"There's so much richness and cross pollination that happens when we go into those rabbit holes. When we allow ourselves the luxury of just opening the door and tumbling down. As intensives we are specialists in rabbit holes. These are some of our native territory. This is the place where we are from."

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-lushness-of-rabbit-holes

Recorded 11 June 2023.

"When I get stuck, I forget why I do any of the things that I do. I forget the sparkle in someone's eye when they find out for the first time that they're an intensive, or that food grows on trees. Or the softness of grass underfoot. Or the miracle of a waterfall. I forget what I know. I forget what I have to teach. I forget what I have to learn. I forget. What I'm thinking about today is lush abundance and the way it gets us out of stuckness."

Rob Brezsny and his newsletter:

https://freewillastrology.com/

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/lush-abundance-of-early-summer

Recorded 6 June 2023.

"Maybe I will eat a single, ripe, peach. Anything. Anything to completion.... We forget that the restoration is possible. And then something happens and we remember. But we don't have to wait for it to happen by accident."

The joy and release of completing... anything. Especially when you are an intensive. Especially when every started-but-not-finished thing haunts you, shames you, makes you lose trust in your ability to finish... anything.

Japanese knotwood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynoutria_japonica

Transcript and notes: https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-lushness-of-completion

Recorded 1 June 2023.

"What I discovered, over several false hires, is that the skills are just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, skills can be trained, sometimes skills are the least important part of the iceberg."

Using the framework of intensiveness and expansiveness to match jobs to people and people to jobs. And avoiding the trap of hiring an intensive for an expansive job just because you meet another intensive in the wild and want to hang out with them.

Pace & Kyeli:

http://paceandkyeli.com/

Transcript and Notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/hiring-the-person-you-need

Recorded 22 May 2023.

"Today, what does your body say? What do you need to say no to? What is your body saying no to?"

Listening to our bodies. Listening to our guts. Sometimes we have a bad feeling about a person or a place or a food or anything. And sometimes we push those feelings aside to our detriment. How do we respect our bodies when they are telling us "no?"

Transcripts and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/when-my-body-says-no

Recorded 22 May 2023.

"pleasure doesn't start with orgasm-level excitement. Pleasure starts with the seeds of safety."

On the impact of stress and need on our abilities as (especially intensive) leaders; on how feeling safe makes us more human and better leaders; on the importance of knowing when to slow down to avoid making a crisis into an everlasting mess.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/stress-and-need-and-pleasure

Recorded 22 May 2023.

"It's May. It's Pleasure Month, here at the Intensives Institute. And we're thinking about ways to allow our sense of pleasure to be part of our guidance system, to be part of our awareness system. And to recognize that everybody is better off when their pleasure centers fire."

Here is a link to the old Thirty Day Pleasure Project. Note that this site is no longer maintained and any links within it are more likely than not expired:

http://bodyofpleasure.com/body-practice/

Transcript and notes: https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/what-gives-you-pleasure

Recorded 16 May 2023.

"Sometimes I'm right, and it doesn't matter. What matters is that they're having their life and they're experiencing their thing. And when you bring that to leadership, it completely changes how you function... Above all, I wish to put down disdain, because it carries with it disrespect."

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/judgment-and-grace

Recorded 3 May 2023.

"...what SIEF does, that the other ones don't do, is lifts out this one set of behaviors and characteristics, just one- it's one axis.... This isn't meant to say that we're one dimensional; this is meant to describe one dimension of our deeply multi-dimensional selves."

The difference, and advantage of, the SIEF's single-axis framework in contrast to comprehensive personality profiles such as Meyers-Briggs.

For more on SIEF and to take the assessment:

https://intensivesinstitute.com/assessment/

For more on the Gottman Institute:

https://www.gottman.com/

Recorded 8 May 2023.

Notes and Transcript:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/contrasting-SIEF-with-meyers-briggs

"We just had a full moon, which is traditionally the letting-go-of-things moon. That always surprises me, because fullness makes me think of taking things on. But no, when your arms are full, you have to pass things by, you have to put things down."

Spring, abundance, fullness, focus- and changing the world, of course.

The New Fashioned Company: https://thenewfashioned.co/

Notes and Transcript:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/an-abundance-of-pleasure

Recorded 8 May 2023.