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S4E06 Deconditioning, Decolonizing, and Unbecoming · Liberatory Strategy

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Shirani Pathak: Hey there, and welcome to the fierce
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authenticity podcast where I teach you how to decolonize your
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mind, break free from supremacy internalized patriarchal
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conditioning, and have amazing relationships. It doesn't have
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to be one or the other friend, you can have both. And my
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signature framework fierce authenticity shows you how. I'm
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your hostess Shirani M. Pathak. And now, let's get to it.
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Welcome back to the podcast, I am so excited to be here with
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you. Again, it is a new year, we just went through our entire
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holiday series parts one, two, and three, as well as learning
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about our Word of the Year and how we can choose like an
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intention or a word to be intentional around as we're
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kicking off this New Year, rather than those resolutions
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that don't work. So if you haven't listened to those
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episodes, make sure you go back and get caught up, you are not
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going to want to miss those, especially like I said that one
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with Dimple Mukherjee, our guest who talked about our Word of the
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Year and how to use a word to guide and also the episode I
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have about why New Year's resolutions don't work. So as
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we're kicking off 2023 I want to direct you there. And also just
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welcome to a fresh new year. By the time you hear this, I will
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no longer be a psychotherapist, I will have retired that
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profession, a profession that I have been in for about 16 years
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when you include grad school and pre licensure years and, and
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then licensure and all that. So it's been a long time. And the
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topic we're going to talk about today, which is decolonizing,
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deconditioning and unbecoming, actually tie in really, really
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nicely to this process of unbecoming for me of
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decolonizing how the conditioning that told me "Oh,
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you went to school for your master's in social work, you
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went to school to become a therapist, now you're gonna quit
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being a therapist," you know, all of that. The colonial
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thoughts about having to stick to one thing and make an
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education and everything else that's not education is like not
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good or not worthy of pursuit. And then the deconditioning that
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has to happen. And to me, deconditioning and decolonizing
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are very similar, because I had to literally decondition all of
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the beliefs, all of that conditioning that told me no, I
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can't do that, oh, I should stick to this thing that I know,
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oh, I've had this career for so long. Oh, this is what I went to
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school with, oh, you're still paying off over $100,000 in
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student loan debt for this career, right. So that requires
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a lot of that. And in the process is also a practice of
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unbecoming because as we're doing our decolonizing work as
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we're doing our deconditioning, what we're doing is we're really
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unraveling everything that society has told us that we
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should be or that we need to be. It's like a ball of yarn that's
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been all tangled up. And we're just unraveling all of that, and
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unbecoming everything that is not authentically us. So that we
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can step into who we came here to be who we are when we are not
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following all these societal expectations, all of this
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conditioning all of the shoulds. That's what happens. That's what
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the process of unbecoming is and not going to lie to you today,
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Friend, I did have to have some help. We do have a studio
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audience present with us today. And by the way, if you have not
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you can be in the community space with us as we do this. So
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back to what I was saying. We do have a live studio audience
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today. A community member is with us. And I had to ask her
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"Hey, this is the topic that we're doing for today. But I got
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nothing. So can you give me some questions that you might have
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any ways to jog something in me so that we can actually have a
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podcast episode on this topic?" And what she asked about was,
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how do we connect the personal to the collective as we're doing
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this work? What is the connection between the personal
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and the collective? And the feedback loop that goes in
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between that? And then also, how do we give ourselves grace in
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the process. So thank you so much to our community member,
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Nisha, who has also been a guest earlier on the podcast, and who
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also interviewed me for her podcast, which we also posted
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here on the episode. So thank you to my friend and community
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member Nisha, for being here with me and for asking these
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really powerful questions. And I think I'm just gonna get right
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to it. For me, fierce authenticity, and unbecoming is
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all about collective healing. My background is as a social
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worker. So working on a systems level is not new to me, that's
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something that's been ingrained into me since I started this
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whole thing. So it's always been looking from a systemic
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perspective, both the sociocultural, socioeconomic
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systems that are there, and also a family system or a friend
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system, or who's around us, those are systems also. And so I
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had been trained in this, and it's like, I live it, I breathe
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it, it's in my blood, we are always in systems of some sort.
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And so knowing that background fierce authenticity, and
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unbecoming, which includes this work of decolonizing, and
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deconditioning, really is us healing the collective, the
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macro level, by doing our personal work, the micro level.
