This is Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast, a place to explore spiritual concepts, tools, and practices to deepen your healing and awakening.

I'm your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified intuitive healer and a Kashik Records practitioner and teacher.

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Hello and welcome to this very special episode of Inner Work.

So I recently got an email from a longtime listener of this podcast, who was also an artist, a musician,

and she has found the podcast so inspiring and helpful that she created a song featuring some

of my words, some of the content of previous episodes of this podcast. Of course, she got my permission

to do this. Now, I can't tell you how thrilled and humbled and excited I was to receive this

email. So I want to share the song with you, which is now completed and out and available

for all of us to listen. So the song, there's kind of two parts to it. The first part is called

Inner Work intro, so paying homage to the podcast, which is just mind-blowing for me.

And then the proper song called Leftovers.

So I want to share the song with you.

I'm going to play it the whole song in this episode.

But before I do that, I want to share also about the creator of this song. So her name is Rajani Buking,

and she is a lovely, awesome, so thoughtful, extremely talented person. So I asked her to please

send me her biography, whatever she wanted to share about herself in her own words,

so you can get to know her a little bit. So this is what she said. I am a first generation,

Philippine's American songwriter, musical artist, and filmmaker from Houston, Texas, now based in Austin, Texas,

the daughter of immigrants who hail from La Union Philippines.

Taking form between these two ethers of the U.S. and the Philippines, stories about rooting and uprooting, redefining identity and context

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