Writeway Presents The Real Story
By Writeway PLLC
The Real Story is an expansive riff on the mission of the original Writeway Podcast, which sought to empower writers and turn creative aspirations into career realities. Now, host, mother, wife, human, and multi-bestselling and award-winning author Rea Frey will examine all the many stories constantly unfolding in our wide world by getting very, very real. For more information about Rea, this podcast, her books, and her business, visit writewayco.com.
Writeway Presents The Real StoryJan 26, 2023
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I cannot wait to share...
On today's episode, Rea shares some news: She is completely rebranding her business, podcast, and website, and will relaunch with new content and a new look and feel on May 1! Make sure to stay tuned by subscribing to her newsletter at reafrey.com or staying connected on Instagram @reafreyauthor. Trust us, you don't want to miss what's coming... It's going to be an entirely new vibe!
Mar 02, 202306:57
Finally Write That Book... And Join Me for a FREE Zoom Workshop!
On today's podcast, Rea dives into a brand new product coming your way very soon: the nonfiction book proposal course! For anyone who wants to write a nonfiction book but doesn't know where to start, this simple seven-step process is THE KEY.
In this episode, Rea chats about:
--> What a book proposal is and why you need it
--> The value of the course and who it's for
--> How to get the best out of this course, whether you are indie publishing or traditionally publishing!
For a limited time, get the course for just $888 using the code WRITEWAY23. Check out more details HERE!
Lastly, Rea is hosting an exclusive FREE So You Want to Write a Book…Now What? Zoom workshop the night before the course officially launches to answer any and all questions around publishing a book. (This is for FICTION and NONFICTION authors!)This will take place Tuesday, February 28, from 6-7 CST.
Here, she will discuss how to define your own publishing goals, pick a publication path, and understand the process to get your book into the world!
Register NOW and please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review!
Feb 16, 202315:06
Try Vocal Toning to Move Energy & Align Your Chakras!
If you have been feeling sluggish, tired, or stuck in the New Year, this episode of The Real Story is for you.
Rea has been forthcoming about her quest to “unblock” and unlock some of her past traumas through a host of healing work. It has been a journey, and it has not been easy. Today, she shares how, with one simple exercise, she went from not sleeping and feeling down to instantly energized, awake, and back in alignment.
The key? Vocal toning. Whether you are familiar with vocal toning or have never heard about it, one thing is for sure: We are all made of energy, and that energy often gets stuck. When we focus on our seven chakras, coupled with a sound, we move energy and get ourselves into alignment.
Today, Rea takes you through her daily practice. Specific sounds for chakras below:
ROOT: Uhhhhhhh
SACRAL: Ooooooooo
SOLAR PLEXUS: Ohhhhhhhh
HEART: Ahhhhhhhh
THROAT: Eyeeeeee
THIRD EYE: Ayyyyyyyyy
CROWN: Eeeeeeeee
Lastly, DON’T MISS THIS SPECIAL OFFER: enroll in Rea’s BRAND NEW Book Proposal Course to learn everything you need to take a book idea from brainstorm to publishing deal. Only $888 for limited time (regularly $999)! Visit Writeway to reserve your seat today—they’re going fast!
That link again is https://www.writewayco.com/book-proposal-course.
Feb 02, 202321:42
Rea's Reads: January Book Picks
What’s better than curling up with a book during the cold winter month of January? At The Real Story we think it’s curling up with six books! Today on the podcast, Rea sits down with listeners to review all the brand-new releases she’s reading this month, and hopes you’ll read them too!
Jan 26, 202317:15
The Power of Silence: What I Learned on My 3-Day Vipassana Retreat
After a brief break from the podcast, Rea is back this week on The Real Story to share invaluable lessons she learned from a 3-day silent retreat, led by a Buddhist monk.
Jan 17, 202324:48
Create Space for Something New
It’s the top of a new year and Rea is talking about hard lessons, starting over, and creating space on 2023's first The Real Story podcast.
Jan 03, 202320:59
What’s It Really Like To Be A Ghostwriter?
Coming off a restful holiday, Rea kicks off the new year on The Real Story podcast by diving into the wild, weird world of ghostwriting.
