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Love Letter

Archive

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Every Sunday,

I send a newsletter by email

I don't post all of those newsletters on my website...but here are a few.

PS you can subscribe to my Sunday Love Letter here.

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27 Sep

How NOT to Get Swamped by It All

Leadership | Power | Self Worth | Sunday Love Letter | We Are The Culture Makers

Welcome to your Sunday Love Letter by Kelly Diels. I send these every...

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21 Sep

Business, Capitalism, and Money Guilt. A Cure.

Books & Recommended Reading | Money | Sunday Love Letter

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…

Leadership | Sunday Love Letter | Visibility | We Are The Culture Makers

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?

Conflict | Leadership | Power | Sunday Love Letter | Visibility

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

Self Worth | Shame | Sunday Love Letter | Time

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.)

Business Tips for Culture Makers | Leadership | Power | Self Worth | Shame | Sunday Love Letter | We Are The Culture Makers

This is your Sunday Love Letter. In 2017, after spending nine months in Trinidad...

Every week, I send you a

Sunday Love Letter

I write them so that…

You remember your culture-making power
You have the inspiration + tools you need to grow a future in which we all flourish

Are you in?

09 Jun

Who’s running our social media accounts? Us, or our social conditioning?

Power | Social Media | Sunday Love Letter | The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand | Visibility

This week a friend of mine and I closed our eyes and imagined...

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02 Jun

Who Run the World? (Other than Beyonce)

Leadership | Power | Sunday Love Letter | We Are The Culture Makers

before we get started, here's what I recently published for you at www.kellydiels.com:...

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27 May

Tiny Acts of Doing-It-Differently are Culture Making

Leadership | Power | Sunday Love Letter | We Are The Culture Makers

Our entire society and status quo -- our culture -- is a web...

time is a feminist issue Brigid schulte's overwhelmed -- a still life!

31 Jan

The Price of Women’s Time, Because ‘Time is a Feminist Issue’

Money | Power | Self Worth | Shame | Sunday Love Letter | Time

"Time is a Feminist Issue" - Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed ----- A...

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Every week, I send you a

Sunday Love Letter

I write them so that…

You remember your culture-making power
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?

When things need changing -- urgently --⁠
...

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Jun 25

When things need changing -- urgently --⁠
and they are outside our individual areas of influence or expertise, ⁠
that doesn’t mean we’re helpless or useless.⁠
⁠
It means we get to work undergirding the work ⁠
of people & organizations ⁠
who ARE serving in exactly this space.⁠
⁠
Outrage, overwhelm, despair, desperation: they are all righteous information. ⁠
⁠
Feeling them, ⁠
and using them as a compass, ⁠
gives us an action item to complete: Who is already on the ground doing work that you can support?⁠
⁠
----⁠
I outlined a 3-step model we can use to create positive change ⁠
even AND ESPECIALLY in overwhelming, troubling times.⁠
⁠
If that could be helpful to you right now, it's here:⁠
https://www.kellydiels.com/what-to-do-in-overwhelmingly-troubled-times/⁠
⁠

I trust you with power and resources.⁠
...

