pov: you're obsessed with paradigm shifts, aha moments, expanding your consciousness, de-colonizing, and seeing beyond the current paradigm. you believe love, community, interdependence, joy, rest & creativity are our birthright, and you are seeking more ways to find y(our) way home. you are the Wise Friend who listens deeply, but often feels unheard or unseen. i am here to walk beside you. let's paradigm shift together, guided by your host, Ayanda, also known as @ayandastood on TikTok and I ...
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59: you're not behind, you're divine. ✨
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It's December and many of us can feel BEHIND at this time of year. (At any time of year, actually! May this message find you at the most aligned time 🦋) We can feel like we haven't done enough and channel this feeling of unworthiness into all the things we hope to get done next year... but you deserve so much more radiant, radical love than that. I…
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58: the spiritual role of multi-passionates
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Multi-passionates, gather! this soul session is all about the spiritual role of the multi-passionate... a love letter to my fellow multi-passionates. keep trusting that voice inside you, even when it makes sense to NO ONE (many times, including yourself!) i hope you enjoy this soul session, made with love!🌻🥰🤗 👉🏾 get a FREE Creative Activation —…
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57: fear of being seen, meet the Invitation Mindset
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hello soul sibling! wherever you desire to be seen, there will be fear... online, on stages, in classrooms, hosting events, speaking up in meetings or calls... the fear of being seen is all over our human experience, because it is the fear of judgment, social rejection, isolation, humiliation... in today's soul session we continue our discussion on…
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56: you are a gift to be shared, not hidden. 💛
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A quick, loving reminder of the power of y(our) voice, art, perspective! Divine & magical being, I hope you enjoy this soul snack! Sign up for an exciting announcement soon, if you haven't already: 👉🏾 get a FREE Creative Activation —a guided audio meditation to support your creative practice. 👀🚀 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotif…
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56: fear is a portal from ego to soul ✨
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hello soul sibling! in today's Soul Session, i start off by sharing how nervous i felt recording it. we discuss how fear can be a portal from the ego to the soul, and why unconditional love can be a cozy home to return to when we feel stuck in perfectionism, fear, embarrassment, or self-doubt. 👉🏾 get a FREE Creative Activation —a guided audio med…
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55: you haven't missed the train, the train misses you.
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precious being, if you feel it's TOO LATE this soul session was handmade for you. 👉🏾 get a FREE Creative Activation —a guided audio meditation to support your creative practice. 👀🚀 a reminder to never minimize what you are bringing and embodying and how we cannot wait to experience your magic on the train you feel too late to catch. shame and ageis…
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54: manifest with the law of polarity.
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My love, your dreams have sent you this message to remind you to surrender to the full experience of their pursuit. And since the collective is dreaming through you, we all ask this of you: to hold the polarity of your dreams. 👉🏾 get a FREE Creative Activation —a guided audio meditation to support your creative practice. 👀🚀 We do not get to experie…
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53: love yourself enough to fail 🌻💛
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babes, the IRONY of this soul session is my inner critic is telling me it is not good enough to share. that i should record it again (and the illusion is that I wouldn't find fault with that version, as well). 👉🏾 get a FREE Creative Activation —a guided audio meditation to support your creative practice. 👀🚀 so in SHARING this transmission i am also…
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52: fear of being seen | 3 powerful shifts to support you.
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in today's soul session, i share three powerful shifts to overcome the fear of being seen & the fear of judgement. we get into radically accepting the truth, integrating our own judgement, seeing beyond the Critic, and creating the world we wish to see. I introduce my method, Soulful Visibility, and share a personal story of a challenge I had makin…
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51: multi-passionates: be confusing.
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MULTI-PASSIONATES, ASSEMBLE! if you want to do a LOT of different things, but you fear confusing other people, this is your sign: BE CONFUSING! This is a continuation of a TikTok I posted. We are RECLAIMING the state of confusion from this colonially imagined, logic-obsessed world. are you coming?! 👉🏾 Get a FREE Creative Activation —a guided audio …
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50: fear of success, awe, & reclaiming our power.
