The Art You Are
The Art You Are
Molly Dang
The Art You Are is an empowerment podcast of life stories that invites us to embrace our weird, messy and beautiful humanness. Sharing our unique stories is healing, empowering, and connecting. Listen, learn from, and connect to guests sharing about a wide range of life experiences. And maybe, just maybe, through owning our experiences, we can start to view ourselves as inherently valuable, a story worth telling, a work of art.
Breaking Rules & Climbing on Things: expansive pole, shaping identity & storytelling as a birthright w/ Leah Watson
Leah Watson is an actor, aerialist, movement teacher, and creative consultant who performs and teaches under the stage name Greyce Skinner. Leah shares about the shaping and reshaping of her identity in this episode and the deep importance of movement...
Sep 29, 2020
1 hr 16 min
COVID Series: Teaching High School Remotely, A Focus on Connection & Compassion with Rebecca Parada
Rebecca Parada shares in depth about her experience transitioning to remote learning as a high school Spanish teacher during COVID.  She discusses the ways her school tried to serve and honor students during an emergency as well as the many obstacles. ...
Aug 21, 2020
42 min
COVID Series: Juggling Childcare, Family in Healthcare, and Death & Grief in a Pandemic with Mae
Mae is a full time working mom of a toddler who shares about trying to find some balance in the COVID shifts to childcare, the risk of many family members in the healthcare field, the incredible emotional toll right now, and her family's experience with...
Jul 31, 2020
41 min
COVID Series: Teaching Art Online, Brave Students & Using Structure to Train and Thrive with Octavia Betz
Octavia Betz shares so much in this episode! She shares about the hurdles of teaching art to students online with limited materials, the courage and resilience of her students, the emotional rollercoaster of re-stabilizing her life after Coronavirus...
Jul 8, 2020
1 hr 4 min
COVID Series: Better Beauty, New Hustles For A New Vision & The Deep Bonds Of Family with Gabriela Banda
This week's guest shares about her transition from being a makeup artist in the TV, film, and print world to the many ways she is fanning out her skills to adapt to a distanced atmosphere. She talks about her side hustles, inner and outer beauty, and...
Jun 21, 2020
34 min
Black Lives Matter
1. DONATEGeorge Floyd Memorial Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloydMinnesota Freedom Fund: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/Black Visions Collective: https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/Campaign Zero: https://www.joincampaignzero.org/Black Lives...
Jun 17, 2020
2 min
COVID Series: Teletherapy, Kids' Mental Health & Collective Trauma with Ashley Kleinman Martinez
This episode's guest is a licensed drama therapist who shares so many insights on the hit our mental health is taking during COVID-19, how kids are impacted specifically, and how mental health providers are both responding to the crisis and trying to...
May 21, 2020
40 min
COVID Series: Restaurant Work, Move Abroad Paused & Learning To Be with Oneself With Mike Price
This episode's guest and my dear cuz, Mike Price, delves into how his work as a server and manager in the service industry has been impacted by coronavirus, huge travel plans halted, fearing for his loved ones, and navigating aloneness as an extrovert....
May 15, 2020
34 min
COVID Series: Pregnancy, Middle School at Home, and Making Art Accessible with Camille Johnson
My friend Camille Johnson shares openly about the pains and fears of pregnancy right now, the sweetness and frustrations of supporting her middle schooler through online learning, and how she's squeezing in time for creativity. Check out the resources...
May 9, 2020
33 min
COVID Series: A Midwife's View & How Politics Are Personal with Sara Price-Arora
My sister dives into the pandemic-induced stress of midwifery in a hospital in Denver, the pangs of homeschooling a kindergartener, and how political policy is being felt on the ground. For more information, episodes, and blog posts, go to...
Apr 29, 2020
30 min
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