Noemi Capote is a multifaceted Creative Soul bringing inspiration to the world through her writing, music, and spiritual light. Founder and Director of Noemi Creative Souls, a nonprofit for the Creative Arts.
The land spirits talk to me
They tell me stories of a time before I came to be
Of how life was before the dark clouds came
Before our magick was stolen and stripped away
I sit with the land spirits
Deep inside the misty woods
They share their secrets and mysteries too
And they teach me how to see the real truth
They open my heart
and I can see it filled with stars
I open my eyes
And they show me a map to where it all began
They give me a key
to a door that leads to the infinite sea
The land spirits help unleash the powers That have always been inside of me
Lovely land spirits
They guide my every day
They protect and they love, filling my soul with hopes
With the mind of the owl and the strength of the hawk
There is no denying that we all leave this earth eventually, but things are different when we are given a specific timeline, counting down the days until our last breath. What would we do with our time if that were the case? Would we go down a spiral of desolation or would we gear up to climb up the rocky mountain with a courageous heart? Creative Soul, Jos McLaren, has the irrevocable certainty that God holds the true calendar of her life, and she is here to make every single second count, filling the world with songs that elate the heart with heavenly notes.
Jos McLaren is a musician and singer-songwriter from Leeds, U.K. She knew music was going to be her main language at an early age, going to church singing worship music, and being inspired by her mother, a pianist, and guitarist. In high school, she joined the school chorus, attended competitions, wrote songs, and recorded music with the school.
Alas, at the age of 41, Jos was diagnosed with stage 2 cancer, and 5 months later, it was found to have spread to 2 vertebrae, giving her, according to the doctor, only a couple of years to live. “Only God can call me home,” Jos wouldn’t accept her doctor’s diagnosis. She felt it was not God’s plan for her life to end yet as she still had so much to do.
In the midst of the turbulence, dealing with emotional pain and overcoming fears, Jos gave birth to a song where she poured out her honest feelings. Dying to Live was born to awaken hope, love, and light. It is her attestation that no matter what anyone can predict for our future, we hold in our hearts our true compass and Jos’s is pointing toward the North Star.
Not sure what to do with the song, Jos was advised by a friend to create a social media account to share her music, and as she did some research she found out about a songwriting conference at Abbey Road Studios in London. She took a leap of faith and submitted an application without even having the song ready to share. Jos was selected and without telling anyone, she went off to the conference. On the way, she wrote the second verse of Dying to Live and recorded a rough demo that night in her hotel room.
For Jos, hearing the panelists share their wisdom was amazing. “If I got to sit on the front row I was going to be courageous and ask a question,” Jos had made a deal with God the day before, and guess what? Part way through the session the panelists asked to take a couple of questions and this was her opportunity. Till then, she hadn’t shared about her health with anyone at the conference, and her question was fair: What to do with a song when you literally were given an expiration date by a doctor? Jos received helpful advice from the panel and God had an unexpected gift for her.
After the session, Mariela Silva, another conference delegate, approached Jos and asked Jos to send the song to her boyfriend, Liam Narrie. Liam is a music producer and engineer, who trained at Abbey Road Institute. After hearing the rough demo Liam invited Jos to record it in London.
Mariela, together with Liam, surprised Jos in unbelievable ways and even had her blindfolded as a driver took her to a mystery destination in London. Jos couldn’t believe her eyes as she stepped onto the ground where The Beatles had walked, and she was about to do that and more. Inside one of the studios at Abbey Road, there were some musicians. As Jos approached, she could hear her song being dressed with the sound of drums, strings, and keyboards… her soul was overjoyed as God winked at her.
Her dreams began to blossom and on the two-year anniversary of the terminal diagnosis that she was given, she threw a party to celebrate her triumph, and on the following day, she went to a songwriters retreat in Spain, as part of The Songwriting Academy. There, Jos met her soul tribe, including Keahi Rozet, Kelly Jett, Kathleen Schobel, Farzana Khan, and Kathi Fran. She started writing songs with them, understanding each other, coming from different backgrounds, races, and cultures, and sharing the love of music. “It’s not all about your thoughts with co-writing. It’s about adding each other’s touch. It’s like hanging out with friends,” Jos loves spending time with her soul family and they visit each other from one continent to the next. Music, love, and a lot of laughs keep the group growing strong and bright.
In January of 2023, they met again at the Drill Down Level Up music conference in Sandestin, Florida. She was given the opportunity to perform her song Dying to Live, blowing everyone away. Learning about sync, Jos has started working with music supervisors to try and place her songs in TV and film, and she continues to expand her field of blooming daffodils, creating music from the heart, and channeling the grace of God through her voice and presence.
