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Liberatory Strategy
You're here to build our new world. But you’ve realized that the very systems you're here to dismantle are the same ones sabotaging your internal clarity, your organizational power, and your nervous system.
If that's you, then welcome to Liberatory Strategy.
This is the podcast for revolutionary leaders, founders, and visionaries who know that internal liberation is the path of creating a new legacy. We move past the diagnosis of systemic harm and into the active work of creating what comes…
Episodes
Liberatory StrategyS3E7 The Truth About Self-Sabotage
In today’s episode, Shirani expands on the topic of how supremacy culture shows up in our everyday life by talking about self sabotage. There’s a misconception…
Liberatory StrategyS3E6: Time Affluence with Guest Shailaja Vishwanath
In today’s episode, Shirani is joined by Shailaja Vishwanath. Shailaja is a blog, social media, and productivity coach who helps creators grow a loyal audience…
Liberatory StrategyS3E5: Everyday Supremacy
In today’s episode, Shirani is shining a light on what she refers to as “everyday supremacy”; ways in which we uphold supremacy culture on an everyday basis…
Liberatory StrategyS3E4: 5000 Years of Trauma
Supremacy culture began long ago before the Middle Ages and Euro colonization. This is when white body supremacy culture began, but the pattern of supremacy…
Liberatory StrategyS3E3: Recovering from Failure
Supremacy culture wants us to stay disconnected. It wants us to stay in shame, so that we don't speak, so that we don't share. But you know what supremacy…
Liberatory StrategyS3E2: Behind the Scenes of Fierce Authenticity 2.0
Today, Shirani takes you behind the scenes and talks about the writing process of her latest book Fierce Authenticity 2.0: Supremacy’s Impact on Our…
Liberatory StrategyS3E1: Healing Racism with guest Milagros Phillips
Welcome back to a brand new season of The Fierce Authenticity Podcast! We begin this new season with a bang. In today’s episode, Shirani is joined by Milagros…
Liberatory StrategyPre-Season Review: Disconnection Keeps You Oppressed
Our pre-publication supporters campaign for Fierce Authenticity 2.0: Supremacy's Impact on Our Relationships is well underway and our first contributors have…
Liberatory StrategyPre-Season Review: Intergenerational Trauma with Dr. B. Nilaja Green
Our pre-publication supporters campaign for Fierce Authenticity 2.0: Supremacy's Impact on Our Relationships is well underway and our first contributors have…
Liberatory StrategyPre-Season Review: Your Nervous System
Our pre-publication supporters campaign for Fierce Authenticity 2.0: Supremacy's Impact on Our Relationships is well underway and our first contributors have…
Liberatory StrategyPre-Season Review: Collective Trauma and You
Before we dive into today's episode I have some very exiting news: I am cordially inviting you to join me in community to support and uplift the message of…
Liberatory StrategyPre-Season Review: Relational F*ckery with James-Olivia Chu Hillman
We're back and we're starting Season 3 of the Fierce Authenticity podcast with a pre-season review to get you ready for what's next. Over the next several…
Liberatory StrategyCelebration!
