Kindness as Rebellion

There are some conversations that don’t feel like interviews. They feel like coming home.

My talk with Sherry Taveras for her podcast The Hundred Acre Pen was one of those.

We covered a lot: creativity, motherhood, self-doubt, the quiet rebellion of kindness.

We talked about what it means to be “selfish” in a world that equates selflessness with virtue—especially for women. And what it means to reclaim that word, not with shame, but with strength.

We talked about art as healing. About growing up in homes that dismissed softness. About what it means to mother without dissolving.

We talked about the awkwardness of kindness when it’s deliberate, eye-to-eye, outside of birthday cards and holidays. About handing someone a handmade token and hearing them ask, “Did your daughter make this?” and not having the courage to say, “No. I did.”

The kind of kindness that makes someone feel seen. The kind that risks being misunderstood. The kind we’ve been taught to keep quiet.

If you’ve ever wrestled with the desire to create… to give… to matter—this one’s for you.

I hope it meets you where you are.