping into a pro-aging lifestyle How to use dreams to explore dormant parts of ourselves Learn more about Mimi: Visit her website: www.shopceremonie.com Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/shopceremonie Business Mentorship: https://shopceremonie.com/learn/evoking-your-business-project/ Upcoming Writing Retreat: https://shopceremonie.com/learn/writing-with-spirit-retreat/

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Taj Savitri. She is known as a “Business Priestess” for her ability to support future female leaders of our planet bridge into the physical concepts and ideas that cannot yet be understood by the human mind. Her gifts of psychic mediumship and understanding of the holographic nature of reality makes her work in leadership, business, and inner evolution truly unique. Her work has helped thousands of women step into a level of wealth that overflows into projects that help create a more loving and unified planet, anchored in service. She also serves as Mexican Medicine Woman, Conscious Investor of the “New World’, and an influential figure for Ascension. When she is not in High Priestess mode, she is developing “Mother Tree”, an intentional 22 Acre community on Maya land in Tulum, MX. Main Topics Discussed: How to reclaim your ancestral lineage and the gifts that they possessed if you have no physical connection to those ancestors How to express or teach wound healing your own way without appropriating the customs of other cultures How to embrace your unique path of mastery and stop becoming a slave to other people’s truths. Conclusion: Embrace your path of mastery by learning to trust yourself. Take note of what every emotion and experience teaches you about yourself, about others, and about the world. Instead of looking to hire coaches or mentors all the time, learn to trust the voice within yourself. And your best voice comes through when you’re at the zero point when you feel good and at home in your body. Action Integration: Get to your zero point by solidifying your daily rituals and practices. We put ourselves in danger when we let our mind sway us to and fro according to the latest distraction or heightened emotion that leads us astray from our path. Reconnect to your truth every single day and everything will fall into place. Learn more about Taj: Visit her website: www.tajsavitri.com Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/taj.savitri

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Tanai and Wesley, the Founders of The Salt Lounge in Long Beach. As experienced Reiki Masters and Intuitives, they work to educate, empower, and promote wellness from the inside out and outside in. Main Topics Discussed: Why Tanai and Wesley gave up the prestige of making their dream income in corporate America for a new life with no clear plan at the outset Setting boundaries as a Reiki Master How Tanai and Wesley healed their relationship with money by creating a money deck Learn more about The Salt Lounge: Visit their website: www.thesaltloungelb.com Follow them on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thesaltloungelb Check their recent announcement: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVvHwQNpslB/?utm_medium=copy_link Your Story Medicine : http://www.yourstorymedicine.com/ See show notes and full transcription here: https://www.yourstorymedicine.com/blog/ep-51-how-spirit-lead-us-to-a-better-relationship-with-money-with-tanai-and-wesley-holder

In this solo podcast episode, I discuss about: What does the season of Rich Rest mean? Other ways for us to live in abundance beyond the numbers in our bank account. Embodying abundance and letting go of the scarcity of timelines. So lately I have found myself going into a spiral of comparison of what everybody else is doing or how much they're making all the ways that they're putting themselves out there, and here I am feeling like I'm not doing enough.  And recently I met with two other friends with small businesses that have made multiple six figures, but … they haven't taken a vacation in years. So while their businesses have been a financial success, there has yet to be time carved out for them to actually enjoy the financial abundance that they called in.  And when I was reflecting back on my year, it has definitely been the most abundant. Did I hit multiple six figures? No, but it was actually by choice.  Because I had to sit and ask myself, what is it that's going to make me feel most abundant versus what is it that's going to make me the most money? See show notes and full transcription here: https://www.yourstorymedicine.com/blog/ep-50-rich-rest-redefining-abundance Sign up for our weekly stories: www.yourstorymedicine.com Follow June on Instagram @Jumakae and our podcast @yourstorymedicine  Subscribe to my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/jumakae Email me: hello@yourstorymedicine.com Waiting list for Bud to Blossom: www.yourstorymedicine.com/budtoblossomwaiting

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Julie Tran, Co-Founder of RV Life with Freedom Frequency along with her husband Chris. They are elder millennials, foster parents on a chapter break, and former corporate professionals turned entrepreneurs and breakthrough coaches. In early 2021, because of the pandemic and a major life event, Julie and her husband sold their dream house for the liberation of RV life. They are currently digital nomads RVing full-time in their 27-foot Airstream named Stelluna. They’ve learned that RV life is 50% how-to and 50% mindset. They have a Facebook community as well as a YouTube channel where they not only teach the ins-and-outs of RV life, but also coach on nurturing your freedom frequency mindset from within. Main Topics Discussed: The various events that led to Julie’s decisions to quit corporate, foster children, and live the RV life Finding freedom within, and not just without We cannot predict the future. We can only make space for magic. Decluttering and letting go of your most valued possessions Maintaining a strong relationship with your partner when living in a tiny space together The four steps to restoring your power between you and your significant other The power of trusting your knowing Learn more about RV Life with Freedom Frequency:Join their Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/freedomfrequencyzone Check them out on YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/RVLifewithFreedomFrequency Your Story Medicine : http://www.yourstorymedicine.com/

