Courageous Wordsmith

Lynn Trotta is a nature-based mentor and certified life-coach who guides empaths and sensitive souls out of the overwhelm of distraction culture and into peace and belonging, through a rooted and sac…

Rough Magic Performance Company is a professional theater company focused on supporting women artists, audiences, and stories; we strive to embrace the complexities and diversity of women’s experienc…

Roseanne Cheng is an author, writing coach, ghostwriter, and book marketing consultant. She's the co-founder of Evergreen Authors, an online school teaching creatives how to get their work out into t…

Formerly a Teach for America teacher and IBM tech writer, Kiki Kelley went on to become Google's first editor ever, rose to senior editor, and helped the company IPO. Kiki's surprise miracle daughter…

Ray DePaola is Owner, Creator & Wizard of Sunrise Journeys Life Coaching | Master Wayfinder & Coach | Co-conspirator | Life Guide | SpiritWalker | DreamCatcher | Experimenting in living a life of pur…

Rebecca Tolin is a mind-body coach who helps people heal from chronic fatigue, pain, headaches, anxiety and other stress-related symptoms. Rebecca recovered from 13-years of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome …

Stephanie L Walton has come to understand that success is failure reengineered. In her own life, she has seem massive failures reengineered into glorious successes. 

Stephanie has been a leader in sev…

From Amy:

This is a tender and important topic for me. As a white woman, I'm afraid of getting it wrong. At the same time I'm so proud of this episode.

More importantly, I thank Stephanie Walton for en…

From Amy: This episode, recorded shortly after elections, was originally intended for the morning of January 6, but was mercifully delayed. One week later, as the horrors of that day come to light an…

Azna Amira was the first Black woman reporter for the Wall Street Journal. She's lived in Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Northfield, Minnesota—the town where we both attended Carleton College.

I met Azna in …

Bradley Bodeker is a Minnesota Maori storyteller and multimedia artist who likes to play guitar and sing at local bars with his band Snow White and the Brown Man. He also creates mosaic portraits of …

Bradley Bodeker is a Minnesota Maori storyteller and multimedia artist who likes to play guitar and sing at local bars with his band Snow White and the Brown Man. He also creates mosaic portraits of …

Katie Sanders is a Digital/UX Designer turned Sensory Designer who helps kids and adults create sanctuaries in their homes. She discovered late in life that she has auditory processing disorder and d…

Dana and Peter Smith are owners of MinnyRow Market (MRM), a boutique grocer that specializes in locally sourced and ethically produced foods. Their goal is to create a community around the local food…

Shellie Miller is a coffee-loving, systems-master, no-BS, magic-loving business coach for ambitious and creative entrepreneurs and business builders.

Gathering your business team and tools as an entre…

Emily P.G. Erickson is a mental health researcher and psychotherapist turned writer. She began practicing mindfulness meditation in 2007, while living in Thailand and hasn’t stopped learning about mi…

Dr. Nneka Sederstrom was Director of the Center for Ethics and Director of the Spiritual Care Department at Medstar Washington Hospital Center in Washington DC before coming to Children's Minnesota a…

Rebecca Shisler Marshall, PhD (CCC-SLP) is the founder of Centered Living and an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia.  She completed her master’s and PhD in Experimental Cognitive Psycho…

Lisa Harris is an author, storyteller, poet, narrative coach and the CEO and founder of Fashion Meets Poetry. Before entrepreneurship, Lisa spent 18+ years in executive leadership roles working for a…

Ray DePaola is Owner, Creator & Wizard of Sunrise Journeys Life Coaching | Master Wayfinder & Coach | Co-conspirator | Life Guide | SpiritWalker | DreamCatcher | Experimenting in living a life of pur…