High Vibe Alchemist - The Podcast

Hey everyone, and welcome back to the High Vibe Alchemist, my name is Toni and I am your host. I want to welcome you back for this special bonus episode of the season finale with my sister Sasha. In this bonus episode, we're going to dive deeper into the discussion on the movement of sustainability and circularity within the fashion industry. What exactly does that mean and why it is so important. We talk about this topic from various angles and then talk a bit about Sasha's wonderful new venture, called Livstid Second hand and remake. A curated online shop and community for purchasing second-hand fashion finds in beyond universal standard. So let's dive in. Thanks so much to everyone who listened to this season. Subscribe and follow to get notified as new episodes launch. Head on over to iTunes and leave a 5-star review for me if you have enjoyed this or any episode from this season. It will help others to find us and to get more good conversations for us to share here. ----------------------------------------- Connect with Sasha! Email: livstidsecondhand@gmail.com Spindye: Spindye.com Podcast Mentions: The True Cost |truecostmovie.com ----------------------------------------- If you need more information, have something to share please send me a note. If you like what you hear and can, please give this offering a positive review on iTunes, it helps others to find us. Sign up for the newsletter for more on the astrological and wellness themes, as well as community resources. Link via my website: www.thehighvibealchemist.com Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: hello@thehighvibealchemist.com Thanks for Tuning in! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In part one of this two-part season finale. I am beyond excited to introduce my sister Sasha. Sasha, the youngest of 3 sisters, in her own words, 'struggled to find her voice and identity' growing up. In the journey to uncovering her own path, Sasha began to recognize little internal cues that when explored, opened her life up to tremendous positive growth. We discuss how her work and career in the fashion industry helped her to find her voice and calling, and how a huge decision to move abroad gave her the opportunity to realize her dream of living abroad. After 4 hours of audio, I split the goodness into two. Our second part, a bonus episode, will talk about Sasha's work and mission to educate everyone on the importance of circularity and sustainability in the fashion industry. The next chapter in her journey that speaks to this purpose and she shares that with us as well. ----- Connect with Sasha! Email: livstidsecondhand@gmail.com Spindye: Spindye.com Podcast Mentions: The True Cost |truecostmovie.com ----- I hope you all are taking care of yourselves, wishing you great health, abundance, safety, and happiness as always. If you need more information, have something to share please send me a note. If you like what you hear and can, please give this offering a positive review on iTunes, it helps others to find us. Sign up for the newsletter for more on the astrological and wellness themes, as well as community resources. Link via my website: www.thehighvibealchemist.com Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: hello@thehighvibealchemist.com Thanks for Tuning in! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hello wonderful people! This week, I am sharing with you a conversation with a friend of mine, Jamar Graham of Treated Very Kindly. Jamar and I first met as roommates and everyone knows that if you can be roommates and still like each other after, you really are friends. During our time as roommates, we each started our plant-based journeys. I sadly didn't stick with it, but Jamar did. Today we are going to explore his journey to plant-based living, what kept him on that path, and how it ended up informing the intentionality behind how he lives his life in other ways. Thanks Jamar for this conversation and you can find more of his work here: IG: @treated_very_kindly Link to his latest Zine release: July 2020 References Mentioned: High Carb Hannah Forks over Knives Film War of Art by Steven Pressfield The Art of War by Sun Tzu Thanks so much to everyone who listened this season. Subscribe and follow to get notified as new episodes launch. Head on over to iTunes and leave a 5-star review for me if you have enjoyed this or any episode from this season. It will help for others to find us and to get more good conversations for us to share here. ----------------------------------------- If you need more information, have something to share please send me a note. If you like what you hear and can, please give this offering a positive review on iTunes, it helps others to find us. Sign up for the newsletter for more on the astrological and wellness themes, as well as community resources. Link via my website: www.thehighvibealchemist.com Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: hello@thehighvibealchemist.com Thanks for Tuning in! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week, I'm back with two stories in one episode! I sit down (in our respective and separate, still.) quarters to talk with two of my Syracuse Alumni Orange Women and who I look at truly as sisters. Both Brittany and Sorelle have recently journeyed through the portal that is pregnancy. Sorelle gave birth in December of 2019 and Brittany in early May of this year, 2020. It was their first experience with pregnancy and birth for each of them, and in light of my recent chats this season with some wonderful birthing Doulas shout out to Sasha and Zoë, I wanted to spend some time and hold space for these two remarkable women. I think it is incredibly important to give space and a platform for the stories mothers and especially new mothers to give voice to their experiences. As Black women or women of color, it is even more pressing as we are frequently the most adversely affected group due to the lack of safety felt around sharing, around vulnerability, and physical safety. It was illuminating to me to hear the stories of the Sasha and Zoë, both birthing doulas, and one a practicing Labor and Delivery Nurse practitioner echoed in the experiences of my friends as two new mothers. It speaks to the reality of truth, that these experiences are happening to many people all over the country, and on different sides from patient to practitioner. We need to share more of these voices and this is just my small way of doing so. Trigger warning, we are going to be talking about birthing, the process, and the highs and lows. So the disclaimer was given here. This is a long one, but a great one. So pour some tea, get comfy, and join us in this beautiful conversation about a very important transition point in life. Books mentioned: Nurture : A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, Early Motherhood and Trusting Yourself and Your Body by Erica Chidi Cohen Britt and Sorelle on the Socials: Both are their IG handles Britt @colabottlebaby Brittany's amazing Podcast Recording Studio Newark.Fm Sorelle @rellebelle1223 Link to my previous conversations with birthing Doulas Sasha and Zoë: Check em out! Sasha of the Soul Doula Zoë of Zoserwoo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope you all are taking care of yourselves, wishing you great health, abundance, safety, and happiness as always. If you need more information, have something to share please send me a note. If you like what you hear and can, please give this offering a positive review on iTunes, it helps others to find us. Sign up for the newsletter for more on the astrological and wellness themes, as well as community resources. Link via my website: www.thehighvibealchemist.com Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: hello@thehighvibealchemist.com Thanks for Tuning in!

