The Documented Heart

Natalie Jennings is a photographer, podcast host, intuitive business coach, and tarot reader based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When not doing photo & businessy things, she is a plant and animal nut and is studying herbalism.

In this episode, Natalie reflects on how she found tarot, and how it has helped shape who she is becoming. She describes how the willingness to honestly look at yourself - whether it be through photographs or tarot - helps us understand ourselves better and what we want out of this life.

For more tarot with Natalie, visit https://nataliejoanne.com

For more photography, visit Natalie Jennings | Minneapolis Lifestyle and Brand Photographer

On this week's minisode, Kristyn reflects on walking through seasons of transition and growth as a photographer, the complexities of photographing kids while navigating their evolving relationship with a camera, and how kids may see themselves reflected back in images, and in life.

Cornell Watson is a Dope-Ass Black photographer based in Durham, North Carolina. He frequently contributes photography to national publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Bloomberg. He has also photographed national ad campaigns for companies such as T-Mobile, MeUndies, Bombas, and Adidas. His photography centers Black stories and has been featured in museums such as The Mint Museum, Nasher Museum of Art, and most recently at the National Civil Rights Museum with a solo exhibition titled "Tarred Healing". When he's not watching the 1000th episode of CoComelon, being the best spouse in the world, problem-solving changing his baby diaper blowouts in men's bathrooms without changing stations, or editing photos while his five-year-old daughter edits the furniture with non-washable crayons, you can find him passed out from exhaustion on the living room couch.

In this episode, Cornell reflects on his transition into becoming a professional photographer, the artistry sparked by his love of music, and how making a photograph eternalizes moments and how it can be a form of resistance by helping preserve and tell black stories.

Visit Cornell's website: Durham Commerical, Editorial, and Family Photographer

Take his next class through Illuminate Classes - registration opens 3/27!

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There is something freeing about the idea of letting yourself photograph the mess – just as it is, no matter how mundane it seems. What if we let the mundane be its messiest? Maybe we'll see parts of our lives that we would otherwise edit out – and give ourselves the chance to remember it more meaningfully.

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Sarah Huntington is professor, student, writer, lover of movement, meditation guide, and a deep thinker. Sarah reflects on how living itself is a creative act, the work of finding connection within a competitive world, and the importance of cultivating spaces where people can grow, and change, and try new things without judgement.

For additional learnings based on this episode:

Joseph Goldstein

Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program

John O'Donohue

David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea

Emily Dickinson

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We simply don't have the time to rush our way through our time on this planet. In navigating parenting alongside loss, joy, heartbreak, and the tragedies that are going on in the world, this thought has hit home: to rush is to pretend that our time and attention don't matter.

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From non-profit leaders, to martial artists, to doulas, and entrepreneurs, the first season of The Documented Heart podcast was such a delight to experience together. And Season 2 will dive into the concept of daily creativity even more! In each episode we explore how to find creative fulfillment in our lives, and how photography helps us to tell our stories and tunes us into the incredible depth of our shared humanity.

Season 2 is here! Be sure to follow along so you never miss a new episode.

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It's in the noticing that delight reveals itself most fully – those tiny thrilling reminders that we are alive, here and now. And we are accompanied by a whole universe just waiting to reveal itself.

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On this week's minisode, Kristyn dares us to keep going - because we can, and we want to, and because we are all artists doing the damn thing, anyway.

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