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How To Be Purposeful and Fulfilled

1/25/2021

Live Life by the Bucketful

Why should you make a bucket list? Our guest, The Bucket List Guy, Travis Bell, would suggest that making and realizing your own true list of desires - no matter how small or how odd, will bring energy and purpose flooding into your life.
Do we have to say what a bucket list is? I assume most people know, but just in case you don’t, it’s a list of things you need to do before you die so you can kick the bucket without regret.
Travis Bell had early success in business, growing his fitness coaching company into an enterprise with 10s of thousands of clients across Australia. Then his business and life hit some bumps, but Travis was determined to rise above the disappointment and depression. He “became his own experiment” and started signing up for workshops, retreats and empowering experiences. After a few years of this self-healing work, he realized he had discovered something he could offer others.
Trav and his Bucket List team now work with thousands of people a year, using the Bucket List concept as a tool to get at the truth of what people really want and what we all can achieve when we get out of our own way. He just published a book called The Bucket List Blueprint that is a manifesto and instructional guide for living a more fulfilling life.
If you need to get your groove back, come with us on this journey with Travis Bell to spark the connections of our own creativity and power using the Bucket List tool. We get pretty excited to realize and remember some of the badass things we’ve already done and we feel the energy rise up to help fuel the ride to our next stop.

"I knew at that time, I could curl up in the fetal position and make things worse. OR, little bit by little bit come out of that and really get at the nuts and bolts. And being really curious, especially about psychology, I became my own experiment."
Travis Bell

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Music Credits: A Hawaiian in Paris feat.-Pierre-Grill

SHOW NOTES
Do a Science:

Create your “Reverse Bucket List” of all the remarkable things you’ve done or experienced that give your life meaning.
Write down 10 New Bucket List items per day for a week.

References:

Positive Psychology
The Bucket List Guy Homepage
Become a Certified Bucket List Coach
Order Trav’s Book - The Bucket List Blueprint

Kelly’s Bucket List Examples:

Meet Oprah
Hike the Southwest Coast Path in Cornwall
Book a “Service Vacation” - go be useful somewhere
Get a monthly massage and a quarterly facial
Reach 1 million people with the podcast

Charles’s Bucket List Examples:

Float the full Grand Canyon in a dory
Start a scholarship program
Play guitar everyday for a week/month/year
Go to a pistol range
Interview Dax Shepard and Brene Brown

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How to Step Aside

1/18/2021

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MLK Special Non-episode

Happy and consequential Martin Luther King/Civil Rights Day to you. After the 2020 we had, I can’t think of an MLK day more poised between worlds than this one. So much of the racism and white supremacy that had long been conveniently ignorable to us white folks finally became completely un-ignorable. Thank god!

Today feels like a day to mourn all the losses and pain and separation that became inescapable to almost all of us. AND it feels like a day to hope for much, much better times ahead. For all Americans.

In honor of the day we were going to re-release the HERE.together episode we recorded right after the murder of George Floyd. Re-releasing an old episode also gives us a chance to work on the new pod studio. We’ve moved the gear from the front room, into the spare bedroom. Maybe you can tell from the echo, that we haven’t figured out the best, most cost effective way to baffle and soften the walls! Work in progress.

In that episode from May, Kelly and I struggled with coming to terms with our own ingrained racism, our new understanding of anti-racist thought and action, and called on our whole community to do the hard work of acknowledging, grieving and moving forward - individually and together. Seemed like an appropriate convo to re-visit.

But our friend, pod guest and super H.ttie Laura Fitton reminded us this morning that today is a day for white folks to pass the mic and make way for the voices of people of color. Today cannot just be a day about white folks grappling with racism or anything that looks like virtue signalling.

So, instead… we’re releasing this micro episode to direct you to other listening, reading and viewing experiences. Listen on for our curated options for you to learn, explore, and challenge yourself with today. Or just use the show notes on this page to start an adventure.

SHOW NOTES:
Do a Science:

Pass the mic to a person of color
Be of service
Listen to one of the podcasts or watch one of the shows we recommend.

Podcast Recommendations:

Rowdy Duncan’s Inclusive Activism Podcast
Kelly’s Recommended Throughline Episodes
Uncivil Podcast - Stories Left Out Of The Official History
Wendell Pierce’s interview on Marc Maron Podcast. The whole episode is wonderful but check out the brilliant riff on jazz, Led Zeppelin, acting, police violence, and what it takes to get to be American starting at 1:07:20.

Book Recommendations:

The Broken Earth Trilogy - N.K. Jemisin
How to Be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi

TV Recommendations:

Watchman on HBO
Lovecraft County on HBO
Self-Made: Inspired by the life of Madame CJ Walker on Netflix

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How to Get Attention

1/11/2021

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Using the Media for Good, not Evil

If you think publicists are just for celebs and big business, you haven’t met today’s guest. In the middle of a 20-year campaign to free an innocent man from death row, she woke up to the value of using media for causes like justice and civil rights. She also realized she was really good at it, as you’ll hear, and went on to make a career of cultivating media exposure for her diverse client list.

