The Competitor vs. Contemporary Reframe and Setting Energetic Boundaries
Episode Description
[Competitive energy] is all-consuming and it totally shuts you down from your intuition. If you're obsessed with someone else and how people perceive you and being better, then you're just drowning out your own goals. You're drowning out the information that is like begging to come through. - Michelle Pellizzon
Competitor vs. contemporary is the reframe we're talking about today on the pod with the whole team at Holisticism! It's a triggering topic, and we've all been in there where we're not sure if we should call someone in, call them out, have a tough conversation with them, or straight up invoice them for plagiarizing our work!
There's no right answer and we're here to discuss all the angles and the historical and structural systems that continue to create false scarcity, urgency, and competition that pit us against each other and continue to steal from the most marginalized while negating our need to rest and manifest.
We'd love to hear from you! Text us @ +1 818-699-9735 about your thoughts and feels on competition and collaboration and if you text us a screenshot of your podcast review and we'll send you a special treat🌟
Specifically as a woman of color, as a black woman and working and being in a community with other women who don't look like me, specifically, white women, there's a different level of scarcity, a feeling of scarcity that can come up for women like me, black women or women of color in general. That is a very real thing in a way that has less to do with how you value yourself and more to do with what we've seen through history. - Janelle Pearson
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If you love hearing all of team Holisticism's perspectives at our roundtable discussions, check out our episode "Exploring Shadow Work with Team Holisticism" where we talk about the gold that lays hidden in our subconscious minds and how to explore shadow work in order to find the gems that lay dormant in the depths of our shadows.
We touch on the origins of shadow work (in the West), how our shadows show up in our intimate relationships, six rules for doing shadow work, and some of our favorite exercises to dig for your hidden gold.
SHOW NOTES
Scaling your business while setting boundaries when it comes to attribution and plagiarism [4:38]
Scarcity created by capitalism and white supremacy and how it affects our sense of competition [7:36]
Productivity in the pandemic and working from an inspired place vs. scarcity [11:00]
How competitive energy robs you from connecting to your intuition [13:40]
Echoism vs. Narcissism, self-doubt and projection[15:27]
Capitalism, white supremacy and the suppression of black lives, black light, and how it interplays with competition [18:49]
Janelle shares her experience with competition while creating her own business and dealing with PTSD from the shame, guilt and experience of going through it while in community with white women [22:34]
White supremacy thriving on stealing and copying from women of color [27:36]
The myth of capitalism and overworking and being productive in order to deserve rest and being taken care of [28:40]
Turning inward when faced with competition and the power of rest in order to manifest [29:54]
What's the stem of urgency for you and question how true is it? How can you reframe and choose the opposite [30:54]
Reframing competition as collaboration and making friends out of your enemies [35:47]
How to set boundaries when it comes to competition and competitiveness [
Copyright your work and get trademarks if you're starting a business. Cleanse AND protect yourself with rituals from your ancestry and lineage [41:57]
Call-out culture and calling people out vs. calling people in for a discussion and calling others out in a way that you'd like to be taught yourself [43:40]
The team goes through their "screenshots" of the week, morality in the tech world, and restructuring capitalism [47:43]
PEOPLE AND RESOURCES MENTIONED
A Little Late With Lily Singh (Featuring Janelle Pearson on Wednesday January 20th at 1:35am PST)