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Business WitchHarnessing Ancestral Wisdom In Our Soul Work with JumakaeIn this episode of Business Witch, I’m joined by June Kaewsith, known as Jumakae—a life doula, wellness consultant, and storytelling guide. Jumakae’s work centers on guiding individuals, particularly those from marginalized communities, back to their ancestral roots through storytelling, healing, and creative retreats.
Together, we explore powerful themes of ancestral connection, embracing grief as a path to joy, and cultivating joy even amidst collective challenges.
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Your Story Medicine Podcast
2024-11-0450 min
Have You Eaten Yet?June "Jumakae” Kaewsith: On The Power Of Breath, Allowing Miracles To Unfold, Embracing Our Grief.....And Becoming A Magnetic FrequencyMy Guest Is June "Jumakae" Kaewsith Of Your Story Medicine.She Joins Us From Long Beach California.June Is A “Life Doula” Supporting People Through Speaking, Workshops, Ritual And Ceremony….And You Can Listen To June’s Wisdom On Her Podcast…Which Is Called “Your Story Medicine”https://www.yourstorymedicine.com/https://www.yourstorymedicine.com/podcast-pagehttps://www.instagram.com/jumakae/?hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/haveyoueatenyetpodcast/?hl=enhttps://www.tiktok.com/@haveyoueatenye...2024-06-1954 min
Las Doctoras PodcastEp. 61- Possibility in the Time of FuckeryIn this episode, we bring you the incomparable Pia Schiavo-Campo. Pia is a dear friend of ours. We were with Pia in a cohort of other amazing creatives led by @jumakae in 2022. And, we knew she had some magic to share. In this conversation, she gets real. Gratitude to Pia for helping us all truly articulate our priorities as we advocate to end the violence we are witnessing live on social media right now. We know you'll connect with Pia's energy. Head on over to @asplashofpia to discover more about this incredible guest.2023-12-191h 04
Your Story MedicineSloth Philosophy: Being Busy Isn’t a Badge of HonorHello, future ancestors!
Lately I've been in sloth training, and that means slowing down while learning how to still feel safe doing so.
It's been over three months since I've returned from my sabbatical, and coming back to Los Angeles was a lot to take in after being unplugged. And so many of you may know that I ended up spending time on a farm watching over nine goats, five chickens, five cats and two dogs for my friend Montez as she was out of town. I tried to use that time to refocus on...2023-05-1831 min
Your Story MedicineCapturing Rites of Passages: From Birth Doula to Sacred Portraits with Karissa RayaIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I am with Karissa. She supports families in documenting the beautiful milestones of life as their personal biographer. Karissa's intention with her camera is that her subject, whether it be a family, an entrepreneur or a woman giving birth feels seen. Much more than a collection of moments, photographs become part of a family's historic archive. And as a creative entrepreneur, Karissa has supported small businesses with strategy, branding, and marketing. Her creative nature and personal journey have led her to incorporate energy healing, meditation, sound healing, and other personal healing modalities...2023-05-1146 min
Your Story MedicineAnam Cara Academy: A Journey of Exploring Death and Celebrating Life with Mary TellianoIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, we explore the disconnection between people and death and how it has led to fear and suffering with our guest, Mary Telliano. This episode invites us to reflect on our own mortality and examines death in a new light that allows us to connect with ourselves and our loved ones, and to celebrate the sacredness of the moment. Mary has a mission; to rebrand death. Through training other death doulas, to education on grief, as well as the Anam Cara Podcast. Mary is midwifing the rebirth of dying well. In order to r...2023-05-041h 00
Your Story MedicinePolecology: Body Autonomy through Sensual Movement with Kristen NicholeIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Kristen Nichole, a south Florida-based movement artist, social and community psychologist, and entrepreneur. In 2019, Kristen earned a certification in group fitness instruction from the American Council on Exercise and a certification in pole instruction from XPERT while completing graduate school. In 2020, Kristen earned a Ph.D. in community and social psychology with an expertise in identity development and storytelling from North Carolina State University. Kristen is the founder of Polecology, a platform for liberation through the art and psychology of sensual movement.
Main Topics...2023-04-2052 min
Your Story MedicineDebunking Manifestation: From Mental Health to Mental Fitness with Simplifying Sam
In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Samantha Chung, affectionately known as “Simplifying Sam”. She is a mindset and manifestation expert on a mission to help more people wake up and live fully as their authentic self. It is her belief that we experience resistance, pain and suffering when we ignore who we truly are. Her coaching style seeks to uncover and discover who you were before your limiting beliefs, conditions, and fears so that you can step into the most powerful version of yourself and attract anything.
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Your Story MedicineTending the Land: What Farm Sitting Taught MeHello future ancestors!
It’s been about three weeks since I’ve left the farm, where my last solo podcast episode about “integration” after my sabbatical was recorded - and I miss it so much.
So much to the point where I will literally wake up and smell FARM.
Main topics:
Why is it that I started a business in the first placeGetting a glimpse of what my life could be like as an elderThe practice of equanimity in BuddhismWhat goats can teach about healthy boundaries, unconditional love, & how to be prese...2023-04-0627 min
Your Story MedicineThe Spirit of Harriet Tubman: Ayahuasca, Buddhism, and the Inner Underground with Spring WashamIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Spring Washam. Considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based meditation practices to diverse communities; Spring Washam is a well-known teacher, healer, and visionary leader based in Oakland, California. She is the author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in Any Moment and The Spirit of Harriet Tubman: Awakening from the Underground. Spring is one of the founding teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center, an organization that offers Buddhist teachings with attention to social action and multiculturalism. She is a member of the teacher’s council at Spirit Ro...2023-03-231h 16
Your Story MedicineSex Positive Asian Auntie: Embracing Sensuality & Solo Polyamory with JaydaIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Jayda Shuavarnnasri, aka “Sex Positive Asian Auntie”, a Queer Southeast Asian sexuality and relationship educator. She works to liberate folks from sexual shame by creating space for authentic conversations about sexuality, relationships, identity, and healing. She is also the co-producer of Don’t Say Sorry podcast, which centers the experience of Southeast Asian women navigating relationships, mental health and sexuality.
Main Topics Discussed:
How Thai and Buddhist culture influences sexual expression in womenUsing sensuality to reach liberationHow to fall in love without falling into a co-dep...2023-03-161h 12
Your Story MedicineIntegration: My Journey through the Spiritual UndergroundHello future ancestors!!
Welcome back to Your Story Medicine, episode one of season 3
If you are new to my work, welcome. I am June also known as Jumakae - which is a combination of my first, middle, and last name.
My medicine is supporting future ancestors like you with finding clarity in your message and confidence in your speaking so that you can share your story, grow your legacy, and heal generations before/after you.
