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On this episode, Clea channels Michael's spirit guides and the result is pretty animated and wonderful and uniquely Michael. Follow Michael: On IG: @michaelurielikesit OnTwitter: @michaelurie Follow us! On IG: @art.fully.grounded On FB: @art.fully.grounded On Twitter: @AFGpod Podcast's website: www.sweptbythewind.com/podcast 

It's the final episode of our first season (sob), and there is no better artist, soul, human to help us close it out than Michael Urie. We talk about the crazy time we all find ourselves in, the value - and the work - of real self care, how to pay attention to the signals we are given, and how our understanding of spirituality has evolved individually and over the course of this podcast. A self-proclaimed agnostic, Michael never thought he'd be invited to the show (even though he's our hashtag number one listener), so we were thrilled to go deep, share some laughs, and sit in the warm glow of his charisma. As an actor, Michael is most well known for his television work as Marc St. James on Ugly Betty, Gavin Sinclair on Modern Family, Redmond on Younger, roles on Partners, Workaholics, Hot in Cleveland, The Good Wife, and The Good Fight. Movies include: Single All The Way, Swan Song, The Decoy Bride, Petunia, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Lavender, the upcoming Jersey Boys Live starring Nick Jonas. On Broadway, Michael has appeared in Douglas Lyons' Chicken & Biscuits, Bess Wohl's Grand Horizons, Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Off Broadway, on tour and in London, he did more than 600 performances of Jonathan Tolins' solo play Buyer & Cellar - including one from his living room early in the pandemic streamed live on Broadway.com, raising nearly 300k for Broadway Care Equity Fights Aids. Other Off Broadway plays include Jane Anger, The Temperamentals, The Government Inspector, Homos or Everyone in America, Shows for Days, High Button Shoes, The Cherry Orchard, and two Tony Kushner plays: A Bright Room Called Day and Angels in America. Behind the scenes, Michael directed Bright Colors and Bold Patterns and produced Happy Birthday Doug (both plays written and performed by Drew Droege and both available on BroadwayHD), directed the short film The Hyperglot, feature comedy film He's Way More Famous Than You and co-directed Thank You For Judging an award winning documentary about High School speech tournaments. He's narrated the audiobooks Lily And The Octopus, Hero, Midnight Cowboy and The Editor. He is the recipient of two Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, an Obie, an LA Drama Critics Award, Actors Equity's Clarence Derwent award, as well as GMHC's Howard Ashman Award, The Broadway Beacon Award, Coach Art's Coach Champion Award and Juilliard's John Houseman Award. He lives in New York with his partner Ryan and their children, a dog and cat. Follow Michael: On IG: @michaelurielikesit On Twitter: @michaelurie This week's Do: Support Equality Florida - https://www.eqfl.org/   Follow us! On IG: @art.fully.grounded On FB: @art.fully.grounded On Twitter: @AFGpod Podcast's website: www.sweptbythewind.com/podcast 

Ouf. Janie here. I gotta be honest. This one is still taking some processing. But it seems I got some good old dusty energy out of the way so I can focus on what is really blocking me creatively, which might be… (surprise, f***ing surprise) more of me! Follow Katie on IG: @klrubin Get your own reading with her! www.katierubin.com Follow us! On IG: @art.fully.grounded On FB: @art.fully.grounded On Twitter: @AFGpod Podcast's website: www.sweptbythewind.com/podcast 

Here's the thing that I'm not sure we realized when we started this thing: the work of excavating all the bits of ourselves is a really hard, really forked, incredibly individual path. We talk to Katie about what her path looked like, and how it's okay to want stuff and things and still be spiritual and shit. And some profound realizations along the way. Humor and pathos, right this way! Master Healer and Akashic Records Reader Katie Rubin spent 4 years at The University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism releasing her own trauma, opening her Spiritual Channel, and developing her Healing Skills and Psychic Abilities. She has since attended two other four-year-long Energy Healing Institutions including Lisa Barnett's Advanced Akashic Records Reading Training. Katie now uses the panoply of Divine Light Healing skills she's gained to serve her private and group healing clients, as she is directed to do so by the client's system, and The Divine itself. Lastly, In her nationally touring Comedic Healing Events known to her audiences as "Everything All At Once, an Irreverent Healing Event" Katie speaks deeply and intimately on the topics of trauma healing, spirituality, consciousness, personal purpose, the small-s self, The Big-S Self, God, Unity, and Oneness all while delivering wildly inappropriate jokes, singing apropos-to-the-moment songs, and sharing true stories from her life. Her talks (or shows) are Raw, Real, Hilarious and Game-Changing for her audiences. Blending question and answer style group processing with comedic storytelling, Katie's events will bring you clarity, awakening, awareness, laughter, joy and quite possibly some tears. So bring your tissues and your sense of humor, cuz it's bound to be a wild ride, indeed. Follow Katie on IG: @klrubin Learn more about her and book a reading on her website: www.katierubin.com Follow us! On IG: @art.fully.grounded On FB: @art.fully.grounded On Twitter: @AFGpod Podcast's website: www.sweptbythewind.com/podcast 

