George Esquivel started making shoes for himself and some friends, up-and-coming musicians in Southern California. Soon, Hollywood came calling. And it wasn’t just celebrities who took notice. A film financier did, too. He said he wanted to invest in the company, but George soon realized his intentions weren’t what they seemed. Join Ben and special guest host Kathleen Griffith as they speak to George about the rise of Esquivel Designs. Hear what a meeting with Anna Wintour is really like, and what happens when you’re betrayed by someone inside your company. These are The Unshakeables. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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Join host Ayana Zaire Cotton where they reflect on worldbuilding and interdisciplinary practice with occasional guests. "For The Worldbuilders" is presented by Seeda School which hosts a 9-week retreat helping you seed, deepen or return to an interdisciplinary practice, release a creative offer and develop a cohesive narrative through the framework of worldbuilding.
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×You dream of serving folks through your process not your personhood. You are an artist, not an influencer. But your process can sometimes feel illegible, even to you. We’re clear there are life affirming benefits to illegibility, opacity, poesis and abstraction. We’re also clear if we want to serve communities we care about through a creative offer that resources our practice, there needs to be an outline of the transformative journey we will take them through. This is your framework. In this episode I want to go over the power of frameworks and it’s creative capacity to build worlds that extend far beyond us. Resources Register for 4-Part Winter Worldbuilding Workshop and/or Enroll into the Treehouse Today: https://www.seedaschool.com/program Download the Creative Offer Questionnaire to Oneself: https://www.seedaschool.com/questionnaire Subscribe to the Seeda School Substack: https://seedaschool.substack.com/ Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Citations “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” ― Arundhati Roy Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin Torkwase Dyson, “Torkwase Dyson Reflects on Hyper Shapes” , Metropolis Mag, August 26, 2021 Rees, S. (2019, May 11). “For Arthur Jafa, Black Art is the heart of America” . Sydney Opera House Sojourner Truth, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance" (1864), Source: Met Museum Cover Art: Torkwase Dyson, Selections from Tuning (Hypershape, 200–410) , 2018, gouache, ink, and pen on paper, 9 × 12 inches. Courtesy of Rhona Hoffman Gallery.…
My intention behind this episode is not only to advocate for the practice of weekly dispatches but to encourage you and empower you with resources to advocate for your song — aka the work that is uniquely yours. Philadelphia-based prison abolitionist Stephanie Keene says people often ask her, “How can I get involved?” Her response is, “Do what it is you're good at”. Right? WE need you inside what you’re good at, which is to say YOU need you inside what you’re good at. What is your daily, weekly, seasonal practice for showing up inside the chorus of collective liberation? Let’s find out together. Resources Enrollment into the Treehouse is now open! Register for the 4-Part Winter Worldbuilding Workshop Series to learn more: https://www.seedaschool.com/program Download the Creative Offer Questionnaire to Oneself: https://www.seedaschool.com/questionnaire Subscribe to the Seeda School Substack: https://seedaschool.substack.com/ Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Citations Ruha Benjamin quotes Stephanie Keene in “Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want” on page 22 “The Mythical Black Artist” published on the Threadings podcast by ismatu gwendolyn “Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time” by Rasheedah Phillips Cover Art: LaToya Ruby Frazier, “Landscape of the Body (Epilepsy Test)” , (2011). Image Source: Whitney Museum of American Art…
In this episode I’m inviting you into this question with me: “Is It Burnout Or The Energetic Expense Of A Spiritual Breakthrough?” Now let’s be clear, sometimes it really is burn-out. Sometimes, no…a lot of the times, capitalism, the patriarchal refusal to compensate care work and the lack of a state sanctioned social safety net can really bring us to our knees and leave us feeling burned out. I want to acknowledge that, but what I also want to be emphatically clear about acknowledging is sometimes it is spiritual severance, self-denial and self-negation that is at the core of our exhaustion. What creative invitations have you been resisting? Let’s take a look at that and try to answer these questions together. Resources Register for 4-Part Winter Worldbuilding Workshop: https://www.seedaschool.com/program Download the Creative Offer Questionnaire to Oneself: https://www.seedaschool.com/questionnaire Subscribe to the Seeda School Substack: https://seedaschool.substack.com/ Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Citations For the Worldbuilder’s Episode 52 “Releasing the Burden of Being Complicit In Our Own Suffering” published July 4, 2024 Karen M. Rose “Happy 2025 + Capricorn New Moon” Guidance Alexis Pauline Gumbs “Live Q&A About Daily Practice” Mundane Miracles with Sonya Renee Taylor “Episode 6: Let Your Old Life Fall Away” *The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry * edited by Arnold Rampersad and Hilary Herbold “Poetry Is Not A Luxury” by Audre Lorde “Uses of the Erotic, The Erotic As Power” by Audre Lorde Cover Art: Mary L. Proctor’s Freedom of Expression ( 1998) Materials: Costume jewelry, buttons, cowrie shells, paint, on wood door. Dimensions: 80 x 30.5 inches. Image Source…
