Podcast appearances and mentions of kelly diels

It's our 100th episode and we're doing something extra special! We made a compilation of our most loved episodes highlighting pearls of wisdom that have changed all of our lives! Joining Amina AlTai in this milestone 100th episode are distinguished guests, Gay Hendricks, Kelly Diels, Arij Mikati, Sarah Tacy Tangredi, Liz Moody, Dr. Aviva Romm, Brittany Martin, and Minda Harts. Each of these remarkable individuals brings a unique blend of wisdom and experience to the conversation, offering valuable insights into personal growth, economic justice, and entrepreneurship.  The key moments in this episode are:  00:01:27 - Overcoming Upper Limit Problems with Gay Hendricks  00:06:31 - Achieving Economic Justice with Kelly Diels  00:11:29 - Embracing Faith and Manifestation with Arij Mikati  00:17:05 - Nervous System Regulation with Sarah Tacy Tangredi 00:22:09 - Setting Boundaries and Zooming Out with Liz Moody  00:26:00 - The Hungry Ghost with Dr. Aviva Romm 00:31:11 - Leading with Integrity and Systematizing Challenger Safety with Brittany Martin  00:35:40 - Permission to Address Workplace Trauma with Minda Harts   Connect with our guests Gay Hendricks: @hendricks.gay Kelly Diels: @kelly.diels Arij Mikati: @arijmikati Sarah Tacy Tangredi: @SarahTacyT Lizy Moody: @LizMoody  Dr. Aviva Romm:  @dr.avivaromm Brittany Martin: @brittalynnmartin Minda Harts: @mindaharts   Connect with Amina AlTai Website: aminaaltai.com Instagram: @aminaaltai TikTok: @theaminaaltai Linkedin: linkedin/in/aminaaltai   

I help therapists and healers who have private practices to add a second part to their business models. I show you how to create a niched and outcome based program that you can get known for and offer to people all over the world. Learn more about that and get on the notification list at https://rebeltherapist.me/create. I would love to see your name on that list. You'll get informed as soon as enrollment opens, which happens very soon. I realized I need to tell you something today: Even if you are doing your marketing right, you probably won't enjoy it all of the time. This is sort of a part 2 to my last podcast episode. Here's a summary of that in case you didn't hear it or you'd like a quick recap: Reactive marketing is when you feel like you urgently must take action to make more money, to get more people to sign up for your work, or to fix something that seems broken in your business. You know you're in reactive mode when you believe you've got to do something NOW to market your work. If lots of your marketing activity is reactive marketing, it isn't going to be very effective and it's going to burn you out. When you're reactive, you're not tuned in to the people you want to serve, you don't have access to your more creative parts, and you aren't taking action from a thoughtful strategy. Relaxed marketing is what we want to be engaging in at least 90% of the time. Whether you're creating content, reaching out to referral partners, running free live events, pitching to podcasts, or writing website copy, whatever it is that you're doing during your marketing time, you want to engage in it with a more relaxed nervous system. You'll come up with better, more attuned work when you do that. And you're going to be able to make better decisions about what your overall marketing strategy looks like. I received emails from some of you letting me know that the episode really resonated with you. You loved being reminded that you'll do your best work when you're tuning into the people you're serving, and NOT when you're in panic mode. The next thing I need to share involves a lot of nuance: Even if you engage in relaxed marketing practices, You might still not enjoy marketing some of the time. “Relaxed” might not be the way you feel when you're sitting down to your marketing activities. Two things happened today that reminded me to talk about this nuanced truth. One is: I sat down to do some of my own marketing work. I was not in urgency or panic, and I WAS tapped into the needs of the people I am here to serve. I also didn't feel relaxed. I felt a bit of dread, a bit of anxiety, and a strong urge to find something else to do. I felt my heart rate speed up a bit. I felt the fear that I might not have a good idea to share. (Yes, Even though I've got a huge list of ideas that I've been storing up for years). I had the thought “I hate this part.” We have a pillow that lists dozens of emotions, so that we can look at it and identify which ones we are feeling in the moment. Yeah, it's the kind a therapist might have in their office. In that moment I identified “inadequate, avoidant and worried.” Then in order to properly procrastinate, I opened Instagram and I saw a post from one of my favorite writers, Clementine Morrigan. She writes on personal growth, trauma, polyamory and other stuff, and she's a leftist. Here she's talking specifically about writing, but I want to apply this to how it can feel to work on marketing your wonderful work. Clementine says: “I find writing viscerally uncomfortable. Sometimes it is excruciatingly painful. It almost never feels good. The thing that is most important to me and that I have dedicated my life to is extremely difficult and unpleasant for me to actually do lol. Your calling might not feel good. I don't think anyone tells us that. Pleasure and ease are not the only indications that a thing is worth doing. Sometimes our most important and rewarding work feels bad." So I read that. Then I thought of you. If you heard my last episode and felt excited to commit or recommit to some regular, more relaxed marketing practices, you might have then sat down to do your marketing work and felt something other than relaxed. Just like I often do. Maybe distressed or avoidant or inadequate or afraid. So I realized I NEED you to know you're not doing it wrong. Sometimes doing the work of marketing is not joyful even when you're doing it right. I NEVER want to make you feel like there's some perfect way to run a business that will have you in ease and riches all of the time, and that you just haven't discovered it yet. Marketing your offers can bring up so many feelings. Now I want to talk about some ways to move through the discomfort and stick with it anyway. Here are some things that work for most people most of the time: Know that you're not alone if you sometimes have a hard time in doing the work of marketing. Remind yourself of your personal reasons for marketing your offers. Perhaps you want to work in new ways or make more money or shift your schedule or create your body of work. Remind yourself of the reasons why your work matters to the people who need it. Write those things down and look at them when you are struggling. Give yourself tons of credit. Remind yourself that you are doing brave and vulnerable work. You are claiming the value of the work you offer the world and telling people that it matters. You're reaching out to the people who need your help and you're willing to be uncomfortable to do it. Remind yourself that by marketing your offers, you're doing the work of growing your business. That's part of taking care of yourself. Your younger parts are watching you and feeling taken care of. Depending on your life situation, you might also be supporting other humans with your business. Don't let a marketing session go on for too long, even if it is going well. Save some energy for next time. We hunger to get into a flow state where we don't really notice time going by. In that state, it feels like words are writing themselves or whatever action we're taking is happening without effort. We still need to stop or take a break after a reasonable amount of time. Otherwise we may feel so depleted that we have a hard time creating again next time. I heard that tip from Kelly Diels who I interviewed on the podcast. EbonyJanice Moore, another mentor of mine who I interviewed on the podcast, speaks about reserving some of your energy. She follows the 80/20 rule, meaning that 80% of her waking time is put towards living, healing, connecting, and other things outside of productivity. Only 20% of her time goes towards any kind of work. She avoids working more than four hours a day. Bring something pleasurable into the experience of your marketing sessions in order to counteract your negativity bias. Bringing in a positive association begins to tell our nervous system that this activity is not all bad. For me, moving to a cozy spot in my house, playing my favorite instrumental mix or changing into my most comfortable clothes can give my nervous system the message that something good is happening. Have a starting ritual. This could be a gorgeous, involved ritual, or it could be as simple as making yourself a cup of coffee. Those things work for most people most of the time to keep doing the work of marketing. Notice what works for you. One more note about that last episode: If you heard my last in my last episode, you heard me talk about how much I love taking care of my indoor plants. I compared relaxed marketing to my plant care rituals, in which experience a lot of pleasure in tuning into each plant. I left something out because it didn't really add to the story. Now it's relevant. A year and a half ago, I had 75 houseplants. When I was getting ready to move across town, I decided to give away about 50 of them. I realized I was starting to feel a bit burdened by my indoor jungle. Now I've got 24 houseplants, and that's a fun amount for me. There's a difference between engaging in a really fun hobby and running a business. We can experience joy and pleasure in our businesses, and we're going to feel discomfort sometimes. Show notes at https://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/230

“Assumptions are great. What are our conscious and subconscious assumptions of the culture?”In this episode of How To Write the Future, podcast host Beth Barany celebrates her 100th episode with a special thanks to listeners and then dives into a discussion of the book Build Better Worlds by Michael Kilman and Kyra Wellstrom, with a focus on the importance of cultural context in storytelling and on world building in the science fiction and fantasy genres.ABOUT THE HOW TO WRITE THE FUTURE PODCASTThe How To Write The Future podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace. Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers. We cover tips for fiction writers. This podcast is for readers too if you're at all curious about the future of humanity.This podcast is for you if you have questions like:How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?How do figure out what's not working if my story feels flat?How do I make my story more interesting and alive?RESOURCESBuild Better Worlds: An Introduction to Anthropology for Game Designers, Fiction Writers and Filmmakers by Michael Kilman and Kyra Wellstrom: https://books2read.com/bbwhtwtfMichael Kilman's site: https://loridianslaboratory.com/2021/02/10/build-better-worlds-an-introduction-to-anthropology-for-game-designers-fiction-writers-and-filmmakers-is-now-live-on-amazon/Kelly Diels, We Are The Culture Makers: https://kellydiels.com/Free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers: https://writersfunzone.com/blog/world-building-resources/Plan Your Novel Like A Pro: https://writersfunzone.com/blog/plan-your-novel-like-a-pro-and-have-fun-doing-it/Get support for your fiction writing by a novelist and writing teacher and coach. Schedule an exploratory call here and see if Beth can support you today: https://writersfunzone.com/blog/discovery-call/SHOW PRODUCTION BY Beth BaranyCO-PRODUCTION + SHOW NOTES by Kerry-Ann McDadec. 2024 BETH BARANYhttps://bethbarany.com/--CONNECTContact Beth: https://writersfunzone.com/blog/podcast/#tve-jump-185b4422580Email: beth@bethbarany.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethbarany/CREDITSEDITED WITH DESCRIPT: https://get.descript.com/0clwwvlf6e3j MUSIC: Uppbeat.ioDISTRIBUTED BY BUZZSPROUT: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1994465

If you fear bothering people with your marketing, this is for you. I recently got the worst email I've opened in over a year. I'm gonna share the actual email with you and I'm gonna share my internal reactions and the decisions I made after. In the context of life, this email is really NOT that bad at all. No trigger warning necessary. I'm sharing this because I know many of you are really afraid of getting an email like this. I'm hoping hearing about my experience will help you feel less afraid of getting an email like this. I'm hoping that you feeling less afraid will help you make aligned decisions. I'll explain all of that in a moment. The email I'll share was a response to one of my sales emails promoting Create Your Program, the high touch program I run 3 times a year. Here's what the email said: “Way too many emails with not much info. Blocking your email and please remove me from your waitlist. Feels like clickbait.” I said “ouch!” My partner looked over my shoulder and said “that's not nice!” I had a moment of panic. I thought: Am I a fraudster? Am I a villian? Am I a jerk who never provides value? AND…Does this person hate me? And then paused and I said to my partner: “No it's OK. She's right to tell me. She's annoyed.” Now I did feel a little peeved with the email sender. I thought: “She could have just unsubscribed. There's a link in every single email to unsubscribe! Why didn't she just unsubscribe? Why be like that?” And I wished I could write back to her and explain about unsubscribing and also say I'm sorry you didn't get value…and maybe you should check out this or that free resource I provide. But I couldn't write her back because she told me not to contact her. But you know what? She might not know that unsubscribing works. She's totally within her rights to tell me about her experience and to set a digital boundary. She was clear. She did not call me names or behave abusively. She let me know that she's withdrawn her consent to be emailed. I very much WANT people to be able to withdraw their consent. So as she asked, I went into my email platform and deleted her from it. Then while I was there I looked into what emails I had sent her, so I could better understand her experience. She had signed up for a free workshop through an instagram ad that I run. Then she'd gotten follow up emails reminding her to watch that free workshop, and then some sales emails about my program. It's likely that she didn't actually watch the workshop…which is totally understandable. I've signed up for a free workshop or class and then not hit play on it. She also signed up for the waitlist for Create Your Program. She received the maximum amount of emails someone could ever get from me, about 2 a day for a handful of days. That's because she signed up for my free workshop and then my waitlist, all during a launch of my program, I took a step back and considered…is there anything I want to change about this email flow going forward? In this case, there's not much I wanted to change. I want people who are new to my list to have a chance to jump on the wait list for CYP, which functions as an interest list. Often people find me right when they're looking for a program like mine, and it's important that they CAN sign up right away if that's what they want. I only run CYP 3 times a year right now, so I don't want people to have to wait months to have a chance to jump in. I did make one change to my email flow. I already have an opt OUT email that I send to my list when I'm launching. It basically says: “I'm gonna be promoting my program for a couple of weeks. If you want to stay on my list but you don't want to hear about CYP this round, click here. I'll be quiet for a couple weeks.” I learned this opt-out approach from Kelly Diels, and I always hat tip to her in that email. Here's the change: I added a quick opt-out option in just about every sales email. Now if someone on my list opens ANY sales email before the final day of enrollment, they'll have a chance to opt out of receiving more sales emails in that round. This change took about 10 minutes. Done! I feel pretty great about how that went. When I get criticized, I'm tempted to either collapse into shame OR get mad at the person who criticized me. I felt really good noticing that I didn't do either in this situation. I felt twinges of shame and anger, and then I quickly found a more grounded spot. On the shame side I felt: “Hmmmm. this feels upsetting. But also, I know I'm a good person who's striving to do good work. I don't need to collapse into shame.” On the anger side I felt: “I'm irritated at the person who sent the email. BUT also I know she's standing up for herself as best she can and I KNOW that's exactly what people should do. So I don't really need to be mad.” When I teach people about email marketing and guide them to create a practice of emailing their list regularly, they often tell me they're terrified of getting a response like the one I got. Here's the thing: If you email your list, you might get an email like this. But probably not very often. This is the worst email I had gotten in several years. The people I work with and the people who listen to my podcast and read my emails are here to do important work. They're NOT just here to make money. They want to make good money AND they are invested in creating meaningful work that helps people. The people I work with are critical of any kind of tactics that are manipulative. The people who want to connect with Rebel Therapist LOVE consent. So when people like you email your lists, you're probably doing so thoughtfully. The good news is that when you send emails, you'll probably enjoy a LOT of feedback telling you that your work is helpful. When our team member Taitlyn saw the email, she said “this is the FIRST time in the year I've worked here that I've ever seen an email like that.” What a good perspective. I also noticed that on that same DAY, I got an email thanking me for the valuable free content and naming a specific takeaway they got from it. If you're increasing how much you're communicating with your email list, or you are getting more frequent or more bold with your messaging, and you're fearing some kind of push back…I'm here to tell you it's probably gonna be OK. You're going to be able to consider the feedback, take useful stuff from it, leave the rest, and keep doing your important work. Before I close this topic, I need to tell you where this kind of thinking doesn't apply: I have gotten some really mean and abusive comments on social media. Like someone recently sharing that I am hideous. That feels bad of course, but that kind of comment is so clearly NOT something to let in. It's coming from a person who is trying to harm a stranger by insulting that stranger's appearance. I inherently don't believe that's a good thing to be doing. When people are dehumanizing in their communication with you, I DON'T suggest you consider their feedback. Fuck that. That's not feedback. Want to get help from me to create your signature program? Get on the interest list for Create Your Program. You'll be notified first when we open early access registration. In CYP I work with you and a small group of ethical therapists and healers to create signature programs and start working and making money in new ways. —> Get on the list. ( https://rebeltherapist.me/create) Yes, that's the very interest list this person requested being removed from. You can easily unsubscribe at any time. Show Notes at: https://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/222