And as your dedicated life doula, I hold space for the contractions that arise in your...2023-03-0934 min
Your Story MedicineOn Resourcing: Ancestral Healing Begins at HomeHello future ancestors,
I know it’s been a while - but I definitely have some updates on life and so many things that are unfolding, or better yet, unraveling.
As many of you know, I started Your Story Medicine with a deep curiosity about how to connect with my ancestors especially as someone who was born and raised in the United States, away from my parents’ homeland and the kind of village support they were raised with.
In my previous solo podcast episode I announced that I would be taking a sabbatical for...2022-09-2926 min
Your Story MedicineEmpowering the BIPOC Community Through Sound Healing with Sol & SoundIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Janelle Ross and Jasmine Amirah. In 2020, the two longtime friends founded Sol & Sound, a Los Angeles-based sound healing festival for the culture featuring a live DJ set, immersive sound bath, afro-ecstatic dance, breath work, live music performances, BIPOC marketplace, and more!
Main Topics Discussed:
Defining “sound healing”Providing entrepreneurial opportunity to the BIPOC communityBuilding a business with social impactGetting clear on your vision for lifeDeciding whether to monetize your event or initiative
Learn more about Sol & Sound:
Visi...2022-08-301h 00
Your Story MedicineThe Soulful Currency Method: How to Close More Soulful Sales with Melissa Ruiz
In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Melissa Ruiz, the founder and visionary of Melissa Ruiz Empowerment, a soulful business coaching powerhouse that mentors mystical offbeat entrepreneurs to start and scale their business through a spiritually universal lens. Through her coaching programs, she empowers spiritual entrepreneurs to step into their leadership and pour their knowledge back into their own networks, with a large focus on the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities.
Main Topics Discussed:
Why refusing to focus on the end-result almost always leads to greater successHow...2022-08-1641 min
Your Story MedicineThe Wisdom of Anger: Tending to our Inner FiresHello, future ancestors… and happy Lion’s Gate Portal that just recently passed.
I'm just returning from my very first wilderness backpacking trip ever!
If you listened to my last solo podcast episode about my time in Channel Island entitled: “Emergence: Reflections from a Post-Apocalyptic World”, immersing myself in nature is where I feel the most abundant. And it's more than just pitching a tent, but the pilgrimage that it takes to get there. The days and months of training my mind and body for these experiences so that I can enjoy those evenings around the fire...2022-08-1117 min
Your Story MedicineCaring for Yourself AND the Collective with Nisha ModyIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Nisha Mody, a feminist healing coach, writer, facilitator, librarian, podcaster, and speech-language pathologist living on the home of the Gabrieliño/Tongva peoples, also known as Los Angeles. As the daughter of Indian immigrants, she has experienced the deeply internalized effects of colonization and heteronormative structures. Nisha’s lived experience, clinical experience, fascination with language, collective mindset, and passion for connecting with others combined with her anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and feminist beliefs are central to her work in this space.
Main Topics Discussed:
Sto...2022-08-0243 min
Your Story MedicineThe Playful Rebellion: Joy as Resistance with Gary WareIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Gary Ware, Founder of Breakthrough Play, a corporate facilitator, keynote speaker, certified coach, and self-proclaimed Creative Catalyst. Gary has over 14 years of experience in the corporate world holding various leadership positions. Being a multifaceted individual, Gary also comes with nearly a decade of experience as a performer in improv theatre. After experiencing burnout in his pursuit for success and happiness, he realized that what was missing was play. Committing to a life of play is what led Gary to discover his passion for facilitating. Gary uses the power of applied...2022-07-1952 min
Your Story MedicineEmergence: Reflections from a Post-Apocalyptic WorldMain topics discussed:
Questions that have kept me up at nightThe risk of negative feedback in running an online business and being very visibleWhat the Chumash people of Limuw (Channel Island) taught me about Emergent StrategyLiving in a modern day post-apocalyptic worldHow colonization shows up in me
Questions to other healers, space holders, and coaches that are using entrepreneurship as sacred activism.
Who has a say when it comes to providing feedback to our services?
Is it paid clients only?
Is it a community? Is it anonymous...2022-07-1423 min
Your Story MedicineDecolonizing Reiki: The Path of Energy Healing with Aki Hirata BakerIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Aki Hirata Baker, a multi-modality healing facilitator, teacher and speaker, whose work is based on the anti-racist spiritual liberation principle. She uses various energetic healing modalities, flower essence therapy, Ayurvedic medicine, yogic principles, and lineage practices of medicine way and Toltec tradition to facilitate healing, which she considers to be the basic ingredient of social change and collective liberation. Aki is the founder of MINKA Brooklyn, a collectively-run healing space that centers the work to heal from all forms of social oppressions to restore an un-capitalistic approach to the “business of...2022-07-0557 min
Your Story MedicineEnding Chancla Culture: Decolonizing Oppressive Practices in Our Families with Leslie PriscillaIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Leslie Priscilla, a first generation non-Black Chicana mother to three bicultural children. Leslie shares her medicine by offering coaching, workshops, support, and advocacy for Latinx/Chicanx families locally, nationally, and internationally both in-person and online via the Latinx Parenting organization. She founded this bilingual organization and movement intentionally rooted in children's rights, social and racial justice, the individual and collective practice of nonviolence and reparenting, intergenerational and ancestral healing, cultural sustenance, and the active decolonization of oppressive practices in our families.
Main Topics Discussed:2022-06-2154 min
Your Story MedicinePsychedelic Liberation: The Healing Power of Sacred Earth Medicine with Charlotte JamesIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Charlotte James. She has been a harm reductionist and psychedelic explorer for over 10 years, but her path through this work has certainly not been linear. After leaving harm reduction years ago because of rapid burn out, she is returning to this work with a new energy—thanks to the power of healing with Sacred Earth Medicines.
Main Topics Discussed:
Defining “Sacred Earth Medicine”How purging leads to liberationBecoming more intentional with your Sacred Earth Medicine journey
Learn more about The Ancest...2022-06-071h 10
Your Story MedicineCurrency: How to Charge For Your WorthHello future ancestors!
Welcome to another solo podcast episode of Your Story Medicine. I’m your host, Jumakae - and I wanted to expand on what it means to charge for your worth.
If you were not at my last workshop where I dug deeper into this, one of the things I mentioned is how it is inherently problematic to even talk about charging for our worth.
Why? Because your worth is priceless.
Your value cannot be quantified.
