The Messy Middle: Recent Episodes
Maring Higa
This week I'm sharing from my car. I spent quite a bit of time driving to and from work and it tends to be when my mind is the most open. Sound quality isn't the best, let me know if you like this sort of free flow conversation.
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In this solo episode I'm sharing a personal story of resistance and the unexpected twist and turns that came about.
Show Notes
Yes & Yes: Sarah Von Bargen Coaching
Janette Tropea: Branding and Design
Bundle & Co
In today's solo Messy Middle Minisode I share a bit out my using a more scientific approach to my emotional process and the steps I took to move out of my depression.
show notes:
Unlocking Us podcast
Four Tendencies Quiz
Mood Tracker
Elise Blaha Cripe goal tracker
Marc Brackett
Today I am sharing with you an amazing interview with a personal hero of mine MILCK where we delve into all the things that I am passionate about self care, spirituality, getting through the messy middle, and how to find the light within the darkness.
MILCK Website
"Quiet" Song of Women's March
Upcoming event LIVE ART
I Can't keep Quiet Website
let's connect
Maring's website
Life and Wellness Coaching
In this Minisode I'm sharing about a technique that has helped me see what's already working in my life, what I'm saying No to, and also finding acceptance around the things that are not in alignment with this moment.
In this solo episode I share about the mindset shift that happened when I realized that perhaps that the idea of being in a box might actually have some other benefits.
This week I am talking with Cassandra Lam co-founder of The Cosmos an community of Asian women creators. In this episode we talk about the unique challenges that Asian women faces as creatives as well as switching the mindset from surviving to one of flourishing and thriving. In just a little under a year The cosmos has grown to a community of thousands of women who are exploring the question "What does it mean for Asian women to flourish and thrive."
Show Notes can be found at maringhiga.com/messymiddle/cassandralam
This year I have embarked on an experiment to live this year as if it were my last. To be honest I'm not really sure what that will look like but in this episode I'm talking about what's coming up for me already, and some questions that I'm asking myself.
If you would like to follow along I will be sharing mostly on Instagram @maringhiga
Show Notes:
12experiments project
Maring's Instagram
Sarah Natsumi Moore Instagram
Wonder Moves with Whitney Lawless-31 days to listen to body
Naropa University
A Year to Live book-Stephen Levine
Messy Middle Podcast with Sarah Natsumi Moore 12exp.
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.
Show Notes
www.maringhiga.com
www.instagram.com/maringhiga
www.kristasuh.com
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.
Www.maringhiga.com/podcast
www.instagram.com/maringhiga
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: H**ow 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. Krista's Website/Instagram Facebook ---- **Music:** Edited by Nick Bauman Junior En Cavale Live @WFMU 7/13/2018 **Follow Maring:**
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- Creativity Quiz
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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Show Notes;
Website/Facebook
Brain Bauman Episode
Claws: Double Dutch
Music:
Cutworms Untilted Live @Monty Hall 4/7/2017
EZTV There goes my Girl Live @Monty Hall 12/5/2015
Music Editing: Nick Bauman
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You can find me online here:
- Maring Higa Website
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- Creativity Quiz
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.
Show Notes:
- Yumi Sakugawa Website
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- Maring Higa Website
- Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
- Creativity Quiz
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.
Follow Along:
- Website
- Instagram @creativitypluswellness
- Free 5 element Creativity Quiz
Show Notes
Episode Summary:
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.
Nicole's Links
- Nicole Miyuki Website
- Insta
- By Hand: The Art of Modern Lettering
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Include links to where listeners can find you online:
- Website
- Creativity Quiz
- Nicole's Life Lessons download
Music Editing by: Nick Bauman
Music:
Music:
Oh Cousin- Monk Parker/Live on WFMU for 100% Whatever with Mary Wing, 9/12/2017
Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Don't leave home without my Love- State Champion/ Live on WFMU's Burn it Down! with Nate K 6/12/2016
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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?
Show Notes:
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.
Website: www.maringhiga.com/podcast
Instagram: @creativitypluswellness
Music:
By Nick Bauman ( my amazing and wonderful husband)
Anesthesia by Luna Live at Monty Hall 11/17/2017Creative Commons Attribution-
Follow Me Down, Renata Geiger Live at WFMU for Sophisticated Boom Boom with Sheila B, 4/20/2018 Creative Commons Attribution
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.
