The Creative Soul Podcast is a space to uncover your creative soul. We have conversations with inspiring creatives about the transformative magic of the creative process.
Your host, Leya Van Doren shares from the heart stories about her own personal journey, and will inspire you along your path where creativity and spirituality intersect.
We explore topics on healing, self-love, relationships, expression, travel, herbalism, astrology, ancestral healing, and tapping into your own unique creativity as a form of expressing your purpose and doing what lights you up.
Tune in to be inspired to pay attention to the callings from your creative soul.
Ready to embark on your own daily creative practice? Immerse yourself in The Creative Soul Practice, a 7-day guided writing meditation series, each session just 15 minutes long. Begin your journey here.
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Cover art by Torrence Browne
Intro song "Surf" by Vlad Gluschenko
Lindsay quit a 5-year career selling corporate life insurance to pursue a dream of learning to cook in France. After backpacking solo for six months, working with local farmers exchanging labor for r…
Carly is an artist, community builder, dot connector, softball player and slam poet. She is the founder of The Reach Out Party, a course where individuals with diverse minds and from seemingly dispar…
In this episode, I share the lessons I learned during 2020. We discuss moving to NYC to follow your dreams, the economic privilege of being an artist, social media, my journey with ayahuasca and plan…
Megan Bowen is a performer, creator & entrepreneur in NYC. Alongside her professional performing career, Megan founded Dance From Home LLC, an online company that helps Broadway lovers reconnect with…
Kuhoo Verma (she/they) is an NYC based artist who has been seen at Joe's Pub, 54 Below, UCB, and countless developmental workshops. Favorite roles include Zubeida (X-Files Girl) in Academy Award Nomi…
Kerri Van Kirk is a multidisciplinary storyteller, energy untangler, human design guide & soul-led coach for writers, performers, leaders and deep creatives. She has a podcast called The Cleaner I Ge…
In this episode, I share a mini message on boredom and how to move through the feelings of boredom because so much creativity is born out of allowing yourself to get bored and DO NOTHING! While I fin…
Lizzie Markson is a theatre artist, an acting teacher/coach, and a movement/meditation teacher. Her mission in everything she does is to empower others to open their hearts so they feel held in unit…
Florrie Bagel is a songbird artist who weaves with words, music, soul and wildflowers. She created Through the Smoke, an intimate cabaret evening honoring the wit, grit and jazz in the music of Amy W…
Yulia Van Doren is a Grammy-nominated international opera singer and sound healer and is one of the innovators of the modern holistic wellness movement. Her first book, Crystals is an international b…
In this special solo episode, I'm coming at you live from the island of Kauai in Hawaii!
I tell the story of how I unexpectedly found myself in Hawaii for the month and the lessons I learned from spen…
Erica (she/her/hers) is a multi-hyphenate performing and visual artist based in the Los Angeles area. She has an extensive background in Musical Theatre, and is a graduate of UC Irvine's Claire Trevo…
Mandy Sham is a photographer, writer, and yogi seeking the power of human stories through travel and food. She has befriended, documented, and eaten her way through sixty countries. When not travelin…
Alicia Albright is an NYC based broadway performing artist, choreographer, creator, avid traveller and theatre dance/yoga/meditation and empowerment teacher and is starting her own company called The…
In this episode I share a personal story how I learned to make friends with my fear and how I navigate imposter syndrome.
Whether you're scared of "calling" yourself an artist or feel too afraid of y…
Elizabeth Woolf is a singer/songwriter/guitarist who grew up in California singing along to early Frank Sinatra show tune recordings in the backseat of her mom's gray minivan, and found her voice whi…
Taylor Fagins is a writer and storyteller. Through music, scripts, books, and speeches, he tells the story of the human experience from every lens possible. In this episode, we talk about his writing…
Ameya Ajay is an artist, designer, musician, photographer, writer, and entrepreneur living in Melbourne, Australia. In this episode, she shares her thoughts on how to follow your passions, how to nav…
In this episode, I share a mini message on how creativity is your gift. Listen to this one if you've ever struggled with fear on sharing your work - whether it be an offering, a piece of art, etc! I…
In this episode I share my story from growing up homeschooled in a family of 8 children, starting performing in theater at the age of three, living on an ashram at the age of 14, to studying musical …