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How to Create a Meditation Space You'll Actually Use - Minisode Jun 06, 2022

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On the Being Home With Hunker podcast host @laurie.gunning.grossman shares three ways to set up a meditation space that you’ll actually use, and discusses why a meditation space matters. Whether you already have a daily meditation practice, or you’ve been saying that you want to start meditating (but haven’t fully committed to it yet), this short solo episode is for you. We have many takeaway tips and ideas for how you can set up a gorgeous space at home.

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For more information about this episode, or other podcast episodes, visit Hunker.com/podcast.

This podcast is produced by Laurie Gunning Grossman.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded and mixed at Night Shift Audio.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.

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Being Home With a Pet Communicator & Psychic (Nikki Vasconez) May 30, 2022

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On the Being Home With Hunker podcast host @laurie.gunning.grossman talks with animal communicator Nikki Vasconez.

Says Laurie: “I reached out to Nikki because I wanted to talk about the ways we can communicate with our pets to create harmonious spaces for them and to make the lives of our pets as lovely as possible. We both agree pets are part of our home … they make everything perfect.”

Nikki believes that everyone can communicate with our pets all the time. That it’s not a gift, it’s a skill. As she says, it’s all within us, it’s just a matter of believing it. Believing that it’s possible.

She shares tips on how we can interpret what our pets are trying to tell us; the common throughline that all dogs or all cats want in their living spaces; how to help animals change their routines (like sleeping in our beds), and suggestions on how people can add a new pet to the home when we already have a pet at home or how to prepare them for when a new baby is expected.

Nikki even talks about our pets who have passed away and how communicating with them has changed her perception of death. If you’ve lost a pet, I think you’ll really love hearing what she has to say. It’s sweet, it’s touching, and there’s so much more behind the scenes.

If you want to transform your connection with your pet, this is an episode you’ll want to listen to all the way through.

LEARN MORE ABOUT NIKKI VASCONEZ, ANIMAL COMMUNICATOR

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Website: NikkiVasconez.com
Instagram: @nikkivasconez
TikTok: @nikkivasconez

*Note: There are many scam accounts that look like Nikki’s social media accounts listed here. These are the correct and only ones. If someone reaches out to you through a DM, asking for money for a reading, do not respond. Delete or block that person. Nikki will never reach out to you for a reading.

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ABOUT THIS PODCAST

For more information about this episode, or other podcast episodes, visit Hunker.com/podcast.

This podcast is produced by Laurie Gunning Grossman.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded and mixed at Night Shift Audio.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.

ABOUT HUNKER

Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.

Visit us, follow us, learn more.

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Instagram: @hunkerhome
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Being Home With a Hawaiian High Seer (Kimo Kepano) May 23, 2022

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On the Being Home With Hunker podcast host @laurie.gunning.grossman talks with Kimo Kepano, a Hawaiian high seer.

Kimo, who also calls himself a light seer, is a multi-sensory psychic medium. As he explains, he’s able to see multidimensionally through shape, sound, lineage, and cultural practices. When working with people he says that he can connect them with their guides and guardians through his gift of sight as well as his intuitive and psychic senses.

Growing up within an intuitive family in Hawaii, he discovered his gifts at the age of three when he started speaking to Spirit. And it grew from there.

In this conversation, Kimo talks about how he works with clients in designing their spaces. It involves timelines, future possibilities, and working with a client’s spirit team. He designs spaces contingent on a certain outcome. This most likely is unlike anything you’ve heard before!

We talk about how the items we bring into our homes – especially vintage or secondhand items – have an energy, a “voice.” And, even how our homes, the actual buildings, have spirit energy. (Not to mention the actual spirits who are living in our homes!)

Regarding general design elements, he shares that to elevate the frequency in our homes, he prescribes “change.” Change in a paint color, new pillows, new textures, and new smells. And he says that once someone steps into the idea of change we’re removing ourselves from old energetic cords … and then, anything we do is easy.

LEARN MORE ABOUT KIMO KEPANO, HAWAIIAN HIGH SEER

Website: TheLightSeer.com
Instagram: @kimokepano AND @alohalightseer

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LinkedIn: @lauriegunninggrossman

ABOUT THIS PODCAST

For more information about this episode, or other podcast episodes, visit Hunker.com/podcast.

This podcast is produced by Laurie Gunning Grossman.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded and mixed at Night Shift Audio.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.

ABOUT HUNKER

Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.

Visit us, follow us, learn more.

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Instagram: @hunkerhome

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Being Home With The High Priestess of Brooklyn (Alex Caiola) May 16, 2022

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On the Being Home With Hunker podcast host @laurie.gunning.grossman is talking with Alex Caiola, otherwise known as The High Priestess of Brooklyn.

Alex is a magical analyst, astrologer, and intuitive advisor.

When working with clients, whether one-on-one or even with startup companies, Alex uses different modalities such as astrology, tarot, connecting with guides, and being in touch with source energy.

She believes that being psychic is a skill set that we all have — it’s a muscle that we can flex and practice. As she says, astrology will meet you wherever you are.

