Tend the Flame

Thank you for tuning in and sharing this Tiny Takeaway on Tend the Flame with your community. This episode is a Tiny Takeaway to infuse your week. This episode invites us to look to the magic in the little spaces, under neath our feet & in the moment before the day rolls away from our grasp. Here are the great book quotes inside: * “You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in th...

Hello Creative Family - - Quick podcast for you, to keep the flame of clarity bright as the end of year expedites itself and the internal realms quietly wait for you attention. Make some space for silence this month; it will serve you tremendously. This episode has 2 questions you can ask yourself to help come to clear action, no matter is being asked of you. Here are the 2 posts I referenced in t...

This time of year can push a faster pace, while you want to slow down and savor. This podcast is for you — especially for you. Instead of attempting to move the needle on the trends, choose to tend to your own circle, your own vision for your year, and your day. Choice is your creative power. Thank you so much for being here & choosing to listen to what you love. It matters more than ever. More so...

Welcome Creative One — Thank you to all the new followers and all those that have been siting here by the fire with me for quite sometime. This place is a wall-less, international, learning space to nourish and speak to your inner spark. The more you share this podcast the more we can offer that warmth to others. Thank you for sharing, liking, subscribing and the support of your presence.🔥 Join u...

Hello Creative Friend, While you listen to this episode we are gathering for Women & Birds and I wanted to give you a branch to land on in this short Wednesday podchat. This week’s longer podcast was released on Sunday and you can listen here . Look up & Listen, Kate Tend the Flame is a reader-supported publication. To keep the 🔥 burning bright, become a free or paid subscriber. If you are in dis...

Hello Friend — Here we speak to the inner spark. I have an invitation for you to commune with creativity — starting this Wednesday in Women & Birds, register below.: * A place to create * Reset your rhythm, from frenzied to fortified * Nourish your mind through beauty, creativity and commune, over the isolation of a scroll/ * Set the tone for end of year as hopeful We are releasing this weeks podc...

Hello Creative Friends — Have you ever heard the word inscape ? It was coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins in referring to the: “‘Inscaping the heart’ a recurring theme in the poetry of Hopkins. The heart concerns itself with beauty, directs the reader heavenward.” [ Source ] It’s the land inside of you that colors your world. It’s the space of your spark, the place where you sent the flame. 🎧 We tal...

There are some of us that have tremendous belief, but we also have questions. And I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. - Tend the Flame In this episode, we drawer nearer to the flame. Set down your tasks, and slow into an invitation of the heart. What do you believe in friend? We are living in chaotic times that want to draw us out and away from ourselves, deplete our spiritual, emotional...

Hello Creative Flame Tenders — This week’s episode talks about: * How journaling helps leave breadcrumbs back to your own advice. * Standing for something now is more necessary than ever * A shortened discussion on the steps of Alchemy (the actual process) and how it relates to you and story-telling * An invitation to alchemize our stories together on September 22, 2025 — which is also the 3 year...

Hello Creative Family — Our last episode on embodiment, in the Substack itself I mentioned a new word that has been added to the dictionary. And I thought it best for us to carry that seed a little further. Take heart this week, it is a powerful place to reside. Love, Kate To Learn From Animal Being by John O'Donohue Nearer to the earth's heart, Deeper within its silence: Animals know this world I...

Hello My Friends — This episode was unexpected and dropped into my lap — my favorite way for us to connect; it’s like air to a flame. * Did you know you have more than 3,000 receptors in your fingertips? * True or false: Science has combined human tissue with AI? * Last, do you think your answers are within or sourced outside or a combination? Alright — you are ready for this week’s episode. ☕️ E...

Hello, hello. I have a favor. I would love to know your thoughts on this question— is it important to be human? And — what does that even mean? Post your comments below. In this episode we talk about: * Chat GPT recommending baseball bats * The most likely answer to : What do you want? * Bottom lines without factoring in the human experience * And why we do well when we Gather. Drop your comments...

