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Recorded: June 14, 2016 Location: On the Road: Alabama & Florida Subject: Driving across country to move onto the boat. Hello friends! Okay, I am not going to lie. Sometimes I wonder why the heck I have been working on this podcast for so long. I started recording episodes more than 5 years ago, before moving onto the s/v Dawn Treader was even on our family’s radar. About 3 years ago, I hired an editor to help me edit the recordings into iTunes and Stitcher-worthy episodes. Over the past several years I have been working with a team of people to refine the website and the posting process, to create transcripts and show notes, and to do so many other tasks related to this podcast. Throughout this process—like any creative type, I suppose—I frequently find myself filled with doubt over the value of what I am putting out into the world. But then, something suddenly breaks through the darkness of my own self-judgement and I am reminded of the light. For me, this episode is that light breaking through. Unlike most episodes here on New Mexi-Castaways which are recordings of my own voice as I process whatever is going on around me (which I affectionately refer to as, “Rosa Linda’s Ramblings”), this episode has several voices, as I interview my kids and our nanny (Miss Linda) while we drive across country. These recordings were done in Alabama and Florida from our very crowded Ford Expedition. This will be the first time you will hear from the kids about what they think of this adventure of moving onto a boat. As is frequently the case on this on-the-go-podcast, the audio quality isn’t perfect, but I hope it will still bring a smile as we finally make the move from New Mexicast to New Mexi-Castaways. Have a great week everyone! Lots of love, Rosa Linda P.S. If you enjoyed this podcast and want to learn more, here’s how to: Join the New Mexi-Castaways Crew Follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook Watch NewMexicastTV The post NMC020 Driving to Florida appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: June 4, 2016 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Subject: Holding space for each family member’s needs during the KonMari process. Last minute ladies’ spa day before leaving New Mexico to to move onto a boat. Hello friends! If you have followed our journey over the past several episodes you know that the KonMari process, based on Marie Kondo’s book, “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” played a huge role in our family’s preparations to move from our New Mexico home to the s/v Dawn Treader sailing catamaran. While it was transformative to go through that KonMari process, it was especially so as we worked through that emotional roller coaster as a family. In this week’s episode I share a bit more about what it was like to do KonMari with my kids and husband. It is hard to believe, but next week’s episode will be the actual move from New Mexico as we hit the road (in a very crowded Ford Expedition!) for Florida. Have a great week everyone! Lots of love, Rosa Linda P.S. If you enjoyed this podcast and want to learn more, here’s how to: Join the New Mexi-Castaways Crew Follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook Watch NewMexicastTV The post NMC019 Spa Day and KonMari appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: May 23, 2016 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Subject: Our last few weeks in our New Mexico home. Finishing KonMari. Preparing to drive to boat in Florida. Hello friends! If you are new to this podcast there are a few things you should know about it: The episodes I am posting now were recorded in 2016 as my family prepared to leave New Mexico to move onto a boat. The system we used to downsize our home is called, “KonMari” based on Marie Kondo’s book, “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” This podcast is my sounding board which I frequently refer to as, “Rosa Linda’s Ramblings.” This podcast is not for everyone and that’s okay. I mention this because this week’s episode goes a bit deeper into the darker places I struggle with in my life. At the time of this writing (a few days before Halloween 2020) I am finding myself feeling a lot like I did back then with a lot of uncertainty and trying to shed the things that no longer spark joy from my life. This is an excerpt from the episode which reminds me a lot of what is happening in the world now as we do what we can to strengthen our foundations and shift to a brighter future. Here’s what I said back then: “I will tell you that this KonMari process forces you to shine a light on the areas that do not work or the areas that you feel shame or embarrassment or guilt around. New Mexicast has been one of those areas for me. Not the whole thing, but the state of my website, the state of a lot of how I have managed the actual business because I just feel like it never lived up to its full potential. And as I’m going through this KonMari system, I’m starting to see that it’s time to really shore up the things that do matter.” If you replace “KonMari” with “2020,” the overall point of the quote still rings true: “I will tell you that 2020 forces you to shine a light on the areas that do not work or the areas that you feel shame or embarrassment or guilt around. … And as I’m going through 2020, I’m starting to see that it’s time to really shore up the things that do matter.” In other words, if we use this time to overhaul our lives with a focus on what really matters, we will find the things that spark joy are all that’s left when we step back into the light on the other end of this unbelievably challenging time in our lives. Be good to yourself this week! Together we will get through these trying times. Lots of love, Rosa Linda P.S. If you enjoyed this podcast and want to learn more, here’s how to: Join the New Mexi-Castaways Crew Follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook Watch NewMexicastTV The post NMC018 Final Days of Landlocked Life appeared first on New Mexicast.

