Our last guest of the season was truly a gift. We loved our conversation with Sherri Ray where we dive into creating space amidst the ambiguity of life. We talk about how to challenge the assumptive world of where we think things should be versus where they are and how we deal with those “moments in between” which is truly our entire lives. Sherri shares her powerful story of how she has worked through numerous transitions and periods of grief to create more space for herself in every season life has to offer. Sherri also has her own podcast called “Are We There Yet? Stories from Somewhere in the Middle.”

Books Referenced:

The Anxious Generation by Jonathon Haidt

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

In this episode we get to chat with local creative, Kory Wells, who is an incredible community creator, a stunning story teller, and beautiful poet. Kory founded Poetry in the Boro which creates a safe space for people to share their stories , poems, and pieces of themselves they may not be able to share in other spaces. Kory has helped host the Bloom Stage in Murfreesboro, a quarterly storytelling event, and is active with MTSU Writes. She talks about the importance of carving out time and space for yourself to create while finding the balance of creating that space for others. She also talks about how poetry is all about finding that space between words, between lines, and shares a beautiful poem with us. We are some of Kory’s biggest fans and you will be too after this episode!

Find Kory and all the events on Instagram!

@tnpoet

@poetryintheboro

@mtsuwrite

In this episode we get to chat with Rachel Donegan who is is an Assistant Professor of English at Tennessee Technological University, specializing in composition, rhetoric, and disability studies. In this riveting conversation we get to pick Rachel’s brain about what accessibility means and how we can be better allies in creating more space for those with disabilities, either seen or unseen. This was a beautiful conversation about creating more room for all voices to be heard to create a world that can accommodate a wider range of our varied human experience. We loved this conversation with Rachel and gained so many key take aways from her expertise on the subject.

References

Instagram:

@luckytran

@cruthes_and_spice

@covidcanary

@peoplescdc

Books:

Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest U.S. Minority Its Rights by Lennard David

Documentary:

Crip Camp

Drunk History: Judith Heumann’s Fight for Disability Rights [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y505KwHp4O4]

Our first guest of season 3 is one of our favorite humans, Tori Pan. In this episode we discuss our physical spaces and how we can organize them to meet our needs as well as creating more space for intentional relationships. We dive into the topic of how we can create more space for ourselves as women; whether it’s advocating for ourselves or others, and the importance and impact of mothering and nurturing in our society. We loved our conversation with Tori and know you will too!

Welcome back to Season 3 as your favorite mother and daughter-in-law duo, Molly & Susan, dive into the topic of Creating More Space. How do you create space for yourself in your home? Create space for difficult conversations? Create space for all of your feelings while also holding space for others? What do boundaries mean to you and how to do you use them in your life? These are a few of the topics we explore to kick off this season as we discuss many ways to create more space in our lives and for others, while creating more of what we want to see in the world.

Books Referenced:

Making Space by Thich Nhat Hanh

Creating Space to Thrive by Courtney Kenney

Creating Luminous Spaces by Maureen K. Calamia

Making Space, Clutter Free by Tracy McCubbin (#1 Recommendation)

Yamas and Niyamas by Deborah Adele

Making Space by Jayne Hardy

Podcasts Referenced:

On Health – Aviva Romm

Hidden Brain – Shankar Vedantam

Armchair Experts – Dax Shepherd

Eyes Left Podcast

It’s Not Just In Your Head Podcast