Filled with confidence and knowing well how valuable time is, she started reaching out to cancer charities to help promote their work through using her song. She wants to make sure people become aware of these services such as makeup, skincare, and yoga for cancer patients, so they can improve their well-being. Jos’ story has been published in a regional newspaper and various radio stations have played her song. Though she’s not interested in fame, she’s excited that her song is reaching others and uplifting them.
Jos will soon be releasing an EP, which Liam Narrie will produce, including “The One Thing I Would Do.” Jos wrote this song, inspired by her nephews, about how spending time with the people you love is the most treasured thing.
“It’s all God,” Jos declares, a stage 4 breast cancer survivor who is using her skills as a nurse to do her injections at home, which has helped her tremendously in maintaining her holistic care… However, Jos has also received negative remarks because she’s not bald and doesn’t look unwell, but instead she has the biggest smile, and the brightest eyes, with the most positive words of advice and delicious cookies and chocolates to share.
No, no one would ever know that Jos deals with cancer every day of her life. She’s not here to make us sob with a sad tale or use her story to gain anything in return. Her joy is genuine and she’s an example that our faith should be bigger than our problems.
What ends our lives is not necessarily sentenced by an illness but by our attitude towards it. Jos’s conviction surpasses any diagnosis and criticism, and she’s encouraging us to trust in the undeniable ability of miracles to enter our lives. Jos is not only an example that we can move mountains if our faith is as big as a mustard seed. She’s an inspiration that dreams do come true if we put our hearts into it and trust in our mission. She is light, and she is love… Jos is the essence of God on earth.
Dustin Maximillian King is a Hip-Hop/Trap Producer from Canada best known as MillionKing Music.
Encouraged by his parents, Dustin started playing the piano at a young age. In junior high, he taught himself guitar, and in the University, he picked on music production and has been producing for about 5 years.
Dustin is currently creating beats for placements on TV, films, commercials, and so forth. He’s collaborating with other artists, excited to keep making music and sharing it with the world.
Among some of his upbeat tracks are King Tut, Seasons, and Don’t Stop.
“Don’t worry. It gets better than you can ever imagine,” Dustin encourages us to not allow the things we need to address to go unnoticed. To move forward with our creative dreams and make them a reality through hard work and a dedicated heart.
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We have a simple funda of life- love begets love and kindness comes back bouncing. Here at ByBt, we give it happily. It’s been a constant endeavor to offer inspiration through varied activities entailing, live reads of poems, everyday prompts, features by curators, collaboration with ByBt, recommended poets shared in IG stories, and promoting classic poetry through a two-month-long festival.
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Through hard work and dedication, the family at ByBt has made it what it is- an unbiased, safe, public-spirited platform for the poetry community.
Luca Di Alessandro is a Music Producer and Sound Designer from Peru. He got started in music when he was a kid, playing any instrument he could get his hands on. “Once I started, I couldn’t stop,” Luca explains that once he discovered music was his vocation, it was all he wanted to do, and he still has the innate desire to make music as often as he can.
He started listening to electronic music, like David Guetta, and began to study music, learning about its history, production, and mastering.
Luca’s genre is Electronic Progressive House, Underground Tech House, and Deep House. He has released many singles including Shadow and Grounded, which won 3rd place in a music contest. In December 2022, Luca Di Alessandro released his first EP, Million Voices, available to stream everywhere.
“To make music is a beautiful way of showing the world who you are and how to be remembered by. It means to accomplish your dreams in some way or another.” – Luca Di Alessandro.
Brian Aguiar is an artist, poet, and 8th-grade English teacher from Newport, Rhode Island.
“Art is as much a part of me as my own skin, and in a word, it means everything to me.” Brian works with a variety of mediums and he’s continuously challenging himself to learn, grow, and evolve as an artist.
He first began experimenting with pastels in August of 2022 and continues to improve and refine his technique and craft. “My eventual goal is to write and illustrate a series of poems, as well as a children’s book.”
As simple as it may look, Brian’s art takes devotion and time to create. It invites us to appreciate the special moments found in nature, adding depth to the art with his poems.
GOLDEN LOTUS is an art piece Brian created for the cover of the first volume of the Creative Souls Gazette, our digital magazine. It’s lovely how Brian played with shades of purple, and how the reflection of the moon on the pond makes the lotus radiate with a soft touch of yellow.
ANIMAL SPIRIT ART
RAVEN, Brian Aguiar @the.black.binder
Unique art pieces based on the messages from animal spirits from the book, My Fauna Within, by Noemi Capote.
