Episode 132

Leading with the Heart with Nina Simons

Stacy and Brenda talk with Nina Simons, a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Bioneers. This was a beautiful conversation on becoming a white ally, balancing the macluine and feminine energies in the world, and re-discovering the sacredness in nature and culture for deep healing of the world.

What is Bioneers?

How do you see that leadership is being redefined, and what does gender have to do with it, and how'd you get there?

We discuss rebalancing of the 'feminine' + "masculine" and what this looks like and how we can truly balance these energies?

What does marrying the Sun and moon mean? And how can we come from this place?

What is relational intelligence and how can we cultivate this as a culture?

How can we become a white ally and become dedicated to racial justice and beloved community

How does doing the individual reflection and self-cultivation she writes about in her book, Nature, Culture, and the Sacred, will result in a whole system change?

How can we cultivate forms of leadership that enrich all people, our relationships with the natural world, and lead to healthier outcomes?

How can more women in leadership would improve all systems worldwide.

67% of people globally believe the world would be better if men led more like women

What can we do to stand together and grow each other’s courage, skills, and leadership.

How can we transform leadership from the inside, out to effect positive in the challenges we face on a personal, planetary, and geopolitical level?

What are some of the solutions to our current global challenges must include nurturing and lifting up a more gender-balanced, heart-centric, integrated leadership style that prioritizes relationship before task?

What do these longer-term vision and values look like?

What does political reform in the future look like for you?

Nina Simons, a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Bioneers, has innovated ways of regenerating community and remembering interconnectedness. She’s worked with over a thousand women leaders who are diverse across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development. Her award-winning book is Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, and her earlier book is Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart.

This episode is sponsored by Tom Paladino at Scalar Light

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Twitter: ninabioneers

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