The Point of Pain

It has been an intense couple of weeks. With the crisis in India it has been devastating to see the lack of care and support from the government in India and from the wellness industry. It has been devastating and for those of you who are interested and able, there are so many ways you can offer support. If you're able to donate, The Desai Foundation has been doing a lot to get resources to rural areas that need it the most and even if you're not able to offer support financially, sharing about this issue and holding people accountable really helps. In this very dark time, the truth is that the main thing that is keeping me afloat and bringing me joy is the Chronicon Community. That's why today's Community Spotlight episode is so special to me. For this episode, I am so honored to sit down with one of our community members, Jessi Lane. Jessi and I talk about her story, the ups and downs with her health, how she found the Chronicon Community, how the community has been supportive for her, what it means to be ready to show up for the life you want, and so much more!   To learn more, visit the show notes.   Want to continue the love-fest? Follow me on Instagram!

Today's conversation is with the beautiful, powerful Aycee Brown. I've been following Aycee for a while and I really wanted to have this conversation with her on the podcast to hopefully help each of you open a door to spirituality, what that can mean for you and your life and how it could support you. Aycee Brown is a psychic channel, spiritual confidante and teacher, entrepreneur, and your favorite human design bae. She serves entrepreneurs, executives, thought leaders, and people who are ready to dig deeper into their own self-discovery and speaks about spiritual self-development, human design, radical commitment, and brand innovation. In this episode, Aycee shares her earliest experiences with her psychic abilities, how she went from scared to embracing her connection with spirit, what you can do to start leading a spirit-led life, how to incorporate your gifts in your work and life processes, and so much more!   To learn more, visit the show notes.   Want to continue the love-fest? Follow me on Instagram!

One week ago I had my 40th birthday and coming up to that big milestone brought up so many feelings and reflections for me. Whatever age you might be, we all go through things in our lives that make it hard for us to feel like we can fully accept ourselves. As I looked back at the past four decades, I realized that I've learned a lot about what acceptance looks like for me. Wherever you are on your acceptance journey, I really hope that this episode will be supportive for you and help you to see that you're not alone in your journey. In this episode, I share the biggest lessons I've learned on the road to 40, how my childhood experiences affected my lack of self-acceptance, how my perspective on relationships has changed alongside my acceptance of myself, what you can do to make your way towards self-acceptance, and so much more!   To learn more, visit the show notes.   Want to continue the love-fest? Follow me on Instagram!

Today I'm sitting down with my dear friend and one of our Chronicon community members, Tiffany Yu. Tiffany and I connected last year through her company, Diversability, and the incredible work that she's been doing for the disabled community for over 12 years. More recently, we've been getting to know each other better through Clubhouse and I wanted to have Tiffany on the show, spotlighting her as one of our beautiful community members. Tiffany Yu is the CEO & Founder of Diversability, an award-winning social enterprise to amplify disabled voices; the Founder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, a monthly micro-grant that has awarded $47.5k to 48 disability projects in 8 countries; and the host of TIFFANY & YU, The Podcast. She serves on the San Francisco Mayor's Disability Council and was a 2020 Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit. At the age of 9, Tiffany became disabled as a result of a car accident that also took the life of her father. She started her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and has also worked at Bloomberg and Sean Diddy Combs' REVOLT Media & TV. She is a 2x TEDx speaker and spoke on 5 sessions at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. She has been featured in Marie Claire, the Guardian, and Forbes. In this episode, Tiffany shares her experience with disability and trauma, the problem with toxic positivity, how good intentions can still be damaging, why it's important to her to create open and inclusive spaces, her experience in the Chronicon community, and so much more!   To learn more, visit the show notes.   Want to continue the love-fest? Follow me on Instagram!