How can our businesses be an extension of our embodied values & political views?  If we're interested in doing business in more embodied ways, we have to examine how the inherited marketing and business practices many of us have been indoctrinated into are not rooted in the values WE hold dear.  Today, we're speaking with Feminist Business Educator Kelly Diels about marketing practices that can shift culture & what it looks like in practice.  From social media to email marketing, how we choose the images we use and what we actually market, Kelly shares with us practical suggestions for genuinely liberatory practices in business.    In this interview, we explore:  How Kelly incorporates her political & culture-making practices into her business Transcending the inherited status quo marketing tactics to align selling with your values The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB) & how to know if you're centering this (or your body of work) in your marketing Strategies Kelly uses in her business to shift culture - from email consent, how she chooses imagery & signal boosting The input Kelly uses to fuel prolific (& powerful) expression Creating consistency on social media when you're an ebb & flow kind of person    Kelly Diels is feminist educator, writer, and coach. She specializes in feminist marketing for culture-makers. She's here to raise awareness about how the business-as-usual formulas we learn everywhere actually reproduce oppression. She develops and teaches alternate, feminist marketing tools to help us do it differently (and better).   Resources From Today's Podcast ●     Kelly's work ●     Kelly on instagram ●      Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches ●      Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice ●      School of Embodied Arts ●      Leave a podcast review on iTunes here ●      Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here

Kelly Diels joins us today to share her unique approach towards business which is founded on the principles of justice-informed feminism. Exploring feminism's place in the entrepreneurial world, Kelly discusses the importance of not simply adding women to the existing system of power, but drastically redefining it.  She also shares insights on prioritizing values and ethical practices in business, and how to approach marketing and sales from different, non-pressuring angles. The conversation also dives into topics like relationship with business, ethical pricing, the importance of conversations for securing clients, and more. Connect with Kelly:  - Website: kellydiels.com - Sunday Love Letter: kellydiels.com/subscribe - Instagram: @kelly.diels Links from Episode: - Cara's Website - (⁠www.carakovacs.com⁠) - Cara's Instagram - (⁠@carakovacscoaching⁠) - Business Witch: The Course - (https://carakovacs.mykajabi.com/business-witch-2024)

A counter-culture thinker since childhood, Amanda Laird (she/her) shares the journey she's taken to follow a different path. From sewing her own period pads as a teen to hosting the popular podcast “Heavy Flow” to building her new business venture, slow & steady studio, Amanda is committed to advancing the feminine economy and exploring the question, ‘what is enough?'Amanda Laird is the founder and principal strategist of slow & steady. As a former holistic nutritionist, Amanda is an advocate for reproductive health and wellness. She was the host of the Heavy Flow Podcast from 2017 to 2020 and is the author of “Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation” published by Dundurn Press and nominated for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction. In her work at slow & steady, Amanda draws on her 15 years as a creative communicator, writer and holistic wellness practitioner, as well as feminist marketing and business frameworks from Kelly Diels, Jennifer Armbrust and CV Harquail.In the episode, Amanda mentions the book “Toxic Shock,” “Proposals for the Feminine Economy,” and her Spotify playlist.Please connect with Amanda on her website.This episode's poem is by Tony Hoagland and is called “Birdhouse.”Bonus content with Amanda through Apple Podcast Subscriptions and on Patreon.Please connect with Fat Joy on our website, Instagram, and YouTube (full video episodes here!).Want to share the love? Please rate this podcast and give it a review.Our thanks to AR Media and Emily MacInnis for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful

Kelly Diels (she/her) makes it her mission to support culture makers. She's disrupting the norms of extractive capitalism by shining a light on the harms caused by traditional sales & marketing tactics. She offers an alternative where we can focus on vision, consent, and deepening relationships. And how we can make both money and justice. Recently diagnosed with lipedema, Kelly shares how health is connected to culture-making, too. Kelly Diels is a feminist educator, writer, and coach. She specializes in feminist marketing for culture-makers. She's here to raise awareness about how the business-as-usual formulas we learn everywhere actually reproduce oppression. She develops and teaches alternate feminist marketing tools to help us do it differently (and better).Please connect with Kelly on her website, Instagram, Facebook, and subscribe to her Sunday Love Letter. This episode's poem is by Alison Luterman and is called “Some Girls.”Bonus content with Kelly through Apple Podcast Subscriptions and on Patreon.Please connect with Fat Joy on our website, Instagram, and YouTube (full video episodes here!). Want to share the love? Please rate this podcast and give it a review. Our thanks to AR Media and Emily MacInnis for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful

When Kelly Diels, a feminist entrepreneur, faced an internal crisis of having to use business tactics in direct conflict with her principles, she had to find a creative way to do business in a way that honored her values, her team, and the collective.    Kelly is a feminist educator, writer, and coach specializing in feminist marketing for culture makers. She works to raise awareness about how business-as-usual formulas reproduce oppression and develops alternate feminist marketing tools to help us do better.   A feminist since she was eleven, Kelly went on to study political philosophy, so when she became an entrepreneur, she immediately realized the conflict between her personal beliefs and the business tactics she was being taught. After a personal breakdown and going through a start-stop cycle of trying to build something that was in conflict with her values, she realized that economic justice meant everyone in the equation needed to be flourishing. She now works with people who have non dominant identities to help them understand and navigate the conditioning and trauma that comes up when challenging the status quo. Kelly believes that tending to one's emotions and nervous system is essential for success. In this episode, you will learn the following: 1. How to Balance Principles and Business Tactics to Achieve Success 2. What is Economic Justice, and How to Create It in Businesses 3. How Economic Justice Helps Everyone Thrive  4. Kelly's Three-Part Framework for Economic Justice  5. What Strategies are Needed to Create Demand and Generate Leads as Culture-Makers   [2:10] How Kelly came to this work [4:23] Why many teaching methods don't work for every identity  [5:15] What is economic justice  [7:34] How not taking care of ourselves undermines the collective [8:18] Why asking “how can I make this more affordable” is asking the wrong question  [9:56] Making the numbers work [11:28] Cultural conditioning and how doing the math supports our nervous system  [14:14] The power of somatic practices and therapy [17:17] Money and feelings of survival [19:24] Creating demand as culture-makers [21:15] Business systems and The Flywheel [23:16] Entrepreneurship and chronic illness [26:24] The onus of change doesn't rest solely on our shoulders [29:05] The power and challenge of being the “first, the few, or the only” [31:21] The power of community care [35:24] How employees can be participants in economic justice [38:54] How culture makers and historically excluded folks can leverage their ambition to pave the way   Quotes "If you have a non-dominant identity and you're supposed to be signaling authority, you're going to get punished for that online. So what I think economic justice is, is that every human has the resources they need to flourish."   “Vulnerability is the opportunity for relationship. We have to show each other our needs to actually be in loving relationships.”   Connect with Amina AlTai Website: aminaaltai.com Instagram: @aminaaltai TikTok: @theaminaaltai Linkedin:   linkedin/in/aminaaltai   Connect with Kelly Diels Website: KellyDiels.com Instagram: @kelly.diels

We need to talk about power.Like, get into the nitty gritty details on what we believe about power, how we move around power, and how we see ourselves in relationship to power. We need to get really clear on how we define it so we can truly understand the impact that our definitions of power have on our beliefs and actions. There are too many examples of people in power who still have a dated and toxic view of power while others struggle to see themselves as powerful. Our relationship to power impacts our choices, as children, when we set out to have careers, and in our relationships with others.  My guest today showed me how we–especially those who identify as women–have a harder time embracing power versus empowerment and how our incomplete definitions of power welcome the more palatable empowerment lens, but fear or reject the true roots of empowerment. Kelly Diels is a thinker, teacher, and "development coach for culture makers". Over the last 10 years, she has worked with NY Times best-selling authors, national and international feminist organizations, and thousands of online entrepreneurs. Her research & frameworks are designed to help you get out of shame and into power — so you can make the difference you're dreaming of in your business, in your life, and in our wider culture. Her approach is grounded in her training as a political theorist and feminist theorist. She is the first in her family to graduate from university. Parenting five children who are black has given Kelly a ringside seat for the bias, discrimination, and harassment they live with on a daily basis — and the anger, anguish, and grief drives her to use whatever resources she has to change our cultural systems.Listen to the full episode to hear:Unpacking the difference between empowerment and power, and why we need to embrace generative, skilled forms of power in our livesHow to begin reclaiming power from what others have shamed in youWhy changing your relationship to shame and power is more than an individualistic mindset problemHow Kelly's changing relationship to power and systemic injustice impacted her relationshipsWhat it means to an intentional, deliberate culture makerHow Kelly has flipped “high maintenance” into a positive asset that helps her uphold her standards and boundariesLearn more about Kelly Diels:WebsiteInstagram: @kelly.dielsSubscribe to the Sunday Love LetterLearn more about Rebecca:rebeccaching.comWork With RebeccaSign up for the weekly Unburdened Leader EmailResources:Architectural DigestPanic! At The Disco - “High Hopes"SuccessionDirty Dancing

Continually unpacking internalized fatphobia is part of Trevia Woods' (she/her/hers) intergenerational trauma practice. Her years spent figuring out how to live with PCOS, experiences living in China and Saudi Arabia, and then becoming a mom were key stepping stones on her body acceptance journey. And Trevia's expertise in supporting people to connect to their lineage helps Sophia soften some hard feelings towards her late grandmother.Trevia Woods is a mixed-race woman with Indigenous ancestors who has nearly two decades of experience in bodywork, education and community-building. She has roots in the Midwest and Colorado, after traveling the world finds herself back in America finding her roots and how she belongs in the world. Trevia hosts the HELD community to help people remember their power connecting them through their lineages to their own traditions and community care rituals without culturally appropriating.Please connect with Trevia on her website, Instagram, and Facebook.The links mentioned in this episode were: Kelly Diels, Trevia's Land Acknowledgement resource, 3 Questions with Kat and Val podcast, Maintenance Phase podcast, delicious candle by Erin, lineage work with Mary Beth, PCOS Body Liberation resource.Sophia reads Valentine for Ernest Mann by Naomi Shihab Nye for this episode.All things Fat Joy:-Instagram-Website-YouTube-TikTok-Facebook-PatreonPlease consider becoming a Patreon supporter of the Fat Joy podcast. For as little as $2 per month, you'll be helping make all of our work possible and enable us to offer an honorarium to expert guests, which is key to centering marginalized voices.Deep thanks for their hard work go to Hi Bird Designs and AR Media for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful.

