The new year is a great time to reflect on where we are coming from and where we are going. But instead of hustling into the new year, setting toxic resolutions and unrealistic goals, Octavia Raheem is encouraging us to rest.&nbsp; This podcast conversation features author, mentor and yoga teacher, Octavia Raheem. In her new book, <a href="https://www.pauserestbe.com">Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change</a>, Octavia offers us a powerful guide to navigating the many changes we are facing with wisdom and ease. Instead of trying to push our way through endings, beginnings, and places of uncertainty, only to find ourselves more confused, more disconnected, more exhausted than ever, Octavia encourages us to lean back and trust in the transformative power of rest.&nbsp; “Now” she says” is no ordinary moment in time. Now is a place of startling individual collective endings. Now is the space before something else becomes. Now is both a promise and fulfillment of fresh beginnings”.&nbsp; This conversation is a gift to all of us who are navigating the mess of this moment and yearning for so much more.&nbsp; Check it out Connect with Octavia Raheem:Buy <a href="https://www.pauserestbe.com">Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change</a>Check out <a href="https://octaviaraheem.com">Octavia’s rest offerings</a>Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/octaviaraheem/?hl=en">Octavia on instagram </a>If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ctznwell/">@ctznwell</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kkellyyoga/?hl=en">@kkellyyoga</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/octaviaraheem/?hl=en">@octaviaraheem</a> Join CTZNWELL on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ctznwell">Patreon</a>Follow CTZNWELL on <a href="https://instagram.com/ctznwell">Instagram</a>Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email <a href="https://ctznwell.org/">WELLREAD</a>+ Transcription<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13pdcd74RNqaLZid1PpeGqjIMxJKjKnsl1z6JAjNHBAg/edit?usp=sharing">click to access</a>

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;The new year is a great time to reflect on where we are coming from and where we are going. But instead of hustling into the new year, setting toxic resolutions and unrealistic goals, Octavia Raheem is encouraging us to rest.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This podcast conversation features author, mentor and yoga teacher, Octavia Raheem. In her new book, &lt;a href="https://www.pauserestbe.com"&gt;Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change&lt;/a&gt;, Octavia offers us a powerful guide to navigating the many changes we are facing with wisdom and ease. Instead of trying to push our way through endings, beginnings, and places of uncertainty, only to find ourselves more confused, more disconnected, more exhausted than ever, Octavia encourages us to lean back and trust in the transformative power of rest.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Now” she says” is no ordinary moment in time. Now is a place of startling individual collective endings. Now is the space before something else becomes. Now is both a promise and fulfillment of fresh beginnings”.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This conversation is a gift to all of us who are navigating the mess of this moment and yearning for so much more.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Check it out &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Connect with Octavia Raheem:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Buy &lt;a href="https://www.pauserestbe.com"&gt;Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Check out &lt;a href="https://octaviaraheem.com"&gt;Octavia’s rest offerings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Follow &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/octaviaraheem/?hl=en"&gt;Octavia on instagram &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/ctznwell/"&gt;@ctznwell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/kkellyyoga/?hl=en"&gt;@kkellyyoga&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/octaviaraheem/?hl=en"&gt;@octaviaraheem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Join CTZNWELL on &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/ctznwell"&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Follow CTZNWELL on &lt;a href="https://instagram.com/ctznwell"&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email &lt;a href="https://ctznwell.org/"&gt;WELLREAD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;+ Transcription&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13pdcd74RNqaLZid1PpeGqjIMxJKjKnsl1z6JAjNHBAg/edit?usp=sharing"&gt;click to access&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Transformation Requires Rest

The new year is a great time to reflect on where we are coming from and where we are going. But instead of hustling into the new year, setting toxic resolutions and unrealistic goals, Octavia Raheem is encouraging us to rest. 

This podcast conversation features author, mentor and yoga teacher, Octavia Raheem. In her new book, Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change, Octavia offers us a powerful guide to navigating the many changes we are facing with wisdom and ease. Instead of trying to push our way through endings, beginnings, and places of uncertainty, only to find ourselves more confused, more disconnected, more exhausted than ever, Octavia encourages us to lean back and trust in the transformative power of rest. 


