For those who are called to lead lives, work and movements that create a more just, kind and conscious world, and to learn from folx who are. Explore the kinds of perspectives, capacities and approaches needed to lead in times of ever increasing complexity. From personal and collective development, to cultivating meaningful life’s work, to systemic and cultural change strategies, Chela Davison hosts conversations with a diverse collection of leaders who are heeding the call to reimagine our ...
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Episode 55: 'Intention and Improv' with Jennifer England
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Jennifer England supports soul-aligned missions for the collective good. As an Integral Master Coach™ and highly skilled facilitator, she helps high performing leaders and teams access deeper fulfilment, clarity and alignment to succeed in transition, uncertainty and emergent collaboration. In this episode, Jennifer shares the value of bringing the…
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Episode 54: 'Medicine' with Kathleen Smith
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Kathleen Smith is a singer-songwriter/producer whose music has been heard on radio, TV and film. She is also a music supervisor for Netflix, Hulu, Showtime and the popular podcast & Netflix show - Song Exploder. In this episode, Kathleen discusses her new record ‘Medicine’, which she wrote - and taught herself to produce - in an old barn in New Mex…
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Episode 53: 'Business without Social Media' with Bradley Morris
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Bradley Morris is the founder of Majik Media - helping leaders unleash their majik to leverage their life’s work - as well as Majik Kids, the Creator’s Club and is also a professional golfer - and no, you will not find him on social media. In this episode, Bradley shares his decision to leave social media, highlighting the negative impact of algori…
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Episode 52: 'Disrupting Leadership' with Lael Couper Jepson
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Lael Couper Jepson is all about change powered by women. Founder of SheChanges, she makes it her business to hold space for those willing to live from the crossroads of conventional thought and unconventional wisdom. In this episode, they discuss important conversations often buried - which Lael is passionate about uncovering - and the language nee…
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Episode 51: 'Leading from the Body' with Sydney Craig
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Sydney Craig, is the owner of Pilates Tonic, a studio she founded over 17 years ago, which has expanded into online movement learning. In this episode, Sydney emphasizes the importance of body as instrument - for moving through the world and finding guidance - inviting curiosity about what our body is communicating. The initial challenges she faced…
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Episode 50: The Genesis of the Creative Cauldron with Chela Davison
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In this episode, I share about how the Creative Cauldron came to be, how it works and what to expect if you decide to join us this upcoming season! About a year ago, I was feeling creatively dry. I decided to finally take a course a friend of mine has on writing and performing solo shows, and the experience made me realize the importance of giving …
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Episode 49: 'Failing toward Ensoulment' with Rob McNamara
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Rob McNamara is an author, leadership coach, advisor and consultant with expertise in adult development and human performance. Co-founder of consulting firm Delta Developmental and faculty member for the Ivey School of Business’ LIFT Advanced Coaching Program, he advises, trains, and coaches on a broad range of initiatives for individuals, organiza…
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Episode 48: Making ends Meet with Chela Davison
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Are you a service provider struggling financially, despite having a very successful practice? In today’s ‘Dear Chela’, I answer a therapist’s question about how to make ends meet, speaking to: the wider context of the struggling economy and the historical possibility of supporting large families on a single income in comparison to today’s condition…
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Episode 47: 'Sacred Embodiment' with Elizabeth DiAlto
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Known for her raw, honest, and nuanced approach to spirituality and the healing arts, Elizabeth DiAlto is an Embodiment Specialist, a Mystic, and host of the Embodied Podcast. In this episode, Elizabeth describes the journey towards her Soul’s work - how being a personal trainer in NYC led to questioning societal beauty standards, inspiring her to …
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Episode 46: 'Stop Using Spreadsheets' with Rachel Flood
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Rachel Flood is a technology enthusiast, operations consultant, and enterprise architect with over 20 years experience in for-profit and non-profit sectors. She is passionate about leveraging systems to simplify and automate mundane manual tasks, freeing up the ‘beautiful minds’ of operational workers - insisting the work should be repeatable, but …
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Episode 45: Professional Metamorphosis with Chela Davison
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In this episode, I share some massive shifts in my life's work over the past couple of years through devices I use with clients - calling, seasonality and impact statement - in the hopes that it may contribute to your own unfoldings. I discuss the four cornerstones of a calling, how mine has been evolving and personal experience of a “forced winter…
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Episode 44: 'Everyday Radiance' with Heidi Rose Robbins
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Heidi Rose Robbins has been a professional astrologer for 25 years, helping thousands of global clients live with more authenticity and clarity. She hosts two podcasts, THE RADIANCE PROJECT, featuring poetry, astrology, and good company, and CHART YOUR CAREER, with co-host Ellen Fondiler. She’s written two poetry books and has been a featured poet …
