Liberatory Strategy

Today’s episode is all about boundaries and the small shifts you can make to your perspective so that you can be true to yourself and your boundaries with ease. One of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to boundaries is that you create boundaries *for* other people, when in fact, boundaries are for you.  Boundaries are created for *you* to adhere to them, not for others to adhere to them.  Y...

Today we’re busting the myth that there’s value in the hustle and grind, and offering an alternative instead. I see you over there, placing your value on how hard you can hustle and do the grind.  And I also see that you’re incredibly exhausted.  So, tell me, how’s the hustle and grind serving you? Spoiler alert: It’s not. In today’s episode we’re talking about the fact that most of the time when...

Developing a relationship with a power greater than yourself is not optional, it's mandatory, if you are going to be a leader who can truly affect global change. The reason we see all of the different problems in our world today, is because we have forgotten our connection with a Divine Source of Power greater than ourselves. A Divine Power that guides us, fuels us, gives us the power that we have...

One of the age old questions is: how to balance your personal and professional lives? Work-life balance is the million dollar question. The reason the answer is ever elusive for so many people is because they’re buying into the myth that the personal and the professional are separate.  In today’s episode we’re talking about the fact that the personal and the professional aren’t separate, and debun...

Today we’re answering the question how do we shift from problems to solutions, and I’m sharing with you a powerful 3-part process to help you succeed.  When we have a hard time resolving problems, especially in a team or group setting, or when solutions don’t stick, there’s a couple major reasons for it: 1. We haven’t taken a thorough history of the problem. 2. We’re trying to problem solve from a...

Have you ever wondered the best way to set your day up for success? One of our community members asked me this question a couple of months ago, and in today’s episode, I’m sharing with you the exact steps I take to set my day up for success. Before we talk about my actual morning routine, however, we need to talk about how it's our spiritual connection to a Power Greater than ourselves that actual...

The "Model Minority Myth", a phrase I learned from Ijeoma Oluo, is a tool the supremacy uses to keep BIPOC folx hating on one another. Our achievements are weaponized against one another and this becomes yet another one of the burdens we carry. We must break free from this toxic pattern and break out of this myth. The reason I'm talking about this today is because as a leader, it's imperative for...

Today we're exploring how the bastardization of the feminine (check out previous episode, S2E5: The Fierce Feminine) lead to women being the ones carrying the heaviest burdens. The burdens us women carry are heavy and the burdens we carry are many. It's important to note that the burdens we carry aren't ours alone We carry the burdens and the pain of the men that we love, our children, our familie...

Technically, this is Part 3 of the You're Powerful AF mini-series, but she's so fierce she needed her own name! Do you ever have those days where you neglect and ignore your own needs, you don't follow your hunches, so you feel irritable and the whole day ends up being a hot mess? Yeah, I've had those days, too... And typically, they're the days that I haven't listened to the power and the wisdom...

In this episode we're continuing the conversation we started last week about the fact that you are powerful af. Tune in to learn how it is that we got it twisted and fell under the illusion that we are not powerful and how we can start to take our power back. Today's episode is sponsored by: The Sanctuary for BIPOC Women in Leadership If you're a BIPOC womxn in leadership, and you'd like to connec...

Did you know that you are powerful af? I mean, really, truly, you are powerful. So why is it that sometimes you don't feel that way? Why is it that imposter syndrome can creep up on you, planting seeds of doubt, leading you to question the choices you make and therefore how powerful you are?  Because,  living under the colonial, capitalist, white supremacist, contemptuous patriarchy, we're taught...

What if you knew that you didn't have to show up armored up and ready to defend yourself all the time? What if you understood that you can be strong and gentle at the same time? And what if it were possible for you to find fierceness in your gentleness? These are just some of the topics our first guest of Season 2, Krishna Avalon, and I dig into in this episode. We also talk about being a Brown gi...

