The Void Project
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#TheVoidProject 08: Everything in its place w/Craig Constantine
The Void Project
06/10/23 • 29 min
When we begin with a blank slate, it can ignite imagination and clear the way to define and create what we truly want.
Summary
Sometimes we look around and realize there’s not much rhyme or reason to the things we own. When we pare down to a blank slate, it can ignite imagination and clear the way to define and create what we truly want.
About my guest
Craig Constantine is the voice behind the “Movers Mindset” podcast. He’s a mountain climber, a sailer and a martial artist. He’s also a world traveler, he leads retreats in astronomy and he loves philosophy. Craig's background is in physics and he’s worked in programming and system administration.
Craig's mission is creating better conversations to spread understanding and compassion. At 40, Craig discovered Parkour and began relearning how to play. Finding himself in countless conversations about movement, he began podcasting in 2017 to share what he was experiencing.
He has helped thousands of people learn to create podcasts through coaching and community, has been on dozens of podcasts as a guest, and has published more than 1,000 episodes for his own shows including more than 300 conversations.
Learn more about Craig at:
Movers Mindset podcast
https://moversmindset.com/podcast/
Open + Curious
https://www.openandcurious.org/
Resources mentioned
Freecycle
https://www.freecycle.org/
Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Main Topics
3:05imagine what each space in the house would be
3:43everything in the house should have a place
5:27a blank canvas to work from
9:17taking a room apart
11:40imagination
15:01freecycle.org
20:55we get to be big kids
22:22making the space together
24:03minimalism and essentialism
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#TheVoidProject 01: Don’t Rush w/Sasha Newton
The Void Project
03/31/23 • 18 min
What can a 24-year-old teach us about shoring up our values before we run out and buy more?
Summary
What can a 25-year-old teach us about shoring up our values before we run out and buy more? In the opening episode of the podcast, we speak with Sasha Newton, a young professional in Northern California. Based on her own life experience, she makes the case that real growth can be found in letting things go, then living in the tension of not yet knowing exactly what we want. Later, when we’re clear about why we want things, we can be economical with our money and our time, while dialing back potential waste and disposal on the planet. On the day we recorded this episode, Sasha had just sorted her closet and let of 60-70%.
About my guest
Sasha Newton is a young professional currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She co-founded Peer Point, a program that supports youth in dispute resolution. Sasha graduated from Pomona College with a double major in Cognitive Science and Asian Studies and she speaks Spanish, Mandarin, Italian and Russian. Sasha also is an avid athlete on land and in water; in high school and college she competed in interscholastic swimming and polo.
Main topics
4:26the average woman has 125 articles of clothing
5:45letting go of things from the past feels like growth
6:58acquire a professional wardrobe at no cost
10:55value simplicity, utility and high quality
11:14perfect definition of a gift
13:13the right tool at the right time
14:23China, France, Sweden
15:07Capsule wardrobe
Additional resources
Fresh Lifelines for Youth (host of the Peer Point program)
flyprogram.org
How many clothes do I really need?
www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/style/clothes-wardrobe-need.html
Capsule wardrobe
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_wardrobe
Sasha’s tip for building a wardrobe at no cost
Use Facebook local buy/sell/trade groups to post a note about why you are building a wardrobe, the style or purpose you need it for, your size, and your willingness to pick it up wherever the donor would prefers. Say that you’re open to photo-sharing before pick-up to make sure it’s a match with what you want.
Book to check out
The Year of Less, by Cait Flanders
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#TheVoidProject 07: Community w/Judy Dolmatch
The Void Project
05/29/23 • 29 min
When we consider what becomes of the things we once owned, it might give us fresh perspective on our daily planetary impact, as well as what will be left behind when we’re gone.
Summary
Teddy bears from childhood, life off the grid and organizing our “estate” before we die. In this wide-reaching conversation, Judy Dolmatch reflects on acquisition and disposition, staying connect with her late mother through a shared appreciation of art, and how living in a permaculture community deepened her appreciation for ecological systems. Her interest in cultural attitudes about death led to further reflections on what becomes of possessions when we leave the planet.
About my guest
Judy Dolmatch is a champion of the creative spirit and the creative process. She co-founded performance troupes in comedy improvisation and playback theater in Ashland, OR. She also originated the Artrageous Community Arts Camps, a collaborative exploration for adults who want to explore creativity and leadership, and currently leads improvisation playshops and facilitates the Death Cafe in Florence, OR. Judy is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in life passages and trauma recovery.
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#TheVoidProject 06: Right thing, right time w/Laurie Riedman
The Void Project
05/20/23 • 29 min
Sometimes the internal experiences we crave are enhanced by changing our external environment.
