The Biz Bruja Podcast

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

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.

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

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

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.

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