Ok – I left off some time ago. I was stymied by my commitment to write about podcasts I was listening to. And then I hit a fallow time – I was really taken by the election (who wasn’t) and so was consuming all my free time focused on everything I could find on it.
Now I’m back to having some time for myself (not much I must admit) when I’m not coaching, training new coaches, building my business or writing my book. One of the people I just interviewed for my book was Susan Bratton, founder of Personal Life Media. I found her and her podcast network in the most round about way. And I credit this find to my good fortune of ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, being a person of great curiosity. My curiosity never disappoints me – I must admit. My mother told me that I used to fall asleep standing up with my eyes open so I wouldn’t miss anything!
Getting back to this podcast network I found – I was fiddling around on youtube one day and put in Byron Katie’s name – I love her process which she calls The Work and I wanted to see if there were any fresh videos of her doing her process with someone who was suffering from their thinking processes. What I found was an audio program with some still photos that someone had posted. On this program Katie and her husband Stephen Mitchell were being interviewed by a guy named Duncan Campbell on a program called Living Dialogues. I liked the way in which this interview engaged with them and so I started looking for more information about this podcaster.
I found Duncan Campbell’s show through the itunes store and then started listening to his program. I started counting it among my favorites. He’s had some of the very same guests I’ve heard on Kelly Howell’s Theatre of the Mind, but tends to jump into the fray with his guests rather than interview them. Some might find this troubling – they might want to hear from the guests, but I actually found this an interesting process – that together with his guests, Duncan really gets to the depth of issues.
Then my curiosity took me to look at the network on which Living Dialogues rests – and lo and behold – there’s a continuously growing group of unique programming on it.
I was intrigued that the founder of Personal Life Media, Susan Bratton set out originally to create a podcast, but then challenged herself for thinking so small and decided to start a podcast network! I liked her style and thought she’d make a great interview for my forthcoming book, Scrappy Startups about female entrepreneurs.
So as my style, I picked up the phone and called the number listed on the the Personal Life Media Web site. And who should answer, but Susan Bratton’s husband, Tim. He was quite engaging and quite willing to help me reach his wife. I learned that they had actually partnered together in this venture, with his being more the technical guy and her taking on the programming and the advertising generation for the network. What a lovely man – so ready to engage with me and be helpful. He suggested I email Susan with a request for an interview and he promised to pass along the information that we had talked.
He followed through and so did I – and true to form, Susan was ready and willing to interview with me. What a delight she was. I can’t wait to tell the world more in my book about her story. As a parting gift when we spoke, she offered to introduce me to the guy who is hosting a podcast on coaching on her network, Robert Harrison.
So I decided I might want to hear what Harrison’s podcast sounded like and what his focus is. I decided to take my dog Grace for a walk today and listen to the podcast. Which I did – actually, I just returned.
And boy, I wonder what I got myself into! Harrison had as his guest a guy who was talking about the energy benefits of raw food – someone named David Wolfe. I just started to check out one of David’s Web sites, Sun Food. I was really taken on this show about hearing about the benefits of getting into raw foods – and I’m seriously considering dusting off my juicer and finding the green food that’s been in my closet for some time. Now I have some real context around the benefits of this food that my chiropractor said some time ago that would be good for me.
I can’t believe that my curiosity about Byron Katie led me through all of these steps back to my own kitchen! Who would have thought it! And people wonder about me – they wonder about all the resources I seem to collect – it’s just that one thing leads to another. Doesn’t it for everyone?
