ICONS with Ava Johanna

In this week's episode, I chat with Sara Abiqwa about all things guidance and inner voice. We discuss what it means to follow and live in alignment with your inner guidance, and ways you can learn to trust yourself more over the “shoulds” and external validation. Guidance is essentially the practice of reclaiming the relationship with the self and getting quiet enough to hear it. I share how this...

I’m joined this week by the one and only George Lizos. George is a spiritual teacher, intuitive, author of “Be the Guru” and the #1 bestselling “Lightworkers Gotta Work”, co-creator of Elemental HealingTM and host of “The Lit Up Lightworker” podcast. He helps lightworkers to find their life purpose and work their light in real, palpable ways that create positive change in the world. In this episod...

In this week's solo episode, we’re kicking off the week with a reminder that I hope reignites the power and the flame inside of you: All possibilities exist. We have the choice to create and achieve anything that we desire in a way that is expansive, flows, and is fun. We no longer need to make decisions based on what’s already happened or what presently exists. There are unlimited possibilities t...

Debra Silverman, part Astrologer, part psychologist, part comedian, and ALL REAL, joins me on this week’s episode. She helps people turn on their own inner observer, to see the things they say and do in a totally objective way. With over 40 years of professional experience and private practice, she has specialized in helping thousands of individuals achieve emotional health and wisdom based on the...

In this week's solo episode, I’m going to share the steps you can take to help release control and allow yourself to be massively supported by both unseen and seen support systems. While control can be a safety mechanism, it prevents us from support and expansion. Without support and expansion, it can feel like us against the world when in reality, it’s always been us AND the world. Asking for hel...

On today’s episode, I’m joined by the incredible Amanda Marit who I’m so grateful to have as my Coach. Amanda is an International Coach, Speaker, and Intuitive who empowers and inspires Spiritual women to step into their highest possible selves in their lives + businesses. As an Intuitive, she is able to connect with Divine to guide women to move beyond their own limitations. Amanda explains how h...

In this week's solo episode, I’m going to share with you 8 manifestation lessons I’ve learned (and re-learned) through my process of looking for my dream home. I wanted to be vulnerable and transparent with you about the challenges I faced in my house-hunting process but know that these universal lessons can be applied to manifesting your desires and dreams in any aspect of your life. They can be...

In this conversation, Sah D’Simone radiantly explains what it means to be Spiritually Sassy. We dive into why we need to stop intellectualizing spirituality and actually begin experiencing it in a way that creates a more joyous, creative, relaxed, and compassionate life. We also talk about giving yourself permission to move through challenges to get back to better vibes, and not let suffering be a...

In this week's solo episode, I walk you through the launch process and everything that comes with it: the joy, fulfillment, growth, imposter syndrome, and everything in between. I share my mindset about launching, how I stay in alignment, and the strategies I use for a successful launch. It wasn’t always easy and definitely wasn’t always fun, but with each launch, I’ve learned from it, transformed...

In this episode, I catch up with Alexis Florentina, an Emotional + Mental Health Coach, a Meditation and Reiki practitioner, and a former Academy of Breath student. We discuss meditation and breathwork and how these tools transformed us in such a profound way that inspired us to share these practices with others. Meditation and breathwork strengthen our trust muscle. When adding these tools to our...

In this week's solo episode, I drop some game-changing wisdom on how to become a high ticket coach. I’ll be sharing both the practical and spiritual steps I took to build, launch, and grow my business which allowed me to achieve my first $50K+ month! I’ll also leave you with some important questions to ask yourself when beginning or continuing towards your goal of offering a robust ecosystem of tr...

In this conversation, we dive into the importance of being mindful and intentional when it comes to food and nutrition. Soshy Adelstein of Embody Nutrition shares her journey from experiencing trauma and struggling with body issues to starting a practice to help women make peace with their relationship to food through intuitive eating. We discuss the need to reject diet culture and how we can star...

In this week's solo episode, I open up about how meditation and breathwork act as conduits for manifestation in my own life and why I'm so passionate about teaching these practices to others. These practices, which are part of my daily routine, allow us to transcend the research and logic, tapping into the "inaccessible". I walk you through how these practices integrate together to clear the space...