If we are equating our self worth to our net worth, the...2022-06-0223 min
Your Story MedicineVocal Alchemy: Decolonizing Music as a Transracial Adoptee with Dr. Kiki SteinerIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Dr. Kiki Steiner, DMA, (she/they/siya [sha]) a holistic vocal coach, decolonization consultant, and choral conductor. She is currently serving as an adjunct instructor of music at Millikin University in the Choral Conducting and Music Education area. As the founder of Decolonizing Kiki LLC, her work as a holistic vocal coach focuses on empowering others to connect with their voice through releasing shame around one’s voice as well as facilitating self-led healing.
Main Topics Discussed:
Life as a “transracial adoptee”Using your voice to man...2022-05-2457 min
Your Story MedicineFamily Constellations: Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication with MeenadchiIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Meenadchi, a facilitator and somatic practitioner whose work centers the softness of meeting our best selves and deepening into our collective light. Using a blend of family constellation therapy and Non-Violent Communication, Meenadchi weaves workshops in which participants are invited to reconnect with the intuitive wisdom of our bodies and to cocreate intergenerational healing by changing the way we speak to ourselves, each other, and the universe. Meenadchi is the author of Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication (2019).
Main Topics Discussed:
Healing intergenerational trauma togetherGiving yourself permission to...2022-05-101h 02
Your Story MedicineCoherence: How to Become the Emcee of Your Life with Didier SylvainIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Didier Sylvain, a life alignment coach, leadership trainer, and creative healing practitioner based in Los Angeles. His life mission is to create and hold transformative learning space for people to claim their power and give their greatest gifts to the world. He leads Coherence, a leadership activation experience for creatives-of-color, as well as other deep dive programs that guide individuals and groups to become fuller and more integrated versions of themselves. He has coached and taught leadership at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame. Didier is also...2022-04-2647 min
Your Story MedicineNew Moon in Aries: What Running a Retreat Taught MeI know I said that I would be dropping episodes every other week to honor spaciousness, but I felt so called to share my experience of facilitating my most recent retreat with you that took place in Joshua Tree, CA - land of the the Serrano, the Cahuilla (Kuhweeah), the Mojave, and the Chemehuevi people prior to settler colonialism..
And it just so happens that our retreat took place when Aries entered the New Moon. While I’m no astrologer, I was told that the significance of this time is that it’s a transition or closure of ev...2022-04-1926 min
Your Story MedicineDreaming as Strategy: Envisioning Ourselves as Future AncestorsWelcome to Season Two of the Your Story Medicine podcast. I am your host Jumakae, and my medicine is supporting change makers, conscious entrepreneurs, and radical healers in finding clarity in their message and confidence in their speaking. I want you to be able to share your story, grow your legacy, and heal generations before and after you!
Main Topics Discussed:
The beauty of entrepreneurship and sacred activismHow we can leave behind a legacy once we become future ancestorsThe truth about “self-care” and finding time to rest
I have been processing a lot abou...2022-04-1226 min
Cosmic Roadmap with Melissa LambourConnecting with your Ancestors with JumakaeEpisode 12
Looking within ourselves and healing our past is hard.
But understanding that you have your ancestors there to guide you is a magical gift. Look around, the signs are everywhere you go.
In this episode, I have an inspiring chat with Jumakae. We talk about rebirth, missing your homeland, and understanding the way your ancestors have healed us.
June Kaewsith. She is also known as "Jumakae," is a professional artist, wellness consultant, and storytelling coach. After spending her twenties as an artist and community organizer inside of nonprofit organizations, she...2022-03-2841 min
Your Story MedicineInterdependence: Why Self Trust is Not EnoughWelcome to our final episode of Your Story Medicine, the podcast, at least for this season and to what this will evolve into. We shall wait and see because December is the season of rich rest.
So if you are listening to this episode, I hope that you are also carving out this time of the year to intentionally reflect on how much of the growth that you have experienced and the lessons that have learned and the stories that you get to compost as well as the new ones that you get to create for the n...2021-12-0728 min
Your Story MedicineCuts for Luck, Scars for Freedom: Being the Ones We’ve Prayed For with MysticIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Mystic, a Grammy-nominated hip hop artist. She is also an activist, scholar, community educator, and beloved daughter of Oakland, California. Having released her debut album, Cuts for Luck and Scars for Freedom in 2001, and Beautiful Resistance in 2014, she is known for including themes of healing, community, and justice in her music. She is also known as a member of Digital Underground, and called the “DU Goddess”. As a scholar, Mystic’s research has focused on the use of policymaking for equity and elementary education, and the use of culturally-relevant arts educat...2021-11-301h 32
Your Story MedicineHealing Insecure Attachment & Discovering the Joy of Intimacy with Juniper WongIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Juniper Wong, a Chinese-American licensed clinical social worker turned intimacy coach and teacher who specializes in healing attachment trauma and developing deeply satisfying intimate relationships with self and others.
Main Topics Discussed:
An explanation of the four attachment stylesPinpointing the source of your co-dependencyMeeting your needs and rewriting destructive narratives
Learn more about Juniper:
Visit her website: www.juniperwong.com2021-11-231h 11
Your Story MedicineEmbracing our Darkness : Trusting Your Magic and Your Voice with Mimi YoungIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Mimi Young, a Taiwanese-Canadian spirit communicator, and shamanic occultist. She is the founder of Ceremonie, an esoteric brand focused on imparting ancient and practical wisdom so clients can actively receive support from spirits and healing energies, heal negative patterns, and celebrate their path. Mimi works at the intersection of core shamanism, ancestral wisdom, dream work, chaos magic, and other Chinese mystic practices to communicate with the unseen, offering education & mentorship, private readings, and skin & aura care.
Main Topics Discussed:
Why embracing our darkness is just...2021-11-161h 03
Your Story MedicineHumanizing the Healer: The Path of Devotion with Taj SavitriIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Taj Savitri. She is known as a “Business Priestess” for her ability to support future female leaders of our planet bridge into the physical concepts and ideas that cannot yet be understood by the human mind. Her gifts of psychic mediumship and understanding of the holographic nature of reality makes her work in leadership, business, and inner evolution truly unique. Her work has helped thousands of women step into a level of wealth that overflows into projects that help create a more loving and unified planet, anchored in service. She also...2021-11-091h 18
Your Story MedicineHow Spirit Led Us to a Better Relationship with Money with Tanai and Wesley HolderIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Tanai and Wesley, the Founders of The Salt Lounge in Long Beach. As experienced Reiki Masters and Intuitives, they work to educate, empower, and promote wellness from the inside out and outside in.
Main Topics Discussed:
Why Tanai and Wesley gave up the prestige of making their dream income in corporate America for a new life with no clear plan at the outsetSetting boundaries as a Reiki MasterHow Tanai and Wesley healed their relationship with money by creating a money deck
Learn more...2021-11-021h 19
Your Story MedicineRich Rest: Redefining AbundanceIn this solo podcast episode, I discuss about:
What does the season of Rich Rest mean?Other ways for us to live in abundance beyond the numbers in our bank account.Embodying abundance and letting go of the scarcity of timelines.
