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The Aaron Michael Show, a fusion of entertainment and whatever, features an eclectic mix of topics and guests. Sometimes political, occasionally personal, at times perverse, the Aaron Michael Show exists to help you pass the time whether you're killing time or doing time. Along for the ride as host and guide is published author, filmmaker, musician and comedian Aaron Michael. http://www.amcomedy.com
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Life should be livable. The Improviding Life Podcast with Lori Crawford explores how life can be more livable and adulting can suck less through applied improvisational comedy, embodying your emotions, and becoming more okay with being human.
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Fuck Around & Find Out - the 3/5 Human Design Profile Anthem
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Send us a text We are diving deeper into our How Human Design Helps Me Human series with a very special to me episode where I finally proclaim that Fuck Around & Find Out is the 3/5 profile anthem If you have a 3/5 profile, have a 3 or a 5 in your profile, or are a human who knows other humans, this episode offers permission, possibilities, and pla…
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Navigating All.The.Things - Self Regulating through Our HD Openness
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Send us a Text Message. Our How Human Design Helps Me Human series continues with a solo episode exploring how I approach self-regulating through my undefined and open Human Design energy centers. As a Mental Projector I have 2 of the 9 centers defined, which means a LOT of openness in my chart. This episode clarifies the difference between having …
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Being Iconic through Your Values, Human Design, & Astrology w/ Rachel Star
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Send us a text Rachel Star is an Astrologer, Human Design practitioner, Cosmic Queen, and an overall ICON in the world of self-embodiment And she’s this weeks guest! We explore aspects of Astrology and Human Design natal charts that help us identify and life through our values And how living life as ourselves not only makes life more livable, but m…
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Give What You Got, Embracing Our HD Defined Centers: Ep 3 of the How Human Design Helps Me Human Series
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Send us a text Grab your HD charts and note what centers you have defined (hint: they’ll be colored in!) These are your super powers you’re meant to share with the world And they also may be where you’ve been told your energy is big or too much by those around you I’m sorry if that was your experience, it certainly was mine And now that I know bett…
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Human Design as a Liberation Practice with Karyn Paige
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Send us a text The Improviding Life Podcast welcomes Karyn Paige as our first guest for our How Human Design Helps Me Human series! We discuss our own entry ways into Human Design, how HD can support our anti-oppression and liberation practices, and how to be critical lovers by holding ourselves and one another accountable as we pursue being in rig…
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Sense Making through Human Design - Ep 1 of the How Human Design Helps Me Human Series
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Send us a text It’s Human Design season on The Improviding Life Podcast! Join me for the upcoming How Human Design Helps Me Human Series where I will be sharing my personal experience with the Human Design energy system and inviting other HD practitioners and change makers onto the pod to share their own experiences, ways of serving, and change mak…
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Resting to Receive and Being a Gate Tender with Isabel Bagsik
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Send us a text Ep 47 - Resting to Receive and Being a Gate Tender with Isabel Bagsik In today’s episode we are joined by Isabel Bagsik, Creativity Wellness Guide and very nourishing human to share space with! The TLDR: Your Creative Calling is Medicine -Why so many visionaries and change makers who identify as women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, or as the chil…
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Playing Away Your Back Pain with Tyler Jeffreys
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Return to Sender’ing New Years Resolutions
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Send us a text Before you entertain thoughts about how you can do and be more next year or fart fart finish the year strong - what if you could identify who and how you are right now? Does this feel reflective of who you know you really are? Is this sustainable and is this way of being in line with the values you’re committed to living through? Ide…
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Befriending Your Unique Decision Making Style featuring Kirsten Parker
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Send us a text Gust episodes are back as we begin season 4 of the Improviding Life Podcast with a bake, I mean bang! Decision Coach Kirsten Parker joins us as we play with the word "friendly" through the lens of Tool of Improviding #4 - ID the Ship Take a listen if you want to explore what makes a one of a kind friendship so meaningful, how the dai…
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Send us a text Y’all it’s time to Fake Less and Live More Sometimes you have to wash your hands of the shit everyone else puts on your plate Faking it til you make it has an expiration date, and that is whenever you wake up, sit at the edge of your bed, and wonder whether anything beyond the ho hum will ever exist again Yes, this current season of …
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Send us a text The real problem with morning routines is that they all seem to force your into “overfunction” mode faster than your eyelids get a chance to open. From your feet hitting the floor before you even turn your alarm off, to thinking a blaring siren phone chime is the only option This episode is explores so much of what made me Not a Wake…
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Send us a text Welcome to the Improviding Life Podcast with Lori Love - this week we’re exploring how life can be more livable when we reflect on how our habits are helping or hurting our day to day life. The brief brief: Ask yourself these questions to know if a habit is helping or hurting: Do you even realize it’s a habit What feelings surface wh…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is a love letter to a dear friend who dazzles the world with her beautiful heart and hilarious way of human’ing. Once you listen, send to the ‘Diana’ in your life and share the love 💝By Lori Crawford
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Send us a text Feeling let down absolutely happens, AND sometimes I get swept up in the doom cloud for longer than feels good or kind to myself I had a recent food travesty day (learn more about my ridiculously necessary concept of food based let downs in this episode) and much to my delight the following day was one of soaring sky high with unexpe…
