HOW TO LOOK BACK AND LEARN: One Full Year of Podcasting

How many 1-year-olds can say they conversed with 47 notable geniuses, fomented community, provided solace to at least dozens of friends and strangers, and emboldened others to take a creative plunge into unknown waters?   You know a toddler like that??  Cool.  We need to interview that kid.  But seriously. 

​The one-year-old I’m talking about is, of course, the Rocket Feather podcast.  And while we have had a blast building this first year, and only a few arguments, we could not have done it without you - the intrepid Rocketeers. You have been willing to go with us to the difficult places, the challenging places, the confusing, painful, weirdly joyful places.  And it’s made all the difference, especially in the year of covid, for us not to have to make this journey alone.  Sharing our fears and questions and solutions with our 47 amazing guests and with our brilliant and beautiful listeners has made the most challenging year - debatably - of our lives, not only tolerable, but full of meaning and real joy.  So come with us on a walk through some of our favorite moments over the last year as we remember, make meaning, and plan for what’s next.  

One of the big themes of this podcast - the Rocketfeather podcast - is that we do the personal work in order to be in relationship, so we can be of service.  This is how we have designed this walk down memory lane today.  While most of our interviews touched on all three of these phases, we have grouped them according to where we remember having our minds blown and our hearts opened.   This episode would be 14 hours long if we included every bit of goodness, so by necessity, we pared it down to the high points that struck us this week as we were assembling it, which was a delicious torture. It was like cutting up a gorgeous piece of velvet yardage - so hard to cut into when the whole thing is so stunning, but necessary to make the garment we wanted to make.  So we hope you like what we made. Nobody ever promised that creativity was devoid of tough choices.   So true.  Anyway - enough preamble - let’s get started!

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SHOW NOTES
Key Takeaways: 

• We do self-actualization so we can be in better relationship, so we can be of service
• Self-actualization is never complete.
• We are each 100 percent responsible for our relationships.
• If you see something, do something.
• You don’t have to suffer to do good. 

 Episodes We Reference:

• How to Self-Actualize 
  • Episode 4: Opening Your Heart w/ Tony Himes
  • Episode 15: Living an Epic Life with Claire Louge
  • Episode 35: How to Pull a 180 with Hayden Gebler
• How to be in Relationship
  • Episode 44: How to Be Authentic with Kate & Colby Martin
  • Episode 33: How to Empathize for a Living with Matt Ruff
  • Episode 19: How to be a Better We with Rowdy Duncan
• How to Be of Service
  • Episode 29: Don’t Worry Child with Candace & Drew
  • Episode 49: How to Get off the Couch with Rosy & Ren
  • Episode 8: The End of Homelessnes with Jessi Hans
  • Episode 51: How to Raise the Bar with Ruth Ellen & Tim Elinski

Resources: 

•  Our Episode Gallery
• Tony Himes’s Arizona Gestalt Institute
• Claire Louge’s Prevent Child Abuse AZ
• Kate and Colby Martin’s Church Sojourner Grace Collective
• Rowdy Duncan’s Inclusive Activism Podcast
• Drew & Candace’s song, Don’t Worry Child
• Rosy Dixon’s Prescott Indivisible 
• Jessi Hans’ Coalition for Compassion & Justice
• Tim and Ruth Ellen’s Pindrop Travel Trailers