The Empowered Intuitive

This episode was chosen on IG by all the Witchy and Weird followers as the topic you'd want me to cover for this extra special solo episode! I often work with nature in my business, the products I make, and in my everyday relationship with magick. Nature is such a readily available force of magick that we can all tap into and recognize on a deep, ancient cellular level. I cover how to create a deeper relationship with nature by working with trees right in your neighborhood, how to tap into the Earth's natural frequency for grounding, and different ways to incorporate nature magick into your life to make the daily living more fantastical!

This week I spoke with the acclaimed Vanessa Codorniu! She is a long time psychic who has had such an interesting journey to reclaiming her heritage, culture, and psychic gifts. Her story is super inspiring and insightful for folks looking to find their path, honor their ancestors, and surrender to their guides! We chatted about everything from crazy psychic experiences to cultural reclamation. Vanessa is truly a force that has put in the time and work on her personal journey which has led to so much success in her business.

ABOUT VANESSA:
Vanessa Codorniu is an acclaimed bilingual Latina wellbeing activist and teacher of clinical hypnosis, intuition for business and international healing practices with over 20 years of experience and more than 12,000 sessions. Her wellness expertise has been featured on Shape, iHeartRadio, HOLA!, Yahoo News, Travel Channel, Telemundo, Univision, HipLatina, BeLatina, Refinery29 and LATV, and she is a host on The Shift Network.

Known as a teacher of teachers and healer of healers, Vanessa is an acclaimed international intuition teacher, clinical hypnotherapist and soul business mentor who has hosted more than 12,000 intuitive sessions in the US and Latin America in her 20 years of service.

As creator of The School of the Healing Artes, Vanessa has integrated her 20 years as a clinical hypnotherapist, priestess, shamanic practitioner, astrologer and teacher of intuition, Reiki and the Akashic Records to create her signature transformative and enriching experience that yields practical tools and lasting inner shifts. The renowned Argentine-American started doing readings at 16 after her family confirmed that she was seeing and knowing things accurately about people who were no longer with them. She guides seekers to break through fears and connect to the practical power of their intuition so they can serve the world powerfully with their gifts.

The host of the Biz Bruja Podcast since October 2019, Vanessa is a writer for The Examiner, Wild Woman Rising and a co-author of 365 Ways to Connect with Your Soul. Vanessa was on the board of REVEAL: The Next Generation of Women Spiritual Leaders Conference along with Meggan Watterson, Gabby Bernstein, Latham Thomas, Rha Goddess and others. She’s guided souls along other teachers including Marianne Williamson at Rock Your Voice Woman! Conference. Vanessa is proud of her work as an empowerment facilitator for over 400 future young women leaders at the Bella Abzug Young Women's Leadership Institute, creating innovative courses to support self-empowerment, inclusivity and diversity. She has spoken and led workshops inNYC, Miami, LA, Costa Rica and Panama and online around the globe.

This weeks episode with Erin was really fun and full of linking 'aha' moments for me. I love meeting business and money people who understand the reality of trauma and societal standing. I love people who treat healing as a process and holistic practice that can be applied to all areas of our life. Needless to say our convo was super enlightening, full of Tinder date stories and how they can be used to benchmark your healing process and how we can remove stored money trauma in our bodies through resourcing, removing shame, and somatic healing.

ABOUT ERIN:
Erin Monahan, she/her, is a trauma-informed, anti-capitalist mindset coach, certified Trauma of Money facilitator, astrologer, writer, speaker, and founder of Vesta Business School, as well as Terra Incognita Media. She’s a feminist killjoy, proud slut, and podcast host of OFF THE DEEP. Erin helps anti-capitalist, spiritual entrepreneurs heal their relationship with self-worth, money, and resources, so they can cultivate financial well-being without compromising their integrity.

This week I was joined by Elia Diane Fushi Bekene (selflove_tribute)!!! Elia is a multifaceted healer and source of wisdom. We chatted about their journey to becoming an artist, channel, and ancestral healer and I absolutely loved their perspective and advice on ancestral healing and moving through transitional times. Elia approached ancestral healing from such a worldly, ancient perspective that is soooo different from what I have learned from others. They see healing in every relationship we have and understand that ancestors don't have to be related in order to learn from them. This ideology (paired with their personal healing journey) inspired their amazing tarot deck that will be coming out very soon!!! 

