It’s been almost a year since I’ve released an episode and since then we’ve moved across the country, bought and renovated a house (well, it’s still in progress!), birthed a baby, and welcomed another furry member to our family. I also released my first spoken word song. 

I’ve been hearing very strong inner guidance whispers to come back to the podcast. On the earthly plane, I’ve also experienced incredible synchronistic meetings and conversations that have pointed to the same thing… “get back to the mic!” I share some of these stories in this episode. 

So I’m following the guidance.

In this comeback episode, let’s catch up on life: I share the most memorable bits of my journey from last summer (when we drove across the country to move to the West Coast) to now, as I’m feeling a completion of my postpartum stage and feeling a new way of being, loving and expressing emerging within the expanded constellation of our family. 

 I share about: 

• My initiation into receiving 

• Our weird Airbnb experiences 

• Our road trip from Austin to Reno 

• Choosing to show up and share while the collective is in pain 

• Our annual trip to the Tucson Gem Show with an infant 

• Trip to Southern California and how our new dog Kobe divinely joined our family 

• My Divinely guided and supported first big flight with Zion

• The sign that gave me the courage to release my song, “Who Me?”

Mentioned: 

• Who Me? song by Ksenia Brief

• SpiderERC – our family Employee Retention Credit business

• TaskRabbit – the app we used to find helpers for our move

• Under Canvas – upscale, safari-inspired accommodations outdoors

• Los Poblanos Historin Inn & Organic Farm and Hacienda Spa

• Heart Gardening Podcast 

• Asher Market

• Transportation service I used for our dog Kobe

• Rover – the app I use to find dog sitters  

Content referenced:

• Kauai Babymoon

• Moving from Austin to Reno: Part 1 and Part 2

• Waking up in Zion National Park 

• 6 places I loved in Albuquerque

• Renovation moodboard

• Renovation Update 

• About Employee Retention Credit 

• My garden

Related episodes: 

• 239. I’m 24 Weeks Pregnant! Lessons from My Pregnancy Journey

• 197 Reggie Riverbear: Coming Home To Yourself Through Voice, Finding Your Community and Trusting Spirit As A Business Strategy

• 125 Jasmin Jenkins: Lessons From Ayahuasca Plant Medicine and Alchemizing Grief Into Presence

Connect with Ksenia: 

• kseniabrief.com

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Thank you for sharing this sacred space with me. 

 

In this episode, I share one of the most expansive journeys I’ve ever been on: my path to being 24 weeks pregnant with a healthy baby boy. 

After multiple pregnancy losses, there have been so many non-obvious, non-linear initiations and activations that have moved through me to prepare me for this moment. In this solo episode, I share some of them. I have a feeling this will be part one of a series!

We cover: 

• The layers of initiation we’ve been moving through on this pregnancy journey 

• How the desire to have children first activated in my body

• The role that our wedding choices played in our journey to expanding our family 

• Being stewards for a New World Soul  

• Some of the lessons that have revealed so far on this pregnancy journey 

• Some of the signs that our spirit baby has sent us 

• The support I’ve had on my journey to a healthy pregnancy: acupuncture, yoga, song medicine, biological dentistry, bodywork 

• The role that intuition has played on this pregnancy journey 

• Answering the call to visit the land I connected with as a child 

• How I am living the concept of a “conscious pregnancy” 

• Some of the books I’ve found supportive during my pregnancies 

• How I’ve been choosing what to share on social media and what to keep to myself around pregnancy and loss

• Learning to love my body through all the changes happening during pregnancy 

Episode sponsor:

Laird Superfood: Use my special link to save 15% at Laird Superfood at checkout. Go to zen.ai/ksenia15 add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset!

Related episodes: 

• 237 Honoring The Sacred Creative Pause, Podcast As A Ceremony, Magical Experiences During Recent Travels, Choosing Creation, and Lemurian Crystals

• 232 Miracles Abound: Recap Of My Healing Journey To Turkey

• 211 We’ve Moved To Austin! Trusting The Unknown 

• 197 Reggie Riverbear: Coming Home To Yourself Through Voice, Finding Your Community and Trusting Spirit As A Business Strategy

• 180 Rebecca Naylor: The Universe As A Treasure Map, Learning To Trust The Mystery and Water As A Consciousness Carrier

• 201 Lion Tracker Boyd Varty: Following The Track Of Your Life and Creative Process In The Digital Age

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Four years ago musician, writer and podcaster Karina Ivanova was listening to one of my podcast episodes, and planted a seed that she’d like to be a guest one day. But then she heard an inner voice ask: “What would you be excited to tell Ksenia about?”

