The Art You Are: Recent Episodes

Molly Dang

The Art You Are is an empowerment podcast of life stories that invites us to embrace our weird, messy and beautiful humanness. Sharing our unique stories is healing, empowering, and connecting. Listen, learn from, and connect to guests sharing about a wide range of life experiences. And maybe, just maybe, through owning our experiences, we can start to view ourselves as inherently valuable, a story worth telling, a work of art.

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Rev. Catharine Clarenbach is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and an Initiate of Stone Circle Wicca. Not only is she a proudly queer, fat, femme, but she also has a history of mental illness, attention deficit, and trauma. By developing...

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Sam shares about his experience as an autistic teenager and what the journey from diagnosis to understanding to success has been.  He is on a mission to de-stigmatize negative labels associated with autism by modeling his own creative success through...

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Jennifer Borovica shares intimately about her journey through substance use and into sobriety.  She has built a healthy life through so many obstacles and now helps others in their own healing journeys as a licensed therapist, triathlete coach, and...

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Leah Watson is an actor, aerialist, movement teacher, and creative consultant who performs and teaches under the stage name Greyce Skinner. Leah shares about the shaping and reshaping of her identity in this episode and the deep importance of movement...

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Rebecca Parada shares in depth about her experience transitioning to remote learning as a high school Spanish teacher during COVID.  She discusses the ways her school tried to serve and honor students during an emergency as well as the many obstacles. ...

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Mae is a full time working mom of a toddler who shares about trying to find some balance in the COVID shifts to childcare, the risk of many family members in the healthcare field, the incredible emotional toll right now, and her family's experience with...

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Octavia Betz shares so much in this episode! She shares about the hurdles of teaching art to students online with limited materials, the courage and resilience of her students, the emotional rollercoaster of re-stabilizing her life after Coronavirus...

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This week's guest shares about her transition from being a makeup artist in the TV, film, and print world to the many ways she is fanning out her skills to adapt to a distanced atmosphere. She talks about her side hustles, inner and outer beauty, and...

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This episode's guest is a licensed drama therapist who shares so many insights on the hit our mental health is taking during COVID-19, how kids are impacted specifically, and how mental health providers are both responding to the crisis and trying to...

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This episode's guest and my dear cuz, Mike Price, delves into how his work as a server and manager in the service industry has been impacted by coronavirus, huge travel plans halted, fearing for his loved ones, and navigating aloneness as an extrovert....

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My friend Camille Johnson shares openly about the pains and fears of pregnancy right now, the sweetness and frustrations of supporting her middle schooler through online learning, and how she's squeezing in time for creativity. Check out the resources...

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My sister dives into the pandemic-induced stress of midwifery in a hospital in Denver, the pangs of homeschooling a kindergartener, and how political policy is being felt on the ground. For more information, episodes, and blog posts, go to...

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In this episode, our guest shares about how COVID-19 has impacted his work in cyber security and his gratitude for all the extra family time. For more information, episodes, and blog posts, go to https://www.theartyouare.org/Song "Gonna Sing" by...

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In this episode, I share my inspiration for starting The Art You Are as well as one of my most personally formative life stories. For more info, go to https://www.theartyouare.org/Song "Gonna Sing" by PeyruisStream & Download :...