How I recorded an audiobook in a closet

Ariel Meadow Stallings
15 min readSep 14, 2023
My home recording studio, essentially a blanket fort in a closet.

Generally speaking, I’m pro-surrender. When I notice myself feeling gritty and anxious and miserable, usually it’s because there’s something I’m resisting. Usually, there’s something I need to just let go of and surrender to, accepting what’s actually happening instead of what I wish was happening.

During the early days of the pandemic, we ALL got a lot of surrender practice — the canceled…

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Ariel Meadow Stallings

I'm a product manager at Medium, but I'm also a whole-ass person living life: author, publisher, devotional dancer, Seattleite, mom, and just a human humanning.