Ep 58 Berry Liberman ~ Change maker, language lover, powerhouse, owning her shit

As publisher of Dumbo Feather & Co-owner of Small Giants, Berry is one heck of a leader who doesn’t shy away from wearing her heart, beliefs and the paradox of life on her sleeve. In her own words she is ‘living with meaning in this one wild & precious life’ & as a master of language this interview will challenge you, pave the road for asking questions & fill you with fierce hope. SHOW NOTESBeing a good ancestor by leaving a legacyAdulting = knowing your decisions leave an impactBeing shocked into asking essential questionsSitting in the uncomfortable truth to work things out owning your identity & bringing weight to your beliefsActivism & violence is correlative - group think thrives in this environmentThe grandchild of holocaust survivors, the daughter of a refugee entrepreneur - her intergenerational trauma gives her strength to take an opinionHer interest in the moderate centre for a radical shiftNavigating her kids through the complexity of being culturally differentBeing proximate to the issues we need to put our efforts into Why we need to have opinions despite living in a world of cancel cultureRehumanise, relocalise & embrace hard conversations respectfullyThe value of finding wisdom without actionBringing the three dimensional view of hands, head and hard to the table with kindness & generosity.Creating online communities which are nourishing & useful not toxic and depletingPulsing so you can continue to show upBuilding touchstones of people who are conscious, emotionally intelligent, empatheticMinimising the obsession with the ego. Why the hero’s journey is a false narrativeShit gets interesting when we are awake to the beauty of this incredible planetThe subtle shift of changing your thoughts from things happening ‘to’ me to things happening ‘for’ meWe can all own a regenerative, restorative future but we need to do this togetherThe fraught promise of collaborationOwnership means nothing but everythingBecome an elder by taking ownership of actionsWhy context mattersUsing AND instead of BUT so you don’t negate everything you’ve already said so you can hold multiplicity & not be reductionistLiving meaningfully in this one wild & precious life.Being inspired by language - the most incredible technology we’ve inventedQUOTES“If you keep things in, you project things out, the shadows can haunt you”“It’s easier to have a broad tent of acceptance when those you are engaging are proximate”“If I haven’t metabolised my story, I can't be of use to the future”“Australians weren’t born into hatred of the “other”LINKS YOU'LL LOVEDumbo Feather - publicationSmall Giants - AcademyAn inconvenient truth - filmNature and the human soul - Bill PlotkinDonut Economics - Kate Raworth Regen Melbourne - Small GiantsSupport the show