ABOUT ELIA:
Elia/selflovetribute (they/them/theirs) is a light-skinned Black trans non-binary ancestral wound alchemist, wxtch and artist living & working between Marseille and Berlin. They work with divination arts such as Reiki, Tarot, astrology & hypnosis.

Drawing from ancestral knowledge, their practice is rooted in weaving ancient and modern practices into tangible healing tools that are in support of ancestral healing, radical self-love and collective liberation. This practice is grounded in an intimate relationship with the land and the more than human, Spirit, Ancestry, the Elements.

This week I am flying solo and sharing my vast psychic and observational insights on MANIFESTATION!!! Manifesting is such a popular topic and focus in the new age and witchcraft realms with mostly every modern human wanting to have more and better lives. With such a focus on wanting things to be better it baffles my mind that there isn't more widely accepted manifestation methods or more push back for the lackluster popular ones that everyone uses. In the episode I break down the LOA (Law of Attraction) and popular manifestation formula that stems from it to point out the flaws and limitations with being high vibe all the time and the ableist/racist nature of these formulas for success. I also talk about my trials and successes with manifestation and downloads or options that you can employ to make your manifestation methods work for you!

This week I was joined by the cozy water witch Ambra!!! Ambra brings a much needed self care focus to this overworked, burnt out, productive  society. We chatted about redefining self care and using foundational principles to guide your body and self care practice. Ambra shared their uber grounding and practical steps for creating a restorative and maintaining self care practice that actually works for you and doesn't create more pressure and shame when its too hard to maintain. This is definitely a great episode to relisten to over and over again. 

ABOUT AMBRA:
Ambra (they/them) is a queer, intuitive witch and certified life coach supporting folks who care about social change to prevent and heal from burnout with anti-capitalist and Elemental wellbeing. Their practices are rooted in Italian folk magic, encouraging self-discovery and tailored approaches to self and collective care.

This episode is for all the creative witches out there!!!! Cristina and I chatted about the creative process and how we can give ourselves more permission to create in a way that feels natural to us. How capitalism has affected creatives and some ways to unlearn or challenge programs that interfere with your natural creative notions. We also talked about how Cristina uses astrology as a tool to help creatives find deeper understanding and meaning in their personal relationship to creativity and creation. She basically takes the traditional houses and planets and uses them as metaphors for the creative process to see how different aspects of your life affect your relationship to/experience with creativity and the beauty you are birthing into the world. 

ABOUT CRISTINA:
" Cristina is a professional astrologer and musician based in Italy. Through her Hellenistic astrological framework, an academic background in Cultural Anthropology and her extensive experience as a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, she specializes in helping achingly sensitive artists and wildly ambitious creatives alchemize passion, pain and doubt into self-actualization and success.

Reimagining astrology as a tool to uncover creative gifts and nurture artistic potential is the overarching goal of her work.

Welcome to the first installment of Lunar Forecast!!!! Every lunar month cycle Autumn (Daisy) Tai and Bre the Malefic will be joining us to gaze at the stars and learn just a little bit more about what the hell is going on with these crazy beautiful cosmos!!!! This month's episode spans from June 28th to July 28th, kicking it off with our New Moon in Cancer and ending with the start of Leo season!
We had so much fun breaking down the major planetary transits of this moon cycle, what type of feels to expect, how to use them to your advantage, how they relate to current events and pop culture. Plus we share our hot takes for Umbrella Academy and Stranger Things at the end!!!

This week I had the pleasure of chatting all about unlearning colonial ideals, reclaiming your spiritual and ancestral identity, and minimizing harm in wellness spaces with Constanza Eliana Chinea. Constanza provided some deeply grounding insight into reclaiming your culture and spirituality while existing in colonial and capitalistic structures. We talked about the best mindset and practices to adopt as you sift through the sometimes overwhelming pieces of unlearning and empowering your spiritual practice to reflect your authentic self and experience whilst minimizing harm. 

ABOUT CONSTANZA:
Constanza Eliana Chinea (She/Her) is a Brown Latine Decolonial educator, journalist, producer, speaker, activist, and mental wellness advocate with over 11 years of experience in the wellness industry and over 400 hours of training in Yoga, trauma, and anti-racism.