So lately I have found myself going into a spiral of comparison of what everybody else is doing or how much they're making all the ways that they're putting themselves out there, and here I am feeling like I'm not doing enough.
And recently I met with two other friends with small businesses that h...2021-10-2615 min
Your Story MedicineRV Life with Freedom Frequency: How to Live a Courageous and Creative Life with Julie TranIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Julie Tran, Co-Founder of RV Life with Freedom Frequency along with her husband Chris. They are elder millennials, foster parents on a chapter break, and former corporate professionals turned entrepreneurs and breakthrough coaches. In early 2021, because of the pandemic and a major life event, Julie and her husband sold their dream house for the liberation of RV life. They are currently digital nomads RVing full-time in their 27-foot Airstream named Stelluna. They’ve learned that RV life is 50% how-to and 50% mindset. They have a Facebook community as well as a Yo...2021-10-191h 04
Your Story MedicineBody Liberation: Dismantling Diet Culture with Pia Schiavo-CampoIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Pia Schiavo-Campo. She was recently named one of the Top 100 Responsible Health and Wellness Influencers of 2020 by New Hope Network. For the last decade, she has been authoring a blog that empowers women to take up as much space as they damn well please. As a fat woman of color, she uses an intersectional approach to explore various subjects, including race, equity, mental health, motherhood, and conventional notions of beauty and wellness. Pia is a certified transformational coach and supports others with tapping into their intuition as well as organizations...2021-10-1255 min
Your Story MedicineCalling Back What is Yours through Ayurveda & the Elements with Kati Inez MesaIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Kati Mesa, Founder and Owner of Love, Awareness & Purpose Healing Arts, which provides alternative services such as meditation, bodywork, retreats, and community gatherings to help one to bring balance to their mind, body, and essence to achieve their complete potential.
Learn more about Kati and her offerings:
Visit her website: loveawarenesspurpose.net
Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/journeywithkati2021-10-0556 min
Your Story MedicineNight Blooming Cereus: How I ended up on Red Table TalkIn this solo podcast episode, I discuss:
How I ended up in the Red Table Talk for Jada Pinkett Smith’s 50 birthday: https://fb.me/RTTHairWhy I shaved my head (and how I’m processing this experience)The impermanence of Night Blooming Cereus, aka “Queen of the Night”The wisdom of loneliness
When you let go, you make spaciousness for new people, places, and opportunities to arise. When you’re choosing to vibrate at a different frequency, the universe will begin to mirror that in the physical realm as evidence for you of how shifts are happening.
It’s...2021-09-2827 min
Your Story MedicineRadical Influencers: Writing for Liberation with Las DoctorasIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Dr. Renee Lemus and Dr. Cristina Rose of Las Doctoras. They are on a mission to reclaim their ancestral cultures, create spaces to heal from generational trauma, and live into liberating practices.
Dr. Renee and Dr. Cristina host a podcast, a book club, and online writing courses. They create spaces to discuss healing from the wounds of generational trauma while grounded in ancestral wisdom, feminist scholarship, and a commitment to dismantling white supremacy, patriarchy, and all forms of systemic oppression.
Learn more...2021-09-211h 13
Your Story MedicineResurrection: How to Reclaim Rites of Passage with Luna GraceIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Luna Grace, a transformational, alignment, and leadership mentor with a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology and the creator of The Alignment Code and The Self Initiation Affirmation Deck.
She works to support her dharma of working within the intersection of the human and the holy. Her mission is to offer spaces of self-initiation to service-oriented changemakers who hear the call to step more fully into aligned leadership through their unique expression and maintenance of their values, so they can run legacy-leaving lives, families, communities, an...2021-09-141h 20
Your Story MedicineHow to Express Yourself When Your Voice Feels Blocked with Elissa WeinzimmerIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Elissa Weinzimmer, an award-winning vocal health educator, presence coach, and the founder of Voice Body Connection.
After suddenly losing her own voice at age 21, Elissa began studying the mechanics of voice. Over time she developed a unique, concrete approach that empowers performers, leaders, and speakers to optimize their voices and share them more authentically.
Learn more about Elissa and her offerings:
Visit her website: www.voicebodyconnection.com
Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/voicebodyelissa
...2021-09-0751 min
Your Story MedicineEmbrace Yoga’s Roots: Moving from Separation to Wholeness and Liberation with Susanna BarkatakiIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Susanna Barkataki, an Indian yoga practitioner in the Shankaracharya tradition who supports practitioners to lead with equity, diversity and yogic values while growing thriving practices and businesses with confidence.
She is founder of Ignite Yoga and Wellness Institute and runs Yoga Teacher Training programs around the world. Susanna is the author of the book Embrace Yoga’s Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice.
Susanna is a diversity, accessibility, inclusivity, and equity (DAIE) yoga unity educator who created the groundbreaking Honor {Don’t Appropriate} Yoga Summ...2021-08-311h 00
Your Story MedicineDecluttering: Letting Go of Old StoriesDo you have to be fully healed to be a healer?
And how do you emerge from what may feel like the dark night of the soul?So I'm currently sitting in my childhood bedroom looking at the pile of over 10 years worth of accumulated things before my eyes. Lately, I haven't had very much motivation to organize or put things away, questioning whether or not it's even worth it when the future feels so uncertain. Because while I've had the biggest income thus far in my business already surpassing over six figures in half the time...2021-08-2421 min
Your Story MedicineThe Rich Witch Life: Permission to Prosper with Dez DavisIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Dez Davis, a transformational thought leader, speaker, and creator of The Rich Witch Life, a coaching and consulting company based in Los Angeles.
For over a decade, Dez has studied and applied practices of energy psychology, neuro-linguistic programming, and advanced transformational coaching to ignite the impact to income and influence potential of purpose-driven entrepreneurs, service providers, and established community organizers.
She draws upon her dynamic life experience as a Queer Woman of Color and unique expertise as a spiritually-centered high-performance...2021-08-171h 10
Your Story MedicineThe Truths and Myths of Decolonization and Liberation with Constanza Eliana ChineaIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Eliana Chinea, a Brown Latinx anti-racism educator, producer, and certified Yoga instructor who has over 10 years of experience in the wellness industry and over 400 hours of training in Yoga, trauma, and anti-racism. She began teaching and consulting after noticing a need for diversity and representation in the wellness industry. She now teaches Yoga teachers/practitioners and wellness entrepreneurs how to decolonize their practices, create equity for teachers of color, and build inclusive spaces in the community. She is the Founder of Embody Inclusivity and Project Manager of Legacy Trips.
