Main topics discussed:
- Questions that have kept me up at night
- The risk of negative feedback in running an online business and being very visible
- What the Chumash people of Limuw (Channel Island) taught me about Emergent Strategy
- Living in a modern day post-apocalyptic world
- How colonization shows up in me
Questions to other healers, space holders, and coaches that are using entrepreneurship as sacred activism.
Who has a say when it comes to providing feedback to our services?
Is it paid clients only?
Is it a community? Is it anonymous strangers on the internet that claim to have been triggered by what was said?
Are triggers an indicator of something that is wrong, or an invitation for further introspection?
What is considered harm anyway?
Do other people actually cause harm, or is it self-inflicted when we create narratives in our mind about other people’s intentions that actually don’t have anything to do with us at all?
Am I gaslighting myself?
How much healing is actually the responsibility of the individual who was harmed vs the person who supposedly caused harm and what is the community’s role in achieving some form of justice?
What is community anyway?
Are you still listening?
Who gets to be the expert of decolonization?
Should I refrain from even using it as a non-indigenous person to this nation?
What are the ways colonization has played out outside of the United States?
How does US imperialism still impact other countries?
What is white supremacy’s role in the ways we experience lateral violence and oppress one another as people of the global majority aka people of color?
What about colonization that existed prior to European conquest?
Where and how does the colonizer show up within me?
Am I conflict avoidant, or am I just protecting my energy?
These are some of the questions that have kept me up at night, hence why slowing down and taking a big fat sacred pause has been a necessity for my own mental and spiritual health.
And sometimes, the answers are the questions themselves.
Email me at [email protected] or send me a message on Instagram @jumakae.
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Listen to episode #26: "Canceled: Odyssey of the Martyr "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-story-medicine/id1539168619?i=1000520814631
Your Story Medicine
Your Story Medicine is a weekly interview series with changemakers and entrepreneurs in the field of coaching, the arts, and wellness. Join June Kaewsith, also known as "Jumakae," as we explore how storytelling has the power to liberate. Expand upon ways to understand and practice self-care. Challenge the definition of what it means to be a "healer." Step into entrepreneurship as a sacred form of activism and decolonization. Reflect on one's responsibility in the wellness and coaching industry. Gain the confidence to explore and create new stories for your life. Get ready to do the work to make your ancestors proud, including the ones before us and the ones who have yet to come!
