26. On privilege and power, spirituality and womanhood

Dipping into the expedition a third of the way through. Aparna Uppaluri and Ana Luz Porzecanski have repositioned privilege as responsibility and power as energy. Aparna has got me through my struggles on the link between motherhood and leadership with the word motherness. Ana Luz has brought love into the equation, and she is playing with ideas around cycles in leadership, cyclical being a concept very familiar to women. Katya Guryeva thinks spirituality is avoided by leaders who want certainly in things. And Katya shares what she has learnt from Melissa Kwee about giving.This episode gives you a sense of what three members of the expedition are thinking, where their thinking is going, what they are discovering and what remains opaque or clouded for them. And they share some of their hunches. And it’s only 3 members speaking of the 24 members! So the expedition is alive and well!Note, I shared the other day that Erin Robinson and I are going to do a podcast episode on education and specifically speculate why if a school hits a major traumatic incident, you better hope that the head is a woman. Immediately Elsa Donohue got in touch and offered her amazing insights. So she is now part of the episode. It’s fabulous when we hear from you, please shout out whenever. Thank you ….