Sidewalk Talk Podcast

 
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The second and fourth , come hear wisdom about connecting as our guests are interviewed by therapist and Sidewalk Talk founder, Traci Ruble.  When we hear each other we change the world by creating belonging, inclusion, and wellness.


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What does empathy have to do with design thinking and pipe cleaner hats?
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What does empathy have to do with design thinking and pipe cleaner hats?

Lee Kim is a design thinker, an engineer, and a community builder. She founded a community innovation lab, Design Dream Lab, where anyone with a giving heart can make an impact and dream of a better future. Lee loves building and fostering creativity through everyday experiences and finds joy in connecting dots with other fun-loving and joyful human beings.

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How to Break our Addiction To Othering with Dawn Menken
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How to Break our Addiction To Othering with Dawn Menken

Join Traci and Dawn Menken as they explore the foundations of process work and how it can help us shift out of polarization. Dawn reads the most beautiful speech she would give to the Charlottesville rioters. In this speech she overcomes her terror as a Jewish woman and models how we all can confront our addiction to “other” by speaking both ferociously and compassionately.

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Normalize Loving Conflict Everywhere with Rosa Zubizaretta
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Normalize Loving Conflict Everywhere with Rosa Zubizaretta

What would happen if helping a neighbor with a conflict was as normal as waking up in the morning? What if our companies had an ethos that conflict is not only natural but good and has a hearty system for restoring after conflict? That is what Traci and Rosa discuss as well as why we need to not start with our most difficult political rivals but make resolving conflict with those close to us our first order of business.

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Being A Sacredly Powerful Human with Julio Maria Muhorro
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Being A Sacredly Powerful Human with Julio Maria Muhorro

Join Traci in a conversation with Julio where Traci asks Julio, “How can I use my power wisely?” Julio will lay out three concrete steps you will need to take to make your use of power sacred and give you a heads-up on the big resistance you will likely meet. This is a podcast where you will likely want something to take notes with nearby.

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What this crisis manager learned from indigenous wisdom with Thomas Lahnthaler
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What this crisis manager learned from indigenous wisdom with Thomas Lahnthaler

In this episode of the Sidewalk Talk podcast, you will get an inside view of the life of a humanitarian crisis manager Thomas Lahnthaler and learn what crisis management even is. Then you will have the chance to go on a deep and soulful journey with Thomas as he experienced a new way of thinking about community care and self-responsibility while training with aboriginal leaders in Australia.

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Going to Work is an Important Source of Happiness Despite Its Bad Press with Dr. Tracy Brower
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Going to Work is an Important Source of Happiness Despite Its Bad Press with Dr. Tracy Brower

Dr. Tracy Brower is a PhD sociologist and vice president of workplace insights for Steelcase. She is the author of The Secrets to Happiness at Work and Bring Work to Life, as well as a contributor to Forbes.com and Fast Company.

Traci and Tracy sort through information on workplace happiness and how the workplace meets important needs in our lives for happiness, meaning, and belonging. Not everyone wants to be friends with their co-workers but we do get an important sense of identity and belonging from our work that cannot be overlooked.

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Seeking Wonder with Andrea Scher
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Seeking Wonder with Andrea Scher

Andrea Scher is a writer, artist and life coach whose work is driven by her belief in the transformative power of wonder for creativity and wellbeing. For nearly two decades, through her award-winning blog Superhero Journal, her international workshops, her Creative Superheroes podcast, and bestselling e-courses, she has thrilled others with their own power to find magic all around them.

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Why I don’t want to die anymore with Johnny Crowder
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Why I don’t want to die anymore with Johnny Crowder

Johnny Crowder is a suicide and abuse survivor. You've probably seen him. If you have ever doubted whether you matter (and let’s be honest, how many of us haven’t?), this episode will be a balm for you. Johnny brings rock n roll vibes, vulnerability and a wisdom beyond his years to this emotional and essential conversation.

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High Conflict (and how we get out) with Amanda Ripley
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High Conflict (and how we get out) with Amanda Ripley

Listen in as Amanda and Traci explore what High Conflict is (and how we get out) drawing on research, insights and experience across astronauts on space missions (yes, really!), the Israeli-Palestine conflict, intimate relationships across political divides, gang warfare and racism.

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Sensitive Striving with Melody Wilding
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Sensitive Striving with Melody Wilding

Listen in is as Melody Wilding and Traci Ruble take us on a tour of what it means to be a Sensitive Striver, the constellation of challenges facing sensitive people, and how the characteristics of Sensitive Strivers make them the leaders of the future.

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Being seen, just as you are with Natalie Koussa
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Being seen, just as you are with Natalie Koussa

Traci and Natalie explore how the Leadership Designs (a trauma aware way of understanding how you move through the world, show up, create and lead from your core) can support us to understand our core needs, and the vulnerabilities of letting ourselves be seen, just as we are.

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