Sipping Sovereign Tea
By Britt Dorazio
Britt Dorazio is a multi-disciplinary artist, meditation guide, and social emotional arts facilitator. She is dedicated to creating spaces, experiences, and conversations where people can listen to each other, that are at the intersection of creative expression and inner space exploration.
Sipping Sovereign TeaDec 02, 2021
Coax Marie: Follow the Feeling
Welcome to another conversation, friends! Today we chat with Coax Marie and it is so incredibly empowering. If you are an artist, a person who feels connected to spirit, an entrepreneur, a seeker, a lover.... TUNE IN.
There's more super in our human than we think. With the intention to help you sit in your dynamic power and reprogram your subconscious mind, Coax Marie creates affirmations to help you to experience the truth that lives within-- that your existence isn't here to be questioned, it's here to be celebrated. However, she’s found in her own life that music can only take her so far. In her journey of pushing to get the music heard by the masses, she stumbled into another life purpose— mastery of the energetic strategy to sustain success. As a manifestation strategist, she helps fellow healers and thought leaders harness their creative power to design their dream reality— from the inside out. Intuitive Manifesting, her signature framework, is a mix of spirituality and science that’s designed to bring understanding to what’s not working and why it’s not working so that you can create a custom strategy to embody the intuitive confidence many creatives are missing today.
Stay connected with Coax: @coaxmarie | coaxmarie.com
The Peace Dealer: The Guided Path
Welcome to an energizing episode with Michael Nnebe Jr., aka.. THE PEACE DEALER. The Peace Dealer is a world recognized astrologer who has been interpreting natal charts for over 10 years. He seeks to ground divine and cosmic understanding in practical ways people can use to bring magic and freedom into their lives. We really get a generous glimpse into what led him to astrology. We talk extensively about his Christian background and how astrology actually brought him closer to Jesus. We talk about the importance of not separating spirituality and science, finding modalities that are complete, rhetorical indoctrination, worth, peace and chaos, and trusting that we are being guided by our intuition and a higher source. All we have to do is listen! Enjoy. Below are ways to support The Peace Dealer's work!
Artur Kirillov: Truth & Contribution
Hello everyone! Today is a very special episode! I had the chance to sit and interview my incredible partner, Artur Kirillov. Artur is a mixed martial artist and trainer, tech enthusiast, philosophy analyst, and breath practitioner. He immigrated from Uzbekistan and grew up in Brooklyn, NY, which provided dynamic life experiences that have led him to a life of commitment to self improvement and service.
We cover lots of topics that make Artur, Artur. He provides really valuable perspectives around growing up in Uzbekistan, truth, expansion and contraction, intellectual dishonesty, coinciding realities, and service. I hope this episode provides some inquiry around how you engage with your own contribution to your reality and your community.
Please please rate and review this podcast!! It is so helpful.
Thank you for being here. BIG LOVE.
Zeniba Now: Intentional Observation
Friends! Welcome to the first conversation episode of the season. I am so grateful and excited for you to hear the wisdom from the SORCERESS, Zeniba Now. ZENIBA NOW is an award-winning creator whose writings, musicals, songs, and performances have been seen all over the world and all over the internet. She describes herself as a musical storyteller and artscientist working in various mediums and with subject matters ranging from quantum liberatory sci-fi to gynecology slapstick. If you’re curious about upcoming productions and releases please connect with Z’s work via www.zenibanow.com.
Z speaks about some projects that she has created like The Loophole that she created with Jay Adana,
as well as her new upcoming album Wholly Chill that she created with Rodney Bush.
What to Look Forward to in Season 2!
WELCOME FRIENDS to a new iteration of Sipping Sovereign Tea. In this episode I give a short description of what to look forward to in this season. I'm at the point in my life where I am trying to view the whole scope of things, humble myself, and come from a place of curiosity rather than judgement. In this season I will be interviewing people who I may not agree with, people who may have completely different views than me, and some people who I don't know personally. Ultimately.. I hope part of my contribution to this world is to help bring us closer to our intuition, build bridges with each other, and deepen our relationship with the land. As always, if you ever want to chat.. feel free to reach out!
PLEASE CONTINUE TO RATE, REVIEW, SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, AND SHARE!
