Return guest Ash Robinson dives deep with Kimberly Ann Johnson into the challenges and opportunities for women in business amidst the current economic and technological climate. They discuss the role of AI on personal and professional life, the importance of financial stability, and the need for a clear vision and strategy, particularly for women. Ash emphasizes the significance of taking stock of one's current situation, identifying needs, and focusing on sustainable growth. They also touch on the role of professional resourcing, the balance between enduring and sacrificing, and the importance of community and support in achieving long-term goals. This Fall, they will be offering round 2 of the Mastermind for Women Entrepreneur, so look out for a sign-up announcement coming this August!

Bio

Ash Robinsoon is the strategist standing behind many leaders who are doing their big work. From Ash: “I’m a wife, mother of three, and deeply value my family life. As a CEO for most of my career, I spent most of my time creating and building, not consulting. I come from a family of entrepreneurs, and have personally worked in both product and service businesses across many industries, including early education, fitness, consumer products, online education, brick and mortar, franchise systems, and technology (software). My experience is a unique blend of professional management and entrepreneurship in both private and public companies. In 2014, I co-founded bon-fire for business, an experiential education and consulting firm that leverages strategic planning and human design to bridge the gap between untapped potential and business performance. bon-fire is built on the idea that human beings are driven to create value, and that creating a path for harnessing talent and creating sustainable, thriving culture is the surest way to win in our networked age. For the last 15 years, I have been a student of people and the teams and organizations they work on-- from my work in early education leading a team of hundreds to my own pursuit of optimal health and making a real difference in my work. My passion and research in neuroscience, cognition, behavior change, and culture inform both the tools and approach we use in bon·fire. I believe that your organization is actually a living system- highly adaptable, renewable, and self-organizing- which creates the possibility for a new level of both value creation and engagement with your vision and effective progress toward it. Business can be a bridge— igniting the spark of the human spirit and providing the structure in which a committed group of people make a positive impact. My passion is for bringing people around the bon·fire to achieve extraordinary personal and business performance. I believe we have to build the world we want to belong to.”

What You’ll Hear

• After seeing so many women’s businesses thrive from their masterminding course they wanted to craft another offering.

• Our finances are a huge part of our eros and how we express ourselves in the world

• What role does AI play in online and coaching businesses?

• To build the world we want to belong to that’s our work to do

• What does AI use tell us about our nervous systems

• Do one thing well

• Uncertainty creates instability

• When we are clear we can take more embodied action to what we are after.

• Existential dilemmas live in the parasympathetic nervous system

• Action comes from a healthy sympathetic drive

• How do you young people deal with a helpless parasympathetic response to the world?

• Mistaking business/system problems for personal problems

• The how do wee accomplish the vision can be messy

• Finding clarity not all about a perfect strategy it’s also about being resourced and nourished

• Trying to take stock of the “As Is View”

• What do I need to get where I want to go?

• Reaching financial goals always has a weigh

Links

Website: https://bon-fire.co/

IG: @ashrobinsoncalhoun

In this episode, Kimberly Ann Johnson and filmmaker/producer Jackson Kroopf reflect on their respective experiences watching Best Picture Winner Anora. They discuss their contrasting experiences of seeing the films in theaters, what role sex and violence played in the film, and unpack some of what they were drawn to and troubled by in the film. And while they both found the hedonism in the film uncomfortable, the film's ending landed, particularly in its portrayal of power dynamics, intimate rapport, and the broken fantasies that emerge in pursuit of the American dream. Along the way, they consider to what extent the film’s success hinged on a desensitized audience and what that might say about where we find ourselves culturally when it comes to the female body, our nervous systems, and sexuality. If you’d like to dive deeper into these topics, consider signing up for Kimberly’s upcoming course Activate Your Inner Jaguar: Movement, Meditation & The Female Nervous System.

What You’ll Hear

• Why Kimberly walked out the first time she saw it.
• A consideration of how sex and violence functioned in the film.
• What commentary is the film making about the nature of sex work?
• The erotic vs. the pornographic
• What is the moral center of the film?
• What role does comedy play in the film?
• Sadness around desensitization in our culture
• The desire for representations of sexuality that are connected, off-script, non-generic
• Representations of sexuality on a woman’s own terms
• The fantasy of the American Dream falling apart
• Old world vs. new world when it comes to 1st and 2nd generation immigrants
• Is there any worth in bearing witness to extreme hedonism
• Can cinema re-sensitize us?
• Does violence in films reflect what’s in the collective or determine what’s in the collective?
• What happens when couples more openly discuss their sexual preferences?
• Can repair happen if a negative sexual experience takes place with a partner?
• Longing for seeing representations of moral men outside of "hero" roles

Links

Sign up for the course Activate Your Inner Jaguar: Movement, Meditation & The Female Nervous System here.

In this episode, Kimberly Ann Johnson is joined by journalist, and fellow Jaguar, Kristin Butler to discuss the case of Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman: a celebrity couple who are currently both facing charges around Gaiman’s ongoing sexual misconduct. Kimberly and Kristin share their own personal reactions to the case, as well as the way the reporting on the story reveals common challenges for women dealing with fallout from sexual boundary rupture, particularly fawning. They explore the complexities of boundary violations, the impact of the #BelieveSurvivors movement on men, and the psychological responses for women searching for agency and empowerment post boundary rupture. The conversation touches on the broader implications of sexual abuse, the role of social media, and the importance of Activate Your Inner Jaguar work in empowering individuals to recognize and assert their boundaries. They discuss the power of embodied consent and the challenges of navigating gray areas in sexual interactions, as well as circumstances where structural power and interpersonal power fluctuate in relationships between men and women.

What They Discuss?

• Trigger warnings and disclaimers in journalism

• Fawning between young women and older men who abuse their power

• What is the journalistic responsibilities of storytelling and reporting around sexual boundaries

• An in depth consideration of Tortoise Media’s podcast series Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman

• Fawning when the threat is not front of you

• What happens when your flight response doesn’t activate?

• How does our nervous system respond to a boundary rupture?

• Tendencies to blame oneself after a sexual boundary rupture

• Self-Gaslighting

• What’s a trauma loop?

• What is compelling me to enter certain sexual situations?

• How does activate your inner jaguar empower women?

• What is the responsibility women have to their own nervous systems and for their behavior?

• The complexity of #BelieveSurvivors

• What is too overprotective for a parent?

• Is it safe to be a sex positive parent?

• How do highly publicized extremes impact sexual norms?

• How does virtual socialization impact our in person interactions?

• How does emotional support from AI impact our relationships

• It’s become normalized to for men and women to degrade/insult men

• The quieter forms of anti-male bias

• How does structural power and relative power play out between men and women?

• How does power play out in everyday relationships?

• The power of embodied boundaries

Links

Sign up for Activate Your Inner Jaguar: Movement, Meditation, and The Female Nervous System here - Early Bird price ends May 2nd