LL Kirchner, an award-winning screenwriter, author, and creative, is with us today and shares her transformative personal journey which she narrates vividly in her memoirs. Reflecting on her experiences, she discusses her engagement in various therapeutic and healing practices, including meditation, storytelling, and yoga. LL brings to light the importance of understanding one's unique needs when approaching different methodologies for healing and personal transformation. LL also shares the joy of adopting an enquiring, an open-minded attitude in life, especially as a creative. Her new book, 'Blissful Thinking: A Memoir of Overcoming the Wellness Revolution', delves into her unconventional healing journey. Lastly, she discusses her writing process—how she heals + goes public.

You’ll hear all about:

Exploring the Concept of Cults

Discussion on Memoir Writing and Personal Growth

Feminism and Societal Expectations

Exploring the Power of Mind and Storytelling

Questioning Religious Beliefs

The Misconceptions of Meditation

Exploring Alternative Meditation Practices

The Fear of Doing it Wrong

The Challenges of Going Public with Your Story

The Impact of Storytelling on Stage

Joanna Ingram is here on this planet to champion courageous women to express their individuality in business by guiding and inspiring you to join the dots of your unique brilliance so you can be paid for being authentically you. On this episode, Joanna share so much of what it has looked like for her as a powerful, spiritual woman to learn her own brilliance and go public, herself, with her wild and wonderful offering to the world.

We discuss:

* When having it all figured out fails

* Forced transformation through crisis

* Making the impossible possible

* Using energetics in business to create an aligned business that you don’t burn out in

* How we accidentally repel clients and what to do instead

Jump into this incredible episode of what it looks like to heal from and through crises by aligning with yourself and going public to offer the world your greatness.

What does healing feel like in the body? Is it a linear process? How do folx access healing through creating and putting those creations out to the world? Teaching artist, healing artist, and creative entrepreneur, Nkem Chukwumerije is in the studio today sharing their journey of healing and going public. We chat about:

* The cyclical nature of the healing journey

* Sensual embodiment + creativity

* Using the medium of the moment to create + process

* Inviting others into liberation + healing through many different modalities

And SO much more. If you’re in the process of becoming, like all of us humans are, but you’re wanting to get more intentioned with it… this episode is for you.

When you’re a creative or artist, healing and creating are one and the same. Today, my guest, Ann Diment, and I are talking about healing with trauma from childhood and creating in order to access deeper levels of healing. We also chat about EFT and tapping in order to access enough safety to do the work in order to create.

We also discuss:

* Being a change maker

* Using art to heal and healing to make art

* Art as something to turn to to process emotions

* Healing from perfectionism through creating

* Tapping + breathing to grow in safety to access healing and creating

Photographer, artist, creator, let alone commercial photographer versus brand photographer. It can be so challenging to label the powerful, creative work that we do. Today, brand photographer KaS Mitchell is sharing so much about her journey as an artist through writing and photography. She talks all things:

* Being othered and underestimated

* That brand photography IS commercial photography

* The alternative routes to our careers

* Holding the boundaries necessary to fulfill our goals

* And traveling the world to get exactly where you want to go

We talk all things possibility, motivation, and dedication and how KaS uses her creative business to meet her creative needs, serve her amazing clients, and impact the photography industry to be more sustainable and knowledgeable. Interested in how different kinds of artists make their living or how they got to where they are now? This episode is for you, my friend.

Art is a powerful form of connection not only with others—but a powerful way we can find and know ourselves and how we look at this world. Interdisciplinary artist, Shawna Miller, is in the virtual studio with me today. We chat about art connection mothers and connecting self, creating art to be seen in a really challenging season, wrestling with the artist identity, taking time to experience awe, defining what is sacred, and not getting bogged-down in the details in order to stay true to the ‘why’ for the work.

Shawna Miller is a wife, mother, and figurative oil painter living and working near Aspen, CO. Her current work focuses on the bittersweet beauty and weight of motherhood.

We have some brand new sounds in the space because this is my announcement that I’m taking a sabbatical from Spiritual Direction. Jump into the episode to hear more on why I’m making this pivot on my journey and what it means for this space. Get excited with me about what we can create in this space and how you desire to create in your own life. I’m becoming your creative guide… here’s what you can expect in this transformed Heal + Go Public space.

We have some brand new sounds in the space because this is my announcement that I’m taking a sabbatical from Spiritual Direction. Jump into the episode to hear more on why I’m making this pivot on my journey and what it means for this space. Get excited with me about what we can create in this space and how you desire to create in your own life. I’m becoming your creative guide… here’s what you can expect in this transformed Heal + Go Public space.

Kacey Hayes, podcast guest pitching machine, all around amazing human, and dear friend of mine, talks with me today about what it takes to go and stay public on podcasts, what it looks like to be a good guest and host, how we can all be a little more human through the whole process, how to look at ROI with podcasting and guesting, and a bit of audio etiquette. If you are in the podcasting world or want to be… get your ears in here—we’re talking all things pods and going public.