The Wild Edges of Being Human

Healing and Hope after Hard Journies with Colette Nies Von Hanna Navigating Life’s Challenges: A Conversation with Colette Nies Von Hanna Join me for a conversation with long-time family friend Colette Nies Von Hanna, who shares her journey and insights on being human. Colette, an organic gardener, socio-ecological feminist theologian, and energy researcher from New Braunfels, Texas, discuss...

Welcome back! In today’s episode, I delve into lessons I’ve learned from one of my favorite teachers and approaches ~ Gabor Maté and Compassionate Inquiry.  I explore his method as a facilitator, the importance of gaining consent, his views on addiction as attempts to solve suffering, and authenticity versus attachment. Reflecting on his teachings, I discuss the impact of the “still-fac...

Allison shares her personal journey of reinventing herself and her business, discussing her struggles, coping mechanisms, and the need for genuine connections. She emphasizes the importance of understanding one’s needs and cycles, challenging toxic individualism, and finding what works authentically for oneself in business and life. Key Topics and Timestamps 00:00 Welcome to the Live Session...

  It’s Road Riff time – Ease from the Inside Out . I’ve had some really interesting, unusual resistance around content creation and I didn’t have an “episode,” but I did have a drive into town  Stream of Consciousness with a Purpose and More at Ease I want to be more at ease this year from the inside It’s one of the core goals of how and who I wa...

Yikes – Is it Procrastination or Parts- I’m jumping back into making podcast episodes for you!  I’m just going to allow myself to be imperfect in getting back into the routine I love creating content for y’all  I’ve always loved creating content for y’all and I’ve had some procrastination parts come up lately I had all these plans and was taking...

Hello Hello Humans! I feel like a little kid getting back on a bicycle, It’s been a couple of months since I podcasted.  Bug Soup is the time during chrysalis when the caterpillar disintegrates and devolves  and physically, materially turns into an gooey mess before it regenerates into the butterflies that bless us all.  It’s a metaphor for a stage of creation and a stag...

Hello Humans! Thank you for your grace while I took some time and space.  For the last four years I have been in writing practice with my publisher and write as a group One of my former clients and now friend and fellow author colleague has released her book with Compassionate Mind Collaborative Publishing. I want you to get her book and let it touch your heart.  Art is About Being Whole...

Hello Human Podcast Listeners! Today I want to share a little behind the scenes ADHD update. This is kind of personal. It’s a behind the scenes episodes of being a small business owner, being a coaching practice owner who is also navigating the Wild Edges of Being Human. Many of you know the diagnosis of my ADHD over 18 months ago and the acclimation to that both education, identity, meds, t...

Hello Humans, another Road Riff Episode! I use to consider myself an optimist.  I still tend to have some of these qualities. I tend to see the best in people. I’m able to see the best in people. Sometimes to my detriment. My identity for many many years was built around making other people feel good.   As I allow myself to be more human, as I drop the masks that I lived in to...

Emotions, ADHD & Motivation – A Convergence of Ideas Hi Y’all! I’ve been meaning to do an ADHD podcast for over a year and I saw this quote today by Tami Simon from Sounds True, “Sometimes only the answer is found through living life.” When I give myself the time and space to live life, the connections reveal themselves. And unmixing my internalized-for-51-years i...

Episode 204 Heather Doyle Frasier: The Practice of Compassionate Writing Writer, Coach, Renaissance Woman, Lover of Books Publisher of Compassionate Mind Collaborative and a singer.  After having worked in the traditional publishing industry as a development editor, Heather saw the humanity missing from the industry. Meet my book coach, publisher, and friend.  Writing is such a vulnerabl...

  Episode 203 – The Practice of Connection over Control   Another road riff episode! It’s Sunday morning, 8:23 am as I record this and I’m heading out to my therapeutic horseback riding lessons. After a difficult week, I’ve got some insights and lessons settling into my bones.  There might be a few tears!  Y’all know everything has an analogy, right? It...