Show Notes:
Website/Insta/
Formation
Soul Care House
Mimi & Red
Garbage Couture
Liturgist podcast- episode on shame
Brene Brown
Music Edited by Nick Bauman
Bio:
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.
Show Notes:
Website
Rider Waite Tarot
Black Elk Speaks
Music Editing: Nick Bauman
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.
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Emmergent Strategies
Whitney Lawless Website
Messy Middle episode with Whitney Lawless
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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Show Notes:
Website
Instagram/Twitter/
Women Photograph
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Music Editing: Nick Bauman
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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Show Notes:
In thi episode Vin and I talk about:
- We suffer when we can’t communicate
- When we don’t feel heard, or we can’t get what we want it causes suffering in the body.
- What is good communication?
- Our bodies are talking, what are they saying?
- Listen with intention
- How to express ourselves in a way that we can be heard and get what we want
- Listening so that we can really understand who we are listening to.
- T.J Martin EP 41
- How to shift your mood in the middle of stress and tension
- Strategies to work with the nervous system.
- Brene Brown: Braving the Wilderness
- Zones of Regulation
- How to communication with ourselves in difficult times
- Vin's Blog
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.
Show Notes
The Way Back Machine
Raise Your Hand Say Yes Podcast
100 Rejections Letters
Ann Sage Episode RYHSY
Erin Cassidy & Tiffany Episode on RYHSY
How to Be Remarkable Podcast
Pitch Webinar: March 22nd Pitch Perfect, Mastering the Art of Making the Ask
Music by Nick Bauman
Music Editing: Nick Bauman
Joanna Sternberg: I've Got Me Live on WFMU Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davis
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.
Surfer Blood: Squeezing Blood Live on WFMU whatever with Mary Wing
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.
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.
Show Notes:
52 week project
365 project
Coleen’s Hodges Episode #22:
Coleen Hodges Episode #27:
unraveledacdemy.com
Spectrum inspired
Music Editing: Nick Bauman
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
Licensed under a creative commons attribution-noncommercial no derivatives 4.0 License
Bio:
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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Show Notes:
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.
Facebook/Instagram/Twitter
IMDB
Ted X Talk Orcas Island
Ta Nehisi Coates
Theater for Humanity
W. E. B Du Bois
Double Consciousness:
Music and Mixing: Nick Bauman
Musical credits:
Cut 1:
75 Dollar Bill- WZN #4: Live at Monty Hall, 10/7/2017
Cut 2:
The Defibulaturs: Get your Papers; live at WFMU's Monty Hall 11/20/2015
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I am ending 2017 and reflecting on the year that I’ve had, in life, with family and with friends.
There is too much to put into this one episode but I do think it's always worth it to look back and see what you can accomplish in a year and also what cannot be accomplished in a year.
I made some changes in how often this podcast was coming out, little tweaks to the kind of interviews I was sharing and added some musical elements, and all in all I've been happy with how things have turned out.
Listen in to this quickie episode where I recap the highs, the lows and the what's next.
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Tanya Geisler is Leadership Coach (CPCC) with a penchant for clarity and an abhorrence of the Impostor Complex. She’s coached hundreds of high-performers combat the Impostor Complex so they can step into the starring roles of their lives and achieve their ultimate goals. She has written The 12 Lies of the Impostor Complex (and One Truth), The Joy Pages, created Board of Your Life and the transformational Step into Your Starring Role coaching program, is a writer, has served as contributor and was featured in Canadian Living, and is an in-demand TEDx speaker who talks with great passion about the Impostor Complex, personal leadership, on all things joy, meaning and purpose (just try to stop her). Her clients include best-selling authors, public speakers, and rockstar world-changers.
It is her indomitable belief that if everyone knew their own unique recipe for their personal brand of joy, they’d hold the key to shining in their life, in their work and in their life’s work. (It really does change everything.)
Free Unshakeable Confidence Master Class 11/30 11:00 am PST
Tanya Geisler Website
Tanya Geisler Ted X Talk
Valarie Young: Secret Thoughts of Successful Women
Dunning Kruger Effect
Pauline Clance
Suzanne Imes
Music Mixed and Edited: Nick Bauman
Music by
Alex Battles and the Engelberts: We put a guy on the Moon
Live at WFMU's Monty Hall, 11/20/2015 by Alex Battles & the Engelberts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.