Kelly Diels has named those of us creating change in the world as Culture Makers. We literally change the culture by doing the work we do. If you're a listener of this podcast, you're someone who deeply gives a sh*t and is trying to make a difference--and yet, we know that we sometimes unknowingly cause harm. This conversation helps us unpack ways of being and thinking that we need to disrupt so that we can continue to be the powerful Culture Makers we desire to be in the world. LINKS: Kelly's website: KellyDiels.com Kelly on IG: https://www.instagram.com/kelly.diels/ Elijah on IG: https://www.instagram.com/elijahshannonselby/ http://thefemininerising.world/ Book a call with Elijah: https://calendly.com/thefemininerising/90min

Many of us have experienced a breach of consent. Whether it's the person who's immediately in your DMs trying to sell you something the moment you added them as a connection on social media, or the person who gives you a hug that lasts a little too long when you reach out your hand for a handshake, we know what that breach feels like. And the context for consent goes beyond bodily autonomy. Consent matters in our businesses. Kelly Diels joins India to discuss integrating consent into your business, how the concept of refreshing consent has evolved the way she shows up online, and common mistakes and misconceptions around creating a culture of consent in your marketing. Content Note: This episode contains non-detailed mentions of the experience childhood sexual violence. In this discussion: Why everyone has the power to shape culture in their lives and businesses How to build consent in your marketing practices How to use your newsletter to facilitate connection The most common misconception about integrating consent into your marketing Connect with Kelly Diels: Subscribe to the Sunday Love Letter Instagram: @kelly.diels Twitter: @kellydiels Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire: Flaunt Your Fire LinkedIn: ​​India Jackson Instagram: @FlauntYourFire Ready to dive deeper? Posting photos or stories about the kids in our lives has become habitual for many of us. We need to move away from making assumptions, and instead, toward a place of consent and autonomy. Pause on the Play®, The Community members Stacie Lampkin  and Shannon Collins have facilitated a workshop where they encourage folks to re-examine our approach in how we share about children in online spaces.  Whether you have children in your life or not, this workshop will support you in reconsidering your why in how we interact with children from a place of respecting their full consent, especially around publicly posting private information. Community members have evergreen access to this workshop replay and our entire library of resources. Learn more at pauseontheplay.com/community

It's not only self-help or entrepreneurship products that are sold as tools for “empowerment” today. It's just about everything: makeup, clothing, workout equipment, vitamins, office supplies… Whole brands are built around the promise that a purchase won't just solve your problem, it'll make you a better, more fulfilled person. But empowerment isn't for sale—only the status quo.In this episode, I talk with writer and coach Kelly Diels about empowerment marketing and what she calls the “female lifestyle empowerment brand.” You'll also hear from independent beauty writer Jessica DeFino about how empowerment is leveraged by the beauty industry.Footnotes: Learn more about Kelly Diels Learn more about Jessica DeFino Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom How to be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment by Skye Cleary Helen Gurley Brown as quoted in Self-Help, INC by Micki McGee “The Rhetoric of the Image” by Roland Barthes Radically rethink how you set goals: pre-order Tara's new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting. Find it anywhere books are sold or at explorewhatworks.com/book. ★ Support this podcast ★

Today is part 2 of 4 in my series on the core values, or compass points, that Simple Prospering orients as its True North, and values that I think can be mighty helpful for all businesses. I talked about value 1, make progress, in the last two week's episodes. Today we are talking about value #2: how to keep it simple! Simple is in the name of my business, so obviously it's important to me, but “keep it simple” is often thrown around like trite advice and it's easier said than done when you are in business for yourself. In this episode I focus on 2 common barriers I see to effective simplicity in one's work. Really I am sacrificing 2 sacred cows in this week's episode: Barrier number one/aka Sacred Cow number one (especially in service-based businesses): Workism and The Passion Principle. Barrier number two/aka Sacred Cow number two (for nearly all entrepreneurs) Frankensteining your offerings until you've created, you guessed it. a monster. SHOW NOTES Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, Workism is Making Americans Miserable https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/ Erin Cech, book, The Trouble With Passion: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520303232/the-trouble-with-passion Kelly Diels: https://www.kellydiels.com/  

Self-help is everywhere. But for a long time, I tried to avoid it. "I just focus on business," I'd say. What I didn't realize back then was how much the structure, grammar, and discourse of personal growth permeate every layer of a business—and the entrepreneur behind it.Self-help sells. It's an $11 billion industry that's predicted to go to $14 billion in the next 3 years.And that's only counting products and services that are sold under the banner of "self-help." Even bigger than the explicit "live your best life" market is the valence of messaging, media, and cultural ventures that orbit it. In fact, there is a very good chance that, in one way or another, you and your work are part of the greater self-help ecosystem. You don't have to be a life coach, motivational speaker, momfluencer, or day planner designer to produce products and services that tap into the desire for a better, easier, or more fulfilling life. You might be a copywriter that leverages personal growth messaging in the copy you write. You might be a non-profit director that leverages donors' desire to "make a difference" to raise funds. You might be a management consultant that helps companies build better workplace cultures so employees feel a greater sense of purpose.Or, like your humble podcast host, you might one day make the startling discovery that: yes, you wrote a self-help book after more than a decade of declaring that you help people build better businesses, not better lives.I've gotten really curious about the business and politics of self-help. What makes self-help-inspired messaging so effective? Why are we constantly on the lookout for better ways to live and work? What compels us to follow aspirational Instagram accounts? Are we all in the self-help business? Next up on What Works, I have an 8-part series called Self-Help, LLC. It's a look at how the gospel of self-improvement shapes our lives, our work, and the businesses we're building I talk with writer Sara Petersen about Momfluencing, sociologist Patrick Sheehan about the coaching industry and backlash to credentialed experts, and brand strategist India Jackson about how our bodies are shaped by self-help. I also talk with Nine Types Co founder Steph Barron Hall about the draw of self-knowledge on Instagram, coach and writer Kelly Diels about the female lifestyle empowerment brand, and coach and author Jadah Sellner about the politics of hustle culture. My intention is that this series gives you a fresh perspective on what you create, what you consume, and how the underlying values of self-help culture influence them both. We'll dig into the business models behind explicitly self-help ventures and examine how less explicit personal growth businesses build on self-help's logic.The first episode in this series—Winners and Losers—drops September 6. Make sure you hit "follow" in your favorite podcast player and share the show with a friend who loves to think critically about the world we live in. ★ Support this podcast ★

Finding new ways of describing things is ESSENTIAL, especially for a service provider or a coach or course creator who has absorbed years of learning, integrated that learning with her own experience and perspective, and condensed it to impart to her students. Back in my early 20s, I would not have understood the need to name a particular framework or methodology. I can't say for sure, but I might have thought it was unnecessary or EXTRA.   But now I understand that without the words to REFER to what you're talking about, you can create confusion and a LOT more.   For example, if you're Inuit, and you need a way to explain to your friend the conditions of the snow outside the village, if you simply do NOT have a word for it that BOTH you AND your friend understand, your friend might go out and be unprepared for what she might find, and that really MIGHT be a matter of life and death.   For the rest of us, maybe it's not DANGEROUS to not have the words, but it hampers our ability to communicate. Here's another example of this. If you speak multiple languages, sometimes don't you find that you have a word for something in one language that simply doesn't exist in another? As feminist theorist and coach Kelly Diels says, naming something is SUPER POWERFUL. Diels explained this really well in an email to her list. She wrote, and I'm quoting that email here,   “In transformative traditions -- movements, feminism, academia -- we name things.   We use language and even invent words and portmanteaus to make what was invisible, visible.” Learn more about Kelly Diels here: https://www.kellydiels.com/ If you enjoyed this episode, if you learned something from it or even had a good chuckle, won't you leave the podcast a review? It helps other listeners like you discover Cutting Chai Stories and it helps ME to know what you found helpful, what you enjoyed, and what you'd like more of.

Emotional Intelligence: What it Means for the Future of Work and Humanity with Elizabeth SolomonElizabeth and I will go down a few rabbit holes in this episode. We will begin by discussing the view of EI in organizations and bust a few EI myths. As usual, I allow the organic conversation to guide us as we discuss what we believe the future holds for humanity and work as it pertains to emotional intelligence. About Elizabeth:Elizabeth Solomon is a true catalyst for positive change. Driven by a lifelong interest in systems, psychology, and communication, her work is grounded in the belief that we all possess deep inherent wisdom. That we are all natural leaders. Elizabeth helps her clients to live, work, and communicate from a place of wisdom, power, and purpose, bridging business-oriented strategy and intuition-guided development. She has spent over a decade at the intersection of corporate culture, storytelling, and leadership development—a place where transformation happens. Holding Master's Degrees in both Organizational Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy, and a Goleman EI Emotional Intelligence Certified Coach, her extensive training with Daniel Goleman and studies with feminist writing mentor Kelly Diels have shaped how she works, relates, and coaches. Learn more about Elizabeth by visiting:Website: New Realm Coaching and ConsultingPodcast: First Person PluralLinkedIn-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Living and Leading with Emotional Intelligence is brought to you by Emotional Intelligence Magazine™. Emotional Intelligence Magazine is a one-stop resource for anyone looking to learn more about emotional intelligence. In addition to articles, videos, and recommended books to help you develop and expand your EI, Emotional Intelligence Magazine offers a platform for EI coaches and specialists so they can connect with individuals who are ready to take their life or business to the next level. To learn more, visit www.ei-magazine.com and follow us on Instagram.*** CONVOshop:Now accepting applications for our September 2022 Beta Cohort—for business owners, leaders, and managers. Learn more and/or applyCreate an environment that fosters ACCOUNTABILITYLearn how to ENGAGE your employees emotionally and intellectually.Build a solid foundation for WELL-BEING and SUCCESS.***About your host, Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda:Brittney-Nichole is the author of The EQ Deficiency, founder of Emotional Intelligence Magazine, and the original host of the Living and Leading with Emotional Intelligence podcast. After reversing her diagnosis of GAD, ADD, and OCD, following a seven-year journey of developing her emotional intelligence, Brittney-Nichole left her corporate job to found her first company, Catalyst 4 Change LLC, to help others discover the power of emotions.Do you have questions or feedback about this podcast or episode?Contact us at info@ei-magazine.com.Please read our disclaimer.

Just imagine a high school art teacher, wife, and mom trying to start an online business.  She loves her students and teaching itself but all the rules of the profession are sucking the joy right out of her.  In spite of her boundless enthusiasm and endless creativity, plus years of side hustle experience, like the rest of us, this wantrepreneur turns to the alleged “experts” in the field, the high priestesses of online marketing.  The ones who make 'the rules". These celebrity coaches and online marketing gurus have made multi-million dollars selling their courses and coaching programs, and they have pages and pages of testimonials gushing over them, so it had to be “The Way”, and they had a right to make The Rules, only it wasn't and they don't.  Several courses later, this teacher, whom we will call Deanna (because that's actually her name) is not only not getting anywhere closer to the promised land of the laptop lifestyle, but she is starting to feel just as disillusioned with this whole online entrepreneur thing as she was as a teacher.  See the real problem? Is poor Deanna doing something wrong or did she simply get caught up in the “results, not typical” marketing hype that has made celebrity coaches fabulously wealthy while leaving most of their students blaming themselves for not being one of the success stories they bring on stage at their high ticket sales events?   Well, as you might have guessed, Deanna is today's guest on The Driven Woman Podcast and she is also the graphic designer and coach that I recently hired and will start working with in June, to help me write MY own rules when it comes to Instagram.   Here is what you'll learn in today's episode: How Deanna and I met:  In Angie Trueblood's Podwize membership Why she broke up with social media for 6 weeks and what it taught her Why Deanna no longer considers the $$$ she spent on courses to be a total waste What she thinks is the key to dealing with the fear of being vulnerable onlineWant more Deanna Seymour? Waitlist for “Eff That!” Instagram Community: https://deannaseymour.com/shop/Website: https://deannaseymour.com/“Eff That! Podcast: https://deannaseymour.com/blog/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedeannaseymour/Ethical leaders that Deanna mentioned and recommends:Maggie Patterson_small business strategy: https://smallbusinessboss.co/Kathleen Oh_business coaching: https://coachkathleenoh.com/Kelly Diels_ethical marketing: https://www.kellydiels.com/Liz Wilcox_email marketing: https://lizwilcox.com/Brene Brown_Atlas of the Heart_ vulnerability: https://brenebrown.com/So, are you where you want to be in your online business?  Do you even know what is getting in your way? Take the quiz and get your personalized result, (and what to do about it! )What's Holding You Back?https://bit.ly/obstaclesquizThinking about working with Diann? If you need the focused attention on your business & life that is only available through 1:1 coaching, click here to schedule a free 30-minute consultation with Diann to see if her 12-week private coaching program is right for you. Free Consultation for 1:1 Coaching 

Just imagine a high school art teacher, wife, and mom trying to start an online business. She loves her students and teaching itself but all the rules of the profession are sucking the joy right out of her. In spite of her boundless enthusiasm and endless creativity, plus years of side hustle experience, like the rest of us, this wantrepreneur turns to the alleged “experts” in the field, the high priestesses of online marketing. The ones who make 'the rules". These celebrity coaches and online marketing gurus have made multi-million dollars selling their courses and coaching programs, and they have pages and pages of testimonials gushing over them, so it had to be “The Way”, and they had a right to make The Rules, only it wasn't and they don't. Several courses later, this teacher, whom we will call Deanna (because that's actually her name) is not only not getting anywhere closer to the promised land of the laptop lifestyle, but she is starting to feel just as disillusioned with this whole online entrepreneur thing as she was as a teacher. See the real problem? Is poor Deanna doing something wrong or did she simply get caught up in the “results, not typical” marketing hype that has made celebrity coaches fabulously wealthy while leaving most of their students blaming themselves for not being one of the success stories they bring on stage at their high ticket sales events? Well, as you might have guessed, Deanna is today's guest on The Driven Woman Podcast and she is also the graphic designer and coach that I recently hired and will start working with in June, to help me write MY own rules when it comes to Instagram. Here is what you'll learn in today's episode: How Deanna and I met: In Angie Trueblood's Podwize membership Why she broke up with social media for 6 weeks and what it taught her Why Deanna no longer considers the $$$ she spent on courses to be a total waste What she thinks is the key to dealing with the fear of being vulnerable onlineWant more Deanna Seymour? Waitlist for “Eff That!” Instagram Community: https://deannaseymour.com/shop/Website: https://deannaseymour.com/“Eff That! Podcast: https://deannaseymour.com/blog/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedeannaseymour/Ethical leaders that Deanna mentioned and recommends:Maggie Patterson_small business strategy: https://smallbusinessboss.co/Kathleen Oh_business coaching: https://coachkathleenoh.com/Kelly Diels_ethical marketing: https://www.kellydiels.com/Liz Wilcox_email marketing: https://lizwilcox.com/Brene Brown_Atlas of the Heart_ vulnerability: https://brenebrown.com/So, are you where you want to be in your online business? Do you even know what is getting in your way? Take the quiz and get your personalized result, (and what to do about it! )What's Holding You Back?

