In this episode, I share feelings about the latest U.S. mass shooting at a Nashville school.

There's some spontaneous poetry, an excerpt from She's a poet by Lisa Clapper ©️2022, and an invitation to #FeelYourYay and #BringYourYay in joy and grief and anywhere and everywhere along the spectrum. Lots of shoutouts, metaphors, and allusions to people. Plus empaths, astrology, LeadHERship Global, and the i ching. Here are some of those people, pods, books, orgs, and links:

• On Being with Krista Tippett who I accidently called Krista Being at one point which is pretty true. Listen to this episode with Isabel Wilkerson the author of Caste on Spotify. or anywhere you like via the homepage We all know in our bones that things are harder than they have to be.
• Isabel Wilkerson
• Chani Nicholas whose astrology I follow along with my dear friend and rad evolutionary astrologer Rhetta Rowland

• I learned I was an empath working with Ber-Henda Williams
• Another one of my co-authors, Alix Biondo, is an empath recruiter and writes about her journey to imperfection in her chapter in our book

• LeadHERship Global is part of The Great LeadHERship Awakening which if you heard the last episode you know I wrote a chapter in poetry in this book I share with 23 coa-authors including Linda Fisk the founder and CEO and they too have a podcast here on spotify.

• Puppy and a truck song by Jenny Lewis because it's so much #FeelYourYay energy and I love her.
• Quentin Finney, friend, coach, meditation teacher, buddhist, guide gave me the quote on my post-it note: "May I be of benefit to at least 1 person showing myself exactly as I am."
• Rei Hance is a friend, rad coach and no holds barred boundary-building coach. Her book, Oracle of Emergence: An evolutionary i ching literally changes my life every time I am in relationship with it.

I could #shoutout all day and I'll end here so I can get this Yay-pisode out into the world.

#FeelYourYay
#BringYourYay
#TheYayCollective
#LeadHerShipYay

with love, gratitude, and collective Yay,

Lisa

Hello! It's Lisa Clapper, back after a year with a new Poetic Yay Show.

In this episode, I welcome you and me back and greet spring, Aries season, Ramadan, and share the first couple of tracks from my chapter. Not to mention #womenshistorymonth which I like to think of as womens HER story all the time!

I’m super stoked to be part of the best-selling multi-author adventure that is The Great LeadHERship Awakening, the book. I’m one of 24 rad women telling their stories with wild hearts and soul excellence. I wrote my entire chapter in poetry in a women’s leadHERship book. How about that Yay?

My chapter is called Finding your Yay: Extended Play.

You can buy The Great LeadHERship Awakening on Amazon. Get a Kindle version to read right now (you don’t need a kindle) or Paperback with a soft front to contain all your notes and annotations and future author signatures.

And if you dig performance poetry and want to watch me speak the words of the entire chapter, get yourself a replay from The Great LeadHERship Awakening Virtual Summit. You can also experience the magic and power of any and all of the women who brought their Yay in words her’d, we are a connected body of work.

If you'd like to book me for a live poetry reading or work with a poet to tell your story in true and yayful form, all the deets are at on my website, Yay Collective.

I also mention Rhetta Rowland, the raddest astrologer I know!

Elimu Girls, who we're donating all the book proceeds to. Elimu’s 2-year vocational sewing program transforms Her into a confident entrepreneur.

The book publisher is Kayleigh O'Keefe of Soul Excellence. Don't get me started on how excellent and soulful she is. Another time, I promise!

Last but not least, come #FeelYourYay on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/yaycollective/

#FeelYourYay

#TheYayCollective

#LeadHERshipYay

#BringYourYay

#ReadtoLead

#LeadHERship

#LeadHERshipAwakening

#soulexcellence

#publishing

#NewParadigm

#ZoneofGenius

#InnerFreedom

This is how I felt this morning about international women's day. No high fives and hugs. No sweeping under rugs. This is for the women of the world and especially the ones in Ukraine.

This is where and how I stop saying something that was always cultural appropriation. And how I got there/here.

