Profound Conversations

Most Executives clearly advocate for “work/life balance”, however what does that balance actually require; and is it a shoe size that fits all? In 2023 how do women who have questions about balancing their desires for financial stability, luxury, family responsibilities, health, joy, and fulfilment, achieve this while pushing back against burnout and self-sacrifice?

How do our diets play a role in our ability to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and what are the signs to be aware of that hint to onset mental, emotional and physical decline in our wellbeing? These and other fascinating ideas will be examined by our Conductor and guest conversationalists.

We exist in a society that supports and really actually rewards hustle culture, grind till you make it, sleep when you die, culture of high achievement, competition acquisition, that is made of just a bit worse by the fantasies that we see on social media

This construct of the 80 hour a week working until you drop, sleep when you're dead, was constructed by white men, and a aggressive drive to possess, own, and dominate. It's not something we have to take with us

Being born actually makes you equipped for every hard experience that you're ever going to have. That's why a birthing canal is so vitally important, because now you've experienced the biggest trauma and everything else is easy

You have to start to eliminate the noise. Right? We all have a very quiet space within us, every human being is given this, no matter what physical state you are in, you have this quiet space where if you go in there, there's answers to everything in there.

There are circumstances that bring you to your humble knees. And you have to take time to unfold into those spaces except where you are, and then try to develop a pathway out of those spaces.

I don't like starting over from scratch, I like to build off the heels of another. My motto is "the second mouse gets the cheese."

When I talk about cultural practices, oftentimes routine is everything. Right? Because routine will restart the clock, no matter what you're going through.

It's the inner critic, that small voice that most of us don't know is even talking. That tells us what we can't do. It says, "You're not enough, you're not enough, you're not enough, you're not enough, you haven't done enough." I teach my clients a mantra, "I Am enough, I have enough, I do enough."

You don't have to be a human doer, you can be a human being

Stop and listen to your body

There's a big movement now, thankfully, for this whole expression of like "doing the work" like doing your own work. And people think of that in the in the frame of mental health therapy.

Some things on social media are completely not beneficial to our society, in terms of the sort of the images and the messaging that that we're seeing and the attention seeking and the ways that people are rewarded for bad behavior, but there's been a surgence of positive messaging of people on social media, of people offering alternative ways of thinking and looking at things that has actually benefited a lot of people and I've seen that myself

How do you deal with your inner critic?

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com