Summary
Change can surprise us. Even when we know it’s in the offing, it can take time to thoroughly unfold. Visions of what we thought we wanted may come to pass, whether or not the details we had in mind completely align with what reality turns out to be. By paying attention to our values as they evolved and refine, we can make choices that lead to the right things at the right time. Including knowing when and how to let things go.
About my guest
Laurie Riedman is a relationship and life coach at bu coaching. She publishes essays on her Substack blog titled More Than Words and is the author of a soon-to-be-published book, Diamonds in the Dirt: Stories from a Junkyard Girl. Laurie has run her own communications and coaching business for 35 years and earned numerous leadership awards along the way. She lives with her husband in the Finger Lakes of upstate New York.
bu Coaching
https://bucoach.com/
More Than Words
https://laurieriedman.substack.com/
Main Topics
3:00ready for something new
4:40the things I want now are different
5:54letting go was hard
9:28the right things at the right time
15:27how living my values has changed
18:46create space inside by having less things
19:33you can make mistakes
21:59letting go is a muscle; practice little things
23:36use structural tension
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#TheVoidProject 04: Valuing constraints w/Lisa Donoughe
The Void Project
05/01/23 • 21 min
How can limitations actually spur creativity?
Summary
How might the intentional choice to live abroad influence one’s relationship to their possessions? Along with opportunities come constraints — which can spark entirely new approaches. For example, sorting through what we own and deciding what to do with it needn’t be burdensome; it can be big fun.
About my guest
Lisa Donoughe is a brand expert and entrepreneur, a visionary, a communicator, and a true woman of the world dividing her time between homes in Berlin, New York City, and Portland, Oregon. She's a creator and a curator and a champion of fine food, art and culture. As one of Lisa’s clients describes it, “Lisa has her methods. Some of them are unconventional. She has a way of seeing the world in a different way.”
More on Lisa at https://www.lisadonoughe.com/
Main topics
1:21living in Berlin started as an experiment
2:35I love constraints
6:38three cities, three homes, three styles
9:00how Berlin’s apartments are different from those in the U.S.
13:20worst nightmare: brown moths
16:11fun re-evaluating everything in the house during pandemic lockdown
19:21new relationship to appliances and possessions
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#TheVoidProject 03: Client Readiness w/Amy Baskerville
The Void Project
04/21/23 • 24 min
What makes a person ready to sort and organize their things with the help of someone else?
Summary
Readiness can look different for different people. A possible measure is the willingness to have one’s things ruffled through and shaken loose. Another is their receptivity to new organizing principles. Whatever gets it going, the sorting and reorganizing process can illicit insight for the client and the consultant alike.
About my guest
Amy Baskerville is a true world citizen. Born in Nebraska, raised in Japan during much of her childhood, she also lived in Singapore, Hong Kong and several places on both coasts of the US, and traveled to India, Norway, Mali, Iran and Russia. Her curiosity and zest for life are fed by ever-evolving professional roles across myriad industries including culinary, real estate, travel and education.
Main topics
2:00 when people are ready to change or transform
5:24 everybody has their sweet spot
6:09 what makes a client ready?
12:30 gentle softening
13:52 starting point for setting up my own home
16:39 a function for storage
19:16 dismantle a home
20:13 traveling light abroad
23:03 shaking things loose
23:33 readiness project
Additional Resources
For travel, Amy recommends packing a lightweight shawl. It can add versatility to fashion as a wrap, and to comfort as an extra layer.
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Trailer
The Void Project
12/31/22 • 1 min
Transcript
Hi.
How do you feel about podcasts that are ... personal?
Because this one gets personal.
It’s also about our stuff.
What?!
Yeah, the stuff you we buy or find or accept as a gift or inherit and it all builds up and up and up over time. Until one day we realize we’re in charge of managing it all.
Why do people do that?
Okay. I could stop right there. That would make for a pretty good podcast.
But that’s not as deep as we could go. Here’s a way more interesting question:
Might our belongings be a distraction that hides things we’d rather not see?
And then, what do people actually discover when they finally do let go?
My name is Kira Higgs. I’m a strategist, structural consultant, meditator and cyclist. I started a personal project a couple of years ago that I labelled, The Void Project.
The little tasks I laid out for myself produced insights galore — about our stuff and about how what we keep in our midst can enhance, or detract from, our lives.
It wasn’t solely about clearing physical things to make more space in my home and office. It was to leverage the movement of books, papers, tchotchkes, email — all that and more — to stir up concepts that lie below the surface of my conscious awareness.
Now, as a podcast, The Void Project shares stories about real journeys of discovery without glossing over the bumpy bits.
I talk with people who pared down. They share their experiences, the lessons they learned, and some of the wonders that resulted.
Ten lives. Ten conversations. Ten people who did it for themselves or for others.
Let’s do this. Let’s get personal.
