Hurry Slowly

Artwork by Duong Nguyen. A look at how the ideas that we inherit very young can limit or expand the way that we relate to ourselves and our creativity. Hurry Slowly host Jocelyn K. Glei explores how ideas shape our attitude toward everything — how we think with and through the ideas we hold, and how that affects the way we see ourselves, the way we relate to others, and — especially — how we approach our creativity.   Related offerings: RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday. Jocelyn’s 12-lesson course for tuning into a heart-centered approach to productivity. Save $60 off registration through May 19th by signing up for the RESET mini-podcast series here. Support Hurry Slowly: Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. Leave a rating for the show. Make a donation to Hurry Slowly. Share this episode with a friend!

A deep dive into how we create, relate to, and maintain our digital selves/personas/brands — and can we ever truly leave them behind? Or reinvent them? Or start anew? My conversation partner in this investigation is Cody Cook-Parrot, a dancer and a writer who was formerly known as Marlee Grace. Their work focuses on the self, devotion, ritual, creativity, and art making. Among their myriad activities, they publish a wonderful Substack newsletter called Monday Monday, host a podcast about creativity called Common Shapes, and teach online courses about quilt-making and book writing, among other things. They have also published two books, including Getting to Center, Pathways for Finding Yourself Within the Great Unknown, as well as How to Not Always Be Working. Questions we explore in this conversation: What happens when we allow ourselves to explore a new identity? How important is “consistency” for folks who have a personal brand? Is it possible to act

The myths that drive our creativity, how they create suffering, and how we can ignite our creative fire by embracing the power of the collective. Hurry Slowly host Jocelyn K. Glei explores the closely intertwined myths of individualism and the lone creative genius and how they encourage us to ignore a powerful source of creative inspiration and momentum — the collective. Related offerings: KILN: 🔥 Fire for your creative ideas. Jocelyn’s brand-new creative incubator for transforming your ideas from an inkling into reality. Registration is now open for the Spring Cycle. Save 10% with code “CREATIVEFIRE” if you book by March 31st. Learn more and register here. Support Hurry Slowly: Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. Leave a rating for the show. Make a donation to Hurry Slowly. Share this episode with a friend!

What does it mean to create spaciousness? Through our creative rhythms, through our travels, through the expression of our voices? I talk with writer and teacher Sebene Selassie, the author of You Belong and the excellent Substack newsletter Ancestors to Elements, about cultivating self-reliance through solo travel, the power of acknowledging what you’ve accomplished, finding your authentic voice, and why we so often gravitate towards the negative rather than “going towards the love.” New offerings from Jocelyn Need fire for your creative ideas? KILN is a creative incubator & a community where half-baked ideas become real. Launching in April of 2024. Registration opens in mid-March. Learn more about KILN here. Dig into the resources: The people, ideas, and media mentioned in this episode: • Amelia Hruby and Mary Grace Allerdice • Sebene’s book You Belong: A Call for Connection • Subscribe to Sebene’s newsletter: Ancestors to Elements • Follow Sebene on Instagram Support Hurry Slowly: • Subscribe on iTunes or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6i

Artwork by Guong Nguyn and Geelia Nguyn. Exploring the tension between “the urgency of productivity” and the rhythms of “creative necessity.” Jocelyn contemplates how we can navigate the tension between an external world that is deeply attached to urgency and the “values of technology” and our internal world, where we yearn to create, to play, to rest, and to explore — without a deadline.   Related offerings: KiLN, a creative incubator and community, where we gather to support each other as our half-baked ideas become real. More details coming soon! : ) Radiant Attention for Self & Collective Care, a workshop on Feb 11th led by Jocelyn, which will share techniques & tools for clearing, comforting, nourishing, and rebalancing your energy system. Learn more & register here. Support Hurry Slowly: Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. Leave a rating for the show. Make a donation to Hurry Slowly. Share this episode with a friend!

Artwork by Rita Quattrocchi. On the awkwardness of wintering while everyone else is awakening. Jocelyn reflects on being out of sync with the collective energy of reinvention at the beginning of each new year. She talks about being in the “awkward soup of transformation” and contemplates the discomfort of inflection points, the rhythms of creativity, letting go of heaviness, and the frustration of finding yourself still hanging out in the waiting room.   Resources, Ideas & Links Jocelyn’s new offering Radiant Attention for Self & Collective Care is a 2.5-hour workshop on techniques & tools for clearing, comforting, nourishing, and rebalancing your energy system. Learn more and register here. Support Hurry Slowly Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. Leave a rating for the show. Make a donation to Hurry Slowly. Share this episode with a friend!

