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Hello! It's Lisa Clapper, back after a year with a new Poetic Yay Show. In this episode, I welcome you and me back and greet spring, Aries season, Ramadan, and share the first couple of tracks from my chapter. Not to mention #womenshistorymonth which I like to think of as womens HER story all the time! I’m super stoked to be part of the best-selling multi-author adventure that is The Great LeadHERship Awakening, the book. I’m one of 24 rad women telling their stories with wild hearts and soul excellence. I wrote my entire chapter in poetry in a women’s leadHERship book. How about that Yay? My chapter is called Finding your Yay: Extended Play. You can buy The Great LeadHERship Awakening on Amazon. Get a Kindle version to read right now (you don’t need a kindle) or Paperback with a soft front to contain all your notes and annotations and future author signatures. And if you dig performance poetry and want to watch me speak the words of the entire chapter, get yourself a replay from The Great LeadHERship Awakening Virtual Summit. You can also experience the magic and power of any and all of the women who brought their Yay in words her’d, we are a connected body of work. If you'd like to book me for a live poetry reading or work with a poet to tell your story in true and yayful form, all the deets are at on my website, Yay Collective. I also mention Rhetta Rowland, the raddest astrologer I know! Elimu Girls, who we're donating all the book proceeds to. Elimu’s 2-year vocational sewing program transforms Her into a confident entrepreneur. The book publisher is Kayleigh O'Keefe of Soul Excellence. Don't get me started on how excellent and soulful she is. Another time, I promise! Last but not least, come #FeelYourYay on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/yaycollective/ #FeelYourYay #TheYayCollective #LeadHERshipYay #BringYourYay #ReadtoLead #LeadHERship #LeadHERshipAwakening #soulexcellence #publishing #NewParadigm #ZoneofGenius #InnerFreedom --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

This is how I felt this morning about international women's day. No high fives and hugs. No sweeping under rugs. This is for the women of the world and especially the ones in Ukraine. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

Hi! Today (just now, Right now, l was listening to Sonya Renee Taylor on How to end the war with your body on ten percent happier https://10percenthappier.app.link/JyHsRZgDHib I am compelled to stop in the middle and shed my own inner light back into the world via this Yay Show. Sharing some radness and a few of the radical ways in which I am changed, aware, and putting my Yay in the world. Think. Do. Be. (Sonya calls it). As a practice of radical self love, responsibility, and living into my own bright light. Hello again. Yay on! I also mention Sharon Salzburg, Krista Tippett and this episode of On Being https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tippett/id150892556?i=1000531109057 and a few other radical human beings. Spontaneous Yay activated. Go get your own Yay on (stop in the middle and write or dance or draw or shout or meditate or anything. Or keep going. Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

This is where and how I stop saying something that was always cultural appropriation. And how I got there/here. With special massive yayful thanks to these wonderful and enlightening/enlightened/visionary/teachers and women for guiding me: Susanna Barkataki (@Susanna Barkataki) https://www.instagram.com/susannabarkataki/ Root down, Lift up, Learn & Lead 💗Practice Yoga for personal & social change, Now Berhenda Williams Bilingual Poet/Visionary+Empath Coach. I support empathic women (like me) to harness their gifts to fuel their mission based business.  (@berhenda) https://www.instagram.com/berhenda/ Adriana Adelé whose name I mispronounced. Tutor/Teacher yoga for you + for me + for we rest + breath + joy + nidra (@adrianaadele) https://www.instagram.com/adrianaadele/ Dr. AJ Dr. Aparajita (AJ) Jeedigunta Award-winning DEI Leader | I help historically marginalized go-getters radically increase their leadership presence, income & impact (@drajjeedigunta) https://www.instagram.com/drajjeedigunta/ Liz Andolong (@Lizandolong) Rest + Reiki Queen https://www.instagram.com/lizandolong/ Prentiss Hemphill (@prentisshemphill) https://www.instagram.com/prentishemphill/ Embodiment Practitioner & Writer Director: @the.embodiment.institute Host: @findingourwaypodcast Politicized Healing To be continued, in gratitude and with Yay! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

Process it afterwards. Read. Listen. All your senses. New guide! https://andreacanaan.blog. New storyteller creators. https://www.connectwithstory.com https://mavisstaples.com. The audre lorde project. https://alp.org/about/audre. Plenty of privilege alerts. The year of the pandemic. The year of everything. Guess what? From now on every year is the year of everything. What are your gifts? How do you spread them? Storytelling is indigenous! https://www.animas.org/books/nature-and-the-human-soul/ Entering as the Artisan in the Wild Orchard - a bit of the origin story of the Yay Show - building unimagined bridges. Friends like Jamie and Todd and Leigh and Ian. https://smart.bio/windowstowisdom/ https://marchstudio.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

