The Biz Bruja Podcast

Season 2: Full Moon in Leo: A Heartfelt Invitation to Shine

Yasssss we made it through Brujitx! Last year was an initiation into facing our shadows, loss, grief, change, gratitude, deepening our connection with our spirit, shifting, pivoting and healing with a capital H. We all went through 2020 yet we did not go through it the same. Each of us had our own journey.

Some folks took a pause, others jumped into the fray and held space for communities. All of you, and I have the honor of meeting so many of you, courageously made time for healing and re-creating community. 

For me it felt like what I had been preparing all my life. I started reading business owners at 16, represented by a entertainment company at 22, initiated at 23 and guiding circles for over a decade when I came online. If there was ever a call for me to rise as teacher and space holder, this was it! I thank each an everyone of you for listening, supporting, sharing, enrolling in the courses of The School of the Healing Artes- most of all, I thank you for showing up for YOUR ancestors, for your espiritu and for being the chain breakers of ancestral patterns that no longer serve.

Gracias de Corazon! I am so excited for your rising, your shining and your creations that I have been sharing on instagram and for the sacred spaces you have created in your hearts, your families and communities. I know as we have healed, survived and thrived 2020- that we are ready for the tremendous changes that our world needs to go through to honor all people, moving human rights and social justice center stage. We are still preparing, knowing it will take time but we know that it's the only way for us to create the world that every child deserves. 

In the episode: 

* Deep gratitude and a quick review of 2020

* The Cycles of the Moon and how they reflect our own cycles and rhythms of creation.

* The Full Moon inspiring us to the stage, to speak our truth and to SHINE- releasing all that is not us, remembering that we truly are whole and have always been.

* Spirit messages delivered in this talk.

* Someone on instagram asked," How do I approach social media as a new business? There's so much available, I feel pressured and I wind up backing off." I share my experience and an invitation.

* A short meditation, a time to drop in and witness anything that is constricting our sovereignty and our fullest expression

I hope this episode has served you queridos

Mucho amor!

Vanessa 

 

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Esoteric Esa Walking In Her Abuela's Footsteps as The Modern Spiritual Latina

Join me in this conversation with Esoteric Esa, Jasmin- The Modern Spiritual Latina as she shares her own spiritual journey of taking up space, being seen and rising with her ancestral gifts. I admire and adore this brilliant Aquarian and can’t wait to share her joy, her passion for life and her thoughts on where we are and where we are headed. 

Some of the things we discuss in this episode: 

• Esoteric Esa is not a moniker, it’s actually Jasmin’s Higher Self and represents her journey. 
• Jasmin shares how her intuition kept her safe from an attack as she walked home from high school. 
• Jasmin shares her path from a degree in journalism and public relations to a growing career in entertainment PR to the smackdown of the Saturn Return that changed everything.
• Her Abuela’s metaphysical path and sacred work and how she realized she wanted to walk that path. 
• We talk about setting boundaries around our sacred work to support us as empaths and intuitives.
• How reading for strangers allow you to be a more clear channel. 
• Latinx community reclaiming and opening up to their soul gifts. 
• How overly focusing on love and light and staying away from our shadows and darkness can be spiritual bypass. 

Bio: 

Esoteric Esa is a Psychic, Creator of The Modern Spiritual Latina Oracle, an Award-winning Podcast Host, and has been published in HipLatina, PopSugar, and featured on MiTu for her spiritual work. She has contributed astrology and metaphysical pieces for BeLatina, HipLatina, and Luna Lifted and OurHouse.LA for their bruja content columns. She curates an award-winning podcast for manifestors titled, Better Work Bitch!, which is now on its sixth season, and has won two People's Choice Podcast Awards. She dedicates her time towards empowering others through the knowledge of astrology, numerology and tarot readings.

 

Connect with her via Instagram

@esoteric_esa or www.patreon.com/esotericesa.  Book a reading at www.souliminati.com

Devotion, Plants & Spirits: Juliet Diaz and her Bruja Path

It's been a minute! While I started this podcast in October of 2019, three family deaths have delayed me throughout and I keep returning with my Ancestors supporting, of course!

So happy to share this conversation with Juliet Diaz. Christine Gutierrez, author of I am Diosa, introduced us for The Soul Book Masterclass and it was my pleasure to guide a hypnosis for the beautiful group of writers they have gathered- I joined as well! 

Juliet's journey is full of magic, truth, heartbreak and powerful transformation and empowerment. She shares her devotion, struggles and early beginnings connecting to plants and feeling the souls in the nearby cemeteries where she grew up as well as how quickly she moved from the life she thought she wanted to the one aligned with her calling and Spirit.

