Alicia Keys
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221 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
Alicia Keys’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You want to know why, too. You want to know what's the matter. Is something wrong? Why? I thought I'm... What can I do to help this? And so that definitely caused me a lot of anxiety. I started in the music world when I was 18. And so that was right kind of at the precipice and then the stress of the whole universe started. of music was just so much. And I was trying my best to play it cool.
I'm like, I can handle it. I can do it. But it was stressful. It was a whole new world. I had to carry a new weight on my shoulders and try to, you know, kind of like be calm or cool while doing it. And it was tricky. And my skin, I learned that my body reacts to stress. Our bodies react to stress. My personal body physically reacts to stress.
Many of our personal bodies do this, which is obviously why even many dis-eases come to us from stress because physically, it's a physical manifestation of this feeling, which is why it is so important for us to figure out what gives you peace, what calms you down, what makes you feel safe and like you're in your skin and you're yourself and these type of things.
And so, of course, I didn't know what that was for a long time, but I realized that it was these relationships I was attracting and It was the level of commitment I was agreeing to that left no space for me to reflect or to sleep or to be with my friends and have those outlets that do give you a sense of calm.
And so my skin was so reactive that I said one day to myself, if I one day, I'm going to make something that fixes this, this. I'm going to do something about this because I know I'm not the only one.
And I realized as I began to live and experience so many different parts of my life, motherhood and raising young kids and finding time for yourself and getting rid of those toxic energies that were attacking me in real life, I realized that you really have to take care of your soul. Like, like you have to take care of your soul.
So this philosophy of soul care really came from all of these understandings and all of these realizations that no one's going to do it for me. Like no, as much as I really, really wish someone would stand up and be like, you, you're not good for her. Get out of here. Yeah. That thing, you, you need to stop. No, I have to be the judge of that.
And therefore I have to find my way to the understanding of how do I hear myself to know what is good and what is not, or what is real or what is true. And so there were many things that brought me to that place. Some of them were meditations that brought me there and really brought me to a more intuitive space. Some of them were just practicing the art of like, no, what do you think?
No, I know six friends said this. Well, I know that very strong energy that always tells everybody what they think said this, but what do you think? And that became the practice of soul care and also these ideas of ancient rituals. And what are some special ways that we can have peace and calm? And I was attracted to crystals and their powers and their meanings.
I was attracted to journaling and I have a very difficult time. As a kid, I had a difficult time expressing my truth. And I realized that when I would journal or do this stream of consciousness, I could actually just release it. I could let it go. And if I'm not good at doing that to someone else, because I didn't trust as fully, I can do it with myself.
And so these practices of how do you kind of like depend on yourself to find your own grounding became my idea of what soul care is, which eventually became how I said, I'm going to make that thing to fix that thing. became this key soul care. And the idea was, to me, it's a philosophy. It's a way of life. It's a lifestyle.
To me, the beauty industry or skincare industry, just like the music industry, all of it is kind of creating how to live within the chaos. And so how do we do it? Nobody teaches us normally. It's a blessing if someone does, but normally it's not. So finding these ways through affirmations,
through the idea of really connecting to yourself and using the affirmations are on every bottle because the idea is you wash your face, you do that every day with the golden cleanser. You can also think about how I'm devoted to this moment because so many times we're over here, over there, back there, over there. How can you just be right here with yourself right now?
And so the idea is like creating this mixture of ancient rituals and where skin meets soul. and soul care, because we have air care, hair care, nail care, body care, home care, but we never had soul care. Why? So I wanted to start it.
Do you think people come to that realization?
I am familiar with that as well. And I kind of was just telling you that I had the best summer. And it was my first summer where, you know, the last two summers I was on tour. And obviously those are just such a monster universe to try to like harness. And this summer was just like, I was like, I am creating peace this summer. I am doing the things that everything I can imagine I want to do.
I'm doing it this summer. And it was really liberating, really liberating. But it also does reflect life. to myself, back to your point, the connection to the busyness equaling success or the busyness equaling something positive. When surely there's positivity there for sure, but there is an addiction that I think comes with This idea of having to feel every minute and feel every second.
And also there's the avoidance that we're all likely experiencing where we don't really want to face all the things underneath things. So if we stay as busy as possible, we are like literally, we don't even have time to think about those things or to reflect on those things. And so I do understand that lifestyle because I feel like for quite a while, I didn't even, I would just say yes because...
I'm used to saying yes.
Right? And I realized, wait, okay, you don't have to say yes. So do you want to say yes? Do you actually want to say yes? Or do you just feel obligated to say yes for any number of reasons? So I think it's very powerful. I think you're right. There's totally the drama that we are experiencing. We've been conditioned. That's the right word. Right? It's around us. It's what we see every day.
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