  Hello Humans, I’m here with one of my mentors and teachers Chris Zydel. She is the Wild Heart Queen of Creative Juices Arts and has a wonderful book out,  Conversations with the Brush: Wisdom Tales from the Intuitive Painting Heart Today we’re having a specific conversation about Becoming Crone in the context of being a business owner.  Crone. Menopause. Reinvention. B...

Hello Humans, today we are jamming with fellow reinventor Cindy Ingram. Cindy has a book coming out later in the year and today we are going to talk a little bit more about reinvention.  Reinvention shows up on the outside but it’s usually because things happen on the inside.  Originally choosing her work based on how it felt, Cindy shows a certain level of self trust to choose tho...

Dreaming in Spanish with Sara Alvarado (and writing your story). Live, it’s Allison Crow and Sara Alvarado! We are going to be talking about telling your story and Sara’s new book, Dreaming In Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story in Puerto Vallarta. I adored this book! And I really did start thinking in Spanish after reading it.  It’s a story of healing, of unexpected and profo...

Over the last 18 years, specifically coaching, I have worked with so many business owners. Thousands and thousands of business owners everywhere from brand new business owners learning how to do things to business owners in achievement phase. These days I tend to work with extremely experienced high revenue business owners.  I also work with caring people. I work with people who are heart-cen...

  Hello Humans!  Who else has been wild edging through transitions and wobbles!  I made you a check in episode – to let you know a bit of the behind the scenes as we sort our shit out with laughter and compassion! Lots of little bite sized good things in this episode! Enjoy!  Love, Allison        The post Ep: 198 – Updates appeared first on Allis...

Welcome! Recently I made a giant decision in my business AND I’ve been known to make giant decisions. The last time was in 2011 and the time before that was in 2009. I do remember the last two times and I remember the emotional difficulty of the last two times. No, I’m not freaking out and the reason I’m not freaking out, I know how to manage my scared parts so much better than t...

I’m Allison Crow and we are interrupting your often frequently deep and emotional philosophical personal development contact for a business check. This is a podcast for business owners. Welcome to those who aren’t business owners. If you listen, that’s fun! I’m gonna be discussing what I’m noticing in the market, right!? What I’m noticing in the economic climate...

Hey, this is Allison and this is a two part episode. The first part I recorded as a road riff, and it’s about the magic of getting out of the house. Then stay tuned for what the Magic Act really was. I wanna tell you what the magic was and it wasn’t what we expect. Love, Allison _________________________________________________________________________________________ PS:  Camp Cul...

Ah, the imperfection of the human experience. You are not doing it wrong if it feels hard, or bad, or disconnected.  You are not screwing up your kids, you didn’t marry the wrong person, and your business is not destined for failure. I see so many clients struggle with the normal human imperfection of life – we make up these stories and live in a society that imposes the outcome of perf...

This is the wild edge of being human, a podcast for business owners. I wanna talk about recovering from difficult seasons and transitioning out of a difficult season , and wouldn’t it be nice if just one day the hard stopped and the ease started again? But that’s not generally how it works. Y’all know that everybody has seasons where life just beats you down. I think there is a d...

Hello, Soul-full humans. Today we are talking about coping skills and self-trust. Coaching is an art and science of behavior. Wouldn’t it be fun if we were actually as easy as change your thinking, change your life, and yes, I used to believe it was that simple for many years. I’m so sorry. I didn’t know what I know now. Just changing our thinking can be a gross oversimplificatio...

Today’s episode is about the practice of tending. I wanna tell you a story of how I went from depression to the most creative productivity in a very holy way, not a way of scarcity. Though I might feel a bit rusty and stiff, tending with love to the practices that invoke blessing outside and inside are what create the experiences that I actually want to live. Life’s success isn’t...

Hey Hey, This is Episode 190 and it’s the truck episode. Yup, I’m in the truck.  Today’s episode on this little road riff is about validation. I’ve had some pretty profound and powerful insights about validation over the last couple years and I come to you as someone whose little parts inside were so hungry for validation most of my life & still are.  They wer...