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In this episode of PRIM&R's podcast, "Research Ethics Reimagined," we discuss the research of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Research and Development, in particular the Million Veteran Program (MVP). The MVP is a national research program looking at how genes, lifestyle, military experiences, and exposures affect health and wellness in veterans. Since launching in 2011, 1 million veterans have joined MVP, making the MVP the largest research effort at VA to improve health care for veterans and one of the largest research programs in the world studying genes and health, according to the VA. We'll speak with Drs. Muralidhar and Vassy to learn more. 

As American voters go to the polls, all indications point to a statistical dead-heat between vice president and Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris and former Republican president Donald Trump. The outcome will likely turn on tens of thousands of voters in a handful of key swing states. According to leading pollsters and polling aggregators, the race in these states is too close to call.In this hotly contested race, one demographic whose political preferences are much discussed, though less studied, is Indian Americans. A new study, the 2024 Indian American Attitudes Survey (IAAS), tries to fill this gap. The IAAS is a nationally representative online survey conducted by the Carnegie Endowment in conjunction with data and analytics firm YouGov. The report is authored by Sumitra Badrinathan of American University, Devesh Kapur of Johns Hopkins-SAIS, and Grand Tamasha host Milan Vaishnav.This week on the show, Milan speaks with Sumitra and Devesh about the main findings of their new report and what they portend for the election as well as future political trends in the United States.Episode notes:1. Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, and Milan Vaishnav, “Indian Americans at the Ballot Box: Results From the 2024 Indian American Attitudes Survey,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 28, 2024.2. VIDEO: “Deciphering the Indian American Vote,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 31, 2024.3. Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, and Milan Vaishnav, “How Will Indian Americans Vote? Results From the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 14, 2020.4. Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016).5. Sara Sadhwani, “Asian American Mobilization: The Effect of Candidates and Districts on Asian American Voting Behavior,” Political Behavior 44 (2022):105–131.6. Devesh Kapur, Nirvikar Singh, and Sanjoy Chakravorty, The Other One Percent: Indians in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).7. “Sumitra Badrinathan and Devesh Kapur Decode the 2020 Indian American Vote,” Grand Tamasha, October 14, 2020.

Sumitra Singh of Etawah District in India appeared to die and then revived, having apparently lost all awareness of her former personality but rather showing the knowledge, behaviours and personality traits of a quite different woman, Shiva Tripathi, who had lived in the same district but had died suddenly by being crushed by a railway train two months earlier. On visiting Shiva's family, Sumitra made accurate recognitions of family members, relating to each person in the appropriate customary manner. The Tripathi family accepted Sumitra as Shiva in a different body, and she retained the new identity for the rest of her life. This highly unusual case was investigated by multiple researchers and has been interpreted variously as one of reincarnation, possession, or both.

Today on our show, we bring you a story by Sumitra Mattai. Sumitra is a writer and textile designer based in New York City. She holds a BFA in Textile Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her essays on family, food and culture have been published widely. For more information, www.sumitramattai.com, Instagram @sumitramattai, or subscribe to her newsletter, "Clothbound," highlighting textiles in art, design and everyday life.Her story is a really interesting example of how to change-up structure. It's literally a list with soooooo many details that reveal so much about her. Through the list, we discover what the story is about, which is that despite insecurity, this narrator pushes on one day at a time.Writing Class Radio is hosted by Allison Langer and Andrea Askowitz. Audio production by Matt Cundill, Evan Surminski, Chloe Emond-Lane, and Aiden Glassey at the Sound Off Media Company. Theme music is by Justina Shandler.There's more writing class on our website including stories we study, editing resources, video classes, writing retreats, and live online classes. Join our writing community by following us on Patreon. If you want to write with us every week, you can join our First Draft weekly writers groups. You have the option to join Allison Langer on Tuesdays 12-1 ET and/or Thursdays with Eduardo Winck 8-9pm ET. You'll write to a prompt and share what you wrote. If you're a business owner, community activist, group that needs healing, entrepreneur and you want to help your team write better, check out all the classes we offer on our website, writingclassradio.com.Join the community that comes together for instruction, an excuse to write, and the support from other writers. To learn more, go to www.Patreon.com/writingclassradio. Or sign up HERE for First Draft for a FREE Zoom link.A new episode will drop every other WEDNESDAY. A Transcription of this episode is available here.There's no better way to understand ourselves and each other, than by writing and sharing our stories. Everyone has a story. What's yours?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Show SummaryOn this episode, we feature a conversation with Dr. Sumitra Muralidhar, Program Director for the Department of Veteran's Affairs Million Veteran Program. Since launching in 2011, 1 million Veterans have joined MVP. It's the largest research effort at VA to improve health care for Veterans and one of the largest research programs in the world studying genes and health.About Today's GuestDr. Sumitra Muralidhar is the Program Director for VA's Million Veteran Program (MVP) in the Office of Research and Development (ORD). She oversees the policy and infrastructure development for the collection and use of samples and genetic, clinical, lifestyle and military exposure data from one million Veterans. She served as ORD's liaison to the White House Precision Medicine Initiative under President Obama, and continues to represent ORD/MVP in the federal interagency group on precision medicine. She also serves as the designated federal officer for VA's Genomic Medicine Program Advisory Committee, which advises the VA Secretary on the development and implementation of research and clinical arms within the Veterans Health Administration. She previously served as Health and Science Advisor to the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC), and Associate Professor at Georgetown University Medical Center. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Maryland.Links Mentioned In This EpisodeThe Million Veteran Program WebsitePsychArmor Resource of the WeekThis week's PsychArmor resource of the week is the PsychArmor course Demystifying Genomic Testing: Biomarker Tests for Better Prostate Cancer Outcomes. This course reviews some of the biomarker tests identified in this episode. This can improve the cancer diagnostic process as well as reduce unnecessary procedures, office visits, and costs. You can see find the course here:  https://learn.psycharmor.org/courses/Demystifying-Genomic-Testing This Episode Sponsored By: This episode is sponsored by PsychArmor. PsychArmor is the premier education and learning ecosystems specializing in military culture content PsychArmor offers an. Online e-learning laboratory that is free to individual learners as well as custom training options for organizations. Contact Us and Join Us on Social Media Email PsychArmorPsychArmor on TwitterPsychArmor on FacebookPsychArmor on YouTubePsychArmor on LinkedInPsychArmor on InstagramTheme MusicOur theme music Don't Kill the Messenger was written and performed by Navy Veteran Jerry Maniscalco, in cooperation with Operation Encore, a non profit committed to supporting singer/songwriter and musicians across the military and Veteran communities.Producer and Host Duane France is a retired Army Noncommissioned Officer, combat veteran, and clinical mental health counselor for service members, veterans, and their families.  You can find more about the work that he is doing at www.veteranmentalhealth.com  

Ever wondered what it takes to leap from being an individual contributor to a leader? Jump in as we pique your curiosity and unravel this mystery with Sumitra Narayanan, a seasoned professional at Braze who leads a CS scale team. Sumitra generously shares her experiences, discussing her path from a humble contributor to becoming a key leader in her field. Her tale is laced with lessons, insights, and a wealth of knowledge that will prove invaluable to those looking to chart a similar course in their careers.The conversation progresses to explore the art of decision-making as a leader, and how to maintain harmony between employee happiness and business needs. We also cast a spotlight on the emerging leadership trends in customer success, emphasizing the importance of balancing empathy for people with the drive for results. Join us on this revealing journey into the heart of leadership in customer success!

Bianca and Sumitra from Raygun join the panel to talk about Core Web Vitals and how tools like Raygun can help keep tabs on and monitor your performance stats as you change your web application to get you better results on Google.SponsorsChuck's Resume Template MiroBecome a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs MembershipLinksCrUX and Core Web Vitals – What to Measure on the Web with Rick Viscomi – JSJ 486JSJ 477: Understanding Search Engines and SEO (for devs) – Part 2Opinionated Core Web Vitals – JSJ 495Twitter: Raygun ( @raygunio )LinkedIn: Bianca GrizharLinkedIn: Sumitra MangaPicksAJ- How to ADHD - YouTubeAJ- The Biggest Myth In Education - YouTubeAJ- Brave SearchAJ- GitHub | go-gitea/giteaBianca- How to monitor and optimize Core Web Vitals - YouTubeCharles- Level Up | Devchat.tvCharles- Rhythm of WarDan- Is our universe the only universe? - Brian Greene - YouTubeSumitra- Formula 1: Drive to SurviveSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, Ryan speaks with the founder of BioAstra Technologies. Sumitra Rajagopalan, the founder shares the history of plastics as well as the schools of thought on sustainability. Sumitra also highlights how her bio base materials can help reduce the carbon footprint in fashion. Ryan's Rants & Raves is a podcast series on fashion, design and all things Québec produced by the Québec Government Office in New York and hosted by Fashion Attaché Ryan McInturf.

When the Emperor did not wake up even though roused by means of panegyrics sung by bards, accompanied by musical instruments played upon for the same purpose, the ladies of the gynaeceum conclude by other means that the king is dead; and soon after commences the loud wail of Kausalya, Sumitra and other queens. Recitation: 00:00 - 05:04 Translation: 05:05 - 12:46

On this auspicious Ram Navami week, Swami Mukundananda relates to us the untold story of the Divine Birth of Lord Ram. The virtuous and noble King of Ayodhya, Dasharatha has grown old and had a desire to have a child. He approached Sage Vasishtha and upon his instructions performed a Yagya or a ritual to please the Sun God to beget a child. The Yagya got completed successfully, the Fire god appeared after the Yagya and handed Dasharatha a pot of Kheer which Dasharatha distributed evenly to his three queens. The princes were conceived after the consumption of the Kheer. Months passed by after that and the time of the Divine Birth or the Avatar of Lord Ram came close. The Festivities started in Ayodhya in full swing, the river Sarayu was overflowing with joy and when the Sun reached its peak in the noon, in that auspicious moment, Kaushalya gave birth to Lord Ram. Kaikeyi gave birth to Bharata. Sumitra gave birth to Lakshmana and Shatrughna. King Dasharatha, the queens and the whole of Ayodhya was overjoyed to hear the news of the birth of the four sons. The Birthday of Lord Ram is celebrated as Ram Navami every year. It falls on the Ninth day of the Chaitra Navratri. On this special day, whoever prays to Lord Ram and Mother Sita with full Faith gets all the auspiciousness and their grace.

In this episode, Jeff interviews Sumitra Narayanan about customer success solutions engineering and technical account management. Learn how to streamline the CSM workflow and equip them with what they need to be happier, more effective, and add value where it matters.

From a young age, Sumitra Visvanathan, Executive Director of the Women's Aid Organisation, was imbued with a strong sense of service towards others in need. This naturally led to her vocation for human rights work, but also profoundly affected her mental health. On this episode of Because Feelings Matter, Sumitra shares how her years as a careworker left her vulnerable to secondary trauma, but also taught her to define boundaries for herself and provide support for her employees.‘Because Feelings Matter' is a series that brings you the stories of people and their mental health issues. These stories aim to normalise conversations about mental health, and to show that it's okay to struggle emotionally and psychologically, but more importantly, to reach out for help. This series is produced in collaboration with Thrive Well.If you need emotional support, you can call Befrienders KL 03 7627 2929, or any mental healthcare provider nearest to you.

Establishing the greatness of Sri Rama, Sumitra, who is a pastmaster in eloquence, assuages Kausalya's grief. Recitation: 00:00 - 05:28 Translation: 05:29 - 12:60

Going clockwise around Dasharatha (as a token of respect), Sita, Rama and Lakshmana greet him. Accompanied by Sita, Sri Rama salutes Kausalya. Lakshmana too hails Kausalya first and then his own mother, Sumitra. Sumitra for her part tenders salutary advice to her son. The princes and the princesss having mounted the chariot, Sumantra flicks the horses. The citizens that had assembled closely follow the chariot; but unable to keep pace with its swift movement, they return desolate. Dasaratha too runs after the chariot along with Kausalya and others, but being unable to to walk begins to totter and stops short on the road yielding to the remonstrances of his wise ministers. Recitation: 00:00 - 08:36 Translation: 08:37 - 22:20

Sumitra Singh, del distrito de Etawah en la India, pareció morir y luego revivir, aparentemente habiendo perdido toda conciencia de su personalidad anterior, pero mostrando el conocimiento, los comportamientos y los rasgos de personalidad de una mujer bastante diferente, Shiva Diwedi, que había vivido en el mismo distrito pero había muerto dos meses antes. Al visitar a la familia de Shiva, Sumitra hizo reconocimientos precisos de los miembros de la familia, relacionándose con cada persona de la manera acostumbrada. La familia Tripathi aceptó a Sumitra como Shiva en un cuerpo diferente y ella retuvo la nueva identidad por el resto de su vida. Este caso altamente inusual fue investigado por multiples cientificos  y ha sido interpretado de diversas formas como uno de reencarnación, posesión o ambos.

Today on Scope Conditions, can we teach voters how to tell truth from lies?Around the world, governments and political parties wield misinformation as a powerful political weapon – a weapon that is massively amplified by social media. A large and growing literature has investigated how misinformation spreads and ways of combating it – from corrections and warning-labels to educational programs designed to inoculate citizens against untruths. Yet most of what we know about misinformation and its antidotes comes from the US and other Western contexts – places with notably high rates of formal education and internet exposure, where most of the misinformation is on public platforms like Facebook and Twitter. But these are contexts that, to put it simply, don't look like most of the world.Our guest today – Dr. Sumitra Badrinathan, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at American University's School of International Service – turns our attention to India – the world's largest democracy. As in much of the Global South, internet access in India is expanding in leaps and bounds, and misinformation travels more on encrypted chat services like WhatsApp than on Facebook. Over the last few years, Sumitra has been running innovative field experiments testing the effectiveness of misinformation antidotes tailored to the Indian context.We talk with Sumitra about one of these studies, recently published in the American Political Science Review. As Sumitra explains to us, citizens in India were awash in misinformation during the crucial 2019 election battle, a dynamic exacerbated by increased partisanship in the era of Modi's BJP and Hindu nationalism. Carried out during the election, Sumitra's study examines whether Indian citizens can get better at telling truth from lies if you teach them how to do their own online fact-checking.We find out whether the treatment actually worked – which turns out to be a complicated story. We also dig into Sumitra's research process – how she was able to get 95% uptake from participants (spoiler: it involved lots of tea) and how she had to change parts of the study on the fly when bringing tablets into the field turned out to be unsafe. And we talk with Sumitra about how her own identity made some parts of the fieldwork more challenging, brought down some barriers, and most of all was something that she had to constantly be aware of as she navigated the complex terrain of running a field experiment.By the way, this conversation is about just one of the many misinformation antidotes Sumitra has been investigating. If you want to learn about her work on the effects of religious messaging or of peer corrections in combating deception, check out the links to her other papers on the episode webpage.