That’s when she realized that the creations she’s meant to share with me (and with you) haven’t come through yet. So Karina got busy bringing her creative visions to reality, from a music album, to a poetry book, a podcast and a journaling movement in her home country of Kazakhstan.

All while exploring her own spiritual journey through the Akashic Records and other modalities. Today, she shares it all with us, and I couldn’t be more excited about this coming full circle!

We discuss: 

• Meeting Spirit while staying persent in your body

• How to learn another language fluently – Karina’s experience learning english

• Karina’s experience growing up with a musician mom

• First encounters with Spirit 

• Karina’s spiritual journey and how opening her Akashic Records changed everything 

• Karina’s experience with residency at the Watermill Center

• Making peace with your inner voice

• Pain alchemized into sacred work

• Music as an invitation to feel

• The creative process of writing a music album 

• The healing power of journaling and free writing 

• How to quantum leap through journaling 

• Changing the trajectory of your life by establishing a communication between your past self and future self 

• Creating your own mantras 

• Appreciating the little things 

• Karina’s upcoming creative projects 

Episode sponsor:

Laird Superfood: Use my special link to save 15% at Laird Superfood at checkout. Go to zen.ai/ksenia15 add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset!

Mentioned: 

How To Read The Akashic Records by Linda Howe 

Related episodes: 

My TikTok Experiment: 0 to 350K Followers | 5D Video Storytelling Strategy for 2021

52 Ashley Wood: Stop Worrying About What People Think & Surrender To Your Calling

152 Ceremonial Singer-Songwriter Ayla Schafer: Music as a Spiritual Force

197 Reggie Riverbear: Coming Home To Yourself Through Voice, Finding Your Community and Trusting Spirit As A Business Strategy

About Karina Ivanova: 

I’m a 26-year-old musician, writer and podcaster from Kazakhstan. currently, I’m creating “jazziam” (www.instagram.com/jazziamwithkarina/) which is a journaling movement, community and podcast, introducing the healing power of writing (jazu literally means two things in Kazakh: to write and to heal) to people. 2 years ago, I released my first music album “metanoia” in English (https://open.spotify.com/album/7DTRqa5W5eWahtx6qpVO7v?si=SvVevKNtS0KnxZJkmA17vw) and a poetry book called “символ отречения от контроля” (symbol of surrendering control), in Russian. It’s a collection of 110 poems-reflections on my spiritual journey activated after a series of events such as residency at the Watermill Center, opening my Akashic Records for the first time and ending my 8.5 year long relationship. I’m interested all things arts and spirituality, conscious living, writing, soulful entrepreneurship and relationships. My sacred work these days is to hold space for people, as individuals and in groups, through writing practices and mantra chanting.

In this solo update I’m sharing the WHY behind the longest break from podcasting I’ve ever taken, some of the creations that I’m currently bringing into the world, and why allowing the space for Source to move through is an invitation for miracles. 

Here are some of the things I share: 

- Our experience at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show (and an invitation for you if you’re called to Lemurian Crystals)

- How I plan travel experiences to leave space for Source to guide me

- I’m pregnant! How I’m approaching this pregnancy differently than the previous times

- Fulfilling Eric’s childhood dream of going to the NBA finals

- Releasing industry standards and expectations, and approaching every podcast episode as a sacred ceremony

Episode sponsor:

Laird Superfood: Use my special link to save 15% at Laird Superfood at checkout. Go to zen.ai/ksenia15 add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset!

Related episodes: 

236 Ksenia and Eric Brief with Michelle Sinnette: Why Spirituality, Taxes & Finances Are The Same Thing | Being A Business Artist | Facing Money Fears | ERC As An Opportunity for Source To Deliver Money

235 5-Step Intuitive Social Media Process for Artists, Creators, Healers, Coaches and Entrepreneurs

87 Eric Brief – All About Crystals

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If you’ve been feeling stuck, overwhelmed or just unclear about how to show up on social media – and wondering if you should show up at all – this one’s for you.

In this episode, I will share a 5-step intuitive social media process that is inspired by some of the downloads that have been coming through during my one-on-one energy/social media strategy work with incredible entrepreneurs, artists and healers (shoutout to all the incredible souls that say yes to this courageous, vulnerable work.) 

