Episode notes
What happens when you're standing on a stage, saying something true about yourself, and someone in the audience is trying to make you disappear?
This week, Micki sits down with Venessa Rodriguez — clinically trained holistic healer, certified nutrition specialist, herbalist, astrology practitioner, and Akashic channel — for one of those conversations that makes you want to press pause and just sit in it for a while.
But this episode isn't about Venessa's credentials. It's about teenage Venessa — the girl who stood on a stage in front of her entire high school and kept speaking, even as someone tried to shut her down. The girl who didn't know how to voice what she was carrying inside, but knew she was meant for something she couldn't name yet.
Together, Micki and Venessa explore:
- What it actually takes to find your voice when you've been interrupted, dismissed, or made to feel like what you have to say doesn't matter
- Why the things that wound us in our teen years often become the very gifts we offer the world as adults
- How the body, mind, and soul are always in conversation with each other — and how to start listening
- Intuition in young people — what it looks like, why it gets suppressed, and why it'salways been real
- The herbs and nutrients that can genuinely support a teenager's nervous system, sleep, and resilience (reishi, nervines, magnesium, protein, and hydration — practical and specific)
- What it means to be her becoming — and why full self-acceptance might be the most courageous act any of us has ever does
Venessa also shares the moment — nearly 20 years later — when she finally found out the story she'd made personal was never about her at all. And what happened when she stopped performing goodness and started becoming herself.
This episode is for the young person who wonders if what they're carrying right now will ever make sense. It will. And it's for the adults who remember being that teenager — and who are still, in their own way, becoming.
"You are not going to believe what you're going to find out."
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The Who Are You? Podcast is a space for young people — and the humans who love them — to explore identity, purpose, and what it means to come home to yourself.