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  • The Soul of a Troublemaker | Mariquel Waingarten

    The Soul of a Troublemaker | Mariquel Waingarten
    2026/09/21
    Debriana Berlin is the founder and CEO of The Future Reference, a strategic communications firm for the environment, and was previously the first yoga instructor for the United States Senate and an EPA director under the Obama administration. Before any of that, she was a competitive figure skater who learned to fall, and get back up, roughly 18,000 times per jump. This episode covers growing up in a chaotic home and finding safety in the ice rink, learning to charm and sell through watching her father, and how yoga slowly replaced transactional thinking with real presence. It also covers burning out at the EPA to the point of a thyroid diagnosis, the link between disconnection from the body and the climate crisis, and learning to live within the limits of an aging body. Chapters 00:00 Intro 1:52 Meet Debriana Berlin 2:09 The tree question, and being born brave 4:16 Watching her father charm, sell, and reinvent himself 9:41 Finding yoga her first week of college 19:14 Falling 18,000 times per jump 22:20 Her superpower, teaching yoga inside the US Senate 28:42 Embodiment, human exceptionalism, and climate change 35:54 Burning out at the EPA 37:30 The diagnosis that forced her to slow down 41:59 Ice skating across the Swedish archipelago 46:56 Dance as her first language 53:49 What keeps her up at night 56:40 What life has designed her for 1:00:36 {THE AND} Self Edition question | Try the game: https://shop.theskindeep.com/products/the-and-self-deck?variant=43647547605170 Listen & Follow GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com #gutspodcast #topazadizes #debrianaberlin #womeninbusiness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 4 分
  • Abundance in Love: Rebuilding a Life From Scratch | Mariquel Waingarten

    Abundance in Love: Rebuilding a Life From Scratch | Mariquel Waingarten
    2026/09/14
    Mariquel Waingarten co-founded Hickies, the no-tie shoelace brand now in over 50 countries, and built Argentina's first boutique hotel, Tailor Made Hotel, a four year TripAdvisor top performer. She's now the founder of Portal Bosque, a community built on a more conscious, human way of living. But it took losing both her parents before 25, and twenty years of running her life from fear, before she got there. In this conversation, Mariquel and Topaz talk about the "samurai" she became to survive, what her father's last words to her actually meant, and the ayahuasca journey where she finally gave that survival mode back and started building from love instead. Chapters 00:00 Intro 1:52 Meet Mariquel Waingarten 2:08 The samurai she became to survive 16:25 Building from your wound versus your gift 23:15 Hickies, the hotel, and how Portal Bosque began 33:06 The ayahuasca journey and giving back the katana 45:18 What her kids have taught her 49:18 How fear shaped Portal Bosque 53:47 Leaving the katana behind and becoming "the dancer" 59:18 {THE AND} Self Edition question | Try the game: https://shop.theskindeep.com/products/the-and-self-deck?variant=43647547605170 Listen & Follow GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com #gutspodcast #topazadizes #mariquelwaingarten #womeninbusiness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 3 分
  • Deepening Minds with Tegan Broadwater

    Deepening Minds with Tegan Broadwater
    2026/09/08
    What happens when you spend months building real friendships with people you're about to send to prison? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Tegan Broadwater, decorated undercover operative, author of Life in the Fishbowl, and founder of a private security firm, who burned out as a jazz musician, cut his hair and became a cop, then spent nearly two years deep undercover infiltrating a Crips gang in his own city. The same city where his wife and son were waiting at home. In this episode: - Burning out as a jazz musician and becoming a cop overnight - Going deep undercover in a gang in his own city - Building real friendships with people he was about to arrest, and the emotional crash when it was all over - Why perspective is his greatest gift Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. Deepening Minds with Tegan Broadwater | Getting Under the Skin. Listen now: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 10 分
  • Saying Yes to It All with Santiago Cumplido

    Saying Yes to It All with Santiago Cumplido
    2026/09/08
    What happens when you say yes to everything life offers, even when it nearly destroys you? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with aSantiago Cumplido, multidisciplinary artist, composer and healer from Guadalajara, Mexico, who left home at 16 heartbroken, nearly deaf from an explosion he set off himself, and made a conscious decision to turn his heart to stone so he would never feel pain again. What followed was five degrees across four countries, singing for European royalty, and a slow, painful, beautiful unraveling of everything he built to protect himself. In this episode: - Growing up as a deeply sensitive kid in a family that loved music but had no words for what he felt - Leaving home at 16 with a broken heart, damaged ears and a decision to never cry again - How saying yes to everything took him from Mexico to London to Barcelona to Holland - The moment a therapist told him meditating his face off would change nothing - What happened when he finally stopped running from his shadow - Why being truly vulnerable is something this society will punish you for Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. Saying Yes to It All with Santiago Cumplido | Getting Under the Skin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 8 分
  • Imbalances in Tech, Industry and AI with Lauren Celenza (Throwback)

