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
Presence, Priorities, Pleasure & Finding Your People with Zoe Kelsey
I dialogue with Zoe Kelsey, founder of We Shine Well, a community marketing strategist and natural dot connector devoted to helping women in wellness grow through authentic connection and collaboration.
In this episode, Zoe shares her simple framework of presence, priorities, pleasure and how it supports finding your people, building real community, and becoming more visible in a way that still feels grounded and true. Together, Zoe and I explore belonging, Human Design, breathwork as somatic release, and why Zoe believes true community is reciprocal, like a potluck.
In this episode, you will hear
• How Zoe went from 10 years at LinkedIn to building We Shine Well
• What dot connecting actually looks like and why relationships are the real strategy
• Presence as the missing ingredient in collaboration and community
• The 3 Ps: presence, priorities, pleasure and why pleasure belongs on the calendar
• Belonging, self trust, and what it really means to find your people
• Breathwork, embodiment, and why the body often knows before the mind
• What We Shine Well offers: curated introductions, community calls, in person meetups, and an annual summit
Connect with Zoe
Instagram: @weshinewell
Website: weshinewell.com
Podcast: We Shine Well Podcast
Substack: We Shine Well on Substack
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If you want to work with me beyond the podcast, I would love to hold you. I guide transformational breathwork infused with Reiki, in person fireside journeys, online sessions you can do from your cozy bed, private sessions, retreats, and intimate group experiences that support nervous system safety, emotional release, and a deeper return to your creative power. Explore what is coming up next at www.sageandblushwellness.com
Connect with me on Instagram @siribaructhornton, or email me at siri@sageandblushwellness.com