Hey everybody! Welcome back, or welcome to the High Vibe Alchemist Podcast. Today, we are exploring through a conversation, the topic of Past Lives and how Hypnosis can be a safe and effective tool to explore this and to have in your toolkit for self-care. Désirée is a Metaphysical Hypnotherapist, who incorporates guided hypnosis meditations, guided meditations, and other energy practices to help people move past subconscious blocks and traumas that are holding us back in our conscious living. Links from today's episode: Désirée: Desmerized.com Her IG: Desmerized ---------------------- Dr. Brian Weiss MD Psychiatrist and Hypnotherapist https://www.brianweiss.com/ ---------------------- Let's Connect! If you want to work more with me or send me ideas for future topics to explore: Website: The High Vibe Alchemist Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hi there! Welcome back to the High Vibe Alchemist Podcast. I am so thrilled to share this conversation I had with Jacqueline of Youth Orchestra of Urban Towns and Hoods. Jacqueline has turned her love of music and a childhood dream of becoming a music educator, into a beautiful offering and platform whose aim is to diversify the artists and composers studied in string orchestral music training. Her new seed Youth Orchestra of Urban Towns and Hoods is a platform for this initiative; a space for students to explore music, and participate in trainings involving musical contributors that look and sound like the students that need to know them. Join us for this powerful conversation of how the power of music and the importance of music education is positively impactful to everyone, especially kids and especially now. Thank you, Jacqueline. Links for Jacqueline: IG: @Youthorchurban Web: YouthOrchUrban Please send her a direct message for info on how to donate your used musical instrument to her organization. The Sound Meditation recording starts at 25:11 within the episode, come back to it, as you feel called. ------------------- If you need more information, have something to share please send me a note. If you like what you hear and can, please give this offering a positive review on iTunes, it helps others to find us. Sign up for the newsletter for more on the astrological and wellness themes, as well as community resources. Link via my website: www.thehighvibealchemist.com Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome back to another episode of The High Vibe Alchemist Podcast. This week, I am so happy to share a conversation I had with my friend Raquel. We are both trained and attuned Level 2 Reiki Practitioners, and I asked her to share with me her journey to Reiki. How she uses it in her practice as a licensed massage therapist for over 10 plus years, and why regular bodywork is so vital to our physical and energetic health. Links to her here: IG: @the.attuned.kinetic Website: The Attuned Kinetic ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Links to our wonderful teacher Shannon of Radical Reiki: IG: @radicalreiki Website: Radical Reiki And Bonus, Shannon is offering her Level 1 training later this month around the 26th of June, here is the link to find out more: Reiki Level 1 Certification ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mentioned: Alex March: Alex March ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you need more information, have something to share please send me a note. If you like what you hear and can, please give this offering a positive review on iTunes, it helps others to find us. Sign up for the newsletter for more on the astrological and wellness themes, as well as community resources. Link via my website: www.thehighvibealchemist.com Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in!

