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"When you know what you need, you can ask for it, or you can work toward it, or you can invite it...."

Well, that seems simple enough, right? But how do we actually know what it is that we need? Is it a flash of insight, an appetite, a color, a feeling? A collection of words? What is it that awakens you in yourself, and tells you what you need, or what you want, to continue to become... you?

Transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/know-what-you-want

Recorded 16 January 2023.

"It's about overestimating the need. And under estimating the capacity."

Knowing our capacity, making realistic guesses about how hard things are going to be- even the things that "shouldn't" be hard- it's the work of a lifetime. But we can have exacting standards for ourselves and still learn to leave space and grace for our own frailties and failures.

Transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/underestimating-your-enemies

Recorded 16 January, 2023

Join Leela Sinha for a walk through the woods and a meditation on knowing, and hurting, and scrubbing away the aches and scars that live inside us.

Full transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/heres-what-i-know

recorded 11 October 2022

On rediscovering, and creating, active communities: places that people miss.

transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/a-place-that-people-miss

The exact right pen. The exact right paper. The exact right app. The exact right tools for the job. Are they a necessity? Not always. Can we get the job done with a scratchy pencil and a cheap napkin? If we need to. But does it nourish us to have to have the tools the we visualize when we are imagining how to accomplish our goals? Absolutely.

Notes and full transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/planners-and-nourishment

It's 2023 and... we're not making resolutions. We are making connections: with our breath, with the sky, with each other, with the earth. And we are seeing that this time may be the time when our perceptions are sharpest, and when our patience is thinnest for things that we shouldn't have been patient with in the first place.

Links:

Marilyn Allysum, founder and Director of Tilopa Tai Chi Qigong Centers:

https://www.itaichi.net/, https://www.marilynallysum.com/

Chris Zydel: "Anything that is even vaguely related to things like planning, productivity or efficiency is making me want to take a nap." https://creativejuicesarts.com/

Full transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/seeping-in

Stubbornness is a gift and a survival tool. But there are other ways to be smart and good in the world. And one of our gifts as intensives is knowing or intuiting how to respond to what is happening in the world right now: So how do we let go of stubbornness when the stubbornness is for its own sake?

Notes and transcript at:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/how-stubborn-are-you

Recorded 27 December, 2022.

"You are not a disappointment. You are a joy, you are a gift. You are all kinds of unknowable possibility."

Sophia Lyon Fahs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Lyon_Fahs

Notes and transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/magic-we-are-part-of-everything

Recorded 24 December 2022.

"How can you lead if you don't know that everything around you is a miracle?"

Considering the magical essence of things, that language is too small for. The squirrels at the windowsill. Grass on the hand. And how we, as people, are part of the earth, of everything. And if everything is medicine, are we not, also, medicine?

notes and transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/magic-we-are-part-of-everything

recorded 26 July 2022.

How do we ask for help when we are too overwhelmed to ask for help? Packing for a move makes a great case study, and can remind us that there are times when we must trust someone's judgment that is not our own. And with that trust, friends, comes the beginning of community.

Notes and transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/how-do-you-get-help