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Sending love beams, soul siblings! I am hosting a FREE MasterClass on Creative Kinship on Zoom this Sunday, June 30 @ 10am-11:30am EST / 2-3:30pm UTC. Register here. ✨ GO DEEPER WITH ME: 👉🏾 FREE MASTERCLASS ON CREATIVE KINSHIP THIS SUNDAY 6/30: https://ayandastood.substack.com🚀 Book a 1:1 Creative Activation Coaching Session to unlock & unblock you…
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49: comparison is (not) the thief of joy
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“comparison is the thief of joy” they say, a quote originally from Former US President Theodore Roosevelt (random!). but what does the idea that we just "shouldn't" compare ourselves to each other ignore, and in turn, normalize? find out in this soul session and learn: How this idea can reproduce individualism How we are made to glorify our own ali…
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48: Palestine & the words I'm reaching for — Part 2
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Hi my loves, this is the second and final part of my mini-series uplifting the work of abolitionist scientist Dr Ayesha Khan who writes the most beautiful, informative, revolutionary Cosmic Anarchy Substack. If you haven't already, be sure to catch Part 1 on Spotify here and on Apple here. Again, I am reaching imperfectly — for Palestine, for yo…
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47: Palestine & the words I’m reaching for — Part 1
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hello soul siblings 🥰, I have MISSED YOU! 🫶🏾 as we bear witness to genocide and support and uplift the student and other protests in response, today I want to share and amplify the work of the WONDER-MAGIC-FUL Dr Ayesha Khan who writes the beautiful, informative, revolutionary Cosmic Anarchy Substack, which I am entirely obsessed with. I am sharing…
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46: you have these gifts for a reason 💛
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If you are feeling unmotivated or uninspired, if you are stuck minimizing and hiding from your natural gifts, this episode is for YOU. You have these gifts for a REASON. This episode will get you fired up, calling you back into your power and ACTIVATING you to be brave in the face of the fear we all experience as we face our goals and dreams. You a…
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45: there'll always be more to say 🌻💛 | perfectionism & creativity
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hi precious beings! if you're battling with perfectionism, this episode is for you. earth angel, consider this your permission slip to declare your unfinished work FINISHED because completion is a myth maybe?! find out... i love you all, thank you thank you for being here! I hope you enjoy today’s soul session. stay tuned for more, and share it wit…
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44: the collective is dreaming through you.
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if you dream of writing, there are people dreaming of reading you. if you dream of singing, there are people dreaming of hearing you. if you dream of being seen, there are people dreaming of seeing you. if you dream of teaching, there are students dreaming of being taught by you. your dreams are dreaming you back. even more: the collective is dream…
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43: become the energy you crave (or envy)
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today i bring you a bite size dose of ENERGY I recorded in December but felt wasn't "good enough" at the time. in honor of breaking up with perfectionism, i bring you this offering. let's call it a SOUL SNACK if you will. topics include: envying someone's success, listening to yourself, embodying what you seek, and the energetic messages of the uni…
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42: what if the opposite is true?
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if you are a worst case scenario thinker/feeler/(anti-)dreamer, this soul session✨ is for you. let's unpack why it's time to let go of assuming the worst — not only in terms of what's possible, but also in our relationships and friendships. in this soul session, i share examples of times when i assumed the worst and the exact opposite happened. i i…
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if you find it cringe or challenging to promote your own work, this soul session will SPEAK to you. today we completely REFRAME AND RECLAIM promotion, breaking it down to its roots and paradigm shifting our understanding. connected to nature and service. In this episode you will learn: Why self-promotion feels so uncomfy How we can reframe “pro-mot…
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today's soul session is a spiritual perspective on why you fear your own success. if you're like me, you are both drawn to and repelled by your dreams. they are at once enticing and terrifying. in today’s soul session we explore a paradoxical fear that many of us face whenever we confront our dreams and desires. but in the typical style of this pod…
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in today’s episode we talk about the deep state of consciousness that being LOST entails, rather than the inferior state it represents in the western imagination. I frame this in terms of colonial consciousness which privileges "clarity, direction, Knowing, confidence" vs. the deeper truth of the universe, nature, and indigenous consciousness, whic…
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38: how to overcome the fear of being CRINGE on social media
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we are becoming FEAR ALCHEMISTS in 2024. hi darlings! in this episode I am giving a MasterClass on moving through and BEYOND the fear of being cringe/embarrassing/shameful online. this is a deep wound that many of us carry: fear of being cancelled, ridiculed, dragged, rejected, or criticized. it stops us from sharing ourselves, promoting our work, …
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37: inviting ease and pleasure into the creative process
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in this episode we are calling in ease, flow, pleasure, and love in the experience of creating, rather than as a reward. i talk about releasing the tension i've been carrying, the love i am feeling from all of YOU, the magical masterclass experience I had this Sunday with some of you, and end off with reflective questions that can assist us as we c…
