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What you'll hear:

• The Order of Medusa is open to you now!  It will close on October 31st, at 11:59pm EST.  All info and enrollment is available here:  https://the-audacity-project.teachable.com/p/medusa
• Ps. you can be a witch and belong to a totally unrelated religion.  We've been doing it for hundreds of years.  3:30
• The meat and taters of this episode begins at 5:45
• The first episode I recorded about Samhain focused more on shadow work, and can be found here:  Episode 4:  The Halloween Episode- why we love Samhain 6:30
• Dumb suppers and spending time with the dead 10:08
• You can read Pericardium here on Patreon (must be a paid patron to access, requires login) 15:30 
• If you want to read more about the history of dumb suppers you can read about it here and here 18:00

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What you'll hear:

• Why I'm making a business decision that makes no real sense or having any real utility 1:41
• Are you on my email list?  Will you join me there?   https://rachelstricklandcreative.ck.page/
• What's a vulnerability hangover?  2:00
• Treating a vulnerability hangover the same way you'd treat muscle soreness seems like a good start 5:00
• Where we need to make the distinction between vulnerability hangovers and muscles soreness and why 8:00
• Pretty fuckin chic of you to share yourself 11:55
• How about we decide to give ourselves a vulnerability hangover on purpose this week?  Wanna play?  I do, let's do that.  13:00

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What you'l hear:

• WTF is The Order of Medusa, and why am I doing it now? 
• Here is the link to the waitlist, we go live tomorrow!
• Is witchcraft a religion?  (The answer is no, not in this context, and here's why) 3:00
• My definition of witchcraft, and its laws 4:35
• How the witch school is structured:  this is a year-long small group container 7:00
• Sustainability as a founding principle, and how the school is structured 11:00
  • Monthly classes (recorded)
  • bi-monthly practicum (NOT recorded)
  • community hub for sharing
  • Weekly prompts (through the community aspect) for gentle accountability and to keep you connected
  • guest teachers (only the coolest and most trusted) to share their expertise
• What kind of things we'll cover in The Order of Medusa 18:00
• Gates open tomorrow (October 15th) and close on Halloween.  Waitlist link is here again, cause saying it once is saying it never 

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What you'll hear:

• There are 4 beds left for Creatrix 3.0!  The remaining beds will become available on Saturday, October 10th to my mailing list  2:55
• My witch school, The Order of Medusa is going live on October 15th!  You can join the waitlist here 3:33
• The little story that inspired this episode is at around 5:00
• On "society" 9:00

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This episode is inspired by the past weekend, in which I got to go hogwild in the mud making Pain in the Ass Art with Heather Bentley and Max Cooper.

What you'll hear:

• Pecha Kucha is Thursday!  Tickets are cheap and sexy 1:38
• Blue Minds is on October 9th if you'd like to see some original local dance (and you are, in fact local) 2:25
• Why I will always champion having a scouting day in addition to shooting days on a big documentation project 6:30
• "Shrimp tits" 11:45
• PLEASE observe the delineation between A) accepting that most cool shit you want to do will be a pain in the ass, and B) equating suffering with goodness  15:00
• The remaining free beds for Creatrix 3.0 will be released to the waitlist on Saturday!  Come on down, the water's fine, click here to join the waitlist 19:30

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What you'll hear:

• Applications for Creatrix 3.0 will open to patrons only on Saturday, September 26th at 9am (the full moon baby).  There are only 11 places available, and only 2 private rooms, so this is your courtesy call.  1:00
• The waitlist will get any remaining spaces one week later on October 3, you can sign up for that here 
• WTF are we up to on Edisto?  You can follow Heather here to find out 
• The meat of the episode begins here 3:20
• Shoutout to the fab aerialists of Bel Rev, thank you for all your patient kindness while I learned your work!  Celene on hoop, my woman Layla on aerial pole, Olivia on straps, and Mary on trapeze!  9:00

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What you'll hear:

