From CPA to Yoga Empire: Quitting Corporate & High-Consciousness Love with Leah Zaccaria

Episode Overview

Sasha hosts ShefaYoga founder Leah Zaccaria for a high-vibrational, unfiltered conversation on leaving corporate America, healing abandonment patterns, building an abundant community, and balancing high-level business strategy with deep spiritual surrender.

Key Topics & Mindset Bombs

The ”Wrong Movie” Shavasana Moment: Leaving the CPA, tax-master’s, white-picket-fence life at 32 to reclaim little Leah—the dancer, leader, and community builder.

Sasha’s Official 9-to-5 Resignation: Sasha shares her real-time update on putting in her notice, stepping away from corporate safety, and trusting the universe to back her full-time leap into entrepreneurship.

Business + Woo (Structure First, Creativity Second): Why creativity and purpose aren’t enough to sustain a business—you need financial literacy, tax awareness, and solid operational foundations so your creative vision doesn’t sink in the mud.

Flow vs. Force: Discerning between fear-based over-control and intuitive action. Why if you ”can’t NOT do it,” you’re on the right path—even when it’s terrifying.

Building Shefa Yoga During a Global Crisis: Taking over a 5,600 sq ft space in Venice Beach right before the pandemic and holding space for an abundant, non-pretentious community where everyone belongs.

FaceTime Bumble Dates & Monogamy: Unpacking Leah’s four-year single era, overcoming the lie that ”no one can handle a strong woman,” and meeting her husband Tagus on a friend’s FaceTime call.

Parenting & Breaking Generational Trauma: Mothering her 24-year-old daughter with radical freedom, open doors, and zero suffocation or vicarious living.

Where to Find Leah Zaccaria

Instagram: @leahzaccaria