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Shaping Sapiens
by Amelia Isabel Torres
Podcast by Amelia Isabel Torres
Episodes
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Episode 18: Grief is Never Linear
Over the last ten years, Alyson Atma Simms has gone through more than her fair share of loss. With each passing of a loved one, Alyson explains that every experience is different, and grief is never linear. As a yoga teacher, Alyson is intimately familiar with the internal mind/body connection —...
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Episode 17: The Rebellious Act of Loving Yourself
As a Kripalu Yoga instructor and somatic movement therapist, Janet Farnsworth is no stranger to the on-going war we have with our bodies — the constant barrage of voices that berate our imperfections, damning our “flaws” and holding us to the impossible societal standards of beauty and…
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Episode 16: Let Your Life Speak
Growing up the daughter of a Japanese American mother and a father of French-Canadian descent, Fran Tatu was raised with an immense capacity for compassion for others. Her parents were human rights activists, her father a U.S. diplomat, and between the ages of 6 months and 16 years, Fran lived in...
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Episode 15: Son of a Rainbow
For centuries, our species has used storytelling for entertainment, to document our history, to heal our hearts, and even to survive. Without it, our world would be less colorful, more binary, and certainly less magical. As a novelist and playwright, Josh Wagner is no stranger to the power of a...
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Episode 14: Failure to Merge
So much of our lives is spent in transit that it's easy to take for granted the road underneath us, always assuming it’ll be there to get us where we need to go. Imagine the stories we could learn if roads could talk. In her new book of poetry, Failure to Merge, Micah Ruelle personifies…
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Episode 13: The Girl Who Ran Into the Fire
For much of her life, Simone Allmen was no stranger to dangerous situations. Having lived on a commune in New Mexico and hopping all over the world, she eventually found herself in L.A. falling in love with documentary filmmaking. In 2005, she travelled to Kurdistan and Iraq for what was supposed...
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Episode 12: We Are Called to Change the World
What do you do when you are called to change the world? In 1969, the answer for Mrs. Pamela Stanescu was, “I guess I’ll teach!” For 45 years, Mrs. Stanescu remained a constant in the halls of Warner Robins High School, teaching everything from English to AP Government to AP Art History. She was…
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Episode 11: Turning Points
Life is filled with turning points that can make or break us. For Ashley Monical, walking away from a $30,000 Kickstarter campaign, a newly released album and all the exciting promotional opportunities that come along with it, was just one of many defining moments in her life. Ashley teaches that...
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Episode 10: An Extraordinary Journey
What would you do if you were told that you could die at any minute? For most people, remaining calm is not an option. For Gary Ramsey, it was the only option. As a teacher of the Alexander Technique, his sense of awareness of the present moment and his mastery of tranquility aided him in making...
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Episode 9: Have a Good Life
There are people who come into your life with different offerings on how to see the world. When I was 23, I met a woman whose fascination with death radically jolted my brain. “We do death wrong,” Kristi Curry said to me, as we sat around at her Day of the Dead birthday party several years ago.…
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Episode 8: Why I Marched
In this special 2017 season premiere episode of Shaping Sapiens, we'll witness sounds and stories from the Women's March on Washington from different marchers in different cities across the country. As a participant in the march myself, I've come to understand that these stories are vital. In a...
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Episode 7: Being Funny is Brave
What do you get when you mix spunk, humor, and a great pixie hair cut? You get a comedian from Brooklyn with an insatiable hunger for life. Chani Lisbon is one of eleven Jewish Orthodox children, and her affinity for comedy stemmed from an innate curiosity to poke and prod and ask, "What would...
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Episode 6: The Fire Still Burns
They say when you have a dream, the whole universe will conspire to make that dream a reality. At first, that dream can feel so right, so seductive, so sure. Especially when you're a 20-something die-hard rock-and-roller. But, inevitably, life has a way of throwing around obstacles, and the…
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Episode 5: This is Not About Cancer
How does one fight cancer? With vengeance? Tears? Determination? Prayers? Hope? Our guest today chooses to fight it with fire. This conversation takes place just a few hours after receiving her 6th chemotherapy treatment. I wasn't even sure if she'd be up for it. But after we got home, she went...
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Episode 4: Mountain Lion Time
Sometimes you hear a story that is so extraordinary, you can't help feeling like you just got off one of the most insane, merciless rollercoaster rides of your life. Our guest today has that kind of story, one that leads the listener through every twist and turn imaginable. From a life as a monk…
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Episode 3: #MomLife
Who knew 10 years ago two small town pageant girls would be sitting down together one day to talk about motherhood and the relentless pursuit of honoring our teenage dreams despite all the sharp twists and turns of life? In this special Mother's Day episode, I get to sit down with the indelible...
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Episode 2: Great Expectations
Have you ever had a friend that when you're with them, it feels as if you can conquer the entire world together? That anything you can possibly dream really can come true? I'm fortunate to have a friend like that, and her name is Mechi. Though we started out as polar opposites, Mechi has become…
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Episode 1: Comfort Zone
Every once in a while, you come across a person who has a story that is so extraordinary, it feels like they've lived a life destined to become an Academy Award-winning movie. Last September, I had the honor of hearing Barbara Abelhauser tell her story at Fresh Ground Stories in Seattle and,...
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Podcast by Amelia Isabel Torres
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Shaping Sapiens is created and hosted by Amelia Isabel Torres.
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