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This week I’m sharing a personal story about my first trip to Burning Man. It starts when I was about 5 years old. And spoiler alert it ends with a big personal transformation. Cliche, I know. I teach a storytelling workshop and help others tell their own stories. The next workshop will be on July 27th from 5-7pm. The theme is editing. We will work on editing your own story so it’s polished and ready to go by the end of the workshop. Visit my website, hivemind.coach to learn more. Links: Storytelling workshop: hivemind.coach Follow Sarah on Instragram: @sarah_shines_on Quotes: “Unfortunately I was creating my identity by making myself other than both my sister and my family. She liked Burning Man, therefore I did NOT.” “I was choosing a false identity of other than in order to feel good about myself.” “This isn't just a gathering of people. This isn't just a party for seven days, this is a cultural movement where I'm going to learn something.” “The man's arms went up and I started crying. I thought to myself, I'm no longer creating an identity where I'm other than, but instead I am creating an identity where I'm including others.” “The following year, I went back with both my sisters and my mom, and we got to do the burn together. We watched the fire together and the man's arms go up and it was a really special moment for our family.”

Interview with Drag Queen Lil Miss Hot Mess. She is the author of the children’s book The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish Swish Swish. She is one of the first Queens to host drag queen story hour. She's also on the national advisory committee. She's written for Wired, The Guardian, Salon, and them. She's also performed at venues ranging from Stanford to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was also a backup dancer for Katy Perry on SNL. 

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Please enjoy this fascinating interview with Tony Coyote Perez. He is the Superintendent of Black Rock City and a recently published author of Built to Man, Tales of the Desert Carnies of Burning Man. We discussed the story behind the book, how he finally got published, and his tips for the whole process. He used to be a builder, a professional musician, and a bar manager. He has used every career to complete this book. I hope you enjoy!

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Book to be published mid-July - Built to Burn Tales of the Desert Carnies of Burning Man

Tonycoyoteperez.com

Twitter: @tonycoyoteperez

Burning Man Philosophical Center, https://burningman.org/culture/philosophical-center/

Coyote’s Facebook Page, https://www.facebook.com/tony.perez.9484

Coyote Nose Podcast - Readings by Coyote of the first chapters of the book, https://journal.burningman.org/coyotenose/

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Quotes by Coyote: I'm the superintendent of the city. I do the layout and the survey of the city. I set up the infrastructure. Essentially we build a trellis for which the bows of the branches of the community grow through. The book is from the builder's perspective of Black Rock City, the blue collar, essentially the working man behind the scenes and the strife that we went through while the city was trying to survive back in the late nineties. The book started from telling stories, as a matter of fact, in the book, some of the stories that I tell and have been telling for 20 or 25 years. Hero's journey starts out with the unrest. The person doesn't like the situation they're in. They're trying to find something better. They venture into the world. They go through cataclysmic events and existential crises because of bad choices they make. And then in the end, they have awakenings and redemption and it furthers their life and they go on like the Phoenix rising from the ashes. I've found that a great percentage of writing is just sitting and listening to your thoughts. It's a time machine of sorts where you have to just peel away the layers and go back into your memories and really relive what it was like, what it smelled like, what it felt like, and what were the emotions you were feeling. I just kept to my memories because that's where that's where the heart lives and that's how it became real for me. You never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Editing a book takes five times as long as writing the book and you realize that you really have to write four books in order to get one books worth. The more you help yourself, people will want to help you. You have to be involved in your own rescue. You can't just throw your hands up and say, somebody come help me. I want to build a fire and you start fire with kindling. I'd said that in the book it caps the explosion and that turns it into an engine and the engine runs a community. So it's directing the chaos. It creates a dynamic tension. I'm a social Smith. I wanted to figure people out. I wanted to hang out with a wide variety of personalities and opinions and perspectives. I thought it was all fascinating and now I'm getting to write about it. You know, eventually the jewels will start to come out and then when the jewel has come out, it really doesn't seem like you wrote them. That's my favorite part.

Here is my best attempt to talk about anti-racism. Below are a few resources to help all of us along the way. Please be in touch and let me know what you are working on. This was a hard episode to record and to publish because I really want to get this right. But it’s more important to get this information out as messy as it is then to get this perfect. Thanks for listening and I look forward to hear what you think. Anti-Racism Reading & Movie List: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/06/871023438/this-list-of-books-films-and-podcasts-about-racism-is-a-start-not-a-panacea Anti-Racism Guide for Beginners by Tiffany Bowden, PHD: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S5uckFHCA_XZkxG0Zg5U4GQGbY_RklZARwu43fqJH0E/edit Ted Talk about Neuroscience and Nationalism by Dr. Tara Swat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVLFcImY410 Announcement! I will be hosting a comedy in storytelling workshop on July 8th from 5-7:30pm PST. $20 to join. To join venmo me at @sarah-cohan-1 (Make sure to put your email in the note as well as storytelling workshop) Once registered - Stay tuned for the zoom link in your email! Participants should be ready for some major belly laughs. No need to prepare or bring anything to this virtual meetup. We’ll get warmed up together then partner up and share stories with each other. Then we’ll work on those stories to make them even more powerful. Participants will leave with a polished story in their pocket and will have a ton of laughs while doing it. Testimonials from previous participants: “Great workshop to loosen you up and get rid of the inhibitions and doubts that come when thinking about public speaking. Highly recommended.” “Such a fun class and Sarah’s facilitation skills opened my eyes to the future of remote learning could look like. Sarah managed to make the video conference technology actually enhance the experience . I left the class feeling like I met 6 new friends where we all learned something fun, new and different together.” “It's a great opportunity to connect with others while building storytelling skills.”

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Today's guest, Victoria Jane, is a coach of human design here in the Bay area. Human Design is kind of a modality similar to astrology, which is based on your birth chart and can help you live in alignment with who you were born to be.

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Please enjoy this amazing interview with Cassandra Love Lambert. She is the Creator and CEO of C-Love. She has had the honor of loving and sparkling up over 10,000 faces after 8 years of working her magic. Bottle Rock, Outside Lands, Dirtybird Campout are just some of the events you can find her spreading the sparkle. She has also worked with clients like Apple, Google, Uber, Snapchat and so many more!!

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