Ep. 35: Jen Louden on Vulnerability
Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)
Tiffany Han
4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Ah, how I love Jen Louden. I first met Jen a few years ago at WDS after my Teahouse studio-mate Stef had told me, "Jen Louden is there. You have to meet her and convince her to come teach at Teahouse." So, me being me, I saw her talking to a mutual friend, walked up and introduced myself, "Hi. I'm Tiffany. I hear you're awesome. I have a workshop space in Berkeley and we'd love for you to come teach there."
Mysterious, I am not.
And, lo and behold, that #raiseyourhandsayyes moment led to Jen coming to teach at Teahouse. Huh, isn't it amazing how sometimes you actually do get what you ask for? Right. It can be super simple if you let it.
This week, I got to talk to Jen all about getting vulnerable. Which is a hot topic these days and a word that gets tossed about all the time, so I wanted to dig into what vulnerability really means and how you can tap into your own. It's all about getting started, and I love Jen's take on it.
We also talk about what to do when your creative work feels hard and when to dig in your heels and keep going and when to let something go and move on. It's a good one friends, I hope you enjoy it!
Jen, you are such a beautiful combination of honest, funny, and wise. Thank you for sharing your time with me!
Show Notes:
Connect with Jen: Website | Blog | Twitter
Jen's post about being stubborn
Book: The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up (omg this book changed my life!)
Rilke's Book of Hours
Carol Dweck's book on Mindset
Jen's new book: Year of Daily Joy
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Raise Your Hand, Say Yes, with Tiffany Hahn, a podcast all about the creative adventures of extraordinary people. |
| 0:11.5 | To get information on today's episode and past episodes, visit tiffanyhan.com slash podcast. |
| 0:17.8 | Now on to the show. |
| 0:21.5 | Hey everybody, this is Tiffany, and today we are talking with Jen Loudon and |
| 0:25.6 | Jen is a personal growth pioneer and a writer and a teacher and really wise beautiful |
| 0:35.4 | woman and I'm so excited to talk with her. |
| 0:38.3 | So, Jen, welcome. |
| 0:40.3 | Oh, thanks for having me. |
| 0:41.3 | It's fun to get to spend a little time with you and in your space. |
| 0:44.3 | And see, last time I saw you were pregnant, so I have that image in my head. |
| 0:49.3 | Very beautiful. |
| 0:50.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:51.3 | I might actually still look the same. |
| 0:54.3 | I mean, hopefully not that. |
| 0:56.4 | Maybe it is hard to lose. |
| 0:59.8 | Yeah, I'm super duper excited to have you on, which I always say, but I just, that's, you know, I talk about that. |
| 1:07.0 | But, like, my big secret reason for doing this podcast is just to get to talk to awesome people |
| 1:12.5 | um and so yeah it's really exciting i Jen one of the things that i wanted to talk with you about |
| 1:19.6 | and for those of you guys who don't know Jen check out all of her stuff um i'm going to have links |
| 1:24.6 | to all of her stuff in the show notes. She's written a bunch of books. |
| 1:29.1 | You do a lot of teaching. |
| 1:31.2 | You teach people how to teach, which I'm sure will come up. |
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