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MY STORY

Isabel (she/her) has been practicing storytelling medicine her whole life through writing, design, soulful interviews, late night car rides with friends, poetry, experiences, photography, and home cooked meals.

In her 10+ years holding space for women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ creatives and changemakers, Isabel has helped her clients access easeful creative flow and energized motivation to pursue passion projects.

Her love for community work and her experience in the design industry, designing and strategizing for nonprofits, multi-billion corporations, and your favorite celebrities, has culminated together into her role holding spaces for all creatives and changemakers as a Creativity Wellness Guide.

Disconnection from the body and spirit has led to too many visionaries burning out before their gifts have been fully realized. Isabel is here to guide them to discover that a new liberating way of existing and creating is possible.

MY EXPANSIVE IDENTITIES

1.5 Gen Filipina American Immigrant

Gemini Sun, Capricorn Moon & Rising

2nd Generation College Educated

Tarot/Oracle Deck Collector

Introvert

Bibliophile & the Library’s Biggest Fan

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

  • B.A. in Design at the University of California, Davis

  • B.A. in Technocultural Studies/Cinema & Digital Media at the University of California, Davis

  • Designer & Event Organizer 10+ years

  • Shorty Awards Bronze Honor in MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

  • Certified 100 Hour Mindfulness Meditation Teacher (Into the Depths Mentorship Program by Dora Kamau 2024)

  • Certified Trauma of Money™ Practitioner (2025)

  • Founder, Art Director of Brown Papaya (2017—present)

  • Design Consultant with Root to Bloom (September 2023—present)

  • Design Mentor, ADPList (April—August 2023)

  • SF Ambassador, Join the Cosmos (May 2019—February 2020)

  • Design Teacher, Inneract Project (May—June 2019)

  • TFCU Talk x University of California, Davis Speaker (2019)

  • Co-organized “In Bloom” Retreat (2019)

  • Mentee Manager & Design Director, LEAD Filipino (2018-2020)

  • Design Intern, Health Care Company: Presented to the CIO, executive team, and 100+ employees about solutions to strengthen IT brand presence on college campuses (2017)

MENTORS & TRAINING

  • Unleashed: Body Temple Dance Practitioner Training with Adrianna Rizzolo (July 2024 — present)

  • Business Witchery + CEO Coven with Rachael Maddox (April 2024 — present)

  • Million Dollar Email with Kirsten Roldan (March 2024 — present)

  • Algorithm Alchemy with Ayesha Ophelia (January — March 2024)

  • Unf*ck Your Biz (bookkeeping & taxes) with Not Your Avg Law (January — March 2024)

  • Digital Product Disruptor with Carli Anna (July 2024—December 2024)

  • Bloom: Writing Group for Pleasurable & Sustainable Habits with Julia Skinner, PhD (July 2024—September 2024)

  • The Vision Society with Daje Aloh, Story Studio (March 2024 —October 2024)

  • Dream Lodge with Ayesha Ophelia (August 2024)

  • Influencers of LinkedIn with Adrienne Weimer (February 2024—July 2024)

  • Confident Coaches Collective with Adrienne Weimer (January 2024—July 2024)

  • Regenerative Business Creation Lab with Sam Garcia, Dirty Alchemy (December 2023—December 2024)

  • Re-wilding with Drea Guinto, Soul Flow Co. (September 2023—March 2024)

  • Writing New Somatic Myths with Daje Aloh, Story Studio (December 2023—January 2024)

  • Hell Yes Guest Podcast Tour Program with Kelly Mosser (September—November 2023)

  • Designing Impactful Workshops with Exa Kutler, Creative Mornings (September—October 2023)

  • North Node with Holisticism (July 2023—July 2024)

  • Alchemy Room with Drea Guinto, Soul Flow Co. (June—December 2023)

  • Ritual Retreat with Jumakae, Your Story Medicine (November 2023)

  • Emotional Historians Poetry Class with Jon Sands (September—October 2023)

  • Embracing Our Softness Poetry Class with Ariana Brown (April 2023)

  • Notion for Magical Baddies with Michelle Pellizzon, Holisticism (April 2023)

  • Art Alchemy Academy with Midori, Sanctuary Studio (September—December 2022)

  • Embodied Caregivers with Siobhan Diores, The Birth Realm (August 2022—April 2023)

  • Reclaim the Erotic with Aly Maun (June—December 2022)

  • Rites of Passage with Melissa Barayang, A Certain Softness (March—July 2022)

  • Ninunong Gamot (“Ancestral Medicine” Herbalism) with Angela Angel (October—November 2020)

  • Filipina Poetry with Barbara Jane Reyes (December 2021)

  • Food is Medicine with Survival Arts (January 2021)

  • Warrior Wisdom with Survival Arts (August—September 2020)

  • ENERGY: Protect it, Clear it, Replenish it with Monica Magtoto (May—June 2020)

SERVICES

Ready to create from a place of rest? Share your interest to learn how I can support you.

“Isabel, as always, creates such a calming and warm environment. From my experience, the environment really exudes the care and thoughtfulness of Isabel's work; I felt heard, even when voicing thoughts and emotions that I have never spoken out loud or acknowledged to myself.”

Creative RESToration Workshop Attendee

Let's create together

Let's create together