The Power of Pause: Octavia Raheem

This podcast features Shannon Algeo, author, meditation teacher, therapist and my neighbor :-) In our conversation, we get personal and reflect on our experience of living together and surviving the many pandemics of the last few years and what it looks like to really look out and care for each other through uncertain times.&nbsp; We talked about how having hard conversations and giving critical feedback is actually a radical form of care. It affirms that we matter to each other. And it’s how we build trust and community together. This conversation is intimate and important in how it invites us to really live into the spirit of community care that we are so desperately trying to co-create.&nbsp;&nbsp;Connect with Shannon AlgeoBuy <a href="https://www.soulumination.com/trust-your-truth-book">Trust Your Truth: Heal Self-Doubt, Awaken to Your Soul's Purpose, and Live Your Badass Life</a>Check out <a href="https://www.soulumination.com">Shannon’s work</a>Follow Shannon on Instagram at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shannon.algeo/?hl=en">@shannon.algeo</a>If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ctznwell/">@ctznwell</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kkellyyoga/?hl=en">@kkellyyoga</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shannon.algeo/?hl=en">@shannon.algeo</a> Join CTZNWELL on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ctznwell">Patreon</a>Follow CTZNWELL on <a href="https://instagram.com/ctznwell">Instagram</a>Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email <a href="https://ctznwell.org/">WELLREAD</a>+ Transcription<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VS_KtA3LxmSA_49tEZqXKQV2UkKYR5sUSqvJZsTmEcE/edit?usp=sharing">(click here to access)</a>

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This podcast features Shannon Algeo, author, meditation teacher, therapist and my neighbor :-) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;In our conversation, we get personal and reflect on our experience of living together and surviving the many pandemics of the last few years and what it looks like to really look out and care for each other through uncertain times.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;We talked about how having hard conversations and giving critical feedback is actually a radical form of care. It affirms that we matter to each other. And it’s how we build trust and community together.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This conversation is intimate and important in how it invites us to really live into the spirit of community care that we are so desperately trying to co-create.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Connect with Shannon Algeo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Buy &lt;a href="https://www.soulumination.com/trust-your-truth-book"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Trust Your Truth: Heal Self-Doubt, Awaken to Your Soul's Purpose, and Live Your Badass Life&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Check out &lt;a href="https://www.soulumination.com"&gt;Shannon’s work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Follow Shannon on Instagram at &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/shannon.algeo/?hl=en"&gt;@shannon.algeo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/ctznwell/"&gt;@ctznwell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/kkellyyoga/?hl=en"&gt;@kkellyyoga&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/shannon.algeo/?hl=en"&gt;@shannon.algeo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Join CTZNWELL on &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/ctznwell"&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Follow CTZNWELL on &lt;a href="https://instagram.com/ctznwell"&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email &lt;a href="https://ctznwell.org/"&gt;WELLREAD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;+ Transcription&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VS_KtA3LxmSA_49tEZqXKQV2UkKYR5sUSqvJZsTmEcE/edit?usp=sharing"&gt;(click here to access)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Why we need to have hard conversations 

This final podcast of the year is with my dear friend, Shannon Algeo - author of the book, Trust Your Truth, meditation teacher, therapist who also happens to be my neighbor.

In this podcast, we get personal and reflect on our experience of living together and surviving the many pandemics of the last few years and what it looks like to really look out and care for each other through uncertain times. 

Trust Your Truth: Shannon Algeo

Jacoby Ballard (he/they) is a social justice educator, yoga teacher and author of the new book A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation.Jacoby defines Queer dharma as “a practice that interrogates systems of power and seeks liberation for all”. In our conversation, we talk about the intersections of yoga and capitalism and white supremacy and cultural appropriation while also returning to the wisdom of yoga - that the yoga practice as it was intended provides a visionary pathway forward to a liberated life.&nbsp;Jacoby invites us to be in a critical and courageous inquiry around how we resist the straight dharma that we have been fed by dominant culture and embrace the truth of our interdependence and collective wellbeing.&nbsp;This conversation is juicy and essential.Check it out. Connect with Jacoby Ballard Buy <a href="https://jacobyballard.net/book/">A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation </a>Visit Jacoby’s <a href="https://jacobyballard.net">website</a>Follow Jacoby on Instagram at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jacobyballard/?hl=en">@jacobyballard</a>If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ctznwell/">@ctznwell</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kkellyyoga/?hl=en">@kkellyyoga</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jacobyballard/?hl=en">@jacobyballard</a> Join CTZNWELL on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ctznwell">Patreon</a>Follow CTZNWELL on <a href="https://instagram.com/ctznwell">Instagram</a>Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email <a href="https://ctznwell.org/">WELLREAD</a>

