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By Chasten HarmonBusiness Entrepreneurship Health & Fitness

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March 08, 2024#13 Business Decolonized: Cultivating Love-Based Practices.
This podcast episode delves into the process of decolonizing business and emphasizes the importance of cultivating love-based practices. It explores how colonial conditioning has affected our mindset and perception of business, erasing our sense of self and knowledge. The episode highlights the need to tap into our natural, organic, and sustainable pathways in business instead of relying solely on external sources. It discusses the role of the body in business and how aligning with its needs and desires leads to true sustainability and avoidance of burnout. The episode also touches on the resistance faced when following our own path and emphasizes the importance of play, curiosity, and experimentation in the process.
The truth about external knowledge.
Outside in vs inside out processes.
Your unique imprint.
The source of burnout.
Love based practices.
Natural pathways and processes.
Body as source guide.
Decolonizing your process.
Sustainable pathways.
Cultivating self-trust.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT
SEEN Deep Dive 1-on-1 Alchemical Mentorship Containe

12 Month program desiged to decolonize your business.

The organic growth business mentorship program that puts the humanity and the human back into business. So you can learn how to nurture and sustain your body in reciprocal exchange AND do all the magical shit you came here to do.

Asé
www.plusharmour.com
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The SEEN Collective is a sacred group learning digital portal for Black women to garden their dreams into fruition. A space where we cultivate safety in being SEEN, heal ancestral wounds around business/worth and tap into our reciprocal exchange. In this space we divest from oppressive/extractive business practices and nurture loving business practices rooted in ease, pleasure, and play. Through a combination of mentorship and transformative Sovereign Studies, Liberatings and REST-shops… The SEEN: Collective supports the building of decolonized, sustainable, ethical, orgasmic businesses that bring love, joy and healing to the world.
LIMITED OFFER!
The first 50 subscribers will receive a reduced rate of $77/Month.
After which the rate will increase to $111/Month.
You have an amazing opportunity to join us in the earth and watch the seeding and rooting process first hand.
It is with my deepest privilege, honor and gratitude that I share space collectively.. in community with you.
LINK TO JOIN THE SEEN: Collective
30 min
February 27, 2024#12 Business as the Primary Liberation Tool!
In this episode we dive into business as the primary tool for liberation. Exploration around the root of our original wound and the birth of extractive/abusive work practices that are depleting us. We talk about how we are healing a Business/work/money/worth wound that began with colonization. A wound that is perpetuated through extractive/abusive/harmful work structures that keep up from healing. We discuss the process of cultural evolution and a mass exodus from abusive work structures the process of building love based work practices for true sustainability and thrive.
Business as the primary liberation tool.
What we are really healing.
The myths about passive income/wealth.
The truth about body sovereignty.
Divesting from abusive/extractive work structures.
Aliveness/business/reciprocal exchange.
Decolonizing mind/body/spirit/business.
Love based business practice.
Cultural evolution.
Definition of Plush Armour.
Releasing fear/shame.
Restoring our original paradigms.
Moving from survival to thrival.
SEEN Deep Dive 1-on-1 Alchemical Mentorship Container
12 Month program desiged to decolonize your business.

The organic growth business mentorship program that puts the humanity and the human back into business. So you can learn how to nurture and sustain your body in reciprocal exchange AND do all the magical shit you came here to do.

Asé
www.plusharmour.com
BOOK A CALL
Join the SEEN: Collective
The SEEN Collective is a sacred group learning digital portal for Black women to garden their dreams into fruition. A space where we cultivate safety in being SEEN, heal ancestral wounds around business/worth and tap into our reciprocal exchange. In this space we divest from oppressive/extractive business practices and nurture loving business practices rooted in ease, pleasure, and play. Through a combination of mentorship and transformative Sovereign Studies, Liberatings and REST-shops… The SEEN: Collective supports the building of decolonized, sustainable, ethical, orgasmic businesses that bring love, joy and healing to the world.
LIMITED OFFER!
The first 50 subscribers will receive a reduced rate of $77/Month.
After which the rate will increase to $111/Month.
