Lorelei Kennedy is creator of Ten Breaths Away, a program designed to help people regain their calm and say what they need to say. She’s doing some really inspiring work, helping people from a kind of amazing variety of backgrounds. So I think you’ll enjoy our conversation and learn something new.
As you’ve no doubt guessed, what comes next is one of the short breathing exercises that Lorelei uses with the groups she works with. I encourage you to join us, if you have a minute, to set down what you are doing and follow along with her instructions. But if it’s a bad time, like if you’re jogging or on the move or something, you can skip ahead to roughly the 7:30 mark to pick up with the usual interview.
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Music for this podcast is by Cambrian Explosion, whose prized herd of goats almost got them into trouble with a medium-sized Cyclops living in a cave on Mt. Tabor. You can listen to the band by poking around the many bars and music venues of Portland, or by visiting cepdx.bandcamp.com, Apple iTunes, or Spotify. Thanks for listening.
Lorelei’s Book Recommendations
Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy
Essays on Gwendolyn Brooks https://www.amazon.com/World-Gwendolyn-Brooks/dp/0060105380
Questions for Lorelei
- Just for overview, can you describe what your business 10 Breaths Away does and how it came to be?
- Why is it important for people to learn how to breathe?
- What are the main activities you get paid to do?
- What’s something surprising you’ve learned from working with incarcerated men?
- What do you see in the future of this company? How would you like to grow it to help as many people as possible?
- What are you most excited about that you’re working on now?
- Why do a nonprofit? It seems like you create a direct value that people are willing to pay for. There are some significant advantages to running a for-profit company.
- My assumption is that you’d like this eventually to be your full time work, is that correct? How long do you think until that will happen?
- What was the first gig you got paid for?
- What were the next steps from there to grow your business?
- What is the most important activity you spend time on?
- What is the hardest part of your business? Why?
- What does success look like to you personally)?
- What advice would you give to someone thinking about starting their own business?
- If you had an extra hour a day, how would you spend that hour?
- Books? Resources that were useful to you?
- Suggestions for other guests to interview?
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