Questions to Hold with Casey Carroll

Holding the question around what it means to be agile 

Join us for a conversation with Marti Konstant (she/her) exploring how agility and partnership coexist together, and the curiosities around the impacts of AI and unexpected relationships.

Marti researches how people and organizations respond and adapt to change. Why do some resist change, while others prosper? As a workplace futurist and career strategist she has uncovered the one trait that helps you and your organization flourish in today’s fast-changing environment: Agility.

She is a keynote speaker, workshop designer, AI trainer, and best-selling author on the topic of “career agility.” As a runner and mountain hiker across several continents, movement and mobility are central themes, yet there is one habit she continues to cultivate. Marti holds a pursuit of 100 rejections every year to achieve her goals.

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In this episode you’ll hear about:

• How Marti defines “workplace agility”
• Where writing a book and interviewing folks about their careers sparked unexpected relationships
• How following our curiosities and related trends can impact our journeys
• Life’s unexpected twists and rejections foster resilience
• Digital visibility and the curiosities around AI as a thought partner

Connect with Marti:

• https://www.martikonstant.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/martikonstant/
• E-mail: [email protected]
• https://www.amazon.com/Activate-Your-Agile-Career-Responding-ebook/dp/B07C7V7T9S

Connect with BWB

• wearebwb.com
• @we.are.bwb: https://www.instagram.com/we.are.bwb/
• Casey LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-carroll-8a421729/
• Cait LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cait-fitzpatrick-0b257b3/
• BWB LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wearebwb/

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Connect with BWB

• wearebwb.com
• @we.are.bwb
• Casey LinkedIN
• Cait LinkedIN
• BWB Linkedin

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Join us in an honest conversation with Chaney Williams (she/they) exploring how we can be in relationship with the entirety of ourselves, and what can happen when we have brave space to show up fully. 

Chaney Williams is a poet, full spectrum doula, ritualist, and writer. She lives in Kentucky and has been a southerner since birth. 

Chaney strongly believes that all people deserve access to trauma informed, intersectional, sex positive, reproductive care. For Chaney, writing specifically their poetry and creative non-fiction essays are confessional in nature because they create what they know and what haunts them because it is the way they make sense of the world they exist in. It is how she finds belonging in the universe and connects to her ancestors, future descendants, and the collective.

Connect with Chaney:

• @theintersectionaldoula 
• https://chaneywilliams.substack.com/

Connect with BWB

• wearebwb.com
• @we.are.bwb
• Casey LinkedIN
• Cait LinkedIN
• BWB Linkedin

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Join us in an honest conversation with Samar Jade (they/them) exploring how we can be in relationship with the entirety of ourselves, and what can happen when we have brave space to show up fully. 

Samar Jade is an ensoulment doula  - one who walks alongside you as you do the work to birth yourself. They provide support during the darkened areas of that journey to claiming your power, and help you discover how to nurture that which is ready to be witnessed. Samar is here as an oracle, as a mirror, to help you process your expansion.

In this episode you’ll hear:

• What an ensoulment doula is
• How to be in the depths of our lives
• Why it matters we have brave spaces to show up as ourselves
• What it means to make more room for our questions
• How our voice is connected to our relationship to Self

Connect with Samar:

• @ensoulment.doula
• www.ensoulmentdoula.com
• www.samarjadecreative.substack.com

Connect with BWB

• wearebwb.com
• @we.are.bwb
• Casey LinkedIN
• Cait LinkedIN
• BWB Linkedin

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This year on the Questions to Hold podcast, we will kick off with the "Unpacking Partnership" Series. This collection of episodes will feature some of our mentors, partners, and collaborators, where we dive into some of the biggest questions and mysteries in partnership.

In the first episode, BWB co-owners, Casey and Caitlin, celebrate and honor BWB’s 5 year business anniversary, and share why 2024 is the year they're going all in on partnership. 

In this episode you'll hear:

• what Casey and Caitlin have learned about partnership over the last five years
• how the partnerUP scholarship program came to be
• why they are expanding their creative collective and partner network
• the new training and workshop series they are launching for agencies 

Connect with BWB

• wearebwb.com
• @we.are.bwb
• Casey LinkedIN
• Cait LinkedIN
• BWB Linkedin

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Join us in an honest conversation with Shanetta McDonald (she/her) exploring the seasons of our life, taking care of ourselves as working mothers, and why it matters we control our own narratives. 

