PowerPivot

Interview: Doctora Nicole Cabrera Salazar

Leela Sinha — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 02:00:00 -0800

"In the colonial white supremacist system, there is no community. There's only power, but there's no community. But that doesn't mean that we have to abide by that model. We can create a new model. So in a way, it's exciting. But it's also terrifying. Because what does that look like without a blueprint"

Meet Doctora Nicole Cabrera Salazar (She/They/Ella), astrophysicist turned social impact entrepreneur, and founder & CEO of Movement Consulting, a company dedicated to transforming academic environments into radically nourishing spaces for marginalized people by providing virtual courses, workshops, and expert advice.

In this special interview episode of Power Pivot, join Leela and Dra. Nicole in a conversation about community, loneliness, Zapatistas, toxic academic environments, and reclaiming power from colonialist structures and using it for the good of our communities.

Links!!

Dra. Nicole on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moveboldly/

Movement Consulting's website: https://www.wearemvmt.com/

The Daily Radical podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2211444/about

Transcript and Show Notes: https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/interview-dra-nicole-salazar

recorded February 26, 2024

Getting Ahead

Leela Sinha — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:45:00 -0800

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.

Coming Back Messy

Leela Sinha — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 02:00:00 -0800

I'm ending the hiatus, but I'm coming back a little less polished.

substack: http://leelasinha.substack.com

recruiting and delegation

Leela Sinha — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 of a break, but before we do: let's talk about hiring, and delegation, and intensives & expansives. Understanding the intensiveness or expansiveness of the people in your team can help you bring people in and assign tasks in a way that sets everyone up for success. And remember, even though you mostly vibe with intensives (if you're an intensive), you still need expansives. And vice versa. We need each other. So let's not do this alone.

As mentioned, we will be taking a bit of a break and slowing down the release schedule during March. We have a great interview coming up, which will drop on Wednesday, March 20th. Until then, remember that there are lots of episodes and interviews from seasons 1 & 2, so you can always wander through the catalog and find something to listen to in the meantime.

Thank you all for listening, and for your continued support! Talk soon.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/recruiting-and-delegation

Recorded 26 February 2024.

Interview: Paul Baron

Leela Sinha — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 02:00:00 -0800

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 "serial entrepreneur," who shares insights from his fifty-something year career in sales, and running businesses like restaurants, sporting goods, and beyond. Paul and Leela talk about revenue-sharing models for employees, the risks and rewards of going into business for yourself, pricing your labor and your services, and Paul's latest business venture: The Wall Printer.

Links!

Connect with Paul Baron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pbbaron/

Check out The Wall Printer machine in action: https://thewallprinter.com/en/

The Ward's Bridge Inn: https://wardsbridgeinn.com/

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/interview-paul-baron

Recorded 26 February 2024.

honoring the intensity of intensive grief

Leela Sinha — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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. And, as intensives, our ways of expressing grief are often unwelcome (at best) in an expansive culture. How do we honor the intensity of our grief, and process it. And also- how do we remember that we can do that, and so much else, in a community? How do we let others take up our burdens so that we can grieve and rest? And how do we take up those burdens for others? As usual, we will look for answers in community, in relationship, and in the earth. And let's also talk about how to keep our grief from harming us, physically. Because there is a shade of truth in phrases like 'my stomach is tied up into knots." And that truth can be very painful indeed.

Relevant Links:

About the Tank Man from Tiananmen Square: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

Leela's Substack! And the new poem: https://leelasinha.substack.com/p/fire-to-earth?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

The Conspirituality Podcast discusses Project 2025: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/187-project-2025-an-authoritarian-conspiracy/id1515827446?i=1000640530495

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/honoring-the-intensity-of-intensive-grief

Recorded 26 February 2024.

the beauty of the click

Leela Sinha — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 meets like. When you find that you don't have to explain yourself to the other person, when there is ease- when we simply click with someone.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-beauty-of-the-click

Recorded 19 February 2024.

same but different: sief type variations

Leela Sinha — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 in personalities, even among intensives or expansives. Let's look at some of those variations so that we can get to know who we are talking to a little bit better.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/same-but-different

Recorded 19 February 2024.

prediction reduces fire drills

Leela Sinha — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 to show we care for Person A will not be the best way to make Person B feel cared for (especially if person B is an intensive and Person A is an expansive.) So if we try to meet everyone's needs in a general, one-size-fits-all way, then no one's needs will get met. And unmet needs are the root of resentment. But good news- SIEF is a tool we can use to understand the needs of the people around us a little better, which will help us get closer to the goal of meeting everyone's needs, all the time.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/prediction-reduces-fire-drills

Recorded 12 February 2024.

love the ones you know (and break the Golden Rule doing it!)

Leela Sinha — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 about the differences between intensives and expansives, and how knowing and recognizing these differences can help us better communicate the care we feel for each other. Because recognizing that we have differences helps us realize that one of those differences is in how we know when someone cares for us. So in this case, what is good for me may not, in fact, be good for thee.

Check out Sarah Marie Lacy's portrait paintings at https://smlacyart.com/

Transcript and notes: https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/love-the-ones-you-know

Recorded 5 February 2024.

responding to "What Works:" are we gimmicks?

Leela Sinha — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 and the way that we might look at a 'gimmick' as a container, or a form, or even a ritual. And definitely as one more tool for finding mutual understanding.

Transcript and notes: https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/responding-to-what-works

Recorded 9 February 2024.

love who, now? Identifying intensives and expansives

Leela Sinha — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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-Expansive scale from ourselves. There is a often a socially constructed send of contempt between intensives and expansives. How do we break that system in order to appreciate the gifts and skills that each brings. (Hint: we need each other.)

For starters, let's talk about how to recognize intensives and expansives in the wild. You probably know which one you are- but how do you know about the person across from you?

For the SIEF assessment, visit: https://intensivesinstitute.com/assessment/

To learn more about the Gottman Institute and the Four Horsemen of the Relationship Apocalypse, visit: https://www.gottman.com/

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/love-who-now

Recorded 5 February 2024.

when way opens to rest

Leela Sinha — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 step reveals itself... as rest? (Hint: rest should definitely be part of the answer.)

For more on Tricia Hersey and Rest is Resistance, visit The Nap Ministry

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/when-way-opens-to-rest

Recorded 29 January 2024.

way will open

Leela Sinha — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:00:00 -0800

"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 will reveal itself. This is not easy for intensives as it involves waiting. It also involves a lot of trust- in ourselves, in our ability to see and take that next step; in our ability to even believe that the path which has revealed itself is the right path for us. And also, a trust in our ability to know when it is time to wait, to rest, to take a deep breath. What is the next step? Where do we go from here? Perhaps, if we take one step- be it a bold one or a tentative one- then way will open.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/way-will-open

Recorded 29 January 2024.

the very beginning

Leela Sinha — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 when we are overwhelmed by choices (most of which feel like necessities.) Now that we've chosen a task- how do we start? Perhaps we visualize or imagine the very beginning, the very first step. Perhaps, just reaching the very beginning can be enough.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-very-beginning

Recorded 23 January 2024.

the fine art of picking... something.

Leela Sinha — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:15:00 -0800

"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 different strategies for finding our starting point, including (in no particular order, because what works will alway be individual to the person and their circumstances):

-start with the easiest thing, the low-hanging fruit.

-start with the thing you're passionate about, following your intensiveness.

-start with the thing that causes you anxiety, because once you have done it you will be free of that anxiety, which has been haunting you every time you think about that task anyway.

-start with the thing what will bring you pleasure. You do not have to put off your own pleasure.

-start with something that you will feel good about doing for someone else.

We're sure there are more, but this is a place to start.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-fine-art-of-picking-something

Recorded 23 January 2024.

aftercare for intensive release

Leela Sinha — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 talk about creating intensity in order to release stress and strain. But once we have done that, or after we've done anything emotionally intense, we need care. This is where we can figure out how to hold ourselves, and make sure we're held, in the ways that we need, in order to recover after the pressure is released. And to make this a first priority.

The book by Peter Levine that is mentioned is called "Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma." Visit https://www.somaticexperiencing.com/se-books to learn more.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/aftercare-for-intensive-release

Recorded 15 January 2024.

releasing the pressure (blow the carbon out)

Leela Sinha — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 space- how do we make space by releasing the pressure that builds up in ourselves? How do we release the tension when the need to do, and the need to not do, press or pull against each other in our selves?

"Blow the Carbon Out," a song by LJ Booth:

https://youtu.be/ETM-Zc6o7jA?si=NpJYN3Eorhm6vvhe

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/releasing-the-pressure

Recorded 15 January 2024

making (but not emptying) a space

Leela Sinha — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 10:00:00 -0800

"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_z1d4yyMg-PnamuIf/view?usp=sharing

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/making-but-not-emptying-a-space

Recorded 8 January 2024.

making space for making mannequins...and brains

Leela Sinha — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 ones to let fall? Sometimes, picking a project to finish can help create that space. Especially when we don't put pressure ourselves to finish, and just take it one step at a time. Leela Sinha talks about picking up a project that has been in "time out" for a year, and finding spaciousness in completion.

Links:

Learn more about membership in the Intensives Institute:

https://intensivesinstitute.com/membership/

The Bernadette Banner video that launched a thousand pirate shirts:

https://youtu.be/Ql9r8UKIvZs?si=CWOCRMvHF4yENspj

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/making-space-for-making-mannequins-and-brains

Recorded 7 January 2024.

Interview: Dr. Christina Helou

Leela Sinha — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 PowerPivot contains some discussion of sexual abuse.

