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 tarot card readings) and hear, from her perspective, how astrology can be a support in understanding what is happening in our world, and in ourselves. (yes, even if you’re a sceptic. And more! In between each episode I’ll share a fairytale or myth related to the topic and person we just learned from. This’ll be fun. An episode for deep learning. An episode for ancient story wisdom. Connect with Janelle and the podcast: www.janellehardy.com/podcast

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

Aysen Farag, an indigenous medicine person of Egyptian-Amazigh (Berber), Moinjaang (Dinka), and Kuku-Bari heritage. Enjoy our ramble through the Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris as well as Aysen’s relationship with her body and creativity. Connect with Aysen: http://dreamingroots.com/ Get Aysen’s Tobacco Medicine Song gift here: https://mailchi.mp/421f4fda01a9/tobaccomedicinesong Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Rev. Sheree Taylor-Jones, a New Thought minister, ordained in both Unity and Religious Science, and the author of Regenerative Purpose: The Dynamic Nature of the Way We Choose Work. Enjoy our ramble through the Aesop’s fable The Lion and the Mouse as well as Sheree’s relationship with her body and creativity. Connect with Rev. Sheree: preachitsister.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Wendy May is a purpose guide, conscious-business coach, Enneagram teacher and human-experience designer and author of Regenerative Purpose: The Dynamic Nature of the Way We Choose Work. Enjoy our ramble through the Brazilian folktale The Businessman and the Fisherman as well as Wendy’s relationship with her body and creativity. Connect with Wendy: kaistara.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

All things related to the pervasive, and frankly, false feeling of being behind all the time. Janelle weaves her understanding of feeling behind with a story about being afraid of wolves and sking in the far north of Canada as a child. Sign up for Janelle's free winter solstice gift here: www.personalmythmaking.com/darkness This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Personal Mythmaking podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com  

Sylvia V. Linsteadt is a writer and her work—both fiction and non-fiction—is rooted in myth, ecology, feminism & bioregionalism, and is devoted to broadening our human stories to include the voices of the living land. Enjoy our ramble through the Greek myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur as well as Sylvia’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Personal Mythmaking podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Sylvia: www.sylvialinsteadt.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Sophia Remolde, aka Lobsterbird, was born to assist awakening beings to their fullest human potential. She does this by guiding spiritual creatives on pilgrimage so they can level up in their businesses, heal their lives, and change the world. Among many things, Sophia is a wormhole coach, energy healer, and compassionate social activist. Enjoy our ramble through the Buddhist tale of The Secret Life of Yeshe Sogyal as well as Sophia’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Personal Mythmaking podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Sophia: www.lobsterbird.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

 Janelle Hardy, transformational memoir-writing course creator and teacher, and host of this podcast, shares a freshly written fairytale, for the Anthropocene – the Women Who Cry With Dry Eyes. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Personal Mythmaking podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com  

Venessa Rodriguez is a functional nutritionist, intuitive nourishment guide and host of the Feed Your Wild Podcast. Enjoy our ramble through the fairytale The Little Mermaid as well as Venessa's relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Personal Mythmaking Podcast please support the show at www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Venessa: www.wildlyrooted.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com  

Sebene Selassie helps modern, multicultural spiritual seekers create transformation in their lives by teaching them how to make space for self–care, new practices, and liberating change. Enjoy our ramble through the Buddhist tale of Kisagotami as well as Sebene’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Personal Mythmaking podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Sebene: www.sebeneselassie.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

All things resistance - this is a solo episode on writer's block, creative resistance, procrastination, perfectionism, overwhelm and imposter syndrome. Fear not - there are solutions - Janelle weaves her understanding of resistance with body-based healing of the nervous system and offers ways to shift out of resistance and into creative flow. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Personal Mythmaking podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com  

Alisha Sommer is a Bay Area Freelance Writer & Photographer with a gift for holding sacred space, for deep listening, and for seeing the ordinary in extraordinary ways. Enjoy our ramble through the fairytale of Bluebeard as well as Alisha’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Personal Mythmaking podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Alisha: www.alishasommer.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com  