Holy Golightly and the Brokeoffs: Jump in the River
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This episode today is all about is foundations. This is something that I find myself talking about over and over, and its definetly influenced my teaching style. I see a thread line in my acupuncture practice as well as in my old soccer and piano days. I used this a lot back when I was coaching my students in my aerial bootcamp. I just see this really big, glaring thing that I like to talk about, I truly believe that foundation building is where its at. So I thought I’d take you through a little bit of my process around building foundations and how I use them in my daily life.
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Writer-director-actress Megan Brotherton is a comedian based in LA. She earned her MFA in Acting at the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University, which included a 3-month residency at the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia. Megan wrote, directed and starred in EVERYBODY DOES IT, a short comedy that premiered in 2015 at Dances With Films Festival as well as Austin Film Festival and several others, earning a Best Comedy Award and rave reviews. Megan's new film, BUTTERCUP, premiered at the 2017 Sun Valley Film Festival and is currently in the festival circuit. Megan directed a pilot that she wrote called LAST NIGHT and several episodes of GOLDEN CALIFORNIA Seasons 1 & 2. Megan studies and performs sketch and improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. She also directs sketches for Funny or Die. www.meganbrotherton.com ----- The Messy Middle Facebook Group Subscribe to the Newsletter: A community for Curious Creatives
I'm Elise and I make stuff. That's who I am and that's my job.
I started a blog in 2005 because I wanted to share my thoughts with the Internet. A year later, I began sharing craft projects and tutorials. In 2008, I opened my first online shop and since then, I have made and sold everything from letterpress prints to wooden plant stands.
Over the years, I have learned that while I'll always make stuff, my true passion is in helping people set and work towards their goals. In 2015, I launched the brand GET TO WORK BOOK® which provides tools to help you get your goals organized and do the work to reach them. I believe that big things happen one day at a time and my products are designed to schedule out those days. You can learn more about GET TO WORK BOOK® and shop the line here.
I live in San Diego, California with my husband, Paul, and our two young daughters, Ellerie and Piper.
Show Notes:
World Domination Summit Talk
Amy Poller Quote
Elise Gets Crafty: On Creative Ruts
Get To Work Book
Website/Insta
**Music Attributes:**
Fair Weather Friend by Kadhja Bonet
Untitled by Cut Worms
Don't Want to Say Goodbye by Cut Worms
**Music Editor and Mixer:** Nick Bauman
My name is AJ Cosmo and I teach imagination and heart to children. My books and illustrations are crafted to educate, solve problems, and entertain in unique and interesting ways.
But don't take my word for it, with over a thousand five star reviews across more than thirty books, there's no doubt that your family will find something to love in the world of A.J. Cosmo.
Whether it's overcoming first day of school jitters, getting past a fear of monsters, or dealing with a bully, these books teach important life lessons in a fun way.
Show notes
Website
The Monster that Ate my Socks
Poop
Blog Post on Spectrum Inspired
In this Episode I am sharing some of my thoughts about choosing to take a stand for something even if it means that no one will understand or like what you are doing.
I share a couple of personal somewhat embarrasing stories of what its been like to be mostly a passenger in my life and why I think its important for me now to step into the role of the driver.
Brian Bauman is a playwright and founder of Perfect Disgrace Theater, and has been producing experimental queer plays since 2006. Bauman's writing has a cult following and is known as a "playwright's playwright." Suzan-Lori Parks says "Brian Bauman's writing is thrilling, sexy, political and rude. He's making provocative, in-your-face theatre - not for the timid, or, perhaps, just what the timid need." His work has been presented at HERE Arts Center, LaMama Galleria, The Wild Project and Collective Unconscious in NY; The Broad Art Center @ UCLA, Company of Angels Theater, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibtions L.A.C.E., Los Angeles Theater Center, Theatre of NOTE in Los Angeles; CounterPULSE, Poets Theatre Jamboree at California College of Art and the RADAR Reading Series in San Francisco; and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the Dairy Art Center in Colorado. He is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a resident of the Radar Lab in Akumal Mexico, and holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
My guest today is Leah Dieterich
Copywriter, Creative Director, author of Thx Thx Thx and is currently writing her memoir about open marriage, desire, identity, and trying to find oneself through a concept called Vanishing Twins.
Show Notes:
www.leahdieterich.com
www.thxthxthx.com
www.instagram.com/andthetidewaswayout
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I’m Thinking about Hustle vs Flow and Is it possible to avoid Burnout and have flow and Ease in the beginning or do we need to hustle and grind in the beginning in order to then get to the ease and flow of things?
