PJ Manney
@pjmanney
Author. Speaker. Consultant. Love Letters to the Future podcast and Substack US & AoNZ. New Mythos and futurist gal about town. Phoenix Horizon trilogy--(R)EVOLUTION, (ID)ENTITY, and (CON)SCIENCE--predicted far too much.
Yes, I'm watching my annual July 4th ritual, the movie musical 1776, even though I am now an exile. It hits REALLY differently now. But it was written and performed on Broadway during Vietnam and Nixon hated the movie. Maybe it wasn't that different, and in crisis is how it was meant to be seen.
For the end of our Love Letters to the Future podcast season, @laurafayeten.bsky.social and I interview the delightful @gailcarriger.bsky.social on her important New Mythos tool box book, The Heroine's Journey. See more below.
New Love Letters to the Future: @laurafayeten.bsky.social and I speak with Wynette Richardson, "The Teacher's Champion" about how to make education better. It's not the myths of test scores and data. It's hearing and seeing, and being heard and seen, for students, teachers and families. It's joy! 🔽
If only people understood how much Marcia was the reason the first three movies became classics. I was there in their orbit from 1978, until after their divorce and George made our family chose between them. You didn't threaten my folks like that. I saw so much erased from history. Read below.
We think of writing as a solitary act, like the poet in the garret, but that's a myth. It's an act of community, which is a New Mythos value. Joselin Linder joins @laurafayeten.bsky.social and me to discuss her Prose Playground, a complete community for writers of all kinds. Join us below!
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert recorded the most glorious 8 minutes of late night television ever. And flights of angels sang them to their rest. Tonight CBS died from a self-inflicted wound. But the remarkable talent lives forever, in spite of them.
Everyone needs a little Byrne & Colbert today. Burn down the house, babes.
@emilystrasser.bsky.social joins @laurafayeten.bsky.social and I to discuss the mythmaking behind the atomic bomb through her memoir, Half-Life of a Secret. Her grandfather was a Manhattan Project scientist in Oak Ridge, TN, and the myths and secrets destroyed lives for generations. Join us! #LLttF
On this week's Love Letters to the Future podcast, award-winning actor and teacher Karen Austin joins me and @laurafayeten.bsky.social to dismantle myths about acting and creativity, while exploring the courage it takes to be truly seen and heard. Many mic drops! Join us! #LLttF
@laurafayeten.bsky.social and I speak to @gregdember.bsky.social, author of Say Hello to Metamodernism! and the whatismetamodern.com website. Metamodernism is the water our culture swims in. The most impactful stories are falling within its parameters. It's that important to all creatives. #LLttF
New #LLttF ep is up! Sarah DeWitt joins @laurafayeten.bsky.social and me to discuss regeneration, human flourishing, and systemic change, emphasizing community, bioregionalism, and natural principles to leadership and economics for a sustainable future. Join us on Love Letters to the Future!
Ian "Harv" Harvey joins me and @laurafayeten.bsky.social on Love Letters to the Future to discuss the myths of leadership, organizations and the power of Collective Intelligence. #LLttF Like, subscribe, comment and enjoy on your preferred podcast platform!
On this week's LLttF, @laurafayeten.bsky.social and I interview @susankayequinn.bsky.social about how hopepunk and solarpunk are quintessential New Mythos subgenres that can help create better futures.
Humans are wired for story and that's what made us succeed as a social species. Join @henrylienauthor.bsky.social, @laurafayeten.bsky.social and me as we discuss how to tell better stories on Love Letters to the Future. Listen, subscribe, comment and join our community.
Act structures profoundly affect worldview, expectations and outcomes. What assumptions do we make about the world? Can we tell better stories? @henrylienauthor.bsky.social joins me and @laurafayeten.bsky.social on Love Letters to the Future to discuss 4 act Eastern story structure.
Habitsofwaste.org has over a dozen initiatives that have made CA and the US more environmentally sound. Join @laurafayeten.bsky.social and me on Love Letters to the Future with Sheila Moravati and hear easy ways we can leverage our actions, voices and strength to effect real change.
Sheila Moravati and Habits of Waste are responsible for the nationwide US takeout food cutlery opt-in or out. Listen to how she did it and how much waste has been saved because of this now-invisible change. Join @laurafayeten.bsky.social and me with our amazing guests on Love Letters to the Future.
Saying "My ocean, my earth" instead of "the ocean" means we have a reason to protect it, because it's protecting ourselves. Language matters. Join me and @laurafayeten.bsky.social on Love Letters to the Future podcast with environmental activist Sheila Moravati.
@laurafayeten.bsky.social and I speak with Sheila Moravati, author of The Imperfect Environmentalist. She has created a dozen successful environmental initiatives and we can all learn a great deal from her. There are far too many myths around recycling and reuse. Let's listen to Sheila's wisdom.
@nisishawl.bsky.social explains that writing characters means inhabiting people who may differ in their privilege to you. We can write up, down or across the scale of privilege with education. Join @laurafayeten.bsky.social and me: Listen, like and subscribe to Love Letters to the Future.
@nisishawl.bsky.social explains that the Middle Way is usually the best way to approach writing the other--neither as alien, or as just like the writer. It's a more nuanced exploration than the extremes. Join @laurafayeten.bsky.social and me for more Nisi on the Love Letters to the Future Podcast!⬇️
Time for a new Love Letters to the Future! Author and founder of Writing the Other, @nisishawl.bsky.social joins @laurafayeten.bsky.social and me to explain the importance of diversity and inclusion in the New Mythos. Nisi is an inspiration and one of the reasons this podcast exists. Join us!
Brian Swimme & Monica DeRaspe Bolles join us for "Exploring the Noosphere: a New Mythos for Humanity" on the Love Letters to the Future podcast. You will feel better about yourself and the world after listening to this one. Join us below.
Want to know what's coming? Ask the right people. Join @laurafayeten.bsky.social and me on Love Letters to the Future, along with experts like @cascio.bsky.social where we discuss increasing our circles of empathy to find the best way forward. On your favorite podcast platforms.
Jamais Cascio shares fresh and new thinking. And what is it? Be kind. Be willing to be wrong. Be willing to improvise. But most of all, be kind. There are new narratives we must share. Let's share them together at Love Letters to the Future. Join us below.
Jamais Cascio discusses the alternative narrative and framing we need to succeed in our new, complex Brittle-Anxious-Nonlinear-Incomprehensible future. Watch more at the Love Letters to the Future podcast on Substack, Apple, Spotify and YouTube.
