The Biz Bruja Podcast

Reclaiming the Power To Hold Space for Soul Madness with Xavier Dagba

So excited to share this powerful conversation with Xavier Dagba from The Ancestrally Rooted Business Summit 2022! Exploring how we are breaking ancestral patterns and reclaiming our magia and medicina to thrive in our Ancestrally Rooted businesses!

Xavier shares overcoming the fear of indigenous wisdom and medicine passed down from his father and embracing his great-grandmother's spiritual presence to breaking the good-boy pattern and leaving his Phd program to embrace what wanted to come through him. Madness is defined as breaking from the structures that hold up our egos to go out into our spiritual truths. 

We explore the meaning of purpose in our spiritual and business journey!

BIO: Xavier Dagba, Xavier is a trauma-informed life coach and a shadow work facilitator. He's passionate about helping people liberate themselves from the hidden forces that prevent them from living a life of purpose. For information reach out on https://thebizbruja.com

 

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Deepening Resilience, Healing and Community through Mediumship and Spiritual Business

I felt moved to share this conversation from mid-2020. We've come so far, I am awed and honored by the amount of Latinx, Indigenous and BIPOC healers that have stepped into their visibility and creating massive waves of transformation en la tierra. Let's keep learning, let's keep co-creating and let's keep supporting each other. Honored to walk with you all.

Mucho amor, Vanessa 

 

Broadcast on October 28, 2020 With Vanessa Gonzalez Codorniu

Hosted by Lisa Bonnice

With many souls leaving the planet during the pandemic we are left with lack of closure, heaviness and feeling isolated. Practices of communicating with our inner knowing, nature and those that have crossed over are ancient and can offer us practical ways to heal, grow resilient and heal ourselves, community, and those beyond the veil. As we prepare for collective and personal change, let's remember practical ways that can serve us through these times.

In This Session:

* What is Mediumship and how can I tap into it's healing potential

* How can we create spaces within/without and in community to find closure with the departed

* How can we heal our own ancestral stories through connecting and releasing those that have crossed over

* A mini-guided exercise 

 

Follow Vanessa on instagram: @thebizbruja and her website: https://thebizbruja.com

 

This interview is part of the Beyond The Veil Summit, a free online event featuring Near Death Experiences, Mediumship & the Science of the Afterlife.

For more information, please visit https://beyondtheveilsummit.com.

This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved.

Exploring Hypno-Reiki: A Powerful Healing Duo

 

 

So excited to share this presentation from The Shift Network's Energy Medicine Summit airing this November 2022

 

You'll explore what hypnosis is, what Reiki is, and the powerful, combined healing modality they create when used together.

 

Vanessa Gonzales Codorniu connects hypnosis and Usui Reiki in a respectful, modern take on ancient Indigenous practices, and explains why she believes this blending of modalities is indicative of the evolution of energy medicine itself. In this session, you’ll discover:

 

* What is Reiki and how does it work

 

* What is hypnosis and how does it work

 

* An experiential Hypno-Reiki demonstration

 

 

 

Hosted by Alkemia Earth and broadcast on November 16, 2022

 

For more info on services check out: https://thebizbruja.com

 

This interview is part of the Energy Medicine Summit a free online event. For more information, please visit https://energymedicinesummit.com. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved.

 

The Curanderx Toolkit with Atava Garcia Swiecicki

Atava Garcia Swiecicki shares her curandera journey that birthed The Curanderx Toolkit. She finally met a curandera in her 20s in the early 90s pre-wifi and internet and as she stepped on the land she felt like she had come home. Her dreams and Mexican, Polish, Hungarian and Diné ancestors guided her to her deep reclamation and now she guides others through her courses, services and new book! Atava shares the ancestral patterns she had to break in order to be who she is today and the inspirational medicina that have carried her in her life and sacred work.

 

• Shares how her Polish side of her family tended to the earth, creating habitats and connecting to nature.

•  Doña Enriquetta was her first teacher. We talk about how many of us romanticize indigenous teachers or elders and the truth of how tough they actually are.

• The cleansing practices of her Polish ancestors are similar to Mexican traditions and the universal truths that run through all of our indigenous wisdom.

 

• Asking herself, “ How am I living in California with so many Latinx yet there’s not that many curanderismo courses?” inspired her to start teaching and eventually became a school.

 

• How our ancient indigenous practices have been hidden due to persecution and oppression. I bring up some differences I’ve experienced with East coast Latinx spirituality and West coast spirituality. 

 

• Her experience of the powerful shifts that can happen when BIPOC and Latinx reclaim their wisdom and traditions. 

 

• Atava gives guidance on how to connect with our medicina and ancestors. 

 

• The pandemic and how we as a community began to heal and reclaim their ancestral wisdom. 

 

• Rome wasn’t built in a day folks- The difference between repeating information online and actually embodying the medicina are different things. Atava was in apprenticeship for ten years before stepping out fully as an expert. The Curanderx Toolkit is a culmination of Atava and the other healers in the book’s journey until this point. 

