The Daring to Rest Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Today I am getting personal with you, talking about how I run my rest business and a few Daring to Rest origin stories to understand how I even had the idea over fifteen years ago to start a business focused on rest. As some of you know, I had a long history of panic attacks. At times I literally felt like a hostage in my home, unable to even open the door without the panic attacks starting again. Today I'm sharing how this shifted, the wild prescription I was given for the panic attacks, why I started a rest business, and what principles have worked well for me to grow my rest business. You'll learn about the yoga nidra and other influences that have gone into creating the Daring to Rest community, and hear a few really funny stories about my road to becoming rested and running a rest business. (At least I think they're funny :) Happy listening! This is the final episode of our Transform Your Life and Your Wellness Business series. 

Resources for this episode can be found here: 

daringtorest.com/podcast/94

Certified Daring to Rest Facilitator Karen Perro is becoming a "Rest Rockstar" in Nova Scotia, offering transformational rest experiences that combine the power of rest with her love of nature and her Celtic roots. Her Healing Hammock experience literally sells out within hours. On today's second episode I am thrilled to be speaking with Karen about her growing rest business. Karen talks about everything from her love of practicing yoga nidra in winter storms, combining yoga nidra with flotation tanks, and why, in her words, "yoga nidra is your ticket to Rest Town." Get ready for Karen's gorgeous laughter and hearing how rest has completely transformed her life and business.

Resources for this episode can be found here: daringtorest.com/podcast/93

The struggle to feel rested is real. Is the Barbie movie the answer? After watching the film, I wanted to talk about it here at Daring to Rest because in some ways it felt like an instructive piece on creating a rested life. I also wanted to find a perspective beyond mine. So I invited Shalini Sinha, a gender professor and anti-racist specialist in Canada, onto the podcast today to speak about the film with me. Shalini brings a perspective on the Barbie movie that you probably have not heard yet.

Resources for this episode can be found here:

https://daringtorest.com/podcast/84

Today Dr. Ruby Gibson, founder of Freedom Lodge, and Kara Big Crow, executive director, join me on the Daring to Rest Podcast for a passionate discussion about healing intergenerational trauma. 

You'll learn about:

• Pulling up trauma from the roots
• Historical trauma and why the cause for what you are experiencing may be generations removed
• The impact of boarding school & colonization on Native Americans
• Kara's journey to heal her intergenerational trauma through Dr. Ruby's somatic archaeology work
• An exercise to orient you to your body

​May this episode support you to feel more ease.

Resources for this episode can be found at: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/83

Daring to Rest THE FUTURE IS RESTED t-shirt fundraiser to support Dr. Ruby's Freedom Lodge and their Historical Trauma Recovery Center is happening now until August 26, 2023. Click here to buy a rest t-shirt for a great cause.

In this rest note, Karen Brody talks about a surprising conversation on meditation that she recently had with a customs officer. With examples from her own life, she explores where we go when we meditate and how to live in the noise and the peace of life.

Resources at: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/82

Doula trainer, childbirth educator, and filmmaker, Debra Pascali Bonaro, joins Karen to discuss claiming your power and pleasure in childbirth and life; advice on turning pain into purpose; the importance of sex education; why it’s crazy to put women on their backs to give birth; and what is oxytocin and why it gives us an incredible high. Karen adds her rest lens to this powerful conversation on an orgasmic & restful birth and life.

Resources for this episode can be found at: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/81

 In this rest note on leadership, Karen Brody takes on the topics of women, leadership, rest and staying awake in a world that wants us asleep to what's keeping us tired. She explores the political resignations in 2023 of Jacinda Ardern and Nicola Sturgeon as examples of women leaders showing us how be our own kind of leader.

Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/80

 Today on the Daring to Rest Podcast a mother and daughter who have been in the Daring to Rest community join Karen to share their rest stories. You’ll learn about their mother-daughter rest bond, and how rest has impacted their lives.

Resources for this episode: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/79

It's obvious, even without the statistics, that there are a lot of exhausted people. That's why a 2017 tweet by Netflix raised Karen's rest feathers. Listen to her rest rant on capitalism's investment in our fatigue and how we can't stop over-eating on the most seductive "chocolate cake" of these tired times.

Resources for this episode: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/77

I am thrilled to have Jadah Sellner on today's podcast, author of a new women's leadership book called She Builds. So many books on business are not written by women and there are few diverse voices. Jadah's mission is to change this and to offer us an anti-hustle way to grow our business and nurture our life. This episode is for women who have...

• felt overwhelmed and unable to focus
• believed that slowing down would destroy your business
• a deep desire to break free of the toxic culture that leads to burnout.

Enjoy!

Happy & restful 2023,

xo

Karen

Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/76