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Soul Salon with Ayandastood
pov: you're obsessed with paradigm shifts, aha moments, expanding your consciousness, de-colonizing, and seeing beyond the current paradigm. you believe love, community, interdependence, joy, rest & creativity are our birthright, and you are seeking more ways to find y(our) way home. you are the Wise Friend who listens deeply, but often feels unheard or unseen. i am here to walk beside you. let's paradigm shift together, guided by your host, Ayanda, also known as @ayandastood on TikTok and IG…
Episodes
Soul Salon with Ayandastood73: choose connection over perfection 🥰
In today's Soul Session, we explore the profound power of choosing connection over perfection. We delve into how perfectionism can stifle not only our true…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood72: how to alchemize creative envy
Hello soul siblings! 🦋 Perfectionism tried to stop this from ever reaching you and very nearly succeeded! I recorded this many weeks ago and felt it wasn't…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood71: it's already happening ✨
Soul sibling, this is your loving reminder, that whatever you are calling in is not "going to happen" — it's ALL already happening, becoming, unfolding for and…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood70: you are an instrument of love 🎷
Hello divine soul! Today we affirm YOU as and each of us as instruments of love. What if: love wants to speak and express through you? To sing, dance, cook…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood69: fear of making 'mistakes'
The fear of making mistakes blocks our collective expression, by design. In today's Soul Session, we dive into deeply-rooted childhood fears of getting things…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood68: this quote on fear changed me forever ✨
👉🏾 Your fear of being seen is DONE holding you back. Get my FREE Soulful Visibility Guide now and step into the visibility you KNOW you deserve ✨. We all…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood67: neutralizing the fear of judgment
👉🏾 Your fear of being seen is DONE holding you back. Get myFREE Soulful Visibility Guide now.The fear of judgment can be punishing, and it holds many of us…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood66: create through fear 🐉
👉🏾 Your fear of being seen is DONE holding you back. Get my FREE Soulful Visibility Guide: https://ayandastood.com/ This finds you ready to accept fear and…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood65: what you need to know as a visionary
Today, we explore the profound journey of the visionary — those who are a bridge to the next paradigm. 👉🏾 Your fear of being seen is DONE holding you back. Get…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood64: fear is a portal to your dreams 🪞
Today we are stepping through the PORTAL of transformation that is the Fear of Being Seen. You will connect with your manifestation/dream/desire — all for the…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood63: you fear what you crave: to be seen. it's time.
Our journey on the fear of being seen continues! Today we discuss stepping out of your protective shell and embracing your fullest expression. Delve into…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood62: channeled message from your dreams✨
Here is a gift for you, a channeled message from your dream in times of challenge or doubt, when action and vision are not aligned. Soul sibling, y(our) dream…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood61: what if if gets to be easy? 🌻
You deserve the ease you’ve been unconsciously rejecting or denying as possible. In this Soul Session, we explore how social conditioning often overshadows our…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood60: mosaic mindset
Perfectionists, gather! In today's Soul Session (#60!!! 🥳) I share a mindset shift that can change the game for creating and unblocking your creative flow: the…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood59: you're not behind, you're divine. ✨
It's December and many of us can feel BEHIND at this time of year. (At any time of year, actually! May this message find you at the most aligned time 🦋) We can…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood58: the spiritual role of multi-passionates
Multi-passionates, gather! this soul session is all about the spiritual role of the multi-passionate... a love letter to my fellow multi-passionates. keep…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood57: fear of being seen, meet the Invitation Mindset
hello soul sibling! wherever you desire to be seen, there will be fear... online, on stages, in classrooms, hosting events, speaking up in meetings or calls…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood56: you are a gift to be shared, not hidden. 💛
A quick, loving reminder of the power of y(our) voice, art, perspective! Divine & magical being, I hope you enjoy this soul snack! Sign up for an exciting…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood56: fear is a portal from ego to soul ✨
hello soul sibling! in today's Soul Session, i start off by sharing how nervous i felt recording it. we discuss how fear can be a portal from the ego to the…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood55: you haven't missed the train, the train misses you.
precious being, if you feel it's TOO LATE this soul session was handmade for you. 👉🏾 get a FREE Creative Activation —a guided audio meditation to support your…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood54: manifest with the law of polarity.
