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A buffet episode is where I take as many questions as I can answer from readers in about 20 minutes.  I get a lot of amazing questions that I don't always have 20 minutes of material about, but I still think they are incredibly valuable and I want to address them.  Solution?  Buffet episode!  

What you'll hear:

• Woo corner is coming out Friday, March 1st in the morning!  Sign up here.
• The Audacity Project Cycle 26 is opening enrollment to the public (if there's any room left) you can find details right here
• Stay tuned next week for Episode 71, interviewing the wonderful Shannon Morse of Green Door Life
• How to handle the crushing weight of responsibility you feel both in your online presence and in your art work
• What my coping mechanism is to tame fear, and yes this is the truth.
• How to find the space you need to create (literally, the physical space)
• Find the Stress School webinar here!  How to make friends with your nervous system, taught by the wonderful JPB of Brain Body Resilience $25 monies or talk to me.
• What all of y'all do that makes me the most proud

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xoRachel
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You have until Friday, February 23rd to join the waitlist for The Audacity Project, Cycle 26!

• Sweet Retreats at Casa Chango- where I've been all of February
• The single most powerful thing you can do to grow your community, use your community, and create opportunity (cut to 5:00 if you're in a hurry)
• Scarcity vs. abundance mindsets- it's not even about the woo, but whichever perspective you choose you are correct
• yet another way to #UseTheGoodChina
• Use The Good China Episode 2
• The Trap of the "Independent Woman" Episode 30
• What to do if you get distracted by comparisonitis (13:30)
• The difference between dreams that get accomplished and dreams that float in the ether and dissolve from disuse

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This episode is by request from Leasha the Kiwi (thanks babes!) as a follow up to Episode 65:  Dealing with Competition in Small Communities.  Spoiler- part of my advice was to lean into what sets you apart.  Excellent question, let's dive into it.  

What you'll hear:

• The Audacity Project, Cycle 26 waitlist is wide open and ready for you, if you're looking to get your shit together in 2024.  
• A fast and amazingly accurate way to discover what sets you apart
• How anger is a compass that points back to your value system
• Ways that leaning into what sets you apart is good for the entire world (because anything that gives you back more of your humanity is good for the world)
• Lil story time about an Audacity Project Alumni who made a very valuable identification about her own work and what sets her apart
• Another reminder that YOUR JOY IS AN ACT OF PROTEST!

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Join me and my great friend, aerial athlete, educator, and powerhouse: Shannon McKenna, for a very fancy conversation!

If you're looking for the waitlist for Cycle 26 of The Audacity Project, you can find it right here.

Highlights include:

• How we met (we don't remember) and how we became close (because those are different things) by going through The Artist's Way together.  Even though we were already friends before that.
• What gives you the AUDACITY?  
• Considering the impact you wish to make on the world
• On Making Your Life as an Artist a truly open source resource by Andrew Simonet.  You can use the link above to download the book on a sliding scale (including for free)
• Creating the next phase of life, and exploring the next phase of life as a circus artist
• How I found my voice at 35, because of course Shannon started asking ME questions
• On accents and dialects in theater
• Disciplines in circus and what's next on the horizon 
• On Grief.  If you listen to nothing else this episode, listen to this, around 30:00.  Grief, and how it affects your brain, and how to know when you should take a real break from social media because of grief.
• How our grief cycles overlapped
• The Inversion Encyclopedia (previously known as Aerial Inversions for All) Shannon's most popular resource
• How time + attention = change
• Everything in nature has periods of stagnation
• How you don't even KNOW about Monday...
• Her best advice to emerging artists about how you can truly value yourself and take your work seriously (it's bangorang!)

You can check out tons of resources from Shannon here on her website, or visit her on Instagram which you undoubtedly already do...but just in case, you should.

Habeas corpus, bitches.

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Join me for a full-on expose on Patreon, and what it's like to run one and best practices

• The Audacity Project Cycle 26 waitlist is open now!  8 weeks of targeted group coaching for artists and creative entrepreneurs to get their shit together.  We're enrolling in late February, and this waitlist is definitely the place to be.
• Do yourself a favor if you're considering a Patreon or any other kind of membership, and listen to this podcast from Shante Cofield.  
• Why you being not only willing but THRILLED to run a Patreon for free is the best possible energy to approach creating a Patreon from
• How to set yourself up to succeed and how to handle the logistics of how often to post
• How to use your existing relationship with social media to gauge whether or not creating a Patreon is going to be healthy for you
• The percentages you can expect Patreon to take, and things to keep in mind about the money that comes in from Patreon
• How I allocate the money I earn through Patreon
• And finally, if you'd like to support the bizarre and wonderful shit that comes out of my brain (including this podcast) my Patreon is exactly the place to do that.