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Episode 43: Unhook from unbearable standards and expectations
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Feeling personal-developed-OUT? Pounded with ways to progress, longing to just ‘be’? Done with morning routines - burning to pump the brakes on evolving for a single moment - so you can just sip your darn coffee in peace!? Then check out this episode of Dear Chela, as I speak to external expectations and overwhelming standards that have us feeling …
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Episode 42: Exit Hustle and Grind Culture with Chela Davison
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Tired of being tired? Does hustle and grind culture have you by the short and curlies? If you’ve set your hopes on regenerative ways of living and working - wondering how you’ll know when you’ve exited cycles of hustling & grinding - this episode is for you! Jacquie read my article ‘Discipline & Heat = Spaciousness & Relief’ and resonated with the …
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Episode 41: 'Somatic Finance' with Gayle Colman
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Gayle Colman is a certified financial planner, coach, writer and entrepreneur. With four decades of professional experience in financial planning, her diverse training infuses Integral coaching and spiritual embodiment with practical financial savvy to bring somatic finance to life as an entirely new way of understanding and being in relationship w…
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Episode 40: Emotional Range with Chela Davison
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Recently, I wrote a blog post called ‘Such a loser’, and had some varied responses. One turned into a beautiful back and forth with a new reader. Part of her response was the question ‘Are you okay?’, which I was so touched by, and further went on to ask - ‘Do some people experience emotions differently?’ - naming that if she’d felt how I had descr…
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Episode 39: 'Befriending Death' with Melanie Sheckels
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Melanie Sheckels is a registered nurse and a death, grief and trauma educator/guide, helping hundreds of humans move from fear and freeze into possibility and ease. Melanie founded ‘Threshold Doula’ in 2019 after 7 years as a cardiac and hospice nurse, helping people navigate the healthcare system and dying process with greater understanding and co…
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Episode 38: ‘Co-creative Leadership’ with Jennifer Chapman
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Jennifer Chapman is the founder of ‘Ambition Leadership’ which she leaped into on Leap Day 2012 - with a desire to build a company that embodied the leadership behaviours it promoted. She is an expert Leadership Coach working with STEM managers and leaders who want to increase their productivity and performance by strengthening their competence and…
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Episode 37: Meet The Call with Chela Davison
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This episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Meet The Call explores what a calling is and how we go about meeting it. Chela speaks to how a calling is part of us, but also beyond us. She names common patterns noticed when heeding a call - both her own and with her clients - inc…
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Episode 36: 'Who we are is how we lead' with Ali Phillips
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Ali Phillips founded ‘Bust A Move Dance’ in 2009 - one of Australia’s first inclusive dance companies for children, teens and adults with disabilities - at age 17. Diving into entrepreneurship at an early age, she soon developed a passion for both teaching and leadership. In this episode, she speaks about how who we are is how we lead and how sensi…
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Episode 35: Post-Capitalist Business with Chela Davison
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This episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key Guiding Principles in her work and business. Post-Capitalist Business is the exploration of that as a possibility. She invites us into this conversation of imagination and experimentation, unpacking what is seen - how our planet is ravaged by capitalism and those values are dee…
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Episode 34: Magnetic Storytelling with Gabrielle Dolan
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While working in senior leadership roles in corporate Australia, Gabrielle realised the power of storytelling in effective business communication. She is a highly sought after keynote speaker, educator and author of ‘Real Communication’, ‘Stories For Work’ and her latest book, ‘Magnetic Stories’. In this episode, she challenges corporate norms that…
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Episode 33: Interdependent Emergence with Chela Davison
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This episode is part of the Guided Series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Interdependent Emergence is the exploration of how through braiding together our individual and collective gifts, we can co-create a world we can belong to and thrive in. Chela discusses how this lens can help us co-create with both …
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Episode 32: Reimagining Work with Kate Northrup
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Kate Northrup is an entrepreneur, bestselling author and mother. She’s the founder of the Origin Company, a multimedia company reaching hundreds of thousands globally and the author of Do Less. She’s on a mission to collectively reimagine work and have more by doing less. In this episode she shares the principles and practices that underpin her wor…
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Episode 31: The Art of Creative Curiosity
