Evoke Your Story & Claim The Creative Identity In Your Heart | Anna Rosa Parker

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What if the story you’re living… isn’t actually yours? And what if your creativity is the key to rewriting it? 

3 Powerful Benefits of Listening

•  Learn how storytelling and creativity help you reconnect with your authentic self 
•  Understand why fear and old narratives keep you stuck, and how to gently release them 
•  Discover how to use curiosity and heart-led awareness to evolve your creative identity and life direction 

Episode Summary

In this soulful and expansive conversation, Sam sits down with Anna Rosa Parker, a storytelling coach and creator of Evoke Your Story, to explore the deep connection between creativity, identity, and the narratives we carry. Anna shares her journey from theatre and playwriting to branding and coaching, revealing how storytelling has always been at the heart of her work and evolution. 

Together, they explore how authentic creativity emerges when we are willing to question inherited narratives, move beyond fear, and reconnect with the wisdom of the heart. This episode is a powerful invitation to become more curious about your inner world, trust your creative impulses, and consciously choose the story you want to live moving forward.

Key Takeaways

• Authentic storytelling begins when you reconnect with your true self rather than seeking external validation 
•  Creativity and storytelling are deeply intertwined, every piece of art holds a narrative 
• Fear and societal conditioning are the biggest barriers to owning your story 
• The heart holds a deeper truth than the mind, and learning to trust it is key to creative alignment 
• Curiosity is the driving force behind creative evolution and personal growth 
•  Outgrowing old creative identities is natural and often requires a period of grief and reflection 
•  Your creative and spiritual evolution mirror and support each other Breaking patterns and stepping into the unknown opens space for authentic expression 
• You have the power to rewrite your story at any point in your life.

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Transcript

 Ep 109 - Anna Rosa Parker

Sam Horton: [00:00:00]

So today I have Anna Rosa Parker with me. Anna is a lifestyle entrepreneur and coach, helping startups, artists, and visionaries turn confusion into clarity through the power of storytelling. As the creator of Evoke your Story, she guides clients to reconnect with their authentic narrative, express their essence, and design a life or brand that truly reflects who they are.

So welcome, Anna. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Thank you. Thank you. It's nice to meet you. 

Sam Horton: So let's just start with your story. Tell us about your journey and how creativity has really featured in your life. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Oh, wow. Yeah, I mean, I've. Thank you. I, I've always been, uh, some kind of a storyteller since I was a child. I was creating some kind of books out of nothing.

Sam Horton: Okay. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And I grew up in Iceland and it was very minimal at the time. It was different era and there was no sort of entertainment for kids. So you sort of, uh, [00:01:00] or always entertaining yourself. And therefore, I think a lot of us are very creative from that sort of a timeframe and. Also it, I always wanted something more.

So I was starting to live in some kind of a world that I, you know, created in my own head and in my books. Um, I did go into theater. Um, eventually I left, you know, Iceland and went to the West Coast University of Washington. And I started, um, started acting drama. So I got a. University degree, but with drama, um, and theater, uh, focus.

And I became an actress for a while and into then playwriting. 'cause you know, when you're an actor, you sometimes don't get, I mean, very often you don't get the material you want and, and sometimes you also get. Things you don't want. So we started to kinda create like, what do you want then, you know?

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So I started to write my own material solo show that I did in [00:02:00] Seattle, Iceland, New York. Um, and then I wrote some, um, sort of, um, uh, not dark comedies, but you know, comedies with a twist, I guess. A little bit of a, you know, a wickedness. Um, but it's, yeah, it's always, and it's very much about this sort of existence questioning always.

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Whether it's put in a glamorous, sort of a more staging or it's very, you know, austere, but it's always about our existence and, you know mm-hmm. The, the illusion and, and, and, you know, where. How much control do we have? How much of our story can we actually have power over? Mm-hmm. Or are we just sort of, uh, on a whim following something, you know?

And mm-hmm. And so, you know, after some time in the theater, I was getting a little. I wanted something different. It wasn't going as I thought it would. And I also, it's a very not very [00:03:00] family oriented job. You often are asked to perform outside of the city, and my daughter was fairly, you know, it was just, you know, small and.

