Chapter 35: A Tale Of Two Stories, Part One

Postscript: Alchemical Gold

Our stories evolve as we do. They morph and change. Ideally, they grow in essence, even as they become agile in form - bendy, I like to say. They push us like the wind in the trees. They speak gently to us, and through us, like the stars at night. They hold us up when we don’t know who we are, like the ground we walk on. They are alive so long as we are. This is contrary to what we are taught about facts... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they’ve closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it’s really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you’ve been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

Epilogue

So, here we are. You and me, touching somewhere across time. I’m speaking way over here, sending the waves of my voice, with meaning, with intent, through something we have fantastically called ‘the web,’ and you’re there, wherever and whenever there is for you, receiving me. If that doesn’t blow your mind, I have more. There are billions - many billions - of people on the planet... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they’ve closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it’s really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you’ve been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

Chapter 36: A Tale Of Two Stories, Part Two

Where do old stories go to die? As we are nearing the end of these stories about stories, it’s a fair question. Do stories die? Do they end? Can they end? Or are they like energy - only (and always) changing form? Sure, our stories will go on through the stories of others we have touched. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about stories as we carry them. Can we leave them, or lose them, or let them drive off into the sunset without us? This is more important than you might think... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they’ve closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it’s really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you’ve been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

Chapter 35: A Tale Of Two Stories, Part One

Betrayal. It’s a classic story element. An act of disloyalty. We are misled or outright deceived. Someone we trusted steals from us. Maybe it’s something tangible, maybe it’s more like our soul. Trust can be stolen, and with it, a beautiful innocence we had somehow kept safe untill now. Someone acts out of meanness or jealousy or vengeance. (What a word - vengeance - sounds as bad as it is). All this is standard story fare. Nothing new. Nothing unusual. Anyone can tell you about it. Everyone has seen it for themselves, though some more than others. What people don’t talk about so much, though, is the “great betrayal.” The one that stands above all others. The one we see folks never get over, never talk about, never attempt to seek balance in the injustice. The betrayal of self... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they’ve closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it’s really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you’ve been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

Chapter 34: What Fresh Hell

A myth is not a lie. It’s a bigger truth. Rather, a story told to reveal bigger truths. Truths that touch each of us at some time or another. Myths are not old and outdated. “Urban legends,” for example, speak to something more today. There’s one I often tell to explain the conundrum we are in with artificial intelligence. Back at the turn of the century, urban legend has it that there was a city planning meeting where there was much discussion about the rapidly growing New York City. One planner suggested the others need not worry - population would be limited by the amount of horse shit they could get out of the city. Of course, the automobile was about to arrive as one of the greatest disruptors of all time... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they’ve closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it’s really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you’ve been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.