You have an amazing opportunity to join us in the earth and watch the seeding and rooting process first hand.
It is with my deepest privilege, honor and gratitude that I share space collectively.. in community with you.
LINK TO JOIN THE SEEN: Collective
19 min
July 08, 2023 #11 Real schools don't have walls!
My thoughts on the Supreme Court's 'Affirmative Action' ruling.
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
https://otter.ai/u/pUgNjqsAVDXUBVnQemt3n8SmQyM?utm_source=copy_url
19 min
May 25, 2023 #10 Softening into BE-ING: A Message for Wondering Souls.
A Message for those in the in between. Listening and waiting for the next step. You are not alone. You are held. You are deepening into your truest expression. Have faith. Have patience. Trust.
FULL TRANSCRIPT: https://otter.ai/u/G0R_ZSzW0coJggaE7QFKHuwRmng?utm_source=copy_url
22 min
April 04, 2023 #9 Are you being a Narcissist in your Business?
If you are obsessing how to talk about who you are what you do and less importantly what it all looks like... you might be a narcissist in your business. This happens when you get stuck in what is meant to be the first stage of business. You never graduate from thinking about you to thinking about your people. But friends... I'm here to tell you that thinknig about your people is where you business starts.
FULL TRANSCRIPT: https://otter.ai/u/rtDUcPtKLlQJ7SvIKSPDRiAiqho?utm_source=copy_url
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16 min
April 04, 2023 #8 The Content Colonic Challenge
💩The Content Colonic Challenge💩
A 28 day challenge with a 45 page companion rest-book designed to get all of your work out into the world with the least amount of effort.
Full Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/XT7WPuWVtVoZqcnB7GFW4RQRtxQ?utm_source=copy_url
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31 min
March 26, 2023#7 SEEN 2.0 - DEEP DIVE 1-ON-1 & GROUP ADVENTURE!
In this episode Chasten addresses the core human need of being SEEN in business and personal spheres, urging listeners to confidently embrace visibility and authenticity. Chasten charts a path to overcome fear and develop discernment in being seen. This episode is a call to action to challenge exploitative work structures, engage in self-acceptance, and to heal from centuries of racial trauma.
Learn how resilience in marketing oneself, embracing the human yearning to be seen, and participating in ethical business practices are pivotal for success. This episode encapsulates a powerful blend of professional development, personal well-being, and the critical act of witnessing black women's experiences and dreams. Step into SEEN and transform your visibility into your vitality.
Challenges Black women face around being SEEN.
Establishing safety in being SEEN.
Being SEEN as a core human need.
SEEN as the seed for human connection.
Connection as the seed for RECIPROCAL EXCHANGE.
The definition of RECIPROCAL EXCHANGE.
Divesting from abusive and extractive business practices.
Healing our business/value/worth wound.
Healing our SEE-ing/loving witness wound.
How our educational system reinforces our disempowerment.
Understanding the social risks to being SEEN more clearly.
Cultivating nervous system resilience to being SEEN
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: https://app.castmagic.io/share/50a0cd34-35ef-423f-a6f6-c01f6371f9f1?ai_content=false&magic_chat=false
Join the SEEN: Collective
The SEEN Collective is a sacred group learning digital portal for Black women to garden their dreams into fruition. A space where we cultivate safety in being SEEN, heal ancestral wounds around business/worth and tap into our reciprocal exchange. In this space we divest from oppressive/extractive business practices and nurture loving business practices rooted in ease, pleasure, and play. Through a combination of mentorship and transformative Sovereign Studies, Liberatings and REST-shops… The SEEN: Collective supports the building of decolonized, sustainable, ethical, orgasmic businesses that bring love, joy and healing to the world.
LIMITED OFFER!
The first 50 subscribers will receive a reduced rate of $77/Month.
After which the rate will increase to $111/Month.
You have an amazing opportunity to join us in the earth and watch the seeding and rooting process first hand.
It is with my deepest privilege, honor and gratitude that I share space collectively.. in community with you.
