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Author, editor & writing mentor Amy Hallberg presents conversations with real-life creatives on how we find and embody our voices. Because if you want to be a real-life creative, it helps to know what that looks like for you. Welcome to Courageous Wordsmith.
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Signup to Generate a PitchAuthor, editor & writing mentor Amy Hallberg presents conversations with real-life creatives on how we find and embody our voices. Because if you want to be a real-life creative, it helps to know what that looks like for you. Welcome to Courageous Wordsmith.
Courageous Wordsmith is hosted by Amy Hallberg. The show has published 122 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Habits of Heart" (17 March 2026, 28 minutes), "Habits of Heart" (17 March 2026, 28 minutes), and "Loving Our Neighbors" (14 February 2026, 35 minutes).
Courageous Wordsmith publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 33 minutes across 122 episodes.
Booking probability for Courageous Wordsmith is 44%, and the host is rated Open on guests. Courageous Wordsmith requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Courageous Wordsmith's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Courageous Wordsmith are Artists, Writers & Performers. Courageous Wordsmith has an arts audience.
Amy Hallberg hosts Courageous Wordsmith, an arts podcast with 122 episodes published.
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Episode #117
From Amy: From the beginning, my podcast has done whatever it wanted. It is, at best, loosely scripted. As in: There's no application process. You cannot pitch yourself. I will say no thank you. This is the ONLY way it...
Episode #117
<p>From Amy:</p> <p>From the beginning, my podcast has done whatever it wanted. It is, at best, loosely scripted.</p> <p>As in: There's no application process. You cannot pitch yourself. I will say no thank you. This is...
Episode #116
<p>From Amy:</p><p>My friend Jillian Rae has done this thing twice while we've posed for a photo, once at her album launch, once at my book launch: Jillian points to me and makes a face as if she can't believe her luck...
Episode #116
From Amy: My friend Jillian Rae has done this thing twice while we've posed for a photo, once at her album launch, once at my book launch: Jillian points to me and makes a face as if she can't believe her luck to have...
Episode #115
<p>From Amy:</p><p>You likely know that Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota two Wednesdays ago. ICE is occupying our state because the Supreme Court said that they could. Specifically...
Episode #115
From Amy: You likely know that Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota two Wednesdays ago. ICE is occupying our state because the Supreme Court said that they could. Specifically, Brett...
Episode #114
<p>From Amy:</p><p>I have so much to say about the richness and challenge of my journey through the life coach world, and someday soon I'll be ready to write about that. But if there's anything I would tell my former...
Episode #114
From Amy: I have so much to say about the richness and challenge of my journey through the life coach world, and someday soon I'll be ready to write about that. But if there's anything I would tell my former self, as...
Episode #113
<p>From Amy:</p><p>At the heart of my work, I draw connections with and for real-life creatives, often from my lived experience of making those kinds of connections in my own work. Not only would a younger Amy have...
Episode #113
From Amy: At the heart of my work, I draw connections with and for real-life creatives, often from my lived experience of making those kinds of connections in my own work. Not only would a younger Amy have cringed to...
Episode #112
<p>From Amy:</p><p>Anyone who has been in my world even briefly knows that my work is about books... and yes, I do love a well-written book... and my work is about supporting real-life authors and working creatives...
Episode #112
From Amy: Anyone who has been in my world even briefly knows that my work is about books... and yes, I do love a well-written book... and my work is about supporting real-life authors and working creatives... and / but...
Episode #111
<p>From Amy:</p><p>Ten years ago this month, I started my 21st year of teaching with painful confirmations that my career was on its last legs: betrayal by people in power and a frozen right shoulder (my dominant side)...
Episode #111
From Amy: Ten years ago this month, I started my 21st year of teaching with painful confirmations that my career was on its last legs: betrayal by people in power and a frozen right shoulder (my dominant side) that made...
Episode #110
<p>From Amy:</p><p>The big ideas that get us all talking didn't come from nowhere. Someone started talking about them, and somewhere along the way, they got traction. Somebody or something amplified them and they...
Episode #110
From Amy: The big ideas that get us all talking didn't come from nowhere. Someone started talking about them, and somewhere along the way, they got traction. Somebody or something amplified them and they resonated. And...
Episode #109
<p>From Amy:</p><p>I am not a fangirl. I'm not that person who waits at the stage door to talk with famous people after a concert or someone who would approach a famous person at a restaurant to ask for an autograph...
Episode #109
From Amy: I am not a fangirl. I'm not that person who waits at the stage door to talk with famous people after a concert or someone who would approach a famous person at a restaurant to ask for an autograph. I'd rather...
Episode #108
From Amy: Timing for creative work is interesting. Sometimes you start a project that, for whatever reason, doesn't want to come together right then. Later the perfect timing arises, and you understand that this project...
Episode #108
<p>From Amy:</p><p>Timing for creative work is interesting. Sometimes you start a project that, for whatever reason, doesn't want to come together right then. Later the perfect timing arises, and you understand that...
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Director for the North of England, North Wales, and the Isle of Man, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University
author and change leader, Jennings Bulk Haulage
Senior Director of Employee Spending Accounts, Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine
4th generation physician, author, & shamanic healer
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