Kari’s Passion Project Reveal + More
Me: “Hey Dorrinda, I’ve got an idea, wanna have lunch?”
Dorrinda: “Yeah sure, I’m intrigued! Do I get any hints??”
Me: “It has to do with your radio voice and my love of hearing people’s real stories!! The rest can wait for our veggie bowls and cheesecake!”
Over 9-months ago the lovely Dorrinda Carlson and I met for this now infamous lunch date where we sparked a passion to partner up on a co-creative project! While the idea is always the FUN part of any venture, it has been a huge learning curve and a lot of fun getting to where we are today. Here’s a few of the details we are excited to share out with our communities!
(Read to the end for the Big Reveal…)
What’s the Project?-
We began with the general idea of a community - based wellness platform of some kind. Possibly showcasing what is trending in the area, who is doing what, resources, and more. We began our research listening to a HUGE amount of Wellness podcasts , and found there is a lot of over-stated, toxic crap in that world, where the driving force is not actually being well or living well, but coercion to follow trends with a heavy dose of perfectionism. Boo.
From here we landed on the spark of wanting to hear people’s stories about how they got into the Wellness world, as professionals. How they found their way to health, balance & wellness and how that impacted who they are today. Great. But this somehow fell short of our value around fully representing the community we live in.
Then (after many more lunch dates!) we landed firmly on the value that we wanted to have as the foundation in our work: connection. Inward and outward. And specifically in our valley, to connect in every way we are divided.
Then more values started popping, and kind of like trending Reels, the stream of inspiration was abundant and it was hard to stop the flow. (Bring in MORE cheesecake!!)
We landed with 3 Core Values:
Connect: From our personal body-mind-heart systems to our communities and every layer and level in between. To be connected is to heal and thrive. Let’s reconnect the divide within us and between us.
Learn: We feel our most profound learning is from one another and that we are not alone on this human journey.
Grow: To work with one’s life experiences and learnings until a seed of knowing has rooted deep within us—this is wisdom. We believe it is inside every one of us and when we share that out, it exponentially expands. Sparking inspiration and possibility for all.
Then we finally got the big download…whatever platform we chose, it had to be a place to hear everyone’s stories!! Not just people identified in the “wellness” world. We want to share out how wellness, or the ways in which we care for ourselves in life, gets shaped, by life itself!
And we got clear that this wasn’t going to be a “who’s who” in the valley thing, it will include ALL people’s voices, so that we can know more about each other, find ways to connect across those insidious human divides.
The Reveal! (Drumroll please)
…Our Passion Project is going to be a PODCAST, and it is called,
“Live Well. Be Wise!”
It will explore how wellness gets shaped through life itself. Leaning into the ways we learn & grow. Specifically, we will be sharing stories told by everyday people about meeting life’s challenges and their personal journey along the Wisdom & Wellness (a life well-lived) path.
We are busy interviewing people now, editing episodes and learning all about what it means to actually LAUNCH this puppy! So keep your ears open and your eyes peeled, you will hear about it first right here— from me.
The next newsletter will give a little more on some of the interviews to date and what incredible stories you will get to hear once we go Live!
Finally, if you have a story to tell about yourself and how it has shaped your life please reach out, and share this out to any and all in the community (and beyond). We want to have a deeply diverse range of stories, so that everyone can find themselves in another’s story. After all, this is how reconnection works. One human to another. One story at a time.
Call or Text: 509.393.0585 Email: kari@meditatewenatchee.com
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