265 | Jessica Ciencin Henriquez on writing, non-attachment, patience, mentorship, creativity in pockets, moving on, co-parenting and mentorship

LET IT OUT

Katie Dalebout

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4.9 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

I found today's guest Jessica Ciencin Henriquez through previous guest writer Kayleen Schafer. I took one of her writing classes this past winter and got to know her while I was her student. I really admire the way she moved through the world and knew I wanted to invite her on the podcast. She has a very creative, confident, and nurturing quality about her and is a very magnetic person. Her calm confidence is contagious and it makes me want to be around her.Jessica's personal essays and narrative journalism have appeared in the New York Times’ Modern Love column, Self Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue and Time Magazine among many others. She is the author of the forthcoming memoir: If You Loved Me You Would Know.In this conversation, I try to squeeze out every last ounce of wisdom and creative inspiration I could from her. We talked about where she got her confidence (she was homeschooled), the nurturing habits and boundaries she lives by, how motherhood changed her into a more productive writer, her experience with heartbreak and change, including co-parenting and divorce, her year of celibacy, how mediation helped decrease her anxiety, her writing and editing tips, practicing patience and non-attachment, and how to find your value within yourself rather than externally. She's been such an impactful person in my life these past 6 months and I'm excited to share some of the insights I've gained from her with you too!

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0:00.0	Once you remove the elephant in the room, it's kind of just nice to exist in all of that space together.
0:07.0	Once you remove it and it's no longer an unspoken thing, it frees you both in your relationship. Hi, welcome back
0:22.6	You're listening to Let It Out with me. I'm Katie Dillbao. I'm really excited about this week's guest, you guys. It's someone who's had a tremendous impact on me in the last six months or so. And I can't wait for you to hear this episode. This is my writing
0:56.7	teacher. This is someone who has helped me creatively more than anyone else recently. And when I
1:05.8	met her, I knew that I wanted to know her and be around her.
1:11.5	She's kind of a magical person.
1:14.1	And I think you'll get that from this episode.
1:17.0	I just listened back to it and learned so much.
1:21.2	It's a long one.
1:22.4	So at the end of the episode, I usually do a little segment called Likes and Learns.
1:26.6	And I will do that again at the very end of the episode. So stick around a little segment called Likes and Learns. And I will do that again at the very
1:28.5	end of the episode, so stick around. But it's going to be quick and short because I liked and learned
1:33.8	a lot in this episode with Jess. And essentially, that's what these podcasts are. If you're new to let
1:39.7	it out, welcome. I've been doing this since 2013. And essentially, there are these long form interview
1:44.5	conversations where people share what they learned throughout their lives and careers and what they're
1:51.0	currently learning and then what they like. And through a conversation, that's how we get that
1:56.9	information. And listening back to this conversation with Jess, I learned a lot about
2:02.2	how I want to structure my life. She gave some really interesting insights of how one thing that
2:07.7	stuck with me was how she works on her creative work for 45 minutes in the mornings before she
2:14.3	gets into email and texts and other things during the day. We talk about
2:18.4	meditation and parenting and co-parenting. After a divorce, we talk about being a mom. We talk
2:27.7	about creativity and writing and sharing your work with the world and vulnerable, tender feelings and being someone
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