Making Maps: build work that feels alive

Making Maps: build work that feels alive

por Giada Centofanti
EmprendimientoSin lucro
Temporada 4
😶‍🌫️ How to take action when you don't know what's next?
Lately, I've been noticing something: many of us are standing at the end of a cycle, sensing change coming but not yet seeing what lies ahead. And when the destination isn't clear, taking action can feel impossible. In this episode, I share what surfaced in a recent conversation about prison abolition that reshaped how I think about uncertainty, solutions, and the questions we ask ourselves when we don't have answers. There's an invitation here for how to keep walking even without a direction. If that resonates, join me. 🌀 JOIN ME AT THE OCTOBER COMPASS CIRCLE Free Zoom Gathering on Friday 9, 11 AM Central Time. Reflection, connection, and a sprinkle of oracle card magic. Sign up here: https://cal.com/october-compass-circle 💌 Get the written version of the podcast, along with news from the Care to Impact community and updates about coaching, workshops & events: https://caretoimpact.com/newsletter/
T4 · E2
16 sept 2026
9:53
🗺️ How does cartography relate to your work?
In today's episode, I'm sharing a change that has been quietly taking shape: the podcast and newsletter have a new name. It all started when I noticed that the words my clients and listeners kept using were pointing to something I hadn't fully articulated yet. I'll tell you the story of how the new name came to be, what it reveals about how I think about building a business, and the concept that now ties all my offerings together. There's a new metaphor in town, and it might just change how you see your business. Curious? Come listen. --- 🌀 JOIN ME AT THE FIRST COMPASS CIRCLE Friday at 11 AM Central Time. Reflection, connection, and a sprinkle of oracle card magic. Sign up here: https://cal.com/september-compass-circle --- ✦ REFLECT & CONNECT 🌱 Sit, walk, or dance with this prompt: Take a moment to picture the map you're crafting for your work. What do you notice? What pops up? What's hiding in plain sight? And where do you feel curious to explore? 💬 Wanna share your thoughts, reflections, or questions? Drop me a line or record a voice message: https://caretoimpact.com/message/ ✦ RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS 🎒 Embark on the FREE audio journey to reconnect with your personal compass: https://caretoimpact.com/no-more-advice/ 💌 Get the written version of the podcast, along with news from the Care to Impact community and updates about coaching, workshops & events: https://caretoimpact.com/newsletter/
T4 · E1
9 sept 2026
7:10
Temporada 3
🌲 Giving Ourselves Room to Exhale, Not Solve
In today's episode, I'm naming something I couldn't quite put into words until recently: the sense of subtle bewilderment that many of us are living with right now. Between personal challenges, global crises, and the rising tensions in our countries, it makes sense that we feel lost. I'll share what helped my activist group and how this inspired a free gathering I'm hosting next week. We won't look for fixes. We'll give ourselves room to release. If you feel called to exhale with others, I'll hold the space. 🌗 JOIN THE FREE GATHERING We'll meet on Zoom on Thursday, August 6, at 11 AM Central Time. RSVP here: https://cal.com/giada-centofanti/release-circle?month=2026-08&overlayCalendar=true&date=2026-08-06 ✦ REFLECT & CONNECT 🌱 Sit, walk, or dance with this question: What feels ready to release? 💬 Wanna share your thoughts, reflections, or questions? Drop me a line or record a voice message: https://caretoimpact.com/message/ ✦ RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS 🎒 Embark on the FREE audio journey to reconnect with your personal compass: https://caretoimpact.com/no-more-advice/ 💌 Get the written version of the podcast, along with news from the Care to Impact community and updates about coaching, workshops & events: https://caretoimpact.com/newsletter/
T3 · E19
29 jul 2026
5:19
🌿 What If Creative Replenishment Wasn't a Reward? What Would Change?