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#TheVoidProject Bonus Edition: A good death w/Wenndi Freer
The Void Project
07/29/23 • 24 min
A special bonus edition
Must death be such a taboo topic in western culture? To the curious, the exploration of death can inspire a spirit of discovery and wonder. Instead of experiencing emptiness, there’s a possibility of feeling incomparable fullness. And, perceived from a certain angle, it can reveal something of a spiritual nature to those transitioning and those they leave behind.
About my guest
Wenndi Freer is never satisfied with the superficial; her curiosity compels her to search for what’s underneath or behind initial appearances. When she was growing up in Connecticut she lost friends and family to early death, which led her to a number of questions about, and inquiry into death and dying. That unfeigned exploration propelled her onto a deeply personal spiritual path.
As a space clearer, Wenndi leverages the energy of people’s homes and offices to remove internal obstacles, loosen personal limitations, and position her clients to expand into an experience of the life that they truly want to live.
More about Wenndi
Website
LinkedIn Profile
Resources
Elizabeth Kubler Ross, Death and Dying
Raymond Moody, Life After Life
Brian Weiss, Many Lives, Many Masters
Atul Gwande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters In the End
Sushila Blackman, Graceful Exits
Hospice Foundation of America
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, podcast interview with Jane Fonda
Main Topics
3:03how I demystified death
6:11my first theories
7:29it became personal
10:45fullness and perception
12:35if you can move past thinking it’s only about loss
15:02something gets forced open in a good way
16:26death plan
19:09the gift
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#TheVoidProject 10: Tangibles and intangibles w/Wenndi Freer
The Void Project
06/30/23 • 25 min
After we’ve dealt with the tangibles and plumbed the intangibles, what we are left with might be surprising.
Through a ritual called Space Clearing, we can infuse our home with our intentions, and gain greater awareness of our presence.
About my guest
Wenndi Freer is never satisfied with the superficial; her curiosity compels her to search for what’s underneath or behind initial appearances. When she was growing up in Connecticut she lost friends and family to early death, which led her to a number of questions about, and inquiry into death and dying. That unfeigned exploration propelled her onto a deeply personal spiritual path.
As a space clearer, Wenndi leverages the energy of people’s homes and offices to remove internal obstacles, loosen personal limitations, and position her clients to expand into an experience of the life that they truly want to live.
More about Wenndi
https://wenndifreer.com/
Main Topics
2:48when the tangibles have fallen away, what’s left?
4:17something reveals itself
9:28move intangibles out of the way
12:33how to know the change stuck
15:21the intention people put in their space
18:04engaging a spiritual path
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#TheVoidProject 09: Family agreements w/Susan Walter
The Void Project
06/20/23 • 23 min
When someone values experiences over possessions, it’s acceptable to have less stuff. Even preferable. It can become a delicate matter, however, when older generations are ready to pass down their favorite belongings.
Summary
With each move from one home to the next, choices await. About what to keep, what to acquire and what to let go of. These transitions can be opportunities to, "look at a new way of living." And clear organizing principles, with mutual understanding among all involved, pave the way for decision making to be relatively simple and straightforward.
About my guest
Susan Walter is an educator at heart. She’s also an author with a memoir in development -- telling the story of her existential crisis and how it let to becoming a badass advocate. She’s currently moving between states and between careers and in both cases Susan knows where she’ll land. In Philadelphia, working with families and loved ones of people with disabilities, to do future life planning that incorporates the associated legal, financial and tax matters.
More about Susan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-walter-5476319/
Resources and references
Refugee resources
Below are the nine national agencies that hold federal agreements to resettle refugees as of 2022. Many communities also have local resources.
Church World Service, Ethiopian Community Development Council, Episcopal Migration Ministries, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, International Rescue Committee, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and World Relief Corporation.
Capsule wardrobe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_wardrobe
Main Topics
1:38I said yes to everything
2:53canoeing in the Boundary Waters
5:59furnish the way the space needed to be used
6:13we looked at a new way of living
8:46choosing to donate to a refugee settlement program
10:20conversation with mom
13:59pod lady living out of suitcases
17:19capsule wardrobe
18:44care taking for an adult child with disabilities
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FAQ
How many episodes does The Void Project have?
The Void Project currently has 12 episodes available.
What topics does The Void Project cover?
The podcast is about Minimalism, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Podcasts, Self-Improvement and Education.
What is the most popular episode on The Void Project?
The episode title '#TheVoidProject Bonus Edition: A good death w/Wenndi Freer' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Void Project?
The average episode length on The Void Project is 24 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Void Project released?
Episodes of The Void Project are typically released every 10 days, 1 hour.
When was the first episode of The Void Project?
The first episode of The Void Project was released on Dec 31, 2022.
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