Stephanie Zubiri offers Soulful Feasts of authenticity, life lessons, and good vibes
This is an excerpt from the MEGA December 2024-January 2025 Features
Stephanie Zubiri has long been a prominent figure in the culinary world, whipping up mouthwatering creations, and chronicling her explorations of top restaurants and taste-testing adventures. Lately, she appears to be immersed in a different type of fare that provides nourishment not just for the body but the mind and spirit as well.
Her podcast, Soulful Feasts, launched in October 2023. In its debut episode, she revealed that her youngest son is on the Autism Spectrum. Joined by journalist and broadcaster Karen Davila, who is also a mother to a son on the spectrum, the two women talked about their experiences, discussing both the challenges and the joys of raising a neurodivergent child.
Their conversation was open, honest, and real. It set the tone for succeeding episodes where Stephanie spoke candidly about her two failed marriages, touched on hitting rock bottom, revealed grappling with insecurities about her body, and other intimate life details. She is clearly at ease with embracing her vulnerability, and this seems to encourage her guests to lower their own defenses. “I like that it’s a safe space for people to talk, I think the audience feels that,” she states, adding that listeners have said that her podcast feels like eavesdropping on best friends and that the insights exchanged have helped them through difficult times. “That makes me feel happy!”
Stephanie never anticipated that Soulful Feasts would gain the following it has. After all, it began simply as a passion project, a venue for her to delve into holistic healing and various modalities, feature experts who have supported her own healing journey, and connect with others through their stories — all in her pursuit of being her best self for her children, Seb (10) and Max (8).
This Stephanie is someone who is aware of her triggers, someone who is able to honor her “negative emotions” without letting them spill over onto others. “I think it’s our responsibility as awakened, enlightened humans to lessen the collateral damage by working on ourselves and always being the best version of ourselves even on bad and difficult days,” she points out. “Even when things are hard and we get angry and sad, we need to recognize and honor those moments.”
Read more of Stephanie Zubiri’s Soulful Feasts in MEGA’s December 2024-January 2025 issue , now available on Readly, Magzter, Press Reader and Zinio.
Photographed by Scott Woodward