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And there's fancier words to it, basically, like the the
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macrocosm, which is the big collective systems and
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structures that hold us all in place, and then the microcosm,
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which is each individual part of that collective system. So to
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me, this work is all about doing our personal work so that we can
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heal the collective. I'm thinking about Milagros
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Phillips, who was also a guest on our podcast, I believe she
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kicked off season three, and she's the race healer. And she
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talks about how there's this big brick wall that are these
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systems and these structures. And as each of us does our work,
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we're taking our brick out of that wall. And as we take our
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brick out of the wall, eventually that wall will
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collapse. And that has been my thing, I truly believe, and
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you've heard me say this before on the podcast that this is a
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Trojan horse approach, I truly believe that we are going to
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knock down the systems and structures of supremacy culture
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and oppression and patriarchy, and colonialism and toxic
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capitalism and ableism. Like all of the isms and all of the
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things that are rooted in these systems of oppression, they're
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all going to collapse from the inside out, and kind of like an
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imploding upon itself, as each of us does the work. And I've
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talked about it as a Trojan horse approach that is going to
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be going in sneaky and sly, but from a perspective of us doing
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our own work. Let's go back and first of all, define what these
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terms mean. Decolonizing, who's experienced it, how it shows up?
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What needs deconditioning and what exactly is unbecoming. So
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let's just back up a step and go there. And now I am no expert or
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scholar on decolonizing. There are plenty of educators out
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there, who this is what they teach. And what I'm going to
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share with you is my understanding and how it shows
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up for me. So I am a Brown woman, I call myself a triple
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colonized Brown woman because first there was the British in
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India, and then the British took us to Fiji. So step two, and
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then my family chose to move to the US another very colonial
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country. So I call myself triple colonized. And to me that means
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that any of us who have ever lived in any sort of colonial
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rule, the word rule isn't even the right word. But to me, it's
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like we have experienced colonization in our past we have
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experienced colonization in our history. And so that means an
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outsider came in they took over, they pillage they plundered,
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they took for themselves. They tried to convert people to be
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like them. And then of course with indigenous populations and
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a lot of African people who were enslaved, there was also
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genocide that occurred. So these are all of the different ways.
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And I'm thinking of Milagros Phillips how she talks about it
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that for Black people, it's enslavement, right? They have to
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release that trauma from their blood, their bones, their DNA.
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For white people, they need to release the trauma of being the
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colonizer. And then for and the enslaver, and for Brown people,
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we have to deal with undoing the colonization. So I'm going to
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speak from a Brown girl perspective, because to me, I
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think about the ways that we have been so impacted. And
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honestly, I get jealous when I hear Indian people who ended up
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in the Caribbean when the colonizers took them from India
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to work sugarcane plantations out in the Caribbean, I kind of
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get jealous and I'm like, wow, they assimilated so well, it
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seems into the culture. We have Indo-Caribbean people in our
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community, they verify that over time, there was assimilation
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that occurred with the Indigenous populations that
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already resided there. Now me I get a little jealous because we
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were colonized by the British over there in Fiji, and it very
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much was a separation and a divide the Indigenous Fijians
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and the Indians that colonizers had taken over the human cargo
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they brought right they never intermingled well. I don't know
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the history behind that. But I always felt like wow, this
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really sucks that intermingling didn't happen that there's still
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such a divide of us versus them. And to me, that's one of the
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tactics of supremacy culture, and it is one of the tactics of
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colonization is this US them mentality. And there's so many
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ways that there's colonialism shows up, it shows up in
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hierarchies, it shows up, as I mentioned earlier, at the start
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of this episode, in valuing education, you know, the written
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word is what's valued, and only doing that which is deemed
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acceptable or appropriate. Those are some of the ways that
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colonization show up. And of course, there's so many more.
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And like I said, I am not the expert or educator in this,
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there are plenty of people you can learn from. And you know
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what, we'll go ahead and link a few names in the show notes for
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you so that you can learn from these educators. And I am
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sharing my experience of what it has looked like. And of course,
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Hindus already had a caste system in place. And some people
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argue that a lot of the colorism came from the caste system.
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That's a history I have not researched into. And it's still
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important to note that these hierarchies of there's some who
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are better than some who are less than and then of that
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group, there are some who are better than and some who are
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less than and so it just continues on and on. And other
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ways that colonialism shows up is meritocracy, where there's
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these rewards for doing well. There's these rewards and
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advancements for putting your head down doing your work doing
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it well. Good Behavior is rewarded. And then you get to
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advance, right? So there's so many ways and this doesn't even
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scratch the tip of the iceberg of it. And then this gets
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carried out in the ways that we engage with one another and the
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ways that we behave. So now let's move on to deconditioning.
