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The Rest of Us with Dana Tenille Weekes
The Rest of Us podcast explores rest as self-liberation for advocates and professionals who are losing themselves to the demands of work, loved ones, friends, strangers, and this dizzying world. The Rest of Us cultivates a community through honest reflections, conversations, and laughter for people willing to embrace rest differently.
Episodes
26 episodes
Ep 25: Celebrate Yourself Your Way | Season One Finale
It’s the Season 1 Finale of The Rest of Us! But this episode isn’t just a wrap-up or a celebration of this milestone. Host Dana Tenille Weekes invites you to redefine what it m...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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29:38
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Ep 24: Friend, Say "Yes" to Nothing. Embrace Boredom, Silence, and Slowness.
We use apps to save time, outsource errands, and even boil water in under a minute, yet we still claim we “don’t have time.” In this second-to-last episode of Season 1, Dana Tenille Weekes challenges our cultural addiction to speed, noise, a...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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28:05
Ep 23: Rethinking Rules We Follow, But Do Not Serve Us
Stop and ask yourself this question: What are the rules that I live by that actually do not serve me? In this episode, host Dana Tenille Weekes invites us to question rules around us and our internal script...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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27:42
Ep 22: Rest in Conversation with Nia Ariel Davis Sigona - Rest Calls for Us to Reimagine
In this special live-recorded episode from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 54th Annual Legislative Conference, host Dana Tenille Weekes sits with Nia Ariel Davis Sigona to explore the relationship between rest a...
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Episode 22
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32:18
Ep 21: Rest in Conversation with Sullivan Summer - Why Rest as Liberation Reaches Far Beyond Self-Care (Part 2 of 2)
This episode is Part 2 of Dana Tenille Weekes’ raw and resonant conversation with Sullivan Summer, a poet, essayist, literary critic, and dear friend of Dana's. Picking up where they left off, Dana and Sullivan'...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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30:09
Ep 20: Rest in Conversation with Sullivan Summer - Why Rest as Liberation Reaches Far Beyond Self-Care (Part 1 of 2)
In Part 1 of this two-part, intimate and thought-provoking conversation, Dana Tenille Weekes is joined by a dear friend and listener, Sullivan Summer, a poet, essayist, and literary critic. Together, they explore the layers of per...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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34:11
Ep 19: What Are You Chasing? Exploring a Life of Expectations vs. Being
In this important episode, host Dana Tenille Weekes questions the non-stop exhaustion that we call ambition: What are you chasing, and is it even meant for you? Through thoughtful reflection, storytelling, and three main poin...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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30:11
Ep 18: Just Do the Thing
In this motivational episode, Dana Tenille Weekes speaks to the tension between knowing what you're meant to do and avoiding doing it. Her message? Just do the thing. Whether you're stuck in the loop of overthinking, w...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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20:23
Ep 17: Feeling Unrest at Work? Maybe You're Prioritizing Etiquette Over Professionalism
In this episode, Dana Tenille Weekes challenges the commonly overlooked confusion between niceness and professionalism and how that confusion can create a work culture of unrest.Dana explores how avoiding the truth unde...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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25:56
Ep 16 - If the World's Burning is Burning You Out, Be Conscious of Rest
In this urgent episode, Dana Tenille Weekes speaks to the global unrest that is happening around us and what it means for rest as self-liberation. She talks directly to listeners who are opting to "rest" to avoid and disengage from the world's ...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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22:41
Episode 15: Rest Requires Distinguishing Comfort, Peace, & Liberation
In this thought-provoking follow-up to “A Love Letter - To Folks Afraid of Their Liberation,” host Dana Tenille Weekes challenges listeners to more closely examine the differences of living a life of comfort, peace, and liberation, and w...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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23:28
Ep 14: A Love Letter - To Folks Afraid of Their Liberation
What if comfort is not meant to serve you?What if the life you’ve built is actually a quiet form of unrest?In this special episode, host Dana Tenille Weekes reads a deeply personal love letter, “To Folks Afraid of...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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27:49
Ep 13: Want to Be Respected? Tell People How You Want to Be Helped. (Part 2 of 2)
In part two of this powerful episode, host Dana Tenille Weekes completes her conversation on the three mindset shifts that can reframe how we think about asking for help.Dana talks about the third and most actionable shift: “ac...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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28:40
Ep 12: Want to Be Respected? Tell People How You Want to Be Helped. (Part 1 of 2)
Do you struggle to ask for help, even when you're overwhelmed? Do you find yourself quietly hoping others will understand what you need without ever having to say it out loud?In this powerful two-part episode of...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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28:39
Ep 11: Five Life Lessons Learned from Writing Poetry (Part 2 of 2)
In the second episode honoring National Poetry Month, host Dana Tenille Weekes shares the remaining two life lessons she’s learned from her poetry practice. These are lessons about life, not writing, that continue to shape how Dana defin...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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28:25
Ep 10: Five Life Lessons Learned from Writing Poetry (Part 1 of 2)
In honor of National Poetry Month, host Dana Tenille Weekes shares three life lessons on self-liberation she’s learned from writing poetry. In this two-part episode of The Rest of Us podcast, Dana opens up about her recent...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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32:30
Ep 9: What's Your Identity Outside of Producing? (Let’s Take the Seven-Day Call to Create Journey)
We were not created to produce. We were created to exist freely and thoroughly in our details.In this rich and deeply personal episode of The Rest of Us podcast, Dana Tenille Weekes invites us to pause the production line of li...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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33:30
Ep 8: You're Not Indispensable at Work
It’s time to unpack the myth that we’re indispensable at work. (‘Cause we’re not!)In this episode of The Rest of Us podcast, host Dana Tenille Weekes talks about how we unintentionally contribute to unsustainable work environme...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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27:20
Ep 7: Progress is in the Pause
Friend, stop. Let’s lean into the power of the pause. In this episode of The Rest of Us podcast, host Dana Tenille Weekes names five life moments that call for us to pause: (1) when worrying; (2) when your body says so; (3...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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32:00
Ep 6: Standing in Your Truth and Reclaiming Your Power
In this episode of the Rest of Us podcast, host Dana Tenille Weekes calls us to stand in our truth and reclaim our power after conversations with friends, mentees, and clients who feel robbed of their truth by societal pressures and the curr...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:41
Ep 5: Whose Mountain Are You Climbing? Exploring Succeeding vs. Thriving
Host Dana Tenille Weekes asks a profound question she believes every person must answer truthfully to reclaim their right to rest: “Whose mountain are you climbing?” This episode of The Rest of Us podcast distinguishes bet...
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Episode 5
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34:41
Ep 4: The Rest Continuum - Exploring Three Forms of Rest (Part 3 of 3)
Host Dana Tenille Weekes closes out the three-part episode on the rest continuum by exploring the third form of rest: liberating rest. After settling in with listeners on doing nothing/being and restoring as two forms of rest, this The R...
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Episode 4
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17:10
Ep 3: The Rest Continuum - Exploring Three Forms of Rest (Part 2 of 3)
In this episode of the Rest of Us podcast, host Dana Tenille Weekes delves further into the concept of the rest continuum, focusing specifically on two forms of rest: doing nothing/being and restoring. Dana explains the impor...
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Episode 3
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17:45
Ep 2: The Rest Continuum - Exploring Three Forms of Rest (Part 1 of 3)
Host Dana Tenille Weekes kicks off a three-part episode on the rest continuum, three forms of rest to incorporate into our everyday lives. In this episode of The Rest of Us podcast, Dana guides listeners to reflect on how we rest and int...
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Episode 2
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12:57