2021-08-1043 min
Your Story MedicineHow Sacred Travel Can Activate Your Dharma with Liz Jones & Farrah the FrequencyIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Liz Jones and Farrah the Frequency.
Liz Jones is a certified hatha and vinyasa yoga teacher, sound healer, and spiritual mentor. She helps people tap in to their truth and higher self through energy work. She’s an intuitive traveling goddess who has been to 12 countries around the world. Now she curates sacred travel experience for women of color on their spiritual journey to activate and step in to their expansion in her favorite countries around the world.
We’re also being joined by Farrah the Frequ...2021-08-031h 24
Your Story MedicineA week in Tulum: Entrepreneurship as Sacred ActivismIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I reflect on the week I recently spent in Tulum, Mexico.
Now, what comes to mind when you think of Tulum?
Yogis? Pretty beaches? Sacred sites? Selfies of pretty people in pretty spots?
For real; Tulum was on the list of places I wanted to visit because of how beautiful I thought the photos were! As well as to pay reverence to the sacred sites and the spirituality of the land.
After a week spent at a business retreat with one of my coaches...2021-07-2722 min
Your Story MedicineHow to Heal the World Through Play with Jeff HarryIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Jeff Harry, Positive Psychology Play Whisperer and Founder of Rediscover Your Play. He combines positive psychology and play to help teams/organizations create psychologically safe workspaces through play and assist individuals in addressing their biggest challenges through embracing a play-oriented approach to work.
Some of the topics he covers include how to deal with toxicity in the workplace, how to address office politics, how to play with your inner critic, how to help your staff rediscover their flow, and how to navigate these uncertain times through play.
2021-07-2055 min
Your Story MedicineTransforming Ancestral Pain into Power and Thriving in Our Lives & Business with Vanessa CodorniuIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Vanessa Codorniu, an acclaimed psychic medium with 25 years of experience and more than 10,000 individual sessions. She is a Bruja and Latinx teacher of intuition and clinical hypnosis, with a focus on healing ancestral trauma/patterns through hypnosis. A secret weapon for CEOs and entrepreneurs all around the U.S. and the Latin American world, Vanessa is most passionate about helping individuals develop their own inner resources, especially through intuition development and mindfulness tools.
Vanessa is the founder of Intuitive LeverageTM, an 8-week intuition bootcamp that gives structure to...2021-07-1355 min
Your Story MedicineAncestral Money Stories And How That Maybe Preventing You From Quantum Leaping with Kristen NoelleIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Kristen Noelle, a transformational mindset and business coach & astrologer, speaker, and entrepreneur. She is the author of the bestselling book Stop Chasing Start Attracting. Kristen helps small business owners, entrepreneurs and side-hustlers release their money blocks so that they can effortlessly quantum leap into the next level of their life and business.
She has helped hundreds of her clients double their income in a matter of months, using her proprietary three pillar method the Cash Flow Trinity™.
Kristen is also a certified Business an...2021-07-0644 min
Your Story MedicineInitiations: What Ancestors Told MeAloha from the beautiful Island of Oahu.
I am currently here in Hawaii, where I was actually supposed to return home a week ago. But I decided to extend my trip by at least another week.
And while it can be so easy to simply see the highlight reels of my life, soaking up the sun, being at the beach, hiking, snorkeling with sea turtles, all the things, it's important to also know that being here is actually a big challenge for me. Because I'm so used to being in the role of somebody who g...2021-06-2229 min
Your Story MedicineWellness Warriors: Charge Money, Heal Your LineageAccess to you is an expensive privilege, because what has been poured into you goes beyond money.
There’s time.
There’s energy.
There’s all the ways you’ve worked so hard to create healthy boundaries so that you can live your life in peace.
By the way, the more you choose to assert these boundaries, the more people are going to want to test them. These are people who are coming from a place of lack and scarcity who are going to want to pull you down to their level. A...2021-06-1527 min
Your Story MedicineEmbody Your Radiance and Mend a Broken Heart with Roshni KavateIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Roshni Kavate, Founder and Creative Director of Cardamom and Kavate, a wellness platform dedicated to reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom for collective liberation. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Through rituals and storytelling, we can reconnect to our origins and be our wild selves. She sees the path to being whole as a radical art and political practice.
Roshni speaks to us about how witnessing racialized trauma and its lasting impact on the health and wellness of communities of color—first in early childhood th...2021-06-0853 min
Your Story MedicineRoots of the Womb with Davana MayIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Davana May, a certified holistic wellness practitioner, ceremonialist, student of the Divine Feminine Mysteries, and Co-Founder of Sacred Sacred Sisters Circle. She is a graduate of The Gaia School of Healing and Earth Education, and a practitioner of the wise woman tradition. She has also studied Inner Dance and Inner Guidance with both Pi in the Philippines and Amara in Bali. After her own dark night of the soul and mystical awakening, she now guides other travelers on their unique journey home to themselves, connecting to the Beloved within.
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Your Story MedicineThe Uncaged Path: How to Set Sacred Boundaries with Phuong-Thao NguyenIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Phuong-Thao Nguyen, a trauma resolution guide, embodiment coach, and boundaries expert. Through The Uncaged Path, she works with women of color and first- and second-generation immigrant women who have been disconnected from themselves due to personal histories of trauma and systemic trauma. She helps these women reconnect back to their worthiness, bodies, and aliveness while reclaiming their nos, boundaries, and healthy aggression as a superpower through a mind-body approach so they can live an uncaged life.
Phuong-Thao speaks to us about her inspiring journey to...2021-05-2545 min
Find Your Voice, Speak Your Truth75. About your story medicine, with JumakaeWhat is the story within you that needs to be told? June Kaewsith, also known as Jumakae, can help you find it. And here’s why it’s important to do that: there’s immense healing possible when we are in tune with our own stories, and also the stories of our ancestors. Stories allow a deeper level of understanding. And as Jumakae points out in this episode, so many of the things we focus on in our lives are transient. We can’t take money to our graves, but we can leave a legacy through the stories we tell, an...2021-05-2059 min
Your Story MedicineRe-membering You, Re-membering Joy with ONYIIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome ONYI, an artist and healer dedicated to guiding her clients through their journey of awareness, self-love, and healing. Using powerful tools including Pure Bioenergy, Sound Healing, Spiritual Life Coaching, Ritual & Ceremony, and wisdom gained from her studies with elders, life experiences, and observations, she assists you in remembering that you have the power to transform and be in command of your existence.