I guess you could say what I do is “shamanic” social media. In essence, I connect the different realms and hold the mirror of possibility for the client’s highest self-expression in this world, using the lens of social media. I continue to be blown away by what comes through in these sessions – it’s way beyond me or anything my brain could have come up with. 

I don’t get a chance to work with everyone in an intimate one-on-one way, but I feel that this work is incredibly important, especially at this time. That’s why I’m so excited to share this process and this guidance with you here on the podcast! 

Mentioned: 

Journal entry that changed my life: Spirit of Content

Related Episodes: 

219 Social Media Energy Code For When You Feel Stuck

192 My Approach To Social Media Strategy in 2022 | Reframing “Social Media Growth” and Unleashing The Full Force Of Your Presence

189 Trust The Life Force Without Having To Understand It | #11DaysOfSharing on Social Media

186 Join Me For 11 Days Of Sharing On Social Media | Hyping You Up To Share Your Medicine with The World

151 Social Media Energy Download: This Makes All The Difference [Spirit of Content]

146 Conscious Social Media: A 7-Step Guided Journey Into What Really Matters

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I really enjoyed this conversation with Nathan Maingard – podcast host, transformational guide and wordsmith. 

This is the first interview under the updated podcast cover art, and that’s intentional: the depths to which we journey in this episode takes the sacred space that is this podcast to a new level! 

We discuss: 

• How a conscious social media Google search brought together Nathan and me
• What is was like growing up barefoot and naked in a small village in South Africa
• Choosing to be the healer in your lineage
• Overcoming the lineage of violence
• “Trauma travels through the lineage until someone is brave enough to feel it”
• Nathan’s school experiences and being bullied as a hyper sensitive child 
• Trusting that your parents did the best they could 
• The beauty that came out of Nathan’s parents’ divorce 
• Nathan’s experience with family constellation therapy  
• Overcoming addiction to hard drugs 
• Some of the healing modalities and plant medicines Nathan has worked with, and the lessons they brought (kambo and psilocybin)
• Nathan’s spoken word piece that went viral 
• How Nathan is answering the call to pivot from music career   
• How Nathan is practicing being in balance of feminine and masculine energies 

About Nathan Maingard: 

Born at home to a writer and a craftsman in a tiny cottage on the tip of Africa, Nathan Maingard was raised barefoot and naked. As a highly sensitive person formed by the sounds of wild ocean and musical poets, he was nearly crushed by the limiting boxes society pushed him into. Through his inner healing journey of finding his 'enoughness', he has grown into an empowering wordsmith, healing facilitator, and transformational guide. His gift is to support down-to-earth seekers and free people as they feel, heal, and grow.

Related episodes: 

• 233 Weaving A New Reality (Podcast Update)
• 232 Miracles Abound: Recap Of My Healing Journey To Turkey
• 216 Cultivating a Sacred Connection to Source, Your Soul & Social Media Audience – ALYSON CHARLES INTERVIEWS KSENIA on Ceremony Circle Podcast
• 201 Lion Tracker Boyd Varty: Following The Track Of Your Life and Creative Process In The Digital Age
• 170 TikTok’s Grooviest Couple Is Bringing Healing to The World – GROOVE WITH GAIA aka CAM AND ELI on Movement, Mindfulness & Plant Medicine
• 123 Rebecca Naylor: Kambo, The Consciousness Expanding Frog Medicine

Mentioned: 

Jeremy Loops music

Immaculée Ilibagiza

Rasa adaptogenic coffee alternative

Connect with Nathan Maingard: 

Instagram: @nathanmaingard

https://nathanmaingard.com

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I’ve been in a deep process of surrendering and incubating an upgraded podcast name and cover, and I’m so excited to share this update with you. In this solo episode, I share: 

• Alchemization of WEB8 podcast name 
• How someone calling me out led to a big expansion
• New podcast cover!
• Some of the symbols within the WEB8 podcast cover art
• The most important “to do” list I’ve ever had: “surrender to God”
• Not saving things up “for later” – unclogging my creative field 

Related episodes: 

213 Introducing WEB8: New Podcast Name, New Era

186 Join Me For 11 Days Of Sharing On Social Media | Hyping You Up To Share Your Medicine with The World

118 Sophie Chiche: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

Mentioned: 

Shaq and kitty cat – viral TikTok

Animal Power Book by Alyson Charles

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When you have a feeling that there’s an adventure, a journey you’re meant to take, but you don’t know where to start… get patient and listen. The guidance always drops in. 

