IIn this episode of the Stories That Sparkle Podcast, Stephanie and I have an incredible conversation in her tree house (I call it a sunroom) about her two-year long battle with insomnia, the rest she found in her Yoga Nidra practice, and the key of forgiveness. I cry at least twice. It’s powerful.

This is the second recording of the Discoball Tour and my final one in Nashville (I drove to Memphis not long ago we finished recording).

Also: three weeks later, I got a text from both Stephanie and Becca (with whom I recorded an episode the day before) after they met at a studio in Nashville (they did not know each other before) and instantly recognized each other as two women who had just recorded a conversation with me for the podcast. It is a dream come true for me—others making connections and building community, on (and more importantly) offline.

So, I invite you to get comfortable, sit back, and listen in.

All things Stephanie:

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Here is the latest episode of the Discoball Tour Docuseries with scenes from BEFORE I met up with Stephanie (and had coffee).

Discoball Tour DocuSeries on YouTube, a companion video blog to go with podcast episodes. Subscribe to my channel for all new releases: YouTube.com/@hellarader (pro tip: you can listen to podcast episodes on YouTube as well…they will be next up in the channel following each docu-series episode).

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