ONYI speaks to us about how to see life as a ceremony, how her ancestral lineage led her down the path she currently...2021-05-181h 14
Your Story MedicineDecolonizing Abundance: Leadership In the New Paradigm with The Ascension SeedIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Nyasha and Reuben, a twin-flame couple and the energy behind The Ascension Seed, a company that spreads healing, empowerment, and unity consciousness for collective liberation. They offer their work in service to the multi-dimensional manifestation of unconditional love on Earth. They are passionate about dismantling all forms of separation and oppression to envision and create a world where all people are free to live equally in power, sovereignty, and abundance. They host online courses, trainings, retreats, and activations.
Nyasha and Reuben speak to us about...2021-05-111h 14
Your Story MedicineCanceled: Odyssey of the MartyrCan you cancel somebody who has already canceled themselves? Can you get any more problematic than admitting how problematic you are versus trying to prove that you're not? It's kind of like saying something racist and then saying you're not a racist and then spending a lot of energy defending yourself only to make it worse.
Wouldn't it have been so much easier to just admit that you fucked up and what does accountability or repair look like from there? Because from what I'm seeing on this side, I don't even have any desire to be a...2021-05-0433 min
Your Story MedicineColon Hydrotherapy: Self Regulation through Internal Cleansing with Monisha GarnerIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Monisha “Mo” Garner, Founder of Moya Body Care, which was manifested over 13 years ago as a holistic and organic body care company treating sensitive skin. Over the years, Moya has become stronger and greater, offering the very best in colon hydrotherapy, yoni steaming, Iridology, Reiki, and herbs. Mo inspires you to move towards a healthier mind, body, and spirit and combines Eastern and Western philosophies with ancient healing and spiritual practices. She and Moya offer you an experience of holistic wellness that reconnects with your original source of energy so heal...2021-04-271h 00
Your Story MedicineMovement is Medicine: Embodied Trust through Dance with Harmony LeeIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Harmony Lee, who left the military in 2019 to teach self-healing through movement. They have been dancing for joy ever since! Harmony believes movement is medicine and play is nourishment. Their approach to dance blends somatic psychotherapy, embodiment, spiritual healing, and playfulness. Their online movement school provides students with a safe and respectful space for self-expression and healing.
Harmony speaks to us about how their Chinese and White lineages have influenced their life and work as a dance teacher, why dance is healing, and the powerful...2021-04-2055 min
Your Story MedicineMaking Peace with Your Past with Sara StanizaiIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Sara Stanizai, Licensed Therapist and Owner of Prospect Therapy, a queer and trans affirming therapy practice with a focus on first generation American and immigrant mental health. As a queer first generation herself, she also facilitates an Afghan-American women’s circle twice each year.
Sara speaks to us about what it was like to grow up in an Afghani household in America and how her career as a therapist has influenced and healed her relationship with her father. She speaks on the role of imposter syn...2021-04-1336 min
Your Story MedicineHow to Love Your Sensual Self with Ann NguyenIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Ann Nguyen, a Sexual Empowerment Coach who believes in the revolutionary healing power of pleasure. Her work is in the service of changing the way women relate to pleasure and rewriting the narrative of sexuality in modern times.
Ann speaks to us about the difference between sensuality and sexuality, how her Vietnamese ancestry has helped her understand herself and her relationship with sex, and what it was like to transition to entrepreneurship from a secure corporate job in the tech industry. She shares her candid t...2021-04-0644 min
Your Story MedicineDecolonizing our Healing with Gabes TorresIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Gabes Torres, who has been active in the work of anti-racism and decolonization, particularly in the fields of mental health, education, spirituality, music, and community organizing. Gabes is a racial and migration trauma-informed psychotherapist and intends to decolonize the therapeutic space. She also offers clinical support and care at recovery centers that shelter and support survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence.
Gabes speaks to us about finding balance between resting and fighting for revolution, navigating the mental health world with a decolonization framework, and why ancestral healing i...2021-03-3045 min
Your Story MedicineGrandmother's HandsI've been told I have my grandmother's hands rubbing calendula and rose oil to soothe the crevices forming in my skin. Lately, they've been cracking from the many times I've said “Twinkle, twinkle little star to myself, treating every cleanse as a ritual to celebrate old karma being washed away. Beyond flesh. My bones speak to the future I cannot quite grasp yet, but the feeling is certain. We were made for these times. Grandmother's hands knew how to garden a wilting weed back to life, the ones they tried to remove as unwanted, uprooted from her soil, flown in...2021-03-2815 min
Your Story MedicineDivorce: The Dance of Death of Rebirth with Joanne EncarnacionIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Joanne Encarnacion aka "The Queen of Messy Conversations", who has dared to lead hundreds of women down a path of radical self-acceptance, gaining her recognition by CEO of Thrive Global, Arianna Huffington as one of the Top 20 Health and Wellness role models. Jo has pivoted through many different career paths in her lifetime. She is the Founder and Head Bitch in Charge of GOFITJO, which has amassed a following of over 80,000 people and a thriving blog of 20,000 readers a month. Her mission is to help womxn release their shame and...2021-03-1652 min
Your Story MedicineThe Griot’s Tale: Building Legacy with Our Words with Baba the StorytellerIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Baba the Storyteller, a professional speaker and one of the few recognized US-born practitioners of the ancient West African storytelling craft, Jaliyaa. He has won numerous awards for his work as a folklorist, traditional harpist, storyteller, and community activist.
Baba speaks to us about his African heritage and how his upbringing led him to become a storyteller. He shares why he works with children and shares many words of wisdom on the power of sharing your stories and knowledge with others. Towards the end, Baba shares a beautiful m...2021-03-091h 02
Your Story MedicineJade Gate, Yin Energy, and Jing Essence with Kris GonzalezIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Kris Gonzalez, Licensed Acupuncturist, herbalist, Yang Sheng enthusiast, and Founder of The Way of Yin, a lifestyle education company dedicated entirely to bridging the wellness gap in reproductive health by leaning in on timeless wisdoms. Kris shares with us her journey to discovering the medicine of acupuncture and how her mixed lineage has influenced her life.
Kris speaks to us about the inspiration behind The Way of Yin, noting the synergy of yin and yang energy, the meaning of Jade Gate, and how we can...2021-03-0244 min
Your Story MedicineAsian America: It’s Okay to GrieveIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I express the heaviness my heart feels for what is currently happening, primarily in the media, towards the Asian community and towards all people of color. I speak on a few of my recent Instagram posts about modern racism, allowing white supremacy to dismantle itself, and the need to stop shaming people into action, expressing further my thoughts behind those posts.