There’s a lot of alchemy here mucho Yay! https://www.ber-hendawilliams.com and http://adriennemareebrown.net. Plus I go off the cornice (again) with Karen Scheuner https://www.mindful-nutrition.com. More mentions to come. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

Was this on World Cafe this am: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/19/936724490/hear-the-inspirational-protest-songs-of-the-resistance-revival-chorus?ft=nprml&f=216835831. Go listen now! And though it’s a new day and two of my favorite radio stations will be onto the next episode please consider supporting them! https://www.885fm.org or https://kutx.org Avena Koomson-Davis is the musical director/singer/resistor of Revival Chorus and member/singer/writer/resistor Alba Ponce De Leon. Tons of Takeayays and this: Spread Love and Sing. Use your voice. Resist with Joy! Plus yayspiration on from Krista and My Octopus Teacher. https://www.netflix.com/title/81045007, Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel and Fleet Maull on her podcast called open questions. This is episode 10. Dharma in Hell. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/open-question/id1507249383?i=1000498190984. Plus Leaning into the good upon waking with Dr. Rick Hanson and Jamie https://instagram.com/jamiecromerfabp_grue?igshid=1wxzujrvq4nn1. More mentions within of rad people within! https://kanyonkonsulting.com joegoode.org. https://jessicamorey.org. Check out Otter.ai. Best #voicenote tool EVER. Seriously, 600 free #transcription minutes a month! https://otter.ai/referrals/18VT6CX7 Now go out there or in your own here and now and Find Your Yay! It might be in one of your distributed brains especially if it’s coming from one of the brains you were birthed from, including your own. (Moloka’i the novel). http://www.alanbrennert.com/2013_Pg.Molokai.html on one of your 8 tentacles. or in your cave. Or deep under water. NamasYay! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

It's November 6th and the counting continues after the election. Instead (or in addition to) writing, and reading, and listening, I bring you a multivariate Yay Show created and edited over two days. Plenty of perspective, many references, much Yay. Something to check out (perhaps) between your refreshing of vote counts and listening or watching of your favorite news sources. There will (hopefully) be another episode on Spotify soon with song excerpts to pepper and infuse with meaning and melody and music! So grateful to be here. Facing forward! Sharing Yay! NamasYay!! Many mentions in this episode, including: Myisha Hill...Check your privilege. Instagram Wake up with perspective with Alexis Santos (meditation) Take a virtual GRIT or dance class with Uforia. It will uplift you! Stephen Colbert 11/5/2020 monologue breakdown Test your unconscious bias Diana Winston meditation at the Hammer Museum at UCLA - post election (during) - wondrous grounding! And it happens every Thursday at 12:30pm Pacific time and is on the site/app. If you're in San Francisco, eat at Mau (or have it delivered). delish! Visit Horse and Plow in Sebastopol and say hi to Suzanne, Josh, and Chris where I heard... Kayatta perform radly. With Erica Ambrin and DJ Dyops. Taste wine in the backyard with Mat and Barb at Paul Mathew in Graton. great friends! Sign up for group yoga with Sara Silberstang. Read A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler Featured Adia Victoria South's Gotta Change. Support her by downloading, streaming, listening, sharing! More music that came to mind during the making of this, mentioned or not.. Devon Gillfillian's reimaging of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On? (with friends) Maia Sharp Underneath Counting Blue cars 🚙 🚗  (count them all) Choose your version of A Change is Gonna Come, because I can't get the link and change is coming. Now!!   There's probably more 🙌🏻😁😷😍❤️ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

I walk live! with @girltrek day 8: spiritual warrior Maya Angelou. Check it out wherever you take in your podcasts. https://girltrek.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6aa11fa786466642f2188db2e&id=d26d50124c&e=ec921a139d And I walk in person in the light of the golden gate park with Krista yesterday. We are cinderellas devouring the best soup and walking each other home! Plus Catherine price on 10 percent happier podcast (#289). More links to come. And I hope you dance. And invite and notice delight. And yay. And most of all, vote for truth and justice and love and the collective yay. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