Dec 31, 202218:51
Rea's December Book Picks!
Everyone at The Real Story is excited for the holiday, and what better way to dive into all the festivities than by picking out wonderful new books for the readers on your list?
Dec 20, 202217:57
Learning to Breathe & Breathing to Live with Alex Holguin
Everyone at The Real Story is super excited about this week’s guest, Writeway’s very own creative director, and Rea’s husband, Alex Holguin! Today, they’re talking not only about an underlying message of pursuing passion, but also the incredible merits of breathwork.
Dec 13, 202236:21
5 Ways to Enhance Your Healing Journey NOW! | SOLO
With a new year approaching, it’s the perfect time to look both backwards and forwards at modalities for healing and optimization so we can use past experience to plan for the future. Join Rea as she reflects on the last several years of her healing journey in order to help listeners forge a path of health and wellness.
Dec 06, 202223:35
SNEAK PEAK OF MY NEW BOOK!
Tune into this week’s episode of The Real Story podcast and MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Rea’s giving listeners an exclusive SNEAK PEAK of her forthcoming new book, The Other Year, which will be available in stores August 15th, 2023!
Nov 29, 202217:19
Your Path to Publishing Starts Here! | SOLO
You are not going to want to miss this episode of The Real Story podcast! Rea sits down to take listeners through the very methodology she uses with Writeway clients to lay down all the important next steps for writers pursuing authorhood.
Nov 22, 202227:59
An Easier Way to Manifest | SOLO
On this week’s episode of The Real Story, Rea is once again on the podcast solo, coming back from a truly remarkable weekend celebrating both her birthday and her wedding anniversary—and ready to talk about the act of manifestation.
Nov 15, 202231:36
Requesting Permission to Be
Rea and Joe are back together on the mic this week—finally!—for an enlightening and densely-packed episode of The Real Story, aimed at giving everyone listening the PERMISSION to live their life.
Nov 08, 202244:19
Come Home To Yourself | SOLO
After a 15-day journey up the East Coast, Rea shares some exciting revelations around travel, work, home, health, wellbeing, and more on this week’s episode of The Real Story.
Nov 01, 202227:16
Plant-Based Versus Animal-Based: Which Diet is Better?
Rea is taking The Real Story outside of the usual topics of conversation—but still a subject close to her heart and expertise—to talk about optimum human diets.
Oct 18, 202238:38
Are You Superconscious? | SOLO
What is “superconscious”? A term coined by a metaphysicist in the 1920s, during an era when such a concept might be perceived as pure fantasy, it’s the very foundation of Rea’s current journey, and of this week’s episode of The Real Story.
Oct 11, 202224:25
How to Choose Your Genre to Ensure Your Book Can Sell with Debut Author Holly James
This week’s conversation is a fun one! Rea is joined by debut author Holly James, who nabbed a three-book deal in the women’s fiction genre after years of pitching thrillers.
Oct 04, 202253:43
6 Ways to Make Great Money as a Writer | SOLO
This week’s “bite-size” edition of The Real Story won’t take up much of your time, but Rea will make it worth your time, with a subject always worth a listen: ways you can make great money as a writer!
Sep 27, 202218:54
How Do You Identify? | SOLO
On this week’s episode of The Real Story, Rea is back for an introspective solo episode all around one thing: IDENTITY.
Sep 13, 202225:08
Miracles & Mundanity: Doing the Best with the Time We're Given | SOLO
On this week’s episode of The Real Story, Joe is indulging in a rare solo appearance on the podcast mic to bring listeners up to speed on his wife’s more recent battles with her cancer diagnosis.
Sep 06, 202237:22
Release Your Trauma with Primal Screaming | SOLO
On this week’s episode of The Real Story, Rea explores an alternative form of therapy called "primal screaming." An effective way of working through extreme emotion, she discusses the advantages of trauma release—all by just opening your mouth.
Aug 30, 202224:15
Tap Into Human Energy Design for a Better Life with Nikki McFadden
On this week’s episode of The Real Story, Rea is joined by special guest, human design specialist, and her very best friend, Nikki McFadden.
