PowerPivot

A brief introduction to the SIEF framework, and why we should show the expansives in our lives a lot of love.

People are not disposable. And yet many of our institutions and systems treat them as if they are. And you would think this would be obvious, but people are not commodities. So how do we reshape our businesses and institutions so that people are not seen as a resource to be used up and spit out, but as an integral part of everything we do, and one which needs to be nourished and kept healthy?

Check out Yes Jams: https://yesworld.org/

Join Leela for a conversation with Holly Hagerman, founder at AmptUp.com, an online marketplace to connect venues and musicians through a lens of equity, fair pay and contract usage. Holly shares stories about the founding of the company and talks about AmptUp's mission-based objectives of making it easier for music and venues to make a living; increasing equity, both in pay and representation, for people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ commuities; and making any city a Music City. All while using booking fees to create a steady stream of grants.

Links!

AmtUp website: https://www.amptup.com/

Find AmptUp on Instagram and Facebook.

Find NIVA (the National Independent Venue Association): https://www.nivassoc.org/

and information about the Save Our Stages Act: https://www.saveourstages.com/

This is the one about making time. This is the one about making space and making time and making the room in our hearts to do the things we know we should do.

The ethical responsibility we have to provide to our customers what we told them we would provide. And if we have to stop providing a service, we must provide customers with an off-ramp, so that they can ease out of our service and into something else, rather than a cliff which leave them scrambling, or falling.

Generosity. Kindness. Fierceness. Justice. Pleasure.

Yes, we can have them all, if we understand the ways that they and we are interconnected, the ways that justice and pleasure and generosity and kindness and fierceness all rely on each other. They become more when they are together, not less. They become more, we become more; there is no priority of one over the others.

In light of this morning's (June 24, 2022) Supreme Court decision and how it affects Roe v. Wade and safe access to reproductive care, what can we, as business owners, do to affect useful change- for the world, for our employees? How do we create the leadership that we need. How do we make sure that the things we make will not be used for evil?

The shouting is the first step. But it is only the first step. Shouting is a way of knowing there is a problem. The shouting is a way of finding the problem. My body has to know simultaneously that my heart is breaking and that I am doing everything that I can to save us.

Ani DiFranco, "Coming Up:" https://youtu.be/OaSE7F6dgG4

Mina Raver: https://www.instagram.com/mina.raver/

and https://www.forgingfortune.com/

Vanessa Burnett: https://counterfear.com/about/founder-bio/

I have said since the beginning, that poetry is my first language. We are not alone. And your story is as important as mine. Each story is as important as each other story. And when we bring our stories together and we tell them and we share our narratives and we share ourselves, we... exist.

Ari Felix at Saltwater Stars: https://www.saltwaterstars.com/

Leela Sinha on wholistic SIEF-Smart hiring practices for intensive business leaders.

Watch this episode as a video:

https://youtu.be/DjYBFKwVf3Y

Links!

www.intensivesinstitute.com

SIEF assessment: https://intensivesinstitute.com/assessment/

Five-Session SIEF-Smart Hiring Package (includes getting to know your company, job description writing, interviewing, onboarding, and post-onboarding review):

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/catalog.php?owner=11389649&action=addCart&clear=1&id=1303349