Hello hello — Today’s podcast is part reflection and part story-telling thanks to the natural world, always providing us clues to the answers we seek. “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” — John Muir This week we look at: * The habit of saying it’s fine — before checking in if the is true. * Our first reaction to that which we don’t know — oh,...

Welcome back to the Tend the Flame podcast. We've been on a bit of a sabbatical for the summer. This podcast is a place for you to tend the internal flame, the one of creativity, divinity, and what gives you your spark. Thank you so much for tuning in. 🐦‍⬛ We're going to talk about why all of this talk about birds, nature, what the invitation can be that you can bring into your own life. More so...

Hello Creatives! We are heading into our Summer Scheduling where we slow down on the recording a bit and speed up on our creating! Place your attention on what you want to nourish, do it enough and you may start to notice resistance. You may feel the twinge of how and why it can’t, but times are changing in front of us and you are here — in this life, and on this page because you have something to...

“The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.” - Rumi Hello Creatives - - This episode evolved from a talk I gave for the Inspire Create Manifest Soulful you retreat this year. It is a topic that is evermore on my mind: that the simple joys of being human are what leads us to our solutions. 🔗 This episode is brought by our Summer Session writing series. Curious? Hop on th...

Hello Fellow Creative - This week’s Sunday stack is short and sweet, and builds on our last episode. Here we talk about algorithms versus relationships, likes versus support, and tech in comparison to Nature, who loves you. Did you know that trees emit a low-key, near infrared light, that they don’t use? I recently learned that blue light, like that editing from our screens and computers is unfilt...

Hello Creative Friend — May this episode find you enjoying all the available good. Happy Mother’s Day no matter how that phrase lands, in what season you are in, and what breath you are in-taking be one of beauty. 🌿 This Pod-chat Excerpt is honoring Nettle, Boundaries & Pacing: You could interpret obstacles as denial, as opposed to thresholds of discernment. I think Nettle is a phenomenal teacher...

Podcast Snippet: Writing is an alchemy. It can give witness to something that has no business being witnessed by a human. You know what I mean? Maybe there's a situation that it's the time has passed that you can have the conversation with the person, but you can write it out. And if visualization makes the body feel the truth of something being achieved, then writing it out can give voice to, to...

Last week we talked about experience over convenience. This week, even simpler — a 3 minute invitation — shorter than an IG scroll session. What can you create? With curiosity, Kate Tend the Flame is grateful for your support 🔥 Thank you for subscribing. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit katebrenton.substack.com/s...

Hello Creative Friend, Do you have 8 minutes to chat? We’re talking about one thing you have this week: a choice. 🔥 Snippet of this week’s focus: Is there an embodiment of warmth that you're paying attention to when you're cooking? Are youthinking about the flame, whether you're on gas or induction? Are you thinking about the element of fire, of light? If you are standing on a cliff and you've be...

Have you been in it this week? — This episode is for you. Mission: More people living in harmony with their purpose + more people living in harmony with each other. In this episode we talk about: * Specificity & Sustainability * The Change in Cultural Conversations * The Change of the past 5 years * Jesus & the Bible and the reclamation of personal, accessible truth —  direct relationship * Laws o...

We often use words to employ our doubts, but what if we used them to empower our belief? In this pod-chat we talk about the use of intention and focus, and the employment of prayer to better serve the very human reality of being here now in a way that feels real & good . Unless you power down the operating system that you're actively using, and let there be an eclipse moment for reset - so you may...

We are back with some new questions for you on Tend the Flame. This episode is a bridge from claiming and learning the path to cultivating the space and trust to be present in the unknown, whether literally by letting your house go dark, or figuratively by being patient and peaceful with what you cannot yet see. Do you turn on all the lights when you wake up? Are you comfortable in the dark? Do yo...

Hello Creative One — This morning’s session is lit. Grab your ☕️ and enjoy your Sunday Stack. If you are too busy — then you need this episode even more. See you inside, Kate 🔥Podchat Transcript Excerpt “Here's the pivot: We're supposed to enjoy our lives. We're supposed to have a fire that's burning, that sometimes is a bonfire and sometimes is an ember, not constantly birthing and doing at a h...