The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Creativity”

Episode 150: Megan Jo Wilson and Libby Bunten: REMEMBERING OURSELVES ALIVE Through the Values of the Feminine

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

I think it's safe to say that entrepreneurs and businesswomen are done with antiquated notions of "business as usual."

In our journeys as successful female entrepreneurs, we are creating new definitions for what it means to "work" and seeking and creating spaces that give us room to be who we are in both/ and our businesses and lives without all of the striving, overwhelm, and exhaustion.

As more women and men awaken to the feminine, we embrace and integrate new modalities, embodiment practices, and tools that enhance our connection to ourselves, each other, and our world.
Instead of living from a place of force, we are living from flow and attuning to the messages of our bodies and souls- leaving plenty of space on our calendars to remember our need to rest, regenerate, dance, and play.

As more of us lean into our intuition and allow ourselves to be guided by our senses, we learn to include and leverage the gifts we used to suppress and hide. We are expressing and exposing what's outrageous about us because invariably- what is outrageous in us is also the animating spirit of our soul- the unique and vital part that remembers that we are alive!

In this episode, Libby and Megan Jo talk about

How each of us starts our day by centering feminine values as we get shit done.
How Megan Jo and Libby became entrepreneurs and how they are leading women to redesign their businesses.
Our new definition of "outrageous" and how it keeps us in a state of creativity.
What is "jiggle therapy," and why loving your thighs will change your life and business!
The difference between clearing emotions and INCLUDING emotions in the boardroom and beyond.
Why the masculine is awesome and the patriarchy sucks for everyone.
Practical ways to extract yourself from the conditioned impulse to "be busy" all the time.
Why we can't continue to separate business from personal.
Why starting your own business is a wonderful roller coaster ride.
Why taking a dance break is a valuable way to express the energy that needs to move.
Why suffering and sacrifice is not a badge of honor and why grind culture deadens us.
Why collaboration is Sexy AF
How to make new rules in business and why women are taking our pleasure to new heights as part of the "business plan."
Why women are no longer manning up.
Why we need to premeditate the magic of taking time off.
Why the tiniest sip of pleasure will always get you through the day.
The pitfalls most women fall into when it comes to business and why we have new radical choices at our fingertips that can change everything.

Special Guests: Libby Bunten and Megan Jo Wilson.

Episode 149: Sage Polaris - When Less is More: How I Take 4 Months Off Per Year & Why You Can Too!

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Making and taking space in my business has been the greatest gift that I have given myself and my creative projects, including my podcast!

This past summer I took four months off and went to long dreamed of places like Peru, and Scotland and also got to take time to really relax, plan, create and take extended time with family and friends.
Sage Polaris has been my inspiration for developing this more spacious way of being and living and I’m experiencing it as a more "feminine way" of leading and balancing my life and business, so I invite you to join me as I explore this concept through several episodes this season.

I’ve come to see how depleted I always was and how I had become my own worst boss when it came to my business. I was overwhelmed, uninspired and exhausted all the time, and never felt like I could take time away - which is exactly what we are conditioned to do as business owners and "industrial workers”- especially if you happen to be a generator type in human design.

Experts like Sage helped me understand how to automate and streamline my business and help me identify areas where I could use some additional support.
Once I began to taste what it felt like to automate certain things, I began to have more space for rest, fun, creativity, and so much more.

The big shift for many entrepreneurs is setting the foundation from which they can scale their business. Sage Polaris is one of those professionals who is all about supporting other female entrepreneurs to create thriving a business that takes care of us and provides endless opportunity for rest and regeneration. I’m so excited for you to experience her magic! Listen in to this episode for the secret code to take advantage of a very special offer.

How Sage became an entrepreneur
How she got fired up to help women achieve their entrepreneurial goals based on what some guy said.
The Book that changed everything and began to give her more confidence to set out on her own.
How Sage realized she did not create her business to be her own worst boss.
She began instituting "Fun Fridays" and started taking 4 months off.
Lifecation is the word Sage uses to express the time she enjoys taking adventures and getting her head into the creative clouds
How Sage partnered with her husband to redefine their roles in their parenting relationship in order to bring incremental change to her work/life balance.
Why taking time and creating space allows you to make more of an impact and even earn more.
How can we create a business that takes care of us?
Why Sage wants the women in her life to out-earn the men in their lives because that money goes back to the community because women tend to do more generous things for others with the money they earn.
Why templates are such an incredible way to assist us in making space for our businesses
Why every entrepreneur needs to invest in "copy” and why templates are such a wonderful way to go.
The Color Coded Copy System can help us identify the 4 types of buyers and how they think and how they purchase.
Why Sage loves coaching entrepreneurs on how to bring a human touch to their business practices and get related to your clients and customers.
How to grow your side hustle into your business.
Learn about the Color Coded Copy System and how this particular episode invites women to close the gap with a special offer from Sage.

