Billy Collins

Carrie Does Poems
Carrie Does Poems
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All Body and No Beak: Should You Leave Social Media?

Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
All Body and No Beak: Should You Leave Social Media?
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This week we talk about Shaun’s potential Only Fans and whether or not we should be on social media and if not all, which ones should we be on.

DOG TIP FOR LIFE

Be consistent.

Do what makes you happy.

LINKS WE REFERENCE

Medium article

SHOUT OUT!

The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. 

Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what is this song?  It’s “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free.

WE HAVE EXTRA CONTENT ALL ABOUT LIVING HAPPY OVER HERE! It’s pretty awesome.

AND we have a writing tips podcast called WRITE BETTER NOW! It’s taking a bit of a hiatus, but there are a ton of tips over there.

We have a podcast, LOVING THE STRANGE, which we stream biweekly live on Carrie’s Facebook and Twitter and YouTube on Fridays. Her Facebook and Twitter handles are all carriejonesbooks or carriejonesbook. But she also has extra cool content focused on writing tips here.

Carrie is reading one of her raw poems every once in awhile on CARRIE DOES POEMS. And there you go! Whew! That’s a lot!

A Burp Don’t Travel Well

Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
A Burp Don't Travel Well
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This podcast, which is a day late and a million dollars short, is not our normal format. Apologies!

But here you go.

Listen if you dare.

SHOUT OUT!

The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. 

Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what is this song?  It’s “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free.

WE HAVE EXTRA CONTENT ALL ABOUT LIVING HAPPY OVER HERE! It’s pretty awesome.

AND we have a writing tips podcast called WRITE BETTER NOW! It’s taking a bit of a hiatus, but there are a ton of tips over there.

We have a podcast, LOVING THE STRANGE, which we stream biweekly live on Carrie’s Facebook and Twitter and YouTube on Fridays. Her Facebook and Twitter handles are all carriejonesbooks or carriejonesbook. But she also has extra cool content focused on writing tips here.

Carrie is reading one of her raw poems every once in awhile on CARRIE DOES POEMS. And there you go! Whew! That’s a lot!

Don’t Let Your Farts or Your Ego Get In Your Way

Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
Don't Let Your Farts or Your Ego Get In Your Way
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This brilliant podcast–wink, wink–we talk about how both farts and your own ego can threaten to take over your life if you don’t take some control over their eruptions.

DOG TIP FOR LIFE

Be willing to flop in the grass. It all isn’t about being better. Sometimes it’s just about being alive and farting when you need to.

LINKS TO LEARN MORE


https://apnews.com/hub/oddities

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ambigamy/201911/12-tips-getting-real-about-your-ego

dailystoic or for its emails

SHOUT OUT!

The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. 

Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what is this song?  It’s “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free.

WE HAVE EXTRA CONTENT ALL ABOUT LIVING HAPPY OVER HERE! It’s pretty awesome.

AND we have a writing tips podcast called WRITE BETTER NOW! It’s taking a bit of a hiatus, but there are a ton of tips over there.

We have a podcast, LOVING THE STRANGE, which we stream biweekly live on Carrie’s Facebook and Twitter and YouTube on Fridays. Her Facebook and Twitter handles are all carriejonesbooks or carriejonesbook. But she also has extra cool content focused on writing tips here.

Carrie is reading one of her raw poems every once in awhile on CARRIE DOES POEMS. And there you go! Whew! That’s a lot!

Crawling Through The White House Fence And Let’s Get Stoic

Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
Crawling Through The White House Fence And Let's Get Stoic
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This podcast episode, we talk about a trespasser and security threat: a naughty toddler.

We also delve a bit into one of the ways stoicism helps you be more resilient and how this helps for writers, too. YES! Even writers!

DOG TIP FOR LIFE

Walk with purpose, humans.

xo

Sparty

LINKS

https://apnews.com/article/white-house-toddler-fence-secret-service-6ece5fc94204dbc3001457403269c28e

https://dailystoic.com/

SHOUT OUT!

The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. 

Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what is this song?  It’s “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free.

WE HAVE EXTRA CONTENT ALL ABOUT LIVING HAPPY OVER HERE! It’s pretty awesome.

AND we have a writing tips podcast called WRITE BETTER NOW! It’s taking a bit of a hiatus, but there are a ton of tips over there.

We have a podcast, LOVING THE STRANGE, which we stream biweekly live on Carrie’s Facebook and Twitter and YouTube on Fridays. Her Facebook and Twitter handles are all carriejonesbooks or carriejonesbook. But she also has extra cool content focused on writing tips here.

