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This episode is by request from Nicole who asked "Can you do an episode about the seriousness of art?  I can't help feeling like a lot of art is pretentious."

What you'll hear:

• Little updates from my own life
• The Audacity Project, Cycle 29 is enrolling very soon!  You can hop on the waitlist here:  https://www.rachelstricklandcreative.com/the-audacity-project
• How a professional friendship from 8 years ago showed up out of nowhere.  Yay relationships! 2:15
• If you're interested in booking a tarot reading for yourself you can do that here:  https://calendly.com/theaudacityproject/intuitive-tarot-reading 4:15
• The meat of the episode starts here, in which I encourage you to be as pretentious as you want (and explain why) 5:00
• Storytime from yesteryear  6:50
• When elitist language/pretention does get on my nerves 8:30
• You can see the full group hoop piece here on Patreon:  Well Behaved Women 13:15
• "If someone's actions don't make sense to you, it's because you're missing part of their context."  - Devon Price
• The real treasure and point of this whole conversation/episode 15:00

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What you'll hear:

• Some updates from me on wheelchair recovery, floods in my living room, and why I still think my life is an embarrassment of riches 1:00
• Salty content warning 4:00
• A previous episode for further listening- Episode 30:  The Trap of the Independent Woman
• Why hyper-independence isn't gendered, although it is experienced in different ways that are gendered 8:00
• Kasia Urbaniak's Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power 8:45
• How resistance to asking for things will fuck up all your dreams 13:00
• An exercise/quest for you to do if this resonates with you 17:15
• Cycle 29 of The Audacity Project is enrolling soon!  Hop on the waitlist here! 19:30

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Supporting materials:

• This is a companion episode to Episode 145- One month as a wheelchair user- what I learned
• The insights shared here were generously given to me by Erin Ball of Inter Complementary Journeys- you can follow Erin and Maxime here
• Episode 33:  Is it imposter syndrome, or is it misogyny? (or racism, or transphobia, or agism, or ableism...)
• #SayTheWord:  read the public health post here
• Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino  5:56

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What you'll hear:

• Episode 141:  Blame the Snake this is how I ended up in a wheelchair for a month
• First thing I learned:  everything you do will take 2-4x longer than you're used to 2:30
• How to request an SSR (special service request) at the airport 4:15
• My dear friend Alec Stoddard sent me this useful reading of the Air Carrier Access Act, very useful if you are traveling with a mobility aid 9:00
• Adventures in navigating a familiar city (Galway, Ireland) in a totally unfamiliarly abled body 12:00
• PSA:  wheeling yourself up a hill in a wheelchair fucking sucks 13:30
• PSA:  a wheelchair in an Irish pub is extremely disruptive 19:00
• PSA:  firedoors are heavy as shit 23:00
• The privilege I experienced as a Disabled wheelchair user, being visibly Disabled rather than invisibly Disabled 26:00
• Again thanks to the wonderful Alec Stoddard, a document outlining making your online presence more accessible, available to view here  29:00
• For further resources on increasing inclusivity and access in circus arts, please see this link courtesy of Erin Ball  31:00

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What you'll hear:

• No idea what the snake bite story is?  You can hear it here:  Episode 141:  Blame the Snake
• What this episode is really about...when you invest a community with yourself, magic happens.  4:45
• One of your greatest superpowers is your attention and where you place it 7:00
• How receiving attention relates to havingness levels (and how it relates to performing arts) 9:49
• How I got schooled in real time by my own axioms on havingness levels and receiving attention 10:50
• Group Hoop documentation coming soon to the patreon!!  16:00
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This episode is by request from my friend Fallon, who asks, "How do you find the balance between the art consuming you and the other important things/people in your life?  Do you let it overtake you for the month(s) before, and then have a break after?  Are you able to find breaks in between?  If so, how??"

What you'll hear:

• shitty sound quality because I don't have my microphone here in Ireland (blame the snake).  
• One week down at the IADF, one week to go 2:00
• Getting into the meat of Fallon's question of how to find balance during crunch time by defining what balance is and understanding that it's a dynamic state, not a static one 4:00
• Why my initial thought of "yeah let it consume you!" is very biased because of the failsafe's I have built into my life 6:45
• One approach to finding the elusive, dynamic balance during crunch time:  Find your 5 non-negotiables and protect them with your whole chest 9:00
  • My five, as a starter pack:  sleep, food, water, down time, solitude
• Episode 141:  "Rest" is not enough 16:30

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What you'll hear:

• My girl Cris asked me to talk about this post on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDehqMypsT_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
• Mindless media consumption is "nothing box" and is by nature, easy passive pleasure 4:00
• Both this and addictive behaviors are driven by dopamine 5:42
• We tend to judge ourselves for these behaviors as though they are a moral failing on our part, even though it's literally how we were designed 8:00
• Art-making is more expensive metabolically than mindless media consumption, and so is the cuddly chemicals like oxytocin 10:00
• How chronic stress can interrupt good brain chemicals and impact female sexual function 14:00
• Why the starving, tortured artist trope is a load of BS 16:00

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This episode is all about me.  What you'll hear:

• I was bitten by a copperhead snake on the 4th of July, so here's the story of how that happened, and what transpired afterwards.
• Why they wait a certain time before they'll administer antivenom after a venomous snake bite 7:50
• The coolest solution to peeing in bed ever 12:00
• Just in time for Disability Awareness Month 16:30
• "Blame the snake."  21:00

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Today's episode is by request from my friend Vix, who asks:

"As someone who has been creating their own one-woman show, how do you show your work-in-progress if you’ve only got one act or partial act?  I’m specifically referring to residencies that ask for works to be shown as part of their program (ex. “one night performance open to the public to show WIP,” “two nights of shows that the venue will help promote,” etc.). Do I just put on my 4-5 min aerial piece and then talk everyone to go home? What if I intend to create a much longer show (be it one person or multiple people), but I just haven’t gotten that far in the process? I love the idea of a WIP showing but is this what these residencies are really asking for?"

Let's talk about it!

• The "danger" of coming to an artist residency from the context of a gig worker, and how that can derail your experience during the residency by focusing solely on the end-of-residency showing
• How does your context influence how you view the opportunity to share a WIP? 5:11
• How I totally forgot this in real life 7:00
• IF YOU LISTEN TO NOTHING ELSE IN THIS EPISODE, LISTEN TO THIS 8:40
• How it COULD get sticky 11:00
• For further listening about artist residencies, please see Episode 31:  Artist Residencies, wth is that? and Episode 37:  Artist Residencies for Aerialists

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What you'll hear:

• The Monstrous Feminine lives!  Congratulations to Georgia Schrubbe and the cast of fantastic dancers (and myself) for a triumphant evening
• Annabel Woodman Photography:  see a couple stills from the show here
• Me waxing on about how incredible it was to perform this show 3:30
• Charleston Artist Salon:  Sunday July 6th, 5-7pm at Arc Take 2 Studios
• Click here to be on my local list, and know about stuff like salons as they come up!  https://poser.ck.page/d604e26530
• See you at the Irish Aerial Dance Festival?!  https://irishaerialdancefest.com/ 6:00
• Episode 36:  Irish Aerial Dance Festival Survival Guide
• My beef with rest 7:00
• Episode 123 with Dr. Jen Crane on active rest and recovery
• Me bitching about how rest cannot by the all-encompassing solution to every problem and I'm tired of it being the only answer to every issue 8:30
• Raquel the Capacity Expert on IG, for a refreshing perspective on rest, self-care, and capacity 9:30

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