Hi Leute, in der heutigen Folge spricht Janis mit Luca Sumitra Fischer über Yoga, wie man die Identifizierungen mit dem Verstand aufhebt und den Sinn des Lebens. Mehr zu Luca Sumitra: Luca Sumitra Fischer (@luca_sumitra) • Instagram-Fotos und -Videos Mehr zu Paradise Inside: Paradise Inside | Instagram | Linktree Viel Spaß beim Hören!

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In this episode of The Wire Talks host, Sidharth Bhatia is joined by Seema Chishti, a journalist-writer for three decades. The duo discusses inter-religious marriage back in time and now, with the help of Seema's new book, Sumitra and Anees: Tales and Recipes from a Khichdi Family.Follow Sidharth Bhatia on Twitter and Instagram @bombaywallah and https://instagram.com/bombaywallahYou can listen to this show on The Wire's website, the IVM Podcasts website, app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.

Journalist Seema Chishti's mother, Sumitra, wrote a cookbook so that she could pass down recipes from their rather unique kitchen - a kitchen which was shared by Sumitra, who was a Kshatriya Hindu from Mysore in Karnataka, and her husband Anees, a Syed Muslim from Deoria in Uttar Pradesh. Now, in her new book, Sumitra and Anees, Chishti includes recipes from her mother's cookbook and tells the story of her parents and their marriage. In this episode, she joins Sandip Roy to talk about the book, why she chose to write it, and the increasing demonization of interfaith relationships.

EP 27: Sumitra and Anees by Seema Chishti‘Sumitra and Anees, Tales and Recipes from a Khichdi family' by the Delhi based journalist Seema Chishti is a poignant tale of her loving parents- Sumitra and Anees- falling in love, having an inter-faith marriage and leaving a legacy of great humanity and values for her. Seema Chishti is in conversation with broadcaster Achala Sharma in this episode of Kitaab Kaulum. Seema Chishti argues how in the India of today, social and communal fault lines have become starker than ever before. Inter-faith marriages, once seen as the hallmark of a plural society, are now being increasingly used to further a divisive political narrative.Journalist Seema Chishti, herself the product of an inter-faith marriage from a time when the ‘idea of India' was not just an idea but a lived reality, tells in this book the story of her parents: Sumitra, a Kshatriya Hindu from Mysore in Karnataka, and Anees, a Syed Muslim from Deoria in Uttar Pradesh. Woven into their story are recipes from Sumitra's kitchen, a site of confluence for the diverse culinary traditions she mastered. The book has been published by Harper Collins India.

This week's Borne the Battle – a benefits breakdown – features the Million Veteran Program (MVP), which is a national, voluntary research program to learn about how genes, lifestyle and military exposures affect health and illness and improve health care for Veterans.Sumitra Muralidhar, Ph.D. is the program director under VA's Office of Research and Development. Dr. Sumitra is motivated to help Veterans by overseeing the policy and infrastructure development for the collection and use of samples and genetic, clinical, lifestyle and military exposure data from one million Veterans. Since the program's inception in 2011, 870,000 Veterans have enrolled and partnered with MVP.The Million Veteran Program is the world's largest health care system-based research program on genetics, lifestyle, military exposure and health, with the goal of providing precision health care to Veterans and the population at large. Dr. Sumitra provides overall direction and management of the national program across sixty-plus VA medical centers, more than 70 community-based outpatient clinics; she also oversees operational leadership, coordination, implementation and oversight of all aspects of the program's development and implementation, including policy development, fiscal management, regulatory affairs, public relations and scientific direction.Precision medicine is an innovative approach that has the potential to cure cancers, wipe out rare diseases, and improve the overall health of Veterans and even the general public. It's changing the way we think about health care. With MVP, VA hopes to provide an invaluable tool for scientists to use in order to advance research and tailor disease prevention and treatment by taking into account the differences in an individual's clinical, lifestyle and genetic information.In this episode of Borne the Battle, Dr. Sumitra answers these questions and more: What motivates her to help Veterans at VA? Why should Veterans enroll in the Million Veteran Program? Why should Veteran's trust MVP with their genetic information? What studies are coming out of the program? What is the overall purpose of MVP? How VA can keep this genetic data safe through cloud databases? How can Veterans sign up and participate in MVP? Dr. Sumitra encourages Veterans from all backgrounds, races and ethnicities to sign up for the program, so it can really make a difference. It's a legacy program, and it can revolutionize how health care is delivered for all other Veterans and even the general public.Borne the Battle Veteran of the Week:Army Veteran Ismael MedinaAdditional Links: VA genetics program aims to increase mental health treatments for Veterans; Million Veteran Program – 10 years, 850,000 Veterans and one dream to revolutionize health care; VA's Million Veterans Program seeks to enroll more women Veterans; VA's Million Veteran Program Publications through December 2021; We Need Volunteers; You Can Now Join VA's Million Veterans Program Online. VA publishes Interim Final Rule for Legal Services for Veterans Grant Program

"The personal is being made political in a very perverse way. My existence itself is anathema to a rising, sizeable force in Indian politics and that upsets me." - Seema Chishti, author of 'Sumitra and Anees' talks to Manjula Narayan on the Books & Authors podcast about her mother's recipes, her parents' inter religious marriage, and about all that India was and can be.

Partner with Svakarma Advisory, LLP, based in Mumbai India.  Episode page: https://leanblog.org/446  My guest for Episode #446 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Sumitra Vig. She is a partner with her advisory firm Svakarma Advisory, LLP, based in Mumbai India.  She is a customer experience specialist, an ASQ (American Society for Quality) Certified Manager of Quality & Organizational Excellence, and a master trainer & retail banker with years of hands-on international experience in Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.  Sumitra has designed & conducted successful training programs, mentored employees & created an impact across continents Today, we discuss topics and questions including: How did you get introduced to Quality? First time right / first time quality from a customer lens — What is this? Does this mean “no mistakes”? What do we learn from mistakes? Does “first time right” put too much pressure on people? How can we design the product or service in a way that ALLOWS first time right? Design thinking — what does the customer really want? Measures — Problems vs reported problems — how to handle unreported problems? Customer is king? The employee is really king to then deliver a transformational experience?? The 5 Toyota Precepts The book Atomic Habits Women in Lean – Our Table group on LinkedIn Has a master class available online on First Time Right Working with a foundation – mobile hospital for villages, remote Himalaya The podcast is sponsored by Stiles Associates, now in their 30th year of business. They are the go-to Lean recruiting firm serving the manufacturing, private equity, and healthcare industries. Learn more. This podcast is part of the #LeanCommunicators network. 

Inspired by everyone from Ritchie Blackmore, Joe Pass, and Mike Stern to his late, great guitar buddy, Allan Holdsworth, ALEX MACHACEK is a spectacular voice in the world of jazz fusion guitar. I had a blast “flying the ‘copter” over to his home studio, plugging in a couple of his signature-model Strandberg guitars, and having him demonstrate for us several inspiring soloing techniques and compositional approaches. In this interview, Alex also shares his life story — how, after years of musical study in Vienna (and a year at Berklee in Boston) he and his wife, Sumitra, ultimately ended up in the Los Angeles region. Catch Machacek on tour in Europe starting this week! This episode is presented by GUITAR PLAYER MAGAZINE. Enjoy! — JUDE GOLD, host and creator, No Guitar Is Safe podcast.

Are you friends with your customers? Should you be? Would you take your customer out for a coffee? If you are wondering what's the right approach, you're not the only one. Sumitra was also wondering...and then started writing about it. In #Episode57, Sumitra is sharing her tips on your relationship with customers: - getting out of the 'customer' category - finding mutual interests - maintaining relationship Sumitra is sharing her exciting journey from a Standford graduate (Computer Science) to a career in Customer Success. It's refreshing to hear her perspective about Customer Success and what she enjoys the most, given her extraordinary technical background. Sumitra Narayanan is currently an Associate Director of Customer Success at LinearB and a contributor at CS Insider, leading her own 'Sumi Success Tips' column. People she admires: Pooja Sankar - Piazza http://www.piazza.com Connect with Sumitra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumitra1/ About Women in Customer Success Podcast: Women in Customer Success Podcast is the first women-only podcast for Customer Success professionals, where remarkable ladies of Customer Success connect, inspire and champion each other. In each episode, podcast creator and host Marija Skobe-Pilley is bringing a conversation with a role model from across the industries to share her inspirational story and practical tools to help you succeed and make an impact. Follow: - womenincspodcast.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/womenincspodcast - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mspilley/ - Instagram: @womenincspodcast Join the Women in Customer Success Network: https://join.slack.com/t/womenincs2020/shared_invite/zt-m3q3pkio-fgk0ssR6gHzoOEEdwa2f3g If you like this episode, you will also like: 16 - From Google to CSM Hero - Claire O'Regan 19 - How to be a CSM Your Clients will Adore - Katie Sloop 35 - Career Lessons for Young Professionals - Karolina Adamus 36 - How to Become an Expert on Yourself - Ronni Gaun 45 - How to Practice Emotional Intelligence - Ashna Patel 47 - How to Benefit from a Return on Relationship (ROR) - Allison Skidmore 51 - How to Productise Customer Success - Anu Dudhat 52 - How to Land Your Dream Customer Success Job - Kat Fisher 53 - How to Grow in Your Customer Success Role - Sindy Brucher-Sharma 56 - How to Step into Customer Success Leadership Role - Morika Georgieva

  Episode: Continuous Improvement and Customer Satisfaction with Sumitra Vig   It's not just the customer's satisfaction with an organization but also how the organization rewards and appreciates its employees, that drives organizational success. In this episode Sumitra Vig joins me to talk about how organizations can achieve a goal of satisfying customers by focusing on employees. We talk about her experiences working across countries, learning from diverse cultures and how to create a satisfied customer who keeps coming back again and again.   SUMITRA VIG Sumitra Vig is a Customer Experience Specialist, and an ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence. She helps organizations be more effective by increasing the quality of their interactions with employees and customers through focused attention on goals that are tailored specifically to each organization's unique needs.  CONNECT WITH SUMITRA VIG LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sumitra-vig-34680527     Key Topics in this podcast: Sumitra's journey and her career background Adjusting working in different countries and cultures. What are Customer Experience Boards? Step by Step process to achieve customer satisfaction AAA model explained How does a customer's script bring back the voice of customers? Gratification and appreciation for employees as important pathway towards customers satisfaction.       KEY TAKEAWAYS Sumitra gained a lot of learnings working across different countries and cultures on how she can apply them for customer satisfaction When she moved to Europe, the work-life balance there came as a surprise because it was so different from India and more holistic. Citibank implemented methods in newer locations that had been successful in other parts of the world and hence tried and tested. In a nutshell, the way to please customers is by taking care of employees first. The company uses well researched and refined scripts to reduce mistakes in interactions with customers Three ways to measure customer satisfaction is by tracking their satisfaction score, defect rate (problem incidence rate), and problem resolution. Employees who work in a culture of fear and stress do not provide the best service to the company's clients. A company's success is tightly coupled with how it treats its own employees, who in turn provide great service to the company's customers.   Memorable Quotes From Sumitra Vig ‘'I think the one important thing is to have fun because when you have fun, you raise your energy and when you raise your energy, you attract a lot of good things”. ‘'Understand that there will always be hurdles, and every hurdle is a turning point for something good. Go out and have your fun and have a practice to be the best, most authentic person pursuing your dream”.  

In this episode we meet Sumitra Pasupathy, who is the Global Partnerships Director at Ashoka. Ashoka is absolutely legendary in the world of social entrepreneurship. And it's based on the idea that the most powerful force for good in the world is a social entrepreneur. Sumi is a social entrepreneur and the Co-founder and Director of Playeum, an innovative education content and service provider centered on creativity for children and families based in Singapore. Sumitra was most recently the Program Lead for The Changemaker Journey, a six-month capacity-building pilot program led by Ashoka and funded by Google.org, benefitting 28 non-profit organizations from India, Indonesia and Singapore, aimed at fast-tracking digital adoption and tech-based solutions as they pivot the way they work.

