We’re looking forward to introducing you to Destiny Finn. Check out our conversation below.
Destiny, we’re thrilled to have you with us today. Before we jump into your intro and the heart of the interview, let’s start with a bit of an ice breaker: What makes you lose track of time—and find yourself again?
What makes me lose track of time — and somehow find myself again — is creation.
When I’m writing, filming, or walking in the quiet of nature, something in me switches over.
Everything unnecessary falls away. The world gets sharp and still at the same time.
I move with this calm, collected certainty — not rushed, not hesitant — just a grounded clarity that feels both ancient and familiar. It’s where my mind becomes precise, my intuition loud, and my spirit steady.
In that space, I’m not performing.
I’m not proving.
I’m remembering.
When I’m shaping a story or pulling a deeper truth out of the noise, I lose track of time in the best way. It feels like stepping into the center of who I am — the artist, the visionary, the woman who creates from her core rather than her fear.
Creation is where I find my rhythm again.
Where I feel purpose settle into my bones .
Where I stop thinking about the life I’m building and start embodying it.
Every time I enter that space, I don’t just make something —
I become something.
I become the clearest, strongest version of myself.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Destiny Finn, and I’m a storyteller, creator, the founder of Finn & Burk Trading Company, and the host of The God Core podcast — a movement built around a simple but revolutionary truth: every human carries a divine creative force within them.
My work sits at the crossroads of psychology, scripture, neuroscience, and lived experience. I take the things most people shy away from — identity, worth, fear, faith — and I bring them into the light with clarity and courage. My message is for the ones who know they were made for more, but have been talked out of their own power. I help people remember who they are beneath the noise, the programming, and the performance.
I create long-form content, books, and videos about identity and spirituality, about reclaiming your life as something you actively author, not something you passively endure. Right now I’m finishing my second book You Are Art, a deep exploration of self-worth, inner belief structures and narratives, and the creative authority we were born with to create a life we love.
Alongside my writing, I run Finn & Burk Trading Co., an adventure-inspired apparel brand shaped by the years I spent working in the wilds of Alaska. It’s a brand grounded in courage, exploration, and the belief that the world still calls us to rise, to roam, and to become. Every design carries a piece of the North — bold, gritty, alive. Ten percent of every purchase goes back into wilderness preservation to sustain our natural environment.
What makes my work unique is the fusion:
I don’t preach theories I don’t live.
Everything I teach is forged in my own transformation.
I turn my story into something that wakes people up to theirs.
Because people aren’t broken — they’re becoming.
They are both the canvas and the artist.
And my work is about helping them see that.
Right now, I’m expanding my creative platforms, growing The God Core community on Youtube, preparing to release my second book, and building brands that invite people into their highest, boldest, truest expression.
Amazing, so let’s take a moment to go back in time. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
Before the world told me “who to be”, I was a quiet force — observant, imaginative, and unbothered by expectations. I was the kind of child who saw patterns in everything, who felt the Divine in the small moments, and who carried a sense of purpose long before I had language for it. I didn’t move loudly, but I moved with intent. I knew clearly what I wanted and didn’t question my gut. There was a steadiness in me — a calm, determined presence that didn’t need validation to feel real.
Looking back, that was my truest self: curious, creative, and deeply connected to something bigger than the roles I was expected to play.
But somewhere along the way, like most people, I learned how to shrink. I learned how to perform, how to be acceptable, how to fit inside the versions of me that made others comfortable. And that’s when I noticed my power dimming — not disappearing, just waiting.
The work I do now is really just a return to that original girl. The one who could see clearly. The one who trusted her inner voice. The one who didn’t need permission to be herself.
I’ve shed a lot of narratives to get back to her — the misplaced guilt, the fear of being “too much,” the pressure to live small or to outsource my worth to others opinions. What’s left is who I was all along: a creator, a leader, and a woman who speaks truth with a steady hand and a clear spine.
That girl is still in me.
She’s just grown into someone who no longer apologizes for her vision.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Suffering taught me things success never had the language for.
Success can show you what you can achieve, but suffering shows you what you’re made of. It strips everything down until all the roles, expectations, and borrowed identities fall away — and you’re left face-to-face with the blueprint of who you really are.
