Ted Harrow is a strategy and leadership development consultant and marriage retreat leader. We talk about:

• shifting creative energy in writing during crisis,

• resilience and managing ourselves well,

• feelings as friends to help us participate in a life of joy and wholeness,

• self talk scripts in marriage, and

• being people of light in the middle of confusion.

Lizzie Mattson is a social media manager and fiber artist. She's a small business owner at wildfeatherco.com.

• managing stress with creative routine and picking up old art forms,

• finding balance between art and business,

In this podcast we talk about:

• developing creative rhythms for home, work, and faith,

• silence, solitude, and movement as contemplative practice,

• what art can teach us about letting go and moving forward in pandemic and unknowing,

Niki Hardy is a Brit in the USA, a cancer survivor, pastor’s wife, tea drinker and teller of bad jokes. As a speaker and an author, she’s all about meeting you when life’s not fair and embracing the reality that with God, life doesn’t have to be pain-free to be full.

Tamara Gurley is a racial educator, consultant, seminarian, and creative artist in spoken and written word. She has served in business + ministry leadership for over 14 years as she blends her love for people, education, and creative arts into serving and growing faith-based and corporate communities.

Sheridan Voysey is an author and broadcaster. His books include: The Making of Us: Who We Can Become When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned and Resurrection Year: Turning Broken Dreams into New Beginnings, plus Resilient and the award-winning Unseen Footprints.

Kate Motaung is the author of a beautiful memoir, A Place to Land: A Story of Longing and Belonging and co-author of Influence: Building a Platform that Elevates Jesus (Not Me). She also leads the Five Minute Friday writing community.

Patrice Gopo is an essayist and the author of All the Colors We Will See: Reflections on Barriers, Brokenness, and Finding Our Way. She explores issues of race, immigration, and belonging.

In this episode, Alice and I talk about:

• What she's doing to make the arts accessible to all kids,

• How Hip hop lessons on Zoom are keeping students connected,

• What happened when coronavirus took the lives of 6 people in her church community,

Kris Camealy is the founder and director of the Refine {the retreat} for writers and the author of Everything Is Yours: How Giving God Your Whole Heart Changes Your Whole Life. She created gracetable.org and writes for The Cultivating Project and Joyful Life.

Michelle Nezat hosts the More Than a Song podcast, where she connects contemporary Christian music to God's truth. She's also a writer, speaker, school administrator and Cajun girl.

Bonnie Gray is the author of Whispers of Rest. She's also a speaker, soul care mentor, and Bible teacher. Her work has been featured at Relevant Magazine, (in)courage, and Christianity Today.

Do you crave true and beautiful words spoken over your life? I give the backstory and a preview of the special series for creative people yearning for real, meaningful expressions in this surreal season of coronavirus and social distancing, otherwise known as life on pause.