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How does your individual spiritual journey impact how you show up in partnership? What does it mean to co-create a legacy? Dive into Shelby’s conversation with Dominic and Geminelle Malone as they share how cultivating a mutual respect for one another fuels their shared purpose of creating inviting spaces for others to step into their authentic selves.

About Geminelle

For San Diego born-and-bred R&B singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Geminelle, music and healing are one and the same. “I hope my music creates a space for others to be able to look at themselves with compassion and deep acceptance,” she shares. “I want people to feel comfortable with where they’re at in their journey.”

Geminelle delved deeper into her artist community back home and her wellness-focused Mantra Loops series. Mantra Loops album and ongoing virtual meditation series elevates the universal teachings and affirmations that have always been embedded in Geminelle’s music. “This is specifically designed for us to heal and to grow,” she says of Mantra Loops. With Mantra Loops Volume 2 in the works, as well as collaborations with TED, GirlTrek, Toni Jones & Lizzy Jeff, Geminelle continues to spread light through music and through the curation of wellness-centered spaces through her and her husband’s co-founded company, Arise Wellness.

About Dominic

James Dominic Malone, CEO of the nation's top agency, TunnelVision Creative Agency, is on a mission to redefine the global narrative through art, culture, and media. As the leading well-being teacher in the education industry, he also drives Arise Wellness, enhancing individual, community and workspace quality with unmatched mindfulness tools. Raised with a rich pro-black heritage, Dominic champions Black Creatives, bridging them with high impact brands, and reshaping contemporary art's narrative. Author of Being Is Believing: Volume 1, he guides readers to their authentic selves. Dive in for inspiration, empowerment, and a transformative journey with Dominic, the visionary leading art and well-being's future.

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How can we be more intentional about what we co-create with Spirit? Did you know that your life aligns with certain energetic cycles? Dive in as Shelby, fresh off of her 40th solar return, offers her own lessons learned about co-creating with Source, manifestation, and the cycles of life, told through the lens of numerology.

About Shelby

Shelby Renee Giles is a storyteller, wellbeing champion, and educator on a big mission — to shift culture around spiritual wellbeing. While spending nearly two decades advising clients on how to leverage the power of stories, media, and other communications modalities to create sustainable social impact, her passion and curiosity simultaneously grew for exploring what it truly means to be well. That curiosity led to life-shifting trainings and experiences, and ultimately catalyzed an answered call as founder of WorthyWell.

When she’s not talking spirituality, she’s talking music, likely curating your next favorite playlist.

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Rest as a sacred act, trusting the whispers of Spirit, and pivoting to a sacred calling. Journey along as Shelby sits down with spiritual thought leader, speaker, and advocate, Imani Joye Samuels. They dive into spiritual foundations rooted in nature, resting with reverence in her own life through entrepreneurship, motherhood, and partnership, and more.

About Imani:

Imani Joye Samuels is a spiritual thought leader, speaker, and advocate for stillness and rest as means to find peace. As a champion of the practice of rest, Imani founded HURU, an organization on a mission to ensure every American has access to rest. Through her work, Imani dreams of a world that celebrates stillness as a means to discover peace.

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What happens when we release the need to define the vastness of Spirit? In this episode, Shelby dives deep with Taylor Elyse Morrison about what it means to no longer identify with the religion of your childhood while appreciating the foundation it laid, representation in spiritual practice, and doing less to attract more.

About Taylor:

Taylor Elyse Morrison is an author, facilitator, and coach making well-being and personal development more accessible. Through her company Inner Workout and her book of the same name, Taylor supports people’s journey to know, care for, and become their full selves.

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Shelby kicks off the new season with Darlene Cordero in conversation about the gift of obstacles as a means for deepening into your purpose, the power of gratitude as an intentional practice, and why sharing your story is its own form of service. Darlene shares how a life-shifting diagnosis catalyzed a new path and how she’s navigated life’s shifts as a seeker.

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About Darlene:

Darlene Cordero is the Founder of Wellness Culture and is a brand and growth strategist with over a decade of experience in operations, event marketing, and partnerships. Her mission is to bridge the gap between support and community for wellness practitioners and organizations seeking vetted practitioners. She creates partnerships with wellness talent, subject matter experts, and influencers to connect with new audiences and bridge the gap between wellness practices and culture. Darlene is also a member of the Executive Board of The Dominican Republic Education And Mentoring (DREAM) Project.