Tracy Lamourie is the Founder and Managing Director of Lamourie Media and the author of the upcoming book GET REPPED - Build Your Brand With Effective Public and Media Relations. In addition to helping her clients succeed in their chosen fields and endeavors, Tracy has used her considerable PR skills to advocate for human rights, anti racism, and criminal justice reform. Tracy is the Winner of the FIRST PLACE PLATINUM award HamiltonSpectator ReadersChoice for PR 2018, Diamond 2019. She is a 2020 RBC Women of Influence Nominee and a 2020 Universal Women's Network Woman of Inspiration Nominee and was also recently nominated for the internationally prestigious 2020 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. She is also a regular contributor to Medium and to Los Angeles based Prosperi Press.

This week, Tracy is here to share some of what she’s learned. She’s also Canadian, so this marks our first international podcast.

Buckle up for a very energetic guest and get ready to learn some tricks of the trade, as we find out how a savvy understanding of media can help you give your gifts and promote your causes, whether you are an entrepreneur growing a new business, an artist looking to breakthrough, a nonprofit with a critical mission or an established professional building thought leadership in your field.

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Music Credits: A Hawaiian in Paris feat.-Pierre-Grill

Show Notes
Key Takeaways:

Write a concise pitch touting your story and/or expertise
Include ideas for stories or segments in your pitch
Send press releases with interesting/engaging subject lines
Match your content to ongoing news or cultural events
Submit a royalty free article (detailed press release) to provide context and thought leadership
Create a Medium account and submit writing

Do the Science:

Use Matchmaker.fm to get booked on a podcast
Use Help a Reporter to respond to a story or quote request

References:

Lamourie Media Website
How to Survive Death Row - Jimmy Dennis's story in Rolling StoneOW

Resources:

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How to Cook a Moose

1/2/2021

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Lessons in Place and Belonging

How to Cook a BIGGER Moose

Extended Episode

We can’t even imagine cooking a moose - why would we want to do that? If that’s what you’re thinking, don’t worry, today’s episode is all about writing and being human and the ongoing struggle to live in community. A moose does get cooked in our guest Kate Christensen’s second memoir of the same name, but we will save that for you to discover on your own.

Guest Bio:
Kate Christensen is an award-winning author of 7 novels and 2 memoirs that have a lot to do with the glory of food, coping with being human, finding community, and the tenuous beauty of life. Her characters, including the character of herself in the memoirs, are broken and beautiful, they are finding their way home to themselves and uncovering their places in this world. They are messy and real and we love them.
We talk with Kate about the writer’s life, about growing up in our shared home town of Jerome, Arizona, about the difference between NYC and rural Maine/NH.

This conversation is full of laughter and discovery. It also contains references to the physical abuse Kate witnessed growing up and the ongoing sexual assault she suffered as a minor. We don’t go into the details but we wanted you to know in case it’s not healthy for you to hear those kinds of stories. We are grateful to Kate for her vulnerability and openness… we think these kinds of stories are a way forward and out of the dark for us all.

Before we go any further…
we want to let you know that you get to choose which version of this podcast to listen to. Our conversation with Kate lasted nearly 3 hours and every part of it was chock full of fascinating stories and important ideas. We couldn't leave much of that precious audio in the delete bin so we are releasing two versions.

One version is the highly edited and leaves out 25 minutes of Kate’s recollections of her high school life, Charles’s very different version of Kate’s high school life, Kelly’s passionate thoughts about community and the story of Dingo the Dog.
The other version (How to Eat a BIGGER Moose) is longer, fuller, more complete. It's perfect for those who want to know more about the writing process, want to hear more about what happens "behind the scenes" and/or who want to remember what life was like in Jerome, AZ in the 80s.

Do a Science:

Consider the onion. Over the course of a week, find a different way to cut and use an onion each night.

References:

Episode 31 You’re Never Too Old For A Coming Of Age with Bill Konigsberg
Episode 51 How to Raise the Bar with Ruth Ellen and Tim Elinski

Resources:

5enses article about our podcast!!
Shift your mindset about stuff.
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE, online.rainn.org y rainn.org/es) in partnership with more than 1,000 local sexual assault service providers across the country and operates the DoD Safe Helpline for the Department of Defense. RAINN also carries out programs to prevent sexual violence, help survivors, and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice.
Check out Kate’s books and blog here
Some info on Sustainable community food systems
Cultivating Community website & Instagram
More about Somali farmers in Maine

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Music Credits: A Hawaiian in Paris feat.-Pierre-Grill

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