Walking the Labyrinth

Nina Mongendre and Maria Santomauro

A podcast about navigating life's complexities. Each episode features conversations on personal growth, resilience, and finding meaning through challenges. Nina and Maria explore embracing change, trusting inner wisdom, shadow work, and recovering from setbacks. Blending their expertise in family constellations and inner child healing, they share relatable stories and practical insights to help listeners transform their relationship with the path they walk and break generational patterns. find out more about their work at ninamongendre.com & cultivatingcuriosity.online.

  1. Oct 5

    Make It Before You Know Why: Edie on Art and Trust

    Real creative growth often starts with trust, not certainty. Edie is an artist, writer, musician, and co-creator of the Healing the Inner Child Oracle deck. She shares how a life built around music, painting, and intuitive making became a body of work that is unmistakably her own. She taught herself instead of going to art school, found her voice in Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, and France, and learned how to keep creating when you don't know what comes next. In this episode: Why "a little, often" is one of the most powerful creative practicesHow letting go of outcome changes the way you make artWhat it means to trust your path before anyone else can validate itHow family support, fear, and identity shape our stories about successWhy some work is meant to be shared, even when it feels vulnerableMaria and Nina also unpack the origin story of the Healing the Inner Child deck: a chance email, a yoga festival meeting, a bookstore spark in Woodstock, and the intuitive process that turned hundreds of paintings into a tool for reflection and healing. The conversation also moves into parenting, creative identity, and the pressure to define yourself by one title when life keeps asking you to evolve. If you're in a creative season, questioning your path, or trying to make peace with not having the whole map, this episode will meet you there. Art, like life, is often about showing up, staying open, and following the thread.

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A podcast about navigating life's complexities. Each episode features conversations on personal growth, resilience, and finding meaning through challenges. Nina and Maria explore embracing change, trusting inner wisdom, shadow work, and recovering from setbacks. Blending their expertise in family constellations and inner child healing, they share relatable stories and practical insights to help listeners transform their relationship with the path they walk and break generational patterns. find out more about their work at ninamongendre.com & cultivatingcuriosity.online.