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This is the last lyrical episode of Season 2. Some chapters in our lives remain unread and the endings still unseen. And yet, sometimes we encounter moments when everything falls into place when we most need it to. Why is that? This is the one where we talk about unfinished chapters and divine timing.

We often stay stuck in situations that no longer serve us, even when our hearts are begging for change. Why do we do this, and why does our subconscious resist change? Letting go isn’t a one-time decision – it’s a practice, a pathway toward becoming. On the other side of your quiet courage awaits a life that’s been waiting for you all along.

This episode is for my manifesters! When bringing into fruition our desires, why isn’t ‘living in the end’ enough? Why my tried and true triad of detachment, abundance, and LITE have become my criteria for manifesting instead.

For my golden birthday year - here are 28 life lessons I’ve learned by year 28. Life is ever-expanding, and so are we. I’ve navigated my own biggest life lessons in my twenties for better, for worse, and for better. I’m honored to share my experience with you.

Feeling behind in life is the trope of our twenties and thirties. This episode is for what to do when you’re triggered and feel stuck in an endless waiting period. (Featuring guest perspective: Alex Roche Blackwell)

This isn’t an episode about the importance of making money or how to make money. This is a larger life conversation on identity and how that gets realized through our income. You are a multi-dimensional human being with multiple identities, passions, and pursuits that may not need to fit into a single job, and that’s okay.  (Featuring guest perspectives: Melissa Morriss-Olson and Simson Musante)

I used to believe forgiveness was about someone else. I hope they’re sorry for what they did! They’ll eventually come to their senses and apologize! Then maybe I’ll forgive them and get the closure and healing I need! What I learned instead is forgiveness is about an experience that starts and ends with you.

Why do we feel alone in relationships? This episode is for when you feel abandoned in love. Such a counterintuitive, yet raw and honest, topic that I have yet to hear someone talk about. In this episode I leave you with two love letters for you to listen to on your own healing journey.

Making friends as young adults can be hard! No one prepares us for the reality of making and maintaining meaningful friendships as we get older and our pathways diverge. In this episode I share common challenges and offer advice while asking some of my own friends about their experiences. (Featuring guest perspectives: Allie Bridger, Grace Olson, Caitlin Castineiras, and Hannah Pozzebon)

This episode is for those who are recovering from the habit of people pleasing. People Pleasing is so much larger than just ‘caring what people think.’ In the episode I unpack the psychology behind both the healing and unlearning of this survival strategy and how we can show up to feel safe in the world. (Featuring guest perspective: Amanda Blackwell)

Welcome to Season 2 of This Life. Now. podcast. This season of life is the opening of our inner wisdom – a time full of self-pursuit, lonely questions, emotional healing, and unexpected clarity. In this season we cover the quiet ache of ‘almosts,’ the courage it takes to let go, the messiness of love, the inner work of healing wounds, and the path of honoring your life’s timing, and in-between seasons of becoming. This is your safe space for processing experiences, building resilience, and liberating yourself into a life worth living. This is where we meet ourselves — in this life now.

Words on the page, words in the air, this concludes our 2020 summer series of This. Life. Now. I leave you with the gift of 5 of my prose poems. So we’ve been around the sun now with coming to understand how the Universe does have our back. Relationships where the heart and hearth is built from the beautiful self-home infrastructure. Purposeful practices at the intersection between us and the sacred spaces we inhabit. Becoming the innovative leader who sits at the table right so seniors can see you on fire with agility, re-pivot, and relaunch of the rocketship. Correcting a young man at a party that “This is a women’s college, not a girls’ school” and the classroom a place of competing not against each other but systems of ideas within the dominant hegemonies; an uncommon woman. A hologram doctor laughing at the assumption that technology is trying to replace the human. A ball aimed at 40 feet landing 30 because the wind teaches us why we need to be unrealistic in achieving our goals. A collective of dancers organically transforming movements from one shape to the next as a whole body across space. Warrior snake that sheds the skin of what no longer serves us for healing and inner strength. This is just the surface of the keystones I’ve written over the last four years. Words are just pointed; they can’t be definitive. So then, my words as sketches, traces, of the whole. Like sheet music, not the actual music itself, they are guides to what will play out and that’s why we call them the notes. These are my last notes for this summer for This. Life. Now. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/madeleineolson Insta: madeleine_olson Facebook: Madeleine Olson LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olsonmadeleine

Today’s episode is a conversation walk that I give you for times when you find yourself needing a meditation for inner strength and healing. When we remember how to access our authentic selves, we discover that all the resources we could ever need are already within us. On this guided visual meditation journey, I walk you through some these. How do we shed the skin of what no longer serves us? What are you willing to sacrifice in order to grow? What are the gifts we should be giving ourselves?

In today’s episode I use dance as a metaphor for honoring the body and personal movemeng unique to each of us, and more largely our phenomenology within the larger world. This conversation is a “wander-ment“ of thoughts where grounding in dance composition and pedagogy actually opens room for greater philosophical and metaphorical rumination that is self-reflexive and large context-related to life. What might it look like to create a practice of exploring and questioning body, space, and material that those who are not intentional artists don’t see, read, or experience consciously? What might it look like to do this in a way that relies on personal engagement and implication? We might it look like to think about bodies, space, and movement all at literal and higher critical levels? Candice Salyers website: https://www.guidedance.com

Everyone wants to improve their productivity skills and time management, but when it comes down to effective planning, we need to frame the conversation more largely around how to become a boss along the pursuit towards fulfilling the objectives we set out for ourselves. These 5 ways to rethink achieving your goals have greatly changed the routes to my success. What specific mindsets, resources, and practices do we need to start taking on to chase our own golden goals?