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In the final part of our tale, secrets are revealed, as our motley works to defend the right to hold the Seelie freehold and uncover a past which has remained hidden for years.
Tales of Three Campaign One Arc 2.0: The Seelie Episode 34: The Path Less Taken As their paths converge, Elara makes it to the castle gates and faces off with a Seelie guard while Ivy gets a distress call from Bea. Content Warnings: Confrontation with fantasy law enforcement, & Profanity Tales of Three is an all-queer, dark fantasy D&D podcast where your 3 Game Masters are also your 3 Main Characters If you like what you hear please tell your friends about us & consider giving us a 5 star review! It's a quick and easy way to show your support for small creators whose content you enjoy! Find our socials here! Want to chat with the cast, talk spoilers, play games, and make new friends? Join our Discord! If you want to help keep the podcast running and get access to bonus content check out our Patreon! Buy us a coffee on Ko-fi! Special thanks to SG for the theme music, Chris for the logo, Fenn & Ely for the character art! Background music and SFX by Epidemic Sounds
Ad Astra Travelers and welcome to Tales of Teyvat: A Genshin Lore Podcast. This week, we're going under the sea as we discuss Remuria and the Sea of Bygone Eras. After a quick recap of all the pivotal plot points in Fontaine - starting with the dragon sovereigns and ending with Fontaine today - our hosts introduce a cast of characters that help create the story of Remuria. This ancient city, founded by the God King Remus and Sybilla the Seelie, fills in the gaps from when Egeria was locked away by Celestia until she is released to rule over Fontaine properly. We meet Boethius and Cassiodor, who hold the longest-running feud in all of Teyvat. Not to mention, we'll review the greater implications of the Seelies' powers, how a God from Sumeru could create so much travesty in Fontaine, and what the heck a Phobos is. Do we know? Does anyone really know? Not to mention, our hosts will discuss the world quest featuring Osse the cat that introduces us to Remuria, the building of the island of Pertrichor, and why everyone looks like Dr. Ratio! Bring your scuba gear for this week's undersea adventure! Visit talesofteyvat.com to find a comprehensive lore sheet that provides visual aids and links to videos and important Genshin Impact Resources. Make sure to give us a follow on Twitter or Instagram to stay updated on all things Tales of Teyvat and let us know your thoughts on today's episode. Questions? Thoughts? Theories you have to share? Feel free to email us at talesofteyvatpod@gmail.com and let us know, we would love to hear from you! Tales of Teyvat has partnered with the Shade Chamber Podcast to create a Genshin Community on Discord for our listeners! We are so excited to chat Genshin Lore, Honkai Star Rail, and so much more with you! You can join our server at https://bit.ly/shadesofteyvat.
HEAVY TRIGGER WARNING ! This week we are covering A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca F. Kenney . This is a dark and very spicy retelling of the Nutcracker and is very mature audiences only! Sisters Clara and Louisa, both in their twenties, begin a journey into the Fae realm to save the Nutcracker with the help of the handsome Sugarplum Faerie with his promises of forbidden fantasies. Meanwhile the entire Seelie kingdom is under threat of conquest by the Rat King, ruler of the Dread Court. Triggers: family death violence gore monsters blood sexual threat light bondage light CNC explicit intimacy/spicy scenes primal play As always, our episodes contain spoilers in our podcast is intended for those 18+ as it does contain mention of mature content. Please listen, like, rate, review and share our episode! Check out our website at www.booktrospective.com. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube @ Booktrospective.
Join Melissa and Ellie in this episode of the Lane Book Club Podcast as they spotlight the indie gem "The Unseelie King's Rebel" by Alicia Klapheke! Get ready for an engaging book discussion, an exclusive interview with the author, and a journey into the enchanting world of the Seelie and Unseelie Fae. Expect laughter, drama, and lively commentary as the hosts dive deep into Bronwyn's rebellious adventure and her unexpected alliance with the Unseelie King. Engage with the hosts as they share their insights and welcome your questions and theories. Join the adventure and connect with us on all socials @lanebookclubpod. Whether you're a book lover, a fan of bookish banter, or just looking for a fun podcast to brighten your day, this episode has it all. Tune in and allow Melissa and Ellie to be your delightful companions on this literary journey! #BookDiscussion #BookPodcast #BookReview #BookishBanter #LiteraryHumor #ChapterAnalysis #ListenerEngagement #WittyReaders #PodcastFun #BookLovers #IndieAuthor #IndieBook #WritingTips #BookRecommendations #TheUnseelieKingsRebel CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Intro 3:50 - Book Summary 8:16 - Interview with Alicia K. 15:04 - Writing Rituals 17:27 - When did you know you wanted to be a writer 19:25 - Maps 24:18 - Why Scottish Folklore 28:35 - How Melissa Gets Into the Mind of a Villain 33:50 - What inspired the Sir Cat relationship 38:50 - What happened to Bronwyn that made her join the temple of the star goddess 42:54 - Book Cover Reveal 43:15 - Goodbye ---------------------------------- Get Connected with us: https://linktr.ee/lamebookclub
In this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys kick things off by discussing the Dallas Stars' recent defeat in the Western Conference Final against the Edmonton Oilers. Kyle humorously regrets ever expressing his love for the team, as fans have been relentlessly teasing him about their loss. Following this, they delve into a report from San Antonio, Texas, where a humanoid creature with oily, black, and smooth skin was spotted completely naked. Next, they recount the experience of an Alabama college student who encountered a massive pterosaur flying directly over their car while driving down a deserted dirt road in rural Alabama, an event the student is still grappling with. Lastly, they share a story from South Central Pennsylvania, where a person witnessed a small, red-haired creature walking down the middle of a tree-lined road one evening. After the break, Kyle and Cam bring up some incredible encounters with the Fae. It may come as a surprise to some that fairies are not inherently nature spirits. This modern interpretation—specifically Victorian and New Age—has reduced powerful beings into small, sweet, and innocent creatures, like the stereotypical garden fairy adorned in a flower hat and skirt. However, there is another side to fairies that is far from benign. Just as our homes are sanctuaries for us, landscapes are sacred to fairy folk. Trespassing on their land can have severe and sometimes deadly consequences, depending on the stories you believe. Whether by setting up camp, stepping into a fairy ring, or inadvertently joining one of their gatherings, many unsuspecting mortals have been whisked away or threatened. Folklore and fairy tales, steeped in the supernatural, are easily manipulated for various purposes. Fairies have been at the center of numerous hoaxes, including the famous Cottingley Fairies, where two young girls nearly convinced the world of their existence. Myths, folklore, and fairy tales have always been vital tools for learning and have frequently been adapted for this purpose. Like human societies, both benevolent and malevolent, fairy folk have their customs and etiquette. If you ever encounter the Faerie Host, Andy Paciorek advises shouting "God Bless you!" and throwing your left shoe at them (though if this fails, you'll have to fight with just one shoe). The general rule is to avoid disturbing fairies if possible. Do not break a fairy ring if you come across one. If you wish to attract a fairy, use something shiny, but place yellow flowers outside your home or have iron objects around to keep them away. The prominence of certain fairy types varies by region. Northern Britain has hobgoblins, child- and adult-abducting fairies, and fairy royalty. In Scotland, the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, described by Andy Paciorek as good and evil fairies, are well-known. In County Durham, the Water Witch lurks by the water's edge, preying on small children. At the Museum of Magic and Witchcraft, it is noted that Cornwall has a variety of fairies, the most prominent being the piskie. The piskie is notorious for causing mischief and mayhem. To fend off piskies, you need iron; otherwise, they will steal anything shiny and play tricks. Here's a tip: not all fairies are benevolent! If you find yourself walking alone at night and hearing a horse's whickering or seeing a strange light ahead, do not follow it. You may end up waylaid and "Puck led." Survivors of such encounters often awaken in a muddy ditch, having been deceived by fairy lights into straying from their path and into trouble. All of this and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives! Sponsors: AG1: If there is one product we had to recommend to elevate your health, it's AG1, and that's why we have partnered with them for so long. So if you want to take ownership of your health, you gotta start with AG1! Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3+K2 and 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase exclusively at drinkAG1.com/expanded. Show Notes: Oily Black Humanoid Running Along San Antonio, Texas Highway Inside The Varginha UFO Incident, When Multiple People Reported Witnessing Extraterrestrial Phenomena In Brazil Alabama College Student Recalls Huge Pterosaur Flying Over His Vehicle Small Red-Haired Creature Encountered in South Central Pennsylvania Want to Share Your Story? Email: expandedperspectives@yahoo.com Hotline: 888-393-2783
TTRPG creator Anica Seelie is gifted three great prompts for their skill set: maintaining a eldrich god's slumber With a firm but loving grip on these words, Anica and Jenna slowly escalate their ideas until they make a game about continually fucking to appease the eldrich horror Suc'Naath. But don't do too good a job or your partner might experience and ecstasy too loud! Fumble, fool! Fumble! Visit the DFTBA Big Game Hunger merch shop at bit.ly/jennamerch, and check out the Pusheen Summer box at bit.ly/jennacat! Big Game Hunger is part of the Multitude Collective of podcasts. Created and hosted by Jenna Stoeber.
For a very merry Christmas special episode we read “A Court of Sugar and Spice: A Nutcracker Romance Retelling (Wicked Darlings)” by Rebecca F. Kenney With their inheritance restricted until their marriage, sisters Clara and Louisa, both in their twenties, must live with their godfather Drosselmeyer. One night, an accident brings to life one of the strange wooden dolls in Drosselmeyer's mansion. The Nutcracker doll is a cursed Fae prince, and he pleads for the sisters' help. During the ensuing journey into the Fae realm, Clara encounters the handsome Sugarplum Faerie, and he promises her the chance to enact all the forbidden fantasies she has dreamed of. Meanwhile Louisa and the Nutcracker Prince battle and bicker over everything, despite the growing attraction between them. And to make matters worse, the entire Seelie kingdom is under threat of conquest by the Rat King, ruler of the Dread Court. How did we rate it? What did we think? Find out on this episode of diktok. https://www.instagram.com/diktokpod/
Ever wonder what it would be like to be entangled in a love triangle between two handsome fae princes? If so, look no further than this fantasy romance! In this episode of the Spread Those Pages Podcast, Meg LaTorre and Courtney (Lyra Parish) dive into THESE HOLLOW VOWS by Lexi Ryan. ***CONTENT WARNING: 18+ YEARS OF AGE*** --- ➡️ PODCAST LINKS ⬅️https://spreadthosepages.com/links/
The boys are joined by Anica Cihla a little before the return of the Bach Franchise to talk about a truly horrendous series on Netflix called 28 Days Haunted.@AnicaSeelie on Twitter and Instagram. Get on the Horse Kickstarterhttps://linktr.ee/mikecarrozzahttps://linktr.ee/chrismejiacomedy@wedidntgetaroseWE'LL BE BACK FOR CHARITY'S SEASON!
In honor of America's favorite green holiday, let's talk fantasy! Jackie takes us into the realm of fairy tales with stories of the sidhe, fae, and elves.Questions/comments/concerns/recommendations? Email us at ragingromantics@nopl.org!Definitions:sidhe (correlated fairy for purposes of this episode and understanding) - taken from Aes sídhe or daoine sídhe ( meaning the people of the mounds). "In Old Irish we see references to síd, síth, síodh, sídh, sídhe, síodha, or sídbrugach as ‘a fairy hill or mound', and later in a more general sense, to mean something wondrous, enchanting, charming, or delightful. Subsequently, we see the term being associated with supernatural beings themselves, or fairies specifically." (Irish Pagan School, 2022)Tuatha De Danu - "people of the goddess Danu," Danu being a Celtic land or mother goddesseuhemerization - any interpretation of myths that derives the gods from outstanding men, and seeks the source of mythology in historyseelie/unseelie - derives from the Anglo-Saxon (ge)sælig/ sællic meaning ‘happy' or ‘prosperous," associated with "seely wytes" in 17th c. ScotlandÁlfheim - Old Norse, "The Homeland of the Elves”ljósálfar - Old Norse, light elves (or bright elves)svartálfar/ dökkálfar - Old Norse, dark elves/black elvesSvartálfheim - Old Norse, "home of the black elves"dvergar - Old Norse, "dwarves"Other episodes to listen to:#33 - Exploring The Final Frontier with Science Fiction and Romance#37 An Homage to Retellings in Romance Books#38 A GRIMM Understanding of RetellingsBooks/Authors/People we mention:Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan SwiftArabian Nights / One Thousand Nights and OneBeowulfArthur RackhamThe Faerie Queene by Edmund SpenserFolk of the Air series by Holly BlackFever and Highlander series by Karen Marie MoningA Court of Thorns and Roses and Throne of Glass by Sarah J MaasWhat Lies Beyond the Veil by Harper L WoodsMarried to Magic series by Elise Kova (Accidentally named her "Air Awakens" series)WinterSong by S. Jae-JonesThe Halfling Saga by Melissa BlairA River Enchanted by Rebecca RossThe Four Winds series by Alexandria WarwickEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather FawcettDragon Heart Legacy series by Nora RobertsStitches by David SmallsHell Bent by Leigh BardugoSources:“Luck of the Irish: Folklore and fairies in Rural Ireland” (HRAF, Yale)“Fairies and Fairy lore: The reality of the Irish fairy” (Broderick, 2018)“The Sidhe – Irish Fairy Folklore” (Irish Pagan School, 2022)“Túatha Dé (Danann)” (CODECS)“Fairy in The Faerie Queene: Making Elizabeth Irish” (Severson, 2019)‘A History of Elves” (Bradford, 2017)“The Seelie and Unseelie Courts” (British fairies, 2021)"Incredible History of the Tuatha de Danann: Ireland's Most Ancient Race" (Connolly Cove, 2023)"Hallmarks of Fantasy: A Brief History of the Genre" (Pagan, 2020)"What Do Readers Want From Great Fantasy Fiction?" (BookViral, 2023)"What is fantasy fiction?" (Cliffnotes, 2023)"The Sidhe – Irish Fairy Folklore" (Irish Pagan School, 2022)"Everything You Need To Know About The Fae Folk" (Tea & Rosemary, 2021)"The Fae Meaning and Mythology Secrets You Need To Know" (Brethauer, n.d.)"The Seelie and Unseelie Courts" (Writing in Margins, 2022) "Who Were the Celts?" (History.com, 2019)"Svartálfar" (Wikipedia, 2007)
Hey Mythic Fam!Here is the Final episode in the FAE FOLK series! Let's talk about some Changelings and what to do when it's taken the place of your baby, and The Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Fairy Mounds and Fairy Cats make an appearance too!Send any personal experiences or your thoughts on the episode to weirdmythicpodcast@gmail.comMerch: https://my-store-bf9745-2.creator-spring.com/Twitter: @WeirdMythicInstagram: WeirdMythicPodcastOriginal art for our merch done by @FleshwadYT on Twitter!Original music by Jim Mazerik.Show Notes:Faery Crimes & Punishments | British Fairies (wordpress.com)Faery Mounds (faerypool.com)Fairy Cats: The Magic & Lore of the Celtic Cait Sidhe (otherworldlyoracle.com)Can You Stop Faeries Swapping Your Kids for Changelings? (icysedgwick.com) A Brief History of Fairies and Fae Folk from Around the World: in Honor of International Fairy Day - World History EncyclopediaThe Seelie and Unseelie Courts (weebly.com) and more if you would like I can send them over to ya!!
