Episodes
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A reflection on the arc of this intermittent Note of Daring Podcast as a creative project and playground with a bit of I like, I wish, what if, and what's next.
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A solo show talking about the arc of this podcast, how I made choices early that support taking a pause and doing strategic thinking on the direction of the podcast. I also talk about the upcoming Strategy Sessions for Solopreneurs and Creatives I've created, the differing needs and cultures of startups versus bootstrappers or solopreneurs, and a few life updates.
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A solo show about my month living and working in Valencia, Spain. I talk about my approach to planning, how I prepared, what it was like balancing work and fun, and how much it cost.
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My substack Catalyst Atlas
Remote Year
Babbel
Find Rachel online at @rachelbedaring and www.daringstudios.com.
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In this conversation, Flo from Out with Your Dog and I chat about the emotional adjustment after adopting a dog, budgeting for a dog, the value of knowing your dog as an individual, the slow and long game of building a side job, shifting mindset to expand our worlds, and the challenges of sharing.
Flo Godineau is a white, queer, outdoorsy nerd passionate about dogs, hiking, and nature. They live with their dog Bucky on unceded Coast Salish Territories (aka Southwestern BC, Canada). They are the author of ‘Hike with Your Dog’ and ‘Questions to Ask Yourself Before Getting A Dog’.
Find Flo online at @outwithyourdog on Instagram and https://linktr.ee/outwithyourdog/
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Heather Leavitt Martinez is a fellow visual practitioner and facilitator. In this conversation, we talk about appreciative inquiry, lettering, finding and being a part of a community, managing personal and professional capacity, what it means to be courageous, the power of practicing creative tension and rest, and what it feels like to cut loose.
Heather is a visual practitioner, lettering artist, author, and teacher living in Durango, Colorado. You can find her online at letslettertogether.com and techhostacademy.com.
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Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry by Jeanie Cockell and Joan McArthur-Blair Ghost Ranch Literally Letters Retreat Needy by Mara GlatzelBreathwork by Amy Kuretsky -
Today, I am talking with my friend Nicole Antoinette, a writer, and long-distance hiker. We chat about her journey solo hiking all 800 miles of the rugged Arizona Trail and her decision to write and self-publish an adventure memoir called How to Be Alone - about that journey. Our conversation dives into the gap between the expectation of the thing and the reality of the thing, how the next right step is often the thing you can’t stop thinking about, and the value of acts of closure and celebrating endings.
About How To Be Alone:
In 2017, stuck in a loop of codependency and people-pleasing, 32-year-old novice backpacker Nicole Antoinette sets off to find her self-belief and inner resilience by doing something she does not for one second believe she can actually do: solo-hike all 800 miles of the rugged Arizona Trail.
The guiding question she brings with her is this: What do we find when we push ourselves further than we ever thought we could go?
How To Be Alone is a cathartic adventure memoir that explores the privilege to be able to choose your own suffering, as well as the process of becoming a better friend to yourself along the way.About Nicole:
Nicole Antoinette is a writer, long-distance hiker, and former indoor kid who never imagined she’d wind up spending months of each year pooping in the woods.
She is the author of two adventure memoirs, HOW TO BE ALONE (April 3, 2023) and WHAT WE OWE TO OURSELVES (September 5, 2023), and she writes a weekly newsletter on Substack called Wild Letters. You can find more about her books at backpackingbooks.com.
You can learn more about her writing and other work at nicoleantoinette.com, read Wild Letters at nicantoinette.substack.com, and follow her hikes on Instagram at @nic.antoinette.
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How to Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail by Nicole AntoinetteThe Art of Gathering by Priya ParkerThru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart by Carrot Quinn -
Emily Pauls quit her accounting job in Chicago in 2022 to do the northbound 2500-mile thru-hike of the PCT. In this lovely conversation, we talk about when a choice that will change your life becomes real, how to transition into self-employment, the financial cost behind the hike, how we are all making up our lives, the comfort of consistency, and the challenges of shifting approaches to work and life.
Emily Pauls is currently making it up as she goes along. You can find her on Instagram @emily_pauls_.
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Pacific Crest Trail The Year of Less by Cait Flanders What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman Work Optional by Tanja Hester Nicole AntoinetteYou Need A Budget (YNAB)Long TrailAfter the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love by Alexandra Elle -
Aimee and I have a wide-ranging conversation about money, business finances, shifting mindsets and creating money alignment, creating supportive processes, building financial literacy, paying taxes, abandoning hustle culture and money conditioning, and how we are in a relationship with our money. She breaks down the difference between bookkeeping, cash flow, and accounting and we dive into the Profit First system, including how to set it up for variable income (like mine).
