Podcast
Active Ingredient Podcast
Hosted by Sophie Weill · EN
Welcome to Active Ingredient - a podcast and platform for those of us who are in the process of co-creating lives and businesses that feel rooted, expansive, resonant and true to us. I'm your host, Sophie Weill, and I'm a deeply curious human who is also on my own journey of co-creating a life and businesses that are true to me. I'm the founder of Nude Nation, a creative brand building agency as well as the co-founder of Piano Piano, a tableware brand rooted in slowing down and coming alive.
I've spent my entire career building and amplifying brands and the humans behind them and what I have come to understand is that the inner work precedes the outer growth and that everything in life is a mirror of our internal state which is precisely what we're here to connect on.
Welcome to Active Ingredient - I am so glad you're here.
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Episodes
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How To Create, Connect & Express Yourself Freely Through Play with Piera Gelardi
Yesterday00:54:38Tap to summarizeI love this episode !!!! We have Piera Gelardi back on the show for her second round talking all things play and her debut book, The Playful Way: Creativity, Connection and Joy Through Everyday Moments of Play. We're talking about how/why we forget our playful nature and how to slowly slowly return, we're talking cringe, vulnerability, how to lead with authenticity and so much more. The book: The Playful WayPiera's IG: @pieraluisaMy IG: @sophieiweillActive Ingredient's IG: @activeingredient Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Don't Waste Good Rage
1w ago00:18:25Tap to summarizeDid lil solo all about using all of the fire from rage to actually break through to your next phase and create something beautiful. Also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweillMy IG: @sophieiweillActive Ingredient IG: @activeingredient Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Protecting Creativity, Visibility Fears & Building With Integrity With Tonya Papanikolov
2w ago00:53:51Tap to summarizeI'm joined by Tonya Papanikolov, founder of Rainbo, for a conversation on visibility, creativity, slowing down, building with integrity, and learning to trust yourself through every season of growth. We talk about the fear of being seen, what happens when life calls you inward, the tension between freedom and responsibility, feminine vs. masculine energy in business, aging, beauty, Human Design, and how to know when to stay the course vs. pivot. This felt less like an interview and more like two projectors having a very honest conversation about what it means to build a life and business that actually feels true.Active Ingredient listeners can get 15% off Rainbo with code ACTIVE. Try the Fungki it's soooo good <3 To connect:@sophieiweill@activeingredient@tonyapapinikolove@rainbomushroomsAccount mentioned: @creativeliving.worldTimestamp00:00 Intro06:45 AI, protecting the humanity in your brand and why resonance matters more than ever15:12 Visibility, fear of being seen & creative paralysis24:08 The freedom/responsibility paradox of success32:40 Human Design, being projectors & magnetism vs. forcing41:15 Aging, beauty culture, Botox & creative life force52:20 Feminine energy, business building & delegation1:02:11 Rest, sabbaticals & reconnecting to yourself creatively1:11:43 Knowing when to stay, pivot, pause, or let go1:20:04 What lit us up as little girls & remembering your essence Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Returning to the Things You Love
3w ago00:32:40Tap to summarizeHI friends!!! We are BACK. I missed this/you so much. Talked about a lot in this one - timestamped below <3 (00:00) — being back + seasonality(09:00) — re-intro + Nude Nation + Piano Piano background(16:00) — what “active ingredient” is and has been about(31:00) — life update: moving back to Miami (37:00) — the new cover art + my grandmother + the lotus + what it represents(47:00) — visibility + fear of being seen(57:00) — self-trust + seeing yourself first(1:02:00) — founders are artists + creating from truth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Calibrating to Peace and Learning to Receive with Florencia Fridman of Cacao Laboratory
