Hosts Julie Slater and Jason Friday chat with Leslie Howard who is an audiobook narrator, mother of 6, yoga teacher, and mystic, living on a small animal sanctuary in the hills of Pennsylvania with her husband. From Hare Krishna to homeschooling to rave culture  - she says, "Every day is an adventure of love." 

In this episode we talk about Leslie's "fairy tale" life and how she manifested many things...how she offers incense to the deities....her stumbled- upon/yet intentional path into audiobook narration...how she had to tame her Etsy shop to FOCUS...Leslie had visions of making something more reproducible and profitable which lead her to narration...she trained with Julie's same non-fiction audiobook coach Sean Pratt...Leslie bringing her authentic self to books...raising six kids (9-26 years old)...how she does yoga daily...how she keeps at it...how inner passion pushes her forward...her yearning for mystic things and the metaphysical world...meeting her husband and how he charged her even more...replacing drugs with yoga and other things...how the rave culture intrigues her...taking a night out without the kids for the first time in 20 years (??!!)...living in Buffalo, NY, Washington state,  why she never moved to California...her thoughts studying Hare Krishna...how a school band trip changed her life with Cupid's arrow...Books she narrated and discusses: ."Psychedelics for Everyone" and "Extraordinary Knowing"...her reiki treatment with her husband/her astrology reading on him...advice to others seeking more of a spiritual life...find things that inspire you/spend time in nature...

IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE: find out which big city Leslie would choose to live in, the one thing that is surprising about her from others...one thing that made her laugh with her kids...who would play her in the movie of her life...and what she hopes to leave behind in this world.

Leslie's audiobook voice is “gentle, smart, spiritual” - find her narration books here. Her website here. On instagram @lesliehowardnarrates

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