Your Joy Matters with Kellita Maloof

Today's episode features Kellita Maloof, a trauma-informed, award-winning Performing and Teaching Artist and Conscious Burlesque Mentor, lovingly known as the Showgirl Shaman. Join us on this journey of joy, embodiment, creative expression and community! 🌱 In this episode, you'll learn: Kellita's perspective on "the grind" and its systemic nature. How the grind had its grips on her even as a little kid with a worry list. How change requires feeling, which requires more time and space. How our feelings are our most current data and information in our lives. What sensations Kellita notices in her body when she's excited about something. The offering Kellita allowed herself to change her mind about. Kellita's journey towards dance and her shift in focus from her weaknesses to her joy. How joy and pleasure is a practice and can be easier to practice when in community with others. Kellita's "gateway drug" that led her to a career in creative and healing arts. Why Kellita believes in prioritizing relationality over instrumentality like production and output leads to a more fulfilling and sustainable creative practice. Stacy shares her experience of dancing in San Francisco's Carnaval parade last year and how the joy and connection far outweighed her initial fears and doubts. What orchids and highly sensitive people have in common. Your reflection questions: 1) Where do you notice feeling joyful? 2) What does it feel like in your body? 3) How can you infuse more of that into your life? 🌱 Seeds planted in this episode: Visit Kellita's website here. Learn more about dancing in this year's San Francisco Carnaval Parade with Kellita and the Hot Pink Feathers dance troupe. Find out what your Showgirl Archetype is by taking this quiz. Join Kellita's watch party intro events on Thursday, March 21st: register for her "From the Inside Out" documentary watch party or her TEDx watch party (or both!) Connect with Kellita on Instagram here (@kellitatheshowgirlshaman). Watch Kellita's TEDx or her short documentary. Read my blog about getting ready to dance with Kellita in the San Francisco Carnaval parade last year! Read my blog about how dancing in the parade honored my value of delight. 🫘🌱🌿🌷 Are you a high-achieving people-pleaser who wants to weed out the energy-draining bullshit and cultivate your courage? Book a complimentary, no-strings-attached chemistry session with me here. Visit my website: https://www.stacyrayekellogg.com/ Let's connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/outgrowthegrind/ 🫘🌱🌿🌷 Does what you're hearing on Outgrow the Grind resonate with you? I'd love it if you'd share the podcast! And, if you're feeling extra generous, leave us a five-star review wherever you listen to your podcasts. Let's grow!