My guest Today, Krista Couture, is an award winning performing and recording artist, filmmaker, writer and broadcaster.
She is also proudly indigenous, mixed Cree and scandinavian, queer, disabled, and a mom.
Her 7th album, Safe harbor, was released on Cokes Records in 2020.
And as a writer and a storyteller, Krista has been published in Room Shameless Auger magazine.
She's gone viral on the CBC with an article and photos on disability and pregnancy.
Krista is also a frequent contributor to CBC Radio and is currently the weekday afternoon host on 165 Element FM in Toronto.
And her life has been both extraordinary and fiercely engaged.
She is utterly awake and connected and alive and joyful, which is a pretty powerful state for her to be in given the stunning amount of loss that has touched down in her life, from the loss of her leg in her early teens to the loss of children, a sense of identity, community and the need to find a way to reimagine life not just exist, but also live in the face of deeply challenging circumstances.
In her debut memoir, how to lose everything, she shares many of these stories and we dive into this extraordinary path, the revelations, her lens on life, possibility, hope and grace.
And what you'll really be moved by is this sense of underlying joy, this fabric of lightness, in the context of a life experience that people could look at and think, wow, that has been really tough.
And yet somehow she's not polynistic, she's not delusionally hopeful or optimistic, but she has found a way to reconnect with a sense of lightness, hope and possibility that I think we could all learn from.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
There's something really important that I think we need to talk about first, and that is the fact that apparently you fold everything, including dish cloths.
We gotta start with the important stuff here.
Yes, I do.
I do fold everything.
Oh my gosh.
My secret is out.
I mean, well, I'm a very tidy, very organized person.