Active Ingredient Podcast
Self-Improvement
About
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. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' hre
Episodes
- Don't Waste Good Rage
Did lil solo all about using all of the fire from rage to actually break through to your next phase and create something beautiful. Also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweill My IG: @sophieiweill Active Ingredient IG: @activein…
- Protecting Creativity, Visibility Fears & Building With Integrity With Tonya Papanikolov
Tonya Papanikolov, founder of Rainbo, joins Active Ingredient Podcast to discuss visibility, creativity, integrity in business, and self-trust. The conversation covers the fear of being seen, balancing freedom and responsibility, feminine…
- Returning to the Things You Love
The host returns after an absence, discussing seasonality, life updates including a move back to Miami, and reflections on visibility, fear, and self-trust, connecting these themes to the podcast's core message and new artwork.
- Calibrating to Peace and Learning to Receive with Florencia Fridman of Cacao Laboratory
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 a…
- Transitions + Continuity
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/sophieiwe…
- Why gut nourishment and diversity is foundational in order to thrive with Anabel González of Good Bacteria
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 recentl…
- Giving Yourself Permission To Express and Create with Teya Kepila
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 ceram…
- Making space
Solo on making space in order to let the aligned thing/idea/person come through and to ultimately get unstuck. Mentioned in the show: Casa Grace Liz Tran Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Permission to feel it all
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 yo…
- Create What You Crave
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 re…
- Marketing a purpose-driven business without social media with Harry Doull of Keap Candles
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&n…
- Creative Brewing + Your One Daily Assignment
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: @…
- Human Design as a Tool for Returning to Yourself, Ease, and Abundance with Emma Dunwoody
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…
- Renaissance of Resonance
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 ro…
- Lily Geiger on Creating Figlia, Navigating Loss, Working with Friends and Finding Identity Beyond Your Brand
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 conne…
- Active Listening
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 podc…
- Building a Brand That Resonates
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 t…
- Freedom Within a Framework
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 thi…
- Yoga, Purpose, Mental Health & Showing Up Fully – with Mimi Ghandour (Re-Release)
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 a…
- Hormonal health and career performance/longevity with Karla Stewart
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…
- But does it feel like you now?
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 cons…
- Expanding our capacity for abundance and moving beyond our upper limits with Gay Hendricks (re-release)
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…
- Founders are artists
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.ins…
- Remember, Recenter, Recommit
This week's solo is all about returning back to our original intentions for the year now that we are 1/4 of the way in. Remembering, recentering and recommitting to our intentions even in the midst of some pretty wild and disorienting time…
- Accessing higher centers of our brain via tarot with Danielle Mainas of Cacio e Pepe Tarot
Today we have the incredible Danielle Mainas, who is an artist, a very intuitive soul, a mother, a tarot card reader and one of the co-founders of Cacio e Pepe tarot - a tarot card brand rooted in connection, food, artistry, joy,…
- Sometimes it's not the what but the who and the how
I have deeeeefinitely wanted to throw in the towel many. a. time. and I do think there is a time and a place to throw the towel and I also do think that a lot of the time it's more about tweaking/shifting the who and the how not so much th…
- Energy Management + Human Design
I have a solo for you this week and it's a special one because it is a topic that I cannot stop talking about. I bring it up in every single conversation. I'm talking all things Human Design on this one and just going IN. I'm getting into:…
- Admitting what you actually want to do and doing it with Gaby Ulloa
We have Gabriela Ulloa on this week - a fellow Miami gal that I just love and am so inspired by how she moves in the world. She is a breath of fresh air and I feel you're going to leave this episode feeling so seen and connected. Gaby is a…
- Rising to the occasion
Hiiiii!!! Connect on IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Pivoting at any age, grounding in nature and creating from a guided place with WA:IT Founder Raffaella Grisa
In this episode I am chatting with Raffaella Grisa, the founder of WA:IT, a delicious slow beauty brand rooted in nature, intention, culture and sustainability (it's actually the first European beauty brand to be carbon negative) and we ar…
- Owning your contribution
Helloooo! We are back with a lil solo on owning our contributions exactly where we are at and understanding the importance of proximity to Truth. Hope you have a beautiful rest of your week! Connect on IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophiei…
- Start slow, stay scrappy, pay yourself and LISTEN with Stakt Co-founders Millie Blumka and Taylor Borenstein
This week's episode is with the founders of Stakt - the foldable yoga mat company that you have likely already been seeing everywhere. I said it a few times in the episode but what the brand and what the founders, Millie Blumka and Ta…
- Let it be easy
Hiiii!! This theme of letting things be easy has been swirling through the ol' system (and in so many convos I've had with a lot of different people) for the past few weeks and am so excited to connect with you on it in this week's solo Li…
- We are not islands!