Meet Dr. Christina Helou (they/them), pleasure and play expert, private coach, thought leader, speaker and doctor of physical therapy. Join Leela and Dr. Christina as they discuss pleasure and joy; finding one's own power; pelvic exams and body sovereignty; why FOSTA/SESTA is terrible and harmful; false scarcity; and the serious importance of fun.

Connect with Dr. Christina at:

https://www.christinahelou.com/

Transcript and show notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/interview-dr-christina-helou

Recorded 30 June, 2023.

a gordian knot approach to demand avoidance

Leela Sinha — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 and we ourselves place on our selves to be productive, to do the thing, to complete the task. Even when it's something we want to do. Even when it is something we take satisfaction from. It's a puzzle- this pressure to avoid the demands, which can out-push even the demand for rest.

What if we can solve that puzzle by breaking the rules; by dismantling the puzzle itself? What if we approach the puzzle with a sword, like the Gordian knot of antiquity? What then?

Let's find out, together.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/a-gordian-knot-approach-to-demand-avoidance

Recorded 7 January 2024.

Interview: Sara Rhiannon, the Quit Sugar Coach

Leela Sinha — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 02:00:00 -0800

"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 yourself? It's like self love just kind of happens when you really get to know yourself."

Listen in on a fascinating conversation between Leela Sinha and Sara Rhiannon (she/her), a hypnotist who uses somatic work and other interventions designed to un-shame the psyche. Sara has a particular specialty in helping people remove their cravings for sugar. Sara and Leela discuss the intersections of shame and anti-oppression work; kindness and redemption; creating safety and honesty in working groups; and that mushy feeling in your brain when you're learning something and seeing how your brain can be different than it was. Which, naturally, some people love, and others... well, not so much.

Links!

Find Sara on

Facebook by name, or as quit_sugar_coach on Instagram or TikTok.

For more on David Bedrick, visit https://www.davidbedrick.com/

For more on Kimberly Shepherd, check out: https://www.kimberlyshepherd.com/

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/interview-sara-rhiannon-the-quit-sugar-coach

Recorded 9 June 2023.

case study: planning an accessible retreat

Leela Sinha — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"...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 thriving in busy times, planning a retreat that is accessible from the ground up, the way that Go Mode can sneak up on us, and how to prepare ourselves and those around us for the crash when we shift from Go Mode to Intensive Stop.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/case-study-planning-an-accessible-retreat

Recorded 25 November 2023.

interview: Dr. Matt Zakreski

Leela Sinha — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"This is where we shift from critical to curious. Isn't it worth asking the question, what would drive a kid to lose control that way? It's so easy to be critical. But you're gonna get a lot better return on your investment for being curious."

Meet Dr. Matt Zareski (he/him), clinical psychologist, international speaker, and advocate for all things neurodivergence, specifically within the LGBTQ+ community. Join Leela and Dr. Matt for an engaging discussion about bringing equity to our workplaces and schools, accommodations for all, the cognitive biases that maintain power structures, Taylor Swift, Shaquille O'Neal, and planning an Eighteenth Century themed costume party.

Links!

The Neurodiversity Collective:

https://www.theneurodiversitycollective.com/

Dr. Matt Zakreski's Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/drmattzakreski

To learn more about CB Beal's Preemptive Radical Inclusion, visit:

https://justiceandpeaceconsulting.com/preemptive-radical-inclusion/

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/interview-dr-matt-zakreski

Recorded 4 December 2023.

don't blow it up (unless it's time)

Leela Sinha — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"This is one of the times of year where we all have to be exquisitely careful of our own inspiration."

Here in the late hours of the year, it can be tempting to dismantle, to take apart, to solve a dead end with dynamite. Especially if you're an intensive, and you don't know if you're entirely alive unless something is tugging at the edge of impossibility. As the solstice nears, perhaps this is the time for wrapping ourselves in darkness and stillness and breath. And finding the strength and finding the dream. Retrieving who we have been that we loved.

Transcription and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/dont-blow-it-up-unless-its-time

Recorded 17 December 2023.

Interview: Anuradha Kowtha

Leela Sinha — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"When we want to do this sacred work of uprooting injustice and inequity where we're seeing it, we're not just doing it for us. We're holding a space for change to be different."

Meet Anuradha Kowtha (they/them), founder of The Kowtha Constellation and a partner in Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds. "My work’s thread could be described as undoing the impact of the inherent indoctrination from capitalism and colonialism on who we are and how we do our work in the world."

Join Anuradha and Leela Sinha in a lovely and rich conversation that encompasses transformative justice, the meaning of 'pariah', Indian classical dance, and holding spaces for change.

Connect with Anuradha!

Instagram: @thekowthaconstellation

https://www.sowingpostcapitalistseeds.com/ https://www.thekowthaconstellation.com/

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/interview-anuradha-kowtha

Recorded 5 May 2023.

I do not dream of labor

Leela Sinha — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"I do not dream of labor. But I do dream of my mere existence being beautiful and interesting enough for a small child to stare and wonder for hours."

Let's think about how our work differs from our labor. Let's think about how we build bridges and buffers and install drivers to ease communication between different people in our organizations, just like we use those devices to ease communication between different places and different machines. Also, let's talk about the true mother of invention: irritation.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/i-do-not-dream-of-labor

Links!

You can find Dr. Emily Garside and her substack here:

https://substack.com/@emilygarsidewrites

Marge Piercy's poem "To be of use":

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/to-be-of-use

The Rube Goldberg Institute for Innovation and Creativity:

https://www.rubegoldberg.org/

Recorded 5 December 2023.

this is your reminder

Leela Sinha — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"This is your reminder to remove one barrier. This is your reminder to find the thing that you already did. This is your reminder to love on yourself in a little tiny ways...."

Thoughts on removing- and sometimes adding- barriers to help us do the the things we need to do. Especially when that thing is to give our selves the care that we so often neglect.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/this-is-your-reminder

Recorded 25 November 2023.

this morning I lay still

Leela Sinha — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"It's not that I don't want the art that my body can make. It's just that sometimes it's been too hard to get there."

On asking our bones and muscles what they need, and pausing to listen to them before we launch ourselves out of bed in the morning. Also- our bodies as complicated sewing machines, and fiddling around in our guts with tweezers.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/this-morning-I-lay-still

Recorded 25 November 2023.

faster to pleasure

Leela Sinha — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"You're quicker than you think, you're faster than you think. We're intensives. When we really do get focused, we really do move fast...."

Finding that focus sometimes depends on choosing a single, solvable problem, one step at a time. And we can do that. Really.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/faster-to-pleasure

Recorded 9 October 2023.

Dishwasher

Leela Sinha — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"Can I tell you something? Use the tools. Use the tools you have. Use them all the way...."

We'll start with the dishwasher- but you know this isn't just about the dishwasher. This is about committing ourselves to really use the tools that we have learned can help us, and to using them fully. For our own good, and for the good of those around us.

Transcript and show notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/dishwasher

Recorded 27 September 2023.

picking early

Leela Sinha — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"It's a hard thing for us as intensives, to let go of our original vision. And sometimes we get stuck."

What do we do when we have to shift from plan A to plan B or even to plan Q? What do we do when we have to pick the tomatoes early?

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/picking-early

Recorded 25 September 2023.

Interview: Samara Bay

Leela Sinha — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 21:35:00 -0800

Samara Bay: "When we tell a story about a tiny moment, and how it impacted us, it is actually the most revealing thing of our character we could possibly do. Where we come from does not win over what we did in a hard moment."

Meet Samara Bay, who coaches rising business leaders, political hopefuls, and public figures who need to speak in a voice they recognize as their own to truly make waves. She is the author of Permission to Speak, a "game-changing guide to redefining what power and authority sound like." Join Samara and Leela Sinha as they laugh, cry, and share stories in this special interview episode of Power Pivot.

"it's a decolonizing act, and it is a queering act, to start to question the ways that we have normalized and normied ourselves: for safety, for proximal power; and to love on those instincts of ours to get by, while also getting curious about what else is possible." -Samara Bay

Permission to Speak is available in hardcover, ebook, or audiobook (read by the author) from Penguin Random House.

For a free warm-up and Samara's newsletter, head to https://www.samarabay.com/goodies

Or, check out Samara Bay on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samarabay

Full transcript and show notes can be found here:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/samara-bay

Recorded 23 October 2023.

taking time

Leela Sinha — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 08:45:00 -0800

"Forcing ourselves, as intensives, to take time and energy and focus never goes well. Expansives call that discipline, but we call that torture. Don't torture yourself."

On the virtues and challenges of taking one's time- and how feeling in flow and getting things just right, sometimes doesn't feel like taking any time at all.

Mr. Rogers singing "I Like to Take My Time."

https://youtu.be/z0gtqPURoiM?si=lY6djnwod16-zq_j

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/burnout

Recorded 25 September 2023.

burnout

Leela Sinha — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"You can do a lot things with ash, but what you can't do is get more heat out of ash. Because all of the heat, all of the calories stored, have been released. Often we get to dive into a project and work on it really hard. But then we need comp time. We need the break. If we don't take the break every day, we need to take the break in chunks. And our system is not set up to allow us to do that."

Burnout is not natural. It is a natural reaction to unnatural demands. And the demands are getting worse. How to create space to recover from burnout; and how do we create a world that prevents it?

note: the Intensives Institute Salon mentioned in this episode was originally scheduled for September 13, 2023 but was moved to September 20th, 2023.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/burnout

Recorded 11 September 2023.

tomatoes I didn't plant

Leela Sinha — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"There was one seed that just got it into its head that it was going to take over the world. And it did."

