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The Biz Bruja Podcast

The Biz Bruja Podcast

Vanessa Codorniu

Welcome to The Business Bruja! Where reclaiming our intuition, sacred medicine, embracing our magic, healing ancestral patterns and creating our soul inspired business meet! I’m Vanessa Codorniu and my purpose is to create space for real talk on spirituality, social justice, healing, business, love, creativity and our collective re-awakening. I look forward to our RISING. [email protected]
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The Biz Bruja Podcast - Speaking Truth to Power with RECLAMA’s  Cindy Y. Rodriguez
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06/12/22 • 31 min

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.

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Could Trauma & Ego Be Clouding Your Intuition? 8 Tips Towards Intuitive Clarity w/Vanessa Codorniu

As a 3rd generation Psychic medium on one side and a 4th on the other, who has been reading folks since the age of 16 to teaching almost two decades and over 12, 000 sessions let Vanessa guide you through this conversation.

What is intuition?

Practical definitions, spiritual and more energy/science, energy is invisible and cannot be created or destroyed.

Intuitive ability is not a competitive practice

How a trauma can confuse our intuition and also make us hyperaware

Examples of why our intuition could be experienced as a reaction to a trigger

Being psychic is not about power and control

How my immigrant trauma stories actually made me show up on my psychic abilities

Jumping to conclusions based on trauma, bias, mindsets or past experience

We’re all intuitive and it takes time to develop our intuitive understanding

2023 is about deepening how we proceed around spirituality

Refining how we communicate about our medicine

Going back to Basics to help our mind, body and spirit

What do if we are not intuiting clearly

Explore healing and grounding practices

Taking the time to explore what works for us now and Ancestrally Why we need to accept change and flow more to be more intuitive.

Nachos Magicas: Reclaiming Our Ancestral Soul Gifts course begins again this Spring 2023!

Read more on our services and offers: https://thebizbruja.com

#intuition #psychicenergy #psychicmediumprofessional #brujas

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The Biz Bruja Podcast - I am Diosa with Christine Gutierrez
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07/01/20 • 35 min

Excited to share this conversation with Christine! I've watched her grow over the last decade and create a beautiful life, powerful healing spaces and now this transformative book! We riff about the spiritual old ways, how we've translated our medicine into a modern day form that serves, Christine's social justice work and how she journeyed from an empathic and curious little girl to a woman of action and healing. Her book,

I Am Diosa: A Journey to Healing Deep, Loving Yourself, And Coming Back Home to Soul is on pre-order and all details are below!

BIO: Christine Gutierrez, MA, LMHC is a Latina licensed psychothera­pist, life coach and expert in love addiction, trauma, abuse, and self- esteem. She has a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University in human behavior and development, and a master’s degree from City College of New York in mental health counseling with a focus on community and prevention. Through her work, Christine offers private coaching, group coaching, and transformational retreats such as her annual Diosa Retreat in Puerto Rico, as well as the Diosa Tribe, a global community where like- hearted women come to heal, rise, and lead. She has been featured in Time Out NY, Latina Magazine, Yahoo Health, Ebony, Cosmo for Latinas, Huffington Post, and others. Christine currently resides in Puerto Rico with her husband, Fernando Samalot, and their pup, Bo­dhi. For more on her work, visit christineg.tv and follow her on Instagram @CosmicChristine.

Link to: www.christineg.tv/iamdiosabook and main website is www.christineg.tv

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The Biz Bruja Podcast - Courage is the Path with Shama Dhanani
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07/04/22 • 60 min

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

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The Biz Bruja Podcast - Connect! Be Heard! Be Seen during this New Moon in Gemini
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06/07/24 • 30 min

In this light-hearted episode, Vanessa Codorniu dives deep into the significance of the new moon in Gemini and explores how this astrological event can influence our lives. She addresses common misconceptions about Gemini's duality and emphasizes the profound, soulful evolution this sign can represent. Vanessa elaborates on the cosmic energies at play, notably focusing on the power of communication and thought leadership during this period.

Vanessa discusses collective astrological movements like the North Node in Aries, highlighting the importance of stepping into true leadership and initiating new projects. She provides actionable advice on setting clear intentions, improving visibility, and broadening one's network—crucial strategies amplified by Mercury and Jupiter's presence in Gemini. Alongside this, Vanessa shares practical tips for self-reflection, cleansing, and manifesting new beginnings. Through engaging storytelling and metaphysical insights, Vanessa encourages listeners to harness the energy of Gemini season and embrace their multifaceted, resilient nature.

