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A book-on-podcast about the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we tell others, and the space between those two. It's about how we love, how we lose, and how we recover (or not) throught the stories we make up in our heads. It is also the memoir of Robin Rice.

Robin Rice


    • Feb 8, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Epilogue

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2025 48:19


    So, here we are. You and me, touching somewhere across time. I'm speaking way over here, sending the waves of my voice, with meaning, with intent, through something we have fantastically called ‘the web,' and you're there, wherever and whenever there is for you, receiving me. If that doesn't blow your mind, I have more. There are billions - many billions - of people on the planet... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 36: A Tale Of Two Stories, Part Two

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2025 54:18


    Where do old stories go to die? As we are nearing the end of these stories about stories, it's a fair question. Do stories die? Do they end? Can they end? Or are they like energy - only (and always) changing form? Sure, our stories will go on through the stories of others we have touched. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about stories as we carry them. Can we leave them, or lose them, or let them drive off into the sunset without us? This is more important than you might think... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 35: A Tale Of Two Stories, Part One

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2025 41:35


    Betrayal. It's a classic story element. An act of disloyalty. We are misled or outright deceived. Someone we trusted steals from us. Maybe it's something tangible, maybe it's more like our soul. Trust can be stolen, and with it, a beautiful innocence we had somehow kept safe untill now. Someone acts out of meanness or jealousy or vengeance. (What a word - vengeance - sounds as bad as it is). All this is standard story fare. Nothing new. Nothing unusual. Anyone can tell you about it. Everyone has seen it for themselves, though some more than others. What people don't talk about so much, though, is the “great betrayal.” The one that stands above all others. The one we see folks never get over, never talk about, never attempt to seek balance in the injustice. The betrayal of self... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 34: What Fresh Hell

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2025 22:42


    A myth is not a lie. It's a bigger truth. Rather, a story told to reveal bigger truths. Truths that touch each of us at some time or another. Myths are not old and outdated. “Urban legends,” for example, speak to something more today. There's one I often tell to explain the conundrum we are in with artificial intelligence. Back at the turn of the century, urban legend has it that there was a city planning meeting where there was much discussion about the rapidly growing New York City. One planner suggested the others need not worry - population would be limited by the amount of horse shit they could get out of the city. Of course, the automobile was about to arrive as one of the greatest disruptors of all time...Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 33: Premonitions

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2025 28:51


    Unconscious. Subconscious. Pre-conscious. Shadowed consciousness. Altered consciousness. Just look at all the ways we can not be conscious. To get at this, there are a lot of methods to approach what we know - but don't know that we know. We could spend an entire lifetime probing into this unawareness (and some people do). Classify it. Codify it. Poke and prod. Philosophize. Create a double blind study. Look under taboo-rocks, and then under the earth that supports that rock, then under that, all the way to hot lava. Metaphorically, of course... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 32: Energy To Spare

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2025 27:24


    Meaning. Purpose. Passion. Impact. These are the story elements we all want. They are what makes the story of our lives worthwhile. More and more, though, I've noticed most want them in a drug-store greeting card way. A vision-board-to-make-it-so way. In an addicted, life-has-no-meaning-without-them way. In a “lookey, lookey what I've found” way. In a self-loathing, “what a failure I am to NOT have found them” way. In a “only if I can make money off it” way. Here, let me get up on my soap box for a minute... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 31: Alchemy and Aya

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2024 37:25


    Risk is defined, quite simply, as the possibility of something bad happening. An exposure to danger. A threat. Sounds doomed from the start, doesn't it? Sure, bad things can and do happen. Very bad things. Worse things. The worst of all things - whatever that might be for us. Why would anyone risk, then? Why would anyone leave the house...? Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 30: Healing Magic

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2024 27:15


    Science describes energy as the ability to do stuff. Move stuff. Change stuff. Transform stuff. Heat. Light. Motion. Gravity pulls down. Steam engines chug-chug forward. There is potential, or stored, energy. But also kinetic, or working, energy. Converted energy, too. Renewable and non-renewable; primary or secondary. Science has its fingers all over our energy explanations. But how much do we actually know about the origins of the energy of life? Where's the generator that started this whole she-bang? And what about black holes? When does string theory run out of… string? Explain it to me like I'm five... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 29: My Henry, My Home

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2024 17:47


    Home is not a place. It's a story. A feeling. A sense of arrival. A need met. A recognition. A resting. A safety. A knowing. A Mecca of the heart. A satisfaction of the soul. To be honest, I've been trying to write about home ever since I got the assignment from an English professor in college. I tried and got a decent grade but it was crap… and all these years later, I'm still at a loss for words. But it's important, especially at this point in our story. So… here goes. Again. Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 28: What Do You Want?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2024 28:51


