Shadow Casting

This week’s quote is by Ralph Waldo Emersion: “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You... Read More

In this episode we are exploring the 4 levels of Consciousness. What are they and how do we know when we are acting in one level or another. The 4 levels are: — To Me — By Me — Through Me — As Me Link mentioned in the podcast: https://conscious.is/15-commitments Want to listen on another... Read More

This week’s quote if from George Bernard Shaw: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” We take a different tactic with this quote and engage in playful debate. Let us know what you think of this quote and our differing thoughts on it. Want to listen on another platform? We’ve got you... Read More

A few weeks ago we explored the idea of balance and along the way we brought up the power of values. In this episode we dive into how values connect with balance and why they are important. Then we give some hints on how to find and use your values in your daily life. Living... Read More

This week’s quote if from the novelist Agatha Christie: “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Not everything is rainbows and kittens. It’s good to ground ourselves and acknowledge we... Read More

A few weeks ago we explored the idea of balance and along the way we brought up the power of values. In this episode we dive into how values connect with balance and why they are important. Then we give some hints on how to find and use your values in your daily life. Living... Read More

This week we are exploring a quote from the poet and author Henry David Thoreau. “It is the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.” Want to listen on another platform? We’ve got you covered!... Read More

This week Dave and Jenn are talking about the power of having one over arching priority for the entire year. It’s like a New Years Resolution but instead of focusing on weight again we propose focusing on an energy you want to embody in all aspects of your life. Give your year a whole new... Read More

This week our quote is from Amal Clooney. This is a opportunity to imagine ourselves in the future telling stories about our lives. no matter what your age, have you let your life be an adventure, or are you still waiting for it to start. Also, if your older, are you still creating stories? It’s... Read More

This week we are exploring Balance and what it means for a Shadow Caster to live life through the idea of balance. This isn’t about work/life balance, oh no. This is about balancing our life through our inner drive and sense of being. What motivates you from the inside out? What are your values? What... Read More

This week we are looking at another Dan. MIllman quote. This time for his book The Journey of Socrates. “Fear is a wonderful servant… but a terrible master… Fear generates tension, so breathe and relax… You don’t have to rid yourself of fear… just train yourself to respond differently.” Want to listen on another platform?... Read More

This week we are switching things up a bit and doing a Shadow Cast on the show Hazbin Hotel. More specifically, we are focusing on Angel Dust and his growth through the song “Loser Baby”. We hope that you all enjoy the episode as much as we enjoyed making this one. Hazbin Hotel links (show... Read More

This week our quote is from Dr. Herbert Shofield: “Egotism is the anesthetic which nature gives us to deaden the pain of being a fool.” Our quote discussion revolves around words this week. How egotism is an anesthetic and what it means to be a fool. Enjoy. Want to listen on another platform? We’ve got... Read More

Dave and I explore the nuance and usefulness in Awareness vs Mindfulness. Also we breakdown some of the pitfalls we found around “to much self awareness” from this great article.https://markooo.com/too-self-aware/ (sidenote: we refer to the author of the above article as mark and it’s actually Marko. Sorry Marko.) Enjoy… Want to listen on another platform?... Read More

This week our quote is from Walter Russell “You have to gather your energy together in the same manner, conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.” Music by: Colors Conflicted

In this episode we take a look at emotions and make them something tangible that you can actually work with and change. Come down the rabbit hole and explore your emotional world in a whole new way. Music by: Colors Conflicted

This week’s quote is From Boyd Varty. “Mastery, as I define it, is the ability to be yourself in any situation.”” Music by: Colors Conflicted

This week we are diving into Napoleon Hill’s Cabinet of Invisible Counselors and how we here at Shadow Casting pair his tool of character development with archetypal work. Join us… Music by: Colors Conflicted

This week’s quote is from Buckminster Fuller “”You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~Buckminster Fuller” Music by: Colors Conflicted

This week we are taking a look at failure. What does it mean? How is it useful? As with all of our podcasts we will be throwing the idea on it’s head. Join us… Music by: Colors Conflicted

This week’s quote is from Stoic Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius “Get back up when you fail. Celebrate behaving like a human.” Music by: Colors Conflicted

In a recent quote cast we spoke a bit about magic. Today we dive into magic as an expression of awe and wonder, and we explore how to add more magic into our lives. Let’s get really real! Music by: Colors Conflicted

