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

Why we’re doing poetry right now, and not prose....

Starbucks, Redwoods, love, work, community, and everything: the key to being served well is to being known. And rather than take our strengths for granted, we need to we need to play to our strengths and then allow ourselves to be in community, in collaboration, with other people where we need help, where we need support, where we're not as strong.

Find Monica Scantlebury here: https://www.monicamonfre.com/

Recorded on May 18, 2022. Leela responds to the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and elsewhere.

I am a prison abolitionist, I do not think prison should exist. I think that we need to come up with other options for our culture. However, I am aware that most people are not there, that most people are not able or willing to consider prison abolition. And I swear this is connected to business, you've got to stick with me for the whole thing, though.

We need to move our entire society toward a new expectation of institutional kindness, from all of our institutions, and create alternatives to shitty working conditions. And when we create alternatives then we give people choices, and when we give people choices, they realize that more is possible. They become less constricted, they become more creative, they become more interested in what else could happen. Something different could happen. And when they realize that something different and more and better is possible, you know what happens next? They change. They become more generous, they become more community oriented, they become more interconnected. They recognize that it feels different to be treated well because they're having this experience of being treated well. We can make the world different by how we do things in our own organizations. One of the things that we can do is be really radically inclusive of everybody. And when you start to think like that, then your kindness just levels up massively, you're enacted kindness.

CB Beal and Preemptive Radical Inclusion: https://justiceandpeaceconsulting.com/preemptive-radical-inclusion/

It's important to have a small space, and a place where time stops for a moment. Whether that's a Sabbath or whether that's a room where you close the door and there are no clocks.

In "The Sabbath World," Judith Shulevitz talks about the way that time became standardized over time; it didn't become standardized right away, it became standardized in chunks and bits, until finally, we had a global sense of time. And with that global sense of time came a global sense of immediacy, a global sense of something happening everywhere all the time at once. And with that sense of everything happening everywhere all at once comes this sense of overwhelm. How much time can you let go of, to find the rhythm, to find the space where you can just be yourself?

The Instagram reel I mention is here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CczR7bljUNQ/

Judith Shulevitz's book "The Sabbath World" may be found at this link.