Real Life Magic

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Chelsea Banaszek, a yoga therapist, shares stories and practices for weaving practical mindfulness, intuition, spirituality, meaning & joy into real life. Follow along with the Real Life Magic podcast, where people share their stories of times they feel they've experienced magic in their lives. They could be stories of miracles, synchronicity, meaningful coincidences, signs, following intuition, unexplainable events, and more. P.S. These are unedited conversations. Follow along on Substack: https://reallifemagic.substack.com/

  1. Nov 6

    21. Letting Go of the Outcome with Naomi Ring

    Real Life Magic #21: Letting Go of the Outcome with Naomi Ring This week I’m sharing a conversation with Naomi Ring, a Houston-based life coach and the founder of Tsunami Coaching Co.. Naomi shares a Real Life Magic story about a question she put out into the universe and then let go of, and what unfolded once she did. We talk about her view on manifestation, letting go, and which of her clients who manifest the fastest and why. We get into how somatic work helps people feel safe enough in their bodies to trust the process and she also shares the realities of building a business while raising a toddler. A little bit about Naomi:Naomi is a transformational mastery method certified life coach and a former collegiate athlete with over a decade of experience in corporations, start-ups, and consulting. Through Tsunami Coaching Co., she helps people get clear on what they want, work through the beliefs that hold them back, and build a life that fits who they really are. You can connect with Naomi on her Website or on Instagram. _________ This is the Real Life Magic podcast, hosted by Chelsea Banaszek, where people share their stories of times they feel they’ve experienced magic in their lives. They could be stories of miracles, synchronicity, meaningful coincidences, serendipity, signs, following intuition, unexplainable events, connections with loved ones who have passed, and more. If you have a story of your own, I’d love to hear it. You can share it here. You can listen here on Substack or find the Real Life Magic conversations wherever you listen to podcasts: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, and more.

  2. Oct 2

    20. Living Life on Your Own Terms with Rachel Pierre

    Real Life Magic # 20: Living Life on Your Own Terms with Rachel Pierre This week I’m sharing a conversation with Rachel Pierre, the Founder of Parlez. Rachel shares the story of her near-death experience as a teenager and how it changed the trajectory of her life, propelling her to live life on her own terms. She also shares several other Real Life Magic moments and stories from unexpectedly knowing things she shouldn’t to following her intuition through her corporate career to the launch of her private executive French coaching business. We talk about what her intuition feels like, how she uses it in her life, and she shares her daily practices to keep her present. Rachel’s stories are inspiring, and they’re examples of how listening to inner guidance and trusting yourself can change the direction of your life. 🎧 Have a listen above. A little bit about Rachel: Rachel Pierre is the Founder and CEO of Parlez!, which offers Private executive French coaching for leaders navigating high-stakes business in French‑speaking markets. You can connect with Rachel on her LinkedIn, Instagram or on her Website. _______________________________ This is the Real Life Magic podcast, where people share their stories of times they feel they’ve experienced magic in their lives. They could be stories of miracles, synchronicity, meaningful coincidences, serendipity, signs, following intuition, unexplainable events, connections with loved ones who have passed, and more. If you have a story of your own, I’d love to hear it. You can share it ⁠here⁠.

  3. Sep 11

    19. Slowly Reconnecting to your Intuition with Virginia Skidmore

    Real Life Magic #19: Slowly Reconnecting to your Intuition with Virginia Skidmore Today I am sharing a conversation I had with Virginia Skidmore, a Trauma-Trained Somatic Practitioner. Virginia shares a couple of her Real Life Magic stories and how she slowly started reconnecting with her intuition through somatic practices, which helped her create a life that is true to her. Throughout our conversation she thoughtfully introduces us to the world of somatics and how your nervous system’s job is to keep you alive and to keep you safe. Virginia considers intuition in two different categories: magical intuition (what I would call Real Life Magic), and body intuition which includes somatic practice and body-based awareness. Virginia leads with compassion and emphasizes that patience is the key to strengthening embodied intuition and self-trust, that you are never too late to begin, and there is no need to force yourself to move quickly through this process. 🎧 Have a listen above. ___________ A little bit about Virginia. Through her training at the Body First Healing Institute and her studies in somatics, IFS parts work, attachment theory, and Polyvagal Theory, she found the framework that finally made sense of her own experience (not just intellectually, but in her body). At Magic of the In Between she helps women who are stuck inside lives that look right but feel hollow understand their nervous system, recognize their survival patterns, and build real safety in their body so they can finally make decisions that come from who they actually are rather than who they learned to be. You can follow along and connect with Virginia on her Instagram, Website, and Substack, or work with her for one-on-one somatic sessions ___________ This is the Real Life Magic podcast, where people share their stories of times they feel they’ve experienced magic in their lives. They could be stories of miracles, synchronicity, meaningful coincidences, serendipity, signs, following intuition, unexplainable events, connections with loved ones who have passed, and more. If you have a story of your own, I’d love to hear it. You can share it ⁠here⁠. You can listen here on Substack or find the Real Life Magic conversations on Spotify. (Apple Podcasts, Youtube, and more coming soon.)

