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A Penny For Your Thoughts
by Penny
Tips for dropping into your body, awakening your intuition, and unleashing the wisdom within.
Episodes
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Solvitur Ambulando
What happens when you stop trying to figure everything out and simply experience life? On a pilgrimage along Portugal's Coastal Camino, I discovered that the most meaningful moments aren't always the ones we plan. From losing my Garmin to dancing with strangers in a beachside café, crossing an...
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Chop Wood, Carry Water
Next Sunday, I’ll be in Portugal. After a lifetime of thinking one day I’ll walk the Camino, “one day” is suddenly next week—and my anxious, introverted, comfort-loving self has a few thoughts about that. In this essay, I’m reflecting on what happens in the space between saying yes to an…
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Chop Wood, Carry Water
Next Sunday, I’ll be in Portugal. After a lifetime of thinking one day I’ll walk the Camino, “one day” is suddenly next week—and my anxious, introverted, comfort-loving self has a few thoughts about that. In this episode, I’m reflecting on what happens in the space between saying yes to an...
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Roam If You Want To ...Travel As A Practice
There was a time when travel felt like an adventure. These days, just getting out the door can feel like an expedition. In this episode, I’m reflecting on a recent trip to Michigan—and what travel is teaching me about uncertainty, control, creativity, and my willingness to step outside the...
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There Is No Map For This
What if the unknown isn’t something we’re supposed to figure out? I spent much of 2025 trying to create a blueprint for uncertainty. But life—and loss—have been teaching me something very different: perhaps the path doesn’t exist until we begin walking it. In this episode, I explore what it means...
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The Language of Living Things
What if the flowers in our gardens or on our porch are teaching us far more than how to grow? In this episode, Penny reflects on a summer spent tending petunias, lantanas, marigolds, a geraniums - and even weeds. What begins as an ordinary morning of pruning becomes a meditation on grief…
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The World Will Wobble
The world keeps turning after someone dies. Yours doesn't. In this heartfelt reflection, I share my father's final days, the sacred experience of sitting beside him as he left this world, and the mysterious ways love continues to reveal itself after death. A meditation on grief, grace, and…
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Birthday, Menopause, and The Things Nobody Tells You
I had a birthday last week. There was cake. And a rollercoaster of emotions I hadn't expected. In this episode, I go somewhere I've been avoiding — into the little deaths nobody acknowledges, the silence around menopause, and the irony of aging well. This is the conversation I wish someone had...
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I Went on a Dating Site and Fell In Love with a Pair of Boots
What if love isn’t missing—just showing up in places we weren’t taught to look? In this episode, I share a story that begins on a dating site and ends somewhere entirely different. It’s about redefining connection, finding ease instead of effort, and discovering that the most meaningful forms of...
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When Life Sends You a Generator
I received a generator I didn’t order. Amazon said I could keep it. What happened next made me question whether anything that shows up in our lives is random.
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Why We Are Attached to Our Cars
Our cars don't just transport us. They carry us. So when I found myself at the car dealership being asked, “What would keep you from buying a new car today?” my answer defied logic. It was purely sentimental. Because essentially what I heard was, “Are you ready to let go of the car that carried…
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Tracking Your Life:
In the African bush, attention is a matter of survival. In ordinary life, attention is creation. In both scenarios, what you notice shapes what you become. Learning to track my attention showed me the truth. And then it gave me a choice. I could keep rehearsing endings, or I could start tracking...
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The Most Remarkable Gift 2025 Gave Me
In this reflective conversation, Penny Plautz shares her experiences from the tumultuous year of 2025, exploring themes of resilience, community, and personal growth. She discusses the unexpected challenges that shaped her year, the importance of embracing vulnerability, and the transformative...
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Are We There Yet?
This year unraveled me in ways I didn’t see coming. I kept asking the question I was afraid to answer: “Are we there yet?” What I’m discovering is that maybe arrival was never the point. Maybe becoming is.
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Keep Me Where The Light Is
So many of us find ourselves in situations we couldn’t have imagined a year ago. This is why I created Architects of the Unknown. Not to avoid ambiguity. But to work with it. To look at what we’ve been taught to fear, like the dark side of the moon, and discover its untapped potential. To do so...
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Architects of the Unknown
From grade school to grad school, we’ve been handed maps: how to go from here to there, step by step. What if the map for what’s next doesn’t yet exist? What if you’re meant to build it? You know better than anyone what you want your life to be. You know your preferences, your capacities, and…
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Your Own Homecoming
What if homecoming isn’t just a parade or a dance, but a personal pilgrimage — back to the self that’s been waiting for you to return?
