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If you're the founder, you're the future 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 doe ...
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A podcast about how we become who we are. Almost anything can seem normal. Are you sure you really want to know?
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Get ready to EXPAND your mind! The word NEUROQUEER goes beyond the intersection of neurodiversity and queerness. Neuroqueering is the practice of queering (subverting, defying, disrupting, liberating oneself from) neuronormativity, cisnormativity, and heteronormativity, and more! Through the lens of the neurodiversity paradigm and the social model and in conversations with neurodiversity-affirming professionals, we are going to challenge, rethink, and reframe systems and institutions. We are ...
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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!
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it's six am and I'm trying to beat the clock. Where do climate change and immediacy and action and just wanting time for oneself collide? A short poem.By Leela Sinha
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I'm ending the hiatus, but I'm coming back a little less polished. substack: http://leelasinha.substack.comBy Leela Sinha
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"Once you use intensive and expansiveness to develop a job description, to do some hiring, to do some delegation, you can't unsee it. Once you've seen it, it's everywhere. And it's not the only metric you use. But it is a metric that you use consistently. So that you can imagine who will be most successful at what." We're going to take a little bit…
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Paul 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 "se…
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honoring the intensity of intensive grief
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"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. A…
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"It's a spark. It's a glimmer. It's the thing that happens that keeps us on the phone for three hours.... It's the shimmer under the skin. It's the joy. It's the relief." In the last episode we talked about some of the beautiful variations within intensives and within expansives. Now let's talk about the absolute joy that can be found when like mee…
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"How do you get from generalizations to the specificity that allows you to interact with a particular human being that's across from you?" Our theme of "Love the One You're With" continues... but let's not make any big assumptions. Intensiveness can be a fairly influential characteristic, but we should always remember that there are wide variations…
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"How do you know who it is that's across from you? What they need, what they want. How you can take care of them, while also under stress and also trying to get a lot of work done. That's where SIEF comes in." Continuing our theme of "Love the One You're With." Life is unpredictable, and people are certainly hard to predict. And the best way for us…
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love the ones you know (and break the Golden Rule doing it!)
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"often the breakdown between us is that we don't communicate with the same kinds of expressions of care. And when we don't use the same expressions of care, that means that it's harder to recognize when someone is caring for you, or caring about you." This is the second episode on our theme of "Love the One You're With." Today, we'll talk more abou…
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responding to "What Works:" are we gimmicks?
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"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 an…
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Ep #100: "The Future of Work is Neuroinclusion and Accessibility" with Jamie Shields
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I am celebrating my 100th podcast episode (Neuroqueering and Let Pleasure Be the Measure combined) with one of my new favorite people and the inspiration for my future work as I lean into creating cultures of neuroinclusion and accessibility. All the way from northern Ireland, welcome Jamie Shields! Jamie Shields is a registered blind AuDHD speaker…
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love who, now? Identifying intensives and expansives
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"we have this built-in system of contempt. It's a mutual reciprocal system of contempt in our culture between intensives and expansives." It's February, and our theme this month is "Love the One You're With." And what we mean by that is, thinking about how to love and appreciate and work with people who are on the opposite side of the Intensive-Exp…
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"When we are desperate to rest, and we don't rest, it sets off every alarm bell in our system.... Rest is the space of becoming." Wrapping up our theme of the tension between the need to do and the need to rest. Last time we talked about 'the way opens'- taking the first step, so that the next step might reveal itself. What happens when the next st…
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"How much are we really going to trust that we take one step and "way will open." And when way opens, how de we trust that we'll go that way?" There is a Quaker saying that we take one step and the way will open. Which we can think of, we may not be able to see the entire path from where we start, but if we take the first step, then the next step w…
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"Beginning often begins with imagining. We think and we visualize and we imagine and we research. And it's possible to let the research become a stall tactic. But there's also a lot of value to that research, there's a lot of value to that thinking time, to that imagining time." Last episode we talked about how to choose one task to focus on, even …
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#33: "IFS (Internal Family Systems) therapy effectiveness for neurodivergent minds"
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In today's "Neuroqueering" podcast, Ellie Carn (she/they), psychotherapist, and host Pasha Marlowe (she/they), marriage and family therapist and coach, explain what IFS (Internal Family Systems/"parts" work) is and why it is so effective for neurodivergent minds, especially those with ADHD and autism. Ellie begins with an overview and history of IF…
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"Find the small tasks that are actually the tasks, and then just do one of them. And then do a different one. And honor your limits." Getting unstuck, figuring out where to start... sometimes there is so much to do, so much even that we want to do and find pleasure in doing, that choosing where to start becomes overwhelming. Let's look at a few dif…
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498 -- Uncompromising -- a personal message and a conversation with Leela Sinha
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This 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 Eccott Music: Jake Pie…
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"Adrenaline and cortisol are there to help us run away from tigers. Literally. Now we have all of this adrenaline built up. We have all this cortisol built up. And we don't know what to do with it. Neither does our body. And so how do we blow it off? And then how do we take care of ourselves after we've blown it off?" In the previous episode, we ta…
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releasing the pressure (blow the carbon out)
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"what do we do with with that... fizz? The fizz in the bottle that's been shaken that is going to explode? What do we do with it? ... what I needed, was to let off steam. I needed abandon. I needed to stop being careful, I needed to stop being cautious. I needed to stop placing so many fences around what was okay." Continuing our theme of making sp…
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"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_z1d4y…
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Ep. #32 "Building Psychological Safety Nets at Work"
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In psychologically safe workplaces, people feel safe voicing their opinions about conflict and mistakes-without the fear of negative consequences. Leaders need to be brave-brave enough to invite open and honest feedback. Leaders need to hear what’s really going on, so dysfunctional and unhealthy patterns can be interrupted and problems can be solve…
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making space for making mannequins...and brains
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"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 o…
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"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 PowerPiv…
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a gordian knot approach to demand avoidance
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"The demand avoidance means that I can neither rest nor do something that I want to do. And so I end up doing the things that I do not want to do." Pathological Demand Avoidance, or, as we here at the Intensives Institute prefer to call it: Persistent Demand for Autonomy. That bone-deep pressure to say 'no', no matter how much pressure the world an…
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Interview: Sara Rhiannon, the Quit Sugar Coach
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"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 your…
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Health, and the lack thereof, have not been kind to the podcast.By Kate Wallinga
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case study: planning an accessible retreat
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"...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 …
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