PODCAST · business
PowerPivot
by Leela Sinha
If you're the founder, you're the futureThe easiest future of work is the future you create at the beginning.The one that you establish when you start a company.Everything else is a battle to change established norms. Systems like to stay the same.So make one you want to keep--sounds easy, no?Join me, Leela Sinha, for a showcase of the best ideas out there for changing the way we work (and live) for the better. If you're a leader, if you're a founder, if you're an executive who just doesn't believe the way it's always been is the way it has to be, this podcast is for you. We'll talk ethical growth, real change, and networking that really IS about relationships. We'll get creative about solving the problems that make people quit by deconstructing the assumptions that keep us stuck and asking over and over: where does the power need to pivot? How could this be better...and the big one: where do I have the power to change it?If you're sick of feeling like you have to trade in yo
Episodes
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Andy Didorosi and Mutiny Motors
In which we talk about the power of community, the magic of open source, and the many ideas of Andy Didorosi including his open source truck project based in Detroit. Learn More at the Mutiny Motors website: https://shop.mutiny.fm/about-andy Connect with Leela or Lisa: Leela Sinha,...
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Local Ocean
In which we discuss Local Ocean, a restaurant on the coast of Oregon that specializes in local fish and sustainable wages. What is a sustainable wage? How does it work when the local economy is under strain? How do we support local fisheries and manage expectations? Visit Local Ocean:...
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Judge and co
In which Leela and Lisa discuss Judge and Co, a small landlord with a big heart, and the need for including people with a carceral system history in housing and job opportunities Judge and Co on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/judgeandco_/ Facebook:...
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Mr. Mixer with cohost Lisa Robbin Young
In which we talk about the FABULOUS repairability-based business @MrMixer316 has going, where he fixes KitchenAid mixers. We talk right to repair, loyalty, brand trust, and more. Mr. Mixer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@MrMixer316 Leela Sinha, aleixianoconsulting.com Lisa Robbin Young,...
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Detroit 75 Kitchen with cohost Lisa Robbin Young
On this first episode of season 3, Leela and Lisa chat about the great work Chef Mike and his brother Ahmad are doing with their sandwich truck/shop Detroit 75 Kitchen: taking good care of their people, growing their business, making strategic choices and more Learn more at: Detroit 75 Kitchen,...
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Interview: Doctora Nicole Cabrera Salazar
"In the colonial white supremacist system, there is no community. There's only power, but there's no community. But that doesn't mean that we have to abide by that model. We can create a new model. So in a way, it's exciting. But it's also terrifying. Because what does that look like without a...
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Getting Ahead
it's six am and I'm trying to beat the clock. Where do climate change and immediacy and action and just wanting time for oneself collide? A short poem.
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Coming Back Messy
I'm ending the hiatus, but I'm coming back a little less polished. substack: http://leelasinha.substack.com
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recruiting and delegation
"Once you use intensive and expansiveness to develop a job description, to do some hiring, to do some delegation, you can't unsee it. Once you've seen it, it's everywhere. And it's not the only metric you use. But it is a metric that you use consistently. So that you can imagine who will be most...
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Interview: Paul Baron
Paul Baron: "what they really liked about the wall printer, which is what I'm most proud of, is that every customer we have, becomes a new company. Everybody that buys a wall printing machine establishes a company around this machine, or they've added a revenue stream to an existing company." Let...
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honoring the intensity of intensive grief
"This is the hard part about being intensive: that people have told us all our lives that we're dangerous. And mostly, I will tell you that we are not. That we just need to find the right structures. But the size of our emotional experience means that sometimes we can push ourselves over the…
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the beauty of the click
"It's a spark. It's a glimmer. It's the thing that happens that keeps us on the phone for three hours.... It's the shimmer under the skin. It's the joy. It's the relief." In the last episode we talked about some of the beautiful variations within intensives and within expansives. Now let's talk...
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same but different: sief type variations
"How do you get from generalizations to the specificity that allows you to interact with a particular human being that's across from you?" Our theme of "Love the One You're With" continues... but let's not make any big assumptions. Intensiveness can be a fairly influential characteristic, but we...
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prediction reduces fire drills
"How do you know who it is that's across from you? What they need, what they want. How you can take care of them, while also under stress and also trying to get a lot of work done. That's where SIEF comes in." Continuing our theme of "Love the One You're With." Life is unpredictable, and people…
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love the ones you know (and break the Golden Rule doing it!)
"often the breakdown between us is that we don't communicate with the same kinds of expressions of care. And when we don't use the same expressions of care, that means that it's harder to recognize when someone is caring for you, or caring about you." This is the second episode on our theme of...
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responding to "What Works:" are we gimmicks?
