Are you up against a problem in your life that you don’t know how to solve? Have you tried everything you know to try in order to solve it? Maybe strategies that worked in the past are feeling insufficient this time around? 

Whether it’s a personal problem or a political, global or corporate one — in this episode i’ll offer a suggestion that may surprise you—and may trigger you (it triggered me). 

Yet it may be the only thing powerful enough to solve the current problems we are facing. 

Take a minute to think about what would happen if you gave up trying to solve your impossible problem and instead let the problem teach you what it came here to teach you.

I am anxious to hear your thoughts. 

Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com

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Do you ever feel like you have to be the strong one? Like you have to get your ducks in a row, get your act together, pull it all off—or if you don’t do it, who will? 

In today's episode I unpack the idea that your greatest leverage to shift any situation—personal or corporate—is not in your strength or composure or ability or even intelligence but in your capacity to tell the truth.

We avoid telling the truth because we’re afraid to face what is real; but only by telling the truth do we access the ability to shift and change the “truth” to something new.

What are ten things that are true for you today?

Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com

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Have you ever felt like — once you get your act together — then your life can start?

Once you find the right partner?

Once you finally get pregnant?

Once you write your book?

Once you finish your degree?

Once your business is profitable?

Once your house is clean?

Once you finally kicked that bad habit?

Once you master that particular skill?

And yet the trouble is, we can spend our entire lives waiting to begin when the reality is that this messy middle is precisely our life; and it is a beautiful and exquisite thing. Life is not about mastery but about presence and love.

Consider this episode a celebration of the messy middle. I pray it finds you wherever you are and invites you to sink even more deeply into the precious and beautiful thing that is the life you are living right now.

Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com

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If you’ve ever tried to write literally anything, you’ve dealt with that familiar, sinking feeling: staring at the blinking cursor, convinced you have something to say but unsure how to get the words right. But have you ever considered that writer’s block might be about more than just trying to find the right words? 

In today’s episode, I share the key idea that writer’s block is not just writer’s block — it’s life block; and ask you to consider what your writer’s block might be trying to show you. 

Whether you’re on a deadline or not, writer’s block is about far more than just getting your writing assignment done. It’s about accessing your full potential and seeing clearly where your life is asking you to grow.

What’s your writer’s block trying to show you?

Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com

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If you ever feel “stuck” or like you’re spinning your wheels, maybe there’s a story you’re telling that no longer serves you. On today’s episode, I talk about how to know which story is ready to be retired, and what happens when we let go of old, tired stories that were dragging us down. 

I also introduce you to one of my favorite poets, assuming you don’t know him already. 

You can order his book of essential poems by clicking HERE.

You can listen to the podcast I mention HERE!

Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com

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Have you ever faced a problem that you didn’t know how to change or solve? Perhaps it’s time to fully receive the gift that the difficulty is here to give you. 

This isn’t a cheap form of glossing over the details. 

It’s not about quickly “flipping” the story to be a positive one. 

It’s about listening deeply to what is taking place and receiving whatever wisdom or freedom or relief or liberation the challenge is trying to give you. It’s about fully moving through the experience in all of its discomfort and even pain. 

This is not a task for the faint of heart. In fact, it’s a task of unbelievable courage, and it seems a level of courage that is needed now more than ever. 

Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com

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Is the rise of AI making you uncomfortable? Does it make you wonder about how we will evolve as a species? What the effects will be on the human psyche? Does it make you question how the value of creativity will shift and change as AI takes over?  

These questions are valuable ones to ask and answer while we navigate this wild new world we’re living in. 

And yet on today’s episode, I want to offer an interesting take on AI that you may not have heard elsewhere. While asking the hard questions about AI is certainly a vital part of the conversation, it’s might also be valuable to consider how AI might remind us what it means to be human in the first place. 

What if AI reminds us why creativity matters so much? 

What if our resistance to AI is helping us resolve our fears? 

I hope you enjoy these candid and casual reflections as the widespread use of AI expands in real time. 

Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com

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Do you ever get the sense that there is a higher, wiser part of you that can stay at peace even when there is chaos around you? A part of you that  is able to intuit the next, right step when you’re in unknown territory? That sees through the masks of others and recognizes the truth of who they are? There are many words for this wise voice — I’ve been known to call it the “narrator voice” since it’s the same voice in a story that sees the whole of the narrative arc while the hero struggles with tunnel vision. In his book The Immortal Diamond, Richard Rohr calls this voice the true self.

Whatever you choose to call this deep wisdom, one thing I know for sure is this: writing is an amazing way to connect with your innate wisdom. In today’s episode I teach you a simple writing prompt that helps you see through the lies of your false self and hear the strong, sturdy voice of your true self more powerfully than ever before.

Listen in to learn more. 

You can read Immortal Diamond by Richard Rohr by clicking HERE!

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It’s possible that “staying positive” could be keeping you stuck. 

In today’s episode, I use the analogy of writing a book (first draft first, second draft second) to talk about how we naturally grow and develop as people. A first draft is inevitably messy and chaotic, raw and guttural. The second draft is cleaner and holds more clarity. But there’s no getting to the second draft without the first draft. 

Oftentimes, in life, we try to get to the “second draft” before we ever write the horrible first draft. We would like to skip to the healing, the moral, the integration, the clarity, the understanding. But there’s no such thing. 

If you’re in the messy first draft of your story, maybe it’s time to own that fact and tell the raw, harsh, guttural truth. 

Could telling a more raw and guttural version of the story actually help you access the second draft you’re reaching for?

Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com

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This episode idea started as a joke. 

But the more I talked about it, the more I realized I do actually want to take a break from self-improvement — a journey I’ve been on for nearly 20 years. 

Before you judge me, or dismiss me, hear me out. 

In today’s episode I’ll talk about what happens when we stop trying to become “better” than we already are. 

Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com

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