Surprise! Yes, I have a bonus episode for you today. This conversation was going to be a special bonus for my newsletter community, but there were some gems I just felt needed to be shared with as many people as possible. So today, I am introducing you to Zoë Grove. A newly minted Nurse working in Labor and Delivery, with the foundational training of being a birthing Doula. Zoë has a unique experience of working in two worlds. One that is from her deep-rooted call to help Mothers through their journey through pregnancy and advocate for their care. The other side, from working in a hospital setting where she is the witness to the sometimes dire consequences of hospitals and health care becoming more and more of a for-profit business than for-patient care. Zoë shares some insightful tips on questions to ask and when to ask them, her advice for partners looking to form a birth plan for their newborns, and echoes the plea of our last birthing Doula Sasha, about the importance of asking questions. Check her out on IG @zoserwoo Her Doula Training Program: Ancient Song Doula Training in Brooklyn Thanks so much for listening. Don't forget to subscribe, and share! ----------------------- I hope you all are taking care of yourselves, wishing you great health, abundance, safety, and happiness as always. If you need more information, have something to share please send me a note. If you like what you hear and can, please give this offering a positive review on iTunes, it helps others to find us. Sign up for the newsletter for more on the astrological and wellness themes, as well as community resources. Link via my website: www.thehighvibealchemist.com Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in!

Greetings! Welcome to Part 2 of this 2 part episodes on Doulas: Caring for the Birthing and Dying. The idea of this conversation came from a news segment of PBS Newshour discussing the effects on the way we are mourning in the aftermath of the current global pandemic. I wanted to feature some women and practitioners in this space, and two community members answered graciously to my request. These two episodes are their stories. Oceana Sawyer who you will meet here in Part 2 is a Woman of Color, living in Northern California. She is a practicing and evolving end of life Doula and we talk about her story to becoming an ally in this space, and discuss important concepts surrounding the topic of death and empowered dying, among many other things Links for Oceana: IG: @Oceanaendoflifedoula Website: www.oceanaendoflifedoula.com Correction: Oceana mentions she recently listened to a podcast episode from 'Into the Wild' she meant 'For the Wild', a podcast by Ayana Young featuring guest Brontë Velez. It is episode 184, originally aired in 2018 and still relevant as of this minute; a great listen, and I encourage you to check it out. I hope you all are taking care of yourselves, wishing you great health, abundance, safety, and happiness as always. If you need more information, have something to share please send me a note. If you like what you hear and can, please give this offering a positive review on iTunes, it helps others to find us. Sign up for the newsletter for more on the astrological and wellness themes, as well as community resources. Link via my website: www.thehighvibealchemist.com Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in!

Greetings! Welcome to this 2 part episodes on Doulas: Caring for the Birthing and Dying. The idea of this conversation came from a news segment of PBS Newshour discussing the effects on the way we are mourning in the aftermath of the current global pandemic. I wanted to feature some women and practitioners in this space, and two community members answered graciously to my request. These two episodes are their stories. Sasha Garcia who you will meet in Part one is a Latina living in Virginia USA who has recently become a birthing Doula, trained through MamaGlow Doula Course Training here in NYC. We talk about her journey to deciding to become a Doula, how she sees her work, and the importance of it for supporting Mothers. Links for Sasha: IG: @lovewritesasha Poetry Books are linked and available via her profile information on IG. Mama Glow by Latham Thomas https://mamaglow.com/ I hope you all are taking care of yourselves, wishing you great health, abundance, safety, and happiness as always. If you need more information, have something to share please send me a note. If you like what you hear and can, please give this offering a positive review on iTunes, it helps others to find us. Sign up for the newsletter for more on the astrological and wellness themes, as well as community resources. Link via my website: www.thehighvibealchemist.com Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in!