  Recorded: May 13, 2016 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Subject: The art of letting go with Marie Kondo’s KonMari Method. Major downsizing. Getting closer to moving onto a boat. Hello friends! This week’s episode is a continuation of last week as my family was using the KonMari method to downsize our home in New Mexico to move onto the s/v Dawn Treader. When we first started using this method it was painful and seemed like we would never make any progress. But by the time of this recording we were starting to feel a real sense of accomplishment as we donated bags and bags of clothing and books to help a local school. Ironically, as I write this (in October 2020) I find myself back in a time of major life transitions and we are again using the KonMari method to shed unwanted things from our boat and our lives. I hope you all are finding ways to surround yourself with the things that “spark joy” in your own lives. Have a great week everyone! Lots of love, Rosa Linda P.S. If you enjoyed this podcast and want to learn more, here’s how to: Join the New Mexi-Castaways Crew Follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook Watch NewMexicastTV The post NMC017 KonMari Books appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: May 4, 2016 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Subject: Using Marie Kondo’s KonMari Method to downsize our house as we prepared to move onto a boat. Hello friends! First, I owe you an apology. As I am working through these episodes, I realize there is a big gap between when the previous episode was recorded in March 2016 and this one from May 2016. So much happened during that time which I swear I documented. But the audio files are MIA (missing in action). So, we jump from the trip I took to Los Angeles with my husband, Nathan, for Chalene Johnson’s Smart Success Live event to being already fully immersed in the process of preparing to move onto the boat. Those missing 2 months were critical in our journey. At some point I hope to find the missing recordings. But for now, all I can do is apologize and carry on from here. This week’s episode is all about the KonMari process. It was a system I first started hearing about at Smart Success. It is a decluttering process which is based on Marie Kondo’s book, “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” I used this system to downsize our home in New Mexico to move onto the s/v Dawn Treader. By the time of this recording, we were well on our way to that goal. If you would like to see just how effective that process was for our family, check out our Patreon page where I will post pictures of the bags and bags of stuff we donated. More on our family’s KonMari process, including how it helped us improve other areas of our lives too, coming up in next week’s episode. Have a great week everyone! Lots of love, Rosa Linda P.S. If you enjoyed this podcast and want to learn more, here’s how to: Join the New Mexi-Castaways Crew Follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook Watch NewMexicastTV The post NMC016 KonMari Day 51 appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: March 4, 2016 Location: Los Angeles & Albuquerque, New Mexico Subject: Lessons learned from the Smart Success Live event with Chalene Johnson Hello friends! Finish what you started. Such a simple statement and one I have heard many times over the years. But as an entrepreneur it is a lesson that I have struggled with. Part of the problem is that there are so many wonderful things that we can spend our time on. So many fun projects. So much to explore. Plus, there is perfectionism to get in the way. Finishing what I started means actually putting it out into the world and facing my fear of my work not being well received by the intended audience. But overcoming fears and stepping out of the comfort zone is often how we can discover our true potential. This was the one of the most important take-aways for me from Chalene Johnson’s fun event, “Smart Success Live,” which my husband, Nathan and I went to in Los Angeles as we were preparing to move onto the boat. In next week’s episode I will introduce you to the system that helped me let go of the old, to downsize and move onto a boat; KonMari. Until then, I hope you find inspiration to finish that thing you have been putting off, as you go boldly in the direction of your dreams. Lots of love, Rosa Linda P.S. If you enjoyed this podcast and want to learn more, here’s how to: Join the New Mexi-Castaways Crew Follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook