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The Yay Show

by Lisa Clapper

Welcome to The Yay Show! The Yay Show is a live culture effervescent ever-present you decide if it’s evanescent experiment. A podcast. A spoken word walking talking place and way for you and the poet (that's me) to #FeelYourYay #BringYourYay into the world with voice and choice. All that poetry and talking out loud comes from hours upon hours upon ours of conversation and connection, listening and intersection. Taking it in. Letting it out. Questioning the questions. Please join me. Welcome in. Welcome out. Welcome up!#FeelYourYay#BringYourYay#TheYayCollective#LeadHerShipYay

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Episodes

  1. Concurrent grief and joy at the well and in the swamp

    In this episode, I share feelings about the latest U.S. mass shooting at a Nashville school. There's some spontaneous poetry, an excerpt from She's a poet by Lisa Clapper ©️2022, and an invitation to #FeelYourYay and #BringYourYay in joy and grief and anywhere and everywhere along the spectrum....

  2. The Great LeadHERship Awakening Book Yay: part 1

    Hello! It's Lisa Clapper, back after a year with a new Poetic Yay Show. In this episode, I welcome you and me back and greet spring, Aries season, Ramadan, and share the first couple of tracks from my chapter. Not to mention #womenshistorymonth which I like to think of as womens HER story all the...

  3. Women's Day (International) 2022

    This is how I felt this morning about international women's day. No high fives and hugs. No sweeping under rugs. This is for the women of the world and especially the ones in Ukraine.

  4. Yay! I am Called back to the Yay show by Sonya Renee Taylor

    Hi! Today (just now, Right now, l was listening to Sonya Renee Taylor on How to end the war with your body on ten percent happier https://10percenthappier.app.link/JyHsRZgDHib I am compelled to stop in the middle and shed my own inner light back into the world via this Yay Show. Sharing some...

  5. My misuse of Namaste (No more NamasYay)

    This is where and how I stop saying something that was always cultural appropriation. And how I got there/here. With special massive yayful thanks to these wonderful and enlightening/enlightened/visionary/teachers and women for guiding me: Susanna Barkataki (@Susanna Barkataki)...

  6. Chapter 6: Sometimes a podcast is just about taking it all in (and noticing Yay and privilege)

    Process it afterwards. Read. Listen. All your senses. New guide! https://andreacanaan.blog. New storyteller creators. https://www.connectwithstory.com https://mavisstaples.com. The audre lorde project. https://alp.org/about/audre. Plenty of privilege alerts. The year of the pandemic. The year of...

  7. Chapter 5: Decategorize. Decolonize. Rehumanize. From some of the spaces I’ve situated

    There’s a lot of alchemy here mucho Yay! https://www.ber-hendawilliams.com and http://adriennemareebrown.net. Plus I go off the cornice (again) with Karen Scheuner https://www.mindful-nutrition.com. More mentions to come.

  8. Chapter 4: The most Yayful thing I heard today

    Was this on World Cafe this am: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/19/936724490/hear-the-inspirational-protest-songs-of-the-resistance-revival-chorus?ft=nprml&f=216835831. Go listen now! And though it’s a new day and two of my favorite radio stations will be onto the next episode please consider...

  9. Chapter 3: Keep going forward. Keep calm. Keep Counting...on the force multiplier of human connection (non spotify version)

    It's November 6th and the counting continues after the election. Instead (or in addition to) writing, and reading, and listening, I bring you a multivariate Yay Show created and edited over two days. Plenty of perspective, many references, much Yay. Something to check out (perhaps) between your...

  10. Chapter 2 yay ways: walking as a spiritual warrior with Krista, Vanessa, Morgan, Maya, and Oprah.

    I walk live! with @girltrek day 8: spiritual warrior Maya Angelou. Check it out wherever you take in your podcasts. https://girltrek.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6aa11fa786466642f2188db2e&id=d26d50124c&e=ec921a139d And I walk in person in the light of the golden gate park with Krista...

  11. The Way of Yay Chapter 1: Taking in the Yay

    Hi all! I'm back with some Yay! Naming this season in the moment, playing in the Yay, admitting likely to go back to other things like Changing Course. Especially since they're already recorded. I'm calling this "The way of Yay" because it came to me a few days ago and it may just become the…

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  12. Changing Course Episode 14: I skipped a day to face my defensiveness and privilege. Here I am.

