Sometimes its better to think more broadly in a time of feeling stuck. This concept of asking myself if I'm in and inhale phase or an exhale phase has really helped me see where my resistance is and help me move back into the flow.
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DIY rules for the WTF world.
Messy Middle Minisode with yours truly. I'm sharing about a fun and different way I think about my own inner voice, intuition or gentle whispers.
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Krista Suh is a screenwriter, craftivist, artist, activist and creator of the Pussyhat and Evil Eye Gloves. Her mission is to make the world a safer place for women and help everyone validate their own creativity, femininity, and intuition. In her book, DIY Rules for a WTF World: How To Speak Up, Get Creative and CHANGE THE WORLD, Krista share the tools, tips, experiences, "rules," and more she uses to get creative, get bold, and change the world. Krista is a powerful voice for doing more as she inspires others to create their own rules for living, and even a movement of their own, all with gusto, purpose, and joy. Krista has been a screenwriter since 2009, was in the FOX Writer's Initiative program from 2010-2011, written jokes for the Primetime Emmys, and has written in film, television, and web.----Music:Edited by Nick BaumanJunior En Cavale Live @WFMU 7/13/2018Follow Maring:
Sigrid Gilmer makes black comedies that are historically bent, totally perverse, joyfully irreverent and are concerned with issues of identity, pop culture and contemporary American society. Her work has been performed at the Skylight Theatre, Pavement Group, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Cornerstone Theater Company and Highways Performance Space. She is a winner of the Map Fund Creative Exploration Grant, the James Irving Foundation Fellowship and is a USA Ford Fellow in Theatre
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What if you could live a life that 100% represented your singular experience? What if you stopped asking how can I fit into the current society and dominate culture and instead asked what space can I carve out in the world that is mine, and fully supports who I am and what I care about?
In today’s episode I am talking with Yumi Sakugawa comic book illustrator author of I THINK I AM IN FRIEND-LOVE WITH YOU and YOUR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BECOMING ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE.
In this episode we go deep into the ease of ritual, how we can make magic and ceremony, what it means to have tea with our demons and the beauty of embracing our shadow. She invites us to ponder what it would look like if we allowed ourselves to be pioneers of new unexplored emotional, magic, spiritual lands. The possibilities are endless.
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Have you ever been in a stage of your life and thought "I thought I would be so much further along in _____ than I am" This week I am talking about that uncomfortable space of when we are going after our dreams and goals and we realize at some point that our expectations have not been met.
In this episode I will talk about the problems that can arise during this phase, why we need to pay attention to this phase rather than ignore it and offer some alternative questions we can ask ourselves to turn the self shaming around.
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Have you ever wondered what people are talking about when they say "Just show up and do the work?" Well, in this episode we are getting deep into what that looked like for Nicole Miyuki watercolorist, teacher and author as she wrote her first book.
This episode is a shining example of what can happen when we follow our hearts and just keep doing the work we love to do and sharing that message with the world. For Nicole she had no idea she was building a brand and had never thought about writing a book until that one right opportunity appeared at her door. If your someone who wonders what your creative contribution may be, listen to Nicole's unconventional path of both doing the daily creative work and allowing the flow and ease to come through.
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Today on the podcast I'm asking the question what is ritual, what is ceremony and how can we incorporate rites of passage in our daily life.
Ritual is what we make of it
Tarot Cards mean what meaning we give them
Ceremony is the act of showing up in a way that feels good to you
Honoring and Reverence: come from acknowledging and giving thanks to the moment, people and things.
I have had desire for ceremony, for blessing my space, for opening the circle and having intentions about what I want to invoke in.
I have been pulled to make magical potions, search for medicinal plants in the wild, take mild altering herbs, pull tarot cards, make tinctures, and create my own medicine out of rocks and feathers and rose petals.
And as that desire came through I thought for one second that because I didn’t know much about these things that I needed to go find a book, buy someone’s formula or find someone to tell me how to do it. What formula could I follow that would help me know these words better, ceremony, sacredness, honoring reverence, and who could tell me how to do them?