Episode 90: Alix Klingenberg - Secrets and Stars

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Poetry has always held a special place in my heart. I love Alix, and I’ve noticed that not only does she write gorgeous poems, she is also a beautiful and insightful speaker. Everything she says makes you want to write it down!

In this episode, we dive into what it is to be polyamorous and how Alix writes poems in collaboration with her higher self. We also talk about creativity, spiritual wholeness, sobriety, imperfection, soul-retrieval, and most importantly, accepting ourselves entirely as we are: with all of our messy contradictions and identities.

Rev. Alix Klingenberg is a photographer, spiritual director, and poet. She’s been writing essays and blogs (Highly Sensitive Extrovert) for several years, but only in the past year has begun to bring her poetry out of her journals and into the public. She self-published her first poetry collection, “Secrets and Stars,” in November of 2020. Alix also leads online creative arts courses and lives in MA with her family, 2 black cats, and a small dog named Cricket.

Polyamorous means many loves.
Alix wants us to examine our obsession with singular love and the many ways we suppress ourselves and limit ourselves.
Everything forces us to separate and divide and choose a side but wisdom stands in the middle.
Creativity is a rejection of the binary and being willing to explore and add and expand.
We all already know how to write poetry. Every single person already knows how and we don't need to do anything except write it down and stop censoring ourselves.
Poetry got a bad rap back then and now it is more mainstream and modern - many of us remember having poetry forced on us in school. Old poetry and odes and it was hard to relate to the language.
Sometimes we have to re-evaluate and reject some of the traditional models of success, and find our own definition.

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Episode 24: Karen Anderson - The MotherLode

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 20 May 2020 03:00:00 -0400

Karen Anderson is leading the conversation about healing the generational wounds between mothers and daughters and using this challenging relationship as an opportunity and a catalyst for growth, leadership, wisdom, and creativity. Karen challenges the current patriarchal definitions of these energies and notes that for millennia, women have been burnt at the stake (literally and metaphorically) when we wield our emotions, power, and creativity intentionally. She acknowledges the many women in our maternal lineages that have suffered mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically as a result of the unexpressed emotion, the unused power, and the untapped creativity within them. Karen hopes to disrupt these generational patterns through a project she calls The Motherlode.

In it, she will be highlighting twenty creative women who have learned from their difficult relationship to their mothers, specifically around power, emotion, and creativity, and how to alchemize these energies in service to their leadership, relationships, and work, and why it matters.

Listen in as Karen and I unpack the importance of revealing and healing these generational wounds and why they are such a rich source of insight for our leadership with other women. If you would like to participate in The Mother Lode, simply visit Karen’s website.

Karen is the author of several books, most notably:

“From the time you were born, and even when you were in the womb, your relationship with your mother served as a blueprint for your relationship with yourself. Your mother’s beliefs were the basis for your own. You learned to treat yourself the way your mother treated herself, and the way she treated you. This is generally an unconscious process.” ~ Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration

Show notes:

The term “motherlode“ refers to the source of gold from which small nuggets originated, a principal source or supply.

Sometimes women are left out of the conversation about the divine feminine if they don’t identify with terms like ”goddess."

Our relationships with our mothers can serve as a blueprint for our relationships with ourselves.

Many of us have been our mothers’ “student” for decades and may have been handed beliefs and values about our bodies, identity sexuality, gender, etc.

A deeper examination of what our mothers taught us about emotion, power, and creativity can be a valuable source of insight and revelation as it relates to our own personal leadership.

If women are to have more say in the world, more of us need to understand and teach, directly and explicitly, and by consciously modeling the true nature of emotion, power, and creativity, not the current patriarchal definitions.

Many of us have been taught that emotion is weak vs. a powerful source of energy to summon.

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