Shanetta McDonald is the founder of The Giselle Agency. An award-winning brand marketer with more than 14 years of experience in creating and executing awareness and revenue-driving programs in B2B and B2C industries, she's known for her ability to uncover compelling stories that challenge societal norms and the status quo. 

Shanetta's personal mission is to serve as a vessel to tell stories that are typically untold. Her work to amplify said stories and elevate underrepresented voices have created policy change, boosted demand, and driven cultural shifts. A mother, writer and community builder, Shanetta leads with intention, purpose and empathy.

In this episode you’ll hear:

• What it means to take care of yourself as a working mom
• Why “work/life balance” is bullshit
• How becoming a mother invited more surrender and transparency 
• Why it matters we control our own narratives
• How to ask yourself: ”what do you need?”

Connect with Shanetta:

• Website 
• LinkedIn
• Motif Podcast

Connect with BWB

• wearebwb.com
• @we.are.bwb
• Casey LinkedIN
• Cait LinkedIN
• BWB Linkedin

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What do we have to risk to be reconnected?

Join us in an honest conversation with Nanci Luna Jiménez (she/her) exploring why it is necessary to ground in our human goodness to end racism.

Nanci Luna Jiménez has committed to her own healing for more than 30 years to be a transformative guide, heart-centered listener, and authentic companion for leaders and change-makers committed to racial healing and social justice. Since founding the Luna Jiménez Institute for Social Transformation in 1994, she has reached tens of thousands of people with her core message of human goodness and connection as a transformational approach to social change.

Nanci works from the premise that systems are made up of humans, and unhealed humans perpetuate harm and injustice. Her approach centers healing and authentic relationships as the foundation for sustainable systems change and accountability. She gently reminds people what they already know: oppression can only end with their healing, and, with support, they can completely heal!

As a sought after TEDx speaker, coach, and master-level facilitator, Nanci’s approach honors the legacy and teachings of Dr. Erica “Ricky” Sherover-Marcuse, who coined the term “unlearning racism,” and Lillian Roybal Rose, M.Ed., an expert in cross-cultural communication.

Of Afro-Puerto Rican and Mexican heritage, Nanci was born in Detroit, MI, and raised in Detroit and Tucson, AZ. She currently lives in Portland, OR.

In this episode you’ll hear:

• How oppression fools us into thinking we can “feel” good 
• How adultism is the training ground for all oppression
• What becomes possible when we to build connection to our goodness
• Why it is so critical we get listened to
• The principles of the constructivist listening practice 

Check out LJIST’s upcoming Getting Listened To sessions: February 7th and March 20th 2024.

Connect with Nanci:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Email 

Connect with BWB

• wearebwb.com
• @we.are.bwb
• Casey LinkedIN
• Cait LinkedIN
• BWB Linkedin

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Join us in an honest conversation with Stephanie Ghoston Paul (she/her) exploring what it means to be a living ancestor.

Stephanie Ghoston Paul (she/her) helps movement-makers bring to reality a radically transformed world through wholehearted coaching and consulting. 

With individuals that looks like self-care and boundaries work to help leaders balance their lives by coming back home to themselves. 

Within community, Stephanie holds space for collective healing through truth-telling, and explores what it means to be a living ancestor. 

In organizations, she co-designs pathways to name harm, imagine liberatory ways of being, and engage in the messy culture and people work needed for that transformation. Stephanie believes that when people, communities and ecosystems fully align and embody their purpose, we move toward a future where all human beings are free, whole, and enough. 

She’s been described as a purpose-whisperer, an ecosystem connector, and a culture alchemist. Stephanie is also a best-selling author, podcast host, documentarian and recent TEDx speaker. She centers ease and care in her life and her work, making sure to practice what she preaches. When she's not "working" Stephanie enjoys cooking spicy dishes with her partner, finding new flavors of delicious tea, and witnessing her toddler discover the world.

