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27 Sep

How NOT to Get Swamped by It All

Sunday Love Letter | The Meaning of Life
Welcome to your Sunday Love Letter by Kelly Diels.  I send these every...
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21 Sep

Feminist Business, Capitalism, and Money Guilt. A Cure.

Book Reviews and Mentions | Sunday Love Letter | The Meaning of Life
welcome to your Sunday Love Letter by Kelly Diels. I send these every Sunday...
Leadership
09 Mar

for when your contribution or leadership isn’t being acknowledged…

Sunday Love Letter
welcome to your Sunday Love Letter by Kelly Diels. I send these every Sunday...
What if Trashing
09 Mar

What if…Trashing is about Redistributing Power in our Community?

FB Group and Rumours | Feminist Trashing | Sunday Love Letter
Welcome to your Sunday Love Letter by Kelly Diels. I send these every Sunday...
2Social media accounts-min
09 Mar

Procrastination: 4 counterintuitive insights that might help you feel a LOT better about yourself

Sunday Love Letter
welcome to your Sunday Love Letter by Kelly Diels. I send these every...
2Culture making =-min
12 Jan

Clear The Way! (A Culture-Making Tool.)

Sunday Love Letter | We Are The Culture Makers
This is your Sunday Love Letter. Before we get started, here's what I recently published...

Every week, I send you a

Sunday Love Letter

I write them so that…

  1. You remember your culture-making power
  2. You have the inspiration + tools you need to grow a business that generates money AND justice

Let’s create a future in which we all flourish.

Are you in?
Lover Letter
18 Aug

teeth. time. zooming out. POWER.

Sunday Love Letter | Time is a Feminist Issue | We Are The Culture Makers
welcome to The Sunday Love Letter! Here's what I published recently on www.kellydiels.com:...
For me, copywriting
05 Aug

For Me, Copywriting Equals Livelihood and Power (And I Trust You With Power and Resources)

Feminist Marketing Tools | Sunday Love Letter | The Meaning of Life
Photo by Anastasia Chomlack Copywriting is Power-building In 2008,...
Love Letters
21 Jul

What if Shame is Actually Good Information…That You Can Use to Get Free?

Sunday Love Letter | We Are The Culture Makers
before we get started, here's what I've got going on for you at...
Love Letters
14 Jul

a round-up of Culture Makers I’m following and reading and LOVING

Sunday Love Letter | We Are The Culture Makers
before we get started, here's what I've got going on for you at...
Love Letters
30 Jun

What changes people?

Sunday Love Letter
before we get started, here's what I've got going on for you at...
Feminist Marketing Tools
24 Jun

Feminist Marketing Tool #624: CAUTION: how your feminist efforts get leveraged and EXPLOITED to grow the platforms of our opponents

Sunday Love Letter
Hello, * [Sometimes your Sunday Love Letter comes on a Monday 🙂 ]...
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Every week, I send you a

Sunday Love Letter

I write them so that…

  1. You remember your culture-making power
  2. You have the inspiration + tools you need to grow a business that generates money AND justice

Let’s create a future in which we all flourish.

Are you in?

kelly.diels

Sometimes, the greatest culture making we do is ...

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Jan 18

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Sometimes, the greatest culture making we do is never 'out there' for the whole world to see.⁠ ⁠ Last January, a person I almost married reached out after more than 13 years of radio silence (he literally ghosted on our engagement) to apologize for his f*ckboi ways. He'd been doing personal spiritual work to decolonize his soul, and he felt called to make amends. I think he also had the intention of releasing me from any thoughts that what happened was my fault.⁠ ⁠ This January, something similar happened with someone I've been estranged from for 5 years. The amount of bravery it took to reach out to me was COLLOSSAL. I don't know the backstory but I'm willing to bet this act of courage was the result of massive inner healing.⁠ ⁠ The wild thing about both of these reach-outs was that each followed on the heels of specific coaching or therapy I'd been doing to free myself of needing them to do something in order for me...to be me.⁠ ⁠ (Also...there's something about January that is NOT awful, if we're doing things like this with each other.)⁠ ⁠ I've been doing that work myself. I've been confronting my own demons and looking in the mirror, and sometimes had to grieve what I saw there. I've been grappling with all the ways *I* was the villain in someone else's story. ⁠ ⁠ My hope is that this brutal, healing work grows me & gives me peace. I hope it helps me have deeper, more consistent relationships. And I hope that it helps me show up even more lovingly and present for my children, and that they carry that forward into their lives, their relationships and maybe even their children one day.⁠ ⁠ That's culture making.⁠ ⁠ None of that will ever be a feature length film, or see a stage, or be on a NY Times Best Seller List. It's not going to go viral.⁠ ⁠ But it's how spread the seeds for a future in which we all flourish. We heal wounds. We heal each other. We move in courage and love.⁠ ⁠ Personal love is justice work, too.⁠ ⁠ And it's never too late to start over.⁠ ⁠ I'm starting the New Year over, in fact! The first 17 days were a blur. So let's begin again, better.⁠ ⁠ love + justice,⁠ Kelly⁠ ⁠ #WeAreTheCultureMakers⁠

kelly.diels

There's a reason I included WEEKLY live, ...

