Episode 112 Bonus: Courtney E. Martin on the Value of Sabbaticals

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Episode 112 Bonus: Courtney E. Martin on the Value of Sabbaticals

Christie Aschwanden

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Courtney Martin

May 23, 2024

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In this bonus episode, we continue our conversation with journalist, author, podcaster and speaker Courtney E. Martin about the gap between how we think creating is supposed to feel vs. how it actually feels. We speak, too, about her sabbatical—why she felt it was essential and how it actually turned out—and the value of reading old work.

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Emerging Form is a podcast about the creative process in which a journalist (Christie Aschwanden) and a poet (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer) discuss creative conundrums over wine. Each episode concludes with a game of two questions in which a guest joins in to help answer questions about the week's topic. Season one guests include poets, novelists, journalists, a song writer, a circus performer, a sketch artist and a winemaker.

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