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Join us beginning June 28 for another season of heart-opening conversations with people from all walks of life about what it means to be a spiritual being having a human experience. Let’s continue to expand our understanding together, and let our evolving awareness deepen our relationship with ourselves, with each other, and with the Source of all things.

Be sure to subscribe, listen and share. New episodes drop weekly over the next several months.

In the meantime, explore The Self Devotional, our monthly newsletter where we explore what it means to move beyond self-care. Each month, we share a resonant message, a carefully curated playlist and nourishing wellbeing practices as a gift from us, to you.

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How do you hold yourself accountable to your own healing? How has your unique upbringing shaped your sense of belonging? In this final episode of the season, Shelby sits down with Millana Snow in discussion around becoming your own hero and creating an authentic sense of belonging. Millana gets into the transformative power of seeing and feeling the sticky edges of ourselves, trauma and all, and of bringing agency to our part in the patterns that make up our lives. We have the ability to make changes that bring us into alignment with our purpose and open us up to unprecedented expansion. Millana encourages that those shifts are well worth the risk, and lets us in on how she’s built a home and family that reinforce true belonging in her life. Shelby and Millana discuss navigating the nuance of evolving as individuals at different paces within our communities. Millana shares how she’s making space for all parts of herself, and how she supports others along their integration journeys. This episode will leave you emboldened to be present in the fullness of your experiences.

About Millana

Practicing meditation since the age of four, @millanasnow has become one of the leading voices in global wellness. As a woman of color with Afro-Latina/Panamanian, American and British roots, she speaks to audiences as diverse as her background. She is an energy healer, teacher and wellness entrepreneur with a passion for bringing healing to a global community of clients, followers, brands, celebrities and even members of the royal family.

Based in Los Angeles, Millana is a former model and presenter (YSL, CoverGirl), and her work has appeared in outlets such as Harper’s Bazaar, PopSugar, Vogue and more. Millana is also the winner of Project Runway and a “Best Travel + Adventure Show” Webby Award.

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About FarahFarah Siddiq is an Afghan-American female tech founder, teacher and healer. She is also the CEO and Co-Founder of a startup called iAscend, a social marketplace for holistic health and healing experiences. Where wellness is a right and not a privilege.

She is trained in three forms of energy healing: Usui Reiki, Angelic and her own method Cosmic Reiki combining astrology and energy medicine. Turning the wounds into medicine is her expertise. She has worked on clients who have been terminally ill, in transition life to death and have had severe PTSD. She has taught hundreds of people reiki and has had thousands of people transform through her healing workshops.

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How do you show yourself compassion? What does freedom mean to you? In this episode, Shelby sits down with Edinah Chewe in conversation around embodying freedom and self-compassion. They discuss the freeing power of experiencing our emotions, learning what we can from them, and then releasing them without allowing them to define us. Edinah shares how a period of grief instantly shifted her relationship to fear, opening her up to more actively pursue her passions and curiosities. She gets into what a commitment to freedom looks like in her personal and professional life, and what practices center her in self-compassion along the journey. Shelby and Edinah remind us that loving and caring for ourselves empowers us to organically love and care for others with ease. Everyone benefits when we take time to feel out what we honestly need and desire, beyond the limitations of fear or expectations. This episode will leave you feeling emboldened to move through your fears to see what freedoms lie on the other side.

About Edinah

Edinah — creator of Wildlogic — is an interdisciplinary artist in continuous pursuit of joyful expression. Partnering with dreamers, she creates visual stories for the wild ones colouring life outside the lines, while helping to make a socially positive impact through playful art, type and design.

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How do you care for yourself? Have you experienced times when self-care felt fleeting or incomplete? What does it mean to honor your soul self? What are you doing when you feel most connected to the God within? In this episode, Shelby shares a download she received about moving beyond the concept of self-care into something deeper, truer, and more sustainable. The way dominant culture discusses self-care tends to focus on caring for our physical vessel, which is a groundbreaking step forward from the well-being gap so many of us have experienced, but it’s just the first step toward a deeper connection to self and to spirit. Self-care practices position us to come into presence with our inner world. From that place, there’s more to discover and to bring intention to. Self-devotion can take us even further toward sustainably and intentionally honoring the soul self and the God within. Shelby shares her definition of self-devotion and some of the key elements she’s learned so far along her journey. This episode will leave you feeling curious to seek and honor your truth.

