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The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good

Siri Baruc Thornton

Welcome to The Authentic Creative with Siri Baruc Thornton: a top 2% 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

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47:49

A New Relationship with Wealth with Sarah McCrum

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2026/04/11

In this conversation, I dialogue with Sarah McCrum, author of Love Money Money Loves You, and what unfolds is a deep and unexpected exploration of money as energy, as relationship, and as something that is actually responding to us. Sarah shares how, in the aftermath of a devastating business collapse, she began receiving what can only be described as a transmission. What started as journaling turned into a body of work that has now impacted thousands of people’s relationship with money, gene...

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47:06

Right Sized Business + Ecstatic Grief with Amber...

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2026/04/05

“I just let myself feel the ecstatic grief of all of that in the moment.” - Amber Lilyestrom In this deeply moving and expansive conversation, I dialogue with Amber Lileystrom about what it means to build a life and business that actually reflects who you are now, not who you’ve been conditioned to be. Amber shares how her work has evolved into something more intimate, more precise, and more truth led. We explore the shift away from constant scaling into what she calls “right sized business,”...

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66:34

Can You Handle the Truth: Making Something Real with...

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2026/04/03

For 30 years I have been working with energy, breath, and the body, and this conversation meets that same level of truth through the lens of making, creating, and earning mastery. In this episode, I dialogue with Amy Foster, songwriter, novelist, and maker, in a conversation that is bold, honest, and deeply grounding. Amy names it clearly “If you can’t handle the fact that you’re going to suck, then get out.” “The universe has its own clock. Sit down. Be humble.” This is a conversation about ...

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76:33

Spring Equinox, Receiving, and the Art of Letting...

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2026/03/23

This conversation unfolded right on the threshold of the spring equinox, in those first hours where something begins to shift. I was standing in dialogue with an extraordinary group of women, each of us speaking from lived experience, from our bodies, from what we are actively navigating right now. We explored what it means to come out of winter without abandoning ourselves. To trust timing. To soften the grip of responsibility. To receive instead of constantly holding everything togeth...

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36:11

When the Room Shifted: 5 Minute Meditations, Co...

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2026/03/18

In this episode, I dialogue with Jesse Larson, co creator of Five Minute Meditations for Kids, about how simple, intentional moments can shift the entire energy of a home. I share the story of playing her meditation in the ER while Bodhi’s arm was being reset, and how everything changed. What could have been chaos became calm, connected, and deeply held. We explore co regulation, how our nervous systems shape our children’s, and why even 2 to 5 minutes can interrupt anxiety and create r...

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16:58

Parenting + Partnership: 10 Tips for Regulating the...

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2026/03/16

Some mornings feel calm and connected. Other mornings… everyone is triggered. In this minisode, I share 10 practical tools for regulating the nervous system in the moments when parenting, partnership, and life all collide at once. These are simple practices I use and teach when emotions are high, time is short, and everyone’s nervous system needs support. Because the goal isn’t perfection. The goal is connection, regulation, and repair. In this short episode I talk about tools that help when:...

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49:36

From Seed-to-Stitch®️: Entrepreneurship,...

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2026/03/14

In this episode of The Authentic Creative: Expanding Our Capacity to Feel Good, I dialogue with my neighbor and new friend Stephanie Fodor MacDonald for a deeply honest conversation about motherhood, entrepreneurship, creativity, and resilience. Stephanie grew up in Hawaii and began acting as a child, eventually building a career across theater, film, television, and digital media. Her life and work have taken her around the world before eventually landing in the Pacific Northwest. Today she ...

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15:12

Broken

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2026/03/02

In this spontaneous minisode, I’m sharing a tender, frightening, and deeply spiritual experience that unfolded for my family in Maui when Bodhi broke his arm. I take you into the moment it happened on the beach, what moved through my body as a mother, what it was like to watch his arm be reset in the ER while playing 5 Minute Meditations for Kids podcast, and how breath, Reiki, prayer, and presence changed the energy in that room. I share what it has been like to nurse him through recovery, n...

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79:15

Sisterhood Rewritten: Healing Old Friendship Patterns...

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2026/03/01

This panel began with an intention to explore friendship patterns. What unfolded became something deeper. We gathered in circle and asked the question many women quietly carry: How do we stop betraying ourselves and still remain in relationship? Through breathwork and honest dialogue, we explored the sisterhood wound and the mother as our first relationship with women. We looked at the ways many of us learned to choose attachment over authenticity. The ways we fawned, overfunctioned, shrank, ...

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15:22

Recovering a Sense of Faith: Embodied Companion to...

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2026/02/13

In Episode 12, the final installment of this 12 part minisode devotional, embodied companion to The Artist’s Way, I explore what it means to recover a sense of faith and reconnect with trust as a creative, emotional, and spiritual practice. In this episode, I reflect on how faith evolves throughout our lives and how being human inevitably includes disappointment, loss, uncertainty, and transformation. I share how faith is not about certainty or perfection, but about the courage to begin again...

