by SALLYVP EP | Jan 18, 2020 | Podcast
Shauna Ahern, author of Enough: Notes from a Woman Who Has Finally Found It talks about what it took to leave her successful persona as the Gluten-Free Girl to write a memoir that is candid, compelling, and rooted in community. Shauna, whose blogs and books on gluten-free living made her a star on the social media landscape, has found real community on her rural island outside of Seattle. (My island as well!) We chat about what “enough” now means to her.
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Highlights from the episode:
What “enough” means.
What it was like for Shauna to let go of her identity as The Gluten-Free Girl, with the intense demands it made on her time and family life.
The joy Shauna has discovered living in an island community.
Why community matters, especially in an era of social isolation.
How Shauna hopes the book and the ideas in “Enough” will help others.
Why “enoughness” is important, not just for us but for the environment.
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More about our guest:
Previously, Shauna wrote cookbooks, including Gluten-Free Girl Everyday, which won the James Beard award, Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef, which was named one of the best cookbooks of the year by The New York Times,[ as well as American Classics Reinvented] and the food memoir, Gluten-Free Girl.] Her work has been published or recognized by The Washington Post, The New York Times, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, The Guardian, The Food Network, Epicurious, and CNN.
Shauna lives with her husband and two children on a rural island in Washington State, where they are probably cooking something as you read this.
The Show Notes
Contact Shauna at Glutenfreegirl@gmail.com
Or on Instagram
ShaunaMAhern at Instagram.
https://glutenfreegirl.com/
by SALLYVP EP | Jan 16, 2020 | Podcast
This interview was a wonderful opportunity to be interviewed by my friend and colleague Ellia Harris of The Potential Center.
We talk about my book-in-progress Meeting the Muse after Midlife and how we can travel a more creative path through the second half of life.
- What it is to be a story shaper.
- Some of the myths that accompany aging.
- What creativity and creative expressiveness look like as we age.
- Why some people have trouble calling themselves creative.
- What a few of the “superpowers” that come with aging might be.
- and more…
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About my interviewer, Ellia Harris.
Ellia Harris helps companies and organizations increase productivity through creative problem-solving and innovation.
Ellia is CEO of The Potential Center, and creator of Light Bulb Thinking™. Light Bulb Thinking™ helps organizations build a culture of curiosity, critical thinking and creativity, while creating better working teams:
- Team training de-mystifies creative problem-solving and gets people thinking outside the box.
- Executive coaching helps leaders facilitate creative problem-solving and pave the way for a culture of innovation.
Ellia does this work because she’s a natural problem-solver, she loves teaching and coaching, and she’s passionate about helping folks live up to their potential.
Check out her services at ThePotentialCenter.com, where you can also subscribe to her blog “The Light Bulb”.
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The Show Notes
Sally Fox, Ph.D. is a writer, coach, and head of this website and the Vital Presence podcast. Read about Sally here.
by sallyjfox | Jan 14, 2020 | Podcast
Tina Shattuck is a social entrepreneur who takes big ideas and makes them happen locally. She has founded two organizations focused on the empowerment of women and girls: Working Mothers Revolution/Working Mothers Evolution and Women Hold the Key. We talk about how she has developed her projects, always drawing from a foundation of community. She’s currently working on an initiative to connect women of different ages, maid, mother, and matriarch, to support mutual learning and betterment and bridge the divides between generations.
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Highlights from the episode:
Finding power in community.
How Tina helps women by offering a key as an amulet with which women can identify like-minded others.
Seniors with seniors: Tina’s plans for an innovative mentoring program between seniors and high school seniors- working the local high schools.
How women are handicapped by thinking they are not enough and what they (we) can do.
