Noticing: A Podcast About Nothing & Everything At The Same Time

Summer is in full swing and we invite you to listen to this week’s episode with an open heart. It will be our last episode until September, when we pick back up with a new season after soaking up the best of what Maine has to offer us. This episode is special. We talk with community artist, weaver, and elder Sarah Haskell. She exudes both a peacefulness and an energy of someone who greets each day...

In this episode, we honor the wild ride of being human. Human beings are emotional creatures, yet we hide our true feelings so often. We discuss how emotion is designed to move through the body. Becky candidly shares the difference between now and then, when she used to habitually ignore a big feeling because she wasn’t aware of it in her body, and how now she is able to recognize her emotions and...

To mark the 20th episode, we came together without a guest. When we began this podcast 10 months ago, it was in response to a nudge we both had to just begin. Each episode has deepened us. We’ve planted seeds together and apart. We have leapt. For the first half of the episode, Becky shares how she and her family are moving to Maine where she suspects her creative energy will root and anchor her t...

In this week’s episode, we speak to Jenny O’Connell, a woman who has always lived in the world with her entire body. She is a writer, naturalist, outdoor guide, ultimate frisbee player, and fierce lover of the world who reminds us to leap. What feels remarkable about this conversation is how many times Jenny had faith in her life and acted accordingly . By radiating from her bright center, Jenny b...

This week, we speak with Christina’s friend and old boss, Sam Wedelich who navigates the world as a children’s book illustrator, storyteller, and self-proclaimed deep feeler. Sam takes us on a journey through her creative life full of unfinished drawings, toys, and stupid mental health walks. She holds the weight of the world and delivers it in both serious and light-hearted ways, connecting with...

As a part of our “the world is on fire what can I do?” series, we bring in Lea Urguby, Becky’s friend of decades and someone who has, in large and small ways, changed Becky’s life. Lea brings a humility and a sociologist’s brain to this conversation and speaks about her lifelong activism with groundedness and a deep desire to be a harbinger of actionable change. She speaks with compassionate urgen...

This week, we are joined by the dynamic and joyful spark of a human Kate Garmey who, as a self-proclaimed Chief Play Officer, claims one of her keywords as FROLIC. She seems to have already lived a million lives. On paper, she is a comedian, writer, community-builder, mother, and weaver of stories. This raw conversation beautifully encapsulates the way Kate’s life (like so many of us right now) ha...

Elizabeth Brown joins us this week for a discussion in our “The World is on Fire What Can I Do?!” series where we reflect on how we are showing up in our world as we know it. She is a dynamic soul who does a little bit of everything (as a mother, an audiologist, an author with one book just published, another on its way, and a third in process at her desk, and a flower farmer) with a refreshing hu...

  This week’s conversation is a continuation of our series: “The World Is On Fire. What Can I do?” And this week we’re in conversation with our friend and friend of the podcast, Ashley O’Brion. In this conversation, Ashley shares how she’s finding ways to show up in this moment that feel aligned and accessible and really sweet. If you’re enjoying these conversations, share your favorite episode wi...

“History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain We are in a time when it is so easy to feel like how we show up is not enough. It is what we are hearing in our community outside of this podcast. In our conversations with friends outside of the podcast, we’ve both been circling around the fact that in this time we inhabit together, no one feels like what they are doing is enough....

“The wound is the place the light enters you.” Rumi In this episode, we discuss the verb awakening , and what it means to each of us. Christina shares that her twins helped her awaken to a larger churning inside of her, one that inevitably invited her to accept her true nature as someone who can hold light easily. Then, her awakening deepened her spirituality and allowed her to accept life as it i...

In this episode, recorded just before turn of the new year, we reflect on the year we have had and where we are now. Becky talks candidly about how a recent journey showed her how it feels to be a stone, which, no surprise to her, is her natural essence. What does it feel like to be in one’s essence and not have to explain it away? This episode meanders around endings and beginnings, how one can b...

“There are only two ways to live your life . One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is” - Albert Einstein We recorded this earlier than planned because Becky experienced an immediate and potent feeling filling her up after boldly surrendering to The Mystery for the last few months. What is she supposed to do with this feeling of immense awe and the need to let it...

We recorded this week’s episode shortly after the passing of Christina’s grandmother Mimi so inevitably death was on our minds. How it is both an ending and a transformation. We talked about the incredible mysticism that surrounded Mimi’s passing and the gifts emerging within Christina - gifts she always knew were there, but is now coming into conscious relationship with. We talked about vulnerabi...

This is the second half of our live conversation with our friend Ashley O’Brion (the creative genius behind our branding). In this part of the conversation we talk about knowing the rules before you break the rules. How Becky had to live corporate America to learn busyness. How Ashley used discernment to tell when it was time to go from jobs that didn’t f feel aligned. Ashley admits that she a fea...

We invite our friend Ashley O’Brion (the creative genius behind our branding) to join us for a live conversation in Christina’s small cathedral of a studio. We spoke for over two hours and meandered through a vast expanse of things: how we each discern cultural conditioning from authentic expression, how routine togetherness can cause “scenius,” a term coined by musician Brian Eno that describes c...

This week we talk about fertilizing the seed, being captured by fear, how manifestation has a good companion in generosity, and how daily practices can nurture the “be the seed” stage. We also touch on slow growth vs. fast growth and where AI fits into the future we want to seed. If you want to gain more knowledge on Open AI, check out the two-part episode of the podcast Corporate Gossip, “ OpenAI...

If you want to go deeper into this week’s conversation, we recommend the following podcast episodes: On Being: Gordon Hempton - Silence and the Presence of Everything Time Sensitive: Sara Imari Walker on Making Sense of Life, the Universe, and Ourselves If you don’t already know the origins of lawns in America, this article from the National Wildlife Foundation provides a pretty concise history. A...

Much of this conversation was inspired by a podcast that was shared with us by our amazing and oh so talented friend Ashley O’Brion who designed our logos. The podcast is called The Way Out Is In and the episode that inspired this conversation was The Art of Transmission Watch the Jim Carrey commencement address that Christina referenced here . To learn more about the work of Christina and Becky,...

Becky here with a few clarifications and deep dives. In this episode, I dipped a bit into the world of science, and remembered neither one of us are skilled in the language of facts and stats - we’re much better suited to talking about the felt sense of our experience. That being said, truth is very important to both os us, so below you will find additional information on a few of the topics that...

In this episode of Noticing: A Podcast About Nothing & Everything At The Same Time, Becky and Christina catch up after Becky’s retreat at Esalen. We recorded this episode a little earlier in the day, and by the sound of it, you can probably tell Becky is not much of a morning person. Notes & Links Esalen Institute: https://www.esalen.org/ To learn more about Human Design, and get your free chart,...

The title of this episode comes from Buddhist doctrine signifying that the Buddha's teachings and practices are tools—like a finger—that direct people toward enlightenment or the true nature of reality, symbolized by the moon. The core message is to not mistake the finger (the teachings, concepts, or even the teacher) for the moon (the ultimate truth or enlightened mind), as focusing solely on the...