LIMBO podcast

In conventional terms, Ashmi Pathela is an artist, writer, and coach. But in her soul, she knows she's here to assist in the massive shift in global consciousness that is taking place right now. Millions of people around the world are awakening to the truth of who they are, and she believes we're all here to create a new world. Ashmi began her career on Facebook’s early marketing team. Since then, she launched a creative agency and lifestyle brand with Randi Zuckerberg and served as Chief of Staff to the CEO at a tech company. Though these were dream jobs in many ways, she ended up burnt out and unfulfilled. She realized she'd been sprinting through life – driven by achievement, ego, and an intense hunger for purpose. She lost my connection to my heart.Ashmi left Silicon Valley in 2017 to travel the world, to Lisbon, Tel Aviv, Cape Town, Bali, and Western Australia… But of course, the greatest journey was within. It opened her eyes to a new way of living - in joyful alignment with her heart. And nothing less. This led Ashmi to painting and writing, helping people reconnect with their soul. She is also the creator of Covival, a blog and grounded spiritual community for living from the heart.Ashmi and I met nearly a decade ago during each of our first jobs at Facebook, and we've each come a very long (and unexpected) way! In this episode, we talk about Ashmi's experience with serious burnout, leaving Silicon Valley, becoming a "nomad" and living in Bali, the impact of using intuition and creativity to connect to and live through her heart, overcoming the fear of being seen, and the work of spiritual remembering. For daily writing and inspiration, follow Ashmi on Instagram @ashmi.path. Or check out her art and blog on her website www.ashmipathela.com.

Katie Dalebout is a writer and podcaster, and the founder of let it out, a community for sharing *soft stories*, the tender tales that connect us. Her weekly interview show that began in 2013 now has over 4 million downloads and in 2019 she started Spiraling, a co-hosted anxiety show.Her book let it out (Hay House in 2016) is an interactive guide to journaling. She’s spoken at Kripalu, Soho House, and The Wing and now runs a journaling based creative clinic and leads an online workshop for independent podcasters.Katie and I met when I took her Let [a Podcast] Out course and became fast friends during a time when we were both navigating huge transitions. In this episode, we talk about how integrating after a breakup inspired her latest Kits project, her nomadic period of travel, pivoting after a career bump, letting go & surrender, comparison and finding relief and power in staying in our own lane, and the importance of mental health and community for creativity. @katiedalebout@letitoutttHow to Journal free workshopLet it Out Kits!The Art of Breakups KitsSootheSolve - launching today!    

Lenea Sims is a creative self-development coach and the founder of Inner Play – an online self-development summer camp for adults!  Lenea believes our greatest responsibility is accessing our highest selves and sharing our creative gifts with the world. She also believes we don’t have to suffer through boring meditation circles to do that. Her gift? Making self-development accessible, fun, and playful so you actually *want* to do it. Her work has been featured in Paper Magazine, Essence, and on stage at SXSW.Lenea is JOY and WISDOM and BRIGHT COLORS! In this episode we talk about how burnout from her identity as a high-achieving student led her to a focus on feeling good, using energy work to dissolve stuckness and unleash creativity, the healing power of hobbies, bringing joy to wellness, and how to channel purpose through creativity and showing up. @leneasims@innerplay.funFind Inner Play courses, events and merch here.  

FROM THE EPISODE@millanasnow energy healer ABOUT JENNYJenny Gaither is the Founder of Movemeant Foundation - an internationally recognized 501c3 dedicated to helping girls and women build self-worth and confidence through movement. Through Movemeant Foundation, Jenny has dedicated over 10 years of her life to serving fitness communities throughout the country by providing middle schools girls with a body-positive, confidence-building curriculum and by hosting over 15 large-scale, outdoor, charity fitness festivals called We Dare to Bare, in major cities, such as San Francisco, New York, Nashville, and LA. Additionally, Jenny and her Movemeant team continue to partner with brands like Athleta to gift underserved communities around the world with individual athletic scholarships to make fitness accessible, approachable, and fun. Last but not least, Movemeant built a Covid-19 Relief Fund providing Covid-19 Financial Relief Grants to fitness and wellness instructors. With these awards, Movemeant provides financial assistance of up to $1,000 to teachers and instructors who are in need of tools and resources to bring their new digital business ideas to life. Movemeant will also be hosting a series of webinars by accredited business coaches and mentors for fitness and wellness instructors to continue their education in essential business needs, such as website creation, marketing, sales, social media, finances, and more. In addition, Jenny is a Confidence-Life Coach as well as a Business Coach. Jenny built a curriculum and a community called Brave Babe Blueprint for women to gain easy access to accountability, actionable steps, tools, and guidance in order to face their fears and build self-worth to achieve a confident sense-of-self both professionally and personally. In addition to her Brave Babe Blueprint program, Jenny also helps young, female entrepreneurs build successful online businesses while providing them with the tools to beat fear, self-sabotage, self-doubt and imposter syndrome.Jenny is one of a handful of Master SoulCycle instructors and has been teaching at SoulCycle for ten years between SF and NYC. Jenny currently resides in New York City where she also teaches boxing at Shadowbox at the Flatiron and Dumbo locations. Last but not least, Jenny's career and passion for dance led her to curate a cardio, hip hop class for all-levels called Notorious FIT. Jenny showcases her Notorious FIT hip hop class at fitness festivals such as, Shape Magazine's annual LA celebrity event, Shape Body Shop, and teaches Master classes around the world. Jenny is now offering Notorious FIT virtual classes!WHERE TO FIND HERInstagram @jennygaitherMovemeant Foundation Covid-19 relief grants and resources for fitness and wellness instructorsNotorious FIT virtual dance classesShadowbox virtual boxing classes

