When you take the anxiety off of you, the well of emotion that you can actually access and the way you can show up as a functioning human being and give and you can even receive more, your life just like, it's like a light gets flicked on.

And I couldn't believe I had been living with so much angst

and was just okay with it because it was just, you know,

it was like, well, this is just how it is.

It was like, well, this is just how it is. Hi, welcome back.

Thank you so much for being here.

If you're new, welcome.

I'm Katie.

I talk to people and record my conversations, and I've been doing it here for a while.

This week, I spoke to actress, advocate, musician, philanthropist, and producer Tori Joel DeVito.

She recently wrapped up a six-season run on the NBC drama Chicago Med.

So you might recognize her from that or her countless other acting credits.

You've definitely seen her before.

And this conversation goes in so many

different directions, but a few years into her acting career, she began volunteering in hospice.

And that really shaped her. And we start there and go in so many different directions talking

about gentleness within routines, navigating change in her industry, her creative practice.

We talk about what it was like to grow up around the icons that she grew up around.

You'll hear this, but her mom is Stevie Nix's best friend and her parents actually met on

tour with Stevie Nix.

Her dad played drums for Billy Joel,

and that experience really shaped her work ethic

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