LINK TO JOIN THE SEEN: Collective
https://under-the-pink-peppercorn-tree.circle.so/checkout/exclusive-membership-access
LINK TO BOOK A EXCAVATION CALL FOR 1-ON-1 MENTORSHIP
https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=18699527&appointmentType=12250626
1 hr 4 min
November 24, 2022 #6 The "Who Am I!?" Plague
Okay, today I want to talk about the big question that everyone has to grapple with, before they brave stepping into being seen. And that is, who am I? Everyone asks this question. It's, we also call it impostor syndrome, the who am I? Who am I? Who am I to do this? Who am I to do this? Am I specialized enough? Am I experienced enough? Am I certified enough? Who am I? Okay. Listen very, very, very, very, very carefully. I don't believe in most of the hierarchies that our culture subscribes to. I don't believe in any of the hierarchies that our culture subscribes to. I do believe that there is one hierarchy. And that is biological. And by that I mean ancient ancient DNA that holds the wisdom of the Earth, the wisdom of our origins. And if black womxn were the first if a black woman was the first human body discovered that means everyone is a descendant of a black woman. So that means genetically, there is biological hierarchy for the knowledge and the information that we have access to, in our bodies and our spines, and our bones. And indigenous culture, memory is held in the bones. And so there is an innate wisdom and innate knowledge inside of us, that was erased in silence and eradicated the day that our colonizers decided that our way of existing and being and doing things was bad, and they wanted to make us be like them, and extract our bodies to capitalize off of. So just even... it's like the history is the proof of the "Who am I?" Who you are, is someone that was so in tune, so connected and so powerful, that white men were so threatened that they had to come for you. That's who you are. That's the knowledge that you have inside of you. Is it fully formed? Is it fully matured and developed? No, no, it's not because it's been suppressed for 500 years. So there's no way that it can be there's no way that will be. This is where the work starts here. Who are you? You were born for this. You are meant for this. You are meant to lead. Black women are meant to lead. We have natural leadership skills. How your brain works. How your body works, your thoughts, your values, your beliefs. They are meant to move us into this next world into this post colonial world. And they can't do that if you don't share them. They can't do that. If you don't risk seen. You have to risk being seen you have to risk showing your insides on the outside it is vulnerable it is vulnerability. The foundational principle of indigenous culture and indigenous practice is that and the acknowledgement and the acceptance the radical acceptance that we are vulnerable. And Western culture is spent its entire existence trying to be invulnerable. It's not of thing doesn't exist. otherwise doctors wouldn't be paid so much. Everyone's trying trying to live forever. We can't we got it. We are made to die. It's a cycle. It's cyclical. We are vulnerable, we are soft, we are fleshy, we are hunks of meat wrapped around the skeletal system. We're vulnerable. And so it's that vulnerability that is going to lead the new path, not this thing that we've been subscribed to for 500 years, which is the illusion of strength, the delusion of core strength or whatever, it's all in softness. And who knows more about softness and black woman so who are you, you are the cure, you are the salve, you are the key you are the medicine. And what we do in this space is together is create boundaries around your medicine, so you can dispense it to the world, but that your boundaries is enough so that the world does not deplete you that it's reciprocal, that it's nourishing, that it's a right relationship. We've been extracted from for 500 years, y'all. We're done. We're done. We're done. We are done. I want you to do a journaling exercise where you write down everything that you would done with everything that you are done with. I'm done working for people committed to self abuse. I'm done letting white people have their hands in my pockets. I'm done subscribing to the white man's dream. I'm done subscribing to white man's values. I'm done hating myself. Because other people can't admit there's something about us that scares them. The unknown. Indigenous cultures aren't scared of the unknown. They're in relationship with it in right relationship with it. Western culture is terrified of the unknown, addicted to control addicted to rigid structures and control and planning ahead and knowing and greed I mean, like that's how this whole energetic stockpiling started is scarcity mindset. Nature doesn't need to stockpile nature doesn't stockpile. If anything, you stockpile, for the seasons. But you're not like oh, let me try and bears aren't like ooh, let me try and save up these berries for the next 50 winters. Their like "Nah I just need berries gave me through the next three months because there'll be more berries next Spring!". If the humans don't fuck it up, nature is cyclical. There will always be more berries, if we engage in our reciprocal relationship with it. Right now we're destroying it. We're destroying the earth. So who are you? The only person equipped to stop it is who you are. The only person and oh my god, we need all hands on deck. Because if you looked around recently, the world will worlding and people are crazy and we need all hands on deck. We are engaged in a mass mass re-education because guess what everyone's realized that we've been