Teya Kepila Of The Turmeric Times Is Wise Beyond Her Years

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is Teya Kepila, the storyteller behind The Turmeric Times and founder of The Ceramics Ceremony. Her approach to ceramics is deeply sensory—rooted in breath, ritual, nourishment, and a desire to make objects that support daily care. Whether she’s creating a vessel, crafting a plant-based recipe, or writing about intimacy and intuition, Teya brings an intentionality that radiates through everything she creates. Teya joins host Kerry Diamond to talk about how ceramics first found her as a teenager, her commitment to plant-based eating, how Ayurveda influences her cooking, her connection to movement and meditation, and her gratitude-driven approach to the new year. We also get into creativity, community, slowing down, and what it means to build a life that honors your energy rather than drains it. Thank you to JW Marriott for supporting our show. Order The Cake Issue Subscribe to our Substack Jubilee NYC 2026 tickets here Check out Cherry Bombe on ShopMy More on Teya: Instagram, The Turmeric Times More on Kerry: Instagram

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. You are listening to Radio Cherrybaum, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond, coming to you from Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center in the heart of New York City.
0:14.5	Today's guest is ceramicist and storyteller, Taya Kapila. I had the pleasure of meeting Tea the other month at the Garden Party
0:21.1	we hosted at the J.W. Marriott, Reston Station, in Virginia. Tea is the artist behind
0:26.9	the turmeric times and one of the most thoughtful, soulful creatives around today. I really enjoyed
0:32.7	our conversation. It's not often that I interview someone as young as Tea and feel like I'm
0:37.0	having a conversation with an old soul.
0:39.4	But that's exactly what happened.
0:41.2	Taya is very special as you're about to learn.
0:43.7	We talk about her childhood, her deep connection to New York City,
0:47.3	how she moved here by herself at the age of 17,
0:50.1	and how she's been taken care of herself ever since.
0:53.4	We also discuss her ceramics practice, the ceramics ceremonies, she conducts to connect clay and wellness, and a lot more.
1:00.7	If you are interested in hearing from a woman who moves through the world with rare intentionality,
1:05.6	this is an episode you don't want to miss.
1:08.4	Taya and I do discuss a few sensitive matters.
1:11.0	Please feel free to skip ahead during that portion of the interview.
1:14.3	Thank you to Teia for trusting all of us enough to share her story.
1:17.9	Stay tuned for my conversation with Teia Kapila.
1:21.3	Thank you to everyone who joined us at Brasery LeBanc and Charleston last week for our final
1:25.5	working lunch with the Visa Dining Collection by Open Table and Visa.
1:29.1	This series was so much fun and it was such a delight visiting Brasery LeBonk,
1:33.3	chef Amy Brandwines Picolina in Washington, D.C., and Chef Indiadoris's Marquette in Manhattan.
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