Jen Setterfield is a woman in the second half of her life who has spent the first half finding out who she is. Her unique experiences being an adoptee, mixed race, athlete, writer and cabinetmaker are worth listening in on. Enjoy our ramble through the fairytale of The Handless Maiden as well as Jen’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Personal Mythmaking podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Anna Holden is an intuitive, medical intuitive, sound healer and teacher who specializes in working with Highly Sensitive People. Enjoy our ramble through the Irish myth of The Children of Lir (aka The Six Swans) as well as Anna’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Personal Mythmaking podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Anna: www.sensitivityuncensored.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Podcast updates and changes - after a small break, Janelle is back with a name change - from Wild Elixir to Personal Mythmaking Podcast, and more. Enjoy getting caught up with where Janelle will take the podcast in the future (clues - a lot of the same focus, and some small changes.) This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Amber is an herbalist, writer, teacher, mom and podcaster living in Northern California. Her work focuses on the myth and magic of herbal medicine, recent genealogy and deep ancestry, psychedelic healing, conscious dying and natural death care, birth, motherhood, and women’s wellness. All of Amber’s work is undertaken with the belief that story is medicine, magic is real, and healing is open-ended & endless. Enjoy our ramble through the Celtic myth of the Selkie folk as well as Amber’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Amber: https://mythicmedicine.love/ Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Elizabeth DiAlto + Ariadne and the Golden Thread. Elizabeth DiAlto is an Integrative Spiritual counselor, creator of Wild Soul Movement, an author, and the host of the popular Truth Telling with Elizabeth DiAlto podcast living in Marina Del Rey on the traditional territory of the Tanva People. Enjoy our ramble through the myth of Ariadne and the Golden Thread as well as Elizabeth’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Elizabeth: wildsoulmovement.com & wildsoulmovement.com/waitlist & access her energy hygiene gift here: wildsoulmovement.com/energy Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Kate Chadbourne + An Fear Gan Sceal. Kate Chadbourne is an award-winning songwriter and poet, scholar and teacher of Irish language and folklore. Enjoy our ramble through the Irish fairytale of An Fear Gan Sceal (The Man Without A Story) as well as Kate’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Kate: www.katechadbourne.com & www.bardicacademy.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Rhys Thorvald Hansen + East of the Sun, West of the Moon. Rhys Thorvald Hansen is non-binary artist and storyteller living in the pacific north coast of the US in the traditional territory of the Coast Salish people. Enjoy our ramble through the fairytale of East of the Sun, West of the Moon as well as Rhy’s relationship with their body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Rhys: www.rhysthansen.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Darla Antoine + The Ugly Duckling. Darla Antoine is a mixed-race Okanagan (Syilx) Tribal member who grew up in her ancestral homelands in the Okanagan highlands of Washington State. Darla's is also a spiritual worker specializing in ancestral healing, living and raising her family in Costa Rica. Enjoy our ramble through the fairytale of The Ugly Duckling as well as Darla’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Darla: www.darlaantoine.com & www.lasvueltaslodge.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Yarrow Magdalena + Bluebeard. Yarrow Magdalena is a queer artist and writer, a lover of plants, a tarot reader and a magic maker who creates intentional websites and digital strategies for small, ethical business that are heartfelt and authentic. Enjoy our ramble through the fairytale of Bluebeard as well as Yarrow’s relationship with their body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Yarrow: yarrowdigital.com & DaydreamingWolves.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Ep. 50 :: Dumbo + Wynne Leung by Wild Elixir: A podcast for personal mythmakers

Nela Dunato + Cycle of Seasons. Nela Dunato is a mixed media artist, designer and writer from Croatia. Her lifelong fascination with mythology, folk tales and the unseen world shows up prominently in her visual art and other creative endeavors. Enjoy our ramble through the Slavic myth Cycle of Seasons as well as Nela’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Nela: http://neladunato.com/ Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Sue Kearney + the Baal Shem Tov stories. Sue Kearney is a woman in the third third of her life who has found a way to redefine her wildness and to reclaim the woman she was born to be. Enjoy our ramble through one of the Jewish Baal Shem Tov stories as well as Sue’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Sue: https://magnoliaswest.com/ & https://magnoliaswest.com/reclaim-resilience/ Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Linda Laino + Sisyphus. Linda Laino is an American artist, writer and teacher who has, since 2012, been making her home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Enjoy our ramble through the myth of Sisyphus as well as Linda’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Linda: at www.lindalaino.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Jacquelyn Tierney + Baba Yaga. Jacquelyn Tierney is a photographer specializing in portraiture, and a women’s self-discovery guide – using the healing medicine of portraiture, embodiment workshops and treks across the globe to guide women back home to their voices, confidence and sensuality. Enjoy our ramble through the fairytale of Baba Yaga as well as Jacquelyn’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Jacquelyn: www.jacquelyntierney.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Elsie Escobar + Pablo and Birdy. Elsie is a podcasting pundit working in the cross-section of technology, digital media & holistic living with a heavy bias on podcast strategy and creative use of audio. Enjoy our ramble through the children’s story of Pablo and Birdy as well as Elsie’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Elsie: www.elsieescobar.com & www.shepodcasts.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Rachel Lee + The Nokken. Rachel is an artist who lives and works in Miami, Florida. Her art practice is based in painting, inspired by the DIY work ethic of American punk/alternative rock musicians and the aesthetics of ’90s video game graphics and ’90s alternative music. Enjoy our ramble through the Scandinavian fairytale of the Nokken as well as Rachel’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Rachel: r-lee.net Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Salma Darling + Angulimala. Salma Darling is a conscious dance facilitator, dance movement psychotherapist and dharma and mindfulness teacher who lives flexibly between the UK and Marin County California. Enjoy our ramble through the Buddhist story of Angulimala as well as Salma’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Salma: www.wilddivinedance.com & www.mindfulnessconsultancy.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Rina Rose + The Ugly Duckling. Rina’s a visual storyteller who has a passion for creating spaces - metaphorical, digital and physical, joined me in conversation from just outside Philadelphia. Enjoy our ramble through the fairytale of The Ugly Duckling as well as Rina’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Rina: https://www.instagram.com/iamrinarose/ Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Today I’m chatting with Lynnda Pollio, an author and intuitive and cultural empath in New York City. Enjoy our ramble through Alice In Wonderland, the Hero’s Journey as well as Lynnda’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Lynnda: http://lynndapollio.com/ Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com

Today I’m chatting with Gitanjali Hemp, a master energy healer from Santa Cruz County, California. Enjoy our ramble through the tale Churning The Cosmic Sea as well as Gitanjali’s relationship with her body and creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Gitanjali: www.syntarasystem.com Connect with Janelle: www.janellehardy.com