In this episode, I share the boundless miracles that have unfolded for me and my family in the last couple of weeks as we journeyed through Turkey. We cover: 

- Getting quiet and listening listening to the land

- My experience being guided to go to Turkey and following through on it

- Planting seeds for a healthy pregnancy 

- Releasing the story that ancestral healing needs to be hard 

- My experience with prescription ketamine medicine 

- Supporting each other on our own individual journeys as one of the pillars of my relationship with Eric

- The miracles that unfold when we say YES before we know the HOW 

- My favorite way to use my intuition when shopping 

- A magical 600-year-old garden I got to visit in Istanbul 

- Creating family memories 

- Disconnecting from external drama and re-plugging into the peace within 

- How this year already feels very different like anything I’ve experienced in the past 

Related episodes: 

231 Manoj Dias: You Already Are Everything You Seek To Be | Meditation As A Catalyst For Healing

181 Intentional Journaling Prompts To Create A Vision For The New Year and Reflect on This Year

180 Rebecca Naylor: The Universe As A Treasure Map, Learning To Trust The Mystery and Water As A Consciousness Carrier

123 Rebecca Naylor: Kambo, The Consciousness Expanding Frog Medicine

Mentioned: 

Open meditation, breathwork and movement app 

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My guest is Manoj Dias – author, teacher, speaker and co-founder of Open, a modern meditation organization based in California. I have been using Open to participate in the January meditation and breathwork challenge, and it’s quickly becoming my favorite mindfulness app. If you’d like to experience it for yourself, download the Open app here.

We discuss: 

How Manoj found himself on the intersection of meditation and technology

How meditation came into Manoj’s life

From corporate marketing to being a meditation teacher 

Transforming the story of “there’s something wrong with me” 

How Open is giving spirituality a different marketing campaign 

Meditation as a gateway to a life of clarity and ease

Manoj’s cultural and religious background, and what it was like growing up in the Buddhist tradition 

How Manoj knew that he’d just met his spiritual teacher 

The journey of listening to your body 

Expanding from a drop-in meditation studio to a global app   

Finding the balance between rhythms of creation and rest as an entrepreneur 

Trusting your body’s wisdom

Finding harmony between the heart and the mind  

Manoj’s decision to go from teacher to a tech entrepreneur  

Connect with Manoj Dias: 

Manojdias.com.au

@manojdias_

Open meditation, breathwork and movement app 

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Related episodes: 

217 Natalie Miles: Your Intuitive Power in Business and on Social Media

191 Kalpana Alejandra Arias: Ecosomatics, Reindigenization and Living A Devotional Life In The Digital Age

96 David Harshada Wagner: Plug Into The Mystical Path In The Midst Of It All

85 Dr. Andrew Weil – Expanded Consciousness, Breathwork & Matcha

In this episode I'm interviewed by Tom Boyd for his show Creators Are Brands. It's packed with gems! Description from Creators are Brands:

In a world where everyone is telling us to speed up, we talk about intentionally slowing down to create more of what you love, how to create your own algorithm, we talk about her integrated holistic way of working with sponsors (that i encourage you to borrow), why she stopped selling courses even though they were bringing in crazy money, how to re-frame feelings of jealousy or comparison of other creators, why she’s quitting being an influencer, and stay to the very end and she shares a strategy for connecting with your audience through every digital thing you make.

We discuss:

Rethinking content creator business

Building a sustainable brand on social media 

Finding meaning and longevity in digital self-expression

Relationships over transactions 

Social media as a stepping stone on the way of remembering who you are 

The metrics that actually matter 

Trusting the content you’re “meant to” share over logical strategy 

How to reframe comparison on social media 

Allowing social media to be a mirror of places you are meant to grow

Redefining success 

Seeing triggers as opportunities for growth 

Do you need to create a separate instagram account for your podcast? 