• Cool shit coming up!  Bel Rev is this weekend!  1:00
• Pecha Kucha 50 is coming up in Charleston Oct. 1st, COME!!  3:00
• Blue Minds, presented by Impermanent Gallery and featuring JNDW is on Oct. 9th 4:30
• The meat of the episode begins at 5:15, featuring JNDW 
• Other examples of these tiny, generous icon moments 10:15

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What you'll hear:

• Come to https://belrevatl.com/!! 1:30
• Creatrix is opening applications on the Full Moon, the best place to be is the Patreon but the waitlist will get any leftover spots (if you want a single room, def pop onto the Patreon there's only 1 of those).
• This episode is by request from an anonymous friend who has a hard time compartmentalizing personal life disrupts to perform highly at her job (performance) 4:10
• The worst fault of capitalism is that you can't stop (ok maybe not the worst but it fuckin sucks) 5:00
• An annoying but ultimately very sound suggestion to make this terrible reality better for you 5:50
• Why this is a very timely episode for me 8:00
• Wisdom from a teacher/counsellor of mine 10:00
• On spirals and complaining, they each have a purpose 12:50
• Some Woo advice 14:00

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By request from my girl Kim, "should you get an LLC and why/how?"  What you'll hear:

• Went on a family vacation with my ex and it was awesome 3:30
• Come to Bel Rev!! 4:30 https://www.bigtickets.com/events/LOOP/bel-rev/
• Follow Heather for updates on her current project (I get to do some art direction for this)  5:00
• The meat of the episode starts at 6:00, this is only going to be super relevant to the US based folks.  
• What's a business structure and how might one begin to develop this concept for themselves 7:15
• Why I'm not just going to tell you do some shady shit to avoid taxation 9:30
• What is an LLC:  Limited Liability Corporation?  When should you start thinking about forming one?  12:44
• What about an S-corp?  When should you consider this structure?  What are the downsides?  13:45
• Separating yourself from your business, not just in structure, but in finances (ie:  separate checking account) 15:00
• Step 1:  Come up with a name to operate under, this can also be called a DBA (Doing Business As) and get a business license from your county clerk.  You might need a residential business permit, check with your county.  17:00
• Step 2:  Get an EIN, it's dumb easy, here's the link:  https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/get-an-employer-identification-number  You can do this even if you don't run a business
• Step 3:  Get a business checking account to separate your business income from your personal checking account 20:20
• Step 4:  File the paperwork to become an LLC (this process and the fees involved vary wildly according to state, so check with your county/state legistlation and outlines) 

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200 Episodes baby!!  What you'll hear:

• Thing #1 I've learned:  You never know what is going to be useful to anyone else, so say what you wanna say 1:30
• Thing #2 I've learned:  Ignore the stats.  The work has to be its own reward, or you won't keep doing it.  4:30
• Thing #3 I've learned:  Saying something once is saying it never (quote by The Movement Maestro!)  And actually saying it 12 times is still sometimes like saying it never. Never be afraid to repeat yourself.  7:30
• Silly stats:  
  • Total downloads:  47,908 over the entire 4 years  9:45
  • The most downloaded episode by far is Episode #42:  Morning Pages: how to do them, how to not do them, and what to do if they bore the pants off of you  at over 900 downloads
  • The 2nd place winner is Episode #67:  Art, Grief, and What Happens Next with Shannon McKenna at over 500 downloads
  • The 3rd place winner is Episode #36:  IADF Survival Guide: learn from my fails
• Advice for anyone curious about starting a podcast 14:00
  • Listen to Shante.  
  • Sustainability is priority #1.  Set yourself up for a good experience by creating a cadence and expectation you can live up to.
  • Know your WHY before you begin.  Don't do it for accolades or responses or metrics- do it for you.  Do it for the one person who will get something out of every episode.
  • Invest in some good kit.  Here's the mic I use now.  17:30
  • Your words have value.  If you got things you wanna say, say em!  

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