Best Seeda School Podcasts (2024)

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055. The Psychology of Creative Practice and Belonging 53:13

3d ago53:13

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As a heads up, if you’re listening to this on Monday, July 29th enrollment into the Treehouse closes tonight and it’s $67 bucks to join! The Treehouse is a monthly membership holding you accountable to weekly returns to your Zone of Desire through live workshops, open studios, guided meditations and black feminist worldbuilding tools. I hope you’ll…

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054. 9 Reasons We Need Your Weekly Dispatch Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 55:46

14d ago55:46

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I hope you’ll Discover your Weekly Dispatch with us this Thursday, July 25th at 12pm EST in the last live Worldbuilding Workshop I’ll be giving on the Treehouse for the year. The Treehouse is a monthly membership holding you accountable to weekly returns to your Zone of Desire through live workshops, open studios, guided meditations and black femin…

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053. Who Are You Outside of White Supremacy Culture? 42:40

28d ago42:40

42:40

Who are we outside of white supremacy culture? Perhaps the simple answer is healers, holders, stewards. Perhaps the simple answer is the people that refuse, repair and restore. And perhaps we don’t have to go anywhere to learn these skills, perhaps the best teachers and stories are already embedded in our intuition and ancestry. Perhaps the stories…

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052. Releasing the Burden of Being Complicit In Our Own Suffering 39:21

29d ago39:21

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I too, have put more value in the things that hurt because suffering is familiar. I know her. I know suffering. And I have plenty of evidence that the shelter of suffering has kept me safe, kept me “out the way”. But at what cost? There is rent for living underneath the shelter of suffering. As with everything, there is a sacrifice. The cost was of…

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051. Recovering from the Tyranny of Ambition and Detaching from Outcomes 27:35

1M ago27:35

27:35

I almost titled this podcast “On Aligning Your Practice with Your Capacity and Surrendering to the Air”. Both work. A question for you: What would it feel like to pause and breathe into a deep, longgggg stretch instead of a sprint? I need to continue challenging myself. Rigor, change and curiosity are the electricity of my life, I’m clear on that. …

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050. Manifesting Beyond Survival and Toward Safety 24:00

2M ago24:00

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I’m sure you’ve seen it and maybe even felt it, experienced it. Manifestation is everywhere. Folks are talking about it on TikTok, Instagram and I wouldn’t even be surprised if it’s reached LinkedIn. Point being, the gospel of the woo-woo crew is spreading. We out here y’all! And thank goodness. I think this is a good thing, that we are learning ho…

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049. New Terms and Conditions with Ravon Ruffin Feliz 1:10:35

2M ago1:10:35

1:10:35

Recently I had the absolute honor of being in conversation with Seeda School alumni, Ravon Ruffin Feliz. Ravon who goes by she/they is a cyber anthropologist, writer, educator and founder of Citation Studio, a Black feminist experimental thinking studio mapping the possibilities of computing, archives, and nature with/on/for/at the internet. Born i…

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048. 31 Reflections at 31 on the 31st 1:30:55

2M ago1:30:55

1:30:55

These are just some reflections I jotted down during my birthday week and writing retreat in Shenandoah Valley. As the podcast title suggests this was my golden year. I turned 31 on the 31st of May and after being away for a few weeks it felt right to punctuate this moment of return with some reflections ahead of the release of the guest podcast ep…

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047. To Crave Certainty is to Crave a Lie 39:20

3M ago39:20

39:20

The invitation of “safety as relation” (Mariame Kaba) is a huge one in a world that has taught us safety is the opposite of relation. A world that tries to convince us, with all it’s tools, that safety is domination, exploitation, segregation, etc. We are being called to be creative in a context where control and certainty are not introduced as tri…

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046. Standing On the Abundance Already Inside Your Creative Practice 55:05