"predictability makes people feel comfortable. It makes them feel known." Let's take a brief pause from our theme of "Love the One You're With," and go on a little side quest. Tara McMullin's excellent podcast "What Works" recently dropped an episode called "In Defense of Gimmicks." (Click here…
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love who, now? Identifying intensives and expansives
"we have this built-in system of contempt. It's a mutual reciprocal system of contempt in our culture between intensives and expansives." It's February, and our theme this month is "Love the One You're With." And what we mean by that is, thinking about how to love and appreciate and work with...
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when way opens to rest
"When we are desperate to rest, and we don't rest, it sets off every alarm bell in our system.... Rest is the space of becoming." Wrapping up our theme of the tension between the need to do and the need to rest. Last time we talked about 'the way opens'- taking the first step, so that the next…
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way will open
"How much are we really going to trust that we take one step and "way will open." And when way opens, how de we trust that we'll go that way?" There is a Quaker saying that we take one step and the way will open. Which we can think of, we may not be able to see the entire path from where we…
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the very beginning
"Beginning often begins with imagining. We think and we visualize and we imagine and we research. And it's possible to let the research become a stall tactic. But there's also a lot of value to that research, there's a lot of value to that thinking time, to that imagining time." Last episode we...
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the fine art of picking... something.
"Find the small tasks that are actually the tasks, and then just do one of them. And then do a different one. And honor your limits." Getting unstuck, figuring out where to start... sometimes there is so much to do, so much even that we want to do and find pleasure in doing, that choosing where…
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aftercare for intensive release
"Adrenaline and cortisol are there to help us run away from tigers. Literally. Now we have all of this adrenaline built up. We have all this cortisol built up. And we don't know what to do with it. Neither does our body. And so how do we blow it off? And then how do we take care of ourselves…
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releasing the pressure (blow the carbon out)
"what do we do with with that... fizz? The fizz in the bottle that's been shaken that is going to explode? What do we do with it? ... what I needed, was to let off steam. I needed abandon. I needed to stop being careful, I needed to stop being cautious. I needed to stop placing so many fences...
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making (but not emptying) a space
"What we still don't have is the proverbial clear desk. That "clear mind-clear desk" thing actually puts me into a state of panic." Thinking about making space- and how 'making space' does not mean 'making emptiness.' Also- the full Saga of the Sit-Stand Desk. Here is the photo of Leela's desk:...
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making space for making mannequins...and brains
"We all need to maybe finish a couple things that have been with us for so long, that we can't remember not having them. So that we can have space. Not even so we can add something new to the list. Just to have space." We all, each of us, have a lot of balls in the air. How do we create the space...
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Interview: Dr. Christina Helou
"I coach folks on tapping into wonder and play so that they can experience more pleasure and joy in their lives, in alignment with who they are authentically and unapologetically. And knowing who you are, unapologetically, translates into improvements in your more meaningful relationships and how...
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a gordian knot approach to demand avoidance
"The demand avoidance means that I can neither rest nor do something that I want to do. And so I end up doing the things that I do not want to do." Pathological Demand Avoidance, or, as we here at the Intensives Institute prefer to call it: Persistent Demand for Autonomy. That bone-deep pressure…
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Interview: Sara Rhiannon, the Quit Sugar Coach
"Shame is a paradigm that distances us from our power. It's a paradigm within ourselves that, when internalized, it keeps us from recognizing our own experience in a variety of ways, and also recognizing our own experience as valuable.... There's this whole culture that tells us to love…
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case study: planning an accessible retreat
"...and this is the important part for us as intensives. As soon as we figure out what's happening, we can begin to prepare mentally and sometimes systemically and sometimes structurally, for whatever comes next. And now I need to know that I borrowed all of that energy and all of the spoons from...
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interview: Dr. Matt Zakreski
"This is where we shift from critical to curious. Isn't it worth asking the question, what would drive a kid to lose control that way? It's so easy to be critical. But you're gonna get a lot better return on your investment for being curious." Meet Dr. Matt Zareski (he/him), clinical…
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don't blow it up (unless it's time)
"This is one of the times of year where we all have to be exquisitely careful of our own inspiration." Here in the late hours of the year, it can be tempting to dismantle, to take apart, to solve a dead end with dynamite. Especially if you're an intensive, and you don't know if you're entirely...
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Interview: Anuradha Kowtha
"When we want to do this sacred work of uprooting injustice and inequity where we're seeing it, we're not just doing it for us. We're holding a space for change to be different." Meet Anuradha Kowtha (they/them), founder of The Kowtha Constellation and a partner in Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds.…
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I do not dream of labor
"I do not dream of labor. But I do dream of my mere existence being beautiful and interesting enough for a small child to stare and wonder for hours." Let's think about how our work differs from our labor. Let's think about how we build bridges and buffers and install drivers to ease…
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this is your reminder
"This is your reminder to remove one barrier. This is your reminder to find the thing that you already did. This is your reminder to love on yourself in a little tiny ways...." Thoughts on removing- and sometimes adding- barriers to help us do the the things we need to do. Especially when that...
