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The kind folks at @insideoutupstateny were very ge

The kind folks at @insideoutupstateny were very generous in amplifying my work. I loved seeing these faces in the interview. So many amazing guests over the years! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #repost Inside+Out Exclusive Interview with Theresa Lyn Widmann: With the New Year upon us, we find ourselves setting goals for what we’d like to accomplish on both a business and personal level. This time of self-reflection forces you to assess how much one can achieve in a day, a month, or a year?

When you meet someone like Theresa Lyn Widmann and all she has accomplished, you can’t help but wonder…how does she do it? She studied Law at Seton Hall University School of Law before becoming a modern-day multi-hyphenate: writer-teacher-sound healer-yoga instructor-wellness coach, women’s advocate-community builder-activist.

Widmann is the founder of Anahata Center for Love and Healing, a member of the Ulster County Conviction Integrity Unit, Chair of Live Well Kingston’s Heal Well Focus Team, former Festival Director and Board President for the O+ Festival. She also was an organizer of Hudson Valley’s One Billion Rising.

And as if that wasn’t enough, Theresa launched the podcast I Want What SHE Has on Radio Kingston, a show she co-created with artist/musician Shana Falana @shanafalana that amplifies women’s voices and stories.

Her superpower is helping people heal and create a life filled with meaning. We want what SHE has! Inside+Out was fortunate to spend time with Theresa to learn more about what drives her passion and creativity.

✨Read all about it on our blog with our 'We Are Upstate' link in bio @insideoutupstateny

Show no. 207 is up for those of you wanting to go

Show no. 207 is up for those of you wanting to go deep during this watery moon season with release and reflection. We worked with Kim Krans’ archetypes The Tear, The Heart and The Vision. Radio archive is best for full experience, but if you’d rather listen to your own music the podcast version should suit you. Links in bio. Full Moon blessings to you 🙏🏽 #fullmoon #ritual #release #reflect #highestself #divinelove #emotions #flow

Full Moon today! That means I’ll be doing a litt

Full Moon today! That means I’ll be doing a little moon ritual on the show. Starting with an 80’s dance party to shake away the unwanted and unneeded. Then some reflection and journaling while the music winds down to induce a more meditative experience. You can stream it via @radiokingstonny website from 1-3pm eastern, or I will post it soon thereafter so you can do on your own time. Moon blessings to you all ✨✨✨ #fullmoonvibes

Yesterday’s show, no. 206 is up! It was the retu

Yesterday’s show, no. 206 is up! It was the return of our monthly conversation about Spirituality and Politics with ✨ @marielena.ferrer ✨ Marielena Ferrer. We took inspiration from an episode of the Dan Harris Podcast 10% Happier about How You Help End Polarization and Inequality and Get Happier Too. It features Robert Putnam and Shaylan Romney Garrett who wrote the book, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again. Without having read the book, we discuss different elements mentioned on the podcast about the "I, We, I" curve as well as the suggested factors that worked to facilitate change during times of great divide in American history. History doesn't provide a perfect solution, but it can form the basis for inspiration to help facilitate more communication, collaboration and less division in our present day America. Who else is in for giving it a try? Are your “I” and “We” balanced? These aren’t gimmicky IG questions to get folks to engage. We really want to know what you’re thinking out there. It’s our New Year’s resolution to make a difference, and we’re looking for those who feel the same! #polarization #politics #spirituality #acrosstheaisle #acrossthedivide #collaborate #endthehate #iwantwhatshehas

Yesterday’s show, no. 205 is up! We talked about

Yesterday’s show, no. 205 is up! We talked about Love and a myriad of related and thought provoking subjects. Nancy @noagraham and Louisa @louisafinn64 shared about their first memories of love and how they relate to the word which takes us into the realm of spiritual materialism, caring for others, and being a mother amongst other subjects! The show was inspired by bell hooks and her writings on love and self love/self worth so we dive into self-love as Louisa and Nancy share their own process to love themselves better as well as how self-love relates to caring for others and being a woman. We then leave the personal towards the end of the show to talk about the public and how the work of Mohonk Consultations @mohonkconsultations is cultivating love in its own way, bringing folks together to collaborate, lifting voices, and caring for land and others. We leave you with a call for your own definition or thoughts on Love. bell hooks herself seemed to have a few, "love is the action we take on behalf of our own or another's spiritual growth..." "love is a combination of trust, commitment, care, respect, knowledge and responsibility..." So, what say you? #love #selflove #selfesteem #womanhood #motherhood #caringforothers #reparenting #mohonkconsultations #antidotetothepatriarchy