My hardest seasons didn’t break me; they revealed me. They taught me that strength isn’t loud, and resilience isn’t glamorous. It’s quiet, deliberate, and forged in the moments no one sees. It’s the decision to rise again not because life made it easy, but because your spirit refuses to stay small.
Suffering taught me a deeper kind of intelligence — the God Core truth that every wound carries a message, and every breaking point carries an awakening if you choose to listen. It pushed me inward, into the place where identity is rebuilt, worth is restored, and the Creator within finally speaks without interruption.
It also taught me that pressure is a form of prophecy. That the fire doesn’t come to destroy you — it comes to refine you. That the parts of me I thought were ending were really being re-formed into the woman I was meant to become.
This is the heartbeat of You Are Art: that even the painful strokes on the canvas of your life have purpose. Nothing is wasted. Every shadow clarifies the light.
And in a strange way, I recognize now that the suffering was guidance — the calling from Wisdom I’ve carried my whole life. The one who walks through darkness not to stay there, but to understand it well enough to help others find their way out. Success never taught me that. Comfort never taught me that. Only the breaking did, only the shadows of darkness and coming face to face and learning to love the things I wished had most not happened.
Suffering gave me the clarity, the depth, and the spiritual authority to do the work I do now. It taught me not just who I am — but who I am becoming.
Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
One of the most important truths I’ve learned — and the one very few people fully agree with — is that the thing we call “God” – this divine, higher mind of infinite intelligence and consciousness – is not external, distant, or separate from us. The divine isn’t something we chase, earn, or fear. It’s something we carry.
People are taught to look outward for authority, identity, and meaning. But the real transformation begins the moment you turn inward and recognize that the Creator lives in you — not above you. That truth disrupts a lot of systems, because people who know who they are can’t be controlled, manipulated, or talked out of their purpose.
Through The God Core and You Are Art, I teach the truth that every human being is a vessel of divine intelligence, and that worth is inherent — not conditional. Most people push back on this at first, not because it isn’t true, but because it forces them to release old frameworks of beliefs in their subconscious that were built on fear, shame, or hierarchy.
But once you understand that the image of God isn’t a metaphor — it’s a blueprint — everything shifts. You start living with clarity. You start creating from authority. You stop settling for identities handed to you by culture, religion, or survival, and you return to the one that was written in your spirit long before the world tried to tell you who to be.
This isn’t a popular truth, but it’s the one I’m called to carry:
that humans aren’t disconnected from “God” aka The Source —
they’re expressions of IT.
Co-creators.
Bearers of wisdom.
Walking reflections of divine intention.
That belief shapes everything we create.
And even if the world isn’t ready for it, I am committed to living, teaching, and embodying it — because once someone experiences that truth for themselves, they never go back to the smaller version of who they were told to be.
Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. What do you think people will most misunderstand about your legacy?
I think the thing people will most misunderstand about my legacy is that my work was never about rebellion — it was about remembrance.
Yes, I challenge ideas people were raised to protect: what “God” actually is, where identity comes from, and how much power we truly carry within us. Some will interpret that challenge as contradiction or controversy. But the truth beneath it is quieter and far older than any argument. My work isn’t about tearing anything true down — it’s about bringing light to the lies, and calling people back to what was always theirs.
You Are Art and The God Core both carry the same message:
that humans were created with divine intelligence, creative authority, and inherent worth — and that somewhere along the way, the world convinced them to forget it.
Some will misunderstand that remembering as arrogance.
Or as spiritual disruption.
Or as a threat to the systems that depend on people staying small.
But the legacy I’m building isn’t centered on my name — it’s centered on awakening. It’s about helping people realize that “God” is not distant or external; the divine spark is woven into their design. And when someone reconnects with that truth, everything shifts. Their identity. Their direction. Their presence. They stop living for approval and start living from authority.
If my legacy is misunderstood, it will be misunderstood in this way:
people will assume I came to challenge their beliefs, when in reality, I came to activate their remembering.
I came to remind people that they are both the canvas and the artist —
a living expression of divine creativity, sent here to build, heal, create, and become.
My legacy will make more sense in hindsight than it does in real time.
Most things rooted in truth do.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://destinyfinn.com/
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/destiny.finn?igshid=wsln6u5fghx0
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCztrsjRlD6mEFI4yJn23Htg
- Other: Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-god-core/id1853025713
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