Courtney Marie Andrews, critically acclaimed singer-songwriter & poet joins Katie Pruitt to talk about her non-conventional upbringing in Phoenix Arizona & her personal journey to self actualization. Andrews admits that her life has been a series of "fumbling into adventures." Before she even conceptualized a music career she busked on the corner & took greyhound buses from city to city purely for the experience of it, explaining that the only real pay-off was "the woman crying in the front row." In this episode we talk about the spiritual practices that keep her centered, how tragedy & suffering gives us perspective & why being kind is the most important accolade of all.