Write Speak Play with Nanci Arvizu

Fiction is nothing more than a story wrapped around the truth.

All fiction is based on some thread of truth, and mine is no different unless you think wrapping a story around a thousand threads of truth is unique. 

In The Sale of An Immigrant girl, I weave the histories of women from my family tree I've uncovered as I continue my quest into my Ancestry. During the creating of America, thousands, if not millions of women, girls mostly under the age of 20, were sold to men they'd never met, never known, living in a hostile country that needed a 'waste class' of people to make way for more people to come. Millions of those first immigrants to arrive on these shores did not survive and their stories lost to time.

Growing up, my history taught me that these 'mail-order brides,' were happy to be married to a man in America. The few stories were layered with romantic nuances then swept aside to talk about grander conquests, like cowboys killing Indians.

This story is to remind us all of the sacrifices those who came before us made. It is also to remind us that no family tree is free from the loss, or the sale of, a child or family member during these chapters in our global history as humans.

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Author Aimée Gramblin has more than a story to tell. This is her memoir, the story of a journey that includes battling the unseen among us, Mental Illness.

In this episode Aimée shares the challenges she faced as she navigated her way to better health by finding the doctors who would listen, trying different medications until finding things that worked, and discovering how much nature is a part of our wellness, and our need to heal.

As Aimée and I talked, We discovered there is so much more that she can share with us. Look for future episodes with author Aimée Gramblin on Write Speak Play.

Find author Aimée Gramblin online here:

https://aimeegramblin.medium.com/

https://medium.com/age-of-empathy

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aimeegramblin/

https://www.clippings.me/aimeegramblin

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https://www.upwork.com/fl/aimeegramblin

https://twitter.com/AimeeGramblin

The host of Write Speak Play, Author Nanci Arvizu spends her time Writing Stories, Speaking Truth, and Playing the Games of Life from a chair with a view of wide-open spaces. Non-fiction essays, articles, and reviews of books, movies, food, fashion, travel, and golf, to digging into the dysfunction of family, surviving trauma, and the words we use to hide it. Nanci’s mind-twisting fiction, dystopian to satire, includes short stories, novels, and screenplays. She is currently rewiring her brain by reading 200 Books in a Year.

www,NanciWrites.com

Books by Nanci Arvizu

Fiction

Blood of My Enemies Book 1. Seventeen twisted tales.

Non-Fiction

Dysfunction of Family, A Collection of Essays

Anger Into Action, Connecting Complicity to 
The Customers of the Sex Slave Trade Industry.

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Our stories are important. Not just to us and the change it creates in our lives, but to the women who surround us now and to the generations who follow.
Welcome to Write, Speak Play. Join me, your host, Nanci Arvizu as I share through a mix of interviews and solo episodes the stories of our individual and the collective journey that tie us together through shared experiences, however unique to each of us. 
Write Speak Play is also the official podcast of The Garden of Neuro, hosting interviews with Founder Susan Brearley where women learn to become the change-makers they are born to be.
Use this Invitational Link to visit the Garden of Neuro.



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Shirley Chisholm, famously said, "If they don't provide you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

It's time for us to get our own table.

In this episode of Write Speak Play, I share my thoughts about this table, folding chairs, and the places at the table.

I will also read two essays I wrote on the subject

A Seat At My Table

Get Your Own Table

And I'll share another song by my fellow singer-songwriter and collaborator, Andrew Underhill, titles, 

LINKS:

Orgasmic Leadership by Rachel Braun Scherl available on Amazon.

Rachel Braun Scherl talks about Orgasmic Leadership on Write Speak Play

Come discover the Garden of Neuro here.

As always thank you for listening!

Books by Nanci Arvizu Available on Amazon.

Purchase The Journey Journal here. Start writing your story today.

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This is the story of what it's like to be a woman trying to bring a product to market with the potential to serve ONE HALF of the world's population, and being turned down because the product they wanted to talk about was too embarrassing for the men with the money to discuss.

Orgasmic Leadership by Rachel Braun Scherl, ebook and paperback are available on Amazon.

She was a woman looking for money for a start-up in the Silicone Valley. In every room she entered where she was to pitch her female-only product, the tables were surrounded by men who couldn't even handle the language of her presentation without snickers and questions asked to embarrass her.

Rachel persevered by realizing she would have to change her language to suit the male-dominated landscape, 

This experience had her questioning the experiences of other women who work in male-dominated fields but have learned to navigate around the mean around the table.

What she discovered was women need to learn a new language.

Thank you for listening!

NOTE: The only reason this episode is marked explicit is because we say the names of female body parts and feminine products. 

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Welcome to right speak play with host Nancy Arvizu.

Each episode of right speak play will be a little different. In some episodes, I will speak with people from around the world who are ready to share the story of their journey,  read excerpts of their work, and talk about their visions of the future,  and the ways they hope to help others by sharing their experiences of life.

Write Speak Play is also the official podcast of The Garden of Neuro, hosting interviews with Founder Susan Brearley and members about their journey that led them to the Garden, where women learn to become the change-makers they are meant to be.

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Garden of Neuro talk with Susan Brearley.

In this episode, we talk more about the garden, what it means to be a seedling in a thunderstorm, and how we need to care for people as the whole person they are. 

