I have been looking forward to speaking with Dr. Joy Arlene Renee Cox for months now. She is such a beautiful soul and I'm so grateful to her for all the work she's doing in the world. In today's conversation we talk about trusting our intuition, the lived experience of individuals with larger bodies, being brave in the healthcare industry, cultural biases, and discrimination against people with different bodies. In light of the current season of anti-racism, she also answers the question of "How can we use our intuition to be better allies and advocates?" Political action as a tool for liberation, especially for people with multiple identities is having an exciting moment in our history. Dr. Joy Cox sees a lot of that happening in the communities. She said in this episode "Liberation is built on the structure of bravery. If we look back generations, we'll see that our parents and our parents' parents' parents' had something to fight for... When you look at activists now, the shoulders they stand on belong to people who were conditioned in bravery, so to speak, they were able to stand up to the things that were impeding against them and say 'we're gonna do this.'" This conversation with Dr. Joy Cox challenged me and inspired me in such good ways and I hope it will do the same for you too! Especially as we dive into a new season of personal and societal bravery for the rest of this year, we need as much of this kind of bravery as we can get! Her book "Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own" releases September 29th of this year and The School of Bravery cannot wait! Support local bookstores by pre-ordering it here: https://bookshop.org/books/fat-girls-in-black-bodies-creating-communities-of-our-own/9781623174996 More links below! About The School of Bravery The School of Bravery is a learning lab for life, career, and creativity. Through monthly masterclasses, guest experts, weekly office hours and so much more, you'll explore what it really means to "put yourself out there" and how bravery does not have to feel like a panic attack. It can feel easier! Visit http://schoolofbravery.com to learn more and join us today! More About Dr. Joy Cox Joy Arlene Renee Cox is an ordinary person who has been given an ordinary opportunity to share stories about people much more fabulous than herself. She is a Philadelphia native, born on the blessed thirty-first day of December. Joy is a claircognizant Capricorn that thrives through connection and love, rooting for the underdogs in life to take their rightful place as overcomers. She is also a doctor, receiving her PhD from Rutgers University–New Brunswick in 2018. Her field of work is centered on fatness, identity, and social change. Reflective of the name she bears, Joy has the cheeks to out smile her detractors. Reflective of her work in print, she has the research to back up her claims. While the spotlight has never been a position she’d prefer to stand in, Joy does believe in speaking up and advocating for what’s right. She is the author of Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own, published through North Atlantic Books, and the host of the pro-fat, pro-Black podcast Fresh Out the Cocoon. Joy has been featured in articles by the Huffington Post and SELF magazine. Joy has also been on several podcasts, such as Positive Nutrition with Paige Smathers and Food Psych with Christy Harrison. Dr. Cox is simply a conduit through which love, wisdom, and justice flow. Her pride is in her people and her values. Her strength is in her disposition and her intuition. Website & Podcast: https://freshoutthecocoon.com/ Instagram: 

Today we get to meet one of our students! Hanakyle Moranz is the founder of The Body Hotline, a New Yorker, a body movement maven, and social justice warrior. She joins us to discuss all of that AND how she's feeling about launching a brand new product in the middle of a pandemic. I think you'll appreciate her approach to compassionate entrepreneurship and her new 5 Minute Movement offering. For listeners and students of The School of Bravery, $10 off the monthly subscription (usually $30) use code BRAVE at checkout!   Links Mentioned in This Episode https://www.jfrej.org/campaigns/let-my-people-go https://www.covidbailout.org/ https://nyimmigrantfreedom.org/let-my-people-go/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/over-70-of-tested-inmates-in-federal-prisons-have-covid-19   About The School of Bravery The School of Bravery is a learning lab for life, career, and creativity. Through monthly masterclasses, guest experts, weekly office hours and so much more, you'll explore what it really means to "put yourself out there" and how bravery does not have to feel like a panic attack. It can feel easier! Visit http://schoolofbravery.com to learn more and join us today!   More About HanaKyle Moranz HanaKyle Moranz is the founder of The Body Hotline, a multidisciplinary bodyworker, and coach. She is a massage therapist, personal trainer, and yoga therapist since 2006, and shares inclusive tools for managing pain, increasing body awareness and maintaining an overall sense of health and wellbeing through mindfulness. She specializes in neurological conditions and knee injury rehabilitation. Recently, she’s become passionate about the value of breathing through the nose and the many uses for a tennis ball in this time when massage therapy is not an option for many. http://thebodyhotline.com/ https://www.hanakyle.com/all/5-minute-movement   Keep in Touch with Emily Ann Peterson Singer-songwriter, teaching artist, and #1 bestselling author of the book "Bare Naked Bravery: How to Be Creatively Courageous," Emily Ann Peterson is best known by her fans, clients, and students for her uncanny ability to melt down difficult, throat-clenching stories and challenges into easy, step-by-step breaths of fresh air. Her clients and students will tell you she’s the best thing that’s ever happened to their life, career, and creativity. http://emilyannpeterson.com http://instagram.com/emilyannpete http://facebook.com/emilyannpeterson http://twitter.com/emilyapeterson

