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Bridgewalkers' Tea
by Manasi Kakade
Candid, unfiltered conversations at the intersection of practical spirituality, systemic change and solo-preneurship. Why? Because learning spiritual principles isn't enough. We got to embody them, apply them daily in our lives, and let our healed actions contribute to systemic change. So join your hosts, Manasi Kakade (She/her), and her friends Rose Pudzis (She/her) or Marcia Bernstein (She/her) as we talk our way through to clarity - clarity on our mistakes, learnings and joy - with other Bridgewalkers (analytical, critical thinkers who are also spiritual seekers).
Episodes
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42. Sacred Value in the Mundane Chaos
Human experience has multiple layers to it which we can't understand and process if we don't appreciate the chaos. Spirituality is a tool that when used right shows us that focus and simplicity can indeed coexist with chaos. This discussion gives multiple stories and examples of how that looks...
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41. Find Your Voice, Find Your People
This episode discusses from various angles and situations, how to deal with misaligned people and bigotry in interpersonal interactions, and spirituality related to it. Further resources: Episode 29: Parental Trauma & Pradnya Aparadha Ways of working with Manasi as your spiritual mentor / teacher...
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40. Struggle Is Inevitable, Suffering Is Optional
Marcy brought up a question, "Do people have to suffer in order to bring change in our lives?" That sparked an entire conversation around struggles, astrological phases of life, and having options. Enjoy! Ways of working with Manasi as your spiritual mentor / teacher Private 1:1 mentorship with...
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39. How We Are Connected to Spirit Even in the Void
Let's start the new year with this light-hearted yet inspiring conversation around how we can experience connection even when there isn't clarity on where we are going. Recorded in January 2022, this episode felt timely now. In a fast-changing, chaotic world, many Bridgewalkers are feeling stuck…
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38. Karma, Dharma, Adharma
Some of Manasi's most popular TikTok videos are on Karma & Dharma. So in this episode Manasi explains these concepts in detail, and debunks some myths that originate in cultural appropriation, systemic oppression, and spiritual bypassing. Enjoy! Oh, and if you live in New England area, Manasi is...
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37. Journey through Grief - Disconnecting & Reconnecting to Spirituality
Rose is back! In this episode, Rose candidly shares how grief disconnected her from mystical spirituality but required her to anchor into the most fundamental principles of practical spirituality. From living in the present, intentionality to escapism - we discuss it all. May this help you in…
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36. Secrets of Longevity & Well-being
Manasi shares what she learned about long, healthy and harmonious life, by observing and interacting with her grandparents and great-grandparents who lived 90+ years (one 106 years). May all of us find the courage within to create such a life of alignment! Ways of working with Manasi as your...
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35. Ease in Money & Solar Plexus Mutation in Human Design
Venus Retrograde has brought Manasi some beautiful insights around money, what we value, and that led to us to conversing around the Solar Plexus Mutation that is happening in the human beings according to Human Design. Enjoy! Further Resources: Episode #29 of Bridgewalkers' Tea Podcast on...
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34. Leadership Lessons from Dog Training
Leaders that our world needs are not the ones who operate from control and authority but the ones who operate from love. What are Marcy and Manasi learning about embodying such leadership through their relationship with their reactive dogs? Further Resources: A TikTok that mentions the meaning…
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33. Soul's Contract & Life Purpose
What is a Soul's Contract? What is the purpose of living a life on the Earth? How it relates to manifesting our desires? Let's dive in! Further Resources: Episode 30 "What is Personal Power & How to Cultivate It?" Ways of working with Manasi as your spiritual mentor / teacher Private 1:1...
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32. Gender Gap in Emotional Labor & Mental Load
We are in Venus Retrograde. So the theme of deepening our ways of giving & receiving love is showing up in healing. Thanks to toxic patriarchy, emotional intimacy & connection feels illusive and missing in many partnerships. Be your own detective of how this is happening in your relationships...
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31. How to Be a Good Student / Learner
A friend asked Manasi, "You have done a few episodes explaining what makes a good teacher. But how does one become a good student?" Let's discuss that today. Further Resources: Free webinar replay on 7 Chakra Episode #29 of Bridgewalkers' Tea Podcast on Parental Trauma & Pradnya Aparadha...
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30. What Is Personal Power & How to Cultivate It?
When the energy of power shows up in an imbalanced way, we hurt others by exerting control & authority over others in aggressive or passive aggressive way or we hurt ourselves by compromising our needs & expression. Then what does balanced power look like, and how to cultivate it? Further...
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29. Parental Trauma & Pradnya Aparadha
Have you ever found yourself inaccurately assessing a situation or a person? Your trauma and your healing has something to do with it. Let's discuss more on that in this episode. Resources Referred to in the Discussion: Podcast: "Conscious Embodiment: Astrology & Dreams with Dr. Michael Lennox"...