Aug 23, 202257:30
Change Your Mind with Microdosing
On this week’s episode of The Real Story, Rea and Joe talk psychedelics, from the negative stigma to the amazing benefits of “microdosing.”
Aug 16, 202227:22
Why Publishing and Expectations Don't Mix
On this week’s episode of The Real Story, Rea and Joe bridge the gap between what authors expect when they begin the process of getting their book out into the world, and the reality of how the book publishing industry actually works.
Aug 09, 202226:05
The #1 Outline Hack for People Who Hate Outlines! | SOLO
On this week’s episode of The Real Story, Rea fills us in on her new favorite “hack” for writers who hate outlines: the power of the index card.
Aug 02, 202213:45
How Attitude and Gratitude Can Take You to New Heights with #1 Bestselling Thriller Author Samantha Bailey
This week, The Real Story welcomes special guest, Samantha Bailey, the bestselling author of Woman On The Edge and Watch Out For Her, and she shares details about her career, her creative process, her publishing strategies, and building a platform to nab that coveted bestseller status.
Jul 26, 202257:33
F**K CONVENTION!
On this episode, The Real Story dives into some muddy waters, exploring what exactly it means to say “F**k convention!” and live life on your own terms, while maintaining some functionality in a mad external world.
Jul 19, 202235:04
How I Restored My Faith in Publishing | SOLO
After a multi-week hiatus, The Real Story is back with a solo episode where Rea discusses her renewed faith in publishing after a spirit-lifting new two-book deal with HarperCollins.
Jul 12, 202219:17
Using Acceptance as a Tool for Progress with Communications Expert and Cancer Warrior, Anna Tower-Kövesdi
A super-special podcast episode is in store for you as everyone from Writeway and The Real Story takes a moment to recognize June as National Cancer Survivor Month in honor of the nearly 17 million cancer survivors in the U.S.
Jun 21, 202241:58
100 PODCAST EPISODES: What We’ve Learned Sticking with Something We Love
A big congratulations to Writeway and The Real Story this week as a brand-new episode of the podcast officially drops for the 100th time!
Jun 14, 202225:44
Dropping the Narrative and Investing in Yourself | SOLO
Rea shakes things up on another solo episode of The Real Story this week with an exploratory examination of what’s ahead, tackling her own journey into and out of—and back into—the very intense hustle of mainstream publishing and the radical decision to once again bet on herself.
Jun 07, 202223:23
Hit Your Word Count and Ride the Waves of Publishing with Thriller Author, Megan Collins
On this week’s episode of The Real Story, nobody is more excited than Rea that her guest on the mic is creative writing teacher and award-winning author of thrillers The Winter Sister and Behind the Red Door, Megan Collins.
May 31, 202201:01:08
Why Do You Write?
On this week’s episode of The Real Story, the topic is: “Why?” Rea and Joe ask the question—of fellow writers, the community, listeners, and each other—why … why do we submit, why do we publish, and most importantly, why do we write?
May 24, 202238:28
How to Become F**kless with Behavioral Analyst and Author Gianna Biscontini
WARNING: episode contains LOTS OF F**KS and GIVES NO F**CKS.
This week on The Real Story, Rea is elated to welcome Gianna Biscontini, a long-time client of Writeway, a board-certified behavioral analyst, an entrepreneur, and the author of the brand new book, F**kless: A Guide to Wild, Unencumbered Freedom, a definitive book to help women release and reprioritize the f**ks they’ve been given.
This week on The Real Story, Rea is elated to welcome Gianna Biscontini, a long-time client of Writeway, a board-certified behavioral analyst, an entrepreneur, and the author of the brand new book, F**kless: A Guide to Wild, Unencumbered Freedom, a definitive book to help women release and reprioritize the f**ks they’ve been given.
May 17, 202249:29
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What Do Editors [REALLY] Want?
On the heels of sending a brand-new manuscript out for submission, for the first time since leaving her publisher, Rea finds herself once again wondering a very foundational question on the #PathToPublish: What do editors want? The answer, which she and Joe explore on this week’s episode of The Real Story is not very cut-and-dry.
May 10, 202232:43
BURNOUT: Friend or Foe?