    Continuing my journey and f**king up and denying it and appreciating partners, coconspirators, friends, teachers and other fallible humans just like me who open me up even as I close down so I can open back up and let some yay back into the cracks and emanate back. Just a couple of links today…

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  13. Changing Course Episode 13: A quick summer solstice moment of poetry and pink privilege

    There a sunset and a solstice and a poem and deepening recognition of privilege of gratitude highness. Plus I listen to the code switch podcast. Checking it out. You could start here. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/code-switch/id1112190608

  14. Changing Course Episode 12: Juneteenth songs and meditations and yoga and shared humanity and poetry

    These are some of the BIPOC people I listened to, read and was taught fathoms by on this Juneteenth day in 2020 the year of Covid-19 (that’s two nineteen sans two twenties if you’re counting) Discovered on Patreon/the show up Juneteenth Edition Amelia Ray, Madison McFerrin and Dee 1 Support them…

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  15. Changing Course Episode 11: I persist in showing up 1 or 2 conversations at a time

    I conversate about https://instagram.com/parlay.house?igshid=1h9mi74xj4ebc In conversation with two members of the Parlay House community, Adimika Arthur as a Black woman and Carla Vernón https://instagram.com/carlainspired?igshid=150ea26jxrqw6 as an Afro Latina woman tell animated and normal...

  16. Changing Course Episode 10: Releasing, Writing, and Realigning on the Yay Road of Anti-Racism

    The blue sky clears and the green energy lifts on a different kind of day, more intimate. Namasyay! #allyship #antiracism #wakeup #growup #showup #antiracist #gratitude #wakeupandsayyay

  17. Changing Course Episode 9: A podcast about how I leaned from two amazing Black women on a podcast

    And I learned that Dr. Akilah Cadet https://instagram.com/changecadet?igshid=1pmwrtyy6danv pronounces her name “Kah-day” the French way (which is a good way to remember it rhymes wirh way. And was blown away by her conversation with Adrienne Kimball of The Melanated Soul....

  18. Yay Show Changing Course Episode 7: How do we know and see the people in our neighborhood?

    What do you wear to stay alive when you run? Or do you even think about it? Here are some ways I saw two different neighbors differently. And neighborhoods. And conversations. Said, unsaid, seen, seen differently. Messing up. Plus studies and conversations about race and neighborhoods from Robin...

  19. Yay Show Changing Course Episode 6: Surfer girl vibes, white fragility, and belonging

    Day 6...Listen Up! Sebene Selassie knows You Belong. We are not separate which is why we can no longer hit the snooze button on systemic white supremacy and racism and anti-black-ism In America. And there’s a wake up moment about the meaning of a kind of hair-spiration that comes after a shower...

  20. Yay Show Changing Course: Episode 5: Being the light and letting go of smallness for allness

    I continue unabated. Lifted up once again by https://instagram.com/janayathefuture?igshid=1oovsbtw0wiue and their Sunday sermon https://www.instagram.com/tv/CBMbcotnzc_/?igshid=4otmacnfhqbf to step into my power and light as a storyteller. I am commiting to doing what Robin DiAngelo talked about…

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  21. Yay Show Course Episode 4: Stop defending whiteness and start uplifting humanity.

    There’s more goodness gained from Tressie McMillan Cottom (excerpts from Thick), Kat Vellos, and Ijeomo Oluo. All mentioned on episodes and episode notes in the last few days. Plus some yogic insight from Sara Silberstang. Much more to come in the Yay zone where we’re getting more comfortable…

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  22. Yay Show Changing Course: Episode 3: just another day making sense of the this world and stepping in

    I made a commitment to become anti racist and do a yay show every day for 30 days (the yay show part is 30 days, the anti-racist will be for the rest of my life). It’s day 3 and The NY Times filled me with perspectives of black men and women last night. It’s painful. And real. And awkward. And...

  23. Yay Show Changing Course: Episode 2: Yayful (human) energy for learning and becoming an Anti-racist

    Hi! I’m back and I’m going to do this for 30 days in a row (I think I just said something like this out loud). I’ll be talking as me, the human, (yes, I did that yesterday too but it was a little louder) about my journey to become an anti racist and other lessons and musings and joy and...