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TJ Dawe is a Vancouver based writer, director and performer of new theatre. He's toured to more than one hundred theatre festivals on four continents. He leads a course on creating a one person show and has built a 20 year + successful career in the arts in a niche that’s fully and uniquely ‘him’. In this episode, TJ shares wisdom, science and expe…
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Episode 30: Embodied Leadership with Sigrid Tasies
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Sigrid Tasies is an Embodiment and Leadership Coach, Speaker, Author of the book “Intimacy Within”, and host of the top rated Podcast “Sacred Leaders”. In this episode, Sigrid dives into what it means to lead from the inside out and the necessity for leaders to be doing deep inner work in order to truly lead others (versus leading from and for indi…
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Episode 29: Right Livelihood with Simon Goland
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Join contemporary alchemist, Simon Goland, as he poses the questions Why are you here? And... What has your life been preparing you for? These questions are what gets answered through his work as an educator, facilitator, leader and coach. Listen in as they play with and discuss Presence, and how returning to presence becomes the basis for knowing …
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Episode 28: Seasons as a Map and Compass with Chela Davison
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This episode is part of the Guided series, where Chela explores the key guiding principles in her work and business. Seasons as a Map and Compass is the exploration of the seasonality of life, work and development. Life and death cycles and how they can show us where we are, what’s needed and what’s coming. Chela discusses bringing this lens to the…
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Episode 27: Self-As-Instrument. Work-As-Service with Chela Davison
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Self-As-Instrument, Work-As-Service is our second episode in the series: Guided: An exploration of the Guiding Principles that are fundamental to my business and body of work. This episode dives into the question: What does it mean to be an active participant in our collective evolution? Chela explores how her own personal development and approach …
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Episode 26: Guided by Principles - with Chela Davison
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This episode is the first in a series called Guided: An exploration of the Guiding Principles that are fundamental to my business and body of work. This episode introduces the principles, philosophies and values that are key to her leadership and contribution as she helps leaders grow their capacities, carve their own paths and contribute to societ…
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Episode 25: Permission to Live with Heather Chauvin
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Heather Chauvin is a leadership coach who helps ambitious, overwhelmed women become leaders at work and home. Drawing from her experience as a social worker, raising three boys, and navigating a cancer journey, Heather helps her clients create and enjoy sustainability, profitability and ease in business and life. In this episode, Heather invites li…
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Episode 24: Let’s Play - with Jeff Harry
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Jeff Harry is bringing the play to this space and it is an enlivening and juicy approach to leading! Jeff shows individuals and companies how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. Jeff is an international speaker showing audiences how major issues in the workplace can be solved using play. In thi…
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Episode 23: Helping the Helpers - with Yvonne Ator
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Fondly called “The Helper For Helpers and Sheepdog for Sheepdogs”, Dr. Yvonne Ator is deeply passionate about serving those who serve and lead. As the Founder of Thriving Physicians and Thriving Idealist, she equips helpers and leaders struggling with overwhelm, overwork or feeling stuck with tools and resources to master themselves so they can liv…
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Episode 22: Realize Your Calling - with Chela Davison
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In this episode, Chela explores what it means to have and realize your Calling, how to be in an emergent relationship with your life’s work that allows it and you to evolve over time. She shares the four cornerstones of a fulfilling and sustainable Vocational Calling and how to check for greater alignment with purpose. She also cautions against som…
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Episode 21: Data Informed Leadership - with Jason Melchi
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Jason Melchi is the founder and Chief Data Dude at Empact Solutions, a purpose-driven organization that is focused on transforming youth justice through an empowered and collaborative use of data. Think data doesn’t apply to your role as a leader? Think data is boring? Jason implores you to think again. Leaders can exert a powerful effect on behavi…
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Episode 20: Power of Story with Marsha Shandur
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Marsha Shandur of Yes Yes Marsha is a Storytelling, Communication and Speaker Coach who has taught hundreds of individuals and groups of executives, entrepreneurs and professionals across the world. This episode explores the role of storytelling in leadership and the importance of vulnerability when it comes to connecting and engaging with your aud…
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Episode 19: Liberation through Feminine Leadership with Shannon Thompson
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Shannon Thompson is the Founder/Visionary Director and Birth Mama of the social change organization, Shakti Rising, an expert in the field of addiction, recovery and leadership development and a highly sought after facilitator and consultant of interpersonal dynamics, leadership cultivation, and sustainable healing practices. This episode explores …
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Episode 18: Parenting as Leadership - with Miriam Mason Martineau
