Sage Matthews: Sagewolf Herself / Most Hippest Mom / Gypsy Queen

@sagewolf_interviews
The scene:
We are sitting in the “Secret Garden” of Rachel and Chris’s LA home - which they so generously have made my home with them. These guys are my family, truly. They let me be 1000% myself and whomever I’m becoming. After many others’ requests for me to be interviewee, I chose Rachel to be my interviewer for my Sagewlf Interviews Podcast. I knew from the moment I met her that we were sisters for life and actually it was more like “It’s so nice to see you again!” Join us in the garden for the truth-telling of Sagewlf.
Highlights:
+ When I started going by Sage, my middle name
+ My “thing” that I can’t not do is these interviews with all of you
+ Creating an intentional gypsy life
+ Traveling to always be headed toward the people I love
+ My process in editing and note-taking for the interviews
+ The importance of curating the environment for the interviewee
+ Using social media to build community
+ How Sagewolf Interviews began
+ Learning how to build a website and do audio editing
+ Being a recovering perfectionist
+ Saying fuck it and pressing publish
+ Experimenting with and learning new tools
+ Beginning recording with my grandfather’s life story
+ Figuring out what is true to me, what I give a shit about
+ Doing everything at 150%, so choosing my “things” wisely
+ Recovering from perfectionism
+ Resourcing interviewees from my life - past and present
+ Learning how to approach a stranger for an interview
+ Being intentionally honest and vulnerable with others
+ Bringing out vulnerability and the desire to share in others
+ Learning to listen to others and making them feel heard
+ Changing from a fly on the wall to a fully expressed and joyful human
+ Why the name Sagewolf - a story about wolf behavior
+ Having interviewees choose their environment to create comfort
+ Eliminating considerations of vulnerability
+ Being invited into a sacred space by another
+ Being strong-willed, perseverant and adaptable
+ Disappearing from confrontative experiences
+ We have what we need in us already, we just have to learn how to use it
+ Self-reliance is a buffer for being vulnerable with others
+ Moving from LA to Utah and waking up to your own BS
+ Cultivating community without stereotypes
+ Finding “family” and “home” everywhere
+ Mormons are some of my favorite humans on the planet
+ Getting high off human exchanges
+ Contouring ourselves to create a comfortable place for others
+ Seeing ourselves - our own reflections - in others
+ Not allowing humility to keep you from interacting with others
+ Loving your younger little sad self
+ Aiming to get back to the young, innocent, confident self
+ Appreciating self as we are
+ What I want the outcome of the interview project to be
+ We have an obligation to share our unique gift with our world
+ The journey is the joy
A taste:
“It’s up to us, we have a conscious choice to make. We live in a very victim mentality culture [...] and it has intentionally disempowered us. It’s time for people to realize how actually powerful they already are and all they need to do is act on that [...] and see their power and not be afraid of that. I have total control over every situation because I choose how to respond [...] I can create an opportunity out of that for myself to better learn something..."
Favorite saying:
“Lemonade.” (When you get lemons, make lemonade)
“When the student is ready, the teacher arrives.” (from interviewee Lisa Farmer)

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