Carrie is reading one of her raw poems every once in awhile on CARRIE DOES POEMS. And there you go! Whew! That’s a lot!

Stop Talking Smack to Yourself and Have You Heard About Peeps?

Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
Stop Talking Smack to Yourself and Have You Heard About Peeps?
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This week, it’s all about Kate Middleton’s nails. Her nails, apparently, are scandalous. Red manicure for Easter, which apparently goes against the British tradition.

And also people are saying that Peeps are dangerous. They allegedly have a known carcinogen.

And finally, the real part of the podcast? Negative self talk. Things you should not say to yourself.

DOG TIP FOR LIFE

LINKS WE REFERENCE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htsnZzFA9nQ

https://www.bustle.com/p/11-things-to-stop-saying-to-yourself-to-stop-anxiety-in-its-tracks-15644667

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/04/06/peeps-easter-candy-has-potentially-cancer-causing-red-dye-3-warns-consumer-reports/?sh=6774a6cf4f09

https://www.glamour.com/story/kate-middleton-broke-unofficial-royal-protocol-with-her-bold-easter-manicure

SHOUT OUT!

The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. 

Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what is this song?  It’s “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free.

WE HAVE EXTRA CONTENT ALL ABOUT LIVING HAPPY OVER HERE! It’s pretty awesome.

AND we have a writing tips podcast called WRITE BETTER NOW! It’s taking a bit of a hiatus, but there are a ton of tips over there.

We have a podcast, LOVING THE STRANGE, which we stream biweekly live on Carrie’s Facebook and Twitter and YouTube on Fridays. Her Facebook and Twitter handles are all carriejonesbooks or carriejonesbook. But she also has extra cool content focused on writing tips here.

Carrie is reading one of her raw poems every once in awhile on CARRIE DOES POEMS. And there you go! Whew! That’s a lot!

The Mandela Effect

Loving the Strange
Loving the Strange
The Mandela Effect
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This live episode, we talk about the Mandela effect where massive amounts of humans remember the past incorrectly. Come hang out!

SHOUT OUT TO STUBHY!

The snippet of our intro and outro music is only a snippet of this guy’s awesome talent. Many thanks to Kaustubh Pandav. You can check out a bit of his work at the links below.

www.luckyboysconfusion.Net or www.Facebook.com/mrmsandtheinfusions 

Thanks for hanging out with us! And remember, don’t be afraid to let your strange out.

LINKS WE REFERENCE

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-mandela-effect-4589394

https://www.buzzfeed.com/christopherhudspeth/mandela-effect-examples

https://movieweb.com/movie-mandela-effects/#sinbad-never-made-a-movie-called-shazaam

https://parade.com/1054775/marynliles/mandela-effect-examples/

https://www.moms.com/man-with-the-yellow-hat-name-curious-george/

How You’re Messing Up Your Visualization and Mainers Have the Biggest Disks

Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
How You're Messing Up Your Visualization and Mainers Have the Biggest Disks
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So, today I was talking to one of my writing clients, who is a therapist and I was actually audacious enough to suggest a tool to help her get through her block about writing her query letter and synopsis, both part of a writer’s proposal package or submission package when they query agents in the quest to be traditionally published.

And this tool, basically comes from Mel Robbins, who is an author, podcaster, and speaker. And, um, apparently the #1 education podcast in the world even though, um, I had never heard of her.

Cough.

Don’t judge, Shaun. She’s also very good at self marketing and is considered a self-publishing phenom and is pretty cute, which means she has a ton of photos of herself on her website.

So, basically the opposite of us except Shaun is cute.

Anyway, enough preamble, she suggests, no insists, that people have a morning routine. It can be five minutes. It can be an hour.

Within this morning routine, you want to focus on an actionable step and nothing else for 15 minutes. During this time, you want to write down your goals, but you actually have to do this big second step, which is imagining yourself taking the steps to get there. According to Robbins, you visualize the steps to get to that end goal and the third step is to imagine and feel the emotions that are connected to each step. Pride? Excitement? Joy? Get all of them in there.

This is similar to Simon Sinek’s who says to go after the things that you want, he tells the story of hiself and a friend going out for bagels.

See the thing that you want. Or see the thing that prevents you from getting what you want. When you go after what you want, he stresses,  you don’t want to get in the way of other people’s wants.

