You've Got Lael Lael Petersen

"Rest is the bridge between where you are and where you want to be." - Octavia Raheem
In this episode, Lael talks about taking a break from the You've Got Lael podcast. She shares what led to this decision, what the future might hold and how you might benefit from pressing pause on something in your life as well. Perhaps even something you love.
In the meantime, you can stay connected with Lael by joining her email list, attending an upcoming event or reaching out via website, email or phone.
Hope to see you soon!
 
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This episode is brought to you by Lael Petersen Coaching. Lael Petersen Coaching provides personalized coaching for humans who want to know themselves on a deeper level, shift outdated habits, and live their lives with purpose. If you are tired of feeling stuck and are ready to grow and change, let’s talk!
 
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I would love to connect with you! Yes, YOU!!!
Join my podcast membership for as little as $5/month. Connect with me on Instagram: @youvegotlael Check out my website for ways we can work together: http://www.laelpetersen.com/ Please subscribe/follow 'You've Got Lael' wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss a single episode.  
Did something resonate for you in this episode? If so, please share it with a friend and leave a 5-Star Rating and Review wherever you listen to the podcast. Thank you so much!
 
Podcast editing and production by:
Casey Pinit, Shelly Criswell of Criswell Solutions & Lindsey Moore of Looplu Design
Song Credit: In Another Place by Isaac Elliott
 

Figuring out our life purpose can feel daunting. It's like we're supposed to have some a-ha moment where it becomes clear why we're here and what we're meant to do. For me, life purpose has been more of a slow unfolding. An ongoing process of noticing what gives my life meaning. That's what we're talking about on the podcast today.
About our Guest:
Erik Melver is a Fine and Performing arts teacher living in Saudi Arabia. Twelve years ago he tested the theory that 10,000 hours could make you an expert in anything and started painting with acrylic using nothing but YouTube videos, books and experimentation as his guide. Today he has paintings in private collections in over a dozen countries around the world. He donates proceeds of art sales to support refugee relief. Erik and his wife Heather have raised their three daughters over seas for most of their lives as parents. He walks every day with the sun and curates a YouTube Channel called Sun Walker World.
Resources:
Design Your Year Workshop
Sun Walker World
Erik Melver Art
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This episode is brought to you by Lael Petersen Coaching. Lael Petersen Coaching provides personalized coaching for humans who want to know themselves on a deeper level, shift outdated habits, and live their lives with purpose. If you are tired of feeling stuck and are ready to grow and change, let’s talk!
 
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I would love to connect with you! Yes, YOU!!!
Join my podcast membership for as little as $5/month. Connect with me on Instagram: @youvegotlael Check out my website for ways we can work together: http://www.laelpetersen.com/ Please subscribe/follow 'You've Got Lael' wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss a single episode.  
Did something resonate for you in this episode? If so, please share it with a friend and leave a 5-Star Rating and Review wherever you listen to the podcast. Thank you so much!
 
Podcast editing and production by:
Casey Pinit, Shelly Criswell of Criswell Solutions & Lindsey Moore of Looplu Design
Song Credit: In Another Place by Isaac Elliott
 

