The Emergent Strategy Podcast

Omisade Burney-Scott of The Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause comes through to talk with ESII host, Sage Crump, about the difference between being older versus being an elder. Burney-Scott and Crump jokingly question the term "yelder," and reflect on the oftentimes rough edges of the liminal space. Burney-Scott's words encourage a gentle pause and (maybe) a soft example of being more truthful with ourselves.   

Transcript found here. 

"Understanding our trauma is really important, but so is understanding -- not just our resilience -- but actually, I think, also understanding the places that we were loved, wanted, cherished, lifted up..." says Spenta Kandawalla, L.A.c. Kandawalla talks to ESII this week about material well-being, reorienting around the idea of impact, and the magic and wisdom of Chinese medicine.   

Transcript found here. 

Artist, somatic coach, and medium, Daria Garina joins ESII host, Mia, to talk about what accountability looks like, especially when we're feeling shame or guilt. How can we embody accountability as a way to integrate lessons, parts of ourselves, and move towards repair?  

Transcript can be found here.   

In her 22-year career, Thelma Golden and her team have lead with an eye to the future while being in conversation with leaders past, and hands in the community and arts world. Director and Chief Curator at the The Studio Museum in Harlem, Golden joins ESII host, Sage, to talk about her road to the arts, the life and role of The Studio Museum in Harlem, and imagination in leadership. 

Transcript to this episode can be found here.   

Michaela Harrison is a transmitter of music through song. Ya'll, Michaela also has a special relationship with our whale relatives. Harrison sits down with ESII host, adrienne, to talk about catching songs, singing with whales, and expanding our relationship with water.  

Transcript can be found here.

This week on The Emergent Strategy Podcast, Lin Yee Yuan, founder of Mold Magazine joins ESII host, Mia Herndon, to talk about industrial design as a place of experimentation and problem solving when it comes to facing our food crisis. Lin Yee and her team take an expansive and community-oriented approach to design and, and, and --well, you'll just have to listen. 

Transcript to this interview can be found here. 

What does it mean to make art outside of market politics? To use art not as an accompaniment to activism movements but an integral tool in constructing a new order? Quetzal Flores, musician, community member, and artivist works through this question with ESII host Sage Crump. 

"...oftentimes when we're talking about artists I feel like we're actually talking about culture bearers, holders of tradition, holders of culture, holders of information, holders of systems within information or systems within practices that offer us so much as to how to get ourselves out of this mess," says Flores. 

The full transcript for this episode lives here. 

Season 2 is here holding hands with Spring! Also, Happy Bookday to Emergent Strategy! Five years ago today, the book dropped and has been moving between hands, circles, and spurring conversation. Sage, Mia, and adrienne reflect on what has happened over the past five years and what they are looking forward to for the upcoming season.  

Transcript to this interview can be found here.

The Emergent Strategy Podcast hosts, adrienne, Mia, and Sage debrief about and reflect on season one. We'll be back in March 2022 with season two, amazing guests, and continued emergence in conversation. 

Transcript found here. 

Witches and queer Muslim femmes, Aesha Rasheed and Selma Alamin of Southerners on New Ground (SONG) join host, Mia Herndon, for a conversation about spirit protection, teachers, and movement work as spiritual work. 

"One of the mistakes that people make is to think that spiritual care is about silencing the hard stuff, it's actually about opening space for it," says Rasheed.