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What you'll hear:

• Me yammering on about butoh, which I got to learn from Mari Osanai in Asheville last week
• Local peeps!  Wanna come see me dance live?  3pm May 3rd at the Park Circle Community Building!  As part of North Charleston Arts Festival with Jessie Natusch Dance Works 2:30
• The fancy PT that's actually working for my SI joint injury:  https://www.posturalrestoration.com/provider/courtney-stearn/ 5:00
• Storytime of one of my great injury reckonings begins at 6:45
• Circus Automatic!  https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CVzBYVMPF/  15:00
• Benediction 18:50

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xoRachel
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What you'll hear:

• Thanks to Aiyanna for bringing the beginning of this conversation to light for this podcast 8:00
• Why I don't think "stick to your own culture" is the best response to this question 11:00
• A fitting place to begin this conversation...white sage 14:00
• Finding a way to use cultural practices that do not necessarily belong to you 17:00
• April Punsalan:  local botanist and herbologist mentioned at 18:30
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What you'll hear:

• The LAST CYCLE EVER of the Audacity Project is enrolling in a couple of weeks.  Do not miss it!  I mean it!  https://poser.kit.com/cycle30 1:00
• All jobs have costumes!  Fight me.  3:45
• If you hate costuming and don't have that particular brain cell, USE YOUR FRIENDS we can't all be experts in everything 9:30
• The staples I recommend for aerial corporate costuming 10:30
  • White/silver/gold (one of these tends to be plenty)
  • Black
  • "Classic Circus" with a red base 13:00
• Accessories! They make a huge difference 14:00
• Fishnets.  The real shit, y'all, no bullshit fishnets.  These fishnets from Capezio are the real deal. 17:00
• Here's how to alter fishnets to look great on your feet and prevent me from being deeply disappointed in you:  https://youtu.be/8uth4Ro1-AA  18:00
• Please don't forget shoes.  And no, I don't mean flip flops.  19:00
• The Hot Pink middle section of The Monstrous Feminine (paywalled for Patrons!  But honestly well worth the price of admission)  https://www.patreon.com/posts/131307336  21:45
• Looking Glass Gems, Black family owned, high quality glass (read:  super sparkley, please don't use plastic) gems for bedazzling:  https://www.lookingglassgems.com/ 
• Ok so Discount Dance Supply isn't taking orders BUT I did find this place:  https://www.dancesupplies.com/collections/adult-leotards

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xoRachel
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Join me for a 20 minute salty soapbox rant (didn't mean to, but it sure happened)!
 
You'll hear:

• This episode was inspired by the many questions I have gotten that sound a lot like "how do you get over feeling guilty about earning money?"
• Money, sex, and food are the bone-deep relationships that are always a labyrinth to navigate.
• "No one is coming to save you.  You are the adult.  I'm so sorry."
• What happens when our needs are met. 10:50
• Lovely Sarah and the Truejectory podcast asked me a question that led me down many rabbit holes! 13:00
• Why feeling guilty for earning money is the ultimate gaslight.  Reject that shit.
• A question for all of you that I would deeply appreciate hearing about 19:44

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A friend, student, and wonderful patron Cris asked me to talk about the process of making Creatrix and the gremlins I met along the way.  

You'll hear:

• How long it took to get from this idea being a twinkle in my eye to a living breathing thing
• The #1 piece of advice I'd give to anyone who wants to host a retreat 6:00
• The one thing I was almost quite an idiot about (but Maia saved the day) 7:00
• The #2 piece of advice I'd give to anyone who wants to host a retreat (hint:  it's the same advice as #1)
• The big stanky obvious gremlin 8:50
• A good general rule of thumb about the 10% conversion rate
• Differentiating between a gremlin and plain ole fear 14:30
• And a long but pointed tirade about how marinating ourselves in self-criticism culture (you didn't have a choice here) becomes an autocomplete
• A real live rendition of a great quote I heard from Audacious Hannah which is "my hunger overcame my fear."

Stay hungry, my friends.  

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Greetings and happy May errbody!  In this episode, I'm giving you my 2 cents on best practices for being a kickass artistic collaborator.

You'll hear:

• Here's the pretty thing I made!   I'm relaunching Diamonds in the Dark this week, and anyone who enrolls before Friday at midnight will have access to a LIVE session of the Buttermelt Workshop 
• What kind of collaborators?  5:00
• Big stinky rule #1:  5:30  Please confront your people pleasing tendencies, so you can bring your whole self to the table
• Big stinky rule #2:  Please learn how to communicate your opinions, either the easy agreeable kind or the dissenting kind 10:25
• An example from my life of a collaborator communicating badly, but another collaborator saving the day 13:06
• When to give a collaborator the stanky boot 15:00
• How to create a realistic timeline 18:00 (it's nice and simple math)

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All about seasonality, and a bit of a spicy rant about why we need it so much.  As well as me waxing poetic about slutty gardening, candle pouring, and having time that I never wanted (but am actually enjoying).

