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Sayu Bhojwani
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Dec 30, 2021

Tales of A Reforming Workaholic

2021 is the first in my adult life where I didn’t have a full-time job, by choice. It wasn’t as dreamy as I imagined it would be, especially as an immigrant woman. To deprogram from the pace and patterns of thirty years of working in ways that hurt me and…

Self-awareness

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Tales of A Reforming Workaholic
Tales of A Reforming Workaholic
Self-awareness

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Jun 28, 2021

Stepping Off, To Step Up

For the first time since graduating from college over 30 years ago, I’m not working full-time. I want to tell you it feels great, liberating, joyous. But I would be lying. Achievement and productivity have been my central organizing principle as far back as I can remember. …

Leadership

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Stepping Off, To Step Up
Stepping Off, To Step Up
Leadership

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Mar 8, 2021

REST is the new WORK

Last year, I wrote this widely circulated piece about the collective exhaustion women of color in leadership face as we both navigate white supremacy culture and try to dismantle it. In the year since, we faced new demands created by COVID-19 and the country’s racial reckoning. We became even more…

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REST is the new WORK
REST is the new WORK

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May 6, 2020

Joe Biden is not our savior.

Believing or not believing Joe Biden has very little to do with him. The context in which some are professing support and “belief” and others are expressing their rage and frustration matters. That context is the patriarchal and racist institutions of which he, and we, are products. …

Politics

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Joe Biden is not our savior.
Joe Biden is not our savior.
Politics

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Apr 7, 2020

Leading in the Time of Corona

On Super Tuesday 2020, the year already felt like too much. At the time, Elizabeth Warren was still a contender in the Democratic primary for President and Coronavirus was an abstract concept in a faraway land. Then shit quickly got real. Seattle became the U.S. epicenter for Coronavirus and Warren…

Leadership

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Leading in the Time of Corona
Leading in the Time of Corona
Leadership

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·Feb 11, 2020

Let’s Get Real About Why Women of Color Are So Tired

Playing by the rules in capitalist America comes at the cost of our mental, physical, and emotional health — Women of color leaders are guarding a dirty little secret: Our work is eroding our mental, physical, and emotional health. We are slowly wrecking ourselves as we try to transform political organizations, foundations, media rooms, nonprofits, and the publishing industry. …

Women

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Let’s Get Real About Why Women of Color Are So Tired
Let’s Get Real About Why Women of Color Are So Tired
Women

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Mar 8, 2019

No more Politics as Usual

Celebrate, then hate. That’s been the cycle for the most outspoken newly elected Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar — all of them are women of color refusing to be silenced or to do what they are told. …

Politics

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No more Politics as Usual
No more Politics as Usual
Politics

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Oct 23, 2018

The Name Game

Last week, as Elizabeth Warren played the race shifting game of claiming Cherokee heritage, Dear Abby warned against owning ‘otherness’ when naming our babies “foreign” names. Names matter, because they often come with personal narratives, which shape a sense of who we are and influence who we become. My own…

Election 2018

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Election 2018

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Apr 18, 2017

Post-Election Coping: Three Stages

It’s been nearly six months since Election Day, and I’ve been through three stages of coping. Here they are … First, there was powering through. The morning after the election, the work on my plate was just the same as the day before. So I got to work. …

Donald Trump

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Donald Trump

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Apr 3, 2017

Run for Office? Maybe Not.

My day job for six years has been to recruit people to run for local and state office. So I should be excited about media reports that more people are signing up to run. But I’m not. …

Politics

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Run for Office? Maybe Not.
Run for Office? Maybe Not.
Politics

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Sayu Bhojwani

Sayu Bhojwani

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Restless citizen. Writer, keynote speaker, TED Alumna. Check out my book People Like Us — https://bit.ly/2Odt3SK

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