100% Guilt-Free Self-Care

I am so excited to introduce you to Asha Dornfest – the creator of voteplus1! Asha is a writer and community organizer. She is the author of several books including one of my favorites: Minimalist Parenting), co-host of the Edit Your Life podcast, and co-founder of Democracy Club, a new model for everyday democratic participation that leads with friendship and trust. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.

This week's episode is all about community impact and how it's so much more than political. In Asha's words "community impact is a form of hopeful confidence in your own voice and your ability to make a difference."

We explored the idea of informed participation in democracy and I challenged her to speak on the concept of "not being political". I loved what she had to say about giving away your voice.

Paula is a podcast producer and consultant, project manager, and certified life coach. She holds a master's degree in Religion from Yale University, a BA in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara.

Paula's cornerstone quote: "Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." Henri Nouwen

This week's episode is all about finding Joy in the Messy Middle. Paula and I talked about finding the little joys in our lives. We talk about what small extravagences make a huge difference: spending time and effort to create a work space and zoom background that works, letting go of good enough and leaning into just-right-for-me and really leaning into the inner princess and the pea.

This week's episode is all about storytelling and using video to tell those stories effectively with Haley Everheart.

I interviewed Haley, a queer femme CEO, content creator, and creative strategist based in Oakland, California this summer. She has been using the internet and digital storytelling tools to build community and create social change for more than 15 years. Haley's company Everheart Creative helps small businesses and mission-driven progressive nonprofit organizations get their messages out into the world.

We talk about getting more comfortable on video, talking to the camera and sitting in the discomfort of being new at something. We talk about angles, lighting and wardrobe and how thankful we are that there are people who can help with all of it.

Show notes: http://tamihackbarth.com/episode68/

This week's episode is all about systems and organization. I interviewed Lisa Woodruff the creator of Organization 365 and the author of The Paper Solution.

Organization is a learnable skill. Lisa and I are both former teachers and we talk about teaching our kiddos how to take care of their spaces, stuff and how we can empower our families through imperfect action.

This is such good news because that means if we aren't yet organized we can learn it and if our kids aren't yet organized they can learn too!

Show notes: www.tamihackbarth.com/episode67

This week's episode is all a conversation with someone I met online and thought – how often can I repost her content before it gets weird?

Dr. Gina Senarighi, PhD CPC is a therapist, coach, host of the Swoon podcast and author of Love More, Fight Less: Communications Skills Every Couple Needs.

We talked about how she *STOP THE PRESSES* has MET and trained with BRENE BROWN. I KNOW.

Gina is a shame resilience advocate, tends her money the way she does her garden (daily) and sets clear email boundaries.

We talk about envisioning the future you want, experimenting with action plans versus thinking and how the relationship we have with ourselves is the foundation of every other relationship

This week's episode is all about soul care -- self-care that takes care of the deepest part of yourself. I was so happy to talk about soul care with Curvy Yoga certified, community yoga teacher, Kirsten Johnson.

We talked about how we take yoga off the mat and spend much more time these days practicing the other limbs of yoga. We talk about using yoga as a tool to help alleviate chronic pain in the body and how we both feel we are aging backwards.

We talk about self-care being integrated into our daily lives by building our life from the ground up including how we create the lives exactly as we want using daily ritual practices.

This week's episode is all about becoming a thought leader in your field with Silicon Valley's Gender Equity Specialist, Emily Morrow Howe aka Femily. In our talk Femily talks about how she helps womxn go from the "couch to 5k" in terms of being a thought leader and expert in their field.

Show notes: http://tamihackbarth.com/episode64/