    As a fiction writer, we must know what our characters want. As a non-fiction writer, we must know what our audience wants. As the master storyteller of our life, we must know what we want. Let me be clear, the me of today wouldn't ever suggest that organizing our life around our surface wants is a good idea. It's a sales job, and a con job at that. Everything in our culture teaches us to want, primes us to want. Our biology gears up our wants, namely to procreate, but also to adventure into new territory in search of evolution, or sometimes just food. Our psyche tells us to want to stay socially safe, but also to differentiate, be unique, special...Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 27: Seven Years Awake

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2024 27:03


    One of the first courses I taught was called The Second Half Of The Mountain. It alternated between lessons on daily life as it related to Shamanism, Taoism, and Alchemy. When one path failed to help, one of the others always could jump in. The premise was simple: Any path will take you halfway up the mountain. No path will take you up the second half. There are signposts - hence the class - but actual feet to the ground? That's our journey to take...Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 26: Of Mantles and Initiations

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2024 31:12


    Storytellers play god with their stories. They bless and they curse. They create and destroy. They let people die, or live, maybe healthy, maybe maimed. It's all up to the story's author.  There are a few safeguards. First, the storyteller knows the receiver can always choose to put the story down. I can't tell you how many times I've stopped a story (book or movie) halfway through because I didn't want to be left with what was going to come next. I am self-protective that way and glad for the right to be so. And if by chance I miss the opportunity to be surprised...?Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 25: Ireland

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2024 37:51


    Land has a story. As does sky. And sea. But land, especially, for this is where we make our homes, find our people, raise our children and in many cultures, bury our dead. The land is the soil our stories grow from and are returned to. But what land is your land? What land is mine? How do we know...? Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 24: His Holiness In India

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2024 25:56


    Travel changes us, or at least it should. To see others living out a different story from our own, in ways astonishingly foreign to us, is to grow. Lately, there has been a lot of buzz about privilege, and who has it, and who does not. If we have the means to travel, we have privilege. The least we can do is use it well. Where you choose to travel, and when, and with whom, sets the stage. From there, you've got another host of choices....Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 23: Shaman, Heal Thyself

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2024 26:46


    We hear a lot about self-esteem and self-image. We have entire sections of the bookstore devoted to self-help. We may uproot our lives to go “find ourselves.” Theoretically, our “self” is that part of us that tells us what we believe we are capable of—and not—thus creating a “self-fulfilling prophecy.” Also, the “self-made man” we hear of. But what is the self? I would argue - nothing but a composite of stories added to the predisposition of personality. As a concept, a reflection, even a perspective of consciousness, there is nothing materially real to our “self.” The hard science folks agree—our “self” cannot be found. If we are only a combination of brain synapses creating ideas and images that project themselves into our selves… sounds like a scam, doesn't it...Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 22: Many Lives, Many Stories

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2024 27:47


    Once upon a time. Past tense, future tense, present tense. (So tense!) Our stories about the mysteries of life may require us to think in a way that transcends time—but that is also a reference to time. The timeless in opposition to time. Our sense of time moving fast or slow tells us something about how much we are enjoying the string of present moments we are in. We have good times and bad times, boring times, climactic times. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the okay of times...Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 21: The Best Possible Story

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2024 30:48


    When it comes to stories, there is one skill that—with no exaggeration—will make or break our lives. This skill is a choice that shows up every day, in every interaction, and through everything we create. When the choice comes at a particularly important crossroads, it is vital to exercise this skill. But small, everyday choices add up, too. What is it? When in doubt, and especially when it is impossible to know a given truth, choose the best possible story... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 20: The Weight Of A Story

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2024 23:18


    Not all stories are created equal. Rather, not all stories hold equal weight in our lives. I have long explained this through the metaphor of a very, very expensive cake. Imagine you have a roommate and you have just moved in together. It's her birthday and you decide to swing by the local grocery and get her a cake. The cost is $6.99 - and maybe 15 minutes of your time. You decide you'll take the chocolate. When you give the cake to her, she says, “Uh, thanks, but I don't like chocolate cake.” You think “rude” and choose to eat the cake yourself. Next birthday, though, no cake. You know her better and are closer, but you remember her last response. Kind of hard to forget...Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 19: Out Of The Box

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2024 22:47


    Imagine a box. A story box. Everything in your life fits in this story box, and as time passes, some things fall out, while new things are put in. The new shapes the memories of the old so that a sense of incongruence does not arise. We can travel through our lives with a box that feels cohesive. Carrying this box, we feel like “us” to “ourselves” and not much changes that feeling. We feel like ourselves even if—upon closer examination—there's not much to support that feeling. All goes well with our story-boxed life until something happens that does not fit; does not match who we assume ourselves to be on the surface. At this juncture, we have a decision to make. Will we accept what we cannot understand? Will we investigate further? Or will we say, “Well, that was weird,” and forget about it...Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 18: The Dream Teachers