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More about our guest:
Tina Shattuck has 30 + years of experience in Human Resources, Event Production & Fundraising, Non-profit work, and Social Enterprise work. She is a serial entrepreneur who has owned and operated many of her own business from a non-profit live theater to Technical Recruiting, Internet Cafe, and Social Enterprises that empower women and mothers. Her last endeavor, Women Hold the Key combines all of the skills she’s gained into one very important focus – women – community – connection and support. Tina shares her life with her commercial fishing partner of 25+ years, three fantastic, fast-paced teenagers and a community of friends & family who bring a ton of richness to her life. When she’s not chauffeuring kids from one activity to another, teaching, or building community for women, she enjoys spending time at home with dogs, cats, and a long bucket list of art she hasn’t enough time to do justice.
She is constantly “seeking the comfort of women, the support of women, and the need to be in the spheres where women gather.”
The Show Notes
Check out Tina’s work at https://womenholdthekey.com/
On Facebook: Womenholdthekey
by SALLYVP EP | Jan 13, 2020 | Podcast
Tina Shattuck is a social entrepreneur who takes big ideas and makes them happen locally. She has founded two organizations focused on the empowerment of women and girls: Working Mothers Revolution/Working Mothers Evolution and Women Hold the Key. We talk about how she has developed her projects, always drawing from a foundation of community. She’s currently working on an initiative to connect women of different ages, maid, mother, and matriarch, to support mutual learning and betterment and bridge the divides between generations.
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Highlights from the episode:
Finding power in community.
How Tina helps women by offering a key as an amulet with which women can identify like-minded others.
Seniors with seniors: Tina’s plans for an innovative mentoring program between seniors and high school seniors- working the local high schools.
How women are handicapped by thinking they are not enough and what they (we) can do.
Hear the interview:
And please leave a rating and review!
More about our guest:
Tina Shattuck has 30 + years of experience in Human Resources, Event Production & Fundraising, Non-profit work, and Social Enterprise work. She is a serial entrepreneur who has owned and operated many of her own business from a non-profit live theater to Technical Recruiting, Internet Cafe, and Social Enterprises that empower women and mothers. Her last endeavor, Women Hold the Key combines all of the skills she’s gained into one very important focus – women – community – connection and support. Tina shares her life with her commercial fishing partner of 25+ years, three fantastic, fast-paced teenagers and a community of friends & family who bring a ton of richness to her life. When she’s not chauffeuring kids from one activity to another, teaching, or building community for women, she enjoys spending time at home with dogs, cats, and a long bucket list of art she hasn’t enough time to do justice.
She is constantly “seeking the comfort of women, the support of women, and the need to be in the spheres where women gather.”
The Show Notes
Check out Tina’s work at https://womenholdthekey.com/
On Facebook: Womenholdthekey
by sallyjfox | Jan 1, 2020 | Podcast
Why is creative expressiveness so important to our development as people as well as to the planet?
I explore this with my guest Dana Lynne Andersen. Dana is a force field of creative possibility. She’s a multimedia artist, writer, playwright and teacher who has taught and exhibited on three continents. She is the founder of Awakening Arts Academy of Art, Creativity, and Consciousness, which has centers in the USA and Europe. Dana offers certification in the ‘Transformative Arts’ method, using creative process for personal and collective awakening.
In 2019 she produced a multi-modal, multi-media, live theatre performance called Ancient Future: Seeds of a New Civilization at an international conference on Climate Change and Consciousness at the Findhorn community in Scotland.
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Highlights from the episode:
The creative process puts people back in touch with their deepest self. That’s what’s essential for the world.
How we can find our artistry by reawakening the child within.
Creativity is a portal to our inner world, to our deepest desires, to the wisdom of our soul.
Creativity is one of the core qualities of the human being and the divine.
Dark views of the future create despair, hope shows us visionary ways of being.