Some of the things we riffed about: 

• How Spirit will shift your life to bring you to change.
• How we align our paths when we commit to Spirit and our path.
• We talk about cooking with the Ancestors.
• How our creative callings are echoes of past lives and ancestor's energies. 
• Giving away our power in love, business or our spirituality. 
• You are capable of being your own hero. 

Take a seat brujitas! Get the tea or cafe out and chill cuz this beautiful share will surely support your almas!

Mucho amor, Vanessa 

 

Bio:

Juliet Diaz is an Indigenous Taino Cubana from a long line of curanderos (Healers) and Brujas on both sides of her parents lineages. A Bohuiti (Healer) of her tribe, Higuayagua. Signs of her natural gifts like, Cosmic Channeling, Seer, plant whispering, energy reading & communication with spirits & other realms shined through at the age of 3. She believes Magic lives within us all and feels passionately about inspiring others to step into their truth. Juliet has devoted her life to helping others weave light, medicine, and Magic into their lives, helping thousands of people come back to self.

She’s the creator of Sagrada Collective an online virtual sanctuary and Co-Founder of The Soul Book Masterclass where she helps people find their soul's voice and turn it into a book. She has a Masters of Science in Herbal Medicine and countless certifications in an array of healing modalities.

Featured in major publications like National Geographic, The Atlantic, Wired and Spirit and Destiny UK. Published Author of her bestselling book in its genre, Witchery – Embrace the Witch Within published by Hayhouse

Find Juliet at: https://www.instagram.com/iamjulietdiaz/

Plant Witchery: https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Witchery-Discover-Sacred-Language/dp/1401960200

 

 

Acting days, Meeting Her Twin Flame and the Tantrika Life with Tatiana Dellapiane

Tatiana and I recorded a podcast over a year and a half ago that I didn’t share and I decided that we should have an updated conversation!

Join us as Tatiana Dellapiane, a sex and relationship expert, who has been diving deep into her own healing during the pandemic shares her journey from acting days, meeting her twin flame, mourning her beloved, late guru Psalm Isadora and the current layers she’s been releasing during the pandemic. Tatiana looks back and shares her path to embracing her tantrika essence and life path.

• Leaving a sexless relationship and discovering her own desires and sexual self.
• Acting class and meeting her Twin flame.
• Shares about her late guru, teacher, mentor and friend, Psalm Isadora.
• Marriage as initiation in her life.
• How the pandemic invited her to release the victim consciousness around not being able to accept reality as is.
• We’re all going through the pandemic in different ways.
• Her message of self-acceptance and being okay with where we are in our process.

Bio: 

Tatiana Dellepiane is a Tantric Sex and Relationship Expert featured in Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, Health.com, GQ, Askmen.com, YourTango.com, and many more. 

Tatiana, like most masterful energy healers, has been a student of energy and sensual choreographic healing for her entire life, studying modalities from around the world. 

She's the lead trainer of OYoga and Urban Kama Sutra School.  She's the Founder of the SLUT movement to redefine the word slut and help end the stigma around slut shaming.

Tatiana believes in the power of sex to awaken, transform and accelerate our journeys of self-actualization.  She is passionate about sharing her personal experiences, lessons and wisdom to empower other women.  She offers 1-on-1 coaching, online group courses, and teaches live events in NYC.  

Follow her on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tatianadellepiane/

 

 

Money Wounds And Mother Money with Linda Garcia

Money Wounds And Mother Money with Linda Garcia

My peoples...I have to share this powerful lady and her work. As a daughter of immigrants, I arrived to the US at a year and inherited the "work hard to make money" pattern, I've always known I can make money since I've been on my own in NYC since I am 21. As a spiritual healer and teacher for decades, I've been abundant in my work yet...I knew that it came with quite the amount of work! Taking a deep breath in, I took the class and I am now so excited to invest and open to multiplying my paper. It's been an honor and a pleasure to share this beautiful mujer's journey! 

Linda Garcia shares her spiritual and money healing journey from being a child connecting to the moon, being a teenage mom and her corporate career with Telemundo, Netflix and her inspiration for Let There Be Luz Podcast and her current course,” Wealth Rules Everything Around Me.” 

 

We talk about: 

• How the feeling that she had a mission moved her forward.
• How her intuition guided her around her menstrual cycle.
• Guiding Latinas into a new relationship with their monthly cycle.
• How her pregnancy and the birth of her son deepened her spiritual path and mission to share.
• The transformation during the pandemic that shifted Let There Be Luz podcast to In Luz We Trust and the classes that she's been teaching.