Tha’ts what I want talk about in today’s Messy Middle Minisode
I’ve been searching for different ways that we get clues with how to live more in flow with our lives. Its been a personal quest of mine to find more efficient, feminine ways to achieve my goals in creative work as well as business.
In this episode I talk abut:
The prescriptive advice when it comes to starting a business
Stories of Burnout
Alternate Stories of Flow and Alignment
Feminine Energy
Our Menstrual Cycles and how they guide us
My hypothesis: Burnout is Avoidable
Jennifer Lee, CPCC, PCC, MA is the founder of Artizen Coaching®. Before pursuing her own passions full-time, she consulted for ten years for Fortune 500 companies such as Gap Inc., Accenture, and HP, helping leaders and organizations manage change. As a director of executive development for Gap Inc., she led onboarding and coaching programs for those at the level of vice president and up. She grew her coaching business in her spare time, and in 2006 Jennifer made the courageous leap from corporate America to living the life of her dreams.
She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, Entrepreneur, Whole Living, Family Circle, and Cloth Paper Scissors Studios, numerous radio shows, and on ABC7 TV. She partnered with Levenger to develop the Right-Brain Business Plan® Circa® Notebook.
Jennifer Lee received her coaching certification and leadership training through the prestigious Coaches Training Institute. She’s also a certified yoga instructor, a certified Expressive Arts Facilitator, a certified meditation instructor, and hold a B.A. in Communication Studies from UCLA and an M.A. in Communication Management from USC. Jennifer lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her creative, rather left-brain husband and their sweet husky-Lab mix.
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This was such a treat for me to interview Jen who I originally found via Instagram because of her beautiful art work. I later found too many ways that our lives were similar and knew I wanted to have her on the show.
In this interview we talk about incorporating ease and flow into her current business model and also I also pose the question Is hustle is avoidable in the beginning?
We also talked about how her intuition has served her in her business as well as using art as a way more intimately relate to it.
I think you will really enjoy this episode I had with Jen.
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Cynthia Morris is a creativity coach, the author of the novel Chasing Sylvia Beach, Create your Writers Life and The Graceful return. She is also one of the few coaches for Jonathan Fields Good Life Project. She has both a depth and playfulness about her that I love. We share a love of creative journey and watercolor, and she is working on creating her first illustration book.
I absolutely loved getting to talk with Cynthia who shared so much with me about her own messy middle spaces, overcoming them, stepping into them and why she thinks they are so important.
There are some people you immeditely have a connection with and Cynthia immediately put me in a place of ease as if we’ve known each other for years.
Show Notes:
Original Impulse: Who are you and how does that express itself.
What are your original gifts that are satisfying to you.
Creativity is on our heirarchy of needs.
Seeking to help people come to a good relationship with their creativity.
How can we not be at battle with their creativity.
Sticking with writing a book that took her 13 years. Talk about being in the middle space and the power of seeing something through
Commitment points: where you recommit, am I still in it? And why?
There are gifts in the process, but often you don’t get them until you finish.
Celebrating Big Moments
www.originalimpulse.com
instagram @ cynthia morris
Chasing Sylvia Beach
A friend once told me, that whoever has the most certainty wins. So how can we gain more certainty in uncertain waters? This is a short episode where I'm talking about some embarrasing moments I've had around certainty, and an atidote I believe will be helpful for you in embarking on uncertain path.
I had the pleasure of interviewing psychotherpist Abby Bird on the show and we tackled some big things that come up in the middle space. I asked her about the imposter syndrome, comparison trap, and self doubt. She offered some practical tips and creative exercises that she does with her clients. She also talked about how she views her own practice as a form of creative expression, which I found insightful. Creativity truly can arise from anywhere.
Really excited to be sharing this episode I did with Coleen Hodges. She shares her personal story of how she went after her dream of being a photographer, and the challenges that came up in her relationship during the process. Coleen tell an amazing story of when she shared her personal story with other budding photographers and the overwhelming response 900 emails of other women who were feeling the the same exact thing. I knew that I wanted to have her back on the show to talk about this behind the scenes story that rarely gets talked about.
If you haven't listened to Coleeen's episode season 2, definetly go back and check that one out. She runs an amazing organization called Spectrum Inspired a non profit dedicated destygmatizing autism through photography and art.
Maring is creative strategist coach and host of The Messy Middle Podcast. She is exploring the magic we make within the middle spaces and how we can move through with ease and grace.