About Shelby

Shelby Renee Giles is a storyteller, well-being champion, strategist, and founder on a big mission — to shift culture around spiritual well-being. While spending nearly two decades advising clients on how to leverage the power of stories, media, and other communications modalities to create sustainable social impact, her passion and curiosity simultaneously grew for exploring what it truly means to be well. That curiosity led to life-shifting trainings and experiences, and ultimately catalyzed her next big career and life calling as founder of WorthyWell.

Today, the synergy of her experience as both a wellness practitioner and communications expert results in culture-shifting storytelling and unique wellness experiences that honor each individual’s spiritual nature, encouraging us all to be more conscious participants in our own spiritual journeys.

When she’s not talking spirituality and wellness, she’s talking music, likely curating your new favorite playlist.

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When was the last time you followed the call of Spirit? Where did it lead? What are your gifts? When do you feel most embodied in them? In this episode, Shelby sits down with Erin Rogers in conversation around learning to work with our own energy and following the call of Spirit. They get into what those calls sound like in their everyday lives, and the grounding tools that support that communication. Erin shares her journey toward discovering her gifts, and a potent experience that silenced any of her previous doubts in their power. She also offers that keeping a library of how our gifts express positions us to build deep self trust and live with further presence. Shelby shares the morning ritual that prepares her for anything. Erin talks about how she utilizes the tools of astrocartography, human design, and astrology to support her agency and spiritual journey rather than letting them lead her. This episode will inspire you to make room for the voice of Spirit in your life, and invest in the library of you.

About Erin

Erin Rogers is an Intuitive mentor, channel and energy transformer. She works with leaders and healers who believe in the power of magic and energetics, are ready to tap into their internal force and guidance system to elevate to their highest expression and step into their most abundant selves. Erin helps fellow human beings turn the life they envisioned into actual reality. Her work is the meeting of logic and spirit, which leads to magic. To work with Erin is to feel connected to your infinite potential, self-empowered in your own connection to energetics, and able to ditch the mind loops, connect into your emotions and find joy and fun within the spiritual “work.” Erin’s work is an energetic activation inviting people to creatively elevate their earthly experience and expand into their infinite potential.

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About Koya

Koya Webb is a sought-after holistic health and wellness coach and motivational speaker who is revolutionizing the holistic living landscape worldwide in the areas of spirituality, wellness and entrepreneurship. Known as a “transformational specialist,” she encourages sustainable lifestyle changes that maximize your ability to cultivate self-love, reverse life-threatening conditions, and experience optimal health.

Her Get Loved Up Yoga School and community of teachers inspire millions worldwide to practice more self-care, social justice, and eco-friendly living. She is a highly regarded expert and editorial contributor with media outlets nationwide. Koya has appeared on NBC, CBS, The Steve Harvey Show, E! Entertainment and Home & Family; and has worked with a roster of celebrity clients. Her mission is to inspire optimal health and wellbeing worldwide.

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What kinds of futures do you imagine for yourself and for your community? What is your spirit calling you to lean into? What does reclaiming agency mean for you? In this episode, Shelby sits down with Jamilla Okubo in conversation around how powerful it is to take space to feel out what resonates with us personally without judgment rather than habitually surrender to societal norms. They also get into their gratitude for Sun Ra and the dreamscape of Black futures he dared to imagine. Shelby encourages that we can never go wrong with prioritizing self-care because we are all connected to everything. Shelby and Jamilla also get into self trust and true community as foundation for spirituality and wellness. Jamilla shares how intuition led her to develop her voice as an artist and build mutually nourishing relationships with immediate and extended community, and offers a peek into her creative process and self-care practices. This episode will inspire you to imagine fruitful futures for yourself and for your community. It’ll also remind you that you’re safe to feel and move through all of your feelings.

About Jamilla

Jamilla Okubo is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the intricacies of belonging to an American, Kenyan, and Trinidadian identity. Combining figurative painting, pattern/textile design, fashion, and storytelling, she celebrates the Black body in relation to movement, expression, ideology, and culture. Inspired by kanga cloth, which communicates messages derived from Swahili proverbs, quotes from the Qur’an, African folklore and popular culture, Okubo creates her own patterns in reference to the history, mythology, and vernacular of the African diaspora. She prints these original patterns on paper as collage material for her paintings or on fabric for fashion and performance-based work. The gestural strength of her imagery and symbolism is a platform for restoring agency and reclaiming the oppositional gaze. Style, embraced for sociopolitical impact, woven with ancestral and contemporary wisdom invites the viewer to reflect on old and new mythologies, alternative realities, and self-love.

