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Live Notes App Poetry With Leonora Pitts
Season 1, Ep. 9
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This week's guest is mega dream boat- actress, producer, writer, community organizer and filmmaker- Leonora Pitts.
Together, everyone agreed that ADHD + Anxiety makes you productive AF!
Or is it that Leonora can actually bend time?
Cristina and Ilana get back into the slow leak of Ilana's plant medicine adventure at Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica while aspiring to live in a Tibetan cave.
In the meantime: more rage dancing, family dance parties, and new on the scene - soup parties!
Leonora will share poetic readings that include chutney, Dormy McDougal, and can anyone help solve the mystery of who the hell is Ozz Bodkins?!
She also enlightened our depressive cuties on consciousness based learning and a masters in screenwriting program that Cristina and Ilana would love to apply to, but will forget about in days. If only they could find that list...
Other topics include mentorship, loving the small moments and slowing the fuck down.
Things Ilana forgot - the word prodromal labor (trying to block that out?) and the fact that she already talked about eating mushrooms TOO young.
Shoutouts: Mark Duplass, David Lynch and Maggie Kiley.
Endorsements: Reading, Walking, Dancing, Napping and Loving our Animals.
Places to Donate, Volunteer and Help those affected by the Los Angeles wildfires:
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation
Leonora produced and co-stars in I Hate Myself and Want to Die, currently in the festival circuit and screening at the upcoming 2025 Santa Barbara International Film Festival @hatemyselffilm.
Click to Follow on IG: That's So Mental , Ilana Cohn Sullivan, Cristina Fernandez and our guest Leonora Pitts and her podcast Mothering Heights
We'd love to hear about your mental health journey, DM us or email at thatssomentalpodcast@gmail.com.
Thank you to our producer Elizabeth Baquet, sound engineer Kevin Luu, and everyone at Ninth Planet Audio.
Theme song created by Mike Costantini. Special Thanks to Dave Kneebone at AbsoLutely.
Hosted on Acast.
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