Watch NewMexicastTV The post NMC015 Smart Success Live appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: February 24, 2016 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Subject: Volunteering in my daughters’ school. Hello friends! Have you ever felt frustrated by the way thing are going in the world, either the greater world or just in your own little corner of it? I know many people are struggling right now with the upcoming election, the pandemic, systemic racism, and many other things that make us feel vulerable. When that feeling of overwhelm hits me I know one thing that always helps me move out of that dark place: take positive action. Do some thing, however small, to change your situation for the better. Back when this episode was recorded, in February 2016, I did that. There were budget cuts and school closures and controversy all around. Like so many parents I felt helpless about these changes. So, I did one small thing; I started volunteering in my daughters’ classrooms. This simple, weekly act helped me feel less overwhelmed and more hopeful about the education system overall. I came to realize that if I stopped focusing on the big, behemouth monster I couldn’t control and instead took slow, steady, positive action, I could make a real difference and learn something new in the process. I hope you are finding ways to turn the tide in your own life. Those shifts, however small, are so important. Until next week! Lots of love, Rosa Linda P.S. If you loved this podcast and want more, here’s how to: Join the New Mexi-Castaways Crew Follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook Watch NewMexicastTV The post NMC014 School Volunteering ISS appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: February 16, 2016 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Subject: Outsourcing. Hello friends! How are you all holding up? Are you doing too much? Carrying too many burdens? Are you feeling the weight of the world right now? Heaven knows, I have been there and sometimes I still find myself there from time to time. When this week’s episode was recorded, back in February 2016, I was definitely in that overwhelmed place. I had not yet learned to let go of the things I should not be carrying or say, “No, thank you!” to the things that I didn’t need to be spending my time on. I was just starting to learn about outsourcing. It is still a work in progress, but I now have a fantastic team that makes this business, and therefore my family life, so much more fun! There will be much more on my outsourcing process in future episodes here on New Mexi-Castaways. For now, I hope you enjoy this episode where I share some of the struggles I had as I was just trying to make my first hire. Thanks for listening! Lots of love, Rosa Linda P.S. If you loved this podcast and want more, here’s how to: Join the New Mexi-Castaways Crew Follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook Watch NewMexicastTV The post NMC012 Learning To Outsource appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: February 10, 2016 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Subject: Broadcasting with Blab. Getting closer to packing up the house to move on to a boat. Hello friends! It has been so fun for me to work on these recent New Mexi-Castaways podcasts. It is like a walk down memory lane. They were recorded in 2016, when I was just figuring out how to continue my work while preparing to move onto a sailing catamaran. There were a lot of experiments with the new technologies at the time as live streaming was just becoming a possibility. In the previous episode I shared my experience with Periscope. In this episode, it is all about the Blab experiment. Personally, I loved Blab for the way it created a fun sense of community. Sadly, it was not to last. The owners shut down the Blab platform in August 2016, leaving a lot of loyal content creators feeling betrayed and heartbroken. Still, I hope you enjoy this episode as it shares my excitement over the possibilities that lie ahead with Blab, with the boat and with life in general. There are plenty more experiments and adventures on the horizon here on New Mexi-Castaways, so please be sure to subscribe to the podcast! You can do that here: New Mexi-Castaways in iTunes Coming up in the next episode, learning how to outsource. Lots of love, Rosa Linda P.S. If you enjoyed this podcast and want more, here’s how to: Join the New Mexi-Castaways Crew Follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook Watch NewMexicastTV The post