Welcome to Active Ingredient - a podcast and platform for those of us who are in the process of co-creating lives and businesses that feel rooted, expansive, resonant and true to us. I'm your host, Sophie Weill, and I'm a deeply curious human who is also on my own journey of co-creating a life and businesses that are true to me. I'm the founder of Nude Nation, a creative brand building agency as well as the co-founder of Piano Piano, a tableware brand rooted in slowing down and coming alive.
I've spent my entire career building and amplifying brands and the humans behind them and what I have come to understand is that the inner work precedes the outer growth and that everything in life is a mirror of our internal state which is precisely what we're here to connect on.
Welcome to Active Ingredient - I am so glad you're here.
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Welcome to Active Ingredient - a podcast and platform for those of us who are in the process of co-creating lives and businesses that feel rooted, expansive, resonant and true to us. I'm your host, Sophie Weill, and I'm a deeply curious human who is also on my own journey of co-creating a life and businesses that are true to me. I'm the founder of Nude Nation, a creative brand building agency as well as the co-founder of Piano Piano, a tableware brand rooted in slowing down and coming alive.
I've spent my entire career building and amplifying brands and the humans behind them and what I have come to understand is that the inner work precedes the outer growth and that everything in life is a mirror of our internal state which is precisely what we're here to connect on.
Welcome to Active Ingredient - I am so glad you're here.
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I'm joined by the powerful and magical force that is Florencia Fridman, co-founder of Cacao Laboratory (my favorite cacao brand that has changed my life) and cacao guide/educator. In this episode we're talking about the medicine of cacao and working with the plant to help heal and open your heart, calibrating to new levels of peace, learning to receive (why is this so hard lol?), how shifting from caffeine to cacao has helped me so much with creating from a grounded place and we get into all things building an intentional and rooted brand while also thinking of scaling to serve the masses. A very complete AI episode <3 Love love it.
Link to Florencia's IG: https://www.instagram.com/florencia.fridman/
Link to Cacao Lab's IG: https://www.instagram.com/cacaolaboratory/
Link to Cacao Lab's website: https://cacaolaboratory.com/
You can find Cacao Lab at Alchemist Kitchen in NYC!
Link to my IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/
Link to Nude Nation's IG: https://www.instagram.com/nudenation/
Link to Nude Nation's site: https://www.nudenationrelations.com/
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We've got a solo this week all about transitions, continuity, keeping what was true from a previous chapter and bringing that with you into the next.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweill
My IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/
Nude Nation: https://www.nudenationrelations.com/
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Topics Covered: Postpartum depression, psychedelics and ketamine therapy, pre/pro/post biotics, gut healthy and gut diversity and building a supplement brand in integrity.
This week's episode is with Anabel Gonzalez, founder of the recently launched hyper intentional pre, pro and post biotic brand called Good Bacteria. Anabel founded Good Bacteria after a profound postpartum recovery that showed her how deeply gut health shapes healing. Her work bridges science, design, and lived experience to explore how reconnecting with our bodies and our environment can help restore balance, vitality, and a healthy gut.
Link to YouTube for Video Podcast: HERE
Link to Good Bacteria to try for yourself: HERE
To connect with Anabel: HERE
To connect with Sophie: HERE
For more podcast clips/intentional reminders: HERE
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Topics: Navigating Heartbreak, The Creative Process, Pivoting, Movement and Taking Up Space
We have Teya Kepila on the show also known as @theturmerictimes on social and she is just such a ray of light. Teya is an incredibly talented ceramicist and artist based in Brooklyn who I highly highly recommend following if you love nourishing, regulated content which is quite rare these days. I've been following her work for a few years now and you know when someone online just really resonates with your soul? That is exactly how I've felt about her and having this conversation solidified that resonance so much more.
In this episode we are chatting about heartbreak, body acceptance, shifting identities, movement, how to find and protect the spark that makes you come alive, we get into her creative process and about giving yourself permission to be an artist. I deeply deeply enjoyed this conversation and hope you do too.
Link to the Active Ingredient YouTube Channel for video podcasts (videos are released on Thursdays): https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweill
Link to breakup YouTube video we reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQyyVjjh1Yc
Link to connect with Teya: https://www.instagram.com/theturmerictimes/
Link to connect with Sophie: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/
Link for more Active Ingredient clip reminders: https://www.instagram.com/activeingredient/
Link to my brand building agency: https://www.nudenationrelations.com/
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Solo on making space in order to let the aligned thing/idea/person come through.
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We've got a lil solo this week on giving yourself permission to feel all things including (and especially) the darker/less comfy emotions.