This episode I'm getting vulnerable (again!). Lots of lessons came to light for me during mercury retrograde and eclipse season and I wanted to share them with you! In the episode I talk about recognizing your fear, maintaining boundaries, questioning everything, and being super honest with yourself. Hope your retrograde was less of a kick in the pants and more of an illumination period!!! 

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This week I am joined by Gwen Walsh and we had the juiciest conversation about living a life of pleasure! Gwen fuses tarot reading with sex education to help people shed their trauma and shame around pleasure and connect deeper to their magic practice. In this episode, Gwen answered all my sex magic questions, talked about her personal magic and deity practice, and shared her refreshing philosophy on living a pleasure based life. 

ABOUT GWEN:
Gwen is a sex educator, tarot reader, and mentor. She graduated from the University of Southern Maine with a B.A. in Women’s Studies and a minor in Holistic and Integrative Health. In her work, Gwen integrates academic and intuitive guidance to provide her clients with psychic insight and strategic support.

Since retrograde and the eclipse season started, I have been reminded of a pattern that I, and many other people fall prey to in the spiritual communities, of trying to heal our trauma and shadows without having all the tools to do so. This creates a harmful pattern that further triggers our body and doesn't support us where we are at in the moment. 

Of course this pattern is something that is dangled in front of us as a promise of living our our highest timeline, one that can make us feel less than when we inevitably can't heal as quickly as we want to. 

This week I FINALLY had the immense privilege of hosting Pea the Feary on the podcast! I have been following and working with Pea since they were doing solely human design readings and their HD reading I got from them was extremely life affirming for me. But Pea has been working in the more meta realms helping others timeline jump into their next desired reality in a very unique way and I got to pick her brain about it!
We talked all about how to observe your current timeline, locate your desires, and bridge the gap between the two to help you get closer and closer to your every changing desires reality. Pea's low pressure lifestyle philosophy is super refreshing and will definitely help you to question the way you are running your daily life and make it loads easier to support your human nature, as opposed to constantly changing it.

ABOUT PEA:
I am Pea the Feary I am an Afrofuturist artist and spirit-masseur. My work is about possibility, potential, beauty and realization. I believe life is art and so my life is about  possibility, potential, beauty and realization. With this life I am creating the most beautiful piece I can while opening portals others do the same if they would like. I want creatives, non-linear, multidimensional geniuses to know they can thrive in this world. You can be yourself and be free and have power over your reality and I am here to share that message.

This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Tia Johnson on the podcast!!!! We chatted about her work with goddesses and how they helped her transform her daily life into a walking altar of ritual and magic. We broke down what a spiritual lifestyle is and how Tia helps empower others to discover their own dream lifestyle and use spirituality to unlock it for them. Hint: it involves a whole lot of permission giving and societal norm unsubscribing! Tia shared her life altering tips for how to start building your own dream lifestyle and easy magic rituals you can fold in to do so!

ABOUT TIA:
Tia Johnson mentors spiritually centered to people break free from society’s obsolete and oppressive lifestyle standards to crack the code of their spiritual gifts, heal, reconnect with the goddesses, and live their truth to create the magickal life of their desires. Tia does this by providing intuitive insights, certified spiritual healing practices, and lifestyle strategies through masterminds, summits, and retreats.

This week I was joined by the Venusian Goddess Gabriela Rosales (a.k.a. The Stylist Witch) to talk all things astrology and CLOTHES! Gabi shared her oh-so-interesting knowledge about dressing for the astrology seasons, days, and pairing them with your own birth chart to invite in magic and ease into your life!!!! Did you know that certain aesthetics and colors are associated with certain signs/days??? (Whhaaaat!!!!) Gabi shared her glamour magic insight on turning your closet into a consecrated temple to your vessel, so that you can step out into the world everyday embodying your higher self through endless color magic. You aren't going to want to miss this fashionable ep!

ABOUT GABI
Gabriela Rosales (rose-ah-lez) a.k.a. The Stylist Witch
Gabriela is a fashion stylist and glamour witch based in Southern California, specializing in the use of one’s wardrobe as the ultimate magickal tool. Being a Venusian-ruled quadruple Taurus, Gabriela’s divine purpose is to empower others through the self-loving ritual of adornment. For her, beauty is not an obligation or a convention, but a way of being.

