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Coming This March: Season 2
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Season 2 hosts Tracy Johnson, Katy Stafford, and Haley Wiggers discuss favorite moments from Season 1 of the Red Town Living podcast. They highlight the bravery and relatability of the women who share their stories in this place as well as generosity and affirmation within the Red Tent Living community.
Looking forward to season two, they reveal our theme and their hopes for the upcoming season. Welcome back, to the women of Red Tent Living
For more stories from brave, ordinary women, join us at Red Tent Living.
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Favorite Moments from Season 1
00:00:02
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So Katie and Hailey, it's super fun to see you guys today and to just chat a little bit about the upcoming season for the Red Town Living podcast. Yeah, it's good. I'm excited to be here. Yeah.
00:00:19
Speaker
So let's just really quick, what was your favorite moment or your favorite thing out of season one? All three of us did kind of more than one episode and had a chance to listen to the others that were done. Give me a favorite moment.
00:00:36
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For me, my favorite thing was week after week, I would find myself so impressed by somebody's bravery. Like they just, the women who showed up shared things that were genuine, honest, sometimes flattering, sometimes not, but always hopeful and just so easy for me to relate to. There were so many moments where it was like, oh, I have absolutely felt that before.
00:01:06
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And I loved having that as a part of my family. That's good. How about you, Haley?
The Power of Shared Stories
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As somebody who contributed and got to read my story with somebody, so that experience and then listening, I felt like
00:01:27
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One, it was so great to be able to see over a screen but in person another writer that I read their words but don't have much interaction with or have never met in person.
00:01:43
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And it just felt really humbling to be able to receive somebody who I've read the writing and really look up to as a writer, but then for them to also receive my writing, it just felt like a gift in a way that you don't get when you're just reading. I also liked how some of the stories
00:02:10
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may have gone in being so different, but there seem to be so many threads that you could tie to seemingly unrelated and completely different stories together.
Community and Belonging
00:02:24
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So that was fascinating and really cool to see the threads. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. I think you've both named things that certainly are part of what I loved.
00:02:43
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and things that are, I think, reflective of why the Red Tent Living community has continued to grow and expand for over a decade. I think one of the signature things that we're known for, and it largely happened on the website with the pieces of writing that we feature, is that we are a generous
00:03:07
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community of women. And so I can remember a specific time when, you know, a comment that came back to me was just that somebody had been on the website and read the comments over a series of stories and they were just so stunned by how much love and welcome and affirmation
00:03:33
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and sort of cheering on of the writer happened from the women in our community. And I love that about us. And so I think as I listened, I felt just so proud, honestly, of like who we are and who the women are that find our space to be a place of
00:03:59
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belonging and maybe solace, refuge, probably mostly like a place of solidarity. And I felt like that is part of what we heard in
Humor and Friendship
00:04:10
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season one. And I think it goes to what you were naming Haley, just something I very much believe is that, you know, our stories are more similar than we realize.
00:04:22
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The threads that connect us are there if we just create the space where we can look for them and find them and then name them with one another. And so I certainly loved that. And I have to say, like, one of my favorite moments, because I laughed out loud, I was listening to Eliza Bast and Danielle Castillejo's episode.
00:04:49
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And it was kind of getting to the end. And the two of them are so fun to listen to, just their friendship as they're like bantering back and forth. And they're kind of getting to the end. And I think Elisa says to Danielle, she says something like, well, so what would you say to people kind of about, you know, the importance of friendship or whatever?
00:05:08
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And Danielle says, well, I guess I just say, like, get you some. You need some. Get you some. And I just laughed out loud. I thought, that is hilarious. And that isn't that it, right? What do we want to say? And I think their episode was friends in low places. But they were really kind of talking about the friends that you don't always go deep with, but that are just your constants, right? They're the friends that you have fun with, the friends that you play with. And Danielle was like, get you some.
00:05:37
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I don't know. That was one of my favorite moments. Maybe laugh.
