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Let’s Talk Memoir180. Making Peace with a Past You Can’t Change featuring Niko StratisNiko Stratis joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about entertaining the queerest part of her soul, working on a book almost by accident, building a manuscript backwards from a title, arriving at a structure early into the process, making peace with the past, being in a safe place to write, processing adolescence, the performance of masculinity, giving humanity to even the difficult people, making a writing habit to hit deadlines, working with a small academic press, her time as a music and culture columnist for Catapult, and her new memoir The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman...2025-06-2628 min

Let’s Talk Memoir179. Taking Risks with Genre and Form featuring Erica SternErica Stern joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about self-interrogation and taking risks to tell the story we need to, exploring the liminality of a lived experience through the speculative, hybrid memoir and leaning into history and research to illuminate and deepen understanding, the unexpected complications she experienced in childbirth, the historical misogyny in U.S. medical system, the male takeover of birth, how trauma can stunt empathy, trusting the work will go where it needs to go, giving our projects time and space to grow, when publishers and editors are not quite sure what to make of...2025-06-2433 min

Let’s Talk Memoir178. Fragmented Forms, the Speculative, and Resisting Restriction featuring Marty Ross-DolenMarty Ross-Dolen joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation discovering the story while writing, inviting the speculative and magical elements into a narrative, rediscovering lost relatives, advocating for our vision and for our books, scaffolding fragmented forms, being raised by a mother in protracted mourning, incorporating letters, photographs, and erasure poetry, when people tell you what your book is supposed to be, living with an inherited sense of grief, unspoken family pacts, when structure is a surprise, and her new memoir Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter’s Search for Truth. Also in this episo...2025-06-1933 min

Let’s Talk Memoir175. Book Promotion 101 Bonus Episode: A Conversation with Leah Paulos of Press Shop PRLeah Paulos of Press Shop PR joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about 2 things writers can do right now to help launch their book successfully, how to find your targeted readers and effectively reach them through media, the dedicated focus required to promote a book,tapping into your storytelling chops to help you with marketing, tools for positioning your book with media and journalists, the lead time we need to promote our books and when to pitch, selling journalists on covering your book, finding the story and the audience for your book, the cost of publicity, your jo...2025-06-0544 min

Let’s Talk Memoir174. Hybrid Memoir as a Means to Sift Through Experience and Mitigate Shame featuring Jill DamatacJill Damatac joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up undocumented in the US and how she ultimately self-deported, weaving Filipino food, mythology, history, and culture in her narrative, opting for a hybridized memoir to mitigate the fear of talking about her experience, American exceptionalism, internalized doubt and unworthiness, contextualizing the self within a broader set of stories, when fear is a defining container for our lives, being willing to announce our lived experience via memoir, wanting to shrug off the yoke of shame, offering the reader a kaleidoscopic view, and her new memoir Dirty Kitchen A...2025-06-0334 min

Let’s Talk Memoir173. Paying Attention to Our Deepest Desires and Illuminating What We Need to featuring Ruthie AckermanRuthie Ackerman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about maternal ambivalence and coming from a long line of women who abandoned their children, taking motherhood on from different angles, feeling ashamed of shame, illuminating what we need to about ourselves, listening to our inner voice, breaking cycles, focusing our work on the memoirist’s journey and search for understanding, when family members read our memoir, a close look at the trajectory of her book deal, finding another angle to a story, honing in on the universal question our memoir is asking, when the book needs to be some...2025-05-2938 min

Let’s Talk Memoir172. Doing the Unfinished Business of Raising Ourselves featuring Daria BurkeDaria Burke joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about sharing her journey out of Detroit where she was raised in poverty and the question that inspired her memoir, writing well and being well while writing, running away from the past, writing deeply and with courage, refusing to believe in inevitability, doing the unfinished business of raising ourselves, surviving the retelling of our story, holding space for each of the versions of ourselves, how she delivered the investigative reporting aspects of her memoir, rewriting the stories we tell ourselves, posttraumatic growth, embracing full frontal honesty, and her new me...2025-05-2737 min

Let’s Talk Memoir171. When Writing Constraints Liberate Our Work featuring Tom McAllisterTom McAllister joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about finding the right container for our work trusting our writing to speak for itself, giving ourselves homework, writing constraints as guiding principles, his approach to teaching nonfiction, the challenge of self-promotion, strategies for creating companion pieces, stating things boldly and with confidence, the podcast Book Fight he co-hosts, and how he wrote a short essay for every year of his life and turned it into his new book It All Felt Impossible.:42 Years in 42 Essays. Also in this episode: -trusting the reader -w...2025-05-2235 min

Let’s Talk Memoir170. Reverse Outlining for Emotional Resonance and Hammering Out a Narrative Arc featuring Bonny ReichertBonny Reichert joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about not knowing if she’d find a way to tell the story that weighed on her, growing up in the shadow of traumatic family history, selling on proposal and working out the boundaries of a book, her background as a food journalist, hammering out the details of the narrative arc, eliminating the squishy middle, reverse outlining for emotional resonance, creating composite characters, telling a story through food, crafting the self as a character, shortening chapters for flexibility, drawing the complexity and sense of beauty and wonder around her fath...2025-05-2046 min

Let’s Talk Memoir169. Boat Baby featuring Vicky NguyenVicky Nguyen joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up Vietnamese in America and what this country has meant for someone like her, writing memoir as a public figure, pivoting as a writer, not being too quick to self-edit, managing backstory to keep a memoir propulsive, having conversations with loved ones about shared family history, connecting through vulnerability, book promotion as a whole other job, exhausting every marketing channel, writing about people who don’t necessarily want to be in our memoirs, how we “rememoir” things, digging deep, and her new memoir Boat Baby. Also in...2025-05-1541 min

Let’s Talk Memoir168. Resisting Erasure and Crystallizing Our Lived Experience Through Memoir featuring KB BrookinsKB Brookins joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about transness, masculinity, and race, how how being a writer has crystalized their experience and made it legible to an audience and to themselves, turning to prose to say the hard things, the tenacity of memoir, resisting erasure and pushing back on toxic systems, coming at creative nonfiction from a poetic impulse, having patience with ourselves, what we might need to let go of as writers, looking at our work with kinder eyes, the way we treat people because of gender, and their multi-themed memoir Pretty. 2025-05-1341 min

