Bare Naked Bravery: Creative Courage for Entrepreneurs
110 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsEvery day countless survivors and entrepreneurs cope with the unfinished business of trauma.
So what does it mean to bravely resolve personal traumas *through* the practice of running a sustainable business? What would it take to stop treating our careers or businesses as a distraction or escape? What can we do to make it as easy as possible to face our daily fears?
Listeners will hear honestly raw conversations with brave entrepreneurs and business-savvy trauma survivors of all kinds. In pursuit of resilience, endurance, and healing, they'll discuss the post-traumatic demands of heroic entrepreneurship as a trauma survivor.
If you want to confidently grow a sustainable business to support your *whole* story and self, then this podcast is for you.
Presented by The School of Bravery & hosted by Emily Ann Peterson, trauma-informed business coach and author of "Bare Naked Bravery: How to Be Creatively Courageous"
[Note: Not every episode is trigger-free. We encourage practicing sensitivity and self-care while listening. ]
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Episodes
ps008: It's My Birthday & I'll Cry If I Want To
March 10, 2017 21:25 - 3 minutes - 5.87 MBThis week is my birthday. I will be 31 years old. I cannot imagine what my life would look like if I dropped out of school to get married at the age of 8. To honor the education and experience I've been granted in my 31 years, I'm donating $31 every month this year to speakupforthepoor.org -- They serve over 1100 girls in 26 villages, helping them stay in school and out of child marriage, and they fund more than 20 girls removed from brothels in Bangladesh. There is no greater human rights ...
032: Visibility & Fear When Your World Feels Painfully Small with MICHELLE LEWIS
March 07, 2017 21:21 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBIt sucks to feel like we're in that rut or locked down into a way of living that doesn't fit anymore. It sucks even worse to get stuck with a situation like an illness or a total life overhaul that we didn't necessarily choose into. So what do we do about it? Michelle Lewis of Visibility Vixen joins us today to talk all about visibility, fear, and what to do when our world feels painfully small. She's got a pretty great story which overlaps similarities in my own story in some really wonderf...
031: Hustle, Luck & Forward Momentum with NYT bestselling author Jonas Koffler
February 28, 2017 21:15 - 41 minutes - 38.6 MBJonas Koffler is a kindhearted, badass, author whose life is the perfect definition of what it means to be a creative entrepreneur, in a non douchey kind of way. You are really really going to enjoy today's conversation. Jonas, Neil Patel, and Patrick Vlaskovits all co-authored their New York Times bestselling book "Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum" Today we talk about this new definition of "Hustle" the four different kinds of luck, and 4 various dire...
030: Essentialism, Potency & Creative Flow with Photographer DANIELLE COHEN
February 21, 2017 21:05 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBEvery portrait I've seen done by Danielle is full of so much message. I don't know how she does it, but somehow she uses her camera lens to drop the veil. It's no surprise that her workshops have a similar affect on the women who partake in them. Danielle is a co-found of Amulet Magazine. "I have to be honest. I'm feeling a little raw and scattered today." That's how my conversation with Danielle Cohen started. And if I know one thing about being brave, it's that you *have* to start where y...
029: Growing Up in Foster Care & Busting the Myth of "The Starving Artist" with BRIDGETTE MAYER
February 14, 2017 21:01 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MBYou guys. Bridgette Mayer is here on the podcast today. If you're not in the visual art scene then she might not be on your radar. That is until today. To say Bridgette had a rough early childhood is an extreme understatement. She is a product of the New Jersey foster care system and has some horrifying stories to share about what that was like. Fortunately for her (and us) she was adopted by a wonderful family who helped to completely change the way her life has unfolded. In today's episo...
028: Child Rape, Recovering Safety & Speaking Truth with Marie Schaeller
February 07, 2017 20:55 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBTrigger Warning... Before we get into the show today, I want to make a special note that this episode has a myriad of triggers inside it. If you're listening to this with your kiddos, be prepared to have a serious conversation afterwards. Not only does it contain subject matter that isn't for all ages, but even as an adult I needed to take the rest of the afternoon off after stopping the recording. So please take this as a reminder to care for yourself and the people around you. Period, but ...
ps007: The Voices of The 2017 Women's March - Part 2
February 03, 2017 20:50 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MBIf you've been following my latest journey via email or Instagram, you'll know that am not in the Pacific Northwest, like I have been for the past 10 years. I am currently in Atlanta, GA on a several month-long sabbatical. I'm here taking care of my grandfather, spending time with my Southern branch of family, and finishing up my long-awaited and upcoming book and album. This is why on Saturday, January 21st I found myself walking the streets of Downtown Atlanta with about 63,000 other peop...
027: Breaking Russian Code, Public Speaking & Comfort Zones with THOMAS O'GRADY, PHD
January 31, 2017 20:46 - 52 minutes - 49.2 MBToday we get to talk with Thomas O'Grady. We start out today's conversation with a short story of the moment our guest broke Russian/Chinese Code. Thomas is a scholar and a supremely excellent mathematician. Now, before you roll your eyes and tell me how much you hate to do math and don't understand it, let me just tell you that Dr. O'Grady, explains it all so beautifully and in a way that anchors the math in so much meaning. Today we talk about making changes in your life, setting expectati...
ps006: The Voices of The 2017 Women's March - Part 1
January 25, 2017 20:34 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MBIf you've been following my latest journey via email or Instagram, you'll know that am not in the Pacific Northwest, like I have been for the past 10 years. I am currently in Atlanta, GA on a several month-long sabbatical. I'm here taking care of my grandfather, spending time with my Southern branch of family, and finishing up my long-awaited and upcoming book and album. This is why on Saturday, January 21st I found myself walking the streets of Downtown Atlanta with about 63,000 other peop...
026: Ditch Day, Resolutions & Doing Things We Don't Want To Do with ERIN PEARSON
January 24, 2017 20:40 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBSo it's the beginning of the year. and every year we have this uproar in New Year's Resolutions. Also, every year we have an official "Ditch Day" on January 17th. The statistics are kind of depressing, because it's estimated that only 8% of New Year's Resolutions are kept. Which brings us to why our lovely guest is joining us today... Today my super rad friend Erin Pearson is here to talk about why we don't do what we want to do. Erin Pearson is a fellow singer-songwriter, a fellow music tea...