So I just started to realize like it's not maybe for me now. And um, and out of that I went into different kind of storytelling. I was able to get a job in marketing 

Sam Horton: mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And which led me to all kinds of brand writing and advertising. And it was always in sort of, uh, my marketing career. So always in some kind of a high-end luxury lifestyle.

I think that was just because I always read my mom's magazines and that sort of, uh, you know. I turned me into that sort of a taste, you know, that I liked sort of a nicer qualities and I knew how to speak to fashion. I had followed the designers and, you know, I knew who they were and, and the stars were wearing them.

And that sort of, that got me into the door at Nordstrom and corporate in, you know, my first marketing job. And then we moved to New York [00:04:00] and, uh, I continue, you know, then I'm freelancing, continuing in advertising agencies and I'm still sort of, uh, doing some kind of a writing. I had a blog, for example, for like almost 10 years.

Okay. It was like a lifestyle, you know, I had a little wickedness to it. Not just, I can't do only fabulous. There has to be some kind of a humor in it too. 

Sam Horton: Okay. 

Anna Rosa Parker: You know, something to smile about, something to have fun with. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And just not take us. Too seriously either. 

Sam Horton: Mm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And so, yeah, so now we're sort of, uh, coming up to the pandemic and that's when my job evaporated.

I was rebranding a hotel, um, account at the time, and so that just, you know, evaporated overnight and mm-hmm. Then we're back at sort of, uh, pivoting and, and figuring out what we're gonna do. And, uh, so I had joined an online program for marketers and writers, and I thought. Could be good for me just to sort of, uh, almost go to [00:05:00] school in a way, you know, just have a community online.

We're all at home. New York was very dark. It was, you know, people were just trying to figure out what this was. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And early on in that program, I was like, how can I help, like all these artists and actors who were trying to put a play on Zoom, you know, I have some digital marketing experience, so it's sort of.

Started there. My evoke, you know, evoke your story and the evoke, um, the philosophy around it. It's really started as a personal branding more, and then I started to look at it and, and, and test it on different people. Mm-hmm. Different individual who weren't necessarily creatives or artists. I mean, maybe conscious people, you know, but not mm-hmm.

Necessarily artists. And it's like, huh, this really just works 

Sam Horton: so, so your work is really centered around the power of storytelling.

So 

Anna Rosa Parker: yeah. 

Sam Horton: Tell us about how storytelling and authentic creativity are really intertwined. 

Anna Rosa Parker: That's a good [00:06:00] question. 

Yeah. I mean, it, it goes hand in hand, hand in hand if the, if the storytelling is coming from an original, authentic place mm-hmm.

I mean, we're all sort of inspired by something. Nothing is that pure, but you know, when it feels grounded in you, who you are and you're not trying to, mm-hmm. Tell it because you want it to be liked or you think it makes you look good. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Then you have an authentic storytelling, and then if you meet that with your creativity, then that is authentic creativity, you know as well.

Because everything is a story really, whether that is a sculpture. Or a painting, a play, um, design. There's always a story behind it. Address, everything has its narrative. Mm-hmm. And then so how authentically, how, where is it pulled from? Mm-hmm. 

 I don't think you can have. Authentic storytelling if you the creator, are not very authentic. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: You [00:07:00] see what I'm saying? 

Sam Horton: Yeah, 

Anna Rosa Parker: yeah, yeah. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. Definitely. So, 

Anna Rosa Parker: yeah. 

Sam Horton: So what stops people do you think from really claiming their story, you know, as part of their, um, you know, creative practice or even just part of their identity in, you know, the way they move in the world, you know, what stops them?

Anna Rosa Parker: Yeah, I think it's always fear. 

Sam Horton: Mm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: We're afraid of, we haven't, I think, you know, we are very authentic when we're children up to whatever, five, six years old. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And then we start to. You know, we are being shaped by our parents and authority and the society and all the rules and everything. You cannot do this, you can do that.

And mm-hmm. It starts to shape us and along the way we pick up different narratives thinking that we are those narratives. 

Sam Horton: Yeah. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And we walk, you know, and all of a sudden we hit a wall. We are not understanding who we are anymore. 

Sam Horton: Mm. And, and how do you think we, we can move through that with, you know, a bit more grace and ease, you know, by, you know, really, um, owning the story, I guess, as [00:08:00] part of, you know, the way that we express ourself in the world?

