The Modern Crone: Season 3: Afterlife with Adrian Bai

The Spirit of Love with Sexual Wellness Consultant, Christina Antonyan

Christina Antonyan is a student of experiences, and curiosity is her driving force.

She is a sexual wellness consultant, speaker, writer, content creator, educator, and founder of ConfidentLovers.com.

She created ConfidentLovers with a mission to normalise what should already be normal – respectfully and comfortably talking about sex, without shame, guilt or anxiety.

 For over 15 years she’s explored sexuality across 60 countries to understand how media, culture, tech and religion shape our sexual beliefs.

She has taught and studied with teachers around the world, as a result, her work integrates many different modalities.

She’s helping singles, couples and parents understand and appreciate the fascinating and mysterious nature of sexuality through her website, social media and video courses.

Join us for a fabulous exploration of Love and Sex. Is love, expressed sexually, a spiritual experience?  What is the role of Love in our sexual relations and confidence? Does sex ‘make love’?  What is the role of trust in relationships? What is the connection between self-love and intimacy? Has dating become transactional in the digital era?

You can connect with Christina here:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/confident_lovers/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/ConfidentLovers/ 

Website: https://www.confidentlovers.com/

The books Christina references in the chat:

1. Transcendent Sex Book 

2. The Spirit Intimacy Book

3. Karezza Practice Article 

4. Erotic Touch Video Course

The Modern Crone team -

Theme music and season intro tracks:

Sam Joole: 

www.samjoole.com

Cover design and photography

Luana Suciu

https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/

Luanasuciu@gmail.com 

Voice editing:

Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios

maskmusicstudios@outlook.com

Creative Spirit with Serial Entrepreneur and Content Community Queen, Chris Edwards

Chris is a serial entrepreneur having started her first business in 2008 at 28 years of age — a lifestyle media platform: Honeycombers.  Honeycombers is now the go-to lifestyle resource for locals, expats and tourists alike across Singapore, Hong Kong and Bali.  She has also created a parenting platform called HoneyKids Asia.  Collectively there are over 1 million unique readers of Honeycombers content across South East Asia every month.

 Chris started coaching entrepreneurs, and from this experience she saw the need for a community for conscious entrepreneurs, so she created Launchpad in 2022.  Launchpad is an entrepreneurial community, designed to help small businesses thrive through community, peer mentoring and coaching. Launchpad today has over 450 members from across 6 countries. 

 Chris now runs 4 companies across 4 countries and hosts a weekly podcast called Good Business where she interviews impact-led founders. Chris spends her time split between Singapore, Hong Kong, Bali and Byron Bay, Australia, where she lives with her husband and three kids. 

Join us as we explore the role of creative expression in the generation of business ideas and growth, the need to slow things down to gain traction, how to intuitively identify potential niches and trusting your gut to take risks, Chris’s ability to envisage offerings that don’t currently exist, and the importance of trust,  how having her third child compelled her into art school…and so much more!

You can find out more about Chris at:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisedwardshoneycombers/ 

 www.thelaunchpad.group

Creative Spirit with Musician, Singer, Songwriter and Entertainer Sam Joole

Sam Joole is an Australian singer, songwriter, entertainer, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, producer and composer. Born in South Africa, from Spanish, Moroccan and Lithuanian Roots, he resides in Sydney, Australia. 

A diverse career has taken him to many places where he has developed his own sound and story. He is constantly playing live and creating new music.

 Always inspired by making records with labels or on his own, there is always room for great opportunity - small or large.

 Sam is also available as a covers and tribute show performer.

Join us as we explore how Sam’s rebellious nature as a boy forged his path into being a professional creative; the influence of his mother’s creative nature; his ability to sense musical patterns and adapt them to different instruments; his beautiful take on the ‘spaces in between’ and the importance of ‘being lost’ to allow the subconscious to create, and so much more.

 You can find out more about Sam here:

www.samjoole.com

www.instagram.com/samjoole/

www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=sam%20joole


The Modern Crone team:

Theme music and season intro tracks:

Sam Joole: 

www.samjoole.com

Cover design and photography

Luana Suciu

https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/

Luanasuciu@gmail.com 

Voice editing:

Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios

maskmusicstudios@outlook.com

Creative Spirit with Speaker and Author Simone Heng

Simone Heng is a human connection specialist and former international broadcaster for, among others, Virgin Radio Dubai, HBO Asia, and CNBC. 

She is one of the youngest female Certified Speaking Professionals in the world. With over fifteen years of experience as a communicator on air, on stage, and one on one in different countries, connection has always been her life’s work. 

As a speaker, Simone inspires people to connect in a world thirsty for connection. She has spoken to thousands, and often for Fortune 500 organisations. 

Her clients include Google, ByteDance, Spotify, Salesforce, SAP, Meta, the United Nations, and many more. Simone and her work have been featured on CNN and in Forbes, SCMP, TEDx, Vogue, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar, among others. 

