Yuliana Kim-Grant's Phoenix Tales

How does the death of a parent redirect the course of one’s life? Judy Glassman joins Yuliana on today’s episode as she recounts the painful experience of losing her mother to brain cancer, the joy of finding yoga, and transitioning into a new career at a later age for a meaningful life. Judy begins the conversation by describing the challenging event that reshaped her life - losing her mother to...

On the show this week, Yuliana is joined by Carly Hunter to share her inspiring phoenix tale. Carly is a passionate yoga practitioner specifically in Ashtanga Yoga and a private yoga instructor in New York City. Today she shares her story of how she left her career in advertising and found yoga, which to her surprise came with power dynamics she had seen in her previous career. She also relates ho...

Holistic self-care specialist Dana Heller joins Yuliana today to share her inspiring story with listeners. From the life changing doctor’s visit where she found out she had a brain tumor, to her experiences going through multiple surgeries, Dana has come out the other side to help others going through what she did and helping them to feel empowered and healthy once again. The conversation begins w...

Yanti Amos joins Yuliana today to share her story of how she navigated the events that redirected her life. An experienced international lawyer, Yanti was propelled by a series of events to leave her law career behind and venture to New York City where she founded Earth YogaNYC, which she and her husband, Richard, then sold in 2019. Among her many other accomplishments, Yanti is also a polo player...

Joining our host, Yuliana Kim-Grant, this week is Kim Thai, an Emmy-award-winning producer, writer, activist, and mindfulness teacher. She is the founder of GaneshSpace, a community organization dedicated to creating spaces to dismantle internalized oppression and explore identity through the lens of intersectionality. Kim shares her Phoenix Tale today of how she rediscovered herself after her div...

Today Yuliana is joined by Wati Grossman, a fashion designer who gave up a law career to pursue her passion and love for fashion, and who now has over 30 years experience as a fashion professional in New York and San Francisco. In addition to  her own design pursuits, Wati provides mentoring and consulting to fashion-related start-ups, garment designers and manufacturers in Silicon Valley and...

Today on the show, Yuliana is joined by Ji Young, the founder of the Tide Film Festival. An attorney turned non-profit executive, producer, writer, speaker and facilitator, Ji is the Founder of DreamMaker DreamDoer DreamSupporter, inc, - 3D, and is the creator, producer and host of the web series ‘Not Your Average’ for KoreanAmericanstory.org. as well as the founder, co-creator, former co-producer...

Today Yuliana is joined by Jimin Han, the author of the novel, A Small Revolution . Born in Seoul, Korea, Jimin grew up in the United States, eventually attending Cornell University and earning an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her writing can be found in a number of publications, and A Small Revolution , her first novel, has appeared on many ‘Best Fiction’ and ‘Must Reads’ lists. Jimin currentl...

On the show today, Hourig Messerlian, Senior Director of IT Business at Computing and Information Services - The City University of New York,  joins Yuliana to tell her remarkable and truly inspiring story of how she got to where she is today. Starting with how she fled a country ravaged by Civil War, crossing continents and countries, facing many life altering changes along the way, Hourig n...

Today's guest, Carolyn Waters, recounts the big moment of crisis when she realized the career she had spent 20 years building may not have been the life she was meant to live. In spite of her fears of leaving an established career behind and the fear she may never find her path, on this episode, you’ll hear the outcome of how this one step into the unknown, ended with her finding a surprising new...

Joining Yuliana today is Nancy Castle Donahue, a model who rose to the top of her field in the 70’s and 80’s, becoming one of the most successful fashion models of her time. During her reign in the fashion arena, Donahue’s face was on the cover of virtually every fashion magazine in the world, and she also led several significant cosmetic campaigns for brands like Helena Rubenstein, Avon and Clair...

This week, Yuliana is joined by Patricia Ruiz, the owner of three Pilates Studios in New York City called Moving Strength. A lifetime dancer, Patricia has performed and toured with some of New York City's most renowned dance companies, has choreographed Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and continues to judge dance competitions throughout the country. She is also certified as a Personal Trainer thro...

Joining Yuliana on the podcast today is Dana Slamp, founder and director of Prema Yoga Institute. Having started teaching Yoga in 2005, Dana is currently a therapeutics educator and teacher trainer who consults on wellness programs for clinics, doctor's offices, condominiums, and corporations, is a member of IAYT, and teaches clients on an individual basis in New York City. In today’s episode, she...

Joining Yuliana today is Erica Mather, author of Your Body, Your Best Friend .  Hand-selected by Ana Forrest to become a lineage-holder (called “a Guardian”) in the Forrest Yoga system, Erica is also the founder of ‘The Adore Your Body Transformational Program’, a 7-step system for getting a handle on body image challenges, as well as ‘The Yoga Clinic of NYC’. In today’s episode, Erica shares...

Eden Grimaldi, founder and owner of PR and branding company, MediaCraft, joins Yuliana on the show today to take listeners on the journey of the most challenging year in her life and to demonstrate how she became unstoppable after facing those challenges. Her fearlessness, resolve and optimism, despite going through a traumatic period, is so inspiring and today she speaks about how her post trauma...

Today’s episode of Phoenix Tales comes with a trigger warning, as we will be discussing eating disorders. Host Yuliana Kim-Grant speaks with Amanda Murdock, the Senior Director of Fitness for the Daily Burn. Amanda shares her candid story about struggling with an eating disorder while working in the wellness industry, what prompted her to finally seek help, and how this experience ultimately made...

Mary Cerdeiras is Yuliana’s very special guest on the podcast today. Faced with a diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2009, Mary decided to complement the traditional Western treatment she was receiving with alternative treatments, a decision which would ultimately shape her life from that moment forward. Today, we are all so very privileged to listen in as she shares her inspirational tale of...

Welcome to the premier podcast episode of Phoenix Tales, a show about women overcoming challenges in their lives, and, like the Phoenix, being reborn with their lives reimagined. Joining our host, Yuliana Kim-Grant , this week is Ginger McKnight-Chavers, author of In the Heart of Texas . A graduate of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and Harvard Law School, Ginger was a practicing lawyer whe...

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