Clearing out your creative shelf 

Give yourself the grace to move through what you’re moving through 

Ways to connect to the joy of creation 

How Ksenia is currently approaching podcast and social media brand sponsorships

Related episodes: 

225 Retiring From Being An Influencer: Identity Alchemy, Soul Journey As A Public Figure and Releasing Addiction To Hustle

193 Tom Boyd of @bonusfootage: All Things Content Creation, Short Form Video and TikTok Growth

186 Join Me For 11 Days Of Sharing On Social Media | Hyping You Up To Share Your Medicine with The World

Resources:

Meditation and breathwork challenge on Open 

Social Media Challenge: 11 days of sharing 

Hashtag Mindful class on Skillshare

Connect with Tom Boyd:

www.tomboyd.co

Creators are Brands podcast 

Instagram: @bonusfootage

TikTok: @bonusfootage

Twitter: @BOYDERyo

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In this episode recorded over a cup of ceremonial cacao, I catch up with Florencia Fridman, my “cacao mama”. Her beautiful cacao ceremony offerings served as a doorway for me to connect to the spirit of cacao, and since then I’ve had the joy of doing a cacao ceremony training with Flo, as well as traveling to Guatemala with the cacao brand she runs with her brother, Cacao Laboratory. 

We discuss: 

How Florencia got into ceremonial cacao 

Florencia’s experience going to a mystery school in Guatemala

Answering the call to work with ceremonial cacao 

Understanding the medicine of cacao through Maya Cosmovision 

Cacao as a sacred food that helps us connect deeper with our relationship with Spirit 

The one time that an Amazonian Indigenous elder asked Florencia for a cup of ceremonial cacao 

The relationship between the spirits of plants and the dream world 

Flo’s earliest memories of connecting with the Spirit realm 

The first time Florencia met her spirit guides

Ksenia shares how she overcame the fear of the unseen beings 

Florencia’s experience moving from Argentina to USA as a kid

Going off your path to come back stronger than ever

How a marriage led Florencia to exploring shadow work 

Finding your own way outside of a romantic partnership

How ending a marriage propelled Florencia to commit to her spiritual path 

Experiencing the energetic blueprint of freedom 

Facing self-sabotage and shame and exploring internal conflict 

Owning and honoring your ancestry and DNA

How Florencia’s relationship with cacao has evolved 

The magic of drinking cacao with local plants

Plants that work synergistically with cacao – like blue lotus and mugwort 

Florencia’s rituals with cacao 

Spirit-led relationship with business

Balance between humility and owning your worth 

Rituals to nourish a brand

Welcoming it all and generously allowing emotions to move through your experience 

Choosing to live a fully expressed human experience 

Lessons from plants and two months in Ecuador that Florencia is integrating 

Activating your voice and trusting your path

Social media through the lens of Spirit 

Activating the new dream

Florencia’s community platform Florecer and the vision for it 

Episode sponsors:

Op e  n

Open is a meditation and breathwork app I’ve been loving. I’ve been wanting to re-commit to a daily meditation practice and this January, I will be doing a daily meditation + breathwork challenge with Open! Learn more and join me here: https://go.o-p-e-n.com/KSENIABRIEFCHALLENGE. With my link, you will get free access to breathwork, meditation and movement practices for the month of January, and a chance to win an Open in-person retreat in 2023 (valued at $2k-$5k). 

Zencastr

Have you ever bought anything after hearing an ad on a podcast? I know I have. Whether you want to diversify your ad spend, add a new marketing stream, or test out podcast ads, Zencastr – a longtime partner of this show – now has its own Creator Network that makes it easy for brands to connect with podcasters with aligned content and audiences. Interested in sponsoring podcast ads for your business and maybe even this show? Go to zen.ai/WEB8 and fill out the contact form so that Zencastr can help you bring your business story to life. 

Resources: 

Cacao Lab Ceremonial Cacao - use code BREAKFASTCRIMINALS for 15% off 

What is cacao ceremony? 

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (Sacred Activism) by Charles Eisenstein

Caro Arevalo

Chiricaspi plant 

Anima Mundi Blue Lotus Flower to add to your ceremonial cacao

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 

Naku healing center in Ecuador

Related episodes: 

14 Florencia Fridman: Cacao Ceremony and Maya Cosmo-Vision, Align Making Money With Your Divine Purpose

223 How Jessica Scheer Helped An Indigenous Spiritual Leader Grow A 550K Community On TikTok: Bridging Ancient Wisdom and Technology

169 Anima Mundi Founder Adriana Ayales: Meeting the Sacred in Plants, Business and Money

145 Michelle Sinnette: New Paradigm of Business with Legacy Cacao Founder

104: Caro Arevalo – Stay True To The Essence You Want To Share with The World

98 Mark Elmy: Mayan Astrology as a Key To Decoding The Matrix

Connect with Florencia Fridman: 

@florencia.fridman 

Florecer, flourishingoneness.com

Cacao: Food of the Gods Documentary 

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