Today’s episode is a celebration and our Season 2 finale! Today the Fierce Authenticity Podcast is officially one-year old! The past year has been filled with…
Liberatory StrategyS2E15: Money, Power, Property, Prestige
Do you ever get that feeling of loneliness and lack of connection? Those feelings are a part of our lack of fulfillment and they’re due to our disconnection…
Liberatory StrategyS2E14: How to Feel Fulfilled
If you feel burnt out, like there's something missing and you just know that you're not living your life to its fullest capacity despite having all the things…
Liberatory StrategyS2E13: The Truth About Boundaries
Today’s episode is all about boundaries and the small shifts you can make to your perspective so that you can be true to yourself and your boundaries with…
Liberatory StrategyS2E12: Hustle vs. Flow
Today we’re busting the myth that there’s value in the hustle and grind, and offering an alternative instead. I see you over there, placing your value on how…
Liberatory StrategyS2E11: Your Relationship with a Higher Power
Developing a relationship with a power greater than yourself is not optional, it's mandatory, if you are going to be a leader who can truly affect global…
Liberatory StrategyS2E10: The Personal and the Professional Aren’t Separate
One of the age old questions is: how to balance your personal and professional lives? Work-life balance is the million dollar question. The reason the answer…
Liberatory StrategyS2E9: From Problems to Solutions
Today we’re answering the question how do we shift from problems to solutions, and I’m sharing with you a powerful 3-part process to help you succeed. When we…
Liberatory StrategyS2E8: My Morning Routine
Have you ever wondered the best way to set your day up for success? One of our community members asked me this question a couple of months ago, and in today’s…
Liberatory StrategyS2E7: The Model Minority
The "Model Minority Myth", a phrase I learned from Ijeoma Oluo, is a tool the supremacy uses to keep BIPOC folx hating on one another. Our achievements are…
Liberatory StrategyS2E6: The Burdens We Carry
Today we're exploring how the bastardization of the feminine (check out previous episode, S2E5: The Fierce Feminine) lead to women being the ones carrying the…
Liberatory StrategyS2E5: The Fierce Feminine
Technically, this is Part 3 of the You're Powerful AF mini-series, but she's so fierce she needed her own name! Do you ever have those days where you neglect…
Liberatory StrategyS2E4: You‘re Powerful AF Part 2
In this episode we're continuing the conversation we started last week about the fact that you are powerful af. Tune in to learn how it is that we got it…
Liberatory StrategyS2E3: You‘re Powerful AF Part 1
Did you know that you are powerful af? I mean, really, truly, you are powerful. So why is it that sometimes you don't feel that way? Why is it that imposter…
Liberatory StrategyS2E2: The Power Within You with Guest Krishna Avalon
What if you knew that you didn't have to show up armored up and ready to defend yourself all the time? What if you understood that you can be strong and gentle…
Liberatory StrategyS2E1: Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes
We're back for a brand new season of the Fierce Authenticity Podcast! In this episode your hostess, Shirani M. Pathak, relationship therapist, author, speaker…
Liberatory Strategy26.0 Celebrating 2020
Today is the last day of what seems like the longest year of our lives, 2020. And though when the clock turns midnight on Jan 1, 2021 isn't going to magically…
Liberatory Strategy25.1 Love Note: Dismantling Oppression from Within
Your love note this week is a short practice to walk you through beginning to dismantle systems of oppression within yourself. Remember: Do not listen to this…
Liberatory Strategy25.0 Dismantling Oppression from Within
You've heard me talk about systems of oppression over and over again on the podcast and you've also heard me talk about the importance of dismantling it from…
Liberatory Strategy24.0 Two Brown Girls and a Mic with Special Guest Nisha Mody
In today's guest interview, powerhouse Nisha Mody and I sit down as two South Asian American women with mics and visit so many healing places. Nisha and I…
Liberatory Strategy23.1 Love Note: Forgiveness of Exploitation
This week's love note is a gentle practice to support you in forgiving yourself and others, for the ways exploitation has shown up in your relationships…
Liberatory Strategy23.0 How Your Desire to Control Exploits People
Where's all my fellow control freaks, perfectionists, and people pleasers at? In this week's episode we talk about how your desire to control exploits the very…
Liberatory Strategy22.1 Love Note: Healing the Judgment
In this week's love note that partners with the weekly episode, I guide you through a practice to heal from the patterns of judgement that you've experienced…
Liberatory Strategy22.0 Why We‘re Terrified of Judgment
We're back with anew episode of the podcast and diving deep into the reasons around why we're terrified of judgment. In this episode I share some of the…
Liberatory Strategy21.0 Whole Self Liberation with Andréa Ranae Johnson