 

• Curanderismo is an everyday practice not a weekend hobby.

 

• The importance of forgiving, healing and integrating all of our ancestors even the ones that we may not like or may have done negative things in their life. 

 

• Purchase the Book, on www.Heydaybooks.com with discount: la medicina.  The Curanderx Toolkit: Reclaiming Ancestral Latinx Plant Medicine and Rituals for Healing

BIO:

Atava Garcia Swiecicki is guided by her dreams and her Mexican, Polish, Hungarian, and Diné ancestors. She received a BA in feminist studies from Stanford University and a master’s degree from the Indigenous Mind Program at Naropa University in Oakalnd. Atava has studied healing arts extensively for over thirty years and has been mentored by herbalists, curanderas, and traditional knowledge keepers. She works as a clinical herbalist and teacher. She is the founder of the Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk, and Indigenous Medicine on Ohlone territory in Oakland, and she currently lives in Tewa Pueblo territory in Albuquerque. Her personal website is ancestralapothecary.com, and the website for her school is ancestralapothecaryschool.com.

Courage is the Path with Shama Dhanani

Courage is the Path: Choosing to Continue to Move the Way

We want in the World

This conversation on my podcast is long overdue! We’ve had so many convos offline, bombas the conocimiento dropped and we kept saying, “we need to get on the podcast!” So excited to share this powerful soul and her inspirational journey!

 

• Shama shares how she experienced truth and a spark of awareness connecting with her friend while hiding in a dark closet at thirteen.

 

• How she knew she was designed for more than what an Islamic Indian home was preparing her for. 

 

• First- generation Americans and their parents who seem to keep a timestamp from their time of emigration into the US. Turning away from Islam and arranged marriages.

 

• Courage is the path- I choose how I want to move anyway.

 

• Chasing stability and financial security and how when you’re fighting for survival you just do the next best thing to survive.

 

• How New Yorkers used to malign Queens and Staten Island.

 

• How she survived and thrived after workplace manipulation and racism. 

 

• There are so many spoken and unspoken rules and labels, and the power of creating our own thing. 
• Subtle and practical ways in which she was guided to embrace being a Shaman, meeting the panther.

 

• How most indigenous cultures practice similar ceremonies and dances and the reflection of oneness and the honoring of the specific medicine and its survival.

 

• Exploring She of a thousand names and the Father, Mother and Son rather than the Father, son and the Holy Spirit.

 

• Shama geeks out on migration patterns in history and how over 60% of the people in the US are German descendants and how the media was skewed to serve the majority.

 

• Sharing the ancestral patterns that needed to be healed in order to be who she is today and the experience of reparenting with a father who is healing.

 

• Plant medicine- the call, the guidance to do it or not and how it can serve.

BIO: 

Shama Dhanani, a Hypnotherapist + certification trainer, soul coach & shamanic chakra energy teacher and owner of Shama’s Light Crystal Sanctuary & Spirit Tools Online Shop.

  

After 19 years in financial services understanding wealth mindsets and strategies,  Shama merged her work with ancient and modern wellness practices considering the deeper knowledge of the body and patterns of mind, to support clients in creating a personal and practical pathway to fulfillment towards goals through a peaceful yet empowering present.  

 

Shama guides you to create awareness beyond blind spots,  to "unlearn" limiting thoughts, outdated beliefs and impositions that you allow to hold you back.   Shama offers private sessions, workshops, group programs, wellness retreats and customized corporate wellness experiences to reduce stress and relax into your results. 

As a creator herself, Shama offers handcraftEd Shamanic Energy Clearing tools including sage kits, smudging feather fans and wands adorned with crystals from her own online crystals and Spirit tools shop. 

 

Shama’s mission is to share wellness and sustainable practices, to help support the reclamation of inner power, peace, joy of expression with authenticity.  Creating a better world for our individual and collective future begins within.

 

Shama has taught with the Bank of America, New York Open Center, Cubico X HealthKick, Talk Radio NYC Our Daily Magic, Island Voice Youth Summit, Global Meditation Scope, Generation Meditation, Downtown Deeksha NYC and more. Clients range from CEO’s,  Broadway professionals, legal teams serving our communities, stay at home moms to single dads, students and everyone in between.

 

Web address:   www.ShamasLight.com                

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/ShamansLight

Instagram: @ShamasLight.com

Speaking Truth to Power with RECLAMA’s Cindy Y. Rodriguez

This was a long overdue meeting with Cindy Y. Rodriguez! To be transparent we were talking for a good 45 minutes before we hit record! You know she's gotta come back and we're going to continue diving deep! In this episode, Cindy shares what it was like growing up the only Peruana in West New York/New Jersey, a life-changing trip, exploring her ancestors and going from hiding about her ancestors to unapologetically proud of her roots! 

