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Audacity Works

Audacity Works

Written by: Rachel Strickland
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A podcast inspired by and dedicated to the working artist, the creative entrepreneur, and generally, doing the damn thing. This exist for those who have the audacity to believe that their lives have value. This is for you.http://www.rachelstricklandcreative.com/original artwork by the great Dominic Bonuccelli© 2026 Audacity Works Art Economics Entertainment & Performing Arts Leadership Management & Leadership
Episodes
  • Episode 168: If you're consistently missing the mark
    Jan 14 2026

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    What you'll hear:

    • Currently right in the middle of ho-hosting the Aerial Serpent retreat with Kristina Canizares at Sweet Retreats, Mexico- so sustainability is on our minds a lot
    • Kristina's goal exercise rating the access we had to time, energy, community, and facilities 6:30
    • When we are consistently failing to live up to our expectations, we create a hostile relationship with our creative practice 8:00
    • Sustainability is boring. No wonder we prefer to set spectacular spectacular goals for ourselves, that's more exciting- buuuuuut 9:00
    • "Expectation is resentment under construction" -Al Anon quote 15:12
    • Are your goals humane enough that you can operate inside of them with grace, even when circumstances are not the best case scenario?
    • If you're constantly failing to meet the mark, your efforts might not be the problem. The mark might be the problem. 17:00
    • Patron meet up details for Sunday 1/18!
    • Sweet Retreats MX
    • Kristina Canizares Fit & Bendy

    Don't go back to sleep.

    xoRachel
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    19 mins
  • Episode 167: For the Islands
    Jan 7 2026

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    What you'll hear:

    • Wanna share your words of the year, or your 13th intention? I wanna know!
    • Patron meetup! January 18 3-4pm EST. Link is here on this patreon post
    • How the not vaping is going 3:15
    • Last cycle of The Audacity Project coming up in the next two months! Hop on the waitlist here
    • What is an island, and what kind of island is this episode for 5:00
    • If you feel emotionally defensive in most space you enter, I have to gently suggest that "It might be you." 7:55
    • LIved experience and past pain are very real and valid. I was the weird girl on the playground too, I get it. But we're grown people now, and we get to choose. 9:30
    • Pls don't rest on your laurels. Think of them more like an uncomfortable sofa. 15:00
    • The question: how have i been complicit in my own erasure from community? 15:30
    • In answer to "ok so now what" here's some somatic witchcraft for you 16:50


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    xoRachel
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    22 mins
  • Episode 166: WTF is "shadow work"?
    Dec 31 2025

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    What you'll hear:

    • NYE is a weird "holiday". People get in their heads about it. This is your invitation to let it be whatever it is and don't pressure yourself to make it look any certain way. 1:30
    • What me and Manflesh have been doing the past few years (it is not a rager) 2:15
    • The impetus for this episode 4:00
    • MY definition of Shadow Work 5:10
    • What is the POINT of shadow work? 7:55
    • What I think is shadow work is NOT (spoiler alert: it's needless gratuitous suffering) 9:45
    • What you can expect from me this coming year 12:00
    • If you missed the Desire series, you can still get it emailed to you by signing up on this form: https://poser.kit.com/desire 15:00

    Don't go back to sleep.

    xoRachel
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    16 mins
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