The most underrated and overused word last month was "unprecedented." This month in The School of Bravery we're focusing on the bravery ingredient of DEFIANT EXPECTATION. Take a listen to Emily Ann Peterson share some updates on the latest news and announcements from our community and give you some insights, new perspectives, and resources for finding your defiant expectation during quarantine and this season of bravery that is COVID-19. About The School of Bravery --- The School of Bravery is a learning lab for life, career, and creativity. Through monthly masterclasses, guest experts, weekly office hours and so much more, you'll explore what it really means to "put yourself out there" and how bravery does not have to feel like a panic attack. It can feel easier! Visit http://schoolofbravery.com to learn more and join us today! Take a Class with Emily Ann Peterson --- http://www.schoolofbravery.com/emilyann

Today we get to discuss something we haven't really talked much about on this show! It's kind of shocking really when you think about it. But Leah Carey is the perfect guest to pop this bravery cherry of ours because she is a Sexual Communication Coach! In this episode, you'll hear Leah Carey and our founder, Emily Ann Peterson, discuss the importance of context to your sexual life, how Leah's context defined her brave sexual journey and blossoming, and other lovely tidbits that you will really appreciate. We have a feeling you'll be hearing more from Leah in the future! There's so much to learn from the bravery of intimacy! About Leah Carey Leah Carey is a Sex Educator and Sexual Communication Coach who helps people learn to communicate about sex so they can get what they really want in the bedroom - rather than just tolerating what they’re getting. She is the host of the podcast “Good Girls Talk About Sex.” Sexual freedom is a subject that is deeply personal to Leah because she spent most of her life being a VERY good girl. Most of the sex she had was either boring or painful, but she endured it because she didn’t know she was allowed to ask for anything different. Having taken her own journey to sexual freedom, she is now passionate about breaking the silence, fear, and shame around women’s sexuality and pleasure, and redefining what it means to be a “good girl.” www.leahcarey.com www.instagram.com/goodgirlstalk www.facebook.com/goodgirlstalk About The School of Bravery The School of Bravery is a learning lab for life, career, and creativity. Through monthly masterclasses, group coaching, guest faculty, weekly office hours and so much more, you'll explore what it really means to "put yourself out there" and how bravery does not have to feel like a panic attack. It can feel easier! Visit http://schoolofbravery.com to learn more and join us today! Take a Class with Emily Ann Peterson http://www.schoolofbravery.com/emilyann

We have such an exciting episode for you today! To coincide with last month's bravery ingredient of Vision of Possibility, I wanted to introduce you to someone very special: Danielle Hope Diamond Danielle reached out to me to potentially become a guest expert of The School of Bravery and get interviewed on the podcast. However, after getting to know her very briefly, it became clear that she should be much more than just a one-time guest on our little podcast. Danielle is our new podcast co-host for The School of Bravery! Hooray! At the moment, she and I are hoping to release one joint episode like this one each month and one solo episode each. When we have appropriate guests to interview, we'll also release those as they arise too. I'm so excited for you to get to know Danielle more as the year unfolds for us! I think you'll catch her unique Vision of Possibility like I have over the last month that she and I have worked together on all this for you! Enjoy! About The School of Bravery The School of Bravery is a learning lab for life, career, and creativity. Through monthly masterclasses, guest experts, weekly office hours and so much more, you'll explore what it really means to "put yourself out there" and how bravery does not have to feel like a panic attack. It can feel easier! Visit http://schoolofbravery.com to learn more and join us today! Take a Class with Emily Ann Peterson http://www.schoolofbravery.com/emilyann Take a Class with Danielle Hope Diamond http://www.schoolofbravery.com/danielle

