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Lab Partners

Lab Partners

By: Kelsey Tortorice
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Lab Partners is a behind the scenes conversation series amongst 8 folks who are in a season of experimentation with creativity, authenticity, relationship, collaboration, and visibility. We’re letting you in on our processes as we unpack them together.Copyright 2025 Kelsey Tortorice Art Relationships Social Sciences Spirituality
Episodes
  • Truly Relational Beings: 4/6 Transpersonal Praxis ~ With Quinn, Amalia, and Nic
    Oct 20 2025

    Join colLaboratory’s three 4/6 profiles for a chat from their respective roof balconies about the living assignment of Transpersonal Praxis that is the Opportunist - Role Model life.

    Quinn, Amalia, and Nic share with each other and with listeners their experiences and reflections around:

    • Shame and failure in the process of bumping into life before finding resilience or detachment “on the roof.”
    • The evolving relationship to community, friendship, and environment: finding spaces and people that allow one’s full expression to exist without defense.
    • Parentification in early role modeling
    • Balancing participation and observation: needing distance within connection, cultivating internal space while remaining relational.
    • Role models - what are they? Do we have hem?
    • Conditioning as a good thing - mutual exchange and relational influence

    And a lot more.

    🧪 This episode's Lab Partners:

    • Quinn is a 4/6 Emotional Manifestor with Saturn in Aquarius
    • Amalia is a 4/6 Emotional Genereator with Saturn in Aquarius
    • Nic is a 4/6 Sacral Generator With Saturn in Scorpio


    You can find more about them and their other lab partners at kelseyrosetort.com/labpartners, including bodygraphs, natal charts, and ways to connect with their work.

    💖 Stay tuned: New episodes of LAB PARTNERS are released weekly-ish, usually on the Moon’s day.


    Intro & Music by Noah Souder-Russo

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Tending the Revolt, Behind the Scenes ~ With Eréndira and Nic
    Oct 15 2025

    In this special episode of Lab Partners, Nic Strack interviews Eréndira Jiménez about her new eight-week circle, “Tending the Revolt.” The conversation explores how caregiving, creativity, and liberation can coexist—especially for parents and caregivers who are seeking to integrate revolutionary ideas into their daily lives. They discuss:

    • How the 8-week circle serves as a communal space for reflection and creativity
    • Shifting experiences & expressions of liberation and activism from something more “combustible” to something more intimate, poetic, and lived in the everyday
    • Exploring stories, myth weaving, and community wounds
    • The power of gathering honestly, without agenda, to discover transformation through mutual presence
    • Launching as a practice of liberation itself

    You can find details and registration for Tending the Revolt: Caregiving, Poetics, and Liberation in the Everyday at eje.myflodesk.com/tendingtherevolt

    🧪This episode’s Lab Partners:

    • Eréndira Jiménez is a 5/2 Emotional Manifestor with 1 kiddo, aged 1.5
    • Nic Strack is a 4/6 Sacral Generator with two kiddos, aged 2 and (almost) 9

    You can find more about them and their other lab partners at kelseyrosetort.com/labpartners, including bodygraphs, natal charts, and ways to connect with their work.

    💖 Stay tuned: New episodes of LAB PARTNERS are released weekly-ish, usually on the Moon’s day


    Intro & Music by Noah Souder-Russo

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    52 mins
  • Trust is the Resource (What Does it Cost to Be Free?) ~ With Maru, Erendira, and Kelsey
    Oct 13 2025

    This is a powerful conversation (between two heretics and a role model!) embracing queries that are relevant to many creatives, like:

    “HOW TO BE RESOURCED TO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT“

    “HOW TO BE RESOURCED TO JUST BE YOU”

    and

    “WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE FINANCIALLY FREE?”


    Maru, Eréndira, and Kelsey offer stories, examples, and perspectives gained in their years of deprogramming orientations to resource, success, security, and certainty.

    They discuss:

    • Letting go of metrics of success that were never theirs
    • Trajectory shifts from more “safe” and traditional career paths to the trust falls of their work lives now
    • The distinction between being intellectually committed to divesting from the stories of capitalism and colonialism verses the actual embodied movement towards that divestment
    • Trusting their bodies rather than homogenized stories to guide them to resourcedness
    • The romanticization verses the real life experience and sacrifices of “geting free”


    🧪 This episode's Lab Partners:

    • Maru is a 6/2 Sacral Generator on the Cross of Prevention
    • Eréndira is a 5/2 Emotional Manifestor on the Cross of Uncertainty
    • Kelsey is a 5/2 Emotional Manifestor on the Cross of Upheaval


    You can find more about them and their other lab partners at kelseyrosetort.com/labpartners, including bodygraphs, natal charts, and ways to connect with their work.


    💖 Stay tuned: New episodes of LAB PARTNERS are released weekly-ish, usually on the Moon’s day.


    Intro & Music by Noah Souder-Russo

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    1 hr and 20 mins
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