The ground shifts. The foundation you've always relied on suddenly isn't there. Whether it's a family upheaval, a loss, a change you didn't ask for — earthquakes happen. And how you move through one says everything about your elemental nature.

In this episode, Micki talks about what happens to each element — Fire, Earth, Air, and Water — when life gets shaken up. Not in a theoretical way. In a real, this-is-what-it-actually-looks-like way. Because understanding your elemental Blueprint doesn't just help you know yourself on good days. It helps you find yourself on the hard ones.

She also shares her own earthquake — parents' divorce in middle school — and how her Earth nature showed up in every pattern she fell into without even realizing it.

In this episode:

• What your Elemental Blueprint actually is — and why it's not a personality quiz
• How Fire, Earth, Air and Water each respond under pressure
• Micki's personal earthquake and what her Earth nature was trying to do
• A question worth sitting with: who are you right now?

About The Elemental Teen The Elemental Teen is a space for teenagers and young adults to explore the deeper question of who they really are. Through the language of the four elements — fire, earth, air and water — we explore identity, self-understanding, and what it means to trust yourself in a world that is constantly telling you who to be. No overwhelm. No pressure. Just you, learning how you actually work.

Ready to go deeper? Book a Blueprint Reading — a 60-minute 1:1 session where we use your birth chart and the four elements to help you understand exactly how you're wired. It's the most direct path to that "oh, that's me" moment. 🔮 Book your Blueprint Reading — https://www.theelementalteen.com/the-blueprint-reading

Links Mentioned in This Episode

🌐 Website — www.theelementalteen.com

🔮 Book a Blueprint Reading — https://www.theelementalteen.com/the-blueprint-reading

💻 Join the Elemental Teen Community on Skool — https://www.skool.com/the-elemental-teen-4668/about

🌿 Get The Elemental You 2027 Planner + Journal - https://www.theelementalteen.com/planner

📸 Instagram — @the_elemental_teen

🌙 Find your free birth chart — https://www.astro.com/horoscope

A Note From Micki The Elemental Teen is an educational and self-discovery space. The content shared in this podcast is intended for informational and inspirational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health support, therapy, or medical advice. If you or a teenager you know is struggling, please reach out to a qualified mental health professional or contact a crisis support line in your area. If you're in the US, you can reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988. You are not alone. 🤍

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What if ADHD isn't the whole story — but it's also pointing at something even more useful underneath?

In this episode, I sit down with Gabe — 18 years old, Japanese-Filipino, former Honolulu kid, current pre-professional ballet dancer in Nashville, Tennessee — and we do something I love more than almost anything: we step inside his world and look around.

Gabe has ADHD. He also has dyscalculia and dysgraphia. He's been labeled, assessed, and handed a framework for understanding himself. And yet, talking with Gabe, what strikes you isn't his diagnosis — it's his extraordinary self-awareness, his philosophical calm, his quiet precision. His ability to say "I don't know who I am yet, and I don't want to — because that feels final."

That's not a teenager who doesn't have it together. That's a teenager who already understands something most adults spend their entire lives trying to learn.

In this conversation, we explore:

• What it actually feels like to live inside a brain like Gabe's — the gap between knowing and doing, the zoning out, the perfectionism, the loneliness that comes in moments when no one else speaks your language
• Why ballet became the one place where all of Gabe's elements finally agreed with each other
• What Gabe wishes people understood about ADHD — and what he'd say to the young person who just got diagnosed
• How his Elemental Blueprint — fire leading, earth thinking, water driving, air processing — illuminates not what's wrong with him, but exactly who he is.

By the end, the acronym ADHD might mean something a little different than it did when you hit play.

This episode is for the young person who keeps performing, keeps achieving, keeps holding it together — and still wonders in those quiet moments: is something wrong with me?

And it's for the parent — watching their brilliant, complicated, beautiful kid struggle — wondering the same thing.

The answer, it turns out, is: No. There was never anything wrong with you.

About The Elemental Teen

The Elemental Teen is a space for teenagers and young adults to explore the deeper question of who they really are. Through the language of the four elements — fire, earth, air and water — we explore identity, self-understanding, and what it means to trust yourself in a world that is constantly telling you who to be. No overwhelm. No pressure. Just you, learning how you actually work.

Ready to go deeper? Book a Blueprint Reading — a 60-minute 1:1 session where we use your birth chart and the four elements to help you understand exactly how you're wired. It's the most direct path to that "oh, that's me" moment.

🔮 Book your Blueprint Reading — https://www.theelementalteen.com/the-blueprint-reading

Links Mentioned in This Episode

🌐 Website — www.theelementalteen.com

🔮 Book a Blueprint Reading — https://www.theelementalteen.com/the-blueprint-reading

💻 Join the Elemental Teen Community on Skool — https://www.skool.com/the-elemental-teen-4668/about

📸 Instagram — @the_elemental_teen

🌙 Find your free birth chart — https://www.astro.com/horoscope

What happens when you're standing on a stage, saying something true about yourself, and someone in the audience is trying to make you disappear?

This week, Micki sits down with Venessa Rodriguez — clinically trained holistic healer, certified nutrition specialist, herbalist, astrology practitioner, and Akashic channel — for one of those conversations that makes you want to press pause and just sit in it for a while.

But this episode isn't about Venessa's credentials. It's about teenage Venessa — the girl who stood on a stage in front of her entire high school and kept speaking, even as someone tried to shut her down. The girl who didn't know how to voice what she was carrying inside, but knew she was meant for something she couldn't name yet.

Together, Micki and Venessa explore:

• What it actually takes to find your voice when you've been interrupted, dismissed, or made to feel like what you have to say doesn't matter
• Why the things that wound us in our teen years often become the very gifts we offer the world as adults
• How the body, mind, and soul are always in conversation with each other — and how to start listening
• Intuition in young people — what it looks like, why it gets suppressed, and why it'salways been real
• The herbs and nutrients that can genuinely support a teenager's nervous system, sleep, and resilience (reishi, nervines, magnesium, protein, and hydration — practical and specific)
• What it means to be her becoming — and why full self-acceptance might be the most courageous act any of us has ever does

Venessa also shares the moment — nearly 20 years later — when she finally found out the story she'd made personal was never about her at all. And what happened when she stopped performing goodness and started becoming herself.

This episode is for the young person who wonders if what they're carrying right now will ever make sense. It will. And it's for the adults who remember being that teenager — and who are still, in their own way, becoming.

"You are not going to believe what you're going to find out."

Connect with Venessa Rodriguez: Website: wildlyrooted.com Instagram: @wildlyrooted Podcast: Feed Your Wild (since 2018)

Connect with Micki + The Elemental Teen: Website: theelementalteen.com Instagram: @theelementalteen Community: Join us on Skool

The Who Are You? Podcast is a space for young people — and the humans who love them — to explore identity, purpose, and what it means to come home to yourself.