PowerPivot

In which we talk about the FABULOUS repairability-based business ‪@MrMixer316‬ has going, where he fixes KitchenAid mixers. We talk right to repair, loyalty, brand trust, and more. Mr. Mixer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@MrMixer316 Leela Sinha, aleixianoconsulting.com Lisa Robbin Young, lisarobbinyoung.com Leela's Patreon: patreon.com/LeelaS

On this first episode of season 3, Leela and Lisa chat about the great work Chef Mike and his brother Ahmad are doing with their sandwich truck/shop Detroit 75 Kitchen : taking good care of their people, growing their business, making strategic choices and more Learn more at: Detroit 75 Kitchen, Detroit75Kitchen.com Leela Sinha, aleixianoconsulting.com Lisa Robbin Young, lisarobbinyoung.com Leela'...

"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 entre...

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.

I'm ending the hiatus, but I'm coming back a little less polished. substack: http://leelasinha.substack.com

"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 hi...

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 f...

"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 ar...

"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 expl...

"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 expans...

"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...

"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 expansive...

"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...

"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 so...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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,...

"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 st...

"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 pressur...

"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:...

"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 f...

"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...

"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 productiv...

"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 whe...