Let’s Talk Memoir167. Keeping the Reader in Mind and Protecting Ourselves When Writing About Pain featuring Michelle YangMichelle Yang joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her bipolar diagnosis and becoming a mental health advocate, immigrating to the U.S. as a young child, writing at the intersection of body image, mental health, and Asian American identity, building an author platform, revisiting old family dynamics and patterns, grieving a family of origin, mourning make-believe mothers, doing a lot of processing before writing about trauma, keeping the reader in mind, removing societal stigma around serious mental health diagnoses, how she survived and found hope, and her new memoir Phoenix Girl: How a Fat Asian with Bi...2025-05-0652 min

Let’s Talk Memoir164. A Memoir with Reflection and Prompts featuring Diana RaabDiana Raab joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about connecting with ancestors and tuning into their guidance, books that need to be written, when publisher requests don’t resonate with us, adding prompts for readers, unwanted daughters and intergenerational trauma, how books we don’t like help us, adding prompts for readers, tapping into authentic voice, and her new book Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors. Also in this episode: -reading broadly -surviving cancer multiple times -how trauma manifests later in life Book mentioned in this ep...2025-04-1725 min

Let’s Talk Memoir163. Losing Mothers and Finding Them Again Through Memoir featuring Rebe HuntmanRebe Huntman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about who are we as women and what holds us together as a culture, following questions to their conclusions and changing in the process, running away from grief, magical thinking, reinventing ourselves, Afro-Cuban traditions and relationships to the dead, hungering for answers, permission to be more than one thing, losing mothers and finding them again through memoir, spiritual mothers and keeping the dead close, and her new memoir My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle. Also in this episode: -ge...2025-04-1543 min

Let’s Talk Memoir161. Writing to Our Past Self featuring Megan WilliamsMegan Williams joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being a new mother while training at the police academy, looking for validation, resisting the urge to punish ourselves, pushing back against the voice of patriarchal culture, writing to our past self, going too far and not going far enough, the loneliness of motherhood, setting boundaries in memoir, testing ourselves, what motherhood feels like now, moving elegantly through time in memoir, surrounding yourself with talented writers, frontloading a manuscript, and her memoir One Bad Mother: A Mother’s Search for Meaning in the Police Academy. Also in t...2025-04-0334 min

Let’s Talk Memoir160. Falling Outside the Containers of What’s Expected featuring Paul LisickyPaul Lisicky joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how his appreciation for Joni Mitchell and love of her work shaped his life as a musician and a writer, vulnerability and uncertainty on the page, falling outside the containers of what’s expected, the singular and universal in our work, vulnerability and uncertainty in our creative process, corralling ourselves back to our 5 senses, feeling structure in our bodies, writing for the reader, developing ourselves as artists, being tenacious in pursuing our vision, writing about our idols, and his new book Song So Wild and Blue. ...2025-04-0138 min

Let’s Talk Memoir159. Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life featuring Maggie SmithMaggie Smith returns to Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about letting imposter syndrome go, fiercely guarding your interior life, getting back to the core place where creativity thrives, rewriting a book from scratch, how writing feels in the body, swerving out of your creative lane, battling the sophomore slump, what it feels like to be watched, when ego gets in the way, fears of paralyzing failure, playing the long game, the best advice she ever got, staying agile and awake in the creative process, and her new book Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Li...2025-03-2528 min

Let’s Talk Memoir156. Taking Power Back with the Stories We Are Called to Tell featuring Diane Vonglis ParnellDiane Vonglis Parnell joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up with 9 siblings on an isolated farm under the tyranny of her abusive father and living in constant fear, homing in on the story we are called to tell, steering clear of portraying ourselves as victim or hero, not having closure, yearning for a mother, emotional absence, self-nurturing, trusting readers, the toll of secrets, changing names of family members, sharing manuscripts with siblings, writing about abusers, taking power back, and her new memoir The Taste of Anger. Also in this episode: ...2025-03-1141 min

Let’s Talk Memoir155. Grappling with Contradictions and Leaving Readers Room to Decide featuring Martha S. JonesMartha S. Jones joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being Black, white, and other in America, the origins of her family in slavery and sexual violence, anti-miscegenation laws, passing, who we call kin and why, taking up space, avoiding the Black-White binary, discovering family stories, writing in a full-throated way, leaving complexity in our work, being patient with our material, chasing threads, the duty we have to the people we write about, grappling with contradictions, leaving readers room to decide, writing and rewriting to get someplace new, the courage it takes to confront the past, and he...2025-03-0639 min

Let’s Talk Memoir154. Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: a Memoir in Essays featuring Nicole Graev LipsonNicole Graev Lipson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about our culture’s fascination with reducing women to readymade templates and archetypes, performing fictional versions of ourselves, finding our way back to who we are, the essay as a place where writers can grapple with confusion, working sentence by sentence, finding the most precise microscopic truth, embracing our particularities, focusing on we’re enthralled with, what it means to be a woman today, writing about children, attention as a loving act, drawing from the mess, writing as our own form of protest, how writing can be a shame...2025-03-0441 min

Let’s Talk Memoir152. Grief Journeys and Storytelling as Closure featuring Susan LieuSusan Lieu joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about realizing you’re an artist later in life, becoming a multi-hyphinate storyteller, being a mother when you never knew your own, piecing together a family story, feeling plagued by structure, sticking to the throughline, writing residencies, writing down goals, deciding to stop searching for approval from loved ones and getting it for and from ourselves, accepting loved ones as they are, grief journeys, storytelling as closure, and her new memoir The Manicurist’s Daughter. Also in this episode: -using a book doctor ...2025-02-2552 min

Let’s Talk Memoir150. Writing a Memoir in Three Months featuring Barrie MiskinBarrie Miskin joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the rare dissociative disorder she experienced while pregnant and her experience navigating the maternal and mental health care system, the guilt and shame so often connected to motherhood and womanhood, the sweet spot of writing a year into her full recovery, balancing memoir writing with privacy and community, owning who we are and what we need to write, helping people feel seen, protection within the writing process, letting loved ones read our work before publication, writing a memoir in three months, and her new memoir Hell Gate Bridge....2025-02-1332 min

