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PowerPivotInterview: Doctora Nicole Cabrera Salazar"In the colonial white supremacist system, there is no community. There's only power, but there's no community. But that doesn't mean that we have to abide by that model. We can create a new model. So in a way, it's exciting. But it's also terrifying. Because what does that look like without a blueprint"Meet Doctora Nicole Cabrera Salazar (She/They/Ella), astrophysicist turned social impact entrepreneur, and founder & CEO of Movement Consulting, a company dedicated to transforming academic environments into radically nourishing spaces for marginalized people by providing virtual courses, workshops, and expert advice....2025-01-161h 08
The Intimacy LabLeela SinhaIn this conversation, Michelle Renee and Leela Sinha discuss the concepts of intensives and expansives. They explore how intensives are passionate, risk-tolerant, and make unexpected connections, while expansives are steady, reliable, and prefer predictable environments. They also discuss the importance of understanding and appreciating both types of personalities. Overall, the conversation highlights the value of self-awareness and finding balance between intensity and steadiness.
Leela Sinha is a coach and author. Leela created The Intensive Institute and wrote the book You're Not Too Much. You can find Leela and the book at https://IntensiveInstitute.com. 2024-08-021h 46PowerPivotInterview: Paul BaronPaul Baron: "what they really liked about the wall printer, which is what I'm most proud of, is that every customer we have, becomes a new company. Everybody that buys a wall printing machine establishes a company around this machine, or they've added a revenue stream to an existing company."Let us introduce you to Paul Baron, a self-described "serial entrepreneur," who shares insights from his fifty-something year career in sales, and running businesses like restaurants, sporting goods, and beyond. Paul and Leela talk about revenue-sharing models for employees, the risks and rewards of going into business...2024-03-0659 minPowerPivothonoring the intensity of intensive grief"This is the hard part about being intensive: that people have told us all our lives that we're dangerous. And mostly, I will tell you that we are not. That we just need to find the right structures. But the size of our emotional experience means that sometimes we can push ourselves over the edge."Grief is enormous. And there is a lot to grieve. And, as intensives, our ways of expressing grief are often unwelcome (at best) in an expansive culture. How do we honor the intensity of our grief, and process it. And also- how...2024-03-0419 minPowerPivotresponding to "What Works:" are we gimmicks?"predictability makes people feel comfortable. It makes them feel known."Let's take a brief pause from our theme of "Love the One You're With," and go on a little side quest. Tara McMullin's excellent podcast "What Works" recently dropped an episode called "In Defense of Gimmicks." (Click here to check that out.) Leela has some thoughts on this and the way that we might look at a 'gimmick' as a container, or a form, or even a ritual. And definitely as one more tool for finding mutual understanding.Transcript and notes: https...2024-02-1413 min
Ignorance Was Bliss498 -- Uncompromising -- a personal message and a conversation with Leela SinhaThis is a two-part episode: (1) a hard and raw update of the state of my life right now, and (2) a conversation with Leela Sinha, who persistently believes there are ways to make the world a better place event when I'm whimpering in a corner.Guest: Leela Sinha, https://intensivesinstitute.com/....................Art: Laura EccottMusic: Jake Pierle -- https://jakepierle.bandcamp.com/....................Ignorance Was Bliss online: https://linktr.ee/iwbpodcastSponsor: Bath By Bex (code CBDkate for 25% off)Sponsor: Komuso Design (code bliss15 for 15% off)2024-01-271h 34PowerPivotmaking (but not emptying) a space"What we still don't have is the proverbial clear desk. That "clear mind-clear desk" thing actually puts me into a state of panic."Thinking about making space- and how 'making space' does not mean 'making emptiness.' Also- the full Saga of the Sit-Stand Desk.Here is the photo of Leela's desk:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t7VadexhtFNb3Rj_z1d4yyMg-PnamuIf/view?usp=sharingTranscript and notes:https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/making-but-not-emptying-a-spaceRecorded 8 January 2024.2024-01-1918 minPowerPivotmaking space for making mannequins...and brains"We all need to maybe finish a couple things that have been with us for so long, that we can't remember not having them. So that we can have space. Not even so we can add something new to the list. Just to have space."We all, each of us, have a lot of balls in the air. How do we create the space for ourselves to know which ones to keep and which ones to let fall? Sometimes, picking a project to finish can help create that space. Especially when we don't put pressure ourselves to...2024-01-1516 minPowerPivotInterview: Dr. Christina Helou"I coach folks