Softened by the Fire

Softened by the Fire

Walking the earth offers no shortage of challenges. Evenwhen our rational minds understand that a certain amount of turbulence is a natural part of being alive, our bodies and nervous systems may still feel depleted when we encounter everyday struggles. Feeling exhausted after a day filled with ordinary strain,Rebecca reflects on a different way of meeting the friction - one that doesn't require us to brace or hide to stay whole. Rather than fighting to keep every potential chaos out, what if we could learn to loosen around our edges into a softer way of being?   Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & MapumbaCilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together inBeauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer,sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider makinga donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

Wellbeing Is Wanting to Be Remembered

As we wrap up our mini-series on the topic of creativity, Rebecca reflects on the lessons shared by her guests. More than anything, there seems to be something in the allowing of creativity - and the openness to receive it - that brings us into contact with the beauty and mystery that is ours to create.  As an expression of her creativity, Rebecca shares a poem about the goodness and the wellbeing that is here for all of us - and that wishes the best for all of us - as we learn our way into the beauty of who we are together. To read the poem, "Wellbeing Is Wanting to Be Remembered," visit togetherinbeauty.com/post/wellbeing-is-wanting-to-be-remembered. Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

The Art of Presence

What if presence is the doorway to creativity?  In this week's episode, we continue our Creativity mini-series - exploring how the present moment fuels our most creative lives. In this conversation, Ryan Erisman - a former Marine Infantry Officer, a regenerative farmer, and a leadership coach - recounts his most powerful experiences of presence, moments of wellbeing in a combat zone, and how he’s learning to let go of attachments in the ordinary rhythms of everyday life. Ryan’s story holds practical lessons for each of us as we practice the art of showing up to what's available in the here and now.  Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

The Prophet’s Messenger

What if we can express our creativity even after we die? What encouragement awaits our creative lives when we open to what we cannot see or know for sure? This week’s episode continues our mini-series on Creativity, one of Beauty's kindred expressions. Rebecca shares a story about her father who, although no longer with us in this physical reality, found a way to message her about releasing what blocks us from living as our most creative selves.  If you’ve ever yearned to express your creative light and wished to feel held and known, this one is for you.  Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

Incubating Beauty

What if creativity is the thread that leads us back to beauty - and to who we truly are? In this week's episode of the Liberating Beauty Podcast, we continue our mini-series on Creativity and its power to illuminate beauty even after years of its absence. Rebecca is joined by her dear friend Gail Jacob – a beloved pioneer in the field of developmental disabilities and a gifted textile artist – to trace the path creativity carves through the course of one woman's life. From a childhood marked by deprivation, through a career filled with reverence for different ways of being, to the arrival of a daughter who awakened her creative spark, Gail's story holds a question for all of us: what beauty lives within us before we know it's there? Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.