Maring Higa is also an acupuncturist specializing in fertility and pregnancy in Encinitas, CA and loves blending creativity and wellness.
I’m a writer, tarot reader, fun-lover, and a kitchen magician. I firmly believe that we can all be heroes and heroines if we utilize the powers of our unconscious minds!
I was first introduced to Tarot in 2013 when a couple of my best girlfriends did an oracle card reading for me. I was shocked at the resonant power of the messages that came through. That night, I experienced a profound moment of urgency about the direction my life was moving in. Something was missing, I could feel it, and the cards were reflecting that. I got my own deck and started doing Tarot for myself not long after that. I ordered a nice fat stack of Tarot books and devoured all of the knowledge I could. At first I didn’t think I could learn it all – 78 different cards?? Each with myriad and multifaceted meanings, and I didn’t even want to think about reversals…
But my passion for Tarot continued to grow and so I kept at it, reading and highlighting, pulling cards, journaling, and eventually sharing my obsession with my family. In the meantime, I also wrote three novels, each involving the supernatural and including Tarot as an element. I used Tarot to write my books, chapter by chapter, pulling cards whenever I was confused or I didn’t know what happened next. In this way, I learned how to work with the cards around creativity. I learned that they can be an amazing resource for blasting through creative blockages and for clarifying those brilliant, gleaming flashes of inspiration I’d get about my stories. The archetypal images on the Tarot cards helped me bring them into focused concepts that I could nail down in text.
Katherine is the founder and clinic director of The Point. She is a Colorado state licensed and Nationally certified acupuncturist. She holds a Masters degree from Southwest Acupuncture College. She is a recognized diplomate of Acupuncture and Herbology by the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), is certified in Clean Needle Technique, and is a member of the Colorado Acupuncture Association.
Katherine has successfully used acupuncture and Chinese Medicine to treat a wide variety of conditions with a gentle technique through her practice, conveniently located in the Washington Park area of Denver. She has a special interest in using acupuncture and Chinese Medicine to help the people of Denver with women's health, fertility, digestive disorders, and chronic pain.
Katherine completed her undergrad at Colby College in Maine, where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Economics. She also studied Economic History and Philosophy at the London School of Economics and worked for several years as a Research Associate and Financial Analyst in Palo Alto, California.
She first discovered the healing power of Oriental Medicine when she suffered from digestion problems of her own. When her doctors couldn't help her, she tried acupuncture and was amazed by the results and became a strong believer in the power of holistic medicine. She hopes to share the same success with you within her Denver area acupuncture and Chinese Medicine practice.
I am part nerd, part creative, out on a missions to help amazing women with their analytics and online tools.
I believe that analytics don't need to feel like you are weighing yourself, that your online tools shouldn't be wasting your time, and that you can work on your business in a way that creates energy (instead of draining it).
I love to work with creative businesses as a 'secret digital weapon', complimenting what you already do best; run an inspiring business that changes how things are done in the world!
Coleen is a Mama 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 collaboration with Sarah to launch this passion project is a dream come true for her. She believes in capturing the beauty and unique spirit of EVERY child.
Hey there! My name is Sarah Natsumi Moore and I am a photographer, explorer, and ponderer. I started out 2016 with a list of lofty goals, full of metrics and benchmarks that seemed important at the time of writing, but two weeks into the year realized I no longer cared to “make more money” or “grow my Instagram followers.” I put the list away and took comfort In the Great British Baking Show (it's good I swear!).
So for the next year I’m trading these New Year’s resolutions for a series of life experiments—12 monthly experiments to be exact. Instead of focusing on success, prestige or image, I am going to spend each month as a guinea pig living in a way that challenges my fears and/or questions my current way of living. I want to explore life’s big questions while also testing simple habits that create contentment. It will be my personal research on being.
While this Sonoma Valley transplant hails from Arizona, Danielle spent her transformative, post-college, early adult “discovering the world years” living in the Midwestern United States, but traveling the world. Working in the car racing industry for what seemed like a life time, specializing in the “left brain” work of accounting and finance, building businesses, sponsorships and marketing left her feeling like there just HAD to be something more creative on the horizon.
Now the creator of her own destiny (and schedule) Danielle is growing her own enterprise as a Business and Lifestyle Strategist and Coach, Desire Map facilitator and all around go-to girl for most things “productivity through technology”. Not as much world travel as auto racing, but WAY more time for the good life in the Bay area.
