In this episode of the Brave School Podcast, I speak with Rev. Briana Lynn, a Nature-Based Guide who supports youth, students, magical influencers, coaches, speakers, C-levels, change-makers. She helps them get in touch with their Spirit, integrates (heal) all past trauma, & live with their hearts WIDE open to the divine in their fullest expression of WILD love.

Rev. Briana has always had a relentless passion for life and love for people. She grew up in a mostly Latino and farming community in Southern California, which fascinated her. She now lives in a community in Belize where she’s learning how to listen and be a bridge as she deconstructs the white supremacy from her ancestors.

“The best thing that I can do with my privilege is build the stage and invite others onto it.” [16:54]

It is time we get back on the land and create a village that is good and safe for humans. To start growing our own food, to embrace cultural diversity, and talk about all the things we’ve put under the radar. We’re hungry to be whole villagers again, and it is when we align with that vision that abundance will flow.

“Anything that we’ve allocated to the government, federal, or state we have to reclaim in this lifetime to truly be spiritual people.” [30:39]

For those in the Saturn Return, continue having conversations about connecting with the earth, entrepreneurship, and abundance while spending time with those who can nourish us. Continue being conscious about your relationship, how you’re spending your time, and the rituals you’re having. Strive to get better during your Saturn Return – allow your masculine to protect the divine feminine. To build a relationship with your masculine so you don’t have to look for it externally.

“What induces orgasm is full presence, full safety, and full freedom.” [1:11:44]

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Are you ready to take ownership of who you are and make the reality you want to live? When you show up to the energy of creation, you can collaborate with the Universe/God to make the reality you want to live in.

In this episode of the Brave School Podcast, I speak with Pea the Feary, an Afrofuturist artist, and mystic. Whose work is about possibility, potential, beauty, and realization. Through their work, Pea is creating beauty while opening portals for others to do the same if they would like. She wants creatives, non-linear, multidimensional geniuses to know they can thrive in this world. You can be yourself, be free, and have power over your reality, and Pea is here to share that message.

Listen in to learn how timeline jumping allows you to create your own reality even when you’re feeling stuck. You will also know why timeline jumping isn’t selfish or wrong because it’s about accessing your reality in all regards.

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Where is the line between your story of success and the stories you see floating around on the internet? What does it look like for you to come home to your true desires and your experience in the creative process? What would it look like for you to clear your channels of the noise of voices gathering like a barrage at the door of your vision? Do you truly want it all? Or are your true desires more subtle? Finer? Specific?

I recognized that being a Strategist wasn’t a purpose of mine, it was just my ego taking over and it became clear to me that I am here to be myself. My value proposition is to hold space for creatives to breathe in their process, to have an expanded capacity.  I’m not going to run away from the unfolding that’s happening in my life; I surrender to the seed of desires in my heart.

“I am no longer defined by external standards of what success should look like or what I think I should be.” [16:43]

In this episode of the Brave School Podcast, I dive deep into some of the lessons 2021 taught me and what I’m embracing in 2022. I am committed to being in integrity with what my soul is here to do this year. Now I know I’ve come here to share the seed of my desires, and I need to be in my authority and move past the ego of being shy and small and into being bold and big. I am not here to have it all, I’m here to have the life that is the most resonating and reflective of my soul’s deepest desires. The deep desires, unlike external desires, they’re the desires that drive you to create, which is what I’m surrendering to reach mysticism.

“I am committed to being in integrity with what my soul is here to do.” [18:39]

The archetype of the mountain is about the real jewel that’s inside the mountain – to go up you must go in. You have to stop looking outward or the way other people are doing it to fulfill you. Find joy, celebration, and neutrality when you see other people experiencing their life and in their entrepreneurial journey. Then, turn inward without using their metrics as a barometer for your success.

“I’m here to have the life that is the most resonate and reflective of my soul’s deepest desires.” [26:48]

How are you setting yourself up to explore in the spring? How is the ecosystem of your soul doing? Are you exercising spiritual hygiene? What is your internal and relational ecosystem right now? Are you setting up the right modalities for your desires to happen at the right time? You have to allow your desires to happen by creating the containers that will allow you to birth them into your life. It is time to surrender to the seed of your desire by getting low and going in instead of pursuing the isolating path up the mountain.

