Danielle "Bird" Boone has been writing since she was four, when her mom taught her that words on paper could say what she could not say out loud. She spent her career behind the scenes in Chicago television and live production, happiest producing while somebody else took the stage.
Then a writing partner challenged her to write for thirty days with no structure, and what came out was the grief she had never processed: her mom, who had passed the year before, and her dad, gone seven years earlier. That writing became her book, (In) The Absence Of..., and the method she now teaches as an emotional reset strategist and founder of The Resurgence Experience.
We get into why the five stages of grief fall short when a trigger arrives years later, and why every loss, a parent, a relationship, a twenty year job, is also a loss of identity: the "who am I now" nobody makes room for. Danielle shares her tools: letting yourself emotionally throw up before you reset, mind size drills for emotional muscles that have gone weak, anchor statements for trigger moments, and the reflectors who see your situation from a window you cannot.
Danielle co-hosts The Throne on the Fishbowl Radio Network and just released REPOSITION, a chess themed playbook for moving out of survival mode.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Meet Danielle Boone: Word Playologist and Emotional Reset Strategist
01:18 The Throne: A Radio Show for the Questions People Are Afraid to Ask
04:05 Writing Since Age Four: A Career Behind the Scenes in TV and Live Production
06:05 Saying Yes to Your Next: The Coaching Program and the Podcast Seat
10:51 The 30 Day Writing Challenge That Uncovered Unprocessed Grief
15:07 Why the Five Stages of Grief Fall Short When Triggers Return
16:09 Every Loss Is a Loss of Identity: Jobs, Relationships, Parents
17:16 Emotionally Throw Up: Releasing the Emotion Before You Reset
18:32 The Reset Toolkit: Mind Size Drills and Anchor Statements
21:54 Grief Is Reps, Not a Finish Line
26:42 Your Life Is Your Story: Plot Points, Perspective, and Reflectors
31:03 The Anchor Is Lifted: Danielle Reads From Her Book
38:37 Guidelines, Not Rules: You Do Not Have to Fit In
45:59 Seven Years of Loss and Finding Confidence in the Quiet Spaces of Noise
ABOUT DANIELLE BOONE
Danielle "Bird" Boone is a writer, speaker, and emotional reset strategist, and the founder of The Resurgence Experience, helping people navigate grief, identity shifts, and the life transitions nobody prepares you for. She is the author of (In) The Absence Of... and co-hosts The Throne on the Fishbowl Radio Network.
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ABOUT VICTORIA
Victoria Steward is a Corporate Exit and Financial Empowerment Coach, helping senior corporate women stuck in the 'one-more-year' loop build the self-trust and financial clarity to leave corporate on their own terms, their own timing, their own scenic route.
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