In this episode, I'm wrapping up this five-part audioletter series with you. We began by acknowledging the exhaustion, delved into what's behind it, and discovered tools to help restore balance. Now, I’d love to share the one thing I genuinely hope will stay with you as you continue on your journey. If you've been feeling stuck in the boom-and-bust cycle, this episode offers a different way out through gentle reframing and questioning to help you navigate the internal barriers that keep you from making space for restoration. Let's discover together how you can step into the next season of your business with energy and excitement, rather than exhaustion. 🏕️ REGISTER FOR JOYFUL IMPACT SUMMER CAMP! Reclaim creative joy this Summer so that by the Fall you’re ready to dive back into your work without forced positivity, overwhelm, or exhaustion! Learn more and join here: https://caretoimpact.com/joyful-impact-summer-camp/ ✦ REFLECT & CONNECT 🌱 Sit, walk, or dance with these prompts: What is it costing you to keep going? Be as specific as you can. For example, what's becoming harder to access: your creativity, your emotional regulation, your ideas, your presence with people you care about? If you waited until you truly "earned" replenishment, what would that look like? What milestone would finally be enough? And has that milestone ever actually arrived? What's the smallest possible act of replenishment you could do today, not as a reward, but as maintenance and care? Something so small the voices don't even notice. 💬 Wanna share your thoughts, reflections, or questions? Drop me a line or record a voice message: https://caretoimpact.com/message/ ✦ RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS 🎒 Embark on the FREE audio journey to reconnect with your personal compass: https://caretoimpact.com/no-more-advice/ 💌 Get the written version of the podcast, along with news from the Care to Impact community and updates about coaching, workshops & events: https://caretoimpact.com/newsletter/
T3 · E18
22 jul 2026
6:56
☀️ A Practical Way to Reclaim Your Creative Energy This Summer
In this episode, I'm walking you through a practical tool designed to help you avoid depletion, restore capacity if exhaustion happens, and both nurture and root into your sense of agency. We're not talking about a quick fix, but a living model that supports both your creative renewal and your daily choices in business and life. This approach is the heart of Joyful Impact Summer Camp, which opens today. But even if you're not joining us, you can start using the tool yourself immediately. Let's explore how to nurture capacity and creativity rather than exploiting it and take one small aligned action right now. 🏕️ REGISTER FOR JOYFUL IMPACT SUMMER CAMP! Reclaim creative joy this Summer so that by the Fall you’re ready to dive back into your work without forced positivity, overwhelm, or exhaustion! Learn more and join here: https://caretoimpact.com/joyful-impact-summer-camp/ ✦ REFLECT & CONNECT 🌱 Sit, walk, or dance with this question: On which stone do you feel called to step this week? 💬 Wanna share your thoughts, reflections, or questions? Drop me a line or record a voice message: https://caretoimpact.com/message/ ✦ RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS 🎒 Embark on the FREE audio journey to reconnect with your personal compass: https://caretoimpact.com/no-more-advice/ 💌 Get the written version of the podcast, along with news from the Care to Impact community and updates about coaching, workshops & events: https://caretoimpact.com/newsletter/
T3 · E17
15 jul 2026
12:12
🥀 Worried About Late Summer Exhaustion? What If There Were An Accessible Antidote?
