We Are The Culture Makers

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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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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a round-up of Culture Makers I’m following and reading and LOVING

By Kelly Diels / July 14, 2019 /

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.

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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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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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Tiny Acts of Doing-It-Differently are Culture Making

By Kelly Diels / May 27, 2019 /

Tiny acts of doing-it-differently dislodge the web of cooperation that our unjust culture requires to function – and creates something new instead.

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We are the Media Makers and the Culture Makers

By Kelly Diels / May 20, 2019 /

Every day we are creating images, social media content, and messages that influence people. As culture-makers what we do with our media MATTERS.

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What it Means to Be a Culture Maker in Your Business and Media

By Kelly Diels / May 17, 2019 /

On my website, the first thing you’ll see is the statement: “We are The Culture Makers”. I say this because it’s true. We have the power to create change and to create a just culture. In our interactions with each other, with friends and family, with power and authorities, online, and professionally, in our businesses…

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