How to Leverage Coalition & Community to Create a Culture of Liberation

Can you get free by yourself? That’s the question Paul Zelizer answers in this episode. He talks about why coalitions matter and how important they are when creating a liberatory framework. As a person with skin colour and gender privilege, yet a descendant of a historically oppressed group, Paul navigates this nuance within social justice communities both in his city and online.

Paul Zelizer is one of the first business and marketing coaches to focus on the needs of conscious entrepreneurs and social impact businesses. He runs a global coaching practice supporting conscious entrepreneurs and growing their businesses to the next level while staying true to their deepest integrity. He also works with leaders to help them increase the transformational impact that they have in their organizations and in the world.

Paul is the former Director of Social Media for Wisdom 2.0, the premier mindfulness brands in the world. In 2017. He founded Awarepreneurs because he saw the need for more honest conversations about combining the power of conscious business practices with the dynamics of social impact movements. In addition to conscious entrepreneurship, Paul is passionate about just about anything you can do in the Mountain High Country. He’s also passionate about power yoga, dark chocolate, sustainable living, and he’s a static about poetry, as well as deep centering breaths. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• The clues Paul’s Eastern European ancestors taught him to look for to spot fascism and the emergence of authoritarian personalities
• How Paul balances his skin colour and gender privilege with identifying with a group that’s frequently oppressed
• Why conflict is a natural part of coalition building and the best way to handle it when it shows up
• What generating imperfect show notes taught Paul about being inclusive and how not getting it right is one way to reject the culture of white supremacy
• How a co-founder divorce with an earlier iteration of Awarepreneurs prepared Paul to become a better ancestor
• This episode’s sponsored message features Chezza Zoeller who is a patron in the Inner Field Trip community on Patreon.

Click here for show notes and lightly edited episode transcripts

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