  • Dual Nature of Gemini: Vanessa clarifies that Gemini's duality represents the balance between our eternal soul and our earthly responsibilities, offering a deeper perspective beyond surface-level judgments.
  • New Moon Intentions: Emphasizes the importance of setting clear, grounded intentions during the new moon in Gemini to manifest desires and create new beginnings.
  • Leadership and Visibility: Highlights the impact of the North Node in Aries, urging individuals to embrace leadership and visibility, especially in communication and thought leadership.
  • Astrological Influences: Discusses the collective energies of Mercury and Jupiter in Gemini, promoting enhanced communication, intellectual expansion, and networking opportunities.
  • Practical Practices: Suggests practical steps for cleansing, journaling, and setting intentions, helping listeners align with the cosmic energies for personal growth and transformation.

Website: www.thebizbruja.com

IG: @thebizbruja

  • prominent Topics Discussed:
    • Astrology and New Moon in Gemini
    • Mercury and Jupiter in Gemini
    • North Node in Aries
    • Setting Intentions and Thought Leadership

Tune into the full episode to uncover more profound insights and practical guidance from Vanessa Codorniu. Stay connected for more enlightening content that delves into the magic of the cosmos and the rich depths within us all.

#newmoon #newmooningemini

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The Biz Bruja Podcast - Reclaiming Wellness with Jovanka Ciares
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04/20/22 • 32 min

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 SmackdownTM, 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.

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The Biz Bruja Podcast - Zero F's Given with Anita Kopacz
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09/02/20 • 75 min

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

#thebizbruja #thebizbrujapodcast #sexualhealing

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As we continue to exist under the realities of COVID 19 we have also faced personally and collectively the reality of racism and it's horrifying impact on our black brothers and sisters. With this on my heart, I reached out to Dr. Dee to talk about her work and how she sees us finding a way forwards.

Excited to connect with this powerful mujer, Dr. Dee #thetravelinghealer, doesn't hold back and shares her journey as a young Latina becoming pregnant, stepping into her power and claiming her path as a leader, healer and social justice wayshower. When asked what we need to be doing right now Dr. Dee says," Go Home. Go home and speak with your living ancestors. Talk about what's been said and not said. Go home in all it's resiliency and dysfunction because we've got work to do and it starts at home." We apologize for the sound quality but we really wanted to connect and share her wisdom and even though it's not perfect- we're here and she's sharing some insights that I took on as homework and that you may feel inspired to do as well.

Dr. Dayanara Marte is a first-generation Dominican immigrant dedicated to healing, trauma and social justice and upcoming author of her transformational Every Little Girl Has a Story. Dr. Marte works globally as a trusted advisor, consultant and coach with a wide array of philanthropy, community based cultural and social justice organizations and social service institutions executive directors, essential workers and first responders. With over 25 years of experience, she is renowned for her extraordinary ability to identify the social, spiritual, mental and emotional impact that trauma, oppression and violence have on women’s ability to love, live and lead. Dayanara is creating a movement that places self-healing and healing justice at the core of social justice.Dr. Marte envisions a world where young and adult women powerfully exist, are living into their future, birthing sustainable families and organizations and leading a new world.

Dr. Dayanara Marte, MPH, DSW

CEO/Founder of the World Healing Lab and the People of Color Healing Justice Consortium

For more information go to www.dayanaramarte.com

Instagram @dayanaramarte

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In October 2022, I held my first solo summit, The Soul of Business Summit and rebranded it to Ancestrally Rooted Business Summit. When I sat down to create my summit, The Hungry Medium was a dream guest in her grounded, sassy and wise magic- and I am so grateful she said YES!. She dives deep on how she grew through Christianity into her African traditions. I am beyond honored to share this powerful conversation with Kat Niambi, the Hungry Medium. Tune in to hear the ancestral patterns she transformed and the ones she leaned into to awaken and reclaim her magic and medicine.