Joining the conversation today is @louisafinn64 ✨ Louisa is a Hudson Valley native, whose mother was a member of the Quaker Smiley family of Mohonk Mountain House, and father a Russian Jewish pianist from the Bronx. She has spent her life thus far actively engaged in learning what it is to be human and to be herself. She works as a Speech/Language Pathologist and Reading Tutor, and clinical instructor at SUNY New Paltz. She is on the Board of Mohonk Consultations, where she serves as Administrative Coordinator, and Sky Lake Shambhala Center Buddhist Retreat. She writes poetry, and is creating a forest garden in her front yard. Tune in today at 1pm eastern on @radiokingston for a heartfelt and likely thought provoking conversation with Louisa, Nancy and I as we think about our relationship to love and the many definitions of it as well as how it shows up in the world in the form of self love and taking care of others. Happy New Year everyone! Let’s love more! #love #speachpathologist #languagepathologist #readingtutor #buddhist #meaningfullife #mohonkconsultations #selflove #selfworth #caringforothers #antidotetothepatriarchy

I am starting 2022 in the most perfect of ways, ta

I am starting 2022 in the most perfect of ways, talking about Love. Who do I have the honor of having this conversation with, two fabulous humans, first up is @noagraham ✨ Nancy Graham serves on the board of Mohonk Consultations and the arts council of The Lace Mill, where they live in Midtown Kingston. They have worked or volunteered for numerous nonprofits related to social justice, alternative media, theatre, film, and writing. Poet/writer/visual artist under the name Nancy O. Graham; actor under the name Noa Graham. Her most recent theatre project was Orchid Receipt Service, starring Asia Kate Dillon, at Theater MITU580 in Brooklyn, pre-pandemic. Most recent film project is a short called Elegy for a Glacier, about an environmental activist and her glaciologist daughter forced to face off about the construction of a ski resort in the Rockies. Nancy was the one who suggested we talk about love in honor of the late bel hooks. It’s likely our conversation will go deep into many threads including the love Mohonk Consultations is spreading through their work. Tune in Mo(o)nday at 1pm eastern on @radiokingstonny for lots of Love ❤️ #love #actor #writer #poet #visualartist #belhooks #mohonkconsultations #caringforothers #selfworth #selflove #antidotetothepatriarchy #iwantwhatshehas #happynewmoon

Show no. 204 with @saribotton and @carolitajohnson

Show no. 204 with @saribotton and @carolitajohnson is up for your listening pleasure! We started out our conversation by checking in with what’s new with these two since they were last on the show in 2018, and then get into a thought provoking conversation based on the essence of @oldster_mag “perspectives on the joys and frustrations on getting older – at any stage of life.” This means we talk about the aging woman’s body, how it’s largely ignored by the medical industry, ageism, how these two feel about being 56, what’s good about it and what’s not so good about it. Plus we catch up on the rerelease of Sari’s anthology “Goodbye to All That: Writer’s on Loving and Leaving New York” which was inspired by the late, great Joan Didion’s essay of the similar title, and Sari and Carolita make some reading recommendations which I am excited to dig into! #oldstermagazine #aging #onlinemagazine #ageism #womenshealth #menopause #hormones #vaginaldryness #sexdrive #womansbody #writing #leavingnyc #freelancing #goodbyetoallthat #antidotetothepatriarchy #iwantwhatshehas

