Kate Smalley
@katesmalley
Small Business Advisor & Educator.
Pursuing work that’s meaningful in a way that’s sustainable.
Exploring growth that centers play, possibility, care, and fullness.
Kate Smalley
katesmalley.com
"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others."
~ Picasso
~ Picasso
Poetic Outlaws • Tweet
The amateur's fear eclipses her compassion for others and for herself.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
Daniel Schmachtenberger - How can we live a meaningful life?
youtube.comBeing, doing, becoming. “The only doing that matters is adding beauty to life and/or protecting/serving the beauty that’s there.” “Most people are doing stuff that if they stopped doing it, the world would be better.”
"An important distinction must be made: liberation and freedom are not the same. Liberation is a process. Freedom is a temporary state of being. Liberation is dynamic. It never ends."
— Emilie Townes, Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader
23 The Four Seasons - The Courage to Teach Guide
vimeo.comThe four seasons as themes to help us navigate the real issues of inner life
Intentional communities of mutual self-reliance and reciprocity are the wave of the future, and their currency is sharing. The move toward a local food economy is not just about freshness and food miles and carbon footprints and soil organic matter. It is all of those things, but it’s also about the deeply human desire for connection, to be in
... See moreRobin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Daniel Schmachtenberger’s talk at Emergence
youtube.comSynergy, emergence, evolution. “Winning at a dying system is not an interesting win.”
"We lost public spaces. Online public spaces. Facebook and Google are shopping malls, but we think they are parks!"
—
Aral Balkan