In this conversation, we talk about how to use astrology, more specifically areas of our birth charts, to amplify, support, and decorate our homes and personal spaces. We spend some time focused on two areas of the birth chart structure: the fourth house — which relates to the home and family — and the sixth house, which is the house of our day-to-day environment and routines. We also touch upon how it’s interesting to know which sign and house Venus is in, which speaks to our unique decoration style.

A quick note about birth charts — depicted as a wheel with 12 houses, birth charts are essentially your personal blueprint of where the planets were placed the moment you were born. If you haven't cast your birth chart yet, you can go to Astrostyle.com, Astro-charts.com, astro.com or any online chart generator to access your birth chart and learn more.

Alex also shares some general things people can add to their homes to make the space feel good, including spring-cleaning rituals to clear the space — turns out, it’s a spiritual thing to clean!

LEARN MORE ABOUT ALEX CAIOLA, THE HIGH PRIESTESS

Website: High Priestess of Brooklyn
Instagram: @highpriestessofbrooklyn

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Instagram: @laurie.gunning.grossman
Email: Laurie@hunker.com
LinkedIn: @lauriegunninggrossman

ABOUT THIS PODCAST

For more information about this episode, or other podcast episodes, visit Hunker.com/podcast.

This podcast is produced by Laurie Gunning Grossman.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded and mixed at Night Shift Audio.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.

ABOUT HUNKER

Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.

Visit us, follow us, learn more.

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Instagram: @hunkerhome

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Being Home With a Color Therapist (Walaa) May 09, 2022

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On the Being Home With Hunker podcast, host @laurie.gunning.grossman talks with Walaa, a color therapist, founder of Color-Ways, and author of the book, “Heal Yourself With Color.”

Walaa’s work is dedicated to using color energy to help us understand ourselves better, and what we need to thrive and grow.

Through her one-on-on color code activation sessions, she helps people understand the vibration of color and their emotional connection to it, including how their subconscious relates to it. She shares that we can use color to our benefit: to understand ourselves better and create better environments for ourselves.

In addition to her one-on-one mentoring work, she has a background in interior design, which enables her to help people with their spaces as well.

As she says, our homes have a frequency that we’re constantly conversing with – and colors help us know which parts of our homes need boosting to support our wellbeing and energy. She shows people how to use color frequencies to balance and release for them to have more space to bring in all the things they want.

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For more information about this episode, or other podcast episodes, visit Hunker.com/podcast.

This podcast is produced by Laurie Gunning Grossman. Follow me on Instagram @laurie.gunning.grossman

Being Home With Hunker is recorded and mixed at Night Shift Audio.

Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.

Show art designed by Mory Men.

ABOUT HUNKER

Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.

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Hunker: Hunker.com

Instagram: @hunkerhome

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Being Home With a Channeler and Psychic Medium (Natalie Miles) May 02, 2022

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On the Being Home With Hunker podcast we have Natalie Miles, a channeler, psychic medium, author, and podcast host.

As a channeler, Natalie connects with Spirit Guides — or whatever label you relate to, such as the Universe, Higher Power, Source, and so forth. She connects to the collective energy and shares whatever messages want to be shared for us as individuals or as a collective.

In this conversation, Natalie shares how she believes that everyone is intuitive and that we’re all receiving intuitive guidance every day. This is what her work is all about: helping people tap into their intuition.

Natalie shares how she’s moved her homes when she’s received intuitive hits from her Spirit Guides — and how she’s used a paper map and pendulum to help find aligned places to live.

Natalie also says she can tune into people’s homes — she gets shown the spirit of the energy in a home. She can also tune into the land and see how or why it needs to be cleared or attended to. She even gets messages about where people should place furniture, decor, or plants (so be very considerate about where you move them because it turns out that our plants have opinions!). And if you’re someone who likes to buy thrifted or second-hand furniture, you should be energy clearing those pieces before you bring them into your space.

We also talk about how we’re in an eclipse season right now and what that means. Think: big changes, transformations, and expect the unexpected. She says that between now and 2026/2027, it’s a powerful reset time, for our planet and for ourselves.

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ABOUT THIS PODCAST

For more information about this episode, or other podcast episodes, visit Hunker.com/podcast.

This podcast is produced by Laurie Gunning Grossman.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded and mixed at Night Shift Audio.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.

ABOUT HUNKER

Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.

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Instagram: @hunkerhome

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Being Home With a Filipino/Polish/American Rum Maker (Alexandra Dorda) Apr 25, 2022

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Alexandra Dorda is the founder of Kasama, a small batch rum created in the Philippines and distilled in Poland.

Alexandra shares how as a person raised in three different cultures on three different continents, “being home” is a fluid concept. For her, it’s not a place – it’s feeling at home with yourself.

She talks about how she travels often because of her work, but as she said, she can’t stay still. She needs to move to feel comfortable and happy. And while she doesn’t have that one place she feels she can call her own, she does feel as though she could live almost anywhere in the world. (She’s been to around 70 countries!)

Entrepreneurship is in her blood – both her parents are entrepreneurs and have always been interested in charting their own path. This spirit was transferred to her – she’s always wanted to have her own business. And so, Kasama rum was born.