on tapping into wonder and play so that they can experience more pleasure and joy in their lives, in alignment with who they are authentically and unapologetically. And knowing who you are, unapologetically, translates into improvements in your more meaningful relationships and how you run your business."cw: this episode of PowerPivot contains some discussion of sexual abuse.Meet Dr. Christina Helou (they/them), pleasure and play expert, private coach, thought leader, speaker and doctor of physical therapy. Join Leela and Dr. Christina as they discuss pleasure and joy; finding one's own...2024-01-111h 07PowerPivotInterview: Sara Rhiannon, the Quit Sugar Coach"Shame is a paradigm that distances us from our power. It's a paradigm within ourselves that, when internalized, it keeps us from recognizing our own experience in a variety of ways, and also recognizing our own experience as valuable.... There's this whole culture that tells us to love ourselves, right? And, well, have you even gotten to know yourself? It's like self love just kind of happens when you really get to know yourself."Listen in on a fascinating conversation between Leela Sinha and Sara Rhiannon (she/her), a hypnotist who uses somatic work and...2024-01-031h 17PowerPivotcase study: planning an accessible retreat"...and this is the important part for us as intensives. As soon as we figure out what's happening, we can begin to prepare mentally and sometimes systemically and sometimes structurally, for whatever comes next. And now I need to know that I borrowed all of that energy and all of the spoons from the next month. And act like it."Leela reflects on thriving in busy times, planning a retreat that is accessible from the ground up, the way that Go Mode can sneak up on us, and how to prepare ourselves and those around us for...2023-12-2719 minPowerPivotinterview: Dr. Matt Zakreski"This is where we shift from critical to curious. Isn't it worth asking the question, what would drive a kid to lose control that way? It's so easy to be critical. But you're gonna get a lot better return on your investment for being curious."Meet Dr. Matt Zareski (he/him), clinical psychologist, international speaker, and advocate for all things neurodivergence, specifically within the LGBTQ+ community. Join Leela and Dr. Matt for an engaging discussion about bringing equity to our workplaces and schools, accommodations for all, the cognitive biases that maintain power structures, Taylor Swift, Shaquille O'Neal...2023-12-201h 10PowerPivotInterview: Anuradha Kowtha"When we want to do this sacred work of uprooting injustice and inequity where we're seeing it, we're not just doing it for us. We're holding a space for change to be different."Meet Anuradha Kowtha (they/them), founder of The Kowtha Constellation and a partner in Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds. "My work’s thread could be described as undoing the impact of the inherent indoctrination from capitalism and colonialism on who we are and how we do our work in the world."Join Anuradha and Leela Sinha in a lovely and rich conversation that en...2023-12-131h 11PowerPivotInterview: Samara BaySamara Bay: "When we tell a story about a tiny moment, and how it impacted us, it is actually the most revealing thing of our character we could possibly do. Where we come from does not win over what we did in a hard moment."Meet Samara Bay, who coaches rising business leaders, political hopefuls, and public figures who need to speak in a voice they recognize as their own to truly make waves. She is the author of Permission to Speak, a "game-changing guide to redefining what power and authority sound like." Join Samara and Leela Sinh...2023-10-3058 min
Neuroinclusion#27 "Intense Leaders" with Leela SinhaLeela Sinha (ze/zir) joins me today to talk about zir work with the Intensives Institute and what it means to be an intensive. I have always identified as an intense person, so the intensive framework spoke to me. Leela shares that ze created the intensive framework because it makes people feel "less broken". So many of us intensives feel like we are "too much". We do not deal in small feelings. We are risk takers, innovators, and leaders. We go hard and come back for more. Often this causes conflict, especially in relationships, which Leela speaks to...2023-10-2344 min
Coming Out + Beyond | LGBTQIA+ StoriesComing Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 16 | Leela Sinha (Part 2)This week on the Coming Out & Beyond podcast we're back with part 2 of our interview with Rev. Leela Sinha. Leela is a genderqueer, spiritually grounded, Queer-as-fuck entrepreneur and principal at the Intensives Institute, an organization dedicated to executive leadership and development.In part 2 of this special episode, Anne-Marie and Leela talk about Leela's experience growing up atheist and in the UU, what it was like having a call to ministry, and expand on the language and constructs surrounding gender. It is a fascinating episode, not-to-be-missed for anyone who is interested in gender and trans issues....2023-07-0757 minComing Out + Beyond | LGBTQIA+ StoriesComing Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 