Tub Talks is the podcast born out of the global community Secular Sabbath, directly sourced from the founder Genevieve Medow-Jenkins’ childhood at Esalen Institute, where she soaked in the hot springs with different characters from all walks of life and talked as the waves crashed against the rocks below. At first, Tub Talks existed exclusively at our event experiences, but now, Genevieve sits down in her tiny clawfoot outdoor bath with artists, collaborators, thinkers, friends, and family to talk about creativity, personal practices, philosophies on life, and why it’s worth living today. Every guest brings their own idiosyncratic awareness to their industries, navigating the fast-changing landscape of our cultures, and personal practices to maintain wellness. Through these conversations, we have come to know that there is something to learn from everyone, and we are able to access that even more deeply when we strip down together, and relax in the bath.
Follow along for new episodes + new guests airing every other Tuesday.
If you’d like to experience these environments we foster together, consider becoming a member of Secular Sabbath! Joining the inner circle is joining our family and committing to a Secular Sabbath practice. Secular Sabbath is traditionally celebrating a day of rest, albeit without a religious affiliation. Joining our family is making a promise to yourself to commit to growth and self-care with a group of people from all walks of life who are interested in finding that for themselves as well. This also gives you access to attend our events in person and online as well as opportunities to connect online and in conversation with teachers, students, artists, and collaborators. Membership unlocks musical artifacts, secret artist-curated playlists, and event experiences for you to experience from the comfort of your own home.
To join Secular Sabbath membership, you can find us at secular-sabbath.com/membership. Joining grants you access to our Inner Circle community of sensory-exploring like-minded people, where you can gather with us locally in LA for monthly meet-up experiences, and pop-up events around the globe, and partake in our exclusive ambient online community.
Ready to dive into the dialogue deeper? Join us on our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/9v9J8f6R
See what we get up to at @secularsabbath: https://www.instagram.com/secularsabbath/
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Tub Talks is the podcast born out of the global community Secular Sabbath, directly sourced from the founder Genevieve Medow-Jenkins’ childhood at Esalen Institute, where she soaked in the hot springs with different characters from all walks of life and talked as the waves crashed against the rocks below. At first, Tub Talks existed exclusively at our event experiences, but now, Genevieve sits down in her tiny clawfoot outdoor bath with artists, collaborators, thinkers, friends, and family to talk about creativity, personal practices, philosophies on life, and why it’s worth living today. Every guest brings their own idiosyncratic awareness to their industries, navigating the fast-changing landscape of our cultures, and personal practices to maintain wellness. Through these conversations, we have come to know that there is something to learn from everyone, and we are able to access that even more deeply when we strip down together, and relax in the bath.
Follow along for new episodes + new guests airing every other Tuesday.
If you’d like to experience these environments we foster together, consider becoming a member of Secular Sabbath! Joining the inner circle is joining our family and committing to a Secular Sabbath practice. Secular Sabbath is traditionally celebrating a day of rest, albeit without a religious affiliation. Joining our family is making a promise to yourself to commit to growth and self-care with a group of people from all walks of life who are interested in finding that for themselves as well. This also gives you access to attend our events in person and online as well as opportunities to connect online and in conversation with teachers, students, artists, and collaborators. Membership unlocks musical artifacts, secret artist-curated playlists, and event experiences for you to experience from the comfort of your own home.
To join Secular Sabbath membership, you can find us at secular-sabbath.com/membership. Joining grants you access to our Inner Circle community of sensory-exploring like-minded people, where you can gather with us locally in LA for monthly meet-up experiences, and pop-up events around the globe, and partake in our exclusive ambient online community.
Ready to dive into the dialogue deeper? Join us on our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/9v9J8f6R
See what we get up to at @secularsabbath: https://www.instagram.com/secularsabbath/
Australian artist RY X joins us in the tub for an intimate soak that reveals the depth behind his music, his spirituality, and his commitment to living with devotion. From a tiny island near Byron Bay to playing in cathedrals and composing for philharmonic orchestras, RY X shares the journey of finding emotional liberation through vulnerability. Whether he’s in the ocean, a recording studio, or parenting his son, his artistry is shaped by presence, discipline, and deep introspection. In this episode, he reflects on building bridges between genres, trusting his intuition, and redefining spiritual practice as simply showing up in truth.
