PowerPivot

"We don't have reentry protocols, because we're not supposed to need them. We're supposed to magically stay in touch just the right amount."

They didn't not text you back because they hate you. More likely, for the last three days they've been trying to put just the right words together at just the right time in order to be there for you. And failing. Because life happens and life is a rolling distraction. Trust that they love you. It's not about you. Especially if you are both intensives. Especially then.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/not-about-you

Recorded 22 February 2023.

"what I've noticed about myself is that, I have to realize that I would like it to be different ,that something bugs me. I have to realize that something doesn't feel okay before I can change it."

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/know-it-is-not-okay

Recorded 15 February 2023.

"You have choices. But the first, most important choice, is to celebrate who and how you are as an intensive."

As an intensive, your phasic work cycles- and perhaps your phasic chaos cycles- are part of who you are. They are as much a part of you as the color of your eye. Learning to embrace those phases, instead of fighting them, will help us to accomplish our goals. We need the flow, the go-go-go, the connecting six seemingly unrelated things before breakfast. And we need the deep rest so that we can redecorate our minds and start the process again.

Transcription and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/in-praise-of-phases

Recorded 13 February 2023.

A poem, a meditation, a gift:

"In the face of the world being difficult, and impossible, and glorious, over and over again. In the face of destruction and creation. In the face of hope, and ongoing, grinding impossibility, I want to give you this: that the sun also rises. That the sun always rises. That the sun even now is coming up over the horizon."

"Turning Toward the Morning" by Gordon Bok:

https://youtu.be/WbKkXR0lHVE

Transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/only-our-way-to-find

Recorded 9 February 2023.

Sometimes, almost always, some version of the solution has already been invented. What are we going to remember that we already know how to do?

Let us take a mental tour of the Terrible Patents Division as we try to imagine- or re-imagine- sustainable solutions to some basic and persistent problems.

Transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/innovation-invention-and-survival

Recorded 9 February 2023.

"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.