Personal Mythmaking With Janelle Hardy (formerly The Wild Elixir Podcast)

To listen to future episodes of the Personal Mythmaking Podcast, search Memoir Body, Healing Story Podcast with Janelle Hardy on your favourite podcast player.  We'll be continuing the conversation with this slight focus shift and name change, all at a different URL (or just listen in here: www.janellehardy.com/podcast/ Expect conversations with memoirists, both published and in-progress, talking about their life stories, their writing and publishing path, as well as conversations with fabulous storytellers, skilled healers with a body focus, and some brief but useful body-based writing prompts. Enjoy!

The Personal Mythmaking Podcast is coming back to life, with a slight focus shift and name change. Welcome to the Memoir Body, Healing Story Podcast with Janelle Hardy (yes, same host). Expect conversations with memoirists, both published and in-progress, talking about their life stories, their writing and publishing path, as well as conversations with fabulous storytellers, skilled healers with a body focus, and some brief but useful body-based writing prompts. Enjoy!

Kimberly Ann Johnson is a Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner, educator, author of Call of the Wild and The Fourth Trimester, and a solo parent. She helps women heal trauma, awaken their power and feel at home in their bodies to start living life on their own terms. Enjoy our ramble through Inanna's Descent as well as her relationship with her body and creativity. Connect with Kimberly: kimberlyannjohnson.com Learn more about her book, Call of the Wild (and read the first chapter for free!): Connect with Kimberly: kimberlyannjohnson.com/call-of-the-wild Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Shanna Lee is a southern Californian, spirit-seeking renegade, with a deep passion for manifesting miracles and inspiring action who left a real estate business to work as an intuitive healer and business catalyst. Enjoy our ramble through the Princess and the Pea as well as her relationship with her body and creativity. Connect with Shanna: thesoulfrequency.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Heather Vickery is a single mom of four (all girls!) who left a decade long marriage and came out personally and professionally (yes, of the closet).  She lives in Forest Park Illinois, and is an award-winning business owner and global leader with over 20 years as an entrepreneur. Enjoy our ramble through her chosen tale as well as her relationship with her body and creativity. Connect with Heather: vickeryandco.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Camila Arguello is an author and mindset and alignment coach living in the Bay area of California, USA. Enjoy our ramble through her chosen tale as well as her relationship with her body and creativity. Connect with Camila: camilaarrinudo.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Kimya Nuru Dennis, Ph.D. is a multi and interdisciplinary criminologist and sociologist currently living in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Enjoy our ramble through her chosen ancient tale as well as her relationship with her body and creativity. Connect with Kimya: 365diversity.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Isabel Martin-Ventura is an author, conscious living coach, and energy healing practitioner. In Long Island, New York. She helps individuals connect with themselves and the deeper, spiritual nature of life. Enjoy our ramble through the story Through the Fire as well as Isabel’s relationship with her body and creativity. Connect with Isabel: isabelmartinventura.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Holly Chang is a lens-based artist in Toronto who is currently completing her MA in Communication and Culture at Ryerson/York University. Enjoy our ramble through Thordis the Prophetess as well as Holly’s relationship with her body and creativity. Connect with Holly: www.holly-mcclay-chang.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Louise Hardy is a counsellor, art therapist and former Member of Parliament from the Yukon, Canada. She discusses creativity and the power of resourcing ourselves in difficult times through creative making, in ways that are totally free as well as ways that may cost some money (for art materials and/or art therapy services.) Enjoy the conversation! Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com/podcast

Janelle Hardy transformational memoir-writing course creator and teacher, and host of this podcast, shares the fairytale The Swan Sister. Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com/podcast/

Kim Cooper is a 21+ year practitioner in the fascinating and complex teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She had humble beginnings in a small town on Vancouver Island, raised by her father who worked in the logging industry and her mother who stayed at home with her and her sister.  I think we can learn a lot from Kim’s skills and the depth of knowledge and wisdom that Traditional Chinese Medicine brings to the medical, health and wellness fields. Enjoy the conversation! Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com/podcast

Janelle Hardy transformational memoir-writing course creator and teacher, and host of this podcast, shares the fairytale The One Who Set Out to Study Fear. Go to the show notes here: www.janellehardy.com/78-study-fear

Ellen Brian, a Tarot Card reader and Astrologer from my hometown of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. She’s run a tarot and astrology business 1994, but has studied Astrology formally and informally since 1977, and has a lot of insight into how astrology can be used as a tool to understand greater world circumstances (like this pandemic) and how the astrology and events affect each of us individually. Enjoy the conversation! Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com/podcast

Janelle Hardy transformational memoir-writing course creator and teacher, and host of this podcast, shares the fairytale The Handless Maiden. Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com/podcast/

Melissa Addison-Webster is a Queer, Disabled, White settler and lightworker from Peterborough Ontario. At the age of 22, after sustaining a spinal-cord injury in a vehicle accident, Melissa began an inward journey to find deeper peace – I think most of us can learn a lot from Melissa’s experiences, and she’s generously sharing her insights with us for this special pandemic series. Enjoy the conversation! Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com/podcast

Personal Mythmaking Podcast's special pandemic series It’s episode 74 and I'm telling the tale of Stone Soup. It's paired with the previous episode, #73 - a conversation with Talyn Martin, reformed organic farmer living on Gabriola Island (Isle of the Arts) in Canada’s Pacific Northwest.

Talyn Martin is a reformed organic farmer living on Gabriola Island (Isle of the Arts) in Canada’s Pacific Northwest. Talyn was a guest on episode 30, and I wanted to invite her back on the podcast to specifically to talk about food security and organic farming, because she has so much experience in it, but also because I don’t think enough of us (even folks like me with organic farmer friends) truly understand how important supporting food security and our local farmers actually is. Enjoy the conversation! Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com/podcast

For this special pandemic series, we’re going to dive right into some rich topics with skilled and experienced experts in their fields. Starting with episode 72, we’ll talk to a retired organic farmer about food security, local and organic farming, and how to support food security in your own communities through gardening, community gardens, farmers markets, community supported agriculture boxes (aka CSAs.) We’ll talk to an art therapist and counsellor about how our creativity can support our emotional and mental health, and how we can get creative without needing to spend much money. We’ll talk to a healer about navigating sudden and drastic life changes. She’ll share a bit about how she did so as a young woman with a spinal cord injury, the importance of advocacy for self (as well as for those who need our support) and the kinds of things she’s found supportive on her own life path. We’ll talk to an astrologer with more than 26 years experience doing astrological forecasts and readings (as well as wonderful

Fay Wolf is an artist, author and decluttering pro based in Los Angeles. She founded New Order®, her decluttering business, in 2006, and has since guided thousands of humans toward less inner and outer clutter, more creativity and productivity, and maybe even a happier adulthood. Enjoy our ramble through The Gift of the Magi as well as Fay’s relationship with her body and creativity. Connect with Fay: www.faywolf.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com