This is another unplanned mini episode thanks to illness. In it, I talk about illness, injury, and caregiving and the impact it has on Renaissance People.

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Sara Kobilka 0:00

Hey everyone, it is the Renaissance Swimming coming at you from a corner of my bedroom. Um, and if you can't tell from my voice, I'm under the weather right now. I have a 6-year-old who is sick and like all good children, the thing that they're best at sharing is disease. So, I was able to get my family home from our trip to Minnesota back to New York a few days ago. Powered through as one kid got sick, then another wasn't feeling well. Then my husband wasn't feeling well. So I powered through, and then inevitably I crashed.

This is not supposed to be a solo episode. I have been working on editing, um, the next episode, an interview with a woman named Marika Luneau, and I was so excited to share it with you. But it has been a bit of a beast to edit and I am doing the extending grace to myself that I always encourage other people to do.

So, I wanted to talk just really briefly, and I'm only gonna edit this if I have a coughing fit. So, get ready for this possibly incoherent, slightly fever induced rant. Um, I wanna talk about something that I think is a challenge for us, Renaissance People. I do want this podcast really to as much as possible, be focused on the positive because I think we have so many wonderful assets.

We have our complexity, we have our creativity. We are really great outside-the-box thinkers and we come up with all these ideas. But we also have a challenge and it is one that impacts all of us, and in particular, I've noticed its impact on me as a person in caregiver responsibilities.

And the challenge is something that Marika will, uh, be talking to me about in the episode coming out in a couple weeks where we talked about how we get so excited, we come up with these ideas and we're like, okay, it's go time.

All these great things. Um, plus dealing with some other challenges. My husband had some health issues. I had a child who was struggling. And what frustrated me so much was that we Renaissance People, even when we are sick, those ideas don't go away. Maybe they become fever induced dreams, but they don't go away.

And I know a lot of you are that way too. So I just want to close this very micro mini episode by saying, if you are a Renaissance Person who's in that struggle right now, who has all the ideas, you've got 'em, you've got the creativity, you're amazing, but you're really frustrated right now because things outside of your control are stopping you from reaching that potential, from making those dreams happen. Please know that I understand. I am in the trenches with you and what I can say is what made this podcast exist, exist is finding community with other people.

So for me, I participated in a program, um, called Create with my career coach Jenni Gritters. Next episode's gonna be a Jenni Gritters Love Fest because Marika and I actually both met in, um, a program, another program that Jenny, uh, just sunsetted in fact. But Create was the program where I just said everything is falling apart. The world is falling apart. I'm so frustrated. I have this dream of a podcast.

I have this dream of building a community for Renaissance people, and it's just, it's taking up space, uh, rent free in my brain, and I just want it to happen. And through the encouragement of a having a coach, of having a community of other people, I was able to make it happen, and I'm really happy about that.

And I'm gonna sleep and drink water and use my humidifier and work to get myself back in functional shape so that I can create my schedule for recording interviews with new Renaissance People and editing the two interviews I've already done and we will move forward. It's not as fast as I want, but that's life and that's showbiz kids.

So, make it a good one.