Hello Hellcats! We are back with another possession story and Jackie is talking about the story of Sumitra Singh, who began saying that she was Shiva Diwedi, a woman who had recently died under mysterious circumstances. Was this a case of possession or reincarnation? Let us know!   https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2016/12/STE29Stevenson-1.pdf https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/sumitrashiva-replacement-reincarnation-case  

Sumitra Mattai is a freelance writer and textile designer. She holds a BFA in textile design from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Sumitra enjoys writing essays about identity, food, design and family. She lives in Harlem, New York City. Follow Sumitra on Instagram and visit her website.Featured image, “Mirror Image,” by Suchitra Mattai. Read the Magazine: clerestorymag.comFollow us: Instagram: @clerestorymagTwitter: @clerestorymagFacebook: facebook.com/clerestorymagSupport our work:MembershipBookshopBonfire

Bianca and Sumitra from Raygun join the panel to talk about Core Web Vitals and how tools like Raygun can help keep tabs on and monitor your performance stats as you change your web application to get you better results on Google. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Bianca Grizhar Sumitra Manga Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial PodcastBootcamp.io Links CrUX and Core Web Vitals – What to Measure on the Web with Rick Viscomi – JSJ 486 JSJ 477: Understanding Search Engines and SEO (for devs) – Part 2 Opinionated Core Web Vitals – JSJ 495 Twitter: Raygun ( @raygunio ) LinkedIn: Bianca Grizhar LinkedIn: Sumitra Manga Picks AJ- How to ADHD - YouTube AJ- The Biggest Myth In Education - YouTube AJ- Brave Search AJ- GitHub | go-gitea/gitea Bianca- How to monitor and optimize Core Web Vitals - YouTube Charles- Level Up | Devchat.tv Charles- Rhythm of War Dan- Is our universe the only universe? - Brian Greene - YouTube Sumitra- Formula 1: Drive to Survive Contact Aimee: Aimee Knight – Software Architect, and International Keynote Speaker GitHub: Aimee Knight ( AimeeKnight ) Twitter: Aimee Knight ( @Aimee_Knight ) LinkedIn: Aimee K. aimeemarieknight | Instagram Aimee Knight | Facebook Contact AJ: AJ ONeal CoolAJ86 on GIT Beyond Code Bootcamp Beyond Code Bootcamp | GitHub Follow Beyond Code Bootcamp | Facebook Twitter: Beyond Code Bootcamp ( @_beyondcode ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Dan: GitHub: Dan Shappir ( DanShappir ) LinkedIn: Dan Shappir Twitter: Dan Shappir ( @DanShappir ) Contact Steve: Twitter: Steve Edwards ( @wonder95 ) GitHub: Steve Edwards ( wonder95 ) LinkedIn: Steve Edwards

Bianca and Sumitra from Raygun join the panel to talk about Core Web Vitals and how tools like Raygun can help keep tabs on and monitor your performance stats as you change your web application to get you better results on Google. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Bianca Grizhar Sumitra Manga Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial PodcastBootcamp.io Links CrUX and Core Web Vitals – What to Measure on the Web with Rick Viscomi – JSJ 486 JSJ 477: Understanding Search Engines and SEO (for devs) – Part 2 Opinionated Core Web Vitals – JSJ 495 Twitter: Raygun ( @raygunio ) LinkedIn: Bianca Grizhar LinkedIn: Sumitra Manga Picks AJ- How to ADHD - YouTube AJ- The Biggest Myth In Education - YouTube AJ- Brave Search AJ- GitHub | go-gitea/gitea Bianca- How to monitor and optimize Core Web Vitals - YouTube Charles- Level Up | Devchat.tv Charles- Rhythm of War Dan- Is our universe the only universe? - Brian Greene - YouTube Sumitra- Formula 1: Drive to Survive Contact Aimee: Aimee Knight – Software Architect, and International Keynote Speaker GitHub: Aimee Knight ( AimeeKnight ) Twitter: Aimee Knight ( @Aimee_Knight ) LinkedIn: Aimee K. aimeemarieknight | Instagram Aimee Knight | Facebook Contact AJ: AJ ONeal CoolAJ86 on GIT Beyond Code Bootcamp Beyond Code Bootcamp | GitHub Follow Beyond Code Bootcamp | Facebook Twitter: Beyond Code Bootcamp ( @_beyondcode ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Dan: GitHub: Dan Shappir ( DanShappir ) LinkedIn: Dan Shappir Twitter: Dan Shappir ( @DanShappir ) Contact Steve: Twitter: Steve Edwards ( @wonder95 ) GitHub: Steve Edwards ( wonder95 ) LinkedIn: Steve Edwards

Bianca and Sumitra from Raygun join the panel to talk about Core Web Vitals and how tools like Raygun can help keep tabs on and monitor your performance stats as you change your web application to get you better results on Google. Panel Aimee KnightAJ O'NealCharles Max WoodDan ShappirSteve Edwards Guest Bianca GrizharSumitra Manga Sponsors Dev Influencers AcceleratorRaygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trialPodcastBootcamp.io Links CrUX and Core Web Vitals – What to Measure on the Web with Rick Viscomi – JSJ 486JSJ 477: Understanding Search Engines and SEO (for devs) – Part 2Opinionated Core Web Vitals – JSJ 495Twitter: Raygun ( @raygunio ) LinkedIn: Bianca GrizharLinkedIn: Sumitra Manga Picks AJ- How to ADHD - YouTubeAJ- The Biggest Myth In Education - YouTubeAJ- Brave SearchAJ- GitHub | go-gitea/giteaBianca- How to monitor and optimize Core Web Vitals - YouTubeCharles- Level Up | Devchat.tvCharles- Rhythm of WarDan- Is our universe the only universe? - Brian Greene - YouTubeSumitra- Formula 1: Drive to Survive Contact Aimee: Aimee Knight – Software Architect, and International Keynote SpeakerGitHub: Aimee Knight ( AimeeKnight )Twitter: Aimee Knight ( @Aimee_Knight )LinkedIn: Aimee K.aimeemarieknight | InstagramAimee Knight | Facebook Contact AJ: AJ ONealCoolAJ86 on GITBeyond Code BootcampBeyond Code Bootcamp | GitHubFollow Beyond Code Bootcamp | FacebookTwitter: Beyond Code Bootcamp ( @_beyondcode ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tvDevChat.tv | FacebookTwitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Dan: GitHub: Dan Shappir ( DanShappir )LinkedIn: Dan ShappirTwitter: Dan Shappir ( @DanShappir ) Contact Steve: Twitter: Steve Edwards ( @wonder95 )GitHub: Steve Edwards ( wonder95 )LinkedIn: Steve Edwards Special Guests: Bianca Grizhar and Sumitra Manga.

Bianca and Sumitra from Raygun join the panel to talk about Core Web Vitals and how tools like Raygun can help keep tabs on and monitor your performance stats as you change your web application to get you better results on Google. Panel Aimee KnightAJ O'NealCharles Max WoodDan ShappirSteve Edwards Guest Bianca GrizharSumitra Manga Sponsors Dev Influencers AcceleratorRaygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trialPodcastBootcamp.io Links CrUX and Core Web Vitals – What to Measure on the Web with Rick Viscomi – JSJ 486JSJ 477: Understanding Search Engines and SEO (for devs) – Part 2Opinionated Core Web Vitals – JSJ 495Twitter: Raygun ( @raygunio ) LinkedIn: Bianca GrizharLinkedIn: Sumitra Manga Picks AJ- How to ADHD - YouTubeAJ- The Biggest Myth In Education - YouTubeAJ- Brave SearchAJ- GitHub | go-gitea/giteaBianca- How to monitor and optimize Core Web Vitals - YouTubeCharles- Level Up | Devchat.tvCharles- Rhythm of WarDan- Is our universe the only universe? - Brian Greene - YouTubeSumitra- Formula 1: Drive to Survive Contact Aimee: Aimee Knight – Software Architect, and International Keynote SpeakerGitHub: Aimee Knight ( AimeeKnight )Twitter: Aimee Knight ( @Aimee_Knight )LinkedIn: Aimee K.aimeemarieknight | InstagramAimee Knight | Facebook Contact AJ: AJ ONealCoolAJ86 on GITBeyond Code BootcampBeyond Code Bootcamp | GitHubFollow Beyond Code Bootcamp | FacebookTwitter: Beyond Code Bootcamp ( @_beyondcode ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tvDevChat.tv | FacebookTwitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Dan: GitHub: Dan Shappir ( DanShappir )LinkedIn: Dan ShappirTwitter: Dan Shappir ( @DanShappir ) Contact Steve: Twitter: Steve Edwards ( @wonder95 )GitHub: Steve Edwards ( wonder95 )LinkedIn: Steve Edwards Special Guests: Bianca Grizhar and Sumitra Manga.

Bianca and Sumitra from Raygun join the panel to talk about Core Web Vitals and how tools like Raygun can help keep tabs on and monitor your performance stats as you change your web application to get you better results on Google. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Bianca Grizhar Sumitra Manga Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial PodcastBootcamp.io Links CrUX and Core Web Vitals – What to Measure on the Web with Rick Viscomi – JSJ 486 JSJ 477: Understanding Search Engines and SEO (for devs) – Part 2 Opinionated Core Web Vitals – JSJ 495 Twitter: Raygun ( @raygunio ) LinkedIn: Bianca Grizhar LinkedIn: Sumitra Manga Picks AJ- How to ADHD - YouTube AJ- The Biggest Myth In Education - YouTube AJ- Brave Search AJ- GitHub | go-gitea/gitea Bianca- How to monitor and optimize Core Web Vitals - YouTube Charles- Level Up | Devchat.tv Charles- Rhythm of War Dan- Is our universe the only universe? - Brian Greene - YouTube Sumitra- Formula 1: Drive to Survive Contact Aimee: Aimee Knight – Software Architect, and International Keynote Speaker GitHub: Aimee Knight ( AimeeKnight ) Twitter: Aimee Knight ( @Aimee_Knight ) LinkedIn: Aimee K. aimeemarieknight | Instagram Aimee Knight | Facebook Contact AJ: AJ ONeal CoolAJ86 on GIT Beyond Code Bootcamp Beyond Code Bootcamp | GitHub Follow Beyond Code Bootcamp | Facebook Twitter: Beyond Code Bootcamp ( @_beyondcode ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Dan: GitHub: Dan Shappir ( DanShappir ) LinkedIn: Dan Shappir Twitter: Dan Shappir ( @DanShappir ) Contact Steve: Twitter: Steve Edwards ( @wonder95 ) GitHub: Steve Edwards ( wonder95 ) LinkedIn: Steve Edwards

A troubling surge in hate crimes and discrimination targeting Asian Americans has hit the headlines in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The violence has cast a newfound spotlight on the bigotry many Asian immigrant populations experience in the United States.While Indian Americans have not borne the brunt of the discrimination of the COVID era, the community is no stranger to prejudice. A new study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Johns Hopkins-SAIS, and the University of Pennsylvania looks at the question of discrimination and the broader social realities of the Indian diaspora of the United States.Milan is a co-author of this study, and this week he sits down with his fellow co-authors—Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, and Jonathan Kay—to discuss the report's findings. They discuss the degree of everyday discrimination Indian Americans face, the connection between polarization in India and divisions in the United States, and the ways in which divides in the diaspora could affect U.S.-India relations. Plus, the group reflects on larger issues of identity, social networks, and belonging in the Indian diaspora.Episode notes:Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, Jonathan Kay, and Milan Vaishnav, “Social Realities of Indian Americans: Results From the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey”Grand Tamasha, “Sumitra Badrinathan and Devesh Kapur Decode the 2020 Indian American Vote”Grand Tamasha, “Sumitra Badrinathan and Devesh Kapur on How Indian Americans View India”Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, and Milan Vaishnav, “How Will Indian Americans Vote? Results From the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey”Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, and Milan Vaishnav, “How Do Indian Americans View India? Results From the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey”

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An incredible story of a girl whose mother, a domestic help in a village in Odisha, left home with three kids and groomed her eldest child to become the Indian rugby captain. Listen to Sumitra Nayak's Bollywood story on Guts Glory Gumption -India's Rugby Captain See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We were honored enough to chat with Sumitra Muralidhar (Suma), the Director of the Millions Veterans Program (MVP). MVP is funded by the VA Office of Research and Development to study how genes affect health and to improve the overall healthcare we receive. There are over 800,000 Veterans enrolled in the research program, of that number ONLY 9% are women! So MVP is on the move to enroll more women Veterans and learn the affects that our genes and the sometimes harsh environments we find ourselves in play in our long term health. You will be amazed at some of the things we find out! To learn more about the program go to mvp.va.govThis episode is brought to you by: Wholenessoasis.com Promo Code: CombatDivas for 15% off your order!http://www.etsy.com/shop/medardasteahouse Promo Code: combatdiva2 for 15% off of your orderBigtoeseasonings.com Promo Code: Combatdivas10 for 10% off of your overall orderSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-combat-divas-podcast1486/donations

Indian Americans are now the second-largest immigrant group in the United States. Their growing political influence and their courtship by the Indian government raises important—as yet unanswered—questions. How do Indians in America regard India, and how do they remain connected to developments there? What are their attitudes toward Indian politics and changes underway in their ancestral homeland? And what role, if any, do they envision for the United States in engaging with India? This week on the show, Milan sits down with his co-authors Sumitra Badrinathan and Devesh Kapur to unveil the findings of a new report they’ve authored on how Indian Americans view India. Milan, Sumitra, and Devesh discuss what their new data tells us about Indian Americans remain connected to their ancestral homeland, how they assess the performance of Narendra Modi, and how they view India’s democratic trajectory. Plus, the trio talk about what a more divided diaspora might mean for U.S.-India relations and India’s foreign policy in the years to come. Episode notes:Grand Tamasha, “Sumitra Badrinathan and Devesh Kapur Decode the 2020 Indian American Vote”Grand Tamasha, “Deep in the Heart of Texas: Inside ‘Howdy, Modi!’”Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, and Milan Vaishnav, “How Will Indian Americans Vote? Results From the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey”Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur, and Nirvikar Singh, “The Other One Percent: Indians in America.”