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Pia Schiavo-Campo. She was recently named one of the Top 100 Responsible Health and Wellness Influencers of 2020 by New Hope Network. For the last decade, she has been authoring a blog that empowers women to take up as much space as they damn well please. As a fat woman of color, she uses an intersectional approach to explore various subjects, including race, equity, mental health, motherhood, and conventional notions of beauty and wellness. Pia is a certified transformational coach and supports others with tapping into their intuition as well as organizations so that they can access their inner wisdom and let go of their limiting beliefs. Main Topics Discussed: What it’s like to grow in the U.S. as a half-African-American, half-Sicilian woman “Body liberation/body neutrality” versus “body positivity” Reframing and reclaiming the word “fat” Why diet culture is so harmful and why we shouldn’t demonize comfort food How to improve your wellness beyond what you put in your body How Pia built a successful agency on vulnerability Learn more about Pia and her offerings: Visit her website: mixedfatchick.com Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/mixedfatchick October 22: Rewriting Your Food History for Liberation (FREE workshop) Click here to register: t.ly/kQwI 

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Kati Mesa, Founder and Owner of Love, Awareness & Purpose Healing Arts, which provides alternative services such as meditation, bodywork, retreats, and community gatherings to help one to bring balance to their mind, body, and essence to achieve their complete potential. Learn more about Kati and her offerings: Visit her website: loveawarenesspurpose.net Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/journeywithkati

In this solo podcast episode, I discuss: How I ended up in the Red Table Talk for Jada Pinkett Smith’s 50 birthday: https://fb.me/RTTHair Why I shaved my head (and how I’m processing this experience) The impermanence of Night Blooming Cereus, aka “Queen of the Night” The wisdom of loneliness When you let go, you make spaciousness for new people, places, and opportunities to arise. When you’re choosing to vibrate at a different frequency, the universe will begin to mirror that in the physical realm as evidence for you of how shifts are happening. It’s like the ancestors are just waiting for you to surrender so that they can finally step in and assist with your ascension. See show notes and full transcription here: https://www.yourstorymedicine.com/blog/ep-46-why-i-shaved-my-head Sign up for our weekly stories: www.yourstorymedicine.com Follow June on Instagram @Jumakae and our podcast @yourstorymedicine  Subscribe to my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/jumakae Email me: hello@yourstorymedicine.com

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Dr. Renee Lemus and Dr. Cristina Rose of Las Doctoras. They are on a mission to reclaim their ancestral cultures, create spaces to heal from generational trauma, and live into liberating practices. Dr. Renee and Dr. Cristina host a podcast, a book club, and online writing courses. They create spaces to discuss healing from the wounds of generational trauma while grounded in ancestral wisdom, feminist scholarship, and a commitment to dismantling white supremacy, patriarchy, and all forms of systemic oppression. Learn more about Las Doctoras and their offerings: Visit their website: lasdoctoras.net Follow them on Instagram: www.instagram.com/las.doctoras Enroll to the Sacred Writing Course https://lasdoctoras.net/sacredwriting

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Luna Grace, a transformational, alignment, and leadership mentor with a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology and the creator of The Alignment Code and The Self Initiation Affirmation Deck. She works to support her dharma of working within the intersection of the human and the holy. Her mission is to offer spaces of self-initiation to service-oriented changemakers who hear the call to step more fully into aligned leadership through their unique expression and maintenance of their values, so they can run legacy-leaving lives, families, communities, and organizations. Learn more about Luna and her offerings: Sign up for Resurrection: www.lunaloveleadership.com/resurrection Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/lunaloveleadership Resurrection: BEGIN YOUR DESCENT AUTUMNAL EQUINOX Click HERE to Register

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Elissa Weinzimmer, an award-winning vocal health educator, presence coach, and the founder of Voice Body Connection. After suddenly losing her own voice at age 21, Elissa began studying the mechanics of voice. Over time she developed a unique, concrete approach that empowers performers, leaders, and speakers to optimize their voices and share them more authentically. Learn more about Elissa and her offerings: Visit her website: www.voicebodyconnection.com Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/voicebodyelissa Elissa is hosting a FREE masterclass next Wednesday, September 15 on how Speaking Your Truth Doesn’t Make You Unprofessional.  Click here to reserve your spot Check out our past interviews:: “Speak from Your Vagina” “The Voice of My Ancestors” Subscribe to our weekly love notes: www.yourstorymedicine.com

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Susanna Barkataki, an Indian yoga practitioner in the Shankaracharya tradition who supports practitioners to lead with equity, diversity and yogic values while growing thriving practices and businesses with confidence. She is founder of Ignite Yoga and Wellness Institute and runs Yoga Teacher Training programs around the world. Susanna is the author of the book Embrace Yoga’s Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice. Susanna is a diversity, accessibility, inclusivity, and equity (DAIE) yoga unity educator who created the groundbreaking Honor {Don’t Appropriate} Yoga Summit with over 10,000 participants. Learn more about Susanna and her offerings: Visit her website: www.susannabarkataki.com and www.ignitebewell.com Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/susannabarkataki

Do you have to be fully healed to be a healer? And how do you emerge from what may feel like the dark night of the soul?So I'm currently sitting in my childhood bedroom looking at the pile of over 10 years worth of accumulated things before my eyes. Lately, I haven't had very much motivation to organize or put things away, questioning whether or not it's even worth it when the future feels so uncertain. Because while I've had the biggest income thus far in my business already surpassing over six figures in half the time as last year, and serving the most amazing clients around the world - what people don't often see is the human behind the healer. How do you show up to share your offerings when you don't always feel good, and when it feels like life is getting in the way of the quantum leaps taking place? This week, I'm sharing some personal updates as I balance being a spiritual entrepreneur, a daughter of immigrants and elders with new responsibilities, and the fragility of love. Here's what letting go is teaching me. How to further our connection: Visit my website: http://www.yourstorymedicine.com/ Connect with me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/jumakae Connect with me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/jumakae Subscribe to my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/jumakae Email me: hello@yourstorymedicine.com