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Jacoby Ballard (he/they) is a social justice educator, yoga teacher and author of the new book&lt;em&gt; A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Jacoby defines Queer dharma as “a practice that interrogates systems of power and seeks liberation for all”. In our conversation, we talk about the intersections of yoga and capitalism and white supremacy and cultural appropriation while also returning to the wisdom of yoga - that the yoga practice as it was intended provides a visionary pathway forward to a liberated life.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Jacoby invites us to be in a critical and courageous inquiry around how we resist the straight dharma that we have been fed by dominant culture and embrace the truth of our interdependence and collective wellbeing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This conversation is juicy and essential.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Check it out. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Connect with Jacoby Ballard &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Buy &lt;a href="https://jacobyballard.net/book/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Visit Jacoby’s &lt;a href="https://jacobyballard.net"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Follow Jacoby on Instagram at &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/jacobyballard/?hl=en"&gt;@jacobyballard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/ctznwell/"&gt;@ctznwell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/kkellyyoga/?hl=en"&gt;@kkellyyoga&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/jacobyballard/?hl=en"&gt;@jacobyballard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Join CTZNWELL on &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/ctznwell"&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Follow CTZNWELL on &lt;a href="https://instagram.com/ctznwell"&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email &lt;a href="https://ctznwell.org/"&gt;WELLREAD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

A visionary pathway to a liberated life

In this podcast, we speak with Jacoby Ballard (he/they), a social justice educator, yoga teacher and author of the new book A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation. Jacoby helps us understand and hold the intersections of yoga and capitalism and white supremacy by referencing the heart teachings of yoga that provide a pathway to liberation and collective wellbeing. 

A Queer Dharma: Jacoby Ballard

Vivette Jeffries Logan is a lot of things AND she is a force of nature. She’s a powerful and seasoned facilitator of race equity work. And she’s a mother, a chef, a mentor and a citizen of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation.&nbsp; This podcast with her is a whole journey of joy and laughter AND asking really hard questions about who we are and how we heal?&nbsp;Together we explore what it means to be curious and critical of how we’ve been shaped by a toxic dominant culture AND how we hold space for our humanness. She invites us to hold the complexity of both/and and embrace our whole, messy and surly (as she calls it) experience of being alive in these times and doing our part to heal ourselves, one another and the land that we come from.&nbsp;Vivette inspires us to ask hard questions about who we are and where we come from so that we can take our place in the world and get in ‘right relationship’ with what is needed for collective healing.&nbsp;Check it out.&nbsp;Connect with Vivette Jeffries-LoganVisit Vivette’s <a href="https://www.katejohnson.com/">website</a>Follow Vivette on Instagram at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tobaccobird65/?hl=en">@tobaccobird65</a>If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ctznwell/">@ctznwell</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kkellyyoga/?hl=en">@kkellyyoga</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tobaccobird65/?hl=en">@tobaccobird65</a> Join CTZNWELL on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ctznwell">Patreon</a>Follow CTZNWELL on <a href="https://instagram.com/ctznwell">Instagram</a>Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email <a href="https://ctznwell.org/">WELLREAD</a>+ Transcription<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sVkOq2lbkpgHoiLdRcr_2IUnsdB_VPNKy2CvJq9ygBw/edit?usp=sharing">(read transcription here)</a>

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Vivette Jeffries Logan is a lot of things AND she is a force of nature. She’s a powerful and seasoned facilitator of race equity work. And she’s a mother, a chef, a mentor and a citizen of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This podcast with her is a whole journey of joy and laughter AND asking really hard questions about who we are and how we heal?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Together we explore what it means to be curious and critical of how we’ve been shaped by a toxic dominant culture AND how we hold space for our humanness. She invites us to hold the complexity of both/and and embrace our whole, messy and surly (as she calls it) experience of being alive in these times and doing our part to heal ourselves, one another and the land that we come from.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Vivette inspires us to ask hard questions about who we are and where we come from so that we can take our place in the world and get in ‘right relationship’ with what is needed for collective healing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Check it out.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Connect with Vivette Jeffries-Logan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Visit Vivette’s &lt;a href="https://www.katejohnson.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Follow Vivette on Instagram at &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/tobaccobird65/?hl=en"&gt;@tobaccobird65&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/ctznwell/"&gt;@ctznwell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/kkellyyoga/?hl=en"&gt;@kkellyyoga&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/tobaccobird65/?hl=en"&gt;@tobaccobird65&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Join CTZNWELL on &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/ctznwell"&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Follow CTZNWELL on &lt;a href="https://instagram.com/ctznwell"&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email &lt;a href="https://ctznwell.org/"&gt;WELLREAD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;+ Transcription&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sVkOq2lbkpgHoiLdRcr_2IUnsdB_VPNKy2CvJq9ygBw/edit?usp=sharing"&gt;(read transcription here)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Finding your people, finding your place 