Simone is based and was born in Singapore but has also studied in Switzerland, was raised in Australia, and worked in the United Arab Emirates. 

She has a communications and cultural studies degree from Curtin University of Technology. Her latest book “Let’s Talk About Loneliness” will be published by Hay House on June 27th.

Join us as we explore the role of creativity in Simone's journey, how trauma and hardship can become fuel for creativity and how she perceives her creativity as a guiding light that links her to the universe. Beautiful!

You can find out more about Simone here:

www.simoneheng.com
www.linkpop.com/simoneheng
www.instagram.com/simoneheng

Creative Spirit with Art Psychotherapist and Author: Samantha Hickman

Samantha qualified as an Art Psychotherapist from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore and holds a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art from University of Plymouth, UK.

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, prior to the beginning of the civil war, Sam was brought up between the Middle East (Morocco and Saudi Arabia) and the UK, before her family moved to Asia where she lived for a total of 23 years (Hong Kong and Singapore).

Sam became an art psychotherapist to integrate her own creative practice into working with others and covers a wide spectrum of reasons for therapy from depression, stress, and anxiety, to anger and grief and loss.

 She completed her clinical placement with the Singapore Cancer Society, working with adults living with cancer, and went on to employment with the organisation before relocating to the city Bath, UK, in 2019, where she now works as a socially engaged artist alongside her private practice. 

Sam has exhibited in Singapore and the UK, has delivered workshops at international conferences and universities, and is a published writer on art therapy, practices and processes.

 She is a member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) and the Australian, NewZealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapy Association, (ANZACATA), and HCPC registered. She is also DBS approved.

Her multicultural exposure and love of art mean that she brings a wealth of life experience into the therapy space, where she empowers others through the process of creativity, providing therapeutic guidance and support along the way.

Join us as we explore Samantha's beauitful process of creative expression as a form of guidance and respite; her varied and prolific mediums; her work with cancer patients and art as a healing medium. 

You can find out more about Sam here:

www.instagram.com/hopearttherapy

hopearttherapy@gmail.com 

The Modern Crone team:

Theme music and season intro tracks:

Sam Joole: 

www.samjoole.com

Cover design and photography

Luana Suciu

https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/

Luanasuciu@gmail.com 

Voice editing:

Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios

maskmusicstudios@outlook.com

Rebecca Downie is an international personal branding photographer whose clients are based across the UK, Singapore and Australia. 

 Her great uncle was a photographer and it was the many old photos from her mum's life that instilled in her the value of photos. A tangible record of a life lived. 

 From teen years she often had a camera in her hand but with no creative role models in her life she followed the traditional path of uni and business, followed by a 15 year career in the media and marketing industry. 

 When looking to leave corporate to create a life on her terms she turned to her love of photography.

Her passion is empowering women leaders and founders to proudly take the space they deserve. 

Her 'why' in business is to provide a service that not only creates a portfolio of stunning on-brand marketing images for their business, but one that shows them, via the power of her lens, just how fabulous they are. And how the world already sees them.

You can find more about Rebecca here:

www.rebeccadowniephotography.com

www.instagram.com/Rebecca.Downie.photography 

www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccadowniephotography

Creative Spirit with Professional Artist - Mishell Leong

Malaysian born Artist, Mishell Leong is a life expressionist; passionate about communicating her love for life through her use of vivid colours and bold techniques found in her iconic artwork.

Mishell’s signature style is a credit to her ever expansive and evolving nature. She has liberated herself from the constraints of traditional techniques and preconceptions of what and how art should be, using her distinct style and vibrant colours as an avenue to communicate her inspirations and messages to the world.

As a multiculturalist who has lived all over the world, Mishell very much identifies with Western culture and way of life, as much as she does with Asian culture. Mishell started out her professional career as a Chartered Accountant in London which quickly transported her to New York, Korea, Germany, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Singapore and beyond. Mishell’s journey in the world of finance came to an end in 2012 when she gave into her true calling of expression and has not looked back. 

As all great stories often tell, life has taken her one full circle and she now finds herself residing back in Switzerland beside stunning Lake Zurich creating more than ever.

Mishell taps into life’s energetic flow drawing on love and the beauty of each given moment & all that surrounds us to create her new collection.

Mishell Leong is proudly represented by International Artist Management and Art Consultancy firm Curate International – with a presence in London and Singapore.

Join us as Mishell shares her journey from corporate career into professional artist, how she works with colour and form in every aspect of her life, some unusual sources of inspiration (which include being spanked), how she interweaves spiritual symbolism into her works and so much more.

