PowerPivot

"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 Note that this site is no longer maintained and any links within it are more likely than not expired: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.

Kimra Luna: "...when you're with those like-minded people, and you know that you're doing something to make the world better... you get hope automatically. It starts filling you up."

Leela Sinha in compelling conversation with Kimra Luna: abortion doula, professional ranter, and founder of Idaho Abortion Rights mutual aid. They talk about finding hope in community, taking individual action, strategies for regaining reproductive rights in the US, and the journey that led Kimra to take on the work of an abortion doula.

Transcript and Notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/episode/kimra-luna

Links! Find Kimra on Instagram, Twitch, Twitter, and beyond. There are also links to Idaho Abortion Rights and other orgs mentioned in the conversation:

Idaho Abortion Rights: https://idahoabortionrights.com/

Kimra Luna website: https://kimraluna.com/.

Kimra Luna on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimraluna/.

Kimra Luna on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/kimraluna_

Kimra Luna on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KimraLuna

Plan C Pills: https://www.plancpills.org/

Las Libres: https://laslibres.org/

Act Up: https://actupny.com/

Recorded 24 April 2023.

"this is not Pollyanna, like, oh, there's something beautiful in everything. No, no, some things are just terrible. I'm not gonna lie to you about that.... and, I refuse to shape my identity around oppression. I won't do it."

Forming our worlds around meeting our collective and individual needs; so that we can defeat oppression without forming ourselves around the oppression itself. If we form our identities around the oppression, we risk creating a void within ourselves in the very shape of that oppression.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/pleasure-and-pain-woven-fine

Recorded 1 May 2023.

"the lemon balm, the peppermint and the comfrey all have a reputation. They have reputations for being bullies, they have a reputation for being too loud, too big, too much. Oh... maybe that's why I like them. They are a lot. And that power is very, very appealing."

On creating containers that allow us and our ideas to flourish while limiting the harm that we and our ideas might do.

Transcript and notes: https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/expectations

Recorded 1 May 2023.

"What did I do today, to make today a place that I could live in?

Tiny hopes. Tiny, absolutely persistent hopes."

We seldom talk about depression while it is happening, about the strategies for getting through the hard days. Some days are strung together from a million tiny little hopes.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/a-million-tiny-little-hopes/

Recorded 24 April 2023.

"...and so I have come to the point in my life, where I am pacing around my office saying I need thank you notes."

On the challenges of writing thank you notes; and the absolute joy of writing them when you really do have something to be grateful for.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/thank-you-notes

Recorded 6 April 2023.