**my mic cut out after minute 2 so the audio isn't the best but wanted to get it out anyway! Hope you enjoy <3
Link to connect with me on IG: @sophieiweill
Link for Active Ingredient clips on IG: @activeingredient
Link to YouTube for visual pod lovers: https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweill
Link to my agency in case you want to co-create together: nudenationrelations.com
Link to Piano Piano for fab/intentional ceramics: pianopianohome.com
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In this solo episode, I’m talking about creative clarity and creating what you deeply crave/what you actually want to see in the world and having the courage to do it. Whether it’s a business, a product, experience or art, this is a lil reminder episode to get honest with yourself on if you're the one to actually create it and if the answer is yes, it's your encouragement to plz go for it <3 ilyyyyy
Link to Active Ingredient's IG
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If you have been trying to figure out how to build and market your business in alignment and struggle with doing that on social media, this episode is for you. This week, I'm joined by Harry Doull, the founder of Keap Candles, which is a NY-based Benefit Corporation started in 2015 and was inspired by a philosophical question: In an always-on world, how can we reconnect with ourselves and restore our balance with nature? Through artistry and regenerative practices, Keap’s candles have evolved to create what they couldn't find anywhere else: all-natural luxury candles that don't sacrifice scent quality or performance.
His biggest message to the active ingredient community is this: if you're finding a sense of internal misalignment with social media in business and or in your personal life, it is possible to operate without it (as we have been for the past 5 years) — and in fact grow a stronger, more resilient business in the process.
In this episode we are getting into building and marketing in alignment, alternative ways to connect and grow your community in a nourishing way, the power of candles and the element of fire and committing to your own inner vision even if it clashes with the norm.
Keap is offering all Active ingredient listeners 10% off your first order when you use code FINDYOURWHY at checkout - my favorite scents are Wood Cabin and Wild Figs.
*GIVEAWAY* We will also be gifting a candle to 1 active ingredient listener who rates and reviews the show on apple and spotify - all you have to do is submit your review and send a screenshot to my personal IG and you enter to win! I'm currently burning my candle and it really is a goodie.
Time Stamps:
07:14 - The decision to get off of social media entirely
17:35 - Building offline connections with your community and the impact on the business
24:16 - The future of social media and alternative platforms emerging
30:07 - The bigger role candles play in building connection
40:38 - listening and acting on inner guidance and long-term vision in business
55:27 - natural candle making and what makes Keap different
Links:
To connect with me: @sophieiweill
To check out Active Ingredient clips: @activeingredient
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In this solo episode, I'm chatting about what it feels like to be in the brew phase of an idea. The space between the idea/download and the execution of it where things are alive inside of you but not yet in the world.
To connect online: @sophieiweill
Active Ingredient Clips/Inspo: @activeingredient
Brand building/amplifying work: nudenationrelations.com
Piano Piano Ceramics: pianopianohome.com
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This week's episode is on a topic that I cannot stop learning about/talking about/playing around with it etc - it's all about Human Design and I had the opportunity to be in conversation with one of the world’s leading educators on the topic, Emma Dunwoody who recently launched her book, Human Design Made Simple.
Human Design is a self-discovery umbrella system that encompasses the principles of astrology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, the chakra system, and quantum physics to reveal how you’re uniquely wired energetically to make decisions, how you interact with others best, and how to best use your energy based on your birth time, birth location and birth date and we get to it in great detail in this episode.
To figure out what your Human Design is get your Human Design Chart HERE
In this episode, we're getting into Human Design as a tool for self understanding/acceptance, trusting when things feel easeful/downstream, following your own curiosities and of course we get into each one of the designs and practical next steps for each one.
Giveaway! We are giving away 2 copies of the book to 2 Active Ingredient listeners who rate and review the podcast on Apple/Spotify. All you have to do is send a screenshot of your review to my instagram @sophieiweill and DM me a pic of the screenshot to enter.
Time stamps
8:05 What is Human Design?
9:35 How Emma came across Huma Design / why it resonated for her
17:30 Parenting with Human Design / the education system
19:20 Moving from doing to being and learning to receive
24:16 Silence and letting things move through you
36:15 Manifestors
39:48 Generators
50:03 Manifesting Generators
53:57 Projectors
59:47 Reflectors
01:04 The 2027 Paradigm Shift
01:13 Returning to Childhood Wisdom
Links
Sophie's IG: @sophieiweill
Active Ingredient's IG for clips/reminders: @activeingredient
Emma's IG: @the_human_design_coach
Human Design Made Simple Book
This podcast is produced by Sophie's Creative Agency, Nude Nation
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WE ARE BACK! And man does it feel good to get back on the mic. I miss it so much every time I take a break. In this week's episode I'm getting back to it and chatting about my time away, a lil summer recap, what it felt like to water my roots and actually be able to feel/be present/receive and enjoy myself and my people entirely, choosing forgiveness/acceptance when it comes to family and family dynamics and then I deep dive into what we're all experience right now which is a very very palpable renaissance of resonance.