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Miriam Mason Martineau is a mother, therapeutic counselor, parenting coach, writer, speaker, and researcher who helps clients discover and express their evolving potential – in themselves, their relationships, and the world. This episode explores the interface between leadership, parenting, age transition, intimacy of family values and how that pre…
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Episode 17: The Wisdom of Resistance - with Chela Davison
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This solo jam dives into the nature and wisdom of resistance, whether it’s the voice in your head stopping you from pursuing an exciting but terrifying project or recurring behavioural patterns preventing you from taking action on things you know are good for you. Chela explores the most common resistance patterns, how to embrace change and tap int…
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Episode 16: Leading Leaps in Social & Climate Justice
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Ellen Sprenger, CEO & Founder, Spring Strategies is a strategist and advocate for social and climate justice, working with over 200 organizations worldwide and sees leadership as being intentional about leaving a space better than you found it. This episode explores the power of collective intelligence and how to build healthy, generatives teams an…
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Episode 15: Boundary Boss - with Terri Cole
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Terri Cole is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert and founder of Real Love Revolution, Boundary Bootcamp and author of the upcoming book, Boundary Boss. This episode kicks off by exploring the ways in which the work Terri is leading has really led and developed her in profound ways, no matter how far you go in your leadership journey, n…
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Episode 14: Emergence, Eros & Village with Ian MacKenzie
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How do we move coherently amongst each other, but all empowered in our gifts? This is just one of the questions brought forward by Ian MacKenzie, filmmaker and visionary artist, host of the Mythic Masculine Podcast and creator of the Mythic Masculine Network. Listen in as they cover what it means to work at the intersection of emergence, eros & vil…
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Episode 13: The Poetry of Practice with Brooke McNamara
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Brooke McNamara, MFA, is a poet, dance-theater artist, teacher, and ordained Zen monk. She has published two books of poems: Bury the Seed (2020) and Feed Your Vow and is the creator and instructor of multiple online courses. She is most passionate about creating and tending genuine + diverse practice spaces and models this very capacity in this ep…
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Episode 12: Getting Religious about Collective Genius - with Shahar Rabi
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Shahar Rabi, Ph.D., is the Co-Founder and Director of Education for the New Earth Institute and author of Spiritual Misfits, Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World. We dive into the challenges and fears that arise when moving into collaborative leadership and how to cultivate unwavering trust, even in the face of immense adversity, mental …
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Episode 11: Engineering Empathetic Leaders - with Erin Thorp
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Erin Thorp cut her teeth on leadership early on, caring for her younger siblings in a challenging family environment. Her next big leadership challenge became building her career in construction engineering as a woman and emotional being. The modeling and leadership feedback she repeatedly received was that she needs to be less emotional. Her dive …
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This solo jam dives into the nature of suffering, from the small day to day grievances to the huge themes and challenges we’re navigating as human beings. Chela explores our relationship with aspirations, pain and the resistance of reality as the seat of suffering. She shares her learning of why radical acceptance of what is, is the first step in b…
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Episode 9: Explorer of Liberation - with Holiday Phillips
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Holiday is a sociologist, integral coach, writer and speaker on the topics of philosophy, justice, culture and personal transformation. A recent viral article about performative allyship went viral and landed her as a voice in the public sphere on racial equity. This episode begins by discussing the various leadership identities that Holiday is swi…
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Episode 8: Knowing Your Nervous System with Irene Lyon
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Irene Lyon, MSC and nervous system expert, teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma and live full, creative lives. To date, her online programs have reached thousands of people in over 60 countries. With her Master’s Degree in Biomedical and Health Science and a knack for explaining complex topics in e…
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Episode 7: Imagining work that works for families with Sarah Peck
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Sarah K Peck is the founder and CEO of Startup Pregnant and the host of The Startup Pregnant Podcast, where she helps working parents try to navigate everyday insanity. As both an entrepreneur and parent of two small children, Sarah offers parents of future generations (and anyone who ever was a child) sound considerations about how the working wor…
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Episode 6: Rooted & Embodied Liberation with Karine Bell
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Karine Bell is a somatics, embodiment & mindfulness teacher dedicated to healing through the body. We explore the converging threads of history and identity that’s brought Karine to forming and leading an emergent embodied healing community called Rooted. We explore the ways our pain and trauma are not only doorways to healing, but can be the very …
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