Growing things that will thrive in the conditions that exist; and also, creating the conditions that allows us to thrive and grow. Sometimes in unexpected places.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/tomatoes-I-didnt-plant

Recorded 11 September 2023.

intimate with sharpness

Leela Sinha — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:30:00 -0800

"If you have complicated grain, if you're complicated, you need extremely sharp tools and extremely skilled craftspeople.... You need to understand the sharpening as a part of the process, not an interruption of the process."

CN: contains some discussion of the events of September 11, 2001 in the first 65 seconds of the episode.

On the humble cabinet scraper, American identity, reaching for excellence, being deeply intimate with the sharpness of the tools we use, and directing our work towards compassion and away from fear.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/intimate-with-sharpness

For more on Garrett Hack, furniture maker:

http://www.garretthack.com/

Recorded 11 September 2023.

gifts

Leela Sinha — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"Here's what I want to give you. I want to give you the low slant of light as fall creeps in. I want to give you a double handful of freshly picked raspberries too soft to do anything but eat immediately. I want to give you the persistent, ridiculous abundance of dandelions. I want to give you fresh strawberries in August, and other small miracles...."

A poem for the sunset of summer and the dawn of autumn.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/gifts

Recorded 24 August 2023.

the harvest

Leela Sinha — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"When it comes time for us to harvest, when the air and the sun and the water and the sky all shift in the direction of fall- it is also time to turn toward rest."

Harvest can bring a sense of certainty- "here is what I have, this is what I don't. Now I can prepare for what will come. Here's what I can share with my community, and here is what I must ask my community to share with me." And hopefully, along with that certainty, can come a sense of peace and rest. And perhaps joy.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-harvest

Recorded 24 August 2023.

nourishing ourselves

Leela Sinha — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"We're going to build connections, we're going to build community. We're going to build common care into the fabric of our lives. And I know this sounds like more work. But this is the nourishment we need."

Sometimes we need stiffening, resistance. Sometimes we need to move with the energy of whatever it is that's challenging us. Always, we need community to connect with and share our ideas with.

Transcript and link:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/nourishing-ourselves

Recorded 24 August 2023.

the habit of pleasure

Leela Sinha — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 03:00:00 -0800

"My most effective habit building behavior is to build it around pleasure. I have to tap into that future pleasure, that sensation of possibility of pleasure, in order to build the habit."

On building habits around pleasure, both for ourselves and in the spaces where we have power, so that our brilliance can flourish.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-habit-of-pleasure

Recorded 11 August 2023.

disarming urgency

Leela Sinha — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"Reminders that I have choices have saved my life, literally and figuratively, so many times. You have choices. Remember, always, that you have choices."

Our environments are full of urgency, real and manufactured. The manufactured urgency of a flash sale or a sales funnel. The real urgency of external circumstances. The inner urgency of the muse or from the perceptions of pressure. These things are all real, and they can make us forget that we have choices. How do we make reminders in our lives and in our organizations so that we remember we can take time, and evaluate our choices, before plunging into a decision that might not be the best? Jumping off a cliff should feel like flying, not like taking your life in your hands.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/orchid

Recorded 12 July 2023.

orchid

Leela Sinha — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"I learned when I was a child that it was better to be lichen. It was better to be hardy and durable and scrappy, and a little rough. It was better to look inedible, lest you get eaten. But what if I'm an orchid?"

You're tough. You're resilient. But what if... what if you are also an orchid, who needs just the right shade, the right place to perch, the just right amount of water? It's ok. And you might need to hire someone to do the (metaphorical) misting for you. And also- in your employees or teams you might have orchids, lichens, pine trees, cedar trees, thick grasses. How do you meet the needs of everyone, and get your own needs met? The good news is- it's possible.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/orchid

Recorded 12 July 2023.

trust and persistence

Leela Sinha — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:00:00 -0800

"There's something about trust, about being able to trust that something or someone will just be there, that we have lost in this whirlwind of creation and destruction and absorption of companies. It's like we're living through a sort of corporate Big Bang. With so much matter flying around with so much energy, that it's hard to know what we can know. And what we can't."

Change is part of existence, of course. But how do we build and maintain organizations that are persistent- that we and our customers and employees can trust to be there for us in years to come?

Transcript and Notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/trust-and-persistence

Recorded 12 July 2023.

praise and connections

Leela Sinha — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"If the praise is gonna feel genuine, then the people praising us have to know us well enough to praise us for something that is genuinely ours."

On praise- our need for it (even when we want to remain unseen), and how creating space for praise in our workplace can open up space for deeper connections and better communication.

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/praise-and-connections

Recorded 30 June 2023.

archaeology and exposure

Leela Sinha — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"What does it mean to be made visible to people who don't understand the context from which we come? What of our history is important enough to tell and retell? Sometimes telling and retelling those stories only entrenches a way of being that is no longer useful."

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/archaeology-and-exposure

Recorded 30 June 2023.

prometheus and overexposure

Leela Sinha — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 07:45:00 -0800

"We, as intensives, are all the way in. And when we are all the way in, it means that when our hearts break, they break all the way. And there is nothing but a bloody pile of flesh on the floor, that somehow we have to get that extra wide pancake spatula and scoop it up and stuff it back inside our ribs."

In order to get our ideas out into the world, we need to present- expose- ourselves to the world. To the hot sun of and cold tides of the internet, for example. How do we protect our selves- how do we find and apply the proper sunscreen- so that we can be present in integrity and also, protect our intensive hearts?

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/prometheus-and-overexposure

Recorded June 12, 2023.

the candy striped trousers

Leela Sinha — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 08:45:00 -0800

"I drew chalk outlines like some kind of strange murder scene. But nothing was being killed except my idea of myself as needing to be perfect."

On making one's own trousers, and on showing our true(er?) selves to the world.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-candy-striped-trousers

Recorded 12 June 2023.

all art

Leela Sinha — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:00:00 -0800

"Let's talk about what happens when we all make art. And I don't mean everybody has to be trained. I don't mean everybody has to be making beautiful art. I do mean to interrogate what we mean by art, specifically."

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/all-art

Recorded 6 June 2023.

lush abundance of rabbit holes

Leela Sinha — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:00:00 -0800

"There's so much richness and cross pollination that happens when we go into those rabbit holes. When we allow ourselves the luxury of just opening the door and tumbling down. As intensives we are specialists in rabbit holes. These are some of our native territory. This is the place where we are from."

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-lushness-of-rabbit-holes

Recorded 11 June 2023.

lush abundance of early summer

Leela Sinha — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 10:45:00 -0800

"When I get stuck, I forget why I do any of the things that I do. I forget the sparkle in someone's eye when they find out for the first time that they're an intensive, or that food grows on trees. Or the softness of grass underfoot. Or the miracle of a waterfall. I forget what I know. I forget what I have to teach. I forget what I have to learn. I forget. What I'm thinking about today is lush abundance and the way it gets us out of stuckness."

Rob Brezsny and his newsletter:

https://freewillastrology.com/

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/lush-abundance-of-early-summer

Recorded 6 June 2023.

the lushness of completion

Leela Sinha — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"Maybe I will eat a single, ripe, peach. Anything. Anything to completion.... We forget that the restoration is possible. And then something happens and we remember. But we don't have to wait for it to happen by accident."

The joy and release of completing... anything. Especially when you are an intensive. Especially when every started-but-not-finished thing haunts you, shames you, makes you lose trust in your ability to finish... anything.

Japanese knotwood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynoutria_japonica

Transcript and notes: https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-lushness-of-completion

Recorded 1 June 2023.

hiring the person you need

Leela Sinha — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"What I discovered, over several false hires, is that the skills are just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, skills can be trained, sometimes skills are the least important part of the iceberg."

Using the framework of intensiveness and expansiveness to match jobs to people and people to jobs. And avoiding the trap of hiring an intensive for an expansive job just because you meet another intensive in the wild and want to hang out with them.

Pace & Kyeli:

http://paceandkyeli.com/

Transcript and Notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/hiring-the-person-you-need

Recorded 22 May 2023.

when my body says no

Leela Sinha — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"Today, what does your body say? What do you need to say no to? What is your body saying no to?"

Listening to our bodies. Listening to our guts. Sometimes we have a bad feeling about a person or a place or a food or anything. And sometimes we push those feelings aside to our detriment. How do we respect our bodies when they are telling us "no?"

Transcripts and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/when-my-body-says-no

Recorded 22 May 2023.

stress and need and pleasure

Leela Sinha — Wed, 31 May 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"pleasure doesn't start with orgasm-level excitement. Pleasure starts with the seeds of safety."

On the impact of stress and need on our abilities as (especially intensive) leaders; on how feeling safe makes us more human and better leaders; on the importance of knowing when to slow down to avoid making a crisis into an everlasting mess.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/stress-and-need-and-pleasure

Recorded 22 May 2023.

what gives you pleasure?

Leela Sinha — Wed, 24 May 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"It's May. It's Pleasure Month, here at the Intensives Institute. And we're thinking about ways to allow our sense of pleasure to be part of our guidance system, to be part of our awareness system. And to recognize that everybody is better off when their pleasure centers fire."

Here is a link to the old Thirty Day Pleasure Project. Note that this site is no longer maintained and any links within it are more likely than not expired:

http://bodyofpleasure.com/body-practice/

Transcript and notes: https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/what-gives-you-pleasure

Recorded 16 May 2023.

judgment and grace

Leela Sinha — Mon, 22 May 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"Sometimes I'm right, and it doesn't matter. What matters is that they're having their life and they're experiencing their thing. And when you bring that to leadership, it completely changes how you function... Above all, I wish to put down disdain, because it carries with it disrespect."

