Welcome to Into the Living Room: Behind-the-Scenes of a Lifelong Learner
Into the Living Room: Behind-the-Scenes of a Lifelong Learner
Release Date: 10/30/2023
Into the Living Room: Behind-the-Scenes of a Lifelong Learner
If you know anything about me, you know that I have felt awkward for most of my life. I still do to be honest. For so long I felt like I was born without life’s operating instructions, like I was missing the manual or something. But as I grew up, I realized that, you know what, most people felt like me, too, at least at some point in their life, maybe not now. But when I was younger, oh my goodness, I thought I was the only one. I think that’s why I’ve always loved to hear other people’s stories. The people, the experiences, the books, the art, the teachings that made them who...
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I initially started this audio project 11 years ago. At that time, it was called, The Firebelly Chronicles. It was a video podcast where I interviewed people like author Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way) and owner and founder, Dave Dahl (Dave's Killer Bread). I had always admired people (and still do) who had a fire in their belly and the courage to bring that fire to life. 🔥 After my son was born, The Firebelly Chronicles evolved into Winging It. And as I reflect on the creative decision to evolve the project into Winging...
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Ready or not, here I am. In part two of our Winging It: Midlife series, I dive into learning to be okay with putting myself and my new projects out into the world.
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When I started Winging It back in 2015, my son Blaze was just two years old. At that time, I wanted to document becoming a parent while working full-time, all while attempting to do all the things. Since launching the podcast almost five years ago, a lot has happened, and I’ve figured some things out.Â
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In the second part of our deep dive into dream-making, I sit down with Dan Pilver who is one of the founders and owners of Magic Number. If you’re not familiar with Dan’s company, Magic Number creates craft-brewed, cannabis-infused beverages—which are all handmade in Bend, Oregon.
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Shannon, founder of Shannon Lee Strategy, and my guest on this podcast episode, knows firsthand how to turn a dream into a reality. After years of doing marketing for other businesses, Shannon started her own company. “YOU DO YOU,” Shannon says, and the rest is history.
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In this episode, we re-visit what exactly Winging It means. Winging It is about preparing our heart-out and putting our full self out there. Then, it’s about surrendering it all. It’s about giving our all, and then, letting it all go. It’s about working our hardest, and then leaving the rest up to the universe, to God, to the cosmos, to nature—to whatever you may believe in.
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Beneath all the labels and stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, is where I believe, we will find who we truly really are—and this is where we will find true happiness.
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Throughout my life, I've realized that my biggest teacher and companion in life has been death. It's when I ponder my own mortality, that I am most able to gain perspective, wisdom, and inspiration to live more open, more fully, and more alive. I reflect on death, and ask Johnny about death as well, in this latest Winging It episode.
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I initially started this audio project 11 years ago. At that time, it was called, The Firebelly Chronicles. It was a video podcast where I interviewed people like author Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way) and owner and founder, Dave Dahl (Dave's Killer Bread). I had always admired people (and still do) who had a fire in their belly and the courage to bring that fire to life. 🔥
After my son was born, The Firebelly Chronicles evolved into Winging It. And as I reflect on the creative decision to evolve the project into Winging It it makes sense.
When Winging It launched, I was a new mom, working full-time, and interested in exploring my own life and ability to create within my new reality, in a whole new way.
Winging It became an audio diary podcast and gained a following very quickly, which I was excited about. I loved producing Winging It because it allowed me the opportunity to dig deeper into who I was, where I was, and who I was becoming.
So, it makes sense that now, Winging It, is evolving into its next stage—a stage where I explore everything I have learned and continue to learn, as I step into living life in a whole new way once again.
Into the Living Room: Behind-the-Scenes of a Lifelong Learner is an up-close and personal look at my life—what I've discovered along the way and what I am still learning.
I enlist the support of experts out in the field, as well as those personally close to me in my life, and like Winging It, I include an audio diary of my own life.
I explore my questions and issues, and the questions and issues of others, but most of all, I search for the core of it all, the bottom of the barrel, the secrets of life, that I have been obsessed with for so long.
Looking back on all the projects I have created, I recognize that I have never stopped searching.
Into the Living: Behind-the-Scenes of a Lifelong Learner is an accumulation of it all. At its very core, my intention is for this to be something you can turn on when you need to be inspired, energized, and reminded of who you are.
Welcome to Into the Living Room: Behind-the-Scenes of a Lifelong Learner!