Books that Make the World Better

Calling the sacred mother, a conversation with poet Anne Yeomans

In this episode of Books That Make the World Better, Green Fire Press publisher Jennifer Browdy talks with poet Anne Yeomans, who has been a psychotherapist for over 50 years. She has facilitated dialogue groups and sacred women’s circles for decades in both the US and Russia. Anne is the co-founder of The Women's Well, an organization devoted to the healing and empowerment of women and girls and the reclaiming of the sacred feminine, which offered programs in the Boston area from 1994 to 2012, centered around essential questions in women’s spirituality: What do women experience as sacred? How do they know it and honor it? How do they bring it forth? The author of the bilingual Russian-English poetry collection We Used to Call Her Mother, Anne is the co-editor of the collection Willing to Love: Stories of the Couple's Journey as a Path of Transformation, for which she authored a chapter. A lifelong social activist, she is the mother of two children, with five grandchildren. Get a copy of We Used To Call Her Mother: https://bookshop.org/p/books/we-used-to-call-her-mother-anne-eastman-yeomans/9af50045ee2e1632/ [https://bookshop.org/p/books/we-used-to-call-her-mother-anne-eastman-yeomans/9af50045ee2e1632/] Learn more about Anne Yeomans and The Women’s Well: http://womenswell.org/origins.html [http://womenswell.org/origins.html] More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com [https://greenfirepress.com] More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com [https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com]

Full-Spectrum Leadership with Nina Simons of Bioneers

In this episode of Books That Make the World Better, podcast host Jennifer Browdy PhD talks with Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers and the Everywomans Leadership Program, and the author of Nature, Culture & the Sacred, a Woman Listens for Leadership, a beautiful book about the wisdom and power of full-spectrum leadership. More about Nina Simons: https://ninasimons.com [https://ninasimons.com] More about Bioneers: https://bioneers.org [https://bioneers.org] More about Nature, Culture & the Sacred: https://greenfirepress.com/books/nature-culture-and-the-sacred-a-woman-listens-for-leadership/ [https://greenfirepress.com/books/nature-culture-and-the-sacred-a-woman-listens-for-leadership/] More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com [https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com] More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com [https://greenfirepress.com]

Hilary Giovale: Becoming a Good Relative

In this inspiring conversation, Green Fire Press publisher Jennifer Browdy talks with Hilary Giovale, author of Becoming A Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing and Repair. Going deep and ranging widely, Hilary talks with Jennifer about her identity as a ninth-generation American settler whose ancestors benefitted from grants of stolen land, the stolen lives and labor of enslaved peoples, and systemic racism. Becoming a Good Relative shares remedies for the debilitating shame that can overtake white Americans when we face our peoples’ colonial past and our current complicity with systemic white supremacy. It offers a unique methodology, supported by African American and Indigenous Elders, for entering into mutually beneficial reciprocal relationships with Native peoples, ancestors, and the spirits of the land. More about Hilary Giovale and Becoming a Good Relative: https://www.goodrelative.com [https://www.goodrelative.com] More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com [https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com] More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com [https://greenfirepress.com]

Leah Rampy: Reconnecting Earth and Soul for a Thriving Gaian Future

Host Jennifer Browdy engages in deep conversation with author Leah Rampy about her book Earth and Soul: Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos. The book invites us to relax into the space of not knowing, where we can reconnect with our soul purpose for being on the Earth today, in such trying times. As Leah writes: "We are on the threshold. We cannot return to the past. The future is not yet clear. Our responsibility is to listen for what is waiting to be born and to understand what we are called to midwife. Typical leadership is woefully insufficient for these edge times. We need to claim a new leadership that engages each of us at the point of our gifts and enables us to seek a collective wisdom far beyond what can be summoned from rational thinking and experience alone. "We cannot know what future is possible. The Earth, the Cosmos, Wisdom will unfold in ways we cannot comprehend. It’s likely that our contributions will not manifest results in our lifetime. It is ours to plant seeds for the future, to lay stepping stones that others may follow toward a future of greater mutual flourishing and well-being." More about Leah Rampy: https://www.leahmoranrampy.com [https://www.leahmoranrampy.com] More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com [https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com] More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com [https://greenfirepress.com]

Flying Lead Change: Kelly Wendorf on Letting Horses Lead the Way to Individual & Cultural Transformation

Host Jennifer Browdy talks with leadership development coach and horse whisperer Kelly Wendorf, founder of the EQUUS Experience program, which she runs at her ranch in Sante Fe, New Mexico, and the author of Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading and Living. Since we live in rapidly changing times, our lives and our organizations need to be highly adaptive in order to thrive. Conventional approaches to living and leading are no longer effective for today’s challenges. New capacities of awareness, wisdom, and presence are now required, yet these cannot be learned in the same way other skill sets are learned. Instead, conditions need to be created for such capacities to emerge. EQUUS creates those conditions. In a heartfelt, wide-ranging conversation, Kelly talks about how she came to be the wise, earth-centered leader that she is today; how her deep work with indigenous elders, including Australian Aboriginal Uncle Bob Randall, has informed her worldview and perspectives; and how horses, ancient companions of human beings for millennia, can help us repair our frayed relationships with each other and the natural world of which we are a part. To learn more about Kelly Wendorf and the EQUUS program: https://www.equusinspired.com [https://www.equusinspired.com] To learn more about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com [https://greenfirepress.com] To learn more about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com [https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com]