Beauty marks make the world more real, beautiful, and alive. From a brisk cold winter day, to the perfect pen and paper, to strange four-year-old fascinations, this episode will have you delighting in the small beautiful things in life.

Peloton instructor and all-around badass Tunde Oyeneyin is the inspiration for this episode, and Buffy riffs on her framework of building a personal mission statement to organize your words and actions daily. This is a practice that will widen your spiritual scope and clarify your compass' true north.

When was the last time you were lost? Buffy moves us through stories of getting lost, distinguishing its different varieties in a way both poetic and practical. A healthy kind of getting lost feels like a lost that creates strength and gratitude to return home.

Buffy begins this season right in the middle - in media res.  She discusses the idea of the threshold, and how we are always in the middle, on our way up, or on our way down, from just about everything.

This week's stories include tales of doctor office visits, angel cheerleaders in the form of middle school teachers, closet cheetahs and tigers, and the bravery to leave a marriage. You will leave this episode feeling enlivened, bolstered, and just maybe your flicker of bravery blooming into a full flame.

Have you ever felt the wide, encompassing experience of grace? If you're not sure, this episode will light up the ways grace can be lived, felt, and experienced.

What do Freddy Mercury’s teeth, twins, and extreme introversion have in common? This week’s invitation is to consider your Truxel and polish it.

Listen to tales of temper tantrums and raging inner fires, and how speed bumps can be a tool for course correction and parades a tool for recalibration.

If you stripped away all of the personal hurts, injustices, and trauma that have covered you up, and made you self-protect over the years, what would be underneath that? What's the quality you come by most honestly?

Did you know that mutts are generally healthier than purebred dogs? Buffy talks about why that makes sense, and shares stories of Anusara yoga, "guru moments," and how cherry-picking the sweet fruit from various systems can help you build your  own personal system of integrity, intuition, and wisdom.

Well… it’s election week, and even though Buffy recorded this before we knew the results, her message is simple: roll out the red carpet for your feelings.

What do you give a damn about? In this episode, Buffy talks about the high stakes moment in time we are living in, a time where neutrality and silence can have dangerous consequences.

Beauty marks are daily, sense-based, present-tense small treasures that are hopeful, happy, and good. They don’t negate anything hard, but they help one to remember the beauty amidst the difficulty.

Intuition: it’s really simple, and it’s really hard. It is, like most things, a practice. The voice of our intuition is always there, but we listen selectively.

In this episode, Buffy talks about the insidious trap of comparative suffering. Listen to stories of apology, struggling creatives, and the way hidden suffering amplifies shame.

Buffy reframes the idea of resilience from “bouncing back” into a new picture of “bouncing forward.” Resilience isn’t really possible if we get too nostalgic about the way things were - we have to stick in the present tense, and to build and bounce forward from challenge and difficulty.

In our creative lives, an incubation period is necessary, and how when we over-share, or share too soon, we jeopardize a vital, healthy birth.

This episode is entirely devoted to the book “See No Stranger” by Valarie Kaur. Valarie invites us to transition into a new, vibrant world through an embodied description of how the individual body meets the collective body, and where the two are dependent on each other.

The topic of shattering the myth requires deep self-inquiry, especially when it comes to deciding what’s ours and what’s not ours to haul on the next leg of the journey. Shatter the myth you’ve been perpetuating that’s been perpetuated for you.

In order for magic to touch down, curiosity has to be in the room. Buffy talks about curiosity from the standpoint of creative processes, and curiosity in relationships.