In this episode I want to make the case for breaking away from institutions and creating communal containers of healing instead. And because we’re all about the spell and the strategy at Seeda School…it is also my intention to make the argument that if you are already writing countless grants, drafting applications, making pitches and proposals and making bids for fellowship in institutions that sometimes (or usually) gets awarded, then you are already good at sales. Through this episode I want to invite you to turn that skill toward creating deeper pathways of empowerment for yourself and your communities, not institutions who siphon our worldbuilding capacity for their own survival. This episode is about our survival, our collective ability to thrive. Resources Register for 4-Part Winter Worldbuilding Workshop: https://www.seedaschool.com/program Download the Creative Offer Questionnaire to Oneself: https://www.seedaschool.com/questionnaire Subscribe to the Seeda School Substack: https://seedaschool.substack.com/ Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Citations Cover Art: Constellations (2015) by Howardena Pindell (American, born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1943). Published by Center for Contemporary Printmaking. Medium: Open bite etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm). Image Source: Philadelphia Museum of Art…
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1 065. Who Is Perfectionism For? Channeling Audacious Visions Into 3 Phases of Creative Business Development 56:04
So who is perfectionism for? What stops us from hitting publish or inviting folks into an offer? Are we waiting for the somatic safety, self-trust, or sense of belonging we’ll magically feel on the other side of a new title, degree, or wave of applause? So often we stall, hesitate on pressing publish, resist releasing an offer we’ve already thought about so much we could design the entire thing in a weekend, because we want to project the patriarchal premise of expertise or “thought leadership”. But what if we centered our lived experience instead? Resources Download the Creative Offer Questionnaire to Oneself: https://www.seedaschool.com/questionnaire Subscribe to the Seeda School Substack: https://seedaschool.substack.com/ Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Citations Transformer DC — E:17, “Zines” Program Ipsy Bipsy Studio “The Myth of the Expert Therapist: Dismantling Colonial and Classist Lies of Mastery” by @pat.radical.therapist Cover Art: Troy Montes-Michie, “ From El Paso to Harlem: Troy Montes-Michie explores the subversive history of the zoot suit ” published by Document Journal. Photography by Fujio Emura. “I think that’s what’s nice about the suit, because it was seen as this flamboyant, garish garment, but it had a function for dancing. The person wearing it needed that legroom so the seams wouldn’t burst.” — Troy Montes-Michie…
I chose the path of tech and software engineering out of creative curiosity, yes. But on some level, if I’m being real, I also chose it because it would, perhaps, make my parent’s sacrifice mean something. It was impressive, it was something they could brag about on Facebook. And, at the time, my inner child connected being impressive with worthiness. She connected being small with love-ability. She connected following orders with freedom from punishment. She connected suppressing desire with survival. In this episode we explore the ways our creative practice invites us to make new connections. Because inside the erotic as power, we find our fear based connections can’t hold for long. Resources Download the Creative Offer Questionnaire to Oneself: https://www.seedaschool.com/questionnaire Subscribe to the Seeda School Substack: https://seedaschool.substack.com/ Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Citations Subscribe to Kening Zhu’s newsletter here June Jordan, “Poem About My Rights” from Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005) “currency for connection” — Dez Davis Cover Art: Dinah Young, Roadside grave . Photo: William Arnett, 1997…
There is no such thing as an independent artist. We judge ourselves for having needs constantly. The reality of interdependence may look different for us in different seasons of our lives. In one season we might need the help of our families to provide shelter (like I did). In another season we might need the companionship of a partner or a pet. In another season we might need the trust and respect of our peers to engage with our work. In other seasons we might need our communities to rally around our mutual aid requests and bids for care. Perhaps underneath the craving for safety is really the desire for relation that doesn’t terrify us. In this episode we call our power back to us by surrendering to the truth of interdependence. Resources Download the Creative Offer Questionnaire to Oneself: https://www.seedaschool.com/questionnaire Subscribe to the Seeda School Substack: https://seedaschool.substack.com/ Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Citations Sonya Renee Taylor, Season 1, Episode 1: It's A Breautiful Life Mariame Kaba said on being safe, “I don’t believe I can posses safety. Because I don’t think safety is a thing. I think safety is a relation” Thomas Berry says “we are in between stories”. Which story are you telling? Cover Art: El Anatsui, Royal Slumber , 2023. Aluminum and copper wire, 358 x 475 cm. (Source: October Gallery )…
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1 062. Don’t Focus on Making the Offer Accessible to Everyone Else it Becomes Inaccessible to You 39:19