I invited educator, writer, artist and activist Tema Okun (she/her) to talk with us about holiday traditions, rituals, and cultural appropriation. What she offered was deep wisdom from her personal life and decades of work as a DEI facilitator, author and professor. I hope this episode prompts reflection and provides encouragement to keep healing and growing.
Tema Okun has spent over 35 years working with and for organizations, schools, and community-based institutions as a trainer, facilitator, teacher, and mentor focused on issues of racial justice and equity. She got her start at Grassroots Leadership. For 12 years she worked with the late and beloved Kenneth Jones at ChangeWork and then for another decade with Michelle Johnson and many brilliant colleagues at Dismantling Racism Works.
She recently completed 6 years of co-leading the Teaching for Equity Fellows Program at Duke University, which works with faculty seeking to develop stronger skills both teaching about race and racism and across lines of race, class, and gender. She also facilitates and support leaders and organizations with colleagues at Teach.Equity.Now., housed at the Pauli Murray Center in Durham, NC. She was a member of the Educational Leadership faculty at National Louis University in Chicago and has taught undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral level students in educational leadership and education.
She is the author of the award-winning The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race and Racism to People Who Don’t Want to Know (2010, IAP) and the widely used article White Supremacy Culture, which she is asking people to stop using and instead reference a website based on a revision and update of the article in May 2021: www.whitesupremacyculture.info. She publishes regularly on the pedagogy of racial and social justice.
She is a member of the Bhumisphara Sangha under the leadership of Lama Rod Owens and a participant in The Infinite Circle at Breadloaf Mountain Zen Center. She is an artist, a poet, and a writer. She lives in Carrboro, NC where she is fortunate to reside among beloved community. Her current project is deepening her ability to love her neighbor as herself. She is finding the instruction easy and the follow through challenging, given how we live in a culture that is afraid to help us do either or both.
RESOURCES
Design Your Year Workshop
Read:
Divorcing White Supremacy Culture: Coming Home to Who We Really Are
Dismantling Racism: A History Lesson
White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race by Ian Haney Lopez
Podcasts:
Ruby Sales on the On Being podcast
Tema Okun and Michelle Cassandra Johnson on All the F*ck In
Organizations for education, community and action:
Better Neighbor Lab
We Are Finding Freedom
The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond
White Awake
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This episode is brought to you by Lael Petersen Coaching. Lael Petersen Coaching provides personalized coaching for humans who want to know themselves on a deeper level, shift outdated habits, and live their lives with purpose. If you are tired of feeling stuck and are ready to grow and change, let’s talk!
 
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I would love to connect with you! Yes, YOU!!!
Join my podcast membership for as little as $5/month. Connect with me on Instagram: @youvegotlael Check out my website for ways we can work together: http://www.laelpetersen.com/ Please subscribe/follow 'You've Got Lael' wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss a single episode.  
Did something resonate for you in this episode? If so, please share it with a friend and leave a 5-Star Rating and Review wherever you listen to the podcast. Thank you so much!
 
Podcast editing and production by:
Casey Pinit, Shelly Criswell of Criswell Solutio

Attention business owners! Have you noticed business has changed? The strategies we were using prior to 2020 are not working. People are not investing, purchasing and committing like they used to. You have changed, too. The strategies you were using before don't feel as aligned. What needs to change about your business in order to meet yourself and your customers where they are at?
About our guest: Brooke Monaghan is a business coach and the founder of Fruition Growth Network, an online community and learning platform for lifestyle business owners. She has forever been fascinated by the people who go out on their own and finally did so herself in 2019, establishing her consulting business. After transitioning into business and leadership coaching she witnessed first hand the uphill battle that online business owners are facing trying to grow their work in the current digital landscape.
Sick of helping her clients navigate a broken system, Brooke set out to create a solution and started Fruition Growth Network with contributions from her own clients and people who helped her along the way. Her current mission is to use the first phase of this platform as a way to get the work of these founding contributors in front of as many people as possible, and providing quality support for her community.
Resources:
http://www.joinfruition.com/
https://www.instagram.com/briggsmonaghan/
 
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This episode is brought to you by Lael Petersen Coaching. Lael Petersen Coaching provides personalized coaching for humans who want to know themselves on a deeper level, shift outdated habits, and live their lives with purpose. If you are tired of feeling stuck and are ready to grow and change, let’s talk!
 
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I would love to connect with you! Yes, YOU!!!
Join my podcast membership for as little as $5/month. Connect with me on Instagram: @youvegotlael Check out my website for ways we can work together: http://www.laelpetersen.com/ Please subscribe/follow 'You've Got Lael' wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss a single episode.  
Did something resonate for you in this episode? If so, please share it with a friend and leave a 5-Star Rating and Review wherever you listen to the podcast. Thank you so much!
 
