Carrying Home With You: Sherryla Diola on Migration, Food, and Selfhood

Carrying Home With You: Sherryla Diola on Migration, Food, and Selfhood

In this episode of To Hum is Human, I sit down with Sherryla Diola [https://www.instagram.com/gingerlovecafe/], the founder and chef behind Ginger Love Cafe, to explore a journey that spans continents, cultures, and creative reinventions. Born and raised in Davao City in the Philippines, Sherryla spent a decade performing traditional Philippine dance around the world before eventually making her way to Western Massachusetts, where she found an unexpected sense of belonging. Together, we talk about growing up in a close-knit Filipino family, the discipline and artistry of dance, adapting to new cultures, and the challenges and gifts of migration. Sherryla shares how a return trip to the Philippines after ten years away awakened a deeper appreciation for her roots and inspired her to introduce Filipino cuisine to a community that had little exposure to it. What began as festival pop-ups and a food truck has grown into Ginger Love Cafe, a beloved local business that serves more than food. It offers connection, cultural storytelling, and a reminder that hospitality can be a powerful act of love. This conversation is about identity, entrepreneurship, creativity, and the courage to trust what you carry within you. It is also a celebration of the ways food, art, and community can help us find our way home. Follow me on Instagram: @tohumishuman @sonorous.light55 @thisisdbc YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SonorousLight Website: www.sonorouslight.com

The Psychic Lawyer: Where Evidence Meets the Afterlife

In The Psychic Lawyer: Where Evidence Meets the Afterlife, I’m joined by Mark Anthony [https://www.afterlifefrequency.com/]—also known as The Psychic Lawyer—a fourth-generation psychic medium, Oxford-educated attorney, bestselling author, psychic explorer, and afterlife researcher. Licensed to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, Mark has spent decades bridging the worlds of science, spirituality, logic, and intuition. He’s a notable graduate of the Arthur Findlay College of Psychic Science, a featured speaker at institutions including Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Columbia. He has appeared on CBS TV’s The Doctors, Gaia TV, Discovery Channel’s Destinations of the Damned, and many other national programs. Mark is the author of the award-winning books The Afterlife Frequency, Never Letting Go, and Evidence of Eternity. In this conversation, we explore growing up psychic, near-death experiences, the electromagnetic soul, collective consciousness, grief, healing, and how understanding the continuity of consciousness can profoundly shift the way we live our lives. Follow me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SonorousLight [https://www.youtube.com/@SonorousLight] Instagram: @tohumishuman @sonorous.light555 @thisisdbc Website: www.sonorouslight.com [http://www.sonorouslight.com]

Imagery in Motion: Todd Colby on Art and Poetry

In this electric and deeply thoughtful conversation, I sit down with poet, visual artist, performer, and creative provocateur Todd Colby [https://www.instagram.com/toddjcolby/] to explore the space where poetry, collage, music, performance, and public art collide. Todd is the author of seven books of poetry, including Brilliant Juice, and his visual work has been exhibited at venues including the Met Cloisters, White Columns, PULP Gallery, and the Hammond Museum. As a performer, he has brought his kinetic and unforgettable reading style to spaces such as MoMA PS1, Dia Art Foundation, The Poetry Project, The Public Theater, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was also the frontman of the experimental post-punk band Drunken Boat, where art, music, and rebellion became one living practice. Together, we talk about anonymous sticker poems left throughout New York City and Northampton, altered postcards, punk rock energy, ghosts, grief, performance as channeling, and the power of paying attention to the beauty and absurdity of everyday life. Follow me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SonorousLight Instagram: @tohumishuman @sonorous.light555 @thisisdbc Website: www.sonorouslight.com [https://sonorouslight.com/]

Play Like a Girl: June Millington on Writing Rock History

In this episode, I sit down with legendary guitarist, songwriter, producer, author, and Fanny [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_(band)]co-founder June Millington [https://junemillington.net/] for a powerful conversation about music, identity, resistance, and the sacred force of women making sound together. June shares stories from her childhood in the Philippines, the moment she first heard the sound of an acoustic guitar, and how music became a bridge into belonging after moving to California in the 1960s. Together, we explore Fanny’s groundbreaking place in rock history, what it means to “play like a girl,” and how June continues to mentor the next generation of young women musicians through the Institute for the Musical Arts [https://ima.org/] in Goshen, Massachusetts. This conversation is about sound as devotion, creativity as healing, and the courage to turn up the volume when the world tells you to stay quiet. Follow me: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SonorousLight [https://www.youtube.com/@SonorousLight] Instagram: @tohumishuman @sonorous.light555 @thisisdbc Website: www.sonorouslight.com [https://sonorouslight.com/]

The Art of Belonging: Community, Creativity, and Courage

In this episode, I sit down with artist and curator Dean Brown [https://www.deanbrownart.com/about] for a rich and grounding conversation about belonging, creativity, and the courage to share your voice. Dean is an artist and the Director of PULP [https://pulpholyoke.com/], a contemporary art gallery in Holyoke, Massachusetts. His work spans sculpture, photography, and drawing, and has been exhibited nationally and reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, and Paper Magazine. His recent series transforms discarded materials—objects found on the street and vintage book covers—into deeply resonant works exploring memory, resilience, and reimagined possibility. We talk about his journey from serving as Chief Photographer at the Brooklyn Museum to founding PULP in 2019, a vibrant hub that now hosts exhibitions for local, national, and international artists, and participates in the Outsider Art Fair in New York City. What unfolds is a conversation about intuition in the creative process, the stories held within materials, and how community is something we actively create together. What I love most is this reminder: belonging isn’t something we wait for; it’s something we build, together, through presence, courage, and connection. Follow me on Instagram @tohumishuman @sonorous.light555 @thisisdbc Website: www.sonorouslight.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SonorousLight