Sitting in the bath with Jacqueline Suskin in California in the winter sun is a dream. Here, she takes us through her current life in Detroit as a writer, poet, and educator. Jacqueline recalls her history as a writer and poet - from the time when we met in which she was performing ‘Poem Store:’ her mobile poetry store in which she would write you a poem in real time, on a topic of your choice, for whatever price you see fit, to now: teaching kids poetry and ecology in Detroit through her project Poem Forest. Jacqueline’s most recent book, A Year In Practice, is about creating art in line with nature's rhythms; in line with the seasons. In this bath, we learn about how all of Jacqueline's work builds off each other, and evokes a deeply curious mind and artistic practice in all of us. Soak it in!
Michael Milosh is RHYE, the elusive music project that shocked the world with songs like, ‘Open,’ and ‘The Fall,’ in 2011, especially when everyone realized those smooth effeminate vocals belonged to a man. In this tub, Michael Milosh bathes with me at our home, inour outdoor bath, and talks about his philosophy on music, art, spirituality, and love. This conversation is an opportunity to get to know him better, through the lens of our 7+ year relationship. In itThis conversation is personal and intimate, so I hope you enjoy soaking it in.
In this Tub Talks, I get to soak in the unique wisdom of Chantel Jeffries. Chantel is known in the world for seemingly disparate things: being a DJ, investor, entrepreneur, and social media creator. She is simultaneously a mystery. However, this bathtub conversation is a treasure chest of knowledge that I’ve never heard her share before. Did you know Chantel was a Mathlete?
There is an incredible opportunity in listening to this conversation, and understanding the approach of someone who seems to ‘have it all’ and whose life may look like it came easy. It looks easy because Chantel has worked hard and made mindful and intelligent decisions. She gives us the tools to achieve more in our own lives. Chantel's life approach is innovative and there is much to learn from her beautiful mind. I hope you are as inspired by this conversation as I was. Soak it in!
Raquelle Stevens is a multi-disciplinary educator in the entertainment industry. Her accomplishments span writing a bestselling book, The Sunshine Mind, hosting a multi-season cooking show with Selena Gomez: Selena And Chef, successful interview series Giving Back Generation and producing films such as My Mind and Me. Raquelle talks about the impact of all of these endeavors and describes how every opportunity has come from love. Love is at the heart of how Raquelle aims to heal the world, as she demonstrates in her life, and in this podcast episode.
Illangelo is the moniker of music producer Carlo Montagnese. Having grown up in Calgary, Canada, Carlo gave himself one year to make it in music in Toronto before moving back to Calgary to work for the family business. In that one year, he created The Trilogy with the Weeknd, and the rest is history… or is it really just a beginning? In Tub Talks, Carlo shares about his journey in the music industry, but also his journey into being a whole person living in alignment with nature and the planet, and creating a better earth. Soak in the wisdom of his unfolding story through this little bath under the oak tree!
Join us as we get to know my good friend, Orville Peck. In today’s tub, we go through Orville’s journey into a music career from growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa to touring as a drummer in punk bands. As Orville found his personal style as a musician, his unique low-toned voice led him to country music where he has created his own lane of contemporary country music that honors tradition and artistry of the genre. Naturally, Orville’s creative journey has also been one of self-acceptance, as a gay man in a traditionally straight music genre, Orville has often dealt with being put in boxes. Orville's story is one of resilience, embracing his true self, and pushing boundaries in the world of country music. This conversation is filled with wisdom, humor, and personal history. So please enjoy soaking in a little bit more intimacy with Orville Peck.
Pablo Piekar came to Esalen Institute in the late 1980’s for a Gestalt workscholar month, and ended up staying for 16 years working as a Esalen Massage Therapist and workshop facilitator. Back in Argentina, he was a licensed psychotherapist at the young age of 22. But when he arrived at Esalen, someone told him he was going to heal people with his hands, and that he was going to teach people how to give massages. She said to him, “You don’t teach technique, you teach love.” In this conversation, we meander through philosophies of Esalen, the history of Esalen, and how to live and share a life of meaning. Pablo left Esalen many years ago and returned to Argentina to live with his family, where he advises businesses on how to function better with a background in psychotherapy, gestalt, and bodywork. In the bath, he shares about how his wife and him met at Esalen, how they transitioned into the outside world and grew their family in a multicultural way. In this episode, you will learn about Esalen in the 90's and early 2000's, and the people who developed that landscape at that time.