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/judgment-and-grace

Recorded 3 May 2023.

contrasting SIEF with Meyers-Briggs

Leela Sinha — Wed, 17 May 2023 08:15:00 -0800

"...what SIEF does, that the other ones don't do, is lifts out this one set of behaviors and characteristics, just one- it's one axis.... This isn't meant to say that we're one dimensional; this is meant to describe one dimension of our deeply multi-dimensional selves."

The difference, and advantage of, the SIEF's single-axis framework in contrast to comprehensive personality profiles such as Meyers-Briggs.

For more on SIEF and to take the assessment:

https://intensivesinstitute.com/assessment/

For more on the Gottman Institute:

https://www.gottman.com/

Recorded 8 May 2023.

Notes and Transcript:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/contrasting-SIEF-with-meyers-briggs

an abundance of pleasure

Leela Sinha — Tue, 16 May 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"We just had a full moon, which is traditionally the letting-go-of-things moon. That always surprises me, because fullness makes me think of taking things on. But no, when your arms are full, you have to pass things by, you have to put things down."

Spring, abundance, fullness, focus- and changing the world, of course.

The New Fashioned Company: https://thenewfashioned.co/

Notes and Transcript:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/an-abundance-of-pleasure

Recorded 8 May 2023.

Interview: Kimra Luna

Leela Sinha — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:15:00 -0800

Kimra Luna: "...when you're with those like-minded people, and you know that you're doing something to make the world better... you get hope automatically. It starts filling you up."

Leela Sinha in compelling conversation with Kimra Luna: abortion doula, professional ranter, and founder of Idaho Abortion Rights mutual aid. They talk about finding hope in community, taking individual action, strategies for regaining reproductive rights in the US, and the journey that led Kimra to take on the work of an abortion doula.

Transcript and Notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/kimra-luna

Links! Find Kimra on Instagram, Twitch, Twitter, and beyond. There are also links to Idaho Abortion Rights and other orgs mentioned in the conversation:

Idaho Abortion Rights: https://idahoabortionrights.com/

Kimra Luna website: https://kimraluna.com/.

Kimra Luna on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimraluna/.

Kimra Luna on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/kimraluna_

Kimra Luna on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KimraLuna

Plan C Pills: https://www.plancpills.org/

Las Libres: https://laslibres.org/

Act Up: https://actupny.com/

Recorded 24 April 2023.

pleasure and pain woven fine

Leela Sinha — Fri, 05 May 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"this is not Pollyanna, like, oh, there's something beautiful in everything. No, no, some things are just terrible. I'm not gonna lie to you about that.... and, I refuse to shape my identity around oppression. I won't do it."

Forming our worlds around meeting our collective and individual needs; so that we can defeat oppression without forming ourselves around the oppression itself. If we form our identities around the oppression, we risk creating a void within ourselves in the very shape of that oppression.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/pleasure-and-pain-woven-fine

Recorded 1 May 2023.

expectations

Leela Sinha — Wed, 03 May 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"the lemon balm, the peppermint and the comfrey all have a reputation. They have reputations for being bullies, they have a reputation for being too loud, too big, too much. Oh... maybe that's why I like them. They are a lot. And that power is very, very appealing."

On creating containers that allow us and our ideas to flourish while limiting the harm that we and our ideas might do.

Transcript and notes: https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/expectations

Recorded 1 May 2023.

a million tiny little hopes

Leela Sinha — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"What did I do today, to make today a place that I could live in?

Tiny hopes. Tiny, absolutely persistent hopes."

We seldom talk about depression while it is happening, about the strategies for getting through the hard days. Some days are strung together from a million tiny little hopes.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/a-million-tiny-little-hopes/

Recorded 24 April 2023.

thank you notes

Leela Sinha — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 05:00:00 -0800

"...and so I have come to the point in my life, where I am pacing around my office saying I need thank you notes."

On the challenges of writing thank you notes; and the absolute joy of writing them when you really do have something to be grateful for.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/thank-you-notes

Recorded 6 April 2023.

everything all at once

Leela Sinha — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 08:00:00 -0800

"the bottom line is I want to give you everything all at once. All at once, all at once, all at once. Which is such an intensive thing to do, right? Like I'm so into all these different things that I'm learning and exploring and getting deeper in. And I want to share them with everybody. The impulse to everything all at once has a reason. And it needs to be celebrated."

Celebrating intensiveness, and intensiveness in community.

For more information on joining the Intensives Institute:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/membership/

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/everything-all-at-once

Recorded 16 April 2023.

Why is the SIEF like this?

Leela Sinha — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:00:00 -0800

"As an intensive, you know, if it's not quite right, it's not right.

And if it's not right, it's not been done.

And if it hasn't been done, well, then we're gonna have to do it, aren't we?"

A look into the thought process behind the construction of the Sinha Intensive-Expansive Framework, and how it can be a tool that helps us meet everyone's needs, all the time.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/why-is-the-sief-like-this

Recorded 29 March 2023.

different choices (content notice: discussion of gun violence)

Leela Sinha — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:00:00 -0800

"I want to say something about the shooting. But I'm out of words. I found just enough, scraped out of the corners with a corner of a spoon, to say: I'm so sorry. We are together. Here are a few threads of hope. But that's all I've got. That's all I've got...."

This episode refers to the school shooting in Nashville on March 27, 2023.

Editor's note: While Leela says that to zir memory only one student was killed in the shooting at Simon's Rock at Bard College in 1992, there were in fact two people killed: one student and one professor, as well as four others wounded.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/different-choices

Recorded 30 March 2023

a little nudge, and a little context

Leela Sinha — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 02:00:00 -0800

We have many interests. We work with different types of clients and different organizations. How do we- especially intensives- create the conditions that allow us to get into the right flow, where we can do our best work, smoothly and at the times when it is required? Sometimes a little nudge, and a little context- and perhaps the right feather boa- is all we need.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/a-little-nudge-and-a-little-context

Recorded 20 March 2023.

the judicious use of gentle silence

Leela Sinha — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"If you have a community, or a company, or a team, probably you have mostly people who believe in airing it all,o r they believe in not talking about it. I'm here to advocate for a blend, a mix of the two. I'm here to advocate for the judicious use of gentle silence."

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-judicious-use-of-gentle-silence

Recorded 20 March 2023.

the gift of a plant

Leela Sinha — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"this culture, the one that holds the power around us is a culture that asks us to suffer. It invites, it expects, it valorizes suffering. It wants us- It tells us that if we aren't hurting, it doesn't count... But let's bring it back to pleasure. What is the tiny thing that still feels good?"

Is it the gift of giving, and the gift of receiving?

Here is a link to Leela's recent guest sermon at Northwest Inland Universalist Unitarian Community, which ze refers to in this episode:

https://youtu.be/CR0hjR_ZoP8

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-gift-of-a-plant

Recorded 26 February 2023.

the gate and the pond

Leela Sinha — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:18:00 -0800

"I can't say as I'd know how to tell what it was like to take the road more traveled, because I'm not sure I've ever done that."

Join Leela on a walk to sit near a pond and get close to the pond's inhabitants. And do some deep thinking in the quiet, of course.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-pond-and-the-gate

Recorded 16 March, 2023.

straying from my roots

Leela Sinha — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 02:00:00 -0800

How often do we stray from ourselves in pursuit of survival for ourselves? How often do we do things that put bread on our tables, but don't truly feed us?

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/straying-from-my-roots

Recorded 1 March 2023.

Venetian Loafers

Leela Sinha — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"These shoes mean to me the ability to inhabit my gender. I, and this complex gender of mine, belong everywhere."

Gender, complex gender, representation, bookstores, long distance love and... whole-cut Venetian loafers? Naturally, when Leela Sinha is doing the talking, it all fits together.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/venetian-loafers

Recorded 1 March 2023

something beautiful

Leela Sinha — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:00:00 -0800

Making space to find- and create- beauty where we need and want it.

Cole Arthur Riley:

https://colearthurriley.com/

The type of camera that Leela carried in zir pocket in Chicago:

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Canon_MC

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/something-beautiful

not about you

Leela Sinha — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:00:00 -0800

"We don't have reentry protocols, because we're not supposed to need them. We're supposed to magically stay in touch just the right amount."

They didn't not text you back because they hate you. More likely, for the last three days they've been trying to put just the right words together at just the right time in order to be there for you. And failing. Because life happens and life is a rolling distraction. Trust that they love you. It's not about you. Especially if you are both intensives. Especially then.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/not-about-you

Recorded 22 February 2023.

know it is not ok

Leela Sinha — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"what I've noticed about myself is that, I have to realize that I would like it to be different ,that something bugs me. I have to realize that something doesn't feel okay before I can change it."

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/know-it-is-not-okay

Recorded 15 February 2023.

in praise of phases

Leela Sinha — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 01:45:00 -0800

"You have choices. But the first, most important choice, is to celebrate who and how you are as an intensive."

As an intensive, your phasic work cycles- and perhaps your phasic chaos cycles- are part of who you are. They are as much a part of you as the color of your eye. Learning to embrace those phases, instead of fighting them, will help us to accomplish our goals. We need the flow, the go-go-go, the connecting six seemingly unrelated things before breakfast. And we need the deep rest so that we can redecorate our minds and start the process again.

Transcription and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/in-praise-of-phases

Recorded 13 February 2023.

only our way to find

Leela Sinha — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 02:00:00 -0800

A poem, a meditation, a gift:

"In the face of the world being difficult, and impossible, and glorious, over and over again. In the face of destruction and creation. In the face of hope, and ongoing, grinding impossibility, I want to give you this: that the sun also rises. That the sun always rises. That the sun even now is coming up over the horizon."

