Power

On Culture Breaking and Culture Making. For when you’re frustrated with other change-makers.

By Kelly Diels / August 18, 2019 /

Culture change needs many things, we don’t need to be frustrated with someone for not doing the thing we think is important. WE can do that one thing.

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teeth. time. zooming out. POWER.

By Kelly Diels / August 18, 2019 /

We internalize messages about individual defects but when we zoom out and look at the bigger picture of social structures, we see things differently.

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The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand, Mental Triggers, and Weaponized Imperfection

By Kelly Diels / August 11, 2019 /

How privilege gets displayed AND LEVERAGED in our social media feeds — in pictures of our hair, kids, counter-tops, vacations, dinners and everyday life.

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For Me, Copywriting Equals Livelihood and Power (And I Trust You With Power and Resources)

By Kelly Diels / August 5, 2019 /

Writing is a form of power. It gives us the ability to create new norms & realities. Copywriting, in particular, can change the trajectory of your business.

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What if Shame is Actually Good Information…That You Can Use to Get Free?

By Kelly Diels / July 21, 2019 /

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.

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What changes people?

By Kelly Diels / June 30, 2019 /

Let’s change the norms and the culture around us. That, across time, will change many of the people who were otherwise resistant.

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Who’s running our social media accounts? Us, or our social conditioning?

By Kelly Diels / June 9, 2019 /

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.

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More Business Tips for Culture Makers: Signal Boost. Refer. Mentor

By Kelly Diels / June 2, 2019 /

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.

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Who Run the World? (Other than Beyonce)

By Kelly Diels / June 2, 2019 /

We can deliberately leverage our culture-making power to become what we haven’t been: the decision-makers and stewards of a better future.

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Business Tip for Culture Makers #1220: A Culture Making Approach to Stock Photos

By Kelly Diels / May 31, 2019 /

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…

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