The Edit with Holly Totten Writing, Editing, Publishing

We're back for Part 2 of an absolutely enjoyable and heartfelt conversation with Karen Hoffman. Karen continues where she left off last week with her Words That Matter cards which have now extended to include cards for adults, teens and children alike. Listen as Holly and Karen continue in chatter and natter about:

• Playing Go Fish with Values and the opportunities that await in doing so.
• Learning and listening from experiences and watching creativity and other gifts unfold.
• Keeping doors open to every experience.
• How often in our third half of life we can see an alignment with roles we have had previously and how they are now shining in the joy of this stage.

Karen has a wonderful gift to discover what is within by asking questions, defining and paying attention to what matters. References mentioned in this episode include The Space Between No Longer and Not Yet by Nancy Levin and When Someone Deeply Listens to You by John Fox. To find Karen's Card Decks you can visit her website www.livingonpurpose.us and email her at [email protected].

To connect and find out more about Holly, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach her at www.teachingyourselftolearn.com

What happens when two Texans meet in conversation and nerd out on words that matter? A purposeful, motivational and insightful conversation! Karen Hoffman joins Holly on the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast today. When she turned 60 at the end of 2020, Karen left her professional position as an administrator of a nonprofit, and founded he business, Living on Purpose, in early 2021, after taking a few months of what she refers to as a sabbatical - a period of time to rewire, not retire—a time to learn, listen, read, discuss and create her next chapter of life. Listen as Holly and Karen chat about:

• Sabbatical and significant transformation. Changing our thinking about what a sabbatical means and looks like.
• Living on purpose and bringing attention to intention.
• Words that Matter and how her Mom contributed to her success (even if she wondered how on earth that would happen)
• Listening to the voice inside us that whispers all day long.

To find out more about Karen you can visit her website www.livingonpurpose.us and email her at [email protected]. The full version of the poems quoted in this episode are The Guest House by Rumi and The Voice by Shel Silverstein.

To connect and find out more about Holly, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach her at [email protected].

In this solo episode, Holly talks about making adjustments in life and how adjustments are nothing more than change. She provides examples of how we do this on a daily basis for different outcomes. Listen as Holly offers tangible steps to make adjustments and two types of adjustments we encounter in life:

• the adjustments we make every day to learn to function in society
• the adjustments we make to achieve something

Holly also talks a little bit about her New Author Intensive, which helps anyone wanting to share their story, leave a legacy, further their business, or share their knowledge but writing a book but doesn't know how to get started.

You can find out more about the New Author Intensive or learn how to be a guest on her podcast at https://www.teachingyourselftolearn.com/.

Have you ever met someone so fierce, so beautiful and so empowering that they changed the whole trajectory of your life? That's exactly what happened to Holly when she met the guest today on the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast. Kim White is all things extra. She accepts and truly listens to all aspects of you, including the messy and ugly parts and is living proof of exactly what is possible when we allow ourselves to learn and join together in community. Listen as Holly and Kim chat about:

• Being audacious, extra and not scared to try.
• Entrepreneurship early in life, before even knowing what it meant, what it looked like and the many lessons learnt along the way (beware of the Kool-aid stand!)
• Slowing down to speed up. See what's important, get clear and own it.
• Creating a business that supports our lives, not the other way round.

This conversation is funny, kind, jovial and one that will leave a lasting impression on your heart. To find out more about Kim you can visit her website www.mysexybusiness.com.

To find out more about how you can share your story to become a published author as mentioned in this episode please visit www.teachingyourselftolearn.com/newauthorintensive.

To connect and find out more about Holly you can reach her at [email protected] and we look forward to you listening again next week.

Linda Bonney is usually found behind the scenes of the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast. Usually in the wee hours of the night, across the other side of the globe in a little island called Tasmania. If you have been following along, this is not her first appearance - yet in this formal instance she chats with Holly about:

• What transformation looks like, and how we often perform for others.
• The process, application and realities of Dream, Doubt and Do.
• Adaptation to change, the pendulum that we experience in transformation.
• Dreams and motivations moving forward in the third half of life.

This conversation is actually two friends catching up and the vibrancy and wonderful dynamic of that is infectious and a big part of why we do what we do. To find out more about Linda Bonney and to follow more of current projects such as Stories With a Sunday Roast and The Doyle Avenue Project please visit www.lindabonney.com.

To connect and find out more about Holly, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach her at [email protected] and her website www.teachingyourselftolearn.com.

