Hosted by Valerie Black · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 18 episodes
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What is power? Well, that's complicated. We've learned to associate power with money, influence, position, fame, politics, and even certain bodies. Becoming Power is a podcast about a different perspective on power. Host Valerie Black highlights how true power emerges from the practices that help us transform and evolve as humans and serve as a foundation for our work in the world. She talks with leaders, executives, athletes, and activists about how they nurture their own inner power. Valerie analyzes their insights and turns them into meditations, visualizations, and bite-sized experiments for you to integrate into your own life. Whether you're looking for a greater sense of power at work, a deeper relationship with yourself, or ideas for developing your own powerful practices, Becoming Power is for you.
Valerie Black hosts Becoming Power, a business show with 18 episodes published.
I keep noticing something in my work, in my friendships, even in myself: so many people are starving for permission. Permission to rest. To stop performing all the time. To tell the truth. Permission to become stranger,
Do you know what it would feel like to arrive in your power? We talk about power like it's a destination but I don't think that that's true. I mean, I have had clear, undeniable moments that I can point to and say, yes,
It was two and a half years ago, but I can still taste it—that mix of confusion, grief, fear, and exasperation from the job hunt after a layoff. I kept hearing the same things: “You’re overqualified.” “You don’t quite fi
There are times in the world and in our lives when hope feels abstract. Maybe there’s a little ironic detachment. Maybe it’s more of a passive wish than taking action. And there’s nothing wrong with wishing. But what I’m
This morning, I was halfway through my meditation when it finally clicked. Not in a big, ah-ha way. More like a little sigh. Yup. I’m scared. I didn’t know that’s what it was at first. I thought it was just the news, the
Picture two spaces. In one, a field kitchen bubbles over with life. Under a makeshift tent, pots clatter, onions hiss on a portable hot plate, and someone’s calling out, “We need more rice!” A neighbor who's just lost ev
I was a shy and intense kid. The kind who always wants to sit at the grownups table instead of running around with the other kids. But I noticed early on that my intensity could confuse or overwhelm others, so I learned
There are moments in life–many moments if we’re lucky–when we outgrow an old form. What once felt right starts to feel too small. Something inside insists: there’s more than this. So the seed cracks. The old form gives w
We are living in a world that currently feels unsettled, to say the least. At best, people seem confused. At worst, frozen, or acting out. There is so much anger and uncertainty in the air. One way I’m coping is by retur
Intuition can manifest as a sudden, sharp knowing or as a slowly dawning certainty. Regardless of its speed, intuition carries a powerful sense of knowing, signaling us on a deep level, "Hey, pay attention. I have someth
This year, I’ve spent a lot of time feeling lost. Since my layoff, I’ve been planting seeds and imagining myself into many new life shapes, wondering which seeds will take root. This darkness can feel fruitful but can al
After a recent bout of contending with my own perfectionism, I had a profound realization. Perhaps calling myself a recovering perfectionist is incorrect. Maybe my perfectionism isn’t something that I need to fix about m
Are you a perfectionist? Has anyone referred to you that way before? As a coach, I understand that the desire to “get it right” plagues most of us in some way. And these tendencies can be especially pernicious when worki
There’s a lot of talk out there about self-care and rest. We all experience stress and dysregulation in this world, and rest is essential for our emotional and physical well-being. Yet sometimes, when we’re stressed and
What rituals and practices do you turn to when you need refuge? In a recent conversation with my friend and former colleague, Darcy Constans MD, I realized that we had a cherished childhood touchstone in common that Darc
Picture this: you’ve just completed a big project. All the work (and stress) is over, and you can breathe a sigh of relief. Right? So, how quickly do you start itching to know how others think it went? Perhaps you’re a s
Have you ever felt like your brain was being a real jerk? Our inner worlds can be brutal. But it is possible to intentionally cultivate a gentler, more generative landscape that offers us strong roots to ground us so tha
Power—what a complicated word. What does it take to become powerful? Money? Fame? Connections? Or perhaps just being born into the right kind of body? I believe power— true power —results from deep roots, an inner life t
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