In this expansive and heart-centered conversation, I dialogue with Akary Busto: emotional biohacker, HeartMath practitioner, nervous system whisperer, and human design guide, about how we can move from survival to sovereignty. Akary shares her powerful story of growing up between cultures and carrying the weight of her family as a translator, oldest daughter, and bridge between worlds.

We explore what it means to regulate the nervous system, shift outdated survival patterns, and understand our unique energetic blueprint through human design. She walks us through a deeply calming HeartMath coherence practice and shares the science behind why the heart is a more intelligent processor than we ever imagined.

We also talk about parenting, epigenetics, inherited patterns, and how working with children through honoring their design begins with healing and empowering the women who raise them. This episode is full of tender truth, liberating insights, and practical tools to support your nervous system and rewire your life, one breath and one heartbeat at a time.

💚 Topics we cover:

• Akary’s multicultural upbringing and early emotional awakening
• The role of the heart in healing trauma
• Human design as a framework for understanding energy, communication, and parenting
• Why manifesting generators skip steps and how to embrace that
• Epigenetics, inherited trauma, and the power of family constellations in water
• How to expand your window of tolerance and capacity to feel good

✨ Get cozy, breathe deep, and join us in this resonant journey of coming home to yourself.

🔗 Find Akary on Instagram: @uhkarebreathwork
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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.

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In this episode of The Authentic Creative, I dialogue with Shannon Kim: founder of Self Love Tea, Intuitive Hypnotherapist, Certified Herbalist, and Energy Guide.

Shannon shares intimately and vulnerably about her journey of self-love, including the deep healing of her relationship with her adopted father. Through subconscious healing, herbal wisdom, and energy work, she supports others in re-patterning their inner world and reconnecting with their truth.

We explore the power of intentional ritual, emotional presence, and the sacred art of tending to oneself. Shannon also speaks to the heart behind Self Love Tea: a tool for reflection, grounding, and everyday ceremony.

This is a tender, grounded conversation for anyone on the path of reclaiming their worth and softening into their own love.

Connect with Shannon:
🌐 selflovebyshannonkim.com
📧 info@shannonkim.com
📸 Instagram: @selflovebyshannonkim

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.

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This is a behind-the-scenes, heart-wide-open continuation of The Light Within panel. After the official recording wrapped, our panelists stayed to reflect, celebrate, and share from the soul. What unfolded was a raw, nourishing, deeply human exchange of laughter, insight, motherhood moments, spiritual realizations, and sisterhood.

✨ In this episode, you’ll hear:

Reflections on being present and taking your hands off the wheel
Robyn Cohen’s brilliant download on creative flow and spiritual presence
A wave of love, reverence, and mutual admiration from all the women
Honest, hilarious, and tender stories of motherhood—including “Jesus Take the Wheel” and children yelling “anus” in church
A reminder from Paden Hughes that we are walking alongside ancient priestesses in modern bodies
Tangelia Rouse’s soul-stirring truth: “You are an answer to a prayer.”
🌀 You’ll also hear the real-life sounds of parenting in motion, authentic emotion, human design conversations, spiritual affirmations, and spontaneous gratitude.

This episode is messy, magical, unfiltered, and full of grace.
Just like life. Just like leadership. Just like you.

🌟 If this episode speaks to you, revisit The Light Within panel or check out solo episodes with many of these incredible women.

🧘‍♀️ Ready to go deeper? Explore breathwork, certification retreats, and custom experiences at sageandblushwellness.com or email me: siri@sageandblushwellness.com
instagram: @siribaructhornton

And always, keep expanding your capacity to feel good, one breath at a time.

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This special episode features a radiant panel of heart-centered leaders sharing what it means to lead with compassion, presence, and integrity. These are women creating ripple effects through their work, families, art, and communities and their insights just might ignite something powerful in you too.

Before recording, several panelists joined me for a Transformational Breathwork session infused with Reiki: clearing, aligning, and expanding our energy before this sacred dialogue. You’ll feel that resonance woven throughout.

Featured Panelists:

• Paden Hughes – Life Coach & Energy Healer @padenhughes
• Karaleigh Garrison – Motivational Musician & Confidence Catalyst @Karaleigh.garrison
• Erin Patten – Metaphysical Business Mentor @iamerinpatten
• Lesley Alberts – Mother & Emotional Leader @groundedmamapodcast
• Sierra Sophia Mercier – Artist & Author www.SierraMercier.com
• Robyn Cohen – Actress, Director & Educator @robyncohenactingstudio
• Elysia Skye – Intuitive Guide http://elysiaskye.com/
• Shannon Kim – Herbalist & Hypnotherapist @selflovebyshannonkim
• Tangelia Rouse – Actress, Comedian & Co-Host of POWERMAMMA Podcast @myfriendscallmetange
• Jen Heller – Wellness Educator & Podcast Host @jenhellerlifestyle
• Rachael Blumberg – Wellness Entrepreneur & CEO of PLATEFIT @platefit

Each panelist reflects on a powerful question from how small rituals create alignment, to how storytelling and laughter are acts of leadership.