This week I am sharing a *patron exclusive* episode I recorded in February for you all! The topic of anti-capitalism is powerful and deserves to be shared more as a resource for others! 

In this episode I talk about my own relationship to capitalism, things I am doing and learning to remove capitalist programming from my daily life, and the 10 principles of capitalism/white supremacy that I learned from therapy tik tok. I had no idea these principles existed and I wanted to share them with the zeitgeist as they can be powerful for understanding how capitalism works and who it serves ( and who it doesn't). With this knowledge we can inform our own anti-capitalist practices. 

This week I am joined by the ever magical Wren the Sex Oracle. Wren is a mystic and creator who offers life changing akashic records readings and custom digital spells. So naturally I picked her brain about her process for digital spells and she shared how to make your very own digital spell. We spent the rest of the episode swapping stories about giving readings and our experiences in the akashic records and with various beings.

ABOUT WREN:
I'm a full time mystic, creator, akashic records reader, technomage, and guide. I offer life altering oracular insight and my clients often experience immediate transformation and/or transformative experiences after readings. I love connecting with eternally curious, the seekers, visionaries, change makers, and those wanting to create a deeper relationship and awareness withing the spiritual realm. 

This week I finally stepped out of my anxious cage and did the thing I have been dreaming of!!! I brought on my fellow aliens guides and channeled messages from them for this community!!!

I have talked about working with aliens before and people are always shook, so I broke down how I started working with aliens, what my experiences with them has been like, debunked racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories about aliens AND THEN I brought on my alien guides psychically and asked them to share how you can start working with them.

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This week I am joined by Jessie Susannah Karnatz, aka The Money Witch! We sat down to dish about Jessie's very simple and grounded tips for building a more intimate relationship with money, how to start healing money wounds, witchy ways to connect and honor money in your life and her new book "Money Magic" that comes out March 1st.
The way that Jessie holds gentle and practical space for healing financial trauma and stories is so refreshing and nourishing. This episode is packed full of financial gems you won't want to skip out on. 

ABOUT JESSIE:
Jessie Susannah Karnatz, aka the Money Witch, brings capitalism-critical, shame-free education to healers, hustlers, and creatives in order to catalyze change in their financial lives. She believes healing our finances will bring blessing to our lives, our lineages, and our communities. She offers education, Money Magic products, Intuitive Financial Coaching, and tax preparation online and in the Bay Area (unceded Ohlone land) and does it all with impeccable business lady style.

Lack and scarcity are big capitalist ideals that I have been unlearning for quite some time now. This year, I am really being called to fully understand ALL the ways scarcity is programming my life and daily mindset. 

By understanding the external and internal factors that contribute to our scarcity story, we can begin to bring these programs from our shadow into our conscious mind and connect the ways they are affecting our daily life.
We can reclaim our sovereignty and power from societal conditioning and create more safety, ease, and comfort in our daily life. 

This week I am joined by THE Legal Witch, Melinda Lim!!! Melinda is a good friend of mine who I have been dying to bring on the podcast. Her perspective on shadow work is truly all encompassing and humanizing.
Many people get caught up in the weeds of which belief is the right one to bring you the healing you need, especially with new age spirituality floating around the ether. Melinda brings a very grounded perspective of the reality of life and societal programs that you face every day. By boldly pointing out colonial, capitalist, and the truth of the bipoc experience she helps you easily move through programs holding you back and takes the pressure off solving every limiting belief. She provides this brilliance in the form of shadow work containers and business empowerment services so you can break through the bounds holding you back from being your most badass self. 

I received a HUGE download for a different way to connect with your intuition than I have seen people teaching, so here I am to spread that good word to y'all! My guides pointed out to me a way I was naturally using my human designed nature to interact with my intuition and how I can intentionally maximize my natural flow of bodily energy to get my intuition to speak up and work even more with me!
In this episode I breakdown this download and give intuitive insight for all 4 of the human design types and how they can use their natural energetic design from their human design chart (which is free!) to work with their intuition they way they were designed to!!!