This podcast is a whole journey of joy and laughter AND asking really hard questions about who we are and how we heal. Our guest, Vivette Jeffries Logan, is a powerful and seasoned facilitator of race equity work. And she’s a mother, a chef, a mentor and a citizen of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. Together we explore what it means to be curious and critical of how we’ve been shaped by a toxic dominant culture AND how we hold space for our humanness. 

What is your medicine?: Vivette Jeffries-Logan

Kate Johnson is a buddhist meditation teacher and author of the book <a href="https://www.katejohnson.com/book-radical-friendship">Radical Friendship</a> which makes a case for friendship as a radical practice of love, courage and trust, and a path that paves the way for profound social changeRelationship as spiritual practice is often a mirror for what we cannot see or know in isolation. Through each other, deeper truths are revealed that make growth possible.&nbsp; On this podcast, you’ll hear Kate and I talk about navigating our own messy experience of conflict and repair and what it is to find each other again after all these years and practice relationship in a different way.&nbsp;This conversation was deep and vulnerable and shows us what is possible when we lean into change one relationship at a time.Check it out. Connect with Kate JohnsonVisit Kate’s <a href="https://www.katejohnson.com/">website</a>Follow Kate on Instagram at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hellokatejohnson/">@hellokatejohnson</a>Buy Kate’s book, <a href="https://www.katejohnson.com/book-radical-friendship">Radical Friendship, Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World</a>If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ctznwell/">@ctznwell</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kkellyyoga/?hl=en">@kkellyyoga</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hellokatejohnson/">@hellokatejohnson</a> Join CTZNWELL on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ctznwell">Patreon</a>Follow CTZNWELL on <a href="https://instagram.com/ctznwell">Instagram</a>Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email <a href="https://ctznwell.org/">WELLREAD</a>+ Transcription<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WQmAIVGD7LnN8ch8RO9praE45HEMkucrAJ_FTSeTzPM/edit?usp=sharing">(read transcription here)</a>

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Kate Johnson is a buddhist meditation teacher and author of the book &lt;a href="https://www.katejohnson.com/book-radical-friendship"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Radical Friendship&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which makes a case for friendship as a radical practice of love, courage and trust, and a path that paves the way for profound social change&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Relationship as spiritual practice is often a mirror for what we cannot see or know in isolation. Through each other, deeper truths are revealed that make growth possible.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;On this podcast, you’ll hear Kate and I talk about navigating our own messy experience of conflict and repair and what it is to find each other again after all these years and practice relationship in a different way.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This conversation was deep and vulnerable and shows us what is possible when we lean into change one relationship at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Check it out. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Connect with Kate Johnson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Visit Kate’s &lt;a href="https://www.katejohnson.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Follow Kate on Instagram at &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/hellokatejohnson/"&gt;@hellokatejohnson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Buy Kate’s book, &lt;a href="https://www.katejohnson.com/book-radical-friendship"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Radical Friendship, Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/ctznwell/"&gt;@ctznwell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/kkellyyoga/?hl=en"&gt;@kkellyyoga&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/hellokatejohnson/"&gt;@hellokatejohnson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Join CTZNWELL on &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/ctznwell"&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Follow CTZNWELL on &lt;a href="https://instagram.com/ctznwell"&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email &lt;a href="https://ctznwell.org/"&gt;WELLREAD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+ Transcription&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WQmAIVGD7LnN8ch8RO9praE45HEMkucrAJ_FTSeTzPM/edit?usp=sharing"&gt;(read transcription here)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

How relationships pave the way for profound change 

We often talk on this podcast about how relationship is fundamental to transformative change work - whether we’re exploring how to work across lines of difference, or how to reach across the political aisle or how to build a culture of care that takes care of everyone. Our next guest offers a path of depth and hope and shows us the importance of radical relationship as we navigate an unjust world and work toward collective wellbeing. Kate Johnson is a buddhist meditation teacher and author of the book Radical Friendship which makes a case for friendship as a radical practice of love, courage and trust, and a path that paves the way for profound social change. 

Radical Friendship: Kate Johnson

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