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Send us a text In the spirit of being humble and selfless, we’ve actually just gotten really good at not being ourselves, and maybe even “eww, bye b!tch”ing ourselves 😅 In this episode we explore what being full of ourselves could actually mean and look like and how doing so makes human’ing a more happening experience Questions like “How much of “y…
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Practicing Patience Sucks Less Than Performing It
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Send us a text We’ve all been conditioned and expected to perform patience, and that can leave us feeling depleted. Practicing patience is rooted in context and a skill we can build through connection. What’s your current relationship with patience?By Lori Crawford
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Send us a text This week 6 whole human beings decided to prioritize themselves and attend the Postpartum Playcation event I hosted - and that feels like a huge fucking win for me!! It’s so easy to be like “only 6, oh no!” But that’s not how I feel, and I bet there are some wins that feel mighty to you despite what other unsolicited opinions are/wer…
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Calorie Galleries & Snack Shacks - Nibbling while Neurodiverse
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Send us a Text Message. We’ve all been there - staring into the abyss that is our refrigerator and pantry - knowing we need to refuel but having no f*cks left to give by the mushy noodle in our noggin Cue the Calorie Gallery - an already decided upon collection of edible nom noms and sipable liquids to help us nourish our body and our lovely neurod…
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Send us a text This week we’re exploring how life is more livable when we approach adult friendships from a space of curiosity, asking questions like “what would you rather be doing today” and “what fun can we have together” instead of the meh “what do you do for a living” type ish we’re expected to meet and greet adults with For the Funnin’ with F…
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Playcations - the adult staycation play dates of your dreams
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Send us a text Lori is on a quest to share playcations with the cosmos! Or at least see what’s possible when communal space is held to name, normalize, and navigate common adulting experiences - like the postpartum parent experience! If you’re in Pittsburgh or love someone who is, you’re invited to the inaugural Postpartum Playcation Project sessio…
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Send us a Text Message.By Lori Crawford
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Send us a text Hello from the other side of an unexpected break! And welcome to season 3 I have an announcement- I’m an inner parent pal! Resources mentioned: Grab your Clusterfuck Cheatsheet! https://www.subscribepage.com/p1g3y9 Get more YAY in your day https://improviding.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1124327 Ways to work with me https…
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Send us a Text Message. Have you ever been labeled a something based on someone else's unsolicited expectations or judgements about your body, personality, or even existence? Yes, it sucks, This episode shares my recent realization that grace is a practice not a trait, stemming from a childhood label of 'ungraceful' that was placed on me for having…
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Remixing Our Souls featuring Felicia Savage Friedman
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Send us a text To support YogaRoots on Location by providing Yoga Teacher Training scholarship funds, click here: https://www.yogarootsonlocation.com/donateBy Lori Crawford
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Send us a text Last week I called myself in by realizing I have been energetically and literally short sheeting myself :p So for those moments we are feeling depleted what can we do? How about explore the 7 types of rest we may be resisting And a few ways we can go about filling those cups back up AND if you get your copy of the Clusterfuck Cheatsh…
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Send us a text It's time I get honest'er with myself and you - I've been short sheeting myself (literally and energetically) - and you probably have been too! Being short sheet'd is part of our collective human experience - so what do we do about it?! Tune in for my genius improviding life hack for when you find yourself literally short sheeted (th…
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The Power of Perhaps Makes Possibilities Possible with April Dawn Scheffler
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Send us a text April Dawn Scheffler is the subtly of service play pal that dreams are made of! This week we go deep and wide and wild and personal and everything in between as we play with Improviding Tool #5 - Build vs Invent. From body image to brownie points, we explore the power of 'perhaps' and how the lens of perhaps makes possibilities possi…
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Our Body Doesn't Consent to Everything Our Mind Demands
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Send us a text This week we're riffing off of sign #3 from last weeks episode as I've realized how much overscheduling of my time I've been doing lately. Join me in exploring what role our mind serves in our relationship with our body and wondering if we would spend less time on autopilot if we're asking our body for consent with how we fill, use, …
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3 Signs You're In a One-Sided Relationship with Your Body
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Send us a text Being in a relationship with your body can be a hard tog rasp concept, let a lone a practice that feels accessible. Today I share 3 (of who knows how many) signs that you're in a one sided relationship - and how to flip those signs into opportunities to reconnect with your body. As mentioned, the Yes, And Yesterday (YAY) course helps…
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Healing Doesn't Have to be Heavy with Dr. Alexis Edwards
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Send us a text As we explore expansion as the natural state of life, Dr Alexis Edwards, Mercuri, and I chat energy, remembrances, consent, and share a few full circle moments. Alexis gifts us with the idea that the Phoenix does not go to ash to reincarnate into its former self, but instead there’s a reincarnation into the newest version of themselv…
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Infusing Mundane Moments with Joyful Magic
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Send us a text We all have that one (or dozen) Adulting task that just sucks. our. soul. to a shitty shitty low. Just the thought of having to do that/those thing (s) can meh the rest of our day. I call these joy poachers And I'm curious how life becomes more livable when joy poachers are paired with joy practices, those go to dance in your seat, c…
