Sit With Snit

For our eleventh episode, we're sitting with the dynamic Rebbetzin Yaffa Palti. In all her work, Yaffa combines her extensive expertise, compassionate approach, and deep-rooted values to inspire and empower women. Through the wisdom of Torah, she provides a roadmap for personal growth, enabling women to live on purpose, with intention, and make choices that lead to a fulfilling and meaningful life.

Without further ado, here's the four steps in being able to marry yourself, first. Feel free to reach out and DM me on Instagram and show your love by liking this episode, sharing it with friends, or even contributing and being a patron. And as always, it's all lessons and blessings.

For our tenth episode, we're sitting with a boss, an incredible woman, and, I hope, a future friend. Sabrina Alexis Bendory. Sabrina's a pioneering blogger entrepreneur, Mom, who keeps filling in all the titles, is globally recognized as a dating expert, Relationship Expert, and an incredibly published author. She co-founded the website new mode, where she wrote relatable and insightful articles about relationship dynamics that have helped millions of women achieve the love they desire. I'm plugging in her books. You've seen it on my social.

Today, Sabrina is one of the most authoritative and popular sources for dating advice on Tiktok and Instagram. She also publishes weekly columns on relationships for Thought Catalog and is very much a sought-after life coach. When we recorded this episode, she told me the lineup for the rest of her day, which was back-to-back. I have her best-selling book, "You're Overthinking It: Find Lifelong Love By Being Your True Self, published this year. And it is fantastic. What drew me to Sabrina was the collaboration she is working on with my dear friend and mentor, Ayelet Polonsky, on manifesting your soulmate. It's a masterclass out now, so you should look into it. But more importantly, I just wanted to have a conversation with Sabrina and open the platform on many different topics, but more importantly, the power of our attitude.

So, what you'll see with this episode is just jumping around, and we go into her archives of knowledge. And we hear a bit about the male perspective of dating, which is what Sabrina initially started exploring relationships with. So are you ready to see a whole 360 of the dating experience? Without further ado, here's the power of owning your dating experience. Feel free to reach out and DM me on Instagram and show your love by liking this episode, sharing it with friends, or even contributing and being a patron. And as always, it's all lessons and blessings.

For our ninth episode, we're sitting with one of my favorite Jewish content creators and longtime girl crushes, Bari Mitzmann. Bari is a wife, mother, and founder of Hakol B'Seder, the nonprofit where she aims to create content that inspires while meeting people where they are at. In her spare time, she is also a content creator, social media marketing consultant, and host of the Woman of Valor podcast. Bari also writes a weekly email sharing some of her thoughts that remain off of her social media. To subscribe, click here!  

This episode with Bari made me realize how much in common we share; we both started our debuts on Instagram aspiring to be modest fashion bloggers and, while still channeling our inner fashionistas, have pivoted over the years and found our voices. Bari uses her platform to be a tremendous advocate for both mental health and chronic illness and continues to amaze us all with her vulnerability, accountability, and fresh personality. Our conversation walks us through Bari's own journey with dating and her experiences with her own mental distress while also addressing the prominent community issues and stigmas regarding mental health in dating as a whole.  

So, are you ready to see mental health as everything other than a red flag? Without further ado, here's to acknowledging that your mental health matters! Feel free to reach out and DM me on Instagram and show your love by liking this episode and sharing it with friends. And as always, it's all lessons and blessings. 

Welcome back to the second season of the Sit With Snit podcast. This season is focussed explicitly on sitting with singlehood; how to live a meaningful life while still searching for your life partner. We process ideas and topics by engaging in thought-provoking conversations with different speakers. For our eighth episode, we're bringing back my dear friend and incredible human, Ariella Azaraf. 

You may remember Ariella from her episode on Sit With Snit's first season, Sitting WIth Freedom and we are lucky enough to have her back this season to share more of her wisdom on cultivating a healthy relationship with yourself. Ariella is a psychotherapist in private practice and speaker in NYC. She enjoys working with adolescents, young professionals/emerging adults struggling with anxiety and depression, navigating relationships and boundaries, and learning to cultivate a sense of self. 