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To me, deconditioning is undoing all of the sociocultural
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conditioning that colonialism put on us. And to me, that means
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undoing all of the stories and lies that tell you you're not
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good enough. It means undoing and healing from recovering from
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all of the stories that lead to impostor syndrome and
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perfectionism. And the not enoughs, inadequacy, feeling
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like you have to constantly be in hustle mode, feeling like you
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have to constantly be in go mode, and judgment and
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criticism, you know, the ways it shows up in our relationships
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and when we get judgey judgey towards our partners or siblings
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or parents or friends, towards our coworkers, anybody right how
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we get so judgy how we get critical how we get into
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comparison. To me. These are also ways that colonialism shows
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up and part of the decolonizing and deconditioning work that we
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need to do. And here's the other part of it to me, as you've
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heard on the podcast before this is not just done on a brain
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level, like from your head like on a thought perspective, this
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really needs to happen in our bodies, because supremacy
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culture has hijacked our nervous systems, supremacy culture has
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used fear to control us. And let's go ahead and for the sake
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of the rest of this episode, put supremacy culture and
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colonization together in one bucket so I'm going to start
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using those interchangeably. Fear has been used to control
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fear has been used to oppress, and that takes a toll on our
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nervous systems. And so as we are deconditioning, these
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stories, these ideas, these beliefs, we also need to get
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into relationship with our bodies, you may have heard me
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talk about it on the podcast before to me heart work, the
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work of healing our hearts in our relationships, plus somatic
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work, getting into relationship with our bodies, equals a new
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legacy. And ultimately, that's what we're doing here with
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fierce authenticity, we're creating a new legacy. And a
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part of that legacy means we have to get in touch with our
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bodies, we have to get in touch and in tune with what is our
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nervous system alerting us to what are we finding as threats
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around us. And this could be the sideways look you got from your
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coworker. Or it could be you getting called into your boss's
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office for review, right? Or even not even a review, but just
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getting called into your boss's office, I remember that would
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trigger so much fear in me, when a boss would be like, Oh, hey,
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come over to my office and talk to you. It was an instant
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trigger and freak out for me and my nervous system. And I didn't
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know it at the time that that's what was happening. But this is
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all a part of the deconditioning work is not just the stories,
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and what contributes to it, but is also about our bodies as a
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messenger and what messages they're giving us and also our
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nervous systems, which to me is what brings us to unbecoming and
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how these three just feel like they're almost like they flow
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seamlessly into each other. And it's really hard to separate one
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from the other. And that is like the unbecoming of all of these
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things. That colonialism, that colonization, the conditioning,
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as we decolonize and decondition, what is happening
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is we are truly unbecoming everything that is not who we
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are everything that is not who we were created to be. Because
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friend, I'm just going to say it straight right here right now.
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You are a spark of divine love. That is what you are. And if you
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have any thoughts to the contrary, in terms of like, Oh,
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I'm not good enough, I'm inadequate. Oh, I have to be
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perfect. All that is the bullshit that colonization and
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all of the conditioning has led you to believe you're wound up
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in these layers and layers, like I'm almost seeing it like a
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mummy wrapped up like a mummy and all these layers of things
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that are not you. So as you decolonize as you decondition.
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As you see what messages your brain, your body, your nervous
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system is giving you as well as what your thoughts are about
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these things that are getting activated in you and working
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with them from a somatic place. That's how we unravel like I had
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talked about that ball of yarn at the beginning of the episode.
