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The queens shine a rainbow spotlight on some fabulous, emerging queer poets.Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Xavier Searle is a poet and educator. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets University & College Prize, their work has appeared in The Broken Plate, Stone of Madness, and the anthology Broken Olive Branches. They hold an MFA from North Carolina State University. Read their poem "Elegy." Deon Robinson (he/him) is a Queer Afro-Latino poet born-and-raised in The Bronx. He received his B.A. in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University, where he was a two-time recipient of the Janet C. Weis Prize for Literary Excellence. Currently, he is a first year MFA Candidate in Poetry at the University of Urbana-Champaign where he is a recipient of a Graduate College Master's Fellowship and selected by Adrian Matejka for the 2022 Hobart L. and Mary Kay Peer Memorial Award. Read Deon Robinson's "(Pleasure-Knowledge) (Knowledge-Pain)" from The Adroit Journal. Visit his website: https://djrthepoet.weebly.com Kaitlin Hsu 徐欣 (she/她) is a queer Taiwanese poet, translator and editor from the Bay Area. Her work can be found in A Public Space, Poet Lore, Peach Mag and elsewhere. She is a 2024 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers' Workshop and works at Kaya Press as an associate editor. Hsu was also a Brooklyn Poets Fellow. Check out Hsu's website at https://myrefoli.github.io and read her poem "As a Child, I Pretended to Be a Tree" here.Stefania Gomez is a 2025 Luminarts Fellow in Poetry and a 2023 Fulbright Research Award Grantee, and a finalist for the 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship and 2023-2024 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship Semifinalist. She has received additional fellowships from the Dirt Palace, Sewanee Writers Workshop, Lambda Literary, and the International Quilt Museum. She received her MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. She is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and teaches Creative Writing at The Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago's first public arts high school. Read her poem "Wreck" here and check out her website here. Another Gomez poem worth your time is "At the New York City AIDS Memorial"John Bonanni founded and edits the Cape Cod Review. His poems have appeared in North American Review, Foglifter, Black Warrior Review, Washington Square Review, Florida Review, and Gulf Coast, and his literary criticism has been featured in DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, and The Kenyon Review. He teaches on Cape Cod. Visit his website and read "Elegy for Gaeton Dugas" here. Bonnani's book Retrovirology, won the Donald Hall Prize (judged by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers) and will be available in September from the Pitt Poetry Series. Alec Hershman is the author of the chapbooks Permanent and Wonderful Storage  (2019) and The Egg Goes Under (2017), both from Seven Kitchens Press. He lives in Michigan where he teaches literature and writing to college students. His poetry appears widely in literary journals and magazines such as Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, The Journal, Sycamore Review, DIAGRAM, Columbia, The National Poetry Review, and Harpur Palate. You can find links to his work online at https://alechershmanpoetry.com. Read Hershman's "Mercury Fields." Denice Frohman is a poet and performer from New York City. She has received support from The Pew Center for the Arts, Baldwin for the Arts, CantoMundo, Headlands Center for the Arts, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Poem-A-Day, The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNext, Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color, The Rumpus and elsewhere. A former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, she's featured on hundreds of stages from The Apollo to The White House. Currently, she is developing her one-woman show, Esto No Tiene Nombre, which centers the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders. Read or listen to Frohman's poem "Lady Jordan" here and check her website out here: https://www.denicefrohman.comZachary Scalzo (he/they) is a queer writer, translator, and theatremaker. They can be found at azachofalltrades.com and on Instagram at @zjscalzo. Their poetry has appeared in journals including Dear Poetry, Ghost City Review, and &Change. Read their poem “Sometimes—there's God—so quickly.” Journalist Randy Shilts popularized the concept of "Patient Zero" in his 1987 book, And the Band Played On. By 1987, however, it was known that an infected individual might not display symptoms for several years, and that the study on which Shilts based his assumption was unlikely to have revealed a network of infection. Still, Shilts uncritically spread the story of the Los Angeles cluster study and its ‘Patient 0,' with long-standing consequences. For more about this, read here.Director Laurie Lynd released a documentary in 2019, Killing Patient Zero, which delves more into Gaeton Dugas's life. Read more about the documentary here.

Inspired Choices for Business Growth with Christine McIver  There comes a point in business where the biggest thing standing in your way is no longer strategy, money, visibility, or even the market — it's the stories you keep telling yourself. In this episode of Inspired Choices for Business Growth, Christine McIver pulls back the curtain on the excuses, avoidance patterns, inflated narratives, and hidden fears that quietly sabotage business growth. This is not about shame or blame. It's about radical business honesty. Because the moment you stop lying to yourself about what's really happening in your business is the moment you regain your power to change it. Christine challenges entrepreneurs to confront where they are playing small, tolerating dysfunction, avoiding leadership, and pretending things are “fine” when they are not. If you are ready to stop performing entrepreneurship and start operating like the CEO your business requires, this conversation will hit hard — and move you forward fast. CEO Without Apology Author Christine McIver   Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1997615045 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1997615045     ~ More About Inspired Choices for Business Growth with Christine McIver ~  Christine McIver is a Business Optimization Expert, Inspirational Speaker, TV & Radio Personality, and the Founder & Owner of Inspired Choices Network, ICN Summits & ICN Publishing. Christine is highly successful at inspiring individuals and businesses to make choices that will bring them increased success, greater joy, self-confidence and remarkable inspiring change.  All of which increased the abundance in their lives and businesses. Christine lives her life out loud and is a natural cheerleader.  She believes in the abilities of others to change their lives quickly and easily. Christine entices clients to show up more in their life, businesses & relationships than they ever have. She invites them to make all that they once knew was possible, possible. Christine believes that you can be living & loving your life with ease!  Her kind, direct and joy filled approach is both comforting and stretching.  Christine has impacted thousands of individuals with her enthusiastic message of possibilities.  Christine invites all into knowing that all things are possible beyond what is present in your life right now. https://christinemciver.com/ ~  christine@christinemciver.com https://www.facebook.com/InspiredChoicesCA ~  https://www.youtube.com/@InspiredchoicesBusinessGrowth   To get more of Inspired Choices for Business Growth ~ Christine McIver, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/inspired-choices-for-business-growth-christine-mciver/

