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
What qualities in myself have never met? What two qualities in myself have I never put together. What distances could I travel if I actually brought parts of me together that have never spoken?
On Being • David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough
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.”
"It is a paradox that experiencing pain releases pain."
— Gunilla Brodde Norris
If you want to understand someone’s dreams, ask: How can I help you become the person you want to be?
Jessica Hagy • Ten Infrequently Asked Questions
We have so many allies in this world, including the blue in the sky, which we’re not paying attention to.
On Being • David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough
"The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will develop the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid to investigate the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities
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Investing in “The Consumer Stack” — both the consumer brands & the inputs required to make them (materials, etc)
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
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