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. 🤍

Enjoyed this episode? If something in this episode opened something up for you — share it with someone who needs it. And if you feel called to, leave a review. It helps more young people find this space. 🤍

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.

She looks like she has it all together.

She's 19, studying aerospace engineering at one of the most demanding aeronautical universities, and she carries herself with a quiet grace that makes people feel at ease before she's even said a word.

But beneath that? A girl who has spent years studying harder than anyone knew, smiling through the overload, and privately wondering whether who she is could ever be enough — without the proof of what she's done.

In this episode, Micki sits down with Alana, 19 for a full elemental blueprint reading. What unfolds is an honest conversation about achievement, identity, and self-worth.

"I'm trying my best to impress a younger version of me."

What comes up in this conversation:

• What it feels like to be the high achiever who never feels high enough
• Why the smartest, most capable people are often the last to ask for help
• The one word that kept surfacing across Alana's entire elemental blueprint
• What Virgo precision, Libra grace, and a North Node in Pisces look like in a real human life
• The question Micki asks every guest — and the answer that will stay with you

📸 Find Alana on Instagram — @stormi_bugz

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

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. 🤍

Enjoyed this episode? If something in this episode opened something up for you — share it with someone who needs it. And if you feel called to, leave a review. It helps more young people find this space. 🤍

If you are in crisis, dial 988 (US) or search for your local crisis line.

There are things you carry that no one can see. The weight of performing, achieving, holding it all together — while something much heavier lives underneath.

This episode goes there.

Fire, earth, air, and water each have an extreme edge — a place where their natural force becomes overwhelming and sometimes terrifying. And when you're carrying more than any one person should carry alone, you can feel every single one of them.

In this episode:

• What each element looks like at its most extreme edge
• Why loneliness isn't always about being unloved — it's about the gap between the love given and the love that can be received
• How each element gives and needs love differently
• Why life moves in cycles — and why that matters more than you know

For the young person who looks fine from the outside. For the parent who senses something is wrong. For anyone who has wondered if it will always feel this hard.

It won't. You are not alone.

🎁 Free Guide → theelementalteen.com/podcast

About The Elemental Teen A space for teens and young adults to explore who they really are. Through the four elements — fire, earth, air and water — we explore identity, self-understanding, and what it means to trust yourself. No overwhelm. No pressure. Just you, learning how you actually work.

Ready to go deeper? Book a Blueprint Reading — 60 minutes using your birth chart and the four elements to understand exactly how you're wired.

🔮 theelementalteen.com/the-blueprint-reading

Links 🌐 theelementalteen.com 🔮 theelementalteen.com/the-blueprint-reading 💻 skool.com/the-elemental-teen-4668/about 📸 @the_elemental_teen 🌙 astro.com/horoscope

A Note From Micki This content is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health support. If you or a teen you know is struggling, please reach out to a qualified professional. US: Call or text 988. You are not alone. 🤍

If this episode moved something in you, please share it. Send it to a parent, a teacher, a young person you love. This is the conversation that changes things. 🤍

She was driven and sensitive. Two things that felt like they were at constant war with each other.

Before Girlvana, the book deal, the retreats — Ally Maz was just a girl who felt everything deeply and had nowhere to put it. Her journey into wellness began at 20, navigating the end of a dance career, a hidden eating disorder, and severe asthma.

In this episode of Once Upon a Teen, Micki sits down with Ally to go back. To the teenager who wore fake eyelashes to competitions, pushed through exhaustion she couldn't name, and learned far too late that her sensitivity was never a weakness — but her greatest gift.

At 24, Ally founded Girlvana Yoga to support the wellbeing of teen girls. She later signed with Penguin Random House and launched her first book, Girlvana.

This conversation isn't about the accolades. It's about what it cost to get there. And what became possible when she finally stopped performing and started listening.

And of course — the question Micki asks every guest: Who are you, right now?

