E39 - Sophia Esperanza: Discovering Authenticity In a Fake World
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Sophia Esperanza shares her healing journey of going from superficial glamour to authentic beauty. After years of modeling, Sophia began the process of re-discovering her true self. She underwent explant surgery, shaved her head, deleted her old instagram photos, and shifted her message to one of empowerment. Today, she explains what this process has looked like and how you too can go on this journey of self love.
Her and André discuss kindness to self, embracing the imperfect, becoming sensitive to life, transcending self righteousness, and so much more.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
1:59 Sophia’s Journey to Coming Back to Self
17:40 What comes from Authenticity
24:41 Intellect vs Felt Experience
29:45 Creating a Nurturing Environment for Change
38:15 Kindness to Self
41:54 Embracing the 'Imperfect'
49:04 Advice on Your Healing Journey
59:19 Becoming Sensitive to Life
1:08:31 From Self Righteous to Awareness
1:22:38 Conclusion
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Sophia Esperanza:
Sophia Esperanza is an Animal Rights Activist, Earth-Steward and Artist. She worked as a model in the fast-fashion realm for years and decided to redirect her career to align with her true passion and ethos. She currently creates social media content aimed at inspiring others to embody their most authentic selves, and shares vegan recipes through her platform, Elbows on the Table.
Her food represents an art she's loved her entire life and her mission to create a more compassionate world. Currently, she is taking the next steps to create an animal sanctuary and farm on acres of Earth.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophiaesperanza/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sophiaesperanza
Elbows on the Table: https://elbowsott.com
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| 0:00.0 | With social media, we just don't know the effects of being told 300 times on a picture a comment about our looks. |
| 0:08.0 | It didn't take much for me to become different versions of myself in order to connect. |
| 0:12.0 | I walked into a career of modeling and started to really grow my social media, |
| 0:17.0 | not really realizing that that was my source of validation. |
| 0:20.0 | I look at my body as this vessel. |
| 0:21.6 | I've treated it like shit for such a long time. |
| 0:24.6 | Right now in my life, it's really just a releasing of how I felt for so long on the inside to the outside. |
| 0:30.6 | Because authenticity is a life's work if we have a hundred years in this body and this experience. I want to spend every |
| 0:38.5 | second loving what I authentically am. And so I'm cherishing all of the rawness, all of the |
| 0:45.9 | imperfections, which are absolutely perfect and celebrating every second that we have left of it, |
| 0:52.3 | because who knows how long we do. |
| 1:00.0 | Thank you. celebrating every second that we have left of it, because who knows how long we do. Hello, beautiful humans. Welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast for every single week. |
| 1:05.0 | We get the honor and the privilege to sit down with a beautiful mind and open heart. |
| 1:09.0 | And somebody that can share their experience with us |
| 1:11.7 | in this life to help us know ourselves deeper and deeper. My guest today is a dear friend, |
| 1:16.9 | somebody who I really admire her path to authenticity, which is going to be the theme of today's |
| 1:22.7 | podcast. She is a former model, a content creator, somebody who, like I said, has been on this beautiful |
| 1:29.9 | journey inwards. |
| 1:31.3 | And I just really love her courageousness and bravery for being a stand for compassion and |
| 1:39.0 | authenticity and for walking the walk and for being a voice for the voiceless. |
| 1:46.2 | And I just can't wait to dive into today's conversation. So Sophia Esperanza, thanks for coming on the show. Thank you. Wow. |
| 1:52.0 | Appreciate that. One intro. Yeah, of course. Stoke to be here. Yeah. It's been so cool to see. I mean, |
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