About Us and the Podcast:
The Genuine Gals Project is an attempt, a call to bring effort into, trying to tease out what it means to be a good woman.
Meet the Hosts:
Hi everyone, Tyler here! By trade I am an Academic Librarian who’s passionate about books and being a forever student of the world and the people around me. I love to learn, my answer for everything is to try to find a book on the subject. If being a college student paid well I’m pretty sure I’d stay a student forever.
I just feel like there is always something out there I could be better at, mostly I try to focus that questing energy on myself, my relationship with others, and my walk in growing closer to God. I love to read and learn about what other people do in these areas, to gain their wisdom, to see what might serve me and mine better. I firmly believe that through sharing our experience we learn how to better operate in and with the world around us.
Striving to learn more, to do better when I mess up, to gain the wisdom to face my errors, and the strength to course correct is a lifelong process. It’s scary, and I continue to pray for the courage to do the hard work, and the grace to be grateful to those who help me along the way.
“One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.”
― C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Hi all, Gail here – Professionally I am a research librarian, meaning I help experts acquire, process, sort, store, and disseminate information. In short, I trade in knowledge.
Personally, you can consider me a seeker. Curiously-minded and not afraid of discovering the mangled, tangled shadow entities that might be present under the rocks I lift, caves I wander, and depths I dive.
Spiritually, I am an acolyte in service to the muse. I do my best to go where she leads, look where she points, and obey her commands. She calls to me through stories, ideas, and aesthetics and I strive to illuminate those nudgings into the conscious realm through intentional thought and speech.
I find quite often my obedient encounters with a meaningful piece, idea, or a story are not a one and done. I’m brought back to the same page, frame, landscape, concept, etc. Over and over again until it is done with me. The deeper the layers, the longer it takes, and often the darker it gets. In the landscape of the unknown, hic sunt dracones. Here, there be dragons.
I never fancied my head in the sand. Suffocating the senses always appeared, well, senseless to me. So I’ll leave you with the words for Anthony Doerr from All the Light We Cannot See because I think this summaries my aim quite well: “Open your eyes and see what you can see with them before they close forever.”
The Genuine Gals Project 