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this morning I lay still
"It's not that I don't want the art that my body can make. It's just that sometimes it's been too hard to get there." On asking our bones and muscles what they need, and pausing to listen to them before we launch ourselves out of bed in the morning. Also- our bodies as complicated sewing…
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faster to pleasure
"You're quicker than you think, you're faster than you think. We're intensives. When we really do get focused, we really do move fast...." Finding that focus sometimes depends on choosing a single, solvable problem, one step at a time. And we can do that. Really. Transcript and notes:...
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Dishwasher
"Can I tell you something? Use the tools. Use the tools you have. Use them all the way...." We'll start with the dishwasher- but you know this isn't just about the dishwasher. This is about committing ourselves to really use the tools that we have learned can help us, and to using them fully. For...
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picking early
"It's a hard thing for us as intensives, to let go of our original vision. And sometimes we get stuck." What do we do when we have to shift from plan A to plan B or even to plan Q? What do we do when we have to pick the tomatoes early? Transcript and notes:...
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Interview: Samara Bay
Samara Bay: "When we tell a story about a tiny moment, and how it impacted us, it is actually the most revealing thing of our character we could possibly do. Where we come from does not win over what we did in a hard moment." Meet Samara Bay, who coaches rising business leaders, political…
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taking time
"Forcing ourselves, as intensives, to take time and energy and focus never goes well. Expansives call that discipline, but we call that torture. Don't torture yourself." On the virtues and challenges of taking one's time- and how feeling in flow and getting things just right, sometimes doesn't…
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burnout
"You can do a lot things with ash, but what you can't do is get more heat out of ash. Because all of the heat, all of the calories stored, have been released. Often we get to dive into a project and work on it really hard. But then we need comp time. We need the break. If we don't take the break...
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tomatoes I didn't plant
"There was one seed that just got it into its head that it was going to take over the world. And it did." Growing things that will thrive in the conditions that exist; and also, creating the conditions that allows us to thrive and grow. Sometimes in unexpected places. Transcript and notes:...
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intimate with sharpness
"If you have complicated grain, if you're complicated, you need extremely sharp tools and extremely skilled craftspeople.... You need to understand the sharpening as a part of the process, not an interruption of the process." CN: contains some discussion of the events of September 11, 2001 in the...
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gifts
"Here's what I want to give you. I want to give you the low slant of light as fall creeps in. I want to give you a double handful of freshly picked raspberries too soft to do anything but eat immediately. I want to give you the persistent, ridiculous abundance of dandelions. I want to give you...
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the harvest
"When it comes time for us to harvest, when the air and the sun and the water and the sky all shift in the direction of fall- it is also time to turn toward rest." Harvest can bring a sense of certainty- "here is what I have, this is what I don't. Now I can prepare for what will come. Here's what…
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nourishing ourselves
"We're going to build connections, we're going to build community. We're going to build common care into the fabric of our lives. And I know this sounds like more work. But this is the nourishment we need." Sometimes we need stiffening, resistance. Sometimes we need to move with the energy of...
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the habit of pleasure
"My most effective habit building behavior is to build it around pleasure. I have to tap into that future pleasure, that sensation of possibility of pleasure, in order to build the habit." On building habits around pleasure, both for ourselves and in the spaces where we have power, so that our...
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disarming urgency
"Reminders that I have choices have saved my life, literally and figuratively, so many times. You have choices. Remember, always, that you have choices." Our environments are full of urgency, real and manufactured. The manufactured urgency of a flash sale or a sales funnel. The real urgency of...
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orchid
"I learned when I was a child that it was better to be lichen. It was better to be hardy and durable and scrappy, and a little rough. It was better to look inedible, lest you get eaten. But what if I'm an orchid?" You're tough. You're resilient. But what if... what if you are also an orchid, who...
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trust and persistence
"There's something about trust, about being able to trust that something or someone will just be there, that we have lost in this whirlwind of creation and destruction and absorption of companies. It's like we're living through a sort of corporate Big Bang. With so much matter flying around with…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
If you're the founder, you're the futureThe easiest future of work is the future you create at the beginning.The one that you establish when you start a company.Everything else is a battle to change established norms. Systems like to stay the same.So make one you want to keep--sounds easy, no?Join me, Leela Sinha, for a showcase of the best ideas out there for changing the way we work (and live) for the better. If you're a leader, if you're a founder, if you're an executive who just doesn't believe the way it's always been is the way it has to be, this podcast is for you. We'll talk ethical growth, real change, and networking that really IS about relationships. We'll get creative about solving the problems that make people quit by deconstructing the assumptions that keep us stuck and asking over and over: where does the power need to pivot? How could this be better...and the big one: where do I have the power to change it?If you're sick of feeling like you have to trade in yo
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