Hi all! I'm back with some Yay! Naming this season in the moment, playing in the Yay, admitting likely to go back to other things like Changing Course. Especially since they're already recorded. I'm calling this "The way of Yay" because it came to me a few days ago and it may just become the first book, hence, Chapter 1. This short-ish episode is about taking in the Yay, taking in the good, and lots of other ways to characterize that (and a lived example of the opposite). It started because I wanted to animate the aftermath of a great conversation with Krista and get a baguette from tartine. Which will lead to future baked heaven from panorama baking company More learning and living about Taking in the good via Rick Hanson's Hardwiring Happiness and my friend Jess  Having a Great Food truck Race moment with Nola Creations that turned out to be real. They won the Great Food Truck Race. Who knew? Me, apparently. https://nola-creations.com/ They're at Soma Streat food park today 9/22/2020.  Happy fall y'all! Understanding more about the Mission neighborhood and how the name itself is fraught with conquering, colonialism, and white supremacy. Acknowledging the Native Americans and the indigenous land we are settlers of is one way to aware and repair, out loud. (this is  a wikipedia excerpt) "Prior to the arrival of Spanish missionaries, the area which now includes the Mission District was inhabited by the Ohlone people who populated much of the San Francisco bay area. The Yelamu Indians inhabited the region for over 2,000 years. Spanish missionaries arrived in the area during the late 18th century. They found these people living in two villages on Mission Creek. It was here that a Spanish priest named Father Francisco Palóu founded Mission San Francisco de Asis on June 29, 1776. The Mission was moved from the shore of Laguna Dolores to its current location in 1783.[10] Franciscan friars are reported to have used Ohlone slave labor to complete the Mission in 1791.[11] This period marked the beginning of the end of the Yelamu culture. The Indian population at Mission Dolores dropped from 400 to 50 between 1833 and 1841." I recommend "Starting out the day with a big cup of Yay" whatever time it is. NamasYay y'all! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

Continuing my journey and f**king up and denying it and appreciating partners, coconspirators, friends, teachers and other fallible humans just like me who open me up even as I close down so I can open back up and let some yay back into the cracks and emanate back. Just a couple of links today and a commitment: ✍🏾Prompt: "This week I am working to #checkmyprivilege by looking for, noticing, and examining my previously unexamined unconscious biases. It is my intention to name and admit these biases as they come up in a compassionate, kind, curious, and nonjudgmental way and share this experience of growth and learning with my community I will keep myself accountable to this practice this week by choosing (Jody Hahn) as my #conconspired action partner." https://checkyourprivilege.co https://instagram.com/myishathill?igshid=ja9fc1lzjkm https://instagram.com/ckyourprivilege?igshid=7dg6gaz4rl2e All from Myisha T Hill founder of Check Your Privilege amd many other rad ventures. Further I just discovered (finally the voices of black people (inclusive or BIPOC too) and their podcasts are rising to the top of Apple - thank you!). This is the first episode of the Girl Trek’s 21-day Black History Bootcamp. I’m going to join already in progress and keep going. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/girltreks-black-history-bootcamp/id1516334638?i=1000476442906 and join here: https://www.girltrek.org/blackhistorybootcamp. I also mentioned It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders and I’m in the middle of this episode. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-been-a-minute-with-sam-sanders/id1250180134?i=1000476936600. Plus Code Switch. Start anywhere or here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/code-switch/id1112190608. Namasyay! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

There a sunset and a solstice and a poem and deepening recognition of privilege of gratitude highness. Plus I listen to the code switch podcast. Checking it out. You could start here. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/code-switch/id1112190608 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

These are some of the BIPOC people I listened to, read and was taught fathoms by on this Juneteenth day in 2020 the year of Covid-19 (that’s two nineteen sans two twenties if you’re counting) Discovered on Patreon/the show up Juneteenth Edition Amelia Ray, Madison McFerrin and Dee 1 Support them on patreon for https://www.patreon.com/ameliaray, https://www.patreon.com/madmcferrin https://www.patreon.com/dee1music. Reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Practicing yoga and meditation in silent protest with Saada Hafiz, Jessica Said, and Jacob Ross Reynolds https://instagram.com/saeedahafiz?igshid=1lt3xx99dpiwu https://instagram.com/jseid?igshid=i9njww7cgbkv https://instagram.com/jacobrossreynolds?igshid=5fvpid92j8g0. Read a poem called Ships (1619-1865) by Guérin-Kairu copyright and written by https://link.medium.com/jCSkB9zxs7 and a poem by me yet to be titled inspired by Guérin-Kairu https://instagram.com/guerin.kairu?igshid=1v5g2eonxav5s and written today. #allyship #antiracism #wakeup #growup #showup #antiracist #blacklivesmatter #amplifyblackvoices #dismantlewhitesupremacy #inclusion #activeallyship #gratitude #weseeyou #communitybuilding #wakeupandsayyay --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

I conversate about https://instagram.com/parlay.house?igshid=1h9mi74xj4ebc In conversation with two members of the Parlay House community, Adimika Arthur as a Black woman and Carla Vernón https://instagram.com/carlainspired?igshid=150ea26jxrqw6 as an Afro Latina woman tell animated and normal stories of their lives. Plus supporting https://instagram.com/_dyanedwards?igshid=1xjs40iqsf5ie om Patreon leads me to a an enlightening TedX talk by https://instagram.com/meganming?igshid=18kurqidp433g on a day where a collective conversation didn’t exactly happen. Plenty to learn and do next. NamasYay! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

The blue sky clears and the green energy lifts on a different kind of day, more intimate. Namasyay! #allyship #antiracism #wakeup #growup #showup #antiracist #gratitude #wakeupandsayyay --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

