EPS 38: Friendship as an Improvisational Art- Lori Neff is back!

Broadcasting pro, Lori Neff is back, as promised, and this time we have a great conversation spanning a few interesting topics and we have plenty of fun and laughter along the way too.

Visit Lori’s website HERE and make sure to listen to her new podcast that offers a variety of prayer exercises that can breathe fresh life into your devotional practice!
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What was the biggest fiasco at Midday connection?

Why is just a 5 year window the ideal beauty apex for women we’ve agreed to anyway?

Will powdered wigs make a comeback?

Lori’s tale of the cringe-worthy “friend-date” gone wrong…

What makes a great friend and what might an improv class have to do with it?

And much more. ENJOY!

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MIN 1
The worst fiasco at Midday Connection

whoops!

MIN 3
What does a radio producer do?

MIN 6
Do people often try to trick the call in shows?

MIN 8:30
The stickiness of the one mean person in a sea of good folks.
Hate mail

MIN 11
Ellen DeGeneres is okay with herself and it’s served as an inspiration for being okay with people who don’t like us.

MIN 14
Being okay in your own skin. The 40 year old happy milestone.

MIN 15
Anne Lamott thinking about her looks.

MIN 16
Going through the body-consciousness and anxiety in one’s 20s.

MIN 17
I’m supposed to be upset about how I look so they can sell products.

MIN 17:30
Michelle Van Loon

The five years of life that is cherished as valuable.

MIN 18:30
Powdered wigs and white faces to reflect the value of aged beauty of the time. The construct of cultural beauty changes radically.

MIN 19:30
Dress hem lines changed because of health concerns.

MIN 21:00
Fashion, modesty and mindlessness.

MIN 23:30
Friendship was solace and rescue for me (Lisa).

MIN 25:30
Lori’s experience with friendships early on.

MIN 26:30
How personality played a part and how her wonderful college roommate taught her how to be a good friend and have a healthy fight / disagreement.

MIN 28:00
People would commonly ask “How do I find friends?”
“I feel disconnected and I don’t feel I have a best friend” was a common report from listeners who contacted Midday Connection.

MIN 28:30
Being intentional about finding and keeping friends.

MIN 29:30
Friends for a season.

MIN 30:00
The tale of a bad “friend date”.

Friendship is a vulnerable risk. The emotional risk is there.

MIN 34:00
The challenge of couple friendships.

MIN 37:30
How men and women do friendship differently and how personality plays a part.

MIN 38:00
Having a club or a project to build the friendship around.

MIN 39:30
How Lori got into Improv and starting having a blast.

The tools that improv brings.

MIN 42:00
Amy Pohler “Yes, Please”


NPR show improv.

“yes, and”

Learning to be with others. Life-giving. learning love and empathy

MIN 43:00
I see you and here’s something else. I’m not invalidating you. and I’m going to add to it and then you can add to it. A socially healthy mode of being.

Being authentic and flexible.

MIN 44:00
Teamwork and sometimes it goes a direction you didn’t think it would go. You have to let the spark go and help the other person and the team.

MIN 45:30
Ego crushing?

MIN 46:00
Do things ever get messy?

Trust in the team and trust that the good idea with come back around.

MIN 46:30
The hilarious Office episode with Michael Scott being bad at improv. (Season 2 / Episode 9)

MIN 48:00
Going with the process and not be tense about life and improv of regular life.

the fear block our creativity and the ability to be present in the ordinary moment

MIN 50:30
The improv mindset will help in friendship.

MIN 51:00
Thinking of things as play and roll with things.

MIN 53:00


 

My new book is here. I’ll be reading some excerpts from it on the podcast soon, so watch for a bonus episode very in a day or so.

It’s called FORKED: A Discernment Pocket Guide (for Choosing Between Two Good Things).

If you’re in the middle of a tough decision or at a crossroads season of your life, this is the resource for you. To read a sample click HERE.

Click the image for more info.

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Soul School – Lesson 6

This lesson is called:
“The Stories We Accidentally Tell About Ourselves”

I tell you stories about me and you tell me stories about you. What if we listen harder and add new chapters to redeem our stories and add more renewal, authenticity, and hope?

Thank you for listening today.