Excitement for Season 2
00:05:43
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So, you know, the three of us have a little sense of where we're headed with season two. We're not going to tell everybody because we don't want to ruin it for them. But what are you what are you looking forward to? As you think about, you know, what you know around where we're headed and kind of what are what our topics are, what are you looking forward to?
00:06:05
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We can tip our hand a little bit because we opened it up to the podcast community to say, what do you want to hear about? And people said they wanted to hear stories of family relationships, which sort of surprised me.
00:06:23
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And I'm super excited. So we took that request and came up with a list of things that we will not spoil. But yes, the season is engaging family and stories around family. And I'm really excited. It feels
00:06:45
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I'm excited to hear about different people's families. I think we experience family differently. I'm excited to share some stories from mine, maybe stories that I haven't written ever before. And I think I'm really excited for the sisterhood of women to tend to each other as we engage the forces that shaped us for good, for difficulty, and for who we are in
Exploring Family Narratives
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this world.
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world. I have felt like this community has been one that the first word that comes to my mind is permission. It's been permission to feel, permission for things to be allowed to be true, permission for
00:07:39
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this, whatever you're processing to take up space. And so when I think of that, I say permission because I think when you think about the theme of family, a lot of times I'm curious if people are also asking the question, like, is this normal when it comes to family, right? Like, should family feel this way? Should it feel this hard? Should it be this easy? Like, is this...
00:08:06
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this isn't what I thought it would be, or I want something different, whatever that is. Like you said, it can be a place where we tend to each other, but I think what's been really beautiful about this community is that when it comes to family, I think being able to name some things that listeners and readers and people in the community might be feeling, but not have heard anyone ever say out loud.
00:08:36
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Like, I'm not, there's nothing wrong with me if I feel blank or blank or blank towards my family. You know, I'm not alone in that. So I'm looking forward to sort of
00:08:47
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hearing how people engage each topic and what that offers.
Authenticity in Storytelling
00:08:53
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Yeah, I am too and I think that that feels like another kind of a thing that has been a signature of who we are is that like this is the space where you can say the things that you probably wouldn't say at your church bible study or you wouldn't share in your small group or
00:09:14
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You know, just because oftentimes those spaces aren't really created to like hold and hear kind of more raw or kind of undone experiences from people. And I think it's like the space where we long to be known
00:09:35
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and still loved and still feel like there's welcome and belonging for us is not in the shiny spaces where things look good on my Instagram life that you're so envious of, but really it's more of those untended to kind of raw, messy, you know, this is how everything fell apart at our Christmas dinner table space.
00:10:00
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right? That I think honestly just are far more normal. So as we think about talking about family, I think we did this when we talked about friendships. Some of the higher listened episodes were the ones where we were being really honest about the fact that like, yeah, I've got broken relationships and I'm not going to tell you a story about how it's fixed. And
00:10:26
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um and and our our women are so good about owning their own story and like coming from a pastor like of humility that doesn't say yeah i've got broken relationships and i feel good about that it's more
00:10:43
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like this is how it is and and I feel tender about it and I feel sad sometimes and and I don't know that it's going to change and here I am but you know and can you still love me so I um
00:10:59
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I think the water was not shallow in season one as we talked about friendship, but I think that the water is even deeper as we sort of swim towards the deeper end of the pool and talk about family. And I am very much looking forward to it. I know there will be moments that will make us all laugh,
00:11:23
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And I know there are going to be many moments that are going to make us all feel like, ah, you know what, it's just okay to be a human. And it is okay that my family is my family and it's not picture perfect.
00:11:41
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And then I think the other thing that I'm looking forward to is that I know that our women are going to do this well. And that's not easy.
Optimism for the Future
00:11:51
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So talking about family and sharing about it in sort of a forward facing, public facing way,
00:12:00
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where you do that with honor and respect, that can be a little tricky. But I know that our women have the integrity and the kindness to be able to do that. So I'm excited and hopeful about that. Cheers. Cheers to all that this season brings. Yeah. Looking forward to walking through it with you guys.