And joining our conversation today at 1pm about ag

And joining our conversation today at 1pm about aging, writing and creativity is the ever inspiring @carolitajohnson who not so long ago contributed a piece to @oldster_mag about the inner workings of a woman’s body. Carolita is a cartoonist and illustrator from NYC. She spent 13 years in Paris, France, after graduating from Parson's School of Design with a degree in Fashion Design. In Paris, she earned a masters degree in Modern Letters and Linguistics, and got some (admittedly very idiosyncratic) chops in pre-doctoral Medieval Anthropology, which turned out to be a gateway drug to cartoons and illustration. Her cartoons appear in the new yorker magazine, and in the books: the rejection collection 1, and the rejection collection 2, and sex and sensibility, and she's illustrated the books the new vampire's handbook, and women on food. Carolita is also a writer who has contributed to Longreads and has an essay in the 2021 reprint of Sari Botton's, "Goodbye to All That.” #cartoonist #illustrator #writer #artist #teacher #feminist #antidotetothepatriarchy #iwantwhatshehas

It’s the return of Sari Botton @saribotton to ta

It’s the return of Sari Botton @saribotton to talk about her latest and greatest endeavor, @oldster_mag 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 a digital magazine sharing the perspectives on the joys and frustrations of getting older - at any stage of life. Sari is a writer, editor and teacher living in Kingston, NY. She is the editor of the award-winning anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NY and its New York Times-Bestselling follow-up, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for NY. Sari publishes three newsletters: her newest endeavor Oldster Magazine, as well as Adventures in "Journalism," and Memoir Monday. She is a contributing editor and leads essay writing and anthology editing at Catapult and is an adjunct in the MFA program at Bay Path University. Her memoir-in-essays, And You May Find Yourself... will be published by Heliotrope in June, 2022. Sari is the former Essays Editor for Longreads and hopes to one day reopen her co-working space for writers, Kingston Writers' Studio. Tune in to @radiokingstonny at 1pm eastern today for what’s bound to be a lovely and lively conversation. #writer #aging #ageism #memoir #oldster #writingteacher #editor #digitalmagazine #iwantwhatshehas #antidotetothepatriarchy

In a car right now driving from WI to MN but the s

In a car right now driving from WI to MN but the show must go on! I recorded myself reading from Maria Popova’s “Figuring” about some of history’s famous female figures like Maria Mitchell and Margaret Fuller. Pod will be up tomorrow and will let you know when, but you can still listen live on @radiokingstonny right now 🧚🏽‍♀️ #famousfemales #herstory #iwantwhatshehas #antidotetothepatriarchy

Another installment of “Spirituality and Politic

Another installment of “Spirituality and Politics” with @marielena.ferrer is up for your listening and input! We dipped back into her chapter in the book and talked about human nature and spirit, pushing beyond perceived limitations, energy and matter, and separateness and oneness. Show no. 202 can be found via the link in my bio ☝🏾 #separate #oneness #energy #matter #humannature #spirit #politics #spirituality #livingtogether #antidotetothepatriarchy #iwantwhatshehas

After some technical glitches, show no. 201 is fin

After some technical glitches, show no. 201 is finally up! How many of us struggle with believing these words, “I’m Worthy.” This week Isis Benitez @_im.worthy_ talks honestly about how she’s struggled with self love, loving her body, and saying no to others. She’s working on believing she’s worthy of it all and so authentically shows the profound nature of this journey to love ourselves. Grateful for our talk and the opportunity to connect with Isis. I can’t wait for the that picture to drop! Links in bio to listen. #selflove #bodypositivity #selfie #feminist #boundaries #sayingno #lovingyourselffirst #beingalone #antidotetothepatriarchy #iwantwhatshehas

On tomorrow’s show I get to share my very real c

On tomorrow’s show I get to share my very real conversation with this beauty! Isis Benitez is a 22 year old woman who is struggling with loving her body for how it looks. She has struggled time and time again with thinking that she is “fat” (a term she uses). Benitez’s biggest struggle is when she tries to love herself so much but thinks her stomach is the problem. She sees herself as being a big girl, and therefore she made the Instagram account called @_im.worthy_ to help her in this process⚡️She wants to be able to be her 100% authentic self and not be ashamed of her body. With the body image struggle, Benitez also struggles with the fear of saying “No” to others and letting other people down. A lot of this has to do with how society sees Women in America and the expectations and pressure to have to look and act a certain way. Now Isis Benitez is able to speak out on what is truly affecting her with loving herself and loving being a woman. Tune in Mo(o)nday at 1pm Eastern on @radiokingstonny to hear Isis share this important and honest conversation. #imworthy #selflove #sayingno #selfworth #authenticself #bodypositivity #loveyourbody #feminist #isntshelovely #girlonfire #antidotetothepatriarchy #iwantwhatshehas