"Turning Toward the Morning" by Gordon Bok:

https://youtu.be/WbKkXR0lHVE

Transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/only-our-way-to-find

Recorded 9 February 2023.

innovation invention and survival

Leela Sinha — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 02:00:00 -0800

Sometimes, almost always, some version of the solution has already been invented. What are we going to remember that we already know how to do?

Let us take a mental tour of the Terrible Patents Division as we try to imagine- or re-imagine- sustainable solutions to some basic and persistent problems.

Transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/innovation-invention-and-survival

Recorded 9 February 2023.

depression and flexibility

Leela Sinha — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"If you think of depression as something that's kind of like the ocean, that comes up in waves. Sometimes you can float on top of it, and it's okay. Sometimes it'll try and drown you.... When the depression wave started to come up, I didn't have my little floaties on."

Let's talk about depression. Let's talk about depression as what it is, which is an illness. For many, a chronic illness. With remissions and relapses and flares. Now let's talk about how to make room for spaciousness, rest, grace, compassion, flexibility. Let's talk about how to help everyone have the exact things that they need to heal.

Ani DiFranco- Buildings & Bridges:

https://youtu.be/uG1Sdz6TFkQ

Transcript and Show Notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/depression-and-flexibility

intensive stop

Leela Sinha — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 20:00:00 -0800

Intensives go like hell and then rest like the dead. Sometimes we go like hell and then... just stop. Let's talk about that.

The Nap Ministry:

https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/

Madeline Pendleton:

https://www.tiktok.com/@madeline_pendleton

Transcript and notes: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/intensive-stop

Recorded 29 January 2023.

Gender, and a podcast recommendation

Leela Sinha — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"…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, and poet, who is nonbinary, and does a lot of public work around nonbinary identities, around being trans-feminine, and gender. Gender in terms of how does nonbinary identity and gender inclusion, and moving beyond binary understandings of gender at all, interface and interlace with justice, with elevating humanity?"

The Man Enough podcast episode from July 26, 2021, featuring ALOK: (please note that the hosts of the podcast are very much clearly in a beginner space in terms of their learning about non binary identities and trans identities. So brace yourself for that. ALOK is gracious as an educator in the face of that, going into a space where I'm sure they knew they were going to be doing education. Just know that and do what you need to do to take care of yourself.) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alok-vaid-menon-the-urgent-need-for-compassion/id1571480224?i=1000530016080

ALOK's website: https://www.alokvmenon.com/

The Man Enough podcast website: https://manenough.com/podcast/

Transcript and show notes at: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/gender-and-a-podcast-recommendation

Recorded 30 January 2023.

housing and healthcare

Leela Sinha — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"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 members, achieve this goal and similar ones?

Mina Raver and the 2000 Days Project:

https://www.2kdaysproject.com/

Transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/housing-and-healthcare

Recorded 26 July 2022

making it easy to use your tools

Leela Sinha — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 02:00:00 -0800

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.

know what you want

Leela Sinha — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:15:00 -0800

"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 what you want, to continue to become... you?

Transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/know-what-you-want

Recorded 16 January 2023.

underestimating your enemies

Leela Sinha — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 02:00:00 -0800

"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 failures.

Transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/underestimating-your-enemies

Recorded 16 January, 2023

here's what I know

Leela Sinha — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 09:15:00 -0800

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 2022

a place that people miss

Leela Sinha — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 02:00:00 -0800

On rediscovering, and creating, active communities: places that people miss.

transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/a-place-that-people-miss

planners and nourishment

Leela Sinha — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 02:00:00 -0800

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 and full transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/planners-and-nourishment

seeping in

Leela Sinha — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 02:00:00 -0800

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, founder and Director of Tilopa Tai Chi Qigong Centers:

https://www.itaichi.net/, https://www.marilynallysum.com/

Chris Zydel: "Anything that is even vaguely related to things like planning, productivity or efficiency is making me want to take a nap." https://creativejuicesarts.com/

Full transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/seeping-in

how stubborn are you?

Leela Sinha — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 02:00:00 -0800

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.captivate.fm/episode/how-stubborn-are-you

Recorded 27 December, 2022.

Each Night And This Night; Each Child and You

Leela Sinha — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 02:00:00 -0800

"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.

magic: we are part of everything

Leela Sinha — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:00:00 -0800

"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:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/magic-we-are-part-of-everything

recorded 26 July 2022.

how do you get help?

Leela Sinha — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 02:00:00 -0800

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-get-help

belonging and the membership

Leela Sinha — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:30:00 -0800

"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, 2022

For information about joining the Intensives Institute, visit:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/membership/

Notes and transcript at:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/belonging-and-the-membership

Recorded 14 December 2022.

just one thing

Leela Sinha — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 02:00:00 -0800

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 project or process and un-sticking it. And sometimes that sticking point is not what we think it will be.

Notes and Transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/just-one-thing

recorded 8 December 2022.

resentment and need

Leela Sinha — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 02:00:00 -0800

"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 must remember to meet own met with grace. And The more of that grace we have, the more of it we hand out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi

Notes and transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/resentment-and-need

recorded 12/10/2022

a little and a little

Leela Sinha — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 02:00:00 -0800

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:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/a-little-and-a-little

recorded 12/5/2022

the joy of the familiar

Leela Sinha — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:00:00 -0800

"'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 12/1/2022

ease in season

Leela Sinha — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 02:00:00 -0800

"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 if we know, if we can be confident that the sun is in fact coming back, that the world will in fact get warmer, that everything won't stay dead forever.... If we know that, then we can rest in this time."

Notes and transcript here:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/ease-in-season

Anyway: On Belonging

Leela Sinha — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 02:00:00 -0800

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 we are, and how we are, and what it's going to mean to people when they take our identity on as part of their own identity?

Notes and full transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/on-belonging

Trans Day of Remembrance: Goodness

Leela Sinha — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 02:00:00 -0800

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 as a rebellion, as sustenance as integrity: I refuse to occupy a world where better is not possible. "

Together, we can weave a thread strong enough to stitch this breaking world.

For more on the Japanese art of making fabric from mother of pearl and other materials, called hikihaku, see How was it made? Japanese hikihaku obi | V&A (YouTube) and this TikTok post from Margaret Jean/Couture Fantasy.

The Alice Walker quote is from her poem "Expect Nothing" from the collection Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism.

The quoted lyric ""Because I knew you I have been changed for good" is from "For Good," from the musical Wicked (Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Winnie Holzman.)

Recorded on Sunday, November 20, 2022.

notes and full transcript: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/tdor-goodness

Change in My Cup: On Twitter

Leela Sinha — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 02:00:00 -0800

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.

Interview: Lauren Elizabeth

Leela Sinha — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 02:00:00 -0800

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 without the oppressive marketing practices & hyper-capitalist business bullshit.

Links:

Website: https://laurenelizabethcoaching.co m

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauren.elizabeth.coaching/

Recorded October 5, 2022.

Notes and Full Transcript here:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/interview-lauren-elizabeth

consistency as kindness

Leela Sinha — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 02:00:00 -0800

Creating structures is a kindness. Creating consistency is a kindness. If you can hold consistency sufficiently long, then people's brains settle into that consistency space. Where things take less conscious effort. And then other things have more space. And consistency doesn't take that much space in the brain. But obligation does. Obligation is an obstruction. Consistency is a kindness.

Recorded 11/8/2022.

Notes and full transcript here:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/consistency-as-kindness

food that makes you go "hmmm"

Leela Sinha — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 05:00:00 -0800

"Today, there was a rainbow that I forgot to mention to anyone, arcing across most of the sky, beautiful..." Fresh baked bread. Seasonings. The hot oven. A pinch of this... just enough of that... and the ways that changes in our habits and appetites can point to deeper hungers and needs.

For more on Madhur Jaffrey:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhur_Jaffrey

Notes and full transcript:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/food-that-makes-you-go-hmmm

teaching team conflict

Leela Sinha — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 05:00:00 -0800

Help the intensives and expansives in your world resolve and avoid conflict by giving the, the language to understand each other, and helping them recognize that their different wants and needs and styles are inherent to them and how they are their most effective selves.

Pace & Kyeli:

http://paceandkyeli.com/

The Gottman Institute and the infamous four horsemen of the relationship apocalypse:

https://www.gottman.com/

Other PowerPivot episodes about intensives and expansives:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/love-on-expansives

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/intensives-and-hiring/

How intensive or expansive are you? Look here for the assessment:

https://intensivesinstitute.com/assessment/

notes and transcript:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/teaching-team-conflict

More Of.

Leela Sinha — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 02:00:00 -0800

More synchronicity. More yes...and. Less feeling like Sisyphus pushing the boulder up hill. What do you want from your business as an ethical, pleasurable space? First, say what we loved, and then say what we wanted more of. And then we make it happen.

notes & transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/more-of

normalizing discomfort

Leela Sinha — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 02:00:00 -0800

There are things we need to normalize- things like water conservation, and the discomfort of growth; and there are things we need to keep from normalizing, or even de-normalize, such as drought, or the slow drains on our (and our employees) patience and energy when we have to work within settings and systems that just don't work they way they should. Sometimes running an ethical business is as simple as saying 'yes' to fixing what's broken.

Also, adjustable standing desks, and the unbridled joy of school children at play.

the reality of adulthood

Leela Sinha — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 02:00:00 -0800

Our adulthood in this late stage of capitalism is not the adulthood our parents knew; the markers of adulthood, if they exist at all, are, for many of us, vastly different than they used to be. But that doesn't mean we are not adults. And that doesn't mean that our businesses are somehow inferior even if we don't have all the obvious old markers of adulthood or our business do not have the same hallmarks as 'established' businesses. You are not inferior.

