The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Storytelling”

Episode 165: Kim Fuller and Byna Haynes - BORN TO RISE: Awakening the Stories of Women

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Have you ever felt like you’ve had a story to tell but felt overwhelmed at the thought? Well, today’s podcast episode is about what happens when two women get together to create a vision for publishing the stories of everyday women.

Kim Fuller and Bryna Haynes share about the “The Born to Rise Book Project” a movement to inspire, awaken, and amplify, the stories of women.

The Born to Rise Book Project features 22 female writers and is a powerful collaboration that brings women together in sisterhood for a 9 month journey to excavate their inner story to have it included in a printed anthology through World Changers Media.

Kim and Bryna share about the challenges most women face when it comes to writing their stories- How issues of worthiness, confidence and fears of visibility often rear their heads and how we can move through these fears by using them as a writing ally.

Through writing, women are given the opportunity to express what they’ve suppressed and may have been afraid to share. Sharing our stories can lead to deeper connections with an audience, and offer profound healing and feelings of accomplishment for the women who participate.

With writing tips and insights on how adding emotion and sensory input can make for meaningful storytelling, women gain not only a proficiency for writing but they are also actively building a community of support with other women. Involvement in writing workshops can lead to amazing results and can pave the way for inspiring legacy pieces to leave with the world.

The Born to Rise Book Project is published in partnership with World Changers Media, a boutique hybrid publishing company founded by Bryna Haynes who is dedicated to new and diverse voices including those of global visionaries, thought leaders, and Women.

Topics Discussed:

The Born to Rise book Project
The Born to Rise movement
World Changers Media
Writing Tips
How the Trance of Unworthiness impacts us when writing.
Surrendering control
Yogic writing
Vulnerability
Becoming the Shero's of our stories
Men and women's allyship
World building
Women's communities
Writing as a group endeavor
The magic of sisterhood
Emerging leaders
The power of personal storytelling

Bios:
Kim Fuller is a mindful photographer, spiritual mentor, author, TEDx and keynote speaker and founder of Born to Rise™. Her passion is to help women stand in their power, their story and their beauty so they can live a confident and peaceful life. She uses photography to mirror the beauty she sees in each woman, empowering them to show up authentically in business and life.
She gives women a platform to share their personal stories with a live audience so they can process, release, and transform from victim to hero. She also gives women mindful tools through her Art of the P.A.U.S.E. method that invites women to slow down and look carefully inward, which enables them to expand in creativity, intuition, peace, and joy, and release their fears, judgments and assumptions of themselves and others.

She is a mother of three children, one of whom is adopted and is her greatest spiritual teacher. Her book “Finding” tells the story of her journey with this young boy and the Dalai Lama. One of Kim’s greatest gifts is she is a great hugger.

Bryna Haynes is the founder and CEO of WorldChangers Media. As a nationally-known book strategist, speaker, ghostwriter, and editor with over 15 years of experience in the publishing field, she has helped hundreds of thought leaders, teachers, healers, and enlightened entrepreneurs deliver their messages and radically uplevel their expert status through best-selling, impact-driven books. Titles she claims in her spare time include: self-reinvention savant, LEGO castle designer, dragon tamer, luxury travel hacker, and connoisseur of kick-ass boots.

Company Description:
Founded in 2021 by Bryna Haynes, WorldChangers Media is a boutique hybrid publishing company focused on “Ideas for Impact.” We know that great books can change lives, topple outdated paradigms, build movements, and change the world. That’s why we are committed to delivering superior-quality transformational nonfiction by, and for, the next generation of thought leaders, conscious entrepreneurs, creatives, and industry disruptors.
Watch out, status quo. You don't stand a chance.
Learn more at www.WorldChangers.Media

Special Guests: Bryna Haynes and Kim Fuller.

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Episode 129: Sophie Strand - Where the World Gets In

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400

I’m back with another dose of the enchanting Sophie Strand. Listen in as we dance in the magic of storytelling, ecology, revelation, and contemplation.

Sophie is someone who understands the power of myth-making and storytelling. She honed her abilities when she learned she had a life-threatening disease and began to write as if her life depended on it. What she came to realize is that all of our lives depend on it. Unless we generate new myths to live into, we will surely stay fast asleep in the culture of make-believe, where we consume everything without implication or consequence.

