The Fear & Magic of Upgrading Your Life (Soup & Stories Pt 2)

In Part 2 of this immersive community conversation, Foster and Cesar invite their guests to explore a new question. From health scares and skyrocketing blood pressure to identity shifts, career crossroad moments, burnout, and creative reinvention, the group dives into candid reflections about mental health, emotional resilience, and spiritual realignment. The result is a powerful meditation on change, surrender, and rediscovering one’s purpose.

Connect with the guests:

Ari Hader

• spiritual explorer, mom and actor (Dexter, Grey’s Anatomy)
• Ari on IMDb
• co-host of Spiritual Practices of the Disgruntled Artist 
• host of Magick and Manifestation for Actors 
• IG: @arihaderisyourfriend

Duane Benjamin 

• composer, musician, and instructor at UCLA School of Music
• Youtube: @duanebenjamin
• IG: @dben_jamin919

Jamaal Pittman

• Robinson Prize award-winning copy editor, manager and screenwriter
• author of The Copy Editor's (Life)Style Guide
• co-founder of the Annie and Sallie Ann Wheeler Memorial Scholarship
• IG: @jamaaldpittman

Katie Hall

• actor, wedding planner, FUCK YES energy cultivator & queer mama of two ✨
• IG: @theplantbasedboo
• IG: @bestdayeverla_events

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