More doubt and confusion! We are here for it. We are living it. We dig into it with Ali. She talks to us about growing up deeply Jewish and both the gifts and the questions she found on that path. We investigate the power of nature, long walks, and regular showers. And how the body holds all our secrets. As an actor, Ali has performed on Broadway and off, and in venues across the country including The Roundabout Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, Cincinnati playhouse in the park, Fault Line Theatre, Barrington Stage and more. Ali loves movement theater and recently completed the international residency program with Frantic Assembly in London. As a painter, her saturated, rhythmic use of color to paint women's bodies and faces, describes the womxn up against herself. She questions the scope of femininity by capturing moments of rage, torture, complacency, joy, nostalgia, and desire. Ali is an expressionist with occasional abstract tendencies. Ali has taught art all over the world with Artists Striving To End Poverty, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDs. Ali is a certified Yoga instructor specializing in Vinyasa, Yin, Hatha, hot yoga and Meditation. Follow her on IG: @mayimarts For this week's "do," check out all the amazing organizations helping Ukraine that need your support: https://www.obama.org/updates/help-ukraine/   Follow us: On IG: @art.fully.grounded On FB: @art.fully.grounded On Twitter: @AFGpod Podcast's website: www.sweptbythewind.com/podcast 

We dive right in with Ato's Guides on this one.  The channel was open and we let the information flow.  There was a visit from his grandmother, some direct energy healing, and some insightful deep dives into all Ato's going through right now.

On this episode, we chat with actor, theater-maker, and educator Ato Blankson-Wood, who recently starred in Slave Play on Broadway and who can be seen in When They See Us, BlacKkKlansman, The Good Fight, among others. Ato is on the faculty of the Completely Ridiculous Training Center.  He is also a member of The Actors Center, and a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the Yale School of Drama. We talk about dark nights of the soul, spirituality grounding us through the pandemic, and how roles seem to come at the perfect time to help teach you lessons you need to know if your physical life.⁠ Follow Ato on IG: @ablanksonwood Our Dos this week: https://fairfight.com/ https://climatepower.us/ https://www.evergreenaction.com/   Follow us: On IG: @art.fully.grounded On FB: @art.fully.grounded On Twitter: @AFGpod Podcast's website: www.sweptbythewind.com/podcast 

On this BONUS Episode with Dina Shihabi from Netflix's Archive 81, Clea pulls some cards on Dina's move into the spotlight. There's a lot of dramatic jewelry, some kickass heels, and a helping of wisdom on the uselessness of other people's opinions.   Dina IG - @shihabidina Twitter - @dinashihabi Follow us - On IG: @art.fully.grounded On FB: @art.fully.grounded On Twitter: @AFGpod Podcast's website: www.sweptbythewind.com/podcast 

On this episode, we interview the radiant Dina Shihabi, just a week before Clea's mom passed, and just days before Archive 81 premiered. She opened up about the pressures of exposure, meditating on set in the desert, and how feeling your pain can be the most profound spiritual practice of all. Dina Shihabi is a Saudi Arabian born actress, writer, and producer. She is currently starring in the Netflix thriller Archive 81 (ranked #1 in the US and in the World!!). She can also be seen in Jack Ryan, Ramy, Altered Carbon, and the upcoming Painkiller on Netflix. Donate to Planned Parenthood Great Plains in Honor of Rebecca Deaton: https://www.weareplannedparenthood.org/OV3wYRuSA0Ow65uBV6xBGA2?mrasn=811992.1009424.vzBmYXl1 Dina IG - @shihabidina Twitter - @dinashihabi Follow us - On IG: @art.fully.grounded On FB: @art.fully.grounded On Twitter: @AFGpod Podcast's website: www.sweptbythewind.com/podcast   

On this BONUS episode, Ruibo gives Janie some tough love advice on creativity and release from the cards and her spirit guides. We all block ourselves, so how do we remove the blocks? How can we be intentional about what we want to manifest for ourselves while also releasing control of the outcome? A conundrum indeed. We get into it. Book your own session with Ruibo at www.thekingprincess.com   Follow us! On IG: @art.fully.grounded On FB: @art.fully.grounded On Twitter: @AFGpod Podcast's website: www.sweptbythewind.com/podcast