Lauren is back with more dark romantasy this Valentine's month with Lexi Ryan. Covering both books in her New York Times Best selling "These Hollow Vows" Duology. Travelling to the Seelie and UnSeelie court they meet Princes, attempt to rescue a sister and try not to lose their heart or anything else to the wrong person. Who doesn't want a sexy fae romance for Valentine's month? Just remember a heart is a dangerous thing to steal.Find Lexi Online:twitter/instagram - writerlexiryanhttps://lexiryan.com/
E135 - Darcy Murphy - Kingdom of Swords ad Seelie - The promised book and legacy that lives onKingdom of Swords And Seelie: An Urban Fantasy RomanceIf you find an ancient iron door in the middle of a forest…don't open it.Alicina Peterson is an ordinary country girl from Colorado – until a hike in the woods with her nine-year-old sister reveals a family secret…and a doorway to the fae court.Getting lost while babysitting, in a forest overrun by dark creatures, is only slightly terrifying.Worse? Emily followed her inside.Mistaken for the cursed heiress to a powerful kingdom on the edge of civil war, Alicina's only ally to find her little sister and escape is a morally-gray knight with mysterious powers.Roald of Deld has loved Lady Alice since they were children, despite her obvious love match with his best friend. Now, fforced to protect Alicina against the Unseelie, he sees the perfect opportunity to have a fling with his crush's lookalike. What could go wrong?If you obsessed over Game of Thrones and A Court of Thorns and Roses you won't be able to resist this compulsively addictive new series by Darcy Murphy.https://www.darcymurphybooks.com/https://livingthenextchapter.com/A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!Take your passion to the next level - let us help you start and grow your podcast! Podcasts work. Visit https://truemediasolutions.ca/Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters. Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.Dave's Affiliate Link - Support our show by clicking the link belowUS Audible LinkCanadian Audible LinkUK Audible LinkSupport the show!...
Hello bookish babes and welcome to the world of Faerie! This week, Allie and Meg are discussing the very popular YA fantasy duology by Lexi Ryan: These Hollow Vows and These Twisted Bonds. The ladies dive into spoiler filled reviews of both books as they sip on their Twisted cocktail of the week. They also discuss who the FMC should have ended up with, what they loved about the duology, whether they identify with the Seelie or Unseelie court, and the definitive answer of who the next book should be about. Happy Sunday and even happier reading!
We conclude horror month with the mysterious and aloof creatures of the Feywild or First World. What makes these creatures scary? What the heck are the Seelie and Unseelie courts? This nymph is offering me a deal that's too good to be true. Should I take it? Tune in and find out. #DnD #DungeonsandDragons #Pathfinder #DMTips #Fey Resources: https://roleplayersrespite.com/fey-creatures-in-dnd-5e
This episode Lilly and Olivia come up with different characters based on who each host would be if they were to be placed in an alternate fictional world. What does an Olivia in the Shadowhunter world look like? Is Lilly more likely to have a professor student romance or an office enemies to lovers? Who would die first in a murder mystery novel? Which District would we each belong to in The Hunger Games world? Find out all the answers in this weeks episode of Two Girls Who Read.
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@PermissionToStanPodcast on Instagram & TikTok! NEW Podcast Episodes every THURSDAY! Please support us by 'Following' & 'Subscribing' for more K-Pop, Anime & Genshin Impact talk! BLACKPINK releases presale info & tix schedule RED VELVET's SEULGI Solo debut LE SSERAFIM & NMIXX comeback scheduled BTS JIN visits JUNGKOOK for his Birthday: Chaos! MONSTA X Leader SHOWNU watches his own group's concert STAYC's J: Her mother thought she would fail NEWJEANS has been taking over & also have KPOP Idol fans (from TWICE & SKZ!) TWICE MOMO stopped by security at their own fansign event JYP Signed Albums: STRAY KIDS, TWICE, & NMIXX SKZ drops teaser for new song & comeback pre-orders Haylee gets her SKZOO plushes! Anime: LE SSEARFIM's YUNJIN recommends anime on Weverse! Genshin Impact: Another Seelie event --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Sooner or later, the most sinister of the Unseelie were bound to rear their greasy and/or misshapen heads, no? While Banality is an ever-present threat that changelings must struggle against, and nobles-versus-commoners is an important piece of the metaplot, it's important to remember that the balance of light and darkness is another critical conflict for the Kithain. The Shadow Court is the first supplement in the canon to really go in-depth into the Unseelie ethos, the structure and motivations of their court, and what it means to be a baddie (or a beastie, or a bogie). This week, we're taking a deep look at that tome, which is one of the densest with material in the entire line. Bear with us for the wild ride... the nature of evil This is a Big Topic that will probably get its own episode at some point, but a few things need to be said about the relationship of the Unseelie, and the Shadow Court, to eeeeviiilll. The WoD games overall trade in shades of grey, making it difficult to say that the Seelie are overtly "good" and the Unseelie overtly "bad". One could claim that the traits, actions, and outlooks that do fall into the "good" camp tend to crop up more regularly, in sum, among the Seelie, and vice versa among the Unseelie. But there are Seelie who are bloodthirsty, haughty, tyrannical, inflexible, and manipulative, following codes for their own sake and believing that they are Right about everything. And there are Unseelie who are empathetic, joyful, egalitarian, and honest. To draw a parallel with Dungeons and Dragons (yeah, yeah), the better analogy for the Courts might be "Lawful" (with a tendency towards good) for Seelie vs. "Chaotic" (with more wiggle room for evil) for the Unseelie, and where an individual falls within them is on the Good–Evil spectrum is their own thing. The Shadow Court, as a book, just kind of stirs the already-murky waters. There are Unseelie in the book who, despite their contempt for the Seelie, seem to simply be passionate freedom-lovers with the occasional bad temper. But then there are amoral jerks who engage in human sacrifice and make a career out of emotionally abusing Dreamers to get their Glamour fix. Introducing the Thallain as kiths who can never become Seelie and operate as the right hand of nightmare doesn't exactly help the reputation of the "dark side." Importantly, the Shadow Court is not the Unseelie Court; just as importantly, the former is often pulling the latter's strings. Even among the Shadow Court, though, true evil is not a given, especially because the book seems to highlight the fluidity of Court identity: changelings come and go from its ranks, rising and falling in prestige. (That being said, many Shadow Courtiers certainly seem willing to hang out with some truly twisted types...) Ultimately, the game is more interesting when the nature of good and evil isn't predetermined, and the movement between the two becomes the focus of a story, with the Court conflict as a metaphor. Why shouldn't a Thallain have a redemption arc? Why shouldn't the most prim and proper Seelie countess have a long slide into decadence? Changelings rebel against stagnation and stasis, so shifting attitudes, identities, and allegiances are perhaps more in line with this game than the others. As we mention in this episode, Changeling has a reputation for being "not dark enough" (for whom? what does that even mean?), but as this book demonstrates, there is a whole buffet of options that range from the purest of the pure to the dankest of the dank. A word of caution, though—the book's wishy-washiness extends to its use of gaming tools to protect the sensibilities of gamers when needed. It doesn't really offer a stance on how to use or not use violence, sexuality, depravity, etc., so remember: talk. to. your. players. and find out everyone's mileage for different dishes at that buffet. ... responding to hot takes We solicit comments for recordings on our Discord (and here's the link! woooo), but for this episode, we totally forgot to respond to two hot takes from one of our listeners. So, here's some brief responses: Hot Take 1: "The Thallain were never meant to interact with the Kithain. They aren't another splat, they're the main characters from a fundamentally darker game." From an in-game point of view, this certainly seems true. The Thallain came into the Autumn World at the behest of the Fomorians (or so the story goes), their goals and wishes are quite different from Kithain's, and in some cases (see: beasties), Kithain actively try to attack them. But what they were meant to be like doesn't negate the possibility of figuring out stories that accommodate both Thallain and Kithain as protagonists. You need a particularly agreeable one or more of the former, and a particularly tolerant one or more of the latter, but somewhere between the feverish kaleidoscope of Changeling: the Dreaming and the blood-soaked pandemonium of... erm, Thallain: the Horrifying?, there is potential for some interesting plotlines. Thallain who incarnate in human flesh have the same tension between their human origins and their fae natures as other kinds of changeling, and putting the two groups together towards a common goal (e.g., a common enemy that neither can stop alone) is the Extreme level of "seeing past our differences" for the sake of teamwork. Hot Take 2: "House Ailil is the only good house in the entire gameline. Ennobled Boggans of House Ailil will utterly wreck your political machinations." Debatable, and dependent on the kind of game you want to run. For direct political intrigue, Ailil are indeed hard to beat (though depending on the type of intrigue, Leanhaun can give them a run for their money). Having a boggan, or pooka, or other kith with a social benefit in the House can certainly increase the benefit, and it can be great fun to watch an Ailil go toe-to-toe with a Ventrue. But as soon as you get out of the throne room, Elysium, or wherever, how useful are they for slaying a dragon, working great magic, or simply keeping the community happy? All else being equal, Ailil nobles are good at ruling by fear and blackmail, running criminal enterprises (or running their realms as though they were criminal enterprises), and getting themselves ahead. Your mileage may vary on whether you consider that the best, the most well-rounded, the most interesting, etc. ... shout-out to harbingers of winter We mentioned this book a couple times this episode, and here we are mentioning it again...! Charlie Cantrell and Radio Free Arcadia put out Harbingers of Winter back in the spring, updating much of the content of this book (and then some) for C20. You can purchase it from the Storyteller's Vault, and you can listen to our episode #12, wherein we discuss the book with Charlie. It's definitely recommended reading for anyone looking to run a Shadow Court (or otherwise deeply Unseelie-flavored) game, so check out and help support other folks in the community. ... your hosts Josh Hillerup (any pronoun) thinks that Unseelie tastes like chocolate raspberry ice cream laced with codeine and bits of stained glass. Pooka G (any pronoun/they) thinks that Seelie tastes like a raw egg yolk suspended inside a solid shell of candied violet petals. ... The Neighbor: "A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he saw the world. As he passed through the doorway, he caused a reflection. Evil was born. Evil was born, and followed the boy." Nikki: "...I'm sorry, what is that?" The Neighbor: "An old tale... And, the variation: a little girl went out to play. Lost in the marketplace, as if half-born. Then, not through the marketplace—you see that, don't you?—but through the alley behind the marketplace. This is the way to the palace." —Grace Zabriskie & Laura Dern in David Lynch's Inland Empire (psst! email us at podcast@changelingthepodcast.com if you want) (and join our Discord at https://discord.gg/SAryjXGm5j !) (support us on Patreon for additional treats at https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast!)