How are the energies of January supporting the work you’re here to do on the inside? I invite you to see the seed of your desire as good and define the courage to decern the difference between your ego’s path and your heart’s path.

Dial-in.

You have a unique way of crafting a vision that is worthy of being honored and kept sacred. What would it look like to fortify your systems? To clear your channels? To structure energetic boundaries that protect your sense of devotion to your vision and creative practice?

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Are you a highly sensitive person and often wonder why you’re so different from most people? Well, according to the author of The Highly Sensitive Person book, Dr. Elaine Aron, it is perfectly normal to be a highly sensitive person, and it’s found in 15-20% of the population.

Highly sensitive people are unique and have “superpower” abilities that are mostly not welcome in our world. But did you know you don’t always have to run everyone’s energy or take care of everyone, especially as an entrepreneur? You need your energy to do the work you’re here to do and fulfill your purpose by existing in your own creative process.

In this episode of the Brave School Podcast, I share my highly sensitive and intuitive experience from childhood to suffering in the corporate world to building my nervous system resilience to thrive. I talk about the tools that I picked along the way to help me connect and feel the true power of my creative voice without overriding my nervous system.

“My interests lie in connecting with my body and with the earth.” [14:21]

It is important that as a highly sensitive and or intuitive person, you have tools that allow you to be yourself in the world. How are you protecting yourself from all this energy that’s being directed towards you? Do you have any set energetic boundaries, and how are you showing them up? Are you allowing yourself to be present in your body? Remember that you’re a special powerful being that can bring support to yourself without feeling like you’re a victim of the world because you’re not.

“The world is going to figure it out more when we allow ourselves to be who we are and stay strong in that.” [33:06]

Listen in to learn how to allow yourself to discern what isn’t for you and give yourself what is good for you. You will also learn the importance of having the courage to stay authentic to yourself to make the world a better place for you as a highly sensitive person.

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In this episode of the Brave School Podcast, we sit down with Eso Tolson to talk about how design systems, style, and standards can be used to inspire a sense of wholeness in the culture.

Eso is a lettering artist and brand strategist who creates work rooted in affirmation, pride, and community that allows people to feel safe and inspired. At Cheers Creative, a Memphis-based brand and web consultancy, he teaches branding through strategy and storytelling for creative professionals, thought leaders, and social causes. As a lover of community, pop culture, and inner-city life, he uses lettering to highlight current events and promote positive social messages and affirmations.

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to consistently attract clients that are amazing to be in a creative process with? Clients, who feel values-aligned and are willing to trust the containers you've created together for transformation to occur? Or, perhaps you're someone who is at the very beginning stages of your entrepreneurial journey and you'd like to begin the process of identifying the clients you'd like to work with. In this episode, Michael and Daje identify five strategic components for attracting resonant clients:

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Slow Branding is an invitation to connect with the real-life stories your community of customers are living.  Gone are the days where white-walled feeds hold long-term relevance. And though there's nothing wrong with constructing highly aesthetic Instagram feeds and investing in expensive visual identity systems and packaging, if it does not center the relationships that we're developing with the people we're serving, the stories they are living in, or the resources they are looking for, aesthetic marketing is little more than manipulation. Slow Branding is about the willingness to slow down and listen to our audience's real desires and challenges while speaking wildly specific truths to their needs.

Despite popular belief, your brand is not your logo. It’s not your color palette or photography or the aesthetics in your Instagram feed. Your brand is the story your customers believe about your business. Slow Branding is an invitation to see how the story of your business intersects with the real stories your customers are living. Profound beauty and real solutions can be found in the tensions your customers are experiencing. Your brand is the story that meets them there.

In Slow Branding, you'll learn to...

- Craft a value proposition that speaks the language of your community’s desires and needs. - Conduct human-centered market research that enables your brand to provide relevant solutions to the right people. - Deepen the relationship between your business and your community with intentional culture, iterative design, and somatic wisdom.

