The Opt-In

THIS is the yoga we've been waiting for. Michelle C. Johnson, author, yoga teacher, social justice activist, licensed clinical social worker and Dismantling Racism trainer, gets into deep conversation with Aurora + Kelly about the intersections of yoga and justice, embodiment, liberation and spiritual bypassing. She has a deep understanding of trauma and the impact that it has on the mind, body, spirit and heart, and much of Michelle's work focuses on helping people better understand how power and privilege operate in their life. In a culture that literally takes marginalized people's breath away, Michelle explores how privilege, power and oppression affect the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and energy bodies. Take a deep breath... and listen.

Follow Michelle C. Johnson @mysticcassandra and @skillinaction
Her website is www.michellecjohnson.com
Buy Skill in Action here.

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in. 

When Daralyse Lyons isn’t doing splits or jumping out of airplanes, this former yoga teacher and eternal adrenaline junkie can be found with pen in hand furiously scribbling her latest novel. The "Transformational Storyteller" Daralyse talks with Aurora + Kelly about being "mixed" (half-Black, half-white) - her identity, her heritage - as both her life experience and latest children's book. Daralyse is raw and vulnerable, teaching us that we are each a rich mixture and every bit of it deserves honoring.

Buy Daralyse Lyon's children's book, I'm Mixed.

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in. 

Tech and innovation legend Nilofer Merchant is on a mission to reimagine a future of work that actually works… for all of us. We often listen to the loudest guy in the room.  Or the best looking.   And in reality, most of us are "covering!"  Few industries or brands understand what Merchant calls “Onlyness” – the experience, talent, perspective, and purpose lying untapped in our own people.  What if each of us claimed the spot on the world in which only we stand? Aurora + Kelly kick off Season 2 with a BANG -- Nilofer's insights will inspire your "Onlyness," and hopefully make you a catalyst for magnifiying everyone else's "Onlyness."

Check out Nilofer's Harvard Business Review article on Ava Duvernay. And buy her book The Power of Onlyness.

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in. 

Stay tuned for Season 2 of The Opt-in. The first episode premieres January 21, 2020.

The Opt-In podcast is two socially, generationally and ethnically divergent besties getting real with honest, messy conversations about their different experiences with racism, food systems, white supremacy, alternative healthcare and more.

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in. 

Aurora + Kelly join The Opt-In producer Rachel Ishikawa in reflecting on this past season and share their New Years Revolutions.

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
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Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in. 

Having lived the first half of his life as a Black woman and now over a decade as a Black man, Jaiden Love redefines the term intersectionality. He offers his wisdom as a Diversity and Trans Inclusion Consultant for workplaces, groups, and businesses and works closely with families who have a child or spouse/partner that is living outside of the gender binary social construct.  Jaiden is here with Aurora + Kelly to demystify why we state our pronouns, being trans, what question you can never ask him, and so much more.

Find out more about Jaiden Love and EMBRACE here.

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in. 

Joanne Ramos, author of NY Times bestselling novel The Farm, breaks down motherhood, money and meritocracy with Aurora + Kelly this week.  From dormitory housing for domestic workers, to a luxury retreat for surrogates to penthouse apartments for .0001%ers, Joanne knows just how to hook you into her imaginative world while questioning systems of privilege and deprivation.

Buy The Farm by Joanne Ramos here.

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in. 

April Harter LCSW is an antiracism therapist and coach who helps white people break the rules of antiracism in order to show up authentically in their interracial relationships. Her work is controversial because her theories go against most traditional antiracism "rules." What is her source? Love.

Find out more about April Harter here and follow her on Instagram @aprildawnharterlcsw.

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in. 

From growing up a white girl in Charlottesville, VA, to becoming a Zen Buddhist Monk for eight years to creating the first for-credit Mindfulness Course in Portland, Oregon high schools, Caverly Morgan's path has been anything but predictable, yet intriguing and purposeful. Aurora + Kelly get intimate with Caverly as she divulges everything from flipping a coin to determine whether she would stay at the monastery to reconciling her relationship with the Black woman domestic worker in her childhood home. 

Find out more about Caverly Morgan at https://www.caverlymorgan.org/

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in. 

Philadelphia 76ers partner and REFORM Alliance co-chair Michael Rubin talks with Aurora + Kelly and reveals how his friendship with Meek Mill shifted his perspective, his opt-in moment to help #FreeMeek, and ultimately, his mission to advance criminal justice reform by passing bills at the state level to eradicate laws and policies that perpetuate injustice.

Find out more information about Reform Alliance at reformalliance.com

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in.