The Cozy Impact Pod with Malia and Julia

The Cozy Impact Pod Season 3, Episode 4: Boost Your Oxytocin!

Welcome back to the Cozy Impact Pod, where we explore how softness, joy, and embodiment can be powerful tools for change.

In this episode, Malia and Julia reconnect after a full season of life and work. They reflect on burnout, shifting energy cycles, and the ways we find rest in a world that rarely slows down. From crocheting sea turtles to walking through botanic garde...

Malia and Julia discuss the current chaotic moment in the US, the LA fires, and each of our responses to navigating the environment we're in. Julia is in her petty era of activism, getting cybertrucks towed. Malia is in her mom-voice era being a powerful grounded goddess on a mountaintop. We discuss declassified CIA files on sabbotaging fascism, attacks on DEI, and how we’re continuing to fight for human dignity.

For our final episode of our 2nd season, Malia and Julia are IN PERSON together talking about expansive visions of culture change for organizations, digging deeper into our own stories and longings, and sharing insights into the challenges and joys of being solopreneurs. 

Notes:

🧘 Presence and Body Awareness (00:00 - 02:25)

• Discussion on the importance of being present in the body for business and psychology.
• Introduction to t...

The Cozy Impact Pod, hosted by Malia and Julia, welcomes Mariam Matin, an Austin-based talent entrepreneur passionate about making hiring more equitable and empowering. They delve into the performative nature of job interviews and the invisible barriers that perpetuate inequities in the job search process, particularly for marginalized groups like first-generation college students. Mariam shares her journey of founding Second Day, ...

This week, we continue our conversation about exhaustion and burnout for activists and folks in impact fields with a very special guest, Taj M. Smith.

Taj M. Smith (he/him) is the founder of Rooted Respite, an online burnout support community serving activists, DEI practitioners, faith-based changemakers, and others committed to creating a more equitable world. As a Black transgender entrepreneur, Taj’s work amplifies anti-oppressi...

We are bringing transparency to collective exhaustion, exploitative capitalism, how hard it can be to say no, stress, overwhelm and the baseline state that we as a society might be expected to function at. Also how our value or self worth is tied to what we “do” and what happens when we actually pause. There will also be space to invite the question on what about when we are tired and other people’s jobs are at stake, or the climat...

What would it look like if we all had the support we needed? What would it feel like if we were able to self-accommodate and have more space for accessibility and adaptability in our lives and work environments? We are exploring what it is actually like to be in self-accommodation, have the conversation around disability, and ask for adaptability. How to create more space for possibility and honoring where our bodies are. We have i...

Does it seem like everyone is doing better than you? Do you feel like you're behind where you "should" be in your career or life? Surprise! US TOO! Let's talk about it! This week, in the first episode with our new title, The Cozy Impact Pod, we'll be talking about the experience of comparisonitis - what it's like, where it comes from, and how to make it hold less power over us

Special Nods in this episode:

Taj Smith - Burnout Rec...

For many of us, this time of year feels like a fresh start...but it can also come with a ton of pressure to transform who you are, feel magically fulfilled all the time, and meet the expectations flying at us from all directions. Let's be honest, it also tends to set us up to feel like failures. So, as we move into a new year, we'll be sharing insights on how to navigate this time of year with more compassion for yourself so you c...