The Power of Vunerability

Today on Sense of Soul Podcast, we have the talented co-creators
of the newly released and most gorgeous book, “Exposure - Stories
in Honor of Humanity.” 


Photographer and designer Kelly Shroads (one of Mande’s oldest
and dearest friends)and scribe and story curator, April
Tierney, joined us to share the creative process, and
experience in creating this beautiful and inspiring book.


Exposure is a collaborative masterpiece of images and stories in
honor of our humanity, a collection of courage, candor, grace,
longing, and heartache. 


Their intention in this project was to bring human conditions out
of its “steel box of pretense, prejudice, and misunderstanding,
and back into the light of an average life and ordinary heart.”
It asks the reader to look deep into the face of our
authenticity, in order to excavate the beautiful, whole, vibrant
people we were each born here to be.”


Together they interviewed over sixty people from a wide range of
life experiences, ages, and cultural backgrounds to participate
in this project, to share their authentic personal stories. Kelly
Shroads captured so beautifully, the authentic portraits of each
storyteller and April Tierney transcribed a reliable and poetic
unrehearsed rendering of their raw stories they shared.


Get their beautiful collaboration book Exposure here!
https://www.exposure-book.com 


April Tierney poet, collaborative artist, mother, and lover of
stories. Her background is steeped in the study of language,
culture, artisanship, and the skills of human-making. She is the
author of three full length collections of poetry; Memory Keeper,
Origin Stories, and Singing to the Bones. April is also the
co-founder of Fire Feeders, a women's writing collective along
the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
www.apriltierney.com 


https://www.homeboundpublications.com


Kelly Shroads has an Artist soul she is a gifted photographer,
entrepreneur and wellness advocate. Kelly graduated from the
University of Colorado with a Fine Arts degree in Photography,
and has pursued a path in art, portrait and lifestyle work. Her
professional career has been a documentary journey of the human
experience, from intimate and group portrait work, to ceremonies,
births, and community events. Her lifestyle photography focuses
on empowering women to shine in the fields of health, creativity
and wellbeing.  https://www.kellyeileen.co


https://www.luxurysparobes.com


https://instagram.com/kellyeileen.co?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=


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