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
Caretaking & Entrepreneurship: a dialogue that sees us in our truth
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In this expansive and deeply honest conversation on The Authentic Creative: Expanding Our Capacity to Feel Good, I dialogue with an incredible group of women about entrepreneurship, caretaking, creativity, nervous system regulation, motherhood, perimenopause, ambition, sisterhood, and what it means to build a life that actually feels aligned.
We began together in live breathwork, releasing grief, pressure, exhaustion, overwhelm, and expectation before moving into a vulnerable and powerful conversation about the realities of holding so much as women.
This episode is an invitation to soften, to reconnect with yourself, and to remember that you do not have to carry everything alone.
In this episode, we cover:
• The invisible emotional labor women carry every day
• Entrepreneurship, motherhood, caretaking, and creative ambition
• Learning to stop overfunctioning and allowing others their own journeys
• Perimenopause as an initiation into deeper wisdom and self trust
• Nervous system regulation and emotional resilience
• Sacred sisterhood and the healing power of being witnessed
• The importance of creating spaciousness and rest
• Breathwork as a tool for release, reconnection, and transformation
• Letting go of perfectionism and performance
• Boundaries, self care, and understanding your true capacity
• Creativity, divine timing, and trusting what is unfolding
• The relationship between clutter, overwhelm, and emotional energy
• The “witching hour” and listening to the whispers within
• Reclaiming softness, self love, and presence
• Learning to celebrate ourselves instead of constantly moving the goalpost forward
Panelists
• Heather Dimock
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• Johanna Watts
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• Elizabeth Munoz
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• Stephanie Fodor
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• Tabatha Dobrun
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• Stephanie Minter
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• Robin Cohen
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This is intimate, highly personalized support where we work together through transformational breathwork infused with Reiki, nervous system regulation, emotional release, embodiment, creativity, and reconnection to yourself.
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