In this episode, we’re joined by Josh Booton, an award-winning poet, singer/songwriter with the band Mercy Giant, and speech language pathologist. In a rich, ranging conversation, we open into Josh’s process creating poetry and making music, his drive to empathetically connect, and how he finds moments of transcendence lit largest through contrast. This takes us, too, into a wider discussion of making art, feeling the sacred, and tapping into the unseen world. Threaded through it all: a sense of holding together all the things. And also, the gift of Josh’s poetry, subtle, lush, glorious.

We hope this episode is a balm of soft creative flame and joy in these dark weeks.

To connect with Josh further, you can find him on Instagram here and find Mercy Giant here.

Look for Josh's books at your favorite indie and used books stores, or at Barnes & Noble or Amazon.

Discover Mercy Giant's music on Apple Music, Spotify, and other streaming services.

(Also, if you haven't yet collided with Jeff Buckley, and after this episode you want to, here's a start, with "Hallelujah." To read "blessing the boats" by Lucille Clifton {please do}, visit here. And to explore Larry Levis, you can find a selection of his poems here.)

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In this episode, we return to our energetic sense of being at a precipice, still moving, intricately, in the dark; yet now in the loudest and quietest notes of completion, and beginning.

We talk of trust, and the knowing and unknowing moving us. We talk of the intensity of change we feel around the corner, and one destined threshold this long journey is taking so many of us across, preparing us to give our deepest gifts.

We also talk of upcoming new projects we’re each excited about—for Robin, creating more Imagine + Flow guided meditative imaginings and bringing them to YouTube, and for Nicole, launching a new solo podcast where she’ll be teaching depth psychology and more in a singularly beautiful way. We’ll share more about these as they find their form. :)

In this beautiful solstice month, where so much hangs silent and radiant in the air, we wish you well in your own precipice-ing, and celebrating. If you’d like to share any of how this moment in time is meeting you, we’d love to hear from you.

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In this episode, we begin in lightness then move to intensity: talking of how in this moment of time, we’ve come to stand at a precipice, with gathering crescendo, in what feels like last (and beginning) notes of wild and deep stories.

Nicole shares pieces of where this multi-year period has ultimately led her, into a new embodied nervous-system-level okayness, that grounds her in herself even through chaos. And also, into a knowing that she’s meant to help others build an inner architecture that lets them do the same.

For Robin, this period has brought with it two deep mystical stories defined by trust and devotion, which have each led her to step so deeply into her intuitive power it feels like a living in magic. In this episode, she opens into one of these, a story around money, and listening, and moving with the invisible world as much as what is seen. (She shares more about this, with deeper nuance, in an episode of her other podcast, Voice Note Me, which is linked below.)

We know we’re not the only ones living through these initiations, in this moment, that build upon all the rest we’ve experienced to carry us forward into a new way of being humans on this earth together.

It’s a powerful piece of time. And we really enjoyed this conversation that touched into the current energies as we feel them. We hope it meets you well.

{If you feel drawn to hear more about this story Robin shares, you can find the Voice Note Me episode—Marrow and Pixie Dust: A Love Letter in Vignette, from Robin—on Apple Podcasts here or on Spotify here. You can also find the Voice Note Me podcast on YouTube and the other usual platforms.}

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