And I learned that Dr. Akilah Cadet https://instagram.com/changecadet?igshid=1pmwrtyy6danv pronounces her name “Kah-day” the French way (which is a good way to remember it rhymes wirh way. And was blown away by her conversation with Adrienne Kimball of The Melanated Soul. https://instagram.com/adrienne_kimball?igshid=i16ji1xnay2b. They are both Amazing Gifted Poweful Talented Black women who I feel privileged to listen and learn from on The Change Cadet podcast June 5 2020 Episode 18: For White Women. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-cadet-podcast/id1473986745?i=1000477206318. I am indeed a white woman who learned lots of ugly stuff about white women (very significant role as slave owners) and the legacy of power and privilege that leads straight to Amy Cooper and how a bit more powerlessness could serve us well and not in the way you might think. And so much about how I and we can be better. I probably talked about some other stuff I learned from other rad black women this week who I’ve mentioned in previous episodes and I got amplified. I am just getting started. Please listen to The Change Cadet podcast yourself very intently and so openly and join me on this journey to “Wake Up, Grow Up, and Show Up.” Those are Adrienne Kimball’s powerful, crystal clear, and memorable words. I’ll keep it Yay and try not to be exhausting. #allyship #antiracism #wakeup #growup #showup #antiracist #blacklivesmatter #amplifyblackvoices #anplifymelanatedvoices #strongblackwomenteachmesomuch #gratitude #wakeupandsayyay --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

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What do you wear to stay alive when you run? Or do you even think about it? Here are some ways I saw two different neighbors differently. And neighborhoods. And conversations. Said, unsaid, seen, seen differently. Messing up. Plus studies and conversations about race and neighborhoods from Robin DiAngelo and White Fragility. And seeing through unconscious bias with Sebene Selassie (It’s a practice!!). A reflection from Oren Jay Sofer who learned that we don’t get to decide if we’re allies. Which helped me learn and see that too. And how there’s always more to learn. Sunday reflections in the Yay. I see you. Links and gratitude to Sebene https://instagram.com/sebeneselassie?igshid=fj699a542734, Oren (and his teachers and friends and ten percent for everything they’re doing to mess up, shoe up, and amplify black voices and teachers and those of color too even though Oren is a white guy, it’s still alright) https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/how-i-continue-to-mess-up-being-an-ally-and-how-meditation-helps-me-mess-up-slightly-less, Robin https://instagram.com/diangelorobin?igshid=e5d8a17bv1ne and all the people and forces of freedom pulling and pushing and leading me here. I’m immensely grateful. To neighbors who are friends, friends who are neighborly. Far flung friends. Dancers and teachers and dancing teachers, stepping in instead of around Nuanced people fed and lifted by each other and misfed and misled by cultures and systems. We’re all in this together. As for me...talking it out. Occasionally aware. Messing up. Messing with assumptions and biases. Checking what might have gone unchecked a few weeks ago. For example, white privilege. Forward I face into the light. Working on it! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

Day 6...Listen Up! Sebene Selassie knows You Belong. We are not separate which is why we can no longer hit the snooze button on systemic white supremacy and racism and anti-black-ism In America. And there’s a wake up moment about the meaning of a kind of hair-spiration that comes after a shower (literally). Lots to learn from Angel Kyodo Williams and Robin DIAngelo. Letting go of white supremacy and becoming an ally on the way to accomplice. Apprenticeship just beginning. Join me in the wake up and say Yay zone. Gratitude, links and learnings from https://instagram.com/sebeneselassie?igshid=40qa5y013k2k and https://instagram.com/zenchangeangel?igshid=c14e6hohqewj and https://instagram.com/diangelorobin?igshid=v60nwfi1jhvn. NamsYay y’all --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message

I continue unabated. Lifted up once again by https://instagram.com/janayathefuture?igshid=1oovsbtw0wiue and their Sunday sermon https://www.instagram.com/tv/CBMbcotnzc_/?igshid=4otmacnfhqbf to step into my power and light as a storyteller. I am commiting to doing what Robin DiAngelo talked about in the intro (it’s only the intro) to White Fragility that we so called white progressives don’t do “what we need to be doing for the rest of our lives: engaging in ongoing self-awareness, continuing education, relationship building, and actual antiracist practice.” This post from moments ago is straight to my heart and solar plexus: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBWE2n6g5uT/?igshid=1n3r720g87wh9. Braving and becoming the wilderness https://instagram.com/brenebrown?igshid=1wkd82xg682oe. I see you. You see me. https://instagram.com/jamiecromerabpf_grue?igshid=zykw6pmxqsiw https://instagram.com/laurieb.studio?igshid=56bovn8vhl8p. Let’s welcome each other’s light like we never have before. — excerpt from “White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin J. DiAngelo --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yayshow/message