Suleika Jaouad has been my friend for many years and it was such a pleasure to be able to talk with her on today's episode. When we met, Suleika was in the middle of her treatment and I was so taken aback by what she was going through and how she was dealing with it. In this conversation, we go deep into her personal journey and details she hasn't even shared in her memoir. Suleika Jaouad is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling memoir, Between Two Kingdoms. She wrote the Emmy Award-winning New York Times column "Life, Interrupted," and her reporting and essays have been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Vogue, and NPR, among others. A highly sought-after speaker, her mainstage TED Talk was one of the ten most popular of 2019 and has nearly four million views. She is also the creator of The Isolation Journals, a community creativity project founded during the Covid-19 pandemic to help others convert isolation into artistic solitude; over 100,000 people from around the world have joined.  In this episode, Suleika shares how her leukemia diagnosis sent her down a path of self-discovery which led her to embrace her fragility, release the old goals that were no longer serving her, find her own style of advocacy, re-evaluate her relationships and boundaries, and so much more!   To learn more, visit the show notes.   Want to continue the love-fest? Follow me on Instagram!

As I bring you this very special episode, I feel so many emotions. I haven't done an episode with you since May 2020 and it's the understatement of the year to say a lot has happened since then. In this first episode of season 4, I want to have a conversation about the cycles that we have all been in this past year and how they're tied to the cycles of life that we are constantly going through.   To learn more, visit the show notes.   Want to continue the love-fest? Follow me on Instagram!

It's hard to believe, but we've officially reached the end of our third season. Obviously, so much has happened and changed since this season started and it seems like the perfect time for me to connect with you one-on-one. Some of the things I want to share with you in this special episode are the hobbies and other things I've been leaning on during this pandemic, what I'm feeling about the future of Chronicon and how I've been navigating work in this time of uncertainty, and how I've been taking a hard look at relationships recently.   To learn more, visit the show notes.   Want to continue the love-fest? Follow me on Instagram!

Alok V. Menon is as much of a light in this world as they are willing to hold and be with the darkness and I am so honored that they took the time to speak with me. Alok has been very open and generous with making sure that the conversation around pain and chronic illness is shared with as many people as possible and that we open that conversation to the world, whether it's ready or not. Alok is a gender non-conforming writer and performance artist. Their distinctive style and poetic challenge to the gender binary have been internationally renowned. As a mixed-media artist, Alok uses poetry, comedy, performance, lecture, sound-art, fashion design, and self-portraiture to explore themes of gender, race, trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They are the author of Femme in Public (2017) and Beyond the Gender Binary (2020). In 2019 they were selected as one of NBC's Pride 50 and Out Magazine's OUT 100. In this episode, Alok shares their struggle with self-acceptance and how they reclaimed their authenticity despite being surrounded by intolerance, how pain brings us together, recognizing that life is pain, why we need to realize that everyone is suffering, and so much more!   To learn more, visit the show notes.   Want to continue the love-fest? Follow me on Instagram!

Ruthie Lindsey is someone I've been following for a long time. I wanted to share Ruthie with all of you because she has been through a profound story that has a lot of devastation and heartbreak and she shares it in such a heart-warming way that I think it will lift your spirits even though the darkness. Ruthie Lindsey is a speaker, podcast host, social media figure and author of There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing. She travels the globe sharing her story, empowering others to find purpose in their pain and to look for beauty in the midst of their brokenness. In this episode, Ruthie talks about the horrifying accident that left her the hospital for a month, the moment years later when she developed chronic pain that doctors couldn't diagnose, how she went from not being able to get out of bed to finding joy and beauty in her life, why self-love is such an important source of comfort, and so much more!   To learn more, visit the show notes.   Want to continue the love-fest? Follow me on Instagram!

Minna Lee is a wellness entrepreneur who I've been fangirling over online and she produces meaningful content that spreads education on well-being for all. Our conversation took some twists and turns that I wasn't expecting and that were beautiful and insightful. Minna Lee is a digital creator, a certified trainer, and a nutrition coach. By sharing her own colorful health history with her autoimmune disease and her mental health on her platforms, she empowers people to dig deeper into their personal growth and to take their health into their own hands with a 360 perspective. In this episode, Minna talks about her journey from disordered eating, to being diagnosed to Hashimoto's and adenomyosis, how she's changed her approach to managing her health over the years, what you can do to restore your relationship with your food, and how you can learn to listen to your intuition, and so much more!   To learn more, visit the show notes.   Want to continue the love-fest? Follow me on Instagram!