Anna Rosa Parker: Yeah. I think we do need to unfold those narratives, look at them, see what we've been caring with us, and most of the time it's not even true. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Because the mind tends to lie to us. But I am very much fan of the heart. And, uh, tapping into the heart and the heart coherence, because I think the heart doesn't lie, but the mind does.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So the more we are connected with our emotions to the heart, then we can start to tap into those true stories and, and, mm-hmm. Our true needs and wants and allowing that to tell the story. And, and, um, alongside that, uh, just breaking the fear of. Having the need for validation. I think people always asking for validation.

So once we break out of that, um, we're, we're free. 

Sam Horton: Yeah. Cool. [00:09:00] And, and the heart is more powerful than the mind. Right. It's like the most powerful thing that we have. Absolutely. Um, the science behind that. Right. Absolute. So it's pretty cool. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Yes. 

Sam Horton: Yeah. So good. 

Anna Rosa Parker: It's, it's wild. Yeah. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: It just draw me to that because, you know, we've all, we.

Know of, uh, Dr. Joe Dispensa and he talked about heart coherence. And, and out of that I started to dig into that HeartMath Institute. So I studied with them okay. And started to understand how the heart and the brain is connected and, and how we can have so much more, um, we can tune into the heart and change our mood and change our feeling and change our energy and tap into our own story.

Our intuition is all through there. It's really heart. 

Sam Horton: Beautiful. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Mm-hmm. 

Sam Horton: So how have you personally then, I mean, you've talked about it a little bit before, but how have you used creativity to, um, you know, tell your story most authentically and powerfully? You [00:10:00] know, if you reflect back on all of the ways that you've expressed yourself, you know, what's the most powerful thing that you've done?

Um, to, to really Yeah. Share your story. 

Anna Rosa Parker: That's so really. That's a big question. Uh, I think I wrote a solo show in like now it's 20 years ago. Over 20 years ago. 

Sam Horton: Okay. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And it was about this woman. Was very much looking into her dreams or, you know, she dreamt this very vivid dream and it sort of mm-hmm. Took her on a journey.

But then she's possessed by August Strindberg, so it's a little bit of a, you know, dark twist there. But it was very authentic to me, that story, because I was just inspired by a lot of the. Scandinavia, especially August Strindberg, he was so much more than, than we allowed him to be. You know, he was seen as a, you know, woman hater and all these things, but people not really realizing everything.

He, he came into this world with his storytelling and [00:11:00] his curiosity, so I got wildly curious about him, and this sort of a story came to me through dreams and came to me very authentically. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Mm-hmm. Uh, so that's definitely not that everybody understood it. That's a second, you know? But I got to express this story, which was very important to me at the time.

Yeah. And then what I'm doing now. 

Sam Horton: You 

Anna Rosa Parker: know, evoke your story. It's, it's, you know, literally about that. And going through that, I started to create this, now it's five years ago now. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And so I had to go through it as well, not just test it on other people. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And having tested it so much, it is very, very much who I am 

Sam Horton: and 

Anna Rosa Parker: what I believe in.

And I am very excited. It was very sort of a, I was a little bit. Not sure at first when I'm starting to test this on people to see if it actually works. But now that, you know, so many times are over and even with teams, [00:12:00] um, seeing what comes out of it, it, it's, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm proud of it. And also just, I, I connect with it so deeply, so I, I, I don't, I'm not afraid to talk about it.

Sam Horton: Sure. And how do you think we know, you know, like how do we know that we are kind of nailing it and we're sort of being authentic and not kind of like only half in, you know, like we can have one foot in and one foot out type thing.

How do we know? 

Anna Rosa Parker: I think that's exactly that. When there is the one foot out, then we have to see why is that other foot out and what is it doing? What is it telling us, and what's on the insight, you know? Where's all that and where's it all coming from too? You know, where's, where's the creation and the story coming from?

I think that's always very important for artists to understand, you know, what's behind sort of the, always asking the why, you know? 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Why, why, why is this story. Coming to me now and what's important of it and, and so on. Just [00:13:00] always asking questions, being so curious about, because we're curious about, artists are are very often curious about other people and they inspire from other people, but.

They tend to forget to ask themselves all these questions. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know? Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: When I speak to, you know, I speak, um, I lecture sometimes at university, I mean, uh, at New York University, NYU here, and I, I, I tell the act. Students this, that they possibly know much more about the character they're playing than they know about themselves.

