The Rooftop
By Christa Fontaine
more fully expressed and authentic life.
From finding the magic in the mundane to radical
perspective shifts and lovingly calling out the
b.s all for the sake of love, these episodes offer encouragement, support,
And the permission to become more unapologetically you.
www.christafontaine.com
The Rooftop Dec 16, 2022
Creativity Is A Romantic
Today's hot topics on the roof explore: Life is getting GOOD, now what? The ratio of skill vs talent (and what they amount to together) The topic of Humor, and how we hold back some our best attributes out of fear of them being rejected, Creativity is a hardcore romantic, the value of leaning into your aversions and learning from them
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Friday morning, December 16th
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Stop glorifying "feeling ready" !
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Tuesday morning, December 6th
COME HANG WITH ME FOR VLOGMAS
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Presence is the goal (and the gold)
Today's hot topics on the roof explore: Learning how to love the process, embracing awkardness and imperfections, letting your goal become presence > peak moments, our relationship to timing (and how it's usually inaccurate) be your own best audience and create for you, I'm more afraid of living in fear, than fear itself.
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Wednesday morning, December 12th.
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Taking Out The Trash Of 2022
Today's hot topics on the roof explore: Feeling into my life force return, loving my life and December reflections, moving into a 5 year (numerology) a list of everything I desired early 2019 (and why I didn't get what I wanted) What are we feeding, where are we holding back? Taking out the trash, and bringing into focus the elements that will help up build our empire instead. Cutting cords and releasing any half assed commitments that aren't apart of where you are going/growing. Giving gratitude to previous versions of ourselves, self love for who we've been and where we've been that have prepared us for where we are now. CLARITY - What's the shelf life? What are our expectations of it? How much pressure are we actually putting on it?
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Monday morning, Dec 12th.
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Stay Open, Always & All ways.
Today's hot topics on the roof explore: Reviewing 7 lessons of the year from our dinner party last night, Embracing > Escaping the now, all potential and possibilities are available right now. Stop rejecting and judging the things that you don't "like" about your currently reality, as they are all preparing you for the future. Commune > Compare. You will always be unfulfilled if you do not allow all aspects of you to shine & be shared.
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Wednesday morning, December 7th
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Finding Your Natural Creative Rhythm
Today's hot topics on the roof explore: I'm having so much fun being a beginner, giving myself the permission to go all in on my creative process and productions )no apology, no shame) Lessons learned from vlogging so far, being more in flow with your life through the lens and finding a rhythm that is unique to you. I've been dreaming all about creations as a natural extension of my daily life, and I'm feeling elevated and grounded at the same time.
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Friday morning, December 2nd
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I was today years old when I started vlogging
Today's hot topics on the roof explore: Holy Vlogmas, I've started Vlogging! I'm learning how to begin again, and loving it! Trying out new ways of being in the world and daring to find out what kinda vlog style I'll have. We don't know what we don't know, until we create it! Creating more, and differently, doesn't need to automatically lead to burn out. All the reasons why I didn't think I could start vlogging and expired limiting beliefs around why I wouldn't ever make it. Committed to the creative process, and learning how to find my voice again. The energy I'm going into December with is "Keep it real, be a beginner everyday, and HAVE FUN!"
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Thursday morning, December 1st
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How to: Being brave enough to suck at something new
Today's hot topics on the roof explore: Sometimes we avoid learning new things out of the fear of sucking at them (at first) It can take a lot of guts and bravery to SUCK, right? With this new podcast, I'm learning how, and I'm sharing transparently about what I'm finding, and what it takes. Learning new things takes a lot of energy, so rest up buttercup! Keep your integrity and authenticity in tact while being a beginner, and doing it with grace (kind of!) Learn how to love your own process and stay by your own side as you explore this new thing of yours, and remember, it won't always be new - so enjoy it!
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Wednesday morning, Nov 30.
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Leaning into your visibility edge
Today's hot topics on the roof explore: sharing a little montage of my apartment in the morning, talking about vulnerability while leaning into the visibility edge, quitting smoking (and drinking!) even though I didn't think I had to, feeling like a little fish in a big pond for the first time in my life, wanting/needing encouragement as a self affirmed human, the thin line between pursuing and pressurizing your passion.
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Tuesday morning, Nov 29.
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Turn the dial up on your authenticity
Today's hot topics on the roof explore:
being a creative fountain (best when in flow) being a witch, loneliness - and how it's related to not being our authentic selves, depression (according to Jim Carrey) learning how to lean in into your visibility edge as a creative, committing to your vision and path and arriving at the soulful summit on your own terms.
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Monday morning, Nov 28th.
Numerology App mention: Teledipity
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Reinforcing your dreams
Today's hot topics on the roof explore: Discerning, crystalizing and reinforcing your dreams and developing a healthy relationship with them. What are the kind of elements involved to be taking aligned action in the direction of your dreams, and realizing that they want you as much as you want them (so take the pressure of chasing them, off!) Answering my own question of WHY am I doing this - and the answer is that i cannot afford not to, and I must find out what my commitment can foster and develop.