Eka Sloki Ramayana is the entire story of Ramayana recited in one verse. aadau raama tapovanaadi gamanam hatvaa mrugam kaanchanam vaidehee haraNam jaTaayu maraNam sugreeva sambhaash aNam | baalee nigrahaNam samudra taraNam lankaapuree daahanam pashchaat raavaNa kumbhakarNa hananametaddhi raamaayaNam  Iti ekashlokee raamaayaNam sampoorNam || It means long ago, Lord Rama went to the forest, chased and killed the golden deer, Sita was kidnapped, Jatayu passed away, discussions with Sugreeva happened, Bali was killed, the ocean was crossed and  Lanka was burnt. Then Ravana and Kumbakarna were killed. This is the story of Ramayana.  Ramayana, which means the journey of Rama, is a Hindu epic describing the entire life of Lord Rama along with his wife Sita. Lord Rama is said to be a dutiful son, an ideal husband, a loving brother, a reliable friend, a remarkable king, and a perfect human being. Despite his noble traits, he was very humble and friendly. He is considered the seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu. This avatar was to show the world how a human being should be. The entire life of Rama was very eventful and thrilling. Rama was a prince born to King Dasharatha and his wife Kaushalya. Dasharatha had two more wives Kaikeyi and Sumitra who also had their own sons. The four brothers Rama, Bharata, Lakshman, and Shatrughna were inseparable. During the time of Rama's coronation, Kaikeyi wanted her son to be made the king, so she asked Rama to go to the forest for 14 years. Rama agreed to go to the exile. Lakshman and Sita accompanied him.  They helped many sages and defeated many demons throughout their time of exile. Rama was not only a great friend to humans but also animals. He befriended Sugriva, The Monkey Lord, and promised to protect them from his wicked brother. Jatayu the bird, tried to save Rama's wife Sita from Ravana but got its wings chopped off. Rama wept and thanked him for his service. Rama also welcomed Vibhishan from the enemy camp and expressed his love to everyone. Rama considered Hanuman to be his other brother without whom finding Sita could have been impossible.  As per Hindu beliefs, Rama is the legendary deity who is still alive in the hearts of entire mankind. www.chimesradio.com  http://onelink.to/8uzr4g  https://www.facebook.com/chimesradio/  https://www.instagram.com/vrchimesradio/  Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/chimesradio See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Notations -> http://www.shivkumar.org/music/#m Pallavi: mundu vEnuka iru prakkala tODai murakhara-hara rArA Anupallavi: endugAna nI andamuvale raghunandanavEgamE rArA Charanam: 1: caNDa bhAskara kulAbdhi candra kOdaNDapANiyai rArA aNDa golucu saumitri sahituDai yAmiya parAkrama rArA 2: O gaja rakSaka O rAjakumAra OmkAra sadana rArA bhAgavata priya bAga brOvavayya tyAgarAjanuta rArA Meaning: (Thyagaraja Vaibhavam: http://thyagaraja.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/08/thyagaraja-vaibhavam-23.htm): Gist O Slayer of demons mura and khara! O Lord raghu nandana! O Moon born in the Ocean of the Solar dynasty! O Lord of limitless prowess who nourishes the Universe! O Saviour of gajEndra (elephant)! O Prince! O Supreme Lord abiding in the praNava! O Lord who is loved by the great devotees! O Lord praised by this tyAgarAja! Please come quickly as my company in front, back and on both sides. I do not find anywhere a charm like that of Yours! Please come wielding kOdaNDa. Please come along with lakSmaNa (son of sumitrA). Please protect me well. Word-by-word Meaning P: O Slayer (hara) of demons mura and khara! Please come (rArA) as my company (tODai) in front (mundu), back (venuka) and on both (iru) (venukayiru) sides (pakkala). A: O Lord raghu nandana! I do not find (gAna) anywhere (endu) a charm (andamu) like (vale) that of Yours (nI) (nIyandamu)! O Slayer of demons mura and khara! Please come (rArA) quickly (vEgamE) as my company in front, back and on both sides. C1: O Moon (candra) born in the Ocean (abdhi) of the Solar – the terrible (caNDa) Sun (bhaskara) - dynasty (kula) (kulAbdhi)! Please come (rArA) wielding (pANiyai) (literally holding in hand) kOdaNDa; O Lord of limitless (amita) prowess (parAkrama) who nourishes (golucu) the Universe (aNDa)! Please come (rArA) along with (sahituDai) (sahituDaiyamita) lakSmaNa – son of sumitrA (saumitri); O Slayer of demons mura and khara! Please come as my company in front, back and on both sides. C2 O Saviour (rakSaka) of gajEndra – the elephant (gaja)! O Prince (rAja kumAra)! O Supreme Lord abiding (sadana) in the praNava (OMkAra)! Please come (rArA); O Lord (ayya) who is loved (priya) by the great devotees (bhAgavata)! Please protect (brOvu) (brOvavayya) me well (bAga); O Lord praised (nuta) by this tyAgarAja! Please come (rArA). O Slayer of demons mura and khara! Please come as my company in front, back and on both sides.

Notations -> http://www.shivkumar.org/music/#r rAma kathA Ragam: madhyamAvati {22nd Melakartha (Kharaharapriya) Janyam} ARO: S R2 M1 P N2 S || AVA: S N2 P M1 R2 S || Talam: Adi (2 kalai) Composer: Tyagaraja Swami Version: T M Krishna Lyrics Courtesy: Lakshman Ragde Meanings Courtesy: V. Govindan, Tyagaraja Vaibhavam Site (http://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.in/2009/03/tyagaraja-kritis-alphabetical-list.html ) Pallavi: rAma kathA sudhArasa pAnam oka rAjyamu cEsunE Anupallavi: bhAmAmaNi jAnaki saumitri bharatAdulatO bhUmi velayu sItA Charanam: dharmAddakhila phaladamE manasA dhairyAnanda saukhya nikEtanamE karma bandha jvalanAbdhi nAvamE kaliharamE tyAgarAja vinutuDagu Meaning: (Courtesy: V. Govindan, Tyagaraja Vaibhavam) Gist O My Mind! To drink the nectarine juice of story of SrI rAma - praised by this tyAgarAja- who shines on the Earth along with jAnaki, lakshmaNa, bharata and others, is equal to (ruling) a kingdom. (a) it indeed bestows the fruits of purushArtha; (b) it is the veritable abode of courage, bliss and comfort; (c) it indeed is the boat which enables one to cross the flaming ocean of Worldly Existence – bound by actions; (d) it indeed is the destroyer of the (evil effects of) kali yuga. Word-by-word Meaning P: To drink (pAnamu) the nectarine (sudhA) juice (rasa) of story (kathA) of SrI rAma is equal (jEsunE) to (ruling) a kingdom (rAjyamu). A: To drink the nectarine juice of story of SrI rAma, who shines (velayu) on the Earth (bhUmi) along with jAnaki - a jewel (maNi) of women (bhAmA), lakshmaNa - son of sumitrA (saumitri), bharata and others (AdulatO) (bharatAdulatO), is equal to (ruling) a kingdom. C: O My Mind (manasA)! It indeed bestows the fruits (phalada) (phaladamE) of purushArtha – all those (akhila) beginning with (Adi) dharma (dharmAdyakhila); it is the veritable abode (nikEtanamE) of courage (dhairya), bliss (Ananda) (dhairyAnanda) and comfort (saukhya); it indeed is the boat (nAvamE) which enables one to cross the flaming (jvalana) ocean (abdhi) (jvalanAbdhi) of Worldly Existence – bound (bandha) by actions (karma); it indeed is the destroyer (haramE) of the (evil effects of) kali yuga; to drink the nectarine juice of story of SrI rAma – the Lord praised (vinutudagu) by this tyAgarAja - is equal to (ruling) a kingdom.

'ಪಿಂಜರ್’ ಪುಸ್ತಕದ ಕುರಿತು ಕೇಳಿ ರಾಜು ಹಗ್ಗದ ಅವರ ವಿಮರ್ಶನೆಯನ್ನು ಶಿಲ್ಪರವರ ಧ್ವನಿಯಲ್ಲಿ. ಇದೊಂದು ಅನುವಾದಿತ ಪುಸ್ತಕ. Listen to the review written by Raju haggada on 'Pinjar' book and read by Shilpa. #kannada #pusthaka #Parichaya #l_c_sumitra #raju_haggada #Shilpa #pinjar Write to us: psgitag@gmail.com Sponsored by : Prathama Srsti - Buy authentic, hand picked GI TAG products of India and support local art and artists. To know more visit https://www.PrathamaSrsti.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/vasistha-jagannath/support

Although Indians in America account for less than one percent of registered voters, this election season they have been actively wooed by both Democrats and Republicans in an unprecedented manner. Thanks to the increasing political influence of Indian Americans, the camaraderie between Donald Trump and Narendra Modi, and the addition of Kamala Harris to the Democratic ticket, there is a sense that this community’s votes are very much at play. Today, Milan speaks with Sumitra Badrinathan (University of Pennsylvania) and Devesh Kapur (Johns Hopkins-SAIS) about the findings of a brand new survey--the Indian American Attitudes Survey (IAAS)-- that sheds light on the political attitudes of Indian Americans (full disclosure: Milan is a co-author of the new study). Milan, Devesh and Sumitra discuss why Indian Americans, contrary to media reports, remain solidly with the Democratic Party and why they are overwhelmingly concerned with kitchen table issues, rather than foreign policy concerns such as U.S.-India relations. They also talk about the impact of Kamala Harris, partisan polarization among Indians in America, and why Republicans face an uphill climb to win over Indian American voters. Notes:Sumitra Badrinathan, Devesh Kapur, and Milan Vaishnav, “How Will Indian Americans Vote? Results From the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey”Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur, and Nirvikar Singh, “The Other One Percent: Indians in America”Sara Sadhwani, “Kamala Harris is likely to bring in Indian American voters, this research finds”Devesh Kapur, “Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India”

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Thanks to the #100sareepact, I’ve had the good fortune to be friends with women from different walks of life. Women of different ages, different professions, from different countries. I may never have met them were it not for our common passion for sarees and story telling. I came to Instagram quite late, and when I arrived there I saw many, many profiles of women showcasing their sarees. The phenomena of the #100sareepact has given rise to varied avenues of recognition. Some women were showcasing their work with weaver clusters, some were selling sarees, some were modelling for saree vendors, some wearing their sarees and telling their life stories. I felt like a proud matriarch seeing this hectic activity in the ecosystem and marketplace of Instagram. The saree was front and centre on Instagram on handles of women belonging to the Indian diaspora. While I have a more quiet presence on Instagram, I follow authentic voices on the platform. I’m drawn to content and story telling and Sumitra Selvaraj was building opinion, building awareness and engagement and most of her posts make me chuckle, there’s always dry wit on display. We jumped out of social media and met in person last year and safe to say we’re not letting go of this friendship and mutual respect we have for each other. Here is @sareesandstories talking to me about her saree stories. #everysareehasastory #weareallconnected #wewearourhistory #tellmeyourstory #gratitude

I interviewed Dr. Sumitra Nair this week from MDEC. Dr. Nair is the Vice President - Talent Development & Digital Entrepreneurship for MDEC, and is responsible for building quality talent pipelines for digital companies in Malaysia. We discussed the current education landscape in Malaysia and what can be done to improve opportunities for IT graduates and working professionals alike. This is the first episode of Season 2! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/abundent)

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Sumitra Pasupathy is the Senior Manager of Global Partnership at Ashoka. "I am always looking for inspiring, bright and young interns" Email Ashoka Singapore at singapore@ashoka.org Follow Sumitra on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumitra-pasupathy-56291/ About Sumitra: She grew up in Kaula Lampur, Malaysia. She graduated as a chemical engineer from the prestigious Cambridge University in 1995. She worked at Kraft and Proctor and Gamble before getting an MBA from INSEAD. Afterwards, she worked in the corporate world for a few years, mainly out of Singapore, before entering the impact and social entrepreneurship world upon the birth of her first son. In 2008, she and her partner Mr Naveen Menon founded Playeum. It's an independent non-profit organisation that champions children through play and creativity. And it has won several international awards for its groundbreaking work. In 2015, she became the country director of Ashoka: Innovators for Public for Singapore and Indonesia. Ashoka is the world's fifth-biggest NGO that is responsible for the 'social entrepreneurs' movement in the world (Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka, literally coined the term 'Social Entrepreneurship' in 1980). Currently, she is the senior manager of Global Collaborations at Ashoka. She lives in Singapore with her husband and three- very talented tennis champ- sons. Recommendations: Books: David Brooks, Road to Character Favourite Intern: Manthan Shah --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manthanshah/message

This week, we sit down with Sumitra Pasupathy, co-founder of Playeum, an award-winning social impact organization centered on using Play to improve agency in children. She also has a leadership role in Ashoka, an international organization focused on driving social change.In this episode, Sumitra talks about how play is not just for children, and can even help adults solve problems in an increasingly tech-focused world.

