{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Faec5e4d9-151a-431c-bf90-09752a8f0a8a","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Karen Hill Anton: Legend of Crossing Cultures and Turning Corners","description":"Season Three Episode Seven \r\n\nIn Karen\u2019s book \u2018The View From Breast Pocket Mountain\u2019 before I even got to page 50 she had introduced me to her young relationship with Joseph Heller, author of Catch 22, hanging out with Neneh Cherry (childhood hero of mine). Now, I am a sloooooow reader - I like that about myself - I read about 10 books a year and these days listen to more, but I decided to purchase Karen\u2019s book and dip in before our conversation. I couldn\u2019t put it down. From the first page, that we don\u2019t reveal - it has you hooked. \r\n\n\r\n\nI am genuinely changed through our conversation - I just loved listening to her talking about being a mother and taking the next steps, humbling herself to being both inside and outside a culture and living a full life in the Japanese countryside. Karen is beautiful and one of the most wonderful things I love about being a woman is how we can traverse with ease across intelligent meaningful conversations with depth and skill to talking about beauty and today was no exception - before we hit record, we both paused and topped up our lipstick! \r\n\n\r\n\nWe didn\u2019t even touch on the fact that Karen almost became a dancer and taught modern dance and at the end of the conversation, Karen reads from her novel; a wonderful chapter about her relationship with her neighbours - I mean let\u2019s just drop MC hammer in here shall we (I also drop a tasty tidbit in here about my history with the Hammer).\r\n\n\r\n\nIn terms of brilliance - you can\u2019t touch this. (See what I did there?)\r\n\n\n The questions we DON\u2019T have about our parents and how many stories live in our imagination\r\n\n We talk about imagination and living in the past and the burden of creating anxiety in our fantasies - brilliant coaching fodder! Curiosity and pragmatism\r\n\n She was raised in a time when there was no imaginings about not respecting a parent. It was simply not an option\r\n\n The power and influence of good teachers and mentors and how important the people who will see and witness your potential are. This comes up in a future conversation too (look out for May) AND in the conversation with Leza Lowitz\r\n\n DREAMS - opening the edges of our dreams through contact with people who can open our dreams\r\n\n What happens when she - she just couldn\u2019t get enough\r\n\n Following what\u2019s in front of you and being swept away - not reckless, not crazy, not even edgy but unafraid\r\n\n Corners - going around a corner and not being afraid and not knowing what\u2019s around the corner\r\n\n The joy of becoming a mother and how she never found having a child limiting, she couldn\u2019t be more grateful for children and all that role created for her\r\n\n She is absolutely clear in the book about how hard it was on a farm with no running water and toilets they had to empty themselves and 3 young kids - there\u2019s NO BS here\r\n\n The tragedy of isolation and the joy of community in motherhood\r\n\n You will have to read the book to get the full dojo experience but Karen teases us with the year they had on a dojo\r\n\n Being in community in the deep Shizuoka countryside on Japan\r\n\n How becoming a Japanese Calligraphy 2-dan (basically better than a black-belt) opened Japanese culture up\r\n\n She stopped being a rebel and what she has to say about standing out and fitting in\r\n\n Life as a cross-cultural coach columnist\r\n\n Her life now, her four adult children and her approach to future projects\r\n\n\nInstagram https://www.instagram.com/karenhillanton (@karenhillanton)\r\n\nhttp://www.karenhillanton.com/ (www.karenhillanton.com)\r\n\n\r\n\nBuy her book https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Karen-Hill-Anton/dp/0578696606/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1MMVI64WVOUFYanddchild=1andkeywords=karen+hill+antonandqid=1618820697andsprefix=karen+hill+%2Caps%2C233andsr=8-1 (here.)\r\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/5acb9803-ac5c-4364-8b88-956811b99a26/2251919-1618827566732-0769e5d4e268a.jpg"}