In this episode, Sophie and I continue where we left off. We meander into the wilderness where we make new connections, access revelations, and enchantment abounds- Join us! You won’t be bored!

Why should we compost old stories?
How can we understand disability, illness, and PTSD as a portal into greater ecological sensitivity?
What is ecological storytelling, and how can we begin to weave more awareness into our stories and our lives?
How does the story of Rabbi Yeshua teach us about ecological storytelling?
How can we become more ecologically embodied?
What does myth have to teach us about our specific locales?

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her first book of essays, The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, will be published by Inner Traditions in Fall 2022 and is available for pre-order. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in Spring 2023. Subscribe to her newsletter at sophiestrand.substack.com. And follow her work on Instagram: @cosmogyny and at www.sophiestrand.com.
Ecological Storytelling. Healing beyond hope and the human.

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Episode 93: Liz Childs Kelly - On Our Way Home to Her

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:15:00 -0400

Who or what is the sacred feminine, and why is her wisdom essential at this time in our collective evolution?

Liz Childs Kelly is one of my favorite people, and while I have not known her long, she is someone that feels so familiar - as if I’ve always known her. I fell into an instant kinship with her after she interviewed me on her own podcast, Home To HER, which I highly recommend subscribing to.

In this episode, we dish about her work with the sacred feminine and how the sacred feminine intersects with all things mysterious, Indigenous, natural, messy, and wild. She is everything and yet defies definition. In many ways, she is paradox itself! Enjoy our nuanced and delicious conversation and laugh along with us as we try to find the language to describe the sacred feminine. In addition, we share some personal stories about messy human “stuff” that’s coming up in our everyday lives and why these gritty conversations need more space and grace in honor of the sacred feminine.

Liz shares her personal story of awakening to the sacred feminine and who she was before and who she was after.
What does the word “sacred” mean when describing the feminine source?
Hear how Liz has come to know her own experience with the sacred feminine and how it influences her work in the world.
Listen in as we talk about God as a male and why we call “bull” on that.
Liz realized that there were gaps in our spiritual experiences - especially the spiritual nature of childbirth.
Why were women purposefully steered away from knowing her story? How can knowing our herstory and actual history help us reclaim the sacred feminine?
What is the connection between the sacred feminine and the natural world?
Learn about Liz's experience in mystery school.
Why does life get so much better after uncovering the hidden wisdom of the sacred feminine?
How can we reclaim our relationship with the sacred feminine? Join us to learn what we can do to seek and explore more of her in our lives.

Liz Childs Kelly is a writer, Sacred Feminine researcher and educator, community builder, initiated priestess in the 13 Moons Lineage, and the host of the Home to Her podcast, which is dedicated to amplifying the voices of the Sacred Feminine. She is also the co-host of the Revelry series of online events, which invite women from around the world to participate in ecstatic, embodied celebrations of the gifts of each season, and she is an instructor in the social change platform Advaya's upcoming 12-week online course, The Call of the Wild Feminine. Liz is in the process of completing her first book, titled Home to Her: Reclaiming the Ancient Wisdom of the Sacred Feminine. She is a mother of two and currently lives in central Virginia, USA, on the ancestral lands of the Monacan people.

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Episode 89: Sophie Strand - Catching Feathers & Ecological Embodiment

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

*There are no accidents. *

As we awaken to our true work in the world, synchronicity becomes more frequent and intensely delightful.

Synchronicity is how we know that we are exactly where we need to be and that we are “right on time” with the divine.

It so happens that this idea of being “on time” is exactly the topic Sophie Strand writes about. Her piece, Catching The Feather, stopped me mid-Facebook scroll and took my breath away. Something in my body resonated at a cellular level, and I realized that she was speaking to a truth my body remembered.

I’ve been on a quest these past few months to reacquaint myself with my inner wild. That free and innate part of myself that has been tamed and contained, that forgot how to listen to the natural rhythm of life and needs to pick up the drum beat and dance. To allow myself to howl in my loneliness and smell my way to my knowing and dare to open to my ancient wisdom and memory. The wild part of me that remembers who I was before I was domesticated and separated from my true mother, mother earth, and the sensorial ecstasy of being alive outside the confines of the patriarchy.