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Sign, Sign Everywhere A Sign
One of the most telling photos from my trip to England wasn’t the most obvious. It was a small road sign in Bath: No Reversing. Of all the signs I got, from feathers to an enormous model left ear in a window (I kid you not!), this was the most straightforward. There would be no going back after...
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Reunions and Reckonings
When it comes to reunions, there are two types of people. Those who love them - organize them, travel far and wide to attend them - and those who avoid them even when they’re five minutes away. Until this year, I was firmly in the latter camp. Not because I didn’t want to reconnect with the…
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The Power of Yet
I learned about the power of yet from psychological researcher Carol Dweck, who coined the term growth mindset. Instead of saying “I can’t do this,” saying “I can’t do this… yet,” shifts the feeling of finality to one of possibility and perseverance. The world is always rushing to resolve itself…
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Use Your Tools
Capital One may be interested in what’s in your wallet, but I’m far more interested in what’s in your toolkit. Because that’s where your gold lies. No matter what may be going on around you, your tools remind you how to access what’s going on within you. Your tools are your buried treasure. They...
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Just Keep Swimming
I’ve spent more time in the water this year than in recent years. This is largely based on the theory that when a baby is cranky or out of sorts, putting them in water helps calm them down. Applying the same philosophy to myself, I’ve taken to the water as often as possible. In this episode we...
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You Never Know
This has been the kind of year that I can’t even begin to make sense of. So many things have happened that I didn’t expect. Personally, politically, globally. Even if I could have predicted these changes, they would have played out much differently had I been in charge. Thank goodness I wasn’t....
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Riding the Waves of Change - Learning to Surf
In this episode, I share my experience learning to surf and how it applies to just about everything.
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What Wonders Await
On days when I default to ruminating about the past instead of imagining a wildly different future, it helps to ask who might be waiting for me once I claim my birthright as a butterfly.
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Here For It All
A common theme in literature and philosophy is that even when we experience significant loss, something new or beautiful that was previously hidden can be revealed. In this episode, we explore how to discover it. The playlist mentioned in this episode is Penny P's Parting Playlist here on Spotify.
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What We Remember
When everyday feels like Memorial Day, a day you remember what you can't seem to forget, these ideas may help you move on.
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Trust the Unknown
Do you find yourself in that messy, magical middle place where you're no longer where you used to be but not yet where you want to go? In this episode, you'll learn how to trust what shows up in the present moment can help you trust the unknown.
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Flower Power
Are you feeling uprooted? In this episode we explore what flowers can teach us about uncertainty and navigating transitions.
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Flower Power
Are you feeling uprooted these days? In this episode we'll explore what flowers can teach us about transitions.
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Read It and Leap
A short poem for summoning the courage to take the leap that awaits you.
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Summoning the Auntie Brigade
In this conversation, Penny discusses the concept of the Auntie Brigade, a community of women who, despite being childless by choice, play a vital role in society as caretakers and advocates for change. She emphasizes the importance of reclaiming personal power, mobilizing against injustice, and...
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The Wisdom of the Heart
This special Valentine's edition of Soul Stories can be enjoyed any time you need a refreshing take on love. It's a love letter to your heart and all the ways it contributes to the creation of something miraculous - you!
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Vibrant Health Soul Story
Today's Soul Story is designed to help you befriend your body and empower you with a new view of what it means to be vibrantly healthy and alive.
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Wildly Wealthy Soul Story
Soul Stories are roadmaps to articulating and actualizing your soul’s desire for different areas of your life. Think of them as a bridge between where you are now and where you want to go. When you listen to them regularly, they call you forward and invite you to embody an elevated version of...
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And So Begins a New Year
Thoughts on ushering in the New Year and allowing whatever comes through for you to be okay.
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You Are The Antidote
What if instead of waiting for an antidote to the coronavirus and an end to the pandemic, you realized you are the antidote and what you do choose to do now will determine how you move forward? This episode explores the ways you are being called to be the antidote.
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A Penny For Your Thoughts - Float With Me
This is a guided journey into releasing the tensions you hold in your body and surrendering your worries to the weightlessness of floating. This is based on a process of intentional movement and meditation known as Flow Motion that was birthed in Bali on a recent retreat. While most of us don't...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Tips for dropping into your body, awakening your intuition, and unleashing the wisdom within.
HOSTED BY
Penny
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Tips for dropping into your body, awakening your intuition, and unleashing the wisdom within.
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