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
The Inspiration of Jeni Dodd: Tea, Presence + Aligned Action
In this luminous episode of The Authentic Creative: Expanding Our Capacity to Feel Good, I sit down with the remarkable Jeni Dodd, international tea importer, Certified Tea Specialist, award-winning speaker, and founder of jeni.dodd.tea.com
We met by pure serendipity in an airport while I was traveling with my 12-year-old son, Phoenix, to visit my 100-year-old grandmother, and our connection was instant. What unfolded next was a conversation filled with warmth, wisdom, and wonder, so alive that I asked Jeni if we could record it.
Together we explore:
🌿 The artistry and soul of tea as a practice of presence and connection
🌏 Jeni’s journey from law to founding a tea company rooted in ethics, sustainability, and love
đź’« How sensory experiences like tea and cacao awaken creativity and intuition
🌸 Ritual versus chore, finding joy and meaning in the everyday
🫖 Lessons from Jeni’s courageous travels through Nepal, Japan, and beyond
🤍 The power of aligned action, authenticity, and intentional living
A Kansas native now based in New York City, Jeni has traveled to nearly every major tea-producing region in the world, from Japan and China to Nepal, learning directly from growers and artisans. She has been recognized as Best Speaker at the World Tea Expo five years in a row, has keynoted international tea festivals, and even created Grape Grain & Leaf™, a virtual tea cocktail experience that brings together the worlds of tea, wine, and story.
In this conversation, Jeni also shares how she transformed her health after an MS diagnosis and how her devotion to tea, presence, and reducing stress led to deep healing and a new way of life.
Connect with Jeni:
https://www.jenidoddtea.com/
Instagram: @jenidoddtea
Connect with Siri:
✨ Instagram: @siribaructhornton
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