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Let’s Get Off This Ride and Get Justice
All of us who are committed culture-makers need to connect the dots on injustice, and undo it in our lives, social media, and businesses.
Me and The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand. The Personal Backstory.
From 2008-2013(ish), I was performing a character and a life as a client attraction strategy because that’s what I learned to do from the online marketers.
Reinventing the Online Summit
Here’s a non-exploitative, successful, feminist model for online summits (while staying in alignment with your social justice principles!)
How To Sell Without Selling Out Your Principles
There once was a radical commercial full of righteous body diversity that seemed to be a fist in the air for equity and inclusion. It wasn’t.
The Language of Activism, Feminism and Revolution is Not For Sale
When entrepreneurs and marketers appropriate the language of activism, we devalue the sacrifice and bloody efforts of true activists and culture-changers.
You are a Person, Not a Court-Room. You Don’t Need Evidence.
If I think something is inappropriate, and I don’t want it in my life, that’s all I need to say to take action.I don’t need evidence. I need boundaries.
confessions about “calling in”
Calling In is a refinement conversation we have with people who have a documented history of doing intersectional justice work — not for people who don’t.
The Body, Stored Stress, and The Politics of Resentment
The politics of resentment isn’t about stored stress, but it is about the body. It’s about which bodies deserve rights and resources.
The Patriarchal Promise, Part 1
The Patriarchal Promise means being in the possession of an abundant livelihood, influence, respect, a beautiful subservient woman and her sexuality (or several), and a family. In your sphere, whether it be public or private, you are the authority and you are owed not only respect but deference. (Indeed, when patriarchs express distress because they don’t…
Getting Naked, Getting Paid, and Empowerment AKA It’s NOT Only About Your Intentions
Just because a woman who has what a lot of us want tells us what she does is empowering doesn’t make it so. Discerning between impact and intentions is key.
Marketing, social media and deliberate self-promotion aren’t a distraction.
They’re activities that add up to a winning and significant body of work.
They`re not a distraction from ideation. They ARE your ideas.
Here are 3 counterintuitive but KEY activities for Thought Leaders to commit to for putting their ideas out into the world, developing their body of work and moving forward in their business:
1. SOCIAL MEDIA.
It`s not *just* about getting attention. Social media can be a lab for cultivating your ideas, so put snippets of ideas out on social, every day.
2. NETWORKING.
Having conversations with interesting people -- even preaching to boring ones -- provides creative stimulus and opportunities to forge creative connections and embroider your ideas.
3. WILD IDLING.
True thought leadership & meaningful bodies of work require unstructured leisure time and “wild idling.” (h/t @LianneRaymond)
ONE MORE TIME, WITH FEELING:
Self-promotion is not a distraction from your body of work.
It’s part of how you create meaningful work that matters. It`s an idea-growing practice.
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I`m Kelly Diels, an expert on Culture Making, Thought Leadership and IP. I teach culture-making entrepreneurs & creators how to develop a substantial body of work that changes EVERYTHING – your life, your industry, our world.