Instead of a free car, you get a podcast episode with Feminist entrepreneur and CEO of The Feminine Rising, Elijah Shannon Selby diving into the concept of “baking justice into business” with Kelly Diels, the Feminist Marketing Consultant who helps feminist entrepreneurs sell without selling out. In this conversation, they discuss how injustice is already present not only in our businesses, but in the assumptions we make and the beliefs we hold about what we can do to make change. Elijah and Kelly grapple with the ideals and struggles of feminism, and offer insight into what power we already have to stand up and make some real change (without needing the funds to give everyone in our audience a car). Links: KellyDiels.com Insta: @kelly.diels Feminism: A Key Idea for Business https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07S2T2T38&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_4ZJ3M8E5H4K03T6N5XMZ Come join me (Elijah!) in my FREE private Facebook group, The Feminist Business Model: https://www.facebook.com/groups/feministbusinessmodel Send me a DM on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elijahshannonselby/ http://thefemininerising.world/

Kate interviews feminist marketing consultant and thought leader, Kelly Diels. They discuss: -How to bake justice in to your business offerings. -How to avoid perpetuating scarcity triggers in marketing. -Finding the courage to be visible, even when not everyone will like it. -Collaboration vs. competition -The importance of educating your audience and reclaiming the meaning of your work. And so much more! To get regular doses of Kelly's brilliance, go to https://www.kellydiels.com/ and be sure to sign up for her Sunday Love Letters newsletter. To learn more about Kate's offerings, sign up for her weekly newsletter HERE or check out www.kateholly.com.

Falls es dir noch nicht aufgefallen ist…ich liebe Online-Marketing: Ich liebe die Kreativität der verschiedenen Kommunikations-Kanäle Ich liebe die Möglichkeit, eine direkte Beziehung zu Interessenten und Kunden aufzubauen Ich liebe den Community-Gedanken Und ich mag natürlich auch die Möglichkeiten, im Netz Geld zu verdienen. Aber ich glaube, der Online-Bildungs-Markt und die Geschäfts-Modelle und Marketing-Strategien, die in dieser Industrie aktuell den Ton angeben, sind nicht ok. Und müssen dringend überdacht und neu definiert werden. Ich teile in dieser Podcast-Folge meine ganz persönlichen Erfahrungen mit dieser Branche. Ich erzähle, wo ich Fehler gemacht habe und wie wir das System verbessern können. Links und weitere Ressourcen: James Cialdini - https://www.amazon.nl/Influence-New-Expanded-Psychology-Persuasion/dp/0063138794/ref=asc_df_0063138794/?tag=nlshogostdde-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=494628033528&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6579738693422709221&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9064872&hvtargid=pla-1211825204069&psc=1 (Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade) https://www.kellydiels.com/ (Kelly Diels) https://duped.online/ (Duped )- ein Podcast von Maggie Patterson und Dr. Michelle Mazur https://smallbusinessboss.co/ (Maggie Patterson) von Small Business Boss https://drmichellemazur.com/ (Dr. Michelle Mazur) https://rachaelkayalbers.com/ (Rachel Kay Albers) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQMnBA3CS502aghlcr0_aw (Coffezilla) Liste wird weiter ergänzt Teile mir deine Meinung zu diesem Thema gerne auf https://www.instagram.com/annehaeusler/?hl=de (Instagram )oder per E-Mail mit.

Show notes available at www.gloriachoupr.com/20 Are you being unintentionally biased, prejudiced, ableist, sexist, or even racist in your copy without knowing it? Feminist educator, writer, and coach Kelly Diels is sharing a perspective in this episode that you might not have heard before. If you are writing copy for your emails, sales page, or anything else, you need to know the mistakes you could be making that get in the way of your message and values. There are words in our everyday vocabulary that are exclusionary that we don't even know about. In this episode, Kelly is highlighting some of those words, showing you how they are problematic, and teaching you how to replace them so that you can create a culture of inclusion. Your words matter. Tune in to find out how to use them to reflect your values and shape the future.  Kelly Diels is a feminist educator, writer, and coach. She specializes in feminist marketing for culture-makers. She's here to raise awareness about how the business-as-usual formulas we learn everywhere actually reproduce oppression. She develops and teaches alternate, feminist marketing tools to help us do it differently (and better).I would love to connect on Facebook or Instagram: www.instagram.com/gloriachoupr!Resources MentionedKelly's Website: https://www.kellydiels.com Connect with Kelly on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kellydielswriterJoin SLL: www.kellydiels.com/subscribeAdditional ResourcesWatch the PR masterclass: http://gloriachoupr.com/masterclassGet the PR Starter Pack: http://www.prstarterpack.comJoin the Small Biz PR Pros FB group: http://www.getfeaturednow.com

Looking over some of my 2021 Reflections Making more money and seeing that I can trust myself with it

Tarzan Kay is a former copywriter-for-hire who specializes in emails that are fun to read, and more addictive than Netflix.    Her online courses teach how to write story-based copy and make consistent sales from a small email list, without using fear or FOMO.  Her company's mission is to make high-integrity marketing the new status quo for online business.   In a previous life, Tarzan was a music major and once did a 3-year stint in law school, in French!  When T-Boss isn't writing emails, you'll find her taking mid-day dunks in the ice bath or playing Billy Joel's greatest hits on the piano. Tarzan and her family live in Ontario, Canada.   "I was aware that there were some problems. I was making more money but I was no longer feeling fulfilled."   Additional Links:Tarzan's Freebie: https://tarzankay.com/Get_Paid_Podcast Tarzan's Greatest Hits: https://tarzankay.com/greatesthits/   This Week on the Get Paid Podcast:   What David Bowie and Tarzan Kay have in common. How Tarzan leveraged her looks (and her privilege) to get to where she is… and how she feels about it now. The experience that changed Tarzan's point of view about racial injustice. How using psychedelics changed Tarzan's worldview. Shifting from promoting affiliate products to promoting your OWN products. When your identity merges with your business... The different revenue sources Tarzan used to bring in a million. Is there a right and a wrong reason to sell to people? Marketing practices Tarzan left behind for good, practices she's recently adopted—and why. Who are Dr. Michelle Nazar and Kelly Diels and why does Tarzan love them? The good and bad side of having goals from Tarzan AND Claire's perspective. How Tarzan got out of her scheduling rut. Is owning a pool worth it? Tarzan's revenue forecast for 2021 and her take-home pay. Claire's Tip: Check out Tarzan Kay's ads for Course Launch Copy Kit on the Facebook Ads Library. Connect with Tarzan Kay: Tarzan Kay Join Tarzan Kay's Email List Tarzan Kay Instagram Tarzan Kay Facebook Tarzan Kay at TikTok Contact Tarzan Kay   Step up Your Facebook Ads Game   This episode of the Get Paid Podcast is sponsored by Claire's free training, the 5 Ad Formula for Selling Online Courses on Autopilot.    Right now, people are spending way more time on Facebook and Instagram, which has significantly lowered ad costs for anyone currently running ads. Make sure you take advantage of this opportunity to grow your audience for cheap - go watch the 5 Ads Formula masterclass, and get at least ONE ad running ASAP. If you need extra help, Claire and her team of coaches have your back inside their signature ads course, Absolute FB Ads. Get all the details when you sign up to watch the masterclass at clairepells.com/5ads   Now it's time to GET PAID.   Thanks for tuning into the Get Paid Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate, and leave your honest review. Connect with me on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, visit my website for even more detailed strategies, and be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media.   Now, it's time to go get yourself paid.

We received such amazing feedback for last year's Thrive Online conference that we knew we had to host one this year too! Tickets are now for sale online for this one-day event on 29 September. We'll be talking about how to build a lucrative membership model and create a signature offer, as well as hosting a talk by Sadie Nardini on how to stand out on social media, before diving into the topic of building businesses that you love but also feed your bank account. We have invited the same panel along for a talk on Women, Power, and Money: Claire Wasserman, Naomi Clark, and Kelly Diels. Join us for five sessions at 9 a.m. on 29 September, for $27, by booking your ticket today! www.thriveonlineconference.com

Writer and feminist marketing consultant Kelly Diels joins us to discuss the links between diet culture, patriarchy, and anti-feminist marketing practices (aka The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand); the role of abundance in healing from diet culture; how to reclaim your life from The Life Thief; understanding and healing our relationship with money; and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about what to do if you're one of those weight-loss “success stories” who's actually just in the throes of disordered eating. (This episode originally aired on April 15, 2019.) Kelly Diels (she/her) is a writer and feminist marketing consultant. She writes about a phenomenon that she calls "The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand," which she does not think is a good thing for women or our world. Kelly believes, instead, that we are culture makers and can create the culture we want to live in, right now. Kelly is also the Director of Marketing and Communications for SheEO (all opinions are her own). Find her writing and online workshops at KellyDiels.com. Subscribe to our newsletter, Food Psych Weekly, to keep getting new weekly Q&As and other new content while the podcast is on hiatus! If you're ready to break free from diet culture once and for all, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course. You'll get all your questions answered in an exclusive monthly podcast, plus ongoing support in our private community forum and dozens of hours of other great content. Christy's first book, Anti-Diet, is available wherever you get your books. Order online at christyharrison.com/book, or at local bookstores across North America, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Grab Christy's free guide, 7 simple strategies for finding peace and freedom with food, for help getting started on the anti-diet path. For full show notes and a transcript of this episode, go to christyharrison.com/foodpsych. Ask your own question about intuitive eating, Health at Every Size, or eating disorder recovery at christyharrison.com/questions.

This week we are opening up the mailbag for a couple of Listener Letters about self-doubt and social media. Shannon is getting stuck in comparison and Mariki is feeling uncomfortable with her constant checking habit.If you find your self-doubt is activated by social media (in other words if you have a human brain) then this episode is for you. We talk about what might be going on underneath these protective beliefs and behaviours and some practical steps for Shannon, Mariki (and you) to take. More info:Love notes to your clients from Kelly Diels: www.kellydiels.com + @kelly.dielsIf you have a dilemma, challenge or a self-doubty situation that is troubling you I want to help. Write to me – sas@saspetherick.com - and I'll create a podcast episode especially for you. 

In this episode I'm joined by bisexual scorpio therapist and witch, Jane Claire Bradley! With the end of lockdown tentatively in sight, we are discussing self image, body neutrality, and pleasure. Follow Jane: https://www.instagram.com/janeclairebradley/?hl=en Jane's work: https://janeclairebradley.com https://forbookssake.net Please note: There are some whooshing sounds in the background because a salmon pass is being built near my house for thee fish. You may also hear a kitten making some cute noises. Trigger & content warnings (in order of mention): Main segment (2): food, lockdown and COVID, survivors, trauma, diet culture, sex work, body image, extreme body goals e.g losing 6 stone/buying steroids online to dramatically change the body, gender expression, body positivity, body neutrality, racism, misogyny and transphobia, ableism, disability, masturbation, shibari. Tarot segment (39): trauma, burn out, activism, money, Jehovah's Witness upbringing, classism, food. Agenda (1:01): witches, mention of gendered violence/abuse no details, witches being burnt at the stake, sex work, swimming, Harry Potter fan fiction (dw we hate J.K), trauma, homelessness. References: 'The Perfect Woman' is a form of Violence Against Women by Kelly Diels: https://www.kellydiels.com/perfect-woman-violence-against-women/ The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. Van der Kolk Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor: https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/ ‘Erotic in Motion' workshop by Isabella Frappier: https://www.isabellafrappier.com/erotic-motion/ ASMR: ItsBlitzzz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSaOa0pBPwk&t=1105s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjJyzfQ0aBY CreativeCalm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnu-cITgEBg https://open.spotify.com/album/4j0YPDC9P71WbIUhSsSNmT?si=ATh7rkslRcGkHPEJe7ClMQ https://open.spotify.com/album/0SsrlCnOqnbiGXPisJCOqw?si=CHUG75hOStOOuELbNT44Kw Agenda: Backxwash: instagram.com/backxwash/ Missing Witches: https://www.missingwitches.com/ lettered aka best HP fanfic author of all time: https://archiveofourown.org/users/lettered/works?fandom_id=136512 (best works are Pure & Simple Truth and By The Grace) Carry On by Rainbow Rowell https://www.rainbowrowell.com/carry-on