Bas Korsten wrote for Harvard Business Review, “Think about it. Great athletes train their bodies for days, weeks, and years to whip them into peak performance. Why, then, wouldn’t a creator do the same with their brain?”

A.J. Adam writes about the science behind visualization for Psychology Today,

“For instance, in his study on everyday people, Guang Yue, an exercise psychologist from Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, compared results of those who did physical exercises to the results of those who carried out virtual workouts in their heads. In the physical exercise group, finger abduction strength increased by 53%. In the group that did “mental contractions”, their finger abduction strength increased by 35%. However, “the greatest gain (40%) was not achieved until 4 weeks after the training had ended” (Ranganathan et al., 2004). This demonstrates the mind’s incredible power over the body and its muscles.”

Ideas come. They come all the time, right? But the thing is that you have to imagine those ideas, practice what it feels like do them, and then have the energy to get off your bum, get out of bed, get out of your chair and actually do those ideas.


DOG TIP FOR LIFE

For any change to happen, you have to activate your energy. Be like Pogie. Activate all the energy.

Links To Learn More

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/flourish/200912/seeing-is-believing-the-power-visualization

Take Control of Your Life: How to Silence Fear and Win the Mental Game – https://amzn.to/2EfL8c5

The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage – https://amzn.to/2Xb8uqI

https://apnews.com/hub/oddities


SHOUT OUT!

The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. 

Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what is this song?  It’s “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free.

WE HAVE EXTRA CONTENT ALL ABOUT LIVING HAPPY OVER HERE! It’s pretty awesome.

AND we have a writing tips podcast called WRITE BETTER NOW! It’s taking a bit of a hiatus, but there are a ton of tips over there.

We have a podcast, LOVING THE STRANGE, which we stream biweekly live on Carrie’s Facebook and Twitter and YouTube on Fridays. Her Facebook and Twitter handles are all carriejonesbooks or carriejonesbook. But she also has extra cool content focused on writing tips here.

Carrie is reading one of her raw poems every once in awhile on CARRIE DOES POEMS. And there you go! Whew! That’s a lot!

Tough Enough

Carrie Does Poems
Carrie Does Poems
Tough Enough
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Hi! This year (2023), I’m continuing my quest to share a poem on my blog and podcast and read it aloud. It’s all a part of my quest to be brave and apparently the things that I’m scared about still include:

  1. My spoken voice
  2. My raw poems.

Thanks for being here with me and cheering me on, and I hope that you can become braver this year, too!


https://livinghappy.substack.com/

Shame on Us No More. Own Who You Are, Baby.

Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
Shame on Us No More. Own Who You Are, Baby.
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I cannot tell you how much fear of public shaming and disdain has held me back my entire life. I’ve pretty much smalled myself down because I was so nervous about random, anonymous (or not) mean things happening. And I talk about that more specifically in the podcast.

Teddy Roosevelt has this quote from a speech in Paris in 1910 just after he ran for president. There were over 2,000 people there.  “Citizenship in a Republic,” or “The Man in the Arena.”

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

TR

The applause lasted more than two minutes. Multiple times.

“The first time I read this quote,” Dr. Brené  Brown wrote in the intro to her book Daring Greatly, “I thought, This is vulnerability. Everything I’ve learned from over a decade of research on vulnerability has taught me this exact lesson. Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.”

So here goes:

Ignore the noise.

Blow off the haters.

Do your work.

Follow your passion.

Love your people.

Power through or love your way through your insecurities.

RANDOM THOUGHT LINK

We talk about feet sort of, but really facilitated meeting ice breakers. Either one? Totally sexy.

DOG TIP FOR LIFE

Sparty doesn’t care if people call him a toothless weirdo. He just loves every moment. Be like Sparty.

SHOUT OUT!

The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. 

Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what is this song?  It’s “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free.

WE HAVE EXTRA CONTENT ALL ABOUT LIVING HAPPY OVER HERE! It’s pretty awesome.

AND we have a writing tips podcast called WRITE BETTER NOW! It’s taking a bit of a hiatus, but there are a ton of tips over there.

We have a podcast, LOVING THE STRANGE, which we stream biweekly live on Carrie’s Facebook and Twitter and YouTube on Fridays. Her Facebook and Twitter handles are all carriejonesbooks or carriejonesbook. But she also has extra cool content focused on writing tips here.

Carrie is reading one of her raw poems every once in awhile on CARRIE DOES POEMS. And there you go! Whew! That’s a lot!

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