Pause On The Play

Erica and India discuss their intentions for the shows Pause on the Play® and Flaunt Your Fire®.  After nearly 300 combined episodes, they pause to explore how to use them as continued resources and how to stay in the loop about future projects.

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Diet culture is everywhere.

What we consider healthy. What we consider unhealthy. The foods that we’re taught are good for us and the ones that we’re told to stay away from. How we think about food, health, and wellness is shaped by a culture steeped in white supremacy culture.

There is so much more nuance available to us around food, health, wellness, and culture–not to mention enjoyment–when we break down the binary of good vs. bad foods, healthy vs. unhealthy people.

Dalina Soto, MA, RDN, LDN joins Erica for a conversation about diet and wellness culture, why ancestral and cultural foods too often get left out of the conversation, and the policy and systemic influences on what we think of as “healthy” food.

In this discussion:

• Why we need to expand binary thinking about nutrition and health
• How nutritional guidelines in the US leave out large swaths of cultural and ancestral foods
• The impacts of stress and other social determinants of health on the body, and why that’s a policy failure not a personal one
• Taking guilt and shame out of doing what you can with what  you have when it comes to food

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​So often, our goals and the way we feel about success come from what we’re supposed to want, what we’re supposed to do, and how we’re supposed to act and feel once we achieve those goals.

But being truly satisfied with our achievements means defining success outside of the “shoulds.”

Amanda McKinney joins Erica for a replay from a live conversation within The Pause on the Play Community about success, accidental entrepreneurship, and maintaining a balance between your business and your life.

In this discussion:

• Why it’s essential to pause and consider what you actually want from your business
• Why you can’t separate your values from the way you do business
• How to bring your values into the way you build your business

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How do your identities impact the way you show up at work and how you interact with work culture?

How we move through the world is influenced by white supremacy, colorism, and capitalism, and it can have profound impacts on our working life and our physical and mental health.

And while none of us can extract ourselves entirely from these systems, it may be possible–even necessary–to say enough is enough and forge a new path.

Gabi Day joins Erica for a conversation about identity, work, capitalism, and her journey out of the corporate world to entrepreneurship.

In this discussion:

• How toxic educational and work environments impact mental and physical health
• How tokenism and gaslighting uphold systems of oppression
• Making the personal political by showing up with your values in life and work

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Have you ever felt like you betrayed yourself?

We live in a culture that teaches us to forsake our own wants in favor of serving others. We operate from a place of “I’m fine,” and get stuck in functional freeze, even when from the outside it appears we’re successful.

María-Victoria Albina joins Erica for a discussion about resentment and obligation, setting and holding standards, and tending to your nervous system as you pursue embodiment and change.

In this discussion:

• Changing the narrative on obligation
• Why setting standards and boundaries is a part of a self-reclamation
• How our nervous systems get stuck in functional freeze
• Why pushing too hard for ourselves to change can backfire

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