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From this episode:

• Navigating Toxic Studio Culture, Episode 11-  a proximally relevant episode from yesteryear
• Tension arises between organizations in a small community when they have differing value systems.  
• Are you the problem?  Two questions you can ask yourself.
• If you aren't paying yourself because you don't need the money, you don't have a sustainable business- you have a luxury passion project.  I'll tell you why that can have devastating effects on your community if you're unaware of it.
• What happens if you get tired of fighting for high standards?
• What to do if you are competing with another organization who is problematic (spoiler alert, lean WAY IN to what makes you stand out)

Enrollment for The Audacity Project, Cycle 26 starts in just a few weeks- if you wanna get ahead of all this shit and build something gorgeous for yourself, hop on the waitlist to be the first to know!

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Episode by request!  

My own thoughts and rituals surrounding pre and post-show rituals, and ways I keep my performance the primary function of my day (spoiler alert:  it's not by doing more things).  

I'll throw out some suggestions for keeping your nervous system nice and tidy- including foods to eat and when to eat them.  And don't forget to bring food with you please!  

Personally, I have one singular non-negotiable pre-show ritual, and I'm pretty neurotic about it.  Whatever rituals you construct for yourself, I hope they are in service of your own capacity to ENJOY YOUR WORK.

Resources:

• Stress School Webinar- for making friends with your nervous system!  Tools from the wonderful JPB of Brain Body Resilience.  $25 at this link
• Pop over to my IG to grab a screenshot of the Grounding Exercise I read during the episode.  #audaciousgrounding
• If you're interested in the post performance reflection workshop (and other amazing resources) go give Janelle at Cirque Psych a follow!

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What you'll hear this week:

• In Wilmington this Friday, 1/12/24?  Come see me at the opening of Blood Meal!
• Blood Meal: in case you have no idea what I'm talking about
• My amazing collaborator Katina Bitsicas
• Episode 55:  Creating in Isolation (particularly if you don't want to) Listen to this if you want more context for "Making the Room Happen"
• Episode 30:  The Trap of the Independent Woman listen to this if you could use more ear nuggets about being an Island (and swimming off the island)
• Choosing collaborators:  what to look for, and how NOT to choose collaborators
• What is a COO and maybe is it the best thing that could happen for you?
• Never do manually what an automated system can do for you (ie:  Doodle.com, scheduling software, etc.)
• When people show you who they are, believe them.

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Happy New Year and welcome to the FIRST EVER guest episode!  It is my distinct pleasure to bring on Dr. Shante Cofield, aka the Movement Maestro, who has been and continues to be a massively positive influence in my life.  A PT by trade and a coach and online biz owner by choice, Shante uses her platform to inspire coaches and business owners to do the damn thing using savvy strategy, lived experience, and her trademark approach of unapologetic authenticity.  

What you'll hear on the episode:

• Why she is the reason this podcast exists in the first place (and if you wanna make one too, you can find her free resource for that here)
• On living out of a suitcase, and how to know when a chapter of life is closing
• Words of the year, and how that's going to manifest moving forward for Maestro
• Different ways of creating a writing practice (not JUST morning pages)
• Join us for a live action demonstration of Shante's pelvic floor PT experience coming into play (spoiler, I didn't pee myself)
• ways to approach working (or not) in December
• Working hard does not equal struggling
• The gifts of injury and boredom
• Life habits
• Approaching Instagram as an artist, or when you aren't necessarily a client-facing service provider
• If you want to re-establish your relationship with Instagram, you should 110% be on the waitlist for Maestro's Instagram intensive!  It's the best there is, hands down.

You can follow and learn from Maestro-
On Instagram
On her podcast, Maestro on the Mic
On her website

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Welcome to the Land Outside of Time, that weird week between Crimmas and NYE where nothing gets done, and that's a Good Thing.  I hope you're enjoying it. 

First off, you have ONE WEEK to get on the mailing list for January's Woo Corner!  Coming out 1/4/24, join here, it's good for your health:  https://rachelstricklandcreative.ck.page/

This episode starts out with some of my favorite year-in-review exercises, and some insights I've had because of them.  These exercises include:

• Past-year review as described by Tim Ferriss
• Dreaming up the new year- a dreamy little workbook that was SO MUCH FUN to do for me.  By the great Kasia Urbaniak

If all you want is the meat of the episode for things you need to create an artistic film, skip to 11:00 in.  Examples of films I've made include:
The Tower and
Midas is King

You'll hear:

• The three things you need to create anything:  Vision, Resources, and Skill
• When to do things yourself, and when to bring other people into the project like a videographer, editor, support staff, or a musician(s)
• Other considerations for your film such as the background score
• Shout out to the amazing Tyler Parks of Big Pants Productions for editing both of my films so beautifully
• Using Film Freeway to submit to festivals

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xoRachel
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