BIG LOVE.
Wrap up of Season 1 & Calling our Energy Back Meditation
Hello beautiful friends! We have reached the final moment of this iteration of Sipping Sovereign Tea. I am in a very distinct moment of transition in my life and I want to give a transitional moment into the next phase of the podcast. We are about to move into more conversations and practices that may be a bit different. I'm curious to challenge myself to challenge myself and interview more people that embody the disruptor archetype. The intention of this podcast is to showcase a variety of different perspectives and ways to embody our own highest truths. That can look like so many things. I am excited to dive into this next phase!
In this episode we do a re-cap from all of the previous episodes and at the end there is a meditation focusing on calling our energy back. I know for me, I have given my energy and power away in many ways. I've been pulled out of myself more times than I can count. I want to offer this practice to anyone that feels like they need to shake off any debris that is not theirs and call back any energy that is rightfully their own!
A big big big thank you to everyone who has come and joined in conversation this season, as well as all of you for your love and support. Another shout out to Julieta Varela who created the artwork for SST and Francis Aud who created the theme music! I love you guys.
Big love everyone!! Enjoy the episode and catch ya in season 2!
Creative Share Out!
Hello beautiful friends! Today is a creative share out! A sovereign share out if you will. We have poems, music, rapping, freestyles, and big HEART from Kim Tillman, Shamikah Christina Martinez, Logan Myles Stacer, Kaili Y. Turner, BWLR, Parris Lewis, RVRLND, & Carmen Borla. Listen to their words. To the LOVE! Multiple times if you gotta! We all met at the BARS Workshop at the Public Theater in New York City in 2018. BARS is a theater-in-verse workshop created by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs. We had 8 weeks of deep collaboration and we loved each other so much we kept creating together. They are some of the most stellar artists and humans that I know! Please follow the links and things to support these beautiful people.
Carmen Borla- IG @carmenborla. BRAVE ONE. Ecos on Spotify.
Jon Butts (RVRLND): IG @jonbuttsishere. jonbuttsishere.com Aghast en Masse EP on Spotify.
Parris Lewis: IG @renaissancewoman_ The Color Purple Nat'l Tour. Easy as Life.
BWLR (Rugz D. Bewler): IG @justbwlr justbwlr.com. Pink Range EP
Kaili Y. Turner: IG @mdamstarlight @comedygoldengals @fkdup_n_fabulous kailiyturner.com
Logan Myles Stacer: IG @loganstacer. HeARTland
Shamikah Christina Martinez: IG @shamikahchristina. shamikahmartinez.com. IMDB.
Kim Tillman: IG @thekimtillman @tragicgadgetband. thekimtillman.com
Jenny Hempen: The Healing is in Our Hands
Welcome back, beautiful hooomans! I'm excited and so so grateful to have my very dear friend, Jenny Hempen with us. Jenny Hempen is a trauma therapist based out of Pittsburgh PA. Prior to this position, she worked as a legal advocate for victims of sexual violence in Allegheny County. Outside of work, Jenny is a reader of good and bad fantasy novels, mushroom hunter, contra-dancer, caver, and life-long friend of Britt. This conversation, in true Taurus fashion (Jenny's a Taurus).. we talk about things like sovereign decisions around religion, ritual, her work as a trauma therapist, holding space for the duality of people, trauma informed space holding, accountability and so much more. I am soooo grateful for this human. Enjoy! Some links below for some things Jenny is involved in.
Catherine Skolnicki: Honoring Our Sacred Cycles
Hi friends! Welcome to a truly grounding episode with one of my very best friends, Catherine Skolnicki. Catherine is here in service to life through stillness, listening, remembering, envisioning, creating, and forever learning. Her current and developing mediums are: herbalism, education, healing and visual arts, photography, and story. We cover many things in this episode. We talk about ways to honor our bodies' cycles, some ways to connect deeper with the land, ancestral healing, and deep compassion and love for self which inevitably means deep compassion and love for others.
@catskolnicki
Here are some resources that we chat about in the episode!