Let’s Talk Memoir149. Writing Someone Else’s Story featuring Kanya D’AlmeidaKanya D’Almeida joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how her life changed when a manuscript by Russell "Maroon" Shoatz, a former member of the Black Panther Party and soldier in the Black Liberation Army showed up in an envelope on her doorstep in 2011, the decades he spent in the Pennsylvania prison system, how their experiences with political violence and civil war intersected, becoming his biographer and building comradeship across the bars, Sri Lanka’s history of conflict, channeling complicated feelings into dedication for writing a book, violence as the only language America knows how to speak...2025-02-1138 min

Let’s Talk Memoir146. Permission to Be Ourselves featuring Minelle MahtaniMinelle Mahtani joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the grief, love, loss, and repair in losing her mother while finding her voice, noncolonial ways of thinking about stories, writing about her Indian, Iranian, and Canadian identities, what the sound of our voice is worth, paying attention to what we pay attention to, permission to be ourselves, having fun while trying to write precisely about grief, emotional trauma commonalities, her Canadian radio show Sense of Place, how kind we can bear to be to ourselves, listening as a political act, and her new memoir May it Have a...2025-01-2841 min

Let’s Talk Memoir145. Limitation as an Engine for Creativity featuring Jarod K. AndersonJarod K. Anderson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about changing our definition of what victory is based on what we can and can’t control, understanding our own minds and contextualizing ourselves in the world, his experience with chronic major depression, the stigma around mental illness, the pain of abstraction and the concrete world, his podcast The Cryptonaturalist, privileging enthusiasm over fact, internal landscapes, the paradox of choice, large social media followings, the magic of the natural world around us, limitation as the engine for creativity, and his new memoir Something in the Woods Loves You. 2025-01-2139 min

Let’s Talk Memoir144. Theme as Blueprint for Structure featuring Sarah GormleySarah Gormley joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about unpacking the baggage of self-doubt and imposter syndrome and moving toward self-love, shaping our memoirs into answers to the questions we have about our life, prioritizing pieces and elements of our story that help show readers transformation, the messiness of mother-daughter relationships, including partners and family in our memoir narratives, cutting big chunks of our manuscripts out, themes as blueprints for our structure, trusting our body when we land somewhere right, realizing what our book is actually about, and her new memoir The Order of Things. ...2025-01-1432 min

Let’s Talk Memoir140. A Love-Hate Social Media and Publishing Relationship featuring Kristen Van NestKristen Van Nest joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how discovered who she was on a global stage and her addiction to travel, loving the growth phase of new projects, how improv and stand up improves our writing, writing funny and the architecture of a joke, having a love-hate relationship with social media and publishing, keeping your ideal reader in mind, marketing our work ourselves and hustling to get our book in front of people, hammering in the theme in our manuscripts, publishing in literary reviews, establishing publishing proofpoints, cold pitching 150 agents, selling on proposal, and he...2024-12-2443 min

Let’s Talk Memoir139. Stepping Outside the Box featuring Jennifer LangJennifer Lang joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about asking the right questions, understanding what home means and where it is, being sure to put your story in the narrative you’re sharing, her sense of self on and off the yoga mat, answers to mid-life questions, learning to write flash prose, putting manuscripts away for a while, being a Jewish writer living in Israel, leaning into experimental and playful prose, coping with imminent empty nests, and her new book Landed: A Yogi’s Memoir in Pieces & Poses. Also mentioned in this episode -s...2024-12-1736 min

Let’s Talk Memoir138. Pivoting from the Scholarly to the Very Personal featuring Anne ChengAnne Cheng joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about pivoting from writing scholarly works on race and gender to writing in first person and quite personally, teaching herself how to say the things that had remained unspoken in her life, her cancer diagnosis and treatment, the rise in anti-Asian violence during the pandemic, the ways Chinese femininity dovetails with Southern femininity, what we don't know about those closest to us, sharing work about our partner with our partner, the cumulative effect of an essay collection, allowing our voice to come through in our writing, and her new bo...2024-12-1037 min

Let’s Talk MemoirSeason Announcement and More!Season 5 is coming to an end but season 6 is almost here, along with some more memoir resources and links. Subscribe to Ronit’s Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Follow Ronit: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com/ Let’s Talk Memoir is a podcast for memoir lovers, readers and writers, featuring interviews with memoirists about their writing process, their challenges, and wha...2024-12-0505 min

Let’s Talk Memoir137. The Burden of Family Secrets featuring David TereshchukDavid Tereshchuk joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being drawn to journalism to help him cure the matter of unanswered questions in his own life, his early years living in the rural borderlands of Scotland, how he turned to alcohol at a very early age, going from from tea and copy boy to anchorman of a nightly news program, becoming sober in his forties, his pursuit of ironclad truth, the place uncertainty holds in our lives, and his resolution to be open-hearted and honest about his life when writing his new memoir A Question of Paternity....2024-12-0535 min

Let’s Talk Memoir136. The Wise Narrator on the Page featuring Rachel ZimmermanRachel Zimmerman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about rebuilding her family’s life after her husband’s death by suicide, the physical toll of grief, feeling like a doomed family, finding joy and pleasure after terrible loss, how her career in journalism informed her writing process, not tying things up in a bow, our children getting veto power about what we include in our books, when family remembers differently, getting the wise narrator present on the page to transform our experience into a story, and her memoir, Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide. ...2024-12-0347 min

THE GRAIN: AI vs. CreativityBONUS PODCAST: Ronit Novak on the rise of AI and creator valueCreative professionals, including those of us in media, have become accustomed to hearing that our jobs may soon be replaced by artificial intelligence.Ronit Novak’s new podcast THE GRAIN is encouraging honest conversations in the creative community—from filmmakers to those in advertising, design and photography – about the impact of AI on their careers.She joins this episode of Broadcast Dialogue—The Podcast from Made Human Studios in Toronto’s Little Jamaica to talk about why creatives need to start talking openly about AI and the future of creativity. This is a...2024-11-2954 min