00:00 – 06:30 | Getting back on the mic
06:31 – 18:45 | Summer recap and watering the root
18:46 – 34:10 | Choosing forgiveness/acceptance/empathy when it comes to family
34:11 – End | The renaissance of resonance we're collectively experiencing
Link to Sophie's IG: @sophieiweill
Link to Active Ingrdient's IG: @activeingredient
Link to Nude Nation: www.nudenationrelations.com
Link to Piano Piano: @pianopiano
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This week's episode is with someone who I would 10000% put in the bucket of a founder who is also an artist. Someone who has and is actively alchemizing her pain and grief into both her purpose and her brand while creating beauty and connection in all that she does. We have Lily Geiger on the show today who is the founder of Figlia - an inclusive non-alcoholic aperitivo alternative that was born out of her desire to serve both humans who actively struggle with alcohol addiction by creating a non-alc product that did not taste like alcoholic beverages that we know as well as humans who are simply not wanting to drink as much but want to have a delicious alternative that feels special to drink out or at home. I fall in that second camp of people who simply feel better drinking way less and am so grateful for brands like Figlia that are meeting us where we're at, creating products we are proud to drink/be seen with, and just make it cool and acceptable to choose products that are better for you.
In this episode we get into Lily's story living with a parent who struggled and lost his battle with alcohol addiction - what that's taught her, the grieving process, leaning on family, alchemizing pain into purpose and now this product, how it's changed her outlook on life and why she created Figlia. We also get into making sure we have a strong sense of our identity outside of the brands we are building and how that separation has helped keep her grounded and on path.
From a branding/launching perspective we're getting into who exactly she's serving, how she bootstrapped to start and has built this business with her best friends, what marketing channels have worked, where she comes alive the most and of course - her process of remembering and returning to her child-like Self.
If you want to try Figlia, here is their store locator: https://drinkfiglia.com/pages/stockists
Link to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweill
Link to Sophie's IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill
Link to Active Ingredient's IG for clips: https://www.instagram.com/activeingredient
Link to Figlia: https://drinkfiglia.com/
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Active Ingredient is 6 years old today!!!! INSANITY. This week's episode I'm getting into the origins of Active Ingredient, why I loved/still love the medium of podcasting, how this all got started/why, the biggest lessons/skills from podcasting, my biggest takeaways from doing this for 6 years, my 4 favorite episodes/why and my intention for the show/the energy I'm looking to continue to co-create on here.
Link to video version of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweill/videos
Link to connect with me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill
Link to Active Ingredient's IG for intentional pod clips: https://www.instagram.com/activeingredient
Link to Gay Hendrick's Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/expanding-our-capacity-for-abundance-and-moving/id1466712918?i=1000704430109
Link to Mimi Ghandour Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yoga-purpose-mental-health-showing-up-fully-with-mimi/id1466712918?i=1000708377647
Link to Lauren Roxburgh Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intuition-fascia-flow-and-liberation-with-lo-roxburgh/id1466712918?i=1000676472211
Link to Kiki and Pardo (sister + best friend) Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thank-you-erin-foster-with-kiki-weill-and-natalie-pardo/id1466712918?i=1000674691141
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I am joined by my business coach, Barbara Levin, for her second time on the pod and this time she's asking me all questions that have to do with brand building in a way that feels true to you and the why behind what you're creating.