Jamilla (b. Clinton, NC) is based in Washington, D.C. She holds a BFA in Integrated Design from Parsons the New School of Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, in venues such as The Torpedo Factory (VA), Social & Public Art Resource Gallery (CA), Milk Gallery (NY), Weeksville Heritage Center (NY), Super Wonder Gallery (Toronto) and the Dray Walk Gallery (London). She has created art installations for Culture Corp x Hudson Yards (NY), and the Line Hotel (DC). In addition, her work has been reproduced for publications and purchased for private collections. Notable publications of her work have appeared in O, Oprah Magazine and the covers of An American Marriage, Tayari Jones (Oneworld Publishing House) and Den Omättliga Vägen, Ben Okri (Modernista Group AB). She has collaborated with XDevoe, Gorman, and Christian Dior. Currently, she is represented by Mehari Sequar Gallery (DC).

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How do you nurture your individuality? What does love mean to you? What does it look like to please the God within? In this episode, Shelby sits down with Cherice and Amzi Jackson in conversation around how preserving and investing in our individuality elevates how we come together in spiritual partnership. Amzi and Cherice share how interrupting the habit of religious tradition with conscious curiosity has led them on their unique spiritual paths. A shift in Cherice’s perspective on love has opened her up to an evolving connection to spirituality that has brought her peace, and has naturally poured outward into her relationships. Amzi shares how his spiritual journey of studying healing sound frequencies and vibrations now manifests in the art he creates, extending outward to the experience of his listeners. Both Cherice and Amzi offer how they make space to focus on personal evolution while still making the most of magic moments in flow when their spiritual paths intersect. This episode will leave you feeling curious to explore new expressions of self-love, and eager to offer honest love to others from a place of wholeness.

About Cherice

As Cherice travels her own self-love journey, it is her goal to help introduce others to their unique journey. One of Cherice’s guiding wisdoms: When I look at you, I see me. And, because I love me, I love you. Love is her purpose. Her goals are to: embody Love; be Love; and, spread Love. Love is her lifestyle. Cherice shares that there aren't many things she knows for sure, but she does know that in order to fully love ourselves, we must first know and accept ourselves. It is a journey dedicated to "unbecoming" so that we may truly become...giving ourselves permission to show up in this world without regard to other people's opinions, perceptions, or expectations. As she commits to guiding those who trust her, she is committed to being a lifetime learner. While currently teaching courses at a local college and serving as a trained relationship coach, she continues to make time to study both spirituality and love.

About Amzi

Amzi Jackson is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer for tv & film, recording engineer, programmer, vinyl junkie, and a guy who loves to create. Music is his passion and he believes that it is powerful enough to impact the world. As a student of the uses of sound, frequencies, and vibrations as a healing modality, he strives to produce music that will create positive vibrational shifts in his listeners. With a background in live video streaming and a passion for music, Amzi started his production company Untitled Music and Media, LLC in 2007, providing music production and performance services, and live video streaming consulting and production. Originally separating the music and media sides of the business, he is now combining the two in a new digital service - Forte Music Video Platform, or Forte MVP, launching fall of 2022.

Amzi’s new instrumental music project is being released in fall 2022. Each track is tuned to various universal solfeggio frequencies, to create positive vibrational shifts for the listeners. He will also be starting a new season of live vibe sessions and streaming them via the new music video network he’s launching called Forte MVP (music video platform). Forte MVP is a video hub for live music performances, music videos by content creators, and music-related podcasts.

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What would happen if you approached your fear with curiosity? What does breaking generational curses look like in your life? What habits empower you to feel most confident? In this episode, Shelby sits down with spiritual co-journeyer Jorge Venezuela in conversation around lifelong learning and the realities of evolving into emotional awareness. Jorge encourages that if we’re willing to put in the work, we can transform how we experience our emotions and channel them more intentionally. Applying curiosity to fear can position us to discover tangible ways to build authentic confidence. While it’s a tall task to break generational curses or to get spiritually unstuck, it's all doable with patience, curiosity, and a willingness to truly see oneself through the journey. Shelby and Jorge share the spiritual practices that keep them centered and what they’ve learned from one another over the years. This conversation will leave you feeling curious and inspired to invest practice into what you value most.