Aimee LaLiberte is a virtual CFO and money mindset coach for 6 and 7-figure businesses. A Profit First advocate, she helps business owners improve their relationship with money and their profitability. You can find her at http://thefinanceedit.com online at @myvirtualcfo.
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Book: Profit First by Mike Michalowicz QuickbooksXeroRamit Sethi Podcast -
Ellie Hamilton is an author, editor, and nomadic soul putting down roots in Connecticut. Her memoir – Where This Could Take Us – captures a journey through relationships, identity, mental health, and reckonings on a road trip to a new life in Alaska. Ellie and I talk about what adventure means to us, the vulnerability of starting over, the dynamic nature of identity, giving life time to happen, and our capacity to hold people in our lives – and what it means when what you thought was the beginning ends up being the whole story.
Ellie Hamilton is a queer nomadic storyteller and editor. Find her paperback book here and her kindle book here. Follow her on Instagram at @wild.elswitch.
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Real Talk Radio Podcast by Nicole AntoinetteCodependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring For Yourself by Melody BeattleEverything Belongs Podcast -
Michael and I talk about the risks and decisions around starting a company, the challenges of making the transition between one thing and the next, his learning growth as a leader, and his desire to listen more and understand more.
We also explore the topics of building and sustaining a growing company’s physically dispersed culture, the challenges of working from home while needing the social interaction and closeness of in-person people, and navigating a new non-office-focused world.
Michael G. Paul II is a father of three, a husband, a builder, and the CEO of Cobec Consulting, Inc. Find him working outside on his 5-acre property in Virginia and occasionally online on LinkedIn.
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. KiyosakiReinventing Organizations by Frederic LaLouxNOVA Scribes MeetupSwitch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan HeathThe Art of Gathering by Priya Parker -
Tiffany and I dive into her journey of finding creatively fulfilling work, the challenges of putting ourselves out there in work and life, the emotions and guilt around spending time exploring new paths, what it is like to build her own business, and the struggle to balance projects and set boundaries.
Tiffany shares her process of helping to design and decorate a new office space in DC for dynamic post-pandemic workstyles, collaborating and building connections with local artists, and finding new layers and communities in DC. We talk about how the way we work is shifting, questioning what work looks like and what work actually is, and how that shift requires creativity.
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Alt Summit
Joshua Tree
Mutual Peace
Tiffany West provides creative direction & design services for modern brands, small businesses, and side hustles. Find her on Instagram @westoakstyle sharing her plants, dogs, and latest interior projects. She is also online at www.westoakstyle.com.
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A flowing exchange covering what it means to be HSP, how we interact with the world, friend group activities where we have fun sitting there silently, the range of friendships and how we process emotions with (or without) friends, repairing (or not) relationships when they are damaged, and practicing stoicism, journaling, and gratitude to better regulate the emotional toll of being HSP.
Lisa Scott is an independent spirit working in counterterrorism, a photographer of desolate buildings, a kayaking hiker, an INTJ, and an HSP. Find her (rarely) on Instagram @theglobalradar.
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Daily Stoic
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Gratitude Diaries by Janice Kaplan
Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
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After getting caught behind a car fire on his way to facilitate an in-person meeting and through the recent explosion of meetings moving online, Brian Tarallo wrote a fantastic book full of tips, tactics, and techniques about Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings.
In this conversation inspired by his book, Brian and I discuss the importance of group time and how to use the presentation/participation continuum to decide when you don’t need a meeting. We talk about building the trust container and how to bring vulnerability meaningfully into a group process. And we talk about how it’s not really about tech, but we do need to design and facilitate online meetings for the humans using the tech.
Check out Brian’s book ‘Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings’ available on Amazon now. Learn more at https://www.survivingthehorrorbook.com to browse survival tips or attend survival school.
Brian Tarallo is a visual facilitator and Managing Director of his company, Lizard Brain. Find his work at https://www.lizardbrain.com and follow him on Instagram at @lizardbrainllc.
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The Grove's Facilitating Virtual Collaboration Workshop
Lizard Brain's Virtual Facilitation Workshop
Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono
But What I Really Want to Do is Direct by Ken Kwapis
Tiffany Shlain TEDxWomen 2011 Talk
Rachel is a writer, podcaster, and self-employed designer and visual facilitator. She lives in NC with her dog, Devin. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @rachelbedaring.
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Pushing back against the idea that “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”, this audio essay is a mixtape exploring the messy knot surrounding ‘being nice’ and what it means to abandon and rewrite that narrative. I talk about the web of double binds, the nuances of ‘being nice’, applying the Open Space law of mobility to boundaries, how to navigate interacting with people in our lives with kindness, not necessarily niceness, and creating the emotional resilience and vulnerability to say no thank you do ‘being nice’.
