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Defending Lady Macbeth Tracy Oswald
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5.0 • 13 Ratings
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Was Lady Macbeth a cunning, evil, manipulative, murderous villain, or a fierce, smart, badass influencer who did what needed to be done? Now I’m not saying conspiring to murder your husband’s boss is OK! (it’s bad!) But what’s a woman to do when she has IDEAS, a POINT OF VIEW and a PLAN and absolutely no “right” to show up in her power?
I’m calling you, beckoning you, down a dimly lit hallway, a gravelly, uneven path, where we will hold up Lady Macbeth as our cautionary tale of what happens when you step outside the socio-political roles that history has written for YOU, for US, as WOMEN.
When we say - THIS IS WHAT I WANT, and then go after it.
When we show up in our sovereignty as WOMEN.
When we let our AMBITION show, even just a little.
When we stand naked and visible in our POWER.
We are going to LAY BARE all that history has given us on female agency, ambition and power by having juicy conversations with leading experts on women and gender studies, Medieval experts, and Shakespearean scholars about what life was actually like for women during Lady Macbeth’s time in history vs. the experience we live today.
We’ll also talk with bad-ass women (like you!) who have laid their ambition out for all to see and have suffered the overt and subliminal consequences that are built into our social, corporate, and family structures.
We’ve been conditioned for thousands of years as women to give up, deny and side-step our own agency. To not rock the boat and to never show up visibly in our own power. OR ELSE.
This show is all about revealing our current reality by unearthing the past, all in an effort to create change at scale in our future, for women everywhere. The BIG questions we will be grappling with are, “How far have we, as women, REALLY come since the Middle Ages?” and “How can we normalize women’s ambition, help them activate their agency, and stand firmly and boldly in their power?”
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Trade-offs as a Strategy
So often we say, “yeah, but that’s the trade-off” like it’s BAD thing. Almost as if we’re not good enough to do ALL of the things, so we “drop the ball’ in advance. But what if the opposite were true? What if we could embrace tradeoffs in our life and our work as a strategy to move us forward in our goals AND to help us experience the kind of life we want to live day to day and hour by hour? Let’s look at a tool that can help us identify potential trade-offs we can declare and own, all in the name of growth.
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Releasing Resistance to The Present Moment
What if what you are doing in each moment is EXACTLY what you need to be doing? As we strive to become the best and juiciest versions of ourselves, we often convince ourselves that there’s always something different or better or MORE we ‘should’ be doing. Or different ways we should be BEING. Today we’re exploring a question that can help you release resistance to the incredible human you are being in each present moment.
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The Land of Milk & Honey
Sometimes, to get out of a thought-rut and give ourselves access to answers that feel hidden and inaccessible, we simply need to ask ourselves different questions. Better questions, more valuable and expansive questions. Today we’re having a little fun with Wisdom of the Oracle Cards and asking new questions about our circumstances from a whole new perspective.
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Stop Clearing the Decks
When you just finished 4 ‘urgent’ things in a row and thought you had some ‘free’ time to do work that actually matters to you and…BOOM - you have 7 emails that need ‘immediate’ attention. On top of that your brain is cranking out ideas and tasks that you simply MUST get done at an alarming rate! Does it ever stop? How do we overcome this? Today we’re learning from the book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman on WHY we need to STOP clearing the decks and START deciding what should actually go on our calendars.
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Why You Have Nothing to Wear with Samantha Harman
SPECIAL GUEST ALERT! If you’ve ever stood in front of your closet and thought, “I have nothing to wear”, this episode is for you! Samantha is an award-winning journalist and editor turned Style Coach, aka The Style Editor, who helps female founders, consultants, leaders and women in business leverage their style for success. Having been a woman in leadership in a male-dominated industry, Samantha understands how to create a wardrobe that boosts your confidence. She believes 'I've got nothing to wear' is rarely about the clothes and if your wardrobe isn't saving you time and making you money - it isn't doing its job properly!
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How to Believe in Yourself
What if believing in yourself was no longer subject to needing validation from other people and situations? What if you could experience belief in yourself that comes solely from within? Believing in yourself isn’t a product of your achievements and successes. Believing in yourself is simply a decision. Listen in to find out how.
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Changing the narrative for women!
Love this podcast and how empowering it is! Women need new, louder and more assertive voices in our head to help us unlearn all of the things that have been holding us back for generations. Not by erasing our feminine energy, but by validating it and giving it permission to be present! This new voice and narrative is what we need to come into our power and be unapologetic about our place at the table and all of our rights in our seat.
Look like th’innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t” (Act I, Scene VI, lines 64-5)
Tracy brings a brand new light on Lady Macbeth, and the power woman, and actually anyone, can claim but sometimes you are too scare to claim. Power to make your decision, power to be bold and try things.
It all started with Sleep No More, an immersive version of Macbeth by Punchdrunk, and it changed Tracy (and me too to be honest) and brought a new view and light on many things.
So smart. So different. So needed.
This podcast is where Revisionist History meets Shakespeare meets women’s empowerment. Each episode has either blown my mind or made me scratch my head in wonder and at times, anger. Tracy is shining a light on the systems and structures that have been in place for centuries that I’ve never thought to connect to the fight for gender equality. Her interviews are great and her personal insights are even better. Come for Macbeth, leave feeling empowered!