Isis -Rae Goulbourne: Consciously Creating Endless Possibilities
Today we have the incredible Isis-Rae Goulbourne! We cover so much in this episode today.. but it's all centered around the fact that we can do whatever we want! If you think the phrase “anything is possible” is ridiculous, farfetched, and unattainable, then you haven’t met Isis. She lives her life by challenge the notion that we can’t have it all. As the founder and CEO of the digital innovation agency DEUIT, pronounced, “Do It”, she lives from a place not of “that can’t be done,” but rather, “let’s find a way!”
Isis believes that her soul purpose on this planet is to create vehicles of empowerment for others and she does this via the creation products and services that help people live out their dreams and connect with their own soul purpose. Founder of two companies, mother of two small boys, intuitive oracle reader, author, and all around creative badass, she plans to live her life by leaving no portion of untapped personal potential on the table when it’s all said and done.
Come catch a vibe. @ice_is_rae, @DEUIT_HQ
Jayquan Gooding: Heart Knowing
Hi beautiful humans! Welcome to the first episode of 2021. I am so grateful that THIS is the first episode of this energetic shift into this new year. This episode is with my beautiful friend, Jayquan Gooding. Jayquan is a person like you with a big mind and an even bigger heart - his life is a healing journey and he is intentional in service to others within the modalities he practices and lives which include: psychology, reiki, intuitive/spiritual healing & guiding, tarot, and chanting. His role is in service of the heart. He aims to show the way to and through the heart by living life according to heart principles and illuminating that same path for others. Jay is soooo generous in this episode. We talk about deep compassion for self and others, ancestral healing and connection, and of course, sovereignty.
Jayquan Gooding is an intuitive /empathic guide with a B.S. in clinical psychology who is continuing education with the goal of becoming a clinician & therapist to assist in guiding others through healing to sovereignty, empowerment, and enlightenment via the heart.
Please follow the spirit and the work @jayquan.gooding
That Magic: A Song for the Inner Child
Hi beautiful people! We are in the final moments of 2020 and there are many feelings of gratitude and grief. The offering in this episode is a song called That Magic. My creative soulmate, Melissa Modifer and I wrote this song last year. We hope that it provides healing and joy for you.
This song will also be released on Melissa's upcoming album Beautifully Homemade that is being released on January 12, 2021. It will be available on all platforms! Please support her music. She is dedicated to healing herself through music as well as providing so much healing through music for others. Please follow and support her work on IG @melissamodifermusic
I love you. Thank you for all of your support. Happy New Year.
Ren Dara Santiago: Dissolving Narratives through Loving Deeply
Welcome everyone! You're in for some deep nourishment today. Our conversation is with Ren Dara Santiago. We cover so many heart centered things in this conversation. We talk about how to dispel narratives through truly seeing someone's heart, building families, her work as a playwright, and so much more.
Ren is a Big Sister first and foremost! Every space carries Beanie, Butchie, and Kaying. This Fila-Rican playwright was born in the Bronx, raised in Yonkers and Harlem at intersections of Coded Streets and Bodega Avenues. She’s proud of her history and shares in the practice of uplifting the wisdom that comes from her community. From the originators and generators. From creators thriving despite the exploitation of our cultures, loved ones, systematic debts, and geographies. Ren writes stories that activate our potential for deep loving, for brave loving, for healing, for the hustlers. For people that work hard. For the real heroes, who deserve their lives to be honored in stories; complex, expansive, simple and great. Theater should give communities room to dream. To honor the unknowable, conjured by theater-makers of resilient lineages, offering us the opportunity to shift the limits of possibility.
Ren is currently working with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater as the showrunner for the MTA Radio Plays, launching December 13th; and commissions with En Garde Arts, The Drama Club NYC, The Theatre Co, and New York Rep. Ren teaches playwriting at the National Theater Institute, MCC Youth Company, Williams College, and Williamstown Community Works.