Link to Barbara's first episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/uncertainty-is-where-the-magic-happens-with-barbara-levin/id1466712918?i=1000679813322
To connect with me: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill
Active Ingredient IG: https://www.instagram.com/activeingredient
Active Ingredient YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweill
To connect with Barbara: https://www.instagram.com/barbaraalevin
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This week's solo is about consciously creating and allowing for structures/frameworks that work for us and remembering that structures can actually liberate. This is coming from a person who loves/values freedom and fluidity above most things and is a topic that I think is so relevant to so many of us who work for ourselves or are building/co-creating our own lives. It's something I have been SO resistant towards and am finally ready to unlearn/step into. ENJOY <3
Link to my IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill
Link to Active Ingredient's IG for clips: https://www.instagram.com/activeingredient
Link to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweill
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Yoga is and has been my #1 tool when it comes to recentering/grounding/connecting to myself and because May is mental health awareness month, I wanted to re-release this episode with my amazing yoga teacher and friend, Mimi Ghandour, all about the practice of yoga, what is actually happening inside during a yoga class, finding (remembering, rather) your real Self, releasing the care of what other people think, and committing to your self/continuing to show up no matter what. It really is the tool that I go back to over and over and over again through tougher seasons (as well as fab seasons!) and am so deeply grateful for the practice. Hope you enjoy <3
Link to the first episode with Mimi: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-hard-choices-for-an-easier-life-with-mimi-ghandour/id1466712918?i=1000552428872
Link to the most recent episode with Mimi: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-with-grief-while-transforming-it-into-purpose/id1466712918?i=1000672881809
Link to Mimi's IG: https://www.instagram.com/mimiyoga_official
Link to Sophie's IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill
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The guest of this week's show is with one of my favorite humans - we have my good friend and absolute force of nature in the advertising world, Karla Stewart, on the show. Karla and I first met back in 2018 when she had just left the advertising world after working for some of the world's leading ad agencies like Wieden+Kennedy, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, and 72andSunny and had just ventured out to co-create one of the first-ever hormone-tracking apps, Moody, focused on empowering women with information on their hormonal cycles and fluctuations and how to best work in harmony with your hormones - a topic that is still very much top of mind for her now.
She is now a partner at Tangerine, an independent, female founded and owned recruiting company whose guiding principle is that WHO always beats WHAT and that people are the ultimate resource - she has placed top creative talent at the world’s most innovative and influential companies like Airbnb, Spotify, Expedia, Athleta, Lego, Warby Parker, OpenAI, The New York Times, Mother, Uncommon, BBDO, Droga5 and Blackstone.
In 2020, Karla co-founded Tangerine’s sister company Revelry, a people-centered consultancy that goes beyond talent placement—solving business challenges through people, chemistry, and culture.
Given her background, Karla has made it her mission to bridge the worlds of hormonal health and career performance and longevity for women in their perimenopausal and menopausal phases as her core belief is that we need women in power longer and that the lack of education, tools and support around what is happening to women's internal states and bodies during their perimenopausal and menopausal years is what is leading to women dropping out of the workforce between 40 and 50 simply because their symptoms are not recognized nor managed.
In this episode we are getting into Karla's own journey navigating the advertising world, moving through feeling completely out of alignment, launching a fem-tech hormone tracking business to then stepping into a role that is at the intersection of all of her interests being a talent recruiter and advocate for women. We're getting into what is actually happening to women's bodies, misdiagnoses, and how this affects the future of leadership and we are getting into all things listening to your soul vs ego when it comes to making decisions in your career.
This episode is dedicated to Matthew Stewart <3
To connect with Karla directly: hello@tangerine-team.com
Link to Tangerine: https://www.tangerine-team.com/
Link to Moody App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moody-month-hormone-tracker/id1414905792
Link to my IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/
Link to Active Ingredient's IG: https://www.instagram.com/activeingredient/
Link to Active Ingredient's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweill
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In this solo we're getting into the practice of continuously checking in with yourself to see if what you're doing - from a personal and professional standpoint - still feels like you now. We're in a constant evolution that requires a consistent check in and in this episode I'm giving 4 examples of recent experiences I've had with creators/events/brands that have felt like humans that are absolutely creating in a way that feels JUST like them now and them alone.
It would mean so much to me if you could like this video, subscribe to the channel and/or leave a comment if you enjoyed it - I love to hear from the AI group so much :)
Below are links to ways to connect:
Link to my (Sophie's) IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill
Link to Active Ingredient's IG: https://www.instagram.com/activeingredient
Link to Piano Piano (my tableware brand): https://pianopianohome.com/
My email: sophie@nudenationrealtions.com
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This is the first-time I've ever re-released an episode in the history of the show and I felt very called to bring it back up because it is precisely what I needed to hear at this moment in time myself.
We have my favorite author (and my favorite guest to-date) on the show this week, Gay Hendricks, talking about the Upper Limit Problem, our zone of genius and expanding beyond our current capacity. We're also getting into breath work, eating for vitality, choosing things in our life that will keep that light on versus dim it, the fear of being seen, why we self-sabotage, Gay's personal story and so much more.
Piano Piano Mother's Day 15% Discount with code ACTIVE at checkout: https://pianopianohome.com/
Link to The Big Leap: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Leap-Conquer-Hidden-Level/dp/0061735361
Link to Gay's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hendricks.gay/
Link to connect with me: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/
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This week's solo is all about expanding our overall view on art and starting to see how some brands/founders are really artists.
Link to watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweill
Link to AI's IG for Pod Clips: https://www.instagram.com/activeingredient
Link to my personal IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/
Link to Piano Piano: https://www.instagram.com/pianopiano/
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