  • Kat shares her ancestral journey that brought her to her current work and path.
  • How disbelief in the form of life in the church shaped her current spiritual path.
  • How ancestors who didn’t agree in life may support you in bigger ways when on the other side.
  • Kat shares the white table misa messages she received from trusted spiritualists that kept asking, “ why aren’t you doing this for people?”
  • Kat shares how her challenges are viewed as a series of events that had to occur so Kat could be who she is now.
  • She goes deeply into the question, “Is it Spirit or is it God?”
  • Christianity as a tool of the colonizer to strip Africans from their faith and identity as a historical fact.
  • Explains why Christianity and Black Nationalism don't align.
  • Why Kat calls herself a spiritual activist in her work and how grateful she is to be awake.
  • Her journey on social media during Covid and post-pandemic and trusting Spirit with your marketing.
  • What is the metaverse? The journey from the old days when spiritualists didn’t even read on the phone.
  • Saying yes to opportunities that are in alignment can be stepping stones for more connection, relationships and expansion.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/thehungrymedium

Website: https://www.thehungrymedium.com

Bio

Kat Niambi, aka The Hungry Medium’s practice is rooted in an African spiritual tradition for which she is grateful. Without this tradition, she wouldn’t be where she is right now. For many, the “gift” of hearing Spirit doesn’t present itself in a way that’s easily

recognizable. “I was either lucky or my soul has been around the block a few times and has navigated this mind-body iteration (aka me) to where I am today; a clairsentient spiritualist who’s able to make connections between spirit and the physical world.”

She likes to think of herself as a “spiritual activist”; using her mediumship to help others find direction, clarity and focus in their lives. The goal is to help YOU help yourself. By tapping into your own power to problem solve and to work towards achieving actionable goals, you’ll feel more empowered to design a life shaped by you and endorsed by the Soul.

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The Biz Bruja Podcast - Priscilla Stephan: Leading through the Mystic Archetype
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04/20/21 • 36 min

Brazilian-American Priscilla shares her journey from wanting to be a nun or an astronaut to being an event coordinator, fashion jewelry designer and working in corporate to the Akashic Records and business leadership development.

She describes the Akashic Records as Harry Potter’s Library in the Ether- endless infinite library with all the information through dimensions, time and space- a great way to connect with the guides who have been traveling with us from lifetime to lifetime! After twenty years of reading tarot, Priscilla encouraged me to study and teach the Akashic Records!

One of the ways that the Records are different from other practices is that it requires you to be an active, empowered participant in the session. Once we show up willing to be accountable and take responsibility- the guides are there to reflect that back with the most practical and concise information at the time, understanding it’s not predictive and that we do have free will.

Her life changed completely when she studied the Akashic Records and describes living a life in technicolor instead of black and white.

  • Everyone has their interests and specialty in the Akashic Records.
  • Trusting where you feel the pull. Trust that it may go in phases.
  • Why she doesn’t feel called in the Records but rather download strategy and her channeled archetype system.
  • How her guides “the little fuckers” asked her to download a little book for us and it became a whole body of work.
  • In the archetype system Priscilla downloaded, healers are under the Mystics category and they can be creative, intuitive and healing. Mystics are here to elevate consciousness on the planet with these gifts.
  • Priscilla shares one of the major abilities that healers tend to discount
  • Shares what is an archetype and the five archetypes in her system.
  • Her process of answering the Call and moving through the answering of your call.
  • The Mystic’s kryptonite
  • How healers forget themselves and go overboard
  • Healers are more than their service.

Bio:

Priscilla Stephan

When entrepreneurs want to make seven figures in their business without working harder or burning out, they work with Priscilla Stephan, Intuitive Business Strategist and creator of the SoulfluentTM Leadership Archetypes.

Priscilla’s holistic and pragmatic approach to business and leadership allows her clients to live their dream lifestyle while confidently sharing their soul’s work to make a big impact and increase their profit and growth.

Originally from Brazil, San Diego is now her home base as she works with leaders from a wide range of industries who have one thing in common: they have the desire to create a global impact and live a life of purpose without sacrificing their time, relationships or well-being.

To discover your SoulfluentTM Leadership Archetype and how it can help you maximize your profits while living the joyful life you’re craving, visit: https://priscillastephan.com

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The Biz Bruja Podcast currently has 81 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Entrepreneurship, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts and Business.

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The episode title 'Speaking Truth to Power with RECLAMA’s Cindy Y. Rodriguez' is the most popular.

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