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...
Jun 10, 2025•57 min
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 ...
Jun 03, 2025•34 min
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/ac...
May 27, 2025•36 min
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.i...
May 20, 2025•20 min
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 too...
May 13, 2025•49 min
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 Vitrone, 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...
May 06, 2025•51 min
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 yo...
Apr 29, 2025•30 min
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 kee...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 3 min
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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 15, 2025•20 min
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 times. Sending you so much love <333 Full Video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sophieiweill Link to my IG to connect: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 08, 2025•24 min
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, presence and spirituality. We don't get into what tarot is until later on in the conversation so for those of you who don't know high level tarot is a tool for self discovery and introspection - it originated in Milan in the 1400s as a game and then evolved into a tool ...
Apr 01, 2025•53 min
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 the what and the why. Here's a lil solo on the topic! To connect with me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/ Link to watch episodes on YouTube: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 18, 2025•19 min
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: What is Human Design? How it can help us start to live/work/create/connect in a way that is sustainable, feels good and aligned in our systems Why am I so into it as a tool for deconditioning, discovering your natural energy and ultimately giving yourself the ...
Mar 11, 2025•38 min
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 Cuban-American journalist, host, writer and most recently the creator of Irregardless - a YouTube show and Substack that focuses on amplifying Latin excellence via incredibly rich conversations. She is also a writer for Architectural Digest, The Cut, Byrdie, T...
Mar 04, 2025•48 min
Hiiiii!!! <3 Here's a lil solo on what it could look like for us to rise to the occasion in a way we might not have yet and letting other people show up for us and surprise us. Sending you a big hug! Connect on IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 26, 2025•21 min
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 are getting into her incredible story of starting a brand at 50 years old that is rooted in 2 beautiful and symbiotic cultures - Japanese and Italian, where Raffaella is from. Part of the reason her story captivated me so much, aside fro her energy, was because s...
Feb 19, 2025•45 min
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! <3 Connect on IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 11, 2025•14 min
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 Taylor Borenstein, feel like to me is just so refreshing. I love seeing people build brands in this clear, rooted, unobstructed by noise/True way and am so excited for you to listen. In this episode we're getting into exactly how they went from idea to creating their ...
Feb 04, 2025•49 min
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 <3 Link to connect with me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/ If you're in NY and want to flow with me in a yoga class - Monday's at 7:30am @ Heatwise Bowery: https://www.heatwise-studio.com/ Link to iota (use code ACTIVE for 15% off your order): h...
Jan 28, 2025•21 min
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/sophieiweill/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 21, 2025•10 min
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.instagram.com/sophieiweill/ Link to CLEARSTEM (use code ACTIVE at checkout for 15% off your order): https://clearstem.com/ Link to Autobiographer (use code ACTIVE20 at checkout for 20% off your subscription): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/autobiographer/id6469733133 ...
Jan 14, 2025•22 min
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 <3 Link to my IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/ Link to CLEARSTEM (use code ACTIVE for 15% off your order - my go-to's are the exfoliator, moisturizer, Clearity and Cellerenew serums): https://clearstem.com/ Link to the last episode of 2024 I referenced in this episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-year-was-precisely-for-yo...
Jan 08, 2025•20 min
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! <3 Link to Autobiographer (use code ACTIVE20 for 20% off): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/autobiographer/id6469733133 Link to CLEARSTEM (use code ACTIVE for 15% off): https://clearstem.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 30, 2024•13 min
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 honestly very similar to mine) is that the world will truly change when wealth moves into the hands of those with greater consciousness. I was so attracted to her philosophy around viewing money as energy (because that's honestly what it is) and why the most important conversat...
Dec 23, 2024•1 hr 14 min
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 energy to our own things <3 No one is above or below!!! Link to episode with Barbara: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uncertainty-is-where-the-magic-happens-with-barbara-levin/id1466712918?i=1000679813322 Link to my IG: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiw...
Dec 16, 2024•17 min
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 female founders (a lot of who I'm sure you know of) in transforming complex leadership challenges - emotions, people and processes - into actionable insights. I'm a really big believer in working with and investing in tools, people, and resources that can help keep you a...
Dec 09, 2024•1 hr 13 min
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 behind. Link to the episode with Matt from Autobiographer on our personal stories: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-story-matters-with-matt-bowman-ceo-co-founder/id1466712918?i=1000678153145 Use code ACTIVE20 for 20% off your Autobiographer subscript...
Dec 02, 2024•27 min
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 by Matt Bowman who is one of the co-founders of Autobiographer, the AI Powered app that I've been working with since re-launching the podcast in September that helps us tell and preserve our life stories. Matt is a father, a husband, a philosopher, an incredibly kin...
Nov 25, 2024•1 hr 9 min
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 muscle <3 Link to Lo's Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intuition-fascia-flow-and-liberation-with-lo-roxburgh/id1466712918?i=1000676472211 Link to Beginning Again Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beginning-again-and-again-we-back/id146...
Nov 18, 2024•18 min
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 and supports muscles, organs, and other structures throughout the body. It plays a huuuuge role in how we alchemize stuck/old energy into liberation/expansion and is the communication network of the body (some also refer to fascia as the subconscious mind that lives underneat...
Nov 12, 2024•56 min
