Bella Figura, The Tradition of Living Beautifully
by Dolores Alfieri Taranto
This show explores ways to beautify all facets of your life using heritage, culture, beauty by hand, old world style, and ancestral traditions. Join me in exploring bella figura, the Italian tradition of living beautifully, through down-to-earth conversations with extraordinary people. These are spiritual conversations for the rest of us. Your heritage is your superpower. Learn how to wield it...
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Episodes
Jill Winger
1h 11m · PublishedJill Winger is the founder of The Prairie Homestead, an online space with over one million monthly visits dedicated to helping people learn how to grow their own food and opt-out of the rat race, regardless of where they live. In 2019, she published her best-selling cookbook The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, which was an Amazon Editor’s pick and won Best Cookbook in the 30th Annual Reading the West Book Awards given by the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association.
She is host of the “Old Fashioned on Purpose” podcast, which has amassed over 5 million downloads since its inception.
She and her family also run Genuine Beef Company, which ships grass finished beef nationwide, as well as the Chugwater Soda Fountain. She has been featured in Urban Farm, Farm & Ranch Living, COWGIRL magazine, Woman’s Day, HuffPost, the Wall Street Journal, Wyoming PBS, People, and Buzzfeed. She resides on the Wyoming prairie with her husband, three children, and more farm animals than she can count.
Elle-May Watson
1h 13m · PublishedThings discussed in this episode:
Photography as an art form
Motherhood & family life as inspiration
Accepting the changes in our bodies and lives
The curious world of Instagram
Being authentic to your style
Cultivating your aesthetic
Antiques as a way to slow down
Surrounding ourselves with beauty
Being present in the moment
Emilie Toups
58m · PublishedThings discussed in this episode:
Leaving home and making a new community
Supporting local farmers
What toxins do to our bodies and fertility
The normalizations of toxins in our products
Natural beauty products
Diet as a means to wellness
The learning curve when it comes to natural living
The benefits of tallow as a beauty product
Joanna Barbera
1h 11m · PublishedThings discussed in this episode:
Not being afraid to release old ways of thinking
Letting go of old ways of being
Switching career paths
The negative aspects of the music industry
Our work encompassing more than we originally imagined
Doing that work serves our community, as opposed to our ego
Re-evaluating stereotypes of what an artist’s life looks like
The ups and downs of long friendships
The magical aspects of long friendships
Arielle de Martinez
1h 16m · PublishedThings discussed in this episode:
The toxicity of the beauty industry
How the beauty industry relies on your self doubt for enormous profits
The toxic chemicals in beauty products that are making us sick
Loving the way you look naturally
How Instagram is skewing our sense of our own beauty
How social media sows intense self doubt in all of us
Ways to step away from the beauty industry
Using natural hair products
No more shampoo and the origins of shampoo use
Using herbs to heal your family
Coming into your power as a mother
Kari Jansen
1h 6m · PublishedKari Jansen, herbalist, astrologer and ayurvedic practitioner, founded Poppy and Someday after years of studying herbalism, combining her passion for plants with her love of gardening, wildcrafting and herbal medicine making.
The company’s product line features an evolving collection of organic body care products. The product design process is rooted in the study of Ayurveda and Western Herbalism and focuses on native plant ingredients. Every ingredient comes from the earth and never contains any synthetics or preservatives.
Kari is a graduate of the California School of Herbal Studies, the Dhyana Center, the Ayurvedic Institute of America, Kairos School of Astrology and also holds a B.S. in Health and Nutrition.
Tomás Q. Morín
1h 14m · PublishedTomás Q. Morín is the author of the collection of poems Machete and the memoir Let Me Count the Ways, as well as the poetry collections Patient Zero and A Larger Country. He is co-editor with Mari L’Esperance of the anthology, Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine, and translator of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Shiva Rose
1h 10m · PublishedShiva Rose was raised by bohemian parents in the countryside of Iran until the revolution occurred. Suddenly, a childhood nurtured on imagination and nature morphed into life as a refugee. Assimilating to a new life in America, she sought solace in old films, fashion and books, which led her to work as an actress in TV, film and theater. After having her first daughter in her early twenties she was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, an occurrence that propelled her on a path as a naturalist and activist.
She is the author of Whole Beauty, Daily Rituals and Natural Recipes for Lifelong Beauty and Wellness. She is also the creator of The Local Rose, a line of all-natural beauty products created with the utmost respect for the natural world and for you.
Season 3 Wrap Up
34m · PublishedThis is a solo episode where I look back on the conversations and guests of Season 3 and draw out the major tenets I came away with regarding this season’s theme, “Slow Down.”
Slowing Down is not only about pace, but emotion, energy, the intention in movement, gracefulness, how we possess and use our power and emotions, cooking, and connecting to our ancestors.
This episode is a kind of toolbox with some of the best tools I’ve learned to slow down and live more in the moment.
Bella Figura, The Tradition of Living Beautifully has 43 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 47:56:19. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on December 17th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 18th, 2024 15:44.