Episodes
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
EPISODE 4: Writer mines life experience for gems of life-changing metaphors
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
In Episode 4, podcaster Tracy Crow, an author, writing coach, and Marine Corps veteran, recaps the most poignant themes from previous episodes, and reveals how an understanding of metaphor can provide us with a deeper, broader, more meaningful -- and more creative! -- way to view the world, and ourselves in it. "Writers live for metaphors," Tracy says. "Writers are hunters and gatherers of metaphors, living in search of just the right, freshest way to compare an object or a concept to something that literally does not hold that same meaning." And through Tracy's comedic share of a life-changing experience on New Year's Day, a blindfold challenge of all things, we can't help but wonder what metaphor-gems we've been overlooking in our own lives. And...what ruts we've been stuck in for far too long.
For more information about Tracy's friends, Sam and Novella, who provide life-changing opportunities, such as Vision Quests, visit Earth Visions.
Thursday Jan 24, 2019
EPISODE 3: Yoga instructor shares creative insights for living yoga "off the mat"
Thursday Jan 24, 2019
Thursday Jan 24, 2019
In Episode 3, referred to as The Birthday Edition, podcaster Tracy Crow, an author, writing coach, and Marine Corps veteran, invites us to an intimate, candid discussion with special guest, Morgan Leslie Bosworth, a yoga instructor, certified life coach -- and Tracy's daughter -- who reveals how she uses creativity in her sought-after yoga sessions, how she creates internal pathways that lead to stillness and an acceptance of her gifts, and how she expands her personal container of consciousness. We're even treated to a chant Morgan sings while playing her new favorite instrument, "Llwellyn, the ukulele." (Don't tell Harriet, the harmonium!) Morgan says she never saw herself as a musician until recently because of her self-limiting definition of what a musician looked like to her. "We have to give ourselves permission to step out of our box," she says. So listen in as mother and daughter explore the value of living with conscious creativity -- and of living one's yoga on and off the mat.
For more about Morgan Leslie Bosworth, visit Coaching North.
Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
EPISODE 2: Mom of 3 uses photography to "slow down time"
Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
In Episode 2, podcast host, Tracy Crow, an author, writing coach, and Marine Corps veteran, interviews her former journalism and creative writing student -- now mom to three little ones -- Holly Alcaidinho. Holly shares why photography is her go-to creative outlet, and how she slows down time by immersing herself in creative, present-moment mindfulness, ensuring nothing in her precious life is taken for granted. Take the frost on her windshield for example, she says, and adds that she has to plead with her husband not to warm up the car on those Massachusetts cold mornings before she has a chance to photograph the frozen fractals of frost under various lighting conditions. Holly's awake to all of life's gifts. Listen in as former professor and student reunite after a decade, and discover Holly's photography tips for parents, her favorite editing software, and her shocking confession -- to Tracy anyway -- about the camera equipment she's using to capture such memorable, professional quality Holly Kristine photographs.
For more about Holly Kristine photography, visit her on Instagram, threelittlesandalotoflove
Friday Jan 18, 2019
EPISODE 1: The Launch of Accept Your Gifts
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Welcome to Episode 1 with new podcast host, Tracy Crow, an author, writing coach, and Marine Corps veteran. In this launch episode, Tracy shares her motivations behind developing a series of 22-minute podcasts, each aimed at broadening our perceptions about what it means to live a more creative, more magical life, and reveals the personal story that prompted the naming of this series. Future episodes will include craft how-tos and candid self-discovery stories with artists across all mediums. So if you're ready to live your most creative life in 2019, let's get started.