15 Part 1/2 | Leela SinhaRev. Leela Sinha is a genderqueer, Queer-as-fuck entrepreneur. Ze is intense, spiritually grounded, real, funny, compassionate, and mostly interested in creating a better world with more pleasure and less pain. To that end, Leela coaches and consults to uplift intense people (if you're told you're "too much" that means you!) and creates leadership, companies, and systems where the bottom line is robust and everyone's needs get met.In this special 2-part episode, Anne-Marie and Leela take a fascinating meander through subjects such as the profound impact of Leela's upbringing in the Unitarian church, the contrasting messages they r...2023-06-2351 minPowerPivotInterview: Kimra LunaKimra Luna: "...when you're with those like-minded people, and you know that you're doing something to make the world better... you get hope automatically. It starts filling you up."Leela Sinha in compelling conversation with Kimra Luna: abortion doula, professional ranter, and founder of Idaho Abortion Rights mutual aid. They talk about finding hope in community, taking individual action, strategies for regaining reproductive rights in the US, and the journey that led Kimra to take on the work of an abortion doula. Transcript and Notes:https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/kimra-luna...2023-05-111h 02PowerPivotWhy is the SIEF like this?"As an intensive, you know, if it's not quite right, it's not right. And if it's not right, it's not been done. And if it hasn't been done, well, then we're gonna have to do it, aren't we?"A look into the thought process behind the construction of the Sinha Intensive-Expansive Framework, and how it can be a tool that helps us meet everyone's needs, all the time.Transcript and notes:https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/why-is-the-sief-like-thisRecorded 29 March 2023.2023-04-1716 minPowerPivotdifferent choices (content notice: discussion of gun violence)"I want to say something about the shooting. But I'm out of words. I found just enough, scraped out of the corners with a corner of a spoon, to say: I'm so sorry. We are together. Here are a few threads of hope. But that's all I've got. That's all I've got...."This episode refers to the school shooting in Nashville on March 27, 2023.Editor's note: While Leela says that to zir memory only one student was killed in the shooting at Simon's Rock at Bard College in 1992, there were in fact two...2023-04-1422 minPowerPivotthe gift of a plant"this culture, the one that holds the power around us is a culture that asks us to suffer. It invites, it expects, it valorizes suffering. It wants us- It tells us that if we aren't hurting, it doesn't count... But let's bring it back to pleasure. What is the tiny thing that still feels good?" Is it the gift of giving, and the gift of receiving?Here is a link to Leela's recent guest sermon at Northwest Inland Universalist Unitarian Community, which ze refers to in this episode:https://youtu.be/CR0hjR...2023-03-2422 minPowerPivotthe gate and the pond"I can't say as I'd know how to tell what it was like to take the road more traveled, because I'm not sure I've ever done that."Join Leela on a walk to sit near a pond and get close to the pond's inhabitants. And do some deep thinking in the quiet, of course.Transcript and notes:https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-pond-and-the-gateRecorded 16 March, 2023.2023-03-2011 minPowerPivotVenetian Loafers"These shoes mean to me the ability to inhabit my gender. I, and this complex gender of mine, belong everywhere."Gender, complex gender, representation, bookstores, long distance love and... whole-cut Venetian loafers? Naturally, when Leela Sinha is doing the talking, it all fits together.Transcript and notes:https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/venetian-loafersRecorded 1 March 20232023-03-1313 minPowerPivotsomething beautifulMaking space to find- and create- beauty where we need and want it.Cole Arthur Riley:https://colearthurriley.com/ The type of camera that Leela carried in zir pocket in Chicago:http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Canon_MCTranscript and notes:https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/something-beautiful2023-03-0113 minPowerPivothere's what I knowJoin Leela Sinha for a walk through the woods and a meditation on knowing, and hurting, and scrubbing away the aches and scars that live inside us.Full transcript and notes:https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/heres-what-i-knowrecorded 11 October 20222023-01-1603 minPowerPivotthe joy of the familiar"'Tis the season of holiday gatherings. And we're all trying to figure out if we belong in the places where we've gathered."Leela reflects on the ways that finding we like music in common with others can be a first step towards finding our communities.Notes and transcript:https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/the-joy-of-the-familiarRecorded 12/1/20222022-12-0606 minPowerPivotInterview: Lauren ElizabethJoin Leela Sinha in a fascinating and far-reaching conversation with Lauren Elizabeth of Lauren Elizabeth Coaching.Lauren is a pleasure-centered marketing coach & business mentor. She helps purpose-driven coaches, healers and creative business owners prioritize pleasure at every level of their business so they can grow their impact & their income without the oppressive marketing practices & hyper-capitalist business bullshit.Links: Website: https://laurenelizabethcoaching.