We are wired to connect and be a part of a global ecosystem. Strategy is not about finding and conquering what we think is ours to take. It's about becoming integrated with all that is and all that surrounds us for the sake of creating more beauty, more humanness in the world.

This is a re-post from my interview with Miranda of Mariposa Journal where we discussed Dharmic Creative Work. Enjoy!

From the Healer Series:

Daje aka @thestorydoula is an Intuitive Strategist & Creative Process Guide, the creator of Brave School and y'all they are so, so much more. In this episode, Daje so poetically speaks about:

Free resources from Mariposa:

Guide on Herbal Nervines: Herbs to Drop into the Body.

5 Day Back2Nature Challenge.

There was a moment not too long ago when I was feeling rather emotional and a little lost. I was facing so many challenges in my business. I felt like a failure as a leader and a CEO. I was being so hard on myself. I felt untrustworthy and curious about why God had called me to this work in this field. Me, a college drop out with half an education. Me, a femme. A woman. Skin, black. No support systems outside of my immediate partnership and chose family. I could see myself spiraling into a story of victimhood. My mentor told me to go outside and surrender my body to the earth. They told me, "Go and lay in the dirt. Naked, if you can. Surrender. Let the earth restructure you."

ABOUT SLOW BRANDING

Slow Branding is an invitation to connect with the real-life stories your community of customers are living.

Despite popular belief, your brand is not your logo. It’s not your color palette or photography or the aesthetics in your Instagram feed. Your brand is the story your customers believe about your business. Slow Branding is an invitation to see how the story of your business intersects with the real stories your customers are living. Profound beauty and real solutions can be found in the tensions your customers are experiencing. Your brand is the story that meets them there.

In Slow Branding, you'll learn to...

- Craft a value proposition that speaks the language of your community’s desires and needs.

Failures, Pivots and Challenges are a Natural Part of the Creative Process

So many creatives carry a wound of abandonment and a fear of rejection around walking through failure. There's this fear that if we fail, make mistakes, or create frustration with our clients through the mistakes we make, that we are doomed to be outcast and rejected forever. So many of us have experienced such intense cases of abandonment and rejection that we even believe, fully, that this experience of being cast out is something we deserved––we called for it. We "deserved" to have it happen. We deserve failure. It's deserved punishment.

But this is not true. Your failures do not define you. You define you. You are a self-defined being. And when you decide who you are, will you allow your body to follow suit?

Mediation is an intentional move to change the conditions and dynamics of a relationship. In many situations, it is a move from reactive and chaotic, dysfunctional conflict into intentional and potentially generative conflict.

From Holding Change by Adrienne Maree Brown, pg. 126, Intentional Adaptation Mediation

These mistakes are not your identity. And the more quickly you can come to terms with the fact that the story of your "wholeness" actually does include all of you. And not just the brightest, most vibrant. The more quickly you can see yourself, the more options will present themselves to you. There are as many options as there are aspects to your being.

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Sometimes, it's not even about jealousy. Sometimes, you just don't even have a frame of reference for your own deservingness.

This was also me.

Doing excellent work for less than what was equitable. I wanted to “earn” my stripes in “the industry”. But the stripes I earned were deeper levels of poverty and hustling, giving away my high-quality effort and seeing everyone else (especially my clients) as more worthy than me.

This was backwards. Upside down. But it’s a big story in our paradigm.

This is why I believe so many women are on mission to help others raise their rates and break out of this matrix–this bogus story that some invisible industry god is requiring you to pay your dues to "the industry" before you can even think about affording to ethically receive the levels of equitable resources that are required to build sovereignty and sustainability.

If that's you, be kind to yourself for "missing the assignment". You can open your eyes now. See it all in front of you. It’s real. It’s possible. Be honest about what you can do. Own what you bring. Your equity is possible.

I hope this episode encourages you to keep going.

By the way, I’m opening Brave Session again to only 10 spots this season. Find a link to how you can book a 90-minute intuitive strategy session with me here: https://www.thestorydoula.co/brave-sessions. After we sell out, I’ll be closing this container until the next quarter.

The Building Brave Membership is also still open for enrollment. You can learn more about it here: https://www.braveschool.co/building-brave-2