We talk more about this in Thursday’s Worldbuilding Workshop, but you may have seen the quote going around “if it’s not free, it’s neither radical or revolutionary”. I want to start off by saying I disagree. Equitable, anti-capitalist, values aligned resource exchange that is accountable to the communities we serve and the planet we inhabit can be some of the most radical and revolutionary work we do. In this current economic system, “free to you” just means the money is coming from somewhere else and a lot times that chain of funding is obfuscated, which can make accountability tricky if not intentionally impossible. In this episode I want to invite us to consider the ways in which pricing our offers for sustainability doesn’t have to compromise the integrity of our work, in fact I want to propose it can actually empower and actualize the worlds we dream of building. Learn More About Seeda School Enroll into the Treehouse Annual Membership here (Enrollment Closes October 21st!) Register for the free Worldbuilding Workshop series and download the Fall 2024 Syllabus here Subscribe to the Seeda School newsletter here Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Citations DISTRIKT, “The Underground” (2015), Issue 1 Dez Davis , conscious coach for impact forward business owners, industry leaders and seasoned change-makers. Sonya Renee Taylor’s Patreon Saidiya Hartman, Interview With Rizvana Bradley. Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe pg. 165 Cover Art: Keeping the Culture (2010) by Kerry James Marshall (b.1955) Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 76.2 x 121.9 cm. (30 x 48 in.) Source: Artnet…
This episode is for our Libra eclipse moment, it’s especially for YOU if you’ve been wanting more balance and clarity inside your practice. If you’re overwhelmed by the sheer number of your ideas and desires on your heart then listen up! This is the worldbuilder’s dilemma but it is also our power. So let’s dive in. Learn More About Seeda School Enroll into the Treehouse Annual Membership here Register for the free Worldbuilding Workshop series and download the Fall 2024 Syllabus here Subscribe to the Seeda School newsletter here Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Citations Uses of the Erotic, The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde Finding Our Way Podcast with Prentis Hemphill and Sonya Renee Taylor Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (page 8) by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson La Marr Jurelle Bruce (@the.afromantic) Instagram Post Cover Art: Julie Mehretu, Stadia II , 2004, ink and acrylic on canvas, 108 x 144 inches Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh) © Julie Mehretu…
Today I want to talk about the permission I had to give myself to pivot before I could invite anyone else into the transition. Today I want to talk about how sneaky scarcity mindset can be, even with the abundance of wisdom, tools and skills we’ve learned inside our journey of transformation. Today I want to talk about why, after a summer of experimenting with 3 different offerings (a retreat, a monthly membership and accepting applications for a 1:1 service-based offering), I am bringing the Seeda School paid-offer ecosystem back down to 1 core offering . Learn More About Seeda School Register for the free Worldbuilding Workshop series, Download the Fall 2024 Syllabus and learn more about the Treehouse Annual Membership here Subscribe to the Seeda School newsletter here Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Referenced Inside the Episode Treehouse Members: shivani mehta bhatia and Nadia Wolff of @vessel.work Retreat Alumni Offers: Olivia Vagelos is helping us design experiences for radical imagination , Giada Centofanti offers regenerative coaching , Kay Brown welcomes you into The Clearing and Arabelle Sicardi offers a fragrance centered creative container @mythsofcreation, “trusting ourselves: a mini class in 9 slides” Summer 2024 Are.na Channel Cover Art: A black and white film photograph of David Hammons creating his “body prints”. The photograph is titled “David Hammons, Slauson Studio” (1974) by Bruce Talamon. Source: Studio Museum of Harlem…
Last week we talked about how the journey is the dream and the destination is the practice through the metaphor of teaching and learning. I want to pick that thread back up. Just as I believe creativity is the spiritual disposition of our species, I want to argue curiosity, teaching and learning are organic to our ways of being as well. So organic the debate of nature vs. nurture has been going on for centuries now. Today, I’m less interested in teasing out the difference between the gifts we’re taught and the gifts we’re born with. What I’m more interested in teasing out is what happened to us and how can the lessons we learned along the way serve others? Learn More About Seeda School Register for the free Worldbuilding Workshop series and learn more about the Seed A World Retreat here Download the Creative Offer Questionnaire to Oneself here Subscribe to the Seeda School newsletter here Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Referenced Inside the Episode The Bluest Eye (pg. 17) by Toni Morrison Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire White Supremacy Culture — From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001 Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study Series edited by J. Kameron Carter and Sarah Jane Cervenak Cover Art: Two black girls look out the window of a “Freedom School” . © Ken Thompson, United Methodist Board of Global Ministries. Image Source…