Also, handbills on lamp posts, and the disorientation of walking into one's regular grocery store and finding that it has been rearranged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruen_transfer

@Absentia_Nova on the Gruen Transfer and autistic support needs levels:

https://www.tiktok.com/@absentia_nova/video/7146074010630081793?_t=8VxAZaXBDvm&_r=1

full transcript and show notes here:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/the-reality-of-adulthood

boulders by the sea: the necessity of intensives

Leela Sinha — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 02:00:00 -0800

"I got thinking about intensives, like I do, and how intensives- we are mostly made of boulders...."

Intensiveness, a walk by the sea, the image of Leela as a fairy-tale giant; and the ways in which intensiveness disrupts expectations in order to create spaces for growth.

Full transcript and show notes here:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/boulders-by-the-sea/

the power of money

Leela Sinha — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:00:00 -0800

Change the world for the better with clear, honest, job listings? Why, yes. Yes indeed.

For more on Chani Nicholas:

https://chaninicholas.com/

transcript and show notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/the-power-of-money

what they hear

Leela Sinha — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:00:00 -0800

What we say, and what people hear us say; generating our public image as a reflection of who and how we are in private.

Also, public speech and the seasonings our listeners bring with them.

Interview: Mina Raver of Forging Fortune

Leela Sinha — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 02:00:00 -0800

Leela holds a fascinating conversation with Mina Raver, host of the Forging Fortune podcast and creator of the 2000 Days Project:

"I realized that a lot of the ideas that we have about how to really make change, simply are not made to work."

Mina Raver is a for-purpose business strategist focused on helping visionaries bring their ideas to the market so they can realize the change they want to see in the world. She’s the founder of TiCIV, inc, an impact business consulting agency, and director of the 2K Days Project, a self-paced incubator for for-purpose and impact entrepreneurs.

When she’s not building companies, you’ll find Mina playing 90’s RPGs with her husband and three children, gardening, or deep in her research.

"That's what 2000 Days is, we're going to change the world in 2000 days. In five years, it's gonna look completely different. And we're taking control of that."

Links:

ticiv.com

forgingfortune.com

2kdaysproject.com

Also, check out Leela's appearance on Forging Fortune!

yes, filters: the art of the artifice

Leela Sinha — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 02:00:00 -0800

Sometimes there's a reality in the fake that isn't in the real thing. We always craft our narratives- bringing forward some details, pushing other details back. This way we tell a story that feels real, without the distraction of all of the facts that complicate the thing and make it difficult for our listeners to know what is important, and what is not. When we are careful and when we are wise and when we are skilled with the art of carving a story out of a set of facts: that's when we move the world forward.

For more on Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, look here:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/97395/bird-by-bird-by-anne-lamott/

craving water

Leela Sinha — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 02:00:00 -0800

If we all discount our own power, then we forget that if we all act together, things can change. It is now on us to alter ourselves to recognize the interdependent web that we are a part of, engaging with all of those people to ask the question: what are we going to do? How are we going to be different? Who do we know who can make an even bigger difference? How can we collectively make a bigger difference? This is all about using your power, my power, our power- for good.

Recorded September 19, 2022.

what is an intensive?

Leela Sinha — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 02:00:00 -0800

Let's talk about what it means to be an intensive. And why we need and love intensives.

Are you an intensive? Take the SIEF assessment and find out. (Or, if you already know you're an intensive, find out how much of an intensive you are.)

https://intensivesinstitute.com/assessment/

Mentioned in this episode:

When I was a kid, I used to dread going to school every single morning, I'd get a little bit sick. And honestly, I thought it was normal. So when I grew up and started going to work, and it kept happening, I thought that was normal too. And it was a long time before I found out that that's not in fact, normal. And then I started my own business, and I figured that the problem would probably go away. Yeah, spoiler, it did not go away. People are unpredictable, and they bring all their emotions with them into the business relationship. And we bring all our emotions with us into the business relationship. And that, that's the part that made me nervous. Wouldn't it be great if everything was just a little more predictable? Wouldn't it be great if you could like guess better what people were going to need or want or what was going to make them mad or what was going to make them happy? With executive coaching based on the Sinha Intensives-Expansives Framework you can do that. We'll help you find just a little bit more of that predictability by understanding what your people want, what your people need, and what makes them feel good. You can better anticipate their responses and meet them where they really are, negotiate better, serve them better, and grow your business better. For more information, book a call at intensivesinstitute.com.

artifice

Leela Sinha — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 02:00:00 -0800

"I've been experimenting with the possibility that makeup does not have to be an artifice. That it can be a bold-faced statement. In the same way a shirt is. Nobody believes that the shirt is your skin."

politics: intensives & expansives

Leela Sinha — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:00:00 -0800

I'm going to go a place that I've been avoiding: I'm going to talk SIEF and intensives and expansives and elections and politics.

Mentioned in this episode:

Ignorance Was Bliss

Check out the Ignorance Was Bliss podcast: http://iwbpodcast.com

sell ourselves not our souls

Leela Sinha — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 06:30:00 -0800

Marketing authentically and speaking to the importance of personal well-being in our businesses.

feed yourself beauty

Leela Sinha — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 02:00:00 -0800

When we pour a little bit of ourselves into the world, and then we pump, we get water. But a dry pump yields nothing.

Mike Sowden's "Everything is Beautiful" Substack can be found here:

https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/

kind leadership, good results

Leela Sinha — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 02:00:00 -0800

What if everybody had "I will not take it out on others" on their top priority list?

fixing quiet quitting

Leela Sinha — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 02:00:00 -0800

Quiet Quitting isn't really quitting at all. And if employers treated employees with dignity, we wouldn't be talking about it.

An article from In These Times on the Fed, interest rates, and how the Fed's response to inflation is "highly likely to involve some pain."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/federal-reserve-workers-pay-biden-inflation-corporations-profits-wages

one-legged table

Leela Sinha — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 02:00:00 -0800

We are made to be interconnected. We are made to rely on each other, which means we need other people around us. We fall down when we become too reliant on our individualism because being an individual is like being a table with only one leg.

finishing things

Leela Sinha — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 02:00:00 -0800

Get to the finish line and find that dopamine! Intensives, the 80% Problem, and deliberately finding things that we can do well and to completion in order to build trust in our own abilities to change the world.

classified decisions

Leela Sinha — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 02:00:00 -0800

Classified documents in Mar-a-Lago and the way that individual decisions about self-preservation can do large harm; and a path towards decision making that makes space for the humanity of those who will be affected by our choices.

Links:

An NPR story regarding the photography of classified documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago.

Wikipedia article about Tank Man and CNN footage of most, but not all, of the encounter (this video was chosen because of the available options it contains the original ambient audio, even though it does not show the end of the encounter when the man was rushed out of the road by other people.) Content Warning for threats of violence and gunshot sounds in the background.

Wikipedia article about Arthur Miller's play The Crucible

liminality and pictures

Leela Sinha — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0800

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daydream a little

Leela Sinha — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0800

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nice things

Leela Sinha — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0800

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hopes up (what else could be)

Leela Sinha — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0800

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a pile of sorries

Leela Sinha — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0800

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showing up

Leela Sinha — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0800

These things that I know I need are also things that I am noticing other people need. And when we provide those things for people like us what happens? We become better.

https://www.graceedison.com/ https://www.lacma.org/patternproject https://www.lacma.org/sites/default/files/module-uploads/M.2007.211.797_LACMA_pattern_proj.pdf

hurting like a cat

Leela Sinha — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0800

We are trained to isolate like cats when we're hurting. We are trained to go off by ourselves and pretend that nothing's wrong until we can emerge whole and beautiful and sparkly-- and you know what? That is bullshit. That whole system is bullshit it's not working and we gotta stop.

innovation is the way

Leela Sinha — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0800

In moments like this it is absolutely critical that we not shut down dreaming, that we not down shut possibilities of things that we had heretofore believed impossible. Founders, intensives-- we tend to be very, very good at finding loopholes and looking for things that nobody else has thought of yet. We know we're good at crisis. We know we're good at creative. Let's go do it.

Love on Expansives: SIEF series vol. 1

Leela Sinha — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 02:00:00 -0800

A brief introduction to the SIEF framework, and why we should show the expansives in our lives a lot of love.

undisposable

Leela Sinha — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:00:00 -0800

People are not disposable. And yet many of our institutions and systems treat them as if they are. And you would think this would be obvious, but people are not commodities. So how do we reshape our businesses and institutions so that people are not seen as a resource to be used up and spit out, but as an integral part of everything we do, and one which needs to be nourished and kept healthy?

Check out Yes Jams: https://yesworld.org/

Interview: Holly Hagerman, founder at AmptUp.com

Leela Sinha — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 02:00:00 -0800

Join Leela for a conversation with Holly Hagerman, founder at AmptUp.com, an online marketplace to connect venues and musicians through a lens of equity, fair pay and contract usage. Holly shares stories about the founding of the company and talks about AmptUp's mission-based objectives of making it easier for music and venues to make a living; increasing equity, both in pay and representation, for people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ commuities; and making any city a Music City. All while using booking fees to create a steady stream of grants.

Links!

AmtUp website: https://www.amptup.com/

Find AmptUp on Instagram and Facebook.

Find NIVA (the National Independent Venue Association): https://www.nivassoc.org/

and information about the Save Our Stages Act: https://www.saveourstages.com/

making time

Leela Sinha — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 02:00:00 -0800

This is the one about making time. This is the one about making space and making time and making the room in our hearts to do the things we know we should do.

off ramp, not cliff

Leela Sinha — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 02:00:00 -0800

The ethical responsibility we have to provide to our customers what we told them we would provide. And if we have to stop providing a service, we must provide customers with an off-ramp, so that they can ease out of our service and into something else, rather than a cliff which leave them scrambling, or falling.

