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
Moments That Change Everything with Ellie Banke
There are moments in life when everything stops. When time slows, the air shifts, and you realize you’re standing inside a dream you once barely dared to imagine.
For Ellie Banke, that moment came in London, when Ed Sheeran flew her over to record with him in a café and later sing again at a U2 afterparty in the green room of his pub. After her performance, The Edge from U2 quietly held her hand, breathed with her, and helped her ground back into presence.
This episode is about those kinds of moments, the miraculous ones. The ones that remind us that courage, honesty, and vulnerability really can open doors we didn’t even know how to dream.
Ellie is an artist who creates from pure truth. Her music is raw, soulful, and brave. She’s open about living with anxiety and OCD, about perfectionism and fear, and about how she chooses again and again to anchor in presence, kindness, and confidence instead.
In this conversation, we explore:
✨ The story of her viral “Dive” cover that led to singing with Ed Sheeran in London
✨ The grounding moment she shared with The Edge after her performance at Ed Sheeran’s pub
✨ How she transforms anxiety into art and fear into freedom
✨ Her practice for expanding the capacity to feel good: placing hands on her heart, breathing deeply, and letting the goodness land in her body
✨ Why kindness is the bridge between rage, justice, and change
✨ What it means to write and perform from a place of transparency, embodiment, and love
Ellie reminds us that moments that change everything aren’t reserved for the lucky few. They arrive for those who stay honest, keep showing up, and dare to say “yes” when the universe asks.
Find Ellie Banke:
Spotify, Instagram, TikTok → search Ellie Banke
✨ Stay Connected with Me
I’m Siri Baruc Thornton, Reiki Master Teacher, breathwork facilitator, retreat curator, and host of The Authentic Creative. If you’re ready to expand your capacity to feel good and live in your truth, here are ways we can connect:
🌿 Work with me 1:1 or in group breathwork/Reiki: www.sageandblushwellness.com
🌿 Join an upcoming Goddess of Light Retreat (Mt. Hood, OR): March 15–18, May 3–6, Oct 4–7, 2026: https://www.sageandblushwellness.com/purchase/p/goddess-of-light-retreat
🌿 Follow my journey + inspiration @siribaructhornton
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