Tranquility du Jour #472: Wild Words
Tranquility du Jour
Kimberly Wilson
4.6 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, I chat with returning guest Nicole Gulotta about her new book Wild Words.Learn the 10 seasons of a writer's (or creative's) life, the importance of liminal space (time between what was and what comes next), and what it means to create "in the margins." Psst, and there's a book giveaway!
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Upcoming Events
Planning 2020 TDJ Style: December 29
Online via YouTube Live [private invites will be sent mid-December to all who purchased Year of Tranquility and/or Daybook and registered for their bonuses]
New Year's Eve Mini Retreat: December 31
at YogaWorks Dupont in Washington, DC
New Year's Salon: January 1, 2020
in Washington, DC [1 spot left]
TDJ Live New Year, Fresh Start: January 5
Online via YouTube Live [private link sent upon registration]
Tranquility in Provence: May 30-June 5
a private villa nestled in the South of France between Nice and Marseille [3 rooms left]
Featured Guest

Nicole Gulotta is the author of Wild Words: Rituals, Routines, and Rhythms for Braving the Writer's Path and Eat This Poem: A Literary Feast of Recipes Inspired by Poetry. As the founder of the Wild Words community, she helps fellow writers embrace the season they're in, create at their own pace, and care for their minds and bodies along the way. Nicole holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts and her work has been featured in Life & Thyme, The Write Life, Motherly, Fathom, and others. Born and raised in Southern California, she lives outside Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband and son. Connect with her online at thewildwords.com and on Instagram @nicolegulotta.
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| 0:00.0 | Tranquility DeJure, bringing new tranquility since 2005. |
| 0:10.8 | Hello, my name is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the latest edition of Tranquility DeJure, |
| 0:17.1 | a series of nourishing conversations about living a full and meaningful life with doses of tranquility. |
| 0:25.3 | In episode 472 of Tranquility Dejure, I chat with returning guest Nicole Gulata about her new book, Wild Words, Rituals, routines, and rhythms for braving the writer's path. |
| 0:41.5 | Learn the ten seasons of a writer's or a creative's life. You don't have to just be a writer |
| 0:47.6 | to gain lots and lots of insights from this podcast. The importance of liminal space, |
| 0:53.5 | and that's the time between what was and what comes |
| 0:56.7 | next and what it means to create in the margins. And there's a book giveaway, so stay tuned at the end |
| 1:07.1 | of this podcast to learn more about how to enter. Before we hear from Nicole, I wanted to |
| 1:13.2 | mention a few things that are upcoming this month. So December 29th, planning 2020 TDJ style. |
| 1:20.7 | I'm going to be offering an online free event for anyone who's purchased year of |
| 1:25.4 | tranquility and or the daybook and registered for their bonuses. |
| 1:30.2 | And in the show notes at Kimberlywilson.com slash 472, you will find links to this. |
| 1:37.0 | And you'll get a private invite mid-December, inviting you on over to that event, which will happen on YouTube live. Also, those of you in D.C., |
| 1:46.6 | I've got a New Year's Eve mini retreat happening at Yoga Works, DuPont, on December 31st, New |
| 1:52.6 | Year's Eve, 2 to 5, and then on January 1st, in my office in Washington, D.C., a New Year's |
| 1:59.1 | salon, and there is one spot left for that. |
| 2:02.8 | Also, save the date. Two other things I want to mention is January 5th is our TDJ Live, our next |
| 2:09.1 | free online one-hour event focused on New Year Fresh Start. This will also be via YouTube Live, |
| 2:16.9 | and you can sign up. There's a link in the show notes |
| 2:19.2 | and you will get a private link sent upon registration. And then finally, we have three |
| 2:25.2 | rooms left for Tranquility in Provence. And that is happening May 30th through June 5th at a |
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