She is a founding member of Middle Voice at Rattlestick, a member of Rising Phoenix Rep. She's the recipient of the TOW Foundation 2020 Residency at Rattlestick, Rising Phoenix Rep’s Cornelia Street American Playwriting Award, and the MCC Alumni Award. She’s developed work with The Bushwick Starr, Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Gingold Theatrical Group, LAByrinth, The Lark Play Development Center, MCC Theater, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Rising Phoenix Rep, and SPACE on Ryder Farm.
www.rendarasantiago.com
@rendsanti, @rattlestickny
Gratitude & Relaxation Meditation with Britt
Hello friends! Welcome to the first practice offering of the series. Meditation is a major part of my life and healing journey. I believe intentional stillness is a major key to our liberation. I started leading meditation about 6 years ago and it brings me so much joy. In this practice we will be sinking into some deep relaxation, connection with the heart space, and sending out ripples of gratitude through the body and beyond. This meditation is safe for anyone except for those working through PTSD. If you are someone who deals with PTSD, working with present moment awareness of your environment and being active in the body are safer choices.
Brandon Contreras & Matt Curiano: Joyful, Queer Collaboration
Welcome friends to a ridiculously hilarious and honest conversation with Matt Curiano & Brandon Contreras. Brandon & Matt are the creators of The Homo Sapien Experience which is a sketch comedy series around the queer experience. They have created a beautiful platform for collaboration and community. They are such effervescent souls that will take you on a ride. We cover topics like the many intersections that exist within the community such as race, gender, and body image. We talk about healing, harm, and UNAPOLOGETIC JOY AND HUMOR! Please follow and support their work below!
@the_homo_sapien_experience on IG
The Homo Sapien Experience on Youtube
Matt Curiano is an actor/writer/director/creator. He hails from a place called Schenectady NY, which though it sounds like its own pandemic, is actually a name of a real place. He's lived in NYC for over 10 years now, and though at times it's been a hot mess, its still the most successful relationship he's had. Don't worry though, they're open, and because of that Matt gets a huge thrill of traveling around and meeting new people and discovering queer culture all over. He's most inspired by human empathy and kindness in the face of adversity, and the glorious gift of the human imagination. @mattycake89
Brandon Contreras is an actor, singer, dancer, writer, and creator in NYC. He was last seen in the Broadway bound musical adaptation of the cult hit, Almost Famous. When he's not making bread 7 days a week, he is writing, choreographing, and collaborating with artists all around the country. He hopes to create narratives for the colorful and nuances world more people should see. @ohhey_brandon
Logan Myles Stacer: Sovereign Models of Organization
Welcome to our conversation with Logan Myles Stacer. Logan is a dear friend and collaborator that inspires the masses! He is a shining example of human capacity and potential. He is so rooted in determination, focus, and calm. We cover a lot of things in this episode. Things from the importance of art and public policy, to his recent marriage to his beautiful wife, to faith, to alternative ways of moving through the world! Logan has a non-profit in Kansas City called He[ART]Land which is connecting arts activists, educators, and community members across the Midwest to equip the next generation of creative leaders. Click the link to support the work!
Logan Myles Stacer is an interdisciplinary artist, educator organizer and founder of the nonprofit HE[ART]LAND based in Kansas City. His work at the intersection of art making and public policy has been recognized nationally and internationally, and he's instructed at New York University, Columbia Law School, and currently teaches social justice fine arts at the Ewing Marion Kauffman School.
Mirirai Sithole: Embrace the Pivot
Welcome to our first interview episode with Mirirai Sithole! Mirirai is a person who has taught me so much about how to hold myself in my totality. The love is so deep. We cover many things in this episode ranging from drinking water, to how we can show up in this moment and be adaptable, to how we can allow ourselves to receive in a more empowered way. Please follow and support their spirit and work on IG at @miriraiii & @ayedefy.
Mirirai is an award winning actor, founder of production consulting company AYE DEFY, and an intuitive entrepreneur. She has worked as an actor off-Broadway in New York City as well as regionally in Kentucky, Indiana, Utah, and California. They can be seen on "Black Mirror", "Russian Doll", "Broad City", and more. She holds a BFA in theatre from Adelphi University and completed the apprentice program at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
www.ayedefy.com
Welcome to Sipping Sovereign Tea!
Welcome everyone! I can't believe I'm typing this! Thank you so much for being here. This episode is an opportunity to get to know me, Britt Dorazio, and get to know why sovereignty is the entry point fort this podcast. HUGE gratitude and shout out to Julieta Varela for making the artwork for this project and Francis Aud for creating the music! Check them both out on instagram. @julietamaracuja & @francisaudmusic.
BIG HUGE LOVE TO YOU ALL!