I hold the grief of our black siblings who have been experiencing this for 400 years and the grief of our First Nation Indigenous relatives, here in the United States...2021-02-2325 min
Your Story MedicineHealing the Shame of Being a Sensual Woman with Charlotte NguyenIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Charlotte Nguyen, Owner of Get Free!, a wellness consultancy and community that helps change makers become more inspired and emotionally healthy through the transformative power of mindfulness. Charlotte is a spiritual and transformational coach continuously asking how to live a life of service that can lovingly overturn the status quo. After the death of her first love in 2007, she began a journey to learn how to be free from suffering. Charlotte has worked with hundreds of people in the field of personal development, helping them cultivate lives full of trust...2021-02-161h 07
Your Story MedicineMoney Archetypes: Financial Literacy for People of Color with with Brunch and BudgetIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Pamela Capalad and Dyalekt, Founder and Certified Financial Planner of Brunch & Budget, a company that provides the space to have real, open, and vulnerable conversations about finances. As you uncover what you really value and what you truly want your life to look like, they help you put in motion the strategies and tactics that will bring you financial clarity. Brunch & Budget is about sharing and building together on common ground.
Pamela and Dyalekt speak about why people of color have aversions towards talking about f...2021-02-0954 min
Your Story MedicineStay Woke: Ending Racism in Our Lifetime with Justin Michael WilliamsIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Justin Michael Williams, author, transformational speaker, and recording artist who has become a pioneering voice for diversity and inclusion in the wellness space. Justin has recently birthed his book, Stay Woke: A meditation guide for the rest of us, and he gives us thought-provoking insight into who this book is really for and what he considers his medicine to be.
Justin speaks about the potential for toxicity in the worlds of self-help and personal development, why he has been practicing celibacy for the past few years, and how...2021-02-0258 min
Your Story MedicineGrace and Ease - Celebrate Your MistakesHi, everyone. This is June a.k.a Jumakae. Recording my solo podcast episode. I am calling in so much more grace and ease this year and as I am learning to embody it, letting go of the hustle and the grind mentality that comes with growing a business, this whole, “Oh, I want to tap into my masculine.” I'm experimenting. What does it look like to operate from ease and flow? So, that means, what does it look like to share what is happening in my life as I am attempting to embody this. So, recently I just star...2021-01-2627 min
Short N' Sweet: A Donut Princess Podcast33. Jumakae - Female Empowerment & Yoni ExpertYour Story Medicine Podcast Host, Yoni Expert, and Community Leader- Jumakae shares her journey of her passion for her community to making six figures through healing and empowering women.2021-01-2545 min
Your Story MedicineYou Are the Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom & Entrepreneurship with Asha FrostIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Owner of Healing Rainbow Medicine Woman, Asha Frost. Asha is an Indigenous Medicine Woman, Author, and Founder of Sacred Membership, a global online medicine circle community. Having been impacted by intergenerational trauma, colonization, and oppression, she has worked hard to reclaim and remember her roots and medicine teachings, now specializing in helping people heal through illness, mental/emotional disorders and ancestral reconnection.
Asha speaks to us about her journey in opening up to receiving financial abundance in exchange for her medicinal services, overcoming scarcity rooted in white supremacy, a...2021-01-1938 min
Your Story MedicineHuman Design: Leading a Revolution from the Inside Out with Elyse PrestonIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Connection Coach and Human Design Guide, Elyse Preston. Elyse’s work focuses on centering connection as an essential ingredient for healing and social transformation with a mission to support leaders, changemakers and visionaries to experience energy healing and self-awareness so that they can cultivate communities, services, and experiences that center radical healing and liberation. Elyse defines Human Design and shares with us the power this system holds, as well as the ways in which it can help us cultivate self-love and self-understanding.
Feeling good while doing good. Doesn’t th...2021-01-1246 min
Your Story MedicineActivating Power Codes: Planetary Awakening for Empaths with Margarita AlcantaraIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Shamanista Medicine Woman, Activator of the New Code of Power, and Mentor for Spiritually Conscious Entrepreneurs, Margarita Alcantara. Margarita is also a Licensed Acupuncturist and Reiki Master/Teacher who helps her patients awaken into their spiritual badassery at her private practice in NYC. She is a #1 Bestselling Author of the book Chakra Healing and contributing writer to The Huffington Post, mindbodygreen, and Elephant Journal. Margarita offers insight into her transition from activist to activator, how we can tap into an abundance mindset amidst society’s prominent narrative of scarcity, and ho...2021-01-0541 min
Your Story MedicineThe Donut Princess: Carrying On a Family Legacy with Mayly TaoIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome LA’s self-proclaimed Donut Princess, Mayly Tao. Mayly is the Owner of DK’s Donuts & Bakery in Santa Monica, CA and Donut Princess Los Angeles, a donut bouquet delivery concept. She’s also the host of her podcast Short N’ Sweet. Mayly shares with us the incredible story of her ancestors overcoming the immense challenges of the Khmer Rouge genocide and how that has evolved into a flourishing donut empire here in California. She sheds light on the reason why she decided to take on the hard work of running DK’s Don...2020-12-2943 min
Your Story MedicineStewards of Money: My Pathway to 6 FiguresIt’s time for me to give you an update on the life of Jumakae and the future of Your Story Medicine Podcast. This episode is about me holding space for you to be part of my healing journey as well and is much more than just a conversation about spirituality and ancestors. I love talking about legacy building and creating a business that serves as the vehicle to your dharma. If you’re experiencing imposter syndrome, I have a secret for you… people aren’t coming to you for your certifications or accolades, they’re coming to you because of...2020-12-2222 min
Your Story MedicineA Diosa's Journey: Returning to Your Soul Home with Christine GutierrezIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Christine Gutierrez, Latina licensed psychotherapist, life coach, author, and expert in love addiction, trauma, abuse, and self-esteem. We discuss navigating shadow work in a way that keeps us from getting too deep in the darkness, incorporating ancestral medicine into your healing practice, and working with multiple racial backgrounds in one space. Christine shares the inspiration behind her journey towards writing her book and creating her community, the Diosahood, and how sensuality and storytelling have played a role in her life.
Are you feeling a call to incorporate your...2020-12-1548 min
Your Story MedicineBeekeeping: Protecting Our Pollinators with Jasmine JoyIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Pollinator Protector, Activist, and Owner of Beelieve Hawaii, Jasmine Joy. As a young girl, Jasmine knew her purpose on this planet was to protect it and inspire an awakening in others to reverently connect with the natural world. She shares the story of her ancestry while telling us how she was called to move to Hawaii and become a beekeeper and protector of pollinators. She details why we should strive to save the bees and offers insight into what we can do to make an impact in this movement. Jasmine...2020-12-0838 min
Your Story MedicineReclaiming Rites of Passage: Doble Quincineara w Jose Richard AvilesIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Jose Richard Aviles, social worker, urban planner, and artist. Their work is centered around the intersections between space, place, and the body. We discuss the influence of their ancestry on their medicine and career path, their most recent artistic offering, and what they have learned and released along their journey. Jose shares the inspiration behind Semilla, their recent poetic publication, and even reads a beautiful excerpt from it.