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28. What Does It Really Take to Make Aligned Decisions
When Marcia asked the question, "How do we choose a teacher or a product offering that is right for us?", Manasi took the answer to a deeper level explaining, what does it really take to make an aligned decision of any kind. Hint: You will learn about intuition & and how it works with logic,...
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27. Why (Many) Indians Don't Get Racism & Cultural Appropriation
Manasi was asked, "Why is it that some Indians instantly understand racism, and some spew anti-Black sentiments?" Here's her opinion on why that could be. Further Resources: Book: "The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition" by Thenmozhi…
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26. 5 Spiritual Lessons from Gardening
When a beginner gardener brought mindfulness and contemplation while gardening, spiritual lessons started emerging. These lessons may not be new for you, but they are worth revisiting. We hope these reminders help you embody the lessons deeper. Resources mentioned in the episode: Episode 24 on...
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25. Rest Management
Time management is energy management. And energy management begins with rest management. This episode shares some practical tips on how to bring in rest, relaxation and pleasure, even if in small bits, when the life and world feels chaotic and painful. Resources mentioned in the episode: Episode...
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24. Seasonal Changes & Personal Alignment through Karma
If we pause enough, we notice that we have different energetic needs in different seasons of nature, and phases of life. This episode shares, examples from our personal experience, on how we cater to those needs through different choices and actions aka Karma, so that we maintain personal…
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23. Connecting to Sacred Knowledge & Stewarding the Culture
Manasi often gets asked, "Should non-Indians teach Yoga, Chakra, Ayurveda, Jyotishshastra or Vastushastra?" Tune into this episode to hear the nuances around cultural appropriation, and what's the difference between commercialization of a culture, claiming ownership of a culture vs. cultural...
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22. Superficial Information vs. Internalized, Embodied Wisdom
How does one go from consuming and gathering information to embodying genuine wisdom? What's the difference? Why is it even necessary to do so for your sake and for others? If you are a coach, healer, teacher, this episode is a must listen. Thank you for showing up in this way! Resources…
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21. Money Wounds, Solo-preneurship & Communal Healing
Wounding around money is inevitable. But it keeps us from earning, spending or growing money. It keeps us from experiencing true abundance beyond money. Today we discuss how we recognized our money wounds, and what we continue to learn in the process of healing them. This episode is a must listen...
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20. 7 Chakra and Expression
Expression doesn't just come in the form of spoken or written words. Expression includes art, music, clothing, decisions, actions and more. Your expression is you being YOU. This conversation is all about such expression and what the wisdom of Chakra teaches us about that. Resources mentioned in...
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19. Skills to Develop to Make Healing Easier
Through Manasi's recent personal experience with deep and painful healing process, she shares what tools and skills came in handy. You will hear: Practical examples of what healing looks like, feels like as it is happening Tools and tips for empaths and intuitives Actionable difference between...
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18. Being Multipassionate - Its Overwhelm and Wounds of Productivity
This tea is for all you wonderful multi-passionate people. Let's understand: What it really means to "niche down" and how that applies to you when you are multi-passionate How to handle the overwhelm of multiple passions How wounds of productivity impact us Resources mentioned in the podcast: The...
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17. How to Pick a Good Teacher / Spiritual Mentor
Teachers you learn from have the capacity to bring you wisdom, healing, and confidence or they can induce more wounds, harm and make you feel you aren't good enough. The field of spirituality, is riddled with fraudulent people, with superficial information calling themselves "teachers". So let's...
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16. Challenges of a Woman of Color in the Professional Speaking Industry
This tea starts with lessons from Manasi's dog, Argo, Rising signs, and then settles into Manasi sharing her challenges as an immigrant woman from India to the USA, teaching spirituality as a Professional Speaker in the industry that is dominated by rich, white men motivational speakers or young,...
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15. Practical Example of Subconscious Fear of Failing & How to Heal It
Wounding can happen in the simplest moments. Healing takes intentional reflection, making uncomfortable decisions, and taking courageous actions. Listen in for a practical example of how a subconscious fear can set in, and how to heal it through simple actions, despite challenges. Resources...
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14. Pluto Return of the USA with Astrologer Dr. Michael Lennox
Manasi's go-to astrologer for Western Astrology and an Ambassador for Conscious Embodiment, Dr. Michael Lennox, joins Manasi in this discussion / teaching about Pluto Return of the USA. Listen in to understand: What a Pluto Return is, and what it's reflecting about the systemic issues and current...
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13. Castism, Cultural Appropriation and Manasi's Family History
For the first time, Manasi is publicly sharing her family's lived experience in the social system of castism in India. She also touches upon the struggles of modern day India and Indian people as it relates to religion vs. spirituality that are a result of internalized colonization, cultural...