What does it mean to be satisfiable? And how do you recognize when you have “enough”? These questions are central not just to our own well-being but to attaining a more just and equitable society. For this conversation, I sit down with writer, facilitator, and activist adrienne maree brown, who recently published the excellent book Pleasure Activism. We take an in-depth look at how we might define pleasure for ourselves, the wisdom that we can access when we really drop into our bodies, and what it means to figure out how to be satisfiable — to recognize that you have enough. Key takeaways from this conversation: How to invite the “orgasmic yes” into your life Why you should do something to awaken your body every day How to create more equity by sharing your “idea lineage” Why you don’t have to produce anything to feel satisfaction Ideas on how to “give without grasping” Go Deeper Save $60 on RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday. RESET is a course created by Hurry Slowly host Jocelyn K. Glei that shows you how to move from a speed-obsessed way of working to a heart-centered way of working. It will teach you how to let go of “productivity shame,” tap into the natural rhythms of your energy and attention, and get into your creative flow. Save $60 on registration through January 15th. Get Jocelyn’s brainwaves in your inbox. If you like Hurry Slowly, you’ll love this twice-monthly email highlighting new ideas about creativity, consciousness, and healing.  Sign up at hurryslowly.co/newsletter. Favorite Quotes “I’ll ask people, ‘When was the last time you were satisfied? Can you imagine being satisfied? What are the things that satisfy you in a given day? How do you know that yo

Artwork by James Fenner. How to flip the script on healing and wellness culture by noticing how you already embody all that you yearn for. Jocelyn reflects on the intersection of capitalism, productivity culture, and the wellness industry and how they each try to lure us into focusing on what we lack, what we are not, what we have yet to accomplish. She offers an alternative perspective: That healing can only occur right here in this moment and that if we accept ourselves as we are, we can see how we already embody so much of what we yearn for.   Resources, Ideas & Links Jocelyn’s 4-week course “Finding Your Voice: A sacred practice space for honoring self-expression” is now open for registration. Get the $30 off through December 15th. Support Hurry Slowly Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. Leave a rating for the show. Make a donation to Hurry Slowly. Share this episode with a friend!

A conversation about how to get our bodies (and our brains) onboard with manifesting a new reality. In this episode, I take a deep dive into the mechanics of healing with Dina Schapiro. Dina has been a therapist for over 20 years; she’s also a professor, and formerly the director of the graduate arts therapy program, at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. These days, in addition to teaching, she works with clients to offer spiritual guidance and help them integrate plant medicine experiences. Ideas we explore in this episode: How to shift limiting beliefs and get our minds and bodies onboard with new thought patterns The difference between what happens when you do talk therapy versus what happens when you work with plant medicine How it’s time for our focus to shift beyond simply healing the individual to healing community and healing the Earth New offerings from Hurry Slowly: Are you ready to move into deeper self-expression? Jocelyn’s brand-new, 4-week course “Finding Your Voice: A sacred practice space for honoring self-expression” is now open for registration. Save $30 on early-bird bookings through December 15th. Learn more and register here. Resources, Ideas & Links More about Dina: Her work at Pratt | The Marble House Project Support Hurry Slowly: Subscribe on <a href="https://itunes.app

A brief reflection on the voice and how our desire to avoid uncertainty — to know the outcome before we even begin the process — can block the free-flow of self-expression.   Resources, Ideas & Links Jocelyn’s 4-week course “Finding Your Voice: A sacred practice space for honoring self-expression” is now open for registration. Register before Nov 9 and save $30. : ) Support Hurry Slowly Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. Leave a rating for the show. Make a donation to Hurry Slowly. Share this episode with a friend!

Jocelyn K. Glei on taking our struggles, turning them inside out, and transforming them into an opportunity to feel more free.

Jocelyn K. Glei on how our obsession with the intellect cuts us off from deeper consciousness & insight.

Writer Lisa Olivera on big life transitions, stepping out from behind the scenes, and moving away from patterns of self-extraction.

Jocelyn K. Glei on how we get locked into online personas that keep us from evolving and speaking our truth.

Embodiment coach Prentis Hemphill on feeling into the dignity of our bodies, breaking out of “control mode,” and the liberatory power of curiosity.

Jocelyn K. Glei on the power of tuning into — and honoring — the beautiful weirdness of your own rhythms, ideas, and idiosyncracies.

