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The easiest future of work is the future you create at the beginning. The one that you establish when you start a company. Everything else is a battle to change established norms. Systems like to stay the same. So make one you want to keep--sounds easy, no? Join me, Leela Sinha, for a showcase of the best ideas out there for changing the way we work (and live) for the better. If you're a leader, if you're a founder, if you're an executive who just doesn't believe the way it's always been is ...
Have you ever felt like you’re “too much?” Too intense? Too consumed by whatever life has in store, that you cannot ever feel fulfilled? Aurora Remember Holtzman has news: you are not too much. Perhaps you simply haven’t embraced your naturally excitable self? In “Embracing Intensity,” Aurora will take everything you think you know about what it means to be intense and excitable, and show you how intensity is not a weakness but a hidden power. Each week, Aurora will interview a strong, creat ...
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Create Your Magical Life – Alana Sheeren
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Do you want to experience more happiness, love, ease and magic in your everyday? Explore how body, mind, heart and soul all work together to help you be the person you want to be. Join Alana and expert guests as you learn to love yourself more, spend more time feeling joy and happiness, navigate life’s challenges with more grace and have compassion for everyone around you. Whether you’re taking baby steps or giant leaps, a life that feels truly magical is within reach!
"…So I listened to a podcast this morning and oh my god, mostly, I'm just here to tell you to go listen to that other podcast. That other podcast is called Man Enough, which is not a podcast I necessarily would have picked up for myself. Although I like the premise. The interview was with ALOK Vaid-Menon, who is an Indian-American activist, speaker…
"It doesn't matter why someone doesn't have housing, what matters is that they need housing." Healthcare outcomes are tied to housing. So shouldn't we include adequate, autonomous housing as a way to improve the overall health of our communities, and reduce the burden on strained health care resources? How can we, as business leaders and community …
So often we know what we need to do… but how do we do it? How do we remove barriers and make it easy for ourselves to do the things we know we need to do- to use the tools that we already have? Transcript and notes: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/making-it-easy-to-use-your-tools Recorded 16 January 2023.…
"When you know what you need, you can ask for it, or you can work toward it, or you can invite it...." Well, that seems simple enough, right? But how do we actually know what it is that we need? Is it a flash of insight, an appetite, a color, a feeling? A collection of words? What is it that awakens you in yourself, and tells you what you need, or …
"It's about overestimating the need. And under estimating the capacity." Knowing our capacity, making realistic guesses about how hard things are going to be- even the things that "shouldn't" be hard- it's the work of a lifetime. But we can have exacting standards for ourselves and still learn to leave space and grace for our own frailties and fail…
Exploring Gifted Kid Burnout Gifted kid burnout affects many smart kids and former gifted students who were once in gifted programs. As young adults, they often share a common theme of feeling burnt out and struggling with unrealistic expectations. The pressure to always achieve gold star grades and be at the top of the class can be overwhelming. G…
Join 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-know recorded 11 October 2022By Leela Sinha
On rediscovering, and creating, active communities: places that people miss. transcript and notes: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/a-place-that-people-missBy Leela Sinha
The exact right pen. The exact right paper. The exact right app. The exact right tools for the job. Are they a necessity? Not always. Can we get the job done with a scratchy pencil and a cheap napkin? If we need to. But does it nourish us to have to have the tools the we visualize when we are imagining how to accomplish our goals? Absolutely. Notes…
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256. Finding Neurodivergent Community with Marc Almodovar
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The importance of neurodivergent community Neurodivergent individuals are those who think, process information, and experience the world in ways that differ from the neurotypical (i.e., not neurodivergent) population. The neurodiversity movement advocates for the recognition and celebration of neurodiversity as a natural and valuable form of human …
It's 2023 and... we're not making resolutions. We are making connections: with our breath, with the sky, with each other, with the earth. And we are seeing that this time may be the time when our perceptions are sharpest, and when our patience is thinnest for things that we shouldn't have been patient with in the first place. Links: Marilyn Allysum…
Stubbornness is a gift and a survival tool. But there are other ways to be smart and good in the world. And one of our gifts as intensives is knowing or intuiting how to respond to what is happening in the world right now: So how do we let go of stubbornness when the stubbornness is for its own sake? Notes and transcript at: https://powerpivot2.cap…
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Each Night And This Night; Each Child and You
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"You are not a disappointment. You are a joy, you are a gift. You are all kinds of unknowable possibility." Sophia Lyon Fahs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Lyon_Fahs Notes and transcript: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/magic-we-are-part-of-everything Recorded 24 December 2022.By Leela Sinha
"How can you lead if you don't know that everything around you is a miracle?" Considering the magical essence of things, that language is too small for. The squirrels at the windowsill. Grass on the hand. And how we, as people, are part of the earth, of everything. And if everything is medicine, are we not, also, medicine? notes and transcript: htt…
How do we ask for help when we are too overwhelmed to ask for help? Packing for a move makes a great case study, and can remind us that there are times when we must trust someone's judgment that is not our own. And with that trust, friends, comes the beginning of community. Notes and transcript: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/how-do-you-g…
"intensiveness is so invisible, that it was more like a goblin or a fairy seated at the table, but nobody could see it. And it was tired and lonely. " Why we build spaces where we can belong, and be ourselves, and grow roots and wings, and have love... and snacks. Also, getting ready for the first Annual Intensives Institute Salon, on December 15th…
We are intensives. We excel at seeing the big picture, and drawing the maps that we and our business can follow to take us to our goals. But with all of those moving parts, how do we decide which piece to move next? Sometimes it's deciding to do just one thing, and then another just one thing. Sometimes it's about finding the sticking point in a pr…
"In this season of gratitude and giving and giving and giving, it becomes really hard to hold on to the fact that we are the first person for whom we are responsible. That our needs still matter." It's the holiday season, so let's talk about resentment, and all of the extra demands that get put upon us by our families, our culture, ourselves. We mu…
The little in a little makes a lot process does actually work, even if it can feel weird to an intensive. But sometimes, especially when we've already given everything we've got, it's the only way to make progress. And the good news? You don't have to give up you intensiveness or your intensive way of being to make it work. notes and transcript: ht…
"'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-familiar Recorded …
"The most ancient part of this whole thing is that in the northern hemisphere right now we're talking about the return of the light. The fact that the sun appears to be disappearing and we don't want it to leave. And what do we do with the spaciousness with this grace that solstice gives us, that darkness gives us, that knowledge gives us? Because …
When we move into entrepreneurship, and when we move into positions of leadership, positions of visibility- when we start to be able to take the courage to tap into our own charisma and gather people around us, how do we create a sense of belonging? How do we create a sense of membership, of presence, of connectedness? And how do we think about who…
content warning: mentions of violence against trans people. "The world is littered in dead and dying things that are so beautiful right now. What I want to give you is comfort, is succor, is a place to come and be in a mind that is not belabored by the impossibility of a better world. I want to bring you into the space that I insist upon occupying …
An Ani DiFranco song from the '90s, social media wormholes, and what do we do if Twitter breaks as badly as it might? We all have power. How will we use it to do good? "Coming Up" by Ani DiFranco: https://youtu.be/OaSE7F6dgG4 Notes and transcript: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/change-in-my-cup Recorded 11/18/2022.…
Join 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 …
