"If you think of depression as something that's kind of like the ocean, that comes up in waves. Sometimes you can float on top of it, and it's okay. Sometimes it'll try and drown you.... When the depression wave started to come up, I didn't have my little floaties on."

Let's talk about depression. Let's talk about depression as what it is, which is an illness. For many, a chronic illness. With remissions and relapses and flares. Now let's talk about how to make room for spaciousness, rest, grace, compassion, flexibility. Let's talk about how to help everyone have the exact things that they need to heal.

Ani DiFranco- Buildings & Bridges:

https://youtu.be/uG1Sdz6TFkQ

Transcript and Show Notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/depression-and-flexibility

Intensives go like hell and then rest like the dead. Sometimes we go like hell and then... just stop. Let's talk about that.

The Nap Ministry:

https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/

Madeline Pendleton:

https://www.tiktok.com/@madeline_pendleton

Transcript and notes: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/intensive-stop

Recorded 29 January 2023.

"…So I listened to a podcast this morning and oh my god, mostly, I'm just here to tell you to go listen to that other podcast. That other podcast is called Man Enough, which is not a podcast I necessarily would have picked up for myself. Although I like the premise. The interview was with ALOK Vaid-Menon, who is an Indian-American activist, speaker, and poet, who is nonbinary, and does a lot of public work around nonbinary identities, around being trans-feminine, and gender. Gender in terms of how does nonbinary identity and gender inclusion, and moving beyond binary understandings of gender at all, interface and interlace with justice, with elevating humanity?"

The Man Enough podcast episode from July 26, 2021, featuring ALOK: (please note that the hosts of the podcast are very much clearly in a beginner space in terms of their learning about non binary identities and trans identities. So brace yourself for that. ALOK is gracious as an educator in the face of that, going into a space where I'm sure they knew they were going to be doing education. Just know that and do what you need to do to take care of yourself.) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alok-vaid-menon-the-urgent-need-for-compassion/id1571480224?i=1000530016080

ALOK's website: https://www.alokvmenon.com/

The Man Enough podcast website: https://manenough.com/podcast/

Transcript and show notes at: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/gender-and-a-podcast-recommendation

Recorded 30 January 2023.

"It doesn't matter why someone doesn't have housing, what matters is that they need housing."

Healthcare outcomes are tied to housing. So shouldn't we include adequate, autonomous housing as a way to improve the overall health of our communities, and reduce the burden on strained health care resources? How can we, as business leaders and community members, achieve this goal and similar ones?

Mina Raver and the 2000 Days Project:

https://www.2kdaysproject.com/

Transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/housing-and-healthcare

Recorded 26 July 2022

So often we know what we need to do… but how do we do it? How do we remove barriers and make it easy for ourselves to do the things we know we need to do- to use the tools that we already have?

Transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/making-it-easy-to-use-your-tools

Recorded 16 January 2023.

"When you know what you need, you can ask for it, or you can work toward it, or you can invite it...."

Well, that seems simple enough, right? But how do we actually know what it is that we need? Is it a flash of insight, an appetite, a color, a feeling? A collection of words? What is it that awakens you in yourself, and tells you what you need, or what you want, to continue to become... you?

Transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/know-what-you-want

Recorded 16 January 2023.

"It's about overestimating the need. And under estimating the capacity."

Knowing our capacity, making realistic guesses about how hard things are going to be- even the things that "shouldn't" be hard- it's the work of a lifetime. But we can have exacting standards for ourselves and still learn to leave space and grace for our own frailties and failures.

Transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/underestimating-your-enemies

Recorded 16 January, 2023

Join Leela Sinha for a walk through the woods and a meditation on knowing, and hurting, and scrubbing away the aches and scars that live inside us.

Full transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/heres-what-i-know

recorded 11 October 2022

On rediscovering, and creating, active communities: places that people miss.

transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/a-place-that-people-miss

The exact right pen. The exact right paper. The exact right app. The exact right tools for the job. Are they a necessity? Not always. Can we get the job done with a scratchy pencil and a cheap napkin? If we need to. But does it nourish us to have to have the tools the we visualize when we are imagining how to accomplish our goals? Absolutely.

Notes and full transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/planners-and-nourishment