And that tends to be true. 

Sam Horton: Mm, that's very powerful. That is, isn't it? 

Anna Rosa Parker: Yeah. 'cause we, we dig deep, we wanna know everything about this character and then 

Sam Horton: yeah. 

Anna Rosa Parker: But who are you? You know? 

Sam Horton: Yeah. That's very, very powerful. So do you think that then that quest for, you know, um, sharing our story, you know, that, um, in the most authentic and creative ways that we possibly can, do you think that [00:14:00] quest ever ends?

Do you think it just continues to build and build as we move through our life? You know, do we ever get to like, you know, a utopia or some kind of, you know, mountain peak? Um, or, or are we on that quest forever? 

Anna Rosa Parker: I think so. I think so. I think we're on it forever. I think, you know, and depends what people believe in.

If you believe that, if you believe in the infinite soul mm-hmm. Meaning you have various earth bodies in, in lives, uh, or if you believe it's over when it's, you know, this, this earth body is over. If it is the, if the soul is infinite and we travel through different lives and bodies, I think that the purpose of it is because we have the.

The soul is supposed to, to grow and expand and mm-hmm. Be able to, to conquer all these things that, you know, we often, in earth life keep getting the same challenge over and over, like it's a loop. 'cause we haven't learned it, we haven't conquered it, got broken through. It hasn't been a breakthrough. 

Sam Horton: Yeah.

Anna Rosa Parker: So it keeps [00:15:00] coming to us, you know? 

Sam Horton: Mm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And I mean, don't you, aren't you constantly growing and, and learning. Yeah. Do, do you, yeah. Do you think it's like. 

Sam Horton: Yeah, 

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Anna Rosa Parker: I think on ongoing journey 

Sam Horton: it's in infinite really, isn't it? So, 

Anna Rosa Parker: yeah. 

Sam Horton: Yeah. I think, um, um, you know, once we've nailed something or expressed something and it feels really, you know, powerful and real, you know, we're called to then find the next thing, and, and those questions that you mentioned, they never end, right?

Yeah. You, you, the questioning never ends. You've gotta keep questioning. So yeah, it's very powerful. Um, but I do think, and that ties me into the next question actually. You know, we have. We can clinging on too tight sometimes, especially to creative identities that we might create, you know? Mm-hmm. You know, your, your creative identity seems to have shifted quite a lot throughout your life.

But what happens when we outgrow these versions of ourselves, these versions of our creative identity that we may have had some [00:16:00] success with, um, even, and how do we then claim that next part of our creative evolution, um, you know, how do we do that? 

Anna Rosa Parker: Ah, this is a good question. I think we really have to be open-minded and there's often, um, a grieving part.

Yeah. When we sort of, uh, graduate or, you know, we're, feel like we're done with this part of ourselves. There can be a grieving period. 

Sam Horton: And 

Anna Rosa Parker: that's okay to take the time. I think what helps us, if there's, if it's silent and nothing is coming, um, you know, the con reconnecting with our curiosity is, is so powerful because curiosity is what really drives us.

Sam Horton: Yeah. 

Anna Rosa Parker: If without it, then what are we doing? You know? Yeah. That means you're not interested in other people, you're not curious about the world, you're not curious about humanity or, or yourself. You're not, you know, it sort of has a dead end, uh, without [00:17:00] curiosity. And, um, I think if we just, you know, if somebody's going through that sort of a grieving period in their artist journey to sort of a really start to unfold maybe the narratives that have been carrying and mm-hmm.

And re rewrite them. And start to see which one they want to, um, pursue and, and yeah, tap in the curiosity. I think it's just really important to take time and it doesn't mean it's over, because if you are an artist, your creative person, you, you always will be. 

Sam Horton: Mm. But there's an element of self-trust in that journey as well.

Right. So, you know Yeah. Like trusting. If you are bored or if you are restless creatively, then it's a sign that you need to keep going and get that curious cap back on. Yeah. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Yeah. I think it's really hard with people that have one of those, you know, one hit wonders whether that is a, a book, a play, you know, um, an [00:18:00] era.

But, um, it's, if you were able to do it at some point, you can do it again. 

