Who Are You? The Elemental Teen Podcast

What does it mean to stop worrying about whether other people think you're cool and start trusting who you really are?

In this episode, I'm joined by Megan, a former dance student who has grown into a performing and teaching artist, choreographer, and community builder.

Megan reflects on her teenage years, the experiences that shaped her, and the winding path that led her into the performing arts. We talk about following a creative calling even when others don't understand it, navigating self-doubt and the pressure to fit in, and finding the courage to let yourself...

The ground shifts. The foundation you've always relied on suddenly isn't there. Whether it's a family upheaval, a loss, a change you didn't ask for — earthquakes happen. And how you move through one says everything about your elemental nature.

In this episode, Micki talks about what happens to each element — Fire, Earth, Air, and Water — when life gets shaken up. Not in a theoretical way. In a real, this-is-what-it-actually-looks-like way. Because understanding your elemental Blueprint doesn't just help you know yourself on good days. It helps you find yourself on the hard ones.

She also shares...

What if ADHD isn't the whole story — but it's also pointing at something even more useful underneath?

In this episode, I sit down with Gabe — 18 years old, Japanese-Filipino, former Honolulu kid, current pre-professional ballet dancer in Nashville, Tennessee — and we do something I love more than almost anything: we step inside his world and look around.

Gabe has ADHD. He also has dyscalculia and dysgraphia. He's been labeled, assessed, and handed a framework for understanding himself. And yet, talking with Gabe, what strikes you isn't his diagnosis — it's his extraordinary self-awareness, his philosophical calm, his quiet pr...

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 someon...

She looks like she has it all together.

She's 19, studying aerospace engineering at one of the most demanding aeronautical universities, and she carries herself with a quiet grace that makes people feel at ease before she's even said a word.

But beneath that? A girl who has spent years studying harder than anyone knew, smiling through the overload, and privately wondering whether who she is could ever be enough — without the proof of what she's done.

In this episode, Micki sits down with Alana, 19 for a full elemental blueprint reading. What unfolds is an...

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There are things you carry that no one can see. The weight of performing, achieving, holding it all together — while something much heavier lives underneath.

This episode goes there.

Fire, earth, air, and water each have an extreme edge — a place where their natural force becomes overwhelming and sometimes terrifying. And when you're carrying more than any one person should carry alone, you can feel every single one of them.

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She was driven and sensitive. Two things that felt like they were at constant war with each other.

Before Girlvana, the book deal, the retreats — Ally Maz was just a girl who felt everything deeply and had nowhere to put it. Her journey into wellness began at 20, navigating the end of a dance career, a hidden eating disorder, and severe asthma.

In this episode of Once Upon a Teen, Micki sits down with Ally to go back. To the teenager who wore fake eyelashes to competitions, pushed through exhaustion she couldn't name, and learned far to...

What if someone could look at the exact moment you were born and show you — not who you're supposed to become, but who you already are?

That's what an Elemental Blueprint reading is. And in this episode, you get to witness one happening in real time.

Aine is eighteen, about to leave everything familiar and step into the next chapter of her life. She sits down with Micki not entirely sure what to expect — and what unfolds is a conversation about depth, identity, emotional intensity, impossible self-standards, and what it actually means to be exactly who...

This one started on a yoga mat.

I wanted to dedicate my practice to a friend going through something hard — something with a lot of anger. And somewhere between the sun salutations and the warriors, my mind went down a rabbit hole that took me from her relationship, to every relationship, to every conflict, the news, the wars, and eventually — uncomfortably — back to myself.

I have an Aries Moon. I've carried anger through my parents' divorce, through losing my brother, through twenty years with my partner whom I love deeply and still manage to get mad at...

Some people find the stars. Others are found by them.

Yael is an astrologer, a teacher, and the creator of the Planetary Balance Method (TM) — a framework for balancing the five planetary energies that shape every human life. But before all of that, she was a teenager carrying things no teenager should have to carry alone. A brother with leukemia. A mother who died at 44. A father with a secret. And underneath all of it — a girl who desperately longed to be loved, and had no idea how to let it in.

In this episode, Yael...

What does it look like to move across the country at eighteen to pursue something you love — something that isn't always celebrated, isn't always understood, and doesn't come with a guaranteed path?

In this episode, I sit down with OB — a young dancer, creator, and deeply thoughtful human being — to talk about identity, culture, belonging, and what it means to feel more sure of yourself as you grow.

We explore how OB navigates being a young Asian woman in the ballet world, what her Elemental Signature reveals about where she is right now, and how surrou...

What if there was a language for who you are — one that didn't put you in a box, didn't ask you to perform, and didn't require you to have it all figured out?

That's what your Elemental Signature is.

In this first solocast, Micki introduces one of the core tools of The Elemental Teen — the Elemental Signature. Three simple pieces of your birth chart — your Sun, your Moon, and your Rising sign — read through the language of the four elements. Fire, Water, Air, and Earth.

Together, they form a picture of how your energy a...

She was "Emma, the ballet dancer". That was her whole identity — until her body said no. Twice.

Two torn ACLs. A spot at Boston Ballet's professional program. Her chance as a real ballerina lost in a single audition moment. Recovery alone at boarding school. And somewhere in all of that — the quiet, unexpected discovery of who she actually is beyond the thing that defined her.

In this honest and luminous conversation, Emma opens up about performing "I'm fine" for the world while falling apart behind closed doors, the loneliness of watching others do the thing you...

In the very first episode of Who Are You? The Elemental Teen Podcast, host Micki sits down with Emma and Olivia Butterfly (OB), two 19-year-olds navigating that messy, beautiful space between high school and "real life." Emma is completing her yoga teacher certification in California, while OB is pursuing dance through Alvin Ailey's professional program in New York City.

Instead of the usual "what do you want to be when you grow up?" conversation, we dive into a different question entirely: Who are you right now? What does it mean to practice "the art of being human"?<...