When looking to change things in your world, how do you let pleasure be the force that guides you? How do you fulfill desire while you fight for change? How do you take care of yourself while you transform? And how do you allow organic, sustainable change to emerge in your life - without feeling like you have to force things? Today we’re speaking with author, activist, and healer adrienne maree brown. Her most recent book, the New York Times bestseller “Pleasure Activism”, leans into black feminist traditions to challenge you to rethink the groundrules of how to facilitate change in your own life, and in the world around you. In this episode, you’ll hear more about how adrienne came to this work, and her thoughts on how to be imperfect, yet honest, in relationship. You’ll learn how to bring true integrity into your relationships - and ways to ensure that your health and wellbeing aren’t compromised while you grow and transform.  As always, I’m looking forward to your thoughts on this episode and what revelations and questions it creates for you. Please join us in the Relationship Alive Community on Facebook to chat about it! Sponsors: Beautiful jewelry, exquisite craftsmanship, sustainable sources, and affordable prices. Get $75 OFF your purchase at hellonoemie.com when you use the coupon code "ALIVE". With free overnight shipping and free returns, you can see something online today, and try it on tomorrow risk free. Find a quality therapist, online, to support you and work on the places where you’re stuck. For 10% off your first month, visit Betterhelp.com/ALIVE to fill out the quick questionnaire and get paired with a therapist who’s right for you. Resources: Visit adrienne maree brown’s website to learn more about her books and her other projects. Pick up a copy of Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown on Amazon. Listen to Episode 12 on the Healing Justice podcast for a Somatic Centering practice. FREE Relationship Communication Secrets Guide - perfect help for handling conflict and shifting the codependent patterns in your relationship Guide to Understanding Your Needs (and Your Partner's Needs) in Your Relationship (ALSO FREE) Visit www.neilsattin.com/amb to download the transcript, or text “PASSION” to 33444 and follow the instructions to download the transcript to this episode with adrienne maree brown. Amazing intro/outro music graciously provided courtesy of: The Railsplitters - Check them Out Transcript: Neil Sattin: Hello and welcome to another episode of Relationship Alive. This is your host Neil Sattin. I want to start by saying that I believe in the power of synchronicity. I believe that when synchronicities happen it means something. And so to me it meant a lot when I was walking into a bookstore with a new friend of mine in New York City and she grabbed this book off the shelf and she said, "Given what we've just been talking about how you want to make this huge impact with your work and with the Relationship Alive podcast you need to read this book." And she handed me a book called "Emergent Strategy" by adrienne maree brown.  adrienne maree brown: Oh wow.  Neil Sattin: Yeah. And after reading that book and being so moved by what I read there both in terms of the promise that it holds for how our lives can unfold in a way that's really organic and natural and suited to who we are as people and also how that can impact the communities that we form whether it be our micro communities our family, our friends, or our larger communities, the movements that we become a part of and how we create change in this world. It was just super inspiring to me and I was delighted to see that adrienne was coming out with a new book called "Pleasure Activism," which just hit the New York Times Bestseller List and I thought you know what, like, I have to talk to this person and hopefully they'll talk to me. So. So I reached out and fortunately here we are today to talk to adrienne maree brown, who is a social justice facilitator, focused on black liberation, a doula, healer and a pleasure activist and a coach. And the list goes on and on. And honestly I can relate and I love that about...  adrienne maree brown: Yeah.  Neil Sattin: About her work. And so we're gonna be here to talk about emergence and pleasure and how this all unfolds in the world of relationship. The relationship you have to yourself, the relationship you have to your beloved or beloveds, and the relationship you have with the world. As usual we will have a detailed transcript of today's episode which you can get if you visit Neil Sattin-dot-com-slash-A-M-B as in adrienne maree brown or you can always text the word "passion" to the number 3 3 4 4 4 and follow the instructions. And that will get you the transcript and the show notes and all that good stuff.  adrienne maree brown: Oh cool.  Neil Sattin: I think that's it. So adrienne, thank you so much for being here with us today on Relationship Alive.  adrienne maree brown: Thanks for having me now. I'm excited that a podcast it's about relationships in this way, exists. So I'm like yay! Let's talk about it.  Neil Sattin: Awesome. Yeah I've been thinking about a good way to dive in without asking you like a ridiculously broad question, but I might have to start with a ridiculously broad question.:.  adrienne maree brown: You're like, I tried! I can't. It's ok. What's the  ridiculously broad question.  Neil Sattin: Well. Yeah. So let's start with this idea about pleasure and activism and what does it mean to have pleasure be the center of how one operates in the world? adrienne maree brown: For me, you know, I got this terminology, was taught to me and I learned the words from an organizer named Keith Cyler, who was the founder of something called "Housing Works," that's based in New York that raises resources and all kinds of resources like financial resources, but also does trainings and other things like that for people who are dealing with house-lessness, dealing with HIV, AIDS. And I was really moved by his genius and his work. But, one time we were just sitting around having a good time and he talked to me about this terminology "pleasure activism," and it stuck with me over the years so I kept being like "Oh. Like what could that mean? What could that mean? What could that mean?" And especially as I I grew, you know, I've always been very aware that there's a lot in the world that is broken that is hurting that is traumatized, and inside of that reaching for how are we meant to connect with each other? And somewhere in there this idea of pleasure activism kept returning to me as I was doing voter organizing, returning to me as I was learning about harm reduction, returning to me as I was supporting people to do direct action, nonviolent civil disobedience. It just kept coming back. And when I was working on my last book emergent strategy, I had to include it as a concept and I wasn't sure at that point like am I going to flesh this all the way out? Like there's a lot here. But then at some point I was like, "Let me just.... Like what would it look like." You know, what would it look like to actually flesh this out? And I had been reading Audrey Lorde's text "the uses of the erotic:: as power," which I got permission to reprint in this book. And I really loved her use of the erotic. And yet I just kept coming back to this idea of pleasure. Like that pleasure includes the erotic, but also includes a lot of things that may or may not be erotic, and so I was like, what is pleasure. And I looked up and its just like happy, joy and satisfaction. And I was like, "Gosh it seems so simple and yet there's so much resistance to it. There's so much fear of it there's so much control of it. And. And for those of us who are like actively trying to change the world in some way there's a denial of it, right? Like it's like, "We are not allowed to have that. We need to be fighting for this you know future that's off in the future somewhere.".  Neil Sattin: Right.  adrienne maree brown: And I just remember landing and like. Wouldn't it be so radical to listen to Audrey Lourde had taught us about engaging the erotic now, engaging our full aliveness, in this moment. And for black women who, you know, that's who is at the front of my mind when I wrote this text, you know, I was like there's a lot that has intentionally cut us off from our relationship with joy and happiness and pleasure and contentment and satisfaction. It's been trained into us that we're not allowed to have those things so I got very... Then I got very light lit up with this idea, that I was like, "Oh what if we could have these things? Like what if it's a measure of our freedom to reclaim pleasure?" And so that kind of sent me off down this path that has been really exciting. And you know it's interesting because activism in general is not where I land right? Like I, I've often been like I'm an organizer! And for me the distinction you know, I think activists or folks who are really like advocating for something like using their public sphere to advocate for something, going and talking to friends. Organizers to me or folks who are like, "I'm actually trying to move a strategy amongst the people." Right? Like I'm going to go find those who are not going to just easily be reached and I'm going to knock on their doors and I'm going to find out what they need and and build an analysis and a vision together. And so you know it's like, "OK is activism OK for this? And it felt like actually for this, it is it is important that as many people in the world as possible begin to come out and advocate for all of our rights to have pleasure to have pleasure be an organizing principle of how we structure our relationships in our society. And then it starts with reclaiming our own, and moves out from that place. So I'm excited that it exists. I'm excited that it came together and then I've been really blown away by the responses. So I'm like, OK this... I really for a while was like, "This is not the time to be putting out right now. We need something about justice or we need something about like you know I kept having this strategic idea around if this current administration is starting fires all over the place. I kept thinking like, how do we conjure up water? How do we vaporize ourselves in some way to come up and over and rain down on them? And I was like, I got to go write that strategy book or whatever. And then I realized I was like, "Oh this is actually it," in a way?  Neil Sattin: This is that book.  adrienne maree brown: This is actually that book and that's been clicking to me that I'm like: This is it. This is the way that we become more powerful through pleasure, through what we can release rather than what we can contain. So. Yeah.  Neil Sattin: I love it. It's to me... What was I mean there are so many threads that came together for me as I was reading the book, and even just in hearing you speak right now. Primarily, that way that people are so.... Many people, I should say are so exhausted right now, with with just the state of affairs and....  adrienne maree brown: That's right.  Neil Sattin: ...that's political, it's environmental it's economic. There is a lot that's taxing us and that's something that regenerates us when we can find the sources of pleasure within us and in how we connect with the world that I think allows us to bring more of ourselves to the world and and also highlights the places where we are denying ourselves or denying others that inalienable right for...  adrienne maree brown: That's right.  Neil Sattin: ...the experience of joy.  adrienne maree brown: That's right.:I mean it blows my mind to really think about, like, what people what people have survived, like often when I stand in a room of people and I'm giving a speech or a talk or a training or something. There's a lot of me that's present with that moment but then there's also a part of me that's kind of thinking about all the lineages of all these human beings and how some of them in this moment have landed in a place of power, or privilege, and some of them haven't ended up in a place that's not that. But that those lineages all include some survival, some fighting to exist some taking a risk, some you know, moving out into the world with an unknown response you know, like we don't know what's going to happen here. We don't know if we're heading the right way. We don't know if we're going to survive and that there have been so many things that have have you know, like so much of our human history has just been about surviving, right? Just like can we make it? And so there's something interesting to me now to be like, I think I think we have shown that like oh we could make it like we could figure this out. We could be on this planet technically. But what is the life worth making it for? Like, what is worth surviving for?: Neil Sattin: Yeah.  adrienne maree brown: And now I think we're actively in that question. That is like, all of us deserve this relationship to pleasure. And when you look at like who thinks they deserve it or who is encouraged to have it, it's actually a very narrow small grouping of human beings. And I think that's because of capitalism. You know, I really think that as an economic system, capitalism thrives when we believe that we are not good enough and that we need to buy something outside of ourselves in order to experience pleasure. And I love the trick of it which is like, if you actually just drop down into your own body, which is the only thing in your entire life that you ever truly have, from the beginning to the end, if you just drop down into it, it's wired for pleasure. And those wires may have been crossed, you know, there may be some like dysfunctional parts of it because of trauma, because of pain, because of... which I now, also when I meet everyone, I'm like, 'I know you have some trauma," right? Like, I know you have some.  Neil Sattin: Yeah no one escapes that.  adrienne maree brown: Yeah. I don't know what it is. I don't know how severe or central it is to your life, or your life story it is to your life, or your life story. I don't know if you had the resources to recover or not, but I know it's there. And so I think like, "oh." What we're dealing with is like, what is the relationship between that trauma that's everywhere. And this system that's telling us that we can't heal ourselves we shouldn't even feel ourselves. We should just kind of outsource that to something we can purchase. And, and, then how in that do we find a way to be in RIGHT relationship with each other on this planet. Right? So that's the stuff I keep, I keep floating around with us like I want to, I want to leave a world behind me that people like I like I feel very compelled. I want to be here. It feels good, right? And that doesn't mean that I think we will solve the climate crisis in my lifetime because I do think... You know...  I really believe in Gopal Dayaneni, 1who works over at Movement Generation and talks about, like, there's things that we have already set in motion that we are gonna have to face the consequences of as a species. And I don't deny that that's what's coming to us but inside of that I think we also have to be actively fomenting pleasure and actively fomenting like reconnecting ourselves to land and to each other because as the changes happen we're still going to need to be able to feel, feel pleasure, feel satisfaction feel like being here. Otherwise we'll just depress and numb and you know kind of slip away. And I think that would be an unworthy end to our species.  Neil Sattin: Totally agree with you and a word that popped into my mind that I would like to add to that, is resilience.  adrienne maree brown: Yeah.  Neil Sattin: The more that we're embracing our capacity for resilience in terms of how we heal our lineage of trauma. Or present moment traumas in terms of how we make things right when they've gone wrong, and do that in the context where what we're shooting for what we're envisioning is something joyful blissful like that actually has ease and pleasure connected to it.  adrienne maree brown: Yeah. Yes.  Neil Sattin: Then that that makes it worth it and gives us kind of a... I hate to use the word technology, but like a technology of continually adjusting to get there.  adrienne maree brown: Yeah.  Neil Sattin: You talk in "Emerging Strategy," about adapability... Yeah.  adrienne maree brown: Exactly. Yeah exactly. Yeah. Well, I was just going to say, I was like, yeah. You know, like, to me emergent strategy and pleasure activism really go together like they're holding hands, dancing across the field of ideas and I really think that this this idea of resilience. You know I have a teacher Alta Starr who's always pushing me to be like you know, resilience is beyond even harm, right? It's sort of like this natural capacity we have to learn to adapt, to like grow, to learn from whatever changes come. And it's hard for me because I'm still like "Well. But also when someone hurts us, you know we had to be resilient." And you know it's hard in a city like Detroit because you know resilience can be weaponized. Like if people like you bounce back from anything, like, we'll just keep doing anything to you. Like you know we'll add an incinerator to your neighborhood or whatever you'll be fine. And so I think there's something about, Oh to me, like how do we have a transformative resilience right. How do we have resilience that is not just like we can recover back to conditions that we weren't very happy with in the first place. And being like oh you know when I look at like what am I recovering? I'm recovering something that's beyond my own origin, you know like I need to recover something that goes back past the many hours that my grandmother overworked, and I need to recover something that goes back past my enslaved ancestors, and recover something that goes back past my kidnapped answers, and you know, ancestors, like I feel this long, long, long arc of the work that I'm in right now where I'm like. Almost everyone that came before me was trying to work towards some joy some freedom some sense of safety for their children themselves. And now I am awakened so like I am aware of all of that and I have an option in front of me to be resilient across time and space right. And that feels very exciting. You know, I think as hard as it is to live in this age of hyper connectedness because I think it is really hard. My friend angel Kyoto Williams talks about this, that like, we we are given access to so much more information than we've ever had access to before but we're not given the tools to handle it all, right? Like we're not taught here's how to meditate. Here's how to pass what's overwhelming back to the earth or back to God or back to whomever you trust with it. We're not given those those technologies, right? So we kind of flailing a lot of the time of like, I'm receiving all this, I'm trying to care about all of it and we find ourselves stretched so far but I also think the really beautiful thing about that is like we can see how many people believe what we believe, how many people are trying to practice what we're trying to practice so we can find each other. You know you and I would have never found each other if it wasn't for this modern state of connection. And to be able to say like, "Oh you're out here in Maine fomenting these ideas and I'm out here in Detroit fomenting these ideas and we have very different lineages. And yet we both have arrived in this place where it's like this is a path. This is a way to move forward it's important. Paying attention to relationship is important." And so that you know, that gives me hope inside of the the struggle of this overwhelming moment where there is so much that is hard. It's also there's so much that is overwhelmingly beautiful and overwhelmingly good and there's so many ways that you know also we live on such a resilient planet. So, I often think about this that I'm like, you know, and I feel like I'm trying to remember whoever first said this idea, because I was a Oh snap! That's a game changer! It's like, the Earth is gonna be OK.  Neil Sattin: Yeah.  adrienne maree brown: Right? Like the earth is gonna be OK. Like, it might be, she might go through an Ice Age or something, but like if we're not here she'll still be OK. And like if we're not here she'll recover from whatever we've done. Like how we've remixed her nature into other kinds of things. And, I don't know if you saw this story came out last week about the white-throated rail, did you see that?  Neil Sattin: I hadn't but I saw you wrote about it on your on your blog. Yeah. adrienne maree brown: I was so moved by this. So this like little bird...:The debate is basically this bird re-evolved, right. Like it went extinct at 136,000 years ago, roughly. Because like,  these things are hard to track but like... Now this bird has has re-evolved has come back into existence. The same little -- it's a flightless bird. There's something about that that just I, I read it and I really was like moved in a way I was like, I didn't know I needed to know that that was possible. But, I was like, I need to know that that level of resilience is possible, like somewhere down in the programming of this planet. There's there's some code that's just like white throated rail.: And just because we can no longer see the creature, it doesn't mean that it's, it's disappeared like there's some aspect of it that DNA that's in there. And yeah, it made me feel like OK. Like there's mysteries on mysteries on mysteries when it comes to this planet. And there's so much that we can't understand. And so inside of that I'm like, you know, I love thinking really big grandiose thoughts. But then I try to bring them back down into very small tangible practices. Small ways of being with each other because I'm like, I can't imagine how we'll get through the climate catastrophe that we're in right now. But I can imagine being in right relationship with the planet around me and making better choices about this local place that I'm in and being place based and loving. Even though I travel a lot but I'm like rooting myself into the soil in Detroit in all the ways that I can. Like this is where I bury my compost. This is where I play with children. This is where I go find like where's the Detroit grown foods every summer and I am really cautious now. I've made a major shift in my life around how I produce waste. Like what kind of waste I will put out so that I tried to really shrink down my garbage waste to the, like the very very you know, it's like if I can rinse it and I can clean it off and it can be recycled. It's gonna be recycled if it's food if it can go into compost it goes into compost like I used to have a massive garbage bin that I was putting out. And I'm like I live alone. You know all of that with stuff that like other things can be done with. And now it's like you know a huge portion of what comes out of my home is gonna be recycled and reused again. And, I'm aiming at zero waste. I'm constantly trying to figure out where is and where other places where I can... I just bought this new set of like ziplocks reusable kind of Ziploc thingies, that so you know because I'm a, I'm a fan of Ziploc bags like I'm like you've put anything in a Ziploc bag. You can go anywhere you have it I carry like in my suitcase there's always like five Ziploc bags just like folded just in case because you just never know what you're gonna need a Ziploc bag for. And so I'm like, oh that's a next frontier that I need to like, you know, figure out a way to advance through and I'm like, oh I can do this, right. So anyway all of that to say to me I'm trying in my personal life to get in right relationship with nature and my body is a huge part of that. Like if I'm not in right relationship and respecting the miraculous, like, Stardust nature of my body then how can I even begin to be in my relationship with the rest of the living world.  Neil Sattin: Yeah.  adrienne maree brown: Yeah.  Neil Sattin: So, OK. So first, I'm so moved when I hear you talk about not really being able to read the code but seeing the expressions of the code like..  adrienne maree brown: Yeah.  Neil Sattin: ...the bird coming back into existence from extinction and even when you were describing how you and I could be doing different work in different places and yet here we find ourselves together having this conversation.  adrienne maree brown: Yeah.  Neil Sattin: To me that is an expression of the power of something that's ineffiable, that like we can't understand but if we're willing to to follow that path and and follow the ways that it's growing and things are emerging then, then at least that inspires hope in me that there's like an antidote to disconnection, to destruction.  adrienne maree brown: Yes.  Neil Sattin: To...  adrienne maree brown: Yeah.  Neil Sattin: ...all the forces that were that were working against and in terms of relationship the ways that people are, you know, experience this desire for closeness and connection. You know part of our, our wiring as you were mentioning earlier is to be connected to each other.  adrienne maree brown: That's right.  Neil Sattin: And yet, it becomes such a source of pain partly because we either intentionally or unintentionally traumatize each other and then also because of the social structures and their impact on us. When you talk about pleasure and relearning pleasure, getting in touch with your body and and I like that stand that you take for for the personal being political that fractal nature of...  adrienne maree brown: Yes. Yeah.  Neil Sattin: ...transformation. I think about how many of us are just kind of following the script of romance and love and sex and pleasure and needing...  adrienne maree brown: When did you become aware that there was a script?  Neil Sattin: Oohh. Well that's it's been an unfolding for me, for sure. And I think probably I became most aware of it when I inadvertently hurt someone. And like had no idea that that was happening for them and found out later and then you know, thankfully we've had our moments of amends and talking and all of that. But, in restoring ourselves. That was probably the inception of it. And then all through college.  adrienne maree brown: Yeah.  Neil Sattin: And then in my current relationship, I'm so blessed to be with someone who's taken a strong stand for her own boundaries around her own healing, her own trauma. And it forced me to even go even deeper into like, "Well, what am I looking for in relationships?".  adrienne maree brown: Right.  Neil Sattin: What am I looking for in sex? Would it like what is this rejection, quote-unquote, that I'm experiencing in this moment and what is that really about? And and so that has forced me to ask deeper questions, and to get progressively more and more honest with myself and with her, to a point where fairly recently I feel like I've hit ground zero. But it's it's a process it's definitely been an unfolding and watching those layers fall away. And then once they do being like, All right well how do I replace this? If I'm going to do sex the way that I thought I should? Or you know I think it was an essay that you wrote where you mentioned a babysitter who was watching Porky's when you were...  adrienne maree brown: Yes.  Neil Sattin: Yeah. And the way those things inform our sense of, of what's what's erotic, what turns us on, all of that. Once I peel those things away and come back to, this moment and what's real. Well...  adrienne maree brown: That's right.  Neil Sattin: Yeah. That's what my journey has been like and I've, I've certainly tried to surface that a bunch here on the podcast and and I'm really excited to hear your thoughts about that unfolding for yourself and, and you mentioned meditation earlier. Yeah. What are the the pathways into, kind, of breaking down the, the unhealthy learnings? And coming back into right relationship with with ourselves as relational, sexual, erotic, pleasure oriented being?  