Spiritual Entrepreneurs are overcoming the challenges passed down through systematic structures, and they are raising their voices to shed light on the reality behind the stigmas that revolve around plant medicine, esoteric wisdom, energy healing, holistic practices, you name it. Thankfully, Creative Soul Collette Elosha is transforming the narrative of outdated customs, beliefs, and traditions that don’t necessarily fit everyone’s heart’s desires, helping us to appreciate what is natural for humans: our innate ability to have a profound relationship with nature and with ourselves and experience true healing.
Collette is a writer, spokesperson, plant medicine healer, and founder of Balancing Cannabis and Love Culture. She’s also an amateur acrobat who plays in partner acrobatics and acro-yoga. Collette is obsessed with studying the nervous system, and how integrating plant medicine can reveal our spiritual selves at a deeper level. She considers herself a tour guide, not a teacher, feeling like she’s holding a lantern, making sure she keeps the light on to clear the way. Yet, she is the light herself igniting it with her eternal golden flame.
Balancing Cannabis is Collette’s precious love-child, born in 2019. Offering services such as Cannabis Meditation, Cannabis Ceremony, Breathwork, and Womb Healing. Collette welcomes emotional responses through her ceremonies that resonate with her client’s process and ability to heal. She offers Cannabis Meditation every Monday, virtually and by donation, where she educates about the pros and cons of cannabis, elevating the meaning of simply “smoking for the fun of it” into a journey of self-discovery and liberation, helping to understand it to its fullest. Her soothing voice immerses us in an imaginary realm of limitless possibilities, creating an intimate experience with the cannabis plant, becoming interconnected with our true intentions, and awakening the divine force that we carry within.
Love Culture is a virtual studio that offers alternative modalities of wellness and healing. People are sure to enjoy a safe space to explore their consciousness and expand their souls. Dude Yoga, Body Conscious Meditation, and Cannabis Sound Baths are some of the wonderful offerings that we can find in the Love Culture community. All of the facilitators on Love Culture have practiced and trained extensively in Collette’s training/classes, and they are equally committed to creating safe containers for all humans to explore these modalities.
Flourishing into the grand and ravishing oak tree that she is today hasn’t been easy. It’s been a rigorous process of painful endings, replanting her faith outside of God-fearing doctrines, and going out into the world to pursue knowledge that could help her understand her mystical experiences. This led her to dive into yoga and meditation practices, studying and reading many books about energy and spirituality, going on a pilgrimage journey, and “coming up against a hunger to heal” herself. In pursuit of healing herself of chronic depression and PTSD, she worked with plant medicines, such as mushrooms and cannabis, to support her efforts for healing and leading a lifestyle that better suited her.
Through many moon phases of natural evolution, Collette not only found herself, but she connected to her tribe and the realization that God is not found but actualized. She broke out of her chrysalis and is now spreading her wings to support people where they are in their path, guiding them to feel less guilty and more optimistic.
Alongside the many wonderful endeavors that Collette is achieving, she’s currently serving as an educator and advocate for the responsible and ethical use of medical cannabis for firefighters and first responders. Working diligently with her father, a Fire Chief, she was invited as the keynote speaker at the Texas Fire Chiefs Association Annual Conference in December of 2022. She intends to keep stepping into opportunities to educate and inform as many that will listen about the necessity of supporting the mental health of our firefighters.
Our world is a better place because of soulpreneurs like Collette Elosha, using her euphonious voice and grand wisdom to create union instead of division, uplifting our souls, and reminding us that we are more than just our problems and fears. Collette is here to open the eyes of our souls to live an authentic life, with its ups and downs, being honest, grounded, and above all, feeling at home within our own skin, one breath at a time.
“Listen” is comprised of the songs Bass Ronin and I have cumulatively worked on together. I think from the first song we made, I was captivated by his unique, soothing, and beautiful production style. The lyrics started to flow naturally for me and we were able to make one song after another, each with its own unique energy.
What ended up being the message behind most of the lyrics in these songs circulates around the deep desire to take a closer look at the world – to listen to people’s stories. To listen to the reality of the struggles of other human beings, and to listen to yourself.
“Poison in my Veins” talks about being out of touch with yourself and feeling the need to reconnect with what you really need in your soul. “Grounding my Soul,” written by Noemi Capote, reminds us how to re-center and heal ourselves again. Kuu Sound
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Kai, known as Kuu Sound, is a singer-songwriter and Music Producer, from Oregon, currently in Transylvania.
Our existence would not be the same without music and love. They each influence our lives in meaningful ways as we evolve in our journeys. Creative Soul, Kathi Fran is a luminous musician filling the empty spaces in our hearts with memorable songs, reminding us that music and love are there to embrace us in unfathomable ways to make us whole.
