This is about progress. You are listening to episode 275. How to find magic in your mess with

Corey Connors. At the beginning of the month I told you something very exciting.

We are now going to have regular full interviews

with quote-unquote regular listeners from our community.

And when I say regular, I am not downplaying who they are. What I'm trying

to emphasize is that these are the people that are your neighbors, that are your friends,

that are in your community, but maybe they don't necessarily have a business to promote or something to sell, but they have something to share with the community.

From the beginning of about progress, I have tried to create space for our regular listeners to share their own progress stories.

Now, Corey Connors was one of those guests for me.

She is a incredible woman. She is a songwriter, a writer, a singer, but you don't

know her from a national stage. Correa is well known and beloved in our own community, but not much past it, and she should be.

But here's why I'm sharing this episode with you, because Cori shares today her own progress story how she got in the muck and the mess of trying to figure out who she was as a creative as a woman as a mother.

One of my personal favorite takeaways from this interview is how

Cori shares that mess has to be a part of this process of uncovering that

sense of identity inside of ourselves and the gifts and the talents and the skills and the

ambitions and the dreams that come a part of that. She has lived this, she has exemplified it.

Cori is one of my childhood turned adult heroes.

She is someone I've always looked up to

because of how she has been different and fully herself

and ways that I didn't fully recognize

as a child that I was connecting to and longing to have more of in my life,

especially when for much of my childhood I feel like I was that person who was so scared of the mess.

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