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Jun 24

I trust you with power and resources.⁠
⁠
*I literally cannot say this enough.*⁠
⁠
Many fat women and women of colour and queer women and disabled folks and trans and non-binary folks (and, and, and) have experienced power being used abusively against us...⁠
⁠
...which often means that some of us are going to be wildly uncomfortable with power-building -- in all forms.⁠
⁠
Many of us believe, on a cellular level, that money + power = abuse. Because that's what we've lived.⁠
⁠
Which raises a critical question for our lives: what will we think about ***ourselves*** if we earn money and power?⁠
⁠
***⁠
If you recoil from holding power or money even as you need them and explicitly seek them, please know that there is nothing wrong with you. This tension actually a sign that your sense of justice is finely honed.⁠
⁠
It means you don't want to become that which you oppose.⁠
⁠
This, obviously, is a very good thing. Let's be relieved that our moral compasses are working.⁠
⁠
And let's break the spell*. ⁠
(h/t @amandaklaird for this *language)⁠
⁠
***⁠
Here's how we break cultural spells and intervene in unconscious sequences and patterns:⁠
⁠
We surface them. Expose them. Make them conscious.⁠
⁠
To break the money-power-abuse spell, let's explicitly, consciously ask ourselves if what we have been conditioned believe about ourselves and power and money is true:⁠
⁠
Is it true that if you have power, you will abuse it?⁠
Is it true that if you have money and power, you will use it to exploit people?⁠
Is it true that the only way to get money is to harm people?⁠
⁠
***⁠
⁠
When I inquired into my own beliefs about power and explicit asked myself, do I want to use money and power the way it's been used against me (To hurt people? To dominate? To hoard?)...⁠
⁠
...the answer is NOOOOOOOOOO.⁠
⁠
And so the spell is broken.⁠
⁠
***⁠
⁠
I trust you with power, money and resources.⁠
⁠
Let's get them, grow them, and use them to flourish -- personally and collectively.⁠
⁠
Because we are the culture makers.⁠ ⁠
⁠
***⁠
kellydiels.com ⁠
Business and Self Development for Culture Makers ⁠
⁠
#wearetheculturemakers #powerbuilding #feministlife #earnedpower⁠

This is a #BusinessTipForCultureMakers on how not ...

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Jun 22

At the best of times - and always - there is a ...

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Jun 21

At the best of times - and always - there is a cultural expectation that women care. That women care-give. That women will lean in and help out and emotionally support and take care of everyone and everything.

On the one hand, that's WONDERFUL.

Care is the glue that holds our societies, workplaces, families & relationships together.

It is precious & ESSENTIAL and we should all be doing it (not just women).

Care and caregiving is one of the most valuable skills anyone can possess and the most valuable social contributions anyone can make.

And yet...as a society, we devalue it. We erase it from view.

We download it disproportionately onto the shoulders of women.
We make it a non-negotiable feature of being a woman.

“Woman = uncompensated caregiver" and that women OWE their emotional labour and caregiving to the world is a foundational belief in our culture.

That belief is present all the time. It's especially intense during social crisis when the needs of others are multiplied.

That's why we often see pushback on social media (and in our inboxes, ask me how I know) against women entrepreneurs and freelancers who have the AUDACITY to promote their work or charge for their services *when people need them most*.

How dare women ask for compensation -- especially with the multiple social crises we're experiencing -- when our collective subconscious beliefs about women dictate that they should be *volunteering* their care, time & services?!

When you see that kind of pushback or outrage, that's the unconscious, FOUNDATIONAL belief motivating it.

No one population or gender is responsible for all the care our world requires.

I value care and caregiving and will continue to share my love and protection and service.

As I do that, I will continue to run my business, market, and get paid.

Because...
1) As we offer care, women also require financial inputs in order to SURVIVE. (We don't eat air.)

2) The needs of our time are not just on me to meet nor exclusively on women to meet. This is a collective responsibility.

Care IS essential but "woman" is not a synonym for "caregiver" or "uncompensated labourer".

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Image by @broobs.psd

kellydiels.com

We can do it our way, I promise.⁠
⁠
We...

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Jun 20

When things need changing -- urgently --⁠
...

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Jun 25

When things need changing -- urgently --⁠
and they are outside our individual areas of influence or expertise, ⁠
that doesn’t mean we’re helpless or useless.⁠
⁠
It means we get to work undergirding the work ⁠
of people & organizations ⁠
who ARE serving in exactly this space.⁠
⁠
Outrage, overwhelm, despair, desperation: they are all righteous information. ⁠
⁠
Feeling them, ⁠
and using them as a compass, ⁠
gives us an action item to complete: Who is already on the ground doing work that you can support?⁠
⁠
----⁠
I outlined a 3-step model we can use to create positive change ⁠
even AND ESPECIALLY in overwhelming, troubling times.⁠
⁠
If that could be helpful to you right now, it's here:⁠
https://www.kellydiels.com/what-to-do-in-overwhelmingly-troubled-times/⁠
⁠

I trust you with power and resources.⁠
...

