Category: Branding, Marketing & Communications

Happy Soul Food Friday!

This week:

Play!

Here is a podcast I was interviewed on recently about the power of play

Featuring CEOs, executive coaches, and other business leaders, the “Lead with a dash of Play” podcast explores what “play” can look like in professional spaces, its impact on us and our organizations, and how to integrate a little play ourselves to build more compassionate and creative workplaces. The most recent segment “Play as Disruption” includes Mission Fed’s SVP of Marketing and Membership, Neville Billimoria, and shares how play helps us collectively build an innovative economy, and the ways play supports creativity and well-being. Listen to the episode at:

 https://lead-with-a-dash-of-play.captivate.fm/episode/play-as-disruption

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Are you committed to creating a high engagement culture whatever your role at work?

As companies search for new ways to manage their teams in a post-Covid world, creating a positive workplace culture is crucial for their success. In partnership with the California School of Management & Leadership (CSML) at Alliant International University, please join us on March 8 at 12 pm as Neville Billimoria, Mission Fed SVP of Membership/Marketing, presents “How to Foster a High Engagement Workplace Culture.” This virtual event will share insights on team culture, leadership fundamentals, conscious enterprise principles, and more.

Register here: Webinar Registration – Zoom

Stay Safe-

Green Willow Karate Presents:

Women’s Self-Defense

An 8 Week Sexual Assault Prevention Course for Beginners

Dates: Each Saturday Starting March 18^th through May 6^th

Time: 3:15 pm to 4:45 pm

Where: North County Dance Located at: North Coast Business Park

535 Encinitas Blvd., Suite 103

Encinitas, CA 92024 Cost: $175

Class Limited to 10 people.

Topics Covered:

San Diego Statistics – Sexual Assault

National Statistics – Sexual Assault

Myths of Sexual Assault

Awareness Training

Assertiveness Training

Physical and Psychological Boundaries

Self-Defense Strikes

Self-Defense Blocks

Self-Defense Releases

Ground Fighting

Online Safety

Safety in the Car

Safety in the Home

About the Instructor: Barbara Sedgwick-Billimoria M.Ed. is a 5^th degree Black Belt and Karate Sensei with Green Willow Karate. With more than 40 years of experience in the martial arts and self-defense, Barbara has taken the underlying tenants of karate and condensed them into an 8-week self-defense program. Barbara has taught this course to hundreds of students at UCSD. In addition, Barbara holds a Master’s degree in counseling and is sensitive to the needs and emotional response of her students. She is dedicated to mitigating sexual assault through education and awareness.

To Register or for Questions: Please call 760-815-6363. Payment is due at time of registration. Venmo or credit card accepted. Class limited to individuals 16 and older. Mature content will be discussed.

Partner-

Dolphin Saves a Terrified Little Dog from Drowning in a Florida Canal:

Animals are incredibly loving and kind.

Let’s be more like them!

Thanks this week go to Mary H and Barb S-B

Please pay it forward with purpose!

Love,

Neville

Twitter: @NevilleB108
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nbillimoria

“The future is not the result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created – created first in the mind and will and created next in activity.

The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.

The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.” –John Scharr

Happy Soul Food Friday!

This week:

Your Relationship to Work-

Transmuting Smoldering Discontent into Finding Your Purpose and Leaving a Legacy:

Enjoy this podcast with my friend and colleague Jeff Blanton as I turn the tables and interview him on his Conscious Curiosity show. Jeff shares some compelling ideas about our relationship to the world of work, and what we can do to find more meaning and fulfillment in this time of great resignations, great migrations, quiet quitting, and soul-searching. These are some great nuggets, as we all reflect on our various roles at the end of this year…

Anniversary Special – Flipping the Script with Jeff Blanton & Neville Billimoria – Jailbreak Leadership

Your Relationship to Play-

If you are local, join us for an evening of righteous live music with Strange Crew– this Saturday evening from 7 to 10pm at the conveniently located Duck Foot Brewing Company.

This venue is cool, dog and kid Friendly, and Strange Crew has put together a set list to die for.

From Cream, to the Yardbirds, to Derek and the Dominos, to Blind Faith to rock and blues legends Eric Clapton has collaborated with over the years, this is a tour de force evening covering one of the most successful and influential guitarists and bands in rock music!

Get off the couch and be sure to eat your Wheaties, because this promises to be a super fun high energy experience for you music lovers, and might be the last live show I get the privilege of playing for and with you in 2022.

Strange Crew – Clapton Tribute Night! – Duck Foot Brewing Co (duckfootbeer.com)

Here is a teaser to give you a flavor with a few special guests expected too:

For Your Love – End jam – YouTube

Hope to see you there!

For Your Love,

Neville

Your Relationship to Nature-

Restoring Gorongosa National Park After Decades of War:

Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park was the envy of Africa. Wildlife drew tourists from around the world. But, beginning in the 1960’s, a manmade catastrophe slaughtered the animals until, it was said, there was nothing left but mosquitos and landmines. In 2008, we followed an American entrepreneur who dreamed of returning a wasteland to greatness. Now, 14 years later, Greg Carr has something to show the world. And we couldn’t resist a return to Gorongosa when Carr sends invitations like this!

Greg has done the impossible: brought it back to life with the full complement of African megafauna. And, he’s ingrained the eight surrounding villages with the common purpose of maintaining Gorongosa. It’s astonishing work at epic scale. 

Restoring Gorongosa National Park after decades of war – 60 Minutes – CBS News

Is Patagonia the End Game for Profits in a World of Climate Change?
Patagonia’s decision to donate profits to climate change is an evidentiary example of why private and family businesses often do more for the planet than the stock market.

Is Patagonia the end game for profits in a world of climate change? (cnbc.com)

Make Ecocide an International Crime and Other Legal Ideas to Help Save the Planet
Here is a list of the five most promising legal steps we can take to help fight climate change

Make ecocide an international crime and other legal ideas to help save the planet | Steven Donziger | The Guardian

See Rare Photos of Chimpanzees Treating their Wounds with Insects
A photographer captured images of the great apes in Gabon applying an unknown species of insect to both themselves and their family members.

See rare photos of chimpanzees treating their wounds with insects (nationalgeographic.com)

Over 50 Species Previously thought to be Mute Make Sounds
If you listen closely, your pet turtle might just have something to say to you…

Over 50 species previously thought to be mute make sounds, new study finds | CNN

The 2022 Bird Life Australia Photography awards
A shy albatross, a skydiving kestrel and a curious galah are among the shortlisted and winning photos in this year’s bird photography prize

The 2022 BirdLife Australia photography awards – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian

Morning Has Broken by Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam:

Enjoy the visuals that go with this iconic song

Morning Has Broken by Cat Stevens – YouTube

Thanks this week go to Strange Crew, Charles S, Larry H and all who have contributed to our wellbeing diet this year.

Stay joyous and pay it forward with purpose.

Love,

Neville

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“The Greatest Threat to Our Planet is the Belief that Someone Else Will Save It”