For our season finale of Tub Talks, we soak with my first friend ever in life, Nitsa Citrine. Nitsa and I became friends upon her birth, 9 days after mine. Our parents all met at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, and created us there, with her mother famously even sharing her breast milk with me from time to time. We have been fostering friendship for over 30 years; allowing Nitsa and me to share our earliest childhood memories that molded us and our relationship into who we are today. Nitsa and I discuss our unconventional upbringings, drawn up by strong-personalitied parents who pushed against societal norms and imbued that into us.

As we share memories, Nitsa details the first moments of her entering adulthood through various jobs from working as barista at a local coffee shop and assisting an energy healer, to working as a server at an upscale restaurant where she would meet Scott, with whom she developed a successful herbal supplement brand. Nitsa shares her journey in her early twenties of building a business around her passion of nourishment from ground up: from pushing samples in markets to traveling the world speaking on panels and being a thought-leader in the wellness space. Nitsa was written up and interviewed for nearly every major news outlet.

As her business grew, her opportunities for exploration grew simultaneously. She created the “Women with Super Powers” photography series featuring women like Jane Goodall. A series she co-created with Tasya van Ree to emphasize women empowerment by photographing and interviewing women who live in their strengths.

After struggling with her own physical ailments, Nitsa was forced to acknowledge her traumas which had manifested into the somatic experience. Nitsa recounts working with a mentor for business management who has counseled her in navigating death cycles, childhood traumas and being present. Growing up in an unconventional environment, Nitsa chronicles her first and only experience with Western Medicine as a result of unresolved metaphysical traumas. She imparts her wisdom of how pain can bring us to a threshold of what we think we know is right or wrong, and trusting in our intuitions. This trust can lead us into new territory, and new decision-making.

Listen now to peek into a genuine relationship of two people who have continued friendship while authentically being themselves!

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Ep. 22 | Tub Talks with Nitsa Citrine: Creative + Alchemist