  “We learn that if we want to be successful we're going to have to swallow our principles, hide who we are, and fit into the system.” That is, until we start to step into our own personal power and begin to do differently. On this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast, we're talking with Kelly Diels, Feminist Marketing Consultant who helps entrepreneurs make money AND justice by baking their values and beliefs into business practices. Kelly's feminist marketing practices that promote justice and equity are so desperately needed in this world. Leadership tips you won't want to miss:

Today begins a brand new season of Unforgettable! A season dedicated to taking us back to the foundations of messaging.  Starting with… What is messaging, really? Believe me, I’ve heard a lot of myths and misunderstandings in the past several years I’ve been leading messaging workshops and Masterminds! That it’s all about wordsmithing or dialing in your elevator pitch.  That there’s a “right” way to do it — following formulas and scripts that work for others.  That it’s about selling at all costs and has to feel icky or robotic to be successful.  But when you’re a sensitive Messenger who cares deeply, values-based messaging is where your power lies. Because there’s a difference between simply following copywriting rules and marketing tactics and messaging according to your integrity. So, fresh on the heels of the Speaking to What Matters series, it’s time to re-define what messaging really is.  We start with today’s episode, where you’ll learn the difference between core message and messaging plus how to reset how you think about messaging and start crafting messaging that’s in alignment with your values. You’ll learn Listen in. Deeper support from me: Join the FREE 5-day Message Clarity Challenge to cut through the noise and calls in your people…without having to change who you are. Starts March 22nd, 2021!  What’s your Messenger Archetype? Take the quiz. My Messenger Mastermind is an intimate circle of up to 6 women coaches & leaders who want to feel solid, confident & consistent in their messaging and grow a movement that matters ~ both to the world and to their business’ bottom line. As a Copywriter, I write messaging for Your Website that makes your dream clients feel SEEN and conveys the true value and impact of your work so that it moves them to sign up.  Links from the Episode: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk: The Danger of a Single Story  Tiq Milan & Kim Katrin Milan’s TED Talk: A Queer Vision Of Love and Marriage Maysoon Zayid’s TED Talk: I Got 99 Problems…. Palsy Is Just One  #173 Evolving Your Work to Have a Social Justice Lens with Cher Hale #174 Feminist Marketing & Copy That Doesn’t Oppress with Kelly Diels #175 Is My Niche Excluding Marginalized People? With Trudi Lebron #176 Cis-Centering, Pronouns and Leadership with Tamala Poljak #177 Speaking About Issues Without Co-Opting Them with Nisha Moodley #151 Why I Stopped Sacrificing Integrity for Strategy #152 Values-Based Marketing: How to Lead with Integrity Playing Big by Tara Mohr What’s your biggest takeaway about values-based messaging? Listen to the episode then let me know in the comments over on Instagram. Warmth, Adria

Kelly Diels, Mother, Social Justice Advocate and Coach for Women Who Want to Make Money Unapologetically talks about the decision to align her justice with her money.

You are enough. You belong. You are not alone.This episode touches on the concept of using your unique tools to chisel, sculpt, and shape life & our collective future at “The Wall”.I wanted to start a new season of episodes with this analogy because I believe this sentiment will echo with each conversation & guest that we welcome in, and to help us remember that no story - no set of tools - is too big or too small.I would love it if you'd join me over on Instagram and tell me one of your unique tools after you listen to the episode! You can find me @timberzaccardi- - - - - - - - - - - - - As mentioned in the episode, I learned this analogy from brilliant feminist marketing coach, Kelly Diels. I believe in transparency around what we're learning & who we're learning from. I will always do my best to credit who/where my inspiration came from when sharing with you!

In this Best Of episode, Leesa Renée Hall shares her favorite moments from Episodes 1-12 in non-chronological order. In Episodes 1-12, Leesa and her guests had deep conversations around topics like anger, land acknowledgments, raising anti oppressive children, the power of naming, coalition building, queasy stomachs that happen when you're exploring biases, grief, contempt, mental wellness, emotional tax, and honouring one's boundaries.Here are the episodes mentioned in the order they appeared in this episode:Episode 4 with Karlyn PercilEpisode 1 with Leesa Renée HallEpisode 5 with Andrea J. LeeEpisode 8 with Miriam Hall, Rachael Neu, Anakha Coman, and Oni Marchbanks (in the order they spoke) Episode 2 with Tiffany M. JewellEpisode 6 with Asha FrostEpisode 9 with Paul ZelizerEpisode 3 with Leesa Renée HallEpisode 7 with Kelly DielsEpisode 10 with Leesa Renée HallEpisode 11 with James-Olivia Chu HillmanEpisode 12 with Layla F. SaadClick on each episode for show notes, episode resources, and lightly edited transcripts Get Exclusive Guided Prompts on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Closing out Speaking to What Matters: Conversations on Messaging for a More Just World, here is my personal debrief with specific aha moments and learnings I took away from each leader about how to show up for social justice in your messaging. Listen in. A Few Takeaways: You can’t slap up new inclusive messaging on your website and expect more diverse clients to come. Messaging is the end point after you’ve done the internal work and learning. (Hat tip to convos with Cher Hale and Trudi Lebron.) Be discerning. There’s no formula for knowing when to pass the mic / when to speak up / what to say / how to do any of this. (HT Erica Courdae and Nisha Moodley.) Be really clear, specific and explicit about who your work is for. More words vs collapsing people into narrow labels for the sake of tidy marketing. (HT Kelly Diels and Trudi Lebron.) Slow down. Harm often happens when we’re moving so fast and not taking time to be intentional and present and see the actual humans in front of us. (HT Tamala Poljak, Nisha Moodley, and Trudi Lebron.) Values-based marketing is when you attract people who don’t just have the problem you solve but who share the same values. (HT Trudi Lebron and Kelly Diels.) It’s not about being an “expert,” it’s about being a leader. And being a leader is more about how you show up than about doing it perfectly or right. (HT Nisha Moodley, Tamala Poljak and Erica Courdae.)   Deeper support from me: What’s your Messenger Archetype? Take the quiz. My Messenger Mastermind is an intimate circle of up to 6 women coaches & leaders who want to feel solid, confident & consistent in their messaging and grow a movement that matters ~ both to the world and to their business’ bottom line. As a Copywriter + Messaging Expert, I craft websites that make your dream clients feel SEEN and convey the true value and impact of your work so that it moves them to sign up.  Did these conversations create any shifts or realizations for you? Anything you’re implementing into your business? Let me know in the comments of this episode’s post over on Instagram. Warmth, Adria

If we design for the people with the most marginalized identities, the experience improves for everyone else. That’s a core belief of Kelly Diels, a Feminist Marketing Consultant who trains feminist copywriters and helps bake our beliefs into our business practices to generate money and justice. She saw that, working in the women’s empowerment space, those who don’t identify as women often get excluded.  To make her space as welcoming and inclusive as possible, she centers the people with the least dominant identities in her spaces and makes her policies and practices around them.  If you’re looking for grounded guidance you can apply immediately to your website and business practices, this episode is super-actionable. (I took a long list of notes for my own business!)  In episode 174, you’ll hear nitty-gritty copywriting advice, word shifts, and exact practices she uses.  Listen in. Kelly and I talk about Why it’s a myth that aligning your work with your values will make you less money The filter questions she asks herself: “Will this create more love? Will this create more justice?” The reason behind putting your pronouns on your zoomWhy she doesn’t use the word “womxn” anymore The traditional copywriting and marketing tendencies we need to avoid if we’re writing for justice Why she starts all her newsletters with what she’s selling, credits her influences in all her emails, and starts every meeting with a land acknowledgment Deeper support from me: What’s your Messenger Archetype? Take the quiz. My Messenger Mastermind is an intimate circle of up to 6 women coaches & leaders who want to feel solid, confident & consistent in their messaging and grow a movement that matters ~ both to the world and to their business’ bottom line. As a Copywriter + Messaging Expert, I craft websites that make your dream clients feel SEEN and convey the true value and impact of your work so that it moves them to sign up.  Kelly’s Links: KellyDiels.com  Kelly’s Instagram Native Land Map  Trevia Woods – Many Trees Lifeway What sparked for you from my conversation with Kelly?  Let us know in the comments of this episode’s post over on Instagram. Warmth, Adria

Here we are, at the first episode of Speaking to What Matters: Conversations on Messaging for a More Just World.  It’s my hope that this series of informal, real conversations with social justice leaders brings you at least one shift, aha moment, or breakthrough in how you want to show up.  Here’s where we’ll be going & who we’ll be learning from: [171] Messaging For a More Just World [172] Being an Imperfect Ally…When You’re a Sensitive Soul with Erica Courdae  [173] Evolving Your Work to Have a Social Justice Lens with Cher Hale [174 Feminist Marketing & Copy that Doesn’t Oppress with Kelly Diels [175] Is My Niche Excluding Marginalized People? With Trudi Lebron  [176] CIS- & Hetero-Normativity in Our Leadership with Tamala Poljak [177] Speaking About Issues Without Co-Opting Them to “Sell” with Nisha Moodley [178] What I Learned From 6 Social Justice Leaders About Messaging Today’s episode is our starting place, setting the foundation to lean into this series.  In all honesty, I sat for a while with whether to share my personal experiences of privilege and fragility. (Think sleepless nights debating whether to re-record this episode.) I don’t want to center my own experience.  But I also want to bring awareness to the layers of blindness we have when we posess dominant identities – white, CIS, hetero, able-bodied, medium-sized, middle class, youthful-looking.  Because most of us have at least one dominant identity which means most of us have certain, often invisible (to us), privileges that go along with that identity.  Even as well-meaning folks.  I want to normalize the feelings of discomfort that go along with this so that we can begin to TURN TOWARDS them rather than hiding from them and staying silent.  So I left this episode as-is. An imperfect, messy, honest, quick chat with you before diving into conversations with six smart, insightful leaders. (Starting tomorrow!) Part personal, part inspirational.   Listen in. Deeper support from me: What’s your Messenger Archetype? Take the quiz. My Messenger Mastermind is an intimate circle of up to 6 women coaches & leaders who want to feel solid, confident & consistent in their messaging and grow a movement that matters ~ both to the world and to their business’ bottom line. As a Copywriter + Messaging Expert, I craft websites that make your dream clients feel SEEN and convey the true value and impact of your work so that it moves them to sign up.  If there was one shift or breakthrough you’d want to take away from this series, what would it be? Let me know in the comments over on Instagram. Warmth, Adria

Kelly Diels is feminist educator, writer, and coach. She specializes in feminist marketing for culture-makers. In this episode, Eryn and Kelly talk about: Having a thriving livelihood while not replicating oppression in our businesses The female lifestyle empowerment brand Not exploiting ourselves in our own businesses Deprogramming the cultural authority voices in our heads Deconditioning ourselves of capitalist instincts Working with our money lineages Common business practices in wellness & coaching that are exploitative and what to do instead Marketing privilege and performing to create and grow a business Creating affordability and accessibility in our work Why doing business is not the same thing as promoting capitalism Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/kelly-diels  Download the free healing meditation for ex-religious folks. Register for the Imbolc breathwork ceremony. Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Connect with Kelly on her website and Instagram. Explore Flora and her free money and justice workshop.

Who holds power when things are named? In this episode, Kelly talks about how the language of injustice shapes how we craft and bring together words. As a mother of 5 children, all who are of African and Dutch descent, Kelly shares how having a liberatory mindset helps her navigate this unfamiliar terrain as a mother with skin colour privilege. She also explains why we need to invent a language of justice so we shift our culture towards justice.Kelly Diels as a feminist educator, writer and coach. She specializes in feminist marketing for culture makers. She's here to raise awareness about how the business as usual formulas we learn everywhere, actually reproduce oppression, she develops and teaches alternate feminist marketing tools to help us do it differently. And better. You can find out more about Kelly by going to www.KellyDiels.com.Here's what you'll learn:How the absence of knowing her matrilineal line prompted Kelly to create the work she does todayWhat guides Kelly so she creates a safe space at home for her mixed race children without causing racial harmWhat white fragility really is and the questions white people can use to interrogate their relationship to a system that demeans, oppresses, and abusesHow intersectional identities create nuance, complexity, and layers (and how Kelly navigates her dominant and marginalized identities)The one academic whose framework guides Kelly in all that she does and how others, no matter their leadership potential, can use this method in their communities, corporations, and homesThe injustice that Kelly named and how doing so has helped she and her clients understand the power of naming thingsHow to protect the words that you coin without hiring a lawyer and going through an expensive trademark processWhy fonts are a feminist issue and how they tie into a liberatory framework of naming thingsClick here for show notes and lightly edited episode transcripts Get Exclusive Guided Prompts on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Be prepared for some jaw dropping truths in this episode, my friend. Kelly and Tara go wide and deep as they explore what perfectionism really is and why it plagues women to exhaustion. They explore why labels like imposter complex and eating disorders are cultural injuries that leave women blaming themselves and wondering if there is something wrong with themselves instead of identifying what’s really happening: women have brilliantly created ways to survive in a system that was not designed for their success.  Kelly Diels is feminist educator, writer, and coach and specializes in feminist marketing for culture-makers.  www.kellydiels.com Instagram: @kelly.diels  Facebook:  kellydielswriter Put yourself on the waiting list for Kelly’s one year mastermind FLORA, the Feminist Marketing School for Female Entrepreneurs https://www.kellydiels.com/flora/  

