Queer, Autistic Authors Chat About Self-Actualization 52 Lists with Moorea Seal

Episode 2 is here! And Callie Little, one of my greatest pals and co-author, is sharing a peek into her world through the power of list making. Click above, download the audio podcast, stream it on Apple Podcasts, or watch the unedited video chat below! I’m working away next week to get my podcast on all streaming platforms, exciting exciting!
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This week on the 52 Lists podcast, we’re chatting with Callie Little, one of my dearest friends and the co-author of our upcoming mental health workbook and tarot deck: “Every Little Thing You Do is Magic.” We just submitted the first draft of our book to our publishers, Clarkson Potter, last week and I thought it would be fun for you to get to know us a little deeper as Queer, Autistic authors.
TRIGGER WARNING: We talk lightly about Callie's upbringing in a home with hoarding, abuse, neglect and parental drug use. Please be sensitive and respectful to our guest and consider for yourself if this will be triggering or helpful to hear her story of overcoming. This isn’t the main focus of this interview, just a snippet. For the majority of our chat, we talk about:
TOPICS:
* List #2 from The 52 Lists Project: List Your favorite characters from books, movies, etc
* What we discovered about ourselves from seeing ourselves within these characters
* Our new book coming out in 2024!
* How we met at a fundraiser for girl scouts and I confronted a woman who was trash talking Callie in the bathroom
* Our different creative and working styles
* Truths about Autistic people
* Gender Dysphoria and unpacking what being a “girl” is
* Childhood trauma and the development of an insatiable need to be loved
* Great book recommendations
* Our connections to Mathilda, the book and the character
* Performative Womanhood and cultural conditioning
* Ending an engagement + Ending a marriage, the clarity in being alone
* Hot takes on Jenny from the original L Word
* How we view ourselves: The Fool. How we view each other: in beautiful complexity
Get to know Callie!
Website: CallieLittle.comPodcast: The Pocket CovenInstagram: @GoshCallie Tattooing: @GoodHabitsTattoo
Callie Little is a full time artist and writer. She’s written for places like BUST magazine, Vice, Teen Vogue, Autostraddle and more, and has been featured on NPR’s Lifekit. Her visual art has been shown in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest and these days, you can find her tattooing at the private studio Good Habits in the Ballard neighborhood here in Seattle. Her podcast, The Pocket Coven, which she cohosts with licensed therapist Amber Lenore, has 90,000 downloads and has been ranked as the third most popular mental health podcast… In Iceland. Her forthcoming debut book, co-authored with me, Moorea Seal, Every Little Thing You Do Is Magic, will be on shelves in the spring of 2024 published through Clarkson Potter.
Curious about our lists?
Find List #2: List your favorite characters from books, movies, etc in The 52 Lists Project guided journal, available wherever books are sold! I’d love to see who you list. Share a few characters you connect with in the comments.

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