Ep.5 How language creates our world: we are language and culture makers with Kelly Diels

Kelly Diels is a feminist educator, writer, and coach. She specializes in feminist marketing for culture-makers. She’s here to raise awareness about how the business-as-usual formulas we learn everywhere actually reproduce oppression. She develops and teaches alternate, feminist marketing tools to help us do it differently (and better). You can find her at www.kellydiels.com and on Instagram @kelly.diels and you’ll find all the links in the show notes on the website mariaortegagarcia.com.

In the conversation we talked about:

• Justice in business and the language of justice
• Words create our worlds and our world informs the word choose
• Being all culture-makers and language-makers
• Intentional use of language
• Experimentation with the language to create an aligned message
• The authority of mainstream channels and the distinction between earned authority and manufactured authority
• The use of empowering and non-harmful language
• The need to remember the language that names values or ideas from the past
• How when we lose words, we lose wisdom
• The need to have words as the beginning state to make change

Resources mentioned in the podcast

• Kelly Diels website
• Flora Mastermind
• Orphan Wisdom by Stephen Jenkinson, 
• Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table by Carol Anne Hilton