How do you do feminism in your business? How do you run a thriving, profitable business while living your feminist anti-oppression values? That's the question we're tackling today. I'll give one small example of how feminism has played out in my business: the progression of images of myself I have put out over the last 10 years. I've had my photos done 4 times, 5 if you include the time my wife took a bunch of photos of me because I just really needed some new photos. For the first couple of photo shoots, I was focused on getting "good" photos taken. That meant kind of trying to look "pretty" and also relatable. without realizing it, I was asking my photographer to package me the way I'd seen other successful coaches being packaged: feminine, smiling, and in pink. The last time I got my photos taken, I asked my photographer, Sarah Deragon to co-create something more interesting and less expected. I asked her to help me bring out some more masculine energy, to NOT focus on making me look "pretty" and to play with the images in a more powerful way. We got out boxing gloves. We had me in a flight suit, then in blazers, in fedoras, with no attempt to make me look younger than I look. Images are just one place where my feminist values come up, and it's where we start with my guest Kelly Diels, a writer and feminist marketing consultant who works with culture makers. YOU are a culture maker, and I'm so excited to share this conversation with you. Here's some of what we talked about: Why "The Female Empowerment Lifestyle Brand" upholds oppression Using photos of herself that support intersectional feminist values and move a new narrative forward Leading (and loving) her "We Are Culture Makers" Community of entrepreneurs Teaching Feminist Copywriting Tripling her income while using non-exploitive and feminist marketing methods The exhaustion she experienced when she used traditional marketing tactics The problem with leveraging pain and suffering in your copywriting The platforms she uses for her business (see resources) Mistakes she made that you can skip How she manages her time and why she gets up super early Following the natural rhythms of your body, your family and the world Her excitement about her upcoming book! Show notes at http://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/132

Feminist marketing consultant and writer Kelly Diels joins us for a conversation about social media, marketing, and culture. We discuss the power of helping our kids notice, name, and build resilience against harmful media messages, and why we should all think of ourselves as culture makers. Read the full show notes for this episode. Get our ABC Guide to Body-Positive Parenting. Submit a question for season 3.

In dialgoue with Kelly Diels, Feminist educator, writer and coach, who brings fierce insight and strategy to what it means to bake justice into your business practices. Chela and Kelly look at the ways that we all exist in and perpetuate the culture around us, and where we have influence that can be leveraged for justice. This includes finding alternate business practices that allow us to thrive and take up space, especially in a culture that tells us that we shouldn't. Discover what the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand is, why it's not a good thing, and how to be a culture maker in what you build and how you buy. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

The podcast is officially on summer break. This is my opportunity to integrate my learning. Here's a really honest, insider look at how I'm using Kelly Diels' metaphor of "The Wall" to make sense of my roles and responsibilities in social justice movements. TL;DR: + I'm embracing the value of my experiences and expertise. We can each bring our best contributions. + I'm committed to continually learning about the nature of oppression from folx with experiences and expertise that I do not have.

Picture this.  Your life and business are both stuck in a rut and you know you need someone’s guidance to get out of it.    Someone who looks, talks, and acts like you and who’s been through similar struggles.  So, you decide to get the help of a female lifestyle coach and log onto their website.  And are immediately greeted by: A website with a background of pastels A slim, white woman in a sheath dress and with shiny white teeth at the centre of it A background of a perfect, sunny, customized kitchen in a large, airy house As you continue to browse, you see something odd - at every page you’re being sold empowerment and are being advised to ‘embrace who you are’. But, all of that is coming from someone who is wealthy, attractive, and socially acceptable.  Someone who shows none of the physical or emotional flaws that they’re teaching you to embrace.  That is what Kelly Diels calls ‘The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand.’ Kelly is a feminist marketing consultant and coach who helps people build businesses that break age-old oppressive cycles.  And defining ‘The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand’ archetype is her life’s work.  Kelly clarifies that most women who embody the archetype aren’t always inherently misogynistic, or even aware of the conflicting messages their branding is putting out.  However, they are ultimately selling patriarchy in a pretty pink bow. After all, the archetype involves wealthy, conventionally attractive women leveraging their white privilege to exert power over other women by making them feel inadequate or lesser than.  And buying into it isn’t going to do much to help other women (especially those from minorities). We all need to check ourselves (and who we choose as role models), take a deeper look at how businesses operate, and analyze what kinds of messages we’re sending out into the world.  Especially right now.  And Kelly is more than happy to help us down that road! In today’s episode Kelly goes deeper into the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand, discusses how and WHY we should shun traditional ways of operating a business, the differences between business and capitalism and much more! We always love having Kelly around because we walk away from our conversations with a different perspective on things we took for granted.  And we’re sure she’ll have that effect on you too!   Here’s a peek at what else you can expect: Why you always need to jump before you're ready The financial benefits of adopting feminist practices to your business How you can break the cycle of leveraging an oppressive system What makes a business different from ruthless capitalism How we can realize the power we hold to change the culture around us How ‘business as usual’ is implicitly oppressive RESOURCES Kelly Diels - Website Kelly Diels - Instagram The Body is Not an Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor Rachel Rodgers - Website Christy Harrison - Website Bookshop.org   This Week’s Joy: Kelly’s joy this week is an answer to all our Amazon problems - bookshop.org.  Much like Amazon, It’s a website where you can order books to be shipped to your doorstep.  The catch? A commission goes into supporting indie bookstores around you!   This Week’s Hustle: Kelly isn’t a fan of the traditional business and copywriting formula of Problem - Aggravate - Solution. Instead, she proposes her ‘5 Step Messaging Model’ which initiates a shared vision or value with your customer and helps them make deliberate decisions to purchase your product, instead of being forced to do so from a place of shame.  Kelly is also working on an audit (or quiz!) which helps assess businesses and see if you’re either lining up with the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand, or if your coaches and teachers are. Watch her website to be the first to know when it drops!   This podcast is brought to you by Namastream This podcast is brought to you by the Namastream software platform. Namastream is an easy to use platform that helps you build and sell your own courses, memberships and live-streamed programs. Go from idea to open for business in just minutes. Unlike other startups, Namastream was created by women for women. If you're looking for a simple, streamlined way to build and grow an online business. You can learn more at Namastream.com   Know Your Numbers In our business, we're big fans of financial literacy and accountability. Knowing your numbers is an essential aspect of building a successful business and inherent responsibility for any entrepreneur.  What you focus on grows, so pay attention to your money. We use Bench for our bookkeeping. It's simple, elegant and saves us so many hours that would otherwise be spent neck-deep in receipts on the other side of a spreadsheet. Each month our transactions are automatically imported into Bench and we get on-demand financial reports. We even enjoy opening up our profit and loss statement to review each month. When tax time comes around, we are up to date and ready to go. And this is what Financial Empowerment feels like. 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Feminist marketing consultant Kelly Diels wants you to know that you are a culture maker. In this episode, she shares strategies for harnessing your culture-making power to create the kind of world you want to live in, whether you're a business owner or a consumer. We talked about the pitfalls of the "Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand," critique as a form of caring, and more. You can find the show notes and a full transcript of this episode at www.shohrehdavoodi.com/55.

On today's episode, I'm taking you inside of my personal journal.   No, I'm not spilling any tea in this episode…LOL.   But I am talking about what makes me tick, some of my core values, and how I show up in daily life.   I am talking about one of my my core values of Speaking Truth To Power. People who know me in my personal life- know this is one of my core values- because I live this daily.   Listen in to today's episode for insights on the following Why it's important to recognize everything in modern life has a power dynamic Why it's critical to develop core values specific to power How to cultivate your ability to speak truth to power  How to develop your own affirmations of power   This is an important topic we are talking about on the podcast today. Tune in. Naomi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Resources Mentioned   If you would like to explore finance consulting with me I have openings starting in August 2020 To schedule your free 60 minute clarity call- CLICK HERE   Apps:  ThinkUp Positive Affirmations for creating and recording affirmations in your own voice! Apps: Voice Recorder Audio Editor for self-recording/external processing.   Episode 37 Gaslighting, Trust, And Protecting Your Power   This is the map I used to research Native American traditional territories- https://native-land.ca/   Kelly Diels is a feminist marketing consultant whom first modeled for me the importance of explicitly acknowledging we are living on stolen and unceded territories of Native American Nations. She approaches all her work through a social justice lens and you can find out more about her here at https://www.kellydiels.com/   Join Us Free Private FB Group  Join us at facebook.com/groups/outspokengirlfriend/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoutspokengirlfriend/  (@theoutspokengirlfriend) My Website: www.naomiscottclark.com Email Me:  hello@naomiscottclark.com 

Kelly Diels is a feminist marketer, writer and culture-making advocate ~ When I launched Monday Hustle, I’d bought into the idea that if a young woman quits her job to forge her own path, it's inherently feminist. The responses I received to this decision, and my subsequent branding and marketing, definitely followed the same vein: break the glass ceiling, blaze your own trail, they said - so, before I'd learnt about systemic workplace issues; before I understood why the idea of hustling at all costs wasn't necessarily that positive; before I'd figured out how I might bring other women with me; I started working towards my own individual success. You see why my idea of feminism might have been a little misguided..?  Of course, regardless of gender, there are a tonne of cultural forces and influences at play, and no individual can expect to understand every invisible force that shapes the decisions we make or the way we present - all we can do is do our best with the information we have. Even with the best of intentions, while our businesses, visions, marketing and branding might seem feminist in appearance - sometimes, they could be anti-feminist in practice. The person whose work kickstarted my journey to start unpacking this stuff was writer and feminist marketer, Kelly Diels - who happens to be today’s guest! As part of her work, Kelly writes about some of the damaging marketing strategies that women in particular are taught to use when we’re building businesses and why they’re not always serving us - nor the communities we hope to help. In this conversation, Kelly generously chats to us about a phrase she coined called the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand, or FLEB. She explains to us reasons why we should think twice before buying a course by Tony Robbins... She helps us understand why marketing tactics that many female-lead online businesses and brands use aren't always serving women - and, she also explains how we can step into our power and create the type of culture we want to be a part of. Shownotes:  To keep exploring this topic visit Kelly's website for a library of articles and resources. There, you'll also find information about her feminist marketing coaching, courses and workshops. Don't forget to sign up to her newsletter and follow her on Instagram.  Tweet your thoughts about today's episode to @SelfieReflect

On today's episode we are talking about Power (per usual here on the podcast). Specifically, we are talking about how ideas & beliefs are shaped and transmitted by those in Power.   We are digging deep into what it means to be educated vs. what it means to be indoctrinated.   This is a conversation for all of us- no matter our color, race, and ethnicity- we are a human race.   And we are getting real about what it takes for all of us a global community to heal.    Tune in for important conversation.   Naomi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Resources Mentioned   If you would like to explore finance consulting with me I have openings starting in August 2020 To schedule your free 60 minute clarity call- CLICK HERE   Episode 37 Gaslighting, Trust, And Protecting Your Power Episode 38 Racism & America Part 1- My OutSpoken Truth Episode 39 Racism & America Part 2- No Time For Fads, Foolishness, Nor Fragility   This is the map I used to research Native American traditional territories- https://native-land.ca/   Kelly Diels is a feminist marketing consultant whom first modeled for me the importance of explicitly acknowledging we are living on stolen and unceded territories of Native American Nations. She approaches all her work through a social justice lens and you can find out more about her here at https://www.kellydiels.com/   Join Us Free Private FB Group  Join us at facebook.com/groups/outspokengirlfriend/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoutspokengirlfriend/  (@theoutspokengirlfriend) My Website: www.naomiscottclark.com Email Me:  hello@naomiscottclark.com   

How can we as parents make a more just culture though the way raise our sons? Feminist writer, marketing consultant, and mother of 5 Kelly Diels shares powerful ideas for parents.   Find Kelly at https://www.kellydiels.com/   https://www.strategieswithkids.com/   Subscribe now to stay updated on future episodes. Show notes, relevant links, and full transcript at strategieswithkids.com

How can we as parents make a more just culture though the way raise our daughters? Feminist writer, marketing consultant, and mother of 5 Kelly Diels shares powerful ideas for parents.   https://www.strategieswithkids.com/   Subscribe now to stay updated on future episodes. Show notes, relevant links, and full transcript at strategieswithkids.com

Feminist writer, marketing consultant, and mother of 5 Kelly Diels helps womxn grow their power and dissolve their shame so they can rise and thrive in every facet of their lives and our culture. In this episode, she shares how parents can shape a more just culture through our parenting.   https://www.strategieswithkids.com/   Subscribe now to stay updated on future episodes. Show notes, relevant links, and full transcript at strategieswithkids.com

On the podcast, I speak with Dr. Tiffany Denny,  who has made it her mission to offer people a way to honor their bodies, even while dealing with pain and discomfort through yoga.    The mindset of needing to work for your body needs to be challenged. Isn’t our body already worthy of our acceptance, just as it is? Sadly, diet culture sends us a message like the air we breathe. It tells that to value only one kind of body- the very slim and unattainable. Kelly Diels gave us insight around the Female Lifestyle Empowerment brand. This brand empowers women only based on a version of what women look like and markets in a way that continues to devalue marginalized groups.    We discuss body acceptance, even when our body is in pain, or we are in recovery. Our body is always changing.  Seeing our body as divinely perfect, just because our body is here on this earth is really the practice.     When under fear and anxiety, our body is even more sensitive. Now during a time of social distancing and self quarantine with COVD-19, people are experiencing their typical emotions x100 and it’s likely our bodies are uncomfortable.    Rigidity, needing things to be a certain way, to feel okay, is a way of coping. Now’s the time to be flexible. Self compassion is acknowledging our worth and not needing to earn it based on what we look like from the outside.    Giving yourself permission to say this sucks. Spiritual bypassing can often be working hard on making it okay. Being with your body even when it’s uncomfortable.    When the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, we won’t be making it out the same way we came into it. Could the silver lining be the compassion we’ve cultivated for ourselves and others?    There are some tools to get through this. Anchoring to something we are drawn to, like a rock, tree or blanket. Breathing with intention will soothe our bodies.    Learn more about Tiffany at http://www.tiffanydenny.com/ and following Tiffany Denny on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/tiff_outdoors/  

Today I'm talking Suzanne Siemens, co-founder of Lunapads, about building a feminist business, busting menstrual stigma and how consumers can activate our buying power to support feminist businesses.  This episode of Heavy Flow is supported by Kelly Diels, feminist marketing consultant and founder of We Are The Culture Makers.  Full Shownotes  Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation Subscribe to the Heavy Flow email list  Follow @amandalaird on Instagram Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios Graphic design: Rachel Laird  

Kelly helps feminist entrepreneurs and culture makers sell to women without selling out by teaching feminist principles, including how they apply to marketing and other facets of business. She talks openly about controversial topics, including the false perceptions that exist around poor people and money. As a busy mom of five kids and a thriving entrepreneur, Kelly’s story is motivating and her message is profoundly important. 