adrienne maree brown: Beings, right? I feel like... a couple of things. I mean I think one is, there was a period of time where I was, I was really convinced that sex didn't have anything to do with me or what I was feeling. Like, I was really like what is the other person feeling and like that's that's what's important right now. And like my job is to make sure that that experience is a whole good one. Right? And, and I feel like, I remember like, there's just moments in most of its relational right. Like most of it is like just other people reflecting something back. And it's like "Girl, it doesn't had to be like that." You know? People talking to me, reading stuff. I remember reading the work of Andrea Dworkin. Have you read her? Like she she talks pretty scathingly about marriage and pornography and like, a lot of things that I was just I took for granted, were like those are good things that you try to get to in life. And, I don't agree with everything, you know, I feel like there's a lot of brilliant thinking in what she said and I feel like there's also not a lot offered of like here are other true pleasures, you know, like here's the ways to get them.  Neil Sattin: Yeah.  adrienne maree brown: But there was something that blew open for me where I was just like, I want to be able to consider this. I want to be able to consider that everything I was told about where pleasure in my life would come from and, or,  was, was and wasn't allowed. That maybe all that is wrong. Right? And then Audrey Lorde's writing, Octavia Butler's writing. There were just all these different people who were giving me. It was never just about sex. It was never just about the body. It was alway, have a revolution about how you think about how things work in the world. Start to ask questions and get curious about who benefits from these systems. Right? So, I remember, I remember having a quest-, you know, a conversation with a friend about marriage and just being like, who benefits? Who benefits in marriage, right? And, uh, and being pretty like oh my gosh. No one should ever get married. I was like, "No woman should ever get married!" Like I felt very strongly like, Nope it's not, it's just not a good idea. Like you will work forever in a labor that will never ever get acknowledged. You will not be able to pursue passion, work, things that you actually care about. You'll not be respected in the process. And then you know, and then he'll cheat on you. Like this is the arc of  it, right? Because you know he'll need something younger and prettier and he's worked you out, right? And I remember having that conversation as like, NO! You know? Like, and then be like well no that's just one way that's a model that is... The system that benefits from that is patriarchy. And if I can understand that then I can be like let me target patriarchy. Let me... And like I, I'm very lucky that I came across the work of Grace Lee Boggs where she really is like: Transform yourself to transform the world. And this is something I say probably every day of my life. There's some place or some way in which I say this to someone else or to myself. So I was like oh Where is patriarchy in my own practice? Where is patriarchy is showing up in how I'm approaching a relationship? And some of the interesting places were how quickly I would be dishonest for the sake of connection. And I say connection in quotation marks there, right? That I was like Well I don't want to be alone and, like, being alone is a sign of someone who's not a good person or whatever. Right? You have to be like with someone to be like a part of the human experiment or whatever. First you know, that that is...  I no longer believe that, but like you know. But at the time I just like, ok, I don't want to be alone. So I would go out on a date or someone, you know, I feel like I was I feel like I came up like right at the end of dating, also. So it's like right at the end of like when you would actually say, "Let's go on a date to a place and get to know each other." For maybe three or four times we would do that before we are actually alone in either of our places. And you know something else would happen right. I'm like I come from what feels like almost a chaste time before the apps kind of popped off into, just your place or mine. Like what's good? You know? And I talk about apps as if I know what I'm talking about I've never really used that apps to, that's just not how I meet people. But, but, I know that the majority of people in my life that's now how people connect. But so you go out and you're having these initial conversations and my practice was to just kind of listen for what I thought the other person really wanted to hear and then delivered that somehow. And you know, I grew up as a military brat. I moved like roughly every two years, so you get really good at figuring out like what is the, what are the rules here, and how do I adapt to be safe within them? And it can be hard when you get good at that to also be like. And then what is what is fundamental to me like what is the me that I'm also carrying to each place that needs to adapt? And the same thing in dating like what is the me that's showing up? And like might adapt in some relationship but like why am I rushing to not just adapt, but like completely contort into something? Why am I so desperate for being in relationship that I won't even be there? Like I wanted it to be me that shows that. Yeah. So I feel like I had rounds and rounds of that and it never worked. I kept having this heartbreak, that was really almost never about the other person. But it was about facing how much I had contorted to get in the door, and then how little I actually wanted to be inside that house, right?  Neil Sattin: Yeah, yeah.  adrienne maree brown: Whatever house it was. And so, I feel like I took...  Neil Sattin: Which by the way is a super common problem that people have.  adrienne maree brown: It's every, it's everywhere. You know when, I do a bunch of you know like you said coaching and mediation and stuff like that, and I find like that is the number one thing. That's the number one thing is that people are like you're just not who you've said were.  Neil Sattin: Right.  adrienne maree brown: And how could you not be who you said you were? And how could you not uphold the promises that you made? And it's just like I was lying. I was, I wasn't even there. Like I don't even know I'm sorry. You know.  Neil Sattin: Right. And then there's that additional layer of oh wait a minute. Now we also have to deal with your shame around who you... around your truth. yeah.  adrienne maree brown: Exactly. And it's the shame and the still absence of yourself. Right? So, so often. Now I've been doing a lot of support for people who are in their mid 30s to 50s and a lot of the folks I'm supporting are going through major breakups of fundamental relationships. And it's interesting because they're like who am I? Like, who am I? You know like so much was defined in relationship to this other person? And that's how so many people get trained to become themselves. It's like now, now I'm ugly, I'm half of something, and now that's who I am. And so much of the work is being like; "You're a whole something. You're a whole something." And I think the thing I'm always watching out for is not to send people all the way to the other side of the pendulum, right.:To me the personal is political only as it relates to being part of a collective effort to be political about what is personal, right? So I feel like this is you know someone was asking me I did an interview yesterday, and they're like what about the GOOP, like what about the like white women taking bathes, or whatever. And I was just like "Yeah. Like you know that so much of self care is about that. It's like white people with privilege go off to the spa and that's when you know, often, I mention to people they're like, I'm not about all that, you know? And I'm just like, "Yeah I I don't think that that's political, necessarily, either right?" I think it becomes political in relationship to your identity. I think it becomes political in relationship to the community you're a part of and how you're making sure that everyone has access to the beautiful good parts of life, right? And so you know I'm part of a community. I'm part of many communities. And there's a particular community I call the goddesses. And it's a bunch of women, we all went to school together. Right now everyone's like slaying dragons in all these different fields of life, and we have started to really, like, have each other's backs and hold each other down in a way that like we didn't know how to necessarily do back then. Right. But we've rediscovered each other and been like we need to like all you know like how about half of us, half of the people are moms. And so it's like we need to go places where like everyone here gets to relax and be taken care of. That we get to be part of something that's close knit and intimate, but that we get to have massages or we get to be in a hot tub or we get to you know just cook for each other or take each other out to the best places we can find to eat. And like, there's so many small pleasures that feel really important, like it wouldn't be great for me if I was just like I'm over here living my best life and all my sisters were out here struggling. Like, I don't think that that's a way towards freedom, right? For me it's very important that as I have access, I increase access for everyone else and I particularly increase access for those who have less access than me. Like that to me as part of the political commitment I'm in for my lifetime.: Neil Sattin: Yeah.  adrienne maree brown: Yeah.  Neil Sattin: Yeah. There's... I'm just thinking here about the, uh, the commodification of self care and I think that's part of what you're talking about, right? Is that like...  adrienne maree brown: Yes. Capitalism! Neil Sattin: You actually have to... Yeah. There it is again. There it is again. adrienne maree brown: it's always there. Yeah.  Neil Sattin: One thing that popped up for me when you were talking about structures and like, I would never get married! And you know and then and then that sense of like well OK. It's just the system and who does it benefit and maybe there's a time and a place. What popped up for me was this question around the dance between safety and I think it was because you mentioned, you know, when going out on a date, like part of what's happening there is deciding, Am I safe with this person?  adrienne maree brown: Exactly. Yeah.  Neil Sattin: And. And then that because safety is right up there with connection in terms of something that we, that we require in order to function as humans. That's right. So and that's interesting as you start pulling apart the structures because one thing that marriage can be really good at...  adrienne maree brown: Is safety.  Neil Sattin: ...is supporting safety. Exactly. And so how do you start to loosen those tethers in a way that still supports people being held. Because if you're not feeling safe, you're not growing in a way that's probably generative for you you're just like scrambling back to safety for the most part.  adrienne maree brown: That's right. You know I think I love this question, Neil. I think this is like, this is an essential one. To me it's like, OK how do we balance these things. And a couple of thoughts leap to mind. One is that I think people feel like they have to choose between safety and like, being their whole selves or being their, being in their dignity, like all of it. And that first part, that feels like it's not true. Right, I'm like that's part of the lie that we've been told is that you have to choose. So you can either be safe in a marriage where you don't get to be fully realized as yourself or you can be fully realized as yourself. But like, you know, without that stability and I've seen it, I've seen the case more often than not be that you find that deep safety within yourself. It's a feeling not a story that you're telling about your life, right. Or a projection you're giving for someone else but it's actually like some, a felt sense, like I feel it in my life. Most of my life now, I feel safe right? And I can feel when that changes. Like sometimes I'll be in a space where there's just too many people, too much energy, something's off, you know? And I can feel it and it heightens my senses, it heightens my awareness, it makes me pay attention to what's happening around me. But then I think something like marriage, it's that kind of commitment, what I see so often happening is that people get into it and then they're like, "This isn't the safety that I thought it was going to be," right? Maybe it is for the first month or the first year or even until the first child or whatever, you know. But then there's some moment where that falls away because what you, what you thought you had, was like, I know you and you know me. And what's really happening is you're changing and I'm also changing and so I've officiated a few weddings and one of things that's been exciting is that the people asked me to officiate are like we want to commit to changing together, right. That to me is the kind of commitment that I can get behind where people are like I know this person again and I'm not going to change but I'm so curious about who they are and who they will become and I want to be there for that ride. And so it's not about marriage as entrapment and like catching you into one single identity, or any relationship, because now I'm like, you know I had to get married to be trying to trap someone in your web and I really like the model which I'm sure you've heard of of relationship anarchy. I don't think anything is perfect perfect thing that I really like it because so much of it is like, you know safety. You know, I think you were talking about with safety to me so much of that is rooted in trust.  Neil Sattin: Mm hmm.  adrienne maree brown: Right. It's like, Oh I trust that you're gonna do what you say you do. You say you're gonna do. And I trust that I can tell you my truth or whatever it is. And in relationship anarchy, which I think is like someone in Sweden, Andie Nordgren or something like that.  Neil Sattin: Yeah I forget.  adrienne maree brown: Yeah I have to go look at her name but there's you can look a bit like a "relationship anarchy manifesto." Right. And I love it because it's like trust is something that we build together over time, and like we start out with a default of trust like rather than starting out with the default of like, you've got it, you know like your trust is at zero and you have to like somehow bring it up to a hundred and never let your stuff like, never fuck up like never ever break my trust in anyway, or I'm gonna hold that against you for the rest of time. And I'm like instead you start from a place of like I have an abundant sense of trust for like my place in the world, for what I'm up to in the world, for like the work that I'm here to do, my purpose and then I meet you. And I'm just gonna offer you trust as a human being and what I am counting on is that if you break my trust, then we'll figure out how to recover together. Right? And sometimes that breaking of trust might be, we're not supposed to recover together. You know, like we're sometimes, the breaking of trust will expose something like, you're more committed to... uh... Like I see this happen sometimes where people are like in an open relationship, but still do cheating type behaviors. And I'm like, Oh, OK like great. That's good information, right? Like you're still very committed to a certain kind of secrecy. Maybe that's what turns you on is the forbidden. Something along those lines. And that's not compatible, right, with the kind of relationship that I'm trying to build or whatever kind of relationship this person is trying to build. And so I get really excited about stuff like that, because I like then you in a, you know, then it's like we just got clear about it and like we can trust each other to take the step back and transition into some other form of relationship. Versus, I think what happens now which is like, I offered you a false trust that you could never live up to that I was waiting for you to somehow live up to, you broke it and now I don't, I never want to see your face again. Right? Like you let me down so thoroughly, that I just I don't even want you to exist and I'm like I don't think we have enough people for that way of being with each other. Right? That we can just keep being like if you're not perfect, perfectly trustworthy then I kick you out of my community forever. And I say that you know the same thing you said is that you learn some of this from causing harm. And I'm like I learned from breaking people's trust. Right?  Neil Sattin: Yeah.  adrienne maree brown: There are people who I love and care about and I, I broke their trust and I have, I've had to do like a lot of work, a lot of work around like, Am I a trustworthy person? If the answer is No. How would I become a trustworthy person? Right. And again so much of that initial line of inquiry was just like about other people. Like how can I let them know how can I show how can I prove that I'm trustworthy? And of course the answer is I have to be trustworthy. Like I have to be able to feel in myself. And I'll tell you I'll tell you a little example of this.  Neil Sattin: Sure.  adrienne maree brown: I was in the airport like last week and I was running through and a lot had been happening and I went and sat down on a bench and there was this coat next to me and I asked around like, "Hey anybody is this your coat." And everybody was like no, you know whoever this coat is they just left this coat here. There's no bag there's nothing else around it. So I let it sit there for a little while and then I'm like Oh the nice coat. It's a nice coat. And so I picked it up to look at it and it's like a designer coat and it happens to be my size, right? So I'm like, This is a very nice gorgeous designer coat that someone just left here on this bench and like who knows if they're ever going to make it back, right?  Neil Sattin: For you!  adrienne maree brown: But, that, yeah part of my brain was like a gift from the universe! And I was like. And I picked it up and I looked at it and was like that would not be a trustworthy behavior to just take this coat and move on with life. Right. Like there's a chance that that person is still in this airport and that they're like running back here to get their very expensive, nice coat. Right? Or and, right. They'll call Delta. Like do you know where my coat is? Or whatever it is. So I took it over to the, um, you know where they check you in for the plane. I took it over to one of the guys there and I was like this was left over there. They're like, oh my goodness. You know like that's so sweet, you know. And it was just like, I felt the burden lift off my system that I'm like oh I was about to really just take someone's coat. But I didn't. And it is a small thing, like it's a really small thing that like no one would have known if I had done the wrong thing...  Neil Sattin: Except you.  adrienne maree brown: But I would have known. And like trying to get to that place in my life where like I don't make the mistake because it would hurt my integrity and my wholeness and my dignity outside of anyone else's. And even if I know it, that creates a shadow. Like how do I turned to my lover and tell this story? How do I walk into a room where I'm offering people, like let's be trustworthy people, and I'm standing there in a coat that I stole from some poor stranger, right? So to me it's that. It's like is my relationship with myself intact? And then from that place can I be in contact with another person and say, now this is intact? And if it gets harmed I commit to helping us get to intactness and sometimes that looks like a boundary. I keep repeating these words my friend, Prentis Hemphill, made this, made this, had this thought last week and then spread it all over the world basically, but its boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me, simultaneously.  Neil Sattin: Mm hmm. I love that.  adrienne maree brown: And I keep thinking about that that I'm like sometimes... Right? Isn't it beautiful. And sometimes it's like that. It's like sometimes in tactness is at a great distance. It's like we're good as long as you're two thousand miles away from me. We're fine. It's good. Like don't cross that boundary and it's all good.  Neil Sattin: Right.  adrienne maree brown: And so I think about that I'm like, you know that's one of the things I talk about in "Pleasure Activism" is like our "No,"  makes a way for our "Yes." Like the good boundaries are actually so crucial for the good relationships.  Neil Sattin: Yeah. What seems contained too, and what you're offering, is the necessity for healing, like, to recognize like, OK if we're not in right relationship we're all each on a healing journey to getting there.  adrienne maree brown: Yes.  Neil Sattin: It's probably rare, the person who's learned, who's reached their 30s or 40s or more, you know, and hasn't experience some sort of disruption of their integrity.  adrienne maree brown: That's right.  Neil Sattin: So there's the healing component. There's also the compassion component. Like if I, if I expect you to be perfect and you fail me, and then that becomes this huge breach, then that's a much different problem than I'm trusting you. And I'm also wanting you. Like I'm, I'm willing to be okay with where you and I aren't perfect as long as we can be in full disclosure about that together.  adrienne maree brown: Yeah. That's right.  Neil Sattin: That's the honesty piece.  adrienne maree brown: I like that. I like that. I feel like that', you know, because I also think about this. Like for people who are like, "Oh no you know I'm sure they're someone's not me I'm good. You know like I know what you're talking about. I don't lie to myself or whatever." Or like, so often the people who seem to be, who have it all together, who have it altogether. Are are in some ways damaging themselves the most like I feel like now I have stopped doing to myself the harm of trying to pretend I am perfect, right?  Neil Sattin: Yeah.  adrienne maree brown: And I see it. I mean I feel like that you know when people watch Beyonce's Homecoming, right? Like what was intriguing to me is that she was like I was pushing for perfection and it meant having to like learn all the stuff that I would never do this again. It wasn't perfect it was actually too much that I harmed myself. And but, I pulled this off, but I harmed myself and didn't... Like, there's even stuff like that. Right? I'm like, "Yeah, what are you denying of yourself. That's where you're creating a prison, right, for yourself. You're containing that part of you that wants to be alive and free and moving around. And I'll say I'm part of the generative somatics teaching body. And for me, Somatics has been the healing pathway that has opened so much. And there's a really beautiful episode of The Healing Justice podcast, that has a woman named Sumitra on it, as it was that, they basically the Healing Justice podcast, they do an offer and then they do a practice to follow up on that. And so it's a 30 minute practice something less than that but it's basically this, the core practice of Somatics which is just centering learning how to actually drop into your body and feel and center in real time. And the idea is that you don't center to feel calm or better you center to feel more. that if you can feel more...  Neil Sattin: Yeah. To feel what is.  : That if you can feel more, feel what is and feel more of it then you start to have actual agency in real time over the choices you make, over the connections you move towards, over the connections you can start to set real boundaries around, like I can feel when someone is not a good energy to have around me, right. That doesn't mean they don't deserve to have people around them. But it's not going to happen here, right.  Neil Sattin: Right.  adrienne maree brown: I'm gonna move towards those people who are like the right energy for me for, for me growing them. And for them growing me. Yeah. Yeah. So I want to offer that because when it comes to healing, I think it helps to be fairly tangible. Like, there's, there's some you know, I feel like that for me. Like I went to talk therapy for a decade or whateve, right? And I've been able to move so much more through being able to feel, because I feel like talk therapy I was still able to stay in my head and tell my stories and tell my lies. And like you know you know, you can do it if your therapist has to be on to you just move on to the next one like, here's my, here's my story, right, or whatever it is. And I just think there's something so beautiful about dropping in and being like I'm feeling, I'm in a community of people who hold me accountable to being able to feel myself. And even now like I've been touring this book I land in a new city, and I run into someone who's also a Somatic practitioner and they hold me and they're like Are you good? Are you centering? Are you good? How are you feeling? You know and I know that they really care and they want to know. And in that moment I can feel the connection and my aliveness just expand.  Neil Sattin: So important.  adrienne maree brown: Yeah.  Neil Sattin: adrienne maree brown thank you so much for your words today for joining us. I know we could talk for easy another hour. You don't have the time, at least not today. Hopefully we can chat again at some point. That would be special.  adrienne maree brown: Yay. Thank you so much for having me on. I really appreciate being a guest on the show and I hope it's of use to people.  Neil Sattin: It is my pleasure and I just want to encourage everyone who's listening to check out all your work but especially your latest book: Pleasure Activism, Emergent Strategy. They're both written with such care and and I really felt them speaking to me and my unfolding and I know it would be a gift to any reader who's here with us. And it feels like a fun footnote that the friend that I met who introduced me to you and your work.  adrienne maree brown: Yeah.  Neil Sattin: We were actually both attending a somatic experiencing workshop with Peter Levine.  adrienne maree brown: Yay. That's awesome! Neil Sattin: So I love how it came back into Somatics here at the end.  adrienne maree brown: Full circle.  Neil Sattin: So far so important to find that truth of who you are and your experience in your body in this moment, and so much aliveness comes from there.  Neil Sattin: Thank you Neil.  adrienne maree brown: adrienne, if people want to find out more about your work, what can they do?  adrienne maree brown: They can go to the website: allied-media-dot-org-slash-ESII. That's where you can get trainings, workshop, stuff like that. And then I'm on Instagram  @adriennemareebrown, and I, that's where I mostly post things into the world.  Neil Sattin: Great. Well we will make sure there are links in all our stuff. And thank you so much for being with us today. And with me.  adrienne maree brown: Thank you. Have a good one.  Neil Sattin: Take care, adrienne.  adrienne maree brown: All right. Peace.  Neil Sattin: Same to you.  Neil Sattin: And just as a reminder if you want a detailed transcript of today's episode, you can get that by visiting Neil-Sattin-dot-com-slash-AMB, adrienne maree brown, or you can text the word passion to the number of 3 3 4 4 4 and follow the instructions. And we will have links to everything that we mentioned here in today's episode as well as to The Healing Justice I think is what adrienne said the The Healing Justice podcast episode that she mentioned, as a gift for you.  Neil Sattin: All right, take care.   