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That is how we on ravel. It's like the cloth. That is the
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mummies. That's like got you in bondage basically, that's all
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the stuff that is not you. And as you undo all of that, what
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gets revealed is the version of you. That is the true version of
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you, who you really, truly fiercely, authentically are
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underneath all of the crap. That is not you. And so that to me,
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is what unbecoming is really about it is a sacred process. It
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truly is because it requires us to get into relationship with a
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source of something greater than us. Because if I'm telling you
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that you're a divine spark of love, then that means there must
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be a higher power a Divine Creator Source of something
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that's there and not in the religious dogma kind of way but
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a personal relationship with something bigger and greater
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than you. So you have to have that relationship with source
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and then having a relationship with yourself, who are you? Who
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are you not? And as that happens, then the way you show
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up in your relationship with others, and that's the way we do
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this work. And that's how, when we do the healing on an
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individual or microcosm level, we heal the collective, and we
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heal the macro level. And that's how each of us within these
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bigger systems does our work. And you've probably heard me say
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it on the podcast, but I'll say it again, each and every single
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one of us has a responsibility to do this inner work of
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decolonizing deconditioning, dismantling, demolishing all of
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this internalized colonialism, the internalized supremacy, the
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internalized oppression, each and every single one of us has a
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responsibility no matter what the color of your skin, because
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we live in these systems, and each of us has been impacted by
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it. Because a lot of times people will be like, Oh, that's
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white people's problem is for them to solve. Yes. On a systems
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and structures level. Absolutely. And each of us is
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responsible for doing our inner work. I also want to address how
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do we give ourselves grace, as we're in the process. Very early
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on in season one of the podcast when I first began, the fierce
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authenticity podcast, I used to actually put out love notes. And
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the love notes were like, three to five minutes, they were
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permission slips, they were love notes, they were from my heart
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to yours. I mean, all of these are from my heart to yours. And
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there was like a more sacred quality to them, almost like a
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meditation. So very early on, I did one called permission to
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change. So add that to your list of episodes to go back and
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listen to. And I think that's like just a three to five minute
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love note. And it's really, that we're going to mess this up.
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None of us is an expert or a pro at this. We're all learning and
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unlearning right here alongside each other. And it is super
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important for us to remember and recognize that because we're
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building the new world as we're still living in the old one. So
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we're constructing from the ruins of what we're
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deconstructing, it's important to just remember, we're going to
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mess it up, I'm going to mess it up, you're going to mess it up,
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other people are going to mess it up. And the factor that
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matters the most in those moments is how do we repair when
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we have messed it up? Let's say in our messing it up, we truly
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did someone harm whether with our words or our actions, and we
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really didn't know and then it's brought to our attention. Well,
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am I going to be a douchebag? And be like, Oh, whatever make
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up all the excuses about justifying my behavior? Or am I
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going to say, "Wow, thank you so much for letting me know, I am
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so sorry that I caused you that harm. Thank you for speaking up.
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I'm going to do it better next time. Is there anything else I
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can do this time to support you? Is there any way I can make it
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right right now?" This is what repair looks and sounds like.
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And under systems of supremacy and colonization. We have not
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been taught how to do repair. Maybe we'll do an episode on
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that how to do repair when we have caused harm. Because we
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live in such a culture of blame and shame and deferring
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responsibility not taking accountability. And in order for
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repair to happen, we have to show up with humility, meaning
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we have to show up right sized we have to show up knowing that
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I'm not better than you. I'm not worse than you. But I am the
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same as you when it comes to being a human and being a divine
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spark. Right. We are all the same as and it requires me
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really opening myself up to hear you and to create space. And
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sometimes it's going to be uncomfortable. It's not going to
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feel good. If someone's like hey, you know can I talk to you
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that thing that you said or that thing that you did that really
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hurt me because of XYZ right? It can be really difficult
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sometimes to look at like oh shit, yeah, I really did do that
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right? And then again, it requires that humility to know
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that we're the same here and you're a human, and I'm a human.
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And we're just trying to do this wild thing called life together
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so that we can, like we're all working towards the same common
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shared goal. So that's like having grace for yourself, just
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know that you aren't going to mess it up, and grace for others
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know that others are going to mess it up. Also, we're not
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perfect, our perfection is not required. It's our progress that
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we must be making and how we're showing up. Big breath. So with
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that, I think that is going to wrap up our main episode.
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Hangout with me friends, because we are going to be opening up to
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our live Q&A slash coaching portion of today's episode. And
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Unbecoming, we begin on January 27, 2023, this is what we're
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going to be doing, we're going to be doing all of this. So
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check out the link in the show notes. Come on over, check it
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out. And see if you're meant to be there feeling to it, get into
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relationship with your body, and see if it calls you to be there.
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And so with that, my friends, we are going to take a quick water
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break, and then be back for the community portion. Alright,
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thank you, thank you, we are back. And we do have our
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community member with us. Would you care to say any words or ask
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any questions? I mean, I know these questions came from you
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originally. And I definitely want to give you an opportunity
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to ask or even add your commentary, because I do value
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your knowledge in this area as well. So feel free to unmute and
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Nisha Mody: Yeah, thank you so much Shirani I loved so much of
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join me here.