Do you consider yourself a feminist? At SFM we certainly do, and so does our guest this week, Kelly Diels. Kelly and I explore the world of FAUX, getting to grips with how feminism has everything to do with marketing, our own choices and our ability to get our work out into the world.  Read the full show notes over on our website School for Mothers Website ●  School For Mothers Private Facebook Group ● School for Mothers Instagram

This week we’ve reached a milestone on the Your Next Chapter – the 100th episode! It’s been an absolute delight to share the stories of so many wholehearted women from around the globe who have stepped into their own next chapters in business and life, to hear of their challenges and triumphs, fears and celebrations, lessons and insights. To celebrate the achievement that 100 episodes represent, I stepped to the other side of the microphone to be interviewed by one of my lovely listeners – the fabulous Dr. Becky Quicke from the UK. We had an absolute ball recording this one for you and hope you enjoy it just as much. And, of course, I look forward to sharing more stories with you as we go forward, along with more solo shows where I’m stepping up my own game to share more of my own insights, ideas, and perspectives with you. Take a moment to subscribe through the links below so you never miss an episode. Show Notes These are the questions Becky posed that I answer… You have been an inspiration for me as I stepped into my next chapter almost a year ago to the day and I know you inspire many women across the globe - who inspired you most to step into your own next chapters and what was it that inspired you? Could you talk us through your next chapters and in particular focus on what wisdom have you taken from each chapter that has led you to the chapter you are in today? So many working mums lose ourselves as we juggle our careers and being mums. Does this resonate with you and if so, would you say you have become more yourself in your next chapter or would you say you have transformed into a different person? I recently heard a wonderful woman called Kelly Diels encourage female entrepreneurs to step away from the audience numbers and followers as the metric of success but to focus on our ‘legacy metric’-what the next generation will gain from our work in the world. How would you describe the legacy that you hope to leave the world and the next generation? Like you I have ‘popcorn brain’ (one of your fab phrases), how do you respond to new inspiration and exciting business ideas whilst maintaining stability and focus? You work with women from within Australia and from all over the world, are there any cultural differences that strike you in relation to women and their next chapters? What has your podcasting journey taught you? How would you like to see your podcast evolve through the next hundred episodes?! Well, a century of podcasts!! Let’s not talk the current Ashes cricket series between England and Australia with Australia winning fair and square but there is a lovely tradition of the batsman or woman raising and pointing their bat towards special people who they would like to acknowledge and share their achievement with. Who would you like to raise your bat towards in sharing your special moment in reaching 100 podcasts?

We're replaying the Best of Heavy Flow while we're on hiatus over the summer! Subscribe to Heavy Flow on your favourite podcast player and sign-up for my weekly newsletter to get new episodes when we're back in the fall.  Today I'm talking to Kelly Diels, a writer and feminist marketing consultant about the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand. We're taking a break from talking about periods to discuss another taboo wellness topic: how the typical marketing paradigm, particularly online, is harmful to women. Heavy Flow is supported by CV Harquil's Feminism: A Key Idea in Business.  Follow the Menstruation Research Network on Twitter @MenstruationRN and visit their website for news, resources and events. Full Shownotes  Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation Subscribe to the Heavy Flow email list  Follow @amandalaird on Instagram Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios Graphic design: Rachel Laird

Our series on women and money continues, and today’s episode is about getting your mindset set up for building wealth. We want you to confront your own  money stories and to uncover those internal narratives that could be holding you back.   We’ve heard some encouraging feedback from listeners who have benefited from our conversations and we want to continue the discussion—this time focused on mindset and limiting beliefs. We all face self-sabotaging thoughts on occasion and it is important for us, as women, to collectively confront these issues so that we can move passed them as a community.    Today we get into self-imposed limitations, balancing vision and action, the ever-present victim mentality, and setting realistic goals.   Key Points from This Episode:   How the things we surround ourselves with unknowingly define our limitations.  Why we tend to set ordinary goals when we should be aiming for the extraordinary. Banishing your self-imposed limiting beliefs by reflecting on your childhood dreams.  How the messages we receive about money as little girls impose certain limits on us.  Committing to a goal and starting to ask “Why not me?” The need for a balance between having a strong vision and taking action.  How we set ourselves up for failure in the language we use to describe our goals. The victim mentality that has people waiting for the universe to make their dreams come true. Being careful not to glorify the first step and forgetting about the hundreds of steps thereafter.   Taking ownership of and committing to the process of getting to where you want to be.  Setting realistic goals, realizing that it takes time.  The unrealistic expectations we have of the first years of business.  The advantages and disadvantages of the normalization of online business.  And much more!     Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:   The Soulful MBA — https://www.soulful.mba/ Kelly Diels — http://www.kellydiels.com/ Emily Williams — https://www.iheartmylife.com/ Bill Gates on Twitter — https://twitter.com/BillGates   Joy: One Big Happy Life on YouTube — https://onebighappylife.com Hustle: The Big Leap on Amazon — https://amzn.to/32Kurjt

Welcome to another episode of the Soulful MBA Podcast! Inspiring us today is feminist marketing consultant and writer, Kelly Diels, who joins us for the next episode in our Women and Money series.   When we first came across Kelly’s website, we could not stop reading through her refreshing  body of work on the intersection of feminism and online business. What struck us in particular was her focus on women and their finances and her own personal story, which she shares with us today.   Kelly helps feminist entrepreneurs and culture makers sell to women without selling out by teaching feminist principles, including how they apply to marketing and other facets of business. She talks openly about controversial topics, including the false perceptions that exist around poor people and money.   As a busy mom of five kids and a thriving entrepreneur, Kelly’s story is motivating and her message is profoundly important.    Key Points from This Episode:     How growing up shaped Kelly’s relationship with money.   Dispelling the myth that poor people are “bad” with their finances.   The need for more narratives around stabilizing your revenues before attempting to scale.   Research that proves female entrepreneurs are incredibly capital resource efficient.   Teaching, coaching, and self-development as necessary skills for any culture.   Women filling in the gaps and doing uncompensated labor as a societal expectation.   Why you should charge someone for ‘picking your brain!’   Fast fashion and being more mindful with your purchasing decisions.   Shifting her business model after a family crisis required her to increase her income.   Raising capital and using credit to build a business.   Defining what the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB) is and aims to do.   Signing with a literary agent and writing a book about culture making.   Kelly’s tool for calculating your break even, thrive, and stretch numbers.   And much more!   Words of Wisdom: “There’s this idea that women are risk averse and not good entrepreneurs and they need all this extra training. In fact, we get to profitability faster and we are way more capital resource efficient.” — @KellyDiels [0:07:08]   Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:   The Soulful MBA — https://www.soulful.mba/ Kelly Diels — http://www.kellydiels.com/ SheEO — https://sheeo.world/ Namastream — https://namastream.com/ PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/ Stripe — https://stripe.com/ Gloria Steinem — http://www.gloriasteinem.com/ Bell Hooks — http://www.bellhooksinstitute.com/ Adrienne Maree Brown — http://adriennemareebrown.net/ Soraya Chemaly — http://www.sorayachemaly.com/home.html Linda Bacon — https://lindabacon.org/ The Myth of Capitalism on Amazon — https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Capitalism-Monopolies-Death-Competition/dp/1119548195 Sister Citizen on Amazon — https://www.amazon.com/Sister-Citizen-Shame-Stereotypes-America/dp/0300188188 Audre Lorde — https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde       Joy: lemon oil / Donte Colley on Instagram / favorite mug Hustle: business spreadsheet

Posture and movement therapist and friend Sukie Baxter is here with me to have a conversation about positivity - the good, but mostly the bad, ugly and dangerous. Seriously, people - this movement is an epidemic and works against our actual biology. Here's what we cover in Part 1: - What is the positivity movement and positivity washing? - Where the movements show up - in the wellness, fitness, spirituality and coaching communities - How we miss out on connection if we only allow "good emotions," since connection is built on "going through" something - Using biology to explain the ridiculousness of "good" vs "bad" processes or emotions - The danger of intellectualizing wisdom traditions - Using horse training and parenting as examples of how nervous systems get shut down, and how we can build resiliency instead - Our emotion phobic culture - Repressed emotional trauma - Identified patient and highly sensitive people - The relationship behind the positivity movement to colonialism - Colonialism and how we think we're right about everything, including nature Resources from this episode: - Kelly Diels, http://www.kellydiels.com/ - Horse trainer Warwick Schiller - https://www.warwickschiller.com/ - Christine Kent and her book, "Saving the Whole Woman" - http://www.savingthewholewoman.com/ - Brene Brown, https://brenebrown.com/ Learn more about Sukie Baxter at www.wholebodyrevolution.com Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/sensitivityuncensored Book a session with me or learn more at www.sensitivityuncensored.com

Meet Kelly Diels Kelly Diels is a writer + Feminist Marketing Consultant. In other words: she's a culture-maker. She connects the dots between our individual lives and our culture so that you can take deliberate, effective action to change both. Website: http://www.kellydiels.com/ Sunday Love Letter: http://www.kellydiels.com/subscribe-a/ BioCellection (chemical process for recycling) : https://www.biocellection.com/ The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger, Soraya Chemaly https://www.amazon.com/Rage-Becomes-Her-Power-Womens/dp/1501189557 About Jen McFarland, CEO, Women Conquer Business Jen McFarland ditched her comfy C-suite tech project management job in pursuit of freedom. Jen's goal is to help business leaders like you vet ideas, take ownership of their projects, and incorporate digital marketing from day one. If Growing a Business Feels Like Rocket Science, Let's Fix That: www.jenmcfarland.com/free.

Writer and feminist marketing consultant Kelly Diels joins us to discuss the links between diet culture, patriarchy, and anti-feminist marketing practices (aka The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand); the role of abundance in healing from diet culture; how to reclaim your life from The Life Thief; understanding and healing our relationship with money; and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about what to do if you’re one of those weight-loss “success stories” who’s actually just in the throes of disordered eating. Kelly Diels (she/her) is a writer and feminist marketing consultant. She writes about a phenomenon that she calls "The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand," which she does not think is a good thing for women or our world. Kelly believes, instead, that we are culture makers and can create the culture we want to live in, right now. Kelly is also the Director of Marketing and Communications for SheEO (all opinions are her own). Find her writing and online workshops at KellyDiels.com. This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by Poshmark, the easiest way to buy and sell fashion items. Sign up for a free Poshmark account and get $5 off your first purchase with the code FOODPSYCH. Grab Christy's free guide, 7 simple strategies for finding peace and freedom with food, to get started on the anti-diet path. If you're ready to break free from diet culture once and for all, join Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course! Ask your own question about intuitive eating, Health at Every Size, or eating disorder recovery at christyharrison.com/questions. To learn more about Food Psych and get full show notes and a transcript of this episode, go to christyharrison.com/foodpsych.

Today on the show Kathleen Shannon, co-founder of Braid Creative and Being Boss Podcast co-host, takes the reigns to interview me about my new book, Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation. We talk about my early interest in periods, how period shame shows up in our culture, where menstrual equity intersects with other social justice issues, hormonal birth control, body literacy, where period pain comes from and what we can do about it, and so much more. This episode of Heavy Flow is supported by Kelly Diels' Feminist Marketing Workshop Annual Pass. Register at kellydiels.com and get access to 12 three-hour workshops that will help you grow your business without compromising your feminist values. Full Shownotes Pre-order Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation Subscribe to the Heavy Flow email list Follow @amandalaird on Instagram Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios Graphic design: Rachel Laird

Today I'm talking to Kelly Diels, a writer and feminist marketing consultant about the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand. We're taking a break from talking about periods to discuss another taboo wellness topic: how the typical marketing paradigm, particularly online, is harmful to women. Full Shownotes Pre-order Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation Subscribe to the Heavy Flow email list Follow @amandalaird on Instagram Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios Graphic design: Rachel Laird

To find out more about the work & words of Kelly Diels or her social media workshop,Little Birds & Layer CakesArtist Kesha BruceWriter Lindy West or The full list of writings for The Atlanticby Ta-Nehisi Coatesor to find out more about the “yoga” that Amy practices and teaches nowadays visit:TheWorkofTheseHands.com

Kelly Diels, a writer and feminist marketing consultant, helps feminist entrepreneurs sell without selling out. We talk impact in business in this frank interview.