Whenever I put my life and my intentions inside of my personal “Revelation Project,” I am always guided to the next human or experience, or tree, river, feather (ahem) I need to meet on my remarkable journey. My job is simply to trust that more will be revealed, and you know what?

More always is.

I’m honored to introduce you to Sophie Strand.

Sophie has much to teach us about returning to our senses and trusting our original design. As deeply interconnected beings, we are always at choice to feel into the intelligence that surrounds us and is within us. She invites us to speak to the trees, listen deeply to what the rivers have to say, and embody the community of mycelium to know more about truth, healing, and reciprocity. To decenter ourselves is to return to the wonder of nature and to discover where true love lives.

Thank you, Sophie, for your incredible work in the world! You are a revelation!

Listen in to our conversation to hear more about:

During the pandemic, when time and structure began to melt and we had to restructure our lives, Sophie began catching feathers while on her walks. She believes they held messages.
Our linear minds have a way of thinking about ourselves and the world that surrounds us. For many of us, the concept of “time” can be reimagined and reinterpreted as it’s changed.
Life is always giving us messages and symbols and numbers. Specific animals also often hold medicine and messages for us if we are willing to be curious and open to those.
What if we were to re-wild our understanding of the divine and even Mary Magdalene and Jesus? How would that change our understanding or our relationship to what they symbolized and the message of love they wanted to plant within us?
Revisiting myths before the patriarchy co-opted them is also a fertile place to revisit ideas of masculine and feminine.
The Greek word pharmacon can mean medicine or poison. It means “powerful substance.” Myths are like that - they can be medicine or poison.
Patriarchy has been conflated with masculine, and masculine has been conflated with patriarchy.
We need to re-wild myths with ecology because they are rooted there.

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her books of poetry include Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press) and Those Other Flowers to Come (Dancing Girl Press) and The Approach (The Swan). She has recently finished a work of historical fiction that offers an eco-feminist revision of the gospels. Her book of essays, The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transspecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine, is forthcoming from Inner Traditions' imprint Sacred Planet. Follow her on Facebook or Instagram @cosmogyny.

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Episode 51: Angela Todd - Revealing Herstory

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500

My inner child met Angela’s inner child at a business event a year ago and we fell in love. When I found out that Angela’s passion is archiving women’s stories I became obsessed with learning more. As the family historian in my own life, I have always been curious about the absence of the female storyline. I’ve come to realize that this isn’t just a personal issue, but a global one, and that’s why Angela's work is so important. Until we learn our herstory, and that of minorities, we will never have an accurate or complete history. In today's episode, we discuss the trance of unworthiness and its relationship to archive-building and storytelling.

Angela Todd is an archivist, historian, and activist. She has always been THAT girl: talking to wise elders in the grocery store; reading women's stories; asking her kid “where are the women on that Lego spaceship?”, always looking for the women, and seeking out their stories. Now she's on a mission to capture women's stories and to preserve them. Her work is shaped by the belief that every woman has a story worth saving, and that history needs the stories of women and other marginalized folks to even approach living up to its name.

Angela has a BA in women's studies, MA in literary and cultural theory, and did her PhD work in cultural studies.

Show notes:

Women’s stories are usually relegated to the sidelines of history.
We don’t have World history or American history without women’s history.
Many women don’t believe they have a story to tell, and this must change.
Ordinary women have extraordinary stories.
We always think someone else has the story or the beauty or the experience.
The facts of your life are so much more powerful when they are put in the context of a story.
Our stories can be an inheritance, and our history is made more rich and complex and often illuminate great deeds done by those that might not have made it into the history books.
Hurt people hurt people, but invisible people make more invisible people.
There are structures in place that shape everything and the patriarchy is one of them.
Famous people’s stories are very scripted and not usually helpful when it comes to authentic storytelling.
In order to archive your story you need 3 things: your voice, your papers, your photographs.
History is incomplete without the stories of women and minorities.
Angela is often hired by daughters and many women are gaining a lot of healing by collecting parts of their family history.
Keep your important papers, photos, recordings in a cardboard box and put them on a shelf in a closet.
Make a plan to share your archives and pass the information on to the historian in your family or an actual archive, repositories.
Our colleges, universities, town records, church groups - we can find a place to pass along our archives and there are organizations that would like to preserve them.

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