I'm excited to introduce to you today one of my mentors you've heard me speak so much about, Andréa Ranae Johnson! In this episode Andréa and I touch upon so…
Liberatory Strategy20.0 The Wisdom of the Unseen
It's Election Week 2020 in the US and though I don't talk directly about the election results in this week's episode (because this episode was recorded about 5…
Liberatory Strategy19.0 Healing the Polarity with Guest Liza Miron
With election day 2020 just around the corner, today's guest, family constellations practitioner, Liza Miron and I have a conversation about how to heal the…
Liberatory Strategy18.0 Relational F*ckery with James-Olivia Chu Hillman
Have you ever engaged in strategies to try and "win" another person over in your relationships at the expense of true intimacy? If so, you're engaging in what…
Liberatory Strategy17.1 Love Note: Failure Doesn‘t Exist
In this week's love note I guide you through a healing practice to release you from the illusion of failure. Be sure not to do this practice if you're driving…
Liberatory Strategy17.0 Failure to Launch
We're back after a short break with a super vulnerable conversation about how I realized I was perpetuating the systems of oppression and colonization that…
Liberatory Strategy16.1 Love Note: Integrate and Rest
In this week's love note you'll learn why it's important to take time to integrate and rest (not to mention, rest is part of the rebellion!). Be back in a…
Liberatory Strategy16.0 Where We‘ve Been and Where We‘re Going
In this week's episode we are taking a moment to look at where we've been over the past several weeks and where we're headed next after a brief break to rest…
Liberatory Strategy15.1 Love Note: Imagine a Community Where You Belong
For today's love note I invite you to join me in a brief practice of envisioning what it looks and feels like when you have the love and support of the people…
Liberatory Strategy15.0 Changing the World Requires Community
You can't change the world all by yourself. It requires community. In today's episode I share why that's the case. It's not too late to join us for the encore…
Liberatory Strategy14.1 Love Note: #theworldiwant
Today's love note is different than any I've shared before, and it's different because today I'm taking up Andrea Ranae's #theworldiwant challenge. Listen in…
Liberatory Strategy14.0 Whose Cup Do You Fill First?
One of the biggest lies we've ever been told is that it's selfish to place ourselves first. In today's episode of the podcast, we'll be looking at how this lie…
Liberatory Strategy13.0 Outrunning Burnout? Or is it Capitalism Fatigue?
Ever felt overwhelmed, burnt out, and wondered if you are staying busy and distracted in an attempt to avoid or possibly outrun your burnout? And is it really…
Liberatory Strategy12.1 Love Note: Appreciating Yourself
For this week's love note, I guide you through a short practice of connecting with yourself and making amends and reparations for the ways that you have…
Liberatory Strategy12.0 Exploiting Ourselves
Ever have a hard time slowing down, giving yourself permission to rest, or even taking good care of yourself? In today's episode we talk about how the…
Liberatory Strategy11.1 Love Note: Rebellion of Connection
Connection is the ultimate rebellion for the oppression of disconnection. Use this practice to practice your rebellion as you are on your path towards…
Liberatory Strategy11.0 Disconnection Keeps You Oppressed
The supremacy knew that by keeping the people disconnected they would be able to oppress us more. However, what the supremacy didn't know is that the power of…
Liberatory Strategy10.0 Safety is in Our Liberation with Guest Robyn Mourning
Liberation is a trendy word right now, but the movement towards liberation has been ongoing for centuries. In this week's episode, special guest Robyn Mourning…
Liberatory Strategy9.1 Love Note: Love Warrior
In this week's love note I lead you through a short practice of connecting to the revolutionary within you: the love warrior. Be sure not to do this practice…
Liberatory Strategy9.0 Perfection, Procrastination, and Your Liberation
Ever feel trapped in the cycle of procrastination and perfectionism? Did you know those are two tools the colonial capitalist patriarchy uses to keep you out…
Liberatory Strategy8.1 Love Note: Pause to Connect
In this week's love note, I share a short, yet powerful healing practice inviting you to pause and connect with the deepest parts of yourself. Please do not do…
Liberatory Strategy8.0 The Little Brown Girl
This week I want to share with you a story about a little Brown girl and her experience of racism, discrimination, colonization, and shoving down her Brownness…
Liberatory Strategy7.1 Love Note: Listening Deeply
In today's love note I walk you through a short exercise of connecting with yourself and others in a way that supports deep listening and in turn, deep…
Liberatory Strategy7.0 Forging Deep Connections
Ever get frustrated when you're trying to have a conversation with someone and it feels like they aren't hearing what you're actually saying? Or maybe you've…