  4. Jul 31

    18. Keeping an Open Heart with Lindsey Bourne

    Real Life Magic #18: Keeping an Open Heart with Lindsey Bourne This week I’m sharing a conversation I had with Lindsey Bourne, a Relationship and Couples Coach. Lindsey shares a couple of her Real Life Magic stories, one from a solo backpacking trip she took to the Ansel Adams Wilderness, one about a stranger she met in a bar, and we get into why synchronicity seems to find people who stay open to it. We talk about the energetic patterns and cycles that show up in every relationship (not just the romantic ones), and about what it means to loosen your grip on manifestation if it accidentally turns into another way of trying to control the outcome. Lindsey also shares about her unique integrative approach to relationship and couples coaching. 🎧 Have a listen above. _____________ A little bit about Lindsey: Lindsey Bourne is a Relationship and Couples Coach who helps people understand what’s actually happening beneath the surface of conflict, disconnection, and dysregulation in relationships. Her work blends attachment theory, nervous system healing, subconscious rewiring, and parts work to help individuals and couples transform relationship patterns at the very root. She is especially known for her work on the power struggle phase of relationships, helping people move from cycles of conflict, activation, and disconnection to deeper intimacy, trust, and connection. You can follow along with Lindsey’s work on Substack, Instagram, her Podcast: Relational Alchemy, and her Website. Share ____________ This is the Real Life Magic podcast, where people share their stories of times they feel they’ve experienced magic in their lives. They could be stories of miracles, synchronicity, meaningful coincidences, serendipity, signs, following intuition, unexplainable events, connections with loved ones who have passed, and more. If you have a story of your own, I’d love to hear it. You can share it ⁠here⁠.

  5. Jul 6

    17. Coming Back to Yourself with Sarah Espinosa

    Real Life Magic #17: Coming Back to Yourself with Sarah Espinosa Today I’m sharing a conversation with Sarah Espinosa about what it looks like to come back to yourself after years of ignoring the signals that something isn’t working. Sarah shares her journey of spending over a decade in tech sales, climbing the corporate ladder, building an identity around achievement and external validation, and creating a life that looked exactly like it was “supposed to” look like, until it didn’t, and she couldn’t pretend otherwise anymore. Her story will feel familiar to anyone who has ever held it together on the outside while falling apart internally. We talk about building self-trust through the smallest possible promises, her path to yoga and spirituality, learning to recognize signs from loved ones you've lost, and practices she has to take care of herself and her mental health. 🎧 Have a listen above. ____________________ A little bit about Sarah: Sarah Espinosa is a wellness founder and professional coach dedicated to helping ambitious, overwhelmed millennial women reclaim their lives from burnout. She worked for over a dozen years in tech sales at giants like Google and Adobe before burning out and stepping back from the 9-5 life to heal. Sarah is a 3x corporate burnout survivor, turned fierce advocate for mental health in a capitalist world, and she wants to help women identify, prevent, and recover from burnout so they can live happier, healthier lives. Today, she blends her 200HR YTT yoga and mobility training with strategic burnout and workplace boundaries coaching. Her next group program for corporate women wanting to detangle their self-worth from their jobs, Identity Shift Intensive, starts the week of July 6th and is accepting applications now! When she isn’t coaching clients 1:1 or teaching yoga in NYC, Sarah is writing her cultural digest blog, prettybusy, a weekly newsletter and place for deep dive essays on tech, pop culture, current events, any anything else affecting millennial women in America. Connect with Sarah: sarah-espinosa.com or @sarahespinosa__ on socials. Sign up for the Identity Shift Intensive: https://www.sarah-espinosa.com/identityshiftintensive Read her essays: prettybusy.beehiiv.com ____________________ This is the Real Life Magic podcast, where people share their stories of times they feel they’ve experienced magic in their lives — miracles, synchronicities, meaningful coincidences, serendipity, signs, moments of following intuition, unexplainable events, and the experiences that make you wonder if something more might be going on. You can listen here on Substack or find the conversations on Spotify. If you have a story of your own, I’d love to hear it — you can share it here.

