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How do you take care of your mind, body, and spirit when you don’t have the time, money, or resources? Join the RAFT team as they share their own budget-friendly self-care tips.

Join Maegan, Nicole, Sophie, and Joy as they come together to reflect upon Women’s History Month and answer questions about what womanhood means to them, inspiring women, strengths, and advice they received and wish to share with others.

In this episode, the RAFT Team comes together to reflect upon their personal highlights of 2023 and discuss all things gratitude. From embracing gratitude through challenges and reminding yourself to practice gratitude, you will learn a few ways to incorporate gratitude in your daily life.

You’ve seen changes you want to make in your organization, you’re collaborating with co-workers, but now you might be wondering, “What are the leaders thinking about and looking for with change initiatives?” Join Jeremie and Amber as they continue discussing how to make organizational changes by focusing the conversation around the leadership’s point of view.

00:00 Intro
01:00 Jeremie recaps part 1 episode and highlights topics of episode 2
02:25 Amber introduces herself
04:45 How to respond, as a senior leader, to a passionate pitch
07:25 How to encourage gratitude and be positive without making someone think you’ve said “Yes”
10:35 How to prioritize a good idea when it’s bad timing
14:15 How to empower your team member after the first pitch meeting
18:30 Tips for leaders on how to reflect on their own biased
21:55 How to push through the hesitancy and let go when you should say “Yes”
27:05 Your responsibility, as a leader, to announce a new idea to your team
28:15 How to continue the thread of change and support your team member when the change works out
30:40 What to do, as a leader, when the change maker’s goal fizzles out, and they aren’t prioritizing their initial goal
32:50 What can leaders do when the change pilot flops
37:20 “What happens when the pitch comes in and it’s just not going to work?”
41:25 Final Thoughts
44:15 Outro

Join Jeremie in a conversation with Charlie Gilkey about principles from his book, Team Habits: How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results, including small actions that bring lasting change and creating a team that can solve problems without you.

00:00 Intro
00:40 Jeremie highlights talking points and welcomes Charlie
01:40 Charlie introduces himself
04:55 Charlie shares his view on the challenges of trying to make a big change / Broken Printer analogy
08:10 Grants and development challenges
10:15 Time allocation and management
12:30 Eight Categories of Team Habits
15:10 Feeling a sense of belonging in an organization with a high turnover rate
20:30 Cynicism as an effect of burnout
22:40 A different approach/breaking down a challenge into pieces
25:25 Three dimensions of power in an organization
37:00 “When you go into an organization, you treat changing team habits like you’re walking on someone’s land that they have been tending and cultivating”
44:25 “Am I being affected by the inertia that we’ve just always done it this way?”
46:15 How to get through “If we try to change this and break it, that’s not good”
49:40 Future-ready your business by creating a team that can solve problems even without you
52:10 Charlie’s last thoughts
54:25 How our partners and listeners can receive a copy of “Team Habits” gifted by RAFT
55:10 Outro

Have you ever seen something you want to change in your organization, but not sure how to get others involved or talk to your boss about it? Join Jeremie in a conversation with Amber Beam about making changes in your organization by collaborating with co-workers and successfully bringing ideas to leadership.

00:00 Intro
01:40 Amber introduces herself & speaks on her passion for closing the gender gap
02:55 What is it that makes a winning pitch when trying to make a change in your organization?
06:45 How can you approach speaking to your leader, & how to prepare for that conversation?
10:10 What’s one thing most people who bring a new idea to leadership ignore?
11:50 Should we go in as an individual or bring in co-workers who support the change?
14:15 How to bounce back from a soft-no
16:20 How to use your strengths and your team’s strengths to strengthen your pitch
19:00 Accountability and Responsibilities between yourself, team, & leadership
21:00 Fail, Learn, Grow
23:00 How to manage pushback/conflict from other team members
26:00 How to coordinate the team’s “big ideas” for change and not overwhelm leadership
30:00 What do you do when they say no?
37:00 Final thoughts & Amber’s words of wisdom
40:00 How to contact Amber
41:15 Outro

Join Nicole and Joy from RAFT in a conversation with Dee, Jackie, and Tatiana of The SOAR Collective, an organization working “to mobilize advocates to demand accountability and revolutionize the way anti-violence organizations operate.”

