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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-an...

"'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

"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...

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 me...

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 refu...

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.

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 prac...

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...

"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...

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:...

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

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 sim...

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 ha...

"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/

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 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.

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...

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 an...

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 di...

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 b...

"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."

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

Marketing authentically and speaking to the importance of personal well-being in our businesses. More on The Lorax and the Once-ler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lorax

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/

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