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The Rest of Us with Dana Tenille Weekes
The Rest of Us podcast explores rest as self-liberation for advocates and professionals who are losing themselves to the demands of work, loved ones, friends, strangers, and this dizzying world. The Rest of Us cultivates a community through honest reflections, conversations, and laughter for people willing to embrace rest differently.
The Rest of Us with Dana Tenille Weekes
Ep 9: What's Your Identity Outside of Producing? (Let’s Take the Seven-Day Call to Create Journey)
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We were not created to produce. We were created to exist freely and thoroughly in our details.
In this rich and deeply personal episode of The Rest of Us podcast, Dana Tenille Weekes invites us to pause the production line of life and answer a powerful call: the call to create. Not for performance, not for praise, but for freedom, joy, and ourselves.
Dana unpacks the difference between "producing," which we often do for others at our own expense, and "creating," which centers and celebrates the very core of who we are. She also talks about how consumption is the offspring of producing, and how it contributes to unrest.
Dana calls for us to think about “how to cultivate space to create instead of only living a life of producing?” In doing so, she offers and explores in detail three reflection questions:
- What can I create?
- When can I create?
- How can I create?
At the end of the episode, Dana invites listeners to take the Seven-Day Call to Create Journey. Over the next seven days, there will be posts on Instagram and LinkedIn with prompts and reminders for how each of you can hold space to create for just 10 minutes.
Through stories, reflection, and a challenge, this episode shifts our focus from outputs to the origin of our liberation … creativity.
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