Staying Productive While Embracing the Chaos and Boredom of Summer (Ep190)
Release Date: 06/12/2025
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info_outlineEpisode 190 of the podcast and it's June 11, 2025 as we record this.
Main Topic: Embrace the Chaos and Boredom of Summer
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PATREON:
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Go to Patreon.com/strangeairstories for short stories in the paranormal mystery genre.
Segment 1 (Announcements/Author Updates):
- (Valerie):
- • Aligned Author: A bespoke book coaching journey for soul-led experts, creatives, and writers ready to channel their life's work into a living, breathing legacy.) I created Aligned Author to provide a sacred space for authors to truly understand what has been holding them back, to learn how to merge the soul with the ego, to live and create in that duality, and to discover their own super powers.
- (Erick): Shadow Signals for sale now; preplanning for the summer, "screw around" days on the river, finishing energy on the little things before they fall through the cracks
- What are you reading?
- Valerie:
- How to Read a Book (Monica Wood)
- (Not ready to give up on them, but struggling to finish them:) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman; The Year of the Puppy (Alexandra Horowitz) ; The Teller of Small Fortunes Julie Leong
- Erick: A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest (Charlie J. Stephens) ; the Shivers series on audio (short horror); Strange Pictures (mystery)
- Segment 2 (Resources/Tips/Tidbits):
- Tidbit #1: • Tidbit #2:
Segment 3 (Main Topic): Chaos of summer is real
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