Let’s Talk Memoir135. Reckoning with What We Need to Write and Learning to Stop Punishing Ourselves featuring Sarah LaBrieSarah LaBrie joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the year her mom was diagnosed with schizophrenia and the legacy of mental illness in her family, rethinking ambitions in light of tragedy and grief, releasing emotional pressure with writing, when fiction doesn’t cut it, finding company for our mental illness stories, knowing why you want to write a memoir, learning to stop punishing ourselves, being a workaholic, processing our stories through writing, and her new memoir No One Gets to Fall Apart. Also in this episode: -contemplating our parents’ backstory ...2024-11-2629 min

Let’s Talk Memoir133. Breaking Through Internal Barricades and Going Deep featuring Seth LorincziSeth Lorinczi joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about going from a state of deep hiding to deep sharing, untangling the scars of the Holocaust and world wars through psychedelics, how ancestral trauma can warp relationships with the people we love, when your spouse is a character in your book, writing the truth and the fear of family betrayal, peeling back everything in his life and putting vulnerability into action, and his memoir Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir. Also in this episode: -attunement -putting stories in context ...2024-11-1445 min

Let’s Talk Memoir131. Legitimizing Our Own Experience Through Memoir featuring Anne PinkertonAnne Pinkerton joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about processing the loss of her older brother David, how brothers and sisters get short shrift when it comes to grief in our culture, her Writing Through Loss workshops, disenfranchised grief, when family members are private people, owning our story, taking breaks, giving ourselves grace, and learning how to take care of ourselves when writing about grief, treating our characters with love and care, when family doesn’t read our memoirs, feeling protective of our own experience, and her memoir Were You Close? A Sister's Quest to Know the Brot...2024-11-0747 min

THE GRAIN: AI vs. CreativityTHE GRAIN with Ronit Novak teaser trailerCheck out the fresh trailer ahead of the first four weekly episodes starting October 8. And stay subscribed to THE GRAIN on Substack (and beyond!) for discourse about the pleasure and peril of AI and the future of creativity.Read the press release with details on upcoming episodes.I'm Ronit Novak. I'm an art director and photo editor. I'm a mentor, a teacher, a writer, and I'm a public speaker. Just like you, I've been increasingly curious about the conversations surrounding creativity and artificial intelligence.I wonder about the impact it will have on...2024-09-3002 min

Let’s Talk Memoir94. Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow featuring Steve AlmondSteve Almond joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the ambivalence memoirists often experience when writing about others, the story underneath the story we are telling, disrupting the negative feedback loop of writer’s block, dialing the ego down, questions of inner life, his contribution to Dear Sugars podcast, generosity and mercy in our work, performing versus storytelling, how our failures are actually are teachers, and his new book on writing, Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow. Also in this episode: -the contract we make with the reader -th...2024-05-0750 min

Let’s Talk Memoir93. The Situation and the Story featuring Ms. Vivian GornickAcclaimed memoirist and teacher Vivian Gornick joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the origins of her approach to memoir, the crucial difference between situations and stories, why implicating ourselves in our work makes us trustworthy to our reader, clarifying our narratives, how she discovered what her story was truly about, why some writing questions are unanswerable, and her well-loved and oft-repeated advice: “In order for the drama to deepen we must see the loneliness of the monster and the cunning of the innocent.” Also in this episode: -Autofiction -the importance of tru...2024-04-3045 min

Let’s Talk Memoir92. Protecting Ourselves When Writing About Others featuring Cait WestCait West joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up in and leaving Christian patriarchy, indoctrination, identifying and writing about the rifts she felt in herself and her family, gender oppression, using geology as a metaphor, moving from memoir in essays to a more linear form, ethical and legal concerns when writing about others, coming to grips with abuse, purity culture, and her memoir Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy. Also in this episode: -protecting anonymity in those we write about -trauma therapy -protecting ourselves by...2024-04-2552 min

Let’s Talk Memoir91. The Arc of Reflection and The Arc of Action featuring Sue William SilvermanSue William Silverman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about claiming our stories, creative nonfiction as an act of affirmation and courage, tapping into artistic masks, discovering answers along the way, the aware and the unaware voice, writing metaphorically and sensorily, the arc of reflection and the arc of action, her decades of teaching at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program and her newest book Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul. Also mentioned in this episode: -the revision long-haul -our many writerly voices 2024-04-2342 min

Let’s Talk Memoir89. The Shame Around Shame and Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia featuring Kate ManneKate Manne joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about coming of age in fatphobic culture, disentangling the threads of weight, health, and diet culture, the racism at the root of anti-fatness, writing ourselves out and then back into our work, the psycho-social consequences of fatphobia on our bodies, the shame around shame, organizing our time, writing while mothering a young child, gathering and incorporating research in our work, and her new book Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia. Also in this episode: -the rhetoric around dieting -becoming self-compassionate through writing ...2024-04-1659 min

Let’s Talk Memoir88. Digging to Find a Deeper Story featuring Suzette MullenSuzette Mullen joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about digging to find a deeper story and the question we need to ask in memoir, discovering where to begin by getting to the end of our manuscripts, the revision process as revelatory, the effect our memoirs have on loved ones, leaning on trusted readers and writers, her work as a nonfiction book coach, and her coming of age and coming out memoir The Only Way Through is Out. Also in this episode: -the querying process -working with a book coach 2024-04-0943 min

Let’s Talk Memoir87. Trusting Your Readers, Trusting Yourself featuring Mimi ZiemanMimi Zieman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about thinking of ourselves as characters, hooking readers from the beginning, playing with structure, balancing our reflective narrator, trusting your reader and not overexplaining, the true self and the invisible self, when to listen to others and when to listen to ourselves, being the only woman on a historic climbing expedition, and her memoir Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure. Also in this episode: -growing up a child of Holocaust survivors -pitching at live conferences -havi...2024-04-0447 min