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Send us a text Shifting our perspective on what a resource is makes room to include ourselves as an extension of source. What if as adults we can re'up our youthfulness by reconnecting to our various sources that give us life? We explore how we can fill our inner energy reserves, our cups so to speak, by considering our 1. Cosmic source 2. Chosen f…
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Death is Not an Emergency with Carrie McCann
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Send us a text Carrie is a death worker with a gracious gut-o-meter and is grand friend who continues to help me explore liminal spaces and the opportunity they hold for life becoming more livable. We demystify death as part of life, Carrie explores spirituality, dreams, death, and more as part of her human experience while so many quirky, juicy, i…
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Sensemaking Through Relevance to Self featuring Keith Jamison
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Send us a Text Message. Todays episode features one of my former mentees, a dynamic thought leader, Keith Jamison. Keith is a senior at Allegheny College and vulnerably shares his experiences as a Black man at a predominately white institution - and because of this emotional labor I am encouraging those who listen to this episode to compensate Keit…
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4 Steps towards Shifting a Limiting Story
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Send us a text This tech dinosaur has hatched! In todays episode we explore the question "what part of my story wants to revisit which part of me?" What came up for me was the myth that I am a tech dinosaur - one that kept me frozen in place despite how badly I wanted to take steps towards my dreams. Grab a pen and paper or have your notes app read…
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Sometimes Our Stories Stifle What is Possible
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Send us a text TW: This episode explores Lori's layered relationship with her body and how the first stories to take form around her body have continued to offer a complex and often challenging relationship with her body. This episode is shared with love and to model the hope that room for new evidence and kinder more accurate stories can be made a…
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Building Supportive Practices Into Your Daily Life
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Send us a text Sometimes we need new evidence that something else is possible as we can get caught up trying to invent the magic wand that will cure all woes. Yet what can actually be transformative is building supportive practices into our day as having moments where we actually matter to ourselves can help that new evidence take shape, and provid…
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Holding Space for Your Human Nuance featuring Sarah Steckler
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Send us a text Episode 13 features Sarah Steckler, a Productivity Strategist and lover of all things cozy. While exploring how life can be more livable we realize the importance of supportive practices that let us feel welcomed and present in our day, be that cups of tea, picnics in the park, or checking in with ourselves. Sarah shares a brilliant …
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Welcome to Season 2 Featuring The Barking Dogs
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Send us a text Welcome Back! Season 2 is a legit blast and I'm so excited to share incredible guest interviews and impactful tips and tricks with you as we continue exploring how life can be more livable. This episode features The Barking Dogs - a live concert performance by my very own dogs who offer us a moment to tip toe into this seasons underl…
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Send us a text This is part 6 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding AND the season 1 finale. In this episode Lori shares how she welcomed her first child the day episode 10 aired and has been cherishing the last 12 weeks of her maternity leave. During this time her and her babe co-created a pocket pal journal for postpartum support …
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Send us a Text Message. Sometimes we hear, see, experience something in life that stirs our pot a bit and lets something 'new' bubble to the surface. In this episode, Lori shares an insight she received from a juicy Instagram Live by Rachel Onojafe about challenging the idea that letting your impact be known and making it easier for people to know …
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Send us a Text Message. This is part 5 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how Build vs Invent offers us room to reclaim our lived experience as a foundation for moving forward while challenging the way invention is positioned as something that is unfounded and comes from a place of lack. By identifyin…
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Playing with Possibilities featuring Shelby Melissa
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Send us a text It's time for our first podcast party! Shelby Melissa, a money mindset coach, video game enthusiast, and a dear friend joins us this week! We start with the idea of playing with possibilities and venture to so many other spaces including community care, accountability based harm reduction in our day to day lives, and how we as coache…
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Send us a text This is part 4 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how ID the Ship creates room for life to be more livable as we start to expand our awareness of what we are in relationship with and how many unspoken relationships we've been unknowingly navigating. We explore how being in reaction mode…
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Shifting from Situationships to Relationships
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Send us a text We're taking a break from the Tools of Improviding mini series to explore the concept Lori calls 'situationships', or the 'out of sight out of mind' approach we have to most things in life. In this episode Lori shares how an abundance of situationships makes relating with what is happening in our lives and with ourselves more difficu…
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Tool #3 - A to C; A Tale of Smoke, Fire, & McFlurries
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Send us a text This is part 3 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how A to C creates room for life to be more livable. We explore how the 'A', or what might come first to mind in the moment, may not be the best, most supportive, or most accessible, while exploring other options, the 'B's, C's, D's etc.…
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Send us a text This is part 2 of a 6 part series exploring the Tools of Improviding. In this episode Lori shares how If So, What Else creates room for life to be more livable. We explore how the 'If So' creates room to relate with what experience you're having as you human, while the 'What Else' opens the door for other reactions and outcomes to be…
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