About Ally Maz:

Ally Maz is a yoga teacher, breathwork facilitator, youth mentor, and published author. At 24, she founded Girlvana Yoga, supporting teen girls through retreats, classes and workshops. Her teachings are found in yoga studios, classrooms, and community programs worldwide. Ladyvana Retreats is her space for women to reconnect through yoga, meditation, breathwork and journaling.

🌐 alexmazerolle.com 📸 @allymaz

About The Elemental Teen A space for teens and young adults to explore who they really are. Through the four elements — fire, earth, air and water — we explore identity, self-understanding, and what it means to trust yourself. No overwhelm. No pressure. Just you, learning how you actually work.

Ready to go deeper? Book a Blueprint Reading — 60 minutes using your birth chart and the four elements to understand exactly how you're wired. 🔮 theelementalteen.com/the-blueprint-reading

Links 🌐 theelementalteen.com 🔮 theelementalteen.com/the-blueprint-reading 💻 skool.com/the-elemental-teen-4668/about 📸 @the_elemental_teen 🌙 astro.com/horoscope

A Note From Micki This content is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health support. If you or a teen you know is struggling, please reach out to a qualified professional. US: Call or text 988. You are not alone. 🤍

Enjoyed this episode? Share it with someone who needs it. Leave a review — it helps more young people find this space. 🤍

What if someone could look at the exact moment you were born and show you — not who you're supposed to become, but who you already are?

That's what an Elemental Blueprint reading is. And in this episode, you get to witness one happening in real time.

Aine is eighteen, about to leave everything familiar and step into the next chapter of her life. She sits down with Micki not entirely sure what to expect — and what unfolds is a conversation about depth, identity, emotional intensity, impossible self-standards, and what it actually means to be exactly who you are at the exact moment life is asking you to change.

Through the language of fire, water, air and earth, Micki maps Aine's unique elemental pattern — and in the process, gives words to things Aine has always felt, but never quite been able to name.

This one is for every teen who has ever been told they're too much. Too sensitive. Too deep. Too complicated.

You're not too much. That's just your design.

Find your own Elemental Blueprint at the link in the show notes. 🌿

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

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. 🤍

Enjoyed this episode? If something in this episode opened something up for you — share it with someone who needs it. And if you feel called to please leave a review. It helps more young people find this space. 🤍

This one started on a yoga mat.

I wanted to dedicate my practice to a friend going through something hard — something with a lot of anger. And somewhere between the sun salutations and the warriors, my mind went down a rabbit hole that took me from her relationship, to every relationship, to every conflict, the news, the wars, and eventually — uncomfortably — back to myself.

I have an Aries Moon. I've carried anger through my parents' divorce, through losing my brother, through twenty years with my partner whom I love deeply and still manage to get mad at. I don't want to be an angry person. But why do I keep going there?

The answer that came to me on the mat was simple.

I don't understand.

That's where anger lives. Not in the other person. In the gap between what happened and why we can't make sense of it.

In this episode: — Anger is information, not a character flaw — What anger is pointing to underneath the flame — How anger moves differently depending on your elemental nature — The one thing that might start to break the loop

🌙 Free Moon Sign Portrait — theelementalteen.com/podcast

Anger is information. You deserve to be fluent in your own language.

About The Elemental Teen A space for teens and young adults to explore who they really are. Through the four elements — fire, earth, air and water — we explore identity, self-understanding, and what it means to trust yourself. No overwhelm. No pressure. Just you, learning how you actually work.

Ready to go deeper? Book a Blueprint Reading — 60 minutes using your birth chart and the four elements to understand exactly how you're wired. 🔮 theelementalteen.com/the-blueprint-reading

Links 🌐 theelementalteen.com 🔮 theelementalteen.com/the-blueprint-reading 💻 skool.com/the-elemental-teen-4668/about 📸 @the_elemental_teen 🌙 astro.com/horoscope

A Note From Micki This content is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health support. If you or a teen you know is struggling, please reach out to a qualified professional. US: Call or text 988. You are not alone. 🤍

Enjoyed this episode? Share it with someone who needs it. Leave a review — it helps more young people find this space. 🤍