Founder Series: Optimizing Recovery and Incorporating Rituals for Fast-Paced and High-Intensity Environments w/ Mari Sierra
Jan 28, 2024
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Mari Sierra, somatic designer and creative strategist, discusses the importance of incorporating rituals and practices of well-being in high-paced environments. The chapter also explores the significance of disconnecting from screens, the impact of artificial intelligence on humanity, and the intersection of technology and well-being.
Prioritizing mental fitness and well-being fuels innovation, teamwork, and overall success for founders.
Combining technology and embodiment practices can provide accessible tools for well-being and address rising mental health concerns.
Deep dives
The Importance of Scaling Compassion and Wellness for Founders
The podcast episode explores the significance of prioritizing compassion and wellness practices for founders who are scaling their businesses. It emphasizes that when founders prioritize their mental fitness and well-being, it fuels innovation, teamwork, and overall success. The guest speaker, Marie Ziera, discusses her journey of combining technology and consciousness practices to create products that help people. She emphasizes the need to design human-centered products that consider the body, posture, and emotions. Marie also shares her motivation to create mental health solutions for the younger generation in Latin America and discusses the importance of bridging technology and embodiment practices to provide accessible tools for well-being.
Creating a Digital App to Support Mental Health
Marie Ziera talks about her decision to create a digital app to address the rising mental health concerns among Latin American youth. She highlights the intention behind using technology, design, media, fashion, and culture to bring mindfulness and embodiment practices closer to the younger generation. Marie explains the unique features of the app, such as the simple method of determining one's emotions through a quadrant that measures energy levels and openness. She also discusses how the app suggests content and prompts for reflection based on the user's emotions, offering tools for managing and working through different emotional states.
Building a Wellness Culture Within a Startup
The episode delves into the challenges of maintaining a wellness culture in the fast-paced world of startups. Marie Ziera shares her personal experiences and conversations with other founders about setting an example for the team and prioritizing well-being. She discusses implementing practices such as movement, breathwork, and somatic exercises with her own team to foster a sense of connection, vitality, and emotional regulation. Marie also highlights the importance of creating guidelines to ensure rest and recovery after intense work sprints and encouraging a focus on well-being alongside achieving business results.
Exploring Human-Centered Design and Celebrating Our Humanity
The conversation delves into the role of human-centered design in the ever-advancing world of technology. Marie Ziera raises the question of how founders can continue to celebrate and inquire into our humanity amid the rapid growth of artificial intelligence. She emphasizes the richness and complexity that comes with being human and urges founders to consider whether their products are homogenizing or celebrating diversity, connectedness, and humanity. The importance of bridging the gap between technology and human experiences is discussed, along with the need to cultivate a wellness culture that prioritizes our innate human qualities.
The Founder Series is an original podcast series by Behind the Human & Wisdom Ventures that explores the mental fitness practices, rituals, and sources of wisdom fuelling founders who are scaling compassion and wellness.
Mari Sierra is a somatic designer, embodiment practitioner and creative strategist advancing a culture of holistic wellbeing by creating experiences that support embodied learning. Her healing practice is based on the teachings of Qi-gong, elemental dance and craniosacral therapy. Her aim at OYE is to create a movement that inspires the next generations to spark their own self-healing journeys by practicing new emotional habits.
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