I am a Human Systems Strategist: I diagnose the pattern and co-create alignment, whether that's one person or a whole culture. Justice & Joy in your inbox every Friday! 📥
❤️🔥 What is alive for you?
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Reader, this week I kept stepping out of my comfort zone and into the growth edge. Two in-real-life events. The ICAN Oakland Small Business Mixer on Wednesday evening. The Bay Area Nonprofit Breakfast Club on Friday morning. Rooms full of people I did not know on Monday, and now get to follow up with before heading out for our family camping trip before school starts. Here is what I remembered: my joy lives in community. In showing up in person. In hearing what other founders and nonprofit leaders are building, what is weighing on us, and what is alive for them right now. That is the question I keep coming back to, for them and for myself. What is alive for you right now?Not the polished answer. The real one. You can be honest with me 🫶🏽 Because in asking, I am ready to listen. That is the whole practice. And it is what I do with the people I work with. I ask the question, I stay, and I help you untangle whatever comes up when you finally say it out loud. I Will Make My Ask Too...Because this has been a year of learning to do exactly that. I am opening 2 to 3 spots this August for deeper work. Whether you need 90 minutes to untangle one knot, or 90 days to build something that holds, I have a way in. 🚪 If something is alive in you and you want a space to say it out loud, honestly, let’s find a time to talk. 🔗 Here is the truth I am sitting with as July closes: I need to keep asking. Not because it always lands the way I hope. Because asking, out loud, from a place of sovereignty, is who I have become this year. 🪷 Hit reply and let’s start the conversation ↩️ Rooted in love. Blooming in liberation. 🌻 |
From the Desk of Mama J Love 🫶🏽
I am a Human Systems Strategist: I diagnose the pattern and co-create alignment, whether that's one person or a whole culture. Justice & Joy in your inbox every Friday! 📥
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