Summary: Today's podcast features Tami Simon's interview with Alanis Morissette, recorded live at the 2013 Emerging Women Live conference in Boulder, Colorado. <br> Alanis Morissette is a Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer and actress who has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide. Alanis was honored with the EMA Missions in Music Award for her efforts in speaking out against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Alanis Morissette has been acting on her strong beliefs for years—and encourages her fans and listeners to do the same.<br> Tami Simon is the founder of Sounds True, a multimedia publishing company dedicated to disseminating spiritual wisdom. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Sounds True has published more than 800 audio, video, music, and book titles along with online courses and events. A two-time winner of the Inc 500 award as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in America, Sounds True is widely recognized as a pioneer in providing life-changing, practical tools that accelerate spiritual awakening and personal transformation.<br> In today’s episode Tami spoke with Alanis about:<br> <br> The balance between Yin and Yang and how this shows up in relationship<br> What that would look like to put the Sacred Feminine in the center of the music industry<br> Listening as an art, and not letting fear stop us from doing what we want to do<br> How Alanis uses the ‘nuggets of terror’ in her journal as seeds for her creative process<br> Alanis's work with Relationship First and her love of talking with people who are ceiling-less<br> And finally, how she sees the Feminine Movement moving towards Sacred Union<br> <br> <br> <br> Tune in and listen to "The Rock and Roll of Feminine Power” with the Radical Women: Alanis Morisette and Tami Simon. <br> Subscribe to Grace & Fire on iTunes.<br> <br> <br> Transcript:<br> Alanis Morissette: Hi! I want to thank Tami for being up here with me and having a conversation with me. It’s my favorite thing to do, as my friends can attest to, is dialogue and go and back and forth and see what’s actually happening in real time with you, with us.<br> Tami Simon: We want to make our love public.<br> AM: Exactly! [Laughs] There’s nothing better than that.<br> TS: Exactly. Making our love public. OK, the primacy of connection. I want to start right there.<br> AM: Let’s go for the jugular.<br> TS: Well, the jugular’s going to come later.<br> AM: There are so many jugulars and so little time.<br> TS: That’s right, exactly. <br> AM: That’s part of why I’m happier here.<br> TS: Your journey to connection, being, at least in my understanding, the most important thing for you in your life. How did you get there?<br> AM: I didn’t get there; I think I started there. I’m a highly sensitive temperament. I’ve become more and more obsessed with self-knowledge because I’ve seen how empowering it and how it enables me to actually have functional intimacy with people. So I’m the girl that uses every tool of divination and wants to know what number I am on the Enneagram and wants to know—I throw my I Ching coins. I basically have wanted to connect with God, intrapersonally with my own self and with people my whole life. <br> [It’s] to the point where, because of my hypersensitivity, when it doesn’t happen, in glimpses at grocery stores or wherever I am, it’s actually quite devastating for me. And I take responsibility for it and I don’t get upset at the woman who looks away when she’s trying to buy her watermelons. <br> [Audience laughs]<br> AM: But I hurt. So I don’t know if that answers your question.<br> TS: Are there things that you do to invite or to magnetize to you the kind of connection that, as a sensitive person, really nourishes you? Is there stuff that you do, and what is it?<br> AM: I think it happens by default.
