Episode title: They’ll Tell the Story of Tonight
Episode summary: What does New Year’s mean to you? If you could hear the story of your life told by your children after you’ve past, what would you hear and how would you feel? What is the story you want to tell this year? Join me for a mini episode with a Raise a Glass series to bring in the new year.
The Raise a Glass Series:
- The Raise a Glass Series is a space for reflection and gratitude centered around the topic of the day and inspired by lyrics from Hamilton the Musical.
- Today’s lyrics – “And when our children tell our story, they’ll tell the story of tonight”
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FULL TRANSCRIPT:
Mom: Angelica, can you say hello?
Angelica: Hello! Hello?
Mom: How are you today?
Angelica: I doing well…how are you?
Mom: Well I’m doing well also. (she laughs)
Welcome to MFA: The Parenting Edition, I’m your host Taisha Cameron, a mom to a feisty, fiery, fierce, flailing, finicky little kid, and a trained actor. These lessons from the theater for raising ourselves and our kids came about after the life altering revelation I made, that my MFA in acting trained me for life as a mommy better than life as a full-time actor. We'll explore some challenging questions, I'll share some stories, and we'll kick things off with the Raise a Glass series. From the method to mommy meltdowns and all the moments in between, welcome to MFA.
Episode 43
Hello hello lovelies and welcome back to MFA: The Parenting Edition.
Today is New Year’s Eve! Happy New Year to all, so I’m just jumping into your listening app today to say Happy New Year and to send my love for a beautiful 2022. What?!! Who thought we’d get here? Good Lord, the last two years have been banana pancakes, and it doesn’t look like this year’s gonna be any different so, be safe, take care, protect yourself, protect others, and take a moment to breathe for a second. At the end of every year, we as a civilization of people seem compelled to reflect and make plans for the next 365 to accomplish all the things we either didn’t this past year or we make up brand new plans for this coming year.
So, I only have two questions for today, what does new year's mean to you? And, if you could hear the story of your life told by your children after you’ve past, what would you hear and how would you feel? Now I know that’s kind of like a two in one so whoops for that little cheat there. But that’s it. Just those two little baby questions today, nothing major to consider on the last day of the year.
Before we jump into what the new year means to me, let’s kick things off with the Raise a Glass series. Now you don’t need to raise a glass…unless you got one in your hand already and if you do I say, holla, hell yeah, let’s do this!
The Raise a Glass Series
The Raise a Glass Series is a space for reflection and gratitude centered around the topic of the day and inspired by lyrics from Hamilton the Musical.
And when our children tell our story, They’ll tell the story of tonight
Tonight is a big night. New Year’s Eve. The cusp of something new. On the precipice of adventure. That’s what a new year has the possibility to bring. New adventures. New stories. And fear. The paralyzing weight of fear. That killer of dreams. That suffocater or passion and instinct, intuition and spirit. I’m full of it. I’m sure you are too.
People channel their fear in many ways. Some run towards it while others run away. And then we also just stay stagnant, safe, and small in the face of fear and refusing to make a choice or change in any direction, forgetting that if we don’t make a choice one will still be made for us in some way or another. We all know how the fear of imminent danger isn’t the only fear we have. We fear people who believe differently than we do, we fear those who choose to live their life opposite of our own choices. We fear freedom and being caged. We fear joy and tragedy. We fear the loss of a loved one and never having someone to love. We fear not having enough and losing what we have. We walk through our world terrified every day and either show it on the outside and get labeled the Negative Nelly or smack a smile over our face masking our inner life.
The mark of a new year is just another day. We’ve imbued it with resolutions and promises, promises that act as stressors and our fear of not accomplishing these goals haunts us. What can maybe help us overcome our fears and stress around the start of a new calendar year is to be on the hunt for adventure. As the date shifts so can our perspective. Our perspective on our dreams. Our perspective on our children. Our perspective on the thoughts, dreams, and fears of others. This shift can be our new adventurous road to journey down. Reframe the worries and fears in your heart to possibilities. Instead of, how do I get my children to listen to me better this year, try, what are my children teaching me about who they are as people? Instead of focusing on the fear and stress of, I need to make money and more money and all the money, to, what does it look like to work in a way that provides for my needs, my family's needs, and keeps us full of joy and peace?
I just saw the movie Encanto and, one, if you haven’t seen it please do like immediately. And two, it was yes about family and being there for your family, but it was about trust and fear and how miracles happen and out of fear of losing our miracles we hold too tight, we forget to trust ourselves and others and can bring about our own destruction and worst fears.
What is the story you want to tell this year? What story are the members of your family working to tell? How do we blend that together to create adventures and challenged that help us grow in compassion, empathy, kindness, curiosity, laughter, and love? How do we face our fears and reframe how we walk our path through life? How do you want to tell your story?
Let’s raise a glass to new adventures, new stories, and let it all begin tonight.
For me, this year is about new adventures. It’s about accepting change without so much fight. It’s about fighting for what is absolutely necessary. It’s about learning to live each day as if it were my last, something we hear about in songs or from those who are older, and possibly wiser, and what we witness in our children with the way they step into another day of life. It’s coming to grips with my mortality. It’s learning to co-create the story of my life with those around me from a place of joy and abundance and not fear and lack or stress.
I hope like so many of you to be around for the next 365 days and so many more days to come. IF my story should end before that I hope that the time that I do live out is full of love joy and being of service in the best way that I can to the world around me. And I hope the same for you.
That’s all for today guys and dolls. Thank you so much for joining me on this mini–New Year’s check-in. Next episode we’ll continue our exploration through the actor’s toolbox.
I’m always so honored you choose to join in and hang in with me. Hang in with me? Hang out with me, hang with me. You’re here to hang and I like it and I appreciate it, thank you. If you enjoyed this episode and want to show your support, please spread a beautiful act of kindness by telling at least one person about the show and that they can find it wherever they listen to their podcasts.
Have a wonderful New Year. All the best in 2022. And I will talk to you soon.
And one last thing before we go, here's my audio hug to you so you can breathe, reset, and kick some ass today. But don't literally kick anyone's ass, I keep going over this and over and over and over and over and I will keep going over it until you remember that is called assault.
Here's my special hug for you to paint your spirit a brighter hue, so catch this hug and hold it tight, go walk in grace and shine your light.
Thanks again and I’ll see you on the other side.
Mom: Angelica, can you say good-bye?
Angelica: Good-bye, good-bye.
Mom: Thank you.
Angelica: Thank you.