4M ago55:05

55:05

Only YOU can create the offer calling on your spirit. Some creatives will say, “if you don’t create your idea someone else will”. That’s bullshit. There’s only one YOU, with YOUR unique lived experience and YOUR journey of transformation. So, no. No one else can create the offer calling on your spirit. Join us this spring, take your offer from spir…

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045. Will You Let Us Perceive You? 47:34

4M ago47:34

47:34

"May our visibility be an offering of gratitude to those we dedicate our practice to. The ancestors, past selves, younger cousins, teachers and non-human creatures we owe our breath and possibility to. We didn’t come from nowhere. We come from the freedom fighters who took their imagination to the streets, we come from the parents whose direct acti…

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044. Your Journey of Transformation 48:19

4M ago48:19

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The fire of our surrender brought down the walls and created a clearing. We all have our own field guides to teach from inside the clearing we will turn into a classroom. How will you shape your journey of transformation into lesson plans all about love? How has love transformed you? Resources: Register for the Worldbuilding Workshop Series Downloa…

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043. Teach What You Want to Learn 40:19

4M ago40:19

40:19

Our breath is the new syllabus. Our survival is the new curriculum. But where is our classroom? This critical geography we must carve out to practice the dis-order that our new world calls for. Black feminist pedagogies have always been critical to my practice. It wasn’t enough to inhale black feminist research — I had to lick it — I had to play wi…

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042. Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should 53:52

5M ago53:52

53:52

There’s a consistent theme I’m noticing on the other side of my season of surrender. When I’m not being particularly nice to myself I’ll notice myself get frustrated with my capacity. Trying to figure out why I’m not able to lock in like I use to, put in the same amount of hours as I used to, produce as much or as quickly as I used to — both inside…

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041. Why Worldbuilding?: Permission to Actualize Audacious Desire 37:35

5M ago37:35

37:35

This week I want to return to the Seeda School newsletter originally published on December 4th, 2023 titled, “What is Your Creative Offer?”, subtitle: “A Questionnaire to Oneself”. In it I share why worldbuilding has been such an essential method for me. But “Why Worldbuilding?” is a question I’ve been getting again lately so I wanted to revisit th…

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040. How to Breathe Fire, Watching Discipline Melt into Devotion 37:15

5M ago37:15

37:15

I’m watching the sharp edges of the second hand turn into a feather here. Here in the space between the real and the infinite, feeling real infinite these days. Working alongside you, body doubling — I am elsewhere, I am here, WE ARE HERE. Emphatically here and the air is heavier. Our breathing is heavier. Our breathing is like fire now. Weightless…

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039. Reclaiming The Power of Our Belief, Faith, and Trust 45:33

5M ago45:33

45:33

Okay so I’m making twice as much as I was making with much more control over my income but I still don't feel as secure as I felt with my salaried position, when I was working for a company I had no control over. Why is that? Because I am so used to, have been taught to, have been socialized and expected to relinquish the power of my belief, attent…

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038. Choose the Role You Can Sustain Not the Role You Think We Need 29:35

6M ago29:35

29:35

Instead of the “What should I do?” question, here are 3 questions I want to leave you with: Which role will you choose? What container will your practice it in? Will it be through a creative offer, the garden or the 2 hour container in the morning you have before the house wakes up? Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, who will you practice this r…

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037. The Grief Work of Composting Past Selves 42:52

6M ago42:52

42:52

Suddenly, my job no longer worked. I put in my resignation letter September 2020. Suddenly, my romantic relationship no longer worked. I ended it the spring of 2021. Suddenly, the non-existent boundaries in all of my relationships, family, friends, community members had to be reflected on and invented. This is because my job, my romantic relationsh…

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036. But…"I’m Scared": Being Unafraid Isn’t a Prerequisite for Transformation 46:16

6M ago46:16

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Enrollment closes on January 29th at midnight! Enroll in the Seed A World Retreat Here: ⁠⁠https://www.seedaschool.com/program⁠ Your creative desire makes space for our collective imagination. Join us inside this creative retreat and attend 9 weekly workshops and 9 weekly office hours based on Seeda School's worldbuilding framework. You'll be develo…