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36: celebrate your soul’s garden, just as it is
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in this episode we honor the garden of your soul AS IT IS rather than focusing on the seeds you will plant this year. we remember you’re whole as you are. you’re complete as you are. you're divine as you are. i expand on this metaphor, inviting you to reflect on the different seeds, plants, flowers, trees, and beings within your soul’s garden and t…
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today’s episode is all about embracing POSSIBILITY as an abundant energy that can unlock itself even further. possibility, and moving through the world with the openness, expansiveness and abundance mindset it invites us into, is a beautiful self-fulfilling prophecy. unfortunately, impossibility works the same way. i discuss some of the ways the en…
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34: beauty as alienation from the self 👽
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if toxic, eurocentric beauty standards won’t let you rest: this episode is for you. i made a tiktok (620K views) about this idea in June that people resonated with, and so I decided to make an episode about it. let’s unpack how Beauty is a form of alienation from ourselves — and from each other. i hope you enjoy this episode, made with love. 🤎 ADVI…
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33: 7 reasons why you're irreducible (Ask ChatGPT✨)
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many of us feel plagued by a deep-seated unworthiness ingrained in us by society and culture. at a fundamental level, we are convinced there is a lot wrong with us. part of this suffering comes from a society that reduces us to the level of its own distorted and violent view of reality, rooted in colonial and capitalist imaginations. in today's par…
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32: you are irreducible: why you are an infinite, interconnected, cosmic being and cannot be reduced to ANYTHING
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we all face a deep unworthiness and are convinced there is something (or a lot) fundamentally wrong with us. this episode unpacks why you can’t be reduced to any one given aspect of your being or experience, or what society projects onto you and you in turn internalize as your own (eg, Beauty according to the colonial paradigm). you are infinite, c…
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31: the paradox of being sensitive — part 1: creativity 📝🎥🎨🥹
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if you’ve ever felt that the same sensitivity that makes you drawn to creative work also makes you TERRIFIED of starting, finishing or sharing yours — this episode is for you. the irony of this episode is more than i can express to you — throughout this process i faced so much shame, fear and avoidance (particularly in the editing phase). i feel th…
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30: free Congo 🇨🇩🤎 — overview, book (Cobalt Red 📚) & how we can help
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Congo is currently undergoing a silent genocide. We are lifting our voices for the people of DRC. This episode is my imperfect attempt to amplify the ongoing situation in Congo, and share the 5 greatest lessons I learned from a book I read in light of the moment we are in called Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth K…
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hi my loves. i recorded this episode a few weeks ago. it’s all about prioritizing sustainability in your creative and life pursuits, rather than burning out on impossible demands of yourself. what’s the easiest and smallest version of this goal or dream or desire i have, and how can i make promises that feel sustainable to keep? i hope you enjoy th…
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28: palestinian liberation, decolonization, resistance poems, & resources
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as a Black South African, my existence and freedom today are only possible because of the liberation efforts of anti-apartheid revolutionaries like Steve Biko, Winnie Mandela, Chris Hani, and Nelson Mandela. all of these people were labeled terrorists by the apartheid government and international community. like Israel, the USA and UK financially s…
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27: romantic longing 🤎 part 2 | love poems, self-defined romance, removing barriers to love
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welcome to ACT 2 of our convo on longing for a romantic relationship and what wisdom we can learn from this longing. In this episode, I read you a love poems, invite you to define romance for yourself, and share my pov on what romance means to me, and how it can be accessed through friendship. I am sending you love, today and always. 🤎 ADVICE COLUM…
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today we are talking about longing for romantic relationship and what wisdom we can derive from this longing. how can we integrate rather than suppress our romantic longing? what else can it be channeled into? what does our longing have to say to us, and are we listening? we'll be leaning on works like bell hooks' Communion and Audre Lorde's Uses o…
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25: you have nothing to prove | the myth of proving yourself
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if you’ve ever desperately tried to prove yourself to others or to yourself, this episode is for you. today we are discussing the underlying paradoxes and unmet needs at play when we are in the zone of trying to prove and justify ourselves. tldr: you deserve to pursue things irrespective of the outcome; the people meant for you will love you irresp…
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24: let it become | on creativity, relationships, & life 🐛🐝🦋🐣
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If you obsess over planning things instead of letting them unfold naturally, this episode is for you! Join me as we explore the notion and paradox of Becoming. Let’s release the illusion of control, and let the seed of your ideas and your relationships grow into what they wish to become. Nourishing the seed is meaningful and necessary — trying to c…