In this episode you’ll hear:

• How we can make change “irresistible”
• The role of questions to “re-member” and “dream ourselves into the future”
• How we can intentionally become a living ancestor
• The two sacred responsibilities of being a living ancestry
• What it means to be in the practice of holding tensions

Connect with Stephanie:

• Website: www.stephanieghoston.com 
• September 2023 Community Workshop and Boundaries Playground
• Instagram: @CultivatedSense 
• LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanieghostonpaul/;
• Patreon: www.patreon.com/TNWID
• Facilitation Training: https://www.michellecjohnson.com/art-of-skillful-facilitation

Resources in this episode:

• Ebony Janice Moore 
• Thea Monyeé
• adrienne maree brown
• Toni Cade Bambara
• Michelle C Johnson

Connect with BWB

• wearebwb.com
• @we.are.bwb
• Casey LinkedIN
• Cait LinkedIN
• BWB Linkedin

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Join us in an honest conversation with Georgette Pascale (she/her) exploring the highs and lows and the in betweens of successfully selling a business, and moving into a new chapter of entrepreneurship.

Georgette (aka “G.”) is a bespoke, efficient personal business ally that assists solopreneurs and small businesses in any industry achieve their short term goals. A former CEO that thrives on connecting people, authenticity and helping entrepreneurs get from A to B.

In this episode you’ll hear:

• Georgette’s journey to starting and successfully selling her marketing agency, and entering into a new era of entrepreneurship and professional identity
• How to prepare (or start to think about) selling a business
• The often undiscussed emotional and professional aftermath of selling a business
• The impacts of ageism in entrepreneurship and startup culture
• Why it matters we have more community dialogue around retirement - at every stage of our career

Connect with Georgette:

• Website
• Instagram
• Reel on “picking your brain”

Connect with BWB

• wearebwb.com
• @we.are.bwb
• Casey LinkedIN
• Cait LinkedIN
• BWB Linkedin

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What if thinking differently is ok?

Join us in an honest conversation with Laura Matteson (she/her) exploring the intersection of neurodivergence, visual translation, and how we can become more skillful (and playful!) communicators.

Laura (she/her) is a visual translator who helps intuitive leaders take complex or mysterious ideas and organize them into understandable visuals to help them boldly take their next steps forward. She loves helping other visually-minded humans think and communicate in their own way so they can make an impact in their world.

In this episode you’ll hear:

• Laura’s journey of figuring out which questions were hers and which were placed upon her because of her ways of doing things differently
• How to center neurodivergence in your visual communications
• Why it matters we ask the question: “how can I make this clear for someone” when communicating with each other
• Why fun and playfulness matters in our work
• How to better understand your visual support style

Connect with Laura:

• https://www.illustrative.us
•  @illustrative.us
• https://www.illustrative.us/visual-support-quiz
• https://www.illustrative.us/resources

Connect with BWB

• wearebwb.com
• @we.are.bwb
• Casey LinkedIN
• Cait LinkedIN
• BWB Linkedin

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Why do we separate our work selves from our home selves?

Join us in an honest conversation with Deena Chochinov (she/her) exploring what a career as a professional “listener” has revealed about how to be a leader in the boardroom and the living room. 

Deena is a therapist, management consultant, and family enterprise advisor. She supports executives and senior teams in the corporate and nonprofit sectors, with a focus on leadership coaching, talent management, and organizational development. She advises multigenerational business families who seek the tools and techniques to make smart decisions, manage conflict effectively, and develop strong, lasting relationships. As a Registered Clinical Counselor, she works with individuals, couples, and families to help them navigate life’s challenges and increase their resilience. 

In this episode you’ll hear:

• Tips and reflections for integrating your whole self in your leadership
• Overlaps and intersections of leadership in work and life
• How boundaries are different than barriers
• The nuances and complexities of family businesses and what it takes to be in resilient relationship together

Connect with Deena:

• Website
• Homework: How to be a Leader in the Boardroom and the Living Room

Connect with BWB

• wearebwb.com
• @we.are.bwb
• Casey LinkedIN
• Cait LinkedIN
• BWB Linkedin

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Podcast Song: Holding you by Prigida
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