The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Welcome to The Authentic Creative with Siri Baruc Thornton: a top 2.5% 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.
Learn more at www.sageandblushwellness.com
The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Detaching From the External with Samantha Dreiling
Samantha is an entrepreneur, wife, and mother of 2, and co-founder of Ananda Elixirs, a wellness brand that delivers functional mushrooms in a delicious elixir that tastes like your favorite childhood soda. She is also the author of I, Dea: Awaken Your Inner Goddess.
In this episode we talk about what it really looks like to follow your bliss after everything falls apart. Samantha shares about nearly dying in childbirth, losing her father, watching a long time business and their investments collapse, and how that dark chapter led to the birth of Ananda Elixirs and a completely new season of life.
We also explore
• How business has always been a form of creativity and art for her
• The origin story and mission behind Ananda Elixirs
• What functional mushrooms can support in the brain, body, and nervous system
• Motherhood, money, and raising kids who see entrepreneurship up close
• Letting go of external definitions of success and choosing trust, play, and pleasure
Samantha and I talk about how expanding her own capacity has meant holding life more lightly, pivoting when doors close, and allowing herself to enjoy life again.
• Ananda Elixirs Shroom Soda
https://anandaelixirs.com/products/shroomsoda
• I, Dea: Awaken Your Inner Goddess
https://awakendea.com/products/i-dea-awaken-your-inner-goddess-signed-copy
Connect with me
Website: www.sageandblushwellness.com
Instagram: @siribaructhornton
Authentic Creative Breathwork And Reiki By The Sea
May 3 to 6, Rockaway Beach Oregon
Details: https://www.sageandblushwellness.com/purchase/p/goddess-of-light-retreat
Live online Transformational Breathwork with Reiki
https://www.sageandblushwellness.com/purchase/p/daily-breathwork-zoom-class-drop-in