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035. But…"I Don’t Want to Monetize": Public Practice Beyond Capitalism 42:47

7M ago42:47

42:47

What irresistible portals are the people you dream of serving waiting on? Offers as containers that might bring the two worlds spinning away from each other a little closer, if only for a moment, but just long enough for us to experiment with inventing new models of belonging, cooperative economics and mutual aid that build on the old ones. Generat…

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034. But…“I Don’t Have the Capacity”: Recovering from People Pleasing 44:45

7M ago44:45

44:45

The number of things we have to unlearn is unquantifiable, but I know the one thing we must set fire to is continuing to allocate an ounce of our power and meaning making to systems that are only satiated by our death. When we slow down we understand the new year goal setting frenzy is connected to our longing to control the chaos and to carve out …

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033. But…"I Don’t Know My Purpose": The Year of Childhood Curiosity 51:37

7M ago51:37

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In search of our mother’s gardens we found a path. Keeping that path “well-trodden” so others may find it too is our only assignment. What’s your purpose? That’s impossible to know and that’s okay because we’re following the truth of our desire instead. What does this look like? It looks like releasing control of the project and signing up for the …

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032. Season of Surrender: Writing a Love Letter to Our Fear 50:03

8M ago50:03

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All that running, until 2020 when I finally ran out of steam. Unhealthy work habits and a total lack of boundaries kept me distracted for years. In the absence of that distraction was nothing but the stillness, the silence, the darkness, the eyes patiently waiting for me to finally choose myself. On September 2nd, 2020 I submitted my letter of resi…

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031. Discover Your Creative Offer: A Workshop Podcast 39:44

8M ago39:44

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What are our tools, frameworks and creative offers for helping each other navigate this wide open expanse? Worldbuilding is my framework, the Seed A World Retreat is my offering and “The Creative Offer Questionnaire to Oneself” is the tool I want to share today. Download your very own copy of the questionnaire using the link below! Inspired by “The…

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030. Toni Morrison was in my dream yesterday... 45:22

9M ago45:22

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Learn more about the Retreat: https://www.seedaschool.com/program Read this week's newsletter: https://seedaschool.substack.com/p/refusing-colonial-categorization What if we are making appeals for our “humanity” to empires whose very colonial conception of “human” was given form by excluding certain members of the same species? To put it another wa…

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029. Our Mission, Vision and Values Keep Us Possible 50:02

9M ago50:02

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Subscribe to the Newsletter: ⁠https://seedaschool.substack.com/⁠ See this week's newsletter for more links and footnotes: ⁠https://seedaschool.substack.com/p/fear-cant-survive-a-radical-love Learn More About Seeda School: ⁠https://www.seedaschool.com/program

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028. Overlapping Catastrophe Calls for Overlapping Creative Action 27:14

9M ago27:14

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Overlapping catastrophes like to flirt with your apathy, whispering into your ear with empty promises about the safety of solitude. The safety of silence. The safety of avoidance. The empty promises are dark and cavernous, without light and without ground. The darkness wouldn’t be so bad if I could at least smell soil — some possibility of change, …

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027. Invitations From Inside Collective Grief and Study 42:17

10M ago42:17

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I want to call in all teachers, writers, artists and business owners to take a close look at what we’re “normalizing” in our practices. What cultural examples are we using to teach that feel apolitical? What references are we pointing to in our art that feel “neutral”? What narratives are we normalizing in our writing? What topics are we avoiding o…

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026. Our Right to Release and Generate Income 37:46

10M ago37:46

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It’s Monday morning at my favorite coffee shop and I’m mesmerized by the freedom I’m witnessing. A toddler is freestyle dancing to electronic instrumentals in the middle of the busiest section of the establishment. The line wraps around her, the towering members of her species are careful not to interrupt her flow, everyone collectively ensures she…