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauren.elizabeth.coaching/Recorded October 5, 2022.Notes and Full Transcript here:https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/interview-lauren-elizabeth2022-11-1659 minPowerPivotconsistency as kindnessCreating structures is a kindness. Creating consistency is a kindness. If you can hold consistency sufficiently long, then people's brains settle into that consistency space. Where things take less conscious effort. And then other things have more space. And consistency doesn't take that much space in the brain. But obligation does. Obligation is an obstruction. Consistency is a kindness.Recorded 11/8/2022.Notes and full transcript here:https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/consistency-as-kindness2022-11-1421 minPowerPivotteaching team conflictHelp the intensives and expansives in your world resolve and avoid conflict by giving the, the language to understand each other, and helping them recognize that their different wants and needs and styles are inherent to them and how they are their most effective selves.Pace & Kyeli:http://paceandkyeli.com/The Gottman Institute and the infamous four horsemen of the relationship apocalypse:https://www.gottman.com/Other PowerPivot episodes about intensives and expansives:https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/love-on-expansiveshttps://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/intensives-and-hiring/2022-11-0720 minPowerPivotMore Of.More synchronicity. More yes...and. Less feeling like Sisyphus pushing the boulder up hill. What do you want from your business as an ethical, pleasurable space? First, say what we loved, and then say what we wanted more of. And then we make it happen.notes & transcript:https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/more-of2022-11-0208 minPowerPivotnormalizing discomfortThere are things we need to normalize- things like water conservation, and the discomfort of growth; and there are things we need to keep from normalizing, or even de-normalize, such as drought, or the slow drains on our (and our employees) patience and energy when we have to work within settings and systems that just don't work they way they should. Sometimes running an ethical business is as simple as saying 'yes' to fixing what's broken.Also, adjustable standing desks, and the unbridled joy of school children at play.2022-10-3115 minPowerPivotthe reality of adulthoodOur adulthood in this late stage of capitalism is not the adulthood our parents knew; the markers of adulthood, if they exist at all, are, for many of us, vastly different than they used to be. But that doesn't mean we are not adults. And that doesn't mean that our businesses are somehow inferior even if we don't have all the obvious old markers of adulthood or our business do not have the same hallmarks as 'established' businesses. You are not inferior.Also, handbills on lamp posts, and the disorientation of walking into one's regular grocery store...2022-10-2615 minPowerPivotboulders by the sea: the necessity of intensives"I got thinking about intensives, like I do, and how intensives- we are mostly made of boulders...."Intensiveness, a walk by the sea, the image of Leela as a fairy-tale giant; and the ways in which intensiveness disrupts expectations in order to create spaces for growth.Full transcript and show notes here:https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/boulders-by-the-sea/2022-10-2408 minPowerPivotthe power of moneyChange the world for the better with clear, honest, job listings? Why, yes. Yes indeed.For more on Chani Nicholas:https://chaninicholas.com/transcript and show notes:https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/the-power-of-money2022-10-1908 minPowerPivotwhat they hearWhat we say, and what people hear us say; generating our public image as a reflection of who and how we are in private.Also, public speech and the seasonings our listeners bring with them.2022-10-1713 minPowerPivotInterview: Mina Raver of Forging FortuneLeela holds a fascinating conversation with Mina Raver, host of the Forging Fortune podcast and creator of the 2000 Days Project:"I realized that a lot of the ideas that we have about how to really make change, simply are not made to work."Mina Raver is a for-purpose business strategist focused on helping visionaries bring their ideas to the market so they can realize the change they want to see in the world. She’s the founder of TiCIV, inc, an impact business consulting agency, and director of the 2K Days Project, a self-paced incubator fo...2022-10-121h 15PowerPivotyes, filters: the art of the artificeSometimes there's a reality in the fake that isn't in the real thing. We always craft our narratives- bringing forward some details, pushing