In this episode, I'm digging into what happens when the expansion stage of our work cycle meets the inevitable dip in late summer. Last week, we named the "exploitation loop", that cycle of pushing until there's nothing left. Today, I want to explore what interrupts that loop before it burns us out completely. How do you reconnect with what fuels you when you're disconnected? And what does it look like to arrive in Fall refreshed rather than resigned? Let's explore this together, and reflect on what you could do to break out of the exploitation loop right this week. 🏕️ JOIN THE JOYFUL IMPACT SUMMER CAMP WAITLIST Be the first to get all the details and know when registration opens! https://caretoimpact.com/jisc-waitlist/ ✦ REFLECT & CONNECT 🌱 Sit, walk, or dance with this question: What's one small, doable, joyful thing you can do this week to interrupt the pattern? 💬 Wanna share your thoughts, reflections, or questions? Drop me a line or record a voice message: https://caretoimpact.com/message/ ✦ RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS 🎒 Embark on the FREE audio journey to reconnect with your personal compass: https://caretoimpact.com/no-more-advice/ 💌 Get the written version of the podcast, along with news from the Care to Impact community and updates about coaching, workshops & events: https://caretoimpact.com/newsletter/
T3 · E16
8 jul 2026
9:00
🔄 Are You Stuck in an Exploitation Loop? Understanding Our Patterns of Creative Burnout
In this episode, I'm unpacking what happens when we push ourselves until there's nothing left, physically, creatively, emotionally. I call it the "exploitation loop," and it shows up in our businesses, our creative work, and our lives. Why do we keep exhausting ourselves even when we know better? Where does this loop come from? And why does it feel so automatic? Let's explore this together. We'll start by naming what we're seeing, with space to reflect before seeking solutions. 🏕️ JOIN THE JOYFUL IMPACT SUMMER CAMP WAITLIST Be the first to get all the details and know when registration opens! https://caretoimpact.com/jisc-waitlist/ ✦ REFLECT & CONNECT 🌱 Sit, walk, or dance with this question: How is the exploitation loop showing up in your business, creative work, or life? 💬 Wanna share your thoughts, reflections, or questions? Drop me a line or record a voice message: https://caretoimpact.com/message/ ✦ RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS 🎒 Embark on the FREE audio journey to reconnect with your personal compass: https://caretoimpact.com/no-more-advice/ 💌 Get the written version of the podcast, along with news from the Care to Impact community and updates about coaching, workshops & events: https://caretoimpact.com/newsletter/
T3 · E15
1 jul 2026
10:49
🌻 Why Do We Forget What Fuels Us? (And How to Remember)
In this episode, I'm reflecting on the paradox of knowing exactly what we need to recharge, yet forgetting to do it when life gets busy. We're tired of running on empty, so why does that keep happening? And how can we break the loop? REFLECT & CONNECT 🌱 Sit, walk, or dance with this question: How do you want to feel when September comes, and it's time to dive back into your creative, impactful work? 💬 Email me or send me a voice note to share your reflections: hello@caretoimpact.com https://www.speakpipe.com/InnerImpact RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS 🎒 Embark on the FREE audio journey to reconnect with your personal compass: https://caretoimpact.com/no-more-advice/ 💌 Subscribe to the newsletter to keep in touch, get gentle reminders, news from the Care to Impact community, plus updates about coaching & events: https://caretoimpact.com/newsletter/
T3 · E14
24 jun 2026
6:01
🪻What helps you heal and restore your energy?
In today's episode, I share four practices that are truly supporting me on my healing journey and are helping me reconnect with my creative self. REFLECT & CONNECT 🌱 Sit, walk, or dance with this question: What's something you did this past month that made you feel, like, grounded, inspired, energized, creative...? 💬 Email me or send me a voice note to share your reflections: hello@caretoimpact.com https://www.speakpipe.com/InnerImpact RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS 🎒 Embark on the FREE audio journey to reconnect with your personal compass: https://caretoimpact.com/no-more-advice/ 💌 Subscribe to the newsletter to keep in touch, get gentle reminders, news from the Care to Impact community, plus updates about coaching & events: https://caretoimpact.com/newsletter/
T3 · E13
17 jun 2026
6:14
🌱 How to show up for your biz & creative work when life feels heavy?
This episode wasn't what I planned. Showing up when life feels heavy is tough, and lately my energy has been at an all-time low. Still, I wanted to be here with you. So today I share some reflections about letting go of perfection, honoring our needs, and flipping the script on the capitalistic culture of endless productivity. If you’ve ever felt like you’re not doing enough, I hope these reflections help remind you that existing truly is enough. 🌱 Work with this episode Sit with this question in the next few days: How can I acknowledge and celebrate the way I’m showing up for my business, for my creative work, and for my life these days? Resources & next steps 🎒 Embark on the FREE audio journey to reconnect with your personal compass 💬 Send me a voice note to share your reflections 💌 Subscribe to the newsletter to keep in touch, get gentle reminders, news from the Care to Impact community, plus updates about coaching & events.
T3 · E12
30 abr 2026
5:25
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