How To Be 100% You With Krishna Desai
Finding where your fit isn’t always easy but it’s possible if you keep your heart open to hope. Lauren welcomes Bay-city based LGBTQ+ attorney and advocate for humanity, Krishna Desai. Krishna works tirelessly helping in conflict resolution, discrimination, and many other spheres through empathic practices. Krishna shares an arsenal of tools to get through conflicts and why we owe it to ourselves to have a better today and tomorrow!
In this podcast episode, Lauren and Krishna Desai discuss:
Krishna’s experiences as a queer person of color
Holding onto hope that tomorrow can and will be better
Getting comfortable with the dark periods in life
Shifting negative experiences into more productive experiences
Gender construction and gender identity
Walking, meditation, art, and other self-care practices
Letting go and finding stability
Staying open to hope and inspiration
Memorable Quotes:
“It's hard to know what one's roadblocks are when you're going through it. You just think this is happening to me, and this is it, this is how life is gonna be forever. And then you navigate around it, and you realize, ‘Oh, this is what the other side looks like’.”
“I went to therapy as a young person, that really helped. It helped me figure out, if nothing else, that the problem wasn't me. You know, it wasn't...it was the world around me was impacting me in a certain way but I was fine.”
“I think the thing that has always gotten me through from then on has been a belief and a hope that tomorrow will be better, that tomorrow can be better.”
“...Just having that practice of...this is something I do that brings me joy that I do for myself, and being able to do that, it's so key to mental health.”
About Krishna Desai:
Krishna is a plaintiff-side employment law attorney who also advises workplaces looking to create healthy, diverse and supportive work environments either through mediation or skill-building.
Originally from Chicago, Krishna has a solid appreciation for deep-dish pizza, fresh-cut grass, and perennial underdogs!
Listen to the episode here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/52-weeks-of-hope/id1537849403