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025. 3 Lessons from A Decade of Creative Practice 38:43

10M ago38:43

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Like I said, mistakes? I can name plenty. There is no way to be in a generous practice of producing public facing projects without them. Some of these mistakes were essential, they were carrying divine lessons, and honestly some of them weren’t. The attempts to flatten in the face of the “jack of all trades, master of none” myth (who wants to be a …

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024. Your Desire Is More Powerful Than Your Fear 36:35

12M ago36:35

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Healing from years of childhood trauma, where pleasure meant threat of punishment and desire meant danger. My Element X beckoned, “What if your desire became more powerful than your fear?” See last week's newsletter for more links and footnotes: https://seedaschool.substack.com/p/you-will-not-be-punished-for-your Leave a Voice Message: https://podc…

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023. When Life Hands You Bugs: An Invitation to Release 31:01

12M ago31:01

31:01

This letter is dedicated with gratitude to the bug in my code last week. It appeared as I was building a project using React in order to introduce the learners in Seeda School’s Module 4 how to build their own Community Directory using the popular library. I reflected on the library’s name, React. An invitation to be mindful of how we respond to th…

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022. Lavender Software Centers Our Body and Belonging 24:34

1y ago24:34

24:34

What happened? I was so focused on building the tools for belonging that I forgot to actually practice belonging. Call my family, show up for my friends, support the art shows of the brilliant folks in my circle, volunteer at the community garden, attend the programming at my local library, walk down to the bar that was literally underneath my feet…

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021. Frameworks for Care-full Software? 28:25

1y ago28:25

28:25

What new values and commitments do we want to seed the next generation of software inside of? How do we want to collectively tend to this soil? No, software will not solve racism, sexism, ableism and classism — only plain ol’ revolution will do that — but given the fact that software has made all these -isms exponentially worse, I do wonder how bui…

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020. Interdisciplinary Permission: Dancing > Fear 30:57

1y ago30:57

30:57

Being an artist is a commitment to indeterminacy. It asks, “are you prepared for a life long practice of improvisation?” In many ways, the word asks you to consent not to be a single being. Upon surrender, you join the beyond human swarm in an emergent choreography, a commitment to interdisciplinary practice and collective study. When you release c…

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019. College Saved My Life: What's Up w/The Shit Talk? 31:07

1y ago31:07

31:07

While under a tree older than my great grandparents providing the quiet grace of shade, a spider the size of the bread crumb from my morning pastry is my only companion as I read the words of Magdalena Zurawski’s essay, “Being Human Is an Occult Practice”. Inside she reminds us, “Neoliberalism requires us to limit or suppress much of what is human …

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018. Writing With the World: We're Writing More. Why? 20:29

1y ago20:29

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Over the summer I’ll continue gathering seed data, collaborating with computer kin, and thinking about why we’re all turning to writing at the same time. Meditating on what affordances, shelter, breath, code allows inside this practice. In September, I plan to invite you into a creative coding for writers offering and that’s when live virtual progr…

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017. It Comes in Waves: The Ceremony of Feeding the Black Interior 8:59

1y ago8:59

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What are our collective ceremonies? I decided I didn’t want to disrespect the question by providing an answer. When searching for the “official language” to address the question, the only thing that came out was a poem. A poem about how poetry has saved my life. How it preserves life and provides oxygen when suffering is the ground and time is a tr…

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016. On Public Practice: What Are Our Collective Ceremonies? 28:58

1y ago28:58

28:58

This week's episode is about the practices that help us remember the world we need is the world we have. What came up is the realization that I am more skilled than last year at tending to the garden of my internal and eternal possibility — no longer a captive to external validation — I have cultivated practices that return me to myself, my body, a…

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015. The Ecosystem of Creative Practice: What's Your Mother Tree? 30:05

