The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Welcome to The Authentic Creative with Siri Baruc Thornton: a top 2.5% globally ranked podcast for women who are ready to expand their capacity to feel good, embody their truth, and create from wholeness.
Here, we explore what it really means to live and lead from authenticity. What if feeling good in your body, your work, and your life isn’t indulgent, but the key to everything?
Each week, you’ll hear intimate conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, healers, and visionaries who are redefining success through creativity and embodiment. Alongside these stories, host Siri Baruc Thornton: Reiki Master Teacher, Transformational Breathwork guide, retreat creator, and podcaster — shares grounded spiritual tools, somatic practices, and lived wisdom from her work leading retreats for women around the world.
You’ll also be invited into monthly women’s circles and leadership panels, where diverse voices gather around a new theme each time, exploring embodiment, abundance, creativity, leadership, or the art of truly feeling good.
With listeners in over 65 countries, this podcast is both sanctuary and spark: a reminder that you don’t need to push to create, or perform to belong. You get to feel good. You get to embody your truth. And from that place, your most authentic life and art flow effortlessly.
Subscribe now and begin your return to radiance.
Learn more at www.sageandblushwellness.com
The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
From Best Friends to Boutique Hoteliers: The Creative Reinvention of The June Motel
Today I’m joined by two adventurous, whip-smart creatives whose friendship and flair for reinvention turned a dusty roadside motel into a pink-hued phenomenon.
April Brown and Sarah Sklash are the co-founders of The June Motel and stars of Netflix’s hit series Motel Makeover. Once a public relations pro and a government operations specialist, they walked away from stable careers in 2016 to chase something wildly different: joy, beauty, and a glass of rosé at check-in.
In this episode, we explore what it takes to follow a vision that hasn’t been done before, the magic of designing spaces that make people feel something, and how business disagreements can become unexpected blessings.
We talk about:
The creative instincts that led them to their first motel purchase
Their vision for what hospitality could feel like
Behind-the-scenes stories from filming Motel Makeover
How their contrasting strengths create harmony in business
The art of soulful entrepreneurship, one pink wall at a time
Whether you’re dreaming of building something of your own or just love a good transformation story, this episode will leave you inspired, delighted, and maybe planning your next girls’ getaway.
📺 Motel Makeover was nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, including Best Lifestyle Program or Series.
🔗 Learn more: https://www.thejunemotel.com
Deepen your journey with Siri:
🌿 Reiki — Learn to channel healing energy or 1:1s
💨 Transformational Breathwork — Regulate, expand, heal 1:1 or groups
🔮 Akashic Records — Learn to read the Records for yourself & others or 1:1s
Upcoming Retreats: Step into soul renewal and sacred connection. Email Siri for details and dates: siri@sageandblushwellness.com
Stay connected: 📲 Instagram: @siribaructhornton
🌎 Website: www.sageandblushwellness.com
Born in a Sikh yoga ashram in Boston and raised by healers in Vermont, Siri is a breathwork teacher, Reiki Master, and Akashic guide who spent 25 years as a professional actor while also doing her soul work. She lives near Portland, Oregon, with her husband, two boys, and dogs and finds joy in music, nature, and helping others expand their capacity to feel good.