Podcast Archives - TinaOLife

Story from the car-Grace

July 11, 2020

I need to change this up a little bit. I just do. In light of the world and the constant evolution of the story I serve, I need to be in service of the emerging story in front of me. I am a story coach, keeper, tracker and a story listener. These Stories from the Car started out as a way to unpack words because of the energy they carry.

I’m feeling reeeeeeeeeeeeeally compelled to jump into the space of myth these days. I want to talk about the state of being when we’re there – and make no mistake, this is exactly where we are right now. Myth is the state following the path of what we think we don’t know. It is both comfort and discomfort. It is the walking in ultimate faith and trust, yet still unknown, and it can’t be known, ever in its entirety. That’s not how myth works.

I’ve done a lot of listening these days and we are so addicted to safety. I get it. We are hardwired for safety. This is not a shame thing about clambering for knowledge. It is the way we are made, and in the biological state of needing to know in order to feel safe, the invitation is to remind ourselves that we live in the ultimate unknown…

I invite us all to remember grace…

To find out more about TinaO’s upcoming book: Story Stones and performances of her solo show O MY God, click here.

Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s weekly online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow.

If you would like to know more about Tina’s approach to story, click here.

Audio-#6 Group Listening

June 10, 2020

It’s a fascinating thing: Groups.

I have children who are in elementary school and of highschool age, and I don’t know if you remember what it’s like to be in highschool, but it’s a daily practice of confrontation because there is nothing but group dynamics going on.

Things happen in groups.

There is momentum in groups.

Stuff goes down in groups.

You are either outside the group, or inside the group.

There is often an alpha personality who runs the group even if he/she doesn’t want to. It’s just part of their personality, so it happens by default.

I was at a conference table once where there were 30 year olds sitting on one side, and 45+ year olds sitting on the other. Some of the voices were wanting to emerge while others were wanting to share wisdom.

And out of love and nourishment, these over 45 year olds watered the shit out of these emerging buds of voices. They were just trying to come out of the ground, and they got blasted by a whole bunch of well meaning wisdom…

Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow.

If you would like to know more about Tina’s approach to story, click here.

Audio-#5 Story from the car- Moment

May 9, 2020

These are the days.

I listen to people.

I listen to spaces.

I listen to spaces between people.

I listen to spaces between words.

I listen for impact.

I listen for guidance.

I listen to what you are saying but isn’t on the surface yet.

Today I want to talk about the word Moment. And words are powerful things. Words are condensed experiences, meanings, thoughts, and vibration, all of it.

All of it.

All wrapped up into letters.

The letters we are jumping into today is: moment, because these are the moments.

We are in dense times.

Thick times.

There is actually nowhere to run.

There is really nowhere for the thoughts in our head to run.

We are spending more time alone.

Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow.

If you would like to know more about Tina’s approach to story, click here.

Audio-#4 Story from the Car-Gifting

May 2, 2020

This little rumination comes to you on a day where the world is just a little bit different.

This is the new normal.

We are in it.

Some of us may be walking around with a few more scratches and bruises to our belief, and I suppose some of us might have put up some extra layers of protection as well.

Today I want to talk a little bit about our gifting, and for those of you who don’t know my work: I am TinaO, and I’m a Core Story specialist. I’m a listener and in my gifting, that’s what I do. I listen.

In that space, I hear the narrative that is of you, and the language put on that narrative.

This is just my fancy way of saying you’re going to say stuff, and then I’m going to feel it and reflect it back to you in a ding ding ding ding ding.

Let’s talk about your gifting.

Have a listen…

Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow.

If you would like to know more about Tina’s approach to story, click here.

Audio- #3 Story from the car- Value

April 24, 2020

These stories from the car are a listening in to one particular word we really want to dive into and today the word is VALUE.

Truthfully, I get hits on things when a word just rumbles in and doesn’t want to leave me.

So this word of value is what I invite us into today.

Even as I say value, it seems kind of mundane. Kind of boring. I have this box of chicken strips and two tubes of ground beef in the back of my car, and I am fortunate enough during this pandemic that the local pub has agreed to place orders on behalf of us islanders to offset the pressure on the general store, but also to keep us from having to go into the city to shop.

That is value.

But I’m also a single mom to three kids and I need to get value for my money. That’s a different kind of value. But it’s always an in and an out. Isn’t it?

Or is it?

Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow.

If you would like to know more about Tina’s approach to story, click here.

Audio-#2 Story from the Car- Our Spiritual Home

April 6, 2020

I’m talking about our sacred home. That’s what I’m saying. It’s where we feel rested. Where our whole self can be seen and known and heard and, we have an experience of belonging.

We are so well versed these days and beautifully so, richly so, in our individuation. We are resourced with who we are as individuals and owning it. We know that ultimately we are responsible. For everything. Like everything.

Our happiness.

Our mindset.

Our results.

Our well-being.

Our success.

We are damn responsible.

And all of it is true.

We live in a human body.

No one gets to determine our thoughts but us.

No one gets to work with our feelings but us.

No one deals with our impulse control but us…
That is true.

It is all true.

Annnnnd and and and and and and and on this very human plane, we still yearn…

Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow.

If you would like to know more about Tina’s approach to story, click here.

AUDIO – #1 Story From the Car – Devotion

March 28, 2020

Words stick with me, they grab me.

The word that grabbed me this year was devotion.

When I think about devotion, what comes up for me is a love beyond the physical space.

Words carry the energy from the person they are spoken from and they also carry the energy of the word itself.

Devotion is love of a spiritual kind.

It’s a practice of love that is beyond this human plane.

Let’s lay it down…

Give it over…

Listen to the full 20 minute recording here:

Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow.

If you would like to know more about Tina’s approach to story, click here.