🎙I facilitate brave spaces where dialogue bridges cultural divides. (she/her) Current Works: Story Direction / Editing @ 👂 It’s Nice to Hear You Podcast👄 🗯 itsnicetohearyou.com 👣 Co-Founder & CEO @ Inheritance Project 🪞 Co-Creator @ Rebis 🤲🏼 FREE RESOURCE: Unpack Your Inheritance Workbook ✍️ www.inheritanceproject.org/workbook 🔍 I create intentional spaces to unpack + integrate your inheritance — the ancestry, culture, values, traits, beliefs, stories, and perspectives you received from past generations— so you can become the author of your own story and legacy. #maketheinvisiblevisible 🌊 I am a multidimensional XR storyteller — actress, singer, dancer, writer, director, in service of bridging cultural divides through the power of story. 🎭 Carnegie Mellon School of Drama BFA Acting 📚 Carnegie Scholar 🇧🇾 Born in Belarus 🗽 Based in Brooklyn 👁 Third Culture Kid 🔮 Post-Soviet Mystic 🙏🏼 Yoga & Meditation Teacher 💃 Ecstatic Dance DJ 😻 Cat Mom 📜 Poet, Playwright, Writer 🧠 Neurodiversity Advocate 🧬 My inheritance: I am a Post-Soviet Jewish refugee who grew up in the U.S. to be a pan-sexual third culture kid. Tell me about your inheritance — what makes you, you? ✳️ storytelling, XR, inheritance, identity, inclusivity, belonging, somatic learning, process work, mindfulness, experience design, human design, ancestral healing 🔍 I believe that specificity humanizes, and that the depth to which we can understand ourselves is the depth to which we can understand others. 📖 I love delving into mysticism, Hermeticism, mythology, archetypes, sustainability, shamanism, afferent data, psychology, identity, psychedelics, Human Design, astrology, and anything that expands consciousness and deepens our understanding of the fabric of life. 🧿 “Those who say they know, don’t. Those who say they don’t know, know.” — Zen Koan 🌀 “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen ✨ www.katyastepanov.com 💌 DM me! IG: @katyastepanov 🔗 LinkedIn.com/katyastepanov