The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
The Authentic Creative is a top 2% globally ranked podcast hosted by Siri Baruc Thornton.
Every conversation is an invitation to come home to yourself.
With more than 316 episodes and listeners in 65+ countries, Siri has welcomed Emmy Award winners, New York Times bestselling authors, neuroscientists, psychologists, physicians, artists, entrepreneurs, musicians, spiritual teachers, researchers, and everyday people whose stories illuminate what it means to be fully human.
Every episode begins with curiosity.
Together we explore creativity, healing, psychology, spirituality, relationships, purpose, nervous system regulation, and the beautifully imperfect human experience. These conversations invite honesty, deepen compassion, expand perspective, and remind us that healing often begins the moment we feel deeply seen.
The subtitle of this podcast is Expanding Our Capacity to Feel Good.
Feeling good begins with expanding our capacity to fully experience life—with love, grief, wonder, uncertainty, creativity, gratitude, joy, and compassion. As that capacity grows, so does our ability to live authentically, create courageously, love deeply, and meet life with presence.
Alongside intimate conversations, you’ll also find guided meditations, Transformational Breathwork, Reiki teachings, and solo reflections that offer practical tools for healing, authentic living, and personal growth.
Everything I create is rooted in one intention:
Creating extraordinary spaces where people feel deeply seen, safe to tell the truth, and remember who they truly are.
Whether you’ve been listening since the very beginning or you’re pressing play for the first time, I’m honored you’re here.
Welcome to The Authentic Creative.
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The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Can You Handle the Truth: Making Something Real with Amy Skylark Foster
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For 30 years I have been working with energy, breath, and the body, and this conversation meets that same level of truth through the lens of making, creating, and earning mastery.
In this episode, I dialogue with Amy Foster, songwriter, novelist, and maker, in a conversation that is bold, honest, and deeply grounding.
Amy names it clearly
“If you can’t handle the fact that you’re going to suck, then get out.”
“The universe has its own clock. Sit down. Be humble.”
This is a conversation about what it actually takes to make something real.
We talk about truth, craft, mastery, discipline, creative process, finishing what you start, and the willingness to be bad long enough to become good. We explore her life between music, writing, and making, her experience with dyspraxia, cancer, Iceland as a place of transformation, and why honesty is the doorway to real creativity.
Amy does not romanticize creativity. She respects it. Mastery is earned.
About Amy Foster
Amy Skylark Foster, born in Victoria, British Columbia, grew up between Los Angeles and Toronto. She earned her degree at American University’s School of International Service, briefly imagining a career in diplomacy involving kaftans and dinner parties, which, sadly, is not the way diplomacy actually works.
A nudge from her father, David Foster, (a 16 time Grammy Award winning producer behind artists like Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, and Chicago) led her to songwriting, where she co wrote hits like “Home” and “Haven’t Met You Yet” with Michael Bublé. She honed her craft in Nashville, writing lyrics as her full time work, and in the process discovered her true passion in novel writing.
She is the author of When Autumn Leaves and The Rift trilogy.
An avid maker, Amy paints, spins, embroiders, knits, and sews both clothing and quilts, while continuing to write novels and the occasional lyric. Now splitting time between Portland and Akureyri, Iceland, she founded Valkyrie Fiber, the first and only Merino Icelandic yarn hybrid, and Valkyrie Craft, where she shares her mixed media art and upcycled creations while building a wider community of makers.
You can find her on Instagram @amyfosterhere and @valkyriefiber.
Call to Action
If this conversation lands and you are ready to stop circling and start making something real in your own life, I invite you into my 3 month private container.
12 sessions across 3 months, breathwork, Reiki, and deep nervous system work designed to help you release what has been held and create from a grounded, embodied place.
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Breath returns us to the intelligence of the body, where what has been held can finally resolve.