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In this episode of Daily Dose, Snigdha Sharma brings you stories from Andhra Pradesh, Tripura, Jammu & Kashmir and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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How two activists conquered the world.

Welcome to our first-ever LIVE SHOW, coming at you from our first birthday party! We are joined by Kate Werning, Jillian White, Sumitra Rajkumar (of episode 12), Alexis Francisco (of episode 33), The Peace Poets (of episode 23) with Dr. Drum, and 150 of our celebrating friends in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. We enjoyed powerful music with The Peace Poets and Dr. Drum, talked about how healing is moving for us in our organizing work, and celebrated the amazing things this broader community has moved in the world this past year. We also talked about our dreams to continue this powerful project, including Jillian joining the team as our Producer, and bringing in movement partners as regular correspondents to share the voice and content curation on the show. We need a lot of help to make that sustainable and possible. Can you help us get there?  Donate to help us make it to season 2 on our Facebook fundraiser here: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjpgive Check out the gorgeous livestream on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/healingjusticepodcast And photos from the night on our Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/healingjustice ----------- Thank you to to the teams who made this party possible! Our planning & hosting team: Kirin Kanakkanatt, Parke Ballantine, Nadia Tykulsker, and JD Davids. Our amazing volunteers: Michelle Ling, Sophie Lasoff, Christina Shiroma, Sophia Holly, Thais Marques, Tom Corcoran, Josiah Werning, Krissan Pattugalan, Jana Lynne Umipig, Adrienne Haddaway, Joey Dosik, Danielle Pomorski, Melanie Berkowitz, and Tasha Amezcua. Our sound team: Anne Pope and Myra Al-Rahim for your work live at the show, and Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for mastering the episode. Our brilliant guests: Sumitra Rajkumar, Alexis Francisco, the Peace Poets (RAM 3, Frankie 4, Lu Aya, The Last Emcee), and Dr. Drum. ----------- And a BIG thank you to our sponsors of the party: Third Wave Fund, Pierce Delahunt, Beth Jacobs, Maura Bailey, and Hallie Boas. ----------- Join our email list & stay in touch at http://www.healingjustice.org

