Liberating Beauty

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Liberating Beauty explores the liberating qualities of beauty - how it enlivens new possibilities, renews a quiet joyfulness, and connects us across space and time. Through reflection and conversation with inspiring creatives, everyday alchemists, and stewards of tenderness, we’ll discover how beauty shifts our orientation to life, grief, and identity. In an era clouded by stories of separation and divisiveness, a narrative of beauty has never been more vital.

  1. 2d ago

    Homecoming: Where Neurodiversity, Spirituality & Creativity Meet

    In her most impassioned episode to date, Rebecca explores the powerful intersection of neurodiversity, spirituality, and creativity. She invites all of us - whatever our neurology - to honor the places in ourselves that are most sensitive and porous. Rather than treating these traits as problems to be solved, Rebecca reframes our perceptual openness as deeply spiritual, capable of being with the unraveling of this moment while creating into the possibilities of tomorrow. Moving beyond clinical labels and standard accommodations, this episode is a call to reclaim our creative capacity and delight in what happens when we stop pathologizing different ways of being for the benefit of us all.  Resources:  Tami Simon, “Being Open: Spirituality and the Neurodivergent Mind.” Insights at the Edge: https://www.soundstrue.com/a/resources/insights-at-the-edge-podcast.  Amanda Doyle, Glennon Doyle, & Abby Wambach, “How to Find 5 Seconds of Peace with Morgan Harper Nichols.” We Can Do Hard Things:  https://open.spotify.com/episode/0dWg518Zq6ij8MPbXLzGBr?si=CEiGoJXWRtuHZdN_3SVQtg.  Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

  2. Oct 6

    Loving Reality as It Is

    What if the greatest freedom available to us is found in being with reality as it is, rather than the way we wish it would be? On the surface, it seems counterintuitive - as if we are giving up or resigning ourselves to whatever circumstances life throws at us. But when we zoom out, being with reality is about seeing our circumstances for what they actually are, making conscious choices, and opening to the new possibilities (and sometimes loss) that come with deciding how to engage with life on our own terms. Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

  3. Sep 29

    Untangling Intuition From Our Stories

    When a sudden flash of intuition hits, it rarely comes with the full story attached. But when we’re in a hard season, our minds can struggle with an open loop. We rush to make meaning, spinning fear-based stories that reflect the limits of our imagination. In this week's episode, Rebecca explores the graceful untangling of pure intuition from the noise of our own narratives. Looking back on a confusing insight that surfaced during a particularly heavy season two years ago, she reflects from a very different vantage point: celebrating a birthday milestone in her favorite corner of the world. It’s a gentle reminder that we don't have to force meaning onto things that will naturally reveal themselves in time. Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

  4. Sep 22

    Beyond Adjacent Realities

    How do we know when a situation is meant for us, and when we’re simply settling for an “almost good enough" adjacent reality? Following up on “Attachment: The Beauty We Miss,” this sister episode explores why we stay tethered to safe, predictable paths that always run lukewarm. Rebecca shares a single, potent question to cut through the noise of transition and an intimate reading of “The Room Feels Like Summer” -  a poem on welcoming the quiet dignity of endings before total collapse. Consider this your invitation to imagine beautiful transitions imbued with grace long before a crisis forces your hand. To read “The Room Feels Like Summer” visit: -https://www.togetherinbeauty.com/post/the-room-feels-like-summer.  Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

  5. Sep 15

    Attachment: The Beauty We Miss

    In our human desire for certainty, it’s all too easy to assign a single meaning to an experience before it has a chance to show us what it actually is. When we attach rigid, transactional definitions to an encounter - demanding it be the lease, the person, or the quick fix to our anxiety - we inadvertently flatten our reality. We stop seeing the actual human or quiet mystery standing in front of us. We stop seeing beauty. Join Rebecca this week as she explores what happens when we release a sense of how things should be and open to a more creative, intuitive, and natural way of being. Because when we are caught in attachment, the bridges, signals, and shields are exactly the beauty we miss. Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

  6. Sep 8

    Reclaiming Sovereignty

    What happens when we move from a default mode of emotional and relational absorption into an intentional, joyful choice of what enters our personal realm? How aware are we that choosing what we take in - even energetically - is actually within our power? When our conditioning, and even our neurology, is wired for porousness, it can feel like we lack the agency to determine how we engage with the world around us. Join Rebecca as she reflects on what happens when we attune to our nature, and the sense of possibility that opens up when we reclaim energetic sovereignty. What new dreams unfold when creative vitality finally has space to blossom? Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

  7. Sep 1

    Together in Beauty

    When we lose someone close to us, it’s natural to long for them exactly as they were when we were together. When the memories of their voice or their particular quirks start to fade, the feeling of loss is compounded. How do we stay connected to the people we love when we can no longer locate them in our memories? This question is what inspired the Liberating Beauty podcast. Grounded in a recent birthday outing filled with color and style, Rebecca reflects on a knowingness that landed when her mom died: we don't have to search for the people we love in static memories. We meet them when we step into living resonance - through style, through creative expression, and through whatever releases us from the boundaries of time. There, we will always be together in beauty. Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

  8. Aug 25

    Out of The Fog

    We are often encouraged to look at situations from every angle - analyzing patterns, dissecting friction, and searching for the hidden "lesson" in nuanced spaces. But what if all that due diligence causes us to lose sight of what is true for us? In this episode, Rebecca shares a story from a mountain drive in Spain - and a sudden emergence from blinding fog into the clarity of blue skies - to explore how endless over-analysis keeps us trapped in dense environments and worn-out patterns. Learn why a simple observation like "I do not feel clear here" is complete all on its own, and how dropping the need to understand opens the door to clarity that is already there. Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

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Liberating Beauty explores the liberating qualities of beauty - how it enlivens new possibilities, renews a quiet joyfulness, and connects us across space and time. Through reflection and conversation with inspiring creatives, everyday alchemists, and stewards of tenderness, we’ll discover how beauty shifts our orientation to life, grief, and identity. In an era clouded by stories of separation and divisiveness, a narrative of beauty has never been more vital.

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    Together in Beauty
  • Years Active
    2026
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