HELLO
Thank you so much for being here. I’m Jerico (she/they). My highest calling is to stoke the fires of weirdness and magic in the people I work with. To guide them towards self-expression. Because creativity + the arts can be life-changing. And even world-changing.
ABOUT JERICO
Do you believe in alchemy?
I spent the early part of my adult life avoiding the call to fully express my creative abilities and depth of sensitivity. I bought into the scam of perfectionism.
I accepted the stories we’re all told; that what I had to stay didn’t matter. That it was cool to hide your light and call it modesty. That only the elite few are allowed to contribute creatively or experience the healing potential of art. All lies.
My childhood was marked by sexual abuse, violence, and neglect—articulated later through mental health issues and chronic pain. Then as a young adult, I was diagnosed with ADHD and autism.
My life began to change when, as a successful yet burned out leader in the media and journalism space, I looked to my childhood for what used to light me up. I found resilience through imagination, spirituality, and creativity, back then. So I re-traced my steps; reconnecting to my truest self.
It worked. I began feeling that my life had a greater meaning again, I was having fun again, and I could be my fully-expressed self, engaged with nature and the world. Alive and enough.
I’ve learned that creativity is a deep need in us all; a gateway to healing, resilience, and self-acceptance.
It’s become my life’s mission is to harness all that I’ve learned, and use it to inspire and help transform the lives of people like you. Now, my greatest challenges have become my most precious gifts. Like lead turned into gold.
Keep reading for more on my training + background.
MY BACKGROUND
Qualifications + select professional development:
Master of Therapeutic Arts Practice. 2025 (current).
Certificate in Autistic Wellbeing. 2022.
Diploma of Meditation Teaching. 2020.
Qualified Creativity Coach. 2020.
Certificate of Embodied Transformation (Somatic Coaching). 2019.
Oppression, Privilege and Spiritual Practice symposium. 2019.
Qualified Life Coach. 2019.
Usui Reiki II practitioner. 2018.
Private tarot mentorship. 2016—2017.
Post-Graduate Diploma (Journalism). 2011.
BA Hons 1st (Gender Studies, Art Theory + History). 2009.
Current registrations:
Professionally registered member of Meditation Association of Australia.
Member of the International Tarot Foundation.
Member of the Tarot Guild of Australia.
My personal practice and worldview is informed by:
The transformative power of arts, storytelling, creative expression, and imagination in all its forms.
Nonduality, animism, and anarchic approaches to spirituality.
The autistic, ADHD, queer femme, chronically ill, and first generation immigrant experience.
Meditation, mindfulness, somatic practices, classical tantra, and internal martial arts.
Honouring my cultural/ancestral line; Egyptian, Mediterranean, Rromani, Slavic, and Celtic.
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Jerico Mandybur is a best-selling author, writer, award-winning creativity coach, therapeutic arts facilitator, and tarot reader.
Their published books, translated in seven languages, are: Neo Tarot: A fresh approach to self care, healing, and empowerment, Daily Oracle: Seek answers from your higher self, Pleasure Oracle: A love, sex, and pleasure deck and Rainbow Power: Manifest your dream life with the creative magic of colour. Jerico is also the creator and former host of the hit podcasts, Beyond Belief (2020) and Self Service with Jerico Mandybur (2018).
Jerico’s words and work has been featured in publications like New York Magazine, LA Times, New York Times, Vogue, The Guardian, Goop, Refinery29, Bustle, Pop Sugar, and many more——and they’ve been a guest on countless podcasts and nation-wide radio programs including ABC’s RN Drive and Triple J’s The Hook Up.
Jerico has collaborated with brands such as Levis, Urban Decay, HBO’s Game of Thrones, BeautyCon, Depop, Holiday the Label, Realisation Par, Soho House, House of Hackney, Alemais, In The Roundhouse, Galleries Victoria, Neuehouse, the Chateau Marmont, and more.
They’ve given a TEDx Talk on the power of authentic, autistic self-expression as well as hosted fireside conversations and sat on panels with thought leaders like Dr. Esther Perel, Elaine Welteroth, and Lizzie Velasquez at events like the Teen Vogue Summit, Pinterest’s In the Making conference, the Girlboss Rally, Pedestrian’s Selfish Sessions, and Mercado Sagrado.
Jerico is represented by The O’Shea Agency.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
I’m currently humbly living and learning on country belonging to the Bidjigal people of the Eora nation. I also frequent neighbouring sovereign Birrabirragal, Gadigal, and Wangal land. I was born and raised on Dharawal country, belonging to the Wodi Wodi people. As a settler on sacred ground, I acknowledge these sovereign lands were never ceded. I pay my deepest respect to these Elders past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders. I also acknowledge the legacy of both past and present genocidal violence and displacement—and the ongoing resistance and survival of First Nations people in the face of it.
I seek to do my part to move us closer to true justice, reparations, regeneration, and renewal of culture and Country with every right action (including donating 3.5% of my annual profits) and I offer up any merits of my work to this cause. I join countless others in demanding the immediate implementation of the Uluru Statement for voice, treaty, and truth.