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12. Grief & Why We Took The Unplanned Break
Grieving is a process unique to each individual. Yet there's something healing about sharing your grief (if and when you want to do that), and hearing others' experiences of it. This episode is a vulnerable share - especially for Rose. But our commitment to normalizing struggles in business and...
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11. Seasons - in Nature, Business and Life
Rose couldn't join us at this tea. So Manasi invited another friend and a Bridgewalker, Marcia Bernstein. Marcia is an expert in Ayurveda and a real estate investor who has a knack for sensing the energy of a property or a land. She has had several other careers in her past which have given her...
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10. Inspired Action, "Kotodama", and Pronunciations as an Effect of Colonization
As always, Rose and Manasi cover a lot of ground through their open, honest, candid conversation. In this episode, you will hear: What the wisdom of Muladhara Chakra teaches us about when and how to take action, and which actions fuel our energy Why Manasi and many of her clients don't set goals,...
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9. Mother Mary, Systemic Oppression & Living Your Purpose
This episode is juicy, fiery, and it will leave you with inspiration, healing and empowerment. Rose starts off the episode with a beautiful quote about past, present and future which inspires Manasi to share: A different, more empowering outlook on Mother Mary and her energy, and how religious...
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8. Value of Rest & Inner Peace in Expressing Your True (aka Divine) Potential
This episode is dedicated to all the care-givers including parents taking care of children. Manasi starts out by sharing an unexpected family emergency that they faced in December. (Everything is fine now.) She now has a better understanding of what caregivers go through. So shout-out and...
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7. Individualistic vs. Group Oriented Cultures
You may know Manasi is born and brought up in India which is a Collectivist / Group Oriented Culture. She now lives in the USA which is an Individualist Culture. In this episode, Manasi shares: The worldview that defines a culture as Individualist vs. Collectivist Tips on how you can build a...
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6b. BONUS - Word of the Year
Bonus episodes are short snippets that explain a specific idea or answer a question from listeners. You can submit your question via email at [email protected] In this one, Manasi shares how she selects her word of the year - not intellectually but energetically. Have fun! Links…
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6. Playfulness and joy of the vision
What are most of us conditioned to do when we first get an idea, a vision or set a new goal? We ask the "How" - "How do I do this?" Jumping from vision to action, is a surefire way of cutting the flow of the energy. While the how is important, it has to evolve in its due course. Forcing it out…
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5. Astrology, North Node, and Its Practical Application
This episode really needs your tea! So grab it, and join in this fun and informative conversation about astrology, North Node and what it has to tell us about our Dharma meaning our unique way of being. As always, Manasi and Rose openly share their struggles as well as stories and lessons learned...
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4. Marketing Practices - Trauma It Creates, What To Do Instead
Note: There's some cussing, swearing in this episode so be careful of whom you are listening with. The world of solo-preneurship is filled with traumatic marketing and sales practices. For empaths, intuitives and in general, loving people, something just doesn't feel right. As a result, you keep...
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3. Stories of wounds of cultural appropriation, racism, beauty standards, and comparison to others
Oh my! This episode came through as inspiration wrapped in entertainment. It's filled with stories that discuss wounds of colonization, cultural appropriation, racism, beauty standards, and comparison to others. These stories will help you understand how we humans get impacted by systemic issues...
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2. Productivity, Flow and How Your Energy Affects Both
Even before we jump into the conversation about productivity and flow, Manasi shares more about Diwali, and a fun ritual they do for their dog Argo on the day of Govasta Dwadashi or Vasubaras. Video of it here: https://www.facebook.com/manasi.kakade/posts/10104779603962536 Our conversation then...
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1. Origin Story of Bridgewalkers' Tea Podcast - Divine timing + Aligned Action = Flow
Join us as Manasi shares the story of how quickly this podcast came together - the idea of co-hosting, getting Rose on board, and recording their first episode was all done within a week WHILE Manasi was on vacation! Even the purpose of the podcast, tagline, trailer and podcast cover art was just...
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0. Welcome to Bridgewalkers' Tea!
A Bridgewalker is an analytical, critical thinker fascinated by spirituality. If you are a Bridgewalker coach, healer, artist, author or speaker, you have come to right place because this podcast is all about practical spirituality, solo-preneurship and systemic change. Grab your tea, pull up a...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Candid, unfiltered conversations at the intersection of practical spirituality, systemic change and solo-preneurship. Why? Because learning spiritual principles isn't enough. We got to embody them, apply them daily in our lives, and let our healed actions contribute to systemic change. So join your hosts, Manasi Kakade (She/her), and her friends Rose Pudzis (She/her) or Marcia Bernstein (She/her) as we talk our way through to clarity - clarity on our mistakes, learnings and joy - with other Bridgewalkers (analytical, critical thinkers who are also spiritual seekers).
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