You'll hear:

• Diamonds in the Dark is relaunching next week, I hope you'll join me for the relaunch, it'll be fun!  Sign up here for the email list:  https://poser.ck.page/profile
• Why the 40 hour workweek is a load of shit.
• Why I hate charging by the hour and refuse to do it.  
• If you feel compelled to work more, even if you don't need to work more, whose values are you adhering to?
• What does seasonality actually look like in practice? 14:00
• The Movement Maestro's episode #388 about Seasonality (it's a banger):  https://themovementmaestro.com/2022/07/14/motm-388-embracing-seasonality/
• One way you can perhaps shift your life in a small way to embrace more seasonality 20:40
• An invitation to tell me how seasonality would look for you!

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xoRachel
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Please join me for an hour of the chats with my super cool accountant, the great Sandi York of Fit Money Coach!  
The older I get, the more I see the consequences of not pursuing financial literacy even though *insert all the reasons it is perfectly horrible to learn financial literacy*.  I want to at least give you some resources that I know for a fact to be excellent and trustworthy- therefore, please meet Sandi. :)

What you'll hear:

• How Sandi decided to choose the accountant path 7:00
• When and how she made the decision to go rogue (ie: self employed, baby!) 11:50
• Pure magic and synchronicity at work!  Sandi meets Dr. Shante Cofield (aka the Movement Maestro) and the rest is history, I love this story so much 13:30
• The questions Sandi gets more than any others from freelancers/biz owners 18:00
• Making money isn't the same as knowing what to do with it- 20:15
• The huge impact that Sandi has had on my life and mental health around money 25:30
• Sandi's recommendations for QuickBooks, and what to do if you'd rather do it on your own 29:30
• 31:00 Sandi's #1 advice for freelancers and biz owners
• Amazing free resource!  Sandi's Profit-First spreadsheet (I use this EVERY month and it's why I never panic at tax season) 34:30
• An article explaining Profit First (you don't have to read it, but if you're a nerd)
• Profit First for Micro-Gyms:  Sandi's recommendation if you want to bone up on Profit First as a financial system (it's more simplified and relevant for solo gym owners which more easily translates into solopreneurs)
• The #1 mistake she sees people making 36:45
• Sandi's recommendations to get OUT of credit card debt 39:15
• "If you could wave a magic wand and ensure every freelancer/business owner knew one thing, what would it be?"  (we get TWO answers muahahaha)  47:00
• Ways that you can work with Sandi and let her change your life for the better 49:30

Follow Sandi on the Grams
Learn more on her website:  Fit Money Coach

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As promised to Rachel- a whole bunch of advice on the do's and don't of creating a demo reel!  Rachel asked: 

" I have a request for a podcast episode, as an "amateur" aerialist who is trying to gig more, I feel comfortable with rates in my local area and am working on getting insurance, but I don't have a demo reel. And all of my footage of performances are kinda shitty phone videos, I am also not financially able to hire a videographer to make me some new footage. Production companies who I've spoken with have asked for demos, and I totally get it, but I'm not sure what to do.

I'm sure I'm not the only one in this pickle, so hoping you could help some cash poor newbies get hired."

What you will hear:

• (Unrelated to  demo reels) if you want to read a detailed expose of my surgical experience with photos (nothing gory, only cute) you can do that here on the Patreon!
• What needs to go on a demo reel 6:31
• A very common mistake artists make when sitting down to create a demo reel 8:00
• The point of a demo reel 8:30
• How long should it be?  9:19 (but also...how long is someone actually going to watch)
• 11:16 my recommendation for video editing on mobile that I've seen
• Great resource for open source music:  https://freemusicarchive.org/
• Do's and don'ts 13:00
• 15:40 homework for you!
• If you neglect to do this, I will hunt you down.  Don't make me come over there.  17:15
• Woo Corner is coming out next week!  Sign up here, it could totally save your life.

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This episode is brought you to by my friend KT's question:  "Honoring the rib ache!  It’d be really cool to hear a deep dive on it/your experiences ignoring and following that feeling.  I revisited the idea recently when I found myself doing a bunch of random shit I wasn’t enjoying just to make more money."

What you'll hear: 

• BossUP 2024 is live and I'm STOKED to be speaking on a stage with a couple heroes of mine:  Dr. Shante Cofield and Jill Coleman.  Dates are October 10-11:  https://www.jillfitprograms.com/bossup
• What is  "the rib ache"? 4:40  (hint:  it's best described by playing The Game)
• My own personal story of the rib ache, and how it ruined everything (and saved my life) 6:04
• Other ways to tap into the rib ache 13:13
• Why platitudes like "follow your bliss" are well intended but meaningless 14:00
• How rib aches can become boundaries, and boundaries can become rules...and sometimes rules need to be broken.
• Me making and breaking my own rules, years apart 17:00

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