Season 1, Episode 13

Kitchen Table Conversations Podcast

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Season 1, Episode 13

What does it mean to focus locally, and can focusing locally affect change globally?

S.M. Strom

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Stacy Litke

Aug 27, 2022

On this episode we begin with a brief discussion about resilience and dysregulation, what that means, and how we can visualize what the “zone” of self-regulation looks like.

Then we transition to the topic of how focusing locally vs globally has the power to benefit us as individuals, as communities, as countries and ultimately globally. We also talk extensively about the lie we’ve been conditioned to believe which says that all businesses (even small local businesses) need to grow and expand their reach in order to be “successful” and how that lie has undermined the health of our communities.

Resources:

Represent US (Saving our democracy by beginning at the local level)
https://represent.us/unbreaking-america-series/

Mainvest
Mainvest.com

NOTE:

This podcast is little more than a recording of a phone call between founders Stacy Litke and Signa Strom — so it’ll feel as if you’re listening in on an unscripted, casual conversation between friends, because that’s exactly what you’ll be doing. It is our hope that this format will feel friendly, relaxed, and inviting to you as the listener, and that it will illustrate how powerful a simple but focused conversation can be.

It is also our hope that you’ll be inspired to make time for conversations like these within your own life, and that in the process you will experience a deeper (re)connection with the people, community, and place that surround you, and a dawning awareness of how vital our conversations are to healing ourselves and our relationships…to healing our lives and communities…to healing the world around us.

Signa’s Voice: As you listen, you may wonder what is “wrong” with Signa’s voice. This is an example of a condition called Spasmodic Dysphonia, a spasming of the vocal folds which interrupts proper vocalization. Signa’s SD affects the adductor vocal muscles creating a breathy, wavery vocal quality. SD also can affect the abductor vocal muscles which creates more of a strangled, wavery vocal quality (think Robert Kennedy, Jr or Diane Rhem). For more information on SD, visit the National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association.

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