The Power of Vunerability

Today on Sense of Soul Podcast, we have the talented co-creators of the newly released and most gorgeous book, “Exposure - Stories in Honor of Humanity.”  Photographer and designer Kelly Shroads (one of Mande’s oldest and dearest friends)and scribe and story curator, April Tierney, joined us to share the creative process, and experience in creating this beautiful and inspiring book. Exposure is a collaborative masterpiece of images and stories in honor of our humanity, a collection of courage, candor, grace, longing, and heartache.  Their intention in this project was to bring human conditions out of its “steel box of pretense, prejudice, and misunderstanding, and back into the light of an average life and ordinary heart.” It asks the reader to look deep into the face of our authenticity, in order to excavate the beautiful, whole, vibrant people we were each born here to be.” Together they interviewed over sixty people from a wide range of life experiences, ages, and cultural backgrounds to participate in this project, to share their authentic personal stories. Kelly Shroads captured so beautifully, the authentic portraits of each storyteller and April Tierney transcribed a reliable and poetic unrehearsed rendering of their raw stories they shared. Get their beautiful collaboration book Exposure here! https://www.exposure-book.com  April Tierney poet, collaborative artist, mother, and lover of stories. Her background is steeped in the study of language, culture, artisanship, and the skills of human-making. She is the author of three full length collections of poetry; Memory Keeper, Origin Stories, and Singing to the Bones. April is also the co-founder of Fire Feeders, a women's writing collective along the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. www.apriltierney.com  https://www.homeboundpublications.com Kelly Shroads has an Artist soul she is a gifted photographer, entrepreneur and wellness advocate. Kelly graduated from the University of Colorado with a Fine Arts degree in Photography, and has pursued a path in art, portrait and lifestyle work. Her professional career has been a documentary journey of the human experience, from intimate and group portrait work, to ceremonies, births, and community events. Her lifestyle photography focuses on empowering women to shine in the fields of health, creativity and wellbeing.  https://www.kellyeileen.co https://www.luxurysparobes.com https://instagram.com/kellyeileen.co?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Visit our website to learn more about Sense of Soul Podcast. www.mysenseofsoul.com Join our Sense of Soul Patreon!! Our community of seekers and lightworkers who get exclusive workshops, live events like SOS Sacred Circles, ad free episodes and more. You can also listen to Mande’s mini series about her two NDE’s and Shanna’s Untangled mini series. Sign up today and help support our podcast. https://www.patreon.com/senseofsoul