Travel through time with the Breaking Form ladies as we revisit some queer times and places.Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Check out Felice Picano's website https://www.felicepicano.net/, and this tribute to the writer, who died in 2025 at the age of 81. For more about how Saint Sebastian became a queer icon, read here. Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues is available in many formats on Feinberg's website: https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/In addition to publishing poetry and prose, Darrell g.h. Schramm writes for national and international rose publications, especially on heritage roses. He edits Rose Letter, a small quarterly of the Heritage Roses Group, and a newsletter The Vintage Rose for The Friends of Vintage Roses. For many years, he taught rhetoric at the University of San Francisco.Member of the Family: Gay Men Write About Their Families was edited by John Preston and published by Plume in 1994.Check out "The Truth That Must Be Told: Gay Subjectivity, Homophobia, and Social History in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'" by Dean Shackleford in The Tennessee Williams  Annual Review (available through jstor). Read more of Richard McCann's poem "Days of 1990" from Ghost Letters (buy it from Alice James Books here).The book David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side was edited by by Sylvère Lotringer, Giancarlo Ambrosino, Chris Kraus, Hedi El Kholti, Justin Cavin, and Jennifer Doyle, and it was published by Semiotext(e). The book resulted from Wojnarowicz's meetings with Lotringer; they'd arranged to meet In February 1991 to conduct a long-awaited dialogue on Wojnarowicz's work. Wojnarowicz was then at the peak of his notoriety as the fiercest antagonist of morals crusader Senator Jesse Helms–a notoriety that Wojnarowicz alternately embraced and rejected. Already suffering the last stages of AIDS, David saw his dialogue with Lotringer as a chance to set the record straight on his aspirations, his personal history, and his political views. Check out this video of Wojnarowicz reading "All I Can Feel Is the Pressure" 

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: We go to court today as numerous court decisions are rendered which involve Texas and Texans: Fifth Circuit Lifts Block on Texas Age Requirements for Apps, Paxton Secures Major Victory Protecting Children Online By Requiring Age Verification and Parental Approval for Minors' App Downloads Texas Supreme Court Denies Review Of Heartbeat Act Procedure Court Clears Way for Texas to Enforce Migrant Arrest Law Attorney General Paxton Secures Emergency Court Order Forcing Discord to Protect Texas Children and Stop Lying to Parents School Trustees Can Bypass Education Bureaucracy To Force Records From ISDs Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.City of Denton sued for violation of the Texas Women's Privacy Act related to homosexual “Big Gay Swim Day” at a city owned pool where the event expressly advertises it will be for all ages and that changing rooms will be “gender-neutral.” Denton failed to stop the violation despite having been put on notice.Oil and gas drilling rig count calmed down last week, Texas added only one rig.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The queens visit The Lowells in a game of "Amy Robert Lowell"Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Watch a brief biographical video about Amy Lowell here. Poems we mention include these by Amy Lowell:"Sword Blades and Poppy Seed""Opal""The Letter""A Winter Ride" (which includes the line "Everything mortal has moments immortal"; the poem appeared in her first book, A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass [Houghton Mifflin, 1912])."A Decade""September, 1918" (which we discuss at length)And these by Robert Lowell:"Night Sweat""Home After Three Months Away""The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" which includes the line "The Lord survives the rainbow of his will.""Reading Myself"Watch a longer documentary about Robert Lowell here (~60 min).Here's the music video for Chappell Roan's "Casual"Here's an article about Amy and Robert Lowell that's worth reading. Here's a link to "Amy Lowell: Selected Poems" edited by Honor Moore; watch Moore discuss Lowell here (~60 min).Watch Naomi Shihab Nye read Amy Lowell's "The Garden by Moonlight."Watch Kids Magazine TV A bit about hyphenated use of words like "to-day" vs "today." In Old and in Middle English, the practice was to join the time with the preposition, using a hyphen "to-day," and "to-morrow," and "to-night," for instance. As the sense of their use as single notions developed, the two elements were brought together in written language (i.e., to night, to-night, and tonight). Nineteenth-century dictionaries opted for the hyphen in all three words. The OED shows hyphenated examples throughout the 19th century and into the early 20th. Latest examples are of to-day (1912), to-night (1908), and to-morrow (1927, with a possible further example as late as 1959). (Adapted from this article).