About Jorge

Jorge Valenzuela is an education coach, author, and advocate. Using action research methodology, his work helps school leaders and teachers reach their unique success paths to innovation in school leadership, tiered instruction, project-based learning, computer science and STEM education, and social and emotional learning across the curriculum. Jorge is the lead coach at Lifelong Learning Defined and provides professional development on behalf of several prominent education organizations like ASCD, Corwin, Instructional Innovation Partners, Premiere Speakers Bureau and Solution Tree. He has authored several books and guides and is the host of the SEL in Action podcast on BAM Radio Network.

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How would you move if you let your curiosity lead the way? Do you ever feel nudges in your body that it’s time to rest? What practices help you to realign with your values? In this episode, Shelby shares a download she received around the power of self-orientation and sacred pause. While we’ve been conditioned to view a focus on one’s self to be negative or rude, the collective is actually strengthened by individuals moving through their journey as conscious self-oriented participants. In the face of daily infinite ever changing obstacles and interactions, true self-orientation requires intentional choices to rest, integrate, and recenter when called to. Shelby offers practices that have helped her become more self-oriented over the years, and encourages that any time we listen to the inner call to rest, we’re listening to divine guidance preparing us for what’s next along our path. You’ll leave this episode feeling affirmed in your curiosity and rooted in your inherent power as an individual within the collective.

About Shelby

Shelby Renee Giles is a meditation and spiritual guide, energy healer, and founder of WorthyWell, bringing self-devotion — the act of connecting deeply with one’s spiritual nature in the practice of well-being — to the forefront of the wellness industry. Trained by some of the leading voices in modern wellness, she is intentional about bringing spiritual well-being into new spaces to foster a heightened state of collective well-being across diverse communities.

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Do you share your shadows with anyone? What are you doing when you feel most authentically you? What would happen if you acknowledged the gifts within your shadows? In this episode, Shelby sits down with spiritual partners Aileen Ramirez & Michael Gazzo in conversation around how living authentically can attract us to powerful partnerships, true community, and a resonant spiritual life. While many of us long for fulfilling connection, the reality is our bonds inevitably ebb and flow with the unpredictable influences we encounter along our interwoven journeys. Aileen & Mike share how they ride waves of change as individuals and in relationship with one another as spiritual partners. Together, they hold space for a growing expanded community through their transformative breathwork workshops, supporting all kinds of people from 12 year olds to elders along their healing and spiritual journeys. Shelby is one of many who have been uplifted by the uniquely uplifting and encouraging space they facilitate. You’ll leave this conversation feeling inspired to live authentically, build true community, and celebrate the possibility within your shadows.

About Aileen

Aileen is a healer who uses the modalities of breathwork, reiki, yoga and space cleansing. She is also a student learning to be human through plant medicines. As the business owner of unearthed, she believes in a vision of combining healing with wellness and bringing these modalities to individuals in their own home, in person, or over Zoom. Her specialty is being educated on energy centers in the body, referred to as chakras, in order to interpret what the body, mind and spirit is trying to communicate to us. She helps individuals create a healthy relationship within themselves to then attract only healthy relationships in their lives. She reminds her students that a healthy relationship does not mean we will not be triggered.

About Michael

Michael started his spiritual journey four years ago. He has worked with countless modalities including Vippassana meditation; sitting for over 250 hours in silent reflection. He has studied many spiritual texts, works with a variety of plant medicines and continues to expand his tool belt. Through the path of self discovery and healing, it became clear that he was meant to help others in this lifetime. This calling was clear through journeying in Ayahausca, breathwork and Peyote, to becoming a full embodiment of a light warrior. With a combination of perspectives, approaches, medicines and modalities, his goal is to create the deepest possible container for a person to dive within themselves and remember who they truly are. To effortlessly ride the wave of life and begin to understand the true nature beneath the self. Michael works virtually and in person, and is currently finishing a few more certifications to offer clients!

