Write Your Story: What Does It Take to Be Happy?
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.9 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week I asked my 4 year old a question that I realized was actually for me:
How much would it take for you to be happy?
As I watched him wrestle with this big question, I realized I have the same dilemma he does, the same dilemma all human beings face as we think about how we will love and live: do we surrender everything to discover love?
Or do we fight for what’s “rightfully” ours?
Do we defend ourselves and our possessions no matter the cost?
The conversation stuck with me and got me thinking about a childhood book I loved, about the Garden of Eden (of all things) and about what a life of meaning really requires.
Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hi, and welcome to you, Write Your Story, podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | Good job, girly. |
| 0:10.6 | Pick up the pieces of your life, put them back together with the words you write, all the beauty and peace and the magic that you'll start to find when you write your story. |
| 0:23.7 | You've got the words inside. |
| 0:25.5 | Don't you think it's time to let them out and write them down uncover what it's all about? |
| 0:32.6 | And write your, write your story. |
| 0:36.0 | Right your story. Hi, and welcome back to the write your story. Write your story. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast. |
| 0:42.4 | I'm Ali Fallon. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm your host. |
| 0:44.1 | And on today's episode, I want to pick up where I left off last week and talk a little bit |
| 0:47.7 | more about why or how this feeling of being at the end of yourself or this feeling |
| 0:53.5 | of being at rock bottom or a feeling |
| 0:55.5 | of kind of losing everything that you thought you wanted, losing everything that matters to you, |
| 1:00.1 | why it's such a powerful initiation for the creative life. Why that is the very, like, essence and |
| 1:08.3 | breath of creativity and why creating from there feels both impossible because |
| 1:13.7 | you're like, I have nothing. I'm literally empty handed. And yet why creating from there is so |
| 1:20.3 | important and why real creativity can only stem from that. Like real creativity only is something from nothing. There is commerce, |
| 1:30.4 | which is something different where you take money and you invest it and you create more of what |
| 1:35.0 | you have. But creativity starts in the darkness. It starts in the chaos. It starts in the |
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