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336. Bekah's Story: From Burnout to Radical Healing - Bekah Giacomantonio


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Meet Bekah. She’s a self-proclaimed nonprofit dropout and founder of the Interdependence Incubator, a community for white women who crave healing and a space to practice freedom. She’s made us a believer in the power of leaning into healing and making a collective change. She courageously shares her mental health journey in nonprofit and the change it awakened in personal, interpersonal and systemic levels. 

💡Learn

  • Bekah’s mental health journey story
  • Slowing down as self- & community-care
  • Advice for leaders looking to foster a culture of balance & well-being
  • Adopting a curiosity mindset to be “medicine in these fractured and fracturing times”

Today’s Guest
Bekah Giacomantonio, Liberatory Healing Doula & Facilitator

Episode Highlights

  • Bekah’s story and journey to where she is today (3:00)
  • Bekah’s personal mental health story and what she experienced in the nonprofit sector (10:20)
  • Signals of burnout Bekah experienced (18:00)
  • What Bekah learned in community in Guatemala (22:45)
  • What slowing down looks like (28:05)
  • Activation (34:45)
  • Fostering a culture of wellbeing (41:15)
  • A powerful moment of philanthropy in Bekah’s life (43:25)
  • Bekah’s One Good Thing: Go outside. (46:35)

For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/336

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