My love, your dreams have sent you this message to remind you to surrender to the full experience of their pursuit. And since the collective is dreaming…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood53: love yourself enough to fail 🌻💛
babes, the IRONY of this soul session is my inner critic is telling me it is not good enough to share. that i should record it again (and the illusion is that…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood52: fear of being seen | 3 powerful shifts to support you.
in today's soul session, i share three powerful shifts to overcome the fear of being seen & the fear of judgement. we get into radically accepting the truth…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood51: multi-passionates: be confusing.
MULTI-PASSIONATES, ASSEMBLE! if you want to do a LOT of different things, but you fear confusing other people, this is your sign: BE CONFUSING! This is a…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood50: fear of success, awe, & reclaiming our power.
Sending love beams, soul siblings! I am hosting a FREE MasterClass on Creative Kinship on Zoom this Sunday, June 30 @ 10am-11:30am EST / 2-3:30pm UTC. Register…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood49: comparison is (not) the thief of joy
“comparison is the thief of joy” they say, a quote originally from Former US President Theodore Roosevelt (random!). but what does the idea that we just…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood48: Palestine & the words I'm reaching for — Part 2
Hi my loves, this is the second and final part of my mini-series uplifting the work of abolitionist scientist Dr Ayesha Khan who writes the most beautiful…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood47: Palestine & the words I’m reaching for — Part 1
hello soul siblings 🥰, I have MISSED YOU! 🫶🏾 as we bear witness to genocide and support and uplift the student and other protests in response, today I want to…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood46: you have these gifts for a reason 💛
If you are feeling unmotivated or uninspired, if you are stuck minimizing and hiding from your natural gifts, this episode is for YOU. You have these gifts for…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood45: there'll always be more to say 🌻💛 | perfectionism & creativity
hi precious beings! if you're battling with perfectionism, this episode is for you. earth angel, consider this your permission slip to declare your unfinished…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood44: the collective is dreaming through you.
if you dream of writing, there are people dreaming of reading you. if you dream of singing, there are people dreaming of hearing you. if you dream of being…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood43: become the energy you crave (or envy)
today i bring you a bite size dose of ENERGY I recorded in December but felt wasn't "good enough" at the time. in honor of breaking up with perfectionism, i…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood42: what if the opposite is true?
if you are a worst case scenario thinker/feeler/(anti-)dreamer, this soul session✨ is for you. let's unpack why it's time to let go of assuming the worst — not…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood41: pro-mote your work
if you find it cringe or challenging to promote your own work, this soul session will SPEAK to you. today we completely REFRAME AND RECLAIM promotion, breaking…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood40: the fear of success
today's soul session is a spiritual perspective on why you fear your own success. if you're like me, you are both drawn to and repelled by your dreams. they…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood39: the wisdom of feeling lost
in today’s episode we talk about the deep state of consciousness that being LOST entails, rather than the inferior state it represents in the western…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood38: how to overcome the fear of being CRINGE on social media
we are becoming FEAR ALCHEMISTS in 2024. hi darlings! in this episode I am giving a MasterClass on moving through and BEYOND the fear of being…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood37: inviting ease and pleasure into the creative process
in this episode we are calling in ease, flow, pleasure, and love in the experience of creating, rather than as a reward. i talk about releasing the tension…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood36: celebrate your soul’s garden, just as it is
in this episode we honor the garden of your soul AS IT IS rather than focusing on the seeds you will plant this year. we remember you’re whole as you are…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood35: awakening to possibility 🌻
today’s episode is all about embracing POSSIBILITY as an abundant energy that can unlock itself even further. possibility, and moving through the world with…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood34: beauty as alienation from the self 👽
