E12 - Allie Michelle: How to Alchemize Emotions into Creative Expression
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Poet & Author, Allie Michelle, shares how she embraced empathy as her superpower- and turned it into art. She explains the process of embracing authenticity, creative alchemy, and love as a catalyst for growth. Reminding us that we are here to experience the full spectrum of human emotions - and when we learn to fully embrace it, we're free.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
2:19 Empathy as a Superpower
7:05 Embracing Authenticity
9:14 Creative Alchemy
16:27 Pattern Interrupts
18:33 Relationships
20:02 Poem: “Not a Love Poem”
24:06 Love as a Catalyst for Growth
27:11 We are Warriors
29:58 Legends of Lemuria
33:31 Living a Life of Fufillment
43:00 Going to the Depths
47:10 Poem: Destiny
53:56 Forms of Expression
58:37 Conclusion
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Allie Michelle:
Allie Michelle is a poet, writer, and co-founder of NFT school for mental health and wellness, We Are Warriors. She is a certified meditation, breathwork and yoga teacher, which has heavily influenced her work. She has done spoken word performances across the globe, continuing to share her work and inspire people to live vulnerably, love deeply, and create often.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alliemichellel/
Website: https://www.alliemichellel.com
We are Warriors: https://www.wearewarriors.co
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| 0:00.0 | I no longer try to be the painter. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm like, okay, I'm the paint brush. |
| 0:03.8 | Just use me, paint with me, because whatever universe life, God, whatever you want to call it, |
| 0:07.6 | they're going to create a better masterpiece than me. |
| 0:09.4 | And when I'm surrendered into that state, if I'm performing a poem in a really powerful way |
| 0:13.7 | or I'm dancing in a powerful way, very little of me is actually there. |
| 0:17.6 | And it's the greatest feeling in the world because I'm tapping into something so much |
| 0:20.8 | bigger. |
| 0:26.9 | Hello, beautiful humans. Welcome back to the Know They Sell podcast for every single week. |
| 0:30.8 | We get the honor and the privilege to sit down with sometimes a dear friend of mine, |
| 0:35.6 | somebody that's been walking a beautiful path and can |
| 0:37.8 | help us live a more liberated, beautiful human experience. Today, my guest is a dear friend, |
| 0:43.5 | Ali Michelle. She is an author, a poet, a guide, somebody that you'll find maybe leading a yoga |
| 0:50.8 | Nidra workshop or breathwork class or or poetry workshop helping people tap into their own |
| 0:56.0 | storytelling creative capabilities she is somebody that i think is a very sensitive soul she is an |
| 1:03.5 | empath she's somebody that i think like we all are to hear we're all here to feel the full |
| 1:08.5 | spectrum of the human experience and ali is great at alchemizing those, those moments of suffering, those moments of struggle into insight, into gold, into wisdom for all of us to grow with and learn from. |
| 1:22.5 | She's somebody that is amazing with her words. |
| 1:25.0 | She is an author of two poetry books and a third one, which is coming |
| 1:28.5 | out soon, called The Words Left Unspoken, yeah? And, Allie, thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:34.5 | Thank you for having me. That was quite the introduction. I hope I can live up to it. |
| 1:38.1 | Yeah. I, uh, this podcast is such a special creation for me and part of it is because I just get to shine a light |
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