Tranquility du Jour #358: The Heroine's Journey
Tranquility du Jour
Kimberly Wilson
4.6 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2015
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
An interview with Sara Avant Stover on The Heroine's Journey. Learn the one thing women can do to have the biggest impact on their happiness, how Pippi Longstocking has influenced Sara, and who SHE is.

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Featured Guest

Sara Avant Stover is a yoga and meditation teacher, bestselling author & founder of The Way of the Happy Woman®.
Sara graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Columbia University’s all-women’s school, Barnard College. After a cancer scare in her early twenties, Sara moved to Thailand, where she lived for ten years and embarked on a decade-long healing and spiritual odyssey throughout Asia. She has since gone on to uplift tens of thousands of women worldwide.
A pioneer in contemporary women’s work, she’s the creator of the world’s first Women’s Yoga Teacher Training, Reversing Our “Curse,” and The SHE School. Sara has been featured in Yoga Journal, the Huffington Post, Newsweek, Natural Health, and on ABC, NBC, CBS, and more.
She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado with her fiancé, Keith Martin-Smith, and their dog Amia.
Her new book, The Book of SHE: Your Heroine’s Journey into the Heart of Feminine Power, is now available.
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| 0:00.0 | Tranquility DeJure, December 14th, 2015. |
| 0:09.0 | Bonjour, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the 358th edition of Tranquility |
| 0:16.9 | DeJure. |
| 0:18.3 | Today, we're interviewing the lovely Sarah Avant Stover on her latest book, The Book of She. |
| 0:26.0 | And our podcast is all about the heroine's journey. So learn the one thing women can do to have the |
| 0:32.7 | biggest impact on their happiness, how Pippi Longstocking has influenced Sarah and who she and all |
| 0:40.6 | caps is. |
| 0:42.1 | So a reminder, we're doing weekly podcast through the end of the year, and I hope that this |
| 0:47.6 | helps you get through the holidays with a little bit more tranquility. |
| 0:51.7 | Also, a big thank you to those of you who have responded with interest in being a |
| 0:55.8 | beta reader for 52 weeks of Tranquility Journal, which will be coming out in print in the new |
| 1:01.8 | year. And basically what it is, it's taking our 52 weeks of Tranquility program and turning |
| 1:07.9 | it into a journal style workbook so that you can explore each of these ideas in-depth on a |
| 1:14.8 | weekly basis and write about your experience, but again having a hard copy, full-color version of it. |
| 1:21.7 | So again, thank you for those of you who responded with interest and all that was put out on my blog for |
| 1:26.2 | anyone who's unfamiliar, and that |
| 1:28.9 | is at Kimberlywilson.com slash blog. Also, a very big thank you for your support of the |
| 1:37.1 | tranquility tea that released last week, and it's so dreamy. I'm actually sipping it now. I sip it |
| 1:42.2 | nonstop. It's green tea with a little |
| 1:44.8 | vanilla essence, rose buds, camamil, and lavender. It's truly the favorite, my favorite |
| 1:52.7 | tea I've ever, ever consumed. So those of you who ordered it, it is en route, and I thank you |
| 1:58.8 | so much for your support. So our featured guest, Sarah Avant Stover, is a yoga and meditation teacher, best-selling author |
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