Let's Play: The Create Podcast

This week we talk about how Powerful we are!! What’s more fun than that? Yep, we are jamming on what it means to be an Alchemist — to be one who can change form! We discuss intention and perception and all the tools in our magic tool bag.

This week we speak to a listener’s email who asks, “How can I tell the difference in terms of what is uncomfortable because it is new, and what is the Universe saying ‘Don’t go this way?’” How do we read the signs? In the process of beginning, what is a natural challenge and what is a warning sign? What is a growth spurt and what is a wrong way? How do we learn discernment? Listen as we dive deep into this one!

The other day Kristin arrived to see Natalie’s face beaming with joy! She just had a dance party in the living room and announced “There’s no adult in me today!” Today, we talk about why it might serve us to let the adult in us go on vacation and let the spirit of play run the show.

Did you know we are having a record breaking day of heat in Paris??? And France is known for not doing air conditioning… So this inspired a conversation about when LIFE turns up the heat in our lives, our relationships, or our career. What do we do when life gets too hot to stand? What are the different ways we react? And how can we see the heat as a positive thing -- to transform us -- and not something to shrink us.

The adventures in Paris continue! This week we talk about how spontaneity has been teaching us a lesson. How unexpected joy brings a fresh energy to it. Just as we know that as artists, something wants to create THROUGH us, in the same way there’s an energy that wants to live THROUGH us... if we allow it.

When we told people in New York that we were traveling to Europe for the summer, we were often met with the question, “For what?” And when we replied, “For Joy!” We got blank faces, and then, “What!?!” We kept thinking how funny and interesting it was that JOY was such a foreign concept. Isn’t that the best reason to do ANYTHING? So, in this week’s podcast we talk about Joy as the motivating factor, and why it might be the most important motivation that we need.

Do you know Katie Dalebout?? If you don’t, you are in for a treat!! She’s our total Soul Sister and also a podcast maven who’s curiosity and love of life will brighten your day. Listen as we talk about love, break-ups, anxiety, overwhelm, the affiliations of the mind, and cute outfits. This girl is our new girl crush, and we know she’ll be yours too! Website: http://katiedalebout.com/ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/katiedalebout/

If you know us, you know we love to talk about longing! But have you ever thought of longing and desire being the way that Life Itself, the All of Existence, communicates to us what wants to be born in the world? So, if we find that we are turning down our desire, or denying ourselves what we want, we are shutting out that new thing that wants to be created through us. Take a listen, and then turn in to your deepest heart’s calling…

You know how we just talk about what we are learning? Well, we are both lovers (and students!) of Tosha Silver and her Change Me Prayers, and she talks so much about the “open hand” concept. It is trusting that whatever is meant to come into your life will come, and whatever needs to leave will leave. It’s living in non-attachment. It is letting go of grasping because we know we don’t need to wrestle things into our experience. We can have faith that we are always Divinely cared for — at the perfect time, in the perfect ways.

Yes!! We are doing it!!! Inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert’s “City of Girls” we are doing a podcast on FEMALE DESIRE. Yes! This podcast was designed to turn you on — in fact, “turn on” is the whole point! In your life, in your dharma, in the little tasks in life, where can you get curious about your internal charm? That is the Holy Place. “Turn on” turns on your power, your energy, and raises your vibration. It’s time to dive into your desire and let it lead you...

How do you know what to do next? What if you have so much you wanna do and you get into overwhelm? How do you learn to listen to that still small voice inside of you and decipher it’s messages? This week we answer two different listener questions as we explore what internal listening is and how it can lead us in the right direction at the right time. We share lots of exercises and tools that we have used to get us to be better listeners and talk about some of the messages that we have been receiving.

This week — prompted by a listener’s request — we dive into love, attraction, desire, conditional and unconditional love. It opened up a very personal conversation about shame and security, and how it can all become a portal to a deeper listening. We explore the inner romance of the soul, and the importance of allowing deep questioning and self-exploration to become an invitation into a Love Affair with Life.

It’s funny how we often try to change the circumstances of our life -- so that we can be happy -- but we are working on the outside, so that the inside will be different. It’s like we are moving around the furniture, when the true interior design wants to be done on the INSIDE. This week we talk about the traps of “moving the furniture” and how we might change our focus to the real energetic work.

This week our sweet Natalie Roy has laryngitis — send all the love and healing vibes her way!! So this week, we have a treat, it’s a conversation with our buddy Rob Bell on creativity, spirituality, and listening to the stillness within. And as a podcast first, he is dropping this same interview on his podcast this week, while we drop it on ours! So all the friends can listen!!

Isn’t interesting to watch when people get into mindsets that are locked and fixed? Isn’t fascinating how there a tendency to say “this is how it is?” But there is huge power in being willing to see things with an open mind, to be willing to stretch our definitions of what is possible, and realize that there is more than one way to look at something. Just as we construct a narrative, there is power in also deconstructing that narrative. From a place of spaciousness and openness, we can see what else is possible!!

Sometimes angels can appear right in front of you and remind you that you always have a choice — to have Faith in Fear or have Faith in Faith. This week we talk about our own Divine Messengers and that ultimate decision to believe in something bigger than ourselves. We explore the definitions of Faith and what they mean to us. We also talk about the power of belief, being led by our own inner voice, and how we learn who (and what) to listen to. The teachers are all around us and the guru is always speaking.

Later in his life, Albert Einstein wrote to a dear friend of his "People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.” This week we talk about the power and the presence that comes from meeting life with a child-like awe. If you are feeling like things are getting frustrating, stale, or confusing, maybe now is the time to bring the essence of awe to all that is.

This week is a doozy! It was inspired from a reading given to us entitled “Using Others to Stop Your Pain.” Yep. Sometimes we don’t even realize that we are looking to others to be the source of our happiness or to stop our pain. Focusing back on ourselves shows us the place of our personal power and enables us to find real solutions as well as true joy.

Some of the things that we are struggling with in this lifetime are part of a family heritage, a lineage passed down over time. In fact, many of us picked the family line we did because there was a subject we wanted to study — addiction, anxiety, financial stress, low self-esteem, failure, etc. What can be FREEING is to recognize that these patterns or wounds are part of our family system. They aren’t “ours” but we inherited them because we wanted to study them. We had a STRONG DESIRE to come to the planet and HEAL them in ourselves, to stop the generational pass-down, to teach them, and to free ourselves and others.

Our Natalie is now an American Citizen!!! This week Kristin interviews Natalie about the process of becoming a citizen, what she learned, and who she became as the process unfolded. We also talk about separation and judgement — on the global scale as well as the individual scale, and how we can notice and heal those places inside ourselves.