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2024 30:35


    Nowhere are we closer to our deeper stories than in our dreams. I find it fascinating that we use the same word—dream—for both that which we experience when asleep at night and for our more conscious wishes, hopes, plans, and visions. Common between the two types of dreams are the bravery it requires to look closely at them and the intimacy and vulnerability it demands to share them. They are, after all, deeper glimpses into our selves and souls. Story portraits, if you will, of who we really are and who we wish to be...Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 17: Things That Go Bump In The Night

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2024 29:47


    We cognitively understand that we live in a world of left and right, up and down, young and old. In short, that everything has its opposite. We are born, we die. We win some, we lose some. Everyone knows this. Few choose to think about it much, at least when things are going well. As I've often said: “Nobody soul searches on a good day.” Rarely do we think about guardian angels coming with menacing devils to thwart us - at least in contemporary society, where we have white-washed evil as a superstition and espouse darkness as a mere lack of education. The traditional Old Ones always gave their fair warnings. We seem to think we are above that need now... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 16: Diving In

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2024 30:10


    At the end of the day, every compelling story is a yes story or a no story. For a time, you can get away with a maybe story, or a wait and see story, but not for long. Life doesn't stand for it. The half-hearted will always get passed by in favor of the yes-er and the no-er. As a story author, you get to choose to create a protagonist - which is to say the central character of the story living out their yes or no truth - or a victim… someone lost to the story unfolding. Fate, if you will. What you can't create is a couch-sitter who keeps couch sitting. There's no story in that story... Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com   Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you!    About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com. 

    Chapter 15: Reading The Future

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2024 23:07


    Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Chapter 14: Getting Ready - But For What?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2024 20:37


    Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Chapter 13: Putting The Pieces Together

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2024 36:41


    Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Episode 12: Took You Long Enough

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2024 32:46


    Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Episode 11: Hidden Villains

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2024 25:46


    Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Chapter 10: Choices

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2024 37:32


    Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Chapter 9: The Formidable One

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2024 28:46


    Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Chapter 8: When They Are Cut

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 37:13


    Suicide Prevention Resource: As this chapter deals with suicide, please visit https://www.heardalliance.org/families-suicide/ for resources to support yourself or someone you know. We don't want to live without you!  Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Chapter 7: Sex & Power—The Early Years

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2024 26:48


    Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Chapter 6: Angels, Ecstasy, and The God With Attributes

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2024 21:22


    Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Chapter 5: Fathers, Daughters, and Stories That Never End

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2024 35:48


    Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Chapter 4: Money, Money, Money

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2024 37:13


    Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Chapter 3: Rivers, Songs, and the Beautiful Light

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2024 21:32


    Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Chapter 2: Who's To Blame?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2024 27:28


    Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

    Introduction + Chapter One

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 19:45


    Enter YOUR Labyrinth at BeWhoYouAre.com.Music by: Luca PalumboSound Engineer: Pedro H. Barceló at Digital Azul, Lisbo, PortugalDedicated to Robbi Behr, who remained present through all the stories, especially those that would not end. With gratitude to my early readers and listeners: Shirin Meiners, Carole Frarey, Burt Kempner, Rob Virtue, Alison Godfrey, Laurie Rivera, Manni Dillon, Anna Brassard, Kerrie Tauzin Mills, Patti Ellsworth, Cheryl Schrillo, Meredith Kelly, Tanner Madarang, Mary Christine Sandner, Meghan Ryan, and Wendy Weatherwax.  Enter YOUR labyrinth at: BeWhoYouAre.com Special Request: I recorded this book for a podcast platform so that you can listen for free. Please rate, dowload, and share with a friend to help us help others with their stories. Thank you! About Me, Robin Rice: As an author and story philosopher, I know that the way a story is told changes the reality around it. My intention is to write books that stay with my readers long after they've closed the last chapter. As a story strategist, I have worked with bestselling authors to help them reach the Top-100-Of-The-Year lists, including Oprah, Time Magazine, and others. I also work with high-profile leaders who are effectively changing our world at scale. I have created social change projects that have traveled the globe, including #stopthebeautymadess and #yourholidaymom. Now, for the first time, I am sharing my personal story of awakening to greater consciousness. Like all impactful stories, it's really about you. Join me as a trustworthy guide on the journey to uncover your own rich truths. Together, we can shape the story you've been waiting to tell yourself and the world. Learn more about me at RobinRice.com.

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