Hello everyone. This is Tonya Dawn Recla, your Super Power Experts and do I have a treat for you, you all are really in for it today. As you know, I love what I do, I love my show, I love my guests, I love all of that and today’s particularly delightful. When I actually give her an opportunity to speak to you, you’re going to feel it, you’re going to nail it. This woman is just amazing in her approach to life, her zest for the passion of life, for the color, for the flavor, for the tastes and the smells, just the richness that life has to offer us. It’s everything from her voice to her countenance that exudes that and she’s chosen to share that in a really remarkable, vulnerable, transparent way in her book, Stripped Down: How Burlesque Led Me Home.
Ah, you can just get a feel for it, right? You know what’s about to happen on this episode so strap yourselves in folks, take a deep breath, get comfortable because we’re going to talk with Anna Brooke today about all means all. Anna, welcome to the show.
Oh, thank you so much, Tanya. It’s such a pleasure to be here.
Oh well, we are so excited to have you here. Now, I introduced you as Anna but really, you have a different name but we’re not going to tell anyone that just yet, we’re going to wait. I’m going to tease them with that.
I love it.
We’re going to first jump right in and ask what are your superpowers?
Oh, I think number one is empathy. It’s something I have had my whole life, well, as an empath, which I did not know what that was until I was in my twenties but the innate ability to feel the room, to feel what other people are feeling but then within that, really holding a space of love and compassion for people as they are negotiating whatever it is that is up for them in that moment so I think I’m going to say that’s number one.
Number two, I’m just thinking about what folks have told me throughout my life. I’m going to go ahead and I’m going to say kindness. That’s something that really matters a lot to me and I’m pretty consistently told that my kindness is well, I’m just going to say it, remarkable and that’s something that’s just part of who I am, it’s part of me ever since the word go. So that’ll be backing up right behind empathy.
I love it. Well, fantastic and I totally agree with that concept in the sense that you’re just so beautiful and you’re like, Kindness, it matters to me. What’s funny is that shouldn’t be an odd thing to say.
Right.
And it feels like there’s so much like oomph behind it when you speak it and just to get to the place where you can say, Wait, that does matter. I do want people to just be nice to me. That’s something Jennifer, you know her as well, our host of SuperPowers of the Soul, she and I were having a conversation one day and we kind of shared that space of why can’t people just be nice? Like what’s going on here, you know? And I think I don’t know if everybody has it but I for sure have this little kid inside of me that’s like, Why do people want to be mean? It just hurts my heart, I just don’t understand it and the more I’ve gotten in touch with that piece of me, the more confidence I have in just saying, Yeah, this just doesn’t feel good. Can we do this differently please now?
Yeah.
And I love that we’re talking about this through this lens of burlesque and in stripping and removing the layers and I mean, we could dive into that metaphor for eons and we’re talking about it today within the context of all means all and when you and I really connected in about this episode, it was so obvious that there’s just this like, you know, where the rubber hits the road, there’s this all or nothing. I’ve described this as playing 100% all in and staying 100% attached simultaneously.
It’s like this magical space of no holds barred but we don’t necessarily come to that willingly and so I can suspect that you had quite the walk with that coming into. I want to dive into that when we come back from the break but before we cut to the break because I know that was a whole lot of whatnot I just circled around, quickly, can you let people know a little bit about just maybe two or three words of what you experienced launching a book like Stripped Down?
It is vulnerable and thrilling. You know, Stripped Down, I have been saying in all of my promotions so far, this is the most naked I have ever been or felt in my life.
I love it.
Yeah.
Beautiful, beautiful. Well, we’re going to dive deeply into that, that’s a great sound bite. Where can people go to find out more about you?
They can visit me at my website, which is legsmalone.com, more on that later.
More on that later folks. It would not be about burlesque if we didn’t tease you before the break. Well, very cool. Folks, if you enjoy listening to us, please tell a friend, we know you are sharing and we absolutely appreciate it, going over that 1.5 million downloads a month mark was pretty awesome and so we know that you’re there and listening and you’re loyal and we appreciate you for that. Stay with us folks, when we come back, we’re going to continue on this conversation of all means all with Anna Brooke, don’t miss it.
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