The Creative Human: Art, Soul Purpose, and AI Manipulation

Steph Lokelani sits down with her friend and self-described "creative human," Tiffany Eller, for a warm, wide-ranging, and deep conversation that covers theater debuts, dream interpretation, personal mission statements, soul contracts, and a compelling theory about AI-generated misinformation that is quietly dividing Americans on Facebook. Together, Steph and Tiffany talk about what it means to follow your inspiration, how the body tells you when you're in or out of alignment, and why creating safe spaces for people to express themselves might be the most meaningful work any of us will ever do.

About Tiffany Eller:

Tiffany Eller is a multi-disciplinary artist and ADHD-riddled creator dabbling in everything life has to offer. From making silly reels for local businesses to taking on her first-time acting gig, she’s determined to express herself in as many ways as possible. Her mission is to create safe spaces for others to express themselves just as fully. Tiffany is a Boise native and mother to a daughter that matches her in her silliness and often outwits her humor.

In this episode, we chat about:

🎭 Tiffany's First Acting Role

Tiffany is making her stage debut in Funnie: The Most Lamentable Comedie of Jane the Foole, a play by The Luminary Theater Co. set in King Henry VIII's court. It starts as a comedy and becomes a powerful commentary on sexual assault and the silencing of women. Think the MeToo movement, but in the 1500s. Tiffany plays Bessie, a Cockney handmaiden with a brand-new accent she's never attempted before. Steph's advice? Nerves mean you're going to be incredible.

🎭 Boise Bard Players

Tiffany shares about her role as managing director and the company's mission to make Shakespeare and classical theater affordable and accessible to the Treasure Valley, including their current truncated, one-hour production of Much Ado About Nothing with a 9pm "spicy adult night" that plays up all the Shakespeare sex jokes that went over your head in high school.

✏️ Being a Creative Human

From window murals and crocheting to video editing and co-writing a full-length play with her partner Dakota Brown, Tiffany talks about how her creativity spills into every medium. The untitled play is set on the night of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast in 1938, exploring media hysteria, political fear, and the family fractures that happen when ideology gets louder than love. Tiffany and Dakota need a title for this play! Drop your idea in the comments.

🧭 Body Alignment as a Compass

Tiffany has learned to read her body like a compass. When she's in alignment: energized, low pain, at ease. When she's not: tight chest, back pain, recurring ailments that disappear the moment she changes a circumstance. This conversation is a great reminder to pay attention to what your body is quietly telling you.

💭 Dream Interpretation

One of the most magical parts of the episode where Tiffany and Steph interpret their dreams for each other. Who knew they both used to do dream interpretation!? The two also get into dream journaling, lucid dreaming, and astral projection.

✨ "I Am a Soul Healer"

Years ago, Tiffany worked with a criminal profiler-turned-consultant who helped her uncover her personal mission statement: I am a soul healer who creates safe spaces for people to express themselves. Tiffany traces this thread through everything she's ever done, from being a college RA to running the Idaho Pun Slam to the way strangers regularly tell her things they've never told anyone. The insight: a mission statement isn't what you do. It's how you be.

🔗 Soul Contracts & Energy Vampires

Do you believe some people come into your life because you made an agreement with them before you were even born? Steph and Tiffany explore the idea of soul contracts, the lesson-shaped people who keep showing up in different forms, and what it means when someone repeatedly takes more energy than they give.

🚪 Learning Not to Fear People

Tiffany opens up about a lifelong social anxiety - specifically, her old inability to make eye contact. She realized it was never fear of other people. It was fear of herself. She didn't trust that she could hold a boundary if someone misread her warmth as an invitation. That shift in understanding changed everything.

💛 Holding Space vs. Trying to Fix

One of the hardest things to learn in any close relationship: letting someone be upset without immediately jumping in to solve it. Tiffany shares how this lesson keeps coming up in her relationships and how she's slowly learning that peace comes from letting people feel what they need to feel, not from handing them a solution.

🤖 AI Misinformation & Fake Facebook Groups

Tiffany puts on her tinfoil hat and makes a genuinely eye-opening case: large Facebook groups with Idaho-centric identities appear to be run entirely by fake AI-generated profiles and may be coordinated by foreign agents designed to sow political division. She breaks down how the groups build trust with harmless or funny content, then sneak in divisive political posts to spark arguments in the comment sections. She's spotted the same pattern in states across the country and she has a practical call to action in response to these groups.

🌟 Closing Question: Who Are You at Your Core?

Their answers may or may not surprise you.

Chapters:

0:00 – Cold Open: Welcome & Cat Chaos (with Osiris the Cat)

0:35 – Introducing Tiffany Eller: The Creative Human

1:48 – How Steph & Tiffany Met

2:43 – Tiffany's Theater Debut: Funnie, The Most Lamentable Comedie of Jane the Foole

6:11 – What Made You Audition for the First Time?

8:25 – Boise Bard Players & Accessible Shakespeare

10:00 – The Many Forms of Tiffany's Creativity (ADHD & Art)

10:41 – Writing a New Play: War of the Worlds, 1938 & Political Division

17:18 – What Brought You to This Moment in Your Life?

19:38 – Reading Your Body: Physical Signs of Alignment vs. Misalignment

22:53 – Dream Interpretation: How to Start Decoding Your Dreams

24:10 – Steph's Dream: Frodo, the Raft & the River Styx

29:59 – Tiffany's Dream: Directing A Cappella & Trusting Your Gut

31:17 – What Three Groups in a Dream Could Mean

34:51 – Lucid Dreaming, Astral Projection & Dream Journaling

38:15 – Where Your Personal Story Meets Your Work in the World

39:57 – "I Am a Soul Healer": Tiffany's Personal Mission Statement

44:00 – Do You Believe in Soul Contracts?

47:07 – Energy Vampires, Cookie-Cutter People & Learning Relationship Lessons

51:00 – A Stranger at the Door: We're All in This Together

53:29 – Overcoming Fear of People Through Boundary Work

55:57 – Holding Space vs. Jumping to Solutions

1:00:59 – The Experience That Changed How Tiffany Shows Up for Others

1:03:59 – Tiffany's Tinfoil Hat Theory: AI Bots, Fake Facebook Groups & Political Manipulation

1:14:00 – Closing Question: Who Are You at Your Core?

1:19:00 – Outro & Guest Invitation