Artwork by Polina Washington. What are the ideas, thoughts, and habits that rupture, or interrupt, our ability to feel at home? Through the lens of my own past addictions to alcohol and crime fiction, I explore the dark side of habits in this episode — the anxious, internal routines and dialogues that we are constantly performing and re-performing to keep ourselves from feeling safe, to suppress our self-expression, and to feel unloved. Questions we’ll explore in this episode: Why do we choose to consume media that makes us feel unsafe? How does shame factor into our bad habit, or addiction-oriented, loops? Can not feeling at home become a habit? Do we get used to the familiarity of not feeling comfortable? Check out our sponsors: Hover has a domain name for whatever you’re passionate about. Get 10% off your first domain name, and start laying the groundwork for your next big idea, by visiting hover.com/hurryslowly. Dig into the resources: References and media mentioned in this episode: Hurry Slowly reflection on Archiving the Self Hurry Slowly interview with Sebene Selassie: What It Means to Be Human Chani Nicholas explains what a Saturn Return is Not linking to any of the crime fiction I mention on purpose! : ) Support Hurry Slowly: Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. Leave a rating for the show. Make a donation to Hurry Slowly. Share this episode with a friend!

Writer and meditation teacher Sebene Selassie on coming home to the body, living with chronic pain, and transformation as the act of allowing.

Jocelyn K. Glei on exploring themes of coming home, the relationship between belonging and reinvention, and her new course Tender Discipline.

I talk with Sherri Mitchell, the author of Sacred Instructions, about how to access our inner gifts and step into spiritual maturity.

I talk to Kamal Kapadia, the co-founder of Terra.do, about building communities of care and getting out of the climate doom cycle.

I talk to artist and organizer Amahra Spence about who gets to make art and how we can create spaces that support radical imagination.

I talk to educator and activist Nkem Ndefo about trauma, resilience, and building the capacity for transformation.

I talk to writer and facilitator Miki Kashtan about how capitalism and extractive mindsets cut us off from the natural flow of life.

Oliver Burkeman on why we try to control time, how perfectionism holds us back, and the problems with a “when-i-finally” mindset.

I chat with designer & community builder Kat Vellos about how to cultivate deeper intimacy, connection, and trust in our friendships.

I talk to writer and activist Mia Birdsong about why the ideals of the American Dream are keeping us lonely, isolated, and disconnected.

As we begin to cautiously emerge, I talk to gathering guru Priya Parker about how to create gatherings that transform our communities.

We’re emerging from the pandemic on wobbly legs — with much to integrate. It’s a uniquely vulnerable and promising moment.

A deep dive into the painful new consciousness the pandemic has called forth, and why I’m leaving “productivity talk” behind.

Hurry Slowly listeners share stories of the “strange gifts” that emerged out of the hardship, pain, and uncertainty of 2020.

A talk & live Q&A on how to build a practice of “tender discipline” to help you move through your workday w/ gentleness and confidence.

Writer Sean Blanda on the WFH revolution and why it’s over-hyped, unproductive, and maybe even a little bit inhumane.

Why you’re feeling so depleted right now, and how to develop a new — more tender — attitude toward productivity.

Meditation teacher Sebene Selassie on living in a culture of domination, the pathology of productivity, and finding our way to belonging.

Massage therapist Rich Mhlanga on how to be embodied and stay emotionally grounded in a world without touch.

How overwork, self-criticism, and creative misalignment create layers of anxiety that suppress your intuitive voice.

Therapist and meditator Mark Epstein on how to reckon with uncertainty and take a deep dive into the self.

On healing, being present, and how to stop postponing self-acceptance and see yourself as “enough.”

Journalist Courtney E. Martin on how to find your “first question” — the core curiosity that carries you through life.

Astrologist Chani Nicholas on how to uncover your life’s purpose and set the boundaries you need to protect it.

A simple practice that will help you nurture your ideas, find your purpose, and heal in the new year.

Activist adrienne maree brown on how we define pleasure, the wisdom of the body, and what it looks like when you have “enough.”

Writer Mira Jacob on creativity, self-promotion, and transforming the hardest conversations of her life into a stunning graphic memoir.

A deep conversation about healing, self-transformation, and how to unpack the neurotic stories we tell ourselves about who we are.

An intro to the new season of Hurry Slowly on waking up, letting go, and the ups and downs of pursuing personal transformation.

Journalist Rob Walker on attention, originality, and why noticing the things other people are missing is essential to the creative process.

Artist Jenny Odell on the power of actions that can’t be optimized and withholding your attention as an act of resistance.

How the desire to be “productive” metastasizes into a toxic form of work shame that makes you feel like you’re never doing enough.

Debbie Millman on the challenges of being an over-achiever, synthesizing your success too quickly, and making a 10-year plan.