This week’s quote is attributed to Carl Jung (…though we couldn’t find exactly where). “Beware of unearned wisdom.” Music by: Colors Conflicted

Are you still looking for your purpose? Do you feel lost in life? Let us help reframe what purpose is so you can stop looking for it and start noticing how you are already living it Tools referenced in this episode: Simon Sinek “WHY discovery” Strength Finder Gene Keys Music by: Colors Conflicted

This week’s quote is by Lewis Carroll. “You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.” Music by: Colors Conflicted

In this episode we bring ourselves back down to earth and explore how best we can become more mindful and present in our lives. Spoiler alert, the power of mindfulness lives in the gap. Quotes in the podcast: “The ocean doesn’t complain about the dance of ten thousand waves; so don’t be concerned with the... Read More

This week’s quote is by Sally Brompton. “Life is a process of growing and outgrowing, and what fits snugly today, be it an idea, attitude, or belief, may be entirely the wrong size tomorrow.” Music by: Colors Conflicted

Today we are exploring the idea coined by Dan Millman, Unreasonable Happiness. Join us as we take this abstract concept and ground it into something we can cultivate. Quotes in the podcast: “Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.”... Read More

This week’s quote is by the philosopher Giles Deleuze. “The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a... Read More

It’s our 3rd and final episode, for now, on archetypes. This week we are finishing our exploring Caroline Myss’ Survival Archetypes. Specifically this week we are looking at the Victim and the Child (and it’s 6 sub-types). Link referenced in the podcast:https://www.myss.com/ Music by: Colors Conflicted

This week we are looking at a quote out of Seth Godin’s book “The Practice: Shipping Creative Work “Reassurance is helpful for people who seek out certainty, but successful artist realize that certainty isn’t required. In fact the quest for certainty undermines everything we set out to create” Music by: Colors Conflicted

It’s our second episode on archetypes. This week we are exploring Caroline Myss’ Survival Archetypes. Specifically the Saboteur and the Prostitute. It will be quite a ride. Link referenced in the podcast:https://www.myss.com/ Music by: Colors Conflicted

This week we are looking at a quote out of the book, “Way of the Peaceful Warrior” by by Dan Millman: “To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.” Dave and Jenn are playing with patterns again, but this time they are... Read More

This week is all about archetypes. What are they? Where did they come from and how can we use them to help shadow cast better? Links to sites mentioned in our Shadow Cast: https://www.myss.com/free-resources/sacred-contracts-and-your-archetypes/https://gretchenrubin.com/quiz/ https://genekeys.com/free-profile/ Quizzes https://www.quotev.com/quizzes/c/Personality/Silly Music by: Colors Conflicted

This week we are looking at a quote by Carl Jung: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. “ Dave and Jenn take this quote and explore how patterns in our unconscious drive our lives. Can we change these patterns or is our fate sealed?... Read More

On our last Shadow Quote we explored stories and the power of taking ownership for those stories. We hope the quote created excitement for new possibilities. To spur you along, we will dive into our favorite tool for taking ownership of our story and create change. In this episode we are going to dive deeply... Read More

Today’s quote is by Brené Brown: “If you own this story you get to write the ending.” What is the story and what might owning it look like? Come join us as we turn this short sweet quote all around. Music by: Colors Conflicted

In this episode Dave and Jenn dive deeper into the idea of play. Learn how work and play can blend into each other if we stop living so seriously and instead start living sincerely. Music by: Colors Conflicted

Today we are exploring a quote by the psychiatrist and thealogian Gerald May. Are work and play opposites or can they feed into each other depending on our attitude. When does work become play? Jenn and Dave explore what it looks like as we try to express more play in our work. The difference between... Read More

We have launched our new Podcast. Join us as we explore how we make use of the ideas that live in shadows and casting. AND, see how these ideas help us all celebrate our humanity. Want to listen on another platform? We’ve got you covered! Apple podcastsSpotifyPocket Casts Music by: Colors Conflicted

Today we are exploring 2 quotes, one by Lao-Tzu and another by Swami Vivekananda. Both look at how our character is built, first and foremost, on the thoughts we think. Watch your thoughts; they become words.Watch your words; they become actions.Watch your actions; they become habits.Watch your habits; they become character.Watch your character; it becomes... Read More