Mama of two littles, lover of binge watching tv (Helloooo Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Video) and dreamer of tiny pockets of free time for creativity, Danielle has a true desire share space with other creative women and prove that when they get together to collaborate, support and lift one another to new heights, so much more is possible.
Fav Quote these days:
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time” -Mary Oliver
Entrepreneur, Traveler, Adventure Seeker, Bonus Mom, Wifey, Cat Lover... Just designing a kick a** life and LIVIN IT!!
My name is Michelle. I’m an acupuncturist and I’m passionate about marketing and practice management.
I also work at Finger Lakes School of Acupuncture (FLSAOM) in Administration, and I teach in FLSAOM’s Integrative Practice Management course.
I’m passionate about acupuncture and believe – like you do! – that it can change the world.
But we can only change the world if we as a community of acupuncturists can reach more people and heal more patients. I want to help you succeed and do just that, with marketing & practice management advice and plenty of inspiration from other acupuncturists.
As acupuncturists, we have such a wealth of knowledge on everything from treating patients to running businesses, starting nonprofits to sharing our healing skills around the world. Let’s share that incredible knowledge with each other.
Amber is the owner, full-time mama, and part-time crafter of PetiteAmbre. She finds inspiration in life, travel and her happy place Paris. When not crafting, she can be found chasing her toddler, taking photos, and/or drinking wine.
Before becoming a Designer, Jen received a degree in Psychology with a minor in Anthropology from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. While Anthropology stimulated her fascination with varying cultures, and Psychology explored the area of social work, both were lacking the creative outlet she yearned for. She seized the opportunity to move to Macerata, Italy to study Italian art and learn the language while being submerged in the culture. She soon began to realize that her passions for both design and helping people could culminate in an exciting career. After moving to San Diego, she enrolled in design school where it became apparent that design was in her nature as she graduated with top honors while simultaneously working at a high profile model home design firm. Over the following eight years she additionally dabbled in closet design, kitchen re-facing, upholstery, and professional real estate staging. By far, the most important outcome of these cumulative experiences was her realization that she wanted to design on a more personal level. Through her extensive experience in these many different aspects of the industry, she has refined a keen design eye for color and layout and an ability to work with a wide array of clientele and design tastes. And while high-end remodels and model homes were interesting, she prefers the joy and ease of the collaboration with clients who are budget conscious but who need help sprucing up their spaces. Jen explains: “I don’t want design to be unapproachable and scary for people. Designing your home should be fun, rewarding, and exciting, and it’s my job to make that happen!”
Show Notes:
Website/Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest
Creative Inc.
Nicole Miyuki Santo is a lettering artist, graphic designer and teacher. She has found her spirit through her creative journey walking alongside others; whether that's designing for their small business venture or being a guide while learning the craft of brush lettering. Nicole stays grounded through yoga and journaling and is just like you and me navigating life with the good and the bad that comes with it all.
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Bari Tessler Linden, MA, is a Financial Therapist, Mentor Coach and Mama-preneur. Bari’s gentle, body-centered approach weaves together personal, couple, and creative entrepreneurial money teachings into one complete tapestry. She is the founder of The Art of Money: a global, year-long money school, which integrates Money Healing, Money Practices and Money Maps. Her work has been featured on Oprah.com, Inc.com, and the Huffington Post and in US News & World Report, Reuters Money, The Fiscal Times, Experience Life Magazine, Yogi Times, Best Self Magazine and Emerging Women. Bari is also the author of The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness, published by Parallax Press. Learn more about Bari at: http://baritessler.com/
Wes Sam Bruce an artist, film maker, photographer and art educator.
Wes created an art installation called that wonder sound that is a collaboration of people here in San Diego and art makers from all over.
The result is this amazing fort like space that has small tunnels to crawl through, a rope room to climb up, and words and art decorated all it around.
One of the main intents of the wonder sound was to represent a culture that was not your own, in the language, architecture animals and word written on the wall. The idea was that by being in an environment that was not native to you, you could begin to grow that cultural empathy muscle.
I had a great time interviewing I Am Bob aka Stephanie S about her path towards embracing her talents as a singer and her challenges and victories that she accomplished.
We talked about the imposter Syndrome & what she said was more of a fall rather than a leap into taking risks and over coming fears.
We talked about managing fears vs trying to get rid of them, and stepping into her light which she has realized is making people laugh.