Hello and welcome to Faecraft, a journey into tales of wonder, whimsy, and woe. Join us, the Burk sisters, for a romp with the Seelie and Unseelie courts in this our very first episode. Chelsea digs into historical research and origins of the magical Scottish courts of lore, while Holly shows us the lasting legacy of these creatures in popular culture. SourcesAn Encyclopedia of Faeries, Katherine Briggs, 1976. British Faeries Wordpress website- The Good and the Wicked Wichts; The Seelie and Unseelie Courts; Two Tribes- Good and Bad Fairy Folk"The Cult of Seely Wights in Scotland," Folklore vol. 123 no. 2, Julian Goodare, 2012.The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1882-1898, Francis James Child, 1882-1898.Forgotten Realms wikiGood Faeries, Bad Faeries, Brian Froud, 1998"Seelie," Oxford English Dictionary. Shadowhunter wikiWriting In Margins website- The Seelie and Unseelie CourtsMusicIntro and outro: Underneath the Christmas Tree (Instrumental) by myuu http://www.thedarkpiano.com/ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/q8fX3In7Qng
Settle in, because this is a long one... the raw audio for this recording was the longest we've had by far. But that's because Nobles: the Shining Host, the first Changeling book to delve into Kithain nobility, covers a lot of bases. It's not quite "Kithbook: Sidhe," but there's enough about them in there to satisfy most players and STs who want to know more about the kith; on top of that, you have plenty about the social structure and cultural dynamics of nobles from any background. We get bits of history, an epic tale, political parties and secret societies, information about Concordia's monarchs, some new Traits (including two new Arts), a new House, character templates... the book really packs it in. We cover it in this episode as briskly, yet thoroughly, as possible—but even so, this is almost our longest episode thus far. (This is also the reason why it's going out a bit late this week. Nostra maxima culpa.) how to play a sidhe Just kidding—we're not going to tell you the exact answer to that, because there really isn't one. Ultimately, you do what you want to do. But, since the book focuses heavily (not entirely!) on this kith, we are going to point out a couple things about trends and possibilities. See, the traditional roles for sidhe in CtD games have tended towards: 1. pretty Mary Sues who are (or demand to be) able to do anything (especially when people just want to play a sidhe for that extra Boon), 2. uptight patricians who treat egoism and sucking all the oxygen out of a room (or gaming session) as a virtue, 3. as Josh put it, the real-life protagonists of soap operas (for the viewing pleasure of the commoners), or 4. all of the above, which is doable because the first three are stat-, personality-, and narrative-based, respectively. The exact shape of these things has waxed and waned over the years—"mysterious warrior-sorcerer with Appearance 7 and/or an ethereal presence" seems to be a common expression of (1) these days—but the common threads are quite visible. The unfortunate thing is that the early books, at least, set up a lot of alternatives to these archetypes, even as they also provide examples of them. And yet somehow, the alternatives seem to have faded more and more into the background. Maybe this is due to real-world ideals working their way into the game: commoners are moving front and center with progressive, anti-aristocratic ideas, and the sidhe have flattened more and more into these Tolkien-elf types with little variation. The sidhe are a kith; Title is a Background; nobility is a quality; and while the three may overlap more than most other kith-Trait-characteristic combinations, it is not a necessity. (Remember, those in the back: your sidhe does not have to have a Title/be part of a House.) We mention this because the sidhe fall into the trap most often, maybe, of becoming one-dimensional characters, with the only variation being the specific Trait build that represents their particular snottiness. It's true that kiths tend to shape characters; it's also true that more and more, especially with C20, there is pushback against such determinism. (Old fogies' note: it was always there, e.g., you could play soft-hearted Seelie redcap who liked macrame, but the game's willingness to foreground that varied.) So why would you not make a sidhe who is more interesting than the typical [insert Title here] [insert elaborate faux-Sindarin name here] [insert House here] [insert optional florid moniker here], knight and/or wizard and/or courtier par excellence? One of the first canon sidhe in fiction is Leigh from the Immortal Eyes trilogy, who is a teenage redhead knight struggling to reconcile her newly-discovered nature, princess memories, and swelling sense of honor with her upbringing as a working-class cop's daughter, as well as her fervent desire to be a chef. She has a soft spot for protecting childlings (though she's also a firm babysitter), she has a crush on the bad-boy Unseelie eshu, and she worries about making ends meet with her line-cook salary in her crummy one-bedroom (but she's also thrilled to be living away from her mortal family for the first time). She is far from perfect, but aspires to be better, and she has the capabilities of a beautiful warrior, but is far from defined by them. This book gives a lot of material to work with to navigate that level of complexity, as do many of the others—if you're willing to look for it. We encourage you, therefore, to think outside the box and make being a sidhe (or being a noble) not the most important thing about your character. It may not be the least important either, but give your character a little depth before working that piece in. Obviously, this advice can be applied to any kith—it's just that sidhe tend to suffer for it most than the others. ... the Trod Background Just because the headache that is this Background deserved to be reproduced in its entirety, here it is in table format. Pick the Background level you want in the first column, then choose one row within that level to determine which destinations the trod has access to across the world/Dreaming, and (in the last column) how often it's available: Destinations:localregionalnationalNear DreamingFar DreamingDeep DreamingAccessible...At Level 111/4 of the yearLevel 2 (choose one row)1 2-3 11/2 of the year 1/4 of the year all the timeLevel 3 (choose one row)2-3 2-3 2-31 1 00 1 01/2 of the year 1/4 of the year all the timeLevel 4 (choose one row)4-5 4-5 2-3 2-32 2 1 11 1 0 02 1 0 10 1 0 01/2 of the year 1/4 of the year all the time 1/2 of the yearLevel 5 (choose one row)4-5 4-5 2-33-4 4-5 12 4 02 2 10 2 01 1 01/2 of the year 1/4 of the year all the time Yes, we're aware that the first and third options for Level 2 are directly contradictory. The book also suggests that the accessibility be tied to natural cycles, e.g., a trod that's only open 1/4 of the year might be available during a certain season, and a trod open 1/2 of the year might only be available every other day or only at night. Surely there was some mathematical formula to figure out the balance of all this, but no idea what that might have been; heaven help you if you decide to have a single Background represent multiple trods, e.g., taking four dots in the Background allows you to choose two options from Level 2. Are we having fun yet? ... clancy brown We're not saying the sidhe on page 49 isn't noted actor and voice actor (including, ironically, in Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia) Clancy Brown, but it's totally Clancy Brown. Publicity photo provided for comparison! ... parliamentary breakdown (but not the fun kind) In case you needed some statistics for who's in the Parliament circa this book's publication in late 1995/early 1996... all percentages are relative to the entire Parliament, not the specific group being described: Sidhe nobles make up 42% of the Parliament, even though they only make up 5% of the Kithain in Concordia (though that number may have increased a bit as more Houses have returned, and the Autumn Sidhe have become a thing in C20). The Traditionalists make up 20%, Reformers 15%, and Modernists 7%Commoner nobles make up 20% of the Parliament: Traditionalists 8%, Reformers 4%, Modernists 8%. Meanwhile, non-Titled commoners make up the remaining 38%, with Traditionalists 15%, Reformers 7%, and Modernists 16%, suggesting that commoner political affiliation is roughly the same, regardless of whether they're noble or not—and with a surprisingly high number of Traditionalists. Overall, when you see that the nobles have a majority, and the Traditionalists have a plurality, the feudal system sticking around as long as it has begins to make a bit more sense (as does the more reform-minded fae's frustration).Within the Parliament, sidhe make up 42%—therefore, all sidhe in the Parliament are nobles. The remaining breakdown is boggans at 14%, trolls at 9%, nockers at 8%, pooka and satyrs at 6% each, sluagh, redcaps, and eshu at 5% each. We don't have breakdowns by kith for nobles and political inclinations, but presumably the boggans and trolls have higher rates of both nobility and Traditionalism.Similarly, we don't get political inclination breakdown by House, but we're told that Gwydion makes up 12% of Parliament, Eiluned and Fiona 10% each, Dougal 6%, Liam 3%, and Scathach a pitiful 1%. We also have the note that 95% of the Parliament is Seelie—estimated, of course. Obviously, as new kiths have been made standard in C20, Unseelie power has become more openly displayed, and the Autumn World's political landscape has evolved, all of these are subject to change. But as a baseline for how things work, it's still a useful tool to start with... in the episode, we sort of poke fun at the voting system of Concordia. Nevertheless, there is undeniable nerdy pleasure to be had from a story centered around the electoral campaigns and machinations of the fae, if you want to work that into your chronicle. (Yes, one of us might be a fan of both Borgen on TV night and Die Mächer on board game night.) ... your hosts Josh Hillerup (he/him) flew into battle on a song and a prayer. Pooka G (any pronoun/they) strolled into Hell with some flowers in the hair. ... "I had been too long away from the nobility; I had forgotten how silly even the best of them could be." —Laurell K. 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On this episode of Sit-Down With The Stallions, Spruce and Klep welcomed the one-and-only Abby Seelie. Abby was the host of Insomnia Spins, a late-night music show that aired on 88.7 FM in Northeast Ohio. Abby has her own unique experience hosting a show about music, and she shares the same passion for music as the Stallions. This one is a must-listen!
As we enter the Seelie half of the year, it's time to talk about Freeholds and Hidden Glens, which gave us seven thorough descriptions of the spaces where changelings get together for the doing of all manner of sundry things. Each of the freeholds is rather different, offering a range of ideas and story setting possibilities for a game. Each of us were rather partial to one or two of them, but we'll let you be the judge of which ones sound the most interesting... uncanny places Something that came up briefly in the discussion (but will not be expanded here to the voluminous amount it could be) is Stephen King as a point of reference for the trope of semi-conscious places, most of which turn out to be creepy. This is slightly different than what you'd usually get with Haunts in Wraith, where the spookiness of a haunted house or wherever gets mostly attributed to the presence of the ghosts. But when the place itself begins to take on an intelligence of its own, that's another matter entirely. Works by King like The Shining and perhaps Rose Red have this thread of a place becoming corrupted by the violence or evil deeds that took place there, which causes it to gather a malevolence of its own, which leads to more such deeds, making the place stronger. It all seems very darkly Glamourous. But this isn't unique to horror literature, and obviously folklore is thick with mythology and superstition about the relationship between past events and present influences in specific locations. You could easily set a scene in a place that causes people to become joyful, or lustful, or whatever. The Dreaming is brimming with emotion, so it's not unreasonable that places in close contact with it, freeholds or otherwise, would have an outsize influence on the feelings of those who enter them. If the building or glade or skate park or whatever is set up as antagonistic to a motley as well, it presents slightly more of a puzzle for players: how do you fight a landscape? How do you reason with geography? How do you prevent yourself from becoming sucked into its emotional vortex when you enter to rescue the childling/find the Treasure/defeat the nocnitsa? Ghost stories do not have a monopoly on these topics, and folding them into your chronicle can be a clever way to give changelings something a little more nebulous to deal with. But equally, it's fitting for the themes of the game; that uncertainty and sense of being out of place, what theorists since Freud have called the uncanny, reminds us that sometimes the horror in a faerie-story is from the sense that your surroundings are just somehow, indefinably wrong. Food for thought! ... just because... It's always nice to see White Wolf folks poking fun at each other with their writing, and sometimes the artwork... So, one of the freeholds, Gangster's Hideaway, is situated along a trod where all the abandoned objects in the world eventually end up (supposedly). Here we have some keys, a pen, matchbook advertising a phone sex line, a thumbtack... and a curious book buried underneath that old-school Vampire players may recognize. Because of course, if the Endless Trod is the place where all lost and abandoned junk ends up, VtM books will and should be there. (J/k, VtM players.
This week, Alex and Ellen discuss These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan, book one in the These Hollow Vows series. In this episode, we get to discuss a book that is a mixture of Cinderella and the Bachelor, mixed with magic and the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. This book is all about figuring out who you can trust and what will happen next. Join us in two weeks as we discuss Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber. Spoiler Alert: There will be spoilers in this episode, so if you haven't read the book being discussed, feel free to come back and listen after you have finished the book. Or, if you don't care about spoilers, then please join us!
The Crypto Squad makes their return to the world of the fae with a look into the Seelie side! The second part of the two-segment episode explores the world of faeries and other creatures of folklore. There's darkness in the beauty of this world, and we can't wait to share it with you all. Our question is.... which side are you on? Music is "Running Man" by oldways. Provided by TuneTank. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/necnerdicon/message
The group starts going through the mental games that Circe promised and of course hijinx ensue on the way to the Seelie court. What mischief will the party get into this time? Oh, and be careful with what you touch. Special thanks to Mr. GhostTown for his special guest appearance in this episode. Credits, Catch up, and Stream info: https://tavern.bio.link/ Tavern Heroes is a show that focuses on improvised scenes and role play. As this show isn't scripted, sometimes topics that may be hard for some groups may arise. The Argos101 and Tavern Heroes teams strive to create a welcoming and positive environment for all. If the need ever arises to skip a scene or episode, by all means, come back when you feel ready, we won't go anywhere. Tavern Heroes is an Argos101 Entertainment production, Third-party content Used with Permission. All other rights reserved.
Today we're discussing These Hollow Vows, a young adult fantasy that follows one clever Brie into the Seelie court in hopes of saving her sister, and her heart, from the Unseelie King. Follow the Author: https://lexiryan.com/ Buy on B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/these-hollow-vows-lexi-ryan/1137169233?ean=9780358386575 Buy on Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/8108/9780358386575 Become a Supporter: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/cynsworkshop https://www.etsy.com/shop/CynsWorkshopCandles --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cyns-workshop/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cyns-workshop/support
Fleeing her murderous husband, a woman travels to the world of the Seelie. Caught in the dire machinations of the Court of Season, she searches for escape. My inspirations are Edgar Allen Poe, H P Lovecraft, Steven King, Emily Dickinson, Anne Rice, Creepypasta, SCP, comics, anime, and manga. #audiobook #scarystory #audiobooks #freeaudiobook #scarystories --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dickson-lee-turpin/support
Welcome to the Westlands, where the Seelie and Unseelie of the Fey Courts have no sway and the weird Laws are upheld by Sheriffs and Deputies of the various cities and towns within the Westlands. Join us as our DMs, Dustin and Devan lead Critical Bard, Erika Fermina, Ali, Patrick Logan and Katie Adkins through a special one shot featuring content from Mage Hand Press' Valda's Spire of Secrets!
The Dark Rum Podcast where we discuss Monsters, Myths & Mayhem. Kyle is joined by special returning guest Jarred (of the Rum Runnas Podcast) return to stories from the dark side discussing: Fairies and the Fae Folk. From pixies to leprechauns, brownies to gnomes, the Seelie and Unseelie court alike. We deep dive into the hidden world of these mischievous immortal creatures that exist above our own world. Should they be: feared, revered or discounted completely. Follow Us @ Website: www.rumrunnaspodcastnetwork.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkrumpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/darkrumpodcast Support Us @: https://www.patreon.com/Rumrunnas Send your stories in to: darkrumstories@gmail.com An associated podcast of the Rum Runnas Podcast Network distributed under AgeofRadio https://www.ageofradio.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Cazadores de Sombras "Ciudad de Ceniza".