Laura Kasischke joins the queens to talk about her new collection of poems (and her new novel)!Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:"The Crying Towel" was first published in The Massachusetts Review Volume 57, Issue 4Read a short essay  Kasischke wrote about the beginning of her poem "The First Resurrection" Uma Thurman starred in The Life Before Her Eyes (2007), adapted from Kasischke's novel of the same name. Evan Rachel Wood plays the younger version of the Uma Thurman character. Her other novels adapted for film include White Bird in a Blizzard (2014), directed by Gregg Araki and starring Shailene Woodley and Suspicious River (2000), directed by Lynne Stopkewich and starring Molly Parker. Kasischke also co-wrote the screenplay for this dark thriller.Laura Kasischke's novel The Lifeguard is available from Red Hen Press here, Read an interview about the novel here. Alberto Giacometti "Woman with Her Throat Cut (Femme égorgée)" serves as the ekphrastic inspiration for Kasischke's poem of the same name. View the artwork here. Giacometti completed the sculpture in 1932 and used bronze cast. Dimensions are 22.00 x 87.50 x 53.50 cm (or roughly 8.5 x 34.5 x 21 inches). Lucy Flint writes that the human figure is treated brutally in Giacometti's piece, and the woman appears in insectlike form. Woman with Her Throat Cut "is a particularly vicious image: the body is splayed open, disemboweled, arched in a paroxysm of sex and death. The psychological torment and the sadistic misogyny projected by this sculpture are in startling contrast to the serenity of other contemporaneous pieces by Giacometti, such as Woman Walking." (article on the Guggenheim site).Watch Kasischke give a reading here, here, and here.      

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The queens take on two impossible topics: death, and mothers.Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:Aaron mentions the Marie Howe poem "Letter to My Sister" from The Good Thief, which Howe talks about here. Aaron reads his poem "After My Mother Apologized for My Childhood, We Went to Brunch," which you can hear him read again here -- on his cd Outside the Lines. You can read James's poem "Family Portrait" here. 

Come with the queens as they travel back to a time of gay bookstores, queer anthems, and a boom in LGBT+ publishing: the gay 90s! Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:Check out Michael Nava's wonderful essay "Creating a Literary Culture: A Short, Selective, and Incomplete History of LGBT Publishing, Part II"Learn more about Gendertrash zineRead Melvin Dixon's essay "I'll Be Somewhere Listening for My Name." Read more about Texas Tech's limitations on studying gender and sexuality.Sabah as-Sabah's work appears in many 90s anthologies, including In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers (1992; edited by Kevin Powell & Ras Baraka), Catch the Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (1998), and The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets (ed. Assotto Saint, 1991).  Read Audre Lorde's "The Electric Slide Boogie" in The Marvelous Arithmetic of Distance: 1987-1992.Read Marilyn Hacker's "The Boy"Justin Chin's "Cocksucker's Blues" is included in his first book of poems, Bite Hard (1997). Watch a tribute to Chin here. Here's the table of contents (with some hyperlinks) of The World in Us, edited by Elena Georgiou and Michael Lassell.You can read Maureen Seaton's "Blonde Ambition" (and the entirety of Furious Cooking)Read Dennis Cooper's "After School, Street Football, Eighth Grade"Read Gerry Gomez Pearlberg's "Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette" Some queer poets/poems we mention: Eileen Myles, "American Poem"JD McClatchy, "My Mammogram"David TrinidadRafael Campo, The Other Man Was MeEloise Klein HealyFrank Paino, The Rapture of MatterPaul Monette, 18 Elegies for RogJoan LarkinJudy GrahnRobin BeckerMaggie AndersonRichard McCann, Ghost LettersWayne Koestenbaum, The Queen's ThroatChrystosCheryl Clarke

Let's talk about Sex! Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:Poems we read and texts we mention include:Dorianne Laux, "The Lovers" (Visit Laux's website here).Jenny Johnson, "Daddy Scene" (published in Cherry Tree Issue 11). Subscribe here. Read Jenny's essay "Butch Blowjob" in Bomb Magazine.sam sax, "Ode to the Belt" can be read in The Nation Sept 2023--or you can watch sam perform the poem here. If you're looking for a theory reading about sexuality, might we recommend Sigmund Freud's "Three Contributions To The Theory Of Sex"Jericho Brown's "Host" appears in The New TestamentTimothy Liu's "The Size of It" appeared in The Paris Review Fall 1994Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's "Sex" Sophie Cabot Black, "Interrogation"You can read Minnie Bruce Pratt's "Peach" here (just scroll down/search for "peach").Aaron reads from this article ("50 interesting sex facts...") in the fact check. 

I used to wear my packed schedule like a trophy, convinced that being busy meant I was winning — until burnout hit me so hard I couldn't stand the sight of another hotel room. In this episode, I break down the lie that busyness equals success and share what I learned from ultra-successful mentors about where real progress actually comes from. If your calendar is overflowing but your life isn't moving forward, this one is for you. Key Takeaways Busyness is not productivity — a full calendar is not proof of success. In the absence of clarity, we fill our lives with distraction and call it hustle. The most successful people I know always seem to have time because they focus on outcomes, not activity volume. Gary Keller's concept from "The One Thing" challenges you to replace your to-do list with a success list — what actually moves you forward? Eliminating unnecessary low-yield tasks often produces the same results, and gives you back the most valuable currency of all: time. Action Steps Look at your to-do list this week and identify which items, if eliminated, would have zero negative impact on your actual goals. Identify the single most important task each day that, if completed, moves your career or life meaningfully forward — and protect that task above everything else. Start replacing your to-do list with a success list by asking: does this action get me closer to what I am truly trying to build? Notable Quote In the absence of clarity, we surround ourselves with distraction.

Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

On today's episode of the CLS Experience, host Craig Siegel sits down with executive coach and bestselling author Keren Eldad for a powerful conversation on truth, surrender, and breaking free from the illusion of “getting ready to be ready.” Keren shares her gift for spotting self deception and unpacks how people unconsciously lie to themselves about fear, money, relationships, and identity, keeping them stuck in preparation mode instead of taking aligned action. The discussion introduces Kabbalah inspired tools like separating the ego from your true self, defining “the Light” as truth and harmonious intention, and shifting from reactivity to conscious response to change outcomes. They explore soulmate relationships as a refining force for growth, how to discern aligned coaches in a saturated space, and why true success is measured by fulfillment rather than external validation. Keren also opens up about her own rock bottom moment that led to radical honesty, spiritual discipline, and a complete life reinvention, along with her evolving relationship with money and manifesting through surrender and certainty. Let's go deep. 6:03 The Getting Ready Trap15:18 Soulmates and Twin Flames27:28 Healing Your Relationship with Money35:37 Spiritual Gym Habits41:26 Truth and Certainty44:45 Mastery and Personal DevelopmentCheck out Keren on Instagram HERE:Check out Keren's Website HERE:Check out Keren's Book HERE:Early Bird Tickets now available for our October live event, CLS: Formation HERE:To join our community click here.➤ Order a copy of Craig's book The Reinvention Formula today! ➤ Join our CLS texting community for free daily inspiration and wisdom to elevate your life, text (917) 634-3796➤ INSTAGRAM➤ FACEBOOK➤ TIKTOK➤ YOUTUBE➤ WEBSITE➤ LINKEDIN➤ X

All the queens want is boundless love in this episode about the love life of Frank O'Hara.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:Read Frank O'Hara's "Homosexuality"For more about Chester Kallman, read here. Kallman was a poet, librettist, and writer who was also Auden's partner (and, later, his estate's executor). He published three collections of poems: Storm at Castelfranco (1956), Absent and Present (1963), and The Sense of Occasion (1971). Grace Hartigan's relationship with Frank O'Hara is detailed a bit more in this Sebastian Smee essay in Washington Post: "Portrait of a Poet." Read O'Hara's "In Memory of My Feelings"Much of Frank O'Hara's papers are at the Museum of Modern Art in NYCRead a review of Ada Calhoun's memoir "Also a Poet," about her father, art critic Peter Schjeldahl, who was working on a memorial project about O'Hara when he died. Calhoun believes that her father's book was torpedoed by O'Hara's sister and literary executor, Maureen Granville-Smith Calhoun. For more about The Glory Hole Café in Buenos Aires (which we mention in the show), go here. 

The queens talk about writing through sadness and grief in order to move forward and gain a different vantage point. Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:Take a look at the Tracey Emin sculpture "My Bed." It was sold at auction by Christie's in July 2014 for £2.5 million to German collector Count Christian Duerckheim.Read Larry Levis's poem "Boy in Video Arcade"Read Dickinson's 670 ("One Need not be a Chamber to be Haunted"). For more variations she included on the fascicle, visit the Emily Dickinson Online archive at Harvard's Houghton Library here. In an interview with Melanie Brooks and published in Creative Nonfiction (Winter 2017), Mark Doty says about grief: "It was like just pushing my way up this very tall, spirally staircase. I'd write and cry and write and cry and write and cry." Read the essay here (jstor access required).

Stop Lying to Yourself—For Real This TimeIn this raw, unfiltered solo episode of Raw & Unscripted, Christopher Rausch goes straight at the truth most people avoid…The one living inside your own mind. This isn't about motivation. This isn't about information.This is about confronting the internal voice that's been calling you out—and asking why you keep ignoring it.We're diving into:Where you're pretending vs. who you really areThe subtle ways you're bullsh*tting yourself (and calling it “being fine”)What you're tolerating that's slowly pulling you away from your truthWhy being the “bigger person” might actually be self-abandonmentAnd what it really takes to live in full alignment with who you KNOW you areNo filters. No excuses. No hiding.At the end of the day… You don't need another podcast.You need honesty.So the real question is— How much longer are you willing to ignore the truth you already know?

Dress shopping is cardio & life for the Breaking Form fashionistas. Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:Paul Tran's "Provenance" appeared first February 22/March 1, 2021 issue of The Nation and was included in All the Flowers Kneeling, which was published by Penguin in 2022 and was a finalist for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Visit Tran's website here: https://iampaultran.com/The poem "'What Do Women Want?'" is from Kim Addonizio's Tell Me (2000)Read "Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown" by Saeed JonesRead "Esta Noche" by Mark DotyThe poem we read of Allison Benis White's is from “Please Bury Me in This” [Maybe my arms lifted ...]"In recollection of a first memory in A Sketch of the Past, Virginia Woolf wrote: "My mother would come out onto her balcony in a white dressing gown. There were passion flowers growing on the wall; they were great starry blossoms, with purple streaks, and large green buds, part empty, part full."Read torrin a. greathouse's "Ekphrasis on My Rapist's Wedding Dress" and visit their website: https://www.torringreathouse.com/Read Victoria Chang's "OBIT [The Blue Dress]" from her 2020 book, Obit. You can watch Chang read from Obit here (~43 min).  