This week, we’re listening in as a brilliant crew from generative somatics has a powerful conversation about trauma, oppression, healing and organizing for structural change. They dig into the connections between personal, collective and structural transformation, and between healing and building collective power. They also explore the term Healing Justice and ask: what does embodied healing have to do with creating liberation? For this week’s practice, we recommend you dive back into the Healing Justice Podcast archives and listen to Practice 12: Somatic Centering with Sumitra Rajkumar. Sumitra is also part of the teaching body for generative somatics, and the practice she shares is one of the core practices in gs methodology. ✨ PODCAST NEWS: LET US KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS ✨ Will you let us know what you’ve loved, what you want more of, how you’ve used the practices, and how you want to show up in this community? As we head into a summer break for discernment and planning, we want to shape season 2 based on your input! Click here to take the survey and let us know your thoughts: https://goo.gl/forms/ykXYxg0iFq6pUxBF3 --- FURTHER RESOURCES FROM GS: Article: What is Politicized Somatics? Snapshot of generative somatics (gs) programs and growth (2018) 2018-2020 gs Strategic Priorities: Video, Summary Webinar: Why Somatics: Conversation and Practice with Movement Leaders (12/12/17) Webinar: Somatics in the Time of Trump: A National Conversation & Practice Group (3/28/17) gs Practitioners Network (gsPN) information Donate to generative somatics for the sake of making their programs accessible to innovative movement leaders, to poor and working class communities, and to communities of color. To donate, click here: https://generative-somatics.networkforgood.com/projects/46334-donate-to-generative-somatics-gs-2018 To find out more about gs, visit: www.generativesomatics.org --- ABOUT OUR GUESTS adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit. She is on the teaching bodies of generative somatics and Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity. adrienne can also be heard on episode 10 of Healing Justice Podcast. Prentis Hemphill is a healer, Somatics practitioner, teacher, writer and organizer who works at the intersections of healing and justice. As the former Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter, Prentis committed to supporting and nurturing the brilliant strategies of organizers and healers to address trauma, move through conflict and center wholeness in the BLM network and in the broader movement for Black freedom and liberation. Prentis can also be heard on episode 13 of Healing Justice Podcast. Spenta Kandawalla is a co-founder of generative somatics (gs).  She is an auntie, acupuncturist and herbalist, generative somatics teacher, and member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). Over the past 13 years, Spenta has been studying, teaching, and growing generative somatics work for organizers, movement builders and healers across the country. Staci K. Haines is a co-founder and the Executive Director of generative somatics, where she integrates trauma and healing and a systemic analysis of power. Staci is also a founder of generationFIVE, which has the mission to end the sexual abuse of children within 5 generations, and  is the author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (Cleis 1999, 2007). --- JOIN THE COMMUNITY: In 2 weeks we are beginning a summer break for reflection, restructuring, fundraising, and discernment. To stay in touch, make sure to join our email list at http://www.healingjustice.org    Social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter   This podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice (and consider joining at $8/month or above to sponsor a gift for one of our brilliant guests or volunteers!). You can also give a one time gift here https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb Please leave a positive rating & review in whatever app you are listening - it all makes a difference! THANK YOU to all our production volunteers:Producer: Janvieve Williams ComrieMusic: Oakland-based collective Mass BassMixing by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienCoordination & communications by Danielle Feris

We celebrate the life  and mourn the death of longtime activist and friend of Downtown Disciples Donna Red Wing. In her honor, we offer this rebroadcast of a conversation between Donna, her wife Sumitra, and friend Mary Dyer following our screening of Proposition 9 hosted by Downtown Disciples last year. 

This week's practice is a Somatic Centering practice that can be done anywhere, alone or in a group… and is one of the most fundamental building block tools of somatics, helping you to presence yourself fully in your life and in your work. You’ll need a place you can focus, and no supplies other than yourself for this practice. It can be done alone or in a group. Download the corresponding conversation with Sumitra Rajkumar via episode 12, titled "Somatics & Politics" to learn more. We discuss what somatics is, the meaning (and common misinterpretation and misuse) of the concepts of trauma and trigger, the reality of this political moment, and holding the seeming contradictions of organizing, healing, head, and heart.   ABOUT OUR GUEST: SUMITRA RAJKUMAR After twenty years of political education and youth-led documentary work, Sumitra is now a somatics practitioner and teacher under the auspices of generative somatics. She coaches organizers and cultural workers to address the impact of trauma in their lives and step into leadership and collective action.  Sumitra works with organized groups to hone shared values and purpose, process conflict and trust their power to move society towards justice.  She believes in the creative, emotional and intellectual capacities of human beings to become agents of radical, interdependent social movements. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and is working on her first novel.     JOIN THE COMMUNITY Sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org  Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOUMixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

Today we’re talking with Sumitra Rajkumar. We discuss what somatics is, the meaning (and common misinterpretation and misuse) of the concepts of trauma and trigger, the reality of this political moment, and holding the seeming contradictions of organizing, healing, head, and heart.   ABOUT OUR GUEST: SUMITRA RAJKUMAR After twenty years of political education and youth-led documentary work, Sumitra is now a somatics practitioner and teacher under the auspices of generative somatics. She coaches organizers and cultural workers to address the impact of trauma in their lives and step into leadership and collective action.  Sumitra works with organized groups to hone shared values and purpose, process conflict and trust their power to move society towards justice.  She believes in the creative, emotional and intellectual capacities of human beings to become agents of radical, interdependent social movements. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and is working on her first novel.   PRACTICE Download the corresponding practice to hear Sumitra guide you through a Somatic Centering practice that can be done anywhere, alone or in a group… and is one of the most fundamental building block tools of somatics, helping you to presence yourself fully in your life and in your work. You’ll need a place you can focus, and no supplies other than yourself for this practice. It can be done alone or in a group.   FURTHER RESOURCES Generative Somatics website The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk Genome by Matt Ridley The Physiology of Racist and Sexist Oppression by Shannon Sullivan Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine Healing Sex by Staci Haines The Anatomy of Change by Richard Strozzi Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman The Feeling of What Happens by Anthony Damasio Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert And hey… the poem that talks about the “soft animal of the body” IS by Mary Oliver! It’s Wild Geese.    JOIN THE COMMUNITY Sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOUMixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

Earlier this year Downtown Disciples held a film screening and discussion of Ballot Measure 9, a documentary about the 1992 ballot initiative that would have revoked and prevented civil rights protections for LGBTQ Oregonians. This episode features the post-film discussion with activists Sumitra and Donna Red Wing and Mary Dyer, all of whom were involved during the 1992 No-on-9 campaign.

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To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: REENIE - Nothing I Wouldn't Do Gloria Gardner - Say it to Me Now Echo Wants Her Voice Back - Gone For Good Sumitra - I Don't Mind Love To Give Martha Groves Perry - Leave It Alone Jenny Van Alstyne - Let Love Carry Us SALIO - Another Road For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor ESP Evoluition at: Visit our Sponsor Donna Hotz at:

Sumitra ist ein Sanskritwort und bedeutet guter Freund. Su bedeutet gut. Mitra bedeutet Freund. In Mitra steckt auch Maitri, Liebe, Mitgefühl. Sumitra ist also ein guter Freund, jemand, mit dem man in Liebe und Mitgefühl verbunden ist. Im Yoga Vidya Wiki findest du einen umfangreichen Artikel zu Sumitra, mit vielen Erläuterungen, weiterführenden Links, das Wort … „Sumitra – Guter Freund – Sanskrit Audio Wörterbuch“ weiterlesen

Worte ueber Sumitra. Lesung und Kommentar von Sukadev Bretz, Gründer und Leiter von Yoga Vidya. http://www.yoga-vidya.de

Zum Yoga Vidya Übungssystem gehören auch Mantras. Wenn du zum ersten Mal in einen Yoga Vidya Ashram oder Center gekommen bist, wird dir sicherlich aufgefallen sein, wie häufig Mantras gesungen und rezitiert werden. Wir grüßen uns mit Om oder Hari Om oder Om Namah Shivaya. Jede Yogastunde beginnt und endet mit Om und Mantra – und oft genug gibt es auch während der Yogastunden das ein oder andere Mantra. Die Satsangs beginnen mit Mantras, sie enthalten Mantra-Gesänge und Rezitationen. Insbesondere in den Ashrams gibt es auch tägliche regelmäßige, wochentags-abhängige und besondere Mantra-Rezitationen. Manchmal gibt es den ganzen Tag oder gar eine Woche Rezitation eines Mantras. Es gibt tägliche Rituale wie Puja und Homas, bei denen Mantras rezitiert werden. In den Yoga Vidya Zentren und Ashrams gibt es Mantra Konzerte, Mantra Seminare, Mantra Workshops, Mantralehrer Ausbildungen und Weiterbildungen. Die populärste Meditationstechniken bei Yoga Vidya enthalten die Rezitation eines Mantras. Und bei Yoga Vidya gibt es auch Mantra-Weihen. Woher stammen all diese Mantras? Wer hat sie so festgelegt? Was ist änderbar, anpassbar, was liegt fest? Grundlage wie bei allem was Sukadev lehrt, ist das was er bei Swami Vishnu-devananda gelernt hat, und was Swami Vishnu-devananda bei Swami Sivananda gelernt hat. Dazu gehören die Satsang Mantras, also das Jaya Ganesha, das Om Tryambakam und das Arati. Die Mantras, die typischerweise am Anfang und am Ende der Yogastunden rezitiert werden, hat Sukadev auch von Swami Vishnu-devananda bzw. seinen Schülern gelernt. Sukadev und andere Yoga Vidyaner sind seit 1992 regelmäßig in den Sivananda Ashram Rishikesh gefahren. Dort haben sie andere Mantras und Rezitationen kennengelernt, die z.B. Eingang in das tägliche Stotrasingen im Homa Raum in Bad Meinberg gefunden haben. Shri Karthikeyan hat einige Rezitationen bei Yoga Vidya populär gemacht, z.B. das Krishna Krishna Mantra und die Surya Mantras. Sumitra hat die Yajna und Homa Mantras eingeführt sowie das Mahavidya Mantra. Und immer wieder haben Yoga Aspiranten Kirtans und Mantras aus anderen Traditionen eingeführt. So manifestiert sich göttlicher Segen auch und besonders immer wieder in diesen und durch diese wunderbare Mantras. Auch hier wieder das Yoga Vidya Prinzip: Ein Grundgerüst von Mantras, die täglich rezitiert werden, auf deren Grundlage dann andere Mantras integriert werden können. Mehr zu Mantras auf http://www.yoga-vidya.de/Yoga--Artikel/Mantras.html . Den Samstagabend Satsang bei Yoga Vidya kannst du nachverfolgen auf http://mein.yoga-vidya.de/page/yoga-vidya-satsang. Mantra Seminare auf https://www.yoga-vidya.de/seminare/interessengebiet/mantras-und-musik.html. Mantra Videos auf http://mein.yoga-vidya.de/video/video/listTagged?tag=vidya-mantras. Mantras als kostenlose mp3 Audios zum Anhören und Runterladen http://www.yoga-vidya.de/de/service/blog/category/podcast/mantra/. Dies ist die 57. Ausgabe des Yoga Vidya Lebensgemeinschafts-Podcasts, des Podcasts rund um die Yoga Vidya Lebensgemeinschaft http://www.yoga-vidya.de/gemeinschaft/Lebensgemeinschaft.html. Momentan sind wir bei der Entstehung der Yogatechniken, die bei Yoga Vidya gelehrt werden. Dies ist der erste Teil einer neuen Reihe, nämlich die Mantras bei Yoga Vidya.

Zum Yoga Vidya Übungssystem gehören auch Mantras. Wenn du zum ersten Mal in einen Yoga Vidya Ashram oder Center gekommen bist, wird dir sicherlich aufgefallen sein, wie häufig Mantras gesungen und rezitiert werden. Wir grüßen uns mit Om oder Hari Om oder Om Namah Shivaya. Jede Yogastunde beginnt und endet mit Om und Mantra – und oft genug gibt es auch während der Yogastunden das ein oder andere Mantra. Die Satsangs beginnen mit Mantras, sie enthalten Mantra-Gesänge und Rezitationen. Insbesondere in den Ashrams gibt es auch tägliche regelmäßige, wochentags-abhängige und besondere Mantra-Rezitationen. Manchmal gibt es den ganzen Tag oder gar eine Woche Rezitation eines Mantras. Es gibt tägliche Rituale wie Puja und Homas, bei denen Mantras rezitiert werden. In den Yoga Vidya Zentren und Ashrams gibt es Mantra Konzerte, Mantra Seminare, Mantra Workshops, Mantralehrer Ausbildungen und Weiterbildungen. Die populärste Meditationstechniken bei Yoga Vidya enthalten die Rezitation eines Mantras. Und bei Yoga Vidya gibt es auch Mantra-Weihen. Woher stammen all diese Mantras? Wer hat sie so festgelegt? Was ist änderbar, anpassbar, was liegt fest? Grundlage wie bei allem was Sukadev lehrt, ist das was er bei Swami Vishnu-devananda gelernt hat, und was Swami Vishnu-devananda bei Swami Sivananda gelernt hat. Dazu gehören die Satsang Mantras, also das Jaya Ganesha, das Om Tryambakam und das Arati. Die Mantras, die typischerweise am Anfang und am Ende der Yogastunden rezitiert werden, hat Sukadev auch von Swami Vishnu-devananda bzw. seinen Schülern gelernt. Sukadev und andere Yoga Vidyaner sind seit 1992 regelmäßig in den Sivananda Ashram Rishikesh gefahren. Dort haben sie andere Mantras und Rezitationen kennengelernt, die z.B. Eingang in das tägliche Stotrasingen im Homa Raum in Bad Meinberg gefunden haben. Shri Karthikeyan hat einige Rezitationen bei Yoga Vidya populär gemacht, z.B. das Krishna Krishna Mantra und die Surya Mantras. Sumitra hat die Yajna und Homa Mantras eingeführt sowie das Mahavidya Mantra. Und immer wieder haben Yoga Aspiranten Kirtans und Mantras aus anderen Traditionen eingeführt. So manifestiert sich göttlicher Segen auch und besonders immer wieder in diesen und durch diese wunderbare Mantras. Auch hier wieder das Yoga Vidya Prinzip: Ein Grundgerüst von Mantras, die täglich rezitiert werden, auf deren Grundlage dann andere Mantras integriert werden können. Mehr zu Mantras auf http://www.yoga-vidya.de/Yoga--Artikel/Mantras.html . Den Samstagabend Satsang bei Yoga Vidya kannst du nachverfolgen auf http://mein.yoga-vidya.de/page/yoga-vidya-satsang. Mantra Seminare auf https://www.yoga-vidya.de/seminare/interessengebiet/mantras-und-musik.html. Mantra Videos auf http://mein.yoga-vidya.de/video/video/listTagged?tag=vidya-mantras. Mantras als kostenlose mp3 Audios zum Anhören und Runterladen http://www.yoga-vidya.de/de/service/blog/category/podcast/mantra/. Dies ist die 57. Ausgabe des Yoga Vidya Lebensgemeinschafts-Podcasts, des Podcasts rund um die Yoga Vidya Lebensgemeinschaft http://www.yoga-vidya.de/gemeinschaft/Lebensgemeinschaft.html. Momentan sind wir bei der Entstehung der Yogatechniken, die bei Yoga Vidya gelehrt werden. Dies ist der erste Teil einer neuen Reihe, nämlich die Mantras bei Yoga Vidya.

Guests: Sumitra Khandelwal, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas Sumit "Sam" Garg, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology UC Irvine Health Gavin Herbert Eye Institute Irvine, CA