I'm Curious with Ashley Asti

What if poetry could unlock our potential to heal? Jim Elsaesser, a healing poetry guide who has facilitated workshops for survivors of sexual and domestic violence, for girls at the School for Leade…

Jason Bryant, the Director of Restorative Programs at CROP Organization, shares what it’s like to experience marriage and fatherhood from across a prison visiting room table. He talks openly about pe…

After hitting rock bottom repeatedly, Michael Hoffner discovered the secret to his healing that he had been missing: deep spiritual communion and belonging. Today, he is the founder and Executive Dir…

Time. Urgency. Purpose. This episode with psychic medium Denise Correll will make you want to seize the day: as she says, it’s never too late to release the past and step into the fullness of who you…

Richard Mireles didn’t know if he’d ever come home from prison. Serving 25 years-to-life and faced with the possibility of dying in prison, he knew he had to make a choice: “I had to take a stand and…

“Every single human being experiences trauma…it’s part of the human experience.” Somatic coach Marina Yanay-Triner and I deep-dive into trauma’s roots in the body. She insists that healing from traum…

Kayra Martinez, the founder of Love Without Borders for Refugees in Need, joins me one year after our first on-air conversation. Kayra has been working with individuals in refugee camps in Greece sin…

Serena Liguori, the Executive Director of New Hour for Women and Children—Long Island, is an activist and a force—a woman living from her power who’s equipping other women to emerge after incarcerati…

Dionne Ybarra is invigorating! After entering her 50th year, Dionne chose to embrace her wisdom, her passion, and her curiosity and say an even greater yes to life. She is a birth doula, is training …

Gloria Araya is a modern day Renaissance woman—a dancer and movement teacher, photographer, and social activist. Her life is a masterclass in generous listening—the ways she listens to her body, her …

When Nikita was in 6th grade, his dad went to prison. In this episode, Nikita explores with me the loneliness he felt knowing that his experience with his dad—essentially a relationship over the phon…

“I’m going to show you what a divine miracle you are.” Photographer Jade Beall doesn’t simply capture someone’s image through her lens; she reminds them of their beauty. Ten years ago, deep in postpa…

At 40 years old, Oneika Mays found herself in limbo. After walking away from a great paying job with all the perks she could never have imagined possible for herself growing up, she found herself in …

“We have to get out of this notion that revenge is going to heal us in any way.” Mercedes Montagnes grew up wanting to be an actress. Instead, she found herself taking the LSATs on a whim and, eventu…

The host is in the hot seat! I handed the I’m Curious keys over to my friend Diane Kahn, who interviewed me. We explore my life lessons, my moments of shame and fear about my purpose, the best yoga c…

I grew up in a “very, very patriarchal country,” Alina Anjum Ahmed told me about her home, Pakistan. “It’s a different place,” she said, where gender role constrictions and violence against women is …

“Today I know I deserve to be loved.” At 19 years old, Sol Mercado was locked up and given the death penalty. After years of experiencing abuse and violence at home and turning to gangs for love and …

“In a place where [racial boundaries] really existed for real...we brought everyone together with the power of music.” Eric “Maserati-E” Abercrombie went from teaching himself guitar in prison to rec…

“There’s not a person that I talk to inside that doesn’t feel forgotten.” Those words from this conversation still haven’t left me. Diane Kahn, my guest, is a teacher who went from an elementary scho…