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.
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The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good
Rewrite & Rise: Your Voice. Your Power. Your Becoming.
Welcome back to The Authentic Creative. In this special panel episode, “Rewrite & Rise,” we explore the transformative power of rewriting our stories to rise into alignment, joy, voice, and soul.
Host Siri Baruc Thornton opens with a breathwork-infused circle and invites a circle of powerful women leaders: authors, healers, creatives, doctors, doulas, coaches, and performers, to share how they’ve each rewritten their own story and reclaimed their wholeness.
We explore:
✨ Releasing inherited belief systems
✨ Embodying worth beyond achievement
✨ Trusting the spark of “something more”
✨ Honoring the wisdom of the body
✨ Giving birth to new identity through challenge
✨ Finding healing in nature, sound, community, and voice
Featured Panelists:
- Bridget Simmons – on BS (belief systems) and mindset as a portal to aligned success @bridgettesimmonds
- Michelle Rios – on reclaiming worth as a birthright, not something earned @Michelleriosofficial
- Jessica Dawson – on bridging science and spirit to help women in their “becoming” @thecoachjd
- Ana Paula Markel – on birth as a metaphor for all life transitions @apmarkel
- Karaleigh Garrison – on vocal liberation, motherhood, and releasing shame @karaleigh.garrison
- Sarah Rose – on rewriting your brand voice with authenticity and boundaries @Sarah.rose.writes
- Dr. Natasha Kassam – on healing burnout and reclaiming vitality through the body @drnatashakassam
- Amanda Malarkey – on nature and permaculture as mirrors of transformation @Amanda.fern.malarkey
- Robyn Cohen – on the power of being seen, vulnerability, and live performance @robyncohenactingstudio
- Joya Sosnowski – on soul frequency, sound alchemy, and mystical grief @vibologie
We close with a soul-stirring original poem, Rise Her Name, honoring the women, their medicine, and the collective journey we are all on.
This episode is an invitation to listen deeply, breathe fully, and rise into your most radiant truth.
🌿 To learn more about the 2026 Goddess of Light retreats in Mt. Hood, Oregon, email Siri at: siri@sageandblushwellness.com