Hellooo! We've got a solo today on remembering that we are not islands and that not leaning on your people (the one's who have earned a seat at your truest table) is robbing us from deep connection. Link to my IG: https://www.instagram.com…
- Impermanence
Today we have a solo episode where I'm chatting through the practice of sitting with the Truth of impermanence and how/why sitting with that truth helps us remain present/grateful for what is here and now. Link to my IG: https://www.instag…
- Acceptance + Audacity
First episode of 2025 is here (!!!!) and it's centered around both acceptance and audacity. Two things I think we're all deserving of and ready for Link to my IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/ Link to CLEARSTEM (use code ACTIVE f…
- This year was precisely FOR you
LAST EPISODE OF 2024!!! Sending you so much love these last few days of the year and wishing you a beautiful 2025!!! See you next year! Link to Autobiographer (use code ACTIVE20 for 20% off): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/autobiographer/id…
- Financial liberation, energy management and building rooted abundance with Elizabeth Ralph
This week's conversation is with Elizabeth Ralph, an incredibly kind and wise wealth strategist with 20+ years of industry experience as a former financial executive and an energy trader. Her belief around money (which is honestl…
- No more pedestals
We have a solo on no longer putting people, places, groups and things on pedestals. I'm chatting about first identifying where we might be doing that, how it might be serving us and how to start taking our power back and redirecting our en…
- Uncertainty is where the magic happens with Barbara Levin
We have my business coach and the founder of Be Bold Consulting, Barbara Levin, on the show who I adore and am so excited to share her genius/insights with you. Barbara has a doctorate in organizational leadership and works with femal…
- Right On Time
This week's solo is all about trusting exactly where you are at this very moment in your life and learning to fall in love with every step of the process. It's a reminder episode that we are all right on time. Not a day early and not a day…
- Your Story Matters with Matt Bowman, CEO & Co-Founder of Autobiographer
This week's episode is all about the power of our own personal stories and the art of storytelling as a whole. It's about getting to know our own stories, owning them entirely and sharing them with the people in our lives. I'm joined…
- Permission to REST
This week's solo is all about rest, giving yourself permission to rest/slow down, why it feels so uncomfortable and counter-culture to do so in this country and why choosing it is an act of resistance that helps build our inner trust muscl…
- Intuition, fascia, flow and liberation with Lo Roxburgh
This week's episode is with returning guest, Lo Roxburgh, who is a world renowned fascia expert, author and movement educator. Her expertise is in fascia which is the layer of tissue directly beneath the skin that surrounds…
- Enoughness, leaning into the feminine and showing up
I'm not gonna lie...I struggled heavy to get on the mic this week. I procrastinated it to the last moment and didn't know what I was going to talk about this week (was feeling majorly blocked) but what did come through when I finally sat d…
- THANK YOU ERIN FOSTER with Kiki Weill and Natalie Pardo
I am smiling from ear to ear writing this show note because this week's episode is with my SISTER (Kiki) and my BEST FRIEND (Pardo) and we are talking about all of our takeaways from the Netflix show, Nobody Wants This, created by Erin Fos…
- Energetically Aligned & Mutually Beneficial Opportunities
Hellooo! This week we have a solo all about stepping into energetically aligned and mutually beneficial opportunities, what to look/feel for and what to look out for, questions to ask yourself, as well as some examples of past experiences…
- Living with grief while transforming it into purpose with Mimi Ghandour
This week's conversation is one of the most profound conversations I have honestly ever had in my life on or off the podcast. I'm joined by my friend and my yoga teacher Mimi Ghandour who is truly one of the strongest people…
- The Fear of Being Seen
We have a solo today and the theme of this week's show is about something that I think a lot of us can relate to, which is about the fear of being seen. It's a fear that is so deeply embedded in our systems and is one that takes bringing i…
- Processing in and through the body with Anne-Marie Duchêne
I cannot tell you how excited I am to share this week's episode with you. I've been dying to release it from the moment we finished the conversation. The guest of the show this week is Ann-Marie Duchêne who is my body worker who…