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What does it mean to live as though everything is possible? Are you currently using all of your gifts? What would happen if you gave yourself space to feel through your shadows and your light? In this episode, Shelby sits down with spiritual creative and video production agency founder Gethro Geneus to talk about the journey of tapping into our gifts. Life has a habit of distracting us from our gifts, yet they remain alive and powerful within us. Shelby and Gethro share how making space for spiritual practice and shadow work has empowered them both to build a more holistic confidence in their multidimensional abilities. While the universe presents seemingly similar lessons, this latest iteration may be a significant next step toward an expansive new level of self-realization. You’ll leave this conversation feeling empowered to breathe life into all of your gifts, celebrate your growth, and anticipate that next level on the horizon.

About Gethro

Gethro Geneus is a spiritual creative and video production agency founder helping corporate companies with marketing and training as well as like-minded entrepreneurs with brand strategy and consulting. He ditched his career as a music producer and engineer at Universal Music Group in favor of finding spiritual enlightenment and financial freedom. Now, Gethro helps corporate marketing teams and small business owners using his intuitive third-eye abilities to create effective marketing and training content so they can increase the efficiency of their company operations.

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What does it mean to truly embody the lessons learned in your spiritual practice? What generational healing is calling you to move through, and are you embracing the good along the way? In this episode, Shelby sits down with composer, vocalist, sound healer and co-founder of Lazuli Collective, WATA. Shelby and WATA dive into why spiritual practice is more about being than it is about doing, and owning our generational gifts alongside our generational healing. You’ll also learn about some beautiful recent and future projects from WATA, from Lazuli Collective curating the Wellness Oasis tent at Coachella, to the release of her music video for her powerful song, Pendulum. Tap into all of the magic at the links below.

About WATA

WATA is a composer, vocalist and sound healer who seamlessly intertwines ancient sound healing traditions with modern lyricism and alternative composition. Her songs create otherworldly soundscapes through vocal and synth layering that touch the heart and sooth the mind. Her influences include ten years of classical violin training, Dhrupad song structure, Andalusian rhythms, and Jazz vocal inflections. WATA has introduced her genre-bending take on New Age meditation music to audiences at Zoratopia Art Basel, Coachella and to subscribers of the Calm app. Her soundbaths intrigue curious listeners and experienced meditators alike. WATA has been featured in Rolling Stone, Billboard, Dummy Mag, and was selected as one of The Digilogue’s 2021 Artists to Watch. As the Co-Founder of Lazuli Collective, she has worked with brands: Chopra, Calm, Goldenvoice, and curated the Wellness Oasis tent at Coachella.

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When’s the last time you revisited what success truly means to you? How can judgment guide you to your own shadows and healing? Can holotropic breathwork help you honor your deepest truth? In this episode, Shelby sits down with soul sis and spiritual entrepreneur, Kristina Vaughn, who dives into these topics and more. Learn how Kristina’s spiritual journey radically shifted her meaning of success. Shelby and Kristina also discuss judgment, compassion and the power of breathwork as a pathway to our truth. You’ll leave this conversation inspired to inquire within to unearth your next layer of growth and expansion.

About Kristina

Kristina is a spiritual teacher and intuitive healer who guides people to find clarity and purpose in all areas of their lives. She’s a certified breathwork and meditation facilitator, and her work is focused on providing spiritual seekers with practical resources to discover, connect, and awaken their relationship with their own spirituality. She’s the founder of The TrueNorth Soul, where she offers spiritual coaching to her clients with a a blend of self-discovery tools, breathwork and intuitive guidance to help clients come back to themselves and recall their divine purpose. In fact, Kristina has a beautiful opportunity for anyone in the DC, Maryland or Northern Virginia area to experience a transformative breathwork practice with her coming up on May 29. Be sure to head to the link below to learn more and to register.

When Kristina’s not leading the way for people to connect with their soul purpose, Kristina can be found spending time with her husband and two children in Maryland, or planning her next tropical retreat.

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Are you ready to expand your concept of love and intention? In this episode, Shelby talks with DC-based songstress Cecily, who shares how her spiritual journey influences her life and artistry. Cecily is a thinker, a learner, and an evolutionist, consciously letting life’s spiritual lessons teach and shape her. Shelby and Cecily discuss honesty in music, unconditional love, and intentionality as a driving force behind creativity. You’ll leave this conversation feeling expanded by spiritual lessons in love, life and conscious creation.