This month in The School of Bravery we've been focusing on the bravery ingredient of FRICTION. It's been a really good month. We've highlighted the things that keep us from making the steady progress we're hoping and aiming for.  When today's guest experts reached out to me I knew it was a match made in heaven for this month in particular! CrisMarie Campbell & Susan Clarke are the authors of a new book titled, The Beauty of Conflict for Couples and today's episode is chock-full of excellent advice for ALL of us who do life with other people -- that's everyone, by the way. It doesn't matter what your home, work, or creative life looks like, this episode will have some excellent pieces for you to digest and apply immediately to your life. I'm really excited to introduce these two to you! PS - CrisMarie and Susan also joined me for an exclusive bonus interview to discuss how these concepts apply to politics, advocacy work, and social justice.  As always, students can access our exclusive bonus interview and the rest of our guest expert trainings in the library at http://schoolofbravery.com   About The School of Bravery The School of Bravery is a learning lab for life, career, and creativity. Through monthly masterclasses, guest experts, weekly office hours and so much more, you'll explore what it really means to "put yourself out there" and how bravery does not have to feel like a panic attack. It can feel easier! Visit http://schoolofbravery.com for more info! More About CrisMarie Campbell & Susan Clarke CrisMarie Campbell, an Olympic rower, Boeing flight test engineer has her MBA, and Susan Clarke, a former marriage therapist and Equus coach, are the authors of The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team’s Competitive Advantage and their new book The Beauty of Conflict for Couples. They also have a podcast with the same name: The Beauty of Conflict for dealing with conflict at work and at home. As partners in work and life for over two decades, they’ve adapted their proven step-by-step process honed working with Fortune 100 Companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, AT&T and San Francisco Giants to help long-term couples use conflict as a catalyst to greater intimacy, passion, and fulfillment. http://www.thriveinc.com/ http://beautyofconflict.com https://www.instagram.com/thriveinc/ https://www.facebook.com/thriveincmt LinkedIn (CrisMarie Campbell) LinkedIn (Susan Clarke) Apple Podcasts Keep in Touch with Emily Ann Peterson http://emilyannpeterson.com http://instagram.com/emilyannpete https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyannpeterson/ http://facebook.com/emilyannpeterson http://twitter.com/emilyapeterson

This month we celebrated the beginning of our 2nd year! We're kicking things off with some brand new events on our monthly calendar, including a monthly WORK PARTY! Erin Mae Lewis has been a student of The School of Bravery for the last year and I'm so excited to have her join the faculty to help us host these awesome monthly events.  In today's episode, we talk all about why you need to get yourself to a Work Party, and STAT! I think you'll enjoy hearing from her what this last year has been like, how important accountability is, and how much fun these work parties can be! As always, you can access all of this and more by enrolling at http://schoolofbravery.com ______________ About The School of Bravery The School of Bravery is a learning lab for life, career, and creativity. Through monthly masterclasses, guest experts, weekly office hours and so much more, you'll explore what it really means to "put yourself out there" and how bravery does not have to feel like a panic attack. Visit http://schoolofbravery.com for more info! ______________ Keep in Touch with Erin Mae Lewis https://www.erinmaemusic.com/ https://www.facebook.com/erinmaemusic   ______________ Keep in Touch with Emily Ann Peterson http://emilyannpeterson.com http://instagram.com/emilyannpete http://facebook.com/emilyannpeterson http://twitter.com/emilyapeterson

Because this month we're focusing on the bravery ingredient of Risk, it's the perfect time to talk with my business colleague, Fabienne Raphaël! In today's episode, she and I discuss things like why risks are so important to feats of bravery, how your life can change for the better because of risks, and what it can look like to make risky decisions. As a guest expert, Fabienne Raphaël and I also spent some time with students of the School of Bravery in a students-only guest expert training. In that training, she dives a little deeper into risky decisions by outlining the very first thing she recommends doing before taking a big risk. I highly recommend listening to that. As always, students can access Fabienne's exclusive interview and the rest of our guest expert trainings in the library at http://schoolofbravery.com ______________ About The School of Bravery The School of Bravery is a learning lab for life, career, and creativity. Through monthly masterclasses, guest experts, weekly coaching office hours and so much more, you'll explore what it really means to "put yourself out there" and how bravery does not have to feel like a panic attack. Visit http://schoolofbravery.com for more info! ______________ Keep in Touch with Fabienne Raphaël http://www.fabienneraphael.com/ http://www.facebook.com/FabiennRaphael Fabienne Raphaël is a business building coach, speaker, and podcaster. She helps aspiring and underpaid coaches become highly paid experts by building their coaching business. Her background in radio and television hosting allows her to conduct unique interviews on her top-ranked Marketing to Crush your Competitors podcast, where she has broadcasted over 295 episodes. Through the course of her career, she has even hosted her own TV show. Fabienne has also shared the stage with John Lee Dumas, Chris Brogan and Sue Zimmerman, and spoke at the last New Media Europe conference in London. She has been featured in Forbes, Inc., ABC, NBC, Thrive Global and Huffington Post, just to name a few, and has appeared on over 25 podcasts, such as CopyChief Radio and Entrepreneur on Fire. Fabienne will be going to the next Pan-American Games in Lima as an athletes’ mentor with the Canadian delegation of 500 athletes. She will also be a judge at the next Changemakers Global Unite Awards in the category “Podcasters” in Sweden. As a former elite athlete and physical therapist, Fabienne brings a high level of energy, radiance, and authenticity to lead her clients to live their true purpose and get paid for it! ______________ Keep in Touch with Emily Ann Peterson http://emilyannpeterson.com http://instagram.com/emilyannpete http://facebook.com/emilyannpeterson http://twitter.com/emilyapeterson