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what you shared. And I think what really a few parts that
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resonated with me were just meritocracy is like just a space
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that I have always struggled with, with trying to like, prove
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myself or, you know, keep up with, you know, other people,
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especially as a South Asian, like, being the model minority
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and all that stuff, which is like, completely like a
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politicized conditioning, essentially. So that was really,
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really helpful. Another thing I wanted to mention was I really
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liked how you said, right size relationship. I don't think I've
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ever heard of that before. And or just being right sized. Like
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when you said that I was like, oh, to me when I heard that. I
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thought meeting myself where I'm at, but I wasn't sure if you
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could expand on that a little more.
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Shirani Pathak: Yeah, absolutely. One of my mentors,
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talks a lot about being right sized. And you know, when the
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word humility came out of my mouth, I was like humility, why
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am I talking about humility? That's not a word I usually go
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to. And then I was reminded that, like, humility really is
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about being right sized. And like you said, that in this,
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like, with the meritocracy, and the hierarchies, and all of
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these things that systems of supremacy and oppression have
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put in place, we start to think either bigger than so we're more
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inflated, or we start to you know, Terry Real, I'm trained
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with him, he calls it grandiosity where we're like
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overly inflated, and like, I'm bigger than you. It's a total
28:52
defense mechanism. Actually, he says, sometimes it's not a
28:55
defense mechanism. But I digress. We're gonna call it
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grandiosity, the bigger, you know, overly inflated, I'm
29:02
holier than thou type scenario. And then there's like shame,
29:07
where we shrink and we think we're less than or we think that
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we are below or beneath or that that's where the inadequacy
29:16
starts to come in. Right. So if you're relating from grandiosity
29:20
up here, or shame down here, you're not here, where health is
29:27
and where the rest of us are. And that's a big part of the
29:30
problem is that the dehumanization of some and the
29:34
superiority of others also puts us into that being bigger or
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being smaller. So to me being right sized means remembering,
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oh, let me disarm any part of me that wants to show up all big
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and overly inflated. And let me pull myself up from shame.
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Right. Let me remember that I have every right to be here,
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every right to speak up, every right to have myself heard. So
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that brings us to an even playing field, where now I'm not
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bigger than, I'm not better than I'm not less than, but I'm truly
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showing up as someone who is equal to you, in our shared
30:25
humanity. So to me, that's what being right sized means. And I'm
30:29
remembering when I shared with my mentor one time, about how
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much I love going to Big Sur, there's this park on a cliff,
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and just walking out onto the cliff and being confronted with
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these massive waves that just come like Big Sur is such a
30:48
gorgeous place. And how it always reminds me that, oh,
30:54
nature is so much bigger and great. Like I am just this tiny
30:59
part of this great big world, and of this great big cosmos. So
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I remember sharing that with her one day. And she's like, Yeah,
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sounds like going there helps you get right sized. Because
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sometimes it can also be easy for me to go into all of my
31:17
problems, and then I'm the center of it all. And then I get
31:20
so wrapped up in the Me, me me that I forget that there's
31:25
something bigger and greater and that I am merely a part of it.
31:29
So there's different ways of looking at this right sizing.
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Some people would say it's to knock you down, right, bring you
31:36
back to where you belong. And we don't play that here. But it's
31:39
really just to bring us back on an equal playing field that
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you're human. I'm a human, we're not better than we're not less
31:49
than how can we show up and engage together human to human?
31:56
Nisha Mody: Yeah, I love that. I love thinking about humility. I
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initially, I think I've had similar reaction to you. But now
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I think it's beautiful to know that you don't know. And I also
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feel like being right size reminds me of interdependence,
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like we need each other too. So I think that that's really
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beautiful. So thank you for expanding on that.
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Shirani Pathak: Yeah, thank you. And I love you just said
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interdependence. And I felt my body just like tingle with the
32:24
sweetness of when we remember that right the tenderness of
32:30
when we remember that. Thank you so much. Nisha, for joining us
32:37
here as our live studio audience. Thank you for your
32:40
super valuable questions that you asked both to kick us off
32:45
for the episode. And to help expanding in What does right
32:50
size really mean? Anything else from you? Before we wrap up for
32:55
today?
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Nisha Mody: No, thank you so much for just connecting all
32:57
these concepts together. I, I had mentioned like, you know,
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it's a million dollar question. How do we connect all these
33:02
together? Right? And, yeah, I appreciated how you put it all
33:07
and wrapped it up beautifully.
33:08
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