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Get set for a poetry gabfest for the ages! The fabulous Joy Priest joins us for the Breaking Form Interview.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:Buy Joy's prizewinning collection of poems, Horsepower, from the University of Pittsburgh Press here or from Loyalty Books, a  Black, Queer, and Asian owned independent bookstore in DC.Visit Joy Priest's website: https://www.joypriest.comYou can see Joy reading from her work here, here, and here. Or read this interview with her here.Read Joy's ode to Whitney Houston, "When I See the Stars in the Night Sky"Nikky Finney won the 2011 National Book Award for her book Head Off and Split. Watch her iconic speech here. Read more about American Honey, a film by Andrea Arnold starring Sasha Lane We mention a few forms, including the Abecedarian and the Sestina. Click the links for more information about them. Poets we mention:Emily Dickinson and Poem 269 ("Wild nights!")Hear poet Jane Kenyon read her poem "Otherwise."Donald HallTerrance HayesRoss GayLouise Glück's "Anniversary"                

What happens when life hits you at the worst possible time…and everything you teach gets put to the test?No script. No guest. No safety net.Just truth.In this raw and unscripted episode, I turn the mic on myself and answer five questions that will expose who you really are—not when life is easy… but when it's hard.

We've all done things we wish we could undo. And beneath our shame is a fear that God is disappointed, angry, even ready to give punishment. By the end of this episode, you'll discover how to know you're truly forgiven, and how to understand God's discipline without confusing it with rejection. We'll also talk about why forgiving yourself can sometimes feel like the hardest step, and how to forgive yourself for the things God's already forgiven. Download the Audio Podcast Here:  

The queens kindly request your presence for some piping hot tea as they recap the AWP Conference in Baltimore. Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:James posted some AWP tips on Facebook here. For the curious, AWP has posted its "Community Participation in #AWP26 Conference & Bookfair" stats here.The journals mentioned on the "Editing for Change and Community" panel were:Small Orange edited by Carlie Hoffman. Carlie's poems were included in our Breaking Form episode "The Hof[f]man[n]s" which you can listen to here.Georgia Review edited by Gerald Maa. Brink edited by Nina Lohman Hopkins Review edited by Dora MalechCherry Tree: A National Literary Journal at Washington College, by James. AWP has said it will post the video of John Waters's keynote address for conference registrants to view, but we can't find it yet. But if you're curious, here's a written recap of the event by Baltimore Fishbowl.You can find The Adroit Journal online at  https://theadroitjournal.org. They're open for submissions currently (til April 1, 2026). They are a paying market.   

That which you call death, the queens remember in this episode that revisits The Wild Iris, Louise Glück's Pulitzer-Prize winning volume from 1992.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:While the recording released by the Academy of American Poets of Glück reading from The Wild Iris and other work can be purchased online, you can also hear many of these poems read on SoundCloud here.  Much of our information about Glück's process comes from this interview with the poet Devin Becker, who was also her former student.Read Richie Hofmann's remembrance here.  Some of the poems from The Wild Iris that we mention (and links to read them) are:WitchgrassThe Red PoppyClear MorningThe GardenVespersRetreating LightThe White Lilies, which you can hear read by Glück here.We also mention the poem "Purple Bathing Suit" from Meadowlands, the book which follows The Wild Iris. Louise' Glücks astrological chart is here. (Taurus sun, Leo rising, Scorpio moon.)Watch interviews with Glück:1982, for Kalliope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAB-JqABvq82004, at Smith College: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw0nlVYZ39A 2012, Academy of Achievement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1rpGy8XRzU 2016, with Peter Streckfus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeoaLNGy_Ms2020, for NYPL with Colm Tóibín, on writing The Wild Iris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3kQGM_KhHQ

What nanty narking our Reginas have with some slang from the Victorian era. Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:Marilyn Nelson's poem in The New Yorker that Aaron was thinking of is "Pigeon and Hawk."Poets we mention include (with a poem by each):Marie HoweCleopatra MathisLinda GreggLucie Brock-BroidoAdrienne RichYvor WintersFrank O'HaraAnna AkhmatovaLynn MelnickMary Jo BangJean Valentines, "Ghost Elephants"Larry Levis and Aaron's poem "Elegy" which references Levis's "The Smell of the Sea"James MerrillBrenda HillmanRichard HowardShaon OldsHenry David ThoreauLaura KasischkeLucille CliftonAracelis GirmayKenneth KochRupi KaurJacques J. RancourtTerrance Hayes

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Welcome back to another powerful episode of The Woman Warrior Podcast! Join Dr. Satyavani and Prajna Madhavi as they welcome special guest Kristie Williams, lead Yoga Sculpt teacher at YogaSix, personal trainer of nearly 10 years, and all-natural competitive bodybuilder for a raw and inspiring conversation about truth, discipline, and living authentically.This episode dives deep into the second Yama from the Yoga Sutras: Satya (truthfulness) and what it really means to live in alignment on every level of your being. From the physical body to your energy, emotions, intuition, and spiritual connection, the trio explores how we subtly violate our own truth through excuses, overthinking, avoidance, people-pleasing, and ignoring our intuition.Kristie shares her journey into competitive bodybuilding and how consistency, not motivation, has transformed her life. The conversation highlights the dangers of an “Amazon Prime mentality” in a world that craves quick fixes, and why real transformation requires patience, discipline, and radical honesty.If you've ever felt disconnected, overwhelmed, stuck in old patterns, or unsure of your next step, this episode will challenge you to stop outsourcing your truth and start embodying it.Guest Name: Kristie Williams00:00 Welcome to the Woman Warrior Podcast04:35 Yoga Sutras and Satya Setup15:42 Wellness Check In28:42 Sutra 1.14 and Bodybuilding Intro30:29 Consistency Over Motivation35:58 Satya Truthfulness Explained39:28 Truth and the Physical Body47:14 Mental Emotional Honesty51:34 Trusting Your Intuition01:01:59 Wrap Up and Truth BombBe sure to Like and Subscribe for more! For more information, please visit: https://www.womenswarriorsacademy.com Follow us on Instagram + Facebook! https://www.instagram.com/womanwarrioracademy/https://www.facebook.com/womanwarrioracademyJoin our Online Circle Community for FREE!https://login.circle.so/sign_up?request_host=the-woman-warrior-academy.circle.so&user%5Binvitation_token%5D=a26695ef6578f459ddedeafcb0093fde147b242e-1e858068-670b-46a5-94a6-dafa76efc9b2#email