Been cruising through the Earthsea series by Ursul

Been cruising through the Earthsea series by Ursula Le Guin. Took this pic and then see that she comments about how this passage is so highly quoted by many but missing it’s meaning when taken out of context. I’m still gonna quote it 🧚🏽‍♀️

May the force be with these lawyers today, Julie R

May the force be with these lawyers today, Julie Rikelman and Hillary Schneller, co-lead counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights defending Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court 🤜🏽🤛🏽 #reproductiverights #roevwade #supremecourt #staredecisis

Areva Martin @arevamartin is a powerhouse advocate

Areva Martin @arevamartin is a powerhouse advocate who I had the pleasure of speaking with yesterday in the second half of the show. We talked about her latest book, "Awakening: Ladies, Leadership, and the Lies We’ve Been Told" and many of the themes she covers within like the 5 Lies women are told, the "Mike Pence Rule," how to make men allies, guidance for what to do if you are passed over for a promotion or paid unequally, how gender equity is healthy equity and lots more. You can hear it all on show no. 200, links in bio to listen! #genderequity #womensrights #equalpay #misogyny #feminism #sexualdiscrimination #sexualharassment #boundaries #power #antidotetothepatriarchy #iwantwhatshehas

Show no. 200 ⚡️ what 200!!! ⚡️ is up! Here

Show no. 200 ⚡️ what 200!!! ⚡️ is up! Here’s a relatable quote from Annette Simmons @thestoryfactor and her book, “Drinking from a Different Well: How Women’s Stories Change What Power Means in Action.” Does anyone else feel this? I so enjoyed our conversation and Annette’s wisdom and perspectives on how women relate to power and what we need to do to bring balance back to the world. Hint, more collaboration, less focus on competition. Yes please!!!! You’re gonna love this chat. You can access the radio archive or podcast options via the trusty link in our bio ☝🏾 Let’s do this friends 🙌🏾 #women #power #narrative #emotions #moralemotions #gaslighting #instincts #herstory #author #speaker #antidotetothepatriarchy #collaboration #community #iwantwhatshehas

In the second half of today's show I have the dist

In the second half of today's show I have the distinct privilege of speaking with Areva Martin ⚡️ @arevamartin ⚡️ an award-winning civil rights attorney, advocate, social issues commentator, talk show host, and producer. A CNN legal analyst and Harvard Law School graduate, Martin founded Martin & Martin, LLP, a Los Angeles-based civil rights firm, and is the CEO of Butterflly Health, Inc., a mental health technology company. A best-selling author, Martin has dedicated her fourth book, “Awakening: Ladies, Leadership, and the Lies We’ve Been Told,” to helping women worldwide recognize, own, and assert their limitless power. Today we'll be talking about how to beat a system that’s (still) rigged against women. Tune in at 2:00pm Eastern on @radiokingston or catch it later on the pod. #antidotetothepatriarchy #sexism #misogyny #feminist #feminism #leadership #advocate #socialissuescommentator #limitlesspower

On tomorrow’s show I have the honor of speaking

On tomorrow’s show I have the honor of speaking with two highly inspiring women. First up is Annette Simmons, a keynote speaker, consultant, and author of four books, including “The Story Factor,” listed in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. She got her business degree from Louisiana State University, spent ten years in Australia in international business, got an M.Ed. from North Carolina State University (1994), and founded Group Process Consulting in 1996. Her new book is “Drinking from a Different Well: How Women’s Stories Change What Power Means in Action.” We’ll be talking about her book, how women can come to trust their own instincts, how to resist gaslighting, how women can insist on their own narrative and stick to it, why moral emotions are so important and how to construct a shared (and convincing) frame of reference. Tune in to @radiokingstonny tomorrow at one for my talk with Annette! #author #speaker #women #instincts #gaslighting #moralemotions #womensstories #powerinaction #antidotetothepatriarchy #iwantwhatshehas #podcast #talkradio

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