Surviving The City
Surviving The City: down to earth personal and collective growth for city creatives
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 86 minutes
- Episodes
- 29
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
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? An…
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 transforma…
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 make…
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 goa…
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,…
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 visu…
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 skyrocketin…
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…
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 he…
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 impossi…
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 go…
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 ultimat…
Episode 17: The Art of Juggling Multiple Passions with Azrael Encarnacion
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 befor…
Episode 15: Gimee That Joy Joy
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 h…
Episode 13: Time Scarcity
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 …
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…
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 le…