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Ep. 6: Power, Metamorphosis, Beauty Feb 03, 2019

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In today's episode, we complete our journey through the world of 12 very powerful words.

Power, Metamorphosis and Beauty -- what do they have to do with each other, how do they relate to one another, and how have we completely misunderstood their essences?

Think about the ways that we as a society value 'Power' as a value or quality.

'Beauty,' too.

The lenses that we have peered through when it comes to understanding these qualities are grossly patriarchal. It's time to dissolve our current perception and become reacquainted with these values so that we may thrive, stunningly.

Tune into this episode for:

We live in a world of such falsified power, of such bravado, of such inflated ideas of power, power that is not truly power, but looks like it, power that is a lie on a soul level. Power that thinks its power because of control or greed.
Exploring power instead as shakti, as momentum, as life-force, as a resource you have autonomy over
Love requires us to be in 'action' in this world. Creation cannot be what is it without power
A spoken word poem to support your metamorphosis
"Allow me to re-introduce myself" - Beauty
Beauty as a byproduct of resilience

Ep. 5: Reverence and Play Feb 03, 2019

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'You're so deep.'

Ha. I hear this all the time. Sometimes I take it as a compliment and other times I feel its intention as a dig at 'seriousness.' All I can say is thank Goddess for Instagram stories. I feel it's a way for me to give people a little sneak peek at the lightness and joy that pervades my days; something I wasn't all too able to project before, because for me, writing is a place and space in which I drop 'in', not 'up'.

What so many don't understand is that depth does not necessarily describe the sombre.

Behaviours, thoughts and deeds can indeed be serious and shallow.

I experience depth as a manifestation of reverence. As an experience of sensing the sacred in all. My thoughts often reflect that. So do my journal entries and of course, as I'm sure you've sensed, this podcast.

But there's a rebound-like-result to living this way, and it is glorious. Side effects include effervescent, innocent, giggly, wonderful joy that I don't believe I would otherwise experience if my roots weren't planted so deep into that soil of sacredness.

Tune into this episode for:

Reverence as life as a living, breathing, active ritual
Reverence brings meaning, depth and profound love to whatever you offer it to
Devotion, and its trumping of discipline
Cultivating reciprocity with the natural world (most rapid way to hardwire gratitude)
Play -- the 'light' to reverence's 'depth'
Living a deep life, so that we can paradoxically live lightly
Creating space and room in your life for wonder and spontaneity (play is not convenient)
The audacity of committing to happiness (play as an act of rebellion)

Ep. 4: Sovereignty & Sensuality Feb 03, 2019

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I'm excited to explore the interplay of these two states of being and soul qualities with you today: sovereignty and sensuality.

I'd hazard a guess that few qualities would be as misunderstood or misinterpreted as these two.

So often we think that sovereignty simply means 'keeping people out', but what my mentor, Hiro Boga, has taught me about it, is that it's about being the Queen of my Kingdown - which is to say, my inner resources - so that I can be in right relationship with the entirety of life. This actually allows me to be, do and offer more to my communities and life itself.

Sensuality - beyond lacy lingerie, seduction and dem hips - can we explore the creative essence innate in sensual energy? Can we explore all of life as a kaleidoscopic cacophony of subatomic particles in a perpetual state of love-making. (Woah. Too much?)

Tune into this episode for:

'Sovereignty is reflected in empowered behaviour.'
The role that sacred boundaries plays in your sovereignty
The power for asking what you truly need (leveraging the ecology, rather than believe that you should be a self-sufficient silo)
Celebrating the agency of others, rather than taking offence to their boundaries
'Everything is of the realm of the erotic' -- Stanley Kunitz
Sensuality - multi-sensory living. Feeling the sex energy that's present and alive in nature, in art, in the hum of stillness.
How can sensuality and boundaries support your creative process?

Ep. 3: Curiosity & Attunement Feb 03, 2019

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Think about a time in your life when you felt disconnected…

Whether that's to your relationships, to your creative flow, or even quite simply (and painfully)... life itself.

Marred by confusion and stagnancy, disconnection has its own gnarly brand of momentum… collecting up more of itself second by second, creating density, heaviness, isolation.