NMC011 The Blab Experiment appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: January 30, 2016 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Subject: Discovering live streaming. Rediscovering my love of live broadcasting. Hello friends! Did you notice that we posted 2 episodes this week? That’s a record for this podcast and it is thanks to my awesome team at New Mexicast helping me to push for a year end […] The post NMC010 Periscope appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: January 12, 2016 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico Subject: Facing fears and trying things that scare you. Pushing out of your comfort zone. Hello Friends! In this week’s episode my family and I take a trip to Ski Santa Fe where I tackle a mountain and some long-time phobias. By this time in early […] The post NMC009 Ski Santa Fe appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: December 02, 2015 Location: New Mexico Subject: Moving on to a new chapter for New Mexicast and in our lives. Hello friends! In this week’s episode it may seem like I am stuck in time. For you listeners only a few weeks have passed, but this episode was recorded 3 months after the previous […] The post NMC008 New Mexicast’s Next Chapter appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: September 10, 2015 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Subject: Trying for an Emmy Award. Sad about not getting nominated. Happy to start new chapter and move one step closer to living on a boat. Hello friends! At the time of this writing I am sitting at a stunning anchorage on my floating home, s/v Dawn […] The post NMC007 Emmy Fail appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: August 27, 2015 Location: New Mexico Subject: Trying new things. Facing failures. Moving on. Hello friends! For me the best part about this week’s episode is reminiscing about the film club I created at my daughters’ school (Roadrunner Reels) and the wonderful gala we had to screen the film, “Sophia and the Mysterious School.” […] The post NMC006 Post Film Club appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: May 6, 2015 Location: New Mexico Subject: Finishing up Roadrunner Reels film. Trying a new business venture. Hello friends and welcome to New Mexi-Castaways! Each week on this podcast I share my personal audio journal as I went from running a video podcast to moving my family onto a sailing catamaran. These “Rosa Linda’s […] The post NMC005 Trying New Ventures appeared first on New Mexicast.

BONUS Materials Recorded: April 15, 2015 Location: New Mexico Subject: Creating “Roadrunner Reels Film Club” and trying new ventures, like “See Mommy Run.” Hello friends! After months of hard work (and tons of fun!) our film club, “Roadrunner Reels,” was almost finished with final edits on “Sophia and the Mysterious School.” I was enjoying working […] The post NMC004 Film Club and See Mommy Run appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: April 9, 2015 Location: New Mexico Subject: Roadrunner Reels Film Club Hello Friends! At the time of this writing, in February 2020, my family is in the middle of some major life changes. My husband just got the shocking news that he is being laid off. Our daughter, Ziva just had her Bat Mitzvah […] The post NMC003 Roadrunner Reels Film Club appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: March 26, 2015 Location: New Mexico Subject: Creative Schooling from Hope Town, Bahamas to New Mexico Hello friends! In last week’s episode of New Mexi-Castaways podcast I took you back to February of 2015, as I was just starting to think about making the transition from producing my TV show, New Mexicast to whatever […] The post NMC002 Creative Schooling appeared first on New Mexicast.

Recorded: February 10, 2015 Location: New Mexico Subject: Introducing New Mexi-Castaways and sharing New Mexicast’s backstory. Hello Friends! February of 2015 was a period of what I like to call the “Liminal Space” of my life. It is a term I learned from one of my favorite podcasts, Zen Parenting Radio. One of the hosts, […] The post NMC001 New Mexi-Castaways Beginnings appeared first on New Mexicast.

Hello everyone! It is exactly 10 minutes before midnight on launch day 2019. It also happens to be the last 10 minutes of my birthday! So, as promised, I am launching New Mexi-Castaways Audio Podcast as my birthday gift to myself. Happy Birthday to me! If this actually works, this will be the first episode […] The post New Mexi-Castaways Podcast Coming Soon! appeared first on New Mexicast.