Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley
Kate Hanley
Finding the Throughline: Conversations about the Creative Process invites you into the minds of writers and other creatives as they open up about their process, their doubts, and what kinds of changes they’re thinking about making. The questions are mildly invasive, honestly, and the answers are unvarnished…and so refreshing! Whether your creative work is writing, painting, making music, parenting, or simply living, Finding the Throughline can help you get—and stay—inspired. Invigorated, even. For detailed show notes on each interview, visit katehanley.substack.com. And if you’d like to hear these interviews in one ad-free episode (as opposed to broken up into three shorter episodes with a few ads sprinkled in to keep the lights on), become a paid subscriber once you’re there..
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Mar 26, 2021 • 9min
Pandemic Real Talk: End of Quarantine Blues? EP: 411
When I saw the gif, it hit me. It was a drawing of a woman hugging a house and it said "Quarantine Forever" as hearts pulsed around head. I was feeling something surprising, even confusing--some sadness that quarantine will end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 25, 2021 • 7min
Pandemic Real Talk: The Only Way to Build Endurance Is to Endure EP: 410
What we’re being called to grow our resilience. Because you can’t build resilience when everything’s hunky dory. Where we are right now is like the bottom of a push-up. Do you know how push-ups work? I didn’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 24, 2021 • 15min
Pandemic Real Talk: How to Spend Your Stimulus Check EP: 409
Today I’m talking with Beverly Harzog, an expert on debt and credit cards and consumer finance analyst for US News & World Report, who has a great way of making financial subjects--especially emotionally-charged ones, like debt--very practical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 23, 2021 • 8min
Pandemic Real Talk: The Cost of Making Impossible Choices EP: 408
For the last year, we have all been having to make impossible choices. Deciding between mental health and physical health, and individual health versus community health, or financial health versus mental health. I share two guidelines for making these impossible calls more manageable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 22, 2021 • 10min
Pandemic Real Talk: The Guilt of Doing OK EP: 407
I’m hearing from folks from all walks of life is that if they are doing basically OK--they haven’t lost their job, or a loved one, they aren’t in financial or physical peril--they feel guilty about it. Let's talk about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 19, 2021 • 6min
Re-Emergence: This One Question Will Help You Re-Emerge Mindfully EP: 406
Today’s big idea is that even though we are undoubtedly living through a time of re-emergence, we need to be mindful of how we do it. After all, we just went through something just epically scary and exhausting. Expecting that we can just rush back "out there" is gonna be a shock to the system.
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Mar 18, 2021 • 8min
Re-Emergence: An Easy Spring Detox (that Helps with Seasonal Allergies, Too) EP: 405
One thing that can make you NOT want to re-emerge after the long pandemic winter is seasonal allergies. Here's a simple and powerful detox that helps you shake off winter AND ward off the spring sniffles and sluggishness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 17, 2021 • 20min
Re-Emergence: Update Your Style to Reflect the New You EP: 404
What we wear is is a great vehicle for expressing who we are now. And frankly, since we’ve been inside wearing sweatpants for a year now, it's also something we might be feeling a little rusty about. Today I'm interviewing Elysha Lenkin, a fashion stylist with a holistic twist, to get her guidance so that we can come out of this feeling great and refreshed, inside and out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 16, 2021 • 7min
Re-Emergence: We Have Forgotten How to Talk to People IRL EP: 403
Just like any muscle that gets weaker when you don’t use it, we’re all rusty and awkward when it comes to talking with other people.Tip today isn’t any specific social skill. It’s simply this... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 15, 2021 • 8min
3 Hacks to Adapt to Daylight Savings Time EP: 402
In honor of today being the first work day since daylight savings time began, I’m sharing three strategies that will help you minimize the aftershocks of moving the clocks forward a full hour in one night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
