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“Hey, Angel and Shelrie, we’re so excited about Podcast 12! What’s your topic about this time?”

“Uh…………”

Hope you like it.

This podcast is divided it into two parts:

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Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward from her Black Dagger Brotherhood series

Well, after making a boring podcast, we decided to make a silly podcast. We hope you enjoy it, but we do give this warning: we, of course, talk about sex since we are discussing the romance novel genre. So podcast #11 is a bit more “adult themed.”

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Ostensibly, this podcast is about Kamikaze Girls…. but… well, I hate to admit it… but this is our least best (I refuse to say worst) podcast to date. Though we considered scrapping it completely, we decided to post our failures as well as our successes. It’s the only way to learn, right?

By the way, according to Rob Walch in this 2006 Wired article, one out of five podcasters don’t make it to their 10th podcast. Apparently we have made it to some sort of podcasting milestone, even if it is with a slightly crap podcast #10.

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Kinetic sculptures by Theo Jansen.

Ideas, events, moments, etc. that opened your mind to new ways of thinking. This is slightly related to our inspiration podcast, but this is more like changing a world view.

This podcast ended up being so long that we divided it into two parts:

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1. When you’re feeling lost, how do you ground yourself again?
2. When you’re feeling sad, how do you make yourself happy again?
3. When you’re feeling criticized and wounded, how do you find confidence again?
4. When you feel surrounded by darkness, how do you find the light again?

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How to deal with the middle. You know, the point in any dream when the exciting beginning has faded but the light at the end is no where in sight.

1) How do you know you are in the middle?
2) What does the middle feel like?
3) How do you cope with the middle?
4) Do you ever think about the middle when you start the dream?
5) Does the middle tarnish the magic of the dream once you get past it?

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This podcast is about five — well, five-ish — things, people or works of art that inspire us.

Shelrie’s list:

1.) Felix Cane, Miss Pole Dance, Australia

2.) The Fall

3.) Bessie Coleman

4.) Aerials and Contortion

5.) Nature and Fantasy Images

Angel’s list:

1.) Andrea Scher

2.) Joseph Campbell

3.) Anthony Anderson

4.) Mike Dooley and Notes from the Universe

5.) Nature and Fantasy images created in World of Warcraft

6.) Barbie Dolls

7.) Lolita Snap

After the podcast, we thought of two dance videos on youtube that make us want to fly and hug the world every time we watch them:

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To quote the inimitable Shelrie: Have a magical day.

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How is Speed Racer an example of the idea that to reach your goals you have to keep going through adversity, challenges and obstacles — especially the hardest one: doubt from others and especially yourself?

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I participated in the online Mondo Beyondo course given by Jen Lemen and Andrea Scher. Within the course, they have an interview with SARK, and this is a quote from it:

Jen: I think that it’s easy for people to put successful people in a category, saying that their dreams came easy to them or they’re just that kind of person. What do you say to that because I’m sure you hear that often, that people might not imagine that a dreaming life is for them, that it’s only for a certain kind of person that they might imagine is more whimsical or more prone to accepting magic.

SARK: Well, you know I’ve been teaching and facilitating workshops for almost 25 years, and so I really do first hand hear a lot of “Well, it must be just you.” And people will say to me, “Oh, you’re one of those people with an extra-wide halo.” So we spend some time in the class talking about how they are that person too. They are either idealizing me [or] disowning their own magic because they’re scared.

This really resonated with me when I first heard it. I disown my “magic” all the time, but never put words to it until I listened to this interview.

The questions for the podcast:

• What parts of yourself or your art (if those two things can be separated) have you disowned? What personal magic have you disowned?
• Why do you think you disowned it in the first place, both internal and external influences?
• How can you reclaim it? How do you deal with negative criticism, both internal and external?

Another quote from Fame 2009 film:

Everything you’re ashamed of, all the parts of yourself that you keep secret, everything you’d like to change about yourself.. It’s who you are. That’s your power. Deny it and you’re nothing.

• Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?
• Have you disowned any of the dark, murky inner parts of yourself?

Last quote from Scott Ginsberg:

Never apologize for your art.

• What are your thoughts on this quote?

Unfortunately, we had some technical problems with this podcast, and we’re very sorry for the sound quality. But we’ll get better with time.

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Shelrie picked the wonderful and timely topic of Valentine’s Day. The questions for the podcast:

1. What are your traditions or your family’s traditions for Valentine’s Day?
2. What would be a really fun Valentine’s Day trip for a) your family b) you and your sweetie c) just yourself? (For those times when you were single, had just a sweetie or have a family)
3. I think all holidays have a “spirit” associated with them – kind of like saying “this is celebrated in the spirit of love or giving”. What spirit do you think Valentine’s Day is celebrated in and do you have a sensory representation of that spirit (such as the visual representation of Cupid)?
4. English has only one word to represent love where ther cultures have more words to represent different kinds of love – what do you think about this?
5. Do you think that there is too much commercialization for this holiday?

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