This episode goes into detail about the Scottish Fairies and their very well-organized Seelie and Unseelie faerie courts! This week Lucy and Karen discuss why one is only slightly the lesser of two VERY big evils and why they are just like the mean girls but of the faerie realm!! If there's one thing you need to take away from this episode it's this: Don't fuck with the faeries... SERIOUSLY!For information about the Celtic Collective, our wee journals, and fun T's and to submit your own funny, fairy or spooky tales visit us at 1scot1not.com!
La Magia del popolo fatato evoca in tutti noi atmosfere fiabesche e sognanti, ma cosa succede quando il Piccolo Popolo decide che è ora di divertirsi alle spalle dei poveri e buffi umani? Quando i nostri sogni e ambizioni diventano un goffo teatrino per il mero divertimento delle corti Unseelie? L'episodio di questa settimana ci porta il lato più oscuro del mondo fatato con un titolo molto Strange, parliamo di Geasa! (Pochi) Link UtiliDrive Thru Rpg per il pdf https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/86751/Geasao, se preferite, pagina di itch.io https://firestormink.itch.io/geasae sito della Firestorm Ink https://www.firestorm-ink.com/
The finish line is in Sight for the Subtle Scent of Death! With all of the moving parts now in front of our adventurers, who will they side with? The Cast for Wizards and Wine includes, Christine as Zorball, Cynthia as Seelie, Janey as Queg, Erin as Gilbert and Melinda as DM. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wizardsandwine/message
Our adventurers continue to piece together the puzzle of Nightfell. And they go shopping for a saddle for a Tortle. Not Kidding. They do that. The Cast of Wizards and Wine includes, Cynthia as Seelie, Janet as Queg, Erin as Gilbert, Christine as Zorbal, and a Special Guest, Rob as Zim-Bit Music featured in Wizards and Wine is used under the Creative Commons 0 License, and can be found on Freesound.org, this week featuring work from andrewkn, heymanzzzz, fons, and as always, a MASSIVE thank you to Baldermort for the extro we just don't deserve. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wizardsandwine/message
This week, our Adventurers meet a new Kobold friend, and debate creating a Stink Bomb. The Cast for Wizards and Wine includes Christine as Zorball, Janet as Quegg, Cynthia as Seelie, Erin as Gilbert, Rob as Zim Bitt, and Melinda as DM Music featured in Wizards and Wine can be found on Freesound.org and is used under the Creative Commons 0 License. This week featuring work from heirloomsound, reg1n0ld, and as always a MASSIVE thank you to Baldermort for the Extro we know we don't deserve.
The Conclusion to the Daring Adventures Christmas Special places our intrepid heroes in the lair of something truly awful, as they must face down the terrible creatures that have been kidnapping the children of Hollyville.
This week, Zorball, Seelie and Queg go on a Fact Finding Mission to get closer to truth of the Nightfell Flower. Wizards and Wine Cast for The Subtle Scent of Death, Erin C as Gilbert, Cynthia as Seelie, Janet as Queg, and Christine as Zorball Music used in Wizards an Wine can be found on Freesound.org and is used under the Creative Commons 0 License. This week featuring work from, horroguy, yappy, heymanzzzz, andrewkn, x3nus,
Will our adventurers get past the point of the TPK from season 1?? Cast of Characters for The Subtle Scent of Death: Erin C as Gilbert, Janet as Queg, Cynthia as Seelie, and Christine as Zorball. All Music featured in Wizards and wine can be found on Freesound.org, and is used under the Creative Commons 0 License. This week featuring work from, horroguy, heymanzzzz, andrewkn, bigmanjoe, and dragontrance And as always, a MASSIVE thank you to Baldermort for the extro that is FAR better than we deserve.
Taking break from our Homebrew Campaign, Wizards and Wine goes back to our roots, with a series of One Shots! This week, we go ALL the way back to Season 1 and pick up "The Subtle Scent of Death" which was our first TPK. So far, things seem to be going better! Wizards and Wine Cast: Erin C as Gilbert the Centaur Bard, Janet as Queg the Tortle Rogue, Cynthia as Seelie the Dragonborn Fighter, and Christine as Zorball the Kobold Cleric Music used in Wizards and Wine can be found on Freesound.org and is used under the Creative Common 0 License, this week featuring work from, dragontrance, horroguy, heymanzzzz, andrewkn
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Abby & Alan are joined by Becky Fiore (Abby's sister) to talk about Light and Dark Fae of Celtic Mythology. Music by Michaela Papa & Jordan Moser. Poster Art by @akay_illustrates.Lunatics Magazine is available here.Subscribe to our newsletter! Follow us on Instagram @thelunaticsproject and on YouTube - Films About Lunatics.--Subscribe to Anti-Racism Daily - a daily email newsletter from Nicole Cardoza.Click here to automatically write in to your congress members asking them to support a bill that would make reparations for slavery now.Follow this post to donate directly to Blank trans folks.Also, consider donating to The Loveland Foundation, a fund that provides therapy for Black women. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/filmsaboutlunatics)
I wrote this story in the summer of 2014 as a submission for, and was published in, the Seventh Star Press anthology, A Chimerical World: Tales of the Seelie Court. It is a tie-in to my Tipsy Fairy Tales series, between Blue Spirit and Restless Spirit. It takes place during the time when Skye was borrowed by R.J. Sullivan for his novel, Virtual Blue. I figured since Minnie didn't make an appearance in that book, I wanted to write about her solo adventures in Bloomington, Indiana. On her own, Minnie gets into as much trouble as Skye, but without anyone to bail her out. Have you ever wondered what Hope, the alien singer in The Multiverse Blues looks like? I have commissioned artwork depicting her, and will be sharing it with you very soon!
Catherine’s story is full of change, acceptance, and magic. Her journey began with the realization that therapy and anxiety medicine was simply not helping her in the ways she needed. She had an incredible realization one day, looking around at all... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/soulliftbyenlightenedhood/message
Pagãos do mundo com Petrucia Finkler do Brasil, que partilha entrevistas sobre tópicos de interesse como mitologia, magia, devoção e história. Virtudes e não virtudes nas cortes feéricas. Quem não ama falar das fadas e encantados? Em Março nosso tema é a corte Seelie e a Corte Unseelie, as hierarquias existentes nesses reinos de seres invisíveis. Petrucia Finkler vai conversar com a druidista, escritora e oraculista Rowena A. Senėwėen, para nos contar mais sobre o folclore e as práticas druídicas ligadas a essas cortes.
Seawitches is a bi-annual print publication with the eternal theme of water. Within the water theme we’ve explored menstruation, mental health, white privilege, technology, environmental issues, and more. Every issue has an Artist In Residence (AIR), including Leah Koransky (1), Caitlin Mattisson (2), and Savannah Rusher (4). Writers include Easkey Britton, Serena Renner, Kehinde Apara, Margaret Seelie, Maureen Murphy, Coco Peezy, and more. Artists include Amelia Coplan, Andrew Kaineder, Bleen Photography, Chris Duncan, Cristine Blanco, Elizabeth Pepin Silva, Rebecca Schillinger, Kaylee Savage-Wright, Kimberly Rose Wendt, Luke Allen, Marley Reynosa, Paige Laverty, Preston Richardson, Sarah Beeby, Susan Mattisson, Yoni Matatyaou, and more. Whether you love oceans with wild waves, lakes that leave your skin smelling of fresh dirt, pools with sunlight slithering across blue paint, or a good soak in the tub – we think you'll like what you find with Seawitches.
Happy Almost St. Patrick's Day! We're presenting some Celtic Fairy Lore for your weird little ears. Some of it might sound a little familiar or you might learn a thing or two you didn't know about our Fey Folk Friends. Meghan begins the podcast by teaching us a little Faerie origin story about the Tuatha de Danann, where the Fae might have started out as Gods? Then Allison runs over a little mythology that she had recently learned about fairies — the Seelie and Unseelie Court! Also, could an Unseelie Fairy have inspired one of America’s most spooky fiction story? Contact us at outoftheaveragepod@gmail.com or on our instagram @outoftheaveragepod Recorded and Edited by Allison Varca and Meghan Pavlovsky. Music credits go to Michael Vontas. Keep your ears open for a little treat on St. Patrick's Day. Sources: https://www.google.com/amp/s/inspirationpie932794997.wordpress.com/2018/02/26/faeries-seelie-and-unseelie-courts/amp/ https://celticmke.com/CelticMKE-Blog/Irish-Headless-Horseman.htm https://www.hauntjaunts.net/seelie-unseelie-courts/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crom_Cruach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crom_Dubh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dullahan https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ffcc/ffcc240.htm https://www.slideshare.net/isacrowe7/the-celts-history-life-and-culture-gnv64 https://www.connollycove.com/tuatha-de-danann/
The code of the seelie fae. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Raise your Wings high, Witchcasters!Enter our faery ring and join Karen Kay, the Faery Lady and Lucy as they talk Seelie and Unseelie faeries, punk faeries, protective faery energy and alliances with the Unseen realms. Lucy returns to Game of Thrones to explore the Celtic myths and sacred Druid tree traditions behind the Children of the Forest. You'll learn about the ancient healings of real-life faery doctors and the magickal powers and health benefits of the herb Thyme. Lucy reads for listeners with her Wild Wisdom of the Faeries deck. With blessings of Ostara and Mabon, filled with the energy of the Fae, this is a most enchanting episode!Music featured in episode five of the WitchcastThe Worship of Trees by Telling the BeesFaery See and Faery Do by Karen Kay and Michael TingleTwilight by Karen Kay and Michael TingleWild Mountain Thyme by The DolmenCome with Me by Karen Kay and Michael TingleThe intro music is "We Are One" by the band Nordic Daughter. Find the band on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nordicdaughter/ Or visit their website - http://nordicdaughter.comMusic throughout the show includes tracks from Darksphere EmpireDownload the Darksphere Empire album here - https://darksphere-empire.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-rainSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Supernatural beings are a part of all cultures world wide. There are not many, if any, cultures in this world that don’t have a version of these inter-dimensional beings. They go by many names – dependent on where in the world they are found. But, there are not only one variety of these beings, there are many. Here are some names, a few of them go by. In Ireland and the British Isles, they are called the Fae, Fairies, Pixies, Leprechauns, the Seelie or Unseelie. . . . Here in New Zealand there are two basic types called the Patupaiarehe which are land based beings and the Pona-Turi which are sea based beings. But, dependent on where in New Zealand they are found, they go by different names. They are also called Patuparehe, Paiarehe and Parehe, Turehu, Korakorako, Tahurangi and Heketor. In this episode I will cover the history of New Zealand interaction with these beings and actual interactions people here have had with these folk. Both historical and recent. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/walking-the-shadowlands/message
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Website - Tumblr - Twitter In Episode 23 of The Descent Is Easy we discuss The Fair Folk - Season 2, Episode 14 of Shadowhunters. We talk about various Public Alec Announcements, Maryse's transformation, the Seelie court and its queen, Jace's scarf, cryptic fire messages, Ollie's confusing motivation for stalking Luke, Alec's (dumb, dumb, dumb) decision to put the cute British boy in charge of security, the possible kinky explanations for keeping someone in your cupboard and the ridiculousness that is naming something ‘The Kill Tree'. PSA: We're still a little bit up and down in places on the volume and microphone discipline but I promise we are working on it! We hope it's not too distracting!