With all the tension in the world right now, this episode is sure to distract you from it and bring...2020-12-0142 min
Stories of the In Between4 things you can do to be more generousBlessings loves. This week's episode is in honor of Native Heritage month and of transforming the holiday of thanksgiving into a time to reflect on how to take small steps towards being generous to our soul's accountabilities, working to call forth individual and collective aligned actions. My hope is for people to move past calcified denial and flow into pleasure-filled (thank you always adrienne maree brown!) ways of contending with our slice of the paradigm shift. It is up to us as white people to continue the process of dismantling white supremacy and stepping into Equitable Sovereignty. I believe...2020-11-2800 min
Your Story MedicineMeditation, Money, and an Abundant Life with Tara MoraledaIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Tara Moraleda, visionary artist and abundance coach living on Maui. We discuss the duality in spirit that came from her mother and father, how she was called to move to Hawaii and silently meditate for 150 days, and why stillness contributes to systemic change. Tara also details how she shifted from a broke artist mindset to a money mindset, the correlation and differences between money and abundance, and the money rituals she’s been practicing lately. Then, she shares some wise words through a lovely poem she wrote about being a dua...2020-11-2434 min
Your Story MedicineThe Maltyox Method: Cacao as Heart Opener with Christine OliviaIn this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Christine Olivia Hernandez, creator of the Maltyox Method, author, cacao enthusiast, and artist. We discuss her ancestral lineage and her connection to it, detailing the beautiful journey she went on to find that connection. She tells us how her heritage has influenced her life, what her writing process is like, how she grounds herself in times of uncertainty, and what she has learned to release in this whole experience.
How can we mindfully and consciously consume cacao as a part of our spiritual practice without appropriating it? What...2020-11-2033 min
Your Story MedicineHealing as Protest with Shelley BruceIn this first episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome entrepreneur, artist, activist, and my wellness wifey, Shelley Bruce. Shelley is the creator of Day of Healing, a healing gathering on Venice Beach that combined the concept of much-needed protests with community organizing and wellness to bring a rejuvenating experience for artists, activists, entrepreneurs, and everyone else in between. Shelley shares with us the ways she stays grounded during these turbulent times, the inspiration behind Day of Healing, and the powerful significance of it being held on a beach. She also shares what she has learned to release on...2020-11-1730 min
Your Story MedicineTHE REBIRTHWelcome to the rebirth of Your Story Medicine, the podcast where I, June Kaewsith, aka “Jumakae” get to interview people who have inspired me to walk this path as a storytelling coach, life doula, and creative entrepreneur while sharing my own journey with you along the way.2020-11-1720 min
Rising Women LeadersRevolution & Planetary Shifts in Consciousness with Meredith RomWith the Summer Solstice Solar Eclipse just around the corner, our planet has been elevating into higher states of consciousness as the dark is being brought into the light. In this episode I share more about the power of the heart, the golden age upon us, anti-racism work, amplifying voices of color and tools to navigate these potent times. Links mentioned in this episode: Yin Yoga Videos Rising Women Leaders Website Instagram Patreon Let’s take time to learn directly from Black, Indigenous, People of Color. Here are some of our favorite Episodes fr...2020-06-1817 min
Belonging: Conversations about rites of passage, meaningful community, and seasonal living59. Creation as Self-Regulation & Dreaming of a Better World with JumakaeJune Marisa Kaewsith, also known as "Jumakae," joins me on the Belonging Podcast today. Jumakae is a professional artist, wellness consultant, and storytelling coach who first roped me in with her TEDx talk and her powerful storytelling voice. I knew I wanted to talk with her on Belonging about her ancestral connection, but we dove so much more into the power of stepping into your ancestral identity in these times of the pandemic and ways to navigate these times of uncertainty — including envisioning the future in a different way.Together, we talk about how to stay rooted in times of ch...2020-05-1850 min
Invisible TruthsEpisode 24: Your Story MedicineJune Marisa Kaewsith, also known as "Jumakae," is a professional artist, wellness consultant, and storytelling coach. As an artist, she has conducted spoken word workshops and mural projects with various youth groups, and has facilitated theater skits with community members addressing local issues from workers' rights to environmental justice. As a keynote speaker, she has motivated crowds through her original poetry in high schools, college campuses, and various nonprofit groups throughout California. Clients who have sought her as a storytelling coach are change agents who have gone on to tell their stories on large stages in front of thousands of...2020-01-2744 min
The Tao of Self-Confidence663: Be Your Own Rescue With June Marisa KaewsithJune Marisa Kaewsith, also known as "Jumakae,", is an artist, storytelling coach, wellness consultant and life doula based in Long Beach, CA. With her passion for the arts and somatic learning, she holds self-care and storytelling workshops for organizations and individuals to break through limiting beliefs so that they can be of better service to themselves and the world. She is a 200 hr registered yoga teacher trained to work with survivors of sexual trauma through Peace Over Violence.
June shares the traumas she went through and how she was able to overcome them by deciding to be her own rescue to...2019-09-1814 minRising Women LeadersYour Story Medicine & Writing a New Narrative with JumakaeI love connecting with women supporting others to come into the power of their voice, and this week’s podcast guest, Jumakae is one of those women. We go deep into talking about what we’ve witnessed supporting women to break free from old stories and limiting beliefs and what happens when a woman begins to see her challenges and difficulties as a source of empowerment to activate and inspire others. This conversation is rich with insight on the power of storytelling, public speaking, releasing trauma and owning the power of our voice. I hope you enjoy it!2019-05-1851 min
Project VoiceEpisode 47: Jumakae: On Healing and Transformative JusticeEver since Project Voice has relaunched its brand, I’ve been waiting to share with you my latest interview with June Kaewsith (Jumakae) on healing and transformative justice. What’s so unique about this conversation is that it speaks to me where I am today as a social justice activist. Oftentimes, as social justice warriors, we often navigate through life with strong messages that we often show a lot of passion advocating. But does that mean we always have to live like martyrs? When and how can we begin to take care of ourselves and our body? In t...2018-10-0357 min
Tale SpinHow I MADE It- December 2016Audio from the December "How I MADE It" event at MADE by Millworks. Contributors are Sander Wolff, Jumakae, Dave Williams, and Erin Foley.2017-01-1053 minTale SpinHow I MADE It- December 2016Audio from the December "How I MADE It" event at MADE by Millworks. Contributors are Sander Wolff, Jumakae, Dave Williams, and Erin Foley.2017-01-1053 min