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Jan 3

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There's a reason I included WEEKLY live, guided meditations in We Are The Culture Makers 2022 and it's this: ⁠ ⁠ In order to really know something, in our bones, it can't ONLY come from one direction. ⁠ ⁠ We need to pick up the signals from many sources. We've got to receive the messages via our heads, our hearts, our bodies and our spirits.⁠ ⁠ ***⁠ We deserve to feel calm. We deserve to feel relief from anxiety and stress. ⁠ ⁠ Even as we're growing our lives, growing our careers, changing our culture...our lives can't be a relentless grind. ⁠ ⁠ There's got to be space and grace.⁠ ⁠ 🌸So that the knowledge of who you are -- A CULTURE MAKER -- seeps into your bones.⁠ ⁠ 🌸So that this knowingness forms a protective cloak that you carry with you everywhere.⁠ ⁠ 🌸And so that you're regularly relieving stress and calming your central nervous system. ⁠ ⁠ This world can be hell on sensitive, thoughtful women and I want our daily experience in our own skins to change.⁠ ⁠ ***⁠ That's why I'm so delighted that yoga breathing & meditation teacher Ntathu Allen leads these LIVE guided meditations for us each week.⁠ ⁠ Because We Are The Culture Makers is NOT about work-work-work. ⁠ ⁠ Gentleness and replenishment is part of the culture-making, power-building experience we're creating, together.⁠ ⁠ love + justice⁠ ⁠ Kelly⁠ ⁠ PS We Are The Culture Makers 2022 is low-cost online group coaching collective AND 100% PURE JET FUEL. Use it to power your life, your work, and your impact in the world. I invite you to learn more at the link in profile.⁠ ⁠ PPS You can find Ntathu Allen at @yogainspiresyou

kelly.diels

Wondering if you’re worthy, ⁠
over-giving ...

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Dec 24

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Wondering if you’re worthy, ⁠ over-giving ('tis the season)⁠ questioning if you belong at the table, ⁠ and feeling like you have to do everything yourself ⁠ ⁠ are NOT your natural inclinations.⁠ ⁠ They’re the voice of an unjust culture working through you without your consent.⁠ ⁠ So is imposter complex.⁠ ⁠ We doubt ourselves because we live in a woman-doubting culture. ⁠ ⁠ And...no more.⁠ ⁠ Let's change the channel.⁠ ⁠ Let's unlearn this toxic social conditioning⁠ and reaffirm + revalidate ourselves...⁠ ⁠ ...so we can shrink our self-doubt and grow our power.⁠ ⁠ Personally AND collectively.⁠ ⁠ Because #WeAreTheCultureMakers⁠ ⁠ :::::⁠ ⁠ Please, in the midst of the pressure that can come with this time of year, take a moment to connect with someone who sees your power and sincerity. Let them tell you great things about yourself. Really hear it. ⁠ ⁠ And, if you can, do it for someone else. Get on the phone and praise the sh*t out of them.⁠ ⁠ We're often running on empty tanks and being seen and affirmed with sincere & true words of encouragement are pure jet fuel.⁠ ⁠ Let's fly. ⁠ ⁠ Or land the planes that have been in the air too long.⁠ ⁠ love + justice,⁠ Kelly⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #feministmindset #leadwithsoul #feministcoaching #embodiedleadership #womeninthearena #breakingcycles #darkbeforethedawn

kelly.diels

We Are The Culture Makers 2022 is...⁠
...

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Dec 23

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We Are The Culture Makers 2022 is...⁠ ⁠ 🔥One part low-cost, online, group coaching...⁠ ⁠ 🔥One part encouragement circle where we get to know each other and find opportunities to ask for and receive support...⁠ ⁠ 🔥One part feminist analysis....⁠ ⁠ 🔥One part tools, strategies + tips for navigating -- and changing -- our lives and world...⁠ ⁠ 🔥And 100% pure jet fuel.⁠ ⁠ Use it to fuel your life, your career, your relationships and your impact.⁠ ⁠ Are you in? I invite you to learn more using the link in profile. ⁠ ⁠ love + justice,⁠ Kelly⁠ ⁠ #feministtraining #feministcoaching⁠ #feministselfhelp ⁠ #resourcesforwomen #womencoachingwomen #coachingforsuccess #womeninthearena #confidencemindset⁠ #feministvalues #groundedcoaching #feministcoach #settingboundariesboundary #peoplepleasing #womensempowermentcoach #selfcoaching

kelly.diels

Sometimes, the greatest culture making we do is ...