00:00 Intro
00:50 RAFT & SOAR Collective Introductions
01:50 Who SOAR Collective is, their mission, and how/why they started
04:00 Survivors Know assessment/research
09:30 The key findings & powerful data
12:15 Jackie and Dee share how prioritizing their mental health meant leaving their prevention job
14:40 Tatiana speaks on “the power that someone in a supervisor role has to create a safe environment” and psychological safety
16:00 “Leadership at anti-violence organizations often replicate the same toxic, abusive, violent environments, & power dynamics that this movement is aiming to prevent” Jackie
20:45 The potential for change, issues that have come to the surface, and solutions for systemic change
24:55 What are some tangible things that anti-violence workplace can do to create a healthy/safe working environment for staff?
35:00 “We cannot possibly serve ALL survivors, if we don’t have the resources to serve ourselves” Tatiana
40:10 “When you support advocates, you support survivors” Dee
43:00 How can advocates get involved with the amazing work SOAR Collective is doing?
48:00 Gratitudes
54:00 Outro

In this episode Raft’s founder, Indrani Goradia, introduces us to a friend she met by chance when their flights were delayed. Monique shares her past experience navigating life as a leader & advocate in the domestic violence field while in an actively abusive relationship.

00:00 Intro
00:28 How Indrani met Monique & how they connected
01:35 Active abuse & being part of society is in our everyday lives
03:14 How Monique navigated her “two lives” as a victim of active abuse & a domestic violence advocate
05:45 “Was I drawn to this work (as a helper & nurturer) the same way that sometimes I have been drawn to that relationship?”
06:35 Helping from an HR perspective & having to report personal details to HR
13:23 “What advice do you have for your younger self?”
16:30 “Nobody needs pity… but, we all need empathy”
18:02 How to reach out without overstepping
20:45 Safety planning
31:22 A Thanks to RAFT for support, education, & training
32:33 Send questions to Monique for a follow up podcast!
33:35 Outro

This month’s podcast features Grace Harvey, who recently stepped away from advocacy work and was surprised to see her advocacy skills transferred to work in a completely different field. If you think you need a change but are hesitant to look for something new, Grace has an encouraging message to share with you.

00:00 Intro
01:13 Grace’s Origin story
04:34 Grace shares why she left the advocacy field
08:00 How Grace’s life has changed & the positive impacts of leaving advocacy
12:30 What is it like working a job where you’re not advocating?
18:30 Finding a new job after leaving the advocacy field & the transferable skills
20:15 Task prioritization & time management
24:35 Good communication skills & adapting to your audience
28:40 Attention to detail & guidelines
32:35 Problem-solving skills
36:32 Finding what you’re doing in your current work & turning it into a resume skill
40:43 Grace’s final thoughts

In this episode, the RAFT team is joined by our Founder, Indrani Goradia, to discuss our “Why?” Inspired by Simon Sinek’s theory of starting with your “Why?” to help connect your work to your purpose in a meaningful way.

00:00 Intro
00:24 Nicole introduction – Explains inspiration for Podcast
02:40 Maegan introduction – Shares strengths/value statement
03:22 Indrani introduction – Shares why she started RAFT/core values
05:00 Nicole’s core values
07:04 Mariam introduction – Shares her why for joining & growing with RAFT
08:09 Joy introduction – Shares her strengths & her why
09:28 Sophie Introduction – Shares strengths & her why
11:45 Nicole shares why connection is important to her
13:13 Mariam shares why data and research is important to her
14:21 Maegan shares why growth & process mapping is important to her
16:23 Indrani talks about strengths – how to recognize them, how to use them
21:32 Joy shares why love of learning & kindness is important to her
22:21 Indrani, Nicole, & Joy speak on Kindness & Empathy for ourselves
30:36 Mariam – How RAFT answers her “Why”
30:48 Maegan – How RAFT answers her “Why”
32:19 Sophie – How RAFT answers her “Why”
33:09 Joy – How RAFT answers her “Why”
36:07 Thanks for listening!