Sam Horton: Yes. Or something better. It's just 

Anna Rosa Parker: gonna be different. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 

Sam Horton: Yeah. 

 so I also believe that. Our creative evolution and our spiritual evolution kind of operate in this duality, and they actually feed and mirror each other. Has that been your experience too? You know, uh, as you've had creative breakthroughs, has that given you personal and spiritual breakthroughs as well and vice versa?

Anna Rosa Parker: Yeah, it definitely, when I have, uh, when I'm connected spiritually, I trust what I'm creating. 

Sam Horton: Mm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: You know? 

Sam Horton: Mm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Because, uh, it's almost like having, um, I don't think you can have a artist or create creative, um, security, but I think you can have a spiritual security. 

Sam Horton: Yeah. Okay. 

Anna Rosa Parker: In a way that when you are connected like that and you feel like everything is flowing, the things, the ideas are coming [00:19:00] to you and through you and, and, uh, and you're not occupied by, you know, the external.

Yeah. And when you allow yourself to make these inner decisions and have that inner, um, curiosity, it's, and, and you, you, uh, parallel that, I mean, you connect that with your spiritual, um. Uh, connectiveness, then that's, that's, then you're in a really good place. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. Are, 

Anna Rosa Parker: is that learning 

Sam Horton: to trust the process, do you think?

Anna Rosa Parker: Yeah, really. You know, and where, you know, where does intuition come from? Like where, where, where is it from? You know, is it through some kind of a different, realm different dimension? Uh, you know, angelic energy? Like we don't really necessarily know that, but I think we know when we are connected to something that is bigger than ourselves.

Sam Horton: Yeah. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Uh, so that's definitely, and you know, when, when we're frustrated or we're looking at [00:20:00] others and other people's work or looking at Instagram and, and all of that, it's very external. We're not, there's nothing internal happening within us. It's all, we're just looking at something external. This person did that, this person did that.

It's, it's great to see what people are doing that it's not where inspiration comes from. 

Sam Horton: Yeah. Okay. Yeah, very interesting. I mean, I think it probably is a combination as well, isn't it? So you can see something externally, but then it's asking that question again. You know, why is this resonating? What, what is, you know, the story that this is telling me, and then you go on your own journey with it, right?

Um, 

Anna Rosa Parker: yeah, and just trust it. Trust the information, trust the flow, trust all these, you know, the ideas and the voices and, and ask for it too. You know, it doesn't really matter. What your, um, spiritual practice or religion is you can always ask for. 

Sam Horton: Yeah. 

Anna Rosa Parker: You know, ideas or, you know, something will just pop up in your, you feel like you, you know how it [00:21:00] comes.

It can look like it's in your head or in your heart, or it will be presented to you, you know, as you walk down the street or 

Sam Horton: Yeah. 

Anna Rosa Parker: It comes to you somehow, you know? 

Sam Horton: Yeah. So cool. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Mm-hmm. 

Sam Horton: How important do you think that creative expression and storytelling, you know, in your language are to finding kind of your true voice and living with more integrity as we move through life?

Anna Rosa Parker: Well, I find it very important and you know, of course I'm biased because I created this program, evoke Your Identity or, you know, started as evoke your identity and then it became EV Gear story. Okay. Uh, and what it really is, it's um, essentially. I'm asking you questions about you, where you came from and your knowledge and, and what you gravitate towards and your, um, values and your goals.

And we are looking at all this. And when you start to do something, something like that, you start to see. If you are connected to it or not. Mm-hmm. Or some of this stuff, that's where also you [00:22:00] sort of start to spot out the narratives that you have been carrying. Mm-hmm. And seeing that they not, might not, either they are not valid anymore mm-hmm.

Or they're just bs, they're not like, it's not true. Mm-hmm. Maybe it didn't. Grow up as you thought maybe your mother wasn't as you thought. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm. There's so many things that come through when we start to sort of, uh, you know, look at our own garden and, and tidy up a little bit there.

Mm-hmm. And clean and unfold and look under the rocks and all that. Um. So that's sort of a, you know, the ground and then out of there you can really start to shape the story you want to live and tell. And once you start to do that, things just are more aligned than you start to have different synchronicities in a way.