other details back. This way we tell a story that feels real, without the distraction of all of the facts that complicate the thing and make it difficult for our listeners to know what is important, and what is not. When we are careful and when we are wise and when we are skilled with the art of carving a story out of a set of facts: that's when we move the world forward. ...2022-10-1008 minPowerPivotcraving water If we all discount our own power, then we forget that if we all act together, things can change. It is now on us to alter ourselves to recognize the interdependent web that we are a part of, engaging with all of those people to ask the question: what are we going to do? How are we going to be different? Who do we know who can make an even bigger difference? How can we collectively make a bigger difference? This is all about using your power, my power, our power- for good.Recorded September 19, 2022.2022-10-0512 minPowerPivotwhat is an intensive?Let's talk about what it means to be an intensive. And why we need and love intensives.Are you an intensive? Take the SIEF assessment and find out. (Or, if you already know you're an intensive, find out how much of an intensive you are.)https://intensivesinstitute.com/assessment/Mentioned in this episode:When I was a kid, I used to dread going to school every single morning, I'd get a little bit sick. And honestly, I thought it was normal. So when I grew up and started going to work...2022-10-0310 minPowerPivotartifice"I've been experimenting with the possibility that makeup does not have to be an artifice. That it can be a bold-faced statement. In the same way a shirt is. Nobody believes that the shirt is your skin."2022-09-2808 minPowerPivotpolitics: intensives & expansivesI'm going to go a place that I've been avoiding: I'm going to talk SIEF and intensives and expansives and elections and politics. Mentioned in this episode:Ignorance Was BlissCheck out the Ignorance Was Bliss podcast: http://iwbpodcast.com2022-09-2714 minPowerPivotsell ourselves not our soulsMarketing authentically and speaking to the importance of personal well-being in our businesses.More on The Lorax and the Once-ler:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lorax2022-09-2113 minPowerPivotfeed yourself beautyWhen we pour a little bit of ourselves into the world, and then we pump, we get water. But a dry pump yields nothing. Mike Sowden's "Everything is Beautiful" Substack can be found here:https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/2022-09-1909 minPowerPivotkind leadership, good resultsWhat if everybody had "I will not take it out on others" on their top priority list?2022-09-1410 minPowerPivotfixing quiet quittingQuiet Quitting isn't really quitting at all. And if employers treated employees with dignity, we wouldn't be talking about it.An article from In These Times on the Fed, interest rates, and how the Fed's response to inflation is "highly likely to involve some pain."https://inthesetimes.com/article/federal-reserve-workers-pay-biden-inflation-corporations-profits-wages2022-09-1210 minPowerPivotone-legged tableWe are made to be interconnected. We are made to rely on each other, which means we need other people around us. We fall down when we become too reliant on our individualism because being an individual is like being a table with only one leg.2022-09-0708 minPowerPivotfinishing thingsGet to the finish line and find that dopamine! Intensives, the 80% Problem, and deliberately finding things that we can do well and to completion in order to build trust in our own abilities to change the world.2022-09-0515 minPowerPivotclassified decisionsClassified documents in Mar-a-Lago and the way that individual decisions about self-preservation can do large harm; and a path towards decision making that makes space for the humanity of those who will be affected by our choices.Links:An NPR story regarding the photography of classified documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago.Wikipedia article about Tank Man and CNN footage of most, but not all, of the encounter (this video was chosen because of the available options it contains the original ambient audio, even though it does not show the end of the encounter when...2022-09-0213 minPowerPivotliminality and pictures…2022-08-2913 minPowerPivotdaydream a little…2022-08-2414 minPowerPivotnice things…2022-08-2204 minPowerPivothopes up (what else could be)…2022-08-1707 minPowerPivota pile of sorries…2022-08-1512 minPowerPivotshowing upThese things that I know I need are also things that I am noticing other people need. And when we provide those things for people like us what happens? We become better.https://www.graceedison.com/ https://www.lacma.org/patternproject https://www.lacma.org/sites/default/files/module-uploads/M.2007.211.797_LACMA_pattern_proj.pdf 2022-08-1025 minPowerPivothurting like a catWe are trained to isolate like cats when we're hurting. We are trained to go off by ourselves and pretend that nothing's wrong until we can emerge whole and beautiful and sparkly-- and you know what? That is bullshit. That whole system is bullshit it's not working and we gotta