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Ask Me Anything: Stories, Spirit, and Honest Answers (Part 1)

Season #1

 

You sent the questions. I'm answering them.

Across social media, beautiful souls sent in the full range. Lighter, everyday curiosities about my life. The story of how I got here. And the big-frame spiritual questions about what I'm rooted in now.

About thirty questions in all, gathered into six clusters. In Part 1, I move through the first three: the lighter stuff, my journey, and the spiritual foundations. Part 2, with the inner work, the relational practice, and the conversation around money and self-trust, is on its way.

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In this episode:

  • The journey from New York to an RV to rural Arkansas
  • Why I love wide open spaces, and what my Gene Keys say about that
  • Birds, pancakes, jazz guitar, and the freshness of every sunrise
  • How my heart is, right now, and what I mean when I say I feel successful
  • Eight kids, a Southern Baptist preacher father, and the long road back to my voice
  • Religious trauma, idiot compassion, and Neale Donald Walsch's question about the natural and the normal
  • Whether bravery is bravery, or just the pursuit of joy on the other side of fear
  • Curiosity, beginner's mind, non-attachment, and the difference between masculine rigidity and a more feminine integrity
  • Why I don't believe in randomness or fate as fixed truths, and what I lean on instead
  • Christianity and Christ consciousness, in one sentence
  • Nature as the effortless aligner, and the reminder that we are also nature

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References mentioned in this episode:

  • Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
  • Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • India.Arie ("Nature is the effortless aligner")
  • Gene Keys, Enneagram type 9, astrocartography
  • Bruce Lee ("Be like water")
  • Guitarists named: Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, George Benson, Grant Green, Biréli Lagrène

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Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UDrqDg0CEZA
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