Let’s Talk Memoir86. Season 4 is here! Writing About Trauma Without Retraumatizing Ourselves featuring Lisa Cooper EllisonLisa Cooper Ellison joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about therapy vs. memoir, taking care of our nervous systems while working on charged material, writing about trauma without retraumatizing ourselves, developing a robust self-care practice, how to avoid creating victim narratives in our memoirs, what to do with gaps in our memory, putting more of ourselves on the page, and her new podcast Writing Your Resilience. Also in this episode: -signs of a trauma response -learning how to be present -neuroplasticity Book mentioned in th...2024-04-0250 min

Let’s Talk Memoir81. Self-Declared Spiritual Gurus, Secret Mantras, and Yoga Cults featuring Joelle TamrazJoelle Tamraz joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about yoga cults and self-declared spiritual gurus, searching for something outside ourselves, mind control, transcendental meditation, capturing the emotional vulnerability of our memoir characters, the many drafts in our manuscripts, and the story of how she pried her way out of the decades-long spiritual emotional, financial, and physical abuse she writes about in her new memoir The Secret Practice: Eighteen Years on the Dark Side of Yoga. Also in this episode: -critique groups -standing by our story -writing as a r...2024-03-1237 min

Let’s Talk Memoir78. The Very Good News About Publishing featuring Brooke WarnerBrooke Warner joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about nontraditional publishing, the massive sea change we’re seeing in memoir, how for authors visibility and marketing work is never done, protecting our memoir worlds, accountability groups, what all memoirs require, the genesis of She Writes Press, balancing her multiple roles, the project she is working on now and the many resources she offers memoirists. Also in this episode: -when creativity merges with our working life -carving out time to write -Substack and content-creation Books...2024-02-2742 min

Searching for Home007 - Home Within Ourselves (Part 2)Please note that this episode includes discussions of abuse and self-harm. Listener discretion is advised - please take care of yourself. We approach these topics with honesty, aiming to provide a space for reflection and understanding. Our conversation is sincere, with the hope that, no matter the challenges, there's a message of resilience and the belief that things can get better.Dive into this episode where Ronit shares his journey of loneliness, healing and self-discovery. We discuss how Ronit's repressed memories of childhood trauma and persistent bullying began to resurface in the last few...2024-01-2335 min

Let’s Talk Memoir64. Memoir in Present Tense and Reprocessing Our Lives Through Writing featuring Sherry SidotiSherry Sidoti joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about memoir in present tense, reckoning with the complexities of transgenerational trauma, dysfunctional families, the effect writing memoir can have on our significant others, mother-daughter-sister relationships, self-care practices and engaging with our bodies while working on charged material, vulnerability hangovers, and her memoir A Smoke and a Song. Also in this episode: -broken backstories -making material digestible -reprocessing our lives through the act of writing Books mentioned in this episode: Long Live the Tribe o...2023-12-1254 min

Searching for Home003 - France has cheese; we like cheese! (Our France Stories)In this episode McKenna and Ronit peel back the layers of their lives, delving into the chapters that led them to call Grenoble, France, home. Sharing their individual journeys, they recount the intricacies of the moving process – the highs of finding love and the lows of confronting loneliness and despair. McKenna reflects on the profound transformation since leaving the Midwest, navigating the delicate balance between forging connections and experiencing solitude in a foreign land. Ronit, too, shares the intricacies of settling into Grenoble, where the quest for home intertwines with personal growth. Both confront the challenge of find...2023-11-291h 03

Searching for Home002 - Ronit's StoryPlease note that this episode includes discussions of abuse, bullying, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised - please take care of yourself. We approach these topics with honesty, aiming to provide a space for reflection and understanding. Our conversation is sincere, with the hope that, no matter the challenges, there's a message of resilience and the belief that things can get better.In this episode, join our hosts as they delve into Ronit's personal journey, guiding you through his childhood and young adult years in India . Together, we explore the complexities of growing up...2023-11-2245 min

Let’s Talk Memoir18. Crafting a Braided Memoir featuring Jamie GehringJamie Gehring joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her braided memoir Madman in the Woods which details her and her family’s experience living next to Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, how she incorporated and structured research, interviews, and her own memories, the challenge of organizing so much information, and why writers need to follow their instincts. Also in this episode: -Not losing the reader -Getting it all onto the page -Intimate true crime as a genre Books mentioned in this episode: Shadow...2022-11-2938 min

The Dream Alchemy PodcastCore Wounds w/Dasha Dare + Ronit Lemon/Sun+Moon Dream Alchemy Podcast.In this episode Ronit shares her experience with core wounds—and what was necessary for her to begin healing. She then talks to Dasha Dare—Coach and Photographer—on her take on core wounds. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ronit-lemon/message 2022-08-151h 09

The Body MythFinally Free From Diet Culture featuring Maureen SchillerRonit’s mom Maureen joins The Body Myth for a conversation about being thrust into dieting by her mother at age 15 with doctor-prescribed pills and how from that point on her relationship with food and her body would forever be painful and complicated. From Weight Watchers to calorie counting to compulsive and binge eating, decades of yo-yo dieting took their toll on her self-worth and ability to eat intuitively. Now, after years trapped on the diet culture roller coaster she shares what she’s learned and how it feels to be free. Maureen Schiller has been an advo...2022-06-2144 min

The Body MythLoving Our Bodies When They’ve Been a Source of Pain featuring Stephanie WeaverStephanie Weaver, author of the Migraine Relief Plan Cookbook joins The Body Myth for a conversation about the toll of chronic illness on her feelings of peace with her body, having undiagnosed disordered eating for 40 years, how being riddled with insecurity about her body distracted her from her life’s purpose, and the changes she’s made emotionally, physically and nutritionally to meet her body where it is. Stephanie Weaver is a writer, speaking coach, and recipe developer based in San Diego, CA. She has a Master of Public Health in Nutrition Education from the Unive...2022-06-1430 min

The Body Myth14-Years Recovered from Binge-Eating Disorder featuring Ronni RobinsonRonni Robinson joins The Body Myth for a conversation about being 14-years recovered from binge eating disorder and how she came to understand that the love she was missing during her childhood was what she was for decades trying to replace with food, her passion for helping others find their self-worth, and her memoir “Out of the Pantry” chronicling her 30 years of binge eating and compulsive overeating. Also in this episode: -menopause and body size -Overeaters anonymous -Breaking family relationship patterns Ronni is a member of the Sandw...2022-06-0746 min