In this episode, I am excited to have Matthew Foli and Elissa Meyer on to talk about their experience as lawyers pioneering the yoga and wellness environment in Minneapolis. Elissa Meyer is a Program Attorney at Minnesota Continuing Legal Education in the Twin Cities, and a yoga teacher at a small community studio in Northeast Minneapolis called YOGA Garden. She loves the idea that both law and yoga are "practices," with endless opportunities for learning and growing. Matthew Foli is a real estate attorney/yoga teacher in Minneapolis. He regularly sends out emails about yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, geared towards attorneys and beneficial for everyone. Topics Covered Matthew & Elissa speak on their pasts that led them to where they are now. Elissa talks about being a lawyer, her upbringing in yoga, and how everything came together for her to become a teacher of yoga and wellness. Matt touches on how his view of yoga as a practice has shifted from his initial misguided outlook of "practicing to perfection", as opposed to practicing for self-betterment. Their efforts on bringing yoga and wellness to the local legal community and how it has/is being received. They also reflect on how humbling the experience of starting up a practice and teaching yoga can be. We discuss and dispel the myths of practicing yoga, as well as all of our different definitions for yoga and how it benefits us. Matthew goes into detail on how just meditation as a practice can create a pivotal change in how we approach the day-to-day. For more information on Matthew or Elissa, find them at the following sites: Matthew: www.matthewfoli.com Elissa: www.yogagardenmpls.com Sources mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene Questions? Comments? Email Jeena! hello@jeenacho.com. You can also connect with Jeena on Twitter: @Jeena_Cho For more information, visit: jeenacho.com Order The Anxious Lawyer book — Available in hardcover, Kindle and Audible Find Your Ease: Retreat for Lawyers I'm creating a retreat that will provide a perfect gift of relaxation and rejuvenation with an intimate group of lawyers. Interested? Please complete this form: https://jeena3.typeform.com/to/VXfIXq MINDFUL PAUSE: Bite-Sized Practices for Cultivating More Joy and Focus 31-day program. Spend just 6 minutes every day to practice mindfulness and meditation. Decrease stress/anxiety, increase focus and concentration. Interested? http://jeenacho.com/mindful-pause/ Transcript Matthew Foli: [00:00:07] If you say you aren't flexible enough for yoga, that's like saying you're too dirty to take a bath. Intro: [00:00:18] Welcome to The Resilient Lawyer podcast. In this podcast, we have meaningful, in-depth conversations with lawyers, entrepreneurs, and change agents. We offer tools and strategies for creating a more joyful and satisfying life. And now your host, Jeena Cho. Jeena Cho: [00:00:42] Hello my friends, thanks for being with us today and joining us for another episode of The Resilient Lawyer podcast. In this episode, I am so delighted to have some Elissa Meyer who is a program attorney at the Minnesota Continuing Legal Education in Twin Cities and also a yoga teacher at a small community studio in NE Minneapolis called The Joyful Garden. And we also have Matthew Foli, who is a real estate attorney and also a yoga teacher in Minneapolis. He regularly sends out e-mails about yoga, meditation, and mindfulness. [00:01:50] Before we get into the interview, if you haven't listened to the last bonus episode, go back and check it out. It was a few episodes ago, I shared a six-minute guided meditation practice, to help you let go of stress and anxiety. And it's particularly great for this time of year because I know for me it's always a stressful time. And so often I hear from lawyers that they know they should meditate and practice mindfulness, but they just don't have the time. And I always tell them you know what, just start with six minutes. Start with just .1 hour. All the hours you dedicate to your clients, work, and others, don't you deserve to have just one .1 hour for yourself? And so I created a program, it's called Mindful Pause and it's designed for lawyers like you so that you can fit it into your very hectic schedule. So head on over to JeenaCho.com to learn more. That's "J-E-E-N-A-C-H-O" dot com. Or you could also look at the show notes. Alyssa and Matthew welcome to you both. Matthew Foli: [00:02:56] Thank you. Elissa Meyer: [00:02:56] Thank you. Hi Gina. Jeena Cho: [00:02:59] Yes and they said. I'm assuming we can start by having you give us a 30-second introduction to who you are and why you know. Elissa Meyer: [00:03:08] So as you mentioned in the intro. I am a program Attorney at Minnesota continuing legal education. So in that role, I think of it sort of as producing continuing education seminars for lawyers and that starts often with a planning process. Working with practicing attorneys to help design programs that are really timely and relevant and then following it all the way through. So designing a brochure and developing a marketing plan and working with the volunteer speakers collecting materials all the way to the date of the program where it's sort of a hosting and just making sure everything runs as close to as we intended it as we can. It's really a fun job and I'm grateful to have it so. And then I also on the side have this little gig as a yoga teacher and all the time I'm thinking about and learning ways to try to combine those things which are really fun. Thanks for having me. Jeena Cho: [00:04:08] Oh wonderful I can't wait to hear more about how you're combining this studio and what you have in the 30-second introduction. So Matthew Foli: [00:04:19] I'm a title examiner at a commercial real estate title insurance company. I've just started that job a month ago. Jeena, you'll love this. I lasted two days at the new job before I broke out in hives and I had come from a government position as in Minnesota we have a Torrens land system and it was a title examiner there for 13 years decided to make a switch for a career and it's interesting what I've been preaching before to attorneys about taking time for themselves. And now I'm ready to change that message because I notice that I'm busy now or a busier than I was before. Jeena Cho: [00:05:00] Yeah and I think that's a really interesting point maybe we can work into here because I often find that whatever. Is the reason for you leaving your job often that issue will all be to you? So it's almost like leaving one bad relationship for another. So yeah Elissa just learn more about what you've learned from this experience of teaching jobs. Matthew Foli: [00:05:27] And you know I think I just really think like transition it's interesting what Elyssa said about how like she has this little part this little thing of yoga on the side. But you know they're both they're both slash careers for us. Yes, and I are friends we're actually right here together doing the podcast in the same room. We are both motivated to change the profession in a good way here in the Twin Cities. Yeah, and the yoga part in the wellness part fills us up as much as the day job does. Jeena Cho: [00:06:02] And I love that and love having it some other outside and that you al-Sadr works and that actually helps you better your job and also helps you to be better at all areas of life because that's how you find balance work. Elissa Meyer: [00:06:21] Yeah I think the thing about finding ways to combine them you know where they intersect. To me, that's made my work at Minnesota CLB like so much better and so much more valuable and fulfilling. You know I came to Minnesota CLB after work you know practicing for almost eight years in a small firm and in-house and I had to make that transition because I was just sort of miserable and at the end of my ability to sustain myself where I was and I found that when I finally made the switch that felt more aligned for me professionally. I was I was able to focus on sort of these personal things that were meaningful to me like yoga and then I was able to figure out how to put them together and have it just be this more integrated thing. And Matthew pointed out that I said yoga was just a little thing a side gig. But I guess that's just sort of a historical like you minimize the thing on the side but it really is like that. It's really a critically important part of my life. So I appreciate Matthew kind of calling it because it is so. It's a big thing. It is a big thing for me. Jeena Cho: [00:07:30] You know I'm always like how do you go from this thing a lot to deciding oh I'm going to start acting seeing that much. You know I can see it happening. But then it kind of turned me into that really big leap to say I'm going to jump in and go through training. I teach at what was the abolition of I guess. Elissa Meyer: [00:07:51] I've had sort of an awareness of yoga even from the time I was a small child. My mom practiced yoga and I had this little book when I was little and I would you know the sort of make the shapes of the poses a lot of the poses have names that translate to like animal names and so this book was this really cool like a visual book with kids in the yoga poses. But the animals are the tree or whatever were superimposed over them and so it's just a really fun book. And then that continued in high school I was a dancer and so I use yoga as part of that training and then in college and by the time I got to law school I'd sort of fallen away from any kind of regular practice like really at the time when I could have used it the most probably. But and then that sort of continued as I started to practice you know so I have in fits and starts I would kind of come back to yoga and I knew it helped me but I just felt you know like sort of so stressed out that trying to do it sometimes just created more stress. So in 20, I think 20 14 when I kind of realized that I had to make this job transition like for my own mental health and wellbeing. [00:09:08] I after I sort of did some work some self-study to figure out what kind of job I wanted and I was really fortunate that things just sort of fell into place. And once I started that new job I. This opportunity came up to do a yoga teacher training program and I really hadn't had a regular practice and I was just like oh this thing is right here right in front of me. I'm going to do it. And so I didn't take the yoga teacher training program really with the intention to teach. I took it with the intention to refocus on my own practice. But once I completed it I the idea of teaching became more of like a dare to myself because I was so I was so terrified of teaching that I was like you know this is important to me I feel like I want to share it. And I was lucky to find a little studio where I could. The stakes were pretty low. Like I could do it in my own time. It didn't really matter if anyone showed up to my classes or not. [00:10:10] And for a few months, there were definitely days where no one came. But it was sort of just like this thing I wanted to do. So I was going to you know I was in this big transition I was feeling I don't know maybe sort of emboldened and I just decided I was going to do it and try to figure it out and not worry about the outcome just engage with it and just kind of been a continuation from there. You know its like exploded into all of these other great things and opportunities. And so getting to where we are today. Jeena Cho: [00:10:44] Yeah and I just really good not just that you know I mean there's definitely some amount of courage that you to say yes something that you know that you just like you did a 200-hour training. Elissa Meyer: [00:10:58] Yes. Yeah, I did. And actually, since then, I've done another one so I've done like two hundred hour training which they were you know they were different. So that's been interesting but yeah I just I sort of jumped right into this 200-hour training you know with teachers I didn't really know and I was like well I don't know what I was really doing but yeah just sort of made a quick decision and it was a good decision. Jeena Cho: [00:11:26] I love that. Well you know I feel like that's so like the opposite of how we're supposed to do things as lawyers were very I don't want to go and watch from every single angle and you didn't spend six months sort of weighing the pros and cons differently. Elissa Meyer: [00:11:43] You know and after the fact you know it's like if you really wanted to weigh the pros and cons like there are so many articles about like how to pick the right teacher training program and what are you looking for and I'm just like man I didn't do I didn't do any of that work. But you know which is not. It's not meant to be critical it's just sort of a funny observation and I think it's really just a reflection of where I was at that time in my life like I was just needed to sort of bust out of this place that where I'd been and that was that was sort of how I decided to do it yeah. [00:12:17] Right you know it's really funny because as I'm listening to your story I was like visiting my parents in New York and I saw an e-mail coming from Spirit Rock which is I've done a lot of my meditation training and they announced that they're doing a 200 hour teacher a yoga teacher training program starting in January and this was back in might. And something you like out next year which felt like far away but they only I think there were only opening it to like 20 people and I know that most events asparagus sells out. Like almost immediately I was like you know what I'm just going to do it. And so I signed that and it sounded like such a great idea. Back in June and now I'm looking at my calendar for next year and I have this like 200-hour law which ends up being like several. You know like Monday through Friday works workshops and now sort of going back as I ate. Elissa Meyer: [00:13:17] That's exciting though right. Like this. That sounds really great. Jeena Cho: [00:13:22] Yeah it's definitely really excited us a little bit scared because I think also at the same place that you're in where it's like I have no regulating yogi and quite some time that I like to fall in and out of practice and same think me I was like I don't only have a desire to teach but I felt like if I went and did the teacher training program that may be forcing me to get into that. It's safe. Elissa Meyer: [00:13:49] In a way there's something kind of nice about that too because it's like you're maybe a little more open like you're not putting so much pressure on yourself or like if you haven't had a practice like it's fun you know it's more like I'm just going in to see what's going to happen. And yeah you know maybe I can't do all these poses but like I'm just going to I'm going to sort of be curious and check this out and in some ways, that's kind of nice so yeah. Jeena Cho: [00:14:17] Matthew how about you. How did you end up doing and getting into yoga and doing the training? Matthew Foli: [00:14:26] So my last job with Hennepin County that's where Minneapolis is the county seat. One of my co-workers probably likes in 2006 or 2007 something like that she was going to a noon yoga class in the building. And like she looked at me and said Why don't you come with me like she was challenging me. Let's go right ahead. Didn't they have the clothes? I don't think I'd ever been to a class before. Went there went the next week. Went to next week kind of thing. And it's funny because this teacher Nita I don't remember this but she's told some other people that I asked her at the beginning what was the point of Chavira and at the end of class why don't you just end class five minutes early and let us. [00:15:14] So that was my mindset at the beginning and I continue to do that. And then I think like 2009 we became members of Lifetime Fitness here in town. And I think I don't know. From 2009 to 2014 that five years stretch at work I was not very happy and I was looking for the next opportunity which was a retirement. By the by the supervisor and I was absolutely attached to getting that position. And that came around in 2014 and I did not get that position. And so that was like the life changer kind of thing for me. And I was doing yoga before that but I was doing more group fitness and my wife was doing a Sunday morning yoga class and I wasn't coming with her. But then I started to go to her class reluctantly and started to go back to that class more and it was so funny because like at the beginning like I'd go up to the teacher and I'd be like after class and I would whisper to her am I getting better. Jeena Cho: [00:16:19] You know you watch me in class you know and I think you are a lawyer right. Matthew Foli: [00:16:27] You know like I do I do a lot better that type of thing. You don't you have you noticed any progress in all of that is so misguided. Because like it doesn't matter right it doesn't matter what you look like it's like what you take away. I've got one teacher right now who like she just breaks it down to say that the whole point of a yoga class is for you to walk out afterward feeling better than when you walked in. That's it. So whatever the class is whatever they end up doing that's all that's he's the only goal so I think I was finally at the right place at the right time. [00:16:58] I actually started to listen to those crazy messages that the teachers gave us in class and it was starting to. I started to take them with me outside of the yoga studio. There was one where one of the studios had glass mirrors on the front and some others that I go to do not because you know the point isn't really to stare at yourself or to see what your neighbor is doing. But then the teacher like halfway to class she just said you know try not to compare yourself to others by looking in the mirror. And then she kind of like just as a throwaway says and when you leave the studio try not to compare yourself to others. And you know I had figured out this was probably like 2000 15 or so I'd figured out at that point that I had spent the first 20 years of my luck. We're comparing me to others within the profession starting with law school certainly with other students and you know who was getting the on-campus interviews and who wasn't and who was getting the summer jobs and who wasn't. And then afterward you know just going on and on and on and always comparing yourself where you are on the short end of the stick. Jeena Cho: [00:18:09] You don't have that comparing mind is very strong and for us in all of us particularly in. Matthew Foli: [00:18:18] So at the end of 2014 I told one of these teachers that did the Sunday morning classes Drew and I had this big blow out birthday party because it was such a crappy year and she came and I just told her all of the benefits that I had received from her yoga classes. And actually then that fall I had also had pneumonia. And so the only thing I could do was yoga and not group fitness so I took like 17 classes one month and he was like you know like you start here you know you have to be at the right place at the right time. It has to be correct for you I've got one friend of mine who after I had become this yoga convert I said Just come with me we'll go to your office and we'll meditate for five minutes and then she was like I don't even have five. She's an attorney. She's like I don't even have five minutes to minute and then like a year later she would start to come to my classes and then she would say I feel like I've got three times as much time during the day than I did before I started doing yoga. [00:19:11] So you know you have to be at the right place at the right time. But so I told this friend drew about the benefits that I had had. And then she tells this story the next day Sunday morning she goes to her own class that she's teaching and she relays the story about how well there's this other person who usually had class and he told me yesterday that these are the benefits he gets from yoga. And then after class, she says well these people came up to her and they said they really liked her story and I'm like well I can cut her out of the middle. I mean I can just tell these stories myself. [00:19:38] So I really think that and also for the yoga teaching you do not need to do all the poses to be a good teacher and the person that I've used as a great example of that is this gentleman that's in town here Matthew Sanford and he's in a wheelchair and he's a great yoga