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What Kind of Creativity are you? Click here for the free quiz -> http://eepurl.com/cYj0sj
Instagram: @creativitypluswellness
Music: By Maring Higa
If your someone who has ever had an interest in doing a year long project this episode will hopefully provide you the inspiration to do one yourself. If you asked me 2 years ago if I thought this was possible for me, I would have told you that I never follow through on long term projects and that I'm just not the type of person who completes these sorts of things.
But I'm happy to say that I am just entering into my 11th Experiment and its been surprisingly more easy than I thought and also so much fun! For this interview I had the creator of the 12 Experiments Sarah Natsumi Moore interview me on what its been like so far.
If you want to follow along on my current experiment a month of walking you can follow me @creativitypluswellness on Instagram, or check out the blog www.maringhiga.com/blog to see what past experiments looked like.
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Femi Olafioye-Omogbehin Bio:
I’m a stylist and consultant who is passionate about creating and providing representation for black women through both fashion and building personal relationships. I started my business January of 2018 and continue doing work understanding how lack of representation and shame are connected, and helping women heal the wounds lack of representation has caused. I also *love* clothes and providing styling tips/advice.
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Liturgist podcast- episode on shame
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I am captivated by all things metaphysical; the transcendent experience that defies logic, the omen, the prophetic dream, and realms unknown. I explore the esoteric through tarot card readings, meditation, channeling, spirit work, various healing modalities, art, and music.
My background is that of a creator and teacher. I received my MFA from the School of the Art Institute in 2008; I spent the years following working at colleges, touring with my band, reading tarot, and creating art. In 2011, I self-published my first tarot deck, the Laughing Eye Weeping Eye Tarot. It was more successful than I anticipated, as were my tarot readings. People shared that my tarot readings were life-altering and encouraged me to continue. With a ton of support from loved ones as well as faith in the Universe, I left my full time job in 2013 so that I could pursue these passions full-time.
My creative practices also feeds my divination and spiritual work. As an artist and musician, I create works that explore archetypes within the collective unconscious. For example, I am interested in how ancient cave paintings of horned men (or gods) and a wall calendar of deer in one’s home may evoke, unknowingly, a connection to something similar across time and space. It is the timeless that I seek to explore, sometimes in a playful way.
Tarot was my first hook into the metaphysical. I had unusual experiences in my youth (channeling, automatic writing, astral travel) but did not understand or start using these gifts until I created my first deck and began reading from it in 2011. I found that the process of reading unlocked something for me. I am still trying to understand it; This mystery keeps me enthralled.
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Music By Rebecca Schoemaker
Song # 1. Wake by Laughing Eye Weeping Eye
Song #2. Sunday Lake by Laughing Eye Weeping Eye
In this mini series past guest and friend Whitney Lawless and I are talking about Race. How it effects our creativity, our relationships, and the work that we are doing in the world.
Listen in as we share a bit about our Messy Middle process.
To Join in on the conversation please join The Messy Middle Facebook Group. I would love to hear your thoughts on Race, or any questions you are struggling with yourself.
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Daniella Zalcman is a documentary photographer based between London and New York. She is a multiple grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation, and the founder of Women Photograph, an initiative working to elevate the voices of female and non-binary visual journalists.
Her work tends to focus on the legacies of western colonization, from the rise of homophobia in East Africa to the forced assimilation education of indigenous children in North America. Her ongoing project, Signs of Your Identity, is the recipient of the 2017 Arnold Newman Prize, a 2017 Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award, the 2016 FotoEvidence Book Award, the 2016 Magnum Foundation's Inge Morath Award, and part of Open Society Foundation's Moving Walls 24.
Daniella regularly lectures at high schools and universities, and is available for assignments and speaking engagements internationally. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in architecture in 2009.
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In this interview Daniella and I talked about how and why she became a photo journalist and the story she is currently telling of Indigenous People in North American who were taken from their families and forced to cut their hair, forget their language and to assimilate in Indian Boarding Schools.