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17:15

Recovering a Sense of Autonomy: Embodied Companion to...

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2026/02/13

In Episode 11 of this 12 part minisode devotional, embodied companion to The Artist’s Way, I explore what it means to recover a sense of autonomy and reconnect with inner authority as a creative and emotional practice. I reflect on the paradox many of us experience between independence and support. I share personal reflections about having a naturally sovereign spirit while also deeply valuing connection, family support, and collaboration, and how autonomy expands when support is chosen consc...

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13:52

Recovering a Sense of Self Protection: Embodied...

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2026/02/11

In Episode 10 of this 12 part minisode devotional, embodied companion to The Artist’s Way, I explore what it means to recover a sense of self protection and reconnect with boundaries as a loving and creative practice. In this episode, I reflect on how many of us learned to care for others long before learning how to protect our own energy, time, and creative life. I share how motherhood, entrepreneurship, healing work, and leading retreats have taught me that protecting our energy allows crea...

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17:02

Recovering a Sense of Compassion: Embodied Companion...

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2026/02/10

In Episode 9 of this 12 part minisode devotional, embodied companion to The Artist’s Way, I explore what it means to recover a sense of compassion and reconnect with kindness as a powerful creative and emotional practice. In this episode, I reflect on how many of us learned to offer patience, forgiveness, and understanding to others long before learning how to extend that same gentleness toward ourselves. I share how motherhood, healing work, breathwork, and creative life have shown me that t...

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24:16

Recovering a Sense of Strength: Embodied Companion to...

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2026/02/10

In Episode 8 of this 12 part minisode devotional, embodied companion to The Artist’s Way, I explore what it means to recover a sense of strength and reconnect with strength as something sustainable, supported, and deeply embodied. In this episode, I reflect on how my understanding of strength has evolved from endurance and over functioning into a more grounded, relational, and nervous system centered experience of strength. I share how motherhood and caregiving shaped my early ideas of streng...

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22:36

Recovering a Sense of Connection: Embodied Companion...

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2026/02/09

In Episode 7 of this 12 part minisode devotional, I explore what it means to recover a sense of connection and reconnect with creativity as something relational, guided, and alive inside community, nature, and shared witnessing. I share how connection has shaped my creative and spiritual life over more than 2 decades of healing work, motherhood, entrepreneurship, and practice. For me, connection is not only social. It is nervous system co regulation. It is feeling seen without performing. It ...

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24:55

Recovering a Sense of Abundance: Embodied Companion...

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2026/02/08

In Episode 6 of this 12 part minisode devotional, I explore what it means to recover a sense of abundance and reconnect with creativity as something supported, relational, and renewable. I share my personal relationship with abundance and how it has evolved over more than 2 decades of creative work, motherhood, entrepreneurship, and spiritual practice. For me, abundance is not only financial. It is nervous system safety, freedom with my schedule and choices, meaningful creative work, and rela...

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14:41

Recovering a Sense of Possibility: Embodied Companion...

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2026/02/07

In Episode 5 of this 12 part minisode devotional series, I explore what it means to recover a sense of possibility and gently reopen imagination, curiosity, and creative expansion. I share personal reflections from a quiet moment of stillness after a season of family illness, caregiving, and responsibility, and how possibility often returns through relief, support, and subtle forward movement rather than dramatic change. Inspired by Chapter 5 of The Artist’s Way, this episode explores how pos...

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14:53

Recovering a Sense of Integrity: Embodied Companion...

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2026/02/06

In Episode 4 of this 12 part minisode devotional series, I explore what it means to recover a sense of integrity and reconnect with wholeness inside creativity, family life, responsibility, and devotion. I share personal reflections about recording this series while caring for my 2 boys, my husband, our dogs, our home, and navigating a head cold, and how integrity has been teaching me that creativity and caregiving can belong inside the same life. I also reflect on my relationship with perfec...

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Recovering a Sense of Power: Embodied Companion to...

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2026/02/05

In Episode 3 of this 12 part minisode devotional series, I explore what it means to recover a sense of creative power and reconnect with the part of you that has choice, agency, and voice, even when doubt, fear, or past experiences have made that feel distant. I reflect on how power is often misunderstood and how many sensitive and creative people learn to distance themselves from power because it has been modeled as control, dominance, or perfection. This episode explores how creative power ...

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17:29

Recovering a Sense of Identity: Embodied Companion to...

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2026/02/04

In Episode 2 of this 12 part minisode devotional series, I explore what it means to recover a sense of identity and reconnect with the creative self underneath roles, labels, and expectations. I reflect on growing up as the eldest daughter and being labeled as difficult or too much, and how reclaiming early identities can become part of creative and emotional liberation. I also share realizations from guided ceremonial mushroom journeys that revealed how fluid identity can be and how freedom ...

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