Don't Choose: We Grow Together

Leela Sinha — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 02:00:00 -0800

Generosity. Kindness. Fierceness. Justice. Pleasure.

Yes, we can have them all, if we understand the ways that they and we are interconnected, the ways that justice and pleasure and generosity and kindness and fierceness all rely on each other. They become more when they are together, not less. They become more, we become more; there is no priority of one over the others.

Roe v. Wade: What Can Business Owners Do

Leela Sinha — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 17:00:00 -0800

In light of this morning's (June 24, 2022) Supreme Court decision and how it affects Roe v. Wade and safe access to reproductive care, what can we, as business owners, do to affect useful change- for the world, for our employees? How do we create the leadership that we need. How do we make sure that the things we make will not be used for evil?

come to Jesus, five a.m.

Leela Sinha — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:30:00 -0800

The shouting is the first step. But it is only the first step. Shouting is a way of knowing there is a problem. The shouting is a way of finding the problem. My body has to know simultaneously that my heart is breaking and that I am doing everything that I can to save us.

Ani DiFranco, "Coming Up:" https://youtu.be/OaSE7F6dgG4

Mina Raver: https://www.instagram.com/mina.raver/

and https://www.forgingfortune.com/

Vanessa Burnett: https://counterfear.com/about/founder-bio/

we are not alone

Leela Sinha — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:30:00 -0800

I have said since the beginning, that poetry is my first language. We are not alone. And your story is as important as mine. Each story is as important as each other story. And when we bring our stories together and we tell them and we share our narratives and we share ourselves, we... exist.

Ari Felix at Saltwater Stars: https://www.saltwaterstars.com/

Bonus Episode: Intensives and Hiring

Leela Sinha — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:30:00 -0800

Leela Sinha on wholistic SIEF-Smart hiring practices for intensive business leaders.

Watch this episode as a video:

https://youtu.be/DjYBFKwVf3Y

Links!

www.intensivesinstitute.com

SIEF assessment: https://intensivesinstitute.com/assessment/

Five-Session SIEF-Smart Hiring Package (includes getting to know your company, job description writing, interviewing, onboarding, and post-onboarding review):

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/catalog.php?owner=11389649&action=addCart&clear=1&id=1303349

why poems/where the change begins

Leela Sinha — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 17:30:00 -0800

Why we’re doing poetry right now, and not prose....

You Gotta Order

Leela Sinha — Fri, 27 May 2022 17:30:00 -0800

Starbucks, Redwoods, love, work, community, and everything: the key to being served well is to being known. And rather than take our strengths for granted, we need to we need to play to our strengths and then allow ourselves to be in community, in collaboration, with other people where we need help, where we need support, where we're not as strong.

Find Monica Scantlebury here: https://www.monicamonfre.com/

More or Less?

Leela Sinha — Fri, 20 May 2022 17:30:00 -0800

Recorded on May 18, 2022. Leela responds to the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and elsewhere.

Institutional Kindness

Leela Sinha — Fri, 13 May 2022 17:30:00 -0800

I am a prison abolitionist, I do not think prison should exist. I think that we need to come up with other options for our culture. However, I am aware that most people are not there, that most people are not able or willing to consider prison abolition. And I swear this is connected to business, you've got to stick with me for the whole thing, though.

We need to move our entire society toward a new expectation of institutional kindness, from all of our institutions, and create alternatives to shitty working conditions. And when we create alternatives then we give people choices, and when we give people choices, they realize that more is possible. They become less constricted, they become more creative, they become more interested in what else could happen. Something different could happen. And when they realize that something different and more and better is possible, you know what happens next? They change. They become more generous, they become more community oriented, they become more interconnected. They recognize that it feels different to be treated well because they're having this experience of being treated well. We can make the world different by how we do things in our own organizations. One of the things that we can do is be really radically inclusive of everybody. And when you start to think like that, then your kindness just levels up massively, you're enacted kindness.

CB Beal and Preemptive Radical Inclusion: https://justiceandpeaceconsulting.com/preemptive-radical-inclusion/

Not Everything All at Once

Leela Sinha — Fri, 06 May 2022 17:30:00 -0800

It's important to have a small space, and a place where time stops for a moment. Whether that's a Sabbath or whether that's a room where you close the door and there are no clocks.

In "The Sabbath World," Judith Shulevitz talks about the way that time became standardized over time; it didn't become standardized right away, it became standardized in chunks and bits, until finally, we had a global sense of time. And with that global sense of time came a global sense of immediacy, a global sense of something happening everywhere all the time at once. And with that sense of everything happening everywhere all at once comes this sense of overwhelm. How much time can you let go of, to find the rhythm, to find the space where you can just be yourself?

The Instagram reel I mention is here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CczR7bljUNQ/

Judith Shulevitz's book "The Sabbath World" may be found at this link.

Don't Flip

Leela Sinha — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:30:00 -0800

…Okay, everyone, I'm probably going to piss someone off with this. This is your heads up. Ethics are a long game and flipping houses is not it. Pick a business that doesn't make people homeless.

The Stories We Tell: Propaganda and the Power of a Public Voice

Leela Sinha — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:30:00 -0800

In Russia and Ukraine right now, this incredibly powerful thing, which is storytelling, which goes back to the beginning of the beginning of humanity, has captured people because somebody has bent this thing to the will of an evil force. Where the storytelling of Russian propaganda is so powerful that parents do not believe their own children when the children say they have been bombed by the Russian military.

Which, of course, brings us back to ethics and power and the stories we tell. How do we make sure that when we tell a story, we're using storytelling well?

And if you have a dominant voice where you're accustomed to being the most powerful entity in the space, what happens when the story you tell, even if it's technically true, is undergirded by a lie? Who do you harm? And by contrast, what if you tell the truth? What if you tell not just the factual truth, which is important, but also the emotional truth? What if you carry that emotional truth out into the world? What if you shout it from the rooftops?

Continuous Rest at Work

Leela Sinha — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 17:30:00 -0800

As owners of businesses, as people in charge of departments, as people in management roles, we need to be proactively meeting the needs of our people. And that includes the need for continuous rest at work, for space and time for us to have more original thoughts, to have deeper thoughts, to have more complex thoughts.

Judith Shulevitz's book "The Sabbath World" may be found at this link.

Learning for Good

Leela Sinha — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:30:00 -0800

We, as business owners, have a lot of control over people's experience of their lives. And it is our job to make sure that we know as much as possible to understand and move through and interpret those experiences. We have more power. It is on us to do more work.

The @JRC_theslp TikTok video that discusses African American English and the trial of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin can be found here.

A Spacious Life

Leela Sinha — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 17:30:00 -0800

How do we create space in our lives, our businesses, our workplaces, for nourishing rest, so that everybody, every single person, gets to feel fully human?

Vow of Prosperity

Leela Sinha — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:00:00 -0800

How shall we be in integrity while holding power? And what does that mean? That's the question.

It Matters to That One

Leela Sinha — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 20:00:00 -0800

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The Thing You Know to Do

Leela Sinha — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 08:15:00 -0800

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But is it justice?

Leela Sinha — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 17:47:00 -0800

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Karen Hawkwood (KJ Sassypants): disorientation, magic, and delight

Leela Sinha — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 03:29:43 -0800

following intuition into the wild and dark places

Thank you for joining us for this epoisode of PowerPivot! Thanks to Kip for transcript edits, and to @demilife for the music. KJ (Karen Hawkwood) can be found at karenhawkwood.com, or on Facebook as KJ Sassypants.

We mentioned: Dr. Martin Shaw Heather Corinna Yarn with steel in it, by Habu Textiles: https://www.habutextiles.com/search?q=steel

and here are some quotes:

"Part of western culture is causality" "the process of us knowing who we are" "We've spent a couple thousand years being conditioned to be in a less-than position. And that doesn't go well." "Your right community will always welcome your complexity."

Kathleen McCullough: honor, fear, integrity

Leela Sinha — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:40:11 -0800

power is not pie

Hello, and thank you for joining us for this episode of PowerPivot, with guest Kathleen McCullough. Our music is by Demilife. You can find Kathleen on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katmccullough/.

Want to continue the conversation? It's now happening in a Facebook group. Request access here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PowerPivot4Good/ support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/LeelaS

We mentioned:

TED talk: why are there so many incompetent leaders (probably this one: https://ideas.ted.com/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men-become-leaders-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/)

IRS article about audits: https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-easier-and-cheaper-to-audit-the-poor

one study about politics and financial security https://www.people-press.org/2015/01/08/the-politics-of-financial-insecurity-a-democratic-tilt-undercut-by-low-participation/

the study we mentioned about conservatives, liberals, and how people switch: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/11/22/at-yale-we-conducted-an-experiment-to-turn-conservatives-into-liberals-the-results-say-a-lot-about-our-political-divisions/ NB: I was mistaken, it was physical safety, not scarcity that changed people into liberals

Book: It Takes A Nation (about Hurricane Katrina)

some quotes from the show (so MANY good ones!)

Kathleen: "there is a gentleness to power"

"to me, power is not pie."

" the things that we elevate in this culture are the least powerful things of all."

"narcissism is not powerful! It is just boisterous."

"Power is within any person, it just may look different."

"Some of the people who have pissed me off the most are some of the most critical team members I've worked with, because they enabled me to stop from my own drunkenness from any power I may have, to ask me those tough questions, and to challenge me to say, 'Did I get it right?'

"In this culture we're not supposed to get it wrong, and if we get it wrong we're supposed to bravado our way through it."

"When you truly value your people…that treatment shows up in the bottom line. Full stop."

"The most difficult challenges I've had with any of my staff is managed simply by listening."

