Stories, Soul Work & Substack

<p>Thank you Jenny Lynn, Nicola Farnhill, Cit Ananda, Lynette K Dodd, rhonda doruiter, and many others for tuning into my live video with Sandra-Lynne! </p><p>In this episode of Stories, Soul Work & Substack, John...

<p>Thank you Karl Tame, Vonnie G. Clemens Jr., Susan J Hilger, Sacred Storylines 🎨, Harriet Corvine, and many others for tuning into my live video! </p><p>This wasn’t a podcast about writing.</p><p>This was a reality...

<p>First—thank you Ruth Urman, Mary Ann McGee, Dragonheart Jo, Grey Selkie, rhonda doruiter, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.</p><p>Today’s conversation with...

<p>Some conversations inform you. Others slow you down.</p><p>Today’s episode—Opening the Heart with Tiffany—was the kind that asked for stillness before it offered insight.</p><p>It didn’t start with advice. It started...

<p>The first Writer’s Notes panel wasn’t a performance—it was a conversation. No polished formulas, no “how-to-go-viral” scripts—just four writers, chris kalaboukis, Let’s Get UnStuck, Nat Sang, and John Rinaldo...

<p>There are conversations that stay on the surface—and then there are conversations that ask something of you. Today’s episode with chris kalaboukis was the second kind.</p><p>It didn’t begin with answers. It began...

<p>Today’s conversation began in a way that felt familiar—and honest. Before Grace Grossmann even joined, there was a pause. Not silence, but space. And in that space, something important surfaced: progress rarely looks...

<p>Today’s conversation with Dr. Deborah Vinall began with something simple: questions from the audience. After our earlier discussion on gaslighting, many readers wanted to understand how these dynamics appear in...

<p>Tonight’s special edition brought Joe Nichols back to the conversation, and it quickly became clear that the road west isn’t really about geography. It’s about the journey a writer takes with himself.</p><p>Joe spoke...

<p>Today’s conversation with Lis reminded us that the most powerful things on Substack are often the quietest ones.</p><p>Lis did not arrive on the platform chasing numbers, subscribers, or attention. Instead, she...

<p>Today’s guest was supposed to join us.</p><p>Instead, he made the decision to step away from writing — and from the public space altogether. I respect that. There is dignity in knowing when to step back. But there is...

<p>In this raw and reflective episode of Stories, Soulwork & Substack, John sits down with Shadow Pursuit for a conversation that moves beyond surface-level storytelling and into the hidden parts of identity — the...

<p>In this deeply personal and powerful episode of Stories, Soulwork & Substack, John sits down with trauma psychologist, author, and EMDR clinician Dr. Deborah Vinall to explore the layered realities of trauma...

<p>In this heartfelt episode of Stories, Soul Work & Substack, KaZ and John sit down with Josie DiVincenzo for a grounded and inspiring conversation about growth, timing, and learning to flourish exactly where life has...

<p>In this candid and deeply resonant episode of Stories, Soulwork & Substack, John Rinaldo and KaZ Akers sit down with Nat Sang to talk about the part of layoffs that rarely gets discussed—the emotional fallout...