Please let me know if you like these short weekly lessons, or I should improve them or remove them from the podcast line up. I’ll happily take your feedback.


 

I’ll be reading some excerpts from my new book on the podcast soon.

It’s called FORKED: A Discernment Pocket Guide (for Choosing Between Two Good Things).

If you’re in the middle of a tough decision or at a crossroads season of your life, this is the resource for you. To read a sample click HERE.

Click the image for more info.
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EPS 37: James Prescott on Rob Bell, Spiral Dynamics, and creating

Today, I welcome writer and recently minted podcaster JAMES PRESCOTT from all the way across the pond!

Scroll down for shownotes and my book release new at the bottom!
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Go here for James’ website.

Make sure you listen to the James Talks podcast!

MIN 3

Early formation and suffering, including his parent’s problems and his mom’s death and pivotal spiritual influences.

10 min
Being changed by Rob Bell at camp/

About how our formation directs our lives whether we know it or not

15 min
Christian Mystics and the commonalities

Spiral Dynamics a theory about human consciousness

26 min Church as a place of grace

29 James’ book
Dance of the Writer

(join his Facebook group here)

34 min
The War of Art

38 min
The monotheism of money in the U.S. (Lisa)

44 min
Wrestling with the lie and myths of success

50 min How quickly what we do will be forgotten. How much do you know about our great grandparents? (Lisa)

51
Booming the right kind of person now and surrendering the outcome of the work of passionate creation.

 Thanks for listening to the podcast!


A message from Lisa

The new book is called FORKED: A Discernment Pocket Guide (for Choosing Between Two Good Things).

Watch the trailer!

If you’re in the middle of a tough decision or at a crossroads season of your life, this is the resource for you.

• To read a sample click HERE.

• Click the image for more info.

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Soul School – Lesson 5: Would you be Offended if…

Welcome back to another Wednesday edition of Soul School. This one is called: Would you be Offended if I said you got Offended Way too Much

I hope you’re enjoying them. Just a reminder that these will continue until the end of 2015. If you enjoy this short format and these “lessons” let me know and I’ll keep them coming. I’ve heard from some of you and the the downloads are higher than I expected, but I may need some convincing to keep them going on a regular basis.

Tell me which one have you liked the best or which one has stood out the most?

Is there a topic you should I cover?

Send in your questions if you’d like.


I’m really excited to release my new book and I’ll be reading some excerpts from it on the podcast soon.

It’s called FORKED: A Discernment Pocket Guide (for Choosing Between Two Good Things).

If you’re in the middle of a tough decision or at a crossroads season of your life, this is the resource for you. To read a sample click HERE.

Click the image for more info.

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EPS 36: 30 Books in 10 Years, Mary DeMuth talks about healing through her career

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Mary is the author of thirty books, including her latest: The Day I Met Jesus: The Revealing Diaries of Five Women from the Gospels. She has spoken around the world about God’s ability to uncage a life, bringing needed freedom to her audiences. You can visit her website at MaryDeMuth.com

Scroll down for shownotes and be sure to see the news about Lisa’s new book on godly discernment and decision-making HERE.


 

1:30
Introduction

2:00
What is an “Uncaged Life”?

Being set free from the past and living with an abundant mindset.

3:00
The Day I met Jesus

co-authored with Frank Viola
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Worth Living (new book in Spring 2016)

3:30
Finding healing through writing books.

4:30
How to have a broken heart without becoming walled-off.

5:30
Praying through the Lord’s Prayer as an avenue for healing a broken heart with a mindset towards relationships (community).

6:30
Mary’s story of how she realized how true healing could be found.

7:50
The cost of shutting out pain is the cost of the love and joy that is also shut out.

9:30
The treadmill of wanting to be noticed.

10:30
Finding worthiness through self-centered consciousness.

11:30
How has she found safe people.

Traits of safe people.

13:00
What draws us to others.

14:30
On conversational parenting

Modeling authenticity, authentic faith, and being real and imperfect.

Why kids often rebel.

16:00
Bringing stability to the home. Thinking of relationships as an unfolding story.

17:00
When you can’t measure it (i.e. relationships).

How life is measured: relationships and connections.

19:00
Not too many books about launching your children in the world.