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Jan 18

Open
Sometimes, the greatest culture making we do is never 'out there' for the whole world to see.⁠ ⁠ Last January, a person I almost married reached out after more than 13 years of radio silence (he literally ghosted on our engagement) to apologize for his f*ckboi ways. He'd been doing personal spiritual work to decolonize his soul, and he felt called to make amends. I think he also had the intention of releasing me from any thoughts that what happened was my fault.⁠ ⁠ This January, something similar happened with someone I've been estranged from for 5 years. The amount of bravery it took to reach out to me was COLLOSSAL. I don't know the backstory but I'm willing to bet this act of courage was the result of massive inner healing.⁠ ⁠ The wild thing about both of these reach-outs was that each followed on the heels of specific coaching or therapy I'd been doing to free myself of needing them to do something in order for me...to be me.⁠ ⁠ (Also...there's something about January that is NOT awful, if we're doing things like this with each other.)⁠ ⁠ I've been doing that work myself. I've been confronting my own demons and looking in the mirror, and sometimes had to grieve what I saw there. I've been grappling with all the ways *I* was the villain in someone else's story. ⁠ ⁠ My hope is that this brutal, healing work grows me & gives me peace. I hope it helps me have deeper, more consistent relationships. And I hope that it helps me show up even more lovingly and present for my children, and that they carry that forward into their lives, their relationships and maybe even their children one day.⁠ ⁠ That's culture making.⁠ ⁠ None of that will ever be a feature length film, or see a stage, or be on a NY Times Best Seller List. It's not going to go viral.⁠ ⁠ But it's how spread the seeds for a future in which we all flourish. We heal wounds. We heal each other. We move in courage and love.⁠ ⁠ Personal love is justice work, too.⁠ ⁠ And it's never too late to start over.⁠ ⁠ I'm starting the New Year over, in fact! The first 17 days were a blur. So let's begin again, better.⁠ ⁠ love + justice,⁠ Kelly⁠ ⁠ #WeAreTheCultureMakers⁠

kelly.diels

There's a reason I included WEEKLY live, ...

View

Jan 3

Open
There's a reason I included WEEKLY live, guided meditations in We Are The Culture Makers 2022 and it's this: ⁠ ⁠ In order to really know something, in our bones, it can't ONLY come from one direction. ⁠ ⁠ We need to pick up the signals from many sources. We've got to receive the messages via our heads, our hearts, our bodies and our spirits.⁠ ⁠ ***⁠ We deserve to feel calm. We deserve to feel relief from anxiety and stress. ⁠ ⁠ Even as we're growing our lives, growing our careers, changing our culture...our lives can't be a relentless grind. ⁠ ⁠ There's got to be space and grace.⁠ ⁠ 🌸So that the knowledge of who you are -- A CULTURE MAKER -- seeps into your bones.⁠ ⁠ 🌸So that this knowingness forms a protective cloak that you carry with you everywhere.⁠ ⁠ 🌸And so that you're regularly relieving stress and calming your central nervous system. ⁠ ⁠ This world can be hell on sensitive, thoughtful women and I want our daily experience in our own skins to change.⁠ ⁠ ***⁠ That's why I'm so delighted that yoga breathing & meditation teacher Ntathu Allen leads these LIVE guided meditations for us each week.⁠ ⁠ Because We Are The Culture Makers is NOT about work-work-work. ⁠ ⁠ Gentleness and replenishment is part of the culture-making, power-building experience we're creating, together.⁠ ⁠ love + justice⁠ ⁠ Kelly⁠ ⁠ PS We Are The Culture Makers 2022 is low-cost online group coaching collective AND 100% PURE JET FUEL. Use it to power your life, your work, and your impact in the world. I invite you to learn more at the link in profile.⁠ ⁠ PPS You can find Ntathu Allen at @yogainspiresyou

kelly.diels

Wondering if you’re worthy, ⁠
over-giving ...

View

Dec 24

Open
Wondering if you’re worthy, ⁠ over-giving ('tis the season)⁠ questioning if you belong at the table, ⁠ and feeling like you have to do everything yourself ⁠ ⁠ are NOT your natural inclinations.⁠ ⁠ They’re the voice of an unjust culture working through you without your consent.⁠ ⁠ So is imposter complex.⁠ ⁠ We doubt ourselves because we live in a woman-doubting culture. ⁠ ⁠ And...no more.⁠ ⁠ Let's change the channel.⁠ ⁠ Let's unlearn this toxic social conditioning⁠ and reaffirm + revalidate ourselves...⁠ ⁠ ...so we can shrink our self-doubt and grow our power.⁠ ⁠ Personally AND collectively.⁠ ⁠ Because #WeAreTheCultureMakers⁠ ⁠ :::::⁠ ⁠ Please, in the midst of the pressure that can come with this time of year, take a moment to connect with someone who sees your power and sincerity. Let them tell you great things about yourself. Really hear it. ⁠ ⁠ And, if you can, do it for someone else. Get on the phone and praise the sh*t out of them.⁠ ⁠ We're often running on empty tanks and being seen and affirmed with sincere & true words of encouragement are pure jet fuel.⁠ ⁠ Let's fly. ⁠ ⁠ Or land the planes that have been in the air too long.⁠ ⁠ love + justice,⁠ Kelly⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #feministmindset #leadwithsoul #feministcoaching #embodiedleadership #womeninthearena #breakingcycles #darkbeforethedawn