Read this episode as an essay.
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Open SpaceRadical Candor by Kim BrownBrené BrownRachel is a writer, podcaster, and self-employed designer and visual facilitator. She lives in NC with her dog, Devin. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @rachelbedaring.
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Scott Perry is Creative on Purpose’s Chief Difference Maker, the author of Onward, and a head coach in Seth Godin’s Akimbo Workshops. Find him online at Creative on Purpose.
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Onward by Scott Perry
Writing in Community
AltMBA
Book: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Book: The Practice by Seth Godin
Book: The First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman (Deliberate Practice)
Book: Company of One by Paul Jarvis
Steven Pressfield
Rachel is a writer, podcaster, and self-employed designer and visual facilitator. She lives in NC with her dog, Devin. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @rachelbedaring.
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In this episode, Matteo and I share what we like about creating visual work in front of the room, being introverts embracing working from home, being risk-averse, doing things before we are ready, the process of finding freedom and ease, creating connections virtually, and what we are excited about next.
Matteo Becchi is a visual practitioner, OD consultant working at The Clearing, and a fellow NOVAScribes co-organizer. Find him online @matteobecchi in all the places or at https://matteobecchi.com.
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Alexa Meade "Seth Godin Artist"
NTL Institute
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In this episode, Brian and I talk about working too fast, the portability of knowledge work, how we are contemplating making radical changes, the power of priming creativity and letting the idea bake, and how we are never the bad guys in the stories we make up in our lives.
Brian shares several fascinating stories about his experience facilitating groups. We talk about the people that will not be facilitated and the edges of our responsibility. And how neglecting the human world in an organization in favor of the task world can blow up your strategic planning session and requires you as the facilitator bring the group with you as you pivot into the human space. Then we dive into the organizational cost of not creating space for people to unpack their emotional backpacks.
Brian Tarallo is a visual facilitator and Managing Director of his company, Lizard Brain. Find his work at https://www.lizardbrain.com and follow him on Instagram at @lizardbrainllc.
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Diane Bleck of The Doodle Institute
TEDx Foggy Bottom
Heather Martinez of Let’s Letter Together
Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux
Lauren Green (Episode 02) of Dancing with Markers
Open Space Technology by Harrison Owen
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Mood Meter by Dr. Marc Brackett
Stephen Covey
Team Building: Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance by William G. Dyer
Lizard Brain
Rachel is a writer, podcaster, and self-employed designer and visual facilitator. She lives in NC with her dog, Devin. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @rachelbedaring.
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Behavior change takes time, effort, and attention. Whether it is changing up a Saturday morning yoga practice that has anchored my weekends for the past nine years or restructuring the messy knots of structural racism. This conversation weaves together insights around time, habits, behavior change, setting expectations, and designing instead of defaulting in times of change.
Resources from the Show:
168 Hours by Laura VanderkamSwitch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard by Chip and Dan HeathBetter than Before by Gretchen RubinThe Four Tendencies QuizRachel is a writer, podcaster, and self-employed designer and visual facilitator. She lives in NC with her dog, Devin. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @rachelbedaring.
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Lauren and I dive into laughing and winding conversation about getting into graphic recording, starting and pivoting a business, leaping off literal and figurative cliffs, the Kingdom in Hawaii, asking for help, making generous assumptions, online dating during a pandemic, creating space for conversation, adding growing in business, and stepping up as a leader. This conversation was a joy and a huge thanks to Lauren for sharing and joining me on the podcast journey.
Lauren Green is a visual practitioner, graphic facilitator, certified coach, and founder her business, Dancing with Markers. Find her work at https://www.dancingwithmarkers.com and follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dancingwithmarkers/
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Barb SiegelLiberating StructuresThe GroveIFVPBrian TaralloGeorge Mason’s The EdgeA Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger VonOechBrené BrownKelvy BirdThe Presencing InstituteCoaching Training InstituteRachel is a writer, podcaster, and self-employed designer and visual facilitator. She lives in NC with her dog, Devin. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @rachelbedaring.
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Starting takes wanting, work, energy, and support. Here we start with stories. A cascade of changes around a middle school knee injury. A 365-day self-portrait project starting the spring I graduated college. And exploring the point of a podcast, moving through resistance and vulnerability, noticing notes of daring, the comfort of containers, and an invitation to collide.
Rachel is a writer, podcaster, and self-employed designer and visual facilitator. She lives in NC with her dog, Devin.
Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @rachelbedaring.
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