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Bedovine- Dusty Eyes Live @ WFMU
Luna- Lost in Space Live @ WFMU
Vincentia Schroeter has a Phd in Clinical Psychology and has researched early attachment between mothers and babies. She is a Bioenergetic Analyst, a somatic psychotherapy dealing with emotional blocks on a body level. Vin has taught internationally and locally. Interested students can go to sciba.org
Vin is a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist in Clinical practice over 40 years. Interested in incorporating latest neuroscience findings into somatic psychotherapy.
Current Activities:
Writing a book combining brain and body tools, called, "Breaking Through: Communication Skills for being Seen and Heard."
Enjoying drawing, painting and writing a communication blog
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In thi episode Vin and I talk about:
Pitch Webinar: March 22nd Pitch Perfect, Mastering the Art of Making the Ask
Tiffany Han, CPCC, is a writer, speaker, teacher, and coach whose work focuses on helping highly-creative women embrace a new framework of creative productivity to design and build the businesses of their dreams and bring their best ideas to life. As the founder of Say Yes Creative LLC, Tiffany has been helping creative women take bold, inspired action towards their dreams since 2011.
With a degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a CPCC certification from the Coaches Training Institute combined with over a decade of experience in non-profit fundraising, marketing, and sales, Tiffany brings an abundant array of academic, professional, and personal experiences to her work.
In 2014, Tiffany launched her Raise Your Hand Say Yes podcast, wherein she goes behind the scenes of the success stories of our favorite creative visionaries to find out the truth of their experiences. It's been called a must-listen for creatives and has over 900,000 downloads. #legit #likewhoa
In addition to her work in the coaching, branding, and podcasting worlds, Tiffany is an accomplished (and hilarious) speaker—available for conferences and events to educate, entertain, and embolden the sh*t out of people. She's taught for CreativeLive, developed her own classes (one of which has been hailed by Inc. as a challenge that will "help ignite your creative spark and start you on the journey to prolific creation"), and has worked with (and empowered!) hundreds of highly-creative women to get out of their comfort zones and get their creative work out into the world.
In her spare time (ha!), she starts as many dance parties as she can with her husband and twin daughters. They live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Raise Your Hand Say Yes Podcast
Erin Cassidy & Tiffany Episode on RYHSY
Pitch Webinar: March 22nd Pitch Perfect, Mastering the Art of Making the Ask
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Joanna Sternberg: I've Got Me Live on WFMU Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davis
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Surfer Blood: Squeezing Blood Live on WFMU whatever with Mary Wing
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Coleen Hodges:
Coleen is a mother of two, emergency room nurse, photographer and blogger located in Arizona. Her passion for capturing the beauty of the everyday started the second she became a mother. The launch of this passion project was a dream come true for her. She believes in capturing the beauty and unique spirit of every child.
Sarah Driscoll:
Sarah is a mother of four, photographer and writer located in Massachusetts. After Sarah's son, Luke, was diagnosed with autism she made a promise to herself to document every moment of his life so the world could see the beauty he possessed and how autism did not take away from that beauty but rather enhance it. When Spectrum Inspired came into fruition, she set out to document the beauty of all people on the Spectrum.
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Mail the Horse: Backlash Live at Monty Hall 10/5/2017
Sunshine and the Rain: Too much Too Soon Live at Monty Hall 2/20/2016
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TJ Martin is an Academy Award and Emmy Award winning director and editor. His works include the feature films LA92, UNDEFEATED and the Webby nominated short film MY FAVORITE PICTURE OF YOU.
In 2015, Martin gave a talk at TEDx on Orcas Island, Washington, titled “Reimagining America’s Culture Narrative”, in which he used his own experiences to discuss race and diversity in the film and television industry.
Martin was born and raised in Seattle, WA and graduated from Fairhaven College at Western Washington University where he studied American Cultural Studies.
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In my conversation with T.J we explored a range of topics. From his journey to becoming a director to his personal experience of winning an Academy Award and the response that came surrounding his mixed race.
We talked about his experience of being able to be both a chameleon and being "exotic" and getting asked the question What are you? Where are you from?
T.J shares some of his creative process and elaborates on his belief that story must come first.
His aim with his work to get people to Feel then Think.
Please check out T.J's work all his link are below as well as things we spoke about in the show.
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The Defibulaturs: Get your Papers; live at WFMU's Monty Hall 11/20/2015
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