Nitsa Citrine shares her journey of transforming her path from living in a state of survival mode to turning her creative projects and passions into work on this episode of Tub Talks. Nitsa chronicles her experience of building an herbal supplement brand: from landing the first organic market accounts to growing a social media presence and direct-to-consumer business. She enlightens us to how life and death cycles are all a part of growing businesses and ourselves. Nitsa is also my earliest friend and the first inspirational feminine entrepreneur and creative director I looked up to. So please, take a seat in the bath with Nitsa Citrine and me, and our stories of Esalen childhood.
In the fourth generation of a Big Sur family, Emily Birmingham knows her experience of growing up in Big Sur deeply and, specifically the culture of Nepenthe, the iconic oceanside restaurant and shop that her great grandmother created so many years ago. We discuss the Big Sur Arts Initiative (her parent’s program), within which ‘Stage Kids’ was born. We talk about how Stage Kids provided a shared environment for our creativity and childhood interactions, and I discover how Stage Kids was an inspiration for what is now Secular Sabbath. Emily details her passion for exploring Big Sur in her own way, experiencing life to its fullest potential, while preserving Big Sur culture and her family’s heritage.
Aska Matsumiya is a celebrated composer, known for film scores such as After Yang, I’m Your Woman, Bruised, Skate Kitchen and Spike Jonze’s, ‘I’m Here’. However, her journey through music, motherhood, mixed cultural identity and friendship, is what has inspired me to get her in the tub at nearly 9 months pregnant, and talk. Raised as a classical pianist in a Japanese household, Aska has been expressing herself musically across a vast landscape of genres: from punk to indie rock, classical, and electronic. Aska became a mother for the first time as a nineteen year old, and embarks on her next motherhood journey within weeks of this episode airing. Finding her voice through film composition, motherhood, and trusting in her intuition, Aska forges her own path into a life well-lived – inspiring us to follow the clues, and do the same.
Lead singer of the band Magic Giant, Austin Bisnow shares how manifestation has created monumental moments in his life: meeting his life partner, creating a band, and even writing a pop song for one of his biggest inspirations. From chasing his future wife Dina around the world in pursuit of ‘the one,’ to stumbling upon a performance of a band at a music festival that made him realize the need to build his own band, Austin seems to be “in the right place at the right time.” He takes moments of inspiration and runs with them in order to pursue the things he wants in the world. Austin details how drive, dedication and inspiration are the motivating forces through which he engages with life, and his ultimate success of being truly happy show us that his recipe works.
Secular Sabbath collaborator and multi-disciplinary artist, Elena Stonaker shares her process of expressing her whimsical inner landscape through her many modalities of artwork from making paintings, drawings, to sewing clothing, and her signature large soft sculptures of ‘big mamas.’ Through creating art in various mediums, Elena strives to portray a childlike space where we can experience feelings tangibly. Elena recounts a live drawing class she hosted in her home that would later go on to be an inspirational part of Secular Sabbath. Elena details how flow and cycles are a definitive part of nature, life and her creative process. Tune in to learn from Elena and her inner world, externalized.
Esalen and Big Sur elder Vicki Topp shares her experiences as a bodywork teacher and practitioner, while highlighting the metaphorical parallels of the practice to life. Vicki details her life in Big Sur and beyond: from being the first women to be offered housing at Esalen and working with Stan Grof, to navigating natural disasters and rattlesnakes. Vicki explains how bodywork is her way of touching and reaching the world. In this episode, Vicki shows us how to live in a state of presence, take in our surroundings, and touch others from that state. Her wisdom and creativity permeates this conversation in the bath.
Lindsey Ross, also known as, The Achemistress shares her journey into a photography career through an antiquated technique: 19th Century Tintype Photography. Lindsey details the specific process, in which she revives a fading art form. Tintype is a sensory experience that allows her and the subject to be reminded of patience, as she captures a moment in time.
Our friend and collaborator Mars, of Dose of Diosa, shares how sickness and healing from the Earth, led her back to her heritage. Outlining her journey on becoming an herbalist, Mars explains how coming back to her inner landscape and remembering, has helped her become whole again. Mars discusses how she creates community through cacao, tea and plant medicine ceremonies, while bringing others into states of consciousness and awareness.