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More about our guest:
In 2019 Dana Lynne Andersen brought a visionary performance called Ancient Future: Seeds of a New Civilization to an international conference on Climate Change and Consciousness at Findhorn in Scotland. With a cast and crew of 20 collaborators from 9 countries Ancient Future was a multi-modal, multi-media, live theatre performance in which music, dance, visual and video arts, poetry and dialogue were integrated in a simple, yet profound and inspiring story. Mythic worlds were created with sound and light; through the interviewing of word and image a tale was told. Movement and music moved the energy of a poetic narrative, whilst subtle interactions with projection and light-play were used to create sets and scenes.
The Show Notes
Learn more about Dana here at DanaLynneAndersen.com
Learn more Ancient Future and watch the full performance here.
Learn more about the Awakening Arts Academy: www.awakeningartsacademy
Or check out the Academy on Facebook.
by sallyjfox | Aug 16, 2018 | Podcast
Many of us fear aging, out of concern for what might happen. But what if aging was about “giving birth to the true self” and the hardships which we may encounter, could be reframed as part of a path of initiation.
John Robinson’s book on The Three Secrets of Aging blew me away. Whereas many books on aging talking about holding on to your youth as long as you can, preparing for a healthy, affluent retirement, or how to deal with your worries around dementia, John takes a different path. He writes about wisdom and consciousness expansion.
He sees aging as a possible path of transformation through the process of aging.
He just doesn’t promise that it will always be easy but it can be joyful.
ABOUT OUR GUEST
John C. Robinson is a clinical psychologist with a second doctorate in ministry, an ordained interfaith minister, the author of nine books and numerous articles on the psychology, spirituality and mysticism of the New Aging, and a frequent speaker at Conscious Aging Conferences across the country. You can learn more about his work at www.johnrobinson.org.
His major works include Death of the Hero, Birth of the Soul; But Where Is God: Psychotherapy and the Religious Search; Ordinary Enlightenment; Finding Heaven Here; The Three Secrets of Aging; Bedtime Stories for Elders; What Aging Men Want: Homer’s Odyssey as a Parable of Male Aging; his first novel, Breakthrough; and The Divine Human: The Final Transformation of Sacred Aging.
John’s work has received praise from numerous visionary writers including Angeles Arrien, Arjuna Ardagh, Robert Atchley, Robert Bly, Allan Chinen, Matthew Fox, John Gray, Andrew Harvey, Gay Hendricks, Robert Johnson, Aaron Kipnis, Stanley Krippner, Malidoma Some, Harry Moody, Carol Orsborn, Kenneth Ring, Bernie Siegel, Jacquelyn Small, Jeremy Taylor, and Jonathan Young.
John’s growing audience comes to his work through talks and workshops at conscious aging conferences (e.g., Sage-ing International, Conscious Elders Network, 6th and 7th International Conferences on Aging and Spirituality, Creation Spirituality Communities Gatherings, Mankind Project in Louisville, Progressive Christianity Embrace Festival, and the United Church of Christ) and webinars with The Shift Network Summit, CSource, Unitarian Universalists, and Sag-ing International), a website hosted by the Authors Guild, radio and video interviews and presentations and five conscious aging books published by John Hunt Publishing. What is unique about his material is its mystical description of the evolution of a Divine Human in a Divine World via the profound and unprecedented dynamics the New Aging.
Highlights and quotes from the Show
“Aging is enlightenment in slow motion.”
“Aging is an initiation to another stage of consciousness.”
We start asking the big questions when things fall apart.
How to deal with the process of letting go of your old life…
“Aging is about giving birth to the true self.”
3 stages of aging:
Young-old – overcompensation against the fear of deconstruction that’s coming
The white water at this stage of life can be rough.
“We all lose it…the good news is it comes back.”
“Spirituality does not give you an end run around suffering.”
Why sometimes it’s useful to let go of thinking about purpose, or at least thinking about purpose from the head down.
Asky yourself, “What makes me come alive?”
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The Show Notes
Read The Three Secrets of Aging
and other books you’ll find on his website: www.Johnrobinson.org
Shauna M. Ahern is the author of Enough: Notes from a Woman Who Has Finally Found It. 