  24. Yay Show Changing Course: The first episode in becoming an antiracist (for me) and maybe for you.

    Welcome to a new kind of yay where being human still matters and #blacklivesmatter #antiracism #antiracist #amplifyingblackvoices and #amplifyingmelanatedvoices matter and must be heard, listened to, and amplified. Welcome to a new Yay where I use this platform of my voice as a way to elevate and...

  25. Yay Show 156: Words amd meanings and creating something (this!) even if it’s not the other thing!

    May 27: happy birthday Colm Lynch. This one’s for you and everyone else I love (all y’all) on the Yay Road. Bread crumbs of interesting and creativity and wandering of curiosity and procrastination and the usual random assortment of stories and tangents that don’t necessarily come back to a…

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  26. Yay Show 155: Subtle simple nuanced pleasures - noticing, sharing, yaying!

    Come on a ride with me into the little simple stuff of this yay day. Shout outs to ten percent happier Jeff Warren and Dan Harris and Sarah Knight author of the “no fucks given guides” and “fuck no” and the Wing where I watched her in conversation with Erica Williams Simon. Very lovely stuff! Not...

  27. Yay Show 154: Taking heart with the next good step and a plan just for today. May the fourth be...

    May the fourth be with you! Inspired by a double dose of Rick Hanson via tenpercent.com I ask myself “What I can do oh to feel whole oh and respond to what life is asking of me oh? Here are the 8 prompts that I came up with today: what can I do to...1. Continue 2. Start 3. Take heart 4. Do my…

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  28. Yay Show 153: Letting intention find me (you can’t rush your sourdough rise)

    A shelter in place musing on everything from winds of uncertainty and intention to soulpreneur, sourdough and chai. Not to mention (to mention actually): 1. Alicia Keyes on Brené Brown’s “Unlocking Us” podcast on her book “More Myself”...

  29. Yay Show 152: A brief excursion (brightly masked) into the great yay open baked up surprises

    Title pretty much says it. I’m back and out for a quick errand to get some bread baking supplies and make human contact (#physicaldistancing of course) and it stoked my yay and love of humanity and connection. Come along!

  30. Yay Show 151: a little novel Yay walk and talk (alone, 72 inches away) and in place.

    Shelter yourself with a dose of yay! No answers. No promises. Plenty of meander. Take an ear gander with me. We are all in this together.

  31. Yay show 150: a small solace of yay in these strange days. Take heart!

    It’s a mini yay I’m the middle of the strange days. I offer my voice and heart and soul and verse. To share. With you. The universe of yay. Be safe love! Links and mentions...Karen Colligan is Keeping it Real and so might you...

  32. Yay Show 149: Women’s history and presence notes and strong statements at the beginning of March!

    I catch the fire of Yay and I follow some trails about women and gender as only the gendered, living, breathing woman I am can. A bit of tech difficulty towards the end nicely filled in with background music :) #Imperfect #I'mperfect. #showupbeforeyou're ready! Can I get a hell yay? #HellYay!...

  33. Yay Show Strategy Series #3: Strategic procrastination, improvisation, pausing and storytelling

    Spurred by and thanks to https://www.adamgrant.net/originals, I dive into strategic procrastination and stories, including methods, anecdotes, and moments about that. Workshops, YayStorms, #oratoricalfragments. And contrasting that with “first/most important things first.” Listen to the whole...

  34. Yay Show 148: The magic of a treasure trail and trove of observations of yay on a mid-Feb, mid-day

    It’s just regular life y’all seen through the yay lens, out loud and in here. Come along on this ride with me. You’re welcome here!

  35. Strategy Series #2: Openness & Vulnerability: the secret sauce of strategy and connection

    Check out how a meditation about strength and insight connects to my experience and insight in strategy and uncovering and expressing Yay! You cannot tell the real story if you don’t let people in.

  36. Yay Show 147: Mulling The Assembly and The Wing + a lot of yayspiration in middles of podcasts, books and Brené

    This is a two parter almost a week apart. Where I use the six thinking hats to make a decision about joining The Assembly or The Wing sort of (more on those hats in this episode). Listen to find out or just guess! Yayspirational beginnings and middles I'm in the beginning and middle of: Hurry...

  37. Yay Show 146: Mossy FriYays staircases of growth mindsets and soul-centric connection

    Post parlay house effects. Healthy habit musings. As an artisan in the wild orchard. Becoming. Sharing my unique and authentic gifts. Talking about all of it. Which is the very expression of the gift of sharing this yay road of revelation with friends!