Creative entrepreneur, George Augusto shares how fate and failure lead him to finding his passions and success. Recounting the series of events that positioned him to connect with his now creative partners, George discusses integrating a corporate mentality in a creative workspace, finding joy in partnership with women and the COVID-19 pandemic impacted decision making.
FriendsWithYou co-founder, Sam Borkson, shares his passion for making an impact on the world through his art. Recounting his childhood, Sam details key components that have influenced the spirit of his projects. He exists in a nonstop pursuit of friendship, kindness, and art! Making stuff is not easy. It is perseverance that gets us through. Sam inspires us to make magic from our life and turn it into art.
This week on Tub Talks we revisit some of the most insightful conversations that we’ve had in the baths. Listen to our best moments with our first 11 guests as we look back on our favorite talks with Mia Moretti, Sophie Hawley-Weld, Austyn Weiner, B. Hayes, Loria Stern, Scout LaRue Willis, Krotchy, Mia Maestro, Kassia Meador, Niia Rocco, and my own mother Deborah Medow. Enjoy these little moments we’ve plucked from our deeper discussions, then dive into their full episodes next!
To join Secular Sabbath membership, you can find us at secular-sabbath.com/membership. Joining grants you access to our Inner Circle community of sensory-exploring like-minded people, where you can gather with us locally in LA for monthly meet-up experiences, and pop-up events around the globe, and partake in our exclusive ambient online community.
Ready to dive into the dialogue deeper? Join us on our Discord channel.
See what we get up to at @secularsabbath.
This week we are joined under the oak tree for a soak with DJ and artist, Mia Moretti. A Bay Area native, Mia grew up in an alternative household in Northern California where creativity flowed. Her childhood was colored by her parents’ culture of freedom and exploration, encouraging Mia to follow her dreams of moving in the big city rhythm. In her childhood home, there was always music and jamming, but as someone who didn’t play instruments or sing, Mia had yet to find her place. Moving to LA at 18, Mia found herself fully immersed and comfortable in the music scene at clubs, where tracks ran wild into the night and she explored sound in her own way. This is where the story begins, as Mia thrust herself into the nightlife, absorbing the energy of the space and people around her. This is where she learned to embrace DJing as a means to transform people through the power of musical storytelling.
Tub Talks is the podcast born out of the global community Secular Sabbath, directly sourced from the founder Genevieve Medow-Jenkins’ childhood at Esalen Institute, where she soaked in the hot springs with different characters from all walks of life and talked as the waves crashed against the rocks below. At first, Tub Talks existed exclusively at our event experiences, but now, Genevieve sits down in her tiny clawfoot outdoor bath with artists, collaborators, thinkers, friends, and family to talk about creativity, personal practices, philosophies on life, and why it’s worth living today. Every guest brings their own idiosyncratic awareness to their industries, navigating the fast-changing landscape of our cultures, and personal practices to maintain wellness. Through these conversations, we have come to know that there is something to learn from everyone, and we are able to access that even more deeply when we strip down together, and relax in the bath.
Follow along for new episodes + new guests airing every other Tuesday.
If you’d like to experience these environments we foster together, consider becoming a member of Secular Sabbath! Joining the inner circle is joining our family and committing to a Secular Sabbath practice. Secular Sabbath is traditionally celebrating a day of rest, albeit without a religious affiliation. Joining our family is making a promise to yourself to commit to growth and self-care with a group of people from all walks of life who are interested in finding that for themselves as well. This also gives you access to attend our events in person and online as well as opportunities to connect online and in conversation with teachers, students, artists, and collaborators. Membership unlocks musical artifacts, secret artist-curated playlists, and event experiences for you to experience from the comfort of your own home.
To join Secular Sabbath membership, you can find us at secular-sabbath.com/membership. Joining grants you access to our Inner Circle community of sensory-exploring like-minded people, where you can gather with us locally in LA for monthly meet-up experiences, and pop-up events around the globe, and partake in our exclusive ambient online community.
Ready to dive into the dialogue deeper? Join us on our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/9v9J8f6R
See what we get up to at @secularsabbath: https://www.instagram.com/secularsabbath/
