Have you ever wanted to feel more \u201calive\u201d in your work and daily life? Have you ever felt and thought\u00a0\u201cthere must be a better way to work and live my life\u201d<\/em>? Have you ever had a dream you were afraid to follow?<\/strong><\/h2>\nWell, if your answer is yes, I would love to hear your stories and share my own. I would love to figure out together how we can reclaim the \u201csweetness\u201d in our work and our daily lives. For each of us to find the courage to follow our dreams and do what makes us \u201ccome alive\u201d<\/strong>.\u00a0As one of my inspirational models Howard Thurman once suggested…<\/p>\n\u201cDon\u2019t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]After spending 22 years in public health and community development, I embarked on a healing journey that began in 2009\u00a0and eventually launched my own business, Sweet Livity™ LLC. I am good at helping individuals and organizations do what they do with better results and without sacrificing their values and their well-being.\u00a0 I love building diverse teams, resolving conflicts and having fun with the people I work with. \u00a0I am a commitment to helping people and businesses\u00a0serve their communities with equity, excellence, purpose, aliveness and fun.<\/strong>\u00a0In service of this commitment, I support clients to work in diverse cultural contexts so that everyone, regardless of identity and background, can fully engage in the organizational or community work with their whole, authentic powerful self.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]I founded Sweet Livity™\u00a0because I believe that a world of possibilities opens up when you are inspired, happy and healthy in your work and daily life. I believe in the possibility that every workplace can become a healthier space where everyone including someone like me can thrive.<\/strong><\/p>\nI began working at the age of sixteen and until I launched Sweet Livity™, I was either fired from or quit every job I had.<\/strong> \u00a0If I quit, it was always because of some workplace injustice that I couldn’t live with. \u00a0If I was fired, it was because I was the only “one” or one of a few who looked like me and I was so scared to mess up or fail that I was afraid to ask for help. \u00a0I was flailing and failing. I felt that if I didn’t succeed, I would make it that much harder for the next person who shared my intersecting identities to make it through the door.<\/p>\nI remember how I felt as a child watching my mother, a special education teacher who loved her work and her students, come home stressed out from an incident at work where she felt mistreated or harassed by management or other teachers.<\/p>\n
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\u201cDon\u2019t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]After spending 22 years in public health and community development, I embarked on a healing journey that began in 2009\u00a0and eventually launched my own business, Sweet Livity™ LLC. I am good at helping individuals and organizations do what they do with better results and without sacrificing their values and their well-being.\u00a0 I love building diverse teams, resolving conflicts and having fun with the people I work with. \u00a0I am a commitment to helping people and businesses\u00a0serve their communities with equity, excellence, purpose, aliveness and fun.<\/strong>\u00a0In service of this commitment, I support clients to work in diverse cultural contexts so that everyone, regardless of identity and background, can fully engage in the organizational or community work with their whole, authentic powerful self.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]I founded Sweet Livity™\u00a0because I believe that a world of possibilities opens up when you are inspired, happy and healthy in your work and daily life. I believe in the possibility that every workplace can become a healthier space where everyone including someone like me can thrive.<\/strong><\/p>\nI began working at the age of sixteen and until I launched Sweet Livity™, I was either fired from or quit every job I had.<\/strong> \u00a0If I quit, it was always because of some workplace injustice that I couldn’t live with. \u00a0If I was fired, it was because I was the only “one” or one of a few who looked like me and I was so scared to mess up or fail that I was afraid to ask for help. \u00a0I was flailing and failing. I felt that if I didn’t succeed, I would make it that much harder for the next person who shared my intersecting identities to make it through the door.<\/p>\nI remember how I felt as a child watching my mother, a special education teacher who loved her work and her students, come home stressed out from an incident at work where she felt mistreated or harassed by management or other teachers.<\/p>\n
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I began working at the age of sixteen and until I launched Sweet Livity™, I was either fired from or quit every job I had.<\/strong> \u00a0If I quit, it was always because of some workplace injustice that I couldn’t live with. \u00a0If I was fired, it was because I was the only “one” or one of a few who looked like me and I was so scared to mess up or fail that I was afraid to ask for help. \u00a0I was flailing and failing. I felt that if I didn’t succeed, I would make it that much harder for the next person who shared my intersecting identities to make it through the door.<\/p>\n I remember how I felt as a child watching my mother, a special education teacher who loved her work and her students, come home stressed out from an incident at work where she felt mistreated or harassed by management or other teachers.<\/p>\n Years later, I found myself doing work that I loved with people that I loved. But somehow in pursuing our social justice mission, we lost sight of how we were treating each other. While we were doing amazing good work in the communities we centered, inside our organization we were co-creating a toxic unhealthy work environment.<\/strong> I became very ill. I realized that if I stayed, I would either literally not survive or I would not like the person I would have to become to thrive in a toxic unhealthy work environment. So, I left a 6-figure job with benefits and went on a healing journey.<\/p>\n Along my healing journey which continues today, I found a purpose to shift how we think about and practice the work of social justice.<\/strong> To shift the workplace cultures from where we do our good work, whether we are for profit, nonprofit, government, academic or grassroots organizations. Everyone deserves to breathe inside the spaces where we work![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”10\/12″][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”2101″ img_size=”400×600″ alignment=”right” qode_css_animation=””][vc_column_text] Diana Marie Lee [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text] Have you ever wanted to feel more \u201calive\u201d in your work and daily life? Have you ever felt and thought\u00a0\u201cthere must…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1664,"parent":240,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_with_sidebar.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"\n