A Love Letter to Your Possibilities

What possibilities were you created to make real?

In this episode, Dana reads a love letter she wrote for The Rest of Us community, calling us to settle into the unfamiliar parts of ourselves. Because Dana believes that’s where our greatest possibilities exist. 

But to live in our possibilities, Dana talks about the need to break many of the norms we’ve embraced, which is where the fear of being ourselves lives. 

What You’ll Settle Into

• What reactive tendencies are, the different forms they take, and why they are acceptable or tolerable behaviors in the workplace despite undermining thriving and sustainable workplaces.
• How to identify reactive tendencies within ourselves through a self-reflection exercise.
• The significance of purposeful action, what it means, and how to make the shift. 
• Why disruption is a necessary part of progress in transitioning from workplaces of unrest.

Key Quotes & Insights

“What you’ve been feeling is you missing you.”

“You are the only one who can hold your possibilities and make them real.”

“You just have to decide that you have the desire and agency to unlearn, decondition, face what you’ve normalized. It is this attachment that you fear letting go of.”

“You may call your details ordinary, as in mundane. But maybe you haven’t lived in them to find out just how extraordinary, or rather extra-ordinary, they are.”

LENGTH: 16 minutes