{"podcast":{"title":"THE FENG SHUI MONEY COUCH","slug":"the-feng-shui-money-couch-6953959","podcast_index_feed_id":6953959,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2731386.rss","website_url":"https://thefengshuilady.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2731386/ce9362c7f615e62a53c25e2094955ab0.jpg","author":"Laura B. Carrillo","episode_count":63,"summary":"I’m a certified Feng Shui Practitioner, Curator and Stylist. I explore ways to live your most abundant life with both the practical and mystical arts. This is a hybrid Podcast & Newsletter!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-11T04:18:04.497177+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-feng-shui-money-couch-6953959"},"episode":{"title":"The Feng Shui Money Couch","slug":"the-feng-shui-money-couch","published_at":"2025-12-26T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-feng-shui-money-couch-6953959/the-feng-shui-money-couch","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-feng-shui-money-couch-6953959","url":"https://thefengshuilady.substack.com/p/the-feng-shui-money-couch-8b6","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/182547539/b97205d104f8269474e3bc1fdb9342df.mp3","summary":"Happy Holidays Folks & Welcome to The Feng Shui Money Couch. I have a Feng Shui Story for you today that I hope will shed some light on the true nature of Feng Shui. I’m recording this on Christmas Eve and it’ll be live on my Birthday which is the day after Christmas! Yes, that’s Feng Shui Friday or December 26! Turns out I was born on a Friday and on a full moon. I was actually 3 months premature and entered the world in a dramatic and dangerous manner with my parents waking up in a pool of blood because the placenta had broken. An emergency caesarian was performed and I entered the world ahead of my time. I share this birthday with 2 influential male authors; not the exact year but the date. Henry Miller and David Sedaris where both born December 26th, both men whose work was autobiographical and unconventional in nature. That’s a vibe I relate to. I can’t imagine that being born on one of the most anticlimactic days of the year didn’t color their personalities in some way. It’s definitely colored mine. Nobody wants to compete with Jesus for attention on their birthday. You end sucking it up: never getting to shine on your special day so to speak. It engenders underdog vibes. I think this is the foundation for a particular set of sensibilities and an unconventional nature. Henry Miller was hyper masculine, Unfiltered, rebellious, erotic, and philosophically and spiritually searching. While David Sedaris is openly homosexual, humorous, self deprecating and focused on observational humor. I actually met David in San Francisco at a book signing and I mentioned we shared a birthday. At the end of the evening, he gave me the bouquet of flowers that was on the table where he was signing…. Both Miller & Sedaris’s work is Unconventional and autobiographical. They live throug…","meta_description":"Happy Holidays Folks & Welcome to The Feng Shui Money Couch. I have a Feng Shui Story for you today that I hope will shed some light on the true nature of…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":434,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-feng-shui-money-couch-6953959/episodes/the-feng-shui-money-couch/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-feng-shui-money-couch-6953959/the-feng-shui-money-couch.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}