Vital Presence
Conversations about shaping a new story about what's possible today-and living life with resilience, creativity, and purpose. With veteran writer, coach, and performer Dr. Sally Fox.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 99
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2024
Christina Baldwin: Author of The Beekeeper's Question
Author Christina Baldwin is a pioneer in the field of personal writing, a decades-long teacher of journal writing and story. In 2024, she released her debut novel, The Beekeeper's Question, Love and…
Vicki Robin—Coming of Aging
Vicki Robin has been breaking ground throughout her career—now she's challenging how we think about aging with her Coming of Aging writings. We talk about the possibilities and paradoxes of aging.
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CJ Miller The Spiritual Artist
Chris Miller (CJ) is an entrepreneur, artist, writer, and speaker. He’s a lifelong Spiritual learner who has spent the last 20 years examining the creative process and its relationship to spiritualit…
Michael Williams: Storytelling as a Healing Practice
Dr. Michael Williams is a Canadian-born storyteller who spent three decades living in Scotland, where he honed his skills as an oral storyteller. We talk about our mutual love of storytelling as we t…
Dr. Clarissa-Castillo Ramsey: Living and Leading Artfully
Dr. Clarissa Castillo-Ramsey brings artfulness together with leadership and helping people grow. She is an organizational psychologist, artist, coach, and author of the book: Painting Your Path: 21 …
Francesca Aniballi: Fairy tales aren't just for kids
Francesca Aniballi, PhD, uses fairy tales as a transformative tool for adults. She combines her knowledge of expressive arts, literature, myth, and Celtic culture, to offer us a path toward self-insi…
Sally Jean Fox: Following a Creative Call After Midlife
younger?
Author Sally Jean Fox made it her quest to discover what could bring heart and meaning to the second half of her life. She chronicles her story in her new memoir Meeting the Muse After Midli…
Merle Saferstein: Writing and Sharing Your Legacy
Legacy educator Merle Saferstein teaches the power of legacy journaling—capturing thoughts and memories that might be only for the writer's eyes but from which lessons might be shared with others.
F…
Mik Kuhlman, The Actor as Activist
Mik Kuhlman is an actor, physical theatre comedian, performance artist, theatre-maker, and teacher who has worked and taught globally. Building on her twenty-five years experience with original ens…
Gretchen Staebler: Walking your mother home
Gretchen Staebler is an award-winning author in the Pacific Northwest who wrote a moving memoir about returning to her childhood home to care for her mother. It's a candid, complex, and well-crafted …
Priscilla Long: Creating at Any Age
Priscilla Long, Seattle-based author or Dancing with the Muse in Old Age, Minding the Muse, and The Writer's Portable Mentor takes us behind the scenes of her fascination with late in life creators.
Dana Lynne Andersen: The power of transformative arts
Dana Lynne Andersen is a multimedia artist, writer, playwright, and teacher who has taught and exhibited on three continents.
She is the founder of the Awakening Arts Academy, with programs …
Suzanne Anderson: The transformative power of grief
When her beloved husband took his life, and with it her life as she knew it, Suzanne Anderson faced a choice: would she be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed? Join this conversa…
Diana Place—Creating a new story in the 3rd Act of life
Executive and entrepreneur turned community builder and advocate for women in the 3rd act of life, Diana Place shares wisdom from her journey and the inspiration for the online 333 Collective she cre…
Debbie Weiss: Love, loss and starting over after 50
When Debbie Weiss lost her husband of 30 years before she was 50, she learned life lessons that she has shared through her recent memoir Available As Is: A Midlife Widow's Search for Love.
We …
Lois Holzman: Developing through play and performance
Lois Holzman is a “ performance activist” who uses her academic background and experience to organize people—as individuals and communities—to participate in creating new development, hope and possib…
Isidra Mencos: Sex, salsa and a great story
Isidra Mencos' debut memoir Promenade of Desire—A Barcelona Memoir (October 2022, She Writes Press) is a sensual coming of age story tracing her journey from repressed Catholic virgin to seductive Ma…
Alex Doman: Sound entrepreneur
Alex Doman is in the business of learning, brain enhancement, and healing through the science-based applications of music and sound. He is a third-generation pioneer in sound healing, and his busines…
Margo Weinstein: Author, adventurer, mom
Margo Weinstein is a traveler, intrepid adventurer, class-action lawyer, and single mom. Educated at Yale College and Northwestern University School of Law, she became a partner in a multinational la…
Dr. Juliet Bruce: Finding sanctuary in story
Juliet Bruce, PhD uses myth, storytelling, and expressive arts to help those struggling with hardship, trauma, and the challenges of living in these times. We discuss her upcoming book and how she us…