🎧 If a voice or message stirs your soul, many of these incredible women have also been featured in solo episodes. Please go explore their full stories!

🌀 Feeling called to go deeper?
Explore ways to connect:

• Private Breathwork infused with Reiki – Intuitive 1:1 journeys
• Group Breathwork Ceremonies – Online or in-person
• Upcoming Retreats
  🌊 Reiki Certification Retreat July 7-10th Oregon Coast
  🌲 Akashic Record Certification Retreat September 28-30th Mt. Hood National Forest
  💌 Custom Retreats – Let’s co-create something sacred for your sisterhood or community.

To inquire or connect: siri@sageandblushwellness.com www.sageandblushwellness.com

🌟 You are a lighthouse. Your presence matters. Your compassion leads.
Keep expanding your capacity to feel good—one breath at a time.

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In this intimate, impromptu episode of The Authentic Creative, we share a post-breathwork reflection with Rebecca Schlosser, a trauma-informed breathwork guide and podcast host, who graciously allowed us to record her experience immediately after "one of the most connected sessions she’s ever had."

Together, we explore:

• Generational healing through the breath
• Pain as both a portal and a teacher
• The nuanced dance between treating pain physically and addressing it energetically
• How facilitators can create more space by doing less
• Trusting our inner guidance to receive the medicine we need in each moment

Rebecca offers insight into breaking ancestral patterns, the power of breath holds, the beauty of sending pain into the Earth, and how sometimes just showing up is the biggest act of courage. This dialogue is a moving reminder that imagination is a sacred tool for healing and that we are all walking a bridge between the practical and the mystical.

This episode is raw, real, and woven with wisdom from the body, breath, and soul. Whether you're a space holder or a seeker, this conversation will land exactly where you need it most.

Connect with Rebecca @rebeccahappybreaths

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.

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.

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Walk, breathe, remember, and return to your radiant self.

Created for the women of the Goddess of Light Retreat on the Oregon Coast, this meditation is yours too—wherever you are. Whether you're walking the beach, flying home, driving through winding roads, or simply laying down in stillness, this immersive journey will bring you back to the wisdom of your own luminous being.

This is a soul-soaked invitation to walk beside your inner self. To embody your leadership, not through doing but through being.

🌿 You’ll reconnect with your breath and your body.
🌿 You’ll walk beside the essence of your true self.
🌿 You’ll be wrapped in the Goddess of Light Leadership Mantras, offered at both the beginning and end, anchoring you into a state of grace, power, softness, and trust.

✨ These are the Goddess of Light Leadership Mantras:

Ease is powerful.
Trust the energy you hold, not the energy you chase.
I serve by being myself.
My authenticity is my greatest offering.
The more I relax, the more I magnetize.
Expansion happens through softness.
I am open to being supported as much as I support others.
Receiving is part of the sacred exchange.
I am rooted in trust, not urgency.
My timing is divine.
I am a lighthouse, not a lifeboat.
I shine. I don’t save.
My softness is my superpower.
Compassion is strength.
I expand through surrender, not through striving.
Flow carries me further than force.

Let these mantras move through you like waves. Let the visualizations ground you. Let the remembering unfold.

🎧 Listen anytime you need:
→ Groundedness
→ Ease and integration
→ A boost of peace, trust, or creative flow
→ Sacred rest or post-retreat embodiment

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In this radiant episode of The Authentic Creative, I dialogue with the magical Amy Tangerine: artist, author, YouTube creator, and heart-forward creative guide, whose joyful mission is to help us reconnect to our inner child and remember that we are all artists.

Together, we explore:

• The intersection of Amy’s creative work and the healing journey
• How art supplies, stickers, and color can become sacred tools for transformation
• The role of play in spiritual liberation
• The beautiful convergence of our two worlds: Amy’s in liberating creativity and mine in Akashic Record reading

This very convergence is coming to life September 28–30, 2025, in Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon. Amy and I are co-creating a mystical, magical Goddess of Light Akashic Retreat at a stunning forest Airbnb with an indoor-outdoor hot tub, organic catered meals, private rooms, Transformational Breathwork, cacao ceremony, a waterfall hike, and the Akashic Records wide open.

This retreat also includes a full Akashic Certification journey with:

• 4 live Zoom classes before the retreat
• A magical in-person weekend in Oregon
• 2 integration Zooms after to complete your certification as an Akashic Record Reading Practitioner

About Amy Tangerine:
Amy Tangerine has been a multi-passionate maker for as long as she can remember. She's taught crafty workshops across the globe, created hundreds of inspiring YouTube videos, and collaborated with top brands like Disney, Apple, and Avery. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, and Real Simple. Whether she’s in her colorful LA art studio or celebrating everyday moments with her husband and two children, Amy is always finding new ways to craft a life she (and others) love. You can find her where creativity, passion, and purpose meet.

🎨 Connect with Amy at @amytangerine
🌲 Register for the Akashic Retreat at https://www.sageandblushwellness.com/purchase/p/goddess-of-light-retreat
🎙️ Listen + follow The Authentic Creative wherever you get your podcasts.

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.

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.

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