With a unique lens of self-compassion and self-acceptance, Ariella feels passionate about helping and empowering individuals to work through their struggles while also holding space for self-compassion. On this episode, you will hear us both discuss the steps needed to cultivate and sustain a healthy relationship with yourself and how the experience of getting to know yourself can help you connect with people and the world around you on a deeper level. 

So, are you ready to start giving yourself the love and acceptance you deserve? Without further ado, here's to becoming a better you for yourself and your future relationship! Feel free to reach out and DM me on Instagram and show your love by liking this episode and sharing it with friends. And as always, it's all lessons and blessings. 

 Welcome back to the second season of the Sit WIth Snit podcast. This season is focussed explicitly on sitting with singlehood; how to live a meaningful life while still searching for your life partner. We process ideas and topics by engaging in thought-provoking conversations with different speakers.  For our seventh episode, a dear mentor/soul sister/friend of mine, a woman who I wouldn't be sitting here right now on this platform if I hadn't met year six years ago in Israel. I have so much love and gratitude for this episode's guest, Ayelet Polonsky.

 Ironically, when I met Ayelet, I could not sit still through meditation if my life depended on it. Now, here I am, hosting a podcast called Sit With Snit. If only I had known what I was always truly capable of back then, I cannot imagine the lengths I would be climbing today. But need I digress; Ayelet's been on my journey alongside me, coaching me and helping me through the many iterations of myself.  

Ayelet is an adventure-loving, green-living, yoga-obsessed Life Coach and Therapist trained in Cognitive Behavioral and Narrative Therapy. Ayelet has learned from her many life experiences both in India and Israel and now provides individuals with resources and tools to make manifestation simple, sourced in both Kabbalah and Psychology. Initially, we wanted to discuss manifesting one's husband for this episode, but what this episode turned into is more of a pre-requisite, discussing the work you have to do before you are ready to manifest. 

So, do you want to break free from the blockages preventing you from manifesting your desired life? So, without further ado, here's the first of future conversations on manifesting your soulmate. Feel free to reach out and DM me on Instagram and show your love by liking this episode and sharing it with friends. And always, it's all lessons and blessings. 

Hanukkah is an auspicious time when there is tremendous light for us to extract, especially as women. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov teaches that after you light the candles of Hanukkah, it is a segula (remedy) to stay seated and to pray next to them for at least half an hour. This allows your prayers to be answered much faster. Even more, it is brought down by the Kedushas HaLevi that there is something specifically special to pray for each night of the holiday. The second night is a special pipeline to pray for one’s soulmate and if one is already married, continued peace in the home. I had my dear friend and LCSW Rebecca Marcus record this meditation for me a few months back. For over a decade, Rebecca has provided holistic therapy for millennial women ready for love. Through sharing this meditation with you all, we hope you can better harness your inner light, have clarity and pray your heart out.

For our third episode, we're sitting with one of my favorite people, Kelsey Grinstein. I always felt such a kindred connection with Kelsey and knew that I wanted to translate our connection in a new way for this podcast. Kelsey is a certified Life Coach. Her passion is partnering with her clients to discover their truest selves to accomplish their unique missions. She believes having purpose driven-goals fused with practical actions is the ultimate recipe for sustainable and meaningful growth. 

In this episode, Kelsey and I discuss the importance of cultivating the "self" and revealing your purpose. The person you want to be when you are married shouldn't need to wait until you have a ring on your finger; you can be that woman now. We hope that through this episode, more women can harness the innate strength of becoming their highest selves, and that in that process, and embrace all that makes them unique.  