Podcast editing and production by:
Casey Pinit, Shelly Criswell of Criswell Solutions & Lindsey Moore of Looplu Design
Song Credit: In Another Place by Isaac Elliott
 

For most of us, the holiday season is a trigger for unhealed hurts. The rifts in our relationships and in our culture can be painfully present. Rebecca Greenidge joins us today to talk about taking accountability and repairing harm. Whether it's in your family, social circle, work culture or larger community, chances are you have a relationship or two that needs healing. Today's episode shared WHY repairing the harm we've caused is foundational for our own healing and for ending oppression in all its forms.
RESOURCES
Rebecca Greenidge at Better Neighbor Lab
Relating and Dominating Patterns: https://betterneighborlab.com/patterns
Healing Practice: https://betterneighborlab.com/healing-practice
5-fingers-of-accountability: https://betterneighborlab.com/accountability
Rev Michelle Higgins
Sean Ginwright
 
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This episode is brought to you by Lael Petersen Coaching. Lael Petersen Coaching provides personalized coaching for humans who want to know themselves on a deeper level, shift outdated habits, and live their lives with purpose. If you are tired of feeling stuck and are ready to grow and change, let’s talk!
 
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I would love to connect with you! Yes, YOU!!!
Join my podcast membership for as little as $5/month. Connect with me on Instagram: @youvegotlael Check out my website for ways we can work together: http://www.laelpetersen.com/ Please subscribe/follow 'You've Got Lael' wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss a single episode.  
Did something resonate for you in this episode? If so, please share it with a friend and leave a 5-Star Rating and Review wherever you listen to the podcast. Thank you so much!
 
Podcast editing and production by:
Casey Pinit, Shelly Criswell of Criswell Solutions & Lindsey Moore of Looplu Design
Song Credit: In Another Place by Isaac Elliott

Are you feeling stagnant or stale in your long-term relationship? Are you tired of feeling responsible for maintaining the passion in your marriage? Feeling like the only choices on the table are to live as roommates, have an affair or get divorced?
 
What if there is another way? What if we've been taught a very narrow view of what a healthy, committed relationship might entail? This episode is for anyone who wants to renegotiate the terms of their long-term relationship AND for those committed to liberation in all its forms.
About our guest...
 
Terra Anderson (they/them) is a leading force for pleasure and intimacy in the LGBTQIA+ community. With almost 20 years of experience working in embodiment and sexuality and over 20,000 hours fine tuning their expertise in gender justice, Terra’s unique approach to healing joins the powers of activism and pleasure to help LGBTQIA+ people to live more empowered, empleasured, and liberated lives. Terra is the founder of Embody Emerge, a somatic sex therapist, a pleasure and intimacy coach, and a published researcher exploring the impacts of oppression on the body. Through their work, Terra aims to move us closer to a world where pleasure for all can be prioritized as the navigational force by which we heal together, grow, and carve meaningful lives.
 
RESOURCES
Terra's website: www/embodyemerge.com
Terra on Instagram @embodyemerge
Talks at Google EP 249: Dan Savage and Esther Perel: Love, Marriage and Monogamy
Book: Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Non Monogamy by Jessica Fern
 
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This episode is brought to you by Lael Petersen Coaching. Lael Petersen Coaching provides personalized coaching for humans who want to know themselves on a deeper level, shift outdated habits, and live their lives with purpose. If you are tired of feeling stuck and are ready to grow and change, let’s talk!
 
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I would love to connect with you! Yes, YOU!!!
Join my podcast membership for as little as $5/month. Connect with me on Instagram: @youvegotlael Check out my website for ways we can work together: http://www.laelpetersen.com/ Please subscribe/follow 'You've Got Lael' wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss a single episode.  
Did something resonate for you in this episode? If so, please share it with a friend and leave a 5-Star Rating and Review wherever you listen to the podcast. Thank you so much!
 
Podcast editing and production by:
Casey Pinit, Shelly Criswell of Criswell Solutions & Lindsey Moore of Looplu Design
Song Credit: In Another Place by Isaac Elliott