Tina Essmaker (@tinaessmaker) is a coach, speaker and writer who helps creative professionals transition to the other side. With a Bachelor’s of Social Work and professional coach training, Tina’s approach is warm and practical, meeting clients where they are and guiding them forward. The creative world is her specialty, but her work is open to all who are navigating ambiguity, change, and transition and desire to thrive on the other side.Tina and I met when I was still working at Instagram and she was the editor of The Great Discontent. I loved her and her writing so much that when she first posted about becoming a creative life coach,  I signed up right away. I was looking down the barrel of all my big life changes that inspired this podcast, and she created a really gentle, inspiring and supportive experience.We talked in December over Zoom - before it was cool - but so many of the themes we discussed are perfect for this quarantine period we’re in. We talk about navigating the space that often comes with transitions, flowing over forcing, finding alignment, the illusion of control and how letting go can be empowering. You’ll hear her story of how she went from growing up in Michigan to social work to starting a magazine for creatives to what she does today working as a coach and writer. She shares some of her philosophies and tools to help you if you are some kind of transition which newsflash we all are, like ways to manage your energy and structure time.Set up a consult with Tina here: https://calendly.com/tinaessmaker/15min?month=2020-04Subscribe to Tina's newsletter here: https://tinyletter.com/coachtina. Read Tina's work on Working Not Working (and send her a question), 99u, and (my favorite) Medium. 

Lisa Olivera is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and writer who is passionate about bringing the ideas and tools of therapy out of the office and into the real world. She believes we require less fixing and more accepting – less perfectionism and more good-enough – less criticism and more self-compassion. In her practice, Lisa supports people who want to find more acceptance in who they are but feel overwhelmed by self-criticism, doubt, sadness, anxiety, transition, or fear. Through holistic and integrative practices, she helps clients create more compassion for themselves, more capacity to feel the hard stuff, and more understanding of how to manage the stressors and impacts of our history, our environment, and our daily life. Lisa lives and loves in Oakland, CA. You can find Lisa online at www.lisaoliveratherapy.com and on Instagram @lisaoliveratherapy. 

Episode 04: Erin Gilmore in LIMBO - overcoming perfectionism and being "confidently messy," having a crush on your passion, making money as a creative, taking action on your dreams, and the practice of trauma-informed yoga Erin's Creative Mornings talk Trauma-informed yoga Dr. Peter Levine, trauma specialist and developer of the Somatic Experience Method Family Systems therapy Chani Nicholas - astrologer Castor oil for hair growth! Who is Erin? Erin Gilmore is originally from Cape Cod, MA. In 2009, after college at FIT, she relocated from NYC to San Francisco. She then took her first teacher training in 2011 and has been teaching corporate and public classes full-time ever since. Erin always brings you a fresh weekly playlist and a profound message of self-acceptance. She encourages you to meet yourself exactly where you are in that moment and to focus on your own unique journey. Her swift-paced, deeply-rhythmic flow, and strength-based training takes yogis on an intentional, invigorating, focused journey away from the inner critic and toward a place of peace and self-love. Yoga was the driving force behind reclaiming her own sense of self-love and has helped untangling her from a long battle with depression and eating disorders. Above all, she hopes to create a space to practice feeling what you're really feeling, in the midst of a challenging flow, supported by good music, jokes, and surrounded by community. Erin also founded a monthly all women's class, StrongWomenSF, that benefits Planned Parenthood. You can find Erin teaching yoga on the Playbook app and at Yoga Flow SF on Union St., making weekly playlists on Spotify (look for Erin Gilmore), and on Instagram at @erintron. What is LIMBO? @limbopodcast is an intersectional collection of conversations celebrating being in between - frank, witty, and soulful perspectives on life's big and small changes as they're happening. An optimistic, but honest, pause and reflection while the end is still unwritten. Going beyond the before and after and into the DURING. We will talk about purpose, creativity, discovery, love, family, money, abundance, spirituality - and how our relationships to it all are evolving. Stories will be serious, not serious, messy, beautiful, silly, real. Success or a completed hero's journey is not a prerequisite. Who is Alex? https://www.alexhollander.me/