"Everybody wants to feel heard. And if you feel heard, that sometimes can be enough."

"the first thing that shows up when an organization is full of fear is lying"

"there is a sacrifice of our intellect when our most basic needs are not met." "we don't have very many people stepping out in walks of faith and getting cared for."

"I'm contributing by not taking an active stance" "every messaging says that the other people walking the same life we are are not to be trusted." Leela: "the stories we tell about ourselves are the stories about who we're becoming."

Lindley Ashline: Body Liberation Photos

Leela Sinha — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:46:36 -0800

existing, taking up space, being beautiful

Thank you for joining us for this episode of PowerPivot, with guest Lindley Ashline. Our music is by @demilife. Lindley can be found online at https://www.facebook.com/bodyliberationphotos/ and https://www.bodyliberationphotos.com/

note that her website setup changed after our interview, these links are current

We mentioned: Corissa Enneking https://fatgirlflow.com/about/

BodyPosiPanda http://www.bodyposipanda.com/

Health At Every Size

unsplash and pexels as places that have free photos, but they don't pay their photographers.

Kali Williams: Badass Breakthrough

Leela Sinha — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:32:45 -0800

flipping the script, women's empowerment through kink, and owning your desires

Thank you for listening to this episode of PowerPivot with guest Kali Williams of Badass Breakthrough.
Thanks to Andy Dolph for production assistance and thanks to @demilife for our music.
You can find Kali online at:

http://bitchstigma.com http://BadassBreakthrough.com http://CoachingByKali.com

her book, Ditch the Bitch Stigma, can be found on Amazon.

We mentioned: thread about fashion and immigrants: https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1225136868947152896?s=20

The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Ed note: it's not the closing scene.

source for the perception of conversational dominance by gender comment: https://gunpowder-tea.tumblr.com/post/74924297126/madmaudlingoes-bropakpro-touch-my-cuboner

and a few choice quotes: from Kali: "Choice is what makes something inherently feminist."

"anytime someone makes a choice based on their own desires, that is inherently powerful, regardless of what their desires are."

"internal power is more about how you feel about your choices than about how other people are going to receive your power."

"I feel powerful knowing that I am living by my values."

"Privilege must speak to privilege."

"Use your power appropriate ways in your life and then start to use your power to lift others up as well."

"Our confidence should fit us, rather than us fitting our idea of confidence."

and one from Leela: "Your privilege doesn't make you horrible, it makes you powerful. Let's talk about how claiming your privilege and understanding your privilege puts you in a position to change the world."

Briana Cavenaugh: Bliss Your Money

Leela Sinha — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 04:25:09 -0800

money, power, sex, funding!

Thank you for listening to today's PowerPivot episode with guest Briana Cavenaugh! Thanks to @demilife for the music, and @larissafae and @melindaloquita for the transcript edits. You can find Briana online in a number of places:

http://blissyourmoney.com for the work around money

podcast: Fat Girl Finds Love (sex, relationships, power, racism, healing)

Fat Girl Finds Love on Facebook (http://Facebook.com/fatgirlfindslove)

Bliss Your Money on Facebook (http://Facebook.com/financialbliss)

Instagram: @lovedosed

We mentioned:

George Lakoff, who wrote Don't Think of an Elephant and Moral Politics

HAI: The Human Awareness Institute at http://hai.org

quotes: "that's what brains do. They judge you. Too late. Move on." --Briana

"money is stored power" -- Briana Cavanaugh

Kate Sloan of girlyjuice.net: writer, podcaster, storyteller

Leela Sinha — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 19:01:54 -0800

submission, kink, sex, and power...and how an imaginary assistant improved her bottom line

Thank you for listening to today's episode of PowerPivot. Thanks to @demilife for our music and @larissafae for the transcript cleanup. Our guest was Kate Sloan of http://girlyjuice.net and http://katewritesaboutsex.com. You can also find her on Twitter and Instagram at @girly_juice, and on her own podcasts: The Dildorks, and Question Box.

We mentioned: Emily Nagoski: author, Come as You Are

Vice articles https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nnkv3d/disabled-bdsm-experiences https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5y77y/chronic-pain-and-sex

Sinclair Sexsmith: the palette of permission, blogging at sugarbutch.net and also has a patreon https://www.patreon.com/mrsexsmith

Alexandra Franzen: "sometimes you have to endure temporary discomfort to achieve something truly amazing"

and some of our better quotes: "I have to balance my own body's needs with what the world needs from me." -Kate "Even if you're structurally and systematically disempowered in the world it can be really calming and empowering in its own way to give up power to someone else…" - Kate "Kink has helped me release a lot of shame about needing or wanting other people's help and support." -Kate

"What if you use kink as a space to practice having power that you don't have in the world?" "When you become somebody else's employee, that's a consensual power exchange relationship." --Leela

"People will do almost anything to avoid talking to their partner about a thing that they want if they have shame about it…" -Kate

Kimberly Shepherd: Teen Whisperer

Leela Sinha — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 20:45:15 -0800

Power, privilege, and institutional leadership in education

Thank you for listening to today's episode of PowerPivot. Our guest was Kimberly Shepherd. You can reach her at KSAeducationalconsulting.com and her new project's working title is Another Road. many thanks to @demilifemusic (Twitter) for the music and @LarissaFae (also Twitter) for the transcript cleanup.

We mentioned Herb Kohl: I Won't Learn From You

a couple of quotes: "the only way to show them that you have the support is to provide it. Ongoing." "the bulk of the people I want to serve are going to be the least convenient people"

Note from Leela: Our transcript support and cleanup person messaged me with a concern about my statement about not "deserving" love. To clarify: I'm not talking about "you are [xyz characteristic] so you don't deserve love." I'm talking about love is too big to be deserved, it's a grace and a gift. You can't be good enough to deserve it or bad enough to not deserve it, nothing you do makes you more or less deserving of love. It's too vast for human behavior to create or destroy the space for it. If you are offered love, you can be glad to have it, or not. That's it.

Laura Jackson: steadiness whisperer

Leela Sinha — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 02:33:55 -0800

"Am I wielding privilege when I think I'm wielding the truth?" -- Laura

Thank you for listening today! You can find Laura Jackson online on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/laura.jackson.9235199 or through her tinyletter. https://tinyletter.com/ResilientSeedCompany

We mentioned OutYouth in Austin

We also had some good quotes: "I had to use my intelligence to overcome all of the other deficits about myself" - Leela "Am I wielding privilege when I think I'm wielding the truth?" -- Laura "The space of engagement is where the unpredictable thing happens, and that's where the interesting stuff is." --Laura "You have power you're not using and you might want to look into what's stopping you." --Laura "The power that's interesting is the capacity to act, and you can have that at any scale."--Laura

Brigette Iarrusso: Embrace Change

Leela Sinha — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 05:40:04 -0800

What could we change if we changed who holds the purse strings?

Thank you for listening to this week's episode, with Brigette Iarrusso of Embrace Change! We'd like to apologize for the mic problems on my end, we cleaned it up as much as possible and are working to get the mic problems resolved for future episodes. Brigette mentioned three diversity and justice educators: Trudi Lebron Louisa Duran Diane Johnston she also mentioned an organization she's part of, Conscious Capitalism, which is an organization formed to promote responsible functioning inside a capitalism framework.

Leela mentioned Desiree Lynn Adaway of The Adaway Group, who also does diversity and justice education.

You can find Brigette all over the internet: On LinkedIn as Brigette Iarrusso On Facebook: Brigette Iarrusso-Soto and at her website, http://embracechange.us

Nobilis Reed, erotica author

Leela Sinha — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 21:16:49 -0800

power, community, responsibility, and...erotica with tentacles?

Thanks for listening!

Many thanks to our guest Nobilis Reed; his podcast is called Nobilis Erotica and is found at nobilis.libsyn.com.

Leela Sinha is head of The Intensives Institute and can be reached at intensivesinstitute.com

We mentioned:

Maslow's Hierarchy
Henry Nelson Weiman's book, The Source of Human Good
A story by erotica author A. H. Lee
the concept of compersion

Tiana Dodson: Fat Body Liberation Coach

Leela Sinha — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 05:13:31 -0800

attractiveness, fatness, power, and reclamation

Thank you for listening to this podcast, with guest Tiana Dodson, fat body liberation coach. You can find her podcast, The One Beautiful Yes at her website tianadodson.com/podcast/2 or through all major podcast services.

You can find Tiana at @TianaDodson on Instagram and TianaTheCoach on FB tianadodson.com

We also mentioned Leela's video series, which can be found on her professional Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/intensivesinstitute/

Rebecka Eggers: The Passion Path

Leela Sinha — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 06:17:44 -0800

law, living in Mexico, trauma, power, and politics

Many thanks to our guest today, Rebecka Eggers. You can find her online at http://thepassionpath.vision

Her book is here: https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Alive-Spirituality-Passionately-Domination-ebook/dp/B00FFI2BTA/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1577751488&sr=8-2&fbclid=IwAR2iH7arOUPQWWCrZ0Qc1LtfIA_Y1HiuZqGwJp1tdjrpMPp-SjBxzg7ivSE from Amazon.

CN for this episode: mention of sexual assault and murder and trauma and slavery. Please take care of yourself. We apologize for some mic problems at both ends. We've done our best in post-production. Rebecka mentions The Center Can't Hold Walter Winke, and the concept of The Powers, and a book: The End of Power By Moises Naim

Welcome to Power Pivot!

Leela Sinha — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:55:00 -0800

an introduction (and a story)

Thanks for being here! I hope you enjoy knowing why I'm doing this, and I hope you connect with someone because of this podcast so you can dig in together.