teacher. So you know if he can do it then any of us can cue the polls too and then I listen I really find beneficial for especially for my target audience which is attorneys. [00:20:10] I think it's beneficial to have an attorney teaching the yoga class because we can totally say me too. I mean we know so when people say well I just I have this judge in this case where I'm working on this and my target audience was real estate attorneys in this field. And so like we would be working on the same deals. So I did the teacher training. I actually received a scholarship they were giving away one free scholarship. All you had to do was give 150-word essay about what yoga meant for you. That was super easy for me. [00:20:46] And I don't think many people applied did so I did that. My wife was hoping we would do it at the same time actually once our daughter got out of high school. But she's just a sophomore now. So I did it on my own. And then Nancy my wife actually did it the following You know a six month period afterward so she's gone through her teacher training. I've gone through mine. Listen I met through the Minnesota Citlali program stuff and yeah so we've just taken it from there. I'm not teaching at a studio and actually, I'm not teaching a regular class right now. I started out by being invited by a friend of mine at her. She was the local boss of a national title insurance company not where I'm working now. [00:21:28] And she wanted to do a summer of fun for her. For her employees. And so I started we used a conference room in her office building and I just started doing Fridays for free for several months and then that office building offered me another place within their building to teach for free. And so it was right downtown and then so I just started to create this email list and invite more and more people. And it started out with me just saying I'm teaching on Friday at noon and then it became more. Here's an interesting e-mail about here's an interesting yoga story that I read. And here's an interesting thing about mindfulness. And so I started to provide more resources to my yoga peeps. Jeena Cho: [00:22:11] Yeah I love hearing that journey of just how things unfold. Just because he showed up I mean you didn't have this like you know this entire plan figured out in terms of like a candidate. Do you have a teacher training program then and I start teaching it to you know lawyers it just kind of unfolds and. I often feel like that's what yoga teaches us. Sort of shelling out as you are you know in the moment and just seeing what unfolds as you know like a fire everyone that happens you know I think can relate to us. Is that. [00:22:45] How you show up today is not going to be high up tomorrow like the body changes you change. And I love like just that teaching about life yoga. Yeah. It's Riffle. Yes. Matthew Foli: [00:23:02] If I think the three of us certainly and you've got other guests if we are willing to just express that hey I'm not ready for this but I'm still going to do it anyways. And I'm not waiting for everything to be lined up before I embark on this journey. I think that our audience members are absolutely receptive and are looking for that in their own lives. Jeena Cho: [00:23:24] Yeah. Yes. Regrade Yeah. And I now that both of you are involved in trying to bring these sort of Balmes masterful beings health care type of barbershops to them. The Minnesota legal communities. Curious to hear more about your efforts and also how that's being received in that community. Matthew Foli: [00:23:47] Elyssa can talk about this and so can I. But so the Hennepin County Bar Association has created clubs. They've got like a knitting club in a wine tasting club and a book club and things like that trying to create social communities for the attorneys and I'm all for that. On a grand scale which they think that if-if you can connect with other attorneys on a nonbusiness setting it makes the business settings go so much smoother because you can be patient with each other and forgive each other because you've already you know it's harder to just snap at somebody who you already know in a social setting. Jeena Cho: [00:24:22] Yeah so true. Matthew Foli: [00:24:24] So one of them was the yoga club and they had had it for a year. And I think Elyssa got an email from them and then she contacted me and said Why don't we reach out to them see what they're doing. And the two people that were in charge were looking to hand it off and they had had only one event. I think in 2016 and so we listen to me what we what we are doing right now is we are offering one class a month. We do it at the CBA offices in one of the conference rooms. We've tried before work at noon and after work and we do it for FREE. It's an ctually it's a freewill donation for Minnesota lawyers concern for lawyers. Jeena Cho: [00:25:05] But you know yeah such a wonderful organization. I know this giving them a shout out and using more than just cash is king right. Matthew Foli: [00:25:16] So they give us cash and we turn around and we give it to LCL and they use it as they are. So the classes have been small. I mean you know and that's so funny with us too. And I'm sure this happened with the list and when she started teaching you to know you would tell people while I'm teaching and then the first question would always be well how many people come to your class. [00:25:38] Like as if the judge said you only sold out crowd but you know elicit gets that with her day job because of the seven hours that she puts on. You know she you know I'm speaking for her but I know like I'm one of her speakers. And like I want a packed room. I don't want a small room even though for the people that come. It can be just as beneficial. You know let's say like you know you've never been to a class where you probably certainly for yoga when you've said Geez I wish there were more people in class you know so like where I feel like I would get less one on one attention from the teacher. So the classes have been small but we've been offering them and we have somebody else that sends out these gorgeous looking flyers and it's promoted in the HCB a website. [00:26:31] So I think part of our plan of attack here is simply to make it relevant and show people that it's happening on a regular basis and not judging the results by the number of people that are in class. Jeena Cho: [00:26:44] And I feel like that's the right attitude to have because you know attorneys may not be able to come to that particular yoga class but I think just seeing that on the schedule or at your bar associations events is a really powerful message. I think it normalizes you know health care normalizes is actually taking time for yourself. And that being a lawyer isn't just about knowing the law. You know it's really about the person's love. Matthew Foli: [00:27:19] So we switch off classes I teach one month and then elicit teaches the next month. Elissa Meyer: [00:27:23] And we don't compare who gets more than one time. Matthew Foli: [00:27:28] OK. I think it does. But you know something else that we've learned and this is something that with my new job now is that I used to have time for the lunch hour. And you know with my e-mails and then my classes my own classes that I would teach on Fridays I would teach one at 7:00 and one at noon and I would have plenty of classes where nobody would come. Nobody would come and I would send out an e-mail to 180 people. I told one person that it felt like inviting a 180 people to your birthday party and only 60 people read the invitation. And zero come you. That's how I was personalizing everything. Right. And Elyssa offers yoga before a full day Sealy's as a little wellness component. And she's been pushing that where maybe it's like a two-day conference and each day in the morning they're going to have yoga and they provide the mats and maybe like the first day. But nobody came at them the second day one person came and said hey listen we'll send me this e-mail saying like you know I'm not judging this and this is OK and she's got such a good attitude. [00:28:35] If she can believe it and like you know if she can. So the deal that I wanted to say was that like with this new job that I have now I even think like a 45-minute yoga class at noon maybe too long no I think like maybe a half hour is what we should be offering. Just because we want to get them there and Gina you talk about this a lot. Right. You don't say that you should be meditating for 20 minutes you. You had that one where you said two minutes a day for 21 days now. Right. Just like doing it every day for two minutes. It's been more beneficial than doing it. You know like having that crappiest a day and then saying oh jeez you know something maybe I should meditate some more and then meditate for the first time in three weeks to teach yoga. Elissa Meyer: [00:29:22] I think to practice yoga like you. And I think another person you interviewed about this you know mentioned something like this like its humbling. You know you put yourself out there and you don't know how it's going to be received and despite your best intentions and your greatest hopes like it just might not work out how you anticipate it and so that's humbling and to not personalize it is difficult but important. So like what I what I've started to try to process the longer I teach and the more I teach and in them the more venues that I teach fight like the practice it's I'm the teacher maybe I'm up there but like it's never really about me. [00:30:03] It's about what you know. So the time and holding that space like it's just none of it's about me. Like when people come to class whatever experience they have like it's really not about me and this I get reminded of this it shows up in all different ways. A few nights ago I was teaching a class and you know the studio I teach is small and it's kind of quirky and it's very informal and throughout the class there were a couple of people next to each other and they kept like sort of chattering and laughing and I would say something and then they would chat or laugh and I kind of felt like they were laughing at me and I was like Why are you laughing at me. [00:30:40] And they're like oh we're not. And I was like Oh right because it's not me. You know they were like sort of having this experience and they were like you know it was about something else entirely and it just sort of was like oh remember like it's this is not about you. [00:30:55] And so I just kind of try to keep that in mind when no one comes or when someone doesn't come back to a class you know it's like well I hope they find you know another place or another teacher or something that feels like a better fit because it's about their experience and what it means to them and it's not so much about. Jeena Cho: [00:31:13] So I think such a beautiful metaphor for how we live life and also how we pass this law because the outcome is never up to us like I can prepare all we want and that he and I we don't. It's not you know it is just like you can shop and do everything you can to chat at all. [00:31:32] What are some issues that are not completely up to you and instead of letting go of that and resolve and not judging yourself by the ultimate outcome is such a hard but important lesson to learn. Elissa Meyer: [00:31:49] Yeah and you know it's just like one of the yoga in general for me is just sort of this great metaphor and why I think it's so compatible with a law practice like in all these different ways it just reveals kind of these important and helpful lessons that make it easier to sustain you know sort of yourself in a practice that's as intense as law you know like it's really intense and conflict ridden and emotional and so you know finding ways to sort of manage that. And for me, yoga has been a really important part of it so I just think it's interesting all the time learning these different ways to look at it and use it. So thanks for helping to capture that yeah. Jeena Cho: [00:32:34] Yeah. And I actually think that kind of leads me to my next topic a conversation with trendies NYTs that we have about yoga practice like. You know I can only do yoga or you know you start to like me. So it was sort of the purpose of practicing yoga which you already started to talk about and it's not just about the physical aspect of it it's not meant to be like an aerobic exercise. Now can you talk a little bit more about some of the myths that you noticed particularly lawyers have about yoga and spelling? Elissa Meyer: [00:33:16] Yeah so start I know Matthew has a lot to add here too but right. So traditionally the physical yoga practice was meant to prepare people to sit still to sit in meditation. So the practice of the physical component of the practice was this lead up to finding stillness in the body and readying the body to be still and that's you know I think in the western world in a modern culture that's not really how we look at it. We look at it like this really intense opportunity for physical practice and that sometimes that can be OK. But you know if you if you look back and learn more about the philosophy and the history there's a little bit different picture to find. [00:34:01] I think one other thing is that US asana practice the physical practice is just one small component of what yoga is right. There are all these other ways in the tradition to practice yoga which include studying the philosophy or kind of karma yoga like service yoga there's meditation there are breathing exercises you know there are all these different ways to experience it. So. So I think that's one thing that is not always discussed yoga right like we hear or compare it to Yoga means all these crazy contorted poses and practices or Instagram version of yoga right. And the poses are beautiful. I mean I don't mean to minimize them. But there's a bigger picture to it I think and then you know then I think some other common things I hear like well I'm just not flexible so I can't come to yoga. And you know I don't know I didn't I'm not naturally that flexible. So you don't know. [00:35:08] So if you can sort of put that aside and be like you build flexibility by coming to yoga and that's you know some physical flexibility is also translating into a little mental flexibility. So if you can set that aside and sort of think about the growth opportunity there like what you start to build as you practice more. That's helpful. And then you know I think like what you look like when you practice like you know there's a lot of attention about like the right the right athletic wear what looks great you know. Jeena Cho: [00:35:40] But one thing you know when you speak your mind. Right. Elissa Meyer: [00:35:46] Right. So when I you know when we teach during the lunch hour or like a couple of times that I've taught before seminars like I'll come in the you know sort of like business casual wear that I plan to wear for the rest of the day because the point is not that you're going to get so sweaty and like you need to be wearing like separate clothes it's that if you're comfortable if you're in something that's comfortable you can move in it like you can do yoga and that. So I think she's trying to help people understand that you know it's not going to be so intense. [00:36:17] And so I don't know I mean the last one I think is just I hear people talk about like well how awkward it would be to be doing yoga around your colleagues like I don't want it to. So I think that you know and that's like that's hard. I sometimes feel like I've had a little anxiety about wanting to teach my colleagues or teach to people at seminars where I'm like teaching yoga first and then I have to go like be the you know be the voice of the seminar introducing and welcoming them like there is a boundary there right that like traditionally I think we see like we don't cross it or whatever but you know so like we try to keep the lights a little lower and like you know make it so. [00:37:01] Like real people are coming there for themselves kind of goes back to remembering really like much about you like no one's really going to be that focused on what you're doing so you can sort of just show up there and have the experience like it might not be that awkward after all. Jeena Cho: [00:37:16] So I don't know Matthew has unhappy before and you share some of the myths and you don't run across anything one that comes up so often as that joke is only for women. I don't know. You know I think that's because like so many yoga classes tend to be very women have these self when I kind of start there and say just ask you know what. What's that like. I mean I'm assuming when you're going to the yoga teacher training and you're sitting up and I could be wrong that you were sort of in the minority in terms of gender. Matthew Foli: [00:37:52] Yeah totally yeah. Yeah so my teacher training it was probably it was me and another gentleman that were the students and the rest were women I think we had like 10 or 11 total and you know for me on a personal level like that's you know that's OK. Like you know I got a twin sister she's my only sibling. My mom and dad got divorced when we were 10th graders and we lived with my mom basically. It is so yeah you know it was OK. [00:38:23] I mean I'm comfortable in settings that are predominantly female. But what's also interesting there is just then the male perspective and the male perspective like open up about stuff all men are they do not and especially like this profession male attorneys do not like to on a whole like to deal with their emotions. Jeena Cho: [00:38:46] I know. Yes. Completely Yeah and I think when you are it National I actually have a male. Matthew Foli: [00:38:57] And certainly plenty of women are the same way. So I'm the one then who has decided like I'm just going to like lay it all out there all the time you know like a friend of ours in the real estate community that committed suicide last October 2016. And so I started sending out my e-mails probably like around like June or so and started getting more people. And then the suicide happened on October 16 and I sent out one afterward. Just said like you know like play times over like this is what we're talking about like this is serious. This is one of our own. We were all better off when she was around and instead of like just going back to work Monday morning and forgetting about this let's think about what can we do to enroll the yoga and the meditation like those are not. Those are things to take the rough edges off to smooth the rough edges. You know you've got bigger problems you need to go seek to counsel. You may have other issues. [00:39:52] But for me I was kind of like in-between like with LCL like I'm the person who's supposed to I'm like the poster child for just being like dealing with insecurity and perfection and then like coming out as being really judgmental like That's my target audience because that was me like I didn't have an alcohol problem. And I did like a drug addiction or things like that I didn't feel like I might have gone through counseling more than once. But I just felt like you know these other things were like You know I'm trying to talk to the people that are just struggling with the same stuff that all of society is struggling with and I'm just saying like well like try yoga like go to a yoga class. So I think it's absolutely good for men and Gina. I'll send you the little blurb that says that if you say you aren't flexible enough for yoga that's like saying you're too dirty to take a bath. Jeena Cho: [00:40:51] I'm hearing now that that's treatable. Yeah. Matthew Foli: [00:40:57] So I'm going to switch it up and just talk about the benefit of meditation because I actually think for attorneys that the meditation more so than the yoga is the that's the secret weapon that we just have chosen not to tap into. And I think if you know just the consistent meditation and I'll tell you what I do not consistently meditate and I've had like stressful weeks. And Nancy my wife says to me is you meditating. And I say no I'm not. Why would I do that? [00:41:26] So I mean I'm not doing it on a regular basis but I certainly have seen the benefits of it and I just know that it's there for me when I get back into it and I'm going to be doing that with my co-workers. I think I want to preach to them about it. But like for instance like when I had this yoga teacher beginning of 2015 I went to her class and it