We're back for a brand new season of the Fierce Authenticity Podcast! In this episode your hostess, Shirani M. Pathak, relationship therapist, author, speaker, coach, consultant, and transformational leader, re-introduces herself and what this podcast is about this season (with permission to be imperfect and change her mind). Over the break there's been some clarity coming through and the podcast...

Today is the last day of what seems like the longest year of our lives, 2020. And though when the clock turns midnight on Jan 1, 2021 isn't going to magically change everything that's wrong, we can still take time to digest the year we've had. 2020 got a bad rap, and yet when we take the time to reflect, we can see the many gifts this year brought us: -Illuminating outdated systems and structures...

Your love note this week is a short practice to walk you through beginning to dismantle systems of oppression within yourself.  Remember: Do not listen to this episode while driving or operating heavy machinery. Enjoy! Links: Join the private newsletter community to receive bonus episodes of the podcast, community only invitations for quarterly Coffee Dates, and offers on anything I create deliver...

You've heard me talk about systems of oppression over and over again on the podcast and you've also heard me talk about the importance of dismantling it from within. In today's episode we take a deeper dive into the why we must and how we can dismantle oppression from within ourselves in order to impact greater change in our world as a whole. Enjoy! Links: Join the private newsletter community to...

In today's guest interview, powerhouse Nisha Mody and I sit down as two South Asian American women with mics and visit so many healing places. Nisha and I talked about colorism. We talked about oppression. We talked about the caste system and how that and colorism go together. We talked about anti-blackness. We talked about the way the South Asian community has been brought into the anti-blackness...

This week's love note is a gentle practice to support you in forgiving yourself and others, for the ways exploitation has shown up in your relationships.  Remember, do not engage in this practice while driving or operating heavy machinery! Enjoy! Links: Join the private newsletter community to receive bonus episodes of the podcast, community only invitations for quarterly Coffee Dates, and offers...

Where's all my fellow control freaks, perfectionists, and people pleasers at?  In this week's episode we talk about how your desire to control exploits the very people that you love (or maybe even those that you don't), and how it is also exploitative to you. The toxic patriarchy has its roots in contempt and trying to control others (or ourselves) to try and get others to do what we want or be wh...

In this week's love note that partners with the weekly episode, I guide you through a practice to heal from the patterns of judgement that you've experienced. Be sure not to listen to this practice while driving or operating other heavy machinery! Links: Join the private newsletter community to receive bonus episodes of the podcast, community only invitations for quarterly Coffee Dates, and offers...

We're back with anew episode of the podcast and diving deep into the reasons around why we're terrified of judgment. In this episode I share some of the research around belonging, and talk about how judgement, belonging, and the oppression work hand in hand to keep you in the status quo. Enjoy!   Links: Join the private newsletter community to receive bonus episodes of the podcast, community only...

I'm excited to introduce to you today one of my mentors you've heard me speak so much about, Andréa Ranae Johnson! In this episode Andréa and I touch upon so many topics, and the one main theme comes down to taking personal responsibility for ourselves, our actions and our choices--and the freedom we feel when we take responsibility for what is ours. Listen in as Andréa and I speak about: -Liberat...

It's Election Week 2020 in the US and though I don't talk directly about the election results in this week's episode (because this episode was recorded about  5 days before election day), I do talk about how no matter what the results of the election are, we need to tap into the wisdom of the unseen, and how our work isn't done yet. Your love note this week is wrapped up into this episode and I'm...

With election day 2020 just around the corner, today's guest, family constellations practitioner, Liza Miron and I have a conversation about how to heal the polarity. Listen in as Liza and I speak about what family constellations is, how it applies to our world today, and how we can pull ourselves out of the divides that currently exist. To learn more about Liza and her work, visit www.coachingand...

Have you ever engaged in strategies to try and "win" another person over in your relationships at the expense of true intimacy? If so, you're engaging in what this episode's guest, James-Olivia Chu Hillman calls: Relational Fuckery. Listen in as James-Olivia and I speak about the ways we participate in losing strategies and relational fuckeries in our relationships with each other and ourselves. S...