You can find out more about Mishell here:

www.mishellleong.com 

www.curate-international.com/mishell-leong

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=mishell%20leong%20art

https://www.instagram.com/mishellleongart/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishell-leong

Creative Spirit with Film Director, Musician, Commercial Advertising Director - Adrian Van de Velde

Born with prodigious music and technical talents, Adrian started writing music and pulling apart household appliances at the age of five. A theme which has since underscored his approach to almost everything he turns his attention to. 

After graduating from the prestigious Australian Film, Television and Radio School Adrian was immediately snapped up by Commercial Music Powerhouse Song Zu Sydney as a composer of TVCs, TV and Film, while moonlighting for Fox Studios Australia, screenwriting an original SciFi TV Series. He has won the coveted Australia Guild of Screen Composers award twice, and has been nominated for a Motion Picture Association of America 'Technical Oscar' for his short film Rock et Man. 

Adrian’s love of the moving image soon took hold and in 2000 he started his Commercial Directing career. Adrian has been directing TV Commercials ever since, and has been a regular with some of the biggest brands in South East Asia for over 10 years. In 2004 and 2007 he founded two of the most successful Production Companies in the Asian TVC Market - Great Guns Bangkok and Bullet Production. 

After divesting his shareholding in both companies he founded Indigo Asia Production. Indigo is the envy of the industry. A busy hothouse of creativity with TVC Production, Indigo also has Feature Film and Digital Media projects in development.

Join us as we explore Adrian's creative journey, the artist's need to create balance, the non-linear nature of time, the difference between commercial and personal creative projects and the innate human dynamics of both creativity and spirituality, the role of mystery in the human experience and how the subconscious mind connects us with oneness consciousness.

You can find out more about Adrian here:

https://vimeo.com/adrianvandevelde/

https://indigoproduction.com

https://www.instagram.com/adrian_vandevelde/

https://vimeo.com/339041543

Creative Spirit with Professional Artist - Julie Williams

Julie Williams was born an artist, passionate and creative as a little girl. She was drawn to esoteric practice as a teen, a full-blown Hippy in the early 70’s and then became a dedicated Biba follower of fashion in London.  

After studying art and ceramics at school she wanted to go to Art School in Brighton UK but her plans were thwarted so she went to Paris for a year in 1977. There her true passion for in Art and the History of Art developed, she returned home and completed a BA in business studies, tourism and law to appease her parents and shortly after emigrated to Sydney Australia. 

Finding love and becoming a mother at 24 left no time for developing her artistic passion. She immersed herself in ‘Looking at Art’ until the age of 41 when she finally achieved her dream and enrolled at the National Art School in Sydney in 2000. 

 Since then Julie has been in numerous exhibitions in Sydney, Regional Australia, and Singapore including a satellite exhibition during ARTJOG in Jogjakarta Indonesia in 2018. 

It was whilst living in Singapore for five years that Julie also developed her esoteric practice and deepened her Spiritual enquiry that really shifted her creative practice. 

Her paintings are conceptual, based on an idea and constructed with attention to her craft, but lately she has felt drawn to clearing her mind of all thought and trusting her Spirit to pull her through a painting. A painting is an illusion of space and it is this playing with space through shape, form and colour that keeps Julie painting.

 Join us as Julie shares her unique journey into claiming her creative expression fully later in her life, how her process feels as she nurtures concept to finished work, and how important her spiritual practice is for staying in flow and aligned with the truth of her works.

You can find out more about Julie here:

www.julie-williams.com

www.Artchisg.com

ArtChisg@gmail.com

www.instagram.com/juliewilliamsartist

Creative Spirit with Creative Director - Anastassia Selezneva

Anastassia Selezneva first began her creative exploration as a painter in her youth, and transitioned to jewellery design as a new medium in 2012. The desire came spontaneously when she walked into a jewellery supply store on Queen St in Toronto. 

 This chance encounter ignited an immediate curiosity. Anastassia taught herself basic goldsmithing techniques late into most nights and early mornings. Moving between her kitchen counter and her makeshift studio, she experimented with wire wrapping gemstones, fusing metals, and stone setting. 

 Her life began to form a duality; she was a business analyst by day, and an artist by night. The pull to be immersed in creativity was clear and in 2015, Anastassia quit her job, began training as a professional goldsmith at George Brown College and simultaneously, launched her line, Anastassia Sel Jewelry. 

 Synonymous with her roots, Anastassia’s collection is handmade in Toronto, using 100% certified Canadian gold and ethically sourced materials. 

 Since then, Anastassia’s work has been featured in Vogue, Elle, Wedluxe, Brides, among other publications, has walked the New York, Milan and Toronto runways, and can be found in select boutiques in Canada, US and online. 

Join us as we explore Anastassia’s journey into her full creative expression, how our greater purpose keeps finding us until we respond, her incredible melding of spiritual travel and downloads into her jewellery, and how working with gold as supreme medium. 

You can find out more about Anastassia here:

www.AnastassiaSel.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/anastassiasel/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/AnastassiaSel/