Surviving The City
Surviving The City: down to earth personal and collective growth for city creatives
Episodes
Have you ever chatted with someone who pushed you to consider what it means to go after your creative projects day in and day while staying true to yourself and your values? Is that even possible? And, what does it really look like to grow and evolve your craft with integrity especially in the comedy scene? In this episode, we hear from Gabe Pacheco, a thought-provoking storyteller, performer, podcas...
Have you ever sat with someone who made you feel like going after your creative dreams wasn’t “crazy”? Like a bigger life for you was more possible? How does a licensed psychotherapist and transformational life coach really get you to change your life and follow your big creative dreams? And what would someone like this say to the critical thinker in all of us that gawks at the idea of following our ...
Many of us clock in and clock out when it comes to working on our creative projects. However, in episode 27 Vicky and Key chat with Chiquita Brujita, a third generation Nuyorican bruja and magic maker, who embodies her art day in and day out as a performance artist.
Chiquita’s life has led her down a path of performance and nurturing the souls of those around...
Creative Projects & Non-Attachment
Episode 26
What happens when your passion for a creative project turns into an obsession over the outcome? How can we practice non-attachment to our creative goals while still maintaining our drive and focus?
Luckily, this doesn’t mean giving up all your worldly possessions and moving to a cave off the grid. Despite the im...
In this episode of Surviving the City, we ask: how did a New Yorker and fifth-generation Curandera go on a mission to share the power of plant medicine, then go on to open up a modern-day apothecary, botánica, and community space?
Our guest is Lynsey Ayala, a spiritual herbalist, artist, and the owner of BreadxButta, a Brooklyn-based brand fusing wellness, art...
How did a successful, born-and-bred Brooklyn artist use manifestation to get her film featured on Showtime?
For those of you who tend to be turned off by woo-woo topics like manifestation and visualizing your dream life, this episode is definitely for you! Tuning in today, you’ll hear from Sakinah Iman, an award-winning Caribbean-American filmmaker, singer-so...
The legacy we leave through art and interaction is just as important as the footprint we leave on this planet through our consumption.
In our highly capitalist society with consumerism skyrocketing higher than ever, with no end in sight, especially living in the city, it feels impossible to stray away from the comforts of efficiency.
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We are joined today by an incredibly wise and humble guest who is an artivist (art + activist). He shares with us the stories of his passion for music and his artivist journey. His name is Y?
Y?’s journey was anything but conventional, being born in a family fleeing their home country of Guyana to the US due to unrest, and having humble beginnings, his passio...
To build authentic connections requires being authentically connected to your body first. Disassociating where connection is required can cause detrimental consequences to your mental and physical health. Especially for creatives living in or just moving to the city to work on their craft. The transition isn’t always easy and the individualistic nature of living in a big city is a breeding ground for...
Alcohol is such a prevalent part of our culture, especially in city life. Events, celebrations, social gatherings, even clocking out of work is commemorated with a drink. When it feels almost i...
In this episode, we delve into what constitutes gossip and the ways we tend to get pulled in despite our best intentions. We also talk through venting and how we can move beyond what can feel like gossiping and venting loops into either deeper ways of connecting or problem solving.
With all the things to be angry about, in episode 18 we discuss anger. What it is, what it can do for us and what it can do to us. We explore cultural and gendered expressions of anger and we ultimately get into how identifying and connecting with our personal anger can have a collective positive impact.
Join us for this relationship retrospective! We review different stages of our relationship from the moment we sent our first okcupid messages to each other in 2012 until now. Who were we right before we met and who are we now? We of course share how we found each other and later outline various stages of long term relationship exploration and growing pain development. Bonus Vicky rant in the intro to hear about Neptune entering Pi...
Join us as we talk through surviving the family and how we aim to cultivate more awareness and presence while navigating family dynamics. We reflect on our personal journeys and specifically how we have drawn, pushed and loosened boundaries throughout the years with respect to time, shared activities and rituals, and conversation with our families. We also talk about the following in connection to family: communication styles, bein...
In this episode, we talk through how grief and loss have shown up for us in their many, sometimes highly felt, sometimes highly disconnected, iterations: the collective kind, the end of relationship kind, the close but distant kind, the abstract forever in denial kind, the bearing witness kind, the intergenerational kind, the heart and soul breaking kind. Join us.
Join us as we sit down with oral historian, socially-engaged artist, and native New Yorker Bridget Bartolini to learn more about the intersection of storytelling and community building. Bridget talks us through how stories can foster conscious community connection and even pride for where we come from and live. We also get to hear about what these ideas look like on the ground through her community projects.
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Tune into this densely packed episode to get some clarity on WTF body work is. Body worker & artist Chloé Cofresí shares with us what embodiment practices are and how life-changing they can be. We learn how the body functions as a living memory system and how we can create holding patterns from even the smallest moments of stress. She also talks us through how bodily traumas don’t fully emerge until we are ready and safe to heal th...
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