View

Jun 24

I trust you with power and resources.⁠
⁠
*I literally cannot say this enough.*⁠
⁠
Many fat women and women of colour and queer women and disabled folks and trans and non-binary folks (and, and, and) have experienced power being used abusively against us...⁠
⁠
...which often means that some of us are going to be wildly uncomfortable with power-building -- in all forms.⁠
⁠
Many of us believe, on a cellular level, that money + power = abuse. Because that's what we've lived.⁠
⁠
Which raises a critical question for our lives: what will we think about ***ourselves*** if we earn money and power?⁠
⁠
***⁠
If you recoil from holding power or money even as you need them and explicitly seek them, please know that there is nothing wrong with you. This tension actually a sign that your sense of justice is finely honed.⁠
⁠
It means you don't want to become that which you oppose.⁠
⁠
This, obviously, is a very good thing. Let's be relieved that our moral compasses are working.⁠
⁠
And let's break the spell*. ⁠
(h/t @amandaklaird for this *language)⁠
⁠
***⁠
Here's how we break cultural spells and intervene in unconscious sequences and patterns:⁠
⁠
We surface them. Expose them. Make them conscious.⁠
⁠
To break the money-power-abuse spell, let's explicitly, consciously ask ourselves if what we have been conditioned believe about ourselves and power and money is true:⁠
⁠
Is it true that if you have power, you will abuse it?⁠
Is it true that if you have money and power, you will use it to exploit people?⁠
Is it true that the only way to get money is to harm people?⁠
⁠
***⁠
⁠
When I inquired into my own beliefs about power and explicit asked myself, do I want to use money and power the way it's been used against me (To hurt people? To dominate? To hoard?)...⁠
⁠
...the answer is NOOOOOOOOOO.⁠
⁠
And so the spell is broken.⁠
⁠
***⁠
⁠
I trust you with power, money and resources.⁠
⁠
Let's get them, grow them, and use them to flourish -- personally and collectively.⁠
⁠
Because we are the culture makers.⁠ ⁠
⁠
***⁠
kellydiels.com ⁠
Business and Self Development for Culture Makers ⁠
⁠
#wearetheculturemakers #powerbuilding #feministlife #earnedpower⁠

This is a #BusinessTipForCultureMakers on how not ...

View

Jun 22

At the best of times - and always - there is a ...

View

Jun 21

At the best of times - and always - there is a cultural expectation that women care. That women care-give. That women will lean in and help out and emotionally support and take care of everyone and everything.

On the one hand, that's WONDERFUL.

Care is the glue that holds our societies, workplaces, families & relationships together.

It is precious & ESSENTIAL and we should all be doing it (not just women).

Care and caregiving is one of the most valuable skills anyone can possess and the most valuable social contributions anyone can make.

And yet...as a society, we devalue it. We erase it from view.

We download it disproportionately onto the shoulders of women.
We make it a non-negotiable feature of being a woman.

“Woman = uncompensated caregiver" and that women OWE their emotional labour and caregiving to the world is a foundational belief in our culture.

That belief is present all the time. It's especially intense during social crisis when the needs of others are multiplied.

That's why we often see pushback on social media (and in our inboxes, ask me how I know) against women entrepreneurs and freelancers who have the AUDACITY to promote their work or charge for their services *when people need them most*.

How dare women ask for compensation -- especially with the multiple social crises we're experiencing -- when our collective subconscious beliefs about women dictate that they should be *volunteering* their care, time & services?!

When you see that kind of pushback or outrage, that's the unconscious, FOUNDATIONAL belief motivating it.

No one population or gender is responsible for all the care our world requires.

I value care and caregiving and will continue to share my love and protection and service.

As I do that, I will continue to run my business, market, and get paid.

Because...
1) As we offer care, women also require financial inputs in order to SURVIVE. (We don't eat air.)

2) The needs of our time are not just on me to meet nor exclusively on women to meet. This is a collective responsibility.

Care IS essential but "woman" is not a synonym for "caregiver" or "uncompensated labourer".

🌺
Image by @broobs.psd

kellydiels.com