There are two words (and worlds) that will help lift you out of such a (grossly self-indulgent) fog, and they are:

Curiosity & Attunement.

We're going to explore these two today, and how you can work powerfully with them so as to restore lightness, awe and creation in your life.

Tune into this episode for:

Curiosity: 'It brings an innocent sense of questioning and a healthy regard for scepticism.'
How curiosity is inextricably linked to courage, and offers opportunities for discernment and childlike wonder.
'Curiosity is ineffective if you are not paying attention to your desires.'
Attunement as a means of gleaning our own answers
Sensitively connecting to the essence of life
Coming back into the respect and the remembrance that absolutely everything is alive

Ep. 2: Courage, Creation, and Collaborative Leadership Feb 03, 2019

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We're kicking off a series over the next few episodes in which we're exploring words as worlds of their own -- (yum) -- and what better place to start than with the three worlds that act as the value systems and DNA of my life and businesses: courage, creation and collaborative leadership.

This conversation is powerful and subtle and you may need to listen in twice, just so you can get a real feel for where we're going over the next few episodes. If I may ask a favour, it would be to be in a state of receivership as you listen in… these aren't sounds that will land powerfully on you if you're overly distracted or on the hustle.

Courage, creation and collaborative leadership are anchors that have given my purpose wings, and I can't wait to introduce you to them in a deep and lovely way.

Tune into this episode for:

Everything touches everything. What business has to do with living and loving
Embracing courage, rather than bracing for it
How your willingness to be wrong and misunderstood and rejected creates emotional resilience
Courage as an energetic, still, quiet thing
Creation -- transforming neutral data into love
Being a generative force in the world rather than a consumption machine
Committing to expecting transformation as a result of the way you're participating with life
How systems create divine containers for creation to pour through
The physical and subtle anatomy of collaborative leadership
Collaborating with the essence of your team or community, not just the people contained within it
The power of 'passing the mic' rather than remaining in the limelight
Harnessing the power and reciprocity of the community's brain's trust (rather than being the all-knowing source)
Why our obsession with leadership is diminishing our potency. Enter: receivership.

Ep. 1: What Matters To Me in 2019 Feb 03, 2019

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We all have our own process when a new year is upon us. Some of us set audacious resolutions that dissolve before the first week wraps.

Some of us go all #nextlevel with our business goals. Others of us wriggle towards more feeling-state intentions.

As 2018 wound up, I entered into a state of deep reflection for the epic year it was; full of just.so.much. Did all of that heartache and beauty really belong to just 12 short months?!

And I metabolised that, 2019 started to settle into the foreground of my awareness, and I began to sense what would require my attention, intention, affection this year.

Today, I'm lifting the lid on what matters to me in 2019… and the processes and conversations I have with myself that have helped to give me this clarity.

Ep. 0: Introducing 'Sounds Like Bliss' Feb 03, 2019

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I'm launching my podcast, and this is special to me because it's the very way I've been aching to communicate with you for an age, now.

Get a feel for the places we'll traverse, the tones we'll explore, the depths we'll dive into, and the highs at which we'll soar.

But wait, before you do that! I have something fun for you.

I went live on Instagram when I recorded this episode in a response to some of your queries about 'showing up when you're afraid of being seen.'

The best way to demonstrate what courage looks like, is to demonstrate what courage looks like.

My vision of recording this episode in a dark and quiet room all by myself dissolved when I tapped GO LIVE on my iPhone screen. Suddenly, I was introducing a podcast that didn't even exist yet, in front of a live audience. I announced her name, her vibe and my voice was shaking the entire time.

If you want to see the conversation (and the drama) that was wrapped around what ended up being a nicely edited podcast, you can watch the video over at tarabliss.com.au/episode0. I hope it inspires you to get started on your heart's work.

Tune into this introductory episode for:

Voice wobbles and shaking hands as this podcast emerges
A little of my story -- the dots that have connected to bring this podcast to life
The power of blogging, writing, speaking, publishing to just two people
The essence and personality of Sounds Like Bliss
The two creatives that put a rocket up this process and made me move on it
What I'm interested (and not interested) in exploring in this space with you

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