#BodyOfWork #MakingAnImpact #ThoughtLeader #ContentStrategy #LevelUpYourBusiness #CreativeEntrepreneur #CreativeEntrepreneurship #IntentionalBusiness #BrandingIdentity #SocialMediaForBusiness #SocialEntrepreneur #IntellectualProperty
Apr 19
Are you wrestling with Imposter Complex? This might help. #impostersyndrome #impostercomplex #thoughtleadership #creativeentrepreneur #intellectualproperty #bodyofwork #WeAreTheCultureMakers #deepwork #slowproductivity #visibility #edwardsaid #orientalism #culturalexile #yourdifferenceisyourstrength www.kellydiels.com
Apr 18
Dear Multi-Passionate Maker,⠀
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Maybe you don`t have Shiny Object Syndrome.⠀
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Maybe you`ve been studying & practicing all of these modalities because you`re developing a rich body of work, across time.⠀
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(No maybe about it.)⠀
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Multi-passionate professionals often get told that they`re "scattered" & need to focus.⠀
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They then internalize negative messages insisting that their orientation towards lifelong learning, curiosity & creativity is a barrier to success.⠀
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IT`S NOT.⠀
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It`s how we build the deep work & creative solutions needed for these urgent times.⠀
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Often, when I work with multi-passionate professionals, it`s wildly obvious to me that they`re collecting tools, synthesizing across traditions -- and making a whole new thing! -- in order to solve complex social problems.⠀
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They`ve been gathering all.the.tools.⠀
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You know what all those tools add up to? ⠀
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A practice. A way of doing things. A framework. Your unique process.⠀
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***You have a methodology.*** ⠀
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So let`s build language for it and NAME IT, specifically.⠀
Naming your method makes it tangible AND SALEABLE.⠀
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Now it now gets a lot easier to explain it to other people...⠀
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...and becomes more obvious why they might want to work with you :)⠀
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Once you name it, you substantiate it. ⠀
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****Including to yourself.****⠀
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Now YOU can see how everything you`ve trained in has led up to this, has prepared you for this work.⠀
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Because, dear Multi-passionate Maker, you`re NOT spinning your wheels or getting distracted by shiny things.⠀
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You`re growing the solutions & institutions of the future.⠀
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Let`s make sure you`ve got the language to describe them. ⠀
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love + justice,⠀⠀
Kelly⠀
#SurfaceYourMethodology #IntellectualProperty #DeepWork #BodyOfWork #SlowProductivity #ThoughtLeadership #ThoughtLeader #MeaningfulWork #WeAreTheCultureMakers
Apr 18
I repeat:
Self-promotion is NOT a distraction from your Body of Work - it’s a lab for your thought leadership!
People often think social media is frivolous. A time-suck.
Or that marketing, networking & self-promotion take your time away from the *real* work.
But in my latest blog post, I’m sharing with you 3 surprising key activities that will add up to a SIGNIFICANT and MEANINGFUL Body of Work.
Check it out here: https://kellydiels.com/meaningful-bodies-of-work-require-base-hits
My Blog link can also be found in my bio @kelly.diels
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I`m Kelly Diels, an expert on Culture Making, Thought Leadership and IP. I teach culture-making entrepreneurs & creators how to develop a substantial body of work that changes EVERYTHING – your life, your industry, our world.⠀
#BodyOfWork #MakingAnImpact #ThoughtLeader #ContentStrategy #LevelUpYourBusiness #CreativeEntrepreneur #CreativeEntrepreneurship #IntentionalBusiness #BrandingIdentity #SocialMediaForBusiness #SocialEntrepreneur #IntellectualProperty
Apr 15
Want to learn how to write sales copy that doesn`t shame or exploit anyone?
I`ve developed a copywriting framework that teaches you exactly how to do that...
I`ve been teaching it for 5 years and it has changed lives, businesses and bank accounts.
In fact, being able to write sales copy changed my life. I wrote my way out of poverty AND no matter what project or business I want to take on, it will WORK.
Because I know how to write words that sell.
The course is FANTASTIC....
And I`m evolving and moving onto other things.
So this is the last time I will offer Copywriting for Culture Makers, EVER.
If you want to learn how to write copy that sells (without selling out your principles)...I hope the timing is lining up for you!
The last day to enrol is April 1...
...AND you`ll get a significant bonus that isn`t listed on the sales page: 45 live, drop-in group coaching sessions where you can bring your draft copy and get feedback on it.
For the rest of 2024 you have the option to drop in 3 Tuesdays a month, at 9am or 4pm PST (or both). (No meetings in July or December)
(That`s 42 group coaching sessions!!!)
PLUS in 2025 you get monthly group coaching sessions in Jan, Feb and Mar (3 total).
The cohort will wrap up March 31 2025.
If this feels like a fit for you, I encourage you to sign up for Copywriting for Culture Makers, with its MAJOR bonus, here.
(There`s a 12 month payment plan available, so you can get started for $300.)
I hope to be seeing you soon in the course!
love + justice,
Kelly Diels
https://kellydiels.com/culture-making-copywriting/
or link in bio @kelly.diels
Mar 30