  Today’s Guest I'm back with another co-hosted episode with the fabulous Jo Casey! Today, we talk about how to navigate the new era of email marketing. Hopefully, you've recovered from the GDPR rush of last month, and are ready to plan a new way forward. In this week's episode, we discuss where we think things are going with email marketing. About Jo Casey Jo Casey has over 20 years experience of working as a trainer and consultant in the corporate, public and third sectors. Her flashy clients and workplaces have included Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC), The NHS, BT, Toyota Motors, Peugeot Business School, The Welsh Assembly Government, The Girl Guides UK, Vets4Pets/Companion Care, several Local Government Authorities, and The Department Of Work And Pensions. But she's also worked with many no less wonderful smaller ventures, micro businesses and SMEs. She's a self-confessed nerd and has taught at college and university levels and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Chester. Jo has a Masters Degree in Coaching and Organizational Development and she's an NLP Master Practitioner, MBTI qualified professional certified Emotional Intelligence EQi 2.0 consultant. She's been coaching for over 15 years now – clocking up over 1000 hours of coaching experience. Basically, she carefully treads that line between being passionate and a tiny bit obsessive about what she does (obsession often wins). Jo runs accredited coach training programs and coaches people from all over the world via the power of the internet. Listen to this episode      What You’ll Learn What the new culture shift with email marketing looks like Why list building will no longer be the most important thing in marketing Why this will help us disentangle our worth as entrepreneurs from the size of our list How this will affect the numbers game we all got used to playing What we need to focus on instead of just counting the numbers How to focus on creating real connections with people rather than blasting out a message Why conversational marketing works better than broadcasting New things you can do to truly connect with people as individuals, not as numbers in a list Why consent leads to healthier relationships Things We Discussed GDPR For more GDPR fun: The G-D-P-R Song For even more GDPR fun: this spectacular Privacy Policy Tara Gentile article: List-Building Is Dead! Long Live List-Building! In Praise Of The GDPR  Qoya Tanya Geisler Tracie Nichols Lara Heacock Jenny Mahan Jo’s Garden Party + link to the replay  Joanna Penn’s Patreon account   Amanda Palmer’s Patreon Amanda Palmer’s book The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help  1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly  Rebecca Woodmass  Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin  Kelly Diels and her Blazing Epistles of Righteousness  How to Subscribe Click here to subscribe via iTunes Click here to subscribe via RSS Click here to subscribe via Stitcher Help Spread the Word If you enjoyed this episode, please head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating and a review! You can also subscribe, so you'll never miss an episode.

This sermon is inspired by three powerhouse women I got to interview for the show this week: Kelly Diels, Sonya Renee Taylor, and L'Erin Alta. They are all doing their own form of activism in the world and they are all rocking it out with fierceness AND compassion, which is why their work is effective. A big lesson I learned in this last year, is the difference between compassion and tolerance. I’ll riff on that more during my 33 lessons in my 33rd year episode, but the crux is this, we can be compassionate, while demonstrating intolerance for things that do not align with our values. The core of today's sermon is a reading from Alana Fairchild's Mother Mary Oracle deck. It's my very favorite deck. The question I asked before I pulled the card was, "What is something we all need to know about compassion right now?" And the card I got is called, "Our Lady of Peaceful Change" #youcantmakethisshitup Enjoy and share wild loves, thank you so much! xo, E

In this week's episode of Be Amplified, we dive into the challenges of branding yourself in a world where everyone is a brand. We discuss things for you to be thinking about as you go about branding yourself and we are joined by feminist marketing consultant Kelly Diels as she offers practical tools for putting yourself out there. Get the show notes at www.TheAmplifyCollective.com

  Today's Guest I'm excited to introduce today's guest, Carmen Spagnola. I recently discovered Carmen after I posted my first marketing rant on Facebook, asking for examples of people who approach online marketing in a truly different way. Christian Marie Herron, who you may remember from episode 11 on this show, recommended that I check out Carmen's website. I did, and I was hooked: I subscribed to her podcast, and I thoroughly investigated her wilderness retreat, which are exactly the kind of thing I've been looking for. In this episode, we talk about nature as therapist, and how getting out in nature can help you get the right mindset for your business. As you know, I'm a big fan of getting outdoors, so this is a fun topic for me. About Carmen Carmen Spagnola is a professional intuitive who helps conscious entrepreneurs make better decisions, quicker. She shows spiritual seekers how to connect their soul to their work using intuitive readings, past life regression and hypnotherapy. She is an international speaker and trainer, and founder of The Numinous School of Intuition. Part researcher, part practitioner, Carmen takes a multi-disciplinary approach to spiritual development. Her style draws on depth psychology, the work of Joseph Campbell, Quakerism, feminist and aboriginal spirituality, as well as developments in brain science and healing. She has studied with Dr.Brian Weiss, Dr.Jonni Gray, Judee Gee, and is certified by the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association of America, as well as the Association of Registered Canadian Hypnotherapists. Carmen is co-author of the Amazon #1 bestselling book, (in 6 categories), Succeeding Against All Odds; a rising-above- it-all anthology of stories featuring business luminaries such as “We Are the World” producer, Ken Kragen, and eWomen Network’s Sandra Yancey. Though not all her clients are self-employed, each is busy working to make the world a better place, starting with themselves. Listen to this episode    What You’ll Learn Why Carmen ruthlessly pruned her email list down to just 500 people Where Spirit is found, and why nature and thresholds are two very important places to connect How getting out in nature helps us reconnect to seasonal rhythms How to recognize your own rhythm, and what you need The different types of rituals and ceremonies you can do out in nature Why it's so important to get away to reconnect to the truth of who you are Inspiring Women Judee Gee  Kelly Diels  Thing We Discussed Intuition: Awakening Your Inner Guide, by Judee Gee The Numinous Podcast  The Numinous School of Intuition Connect with Carmen Website Facebook Twitter How to Subscribe Click here to subscribe via iTunes Click here to subscribe via RSS Click here to subscribe via Stitcher Help Spread the Word If you enjoyed this episode, please head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating and a review! You can also subscribe, so you'll never miss an episode.  

This week on Change Making Women we talk to Kelly Diels, a writer and marketing consultant whose approach is based upon the marketing strategies of movements and revolutionaries. We find out why she is so passionate about the Feminist Marketing School she recently launched, what it means to market as a feminist without selling out, how she defined and critiques the Female Empowerment Lifestyle Brand and how she thinks we can both market our work and stay true to our values.

I’m chatting with Kelly Diels, Feminist Marking Consultant, about the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB). We’re talking about how empowerment is being misused and co-opted in the online world, how this upholds patriarchal systems, why self-care is a collective issue and what you can watch out for as a consumer to advocate for yourself and demand better. Specifically, the ways in which Kelly noticed how “empowerment” and social triggers were being used to market services and how this was misaligned with true empowerment. What the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB) is and how to watch out for it. The ways in which FLEB uphold patriarchal systems and maintain authority over other women. How to become a more astute consumer and the specific tactics to watch out for. Why we need collective social change and personal success strategies to overcome our obstacles and have more successful self-improvement models. How women are conditioned to be “brands” (objects for consumption) and the ways this perpetuates feelings of inferiority. How coaches can become better at marketing their services and truly stand for empowerment, plus, so much more! 

Let's talk about the connection between “conscious marketing” and Pick Up Artist culture, shall we? You may be surprised to discover that there's actually quite a clear and direct connection. If you're an entrepreneur in the personal development or spiritual space, this episode is for you. If you've ever been had by a Pick Up Artist (PUA), a narcissist, or experienced buyer's remorse after a major purchase that involved a charismatic salesperson or coach, this episode is for you. Kelly Diels is a writer and feminist marketing consultant who has articulated a severely problematic phenomenon she's named the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand, (FLEB), the effects of which can be seen all around us. FLEB is basically this: a marketing approach leading with beauty, wealth and privilege, constructed as empowerment. In other words, empowerment – which is supposed to be a collective experience of liberation – is presented as an individual experience of wealth and privilege. In business, spirituality, politics, parenting, and beyond, the FLEB effect is pervasive and harmful. But we can stop supporting it and stop perpetuating it if we know what to look for. This episode is meant to educate and inoculate. Read Kelly's essays on the FLEB and sign up for her newsletter for weekly evolution. If you're seeking to transform the way you do business, consider joining Kelly's Facebook group, How To Sell To Women Without Selling Them Out. The book Kelly mentions – a big favourite on the podcast – is Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

Thursday, Nov. 10th @11am PST / 3pm EST - Image, Patriarchy & How it Messes With Women on The Self Actualization Journey with Kelly Diels LIVE on The Conscious Goddess HourAbout Kelly"I'm a writer and marketing consultant and my approach is based upon the marketing strategies of movements and revolutionaries (if you’ve worked with me you’ll be able to testify). My chief inspirations for how to get visible and get sh*t done are the Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr – the man was a master strategist – and the black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde. I’m a published writer and social critic; I have a BA with honours in Poli Sci; I have five children; every Sunday I write blazing epistles of righteousness; and I’m a rampant feminist. My feminism and my work is about justice. http://kellydiels.com Resourcefully Yours, Tammra Broughton

Thursday, Nov. 10th @11am PST / 3pm EST - Image, Patriarchy & How it Messes With Women on The Self Actualization Journey with Kelly Diels LIVE on The Conscious Goddess HourAbout Kelly"I'm a writer and marketing consultant and my approach is based upon the marketing strategies of movements and revolutionaries (if you’ve worked with me you’ll be able to testify). My chief inspirations for how to get visible and get sh*t done are the Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr – the man was a master strategist – and the black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde. I’m a published writer and social critic; I have a BA with honours in Poli Sci; I have five children; every Sunday I write blazing epistles of righteousness; and I’m a rampant feminist. My feminism and my work is about justice. http://kellydiels.com Resourcefully Yours, Tammra Broughton

http://yourkickasslife.com/podcast/112 Today I’m going to talk about something I’ve never talked about before: racism. So, why this topic? I'm passionate about a lot of different important matters-- media literacy, the oversexualization of girls and women, recovery, sex trafficking, Autism awareness, LGBTQ rights, but the reason I'm talking about this now is because I think there's a lot of people who might relate to my experience and learn from this conversation. Also, what dawned on me is that if I’m passionate about female equality, if I want things like equal pay and the same rights for women as we have for me….isn’t this the same thing? Equality for all people, not just equality for women. So, maybe, selfishly, I’m here talking about this as a way of apologizing for my own ignorance. Maybe it’s a way for me to process the feelings around it. And for the record, I know that equal rights for people of color matter more than white people's feelings. I know that. But, I think for people who may be just “waking up” here, I needed to at least mention it. At any rate, I thought it would be helpful to do it all out loud and basically, I have some intentions for this episode: 1. To talk about my journey as a white person in America and how for me...coming to terms with my own racism, how I've unknowingly contributed and what I'm doing, feeling and thinking now. 2. Walk my talk in that to create change, we need to have these tough, uncomfortable conversations. I'm open to talk about a lot of hard topics, but this one has been probably the most uncomfortable yet. 3. To encourage you to get honest with yourself. I promise I'll be 100% honest in this episode and can 100% guarantee I'll want to throw up. Because at the end of the day, this podcast is about living your kick-ass life, it’s about you gaining the skills to have conversations about tough things that no one wants to talk about. Typically, no one wants to talk about vulnerability, shame, and fear and I ask you regularly to talk about those. I teach classes on how to do this. And this is what this podcast episode is about. Me having one of those hard conversations and inviting you to do the same. I don't expect you to go out and join a black lives matter chapter, or speak out publicly about this if you're scared (but if you want to, GO DO IT). Today is about talking about something that needs to be talked about. Again, I am really uncomfortable having this conversation. I’m afraid. Afraid of saying the wrong things. As someone who’s so new to this conversation, there’s a good chance I’ll get it wrong. I’m afraid people will say, “Please don’t. Please go back to just regular personal development stuff and save this topic for ‘real activists’” However...I feel called to do this. I was never called to appease the critics. I was never called to make everyone comfortable. I was called to create space and permission to talk about things that matter. To talk about the stuff no one wants to talk about. To talk about the things that make us uncomfortable. I was called to encourage everyone to be brave while being brave myself. And I hope I’m doing that for you today. In this episode I’m bringing in my friend Kelly Diels and you can read more about her below. And one more thing before I bring you the episode. If you’re a woman of color, this is something I never thought to mention before, but I want you to know you’re welcome here in the YKAL community. If you’re a lesbian, or transgender, if you identify as a woman, you are welcome in my community and in my classes. I don’t ever want any woman to feel excluded based on her race or sexual orientation.  

Popular culture would have us believe that to be empowered women we must be thin, wealthy and meditate daily. Many lifestyle and spirituality teachers teach that our lives are completely within our control and there’s no need to look at the systems of bias and privilege that we live within. Writer Kelly Diels is currently working on a book about … Read more about this episode...