    Imbalances in Tech, Industry and AI with Lauren Celenza (Throwback)
    2026/07/20
    What if the key to navigating technology, AI and modern life is just knowing where to look for the imbalance? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Lauren Celenza, software designer and navigator of the relationship between humans and technology, who helped redesign Google Maps for communities across Indonesia, India, Nigeria and Brazil, and built the free tax filing tool that saved Americans over $90 million. But the conversation goes much deeper than tech. In this episode: - Growing up with a dad shaped by de-industrialization and what that taught her about work - Why it's a radical act to love family members with different political views - The biggest imbalances she sees in AI right now and who holds the power - What it means to be part of the last generation that remembers life before the internet - Independence vs interdependence and why that distinction matters more than ever - What her dad told her about finding a career that won't consume you Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. 👉 Mentioned in this episode: • Monika Jiang’s “Sharing Our Loneliness” — https://www.monikajiang.org/sharing-our-loneliness • Inside the beloved IRS Direct File tool — and why it’s under threat — https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/06/direct-file-beloved-its-users-internal-irs-report-says/405883/?oref=ng-homepage-riverand • Why Direct File is now open-source (and what that means) — https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-irs-tax-filing-software-turbotax-is-trying-to-kil/ • On deindustrialisation and its lasting impact on working-class communities — https://inthesetimes.com/article/deindustrialization-offshoring-manufacturing-factory-factories-unemployment-layoff-work-labor-workers-working-people-working-class-industry-ohio-michigan-south-carolina-pepsi-gm Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@guts.podcast LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 13 分
  • Turning Trauma Into Truth with Tracey Arcabasso Smith

    Turning Trauma Into Truth with Tracey Arcabasso Smith
    2026/07/13
    What if your life’s purpose was to break the silence that held your family together? In this episode of Getting Under the Skin, Topaz sits down with artist and filmmaker Tracey Arcabasso Smith (she/her), whose documentary Relative explores the generational trauma of sexual abuse in her family, and the healing that followed. Tracey shares: - The spiritual shifts that helped her redefine “mother” - Why the courage to speak out didn’t feel like a choice - How she balances her corporate leadership with a deep commitment to inner truth - The tension between healing, parenting, and staying clear in a world full of pain From vulnerability to visionary leadership, Tracey invites us to look within and reflect on what we’re really here to do. What has life designed you for? Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 23 分
  • We Need Each Other to See Ourselves with Ashley Wick

    We Need Each Other to See Ourselves with Ashley Wick
    2026/06/29
    What if the life you've been building has been quietly asking you to slow down and find out who you actually are? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Ashley Wick, transformational coach and founder of Fertile Ground, who spent her childhood shapeshifting between groups she never quite belonged to, 15 years in PR and fashion helping brands find their essence while losing her own, and then at 30, made a phone call that changed everything. In this episode: Growing up as a floater, never quite belonging to any one group Fifteen years in PR learning to shape narratives and what that cost her The phone call she made at 30 to the person who abused her in childhood Handing her three-day-old daughter over for open heart surgery and finding pure surrender How moving to Uruguay is teaching her to shed everything she leaned on Why the question is never "can I do it?" but "who am I becoming if I do?" Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. 🎙️ Resist Much, Obey Little with Joseph Gerstandt, out now on GUTS: Getting Under the Skin. Listen now: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 15 分
  • Resist Much, Obey Little with Joseph Gerstandt

    Resist Much, Obey Little with Joseph Gerstandt
    2026/06/22
    What does it cost to spend a lifetime doing what you believe in, while the world decides whether it agrees? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Joseph Gerstandt, Desert Storm veteran, poet, and one of America's most trusted voices on diversity and inclusion, who grew up on a farm in Iowa convinced that emotions were a distraction. He spent years in corporate America lying awake at night dreading work, certain the problem was him. It wasn't. In this episode: - Growing up stoic on a farm and spending decades emotionally behind the curve - How working in HIV prevention cracked his world open and changed everything - What it's like being a white man doing DEI work for 18 years as the field gets politicized - Why he believes the world needs better questions more than better answers - The quiet admission that he still struggles to feel worthy of love Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. 🎙️ Resist Much, Obey Little with Joseph Gerstandt, out now on GUTS: Getting Under the Skin. Listen now: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    58 分