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

For The Worldbuilders

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. Which is truly only a failure in boundaries and the courage to maintain them. Back to acting out belief, it’s about the courage to believe in the worthiness of your work enough to create boundaries to protect the sustainability of it.

Here are your Soft, Where? prompts to workshop throughout the week:

1. What actions are you committing to taking before the winter ends to gift yourself the felt belief of worthiness?
2. Reflect on and name your max capacity for work behind a computer each week. How will you commit to holding this boundary with yourself, your team, or creative collaborators?
3. Give yourself permission to play by protecting play time in your calendar. What are the time blocks in your calendar protected for play?

Soft, Where? is a podcast where host, Ayana Zaire Cotton, talks about their journey toward finding and creating 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 invite you to take a screenshot and share it on social media or with other black feminists who are also on a journey of finding and creating softness inside our relationships to technology.

Soft, Where? Episode 009 Podcast Transcript: How Much Does A Dollar Cost?