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Soul SiStories Trailer: Finding Hope Through Creativity w/Brianna McDonnell
What happens when hope meets creativity? Dona Rice, an intuitive medium and author, alongside Diana Herweck, a seasoned therapist and counselor, invite you to embark on an emotional journey in their premiere podcast episode featuring LA-based performer and creative powerhouse Brianna McDonnell. We promise you’ll encounter stories that illuminate the path of resilience and growth, drawing inspiration from Brianna's experiences as she breaks barriers and honors the legacy of women who preceded her. This episode encapsulates the essence of finding hope through creativity, a theme that resonates deeply within our own personal narratives and those we seek to share.
Join us as we weave through heartfelt conversations that explore the boundless power of hope. Donna and Diana open up about their transformative journeys and the profound impact of hope on their lives, which have led to the creation of Soul Sisteries. Listen closely as Brianna McDonnell shares her journey of artistic expression and community building, offering a testament to the strength we can find in creativity. This episode is a celebration of connection and inspiration, reminding us all that hope is a vital force that can carry us through life’s most challenging and beautiful moments.
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The lights are on, the curtains up. This is Steps to the Stage. Hey gang, hope this message finds you well as we head into the holiday season. We're excited to announce our sister podcast, Soul Sisteries. Producer Kirk here and we have been underway for a few months now recording episodes on what is sure to be an uplifting, enlightening and just all-around hopeful podcast. Please, if you like what you're listening to on Steps to the Stage, you'll love Soul Sisteries. Here's our trailer.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Soul Sisteries, where we find hope through lived stories.
Speaker 3:Hi, I'm Donna Rice and I am an intuitive medium and author, as well as a theater teacher, drama teacher, and all of these experiences, and, most profoundly, the loss of my eldest son, Kenny, have brought me to this place, this journey that I've been on, to bring forward my story, my vision of hope, and to pull out and pull forward those stories from others as well those stories from others as well.
Speaker 2:I'm Diana Herwick. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed professional counselor. I am a professor in counseling and psychology programs at the graduate level and, following my own profound losses several years ago, I was thrown onto a new journey of really creating hope and finding hope and sharing hope with others who had been through similar experiences. My goal through this medium is to share new ideas about hope and encourage others to create hope in their own lives.
Speaker 3:So we've come together in Soul Sisteries in order to share our passion for hope, and hope has carried us through our own journeys, our own lived stories, and so we knew, through all of this experience, there's something more. There's something more that we've got and something more that others have that needs to get out there, and we want to be a part of that.
Speaker 1:Here's a small sampling of our upcoming premiere episode with the LA-based performer, creative producer and social media specialist, brianna McDonald.
Speaker 2:And so, of course, being your older aunts not too old, but your older aunts of course, we are totally inspired by you, you know, from just like early days you've just been an inspiration and not yes, I know you're modeling poses and not just really not just for us, but we get to share the joy that we have, you know, for you and your growth and your journey with all the people that we know and love also right, so I think you do.
Speaker 2:Your blog started with this one audience in mind, but it certainly has grown from there. Your film doesn't stick with one community, it crosses kind of community lines, right, and I think that's one of the things about you that I know is just that you kind of break down barriers, like you are a kick ass girl, like nothing's going to stop you, which for me to see that in somebody I love, you know, a young woman who's growing up kind of behind me, that's just really really exciting to see, which is one of the reasons why Donna and I really wanted to have you kind of be the inaugural guest yeah because you're just so important in our life and have so much value in this world that like we've got to get it out even more right.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, truth. So you know part of what, a big part of what brought Diana and me together in the soul sisteries journey is this idea of hope that we've been on some pretty dramatic, wild, powerful, beautiful, deep, heartbreaking, glorious all the things journeys for the past many years as which right that is just human existence also. But we have been very intentional about about hope through this journey and holding that space and, and, like I said, being intentional about that. So we've got a tagline for this podcast we are soul sisteries, hope through dot, dot, dot, and so our idea is that each of our guests, you know, sort of has that hope through um experience, and we talked with you a little bit about that and what is your hope through word and that you gave to us and we would very much like for you to speak on it if you could. This is hope through creativity.
Speaker 4:Yes, hope through creativity. I, through my own soul searching and growth, and I mean I first, I feel like I have to acknowledge that I am nothing without the legacy of women before me. Like you know also, we maybe should can't do this podcast, because whenever we're together, we always just cry.
Speaker 3:I'm I'm stunned that these are the first moments of tears honestly among us.
Speaker 4:So I was holding it really together. But, um, no, I mean I like, yeah, I am nothing without the legacy of women for me, and that's so pivotal to just who I am as a person, but also so much about the world through, like the lens of the women, like of my aunts, my mom, my grandmother, like in growing up, sort of around a kitchen table and like just so many stories of womanhood that are so like just who I am because of you guys, so happy to be here. And hope through creativity is really, yeah, it's a tenant of my being. It is an absolute I live in, die by hope and by creativity, through my own soul, searching and really getting alignment of like, what are my values?
Speaker 4:And 10 years of doing this online blog turned production company, creating my art and really questioning like, does this still matter to me? Does this still matter to anyone? Do I still want to do this 10 years in, do I still care? Do I not care? And so, really searching all parts of myself, I really really found that without hope, I am nothing Like if I do not have hope for a better tomorrow or a better future or a hope for the world or for, like, global community, or for my neighbor, or for my best friend like, or for myself, like, if I don't have hope, then I'm, I, brianna, as an entity, as a soul. It's done so. Hope means so much to me and I'm so, uh, aligned with you both that that is the theme of this project yeah, thanks for joining us today on soul histories and thanks for sharing stories with us.
Speaker 3:We'd love to hear your stories as well and keep the conversation going, absolutely keeping the hope going. So we're really hopeful that you'll connect with our guests as well, who have great stories to share. Go ahead and follow them in various social media platforms or live venues, wherever it is that they're performing and sharing what they do.
Speaker 2:We would love to have you follow us on all of our social media platforms, subscribe and rate, as that will help us get our message of hope out to others. Thanks for listening to.
Speaker 3:Soul Sisteries.
Speaker 1:Please follow Soul Sisteries on Facebook, instagram and YouTube. We also have a website. Link will be in the show notes. And please follow us on your favorite podcast platform, apple Spotify all of them. You'll also be able to watch and hear episodes on YouTube. Thanks for supporting the arts. We really hope you guys have a fantastic holiday season. Thanks for listening to Steps to the Stage and now it's time for the curtain call.