was like one of my worst days that I can remember. And I chose to be in the corner of the classroom was a small rectangular class and I decided to be in the corner so that I could I could choose not to have people on two sides of me. And she decided to start the class. [00:41:59] It was right after the Monday after the Super Bowl and she said well I read that the Seattle Seahawks had practiced like vision work and then also meditation and so we're going to meditate for the first 10 minutes. And so I just sat there not knowing anything about it. And then it was an hour long yoga class and then the 10 minutes go up and she said well you can certainly stay meditating. You would get all the same benefits that we will get from actually flowing in this yoga class. And so I stayed there for a little bit longer because nothing for me was working in my life at that point. And I just figured well what the hell I might as well try this. [00:42:33] So I stayed for a little bit longer with my eyes closed until I got too self-conscious and then I just picked up where the class was and I saw her after class and I just walked up and I said well what would be the benefits of actually doing an hour-long meditation and she said her eyes got wide and she said well you would be less quick to react to others and more able to respond. You would be able to utilize a pause before you react. [00:43:01] I'm not as judgmental and you know I just thought God I could really use a lot of that my life you know my job. I was such where I was in a position where I felt like I was playing chess with a beginner and I was always five moves ahead. And I would be impatient on the phone calls and I would know exactly where they wanted to get and I was you know I was in the public sector and so they're calling me for help getting to someplace and I'm like you know you don't have to tell me what you need I'll just tell you what you need. Like I mean I knew where you needed to go. Right. And you know meditation is what we could use to just smooth out. [00:43:38] You know it's just it's all the stuff you know and I love those metaphors about how like while you're waiting for the elevator that doesn't come while you're in the checkout line and somebody has to go out and get a carton of eggs you know they leave the line to go get something in front of you while you're waiting for the stoplight. That won't change and you're late to get to the meeting. You know all those times when you can. And so the meditation they say about how well that's just breath work all you need to do is focus on your breath but every yoga class that I go to right now that's what they say at the beginning of class. They say you know this is a breathing class in the poses are secondary. And so I think that it also I think meditation would be more accessible to our audience that finds it difficult to take time out to go to a yoga class. Jeena Cho: [00:44:22] You know I think that's always a challenge. I like actually making it to a yoga class. And I want to just give up high-grade hair for a YouTube yoga instructor its yoga with Ajman. And she has these amazing. And like such a fangirl of her, it is very she is really sharp practices some of them like less than five minutes where you can just get it you know on your iPhone or your TV or your laptop and just do these really sure at this. So I think if you have well you like a full yoga class like an hour long class you know it's really about meeting yourself where you're at. So I think that's another really great thing that's a matter of living in the era that we're living and why there's just so much content available. And so you don't necessarily have to go to your yoga. Matthew Foli: [00:45:17] Jeena I'll send you the one that I like of hers which is yoga at your desk. Jeena Cho: [00:45:21] Oh I love that line use that one all the time. Matthew Foli: [00:45:25] And I think the audience members would appreciate that one too. Yeah, she's great. I love her too. You know she had that 30 days of yoga a couple of years ago and you don't get you. Jeena Cho: [00:45:36] This is January like a year. My husband and I did all 31 days and it was such a great way to start off that year. So I hope she does it again. But if she doesn't like you go check it out. Matthew Foli: [00:45:50] Yeah I know like some days would be 20 minutes and then some days would be 50 minutes and I tried to do it with Nancy for a while and they just gave up and she continued to do it because I wasn't as consistent as she was. But yeah I would I like about her is you really kind of feel like you're getting her authentic personality through the videos and that was something that I was promoted to me by the people that do the business of yoga for yoga journal which was to be a good yoga teacher. You have to be yourself like you like. You should not be a different person outside of the yoga studio as you are inside the yoga studio and they talk about one person that like he swears a lot and he plays rock n roll. Well, that's the type of teacher he should be. Should be swearing in the studio and you should be playing right. You know that's people that's who people gravitate to. So it's when you are yourself in all facets of your life. Elissa Meyer: [00:46:40] Yeah I think the thing about the timing or the place of a yoga practice suits like it's important to see that it will come in cycles right like sometimes you'll be able to maybe go to a studio or take a class somewhere at the YMCA or your gym or whatever and other times it's not going to happen. And so like an allowance for letting that change over time and being flexible with it or maybe sometimes it's like a book or I think there are even like flashcards for yoga there are all these different ways to access it. So I like that point too that you can find it. It's about finding where it meets you know are meeting it where you can. Jeena Cho: [00:47:26] Yeah. So we kind of get ready to wrap up the conversation I wanted to spend a little bit of time talking about what you guys are seeing and I can certainly share my observations just about. Louis is a profession that really embracing the wealthy. You know I was just so thrilled to see that the AP actually published an entire. Bar on well-being for lawyers and they gave every stakeholder to our situation. Law firms law professors lawsuit as you know these different ways that they can help to further lawyer involve things they think that the data is really kind of scary and alarming. [00:48:17] And you know I don't use that word lightly. You know when I heard of our profession is suffering from depression and high levels of stress and anxiety a problematic trend and in a trend that is said and certainly just the most heartbreaking suicides it's and it just feels like we've been talking about these issues for such a long time without much in terms of solutions so you know I guess you notice actually your role as a working with a Sealy's and doing this program is like what have you been observing it just in terms of our wellbeing type of workshops or courses and how it's being incorporated. Elissa Meyer: [00:48:58] Yeah I think there's just it's so exciting to me because there's so much more receptivity you know. Right. There's so much more opportunity I think to incorporate it and like that task force report. Do you know that you're talking about you know when it came out in August this year? I was. I saw it posted right away. I like her into that. I started reading it and I was just thrilled. You know I was just like yes we're finally going to start talking about solutions like we're going to. It's not just going to be terrible reports and data that tells you know these stories about how we're struggling and then we fail to really acknowledge what that means and what we can do about it as a profession. [00:49:36] So like it was exciting especially for me because I flagged all these points in the report where they talk about Citlali as sort of a vehicle for talking about wellbeing and wellness. And I had you know so I think that report just helps kind of validate and give momentum to this. And I've seen that lots of other places you know Minnesota CLV as part of a trade group of sort of national CLV a national group of Seelie providers so state bar associations and private providers. And I think among that group there's a lot more attention to these topics and how to how to incorporate them into programs how to heighten awareness and make information more accessible and so I definitely brought the sort of tipping point of the conversation I know locally here. [00:50:30] I've also seen other leaders in our community who are writing more and talking more about their experiences and the past. One of the past presidents of the head of the county bar association wrote an article I think he kind of wrote a monthly blog post but one of them was about sort of him starting a yoga practice you know kind of unexpectedly finding it and then unexpectedly seeing all these benefits that he wrote about. So just you know more and more people coming forward and being willing to talk about their experience and what they're doing you know sort of how they're struggling and what they're doing about it and sharing those ideas because I think you know it comes back to this point that we sometimes forget when we're like in our heads and just trying to deal with all the stuff in our own lives. But like we're all in this together like we're all here in this profession trying to figure it out together. [00:51:26] And that goes beyond just the profession. I mean that's just a human thing. But it's helpful to remember that and I think work forward under that framework. So the more we can support each other and figure out ways to do this together you know the sort of easier and it becomes awful. Jeena Cho: [00:51:46] Yeah and I think you know it sort of focusing on while being kind hum and much many different labors is right there is like one singular to care for your well-being because it's like multi-dimensional and a one ship that I have been noticing since some of the conferences that I'm going to is that there is the emphasis on activities that involved drinking. So certainly there are certain conferences where they just don't have the open bar happy hours but other conferences are noticing or doing like mornings sort of physical activities like a fun run or yoga and meditation in the morning so that you know they do sort of have the open bar the night before there is this you know I think people feel freer to say well I know I'm actually I signed up for that 10k in the morning so I'm not going to stay up until 2:00 am getting tranquil. [00:52:39] And I think that's really just at least one step in the right direction is just something as simple as like not having all of your social functions. You know the focus on the drinking which I feel like a sort of. So the fabric of our culture as lawyers and you know like from law school. Oh, my grace I like bar reviews on Thursday where we just get drunk and that's really sort of problematic in our profession that sort of the only tool we have in our toolbox are letting go of stress and anxiety. Matthew Foli: [00:53:13] Yeah I agree and especially this time of year with holiday parties. No law firm holiday parties and things like that and gifts that are being sent out. I talked to somebody at my office because they had started out well would you like Matthew would you like to be part of the wine tasting for the gifts that we're going to give away to clients. And I said Well how about like non-alcoholic gifts. What about just like a donation to LCL or a donation to a food shelf or something like that weight where you make a donation in that company's name or something like that. You know it's just like they don't even have to do it. And this is what the whole thing I think with like there really is resilience thing. It's just being the awareness. [00:53:56] You know I just think like we need to end up talking to the three of us but in the audience members to like just voice these other alternatives to show that like I'm at least make the other person think about it rather than just being the unconscious decision that well the only option is the bar. But the only option is the party with alcohol or something like that. You know there are like just about a little about five minutes of meditation and one less beer you know whatever that like. So that means in my mind years and let us unlet instead of six or you know two instead of three. It doesn't matter. It's just like you know that's kind of a little bit of the balance that we're talking about. You know Jean I just want it so Elyssa had brought the report with her and she had it all. [00:54:39] Dog-eared she said to me back in August. And this lead that she's putting on in January practiced well for the Minnesota state Minnesota. That's a full day thing about health and resilience for lawyers. It's kind of patterned upon the this the path to lawyer well-being but the one quote that I found in this thing and this is on page 12 of the article itself it says that many in the legal profession have behaved at best as if their colleague's well-being is none of their business. [00:55:16] And at worst some appeared to believe that supporting well-being will harm professional success. And you know when I read this the first time about when it says they behave as if their colleague's well-being is none of their business. I thought of that as being like one law firm where the partners would not care about their other partner's well-being. But I think you can read it more globally to say that all of us in the profession that we have done we have not done enough to care about other attorneys within the profession because I feel strongly that and you see this like you know when they have the article that's about how this law this law school is now having a mindfulness class. And then you see the letters to the editor which is well all attorneys can just go to the bottom of the ocean and we would all you know the society would be better. [00:56:06] You know I think that you know society as a whole doesn't respect or appreciate the legal profession and then so like why are why the US within do the profession beat up on each other so much. You know we should be protecting and supporting each other. So I think that that's kind of like the bigger issue for me. And you know like you think about the person that's in the law firm that you know all the issues that you go through on a personal level. Right. [00:56:33] Like whether it's like a breakup a relationship or a breakup of a marriage or a miscarriage or a family member that's struggling or a suicide in the family or you know all of those things and you do not want the response to be from like the partner to be to the association which is well you know we really need you to jump to bounce back quickly from that because you know we need you to get your hours up again. You know we should all be supporting each other whether it's within the law firm or outside of the law firm. And part of it takes the courage of the person to not answer the question how are you with just saying I'm fine. You know part of that requires the person. This is what I stumbled onto. If you listen to the podcast terrible thanks for asking. Jeena Cho: [00:57:17] Okay good yeah. Matthew Foli: [00:57:19] Nora Mack and Ernie and that is the whole premise of that podcast are that you know if we were honest with each other we would say I'm having a bad day. You know Prince Harry I don't remember her name. She had a podcast from Britain last year which was this mad world and he was the first guest and he talked about his struggle with mental illness and he said you know on a Friday we would all be better off if we just told somebody close to us that I've had a really crappy day and get it off your chest rather than carry it around with you on the weekend. [00:57:51] So I think we can do all of us on just the individual level we can all do a better job at it. You said this Gina. I listened to your Florida webinars that you did and you talked about that situation where you had somebody another attorney that you were not connecting with and somehow either she said it or you prompted her and she said I had a sick kid this weekend and that was what broke down the barriers for you to connect with her on a more personal level. And then it makes you kind of like then realize that you know what. Like this lease, negotiation doesn't have to end up being attended anything victory for me. Jeena Cho: [00:58:33] Yeah. Even just that idea of like just like me and my dad just recognizing our common humanity like just like me you know I have bad days she has bad days and good days and just like me you know she sometimes has scared and maybe that's the reason why she sent that nasty e-mail and not because she's a terrible person. [00:58:52] So yeah I think we can really sort of give ourselves and each other a little bit of a benefit to going out and to really this that's of empathy and compassion and really feel like is sorely lacking in our society now. Maybe like when I have the guys back. Around you and me because I do kind of enjoy the unfolding conversations and now I'm like I want to come out and see that in good a yoga class. So yeah we are. And my final question and I'll let you guys decide who's going to answer first. Is this the name of this? I've is the entire resilient lawyer. What does it mean to be a resilient boy? Matthew Foli: [00:59:37] It's ego so I'll go first. What it means to me is being aware of the triggers that we face on a regular basis and not necessarily always seeing down before we react poorly but perhaps recognizing them afterward and saying next time I can do better. You know I don't have to answer the phone on an empty stomach. I did it just now. It didn't turn out well. Next time I'm going to eat before I call that person back. So it's like these little things that you can use on a regular basis to promote longevity in this profession because I do not think that the idea of Wake Up Kick-Ass repeat is sustainable in our profession. Jeena Cho: [01:00:25] Yeah I totally agree with. Elissa Meyer: [01:00:28] You know we sort of prepped that this question would be coming so I've been thinking about it a lot and as with many things you know what you find like when you're thinking about something or trying to come up you know trying to reflect on it. Like all these, all these things start coming back at you. So I was reading an article written by a friend last week and she was not talking about lawyers or anything to do with a resilient lawyer but she was writing this article responding to a question about like what-what quality she most wants to teach her children. She has these you know twins that are almost 1 year old. And as she wrote the story you know she came to this point where she was this quality the thing she most wants to impart to her children is resilience and the way she defined it was returning to the self after being banned compressed or stretched. [01:01:25] And I just thought that was so you like. Yes right. Yes. So you know this ability to come back to yourself after something happens or as you gain experience and say like how can I use this. What does it mean to me? You know being able to take it for a lesson and layer it on and if it's useful keep it and if it's not useful you know to figure out where to place it and then move forward. Jeena Cho: [01:01:58] I love that. Thank you so much for taking time to be with us. I appreciate your time and I said I just appreciate the work that you're doing and also thank you so much. Matthew Foli: [01:02:14] You're welcome. This is fun. I'm glad we did this. Elissa Meyer: [01:02:16] Thank you and thanks to you for all that you're doing and all of the wonderful conversations that you're having with people across the country it's really fun to be a listener of your podcasts as well. So thank you. Thank you. Closing: [01:02:32] Thanks for joining us on The Resilient Lawyer podcast. If you've enjoyed the show, please tell a friend. It's really the best way to grow the show. To leave us a review on iTunes, search for The Resilient Lawyer and give us your honest feedback. It goes a long way to help with our visibility when you do that, so we really appreciate it. As always, we'd love to hear from you. E-mail us at smile@theanxiouslawyer.com. Thanks, and look forward to seeing you next week.