Maybe you’ve been talking yourself out of taking a creative risk for months, maybe years just like I have. A life is something we create, too. Maybe your creative risk is leaving a job with an abusive company culture, moving to a new city or removing yourself from relationships where your power is perceived as a threat to neutralize instead of divine intelligence to collaborate with. Whatever transition is tugging you toward its trail, whatever creative calling won’t leave you alone, I need you to know the journey IS the return on investment. Register for the free Worldbuilding Workshop series and learn more about the Seed A World Retreat here . 12 month payment plans for the retreat are now available! Register for the 2-PART workshop series where you'll learn more about resourcing your interdisciplinary practice through a creative offer. Download the Creative Offer Questionnaire to Oneself here Subscribe to the Seeda School newsletter here Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Cover Art: Chakaia Booker (b.1953), O , 2001. Materials: Rubber, tires, wood, steel Dimensions: 55 h × 36 w × 47 d in (140 × 91 × 119 cm). I was prompted to return to Booker’s work when I made contact again with one of her sculptures, Egress , at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.…
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1 057. 7 Ways to Establish and Protect a Pleasurable Creative Practice Amidst Life’s Possibilities and Responsibilities 50:00
This isn’t an ableist episode full of executive function shame but it is an episode in honor of Virgo Season asking what are our systems, processes and practices for getting shit done and feeling good while doing it? I’ve been there, the over-extended teacher inspiring a classrooms worth of epiphanies but too tired to go home and fill the cup from which the curriculum flows. Maybe you’ve been there too, the over-extended teacher with a depleted capacity for your own curiosity. The healer with an over-committed calendar leaving no time to tend to your own spirit. The community organizer growing exhausted from the demands of parasocial relationships while your closest, most nourishing relationships suffer. How might checking in with our longings, our boundaries, our needs and nurturing a relationship within ourselves where we’re allowed to want, to desire, to create, to rest, cultivate more secure attachments and relationships beyond ourselves? Invitations Apply to the Fall 2024 Implementation Accelerator here: https://www.seedaschool.com/accelerator . This program is for you if you want to join us in the Fall 2024 Retreat and work 1:1 with me on implementing the pleasure practices and web portals that will support you in setting up the tech/sales backend and frontend infrastructure for inviting folks into your creative offer by the end of the year. Subscribe to the Seeda School newsletter: https://seedaschool.substack.com/ Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Cover Art: Adventures in Paradise is the third studio album by Minnie Riperton issued in May 1975 by Epic Records. On the album cover photographed by Kenneth McGowan, Minnie is seen sitting serenely next to a lion with baby’s breath in her hair and in front of a blue background.…
Let’s talk numbers. The “enough number” concept is looking at the expenses in your life and business and determining a revenue goal or baseline for living comfortably instead of living in the cycle of incessant growth for growths sake. I’ve seen and heard this concept discussed in multiple workshops, YouTube videos, panels and podcasts over the years. Probably because establishing an "enough number" in the beginning is a good idea and fetishizing infinite, up and to the right, hockey stick growth is not only a bad idea but goes against many of our core values. But what I can’t stop thinking about is: Maybe there are other ways to stay in integrity with our values and business growth without putting literal and subconscious caps on our potential revenue and impact? Links and Resources: Apply to the Fall 2024 Implementation Accelerator here: https://www.seedaschool.com/accelerator . This program is for you if you want to join us in the Fall 2024 Retreat and work 1:1 with me on implementing the pleasure practices and web portals that will support you in setting up the tech/sales backend and frontend infrastructure for inviting folks into your creative offer by the end of the year. “Can You REALLY Be An Ethical Millionaire?” is the title of the Hello Seven podcast episode mentioned in this episode. It features a conversation between Rachel Cargle, Sonya Renee Taylor and Rachel Rodgers. Again, I don’t agree with everything shared in this episode but it feels relevant to today’s discussion. Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Cover Art: Music video still from "Came Back for You" . A song by Lil' Kim from her third studio album La Bella Mafia , released on March 4, 2003. It is the closing track on the standard edition of the album. The song samples the 1971 song "Didn't We" by Irene Reid.…
As a heads up, if you’re listening to this on Monday, July 29th enrollment into the Treehouse closes tonight and it’s $67 bucks to join! The Treehouse is a monthly membership holding you accountable to weekly returns to your Zone of Desire through live workshops, open studios, guided meditations and black feminist worldbuilding tools. I hope you’ll join us inside The Treehouse! Our first workshop inside is on August 6th and it’s all about collaborating with our ancestors, desires and intentions inside our Weekly Dispatches. Enroll in the Treehouse Membership and Join Us August 6th: https://www.seedaschool.com/treehouse The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk Hidden Brain episode “Healing 2.0: Change Your Story, Change Your Life” A summary of Jonathan Adler’s findings can be found in “Our Personal Stories Matter for Our Mental Health” The study conducted by Gail Matthews at The Dominican University of California on “The Impact of Commitment, Accountability, and Written Goals on Goal Achievement” Hidden Brain episode titled “You 2.0: WOOP, WOOP!” Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Cover Art: Sylvia Wynter Source: Image courtesy of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library…
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