Bio: 

Linda Garcia, California native, born to immigrant parents, double majored in Marketing and International Business in Dallas, Texas. During college she was on air talent for Telemundo and Univision and began to write, produce and direct local TV commercials. Fascinated with storytelling, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and formed part of the startup team that launched the first major Latino Hollywood movie studio, Lionsgate’s, Pantelion Films. In 2012, Linda accepted a position at Netflix where she managed one of the company’s largest assets for Netflix Latin America. She was the driving force behind Spanish subs and dubs for Netflix U.S. Originals and the launch of telenovelas. She went on to launch AT&T’s, Fullscreen and Lionsgate’s, Pantaya streaming service. In September 2018 she closed the door on Hollywood to focus on her podcast, Let There Be Luz, full time. Linda or Luz Warrior as most of her listeners call her, has been strongly embraced by her community, developing an avid listener. Her meditations have rapidly become a community favorite and are now being experienced in corporate settings. She formed part of We All Grow Latina Summit 2019 Storytellers as well as as well as the official curator We All Grow Wellness Day. She most recently uprooted her family from Los Angeles and headed back to Dallas, Texas to continue her life's purpose, in her search to heal wounds specifically tied to wealth building from a unique spiritual perspective.

Find Linda Garcia at @luzwarrior

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Boundaries and Our Sacred No with Shirley Johnson

I had the honor and great pleasure of having Shirley Johnson of Soulistic Wellness on my Bruja Rising Instagram Lives May 8th 2020 and after the lives we jumped on a recording session. My apologies for taking so long for me to share this conversation with this beautiful and generous soul. 

Shirley Johnson, Psychotherapist + Energy Healer and Yoga teacher shares her journey from being a daughter of musicians, working in corporate, how the traditional study of psychology gave her more boundaries in her sacred work and why she calls herself an empath in recovery. 

Some of the points that came up during our conversation: 

• Everyone is a healer.
• What we are trying to do out there needs to be done in here ( within ourselves.)
• We already have it all, we’ve had it since we are born. 
• How boundaries are KEY to being a healthy EMPATH.
• The medicine in traditional psychology training that connected Shirley with her sacred no.
• How being a therapist has taught her to observe and honor her boundaries. 
• Why being self-FULL is needed.
• How business can also create boundaries.

 

shirley johnson | siri pritam kaur + soulistic wellness

“I’d rather be whole than good.” - Carl Jung

I am interested in wholeness and authenticity in all the work I do. I believe that radical authenticity and acceptance heal. I believe that acknowledging every emotion and desire will set us free. I have been committed to self studying and diving deep into all things healing for the last 15 years. My life is grounded in building consciousness. Outside of my practice, I love Cuban Salsa dance, hip hop music from the 90’s, watercolor painting, hot yoga, and laughing out loud.

 

Find Shirley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulisticwellness/

 

And her website: http://www.soulisticwellness.com

 

 

Zero F's Given with Anita Kopacz

Join us for this real talk with OG brujas, Vanessa and Anita! We begin with a gentle meditation and flow into Anita’s journey with her intuition, sexual healing and Orisha energy showing up to guide her on her life's journey. Anita shares the re-imagined inspirational story of Yemaya set in a historical period that will be published later this year in 2020 under the title Shallow Waters. We get real about alchemizing healing, intuitive business, sexual trauma and healing, her documentary and growing her beautiful family. We laugh, we tear up and as OG healers we knew changes were coming and that we are READY!

Some conversation points:

* How Orishas and guiding energies have shown up in our lives

* Multi-tasking and focus as we manage our lives and business.

* Alchemizing and clients doing their sacred work.

* How our wounds bring us to our soul purpose and Anita shares about her sexual abuse and her sexual healing.

* Ancestral trauma and how it can affect our children.

* Following Spirit and finding ways to do the work you feel called to do no matter the obstacles.

* Showing our wounds and the act of being seen heals us.

* Tending our seeds of creation and having patience.

* Sexual trauma and ways of protecting ourselves.

* Falling in love with shadow, sadness and the deep waters.

Anita Kopacz is a Pleasure Alchemist, Spiritual Psychologist, award-winning writer & Activist. She was Editor-in-Chief of Heart & Soul Magazine for five years. Before that, Anita was the Managing Editor of BeautyCents Magazine. Anita received her Bachelor's in Interdisciplinary Studies at UC Berkeley and MA in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. She is also a certified Tantra Coach, the author of the book FINDING YOUR WAY and the creator of the Zero F’s Given Campaign.

Find Anita on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anitakopacz/

Find Vanessa on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebizbruja/

Find Margie the Healing Artist that Anita speaks about on the podcast: https://www.instagram.com/margienugent/

You can also view this interview on YOUtube 

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The New Moon in Leo: I'm Gonna Let It Shine

This NEW MOON in Leo creates a potent + rare GRAND FIRE with MOON + SUN in Fixed Leo trine Mars in Cardinal Aries + the South Node in mutable Fire Sagittarius. Riffing on the New Moon in Leo, our Light, the Grand Fire Trine, trusting ourselves and the deep invitation to recharge through play, joy and celebration!

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