PowerPivot

"If the praise is gonna feel genuine, then the people praising us have to know us well enough to praise us for something that is genuinely ours."

On praise- our need for it (even when we want to remain unseen), and how creating space for praise in our workplace can open up space for deeper connections and better communication.

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/praise-and-connections

Recorded 30 June 2023.

"What does it mean to be made visible to people who don't understand the context from which we come? What of our history is important enough to tell and retell? Sometimes telling and retelling those stories only entrenches a way of being that is no longer useful."

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/archaeology-and-exposure

Recorded 30 June 2023.

"We, as intensives, are all the way in. And when we are all the way in, it means that when our hearts break, they break all the way. And there is nothing but a bloody pile of flesh on the floor, that somehow we have to get that extra wide pancake spatula and scoop it up and stuff it back inside our ribs."

In order to get our ideas out into the world, we need to present- expose- ourselves to the world. To the hot sun of and cold tides of the internet, for example. How do we protect our selves- how do we find and apply the proper sunscreen- so that we can be present in integrity and also, protect our intensive hearts?

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/prometheus-and-overexposure

Recorded June 12, 2023.

"I drew chalk outlines like some kind of strange murder scene. But nothing was being killed except my idea of myself as needing to be perfect."

On making one's own trousers, and on showing our true(er?) selves to the world.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-candy-striped-trousers

Recorded 12 June 2023.

"Let's talk about what happens when we all make art. And I don't mean everybody has to be trained. I don't mean everybody has to be making beautiful art. I do mean to interrogate what we mean by art, specifically."

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/all-art

Recorded 6 June 2023.

"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.