Voice Lessons Podcast
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info_outline A Lesson on Sharing Your Stories with Renee Bracey ShermanVoice Lessons Podcast
Renee Bracey Sherman is a Chicago-born writer and reproductive justice activist committed to the visibility and representation of people who have had stigmatized experiences. In this episode, we discuss why it’s so important to share your own story, how you can stand strong in speaking your truth, and how you can embrace the collective hug of support that comes along with joining a movement for change. Because your voice and story matters.
info_outline A Lesson On the Courage of Choice with Merle HoffmanVoice Lessons Podcast
Merle Hoffman is an internationally known leader in the struggle for women’s rights, opening one of the first abortion clinics pre-Roe in 1971. Throughout her activism career spanning over 50 years, Merle's mission remains the same; for women to fight for their own reproductive choices and to recognize that each individual woman can make a profound decision for her own life, and has the right to speak up for that choice. You just have to practice courage.
info_outline A Lesson On Saying It with Sugar with Becca Rea-TuckerVoice Lessons Podcast
Becca Rea-Tucker has been "saying it with sugar" since 2018 and now more than ever, this feminist baker is helping to shift the conversation and inspire change around women's issues by using a more unconventional platform: cakes.
info_outline A Lesson On Creating Joy with Jennifer FreedVoice Lessons Podcast
Jennifer Freed, Ph.D, M.F.T. is a psychological astrologer who believes that your cosmic DNA serves as a roadmap for your life. Even when we are experiencing oppression from our societies, if we learn to embrace our past traumas, use our unique gifts to create change, and incorporate movement into our day each day, we can make joyful choices that allow us to show up for ourselves and others during times of hardship.
info_outline A Lesson On Belonging with Dr. Sarah GaitherVoice Lessons Podcast
“What are you?” It’s a question Dr. Sarah Gaither was asked a child growing up mixed race. Now she studies the effects of that question and others related to identity at Duke University's Identity & Diversity Lab. In this episode on belonging, we talk about identity denial, identity accessibility, and why she’s using her own multiracial identity to help create a more inclusive world.
info_outline A Lesson On Seizing Your Upgrade with Dr. Louann BrizendineVoice Lessons Podcast
Dr. Louann Brizendine was among the first to explain why women think, communicate, and feel differently than men. Now she’s on a mission to rebrand the “M" word: Menopause.
info_outline A Lesson On Forgiveness with Ronit PlankVoice Lessons Podcast
Ronit Plank's mother left to follow the Indian mystic, some would say cult leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (also known as Osho) when she was five years old. Through the process of writing her memoir, When She Comes Back, Plank rewrote her definition of forgiveness.
info_outline A Lesson On Turning a Moment Into a Movement with Dana MarloweVoice Lessons Podcast
Dana Marlowe turned a moment into a movement. What began with the question, “What can I do with my old bras?” led to the creation of I Support the Girls, a national non-profit organization that provides a source of dignity, self-esteem, empowerment, and support to marginalized women via the donation of bras and menstrual hygiene products. As a human rights advocate in the intersections of feminism, menstrual equality, health, and dignity, Dana works tirelessly to better the lives of the most invisible populations.
info_outline A Lesson In Being You with Brandy GuearyVoice Lessons Podcast
Brandy G. of Authentically B wants everyone to know that it’s ok to be you. Because when you do, the divine might just present you with your heart’s desires. The moment Brandy decided to be visible as her authentic self was the moment that her transition from full-time school teacher to model and lifestyle influencer unfolded. And she’s owning it.
info_outlineWendy Pabich, scientist, author, and self-proclaimed “water woman” joins Kim in a riveting discussion about how the natural, spiritual and world of science meet, and why understanding water as a woman’s issue is important for women leaders. What can the study of water teach us about our own minds, behaviors, and values?
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Water as “the great integrator, a connector, an agent of transformation”.
- The feminine nature of water.
- Why women leaders are more holistic thinkers.
- Cultivating a practice of creativity.
- What does it mean to be a “water woman”?
- Water is a feminist issue.
- What is the diamond/water paradox?
- How women lead and problem-solve differently.
- What is an aquifer and why are they in trouble?
- How can we reduce our water footprint?
(4:30) When you cultivate a practice of creativity, I think it helps you look at the world differently.
(9:02) Water is a women's issue for women around the globe. That lack of water is a tremendous burden. Women collectively spend hundreds of millions of hours each day gathering water for domestic use. …It's dubbed the universal solvent for instability to dissolve more substances than any other compounds. So it, and it because it receives these compounds easily and again, from that feminine perspective, women are built to receive.
(15:04) Women that are empowered and embodied have a way of moving about and functioning in the world that's holistic and generative and creative. And we're able to integrate from all sorts of sensory input and emotion and imagery and use all these those in conjunction with our intellect to come up with really sort of holistic, creative, resilient solutions.
(19:58) …an even bigger issue is our water footprint. The idea of a water footprint is it's the water embedded in all the goods and products that we consume in our lives every day.
(21:05) The diamond water paradox the idea that water is about the most precious resource we could have in our lives. You can live a couple of days without water. And yet we dramatically drastically undervalue it in the marketplace because we feel like it's a free resource.
(27:02) Is there a length of time that this takes, as an example we're seeing right now because everybody is stuck in their homes in Italy, dolphins reappearing in the Venice canals because there's not very much pollution. Is there a quantifiable time that this takes to allow the earth to heal, to recharge, to do this? Can we do it fast enough?
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