Stephanie is one of the funniest people I know and love, and I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did. Check out all of her upcoming performances and gigs or find her at the local Karaoke bar.
Sarah Natsumi Moore is a commercial and editorial photographer based in Austin, Texas. Having previously worked as the in-house creative for the largest travel magazine in The Netherlands, she is now enjoying the sunny freelance life in the lone star state.
Mark cut his teeth in the entertainment industry by story producing reality shows such as Blind Date (Universal), Mobile Home Disaster (WB) and The Boot (BET). He then moved into feature films where he supervised post-production for Warner Brothers Home Video’s “Raw Feed” video series. Mark went on to post supervise popular prime time television series such as USA’s White Collar, TNT’S Saving Grace and several television pilots for Fox Television.
In 2010, Mark moved back to Seattle where he is currently an Account Director and a Writer, Producer and Director for Watts. At Watts, Mark handles accounts and creates content for Fortune 500 companies such as HP, Intel, Microsoft and Fluor Corporation as well as for non-profits and local start up companies.
Mark is passionate about creating cutting-edge branded entertainment and multi-media storytelling.
Whitney Lawless is totally occupied with daily magic and how to use movement and awareness practices to experience life more fully. As a teacher, she fosters curiosity and engaged movement and encourages people to bring out their unique, beautiful presence. She has studied and performed a myriad of moving practices ranging from physical theatre and dance to better ways to walk and sit to, most recently, weightlifting. Whitney lives in Olympia, WA where she teaches yoga and movement, makes quilts, mothers boys and co-directs Great Heart Yoga, 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training program and other continuing education!
Find out more here:
http://www.awakenwonder.com
http://www.greatheartyoga.net
A Seattle native, Laura Bohn has studied voice and theater extensively in Rome and Reggio-Emilia, Italy respectively. She is a graduate of the Dell ‘Arte International School of Physical Theater, holds a BFA in Vocal Performance from the California Institute of the Arts and a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music.
Lee Holloway is a self-published author of numerous “how-to” zines that are centered on sex, relationships, and feminism. She is a feminist in that she supports all women through empowerment and champions their endeavors. When not writing zines, she can be found spending time with her family, trying to unravel life’s mysteries, and binging on travel and food shows.
Show Notes:
Petite Ambre: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PetiteAmbre
Zines:
How to Give a Blow Job in 5 easy Steps
In the Meantime: A Single Girls Survival Guide Zine
Microcosom Portland
Blue Stockings book store New York
Rachael M Cuellar// Published Author & Illustrator
Rachael M Cuellar is an undergrad student studying Psychology at Vanguard University of Southern California in Costa Mesa, as well as a Childcare and Respite for United Cerebral Palsy of Orange County, helping children with disabilities reach their full potential, improve the quality of life for their families and foster an attitude of acceptance and inclusion. She created her children's book when she was nineteen years old and became published when she turned twenty-one. Joyfully living in Old Towne Orange, California and encouraging others to learn the importance of Autism Awareness. Rachael's favorite word is inclusion and favorite verb is love. She believes that little is big and that is merely her desire for her book.
To formally introduce myself, my name is Rachael M Cuellar! I am the author and illustrator of the book, "Why Is He Doing That?" educating and uplifting children about autism awareness! The inspiration was created by a course final project at a community college that rocketed into a beautiful life changing experience! The book was created when I was 19 years old- published when I was 21 years old- and now the book will be 2 years old in June! I am now self-published and learning just as much as you! Let inclusion not just be a potential goal, but an ambitious goal.
Katinka Kraft is a spoken word artist, performer and artistic director of Shut Up and Sign_Speak, a project that brings together deaf and hearing poets in Berlin. On the cobble stone streets of Berlin, she started her performance and directing career, at the early age of 7, with a 80s pop rendition of Mary Poppins. She grew up in a German-American family and moved to the United States from Germany, as a teenager. There she discovered spoken word and eventually became a teacher, organizer and performer in the spoken word and poetry slam scene in the USA for over 12 years. She moved back to her hometown Berlin in 2008. Here she works as a freelance workshop facilitator, consultant, and artistic director.
She received her B.A. degree from Western Washington University, Bellingham (USA) in Cultural Studies, Youth Advocacy, and the Performing Arts and my M.A in Biographical and Creative Writing from the Alice Salomon University, Berlin. She speaks German, English and is currently learning German Sign Language.