With special massive yayful thanks to these wonderful and enlightening/enlightened/visionary/teachers and women for guiding me:

Susanna Barkataki (@Susanna Barkataki) https://www.instagram.com/susannabarkataki/ Root down, Lift up, Learn & Lead
💗Practice Yoga for personal & social change, Now

Berhenda Williams Bilingual Poet/Visionary+Empath Coach. I support empathic women (like me) to harness their gifts to fuel their mission based business.  (@berhenda) https://www.instagram.com/berhenda/

Adriana Adelé whose name I mispronounced. Tutor/Teacher
yoga for you + for me + for we
rest + breath + joy + nidra (@adrianaadele) https://www.instagram.com/adrianaadele/

Dr. AJ Dr. Aparajita (AJ) Jeedigunta Award-winning DEI Leader | I help historically marginalized go-getters radically increase their leadership presence, income & impact (@drajjeedigunta) https://www.instagram.com/drajjeedigunta/

Liz Andolong (@Lizandolong) Rest + Reiki Queen https://www.instagram.com/lizandolong/

Prentiss Hemphill (@prentisshemphill) https://www.instagram.com/prentishemphill/ Embodiment Practitioner & Writer Director: @the.embodiment.institute Host: @findingourwaypodcast Politicized Healing

To be continued, in gratitude and with Yay!

It's November 6th and the counting continues after the election. Instead (or in addition to) writing, and reading, and listening, I bring you a multivariate Yay Show created and edited over two days. Plenty of perspective, many references, much Yay.

Something to check out (perhaps) between your refreshing of vote counts and listening or watching of your favorite news sources.

There will (hopefully) be another episode on Spotify soon with song excerpts to pepper and infuse with meaning and melody and music!

So grateful to be here. Facing forward! Sharing Yay!

NamasYay!!

Many mentions in this episode, including:

Myisha Hill...Check your privilege. Instagram

Wake up with perspective with Alexis Santos (meditation)

Take a virtual GRIT or dance class with Uforia. It will uplift you!

Stephen Colbert 11/5/2020 monologue breakdown

Test your unconscious bias

Diana Winston meditation at the Hammer Museum at UCLA - post election (during) - wondrous grounding! And it happens every Thursday at 12:30pm Pacific time and is on the site/app.

If you're in San Francisco, eat at Mau (or have it delivered). delish!

Visit Horse and Plow in Sebastopol and say hi to Suzanne, Josh, and Chris where I heard...

Kayatta perform radly. With Erica Ambrin and DJ Dyops.

Taste wine in the backyard with Mat and Barb at Paul Mathew in Graton. great friends!

Sign up for group yoga with Sara Silberstang.

Read A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler

Featured Adia Victoria South's Gotta Change. Support her by downloading, streaming, listening, sharing!

More music that came to mind during the making of this, mentioned or not..

Devon Gillfillian's reimaging of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On? (with friends)

Maia Sharp Underneath

Counting Blue cars 🚙 🚗  (count them all)

Choose your version of A Change is Gonna Come, because I can't get the link and change is coming. Now!!  

There's probably more 🙌🏻😁😷😍❤️

Hi all!

I'm back with some Yay! Naming this season in the moment, playing in the Yay, admitting likely to go back to other things like Changing Course. Especially since they're already recorded.

I'm calling this "The way of Yay" because it came to me a few days ago and it may just become the first book, hence, Chapter 1. This short-ish episode is about taking in the Yay, taking in the good, and lots of other ways to characterize that (and a lived example of the opposite).

It started because I wanted to animate the aftermath of a great conversation with Krista and get a baguette from tartine. Which will lead to future baked heaven from panorama baking company More learning and living about Taking in the good via Rick Hanson's Hardwiring Happiness and my friend Jess 

Having a Great Food truck Race moment with Nola Creations that turned out to be real. They won the Great Food Truck Race. Who knew? Me, apparently. https://nola-creations.com/ They're at Soma Streat food park today 9/22/2020.  Happy fall y'all!

Understanding more about the Mission neighborhood and how the name itself is fraught with conquering, colonialism, and white supremacy. Acknowledging the Native Americans and the indigenous land we are settlers of is one way to aware and repair, out loud.

(this is  a wikipedia excerpt) "Prior to the arrival of Spanish missionaries, the area which now includes the Mission District was inhabited by the Ohlone people who populated much of the San Francisco bay area. The Yelamu Indians inhabited the region for over 2,000 years. Spanish missionaries arrived in the area during the late 18th century. They found these people living in two villages on Mission Creek. It was here that a Spanish priest named Father Francisco Palóu founded Mission San Francisco de Asis on June 29, 1776. The Mission was moved from the shore of Laguna Dolores to its current location in 1783.[10] Franciscan friars are reported to have used Ohlone slave labor to complete the Mission in 1791.[11] This period marked the beginning of the end of the Yelamu culture. The Indian population at Mission Dolores dropped from 400 to 50 between 1833 and 1841."

I recommend "Starting out the day with a big cup of Yay" whatever time it is. NamasYay y'all!