Coming from a family of musicians, melodies and rhymes have been running through Kathi Fran’s veins since she was born. Her dear mother became her biggest inspiration and guide, and as early as 3 years old, Kathi Fran tried painting and playing the piano with her mother, able to read and understand music naturally. Noticing how much her little one wanted to become a rock star, Kathi Fran’s mother gave her the necessary support to set her on a creative path where music was the nucleus.
Kathi Fran found comfort in music and a way to express her struggles through her songs. She further trained in classical and jazz flute, piano, voice lessons, clarinet, and saxophone, and even played around with the guitar. In her teens, Kathi Fran played in clubs, with bands or acoustic trios, and started finding musicians to play with, including a garage band. She taught piano lessons to children and got a degree in Math, Music, and Art becoming a teacher at the Middle School near her hometown in Southern California. Little did she know that music was waiting for her with arms wide open, and she was offered the chorus teacher position, helping to build the High School chorus program as well.
Unfortunately, Kathi Fran faced ovarian cancer and had to leave the program. When she went back after her remission, her students welcomed her with an awe-inspiring performance of Imagine. She certainly left a lasting impression on her students, some of whom remain in contact to this day. She later moved to Texas, where she currently resides.
In 2017, Kathi Fran had to say goodbye to her best friend and muse. Unable to see a piano without her tender soul aching for her mother, Kathi Fran set aside music for a while. Yet again, music kept calling her home.
When the world almost collided in 2020, Kathi Fran asked herself ‘What’s my purpose?’ And she found her answer in music and love. She dove into the infinite possibilities that are inside of her Creative Soul, finding ways to learn and grow to help her fulfill the music career of her dreams. She joined a songwriter’s group, attending a retreat in Spain where she met part of her soul tribe. This led her to learn about sync opportunities (placement of songs on TV, films, commercials, etc.), opening the doors to a new dimension of the music industry.
2023 is the year that Kathi Fran is going to share the songs she has been crafting along with other dear musicians and mentors. She’s releasing one single every month, relevant to the theme of the month, revealing her personal story with her songs.
Her first single, Second Chance At First Love, was released on the biggest day of love, Valentine’s Day. It is the tale of Kathi Fran and her soulmate, and how they connected after 33 years of being apart, and how the power of their love brought them back together even after trials and failed marriages. There is no doubt that music and love may have played a magical role in Kathi Fran’s love story.
Our lives can take us on a rollercoaster ride where it feels like we are losing every part of ourselves. Music has a way of reminding us that we are not really lost, we just need to tap into the love that’s already within and allow it to light up our horizons, so we can see that we are one important piece in the grand musical that is life. Kathi Fran inspires us to have more faith in ourselves, and with her songs, she’s declaring that second chances are never too late to accept and appreciate. Let music and love guide you.
I made this collaboration with Kuu Sound after we connected on Instagram and became fans of each other’s music. She wrote and recorded her vocals over the instrumental I produced after sending her a short clip of the chorus. It’s a reflective song about breaking from attachments and making internal changes. It tells the story of a lone astronaut drifting off into space after a catastrophic event. – Typho
Chorus (Kuu Sound)
Do you know where you're going
Even if you don't gotta make it up
And the holes are showing
Everything around you is breaking up
Verse 1 (Kuu Sound)
Am I falling
Am I flying
Something's calling out deep inside me now
What do I believe
Am I really free
Will I come out the other side
I seem to have lost every trace of my sight
Maybe it's okay I've got no place to go
Come and float with me into the unknown
Chorus (Typho)
Do you know where you're going
Even if you don't gotta make it up
And the holes are showing
Everything around you is breaking up
Verse 2 (Typho)
Not a clue
Held down by gravity like glue
The whole fabric of reality got swallowed up when the black hole grew
Trapped in loop
Heavy metal weight strapped to the boots
Even if I elevate and get up all the colour getting dimmer gotta hold a bigger vision when I'm searching for what's true
Moving away from the place that I knew
All the walls have fallen through
Floating above the maze with a panoramic view
Change up change up change up energy inside of you
The brightest star up in the sky is blue
Ignite a fuse supernova brought a sonic boom
Wires loose fire burning where the comet flew
Illuminate the other side of the moon
When all the planets fall turn these molecules to something new
Head above the clouds like Zeus
Interstellar on a mission when I get away to cultivate a better way of living
and I'm running from the weather gotta navigate and follow where the solar wind it blew
Scattering the particles of matter reassemble every atom all are hollow at the centre
while caught up in a battle with the inner armegeddon was developing the shape that I morphed into
Bridge (Typho)
88 days
From the sun
Empty space
Oblivion
Chorus (Kuu Sound)
Do you know where you're going
Even if you don't gotta make it up
And the holes are showing
Everything around you is breaking up
