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What if Shame is Actually Good Information…That You Can Use to Get Free?
We feel shame if there is a social expectation that we feel we’re not meeting, and that’s why I think shame is a wildly helpful at understanding oppression.
a round-up of Culture Makers I’m following and reading and LOVING
I get asked a lot who I follow. Here’s a quick (and not exhaustive) list of culture makers who are currently influencing and DELIGHTING me.
What changes people?
Let’s change the norms and the culture around us. That, across time, will change many of the people who were otherwise resistant.
Business Tips for Culture Makers #624: CAUTION: how your principles and beliefs get leveraged and EXPLOITED to grow the platforms of our opponents
Our attention, efforts and social media comments can and do boost people into the mainstream, so we must avoid boosting the platforms of our opponents.
Who’s running our social media accounts? Us, or our social conditioning?
Our social media is a huge opportunity. We are culture makers and can use our social media power DELIBERATELY to create a future in which we all flourish.
More Business Tips for Culture Makers: Signal Boost. Refer. Mentor
Using your resources and reputation to lift people starting out is a culture making tool. When we use culture-making business practices, everyone can flourish.
Who Run the World? (Other than Beyonce)
We can deliberately leverage our culture-making power to become what we haven’t been: the decision-makers and stewards of a better future.
Business Tip for Culture Makers #1220: A Culture Making Approach to Stock Photos
Images are an essential business resource and they have culture-making power. For a long time, I knew that but I didn’t know how to herd that set of kittens. So I avoided images altogether. I knew what I didn’t want to do — perpetuate the mandatory pretty that’s a form of internalized misogyny AND perpetuate…
Tiny Acts of Doing-It-Differently are Culture Making
Tiny acts of doing-it-differently dislodge the web of cooperation that our unjust culture requires to function – and creates something new instead.
We are the Media Makers and the Culture Makers
Every day we are creating images, social media content, and messages that influence people. As culture-makers what we do with our media MATTERS.
Are you wrestling with Imposter Complex? This might help. #impostersyndrome #impostercomplex #thoughtleadership #creativeentrepreneur #intellectualproperty #bodyofwork #WeAreTheCultureMakers #deepwork #slowproductivity #visibility #edwardsaid #orientalism #culturalexile #yourdifferenceisyourstrength www.kellydiels.com
Apr 18
Dear Multi-Passionate Maker,⠀
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Maybe you don`t have Shiny Object Syndrome.⠀
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Maybe you`ve been studying & practicing all of these modalities because you`re developing a rich body of work, across time.⠀
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(No maybe about it.)⠀
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Multi-passionate professionals often get told that they`re "scattered" & need to focus.⠀
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They then internalize negative messages insisting that their orientation towards lifelong learning, curiosity & creativity is a barrier to success.⠀
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IT`S NOT.⠀
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It`s how we build the deep work & creative solutions needed for these urgent times.⠀
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Often, when I work with multi-passionate professionals, it`s wildly obvious to me that they`re collecting tools, synthesizing across traditions -- and making a whole new thing! -- in order to solve complex social problems.⠀
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They`ve been gathering all.the.tools.⠀
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You know what all those tools add up to? ⠀
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A practice. A way of doing things. A framework. Your unique process.⠀
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***You have a methodology.*** ⠀
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So let`s build language for it and NAME IT, specifically.⠀
Naming your method makes it tangible AND SALEABLE.⠀
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Now it now gets a lot easier to explain it to other people...⠀
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...and becomes more obvious why they might want to work with you :)⠀
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Once you name it, you substantiate it. ⠀
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****Including to yourself.****⠀
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Now YOU can see how everything you`ve trained in has led up to this, has prepared you for this work.⠀
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Because, dear Multi-passionate Maker, you`re NOT spinning your wheels or getting distracted by shiny things.⠀
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You`re growing the solutions & institutions of the future.⠀
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Let`s make sure you`ve got the language to describe them. ⠀
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love + justice,⠀⠀
Kelly⠀
#SurfaceYourMethodology #IntellectualProperty #DeepWork #BodyOfWork #SlowProductivity #ThoughtLeadership #ThoughtLeader #MeaningfulWork #WeAreTheCultureMakers
Apr 18
I repeat:
Self-promotion is NOT a distraction from your Body of Work - it’s a lab for your thought leadership!
People often think social media is frivolous. A time-suck.
Or that marketing, networking & self-promotion take your time away from the *real* work.
But in my latest blog post, I’m sharing with you 3 surprising key activities that will add up to a SIGNIFICANT and MEANINGFUL Body of Work.
Check it out here: https://kellydiels.com/meaningful-bodies-of-work-require-base-hits
My Blog link can also be found in my bio @kelly.diels
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I`m Kelly Diels, an expert on Culture Making, Thought Leadership and IP. I teach culture-making entrepreneurs & creators how to develop a substantial body of work that changes EVERYTHING – your life, your industry, our world.⠀
#BodyOfWork #MakingAnImpact #ThoughtLeader #ContentStrategy #LevelUpYourBusiness #CreativeEntrepreneur #CreativeEntrepreneurship #IntentionalBusiness #BrandingIdentity #SocialMediaForBusiness #SocialEntrepreneur #IntellectualProperty
Apr 15
Want to learn how to write sales copy that doesn`t shame or exploit anyone?
I`ve developed a copywriting framework that teaches you exactly how to do that...
I`ve been teaching it for 5 years and it has changed lives, businesses and bank accounts.
In fact, being able to write sales copy changed my life. I wrote my way out of poverty AND no matter what project or business I want to take on, it will WORK.
Because I know how to write words that sell.
The course is FANTASTIC....
And I`m evolving and moving onto other things.
So this is the last time I will offer Copywriting for Culture Makers, EVER.
If you want to learn how to write copy that sells (without selling out your principles)...I hope the timing is lining up for you!
The last day to enrol is April 1...
...AND you`ll get a significant bonus that isn`t listed on the sales page: 45 live, drop-in group coaching sessions where you can bring your draft copy and get feedback on it.
For the rest of 2024 you have the option to drop in 3 Tuesdays a month, at 9am or 4pm PST (or both). (No meetings in July or December)
(That`s 42 group coaching sessions!!!)
PLUS in 2025 you get monthly group coaching sessions in Jan, Feb and Mar (3 total).
The cohort will wrap up March 31 2025.
If this feels like a fit for you, I encourage you to sign up for Copywriting for Culture Makers, with its MAJOR bonus, here.
(There`s a 12 month payment plan available, so you can get started for $300.)
I hope to be seeing you soon in the course!
love + justice,
Kelly Diels
https://kellydiels.com/culture-making-copywriting/
or link in bio @kelly.diels
Mar 30
Today is my 51st birthday!
And it is an amazing one.
I`m going to tell you why, exactly, this birthday in particular is a straight-up miracle in your Sunday Love Letter this week...
...and let me tell you, it is a DOOZY.
In the meantime, to celebrate, I`m holding a 1-day birthday sale where you can get 51% OFF for my 51st Birthday!
And yep, that applies to payment plans too :)
It applies to all the courses listed in the shop...
...including 2 new group coaching classes, E-Money (how to write gracious emails, launches and autoresponders that sell) and Surface Your Methodology LIVE (the group coaching version of my classic course).
You`ll find the shop here:
https://kellydiels.com/shop/
And your discount code is:
51vibes
Because it really, really is.
love + justice,
Kelly
PS The one-day thing isn`t about inducing FOMO. It`s about sustainability.
Obviously 51% off my rates isn`t sustainable across time. But it can be sweet for both of us once a year :)
Mar 14
