I have an exciting idea

....and I need your help to make it happen.

Last evening, as I was enjoying a soak in the tub (which happens to be where I do my best thinking) I received the idea to launch a new podcast.

Oh, the wisdom of water. It truly does have things to say if we choose to listen.

I digress…

the podcast

It won’t be a full-length intensive feast of a podcast but rather more like a yummy nutrition-packed snack. Short, sweet, digestible.

I will ask the questions.

YOU will be the guests.

I may want to cap it at 30 minutes, but the length can be determined organically as it evolves.

The format will resemble a conversational interview wherein I ask the same 8-10 questions to each guest who chooses to visit with me, a la James Lipton from Inside the Actor’s Studio. It’ll be a video podcast, so you may want to brush your hair, or you may not. The choice is yours. All I ask is that you just show up fully as you.

I’m asking for your help in coming up with questions to ask. Think along the lines of:

What questions would you like to be asked about your work/writing/life?
What would you want to ask another writer you follow?

Please post them in the comments below! Also, if you would like to be among the first test subjects to give this a go, please leave a message for me in the comments or send an email to the address I’ll provide at the bottom of the post.

I am super excited about this idea for 2 reasons:

1. Substack writers are a special breed, I’m discovering. Wouldn’t it be nice to meet them in person, hear their voices and learn more about what brought them here to write and share their stories, while supporting and promoting their work?

2. It fits with my Post Post Modern premise and pursuit perfectly.

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the context

When I started my Substack last October, I did so with the intention of picking up where I left off from my Telegram Channel. There, I was mainly posting imagery and information that served to empower our growth and upgrade our frequencies. Goodness knows there are more than enough channels that focus on fear-porn and on the newest bad news. This isn’t to say these types of channels don’t have value or a purpose. It’s just that being a journalist is not my purpose. In a world that wants to distract and/or capture our attention with things to fear, things to react to, things that have already occurred, my role here is to share myself and my art as authentically as I can, while also providing content that puts our collective focus on what is POSSIBLE. Onto what we can create.

When we focus on what is inspiring, beautiful, brilliant, nourishing, we bring more of it into our reality. We infuse the ethereal with LIFE.

And when the illusory constructs of control have been penetrated with our clarity of vision and their strangle-hold on our innate creative powers has been dissolved…it’s a fun exploration to examine what remains.

Post Post Modern is about the quest to discover what is really real?

YOU are real after all…aren’t you?

So if the only way out is in…then in we must go!

conversation vs censorship

A few weeks ago when the censorship debate was active on Substack, I found myself being questioned quite passionately by someone who was reacting to this post:

Perhaps the cure for ignorance is to open up forums of communication, inspiring real heart to heart connection while shining light into dark corners, instigating healing from the inside out. ❤️

My conversation partner still wasn’t convinced that I was doing enough to “fight fascism” and so she challenged me with:

“Of course YOU won’t use force to bend others to your way of seeing things. The problem is that bad people are not looking to improve themselves like you are. They ARE looking to bend the world their way. Just ask any black person whose relatives were lynched, any Jewish person whose family didn’t make it out of Europe alive, or any LGBTQ person who was born with different genetic makeup than you or I. But go ahead, focus on only your pain.”

To which I responded:

It is the grouping of people into categories based on their shared characteristics such as race, religion, sexual preferences…that allows such atrocities of hate to occur in the first place.

It is so much easier to dehumanize a group than it is a single individual.

Every human has a story, and it is in the telling of it that we find true connection.

I do believe this is the antidote to hate.

I began my Substack to offer a voice that counters harmful collectivist ideologies.

I am actively taking a stand for the rights of each individual human to be who they are fully. Safely, freely, lovingly.

It is in honour of these ideals that I am creating a pathway on which to walk my talk.

Here’s to being the change, to building bridges instead of walls, to sharing the stories that connect us, so that we may discover, preserve, and rejoice in our shared Humanity.

{To be clear: this podcast is not for discussing politics or anything else that exists as a construct of our reality~ I’m only interested in discussing YOU.}

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Thank you so much for reading. I appreciate you. Truly.

If you’d like to check out my flavour, here is a link to my very first podcast on freedom:

If you wish to contact me about questions or about being a guest, please do so here:

jacquelinerendell@gmail.com

I am so looking forward to hearing from you!

be great,

love Jacqueline

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