Let’s Talk Memoir13. The Case for Generosity in Memoir featuring Judy Bolton-FasmanJudy Bolton-Fasman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation on how writing about complicated relationships with generosity creates stories and characters that stay with readers, the case for speculative nonfiction, the impact fellowships have had on her writing, negotiating family members who appear in memoir, and don’t-miss-encouragement for all artists. Also in this episode: -how seeds of her memoir began in fiction -what blew her work open -Ronit mispronounces illustrative Memoirs mentioned in this episode: Knocked Down by AIleen Weintraub Pries...2022-05-3130 min

The Body MythComing Back to Your Body featuring Natalie SerianniNatalie Serianni joins The Body Myth for a conversation about being a college athlete and losing herself in perfectionism and performance, society’s messages about our size, the effect dissociating from her body had on her well-being, and how she’s learned to integrate the physical, mental, and emotional and find joy in her body again. Also in this episode: -how motherhood helped her appreciate her body -when she learned to stop pushing herself -A reading from Natalie’’s essay “Well Played” Natlie’s essay “Well Played” https://www.themanife...2022-05-3129 min

The Body MythBody Appreciation After Childhood Trauma Featuring Lisa KohnLisa Kohn joins The Body Myth for a conversation about growing up in the Unified Church commonly known as the Moonies, and how shame about her burgeoning sexuality and defying the church soon manifested as Anorexia and drug use. Lisa shares how she found freedom, overcame years of self-destructive behavior, and offers her advice for body appreciation and self-care. Also in this episode: -Lisa’s memoir To the Moon and Back -signs of Anorexic and rigid thinking -raising kids body positively Lisa Kohn is the award...2022-05-2438 min

The Body MythOvercoming Binge Eating Disorder and Embracing Body Acceptance featuring Amy ScheinerAmy Scheiner joins The Body Myth for a conversation about having bariatric surgery at age 17 and its consequences, her experience with binge eating disorder, how 1990’s body image and diet culture impacted her sense of self, the disconnect between the mental health and medical systems, the memoir she’s written and how she's helping others share their body stories. Also in this episode: -growing up hearing relatives disparage her size -the connection between autoimmune and eating disorders -why some facilities for eating disorders can make them worse Bio: ...2022-05-1748 min

The Body MythOvercoming False Images of Perfection featuring Simi KrishnanSimi Krishnan joins The Body Myth for a conversation about growing up feeling she didn’t match up to societal expectations of how she was supposed to look, the years of stringent dieting and exercise regimens she pursued to reach unrealistic goals, how she came to understand what being healthy means and learning to embrace body differences. Also in this episode: -the body image climate teenagers are faced with today -how stereotypes are changing -why weight as a measure of happiness is a moving target Outside of her role le...2022-05-1033 min

The Body MythMisogyny, Fatphobia, and the Morality of Size featuring Dr. Kate ManneDr. Kate Manne joins the Body Myth for a Conversation about the material, social, and political costs of living in a larger body, how health concerns have been weaponized against fat people, the moral degradation anyone whose body strays from Western and racist ideals experiences, her own history trying to shrink her body to unrealistic and unsustainable proportions, and the work she’s done to make peace with herself. Also in this episode: -Dr. Mannes essay in The New York Times “Diet Culture is Unhealthy. It’s Also Immoral” https://www.nytimes.c...2022-05-0341 min

The Body MythMore Body Peace featuring Lisa GarpesteadLisa Garpestad joins The Body Myth for a conversation about the messages we get from loved ones about our size and appetites, overcoming a life of dieting, and finding a way to live without the noise of body judgment. Also in this episode: -Survey answers to the question “How many diets have you been on in your life?” -How younger generations are approaching body diversity -Learning to make peace with food Lisa Garpestad lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, three teenage children, and two dogs. ...2022-04-2632 min

Let’s Talk Memoir7. Writing Your Story for Yourself featuring Melissa GouldMelissa Gould joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how writing was a way back to herself after she became a widow unexpectedly and at a young age, making the jump from screenwriting to nonfiction, when she knew she had a memoir, and how she protected her daughter in her writing. Also in this episode: -Melissa’s experience leading workshops -how writing helps transform grief -what it’s like to have your book optioned for TV. Memoirs mentioned in this episode: Wild by Cheryl...2022-04-1930 min

The Body MythRaising Body Positive Teens featuring Signe DarpinianSigne Darpinian joins the Body Myth for a conversation about catching changes in behavior before they become eating full blown eating disorders, how body image is contextual, the social media-parent-peer effect on teens, helping kids become critical viewers of the media, and treating our bodies with respect even when we don’t like them very much. Also in this episode: -how parent diet history affects teens -the trouble with wellness culture -nurturing a friendship with our bodies -Ryan Reynolds Signe Darpinian is a Licensed Marriage and...2022-04-1945 min

The Dream Alchemy PodcastWhat is love? A Sun+Moon Dream Alchemy podcast with Ronit LeMon and a host of numinous others.Ah love! It’s such a large topic that I asked people I love to answer the question of “What is loving to the edges?” And this is a compilation of their deep and thoughtful responses…with my own musings, of course. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ronit-lemon/message 2022-04-1849 min

Let’s Talk Memoir6. Not Too Soon, Not Too Much: Stories That Insist on Being Told featuring Meg WeberMeg Weber joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about knowing when the right time is to tell your story, approaching loved ones about scenes in your memoir featuring graphic sex and kink, why compartmentalizing on the page doesn’t work, and writing with a broken heart. Also in this episode: -real names and pen names -asking your family’s permission -why there can never be enough memoirs Memoirs mentioned in this episode: The End of Eve by Ariel Gore Refuge by Terry Tem...2022-04-1235 min

The Body MythRecovering from Anorexia Nervosa and Setting Boundaries featuring Kimmie GilbertKimmie Gilbert joins The Body Myth for a conversation about the effect growing up with a malignant narcissist had on her sense of self, her Anorexia Nervosa journey and recovery, and the difference between body neutrality, body acceptance, and body love/positivity. Also in this episode: -The power we all have to help those who are struggling -Setting self-protective boundaries -Goat yoga! Bio Kimmie considers herself a mental health warrior. She survived a decade-long battle with Anorexia Nervosa and a cult disguised as a substance ab...2022-04-1258 min