brainwashed and indoctrinated for the past 500 years we're engaging in a mass re-education we need so many teachers we need all of our knowledge we need collective knowledge. We need to all be coaching each other and educating each other and buying each other's products and services because it's up to us to guide ourselves because we've been intentionally misguided. So who are you. You are the salve. You are the salve. So anytime that imposter syndrome starts to creep in, anytime your brain starts to brain. Starts to think "What I have to say isn't good enough.", "I need to do this before I'm ready.", "I need to do this before I'm ready.", "I need to do this before I'm ready.", "I need to do this before I'm ready.". The voices aren't going to stop not for a long time. But what you will start doing is you'll start to recognize and discern and say oh, that's the voice of the oppressor. I'm not gonna listen. Hi oppressor. I hear you. I see you. Get out of my fucking head. Because you're wrong. I'm not gonna listen. You have to deal with your shadows now. Because you will not manipulate and control us anymore that's who you are.
16 min
November 24, 2022 #5 The "I'm not built for business." fallacy
Hello, welcome. Okay. I want to talk today about one of the things that I had to overcome as an entrepreneur. That a lot of my clients have had to overcome in order to step into their entrepreneurial selves. The thought it's the thought, It's the belief that "I'm not built for business". And I want to get into a little bit of how I acquired this belief, even, because business is something that has always come naturally, to me, like I was selling friendship bracelets for 25 cents a pop in elementary school. So somewhere along the line Chasten developed the narrative that she was not built for business, when it was a natural expression that came out of her body before she even knew what it was, to be honest.
It's just not a true statement. We are all built for business, we are all built for business because we're alive. Because our presence in this world demands and requires reciprocal exchange. And that is what business is. Business as we know it, as we've come to know it as we've engaged with it in our lifetimes and ever since our ancestors bodies were stolen for free labor... has been bastardized, extractive and abusive. So when we're saying I'm not built for business, we're actually saying I'm not built for that kind of business. And that is a true statement. We are not built for that kind of business. If you're here. If you're in this space, it is probably because you are anti-capitalist, you are anti-busyness, you are anti-hustle, you are anti-martyrdom, you value ease, you value spaciousness, you value rest, you value pleasure, you want all of these things to be ingrained in your daily experience. And business as you know, is the opposite of those things. So that is the component that is repelling you from business, rightfully so. So what I want to start to introduce into this space, instead of "I'm not built for business." is the thought that "I'm not built for business as it's been done.". as I've known it. Because the truth is... you are built for business, because what is business, when we break it down? What is business? Business is exchange. Reciprocal exchange that happens between two humans. And the thing that is needed to activate this reciprocal exchange between two humans is connection. Its relationship. It's relationship between two humans. An exchange that is nourishing for both parties, where both parties are giving and receiving value. It is not a true statement that you're not built for that. That's what business is. You were built for that. You are wired for that. You know that. You live and breathe that connection, empathy, compassion, human, humanity, human experience. I would even argue that you're more equipped for business than the people who have been leading business because they lack those skills. Because their business has been extractive. So it's actually inside of you to create a new imprint. To create a new blueprint. To create a new path. That is a reciprocal exchange that's nourishing. And one of the reasons that we believe this so deeply is because it's part of the con. It's part of the indoctrination. It's not our fault. This is the training that we have been through. The training that we've gotten the messaging that we've gotten is like, "Oh yeah, that's really hard. That's really complicated. That's probably too complicated for you. You should probably let us take care of that for you. You just worry about making the work. We'll take care of selling it. Because it's, you know, it's just it's really advanced." You guys, that's colonizer energy. Run from that shit run so fast that is colonizer energy. Do you see how that language is disempowering? It's disempowering, so that they can get a cut of your profits. Everything that has been built in this world has been built off of the labor of our gifts. And other people have profited on it. So you can keep working for other people if you want to. But my God, they have gotten so much of you. For me, personally, they don't get any more. I will work for other people to the extent that it facilitates my dreams and my projects. But then no. Because we are built for business, we are built for healthy business for right relationship for reciprocal exchange for human connection for human impact for service for helping people. It's just that we have yet to experience in 500 years what it feels like to be compensated our worth for that because it's been taken. It's been taken. We have to take it back. It's sell or be sold, it's sell or be sold.
