The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Welcome to The Authentic Creative with Siri Baruc Thornton: a top 2% globally ranked podcast for women who are ready to expand their capacity to feel good, embody their truth, and create from wholeness.
Here, we explore what it really means to live and lead from authenticity. What if feeling good in your body, your work, and your life isn’t indulgent, but the key to everything?
Each week, you’ll hear intimate conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, healers, and visionaries who are redefining success through creativity and embodiment. Alongside these stories, host Siri Baruc Thornton: Reiki Master Teacher, Transformational Breathwork guide, retreat creator, and podcaster — shares grounded spiritual tools, somatic practices, and lived wisdom from her work leading retreats for women around the world.
You’ll also be invited into monthly women’s circles and leadership panels, where diverse voices gather around a new theme each time, exploring embodiment, abundance, creativity, leadership, or the art of truly feeling good.
With listeners in over 65 countries, this podcast is both sanctuary and spark: a reminder that you don’t need to push to create, or perform to belong. You get to feel good. You get to embody your truth. And from that place, your most authentic life and art flow effortlessly.
Subscribe now and begin your return to radiance.
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The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Mastering Creative Leadership with Vincent Wanga
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What does it take to evolve from a talented creative into a visionary leader? How do we cultivate leadership that is both strategic and deeply human?
In this episode, I dialogue with the brilliant Vincent Wanga, an international design thought leader, keynote speaker, award-winning creative executive, and author of The Art of Direction. With over two decades of experience shaping brands, leading creative teams, and driving innovation, including overseeing the meteoric rise of a billion-dollar tech unicorn, Vincent shares invaluable insights into the mindset, skillset, and heartset of leadership.
But beyond his impressive credentials, what truly stands out about Vincent is his warmth, his depth of thought, and his ability to make leadership feel like an art form, one that requires vision, intuition, and an openness to learning from diverse perspectives.
In this episode, we dive into:
✨ The essential skills creative leaders need beyond talent
✨ What it means to think creatively and lead others with creative minds
✨ Problem-solving as a leader: why creativity is the key to resilience and innovation
✨ His Kenyan background and the cultural perspectives he’s gained from Germany and Japan and meditation
✨ The power of mentorship, why it matters, and how to proactively seek out the right mentors
✨ Lessons in leadership, vision, and purpose from scaling a billion-dollar brand
This conversation is a masterclass in leadership, creativity, and global perspective, one that will leave you feeling inspired to step into your own creative power with more confidence, clarity, and heart. www.VincentWanga.com
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Hi Soul Sisters and Brothers! I was born in an American Sikh yoga ashram in Boston and raised among Reiki Masters, channelers, and healers in Vermont. For over 25 years, I’ve been a professional film and TV actor, but my deepest calling is in breathwork, energy healing, and soul transformation. As a Breathwork teacher, Akashic Records teacher, and Reiki Master of Masters, I guide others in their expansion and healing, hosting retreats and sharing my magic around the world. I live near Portland, Oregon, with my husband, two boys, and our dogs, finding joy in music, dance, nature, and deep soul work. Let’s expand, create, and feel good together!