We touch on a few other topics, like the book we're currently reading, Flying Lead Change by Kelly Wendorf, Drops of Jupiter (a favorite term of mine), Serendipity, and finally, we end with the question, 'what is our language?" 

If you'd like to visit the Garden of Neuro to discover things you need to know in order to become the person you are meant to be by using this special invitational link. 

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For some people Going home is like going around the block. They never left their hometown, Grandma watches the kids, there might even be a weekly dinner that happens.

For others, trips home are commonplace. They spend every holiday with mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, cousins aunts uncles the whole works. It's just the way they've done things and the way they always will. Everyone is good with it, because going home something they look forward to.

Then there're people whose home is something different. Yes, it is a place where our parents might still live. It might be the place holds most of our childhood memories. It might be a place of great love and joy. But it also might hold deep dark secrets, the kinds that make us want to never go back there again.

And yet we must return home. Home might be where people are no longer surrounded by familiar dwellings like Grandma's old house. But the stories are still there, and remember it's not what they said, it's how they made you feel. Those places move with you. Those things move with you. They're not left in the walls of the home someone else now lives in.

I was listening to the podcast Tales from a Cult Insider, By Jared Garrett. I interviewed Jared on my podcast Page Readers about his book Beyond The Cabin almost 10 years ago. It's been a fantastic journey between then and now, for both of us. Jared has gone on to bigger and better things including his podcast but seriously that's just the tip of the iceberg. I'll let him tell you his story though, here's a link to his podcasts.

Tales from a Cult Insider.

Beyond The Cabin, by Jared Nathan Garrett

Things have changed in my own life too. I no longer host the Page Readers podcast, and I no longer review books. I still edit every once a while and work on an occasional ghostwriting project. But truly my passion now is to inspire everyone to write their story and speak their truth because I believe when we learn to speak our truth, we hold people accountable for their behavior. And when people are held accountable for their behavior, their behavior changes. 

Speak your truth and change the world for the better.

This episode of Write Speak Play is my take on Jarrods experience and comparing it to my own.  Then I share with you essays from my nonfiction book Dysfunction of Family.

Links to:

My first interview with Jared Garrett on Page Readers from 11 years ago.

Here's where I read a few chapters of The Cabin by Jared Garrett 7 years ago. 

Tales from a Cult Insider.

Beyond The Cabin, by Jared Nathan Garrett

My nonfiction books Dysfunction of Family, Anger into Action, and The Journey.

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This podcast has been a long time coming. 

I originally met Susan Brearley online through a zoom call just after "Covid Hit." (I'm putting those words in quotes because I'm quoting how a lot of people put those first days and weeks of having our lives impacted in ways we could never have imagined.)

Susan runs MuddyUm, a publication on the platform Medium. It's a place where writers have the option of putting their work behind a paywall and the opportunity to make some money writing. When "Covid Hit," (see there it is again) Susan organized a zoom call for the comedians on MuddyUm to share their work to a live, digital, audient. (What great practice those first zoom calls were for me! How little did we all know how much we'd all need this technical training?)

By the third zoom meeting, we were down to three people. The third person dropped off after an hour. And my life was changed. 

For me, it started with her story about why she keeps 19 journals. NINETEEN. I think that's how many she counted that first day. I ditched my planner and started keeping journals. Journal S, as in plural, as in many journals. It's been life-changing and I love it.

Her vision for the Garden of Neuro had been percolating for a while before we met. But I like to think I had something to do with moving her vision from thoughts into action. 

Because now there is a Garden of Neuro. Where the smallest and largest of dreams are welcomed, nourished, and grown into reality alongside others growing big and small dreams too and sharing what they've learned along the way. 

If you'd like to explore the Garden of Neuro, here's an invitational link that will give you access to this freshly tilled soil. Come join us, bring your experiences, ideas, and dreams into this space where they will be given room to grow and you will find the support and guidance you need to help your dreams reach their fullest potential.

Articles and Stories I've written about this experience so far:

I Tossed My Planner Because of A Conversation with Susan Brearley

Every Acorn Needs A Daimon

Rewiring MY Brain One Book At A Time

Stepping into The Future, One Book At A Time

And here's Susans' story of how reading 200 books in a year changed her life.

Thank you for listening!I hope to see you soon in the Garden of Neuro

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In this episode I get to talk about two of my most favorite topics - Golf and Clothes (!) with just the right person, Tammy Kern, who spent her career putting more than pretty clothes into Pro Shops in California. 

Tammy and I met through Women on Course, a National group established to encourage and support women to learn, network, travel, and play the game of golf, for reasons ranging from fun to advancing career opportunities.

Over the years 

Links for Listeners

I'm sharing the four separate Style Guides Tammy put together for my Virtual Style Session. I was pleasantly surprised and flattered by the comparisons she chose, and she is right! I am watching what these beautiful women are wearing and will be trying on things I might not have tried before. Expanding my world! I love it!

Connect with Tammy at Pinterest or Instagram. 

Women on Course is a national group designed to encourage and support women through the game of golf. I seriously cannot recommend this group enough!

**I edited this conversation for brevity and sticking to the topic, so my 'added in questions' might sound a little wonky. Learning the ropes here at Anchor! 

And yes, wonky is a technical term ;) **

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