Let’s Talk Memoir5. Doing Whatever it Takes to Get Yourself to Write featuring Andrea RossAndrea Ross joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about battling memoir imposter syndrome, choosing scene over exposition, doing whatever it takes to get yourself to write, and how she used the wilderness to help tell her story and convey the particular brand of loneliness that adopted people experience. Also in this episode: -what new writers sometimes forget -promoting your book -publishing with a small press Memoirs in this episode: Unnatural Selection by Andrea Ross Wild by Cheryl Strayed The...2022-04-0532 min

The Body MythBody Liberation for All featuring Dalia KinseyDalia Kinsey joins The Body Myth for a conversation about looking at the body in a holistic way, how health intersects with racial identity in the US, systemic LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC oppression and how allies in a lot of spaces tend to take center stage, why we don’t need to demonize any body size, and how as a culture we spend so much time trying to control our bodies instead of using our bodies to do the things we want. Also in this episode: -ideas for reconnecting to your body -a closer loo...2022-04-0555 min

The Body MythMixed Messages: When Food is Love in Your Family but Your Body is a Problem featuring Michelle YangMichelle Yang joins The Body Myth for a conversation about immigrating to the US as a child and feeling she didn’t conform to Western expectations about how she was supposed to look, growing up in a home where food was love but her father monitored her body size, and her advocacy work on the intersection of Asian American identity, feminism, and mental health. Also in this episode: -How Michelle embraced her bipolar diagnosis -Her thoughts on medication and the fear of weight gain -Breaking patterns and raising her son...2022-03-2938 min

Let’s Talk Memoir3. Putting it All on the Page: The Good, the Bad, and the Heartwrenching featuring Christie TateChristie Tate joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the ethics of writing about groups therapy and ex-boyfriends, navigating writing anxiety, becoming a full-time writer, and why she never leaves a page blank. Also in this episode: -networking with other writers -sex scenes -what it’s like to be picked for Reese Witherspoon’s book club Memoirs mentioned in this episode: Heavy by Kiese Laymon The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch Love and Trouble by Claire Dederer 2022-03-2233 min

The Body MythHealing From Family Body Shame featuring Meg WeberMeg Weber joins The Body Myth for a conversation about growing up in the shadow of her mother’s fixation on size, negative messages about food, and childhood visits to dieticians. Also in this episode, how body dissatisfaction strongly influenced her sister’s death by suicide and the joy Meg has finally been able to find in her body because of, not in spite of, its shape. Meg Weber writes memoir about sex, grief, love, family, therapy, and tangled relationships. She is a queer writer and a mental health therapist who specializes in gender and sexua...2022-03-2237 min

The Body MythFrom Childhood Gymnastics to Puberty to Motherhood: a Body Judgment Story featuring Alyson SheltonAlyson Shelton joins The Body Myth for a conversation about growing up in a household hyper-focused on body size with a father who objectified women, how gymnastics shaped her childhood until puberty disrupted it, and what she has done in recent years to quiet the self-judgment that has been part of her life for as long as she can remember. Alyson Shelton wrote and directed the award-winning feature, Eve of Understanding. She wrote and created the comic, Reburn, which successfully funded Issues #1 and #2 on Kickstarter during 2021. The art for Reburn Issues #3 and #4, is close to c...2022-03-2243 min

Let’s Talk Memoir2. The Transformation of Trauma featuring Jeannine OuelletteJeannine Ouellette joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the power of literary constraints, why the how can be just as important as the what, writing about childhood sexual abuse, believing in your project when publishing gatekeepers don’t seem to, and why sad stories can make us happy, Also in this episode: -poetic technique -mother wounds -finding your voice Memoirs/Books mentioned in this episode: We the Animals by Justin Torres Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas Heavy by Kies...2022-03-1543 min

Let’s Talk Memoir1. Who Am ”I”?--Character vs. Narrator featuring Debra GwartneyDebra Gwartney joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the difference between character and narrator in memoir, navigating writing about loved ones, why memoirists need to hold their own feet to the fire, and what question every memoir asks. -Visit the Let's Talk Memoir Merch store: https://www.zazzle.com/store/letstalkmemoir Also in this episode: -memoir and essay recommendations -craft book suggestions -tips for avoiding common pitfalls when writing memoir Memoirs/Work mentioned in this episode: The Sisters Antipodes by Jane A...2022-03-1535 min

The Body MythTrailer: The Body MythMy name is Ronit and it’s my pleasure to introduce The Body Myth podcast which features conversations with women about their relationship to their bodies, when they first began judging themselves, how self-surveillance has impacted their lives, and what they’ve come to understand about their bodies and the world. These interviews have opened my eyes even more to how universal body judgment seems to be among Western women and how much time we spend denigrating ourselves. Each episode of The Body Myth explores how we got here, why our size and shape has nothing to do with happ...2022-03-0904 min

Let’s Talk MemoirTrailer: Let’s Talk MemoirLet’s Talk Memoir is a podcast for memoir lovers, readers and writers, featuring interviews with memoirists about their writing process, their challenges, and what they’ve learned about sharing the most personal of narratives. Hosted by writer, speaker, and memoirist Ronit Plank, each episode of this limited series highlights different aspects of the memoir writing experience, writing tips, and inspiration. Ronit’s essays and fiction have been featured in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, The Washington Post, Writer’s Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES...2022-03-0201 min

The Dream Alchemy PodcastShadowWork with Dasha Dare and Ronit LeMonIn this episode Ronit and Dasha discuss the exiled parts, the darkness into which we send those parts of us that are not welcome in our family systems, culture or person definition…and ways to integrate them. Dasha’s photography and coaching framework is especially innovative. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ronit-lemon/message 2022-01-121h 05