Greetings! I'm back with another episode this week and I'm happy to announce that it is a recording of a chat with my friend Seyi Adeyinka of Solar Flux. We held this space over the phone, due to the realities of social distancing, but both agreed this was a great way to connect, communicate ideas and share the ongoing evolutions of our respective journeys. Seyi is a Med student on track to specialize in Psychiatry here in New York City. We really formed a bond over our shared love of Tarot as a tool for self-exploration, as well as discussing other wellness practices. In this episode, we both discuss how we arrived at tarot, our journey with it, and then how we ultimately moved on from it. Still using it as a supportive tool, but no longer the main focus or diagnostic tool. Seyi is a trained doula and breathwork facilitator. We'll get into that an more in the episode. So a few references to highlight here: Links for Seyi: www.solarflux.me IG: @solar_flux ------------ Cards mentioned in the episode: Using the Rider Waite Deck - The 3 of swords: The Empress The 7 of Cups The Devil Rashunda Tramble - Stay Woke Tarot * Apologies I mispronounced her last name in the episode* Lindsay Mack - Tarot for the Wild Soul - Online Course ----------- I hope you all are taking care of yourselves, wishing you great health, abundance, safety, and happiness as always. If you need more information, have something to share please send me a note. If you like what you hear and can, please give this offering a positive review on iTunes, it helps others to find us. Sign up for the newsletter for more on the astrological and wellness themes, as well as community resources. Link via my website: www.thehighvibealchemist.com Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in!

In this episode, I'll be introducing the concepts of the North and South Nodes in Astrology. In modern western astrology, which is the school of Astrology I am most familiar with and trained in, the nodes have been more recently been taken more and more into consideration when studying the natal chart of a person. But there are many schools for astrology, much like yoga has Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, or Kundalini yoga. In Vedic or Indian Astrology, the nodes have been viewed as the most important points in persons chart and have historically been looked at first for centuries. In my particular interest in helping folks live more of a life that integrates the elements that fulfill their life purpose or calling; I particularly focus on any elements in astrology that can help shed light on these themes. So in this episode, we will talk about: what the north and south nodes are how they transit what their cycles are what they represent how we can use this information to build systems that allow us to integrate these themes into our day to day lives. how the current nodal sign shift with show possible significations, how we can support the highest expression of these energies. We'll also touch base on a high-level view of astrological transits from now until the 20th of May! ---------------------------------- I hope you all are taking care of yourselves, wishing you great health, abundance, safety, and happiness as always. If you need more information, have something to share please send me a note. If you like what you hear and can, please give this offering a positive review on iTunes, it helps others to find us. Sign up for the newsletter for more on the astrological and wellness themes, as well as community resources. Link via my website: www.thehighvibealchemist.com Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in!

In this episode, we are going to talk about the present and upcoming energy transits for the upcoming week 4/30 to 5/6/20. A quick review of Venus and Taurus themes. How did your prompts go surround your relationships to Love, Money, and Material possessions? Some highlights from the astrological transits taking place this week. A brief introduction to significations of The Moon, Venus, Mercury, Uranus, and the Sun. The upcoming full moon in Scorpio on May 7th. The moon and her journey to meet the full moon in Scorpio through the upcoming weekend. Intro to the changing of signs for north and south nodes. Discussions on the upcoming retrogrades joining the already Pluto retrograde. Saturn - May 11th Venus - May 12th Jupiter - May 14th The themes and lessons to integrate from these transits What can we focus on to make the most of this inward energetic journey? ---------------------------------- I hope you all are taking care of yourselves, wishing you great health, abundance, safety, and happiness as always. If you need more information, have something to share please send me a note. If you like what you hear and can, please give this offering a positive review on iTunes, it helps others to find us. Sign up for the newsletter for more on the astrological and wellness themes, as well as community resources. Link via my website: www.thehighvibealchemist.com Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in!

