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Episode 80: About navigating conflict, with Danielle Faitelson

podcast Jul 08, 2021

Today’s episode continues to document my journey to understand the Israel-Palestine conflict. I’m so lucky to be talking with my best friend Dani, who lives in Israel, and with whom I had a disagreement last month. You may remember hearing me mention that I re-posted a meme about the Israel-Palestine conflict on Instagram and that a friend texted me saying she wanted to explain the implications of my post. That friend was Dani, and that experience was hard for us both.

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Good Morning Washington: Using Conversation Culture to Address Rainbow-Washing

press Jun 24, 2021

Watch the interview here on ABC 7 News DC.

Each June, people across the world celebrate Pride Month. Rainbow flags appear everywhere to symbolize diversity and unity among the LGBTQ+ community.

Yet increasingly during Pride each year, we're now seeing more and more major corporations turn their logos into a rainbow. Though this outward display is meant to hop on the bandwagon of solidarity, in reality many of these companies are taking...

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Episode 79: About summer solstice 2021, with Virginia Rosenberg

podcast Jun 17, 2021

Sunday June 20th is the summer solstice, and our resident astrologer Virginia Rosenberg is back on the podcast. It continues to be a time of epic proportions in the cosmos… just to start we are coming out of an eclipse season and Mercury has been in retrograde once again. If you feel like life is one big swirl, or like the stories upon which you’ve built your life aren’t relevant anymore, you’re not alone.

In fact, as Virginia shares in this episode, it’s...

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Episode 78: About peace and the Middle East, with Tracy Alexander

podcast Jun 10, 2021

Tracy Alexander was working as a news reporter in her home country, Australia when she got a call about a job in Israel. Excited for the opportunity to help shape a more conscious narrative in one of the most contentious regions of the planet, she accepted the job. But four years later Tracy found herself leaving the news altogether, disheartened by the fear that the media was perpetuating.

Now she is a meditation teacher and Integrated Alignment Coach, still living in Israel and helping...

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Episode 77: About compassion, my Jewish identity, and the Middle East, with Elissa

podcast Jun 04, 2021

Wwwaggghhhhhhh!! That is the (high-pitched) sound I am making upon releasing this very, very vulnerable episode...

As a Jewish American, the past few weeks of strife in the Middle East have brought to the surface feelings of confusion that I have never taken the time to sort through. In the wake of all of it, I find myself doing research about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that I was never willing to do before, and making stumbles along the way.

I share my story today in the spirit of...

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Episode 76: About the people who shaped you, with Eric Toda

podcast May 27, 2021

Eric Toda has an impressive resume: He is currently the Global Head of Social Marketing at Facebook. He has been a leader at Nike, Snapchat, Gap, and Airbnb. Recently he penned a viral op-ed for Ad Week imploring advocacy for the Asian American community. And also very importantly, Eric was one of the boys who attended my Bat Mitzvah in 1998.

In this very special episode of the podcast - one that holds the award for being the episode I’ve cried through most - I speak with my...

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Episode 75: About your story medicine, with Jumakae

podcast May 20, 2021

What is the story within you that needs to be told? June Kaewsith, also known as Jumakae, can help you find it. And here’s why it’s important to do that: there’s immense healing possible when we are in tune with our own stories, and also the stories of our ancestors. ‍‍‍

Stories allow a deeper level of understanding. And as Jumakae points out in this episode, so many of the things we focus on in our lives are transient. For instance, we can’t take money to...

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Episode 74: About your genuine brand voice, with Sophia Sunwoo

podcast May 13, 2021

Sophie Sunwoo is a true entrepreneur. When she was a punk-rock college kid, she got annoyed with buying band t-shirts that didn’t look good on women. So she started a business and accidentally struck gold. After exiting, she next moved into running a social impact organization fixing broken water systems in Cameroon and India.

Most recently, Sophia has become the founder of Ascent Strategy, working with women entrepreneurs to grow their start-ups. In addition to this incredible resume,...

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Episode 73: About connection, with Elissa

podcast May 06, 2021

As we’re emerging from lockdown, we’ll be experiencing a newfound sense of connection to each other after a prolonged period of disconnection. How do we navigate this? How do we find ways to more authentically connect to each other in our workplaces and beyond?

In this episode, I share a Body-Mind Centering framework that helps us understand the importance of establishing safety and comfort before we can genuinely connect to and bond with each other. We have the opportunity...

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Episode 72: About cultivating self-love, with Ko Im

podcast Apr 29, 2021

Ko Im knows self-love. She knows it because she practices it. She knows it because she writes about it. And she knows it because she’s worked hard to cultivate it.

In this episode, Ko shares how recent events affecting the AAPI community have led her to speak up and out - namely in an OpEd for Newsweek - and at the same time have required her to dig deeper than ever to access her own worthiness.

Self-love is a product of our own personal work, but it’s also a reflection of the...

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