Stories About Stories
A book-on-podcast about the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we tell others, and the space between those two. It's about how we love, how we lose, and how we recover (or not) throught the stories we make up in our heads. It is also the memoir of Robin Rice.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 37
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Epilogue
So, here we are. You and me, touching somewhere across time. I’m speaking way over here, sending the waves of my voice, with meaning, with intent, through something we have fantastically called ‘the …
00:48:19 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
Chapter 36: A Tale Of Two Stories, Part Two
Where do old stories go to die? As we are nearing the end of these stories about stories, it’s a fair question. Do stories die? Do they end? Can they end? Or are they like energy - only (and always) …
00:54:18 |
Sat 01 Feb 2025
Chapter 35: A Tale Of Two Stories, Part One
Betrayal. It’s a classic story element. An act of disloyalty. We are misled or outright deceived. Someone we trusted steals from us. Maybe it’s something tangible, maybe it’s more like our soul. Trus…
00:41:35 |
Sat 25 Jan 2025
Chapter 34: What Fresh Hell
A myth is not a lie. It’s a bigger truth. Rather, a story told to reveal bigger truths. Truths that touch each of us at some time or another. Myths are not old and outdated. “Urban legends,” for exam…
00:22:42 |
Sat 18 Jan 2025
Chapter 33: Premonitions
Unconscious. Subconscious. Pre-conscious. Shadowed consciousness. Altered consciousness. Just look at all the ways we can not be conscious. To get at this, there are a lot of methods to approach what…
00:28:51 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
Chapter 32: Energy To Spare
Meaning. Purpose. Passion. Impact. These are the story elements we all want. They are what makes the story of our lives worthwhile.
More and more, though, I’ve noticed most want them in a drug-stor…
00:27:24 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Chapter 31: Alchemy and Aya
Risk is defined, quite simply, as the possibility of something bad happening. An exposure to danger. A threat. Sounds doomed from the start, doesn’t it?
Sure, bad things can and do happen. Very bad…
00:37:25 |
Sat 28 Dec 2024
Chapter 30: Healing Magic
Science describes energy as the ability to do stuff. Move stuff. Change stuff. Transform stuff.
Heat. Light. Motion. Gravity pulls down. Steam engines chug-chug forward. There is potential, or stor…
00:27:15 |
Sat 21 Dec 2024
Chapter 29: My Henry, My Home
Home is not a place. It’s a story. A feeling. A sense of arrival. A need met. A recognition. A resting. A safety. A knowing. A Mecca of the heart. A satisfaction of the soul.
To be honest, I’ve bee…
00:17:47 |
Sat 14 Dec 2024
Chapter 28: What Do You Want?
As a fiction writer, we must know what our characters want. As a non-fiction writer, we must know what our audience wants. As the master storyteller of our life, we must know what we want.
Let me be…
00:28:51 |
Sat 07 Dec 2024
Chapter 27: Seven Years Awake
One of the first courses I taught was called The Second Half Of The Mountain. It alternated between lessons on daily life as it related to Shamanism, Taoism, and Alchemy. When one path failed to help…
00:27:03 |
Sat 30 Nov 2024
Chapter 26: Of Mantles and Initiations
Storytellers play god with their stories. They bless and they curse. They create and destroy. They let people die, or live, maybe healthy, maybe maimed. It’s all up to the story’s author.
There are…
00:31:12 |
Sat 23 Nov 2024
Chapter 25: Ireland
Land has a story. As does sky. And sea. But land, especially, for this is where we make our homes, find our people, raise our children and in many cultures, bury our dead. The land is the soil our st…
00:37:51 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
Chapter 24: His Holiness In India
Travel changes us, or at least it should. To see others living out a different story from our own, in ways astonishingly foreign to us, is to grow. Lately, there has been a lot of buzz about privileg…
00:25:56 |
Sat 09 Nov 2024
Chapter 23: Shaman, Heal Thyself
We hear a lot about self-esteem and self-image. We have entire sections of the bookstore devoted to self-help. We may uproot our lives to go “find ourselves.”
Theoretically, our “self” is that part…
00:26:46 |
Sat 02 Nov 2024
Chapter 22: Many Lives, Many Stories
Once upon a time.
Past tense, future tense, present tense. (So tense!)
Our stories about the mysteries of life may require us to think in a way that transcends time—but that is also a reference t…
00:27:47 |
Sat 26 Oct 2024
Chapter 21: The Best Possible Story
When it comes to stories, there is one skill that—with no exaggeration—will make or break our lives. This skill is a choice that shows up every day, in every interaction, and through everything we cr…
00:30:48 |
Sat 19 Oct 2024
Chapter 20: The Weight Of A Story
Not all stories are created equal. Rather, not all stories hold equal weight in our lives. I have long explained this through the metaphor of a very, very expensive cake.
Imagine you have a roommate…
00:23:18 |
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Chapter 19: Out Of The Box
Imagine a box. A story box.
Everything in your life fits in this story box, and as time passes, some things fall out, while new things are put in. The new shapes the memories of the old so that a s…
00:22:47 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
Chapter 18: The Dream Teachers
Nowhere are we closer to our deeper stories than in our dreams. I find it fascinating that we use the same word—dream—for both that which we experience when asleep at night and for our more conscious…
00:30:35 |
Sat 28 Sep 2024
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