Creation not Competition with Joél Leon

Find Your Fierce & Loving

“I didn't feel like I saw anybody from my perspective, coming from where I came from. So I just started speaking it on my own terms.” - Joél Leon

Storyteller and performer Joél Leon didn’t see many people speaking about mindfulness in a way that addressed him and his community. He now uses his own experiences to bring those principles back to Black people, and fostered a thoughtful community through social media.

Today on Find Your Fierce & Loving, Joél talks about the joy of creation over competition and how he celebrates seeing other people share his work. With his daughter in his lap, he shares the practice of nurturing kindness and serving as a role model for his children and other people online and in person.

• (02:48) - Abundance
• (08:58) - Collective awakening
• (14:27) - Social media & creation
• (26:27) - Ase’

Joel L. Daniels, also known as Joel Leon, is a Bronx born and raised performer, father, author and storyteller who writes and tells stories for Black people.

His TED talk on healthy coparenting has been viewed over 1.5M times. He’s worked with The Gates Foundation, HBO, Nike, Twitter, and the TODAY Show, and has been featured in EBONY, The Independent, Newsweek, Medium, BBC News, Sirius XM, Forbes, the Huffington Post, Blavity and others.

He is a Creative Collective NYC Creative Class alumni, winner of the BCA Bronx Recognizes Its Own Award in Poetry, and author of "Book About Things I Will Tell My Daughter" and "God Wears Durags, Too". He is repped by Folio Literary.

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Chicago born and built, Lola grew up in wealth and privilege, yet always sensed something was missing. She sought out aliveness and freedom in music, immersing herself in the hip hop and house music scenes of 90s Chicago. After finding herself on her own at 23, as the mother of two young children, she became determined to create a new experience.

Lola is an ordained minister with a gift for weaving together the mystical and material, she served for many years as the CEO of Bodhi Center, an organization committed to personal transformation, collective awakening, conscious activism, and community-building.

This podcast is produced by Quinn Rose with theme music by independent producer Trey Royal.

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