Finding Freedom and Writing Memoirs with Meg Worden

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

• Episode: Finding Freedom and Writing Memoirs with Meg Worden
• Website: The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
• Feed URL: https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rss
• Duration: 01:10:40
• Published: 2013-09-02 10:00

Meg Worden and I met in Portland this summer at the World Domination Summit when she picked me up from the airport. That was the start of an amazing friendship, conversations, and connections that eventually led to her appearance here on BlogcastFM. She has an amazing story of hope, transformation, and shifting paradigms that is the byproduct of two years in Federal prison. Here are some highlights from our chat:

• How Certain Paths Lead to Delusional Enlightenment 
• A Look at What It Takes to Radically Transform Your Life
• What It Takes to Deal with Extreme Uncertainty
• Learning to Embody the Things That Make You Special
• Developing Practices of Learning to Live inside Your Body
• Cultivating Actions to Increase Your Mental Strength
• How Meg Turned a Horrible Experience into a Gift
• Why Gratitude for Our Problems Can Change Our Lives
• The Stories We Tell Ourselves in Every Moment 
• The Prisons We Create with Belief Systems
• Revealing the Parts of Our Personal Brand That Scare Us
• Why You Need to Make Sure Your Story Is in Service of Other People
• A Look at the Memoir Writing Process
• The Role That Creative Cross-Training Plays in Your Voice
• Advantages of Not Being Classically Trained in Your Field or Craft

Tweetable Insights Include: 

• Our bodies are these fantastic tools that carry our spirits around (Click to tweet)
• When you take care of yourself, you can take of the world around you (Click to tweet)
• I believe in the practice of being grateful for your problems (Click to tweet)
• Putting your story out there is a deeper way to connect with people (Click to tweet)
• Nothing really amazing happens without the help of other people (Click to tweet)

Meg Worden is a writer and Health Coach in Portland, Oregon. She has been published in a variety of places online and in print, and is currently shopping her memoir project about the two years she spent in federal prison. You can follow her on twitter @megworden. If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here to post it to Twitter.