Hey y’all! Welcome to the Unicorn 🦄 Hollow Podcast + Friday Finds where I share slightly snarky stories and small things that give me hope as a writer, creator, and slightly messy human.

Happy almost end of January! I am coming to you from East Tennessee where we are currently getting a large amount of snow. On the podcast this week, I’m sharing one more practice that helps make space for growth during our creative winters everything looks dead.

Fair warning: It's painful. But it's probably the most important practice I've learned as a writer and as a human. I call it “Sharing your first draft. Publicly.” That's right. Letting the unfiltered, unrefined, raw version of your writing, art, and self out there. (EEEEK!)

Segment One is the audio from my live video talking about my practice of sitting down and spend a few minutes writing a bit of poetry (which is my least developed skill and most terrifying genre!) right into substack notes and then just pushing send. (I KNOW!)

The second segment is a Sippy Cup Gang story I originally posted in the fall exploring what happens when we put the first draft version of ourselves out there - messy, unshowered, and inevitably carrying shame.

Spoiler: This really isn’t about sharing our first draft. It’s about building courage. And courage is something I find myself needing more and more these days.

So, here’s to conquering our shame and building courage together!

🦄 Kristin

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