Episode 03: Trina Robinson in LIMBO - the power of storytelling, becoming a vessel for your ancestors, committing to creativity, and navigating work and art Let [a podcast] Out course - use code LIMBO for $25 off Spirit Daughter moon workbooks Slack blog Neighborhood Playhouse Nuyorican Poet's Cafe California Sunday Magazine Pop Up Magazine The Call The Moth Blackstar Film Festival San Francisco Art Institute Holotropic breathing Who is Trina? Trina is a creator who explores memory through film, archival materials, and text. Her work was featured in the Museum of the African Diaspora’s I’ve known Rivers project, and New Jersey Dramatists Which Way to America at the Jersey City Museum and Puffin Cultural Forum. She has most recently been on tour with The Moth, telling the story behind her video essay The Call – the discovery and exploration of the lives of her enslaved ancestors in Kentucky. She has also worked in print and digital media as a managing editor and in production - places like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and California Sunday. NBD. And! She is currently the managing editor at Slack. What is LIMBO? LIMBO podcast is an intersectional collection of conversations celebrating being in between - frank, witty, and soulful perspectives on life's big and small changes as they're happening. An optimistic, but honest, pause and reflection while the end is still unwritten. Going beyond the before and after and into the DURING. We will talk about purpose, creativity, discovery, love, family, money, abundance, spirituality - and how our relationships to it all are evolving. Stories will be serious, not serious, messy, beautiful, silly, real. Success or a completed hero's journey is not a prerequisite. Who is Alex? https://www.alexhollander.me/

Episode 02: Lindsey Simcik in LIMBO - honoring the sacredness of being single, developing a creative practice, quitting jobs with intention, navigating identity, and her pathway to spiritual wellness Let it Out Podcast The Let [a Podcast] Out class The Almost30 Podcast Lindsey’s solo episode Ask Your Guides by Sonia Choquette (affiliate link) Third Eye Spray Our reiki healer Millana Snow Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (affiliate link) Who is Lindsey? Lindsey is a CEO of Almost 30. She and Krista Williams are proud to have built a media company and community around their top-rated podcast, Almost 30. An innovator from birth, Lindsey Simcik was the type of kid who treated imaginary friends and neighborhood insects to a self-produced three-act musical in her living room. She graduated from her fireplace performances and moved onto the big stage in cities like Boston and New York. Always a hustler, Lindsey has been a bartender, fit model, and a Senior SoulCycle Instructor among many other odd jobs, which unknowingly prepared her for Almost 30--a creative endeavor, the sheer mass of which, she could have never anticipated. Currently based in LA, Lindsey's boldest job description in life is that of 'CREATOR.' Whether she is writing, singing, or bringing characters like “Just Alicia” to life, she is re-defining success by the day and using her hustle to make waves in and out of her main offices in Santa Monica. She loves plants, singing and slow mornings. What is LIMBO? LIMBO podcast is an intersectional collection of conversations celebrating being in between - frank, witty, and soulful perspectives on life's big and small changes as they're happening. An optimistic, but honest, pause and reflection while the end is still unwritten. Going beyond the before and after and into the DURING. We will talk about purpose, creativity, discovery, love, family, money, abundance, spirituality - and how our relationships to it all are evolving. Stories will be serious, not serious, messy, beautiful, silly, real. Success or a completed hero's journey is not a prerequisite. Who is Alex? https://www.alexhollander.me/

Episode 01: Berna Anat in LIMBO - dancing through money shame and financial literacy, long-term travel, loneliness, and starting a business Berna on Instagram Felicia's Wallet videos Is Long-Term Travel Lonely? Let Me Ask My Own Sad, Lonely A** Real Quick Too Dark & Not Enough: Traveling As A Dark-Skin, Curly Haired Filipinx! on How Not to Travel Like a Basic Bitch Berna's website and words Who is Berna? Berna Anat is a financial hype woman. That's her made-up way of saying, she's the creator of a financial literacy media series for young people that lives at @HeyBerna all over the Interwebz. Two years ago, she slayed her $50,000 debt, saved up to quit life and has been traveling the world trying to make money fun again ever since. Her portfolio includes work for Instagram, Seventeen, Glamour, and Scholastic, which is hilarious considering she still talks herself though the bunny ear method every time she ties her shoes. What is LIMBO? LIMBO podcast is an intersectional collection of conversations celebrating being in between - frank, witty, and soulful perspectives on life's big and small changes as they're happening. An optimistic, but honest, pause and reflection while the end is still unwritten. Going beyond the before and after and into the DURING. We will talk about purpose, creativity, discovery, love, family, money, abundance, spirituality - and how our relationships to it all are evolving. Stories will be serious, not serious, messy, beautiful, silly, real. Success or a completed hero's journey is not a prerequisite. Who is Alex? https://www.alexhollander.me/