Natalie sits down with Kortani Samsa— founder of Lakeside Apothecary, engineer, and embodiment coach— for a conversation that moves from the boardroom to the body. Kortani shares how a near-death experience pulled her out of a "safe," masculine-coded engineering career and into breathwork, nervous system work, and eventually the birth of her skincare line, born from her own decade-long healing journey with eczema.

They dig into what resilience actually means (hint: it's not toxic hustle), why pleasure is a foundation and not a reward, and how ancestral patterns and even physical parasites can quietly shape the energy— and the business— you're building. This one gets real, gets a little TMI, and gets deeply into the truth that your body has been trying to tell you all along.

In this episode:

• Kortani's journey from engineer to embodiment coach after a near-death experience
• Redefining resilience: witnessing vs. white-knuckling
• The origin story of Lakeside Apothecary and why she walked away from a steroid prescription
• Pleasure as a foundation, not a reward
• Parasite cleansing, ancestral patterns, and physical sovereignty

Connect with Kortani:

• Instagram: @kortanisamsa
• Lakeside Apothecary: lakeside-apothecary.com
• Hot Girl Summer Summit: lakeside-apothecary.com/pages/2026-summer-summit
• Join the Lakeside Lounge: lakeside-apothecary.com/pages/the-lakeside-apothecary-waitlist

What if the goddess you've been picturing your whole life was never supposed to look like that? In this episode, Natalie sits down with Clarissa Guillen, an Afro-Caribbean Curandera and Bruja, for a conversation that goes straight to the root of what it means to reclaim your power— literally.

Clarissa walks us through her own decolonization journey: growing up Dominican and assimilating into white ideals of success, only to find her way back to her ancestral practices, her native tongue, and a sacred feminine that finally looked and felt like her. She unpacks the difference between the visionary, oracular spirituality she started in and the visceral, embodied ancestral practices she now teaches— and why the second one is the one that actually changed her life.

We also go deep into her 1:1 work, where she guides women through a ceremonial death-and-rebirth process over 12 months— burying an old identity and using its "compost" to grow something truer. If you've ever felt fragmented, like pieces of you got left behind to fit in somewhere, this episode will show you a different way back to wholeness.

In this episode:

• Why reclaiming ancestral practices is an act of reclaiming power
• How the sacred feminine led Clarissa to her decolonization work
• The difference between visionary and visceral spiritual practice
• What soul retrieval (sustos) actually means and looks like
• Inside Clarissa's year-long death/rebirth 1:1 container
• You are the blueprint: coming home to who you were before conditioning

Connect with Clarissa:

• 1:1 Work: clarissaguillen.as.me
• Mujer Bruja Retreat: clarissa-s-school-f83b.thinkific.com

Why do so many high-achieving women unconsciously stay small when it comes to money— especially in relationship to their partner? In this episode, Kat Main, Relationship Rewire Coach, joins Natalie to unpack the subconscious programming that keeps women capped at a certain income ceiling so they don't out-earn their husbands.

Kat breaks down how childhood beliefs around worthiness, control, and safety get carried into adult relationships— and how those same patterns quietly show up in your bank account, your business, and your ability to receive. She and Natalie dig into why so many women give, give, give but struggle to receive, how theta healing works to find and rewire the root cause of these patterns, and what it actually looks like to heal generational beliefs so you're not passing them on to your kids.

Kat also shares how her joint birth chart readings help partners understand what they're here to teach each other— including the karmic and financial "lessons" showing up as the toughest recurring conversations in a relationship.

If you've ever felt like you're doing everything right but still hitting the same wall in your income or your relationship, this episode will show you where to actually look.

Connect with Kat:

Website: www.katerinamain.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/katerina__main

Free gift: DM Kat the word "PROCESS" on Instagram for her guided Theta Healing meditation!