Mm-hmm. You are wearing, you, you, because you have a different energy. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: You have an energy that feels more aligned to you. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And when you are aligned and you are in your own energy, you start to attract things that. [00:23:00] Are more, you know, relevant to you. 

Sam Horton: Sure. 

Anna Rosa Parker: So certain synchronicities start to, and the story started to change.

So the story going forward, start to really unfold in a very different way. And, um, in this sort of a practice too, is because we make so many decisions based on the past. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Because we know that. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Uh, I always encourage people to get into the unknown, you know, whatever space that is. Yeah. And, you know, and how to get there can be, you know, a mix of going through the heart, start to do things differently, you know?

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Mm-hmm. If you're right-handed, brush your teeth with your left hand. Little tiny things that take you out of the same sort of a loop of mm-hmm. 

Sam Horton: You 

Anna Rosa Parker: know, eating the same food and entering the same way and thinking the same way. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Start to break this up a little bit. Sure. And then you find yourself in a space that.

You don't know what's coming next. You haven't decided what you're gonna tell this person that is [00:24:00] walking up to you because you were sort of broken up this, you know, pattern that is all based on the story that you know. 

Sam Horton: Yeah, sure. 

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Anna Rosa Parker: tapping into the unknown story, now you're in the unknown, you know, unknown story.

And that's a really fun place to be because it can only be authentic to you if you are connected to that. 

Sam Horton: And that's almost like, you know, a, a very feminine allowing, you know, um, energy rather than kind of forcing and taking action all the time, just because we think we, we must. Yeah. Very 

Anna Rosa Parker: powerful. Yeah.

I love that. That's beautiful. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I know we're not very good at allowing. Or even receiving receiv, or not even, yeah. 

Sam Horton: Receiving, 

Anna Rosa Parker: you know, and people have a hard time accepting love and accepting, you know? Mm-hmm. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: So true. So that's just, yeah. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. So for all the women out there then who are curious about evoking their story and, you know, to take their creativity and their [00:25:00] life to the next level, um mm-hmm.

What powerful message or question would you like to leave them with today? 

Anna Rosa Parker: Oh.

I would, I would like to ask them if, how they connect with the story they wake up with every day. Mm-hmm. Because we, you know, when we wake up, the system starts, right? 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: The story from yesterday's is running. It's running already. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And is that the story? That you are in love with. You want to live, you want to pursue.

If so, then you're in a good place. But if not, then let's, let's pause. Yeah. Let's unfold all those narratives that you're currently living and, and, and, and map the story you want to, you want to live and pursue. We 

Sam Horton: get to choose. 

Anna Rosa Parker: We get to choose. We have so much more [00:26:00] power, we, it just takes us a while to get here.

Suddenly it did for me because I didn't give myself that sort of, um, authority to, um, you know, you make different decisions from your family. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. 

Anna Rosa Parker: And it takes a while to get there even. Mm-hmm. 

Sam Horton: Mm-hmm. Yeah, definitely. 

Anna Rosa Parker: To break all these different pattern that we've been carrying. It's all, it's all stories.

It's all narratives. 

Sam Horton: Yeah. 

Anna Rosa Parker: So, yeah, women have, we have a lot of power and we can always rewrite the narrative. It doesn't mean that you are, uh, not telling the truth. Yeah. You're just graduating and letting go of the old narratives, and you get to rewrite the one you want to live, and then you're in, uh, a place of pursuing something that you're, you're in love with, you're passionate about, you're curious about.

Sam Horton: Hmm. We get to make the meanings mm-hmm. Of our life. Yeah. Beautiful. Love it. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Yeah. 

Sam Horton: So how can people get to know you better, Anna, and get a real feel for the work that you're doing? 

Anna Rosa Parker: Yeah, thank you. I have, um, we have evoke your story. It's both a [00:27:00] website and an Instagram account and a Facebook page. Evoke your story.

Uh, that's E-V-O-K-E. And then I'm also my website, LinkedIn and Instagram is all also under my full name, Anna Rosa Parker. So just I, I work one-on-one, you know, virtually and in person. And then evoke your story. Website is all about the on demand course that people can do on their own, correct. On their own time.

Yeah. 

Sam Horton: Excellent. Well thank you so much for coming and chatting with me today, today, Anna. It's lovely talking to you. 

Anna Rosa Parker: Thank you. I love, I love your energy and the space, so thank you for that.