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Surviving The City
by Vicky Muñoz-Lepore and Key Soto
Surviving The City: down to earth personal and collective growth for city creatives
Episodes
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Episode 29: Ideology & Integrity: A Conversation with Comedian Gabe Pacheco
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...
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Episode 28: Accessing Transformation with Cynthia Santiago-Borbón
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...
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Episode 27: Magic is Fucking Real with Chiquita Brujita
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…
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Episode 26: Creative Projects & Non-Attachment
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...
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Episode 25: Community with a Side of Plant Medicine with Lynsey Ayala
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...
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Episode 24: The Hustle to Manifestation with Sakinah Iman
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…
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Episode 23: Art & Solidarity Economies with Christina Freeman
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...
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Episode 22: Artivism in Action with Y?
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…
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Episode 21: Raw Movement with Justina Kamiel Grayman
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...
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Episode 20: That Sober Curious Life with Candace Holmes
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 impossible to do any of these things without a drink, that's when we need to re-evaluate our motivation…
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Episode 19: Gossip vs Venting
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.
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Episode 18: Anger & Its Discontents
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...
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Episode 17: The Art of Juggling Multiple Passions with Azrael Encarnacion
Join us for conversation with storyteller, artist, and multi passionate creative from the South Bronx, Azrael Encarnacion. We talk what it means to identify as an artist and to pursue play and presence and how that connects to creativity. We also delve into the varying ways he and we juggle...
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Episode 16: Peeling Back A Decade
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...
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Episode 15: Gimee That Joy Joy
Join us as we explore joy and share our attempts to cultivate it even amidst times of grief and despair. First we examine the distinctions between joy, happiness and pleasure and later discuss Jung's infamous shadow work theory and how getting in touch with and integrating the painful and...
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Episode 14: Surviving The Family
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...
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Episode 13: Time Scarcity
In this episode, we talk time scarcity. We explain what time scarcity means to us and how the concept of "never enough time" can sometimes foster structure and groundedness that can make way for creativity and presence, while other times the real feeling of "time slipping away" can overtake our…
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Episode 12: On Grieving & Loss
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…
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Episode 11: Open Streets with Bridget Bartolini
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...
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Episode 10: WTF Is Body Work? with Chloé Cofresí
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...
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Episode 9: On Not Having Children
In this episode, we talk through our shared decision not to have children. We share the evolution of our process from adolescence to now (late 30s), how we investigated our own thoughts and feelings that emerged, and how we moved through our own impasse individually and as a couple with regard to...
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Episode 8: Into the Cloud
In this episode we talk through: *our recent move and the process of purchasing an apartment *the shift of the vibe of our new building *power dynamics of giving and receiving *community connections *Vicky's recent diagnosis and the overwhelm and empowerment that can come with a label *Key moving...
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Episode 7: Making Space for Minimalism with Roberto Enamorado
In this episode, we talk minimalism with native New Yorker, multimedia artist, and self-identified minimalist Roberto Enamorado aka Roberto in Love. Roberto's minimalist philosophy grounds the way he lives and moves through the world not only to reduce his personal carbon footprint but also to…
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Episode 6: Beyond Being A Good Listener & Saying I'm Sorry
In this episode, we delve into relationships and the impasses that many couples inevitably find themselves confronted with. We ground our conversation in theory outlined in a book, authored by a marriage and sex therapist, that we consider to be a relationship bible. We also share how multiple...
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Episode 5: Processing The Capitol Siege with Josh Carrera
In this episode, we are joined by Josh Carrera, native New Yorker, activist, and project coordinator and member of The Mayday Space Collective in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Together we talk about The Capitol Siege and share our ongoing processing of January 6th along with the lead up to the moment. We...
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Episode 4: Ritual as Transformation with Nova George
In this episode, we are joined by our first guest, Nova, a seminary student, new thought practitioner, and aspiring spiritual leader who pushes us to think about ritual as a transformational practice and way of being. They talk us through the ways that ritual can be conscious or unconscious and…
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Episode 3: Holidays & Rituals
In this episode, we talk holidays and rituals (those that we've personally experienced.) We'll get into why we never fully got down with Christmas (until recently) and our personal favorite love to hate ritual, weddings! Funerals took our most glowing review-- who doesn't need to grieve the dead?
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Episode 2: How the hell was 45 not taken down by a landslide?
In this episode, we explore two main topics from the 2020 elections. First, how did Trump make gains with various demographic groups particularly among Black and Latinx voters? Second, what are the two narratives taking place around why Democrats did not garner more votes and which ones are valid?
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Pilot Episode | Welcome & Overview
In this pilot episode, we discuss the main overarching theme of the podcast which is to question and explore what it means and looks like to find and cultivate beauty, integrity and purpose in our current times. We briefly delve into the following topics that we hope to discuss in greater detail…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Surviving The City: down to earth personal and collective growth for city creatives
HOSTED BY
Vicky Muñoz-Lepore and Key Soto
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