I can't stress this enough. And if you're sold, you're always going to have to answer to someone else. They're always going to have their hands in your pocket. And you're always going to be subjected to toxic work environments because people cannot see us.
And that's probably the hardest thing for us to accept because it brings up a lot of grief. People cannot see us. To be a black woman is to be a master in navigating grief. People can't see us to the same degree... Black womxn, we are skin, brown, brown. We are of the Earth. Our skin is the Earth. We are up the Earth. We are people of the earth. We are the originals. And look at what everyone is doing to the earth? How we're treating the Earth is the same way that we're treating Black womxn and how the Earth is suffering is the same way Black womxn are suffering on the inside. No one can see us. They can't, they just can't. But we're here. And we're taking our sacred space, which means we see ourselves and we say, this is how it's gonna go. And these are what our boundaries are. And this is why we're doing this leadership training. This sovereign business, reclaiming autonomy over our bodies. Over our gifts over our medicine. Training. Because it's up to us to lead the new way. They're not equipped. They're not equipped. You're equipped. And it's gonna be scary because we're excavating. We're excavating the tools that we need, that have been inside us the whole this whole time. But they've been lying dormant. They've been oppressed. They've been suppressed because we've been brainwashed into believing, "Oh, that's too complicated for us to understand. It's better. It's better that we let someone else take care of it. Because it's too hard. It's too hard. It's easier to just give them a cut of our paycheck. It's easier." Is it? Is it really? What is the toll that it's taking on your spirit? What is the toll that it's taking on your mind? What is the toll that it's taking on your body to work for people committed to self abuse? That's the difference in the work structures. It's the work structure... our old business structure is committed to self abuse. Our new work structure is committed to self love. We need to capitalize on love, not on abuse. We need to grow that and expand that. And who is better to do that more equipped to do that than you? So when you say "I'm not built for business.", when you say "Who am I to lead?", "Who am I to share my thoughts?", I Call Bull shit. You are the salve. You are cut out for this. You are made for this. You are born for this. There are white men paying people a lot of money, 100s of 1000s of dollars to teach them the skills that you naturally possess so that they can keep their leadership positions.
Your thoughts, your feelings, how you respond to the world to the stimulation around you. The things that piss you off. The things that light you up the things that trigger you and start spinning these thoughts and beliefs in your head. These conversations that you're having with your friends, with your colleagues, with your loved ones, have them out loud. That is the medicine is not meant to be you're silent in the background complaints. This is the medicine, what we're looking for rest-oration, rest- oration, oration, orate. It's in the power of our voice. It's in the power of our words. And you have to use your voice. You have to use your words. They're not meant just to be thought swirling inside of you and on the hidden pages of your journals. Content 101. If everyone just took what they were writing in their journals and shared it publicly. You would magnetize everyone to your business. That is your value. That is your goal. Stop hiding it. That's what the colonizer wants you to do. The colonizer wants you programmed into contraction, programmed into suppression. Programmed into oppression. Don't take the bait. It is our job to say "NO!". And to do the work to keep ourselves programmed into our expansion into our expression. Into our openness. Into our spaciousness. Into our taking up space. Into our using our voices and to being seen.
