[JOE SANOK] This is the Practice of the Practice podcast with Joe Sanok, session number 729. I’m Joe Sanok, your host, and welcome to the Practice of the Practice podcast. I hope you are doing awesome today. This sound may sound a little bit different. I was supposed to kick off the coming series with LaToya Smith, one of our practitioners, and we had the most technology issues. Her sound wasn’t working in Zencaster, we couldn’t get Zoom to work, it’s just those things happen and you have to roll with it. So I’m actually, I bought a new vacation rental that I’ve been renovating and so I’m out there and I’m actually sitting in the kitchen and I have my AirPods and sometimes you just got to get things going rather than feel like you have to do it perfect. So we’ve got an amazing show for you today to talk through what we’re doing this summer, what you can expect this summer and where we’re headed into the fall. But before we talk about the series that are coming up want to just talk a little bit about how to frame out your summertime, because a lot of times people have different perspectives on summer where their caseload may slow down, maybe they want to be around their kids a little more. So in general, maybe they decide I’m going to, I’m going to slow things down a little bit. I’m going to just allow some time to breathe, some time to think, some time to just really do things differently. That is valid. That is awesome. That’s, what’s Slow Down School or other things that we do is all about, to allow our brains to recoup and rejuvenate. In the same way that we want our weekends to be in preparation, not reaction to the week before we also want these different seasons to maybe have different pacing. When September rolls around, a lot of people are motivated and they’re ready to try new things when January 1st rolls around, we oftentimes are thinking about goals and as we enter into summer, it’s a time to reflect on, do we like the pace that we’re going? Do we want to sustain this long term? Is this what we want, or do we want to change some things up a little bit? So I want to encourage you as you think about entering into June, what are some things that you can really commit to doing for your yourself this summer? Not for your kids, not for your family, not for your business, but what are one or two really small things that you can commit to? For me, for example, every Wednesday night, I’ve been doing improv with an improv troop for a number of years. To me, that’s just like a non-negotiable. I want to make sure I do that every single week. I also want to make sure I spend time on the water. Michigan’s so cold most of the year. I want to be paddleboarding. I want to be swimming when the water’s warm enough. I want to make sure that I have that time at the beach with my friends, with my family, with my girls. So having some of those adventures this summer is really important to me. So what are those things for you? For other people if business slows down a little bit summer can be a time of sprinting. It can be a time of visioning, creating, building out content, thinking through things that are just different. It may be a time of networking or meeting other people, or even looking at how you can level up into growing an audience to be able to think through expanding beyond what you’re currently doing. So if you’re a solo practitioner, maybe you’re looking at how do you start a group practice? Maybe if you’re a group practitioner you’re thinking, well, how do I level up into doing e-courses or public speaking or writing, so to find those ways that you can plan things out when things potentially are a little bit slower in the summertime. So thinking through intentionally what you want your summer to look like can be such a good exercise to do. I would love for you to just take a couple minutes and maybe pause this and just think about if at the end of the summer you said that was a great summer; it was great for me personally, it was great for the connections with my friends and family. It was great for my business. What would that look like? What would your average week look like? Would you wake up early? Would you sleep in a couple days? Would you feel like you really got some things done or like, would you feel like you just sat around a lot? So take some time to pause this podcast right now. Think through what would your ideal week, month, and summer look like? I hope you paused it and really thought through that because if we don’t think about what we want to get out of life, what we want to get out of summer, life just happens to us. 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It’s been two years since Black Lives Matter and a lot of the protests and the conversation expanded in a lot of ways that are positive. I wanted to revisit some of those conversations, but to also go beyond just talking about race and social issues and to give a spotlight to diverse clinicians. It’s really interesting a couple years ago when I did the black leaders matter series, I received actually a lot of hate on social media from people saying who are you as a white guy to be doing this series and how dare you? Just a lot of people that to me came across as being, I don’t know, newer to maybe some social justice issues and to just see how the people that have been in the movement, have been in having discussions around diversity and inclusion and culture and all the issues that are so important that they were recognizing that when someone has a platform just giving platform and giving voice and being curious and joining in the discussion is one of the things that people can do to contribute. So I want to revisit that. In June we’re doing a number of discussions and as I talk to people, I mean we’re two years into this pandemic. We’re, there’s so many problems. I mean, at the time of this recording, there’s been a couple shootings. Who knows what will happen in the future by the time this episode drops. People are exhausted and with the people that I talked to in this series that’s coming up in the coming weeks, I wanted, I said to them before I started rolling, every single one of them that for people of color, for people that are from minority groups, from a variety of different backgrounds to always talk about race, my perception is it can get exhausting and almost all of them said, yes, yes. In some ways we get sick of it, but it’s also needed. So part of my posture towards this coming series is, and I want to make sure that people can just talk about the good work they’re doing. It could be in regards to race, it could be in regards to social justice, or it could just be that they’re an expert in a particular area and we’re giving a platform to those people. So I really try to have pre-conversations with people to make sure that I understood what they wanted out of the interview. Did they want to talk more just about their work? Did they want to dive into discussions on race? So you’ll see that sometimes we don’t dive super deep into social issues. Sometimes we talk mostly clinical. So it’s going to be a really interesting series and we’d love to hear what you think. Would be just a really great way to take action from it. We’re continuing to explore a lot of different ways to take action. So that’s going to be going until the 21st of June of 2022, and then on the 22nd we’re going to be doing an episode that kicks off the series, how I got through it. At the point of this recording, I have about 15 interviews of people that have been through really tough things, like kids being, we’re going to do trigger warnings before every single episode, but going through really tough things like having a daughter gets sexually assaulted, the death of a sibling, infidelity, 11 years of abuse in a marriage, death of a child, all sorts of really tough things that I personally just want to learn from. In episode 736 Latoya Smith really digs in with me as to why is that it matters to learn how people got through it and what my story is over the last year, year and a half. So I’m really, really excited about the series of diverse clinicians coming up, the series of how I got through it. Then when we’re done with how I got through it starting in August, we just have a number of really amazing interviews. So it’s going to be a summer that I think is inspiring in a very much a heart-centered way. Maybe not that means it’s less business, but just to go deeper in areas that maybe we haven’t dug into quite as much. I mean, that’s the thing about a podcast, you can dig in super deep in a lot of different ways. So stay tuned, we’re going to be doing some awesome things. We could not do series like this or other things like this without our awesome sponsors. We have a great new sponsor, BiOptimizers, is a great supplement company. We partnered with them. 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