Dec 1700:57:58Tap to summarizeI'm joined by the powerful and magical force that is Florencia Fridman, co-founder of Cacao Laboratory (my favorite cacao brand that has changed my life) and cacao guide/educator. In this episode we're talking about the medicine of cacao and working with the plant to help heal and open your heart, calibrating to new levels of peace, learning to receive (why is this so hard lol?), how shifting from caffeine to cacao has helped me so much with creating from a grounded place and we get into all things building an intentional and rooted brand while also thinking of scaling to serve the masses. A very complete AI episode <3 Love love it. Link to Florencia's IG: https://www.instagram.com/florencia.fridman/Link to Cacao Lab's IG: https://www.instagram.com/cacaolaboratory/Link to Cacao Lab's website: https://cacaolaboratory.com/You can find Cacao Lab at Alchemist Kitchen in NYC! Link to my IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/Link to Nude Nation's IG: https://www.instagram.com/nudenation/Link to Nude Nation's site: https://www.nudenationrelations.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Transitions + Continuity
Dec 900:16:23Tap to summarizeWe've got a solo this week all about transitions, continuity, keeping what was true from a previous chapter and bringing that with you into the next. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweillMy IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/Nude Nation: https://www.nudenationrelations.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Why gut nourishment and diversity is foundational in order to thrive with Anabel González of Good Bacteria
Nov 1800:56:18Tap to summarizeTopics Covered: Postpartum depression, psychedelics and ketamine therapy, pre/pro/post biotics, gut healthy and gut diversity and building a supplement brand in integrity. This week's episode is with Anabel Gonzalez, founder of the recently launched hyper intentional pre, pro and post biotic brand called Good Bacteria. Anabel founded Good Bacteria after a profound postpartum recovery that showed her how deeply gut health shapes healing. Her work bridges science, design, and lived experience to explore how reconnecting with our bodies and our environment can help restore balance, vitality, and a healthy gut.Link to YouTube for Video Podcast: HERELink to Good Bacteria to try for yourself: HERETo connect with Anabel: HERETo connect with Sophie: HEREFor more podcast clips/intentional reminders: HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Giving Yourself Permission To Express and Create with Teya Kepila
Nov 1100:59:57Tap to summarizeTopics: Navigating Heartbreak, The Creative Process, Pivoting, Movement and Taking Up SpaceWe have Teya Kepila on the show also known as @theturmerictimes on social and she is just such a ray of light. Teya is an incredibly talented ceramicist and artist based in Brooklyn who I highly highly recommend following if you love nourishing, regulated content which is quite rare these days. I've been following her work for a few years now and you know when someone online just really resonates with your soul? That is exactly how I've felt about her and having this conversation solidified that resonance so much more.In this episode we are chatting about heartbreak, body acceptance, shifting identities, movement, how to find and protect the spark that makes you come alive, we get into her creative process and about giving yourself permission to be an artist. I deeply deeply enjoyed this conversation and hope you do too.Link to the Active Ingredient YouTube Channel for video podcasts (videos are released on Thursdays): https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweillLink to breakup YouTube video we reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQyyVjjh1YcLink to connect with Teya: https://www.instagram.com/theturmerictimes/Link to connect with Sophie: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/Link for more Active Ingredient clip reminders: https://www.instagram.com/activeingredient/Link to my brand building agency: https://www.nudenationrelations.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Making space
Nov 400:14:29Tap to summarizeSolo on making space in order to let the aligned thing/idea/person come through and to ultimately get unstuck.Mentioned in the show:Casa GraceLiz Tran Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Permission to feel it all
Oct 3000:15:36Tap to summarizeWe've got a lil solo this week on giving yourself permission to feel all things including (and especially) the darker/less comfy emotions. **my mic cut out after minute 2 so the audio isn't the best but wanted to get it out anyway! Hope you enjoy <3Link to connect with me on IG: @sophieiweillLink for Active Ingredient clips on IG: @activeingredientLink to YouTube for visual pod lovers: https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweillLink to my agency in case you want to co-create together: nudenationrelations.com Link to Piano Piano for fab/intentional ceramics: pianopianohome.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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