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23: disposability culture & my fear of being cancelled
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today we are digging deeper into my own creative fear — why and how I fear cancellation, my experience with it thus far, and what I tell myself in the face of this fear. ADVICE COLUMN: ☎️ seeking advice and want to PHONE IN with a question? submit a voicemail here. 📩 OR WRITE IN an advice question anonymously at the ASK Ayanda form…
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22: you are not an imposter. write your spiritual resume 📝💛
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if you ask yourself, who am I to do this thing I want to do? to write a book, start a podcast, become a songwriter.... this episode is for you. as insecure and fearful creatives, we ask ourselves, who am I to do the thing? but we don’t think imaginatively about how to answer that question. we look to other people and institutions to qualify us as w…
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21: the power of recommitment & return
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pov: the shame you feel for avoiding a creative project is keeping you from returning to it. let’s discuss why we need to embrace recommitment as a key part of the creative process. the constant decision to return and recommit to our projects and to our relationships, without shaming or blaming ourselves, is fundamental to the human experience. con…
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20: you are not a machine: why inconsistency is natural 🦋🍄🌻
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This is for anyone who is struggling to stay consistent with their creative project or goals in life. I am with you! And so are the sunsets, the fruit trees, the weather, the harvest, the ocean waves. You are made to believe you are separate from and “above” nature. But we are all nature. A peach tree does not produce a peach every Monday on demand…
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19: the myth of inclusive beauty
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Today we unpack the prevalent myth of inclusive beauty. This episode is part of my Beauty Bites *insert chews* series, where we think against the Beauty hierarchy. I give 7 reasons why Inclusive Beauty is a myth, including: the way it functions is selectively inclusive which is not genuine inclusion, it leaves the underlying power structure of Euro…
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18: overcoming creative resistance
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Today I expand on a recent TikTok I created about overcoming creative resistance. The idea of resistance is based on Steven Pressfield's book The War of Art. If you are an insecure creative like me — terrified of bringing your ideas to life because of self-doubt, perfectionism, avoidance, anxiety, how can you overcome your creative resistance? By l…
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Today we are redefining and reimagining the Erotic. What is it, why is it so powerful, and how can we bring more of it into our lives? We will hear clips from Audre Lorde’s seminal essay, The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, as well as words of wisdom from adrienne maree brown, and Esther Perel. I hope this makes you feel enlivened, and inv…
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16: industrialized vs. spiritual beauty (💡: Jessica DeFino)
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Welcome to a new series within my podcast called Beauty Bites *insert chews*. This is an ode to and a home for the very many thoughts I have on Beauty politics and breaking the colonial Beauty paradigm. In today’s episode we discuss an idea I learned from Jessica DeFino’s Substack, The Unpublishable. It is the idea that the beauty we are sold (indu…
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15: showing up together & what I'm avoiding rn
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If you're like me you have a bunch of scary projects or tasks or responsibilities or texts you are currently AVOIDING. you keep telling yourself to "just face them". but hard things are not meant to be faced alone! in this episode I discuss a community event called Showing up together on Sunday Jul 23 at 11am-2pm EST. if you can't make it or are l…
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14: insecure creatives, gather! Part 2
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This one is for my fellow creatives facing self-doubt, insecurity, resistance, fear, anxiety. If you know you want to start, complete, or share your creative project — this episode (and the last one) is for you! I recommend listening to Part 1 first but also you can dive in right here. Sending love! ADVICE COLUMN: ☎️ seeking advice and want to PHON…
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13: insecure creatives, gather! Part 1
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If you are experiencing creative fear, resistance, or anxiety, this is for you. We are on the same journey, because I face this daily as an insecure creative myself. In this episode I read an essay I wrote for my Substack on the wisdom I rely on to overcome or move through creative fear and resistance: to create content on TikTok, to write on Subst…
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Why did I change the name of the podcast from "Reimagining" to "Paradigm Shifts"? Let's talk about it! An episode where I basically profess my love to paradigm shifts, why I'm ok with the fact that the podcast name is not unique to me, and how paradigm shifts are connected to pleasure. Key quote: "Paradigm shifts are embodied experiences of learnin…
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11: essay reading: "on the transformation of silence into language and action" by Audre Lorde
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in this episode, I read an essay I refer to often in this podcast, Audre Lorde’s “On the Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”. This episode was initially meant to be my original “return” to the podcast. I ended up cutting some of my reflection down to let the essay stand on its own, but my reflections on it will continue to be pepper…
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