Write Your Story with Ally Fallon

On today’s episode, I have a special guest to introduce to you. 

I am joined by my long-time friend and soul sister Ruthie Lindsey and I’m so thrilled to get to share the mic with her.

Ruthie is an author, a writer and a trauma-informed somatic practitioner who teaches me every day what it means to be more human. 

Today we sit down and chat about life, the invitation of pain, and what it really means to be liberated. 

If you’re interested in learning more about the workshop Ruthie and I are teaching together, you can check it out HERE. (ruthielindsey.com/the-river)

If you’re still not sure if this is for you, shoot a quick note to [email protected] for a free 20 minute explore call w/ Ruthie.

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

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It’s easy to trust the unfolding of your life when things go the way you expected or planned. 

But what about when things fall apart?

When the loved one dies?

When the friend betrays you?

When the marriage ends?

When the business deal goes south?

Do you still trust that your life is taking you somewhere beautiful?

Or do you feel the need to fix and control? To make something great if your life? To manipulate and manage the unfolding?

This is a lesson I’ve had to learn more than once in my life and it’s a lesson that’s sinking in even deeper this time.

We’ll unpack it together on this week’s episode.

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

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Whatever problem you’re facing in your life right now, you’re probably crushing it. 

(“I’m actually not…” I can hear you saying—but you are). 

Your heartbreak. Your debt. Your divorce. Your loss. Your unexpected detour. 

You have brought all of your amazing wisdom, all of your hard work, all of your creativity to the table. And since you have more of those things than the average person, this problem should be fixed in no time. 

So why is it not? 

Why are you still staring down the barrel of the same dilemma? 

On today’s episode I share a concept that changed the way I see my problems forever. It’s a concept that revealed a much quicker, much more effortless, much more sane way to approach any problem in my life. 

This is the most vulnerable story I’ve shared to date. Which is saying a lot. 

I hope you see yourself in it. 

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

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The idea of surrender has never appealed very much to me. 

I’ve found more value in qualities like desire, passion, creativity, and personal agency. 

But lately life has pushed me to the place where surrender is my only option. 

And I’m learning not only why surrender matters but when it matters. Because surrender alone isn’t the answer to all of your problems (or mine).

But when the moment of surrender arrives, you have a choice: to trust and leap or to suffer at the edge of what’s calling your name.

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

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There is a fertilizer for your creativity so powerful, so transformative, that it will wholly change the way you experience your life and your art. 

This vital nutrient can make you unstoppable and prolific.

The problem is, most of us are avoiding it. (Myself included). 

We tiptoe around it, sidestep it and organize our lives hoping we never have to experience this thing that is ultimately a portal to our most creative selves. 

On today’s episode I reveal what this fertilizer is, share my story of discovering it, and invite you to use your grief (yes, grief) as vital nutrients to your life and growth.

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

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AI isn’t exactly new anymore, but the questions around it are only getting more personal.

As it becomes more woven into our work, creativity, communication, and everyday lives, it’s worth asking: what are we comfortable handing over, and what should remain deeply human?

In this episode, I’m not talking about the usual fears around AI taking creative jobs or writing all future books. I’m interested in something more personal — the part of us we may be tempted to outsource without even realizing it.

AI can be useful, powerful, and even creatively supportive. But there are some things it should never replace. Take a listen and see what you think.

Take a listen and tell me what you think.

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

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If you’re like me, you’re used to letting your productivity lead. Your efficiency lead. Your organization lead. Your hard work lead. Your responsibility lead.

What would happen if you let creativity lead?

By creativity, I don’t mean art, although art is a welcome byproduct of creativity. 

By creativity, I mean… 

Your curiosity.

Your imagination.

Your vitality.

Your essence. 

And when we let this part of us lead the rest, suddenly life starts to “work” in a way that it hasn’t worked before.

It’s counterintuitive. It’s counter-cultural. But it’s very powerful.

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

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One of the primary reasons creatives stay stuck is that we are trying hard to make something “good”

I tell aspiring authors I coach that the fastest way to write something terrible is to sit down hoping to write something amazing. Something profound. Something worth reading.

Instead, if you sit down intending to tell the truth, the truth will take you exactly where you need to go.

It might be messy. It might be painful. It might not inspire millions or make you famous. (Or to your great horror, it might). 

But it might become something more than you could have even dreamed about — because it was beyond your consciousness. 

Let go of trying to be good / make it good.

Instead follow the inspiration, tell the truth, and trust what unfolds.

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

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I can still remember being told by well-meaning adults in my life that “you can’t make money from your creative work.” 

But is that really true?

In this episode, I trace back my beliefs about money and creativity and share what I’m learning about the inevitable connection between the two. 

Thanks for following along! 

Check out The Illusion of Money here.

Check out The Artist’s Way here.

21 day abundance challenge: https://gabbybernstein.com/challenge/abundance/

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

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I don’t know about you but I have a hard time being wrong. 

I like to have all my ducks in a row, all my affairs in order, all my t’s crossed and i’s dotted so that nobody can ever come after me for not being intelligent or prepared. 

But I’m learning this obsession with being right is getting in the way. 

Of my creativity. 

Of my love. 

Of my ability to grow. 

So this week’s episode is exploring the permission to get it wrong. 

To mess it up, fail, falter and fall apart. 

Until you have permission to get it wrong, you don’t have permission to do much of anything worth doing. So let’s get started. 

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

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