About Spiritual Grit
Welcome to Spiritual Grit, the podcast where we talk real-talk about spirituality through the lens of activism and social justice.
Grab your dancing shoes and let's get groovy with the grit!
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With Special Guests
In this episode, I'm in conversation with JS Park, a Korean American hospital chaplain based in Florida whose compassion has made an incredible impression on so many people, including myself.
J.S. Park is a hospital chaplain, former atheist/agnostic, sixth degree black belt, suicide survivor, Korean-American, and follows Christ. He. is author of The Voices We Carry: Finding Your One True Voice in a World of Clamor and Noise.
We talk about compassion and grief, which do not have clear definitions or prescriptions for embodying them. Both grief and compassion look different for each individual person. It's not a one-size-fits-all. How we might hold compassion for those whose beliefs are rooted in our oppression? And how we might identify this collective grief we are currently feeling but can't quite name. Listen in as we dive into how we can human better together.
Episode 293: Folktales, Spiritual Inheritance, and Kpop Demon Hunters w/ Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor
Continuing with our celebration of Filipino American History month, I've got a special guest today who is an artist, death doula, and spiritual ceramicist, Marjorie Milloria!
In this episode, we talk about connecting with our spiritual and cultural inheritances, the healing practices we engage with, what it means to remember, and how this can help us towards collective liberation. We also talk about what it's like to go “home” and this continual search for belonging as daughters of the diaspora.
And believe it or not, the fight for liberation starts with the practice of pouring liquor for each other and passing the glass around card tables full of salty snacks. Tune into this lively and nourishing conversation about topics that range from soju & lambanog (coconut “moonshine” ha!) to finding out we went to the same Catholic grammar school! All is not lost, friends. Remembering connection and community care are the keys to getting us through to the other side.
Episode 294: What it Means to Remember, to Go Home, and to Practice Healing in the Name of Collective Liberation w/ Marjorie Milloria
As we approach the end of the year, let’s take a look at what worked and what didn’t. I start this episode by consulting my oracle deck and the Autumn card came forward. It’s an invitation to release what’s no longer serving us. What’s holding you back? Is it doubt? Is it fear? Fear of the unfamiliar, of the unknown? Are you willing to release your old identities that you are used to? There is the gap between the familiar and the place where you are called to. You can’t be in two places at once. You have to decide. Are you ready to step out of your comfort zone and take the leap? With the winter solstice approaching and the new calendar year on the horizon, what can you let go in order to create a new chapter in your life?
Listen to this episode to take a look at where you are now and how you can take the leap into the next chapter of your life!
Episode 96: Take the Leap Into New Chapter of You
Episode 193: On Being Human During Times of Collective Grief with JS Park
This week I have a guest! Yay! As part of Filipino American History month, I am featuring a Filipino guest each week during the month of October. This week, I am talking with Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor, poet, writer, and storyteller. Our conversation touches on spiritual inheritance & practices, our relationship with cultural identity & the land upon which we live, and our mutual obsession: K-pop demon hunters. (Because, I mean, how could we not talk about that? It has all the topics that we're curious about!)
Tune in to hear all about it! From cultivating and strengthening your intuition to Rebecca's brag about Kpop Demon Hunters, you'll be entertained while also enticed to dig deeper within. Because that's how we roll - light laughter and deep inquiry.
Meet your Host
Hello!Leslieann Hobayan is a Filipina-American poet, essayist, activist, and healer. She is the author of the chapbook, Divorce Papers: A Slow Burn (Finishing Line Press, 2023). Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a 2018 Best of the Net, her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Aster(ix) Journal, The Grief Diaries, The Lantern Review, The Mom Egg Review, The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit, and elsewhere. She has been awarded the 2025 NJ State Council for the Arts poetry fellowship, along with fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and artist grants from Community of Writers and the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers Conference. She teaches at Rutgers University.
