Hello and welcome to Art Juice, honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me, Alice Sheridan.

And me, Louise Fletcher.

Now, you'll notice there isn't any chirpy music over this episode in Crow.

We will come to that in a moment moment because it has been a thang

but it's also been a while since we were here

so we just wanted to have a little chat about everything that's been going on

since the last time we recorded which means this episode is likely to be about two hours long

so settling I can't even remember everything that's

happened since we last recorded. Well, do you want the potted summary? Yes. Give me the

potter summary is I've been to Bali, run the most amazing retreat, had an incredible trip either end,

with some just extraordinary little moments, including being at a fire festival in a village

that our taxi driver took us to where there was nobody else there apart from locals. It was just

the whole trip from beginning to end was filled with the most extraordinary experiences.

Some incredible women who signed up for that with nothing more than a Google Doc that basically

said, come to Bali, not even where you're coming.

Just come. This is what we're going to get. And we got back. So that was about five weeks ago now.

And the communication and the ripples from that are still going. So that was absolutely extraordinary.

And then I had a happy trip to Cornwall. and I am just wrapping up the final week of a

mastermind group that I've been running since the beginning of the year. So another kind of small

space, close conversations thing, which has just been unfolding in a very gentle way. Not,

not interestingly, mastermind sounds like it's business directed. We've discussed things like that as it's come up

for people, but it's been a much broader approach. And again, that's just wrapping up. And then

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