 

• How her first trips to Peru were the seeds that have inspired her sacred work with RECLAMA.
• Straddling two worlds and how free she felt in Peru while she was with family in nature. 
• How she questioned her path and wondered, “what will my thing be?” while on hikes and journaling, it was only later that she realized it was her thing! 
• How her 8 year old has inspired her life and sacred work now and how she asks her people, “ what made your 8 year old happy?” 
• Breaking the old habits of making others happy over our own needs
• Cindy and I come out of the hypothyroid closet and she shares her journey
• How she built a good relationship with her silent co-star, hypothyroidism
• Maybe it’s not your ascension symptoms, maybe it’s your thyroid
• The thyroid is centered in the Throat chakra of communication and the levels of self-expression and reclamation
• Breaking through the ancestral patterns of silence and being made to feel selfish
• Not about adding more but releasing what is not ours 

Find Cindy on her website
Follow Cindy on instagram: RECLAMA  

BIO:

 

By training, Cindy Y. Rodriguez is a writer, producer and storyteller who has worked in media for over 15 years but after feeling disconnected from herself and her roots in 2017, she took on a new role. She created a spiritual hiking and journaling community for women of color called Reclama to help them reclaim themselves in nature. When she’s not hiking, she’s working as a producer in public media or singing to her 24-year-old turtle. Cindy was born and raised in New Jersey by her immigrant Peruvian parents and identifies as indigenous.

Your Message is Your Medicine with Nancy Marmolejo

Your Message is Your Medicine with the Soul Mama of Personal Branding, Nancy Marmolejo- so so excited to share this conversation with an OG Latina in Business and the Bruja path! Nancita shared: 

 

• How being strong-willed, creative, ambitious and driven may be signs that you might be an entrepreneur 

 

• Ancestral Patterns on her journey that she needed to break through that only became clear through psychic and past life work

 

• Struggle being imprinted in her DNA, “ it’s not real unless it has an element of struggle.”

 

• Moving into ease and flow in her life and business

 

• Getting older as freeing, “Life gets better as you get wiser.”

 

• Her mission to elevate indigenous wisdom instead of always looking outside of our lands for wisdom.

 

• Her don as her concept of medicine and what it means to indigenous Latinx. 

 

• Understanding what we are bringing to the table: “We all may be sitting around the same table but we all didn’t get here the same way.”

 

• The difference between forgiveness and gratitude. And how forgiveness supports manifestation.

BIO:

Nancy Marmolejo grew up in a family business, got her start as a bilingual educator, and today is the owner of a successful coaching, speaking, and training company. She guides leaders, founders, entrepreneurs, managers, and executives in their leadership, personal branding and communication skills. She’s known for her ability to connect people with their authentic messages and innate strengths. 

Dubbed “the soul mama of personal branding”, Nancy has over 100 media credits to her name and has taught her techniques to NASA, Microsoft, Blue Origin, non-profits, coaches, and various leadership conferences. She’s very active in organizations that support women of color in leadership roles. 

Nancy lives near Oakland, CA where she enjoys collecting art, gardening and exploring the outdoors. 

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Reclaiming Wellness with Jovanka Ciares

Sooo excited to share this beautiful amiga and author, Jovanka Ciares! We've known each other almost a decade and at some point created Latina only event wellness- Las Chicas Connect in NYC! I am so proud to know this lady and to witness her bringing forth the next phase of her sacred purpose with this book! I already started reading- and I LOVE it!

 

• Jovanka's journey growing up in Puerto Rico 
• She climbed the corporate ladder and then began to struggle with health issues
• Being an educator and wellness coach and making a difference in our communities
• Jovanka shares why the time is now to reclaim ancestral practices as our birthright
• Reasons why some folks are still struggling with reclaiming their wellness
• Why we need a balance of ancient practices and Western medicine
• Why it's critical to be your own health advocate

You can buy her book:

Reclaiming Wellness: Ancient Wisdom for your healthy, happy and beautiful life on Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Indie Bound 

Find Jovanka at her website: JovankaCiares.com

Instagram: @JovankaCiares

OFFICIAL BIO

Jovanka Ciares is a former entertainment executive turned Integrative Herbalist, Wellness expert; detox specialist, nutrition educator and author. She is the creator of the Wellness Smackdown™, an online wellness & learning community for healthy living, which was featured on the first season of ABC’s “My Diet Is Better Than Yours”. Jovanka studied nutrition with best-selling author Dr. T. Colin Campbell at Cornell University and herbalism with Dr. Tieraona Low Dog. She offers lectures, workshops and wellness coaching in both English and Spanish. In her social media channels, she shows viewers easy natural cures, home remedies and how to use common herbs and spices to address various health complaints. After years of suffering from IBS, ulcers and fibroids, Jovanka embraced alternative therapies like Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine and Herbalism. Her journey towards self-healing, peace and happiness became her motivation to inspire and support hundreds of others to do the same. Jovanka is a featured expert at People Magazine, Entertainment Tonight, Whole Foods, Veria Living, Fox News LA, NPR and CBS Radio. She’s also a regular contributor in Spanish-language media outlets like Telemundo and a contributing guest expert at The Huffington Post, MindBodyGreen, BlogHer and PositivelyPositive. Jovanka gave her first TEDx talk on “Rethinking Failure” in November 2013.