Podcast Summary: Habits of A Goddess
Episode: The Feminine Art of Slowing Down and Savoring Life
Host: Jasmine Rasco
Guest: Ji Ah (Founder of Tea Tell Truth)
Date: November 11, 2025

Episode Overview

This episode is a heartfelt exploration of "the feminine art of slowing down and savoring life." Host Jasmine Rasco invites listeners to reflect on the importance of intentional living, self-care, and cultivating feminine energy through mindfulness. Special guest Ji Ah, founder of Tea Tell Truth, shares her journey from Western medicine and research to becoming a tea entrepreneur and community builder. Together, they discuss how rituals like tea ceremonies can offer healing, connection, and a pathway to honoring one's own divine rhythm.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Power of Slowing Down

• Mindful Living vs Hustle Culture

  • Jasmine emphasizes that in a world glorifying hustle, true feminine power is found by slowing down, moving with grace, and being mindful.
  • “When you move slower, you feel deeper. When you pause, you connect. When you soften, you hear your intuition again.” (Co-Host, 04:19)

• Sacred Mornings as Ritual

  • Jasmine encourages listeners to treat mornings as sacred, inviting practices like sipping tea, stretching, journaling, meditating, reading, and listening to calming music (05:00-05:30).
  • “Don’t rush, don’t apply pressure. Allow yourself to breathe… to enjoy the feminine art of slowing down and savoring life.” (Host, 05:00)

• Slowing Down as Self-Respect

  • Taking time for oneself is not laziness but an act of self-respect, self-love, and care.
  • “Slowing down isn’t laziness, it’s self-respect, it’s self-love, it’s tenderness, it’s self-care. It’s how you honor your divine rhythm in life.” (Host, 06:04)

The Ritual of Tea and Community

• Tea as a Healing Practice

  • Jasmine recounts her experience at Tea Tell Truth, highlighting the healing properties of tea and its role in supporting women’s well-being.
  • “Tea is a great example of slowing down and just savoring the moment, being present in the present moment.” (Host, 05:35)

• Group Connection & Goddess Community

  • The tea ritual serves not just as self-care but as a means of connection—whether spending time with a friend or joining group classes.
  • “Even if it’s just having a tea day with a girlfriend. And that’s exactly what I did. This is a great way to connect… to enjoy your soft living that you are creating, Goddess.” (Host, 07:00)

• Invitation to Group Classes

  • Listeners are invited to try group activities at Tea Tell Truth, such as breathwork, candle making, and tea ceremonies, as a way to foster connection with like-minded women (07:44).

Ji Ah’s Story: From Science to Tea

• Background and Inspiration

  • Ji Ah introduces herself as a former doctor and scientist who shifted her focus from medicine to tea, inspired by her mother’s influence (09:39).
  • “I used to look down about tea’s power, the healing power from this plant. Because my major is medical clinic at that moment I was very stubborn. I don’t believe it can fix everything. But… I realized that’s not the lifestyle I want. I don’t want fit people’s pills, cut people’s organ. I don’t want to see my friends, family walking to the hospital looking for me. And I realize, how about prevent disease rather than cure disease?” (Ji Ah, 09:40)

• Tea Research and Family Influence

  • After discovering scientific research on tea’s health benefits, and experiencing her mother’s tea ceremonies while recovering from her father’s illness, Ji Ah decided to bring her hometown’s tea culture and healing wisdom to the US (10:40-13:00).
  • “My mom brought tea ceremony tray, the clay teapots and teapads with green tea every day… I was curious. What type of tea? What’s the health benefit? Even my mom told me before. But I was like, let me check the science papers.” (Ji Ah, 11:13)

• From Personal Healing to Community Creation

  • Ji Ah shares the evolution from pop-up tea events to founding a physical space that serves as both a tea house and a community center for healing and creativity (13:45-16:31).
  • “It’s not just a tea house, it’s like a community space. And we can support a lot of local healer too—like sound healer, art therapist, flower arrangement as a therapist. And also candle making… I just like, okay, we can do candle making and tea party. Try to like melt everything together here.” (Ji Ah, 15:41)

• Supporting Sisterhood and Emotional Wellness

  • “I tell everyone, your tears are secret and feel free to ask help. Feel free to release your stress. Feel free to get supports here.” (Ji Ah, 15:41)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “You have the power to create the time, the space, the energy, the environment to resemble the art of just slowing down.”
  — Co-Host (04:06)

• “Your mornings are sacred… Don’t rush, don’t apply pressure.”
  — Host (05:00)

• “Slowing down isn’t laziness, it’s self-respect, it’s self-love, it’s tenderness, it’s self-care. It’s how you honor your divine rhythm in life.”
  — Host (06:04)

• “Your presence is your power. You’re able to choose peace over worry. You’re able to welcome the moment with open arms.”
  — Host (06:41)

• “My mom brought tea ceremony tray, clay teapots and teapads with green tea every day… and after day by day I was curious. What type of tea? What’s the health benefit? … I’m finding out more than 6,600 articles talking about priorities health benefits.”
  — Ji Ah (11:13)

• “It’s not just a tea house, it’s like a community space. And we can support a lot of local healer too… Try to like melt everything together here.”
  — Ji Ah (15:41)

Timestamps for Key Segments

• Tea Rituals and Mindfulness, Feminine Art Intro: 02:02 – 08:11
• Ji Ah's Story: Science to Tea and Community: 09:35 – 16:40
• Emotional Wellness & Sisterhood through Tea: 15:25 – 16:35

Final Takeaway

This episode beautifully reminds listeners that “your softness is not weakness, it’s a sacred power.” Through the story of tea and mindful practice, Jasmine and Ji Ah illustrate how slowing down is a radical and feminine act of self-love—a path to deeper presence, peace, and purpose. Listeners are encouraged to adopt rituals, nurture connections, and honor the divine rhythm within themselves as they savor life in all its fullness.