In this episode I’m chatting with the lovely Melanie Klein. M.A., who is an empowerment coach, thought leader and influencer in the areas of body confidence, authentic empowerment, and visibility.
She is also a successful writer, speaker, and professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies. Her areas of interest and specialty include media literacy education, body image, and the intersectional analysis of systems of power and privilege.
She is the co-editor of Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery + Loving Your Body (Llewellyn, 2014) with Anna Guest-Jelley,
Melanie is also a contributor in 21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics and Practice (Horton & Harvey, 2012), is featured in Conversations with Modern Yogis (Shroff, 2014), a featured writer in Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Mindful Living (Llewellyn, 2016), co-editor of Yoga, the Body and Embodied Social Change: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis with Dr. Beth Berila and Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Additionally she is the editor of the new anthology, Yoga Rising: 30 Empowering Stories from Yoga Renegades for Every Body. She co-founded the Yoga and Body Image Coalition in 2014 and is the co-founder of The Joy Revolution. She has been practicing yoga and meditation since 1996 and currently lives in Santa Monica, CA.
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CONNECT WITH MELANIE:
Instagram:
@melemelklein
@ybicoaltion
@thejoyrev
Website:
melaniecklein.com
Yoga and Body Image Coalition:
ybicoalition.com/
Book websites:
yogaandbodyimage.org
yogarisingbook.com
The Joy Revolution (currently enrolling for the next cohort):thejoyrevolution.org
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IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:
- Her thoughts on the entrepreneurial space being oversaturated with “experts”
- The value of lived experiences + training, as it pertains to expertise
- Companies, organizations, people that have “jumped on the bandwagon” to use ‘body positivity’ as a selling point without any real involvement / contribution to the movement
- #loveyourbody is more than just a hashtag
- Ideal Culture vs. Real Culture
- Companies wanting to profit off of body positivity, inclusivity, accessibility, etc. – using activating buzz words in their copy without true intention behind it
- Not substituting the idea of progress with the idea of equality
- A paradigm shift requires a re-imagining of what is possible, and a re-writing of the rules.” – Melanie Klein
- Media Literacy & social constructs
- We as people are the engineers and architects of our culture → create social constructs → yet we often feel like “society” is bigger than us
- Her advice on how we can change the collective story from society – all the messages and narratives that we’ve adopted
- Individual transformation for collective liberation
- Reimagining Leadership
- Using joy as an activation energy to create sustainability in our life
- Joy as the path, not the destination
- Resistant to allow ourselves to feel happy
- Joy can pick up where the anger burns off
- Joy vs. Anger as a source of empowerment
- The anger she identified with as a result of simply being a girl in our society and growing up amid patriarchy
- “The truth will set you free but first it will piss you off” – Gloria Steinem
- What it means to live in your full power → recognizing that you are not the problem
- Coming into full authenticity and being unapologetic about who we are
- Coming into our full power: claiming everyone we’ve been, our shadow parts, and our bright parts instead of labeling any parts as “good” or “bad”
- How to use Joy as an empowerment tool
- Increasing our capacity for joy, to show up more fully
- How can we begin to look at joy as the new barometer of success
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