How Do You Love a World in Perpetual Crisis?
These past couple of weeks my ability to hold steady in the face of ongoing states of global emergency has been taxed to its limit. Virus variants on the rise. Wildfires setting the skies ablaze, bleeding orange smoke. Forests and wildlife, homes, lives, and...
Power and Radiance with Koren Motekaitis
The first of an eight part series with Koren Motekaitis of How She Really Does It. In this conversation about power and radiance we discuss: 3:16 What is power? 11:25 Choosing how you want to live and what will support you most fully to bring your radiance into the...
On Sovereignty & Time
These past couple of years, when most of us have experienced a reality shaped almost entirely by a global pandemic that has taken millions of human and non-human lives, we’ve been directly confronted with our relationship with Time. For some of us, Time has stretched...
On the ecology of your business with Elena Brower
In this podcast interview with Elena Brower, we talk about the ecology of your business; creating a world in your business that feels like a sanctuary for yourself and others. We review much of The World of Your Business Playbook, and Elena shares from her experience...
A gift for you: Celebrate Your Business!
The story of our world crashed headlong into Stephen King territory last year. The unimagined landed on our doorstep, demanding its place, wafting wraithlike through the doors we attempted to slam on its terrifying face. The story of your business may have swerved...
Can You Really “Meet People Where They Are”?
Google the phrase “Meet people where they are” and over 12 billion results show up. Many of the articles are by leadership coaches, psychologists, therapists, educators, social activists, and other change agents. The first couple of articles I clicked on offered...
What If? Vulnerability, Trust & Making Things That Last
When you make something that’s built to last, in a culture that values immediacy, neoteny, moving fast and breaking things, the what-ifs have a field day. Yet what-ifs aren’t always trolls — they can be angels too.
What if you listened to the deeper pulse of your soul? What if you chose luscious nourishment over the mouth-feel of fast food? What if you built your business to create and offer that which will live and serve life beyond you?
Marketing Ethics & Responsible Stewardship with Simone Grace Seol
"There are no marketing tips here. No actionable advice. No tweetable soundbites. Instead, just a lot of uncomfortable questions. REALLY uncomfortable questions, like... hey, do you know if your marketing practices are exploitative? Are you sure? How would you know?"...
In the Gathering Dark, Mercy
These past nine months have inflicted brutal losses throughout our world. For some of you, loss has pierced your lives, upended your homes and businesses, taken from you people and communities whom you love. Loss has opened raw ground under your feet. All of us have...
Announcing the Deva Alchemy Certification Program
These past few weeks, I’ve been re-reading Etty Hillesum’s journal and letters, written when she was at Westerbork Transit Camp, and later at Auschwitz, where she died in 1943. She was just 29 years old. Her journals are extraordinary. They reveal a thoughtful, deeply...