Without further ado, are you ready to join us in sitting with your purpose? Feel free to reach out and DM me on Instagram and show your love by liking this episode and sharing it with friends. And don't forget, it's all lessons and blessings. ✨💗🧿

Welcome back to the second season of the Sit With Snit podcast. This season is focused explicitly on sitting with singlehood; how to live a meaningful life while still searching for your life partner. We process ideas and topics by engaging in thought-provoking conversations with different speakers. For our second episode, I'm delighted to introduce you to my dear friend, mentor, and powerhouse known as Dassi Zar. Dassi is a former doula, hypnobirthing child educator, and yoga instructor. She reinvented herself and became most known as the director and main Chabad schlucha for the downtown Manhattan community of young professionals. She's recently created a community for Jewish Women called Keter Rising, where Jewish women rise up through connection, education, and inspiration. 

I've known Dassi for almost 10 years, having met her as a college roommate of mine's sister-in-law. It's unbelievable to witness her growth as an individual and I have tremendous gratitude for the roles she's played in my journey. I knew I always wanted to foster a conversation with Dassi for this show because she is one of the few women who have taught me to embrace my flavor of Judaism and own all that comes with it. In addition, we just speak the same language and finding someone like that is rare.  In this episode, you'll hear us speak on a myriad of the complexities that come with the single life and how one of the best tools you have at your disposal is to surrender. The sooner you learn it, the better you will feel throughout your life.

Without further ado, are you ready to join us in sitting with surrendering? Feel free to reach out and DM me on Instagram and show your love by liking this episode and sharing it with friends. And don't forget, it's all lessons and blessings. ✨💗🧿

Welcome back to the second season of the Sit With Snit podcast. This season is focused explicitly on sitting with singlehood; how to live a meaningful life while still searching for your life partner. We process ideas and topics by engaging in thought-provoking conversations with different speakers. I'm still determining what came first; the idea for this season's theme or our first guest speaker, my dear friend, and colleague Remi Stern. 

Remi and I met while attending undergrad at Boston University. Both experienced a tremendous spiritual awakening in our Judaism that would later help shape the path of our lives. Nearly 6 years later, I knew I wanted to speak with her about the importance of self-love in our journeys. Remi's forte and mission as a certified life and health coach are to help bridge the gap between where we are in life and where we want to be. So without further ado, are you ready to join us in sitting with self-love?

As always, if you enjoyed this episode, let us know! Feel free to reach out and DM me on Instagram and show your love by liking this episode and sharing it with friends. And don't forget, it's all lessons and blessings. ✨💗🧿

How did I get to this knowledge, you may ask? I've done a lot of inner work that I can now invite myself, my full self, into the silence. I remember reading Glennon Doyle's "Untamed" and deeply resonating when she introduced to readers the concept of "the knowing." After convincing herself that at least ten minutes a day would help her find herself in her closet since, at best, she took eighty minutes finding her lost keys. "This place is underneath; low, deep, quiet, still. There are no voices there, not even my own. All I can hear down there is my breath. It was as though I’d been drowning, and in my panic, I had been gasping for air, calling for rescue, and flailing on the surface. But what I really needed to do to save myself was let myself sink...I can know things down at this level that I can’t on the chaotic surface. Down here, when I pose a question about my life — in words or abstract images — I sense a nudge. The nudge guides me toward the next precise thing, and then, when I silently acknowledge the nudge — it fills me. The Knowing feels like warm liquid gold filling my veins and solidifying just enough to make me feel steady, certain."

What Doyle calls "The Knowing," I call my neshama, my G-dly infinite spark. When I allow myself to get quiet and sit with things without fear or judgment, my soul speaks to me and fills me in on everything I need to know, and now I invite us all to engage in such an experience until the next season of the Sit With Snit podcast. So, are you ready for some reflection with your girl? 

