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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.

Personal Journals Society & Culture Creativity Health & Fitness Mental Health Storytelling
Update frequency
every 18 days
Average duration
43 minutes
Episodes
99
Years Active
2016 - 2024
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Mary Fridley: Reimagining dementia, death and dying

Mary Fridley: Reimagining dementia, death and dying

How can we bring a community focus and reinvent the conversation about dementia care and the process of caring for the dying. Mary is on the faculty of the Eastside Institute in NYC.
01:06:57  |   Thu 10 Feb 2022
Dana Lynne Anderson turns the tables

Dana Lynne Anderson turns the tables

Dana Lynne Andersen turned the tables in the interview to ask Sally about her creative life.

00:09:34  |   Tue 15 Sep 2020
Dr. Joye Hardiman: Cultural acticist

Dr. Joye Hardiman: Cultural acticist

Dr. Joye Hardiman is a cultural activist who is showing us how to build a stronger tomorrow by learning from the artifacts and stories of the past. She is the producer (and star!) of Ancestral Art Wo…

00:45:17  |   Mon 07 Sep 2020
Dana Lynne Andersen: Awakening through Art

Dana Lynne Andersen: Awakening through Art

Multimedia and performance artist, and educator, Dana Lynne Anderson talk about her unique approach to unlocking our creative and consciousness through art.

00:58:05  |   Tue 25 Aug 2020
Jean Storlie: The innovative storyteller

Jean Storlie: The innovative storyteller

PJean Storlie, author of Once Upon an Innovation talks about her new book and her own mid-life reinvention. 

00:44:31  |   Mon 24 Aug 2020
Susan Massad and Mary Fridley: Bringing Joy to Dementia

Susan Massad and Mary Fridley: Bringing Joy to Dementia

Massad and Fridley, both Eastside Institute faculty, are changing the narrative around dementia with their "Joy of Dementia"  workshops. The workshops allow paritcipants impacted by dementia to play …

00:39:39  |   Wed 22 Jul 2020
Shauna Ahern: Finding

Shauna Ahern: Finding "enough" in ourselves and community

Conversation about how the author was able to let go of what was keeping her from finding enough and how she was able to find the joy of enoughness in community.

00:39:35  |   Sat 18 Jan 2020
Sally Fox, PhD: Living more creatively in the 2nd half of life

Sally Fox, PhD: Living more creatively in the 2nd half of life

Sally Fox, head of this podcast, has the tables turned on her by Ellia Harris who interviews Sally about her book-in-progress Meeting the Muse after Midlife. They talk about creativity, moving beyond…

00:40:23  |   Thu 16 Jan 2020
Tina Shattuck: Social entrepreneur

Tina Shattuck: Social entrepreneur

Tina Shattuck is a social entrepreneur who takes big ideas and then brings them down to earth in the community. She has founded two organizations focused on the empowerment of women and girls Working…

00:39:37  |   Sun 12 Jan 2020
Dana Lynne Andersen: The transformational power of creativity

Dana Lynne Andersen: The transformational power of creativity

Dana Lynne Andersen, founder of Awakening Arts Academy of Art, Creativity, and Consciousness speaks on the importance of awakening our creative and artistic expression for our development and for the…

01:42:09  |   Wed 04 Dec 2019
Pat Samples: The wisdom of the older body

Pat Samples: The wisdom of the older body

Pat Samples is a author, coach, and teacher who has led clients and groups to rediscover the magic of the information living in their bodies. 

00:46:47  |   Thu 17 Oct 2019
Michael Meade: The elder in troubled times

Michael Meade: The elder in troubled times

Why are elders needed in these troubled times?

Michael Meade, internationally known author, storyteller and mythologists has addressed this question in his latest book: Awakening the Soul: A Deep Re…

00:52:56  |   Wed 11 Sep 2019
Dr. Judy Stevens-Long: Preparing to die better

Dr. Judy Stevens-Long: Preparing to die better

Dr. Stevens-Long is the author of Living Well, Dying All: A guide to choices, costs, and consequences.   Judy is an expert in adult development and wrote the classic text on that subject, Adult Devel…
00:47:27  |   Fri 23 Aug 2019
Nan Narboe: How creatives age

Nan Narboe: How creatives age

Nan Narboe is an author, therapist, and trainer who has created a tantalizing and compassionate collective portrait of what aging creatively can look like.

What does the face of aging look like, espe…

00:53:18  |   Mon 22 Jul 2019
Lynn Jericho: The four levels of a human being

Lynn Jericho: The four levels of a human being

Lynn Jericho has studied the work of Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, economist, and esotericist Rudolf Steiner as well as other spiritual teachers, and puts these to work in her app…

00:45:15  |   Thu 20 Jun 2019
Ann Hedreen: The Writing Dream

Ann Hedreen: The Writing Dream

Ann Hedreen is working on her second memoir, titled The Observant Doubter and talks about the writing path.

She is the author of the memoir Her Beautiful Brain (She Writes Press, 2014). Ann and her h…

00:38:09  |   Tue 07 May 2019
Kathyrn Carole Ellison: Poetry at any age

Kathyrn Carole Ellison: Poetry at any age

Kathyrn Carole Ellison is about to publish her ninth book of poetry–at age 80. She writes to send a message of hope to the world and distill lessons to share from the richness and challenges she enco…

00:35:23  |   Wed 24 Apr 2019

"Island Jane" Howard: Eco-tour leader and educator

Jand Howard lives in Hawaii where she personally experienced the devastation of the Leilani Estates by the volcanic eruption in 2018. Jane is an artist, environmentalist, educator and eco-tour leader…

00:36:41  |   Thu 18 Apr 2019
Carol Orsborn: Aging fiercely and wisely

Carol Orsborn: Aging fiercely and wisely

Dr. Carol Orsborn is the best-selling author of 30 books including the book she wrote with Dr. Robert Weber Consciously Aging: The Spirituality of Age: A Seeker’s Guide to Growing Older which won a 2…

00:47:54  |   Wed 13 Feb 2019
Dr. Harry

Dr. Harry "Rick Moody: Leadership in the 3rd Act of Life

Dr. Harry "Rick" Moddy has been a leader in the field of conscious aging, through his senior positions, books and articles, talks and wisdom. He explores some of the possibilities and challenges behi…

00:46:28  |   Thu 07 Feb 2019
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