  6. Jun 18

    16. Living the Game of Life with Lesley Christine

    Real Life Magic #16: Living the Game of Life with Lesley Christine Today I’m sharing a conversation with Lesley Christine where she shares how a series of devastating losses cracked something open in her family and set off a chain of events she never could have engineered on her own. What followed is a visceral example of what it looks like to trust life, not only as a concept, but as a practice you build through repeated, very real experience with loss and what comes after it. 🎧 Have a listen above. _____________ A little bit about Lesley: Lesley Christine is an emotional clearing expert and the publisher of a 100th Anniversary Edition of Florence Scovel Shinn’s classic The Game of Life and How to Play It: Expanded with Commentary and Guided Practices. She is the creator of Living the Game of Life, a community built around Shinn’s timeless principles, and the developer of The Source Method™ — a precise, systematic process for finding and releasing the emotional and energetic patterns that keep self-aware women stuck, including patterns inherited from family lines generations back. Her work helps women who have done the inner work finally experience it landing in their actual lives. You can find her and her work at lesleychristine.com. ____________ This is the Real Life Magic podcast, where people share their stories of times they feel they’ve experienced magic in their lives — miracles, synchronicities, meaningful coincidences, serendipity, signs, moments of following intuition, unexplainable events, and the experiences that make you wonder if something more might be going on. You can listen here on Substack or find the conversations on Spotify. If you have a story of your own, I’d love to hear it — you can share it here.

  7. May 31

    15. The Path Isn't Linear with Lynn Mull

    Real Life Magic #15: The Path Isn’t Linear with Lynn Mull Today I am sharing a conversation with my friend and my former holistic career coach, Lynn Mull. In this conversation, we talk about how the path to our goals and dreams isn’t linear. Lynn shares how she views the dips, detours, and side explorations as part of the path that add new depth and layers, not as mistakes (which is such a relief!). And that you are never too late to begin, or to begin again. At the beginning, Lynn shares a couple of her recent Real Life Magic moments and synchronicities, how she uses pattern reading and noticing what is showing up in her life and business, and toward the end of our conversation, we experience a fun surprise synchronicity between the two of us. Lynn Mull is a Holistic Career Coach who effortlessly blends the practical with the holistic and the woo. She transitioned from working on Wall Street to working in wellness, and she is now a writer, healer, coach, facilitator, speaker, spiritual advisor, and Reiki Master. She is the creator of the Clarity Map, which alllows you to map out any goal or your life’s big picture in a simple, visual, actionable, and non-linear way, which we talk about in this conversation. She is also the author of The 24 Oracle Deck, which is created according to the phases of the moon and infused with Reiki Energy to help you gain clarity and closeness to all three of your energy centers – mind, body, and spirit. You can follow along with her on her Substack and find ways to work with her on her website.

  8. Apr 10

    14. The (Intentionally) Whimsical Life of Daniela Martí

    Real Life Magic #14: The (Intentionally) Whimsical Life of Daniela Martí Today I am sharing a conversation with my dear friend Daniela (Daniela Marti), founder of Lunaria Design Studio. Daniela is a brand and web designer, an astrologer, and one of the most naturally creative and whimsical people I know in the most grounded, real way possible. I wanted Daniela to be one of the first people I sat down with when I brought Real Life Magic podcast-style conversations back, because she is a genuine example of someone who has consciously chosen to live this way. She has built a practice of noticing signs, following synchronicities, and listening to her body as a compass as real, everyday tools for staying present and taking care of herself. And she has done it through some genuinely hard seasons of life. What I also love about Daniela is that this same philosophy runs straight through her work. She has a rare ability to see people: to hear a vision that someone can barely articulate and bring it fully to life. She was able to bring my vision of Real Life Magic to life in the winter of 2021, long before I shared it with the world. I was blown away by her intuitive and creative work then, and she has only grown more herself and more extraordinary with every passing year. In this conversation, she shares her story, how she weaves Real Life Magic into her daily life, and how her business (which has taken some pretty wild and beautiful turns) is its own Real Life Magic story. 🎧 Have a listen to her story above. A little bit about Daniela: Daniela Martí is the founder of Lunaria Design Studio, where she helps clients build brands with real heart and soul. Her work sits at the intersection of design, spirituality, astrology, and deep self-expression. She offers Brand Astrology Readings, Brand Kits for every zodiac sign, the Planetaria Brand Course, and one-on-one brand and web design projects. You can follow along with her writing on her Substack, The Lunaria Letter, and receive creative inspiration from Lunaria’s Instagram.

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Chelsea Banaszek, a yoga therapist, shares stories and practices for weaving practical mindfulness, intuition, spirituality, meaning & joy into real life. Follow along with the Real Life Magic podcast, where people share their stories of times they feel they've experienced magic in their lives. They could be stories of miracles, synchronicity, meaningful coincidences, signs, following intuition, unexplainable events, and more. P.S. These are unedited conversations. Follow along on Substack: https://reallifemagic.substack.com/

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  • Creator
    Real Life Magic
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Real Life Magic
  • Show Website
    Real Life Magic