 This week on the Sit With Snit podcast, we will be exploring the channels of freedom with a dear friend, spiritual mentor, and licensed clinical social worker, Ariella Azaraf. Ariella and I met through our time working together at Meor Manhattan and building neighbors on the Upper West Side. In addition to her private practice work, Ariella is also the head of mental health and Manhattan Day School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I truly feel there is no better person more equipped to help students navigate their internal worlds than Ariella, and after hearing our conversation, you will feel the same. With specialties ranging from anxiety to self-esteem and more, Ariella's approach to her practice involves a strengh-based perspective where we all can harness our potential and break free from the confines of what is nonessential to our being. Ariella and I are fluent in the language of fusing spirituality with psychology, and we hope that through our dialogue, you can tap into the essential part of who you are and liberate yourself from that which holds you back. Are you ready to sit with freedom? 

 This week on the Sit With Snit podcast, we will be hearing from a dear friend and mentor of mine, Rebecca Marcus. As an esteemed Licensed Clinal Social Worker, having received her master's degree from New York University Silver School of Social Work focusing on clinical practice and trauma, Rebecca is an expert in her field and a lifelong learner. I always turn to Rebecca whenever I feel frustrated with my own mindfulness practices; I turn to Rebecca to bring in a voice of acceptance, clarity, and compassion. We conveyed the notion that meditation is a practice that involves no judgment and being present. Dan Harris, the author of 10% Happier, writes that “meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.” Rebecca helps us understand this phenomenon while simultaneously sharing tools to ground ourselves in our minds and body, tuning into the present moment. Sit with us and stay tuned as Rebecca leads us in short and worthwhile mindfulness practice. 

On this week's episode of the Sit With Snit podcast, we will be sitting with Alex Abel Segal, Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Chai On Life magazine, an online publication for the passionate Jewish woman. Alex holds editorial experience in publications such as Seventeen Magazine to StyleWatch & People. For the young professional who aims to live the quintessential Manhattan experience, Alex is your ideal mentor. What made me respect Alex, even more was how she embraced her innate desire to connect to her spiritual identity, which is no easy task. Putting the glamorous and independent city lifestyle on hold, Alex would soon find herself in Israel. There, she met her husband and shortly after moved across the world to Moscow, Russia, where she would later live and start her family. Rather than divorcing herself from her past and her G-d given talents, she elevated them. By creating a means where Jewish women can share their experiences, show up as thought leaders, and ultimately inspire others alike, Chai on Life was born.  So if you've been sitting on an idea for far too long or feel that maybe it's just a passion project, look no further. So, are you ready to sit with courage?

On this week's episode of the Sit With Snit podcast, we will be sitting with Sami Sage, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Betches Media. Host for The Betches Sup, Morning Announcements, and Diet Starts Tomorrow podcasts. We decided to transition our Instagram DM relationship behind the mic for a meaningful discussion, one surrounding a phenomenon in our society that hits home for both of us. Dieting is very common in American culture. Almost half of all Americans have tried to lose weight in the past 12 months (the rate is higher among women), studies show. Diet culture focuses on body image, claiming one will be happier if they are thinner, often setting impossible or unattainable goals. Hardly anyone speaks about the aftermath of serving "perfection" on an unattainable platter (no pun intended.) Sami's bravery in sharing part of her story with us gives me the strength to start sharing mine. I'm ready to open the door from my past with love and acceptance; are you prepared to sit with snit?

Meet Liza Sakhaie; the impressive and stylish innovator who after leaving her dream job at Bloomingdales at the brink of the Corona pandemic, allowed the space for her own venture to come forth and shine. Founder and CEO of The Reflective, a community for the modern career-driven professionals, dedicated mothers, and fearless female leaders, Liza along with her team of trailblazing fashion reporters, breaks the assumed stereotypes around modesty.

On this episode of the Sit With It podcast, we'll be discussing what it was like for this Manhattan raised, Persian queen to become more spiritually connected to her Judaism while studying at NYU's Stern School of Business, how her continued love for Fashion has transcended what she thought were her limitations and ultimately, the beauty that can be fostered when we let go and trust the process of our lives. Without further ado, I'm Hannah and you're listening to the Sit With It podcast.