And Then Everything ChangedTurning Dark Into Light- Twentyone Olive Trees :A Mother’s Walk Through the Grief of Suicide featuring Laura FormentiniLaura Formentini was in Ethiopia when her son Blaise died by suicide. An empath like her, he had difficulty connecting to the material world and day to day life often felt overwhelming for him. Though it took years and has been painful, she has come to accept and honor her son’s choice to no longer be here. Humanitarian work and sponsoring more than 40 kids in 18 years enabled her to survive her grief and transform it into a healing force in the world. She truly believes it is possible to turn dark into light even while experiencing loss. Laura jo...2021-12-2135 min

And Then Everything ChangedHolding the Evangelical Church Accountable featuring Shelly Snow PordeaWhen Shelly Snow Pordea reached out to church leaders about the sexual abuse she suffered as a child she found no support, no advocacy; instead the process of telling her story to church elders revictimized her. She would come to discover her experience was all too common. In the Independent fundamental baptist movement her family was part of, patriarchy was in full force and misogyny ran rampant. There was a dress code, gender roles were rigid, and women had to be submissive. Shelly was taught that as a girl she was inherently dangerous, the sexualization of women and children...2021-12-1450 min

And Then Everything ChangedInside Passage: A Missing Father, a Fractured Childhood, and the Redemptive Power of Music featuring sisters Keema and Tekla WaterfieldKeema and Tekla Waterfield were raised by a young single mother in Southeast Alaska after their father left the family. With very little money but a passion for music and art, their mother moved them frequently in pursuit of her education, gigs, and new relationships. “Music festival brats” from a young age, Keema and Tekla reveled in summer trips to watch their mother perform with her friends and also sing beside her; those gatherings would become the most stable facet of their childhoods. As the sisters grew, art and their at-times traumatic childhood led each of the siste...2021-12-0751 min

And Then Everything ChangedLeaving the Unification Church after an Arranged Marriage featuring Limi Marie BauerLimi Marie Bauer was born into the cult where her parents met via an arranged marriage. They raised Limi in the Unification Church, known as the Moonies in popular culture, and Limi knew from a young age she would grow up and have an arranged marriage herself. As she got closer and closer to her wedding day she began to rebel and step away from church, but at 19 she married a man she’d met only three days before her wedding. It wasn’t until she heard her children talking about being in the cult that she realized she coul...2021-11-2350 min

The Dream Alchemy PodcastThe Divine Feminine w/ Dara Chun-Woodward—The Dream Alchemy Podcast by Ronit LeMon/ Sun+MoonWhat does it mean to step into your Feminine? Dara and Ronit discuss their own journeys around this question and share practices and reflections. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ronit-lemon/message 2021-05-1757 min

And Then Everything ChangedParents Who Leave for Cults featuring Lily DunnAuthor Lily Dunn’s father joined Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s movement about the same time that And Then Everything Changed host Ronit Plank’s mother followed him to India. They both grew up in the shadow of Bhagwan (also known at Osho, the guru at the center of Netflix’s docuseries Wild Wild Country), each with a parent more devoted to his teachings and the lifestyle he extolled than to them. Lily shares some of what she witnessed at the Rajneeshee house she visited on weekends and she and Ronit discuss how their relationships with their father and mother respecti...2021-05-1159 min

The Dream Alchemy PodcastMediumship with Jennifer Gero and Ronit LeMon/The Dream Alchemy Podcast.Oooo...listen in as Ronit+Jenn speak of ghosts and guides, connections and practices. Message Ronit at ronitlemon@gmail.com to share your own stories and questions. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ronit-lemon/message 2021-04-121h 04

The Dream Alchemy PodcastPARTNERING—The Dream Alchemy Podcast with Ronit LeMon and Mary RobsonIn this episode, Ronit talks about partnering—with self, with other humans, with the more than human world—and discusses this numinous practice with Coach Mary Robson. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ronit-lemon/message 2020-12-071h 11

The Dream Alchemy PodcastLife Purpose with Jonathan Perez—The Dream Alchemy Podcast By Ronit LeMon and Sun+Moon.In this episode I, Ronit, explore Life Purpose with Coach Jonathan Perez. And the big question is—what if we applied our life purpose to ourselves? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ronit-lemon/message 2020-11-0658 min

The Dream Alchemy PodcastEMBODIMENT—with Ronit LeMon and Lisa Williams.In this episode I get to talk to author and coach Lisa Williams about Embodiment and Intuition. So yum! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ronit-lemon/message 2020-10-0556 min

The Dream Alchemy PodcastSound Healing— with Ronit LeMon and Lisa Anderson.Join me as I discuss sound healing with coach and sound healer Lisa Anderson and I share my perspective on sound, music and all that yum. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ronit-lemon/message 2020-09-0137 min

The Dream Alchemy PodcastPersonality Test/Enneagram—Ronit LeMon and Sherry Trebes.In this episode, I speak to my perspective on personality tests and their usefulness for me personally, as well as with clients. Then I have the pleasure of speaking with Sherry Trebes, Coach and Enneagram Practitioner on her perspective. Feel free to share your perspectives with me at ronitlemon@gmail.com and to contact Sherry at sherry@sherrytrebes.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ronit-lemon/message 2020-08-0356 min

The Dream Alchemy PodcastCacao Ceremonies—Ronit LeMon and Elle IzaguirreIn this episode, Ronit shares her experience with cacao and how to structure a simple ceremony. She interviews Elle, Coach and cacao ceremony facilitator, on her experiences. This podcast is a project of Sun+Moon Dream Alchemists—coaching, breathwork, DreamWork, ceremonies, workshops and retreats all designed to bring you back to yourself. Reach us at sunnandmoondreamalchemists@gmail.com and ronitlemon.com. We would love to hear from you. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ronit-lemon/message 2020-07-0647 min

The Dream Alchemy PodcastDivination—with Ronit LeMon and Caroliny Moura.In this episode, I share my own practices and experiences with divination...and what it’s brought to my life. And I have the pleasure of speaking with Coach Caroliny Moura, who shares her own perspectives and practices around divination, bringing the beautiful wisdom of stepping into inquiries to know ourselves and this more than human world better. You can reach her at me@kickoffbycarol.com and follow her at @kickoffbycarol . --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ronit-lemon/message 2020-06-0543 min