Get ready to build your arsenal of herbs and daily rituals with this week’s guest on The Alchemized Life, Organic Olivia. From integrating herbs into our daily routine to creating rituals around our meals, this herbal goddess gives us the low down on the healing power of herbs and how we can start to integrate them into our daily life. Because when we heal the physical, we really start to break op...

Resilience is an essential component for manifestation. It reminds of our ineffable power to rise again and again in the pursuit of our dreams after we’ve been knocked down. So, how can we cultivate more resilience? In this week’s solo episode, I share how the bounce back method, meditation and breathwork, and perseverance in the pursuit of our vision can help us navigate jarring experiences. Usin...

Oftentimes, we don’t realize how our privilege limits inclusivity in the wellness industry. Even spiritual practices, such as tarot readings, fail to highlight individuals of color along with the breadth of relationships that exist beyond heterosexuality. This week’s guest on The Alchemized Life, Samara Kasai, decolonizes the tarot from imagery to language. When we infuse social justice into our d...

For many years, I focused my energy on making a lot of money. Despite making a $60-70k salary as a digital marketing strategist, I felt unfulfilled by the work. I realized money is just a means to an end. But, what is the end? The end is the joy, connection, passion, purpose and freedom. These are the end goals, and money is just the means through which we can achieve these feelings and live our f...

Sales is an integral aspect of any business; however, the thought of sales might make some of us feel anxious. This week on The Alchemized Life, Juliet Obodo and I share all of our energetic secrets around sales. Rather than lowering our prices, Juliet encourages us to make the sales process more consultative. This not only creates authentic connections with our clientele, but empowers them to tra...

We spend countless hours in front of our electronic devices; however, the blue light our devices emit has a negative impact on our overall well being. This week on The Alchemized Life, Andy Mant and I nerd out on blue light. We discuss the disruptive effects blue light has on our physiology, the importance of investing in blue light blocking glasses and what makes his brand, BLUblox, stand out fro...

No matter where you are in the world, the new moon and full moon occur at the same moment in time. According to this week’s guest on The Alchemized Life and founder of Spirit Daughter, Jill Wintersteen, it’s a unifying energy that we can all tap into. As individuals as well as a collective, we can harness its energy to clear subconscious blocks, connect with our intuition, and manifest our vision....

As women, we’re constantly on the go. Work, family gatherings, parenting, errands. However, if there’s one thing this pandemic has taught us, it’s to lessen our to-do lists and take stress in stride, so we can reclaim our hormonal health. This week’s guest on The Alchemized Life and Hormone Health Educator, Candace Burch, shares how stress impacts our adrenals and how we can balance our hormone le...

The world doesn’t need more carbon copies; the world needs more people who aren’t afraid to let their freak flag fly and own their voice. Because when we own our voice, we awaken our most authentic self and allow our soul’s essence to shine through. We become magnetic, and inspire the people around us to tap into the powerful, creative and confident leader that resides within them. This, my loves,...

Have you taken The Class by Taryn Toomey yet? If you haven’t, what are you waiting for?! Not only is it one of the sweatiest workouts you’ll ever attend, but it’s also a spiritually cathartic experience for body, mind and soul. This week on The Alchemized Life, we’re re-welcoming Natalie Kuhn, a founding teacher of The Class by Taryn Toomey, for a conversation on how we can use movement as a tool...

Did you know every person who has been on the planet has an Akashic Record - a non-physical, vibrational history of their soul? Every thought or emotion our soul witnessed has imprinted into this non-physical record. In this week’s episode, Ashley Wood and I have a riveting conversation about how we’ve both used our uniquely individual Akashic Records to reconnect with our inner knowing rather tha...

Money. We feel ashamed if we don’t have enough and even more ashamed if we want it. Yet, we’re expected to know how to make lots of it. Channel your inner moneymaker with the re-release of Amanda Frances’s interview on The Alchemized Life. Amanda and I will share how we have reprogramed our beliefs around money, so we can manifest more of it. Repeat after me: I love money and money loves me! &nbsp...