That's what business is. It's being SEEN. In your beliefs, your values, your desires, your gifts. It's wearing your heart on your sleeve and saying this is what I'm here for. It's the most vulnerable thing that we can engage in, which is why it's so scary, which is why it feels so scary. Which is why we say over and over again. "I'm not built for business. I'm not built for business and I'm not built for business." and it's just not true. You are built for business. You are built for leadership. And it's time and it doesn't mean busy and burnout and hustle and exhaustion. It means erotic liberation that is existing in the fullest expression of yourself and that existence is the work. That radical acceptance and existence is the work. That is the thing that is the value. That is the thing that's going to draw people to you and be like "How did you do this?" "Show me by whatever means necessary?" What or it's Taro, or whether it's coaching or whether it's yoga, or whatever it's through art. It doesn't matter what the vehicle is. It doesn't matter what the vehicle is, it just matters what the destination is. And we're looking for that deep, deep, deep, deep, deep erotic liberation, you guys. And that starts with liberating our bodies. And that's why I'm such an advocate for Black womxn working for themselves. For taking their bodies back into their hands. Their autonomy, their sovereignty, back in their hands, because as long as you work for someone else... you're going to be subjected to a toxic space. And you're not going to flourish and thrive to the extent that you could. You will flourish and thrive because we flourish and thrive anyways, but not to the fullest extent you could. You know how powerful you are. Most of us are afraid of our power. Not everyone, but a lot of us are because we see it, we know it, we feel it. And we feel how earth shattering it is. It's supposed to be. When we start taking up more space, they will be more triggered, that is supposed to happen. They were supposed to choke on us. If the environment that we presently have today is a result of us living in our oppression, and our suppression and our contraction, then when we start to take up space, that's going to shift the energy. And if the reason that they programmed us into contraction is because our full existence our full sheer power of taking up our full space was intimidating, you better believe and expect that when we start to do that, again, they're going to be intimidated again. It's up to everyone else to adjust. We are no longer shrinking ourselves and making ourselves smaller to be palatable, it is up to everyone else to adjust. Okay, so that's the lesson for today. Anytime you find yourself thinking, "I'm not built for business.", call BS, get more specific with yourself, ask yourself questions, figure out what you're really saying. Because the reasons that you think you're not built for business are actually maps. They're guides to what kind of business you are built for. That's where the treasure is. And the difference between those who succeed and those who don't, are the ones who kind of get caught up in that disheartenment of the ways that they're not built for business, and they don't follow that road to disheartenment into the vision and the possibility of the path of what could be that they're feeling. Our bodies are amazing, you guys, they show us the way. It's our body showing us where we want to go. The inconvenient part is having to listen to be like oh shit, this means I don't like this industry. This means I don't like this job. This means I have to grieve the fact that like, doing what I love is abusive in these spaces. And I have to figure out another way. It means accepting all of yourself. Because it's all there. It's all gold. It's all ready to serve you and to nourish you and to participate in your reciprocal exchange. Okay, that's all for this one. See you next time.
26 min
November 24, 2022 #4 Self-Sabotage A.K.A Colonialism, Capitalism & Perfectionism.
Today we're talking about ways that we self sabotage. I know it's such a fun topic. It's my favorite topic. I know nothing about self sabotaging. And I'm sure none of you do either. So let's just jump right into it.
FULL TRANSCRIPT PART 1
https://otter.ai/u/dyoDIBT09MLFwRUdQ1kGf8nal1Y
FULL TRANSCRIPT PART 2
https://otter.ai/u/lniZ_eJkWcHpfTJL8X3hNmVb41U
PODCASTS:
James Clear & Brené Brown, Atomic Habits Part 1
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FtUEweiSDXfHZCAPQhWEA?si=0dd922a692c141ea
James Clear & Brené Brown, Atomic Habits Part 2
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7toucYjIgxIePLEVE9oDhO?si=11b875a3e9d54874
Brené Brown #FFTs
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6UAoHu3VQJNrZcBubo4ABF?si=052dd1added144f7
Simone Seol _ Garbage Post Challenge
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Aa6si8ZYVhQqFOjnDzHBb?si=yjA9rv1jSjq69VkDkOvU2g
How to Change any Habit, Simone Seol & Melissa Teirs
https://simoneseol.mykajabi.com/habit-replay
32 min

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