stop.2022-08-0811 minPowerPivotinnovation is the wayIn moments like this it is absolutely critical that we not shut down dreaming, that we not down shut possibilities of things that we had heretofore believed impossible. Founders, intensives-- we tend to be very, very good at finding loopholes and looking for things that nobody else has thought of yet. We know we're good at crisis. We know we're good at creative. Let's go do it.2022-08-0309 minPowerPivotLove on Expansives: SIEF series vol. 1A brief introduction to the SIEF framework, and why we should show the expansives in our lives a lot of love.2022-08-0109 minPowerPivotundisposablePeople are not disposable. And yet many of our institutions and systems treat them as if they are. And you would think this would be obvious, but people are not commodities. So how do we reshape our businesses and institutions so that people are not seen as a resource to be used up and spit out, but as an integral part of everything we do, and one which needs to be nourished and kept healthy?Check out Yes Jams: https://yesworld.org/2022-07-2714 minPowerPivotInterview: Holly Hagerman, founder at AmptUp.comJoin Leela for a conversation with Holly Hagerman, founder at AmptUp.com, an online marketplace to connect venues and musicians through a lens of equity, fair pay and contract usage. Holly shares stories about the founding of the company and talks about AmptUp's mission-based objectives of making it easier for music and venues to make a living; increasing equity, both in pay and representation, for people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ commuities; and making any city a Music City. All while using booking fees to create a steady stream of grants. Links!AmtUp website: https...2022-07-2056 minPowerPivotmaking timeThis is the one about making time. This is the one about making space and making time and making the room in our hearts to do the things we know we should do.2022-07-1309 minPowerPivotoff ramp, not cliffThe ethical responsibility we have to provide to our customers what we told them we would provide. And if we have to stop providing a service, we must provide customers with an off-ramp, so that they can ease out of our service and into something else, rather than a cliff which leave them scrambling, or falling.2022-07-0610 minPowerPivotDon't Choose: We Grow TogetherGenerosity. Kindness. Fierceness. Justice. Pleasure.Yes, we can have them all, if we understand the ways that they and we are interconnected, the ways that justice and pleasure and generosity and kindness and fierceness all rely on each other. They become more when they are together, not less. They become more, we become more; there is no priority of one over the others.2022-06-2908 minPowerPivotRoe v. Wade: What Can Business Owners DoIn light of this morning's (June 24, 2022) Supreme Court decision and how it affects Roe v. Wade and safe access to reproductive care, what can we, as business owners, do to affect useful change- for the world, for our employees? How do we create the leadership that we need. How do we make sure that the things we make will not be used for evil?2022-06-2515 minPowerPivotcome to Jesus, five a.m.The shouting is the first step. But it is only the first step. Shouting is a way of knowing there is a problem. The shouting is a way of finding the problem. My body has to know simultaneously that my heart is breaking and that I am doing everything that I can to save us.Ani DiFranco, "Coming Up:" https://youtu.be/OaSE7F6dgG4Mina Raver: https://www.instagram.com/mina.raver/and https://www.forgingfortune.com/Vanessa Burnett: https://counterfear.com/about/founder-bio/2022-06-1806 minPowerPivotwe are not aloneI have said since the beginning, that poetry is my first language. We are not alone. And your story is as important as mine. Each story is as important as each other story. And when we bring our stories together and we tell them and we share our narratives and we share ourselves, we... exist.Ari Felix at Saltwater Stars: https://www.saltwaterstars.com/2022-06-1108 minPowerPivotBonus Episode: Intensives and HiringLeela Sinha on wholistic SIEF-Smart hiring practices for intensive business leaders.Watch this episode as a video:https://youtu.be/DjYBFKwVf3YLinks!www.intensivesinstitute.comSIEF assessment: https://intensivesinstitute.com/assessment/Five-Session SIEF-Smart Hiring Package (includes getting to know your company, job description writing, interviewing, onboarding, and post-onboarding review):https://app.acuityscheduling.com/catalog.php?owner=11389649&action=addCart&clear=1&id=13033492022-06-0935 minPowerPivotwhy poems/where the change beginsWhy we’re doing poetry right now, and not prose....2022-06-0408 minPowerPivotYou Gotta OrderStarbucks, Redwoods, love, work, community, and everything: the key to being served well is to being known. And rather than take our strengths for granted, we need to we need to play to our strengths and then allow ourselves to be in community, in collaboration, with other people where we need help, where we need support, where we're not as strong. Find Monica Scantlebury here: https://www.monicamonfre.com/2022-05-2813 min