The Joyful Practice Podcast

this week’s episode: We start by talking about rabbits and aspen groves and seasonal cycles, and work our way to laughing about teenagers. Jenn tries to use the word copium, and if her 13-year old found out she’d never hear the end of it, but it’s okay—he doesn’t listen to the podcast. We get into the nitty-gritty of trying to sort out a personal ethos on where digital tools do and don’t belong in...

this week’s episode: Ideas, art forms, cultures, bodies of water: when two or more things converge, they meet in the estuary — a place of ingenuity, adaptation, and abundance. In this week’s podcast, we consider estuaries as a metaphor for collaborations and creative disruption, specifically, the analog+digital estuary where we hold experiments in turning our analog creations into digital images....

this week’s episode What is a threshold, and how is it different from a portal? How might we use the energy of the threshold to carry us into the portal of creative transformation? These are the questions that guide this week’s conversation. Maybe a threshold is the thing we must cross before we enter a portal, and a portal is what channels us towards creative growth. Thresholds offer a choice: ca...

this week’s episode This week, we’re talking about the Joyful Practice principle: We seek connection to the collective unconscious through collaboration with: friends, strangers, ancestors, dreams, chance, landscape, & the natural world. Its a big topic, ya’ll. Collaboration is expansive. How do we collaborate with our creative intuitions, with our surroundings, or with the fears and ideologies th...

this week’s episode We begin this week’s podcast with that mindf**k of a question: If the brain is an organ in the body, then why do we behave like the brain and the body are separate entities? (Although we don’t once mention Plato or Descartes, they sure are haunting the first half of our conversation.) Other questions we get into this week: What does it feel like to listen to the body’s feedback...

this week’s episode This week we get curious about the ways grind culture separates us from the needs and desires of our bodies, especially the pleasures and challenges of rest. What does it mean to resist rest, and how might imagining rest as a creative act change our relationships with creative process? How does rest get complicated by chronic disease and neurodivergence, and how do busyness and...

this week’s episode This week, we get transgressive about academic and cultural institutions that have built an industry around workshops that are often discipline-and-rigor-focused zones of punishment. We also (tenderly) examine those internalized forms of creative punishment many of us encounter when we start working on a creative project, where imagined audiences watch over us, judging our crea...

Scrappy has two meanings, and we embrace both of them. This, our first go at a podcast, is scrappy in the sense of untidy . We want to play with things before we refine them. It’s also scrappy in the sense of determined . We recorded directly to Substack assuming we could learn how to edit afterwards. But then it seemed we couldn’t! Which maybe would have been fine—to just hit publish and release...

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