DJ Seelie @ the Habita 22.09.2017 (Live Session vol.149) by BaBa Beach Club
WE'VE MET THE SEELIE QUEEN! YAASS! This week we recap the entire episode and talk about the drama caused at the Seelie court, Luke's rampage, and Maryse possibly redeeming herself. What were your thoughts on this weeks episode? If you love shows like Riverdale, PLL, The Fosters, The Originals, The Vampire Diaries, Famous In Love and Shadowhunters check out our new podcast, YA At Any Age. Our New Show's info: Twitter: http://twitter.com/yaatanyage Facebook: http://bit.ly/yaaaafb Website: http://yaatanyage.com Follow the show: Twitter: http://twitter.com/podshadowhunter Facebook: http://facebook.com/shadowhunterspodcast Website: http://shadowhunterspodcast.com Follow the hosts: Abel Twitter: http://twitter.com/abelozuna4 Facebook: http://facebook.com/abelozuna04 Instagram: http://instagram.com/abelozuna4 Website: http://abelozuna.com Andrea Twitter: http://twitter.com/outfitsleuth Website: http://outfitsleuth.com Song: Warrio - Mortals (feat. Laura Brehm) [NCS Release] Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds. Video Link: https://youtu.be/yJg-Y5byMMw --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/showhunterspodcast/support
Help support this podcast! >> Hey friends. Have you ever questioned your writer-ly destiny? Then Episode 022 of the Write Now podcast is for you. What if I simply wasn't meant to be a writer? I received a letter from a very bright, very talented young writer named Amanda who was wondering whether she was actually meant to be a writer. Her letter affected me so much that I decided to dedicate this episode to exploring the topic. Amanda writes, I'm not sure if I'm meant to be writing... I like coming up with characters and thinking about the situations they would get into. I like developing the characters. I love dialogue particularly. ...But I spend maybe 5% of my writing time actually writing. The rest of the time, I am in misery. I agonize over my faults until I can barely move, let alone be creative... I'm just wondering if I should even be writing at all. Can someone maybe have a passion for writing but then shouldn't do it anyway? Wow. It took me a while, but I was finally able to provide Amanda with an answer, and I'd like to share it with you. There is no "should". The first thing I would do is question your "shoulds" and "meant tos". When you wonder whether you were "meant" to be a writer, or whether you "should" be writing, whose mandate are you following? Who is imposing those "shoulds"? Fate? God or a higher power? A teacher, professor, or friend? Yourself? That feeling of enjoyment/satisfaction/joy when you're able to write? I went through a time when my own "shoulds" seriously conflicted with what I wanted and needed to do with my life. I would bet that you have been through something similar as well. What's hard to remember amidst all those "shoulds" is that your life is not just one pre-determined path. Your life isn't just point A to point B. It's point A to LITERALLY ANYWHERE. There are thousands of possibilities, and thousands of choices you make in any given day that will determine the course of your life. You were given (or have, depending on your perspective) a talent for writing. And it's up to you to decide what you want to do with that talent. Do you want to write as a hobby? As a career? Or do you not want to write at all? The only person who can make that choice is you. Have you ever asked yourself this question? Let me know what conclusion you came to, or what happened because of the choice you made, by sending an email to hello [at] sarahwerner.com or sharing your thoughts in the comments below! Book of the week. (Okay, books.) I got lost in not only a great book but a great series this week. Karen Marie Moning's excellent urban fantasy "Fever" pentalogy (like a trilogy, but with five parts!) begins with Darkfever and ends with Shadowfever and wow is it a wild, gripping, breathtaking ride. I read all five books in some sort of fever of my own, often staying up significantly past my bedtime to read just one more chapter. The premise? MacKayla Lane travels to Dublin, Ireland to identify the body of her sister and best friend, Alina. While she's there, she notices that things aren't quite right, and embarks on an adventure to not only identify her sister's killer but prevent the extinction of humanity at the hands of the warring Seelie and Unseelie Fae courts. Read this series if you love urban fantasy, mysterious strangers, Dublin, tightly knit plots, bookshops, self-aware heroines with swords and spears, saucy brooding heroes, and epic storytelling. Do not read this series if you are sensitive to foul language or graphically depicted adult situations. (Seriously. I'm not kidding. It's graphic.) Otherwise... I hope you don't have to get up early for work the next morning. Keep up-to-date with my book-related adventures on Goodreads. Talk to me! Submit your own thoughts or questions on my contact page,...
For the 38th Avenue Red Podcast we have an eclectic, rather odyssey-like 90-minute mix from Southport-based DJ, Josef Lawler. Josef holds a monthly residency in his hometown at a monthly event called Macooza, which has just recently celebrated it's 1st birthday and has seen Josef play in support of guests like Seelie, Lazare Hoche and System 2, with grand master Rikki Humphrey (see: https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-023-rikki-humphrey) coming to spin there in June also – sounds like a top party to be resident at! In this exclusive selection Josef lays down a trippy mixture of records from curious, eerie Ambient sounds to driving, hypnotic Acid and from deep, twisted Techno to oldskool, melodic IDM... this mix takes you on a real journey and shows you just how rich, diverse and interesting electronic music has become. Listen from start to finish please! Flick through this mix and you are simply not going to get it. "This mix is an insight to the sort of stuff I like to play out, a balance of old and new records, some deeper cuts and a few more made for the floor! Hope you enjoy the mix" Josef Lawler, May 2015 @joseflawler ===== Full tracklist for this mix coming soon, but do feel free to ask for track ID's in the comments in the meantime.
Ahead of Rabbithole - the 'Summer Days' EP (including Seelie's dub version of 'Waterside') coming out and our release parties at Eastern Bloc and Kraak this Friday with Marcelus (Tresor).... here is the long awaited Seelie Heartcast. Enjoy!
For Episode 17 we have invited in Illusion Agencies 'Seelie' aka (Liam Rielly). An avid record collector and long-time resident for the seminal ‘For No Reason’ parties in the former rave mecca of Preston, Lancashire (North of Manchester), Seelie has been carving away a solid reputation of one of the best resident DJs in the UK, but it is with his own productions that he is really starting to cause quite a stir with ONE Records snapping up the amazing ‘Soulocation’ for his first solo release, and many more production waiting to be released, Seelie looks like he's one to watch for 2012/13.
We return after our summer break with a cracking showcase of underground house from rising One Records star and For No Reason resident Seelie. Catch him this Saturday playing alongside Prosumer at our Joshua Brooks Opening Party.
Who are the elves of Ireland? In this 14-minute podcast, Fiona talks about this question and several others. What surnames see the Banshee? Anyone can see a Banshee, but you're not likely to. They rarely appear to humans. However, since Banshees are real, it's possible for anyone to see them. For more information about the faerie-related families protected by Banshees, see Fiona's article, The Banshee. The Banshee is real; stories connect Banshees with specific Irish families. You can see (or, more often, hear) a Banshee whether you're related to an Irish family or not. Do people actually see faeries? Fiona says that this question is like asking if people actually see elephants. In both cases, the answer is yes... if you're in a place where they are, and you know what you're looking for. Is this website a hoax/fake? No. Many of Fiona's faerie articles have been online for over ten years. (They were originally at HollowHill.com, which is now Fiona's ghost-related site, and at Suite101.com, where Fiona worked as a journalist for three years.) Fiona isn't sure why anyone would think an academic site like this -- especially one that's been online for so many years -- would be a hoax. She also explains that the majority of faerie (or fairy) related websites are happy fantasy sites, and delightful to visit. She doesn't like the words "hoax" or "fake" used with any serious, fae-related website. (Also, it's not wise to insult friends of the faeries.) Can you describe the different kinds of dragons? Fiona talks about dragons in several articles at FaerieMagick.com, and gives a general outline of the kinds of dragons, as well. In future articles and podcasts, she'll explain more about them. Who are the elves of Ireland? A. "Elves" is not a word that originated in Ireland. Some Irish people have adopted the word, elf. It appears in various histories and mythologies, notably English history where the word initially meant all faeries. Soon, the word "elf" was used to describe specific, small creatures that have supernatural powers and may be shape shifters. The term may sometimes be used in place of boggart or gnome. Elf men are usually described as kings and they're elderly, or have small, wrinkled faces. Elf women are usually described as young and beautiful maidens wearing grey dresses and white veils. Some cultures' stories -- including Algonquin (Native American) and Teutonic mythology -- describe "elves of light." Their counterparts would be "elves of darkness," similar to the Seelie and Unseelie Courts of the Scottish faeries. The word "elf" has many spellings, from Aelf to Ylf, and is primarily featured in British, Teutonic, Icelandic and Scandinavian lore. Elves in Ireland -- or at least the use of the word, "elf" -- probably arrived in Ireland from one or more of those countries. References Briggs, Katharine: An Encyclopedia of Fairies Rose, Carol: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins - An Encyclopedia Smith, Peter A.: W. B. Yeats and the Tribes of Danu Faerie Magick (dot com) Music: The Moods of Manwritten & orchestrated by James Underberg
Indie Celtic music from Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, StoneRing, Moch Pryderi, Enter the Haggis, The Patched Hats, Seelie Court, Eric Benson with The Boatrights, Ali Benson, Queen's Gambit, Brobdingnagian Bards, 3 Pints Gone, Sligo Rags, Hugh Morrison, Angel's Share, The Rogues. http://celticmusicpodcast.com Notes Do you download your podcasts by Hand? For shame. Let iTunes do it for you. SPONSOR - SONG HENGE: Free Irish & Celtic Music Downloads Archive Background music: "Catch a Cat" by Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, from Thumb Twiddling, http://www.wetfootmusic.co.uk/ Renaissance Festival Podcast Toast of the Week: "Here's to you and here's to me. May we never disagree. But if we do, screw you here's to me!" Pocket History of Irish Music This week in Celtic Music 0:05 "Georgie Lad" by Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer from Thumb Twiddling 7:57 "Wild Colonial Boy" by StoneRing from Samhain 12:40 "Swan-An Alarch" by Moch Pryderi from Belly Jerk 15:16 "Music Box" by Enter the Haggis from Casulaties of Retail 21:57 "Go Down You Murderes (The Ballad of Tim Evans)" by The Patched Hats from Steppin' Large and Laughlin' Easy 25:22 "The Night Before Larry Was Stretched" by Seelie Court from The Court Is Now In Session 27:58 "Stand Your Ground" by Eric Benson with The Boatrights from StoneWork 34:03 "She Moved Thru the Faire" by Ali Benson 37:50 "Johnny Jump Up" by Queen's Gambit from Pawn to King Four 41:00 "The Unicorn Song" by Brobdingnagian Bards from Songs of Ireland 44:25 "Highland Paddy" by 3 Pints Gone from One More Round 50:44 "The Irish Rover" by Sligo Rags from The Night Before the Morning After 55:02 "Shandwick Bay" by Hugh Morrison from Far From Home 57:29 "Green Grow the Rashes" by Angel's Share from A Wee Dram 01:02:57 "An Dro" by The Rogues from RogueTrip The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to iTunes or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at celticmusicpodcast.com.
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