  38. Yay Show Strategy Series Launches Today!

    #yayfulstrategy told in stories!

  39. Yay Show Launches New Strategy Series: Starting with...6 Thinking Hats

    It’s a new series. It’s all about strategy. The kind you can use. In your real life. Right now. And it starts with one of my favorite tools, Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats. Go to yaycollective.com/show to download the worksheet! Let me know the yay you do, think, feel, explore, intuit, and...

  40. Yay Show 145: remembering two yayful women, Rusty & Muz, yayfully

    A quick remembrance of two wonderful women who are no longer with us. One lost in January 19 one in 20. Yayify on wherever they be!

  41. Yay Show 144: Where I explain how and when and (attempt to understand) why men explain things to me! Happy New Yay!

    I am so ready for 2020! Thanks to Rebecca Solnit, whose book I just bought at Copperfield and will read so hard! http://rebeccasolnit.net/book/men-explain-things-to-me/ Plus I'm doing the New Year's Meditation Challenge through the Ten Percent Happier app. Join me - it's free! Download the Ten...

  42. Yay Show 143: Traffic lights & weather reports as rubrics for things other than traffic and weather

    Here I drive and talk and walk and talk and recount ways to communicate meaningfully, how we feel, what we need, what’s underneath...stuffed I’ve picked up along the way. And how we can all pick up and discern meaning and wisdoms in our own ways. Mucho thanks to Oren jay sofer...

  43. Yay Show 142: Diversity & Inclusion matters -- finding my way, day to day

    Doing a charity spot about diversity inclusion leads me to (wait, what?) talk about some of my own small experiences with and observations on. What are yours? How can we do different? Better? Be more inclusive? Take action that aligns with us genuinely and invites people different from us to the...

  44. Yay Show 141: kindred alchemy & verdant fields of possibilities (in coffee shops and poetry people)

    I wrote a mantra (prompted by www.shinetext.com/?r=enlpgOZ this morning) that I would “make something of meaning and value happen today.” This is what I made and it connects to this piece I wrote in pen and then on medium here...

  45. Yay Show 140: A pre-thanksgiving invitation to brave and yay space

    Happy Thanksgiving all! Forming new gratitudes as we speak even as I interrupt the stuffing making to make this, which makes me happy and gives me lots of why! Inspired by and with many thanks to The On Being Project, Krista Tippett, Jennifer Bailey, Lennon Flowers. Includes an excerpt from this...

  46. Yay Show 139: Balancing the yay in the liminal spaces of life - in nature, in movement & stillness.

    This is a little trip. Come along. It’s melancholy, hopeful. There might be a takeaway or two. And a little piece of my heart and peace of my mind!

  47. Yay Show 138 (not 137): I see you and I love you even more

    The animated aftermath of New Orleans y’all!

  48. Yay Show 137: Revacuating Sonoma County & Trailing into Standard (Story) Time

    After the Kincade fire is mostly contained, I head into the first day of standard time in early november, walking and talking the trail of yay. Crowded Table by The Highwomen added here! https://open.spotify.com/user/122209986/playlist/4dJZrMPexXDRnlEIXx0wOW?si=a0Mh1RYaQdurnvFKi4Xyjg

  49. Yay Show 136: Branding mad libs, congealing collaborations and gathering energy

    On the way to a yay strategy presentation. Reflections on the yay and energetic gatherings. And the aftermath. Animated always.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Welcome to The Yay Show! The Yay Show is a live culture effervescent ever-present you decide if it’s evanescent experiment. A podcast. A spoken word walking talking place and way for you and the poet (that's me) to #FeelYourYay #BringYourYay into the world with voice and choice. All that poetry and talking out loud comes from hours upon hours upon ours of conversation and connection, listening and intersection. Taking it in. Letting it out. Questioning the questions. Please join me. Welcome in. Welcome out. Welcome up!#FeelYourYay#BringYourYay#TheYayCollective#LeadHerShipYay

HOSTED BY

Lisa Clapper

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Welcome to The Yay Show! The Yay Show is a live culture effervescent ever-present you decide if it’s evanescent experiment. A podcast. A spoken word walking talking place and way for you and the poet (that's me) to #FeelYourYay #BringYourYay into the world with voice and choice. All that poetry and...

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