Welcome! Or welcome back! In this new season of the podcast, I'll be taking a more integrated approach to this offering. Feeling called to step out of my own fears about how the messages may be received, I am stepping into that belief that the messages will reach those that need it most. This episode explains more on that idea and gives some ques to exercises you can do to start building or integrating your personal systems with these larger contextual energetic weather reports. Continue to send me your resources and if you would like to speak about a topic here on the podcast! Sign up for the newsletter for more on the astrological and wellness themes, as well as community resources. Link via my website: www.thehighvibealchemist.com Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in!

Omg! we're closing out the decade! Here's to the last week in 2019! And I'm going out with a big one. This episode is talking about normalizing failure, what does failure really mean, how it impacts and informs what we do. And I am so happy to have some community contributors on this one with me. Thank you to our contributors on today's episode. You can find more about each of them here: Raquel Website: https://www.theattunedkinetic.com/ IG: @the.attunded.kinetic Brittany Newark.fm Link is here!: https://www.newark.fm/ IG: @newark.fm Candace Booking Agent: info@itstalent.net IG: @thatgirlcandace16 And me!... Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in!

We all have a general understanding of habits, and how they can be good or bad. What if you could use the way that your brain is hardwired to create habits, to create better habits that give you back some of the time you are so freely spending on things that are not truly in alignment with your priorities. We max out at 35,000 decisions in a day before you hit mental fatigue, and although we may think that is a large number when we start to look at all the little decisions our brains are wasting on insignificant or lower priority items, we can see how valuable this number truly is. In this episode, I share some information that has helped me put this topic into perspective, and that has shown me through personal experience and through the experience of my clients and friends, that intentionally shaping habits can increase your productivity and overall well being. References this episode: Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit https://charlesduhigg.com/ Charles has his own podcast here: https://slate.com/podcasts/how-to Tonya Dalton: https://www.tonyadalton.com/ Let's Connect! Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in!

In Episode 3, we are building on the previous two episodes and our work completed there. This episode we are talking about Purpose and some of the interpretations of what it means to find your "life purpose." I provide a brief overview of the 3 concepts that have helped me to start exploring this concept, which is continuing education for me in discovering more of what that means each day. Link to download for this episode is here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rfEZvu8O6CqcT8DBqr1X9DH5GeZm2TVD Sign up for the Newsletter:: www.thehighvibealchemist.com References: Tim Tamashiro - Ted Talk https://youtu.be/pk-PcJS2QaU Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in!

Episode 2: Where has all my time gone? The episode we are building off of last weeks exercise on Priorities and Finding your Happy Place. We are trying out another exercise that helps us see our week broken down by blocks of time, time that when seen on paper, we can start to see what we are making a priority by how much time we are committing to them. From there we can start to recognize what needs to shift to meet our more balanced lifestyle. Then additionally we can start to identify areas where we can find for ourselves, take a nap, read a book or take that workshop you have been trying to fit in. These little spots can help to build real clarity on finding your happy place. Try it out, and let me and the community know if and how it worked for you! Worksheet Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wEIZOu3ubFq5vTcjpEOJEsHB59lI1Qa8/view?usp=sharing Sign up for the Newsletter:: www.thehighvibealchemist.com References: Lavendaire: https://www.youtube.com/user/Lavendaire Tonya Dalton: https://www.tonyadalton.com/ Instagram: @thehighvibealchemist Twitter: @thehigvibealch Email: thehighvibealchemist@gmail.com Thanks for Tuning in!

I don't know about you, but somewhere along the way of "growing up" I got the idea that happiness was what came after, not what comes first. Do you know what makes you happy? Are you able to identify what your happy place, happy life, looks like? Well that's what I touch base on in this episode. I'm going to provide an introduction on my path to finding what that means for me, and the first tool that helped we to uncover what my Life Priorities are. How in looking at those priorities, I was able to see where I needed to make changes. I'll discuss how those changes showed up in my life and how one simple exercise opened a the door to life I'm committed to today. Show notes: Contact me at highvibealchemist@gmail.com Instagram @thehighvibealchemist Twitter @thehighvibealch References in this podcast: Women who run with the Wolves By Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Tonya Dalton’s Podcast https://ppx.inkwellpress.com/episodes/

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