Kasama means “together” or “companion” in Filipino. Alexandra wanted to build a brand around (and pay homage to) the Philippines, so she could celebrate what’s special about this place, her mother’s country. She also talks about Poland, her father’s country (he is the co-founder of polish vodkas Chopin and Belvedere), and how Poland is part of her rum as well.

And we talk about her family in Poland and the impact of the war in neighboring Ukraine. (She was in Poland when the war broke out.) She shares how this has changed her relationship to both her home and her physical belongings – and how this sobering situation makes you reevaluate what matters in your life.

Website: Kasamarum.com
Instagram: @kasamarum

ABOUT THIS PODCAST

For more information about this episode, or other podcast episodes, visit Hunker.com/podcast.

This podcast is produced by Laurie Gunning Grossman.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded and mixed at Night Shift Audio.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.

ABOUT HUNKER

Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.

Visit us, follow us, learn more.

Hunker: Hunker.com
Instagram: @hunkerhome

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Being Home With Everhem Founder & Window Treatments Expert (Haley Weidenbaum) Apr 18, 2022

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Haley Weidenbaum is an interior designer and co-founder of Everhem, a company that creates customized window treatments.

In this conversation, Haley shares how she started Everhem with her husband, Adam, after an aha moment that led her to realize she wanted to put all her focus on designing for just one part of the home: window treatments. As she says, it’s this part of the design process that’s often an afterthought.

And though her focus is on her business, Haley says that interior design is still at her core – it’s how she communicates and how she makes herself feel happy. Every few weeks she says she likes to reorganize accessories and items in her home to freshen up the space.

Haley also shares how she’s always had a deep interest in hotels – she was infatuated with them as a child – and how after college she worked in hotels, which led her into interior design, which then led to her into starting Everhem. You’ll see how every stop on her career journey has unfolded into the next.

Website: Everhem.com

Instagram: @haleyweidenbaum AND @everhem

ABOUT THIS PODCAST

For more information about this episode, or other podcast episodes, visit Hunker.com/podcast.

This podcast is produced by Laurie Gunning Grossman.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded and mixed at Night Shift Audio.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.

ABOUT HUNKER

Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.

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Hunker: Hunker.com
Instagram: @hunkerhome

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Being Home With an Interior Designer & Therapist (Anita Yokota) Apr 11, 2022

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Anita, who is also a licensed therapist, says that she uses “the psychology of intention to design functional homes where we can deeply connect.” Basically, she’s making therapeutic homes a thing.

In this conversation, Anita shares how she toggles between her two professions when working with clients, and how the professions complement each other.

She believes each of us have different narratives and intentions for how—and what—we want our home to be. And so, she teaches her clients how to identify zones in their spaces to create that intentionality and help it come alive.

Anita shares how she’s passionate about how therapy helps people to learn how to live authentically—and now as an interior designer, she has an opportunity to show people how to do it at home in a tangible way using home decor and design.

It’s a great conversation about the intention of design and how we set up our spaces.

Website: AnitaYokota.com
Instagram: @anitayokota

ABOUT THIS PODCAST

For more information about this episode, or other podcast episodes, visit Hunker.com/podcast.

This podcast is produced by Laurie Gunning Grossman.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded and mixed at Night Shift Audio.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.

ABOUT HUNKER

Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.

Visit us, follow us, learn more.

Hunker: Hunker.com
Instagram: @hunkerhome

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Being Home With a DIY Creator for Rented Homes (Medina Grillo) Apr 04, 2022

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On the Being Home With Hunker podcast, we have Medina Grillo, an interiors and DIY blogger behind Grillo Designs, and author of “Home Sweet Rented Home.” As Medina describes herself, she is an “IKEA-loving-upcycling-junkie-DIY-passionate-home-decor-crazy momma and wife.”

Medina, who lives in England, is an advocate for renters who want to beautify their rental spaces. (She also started a video series on Instagram called “How I Rent.”) As she shares, she believes that renters are “the underdogs in interior design,” and that people should put a stamp on their rented home.

As a long-time renter herself, she says that by creating a home that reflects who you, it really does help your mental health in a positive way. Plus, who doesn’t want to live in a lovely space?

In this conversation, Medina talks about her favorite upgrades and DIY projects that she’s done to her own rented home; how she deals with negative comments from people who think she’s wasting money when she does these design upgrades; and how people can work within their budget and with their landlord to make changes to their rented space.

Website: Grillo Designs

Instagram: @grillodesigns and @HowIRent

Book: Home Sweet Rented Home

ABOUT THIS PODCAST

For more information about this episode, or other podcast episodes, visit Hunker.com/podcast.

This podcast is produced by Laurie Gunning Grossman.
Being Home With Hunker is recorded and mixed at Night Shift Audio.
Theme music by Jonathan Grossman.
Show art designed by Mory Men.

ABOUT HUNKER

Hunker inspires and empowers you to create a space that expresses who you are, shows off your unique style, and makes your life happier and more productive.

Visit us, follow us, learn more.

Hunker: Hunker.com
Instagram: @hunkerhome

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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