This week I am joined by the ever inspiring generational healer, super mom, motherhood educator, decolonizer of spirituality, and apothecary Assata Dela Cruz!!! Assata shares her story about starting off her spiritual journey in very white, Wiccan spaces and how having her daughter inspired her to connect more with her rich Yoruba and Chahta ancestry and culture. Through this process she found power to demystify her ancestral practices and use them to decolonize white dominated spaces like the cottagecore movement. She not only does this important healing work for her daughter and family, but talks about how she has brought these generationally healing ideas to her business and community to help others feel empowered by their own story and ancestry. 

ABOUT ASSATA AND COTTAGECORE RISING:

Owned by Assata Dela Cruz, Cottagecore Rising is an apothecary deeply rooted in fostering community through the appreciation and application of Yoruba and Chahta ancestral wisdom. In addition to organic herbs, extracts and oils for purchase, there are bi-weekly classes and workshops on holistic living, as well as private and group Bhakti yoga classes. Recognizing that sacred healing begins in the womb, Assata also offers holistic birth and postpartum support as a doula, breastfeeding counselor and childbirth educator.

Cottagecore is a movement fostering the idea of living a simple rural lifestyle. Inspired by cultivating this simple life in harmony with nature, Cottagecore Rising was created with the intention of fostering a passionate spirit of resistance within the wellness community. In rising against our current consumerist society, we can return to a world that values radical self care. 

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Oooohhhh! It is about time that I covered inner child healing, seeing as my main business is centered on holding space for people and their inner child healing. Haha.
Anyways, this episode was super juicy! A lot of people have been realizing that healing with their inner child and showing up for them in the present is where its at. And I am here to tell you that is 100% true. If you choose one type of healing in this lifetime, inner child healing is the THE best option in my opinion. Our inner child affects all facets of our lives and if you do the deep scary healing with them, the rewards will be as large as a dragons horde.
So what's this episode about!? As an inner child warrior I found that people have so much stigma and pressure around what an inner child relationship is supposed to look like, that they feel discouraged when they try to connect and don't have the reception they were expecting. Each age of your inner child can have a different vibe/feeling depending on what was going on for you in that time of your life. I broke down the different "receptions" you can have with your inner child when you tap in with them and how to navigate them to create a more solid relationship with the different versions of your inner child, sans the shame and judgment. 

I cannot stress how much this episode is needed in the world. Alexa's story of witchcraft being the catalyst to discovering and connecting to her own culture and ancestral heritage is unfortunately not an uncommon one. Many BIPOC, colonized, and demonized cultures were forced to hide, erase, and assimilate their rich and beautiful culture away. People like Alexa and I are now consciously choosing to take up the mantle of reconnecting to our cultures despite feeling like an outsider. Through sharing her story, Alexa, talks about her modern brujeria practice and her decision to take on the title of the High Priestess of Mother Nature in her business, The Bruja's Tomb.  

Alexa Branco is an intuitive Earth witch and High Priestess of Mother Nature. Heavily influenced by her Latinx background, Alexa’s shop The Bruja’s Tomb is a vessel for her magic. Here she offers witches, femmes, and outcasts the knowledge and tools they need to live fulfilled, connected lives. Through her strong connection to Mother Nature, Alexa creates powerful products and readings to guide you to truth and transformation. Connect with her at thebrujastomb.com or at @thebrujastomb on Instagram

My intention for this episode to was to talk about my personal experience with setting boundaries to better navigate complicated familial relationships with the holiday season approaching us. BUT it really became an episode about learning to listen to your body to create more safety and love in your life through setting boundaries. I heavily focus on setting boundaries with family members that are toxic, abusive, or unwilling to meet you half way. A lot of my family history has been with emotionally, mentally, and physically abusive people and I wanted to create this episode as a living resource for you to begin listening to your body and finding your best path to safety. 

Setting boundaries with family members who may be toxic or abusive can be harder than with an ex that we can completely cut out of our life and are therefore more nuanced and life long. Be gentle with yourself as you navigate this journey and know that you don't need to do anything to deserve love, safety, and happiness. You deserve it now and always will.

The last 15 mins are dedicated to the witchy ways we can set smaller boundaries with family members that can be applied to abusive, or non-abusive and just uncomfortable situations. 

Patrons will receive a downloadable PDF to help them navigate setting boundaries as shadow work!