Because this month we're focusing on the bravery ingredient of Vision of Possibility, I thought it'd be the perfect time to invite Dr. Michelle Mazur, author of the brand new book 3 Word Rebellion to be a School of Bravery guest expert! In today's episode, she and I discuss things like why you need a 3 Word Rebellion, how you know you need a 3 Word Rebellion, and what the heck a 3 Word Rebellion even is! It was such an honor to have her on the show and speak with us! As a guest expert, Michelle Mazur also generously spent some time with students of the School of Bravery in a students-only guest expert training. She dives a little deeper than the basics and walks us through exactly how you can find your own 3 Word Rebellion. So cool! As always, students can access Michelle's exclusive training and the rest of the guest expert trainings in the library at http://schoolofbravery.com About The School of Bravery The School of Bravery is a business learning lab for creative visionaries. Through monthly masterclasses, guest experts, weekly coaching office hours and so much more, you'll explore what it really means to "put yourself out there" and how bravery does not have to feel like a panic attack. Visit http://schoolofbravery.com for more info! (Also super huge shout outs to Monicka Clio Sakki for recommending Michelle to the show! If you have a guest expert suggestion, give us a shout!) Keep in Touch with Michelle Mazur Michelle Mazur, Ph.D. founded Communication Rebel® on the belief that communication changes the world, so that’s what she helps business owners and speakers do: rebel against the status quo to make a difference, one compelling message at a time. She is the author of 3 books including the newly released "3 Word Rebellion: Create a One-of-a-kind Message that Grows Your Business into a Movement" and the host of the Rebel Rising podcast. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her adoring husband, three obsessive felines, and a huge collection of Duran Duran memorabilia. http://www.drmichellemazur.com http://instagram.com/drmichellemazur http://www.faceboook.com/drmichellemazur http://www.twitter.com/drmichellemazur Keep in Touch with Emily Ann Peterson http://emilyannpeterson.com http://instagram.com/emilyannpete http://facebook.com/emilyannpeterson http://twitter.com/emilyapeterson

This month in The School of Bravery, we're focusing on the bravery ingredient of Honesty. Of course, my Australian friend, Amber Hawken, is the perfect fit for this month's guest expert. Bold, audacious, and vulnerably strong are my go-to words to describe her. She's the author of The Unf*ckwithable Life and founder of the Calm Mind Project. She fits right in as a creative visionary. I admire her so much and am so glad she's here today! In this podcast episode, Amber and I discuss, how we find our sense of honesty by removing all the filters we've acquired over the course of our life. We discuss the benefits of being angry and how we can use the friction we experience. If you're someone who's asked "Who am I without _____ in my life?" then this is the podcast episode for you. In Amber's guest expert training, available to ALL students of The School of Bravery, she walks us through a super applicable method for deciphering between fear and intuition. If you're someone who's asked "Am I afraid of making this decision or is this my intuition telling me to make this decision?" then you'll want to check out that training with her. About The School of Bravery --- The School of Bravery is a business learning lab for creative visionaries. Through monthly masterclasses, guest experts, weekly coaching office hours and so much more, you'll explore what it *really* means to "put yourself out there" and how bravery does not have to feel like a panic attack. Visit http://schoolofbravery.com for more info! About Amber Hawken ---- Amber Hawken is the head of a small, multi-faceted Australian company serving multiple audiences within the business dynamic, as well as private and government institutions such as The Australian Defence Force and education systems within high schools and primary schools across Australia through Calm Mind Project. Calm Mind Project is an initiative based on building awareness, emotional resilience and empowerment within individuals through mindfulness and conscious purpose. The program focuses on building a deep sense of self-awareness and flow in their everyday life, teaching universal principles, practical cognitive behavior and emotional repatterning tools combined with spiritual philosophy through the attendance of retreats, online programs, her best-selling book The Unfu*kwithable Life and even one on one work with Amber herself. Amber is an Australian country gal with a big, bold and audacious heart. A Diploma of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a qualified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, and a Deep State Re-Patterning Therapist are some of the professional qualifications and tools that Amber brings to her work around emotional, mental, and spiritual self-mastery, and she is the author of The Unfuckwithable Life and the host of the Podcast and YouTube series, Just Be You. Keep in Touch with Amber Hawken ----- www.amberhawken.com www.instagram.com/amber_hawken www.facebook.com/hawkenamber Keep in Touch with Emily Ann Peterson ---- http://emilyannpeterson.com http://instagram.com/emilyannpete http://facebook.com/emilyannpeterson http://twitter.com/emilyapeterson