I Started A Podcast!

Yes, you read that right, I started a Podcast…again.

Hi Sweet friends! Happy December! Wow I can’t believe I am writing that and we are in the last month of 2022. It feels like this year has flown by. Before I rabble on too much about that, let’s talk about this sweet announcement. I started a podcast!

To get right too it and discuss the elephant in the room (not really) what do I mean by starting a podcast again? I believe I discussed my previous podcast on here but if I didn’t earlier this year I created a podcast called the Laughter over Lattes Podcast. It was an extension of my previous blog/website name and I talked about similar content that I shared on here just in more depth. I really wanted that podcast to feel like you were sitting down with a girlfriend over a coffee and catching up. To give hope to those starting their life over again after a major break up like I went through or other life transition. Sounds all good until it wasn’t. I realized I really didn’t want to talk about my breakup. That I wasn’t healed enough to share perspective or insight. It just brought up layers of pain and hurt. I also theb felt the other topics that I was wanted to share just lacked depth. And I was no longer interested in these surface level topics like how to find your style, my favorite products, trends etc. So with all these feelings stirring I decided to pull a full stop…this is also why I changed my blog name. I stopped the podcast as a whole and wash my hands of it even though I felt embarrassed and sad to not even have completed an entire season. Because I loved the idea of podcasting itself just was no longer passionate about the topics.

After I stopped creating episodes, I took more than a month off from social media (everyone should do this) and started to really dive into the idea of slow living with the help of some wonderful books. Even though I had heard about slow living a good while ago it wasn’t until this point that I really let it permeate and sink in. I’ll talk about why it took me so long to accept the idea in an episode! But once I did my soul literally took a deep breath it felt like. It realized wow there is a way I can live that nourishes instead of depletes, that steps away from societal measures of success, and is wholesome and life giving instead of rushing towards burnout. It was then for the rest of the year up until now that I have wholeheartedly allowed that way of life and have tried to align myself with it. It’s been a beautiful process of unlearning and learning.

Incomes the Cultivating Roots Podcast and why I am trying my hand at this podcasting thing again. I finally have found what I want to talk about: Which is all of this!! My journey to slow living, how to live this way even if you aren’t in a rural setting, and to live more peaceful contented existence. To step out of the rat race and endless consumption of clothes, media, titles. Because to me slow living at it’s core is depth. To go beyond the surface level distractions and wants and deeply roots in presence and simplicity. To get back to a way of life all of us used to live but have severely gone away from. It’s about nourishing yourself and the Earth and not constantly depleting both. So here we are starting again and allowing myself to move forward beyond the past and the embarrassment of before and making some roots. I hope you’ll join me. The first episode is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cultivating-roots-podcast/id1607872734?i=1000588402344

-M