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Friday morning, Nov 25.
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Persist, Pivot or Pull The Plug?
Today's hot topics on the roof explore: Joy and hard work coexisting in the same room and what you're relationship is to both of them. Persist, Pivot or Pull the Plug, 3 options you have to make every single day. Starting with a blank canvas and consciously selecting your palette and what you want your next masterpiece (life chapter) to be. ACTUALLY believing in your dreams, not just saying that you do. What is beyond the cringe? (A beautiful world)
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Thursday morning, Nov 24.
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The routine to risk ratio
Today's hot topics on the roof explore: Examining previous resistances, how the universe responds when you claim that you're leaving the pigeon hole once and for all, as soon as you get comfortable, switch it up, what is your current routine to risk ratio, and defining what both of those mean to you. How do your reward metrics work?
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Wednesday morning, Nov 23rd.
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Be the difference & keep going
Today's hot topics on the roof explore: Revisiting previous versions of myself, the importance of continuing your craft, the difference between relevance and resonance, and turning what bothers you in your industry into fuel & reasons to do it more like YOU.
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Tuesday morning, Nov 22.
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Creating the life of your dreams TODAY
Today's hot topics on the roof explore: The very thin line between dream world and reality (and a detailed report of my dream last night) Making sense and processing our dreams can lead to very integrated healing. The upside and downside of being in a genre, self limitations and speaking to the right vs wrong audience, taking aligned action every day to create the life of your dreams today. Music as a homebase when you don't quite fit anywhere else, and creating for you as the most important thing.
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Sunday morning, Nov 20.
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Personal Portals & Recommitting to the Main Thing
Today's hot topics on the roof explore:
Personal portals, keeping the main thing the main thing, outgrowing old playing pitches, the creative journey and titles, speaking from lived experience.
Recorded live in San Miguel De Allende from my apartment on Thursday morning, Nov 17th.
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Living Memoirs Volume 4
// An eclectic collection of personal thoughts, transmissions, words spoken and notes taken within the last week. //
Unpacked • Living Memoirs Volume 3
Volume 3
From the shadows of early October.
Living Memoirs • Volume 1
Volume l
Sept 12-19-2020
// An eclectic collection of personal thoughts, transmissions, words spoken and notes taken within the last week. //
Pulling the plug on previous programming.
Circle back, again. But deeper this time. Make it better. More refined.
The moon doesn't apologize for not illuminating the sky each and every night.
So why should I?
"I want to party, but like, only in a deep and meaningful way."
Something I'm good at:
bringing people together and making them feel at home, and at ease, within themselves and with each other.
"What can I say? It's really all about finding tiny slivers of joy, on any given day." Said to a friend, referring to how I'm navigating grief.
Because what would happen if I just stopped? I'd have to come face to face will all the things I had talked myself into loving. I'd have to admit that I had been forcing aspects of my life to work. I had gone in so deep, and how could I possibly unravel?
But I had to.
"We still have our youth - even though I feel 337 years old."
But what do I need to do next? What if I don't have enough time? How will this make sense to the others? Will I need to explain myself? Will they keep loving me? Will it (I) be well received? How can I race through this phase of perpetual waiting? Am I too old to build a masterpiece?
I've been wearing dark orange tinted glasses for 1 week straight, and my sight has never been better.
I've proved myself wrong,
more times than I can count.
And each time I have,
it's felt so damn right.
I found a lie today in myself today.
It said "You can't monetize your madness."
Living Memoirs • Volume 2
Volume 2
// An eclectic collection of personal thoughts, transmissions, words spoken, and notes taken between Sept 20-27-2020 //
I've been saying that I'm not afraid of the deep end for years. And while that's true, the difference now is that there's nothing left in me, that I'm not willing to spend.
False starts are still starts.
Permission is an activator. It provides us with a prompt to our personal power, and leads us into action.
"You're gonna have a breakthrough soon, I can feel it."
"How do you know?"
"Because my heart is broken wide open, and one of it's magical powers is in sensing other types of breaks, as naturally as it senses love."
Osho Spread:
What should I embrace more of: Rest
What type of action should I be taking: Go With The Flow
What do I need to leave behind to move forward? Exhaustion
I remind myself often, and say it out loud regularly.
"I am the big thing."
Not everything that arrives on your doorstep is for you to open yourself up to, and receive as an opportunity.
Sometimes the action of closing the door, and returning to sender, is the opportunity in itself.
Maybe the reason that I'm so fixated on rushing to get a grip on the next phase, is because the slow process of grieving the one person I can no longer hold onto, is far too excruciating.
"Do you think it's strange that I have I have 3 distinct voices throughout various mediums? Why do you think that is? " Me asking Emily, referring to the way I show up on video, record spoken audio, and pour my guts out through writing.
"Not strange at all. You're accessing different parts of you. And you have a lot of people that need to hear from you, so it's important they can find different pieces of them, through various pieces of you."
I rarely say things outright, but I'm very direct. - A newly discovered distinction about myself
Just because it feels impossible, doesn't mean that it is. www.christafontaine.com