664: How to Play the Long Game in Your Advocacy and Activism

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Let your rage be your fuel. The rage I have carried over the last 6+ or so years has fueled so much of my work. But rage is not a long-term plan. If you want to show up in advocacy, allyship, and activism you need more than rage. Rage will only take you so far. I want your rage to fuel you - it can be the gas that allows you to keep your foot on the pedal. But, I also want you to be able to sustain the long-term fight that is often required to make change. And that will require more than rage. In this episode, I walk you through how to let your rage be your fuel while also not letting you get overly caught up in any one moment. The power of pacing yourself in your advocacy, allyship, and activism is what will allow you to stay in the work over the course of the next few decades - and that is what we need from you. From the moment Roe vs Wade was decided in 1973, people (white men of privilege, to be exact) have been working to overturn it. They have worked on this diligently for 50 years. 50 years! While I don’t think it will take 50 years to codify abortion rights, I do believe we have a long haul in front of us. This goes for this fight and so many others. Advocacy is an ongoing, long-term commitment. In this episode, I talk you through how to stay in this commitment over the long haul as well as how you can take action today. We can use our rage for good. We can keep showing up, no matter how long it takes. We can get loud. We can get creative and innovative and scrappy AF. We can and will stay in this as long as is required. Link mentioned: Take my Shameless Summer Survey and win $100 gift card: shamelessmom.com/survey Sponsor info and promo codes: Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/ Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 664. Show notes for this episode, including any links
0:06.3	mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 664.
0:16.2	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free private Facebook group
0:37.9	to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over at shamelessom.com
0:43.6	forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's episode.
0:51.6	Hello, Shameless moms. Happy Monday. Oh, it's hard to say happy Monday when the world is such a hard
0:58.0	place. But I'm going to say it anyway. This is the first time I've recorded since Roe V-Way was
1:04.6	overturned. And we're going to talk about it a little bit today. We're not going to talk super
1:08.7	specifically about that decision because there's a lot not going to talk super specifically about that decision,
1:11.1	because there's a lot of places where people are talking about that decision, and I think you
1:15.6	all know where I stand on it. I'm obviously horrified, horrified and devastated and angry and
1:20.6	full of rage, but also not surprised. This is the America we live in. I want to talk about how you play the long game in your advocacy
1:30.5	and activism, because while this instance is extremely devastating and will have dire consequences,
1:40.1	already is having dire consequences, these are the kinds of things that we are feeling like we're
1:45.0	consistently up against right now. This is one of many horrifying things that have happened recently.
1:49.8	It just continues to be an onslaught of one thing after another where it feels like we have to
1:54.3	take a stand and we have to speak up and we have to do more and we have to show up and we have to
1:58.0	lead. And it's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. And I want to
2:01.7	encourage you, invite you to step into advocacy and activism in a way that you can stay in it for
2:09.1	the long haul. I think that piece is really important. I think that when we're really,
2:14.1	you know, fueled with rage, which can be very productive, by the way, that we get really
2:19.1	eager to dive in in a moment. But I think what's more beneficial over the long haul is when
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