1y ago30:05

30:05

This week's episode is about the ecosystem of creative practice, mycelial media stewardship, and it’s containers. When I think about the next decade of my creative practice and how I imagine making room for my breath — I want to continue to move away from content creation and launches and move toward mycelial media and stewardship where my writing …

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014. Every Body’s a Teacher Now: Education as New Media 39:21

1y ago39:21

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I’ve been thinking a lot about how our body is an interface for learning and creating alongside our ecosystems. In the Future Organisms workshop that I attended in Colorado last week, while in conversation with a cheese maker, ceramicist and computational biologist, I reflected on how “craft” is another word for using our body as an interface for e…

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013. Suprise! They're Late: Black Feminism and The Whitewashing of AI Ethics 29:16

1y ago29:16

29:16

Timnit Gebru is fired and Geoffrey Hinton left. Read Timnit's story here and read Geoffrey's story here then reflect on the contrast. I also invite you to read the Seeda School newsletter referenced in this podcast, Surprise! They're Late: No surprise, black feminism is right on time. Due to the commitment to care rooted in the research of Dr. Ruha…

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012. All That You Touch: JavaScript x Octavia Butler 15:22

1y ago15:22

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Reflecting on the possibilities of JavaScript and how one might teach it, I returned to Octavia Butler, and in returning to Butler, I returned to consent and in returning to consent I returned to my body savoring all the ways I have finally given myself permission to change and be changed. Read the entire newsletter and footnotes here. Register her…

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011. Aspiring Software Engineer, Freelancer or Entrepreneur? 15:15

1+ y ago15:15

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Are You an Aspiring Software Engineer, Freelancer or Entrepreneur? I want to invite you to join us for the upcoming Discovery Workshop where we will get clarity on your coding curiosity, story, and goals, in order to learn how Seeda School can help with all 3. Register here: https://www.seedaschool.com/discovery-workshop…

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010. Learn How to Build a Black Feminist Coding Project in One Month 13:15

1+ y ago13:15

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Plant the seed of your curiosity in nutrient rich soil. I hope you’ll join me in this upcoming discovery workshop, Learn How to Build a Black Feminist Coding Project in One Month, taking place over Zoom on Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 at 6-7PM EST. Register here and together we will explore your curiosity in code, uncover the stories that have stopped…

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009. How Much Does A Dollar Cost?: The Gift of Worthiness, Boundaries for Burnout, and Permission to Play 23:51

1+ y ago23:51

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My biggest fear isn’t failure or Seeda School “not working” or “not meeting my needs” — the success of Seeda School is inevitable. I know I’m called to this work and there is no “failure” inside calling, only lessons. My biggest fear is actually being the creator of a job I hate, being the facilitator of work that is unsatisfying or exhausting. Whi…

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008. How Does Seeda School Code Coaching Work? 18:16

1+ y ago18:16

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I only have the capacity for 12 more learners who are curious about learning to code through a black feminist lens so please book a free consultation call to see if this offering is aligned with your needs and ask any questions I didn’t answer in this episode. Soft, Where? Is a podcast where I talk about my journey toward finding softness inside te…

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007. 3 Affirmations for Self Compassion: Money Mindset, Recieving Love, and Perfectionism 29:07

1+ y ago29:07

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(Loose) Transcript: 007. 3 Affirmations for Self Compassion Welcome to the Soft, Where? podcast where I talk about my journey toward finding softness inside technology. This podcast is presented by Seeda School, a skill building platform for learning how to code through a black feminist lens. I am currently offering 1:1 coaching for black feminists…

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006. 5 Year Reflection and Projection (2017-2027): Multiple New York Moves, Job Transitions, and $350 Rent 48:01

1+ y ago48:01

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Soft, Where? is a weekly podcast and oral journal where I reflect on finding softness inside of software engineering. I invite you to reflect on the questions at the end of each episode in the comments or via email. Below you can find a loose outline and essay version of the episode to read while you listen or share screenshots of on social media. …

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