Rea and Joe are back together on the mic for this latest episode of The Real Story and, this week, they are buuuuuuuuuuurnt oooooooooooout. But that doesn’t mean they aren't going to show up, though. It means they are going to talk all about it.
May 03, 202235:01
How To Stay Curious and Keep Asking Questions with Sophie Holguin
The Real Story has a special guest this week, talking about how to approach life with curiosity, continuing to ask fundamental and unique questions as you get older, and the probability of the existence of unicorns—it’s Rea’s nine year old daughter, Sophie Holguin!
Apr 26, 202229:16
It's Time For A New Story
The Real Story is back this week with a conversation between Rea and Joe inspired by a short episode from the Abraham Hicks podcast, Leading Edge. The seven-minute recording from an Esther Hicks workshop is a potent reminder that the lives we are living are in direct response to the stories we are telling ourselves.
Apr 19, 202231:53
Taking a Walk with Your Inner Child | SOLO
This week on The Real Story, Rea reflects on a powerful Owaken meditation she recently participated in called “Take a Walk With Your Inner Child,” which led to some deeply healing work regarding her childhood. On this episode, she shares some incredibly personal details of past experiences—both good and bad—that have shaped who she is and how she operates.
Apr 12, 202231:44
On Survival: Fighting Ghosts and The Fallacy of “Luck” | SOLO
On this week’s episode of The Real Story, it’s another solo episode as Joe takes to the mic alone for the first time. In a raw half hour full of candor, he revisits in more nuanced and frank detail the events of the last few months since Christmas, when he and his wife, Anna, first embarked on her fight against cancer.
Apr 05, 202235:55
The Importance of Play to Live an Optimized Life with Bestselling Author and Thought Leader Judi Holler
It’s a very special episode of The Real Story today! For those of you tuning in to the podcast for insight into creative work or optimum living, when Rea sits down with author, improviser—and overall human firework—Judi Holler.
Mar 29, 202201:04:41
Where Do You Find Your Community?
Rea and Joe are back on the mic together this week for an episode of The Real Story that touches on a very critical topic, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: community.
Mar 22, 202236:05
Reclaim Your Spirituality on Your Own Terms with Shaman Rachel White
This week’s episode of The Real Story is going to open your mind. Rea sits down for a radical conversation with shaman, and beloved Writeway client, Rachel White.
Mar 15, 202201:03:03
Take a Proactive Stance to Your Health and Well-Being | SOLO
In her former life, Rea was a certified personal trainer and nutritionist, and on this week's solo episode, shares some of her favorite ways to stay proactive instead of reactive when it comes to health.
Mar 08, 202233:35
How to Get Paid What Your Book Is Worth with Author and Estate Planning Lawyer, Iffy Ibekwe
If you’ve always wanted to be an author, but you also want to get paid what you’re worth, then this is the episode for you. Joining The Real Story is incredible author, Writeway client, and estate lawyer, Iffy Ibekwe.
Mar 01, 202255:48
The Tech Detox: How To Live Your Real Life | SOLO
In this fresh episode of The Real Story, recorded just prior to the launch of her latest book, Secrets of Our House, Rea takes to the mic solo to discuss everything she took away from a weekend-long tech detox that prompted her to “live her real life.”
Feb 22, 202228:45
The Secrets and Successes of Independent Publishing with Bestselling Authors Karen McQuestion and Tess Thompson
On the latest podcast episode from Writeway’s The Real Story, we dive deep into the very tangible, but sometimes elusive, world of independent publishing.
Feb 15, 202256:52
Birth Into Being
On this week’s episode of The Real Story, there’s a lot to discuss, and not just because Secrets of Our House, the latest book by Rea Frey, launches today. This episode is about “birthing,” and what that means for anything we put out into the world—from books and other creative projects—to the very day-to-day choices we make for ourselves.
Feb 08, 202255:39
Ditch the Social Norms: How to Create Your Own Sacred Contracts
Well listeners, it’s official! This episode is the first official appearance of the Writeway Podcast as its new expansive experiment, The Real Story. This week, Rea is joined by artist, designer, and Writeway’s creative director, Alex Holguin—a man who, most importantly, is also her husband.
Feb 01, 202237:42