The queens read for filth another toxic masculinist article before we play a saucy game based on a gay novel. Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:Heather Christle's post sparked this episode's discussion and can be found here. Christle's most recent book of poetry is Paper Crown (Wesleyan UP, August 2025)While there isn't an out gay character in Dead Poets Society, there is some gay-coded stuff going on. Read Kaeya Merchant's fabulous essay on the topic: "Dead Poets Society is Queer; Here's Why" The Garth Greenwell essay on Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance which Aaron references was also published in the Yale Review. Check out Garth's website at https://www.garthgreenwell.comAt the end of the show, we quote the line "What did you think, that joy was some slight thing?" which is from Mark Doty's "Visitation"Other poems or poets we reference are:Garret Hongo's "What For"e.e. cummings, "somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond"David Bottoms, "Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt"A.E. Stallings, "Sea Girls"Jorie Graham, "At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body"Emily Dickinson, Poem 591

B"H Dear Jew, stop lying to yourself. The Megillah says it clearly. Mordechai the Jew. That comes first. You are a Jew. Connected to your people. Connected to Jerusalem. Connected to a story bigger than you. Purim is about uncovering that. Strip it down. Who are you at the core. Start there. Live from there. Good Purim. #Purim #JewishIdentity #Israel #Torah #Judaism To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

"Dawns are heartbreaking," as is the queer love story of Arthur Rimbaud & Paul Verlaine.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Show Notes:Paul Verlaine was born in 1844. Read more about him here. Verlaine was an Aries sun, Leo Moon, and Scorpio ascendant.Arthur Rimbaud was born on October 20, 1854, and you can read more about him here. Rimbaud was a triple Libra (sun, moon, ascendant). Rimbaud met Verlaine in September 1871, a month before his 18th birthday. Following his tumultuous relationship with Paul Verlaine, which ended in 1873, Rimbaud traveled extensively through Europe, often on foot. He became a trader/merchant, selling coffee, hides, and eventually guns, becoming a "soldier of fortune." In 1891, a tumor developed on his right knee and forced him to return to Paris and died later that year at 37, without knowing how popular his poems had become in Symbolist circles.  The gun Verlaine used to shoot Rimbaud recently went up for auction.One of the poems Rimbaud sent to Verlaine in 1871 was "Le Dormer du Val," which you can watch recited as part of the Favorite Poem Project here. (Recited by chef Jacques Pépin.) Rimbaud and Verlaine wrote a collaborative poem, "Sonnet to the Asshole" which you can read (and read about) here.  In 2016, the poet Eileen Myles told The New York Times, "I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years. Sounds great." Read the interview here.When we reference "tongue in the butt," we are talking about a segment from an early Breaking Form season 1 show called "Bad Animals." Check it out here, and hit the 14:30 mark. If you've never read Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," stop what you're doing and read it here.

Rob Crews talks about:Why most slappers aren't actually fast—they just play against slow defendersThe coaches who sacrifice a kid's development to win local gamesRegional differences in softball and why Northeast kids get exposed when they travelWhy your 14U playing 18U isn't a flex—it's sadThe honest conversation he had with an 11-year-old her first time in the cageWhy families who can't handle the truth at 11 won't handle it at 16 eitherPlayers who come back years later just to take one more lessonHow the game becomes a support system that's bigger than softballShownotes: https://www.complete.game/podcast-shownotes

Episode Title: This Shit Works. But Only If You Stop Lying to Yourself I Julie Brown Most Executives don't fail because they lack talent. They fail because they avoid slow, unglamorous behaviors that don't reward the ego immediately but compound relentlessly over time. Julie Brown, author of “This Shit Works” dismantles the biggest lies professionals tell themselves about networking, visibility, and career growth, grounded in the landmark study by Wolff and Moser.  This conversation moves beyond advice and into evidence. What you'll hear is not about “putting yourself out there.” It's the how and why networking doesn't just correlate with success. It predicts salary growth over time If you're still buying the dangerous myth that “your work will speak for itself” think again. Internal networking drives more career growth than external visibility. Plus: Why high performers are statistically vulnerable The hidden role of shame and avoidance in stalled careers What laid-off professionals must stop avoiding immediately if they want momentum back Why job security is gone and what act About the Research Referenced The conversation is anchored in a longitudinal study by Hans-Georg Wolff and Klaus Moser, which examined networking behaviors and career success over multiple years. The findings show that networking predicts not just current salary, but future salary growth, especially when relationships are actively maintained over time.   Connect with Julie Brown Book: This Shit Works • Website and speaking schedule: Available here Subscribe to Career Blast in a Half Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/career-blast-in-a-half/id1670977528 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3b3kSamj8RbTNNgOg5E5oi?si=5fea15335a744e73 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpGM7j8croBkkZ4bLqN7DOQ/   About Career Blast in a Half A third of our lives is spent working. Career Blast in a Half is your 30 minutes of weekly simple, powerful, and actionable career fuel to keep your success track no matter where you are in your career or what's to come next. Hosted by career strategist Loren Greiff.   Work with Loren Join the 30-Day BLAST Program: https://www.portfoliorocket.com/our-programs   Connect with Loren Website: https://www.portfoliorocket.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorengreiff/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/portfoliorocket/   Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know what career topics you'd like us to cover!