About Cecily

Cecily (pronounced ses-suh-lee) is a DC-based vocalist and songwriter who is known for her beautiful, agile soprano voice and honest lyrics. Her sound, as soothing as it is rich, is rooted in a deep appreciation for mid-century soul and jazz, 90’s R&B, and re-imagined folk music.

Growing up surrounded by her parents’ vast record collection (think Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson) gives her work a unique sensuality that informs not only her vocal approach, but also her self-reflecting lyrics, grappling with topics like self-acceptance, vulnerability, and rebirth. Over her career, she has made a conscious commitment to create work that celebrates vulnerability as a strength, unconditional love as a grounding principle, and joy as an innate human right.DC-based vocalist and songwriter who is known for her beautiful, agile soprano voice and honest lyrics, which have been such medicine for me since I first discovered her music. Her sound, as soothing as it is rich, is rooted in a deep appreciation for mid-century soul and jazz, 90’s R&B, and re-imagined folk music.

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In this episode, Shelby is in conversation with healing artist, sound practitioner and storyteller SOUL COLE. Shelby and SOUL dive into what it means to build a spiritual foundation based on relationship, the love vibration connecting us all, and loving and greeting our shadows. SOUL shares his journey to deepening his relationship with God and how it now informs his work as a healing artist. Leave this conversation inspired to heal and get introduced to some beautiful new sounds for your spiritual journey in the process.

About SOUL COLE

Brandon Coleman, also known as SOUL COLE, is a native of Prince George’s County, Md. Many may know him from his time as a professional athlete in the NFL, playing five seasons with the New Orleans Saints. Many also know him as a sound practitioner, healing artist and storyteller, releasing his first full meditation album on April 22. He’s also a wellness consultant, breath coach and philanthropist, and loves to serve the communities he’s invested in while bringing awareness to issues like Alzheimers and mental health.

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The Flow:

2:42 | No pressure, just presence

6:45 | Spirituality growing up

8:40 | Religion and relationship

10:45 | Relationship as foundation

11:19 | The turning point

15:25 | The stigma of therapy

16:29 | Listening to God

19:45 | Knowing the history

20:17 | Love vibration

22:01 | Loving our shadows

27:17 | Meditation Mixtape Vol. 1

28:20 | Alignment w/ numbers

29:28 | Diversifying the meditation space

30:18 | Stimulating your senses

32:42 | The listening party experience

38:37 | Rise & Shine

39:20 | Flowers to the team

41:20 | Artists who inspired creation

41:42 | Londrelle’s authentic voice

41:32 | Shelah Marie’s storytelling

43:07 | J Cole and Big Sean inspiring mindfulness

49:57 | Affirming your intuition

52:55 | Advice to your younger self

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In this episode, Shelby sits down with wellness trailblazer, Lauren Ash. Shelby and Lauren dive into what it truly means to surrender, particularly when it requires deep trust in God while leaning into the unknown. Through the lens of her journey to founding Black Girl In Om, Lauren recalls pivotal moments and spiritual lessons that kept her aligned with her purpose. Leave this conversation with a deeper sense of the true meaning of all needs met, and the remembrance that we are never given more than we can bear.

About Lauren

Lauren Ash is a wellness visionary, yoga and meditation guide, engaging speaker and creative writer, and founder and executive director of the culture-shifting lifestyle brand synonymous with black women’s wellness—Black Girl In Om. Since founding Black Girl In Om in 2014, her vision has led to the creation of transformational experiences and content that radically centers and authentically speaks to a historically and consistently marginalized global community.

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This conversation takes place as part of WorthyWell’s podcast pre-launch event at Eaton DC, in collaboration with Eaton Wellness.

In this bonus episode, Shelby is in conversation with her close friend, Kristina Vaughn, about the inspiration behind the podcast and her vision and intention for WorthyWell. Leave this conversation inspired to tune more deeply into your intuition and take inspired action to align with why you’re here.

About Shelby

Shelby Renee Giles is a meditation guide, energy healer, and founder of WorthyWell. Trained by some of the leading voices in modern wellness, she is intentional about bringing spiritual well-being to new audiences to foster a heightened state of collective wellness across diverse communities.

About Kristina

Kristina Vaughn is an intuitive healer and spiritual guide, and founder of The True North Soul. She is passionate about helping her clients live the life of their dreams and break through any barriers stopping them. Specializing in tools like astrology, breathwork and energy healing, Kristina is a force for good guiding us all to our true north.

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