Rather than resolutions, Holly has chosen a word of the year and it's really helped her to be more intentional about thoughts and actions. From experience, it can really help you to hone in on what you want more of in your life for both long and short term benefits. Holly explores her own experiences in this first solo episode for 2023 and chats about:

• The benefits of having a word to provide an anchor and encourage you to think both consciously and subconsciously about what you want more of and what you want less of in your life.
• How Holly hopes to apply her word to every aspect of her life in 2023.
• Thinking about what to improve, do differently and what we want more of in our lives.

To connect and find out more about Holly, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach her at [email protected] or via her website www.teachingyourselftolearn.com.

Until next week, have a think about your word and feel free to share.

Even in my third half of life prime time, I am still learning. And this week I was blown sideways by an event that has happened many times before, yet I saw with a rejuvenated freshness and upper level of learning. Listen to this final solo episode for 2022 as Holly reflects on:

• How moments of joy can brighten each day when we just pay attention.
• The dreams we have in our life and how sometimes we can have dreams we don't even realise until they happen.
• The roles we have in our lives and embracing the importance alongside.
• Being someone's somebody and the tremendous amount of joy that can result.

As we wrap up the Podcast for 2022, I thank you for your continued support and listenership. The Podcast has matured and developed greatly over 2022 and I look forward to what 2023 has in store.

I would love it if you could leave me a rating or review on your Podcast app to reach as many people as possible and provide the motivation and inspiration that we all need.

To connect and find out more about the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach me at [email protected] or via my website www.teachingyourselftolearn.com.

There is a Tanzanian Proverb which says "Little by little, a little becomes a lot". And while the Podcast conversation with Ally Rose may be a little snippet in your life, it provides a whole lot of insight and learnings as a result. Ally is an Author, Certified Life and Wellness Coach and Mental Health Therapist. She is passionate about empowering her clients to shift the stories that are no longer serving them, so that they can make peace with their pasts, find their power and purpose in the present moment, and feel more deeply fulfilled than they ever thought possible. Listen as Holly and Ally discuss:

• The stories in our heads and how being aware of them is the first major step into making a change.
• Internal programming about who we really are and where it fits into our third half of life.
• Emotional check-ins. How they help and how we can work towards checking in while actually experiencing something.
• The power of affirmations. How a life changing moment turned into a lifelong project and now assists and helps others.

To find out more about Ally please visit https://www.instagram.com/yourstorymatters.love and https://www.thedivinepause.com/.

You can access the a free 30-day guest pass and content on the Aura app as mentioned in this episode by visiting: https://aurahealth.io/guestpass/ally-rose.

To connect and find out more about Holly, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach her at www.teachingyourselftolearn.com

LauraJo Richins is absolutely rocking her third half of life. She has a phenomenal personal story which has allowed her to recognise the power behind transformation, which now means she is on a mission to help other women transform theirs. List as Holly and LauraJo discuss:

• How we are all Artists in our own way and rediscovering our concept and approach to the word 'art' to include us.
• Filling from an empty cup. How we cannot please others without looking after ourselves, bringing a new light to how and where we can achieve this and finding personal time for ourselves.
• Teaching further generations in our third half of life and setting them up for knowledgeable success in areas that lessons have been learnt.
• Living life without force. Life in alignment with our head, heart and gut included.

LauraJo displays love from the inside out and it oozes itself into all the spaces of this conversation. There are many areas and topics of conversation which may even require a revisited episode in the future!

To find out more about LauraJo you can visit www.laurajo.com and follow her on Facebook and Instagram.

To connect and find out more about Holly you can reach her at www.teachingyourselftolearn.com and we look forward to you listening again next week.

Todays guest opens with the phenomenal quote by Vivian Green "life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain." And the power of this quote alongside the conversation you witness is beyond uplifting. Melissa Bottorff-Arey is a wife, mother of three, and grandma to four (the last role is her favorite, but don't tell!) After achieving her dream vocation, this former Executive Chef retired her whisk in favor of working at a more leisurely pace of 24/7 as an author, advocate & dedicated entrepreneur. Less of a choice, and more of a calling, these roles came about after the unexpected death of her 21-year old son …making the choice to put the shattered pieces of her heart back together since, she now helps others do the same. She has even turned her 'gift of gab' into a weekly podcast where she has hard, but meaningful conversations with other loss survivors.

To find out more about Melissa please visit www.theleftoverpieces.com/ because Melissa thinks that when you have a passion for what you do, you needn't force a hobby, but she can be spied growing many plants from the dirt and can even still be found in the kitchen chopping, dicing and sautéeing- just for the sheer love of it!

To connect and find out more about Holly, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach her at teachingyourselftolearn.com