In today's episode, Meech kicks off February's “SELF” series with the truth nobody wants to say out loud: you can't talk about confidence, self-awareness, or self-love if you refuse to hold yourself accountable.This one comes in hot.Because accountability isn't about embarrassing people, tearing them down, or yelling just to yell. It's about owning your shit — the good, the bad, the ugly, and the part you keep pretending ain't yours.Meech breaks down:What accountability REALLY isWhy so many people avoid itHow “being a shitbag” became a joke — and why it shouldn't beThe moment he realized HE was the problemHow accountability raises your personal standardWhy everything in your life keeps falling apart when you don't accept your part in the messHow to actually start fixing yourself instead of blaming everyone elseUsing stories from his junior Marine days, personal failures, and the transformation that kept him from going back to Detroit, Meech explains why accountability is the foundation for every other form of self-development.If you've ever wondered why the same problems keep finding you in the gym, in relationships, in the Marine Corps, at work, or in life… this episode is the mirror you've been avoiding.This isn't about motivation.This is about YOU.New episodes every Monday.Stay locked in.

Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:Read the London Review of Books praising Aracelis Girmay's volume, How to Carry Water: Selected Poems by Lucille Clifton. Watch Girmay read Clifton's poem "praise song."Learn more about Lucille Clifton here, here, and here. Explore more about The Clifton House, and learn more about Clifton's life in Baltimore. Watch Debby Boone sing her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life" Listen to Deborah Ann Gibson sing "On My Own" from Les Misérables. Here is the trailer for Boxing Helena, directed by Jennifer Lynch.Read more about the friendship between Toni Morrison and James Baldwin.For more about Clifton's children's book series, Everett Anderson, read here.Here is a partial list of the poems we read and discuss on the show:"my friends""a poem written for many moynihans""5/23/67 RIP" (for Langston Hughes)"alabama 9/15/63" (which appeared in a 1999 special folio of Callalo)"jasper Texas 1998" in Ploughshares Issue #78 Spring 1999https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49491/jasper-texas-1998"If I should (to clark kent)""further note to clark""hag riding""to my last period" 

Self-Perception and the Stories We Call "Logic" Most actors don't think they're afraid. They think they're being responsible. They say things like: It's not the right time I need to be more prepared I don't want to do it halfway I'll reach out once things settle down Those sentences sound calm. Thoughtful. Adult. They also quietly keep you from moving. Fear doesn't usually sound dramatic. It sounds reasonable. And that's why it's so effective. Why This Matters So Much Creative entrepreneurs live in nuance. Actors are trained to consider context, timing, readiness, alignment, branding, positioning. All real things. All useful skills. They also make it very easy to hide. Most of the actors I work with aren't lazy. They're functional. Busy. Productive enough to feel justified. But they're also circling the thing they actually want and never quite landing on it. That's not being stuck. That's mislabeling fear as logic. How Fear Disguises Itself Fear rarely says "don't do it." It says: Not yet Be smart Wait until you're more confident It wears a blazer. It uses full sentences. It sounds exactly like you. This isn't self-sabotage. It's self-protection. The problem isn't that you're protecting yourself. The problem is when protection quietly turns into a lifestyle. Something I Want You to Try Identify one agent, director, or producer you've labeled as "out of your league." Then ask yourself what actual evidence proves that. Most of the time, there is none. And if there's no evidence, you're not protecting yourself. You're stalling your life. Actors who move forward act before they feel ready. Ready is a choice. You belong in the room. But you still have to walk through the door. The Other Extreme The pendulum can swing the other way. Overestimation sounds like: I don't need more training My demo is fine I'll just wing it I already know what I'm doing That's just as dangerous. Overestimation blinds you to growth. And growth is essential in this industry. One extreme keeps you small. The other makes you sloppy. Both keep you stuck. What We're Aiming For The middle ground is grounded confidence. Confidence that says: I belong here And I'm still sharpening my craft That's where momentum lives. Why Reaching Out Feels So Hard When actors don't reach out, it's usually not logic. It's fear. Fear of rejection. Fear of being seen. Fear of success. But self-abandonment hurts more than rejection. When you don't give yourself a chance, you reject your future before it has a chance to recognize you. You say no to rooms that haven't even had the opportunity to say yes. A Better Question to Ask Instead of asking, "Am I good enough for that agent?" Ask: "Do my materials and brand match what that agent represents?" This isn't about worth. It's about alignment. You might not be ready for a specific agent yet, and that's okay. That doesn't mean you're not talented. It usually means your materials, brand clarity, or positioning need work. That's strategy. And strategy is learnable. The Five-Day Reset (Brief) This episode introduces a simple five-day process: Name the sentence that keeps you safe but stuck Identify where it came from Look at what it's costing you right now Take one small action that contradicts it Rewrite the sentence with honesty instead of polish Not affirmations. Not hype. Accuracy. Because honesty is more powerful than optimism. Where Confidence Actually Comes From Confidence usually shows up after action. Not before it. It's not a feeling. It's a byproduct. You don't need universal approval to move forward. You need data. Waiting until something feels perfect is a way to avoid collecting real information. And information, even uncomfortable information, is how you grow. If This Brought Something Up If this episode surfaced something for you and you want to share it, you can email me at mandy@actingbusinessbootcamp.com . I genuinely love hearing where things clicked and where they still feel sticky. And if you want to know when the next class or training is coming up, keep an eye on your inbox.

Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.NOTES:Gwendolyn Brooks published "The Bean Eaters" in Poetry Magazine in 1959. Check out the video of this interview with Gwendolyn Brooks. Here is Sylvia Plath's "Aftermath." Listen to this October 1962 interview with Plath by Peter Orr for the British Council. Read Gary Soto's "Avocado Lake." Linda Pastan published her poem "Waiting Room" in the October 1984 issue of Poetry. Here's Suji Kwok Kim's "Occupation" which appeared in the July 1994 Poetry. Here is a 2008 reading by Kim (~28 min).Watch Cher introduce her song "Just Like Jesse James" during her Farewell Tour.Read "The Speed of Darkness" by Muriel Rukeyser.

Honest is almost always the best policy. Especially when the person you're lying to is yourself. Are you ready to take your running to the next level by working with a coach? Check out http://DizRuns.com/coaching for details on the various levels of coaching that I have available. Love the show? Check out the support page for ways you can help keep the Diz Runs Radio going strong! dizruns.com/support Become a Patron of the Show! Visit Patreon.com/DizRuns to find out how. Subscribe to the Diz Runs Radio Find Me on an Apple Device dizruns.com/itunes
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Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.NOTES:Read "Hap" by Thomas Hardy. And watch a here's a video enactment/reading of "Hap" by Thomas Hardy. And watch a reading/enactment of the poem here. Read a terrific essay about Hardy's poem published by the Thomas Hardy Society here. Thomas Hardy wrote 947 poems, and you can read them all online here.  For more about Taylor Swift's newest album's variations, read this piece in Vareity.Tom Brady does not have a brother who plays football. Gayle King interviewed Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams at the Golden Globes. See the viral-video exchange here. Here's a reddit thread on being rejected on Christmas Eve.  

Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Show Notes:We read poems by Amy Lowell and Jubi Arriola-HeadleyCheck out Jubi Arriola-Headley's website here, and an obituary here. Learn more about Amy Lowell here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amy-lowell

Hey there Cozy Babe! Welcome back to The Cozy Babes Club! This week we are talking about the myth of motivation! Alarm Link: https://amzn.to/3L6mVKNTimestamps00:00 - intro01:48 - the myth of motivation05:34 - timing doesn't matter08:21 - mental health & manifestation15:42 - the girl boss era is back24:08 - do the hard thing 1st31:16 - stop being a victim 34:26 - yapper girl corner35:04 - stranger things spoilers38:36 - back to the yap

Happy New Year! Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Show Notes:We read poems by Giada Scodellaro and Natalie Louise Tombasco.Check out Giada Scodellaro's website here: https://giadascodellaro.com/Check out Natalie Louise Tombasco's website: https://natalielouisetombasco.com/

Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Show Notes:We read poems by Kelli Russell Agodon and Afaa Michael Weaver.Learn more about Afaa Michael Weaver here: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/afaa-michael-weaverCheck out Kelli Russell Agodon's website: https://www.agodon.com/index.html

Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Show Notes:We read poems by Jonterri Gadson & Patrica TraxlerCheck out Jonterri Gadson's website: https://www.jonterrigadson.com/You can read more about Patricia Traxler on this Wikipedia page.

Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Show Notes:We read poems by Mary Helen Callier & Virginia Chase SuttonCheck out Mary Helen Callier's website: https://maryhelencallier.com/Check out Virginia Chase Sutton's website: https://www.virginiachasesutton.com/

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Dr. Phil walks you through a five-step plan to rewrite your life story, heal old wounds, and finally live from the truth not the trauma.In this episode, Dr. Phil takes you step by step through a powerful five-part action plan to stop letting one painful event run your entire life. First, you'll isolate a single target event that has shaped how you see yourself and the world. Then you'll audit your internal responses—blame, self-talk, labels, and the “tapes” that still play in your head. DPM shows you how to test those beliefs for authenticity, replace destructive fiction with Authentically Accurate Alternatives, and identify your Minimal Effective Response the smallest real action that brings emotional closure. By the end, you'll have a concrete process to stop reliving the same chapter and start writing a new one on purpose.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ka'Chava: Get 15% off your next Ka'Chava order at kachava.com with code TRENTSTRAIGHTUP. MasterClass: Right now, our listeners get an additional 15% off any annual membership at MasterClass.com/TRENT. Indeed: Speed up hiring with Indeed! Now get a $75 sponsored job credit when you go to Indeed.com/trent Shopify: Start your $1/month trial at Shopify.com/trent What's up, Rehabbers? In today's episode, I'm keeping it all the way real with you. This one isn't about motivation, it's about truth. Because at some point, you've got to stop running from the mirror and start facing it. You've got to stop saying, “I'll do it tomorrow,” and realize that tomorrow turns into next month, and next month turns into next year. It's time to be real with yourself about your life, your excuses, your effort, your priorities, and your purpose. You can't change what you won't confront. In this episode, we're talking about: Why honesty with yourself is the foundation of growth How to stop letting your potential go to waste The danger of waiting for the “right time” And what it really means to keep your word to yourself I'm not here to judge you. I'm here to remind you of who you are and what you're capable of. Because the truth is, you can't pray for a better life while still making the same choices that steal it from you. This is your wake up call to stop drifting through life and start creating the one you deserve, through consistency, discipline, and truth. No more pretending. No more excuses. No more “maybe later.” It's time to be real with yourself… and take back control of your story. Let's get it. — Trent