In this episode, Lis is joined by Emily Empel and Nadine Hare, founding members of Advance Notice, a vision studio and dreaming collective. They discuss their Collective Wellbeing Report, wellness paradigms, spiritual foresight, and how they help people and organizations articulate their ideas for the future.

Building a new future of wellness has never been more important. Emily, a spiritual futurist, and Nadine, a medical anthropologist, share their collaborative process behind Advance Notice's work. An excerpt from their Collective Wellbeing report emphasizes the need to move beyond individualism to focus on the collective when it comes to our health and wellness, among other things. They outline the six dimensions of collective well-being, including the porous body and death as aliveness, and how these themes have impacted their experiences and perspectives. Nadine and Emily agree that leadership needs to be redefined and encourage thinking about relationality and collaboration as we write this new future.

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Episode Outline:

(04:22) Excerpt from the Collective Wellbeing Report

(05:45) Meet two of the women behind Advance Notice, Nadine and Emily

(14:11) A vision studio and dreaming collective

(16:57) Collaborations to live into the vision

(19:56) The journey to becoming a futurist and medical anthropologist

(23:06) The realities of wellness vs. the perception of wellness

(27:51) Six key dimensions of collective well-being

(31:18) Death as aliveness, the aging body, the porous body

(41:18) How to cultivate more well-being

(45:33) Thoughts around leadership

(51:13) What’s next for Advance Notice and the future of wellness

Resources Mentioned:

• Preview Collective Wellbeing: A Report on the Future of Wellness
• GCC x The Now Work: Community Power Hour, November 20th at 9 am Pacific
• Sophie Strand
• adrienne maree brown

Guest Info:

• Connect with Emily Empel on LinkedIn
• Connect with Nadine Hare on LinkedIn
• Connect with Advance Notice on LinkedIn
• Follow Advance Notice on Instagram

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• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co
• Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective
• Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective

About Lis:

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Emily Anne Brant, an Indigenous author, speaker, and mentor. She discusses her journey into decolonizing personal development and coaching, unlearning perfectionism, and how she calls upon ancestral wisdom in her everyday life.

Emily shares how she balances running her business with a full-time job, normalizing how supportive it can be to have both. She shares how a spiritual experience led to a path of healing around her Indigenous ancestry, how that impacted the direction of her business, and how she shows up in community.

Emily defines colonization and white supremacy and shares what decolonization actually looks like in practice. She addresses the importance of unlearning perfectionism, especially as a woman, when embarking on a decolonization journey and the fundamental tenets of down-to-earth manifestation for achieving practical abundance rooted in ancestral wisdom. Emily also speaks to the impact she has experienced of a slow, intentional approach to business growth aligned with turtle medicine.

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Episode Outline:

(03:13) Emily’s identities, privileges, and roles

(06:11) Balancing business and a full-time job

(11:18) Emily’s journey to decolonization work

(20:49) Safe spaces and white supremacy

(25:48) Defining decolonization and colonialism

(28:43) Decolonization mindset, words, and action

(31:39) Getting started on your decolonization journey

(35:52) Down-to-earth manifestation

(43:29) Turtle medicine and business growth

Resources Mentioned:

• White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao

Guest Info:

• Learn more on Emily Anne Brant’s website
• Follow Emily Anne Brant on Instagram
• Listen to the Soul’s Way podcast
• Join the Round Table or the Decolonized Coach Community. Use code LIS for 15% off the DCC!

Follow Us:

• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co
• Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective
• Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective

About Lis:

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Jessica Custer, a social impact strategist and project management expert. She discusses all things social impact, corporate responsibility, theory of change, leadership, and her life-changing experience in the Peruvian Amazon.

Jessica reflects on her journey from the non-profit sector to freelance consulting. She emphasizes the importance of effective project management in driving positive societal impact and the opportunity to better integrate agile methodologies in impact and sustainability work. She introduces her Substack, The Change Maker’s Guide to Getting Good S*** Done, and her workshop, Possible to Probable, designed to support change-makers in operationalizing their visions.

Jessica highlights the need for thought leadership, an expanded definition of leadership as related to different power structures, and the role of the theory of change in shaping our approach to both life and our work as change agents. Jessica’s vision for the future is an inspiring call to action for those of us working to build a better future!

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Episode Outline:

(03:36) Addressing the project management leadership gap

(11:13) Jessica’s career journey and the impact of her travels

(19:54) Exploring a sustainable sanitation business model in the Peruvian Amazon

(29:30) Changes in ESG and social impact over the last 10 years

(36:35) The strength of generalizing specialists

(39:06) Project management for bigger, better impact

(43:18) Theory of change applications

(46:53) Leadership and different types of power

Resources Mentioned:

• Subscribe to Jessica Custer’s Substack, The Change Maker’s Guide to Getting Good Sh*t Done
• Join the next free Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour on Wednesday, November 20, at 9am Pacific, 12pm Eastern

Guest Info:

• Learn more on Jessica Custer’s website
• Connect with Jessica Custer on LinkedIn

Follow Us:

• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co
• Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective
• Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective

About Lis:

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.