024 ~ Origins of YSM Part 3: What Moves through the Between

Every collaboration has bumps. The question isn't whether they'll come — it's whether you've built a space where they can be spoken. In Part 3 of the Origins of YSM series, Danielle YS and Victoria McMahon go into the parts of YSM's origin that weren't smooth — and what those moments of friction revealed about showing up, staying in, and what gets generated in the space between two people who are fully present to each other. Not every collaboration is built to hold what's hard. YSM was. This is what that looked like from the inside. Together YSM explores: • The bumps in the road of building YSM — what it looked like when things got hard, and why having a space where you can say "this is what I'm feeling, I haven't figured it out" is what kept them on the road • "Just showing up" as a superpower: the simple, enormous act of presence — showing up wherever called, especially when it can feel like the hardest thing in the world — and why being multi-generational women with diverse lived experience made that trust easier to hold • "The bumps become part of the awakening" — the phrase Victoria said that stopped the conversation — and what it means to embrace the discomfort of collaboration as part of what you're becoming, not a detour around it • The telltale signs that Generative Listening is happening: the magnetism that keeps pulling you deeper, the slow carving layer by layer toward something that was waiting to be revealed, the feeling that you can't not go back • A Sedona retreat on Generative Listening taking shape in real time — born directly from the conversation itself, mid-episode, as if the idea had been waiting for exactly this moment to be spoken aloud What moves through the between? Everything that couldn't have been found alone. In this episode: [00:00:56] Giving voice to what wasn't smooth — the bumps in the road of building YSM [00:01:46] Bumps don't derail — they inform how you move down the road [00:02:25] Victoria: "We're so much better off when we embrace the bumps" [00:03:07] Just showing up: the simple, sometimes hardest act — and why it's a superpower [00:04:00] "The bumps become part of the awakening" — the phrase that stopped the conversation [00:04:33] The gift of diversity: being multi-generational women with different lived experience [00:05:41] YSM as something more than the sum of its parts — what comes through beyond personality [00:07:15] What are the telltale signs of Generative Listening? [00:07:51] Magnetism and deepening — carving the angel layer by layer [00:08:29] A Sedona retreat on Generative Listening takes shape — live, in real time ✨ Book your free Threshold Assessment with Danielle: https://danielleys.com/calendar 📝 Subscribe to Victoria's writing: https://substack.com/@vibrantsoulcoac... 📺 Subscribe to our channels for more Generative Listening — where listening deeply to the Self, to each other, and to the intelligence of the Universe opens a door to something genuinely new.