The Messy Middle Podcast
The Messy Middle Podcast is for soul seekers, misfits, creatives and people living on the fringe. This podcast is meant to inspire possibility, creativity, curiosity, alignment and flow. Listen to interviews with creatives, artists, musicians, therapists, tarot card readers and more about how they navigate the mess in the middle spaces of life.
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Car-pisodes: On Overthinking
01/07/2021
Car-pisodes: On Overthinking
This week I'm talking about that feeling of Hesitation and what happens when we over think things.
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MMM: Walking with your Resistance
11/19/2020
MMM: Walking with your Resistance
Solo episode sharing a story about personal resistance and the twist and unexpected turns that came along the way.
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Be the Scientist of your Life
09/11/2020
Be the Scientist of your Life
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:
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MILCK: Authenticity is Activism
05/28/2019
MILCK: Authenticity is Activism
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.
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Messy Middle Minisode: Yes, No or Not Yet?
04/30/2019
Messy Middle Minisode: Yes, No or Not Yet?
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.
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Messy Middle Minisode: Containers or Boxes?
04/13/2019
Messy Middle Minisode: Containers or Boxes?
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.
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Cassandra Lam: On Flourishing & Thriving
02/19/2019
Cassandra Lam: On Flourishing & Thriving
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 face as creatives as well as how to switch the mindset from surviving to one of flourishing and thriving. In just a little under a year The cosmos has grown to thousands of women who are exploring the question "What does it mean for Asian women to flourish and thrive?"
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A Year to Live
01/10/2019
A Year to Live
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.
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Planning for the New Year: Am I Inhaling or Exhaling
12/17/2018
Planning for the New Year: Am I Inhaling or Exhaling
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.
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Your Inner Mr. Miyagi
12/10/2018
Your Inner Mr. Miyagi
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.
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Krista Suh: On Ambition & Flow
10/18/2018
Krista Suh: On Ambition & Flow
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: How To Speak Up, Get Creative and CHANGE THE WORLD,
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Sigrid Gilmer: On what will make you laugh will make you cry
09/18/2018
Sigrid Gilmer: On what will make you laugh will make you cry
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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Yumi Sakugawa: On Creating our own space & having tea with our demons
08/02/2018
Yumi Sakugawa: On Creating our own space & having tea with our demons
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?
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Messy Middle Minisode: On Impatience
07/19/2018
Messy Middle Minisode: On Impatience
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.
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Nicole Miyuki: On Showing up and Doing the Work
07/03/2018
Nicole Miyuki: On Showing up and Doing the Work
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.
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Messy Middle Minisode: On Ritual, Ceremony & Rites of Passage
06/12/2018
Messy Middle Minisode: On Ritual, Ceremony & Rites of Passage
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On Year Long Projects: My 12 Experiments
06/03/2018
On Year Long Projects: My 12 Experiments
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.
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Femi Olafioye-Omogbehin: On Transforming Shame & Finding Representation
05/08/2018
Femi Olafioye-Omogbehin: On Transforming Shame & Finding Representation
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.
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Rebecca Schoemaker: On Tarot and Trusting the 6th sense within
04/25/2018
Rebecca Schoemaker: On Tarot and Trusting the 6th sense within
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: 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
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Messy Middle Minisode: Race Talk!
04/18/2018
Messy Middle Minisode: Race Talk!
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. To Join in on the conversation please join The Messy Middle Facebook Group. I would love to hear your thoughts on Race, or any questions you are struggling with yourself. ----
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Daniella Zalcman: On the Power of Story
04/12/2018
Daniella Zalcman: On the Power of Story
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.
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Vincentia Schroeter: On Being Heard and Getting what we Want
03/28/2018
Vincentia Schroeter: On Being Heard and Getting what we Want
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 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 --- 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. How to shift your mood in the middle of stress and tension Strategies to work with the nervous system. Braving the Wilderness How to communication with ourselves in difficult times
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Tiffany Han: On finding Flow & Trusting your Knowings
03/13/2018
Tiffany Han: On finding Flow & Trusting your Knowings
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 March 22nd Pitch Perfect, Mastering the Art of Making the Ask --- Music by Nick Bauman Music Editing: Nick Bauman I've Got Me Live on WFMU Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davis licensed under a . Squeezing Blood Live on WFMU whatever with Mary Wing licensed under a .
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Sarah Driscoll & Co Hodges: The heart of business & choosing the unconventional path
02/25/2018
Sarah Driscoll & Co Hodges: The heart of business & choosing the unconventional path
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: Music Editing: Nick Bauman : Backlash Live at Monty Hall 10/5/2017 : Too much Too Soon Live at Monty Hall 2/20/2016 Licensed under a creative commons attribution-noncommercial no derivatives 4.0 License
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T.J Martin: On Humanizing our Experiences
02/06/2018
T.J Martin: On Humanizing our Experiences
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. ------- Please join us at or to the newsletter to get the recap of new episodes as they come out! 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. ---- // --- Music and Mixing: Nick Bauman Musical credits: Cut 1: - WZN #4: Live at Monty Hall, 10/7/2017 Cut 2: Get your Papers; live at WFMU's Monty Hall 11/20/2015 Licensed under a creative commons attribution-noncommercial no derivatives 4.0 License
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Messy Middle Season 3 Finale
12/21/2017
Messy Middle Season 3 Finale
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. --------- - to help you stop the hamster wheel and gain some focus towards that big dream of yours.
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Tanya Geisler: On The Imposter Complex
11/21/2017
Tanya Geisler: On The Imposter Complex
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 , , created and the transformational coaching program, is a writer, has served as contributor and was featured in Canadian Living, and is an in-demand 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.) --------------- ----- 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 is licensed under a . Holy Golightly and the Brokeoffs: Jump in the River ----------
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Messy Middle Minisode #4: Foundations
11/15/2017
Messy Middle Minisode #4: Foundations
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. ---------- Get your Building your Foundations PDF here
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Megan Brotherton: On Breaking Taboos
10/24/2017
Megan Brotherton: On Breaking Taboos
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. ----- A community for Curious Creatives
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Elise Blaha Cripe: On The Power of Trying and Making Bold Statements
10/10/2017
Elise Blaha Cripe: On The Power of Trying and Making Bold Statements
I'm Elise and I make stuff. That's who I am and that's my job. I started 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 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 . I live in San Diego, California with my husband, Paul, and our two young daughters, Ellerie and Piper. Show Notes: / Music Attributes: Fair Weather Friend by Music Editor and Mixer: Nick Bauman
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