if toxic, eurocentric beauty standards won’t let you rest: this episode is for you. i made a tiktok (620K views) about this idea in June that people resonated…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood33: 7 reasons why you're irreducible (Ask ChatGPT✨)
many of us feel plagued by a deep-seated unworthiness ingrained in us by society and culture. at a fundamental level, we are convinced there is a lot wrong…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood32: you are irreducible: why you are an infinite, interconnected, cosmic being and cannot be reduced to ANYTHING
we all face a deep unworthiness and are convinced there is something (or a lot) fundamentally wrong with us. this episode unpacks why you can’t be reduced to…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood31: the paradox of being sensitive — part 1: creativity 📝🎥🎨🥹
if you’ve ever felt that the same sensitivity that makes you drawn to creative work also makes you TERRIFIED of starting, finishing or sharing yours — this…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood30: free Congo 🇨🇩🤎 — overview, book (Cobalt Red 📚) & how we can help
Congo is currently undergoing a silent genocide. We are lifting our voices for the people of DRC. This episode is my imperfect attempt to amplify the ongoing…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood29: do what's sustainable 🐌🐝🦋🌺
hi my loves. i recorded this episode a few weeks ago. it’s all about prioritizing sustainability in your creative and life pursuits, rather than burning out on…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood28: palestinian liberation, decolonization, resistance poems, & resources
as a Black South African, my existence and freedom today are only possible because of the liberation efforts of anti-apartheid revolutionaries like Steve Biko…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood27: romantic longing 🤎 part 2 | love poems, self-defined romance, removing barriers to love
welcome to ACT 2 of our convo on longing for a romantic relationship and what wisdom we can learn from this longing. In this episode, I read you a love poems…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood26: romantic longing 🤎 — part 1
today we are talking about longing for romantic relationship and what wisdom we can derive from this longing. how can we integrate rather than suppress our…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood25: you have nothing to prove | the myth of proving yourself
if you’ve ever desperately tried to prove yourself to others or to yourself, this episode is for you. today we are discussing the underlying paradoxes and…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood24: let it become | on creativity, relationships, & life 🐛🐝🦋🐣
If you obsess over planning things instead of letting them unfold naturally, this episode is for you! Join me as we explore the notion and paradox of Becoming…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood23: disposability culture & my fear of being cancelled
today we are digging deeper into my own creative fear — why and how I fear cancellation, my experience with it thus far, and what I tell myself in the face of…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood22: you are not an imposter. write your spiritual resume 📝💛
if you ask yourself, who am I to do this thing I want to do? to write a book, start a podcast, become a songwriter.... this episode is for you. as insecure and…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood21: the power of recommitment & return
pov: the shame you feel for avoiding a creative project is keeping you from returning to it. let’s discuss why we need to embrace recommitment as a key part of…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood20: you are not a machine: why inconsistency is natural 🦋🍄🌻
This is for anyone who is struggling to stay consistent with their creative project or goals in life. I am with you! And so are the sunsets, the fruit trees…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood19: the myth of inclusive beauty
Today we unpack the prevalent myth of inclusive beauty. This episode is part of my Beauty Bites *insert chews* series, where we think against the Beauty…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood18: overcoming creative resistance
Today I expand on a recent TikTok I created about overcoming creative resistance. The idea of resistance is based on Steven Pressfield's book The War of Art…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood17: reclaiming the erotic
Today we are redefining and reimagining the Erotic. What is it, why is it so powerful, and how can we bring more of it into our lives? We will hear clips from…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood16: industrialized vs. spiritual beauty (💡: Jessica DeFino)
Welcome to a new series within my podcast called Beauty Bites *insert chews*. This is an ode to and a home for the very many thoughts I have on Beauty politics…
Soul Salon with Ayandastood15: showing up together & what I'm avoiding rn
If you're like me you have a bunch of scary projects or tasks or responsibilities or texts you are currently AVOIDING. you keep telling yourself to "just face…