The Yay Show

Concurrent grief and joy at the well and in the swamp

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 [https://open.spotify.com/show/08F60fHBihlcqWZTr7Thzc?si=2a291e9c58aa4006]. or anywhere you like via the homepage We all know in our bones that things are harder than they have to be [https://onbeing.org/programs/isabel-wilkerson-we-all-know-in-our-bones-that-things-are-harder-than-they-have-to-be/]. * Isabel Wilkerson [https://www.isabelwilkerson.com/] * Chani Nicholas [https://chaninicholas.com/] whose astrology I follow along with my dear friend and rad evolutionary astrologer Rhetta Rowland [https://www.rhettarowland.com/] * I learned I was an empath working with Ber-Henda Williams [https://www.ber-hendawilliams.com/] * Another one of my co-authors, Alix Biondo [linkedin.com/in/alixbiondo], is an empath recruiter and writes about her journey to imperfection in her chapter in our book [https://www.amazon.com/Great-LeadHERship-Awakening-Kayleigh-OKeefe/dp/B0BW2VKMDF/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#books-entity-teaser] * LeadHERship Global [https://leadhershipglobal.com/] is part of The Great LeadHERship Awakening [https://www.yaycollective.com/author] 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 [https://leadhershipglobal.com/podcast/] here on spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/25RmFH9tuxmiC84tuLtYdh?si=2a3496ce11104138]. * Puppy and a truck [https://open.spotify.com/track/3yN6F2vOf3ypKv9kr8sDdm?si=3ee1734418b3429a] song by Jenny Lewis because it's so much #FeelYourYay energy and I love her. * Quentin Finney [http://pauseio.com/], 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 [https://reihance.wordpress.com/] is a friend, rad coach and no holds barred boundary-building coach. Her book, Oracle of Emergence: An evolutionary i ching [https://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Emergence-Evolutionary-I-Ching/dp/B09M55VZXJ/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=] 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

The Great LeadHERship Awakening Book Yay: part 1

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 [https://www.amazon.com/Great-LeadHERship-Awakening-Kayleigh-OKeefe-ebook/dp/B0BWYZ9YBY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=] version to read right now (you don’t need a kindle) or Paperback [https://www.amazon.com/Great-LeadHERship-Awakening-Kayleigh-OKeefe/dp/B0BW2VKMDF/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=] 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 [https://the-great-leadhership-awakening.heysummit.com/?ac=gaoIjRVj&sc=9t1zQgky] 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 [https://www.yaycollective.com/]. I also mention Rhetta Rowland [https://www.rhettarowland.com/], the raddest astrologer I know! Elimu Girls [https://elimugirls.com/], 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 [https://kayleighokeefe.com/] 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

Women's Day (International) 2022

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.

Yay! I am Called back to the Yay show by Sonya Renee Taylor

Hi! Today (just now, Right now, l was listening to Sonya Renee Taylor on How to end the war with your body on ten percent happier https://10percenthappier.app.link/JyHsRZgDHib I am compelled to stop in the middle and shed my own inner light back into the world via this Yay Show. Sharing some radness and a few of the radical ways in which I am changed, aware, and putting my Yay in the world. Think. Do. Be. (Sonya calls it). As a practice of radical self love, responsibility, and living into my own bright light. Hello again. Yay on! I also mention Sharon Salzburg, Krista Tippett and this episode of On Being https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tippett/id150892556?i=1000531109057 and a few other radical human beings. Spontaneous Yay activated. Go get your own Yay on (stop in the middle and write or dance or draw or shout or meditate or anything. Or keep going. Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!

My misuse of Namaste (No more NamasYay)

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 [https://www.instagram.com/the.embodiment.institute/] Host: @findingourwaypodcast [https://www.instagram.com/findingourwaypodcast/] Politicized Healing To be continued, in gratitude and with Yay!