Live Dream Lead Inspire LLC

Live Dream Lead Inspire LLC

Professional Training and Coaching

Royalton, VT 57 followers

Building a world where everyone has access to what they need to thrive, no matter where they're starting from.

About us

At Live Dream Lead Inspire LLC, we empower individuals and workplaces to thrive through adversity, championing inclusivity and valuing lived experiences. Whether you're navigating transitions or striving for a more equitable culture, we're here to embolden you towards your purpose. At LDLI, we are building a world where we all have access to what we need to THRIVE! Valuing lived experience and the amazing potential held in every person. Providing culture consulting and resilience coaching services. LDLI partners with individuals and communities in identifying, addressing, and overcoming internal symptoms and external systems of oppression! Let’s get better together. Founder and key visionary, Faye Longo (she/they) has spent her life overcoming adversity, challenging dominant narratives, and weaving connection and community everywhere she goes. Faye is a person of mixed race/ethnicity (Blackfoot & Italian) with close proximity to whiteness. She is a disabled, neurodivergent, queer, cisgender woman. Faye has firsthand lived experience of poverty, addiction/recovery, mental illness, trauma, violence, and all the stigma that comes with those intersecting identities. Faye is also a first-generation college student with a BA in Industrial Organizational Psychology, and is currently earning a MSW. She’s a certified Financial Coach, Resilience Coach, and holds a Master-level certification in Nonprofit Management and Leadership. She brings over fifteen years of professional experience in addition to her education and training. Faye is also a joyful and enthusiastic keynote speaker and writer, and an engaging facilitator! When she’s not busy effecting positive change in the world around her, she can be found on her Vermont homestead chilling with her kiddo and their various fur and feather babies.

Industry
Professional Training and Coaching
Company size
1 employee
Headquarters
Royalton, VT
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2022
Specialties
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Strengths-based, Focus Groups, Strategic planning, social responsibility, motivation, change management, project management, allyship, allyship coach, facilitation, keynote, social work, inclusivity, community, collaboration, relationship, lived experience, intersectionality, power and privilege, social justice, gender equity, economic justice, racial justice, LGBTQIA, poverty, women, and workshops

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    Building a world where we all have access to what we need to THRIVE! My specialties lay at the intersection of people and systems/structures. The opinions shared herein are my own and aren’t a reflection of my employer.

    I've been reflecting on resiliency, accountability, and reparative justice lately. A recent challenging professional experience left me feeling super traumatized and just stunned. It made me question everything I knew about myself, yet I remain resilient and committed to positive change. The ordeal, caused by leaders and an organization that I trusted, has been a learning experience that highlights the complexity of individuals and organizations. And how those who fight against injustice can also commit injustice. Despite adversity, I pride myself on integrity, self-reflection, and a passion for positive impact. This experience, though painful, is an opportunity for growth. It's disheartening to witness organizations championing social justice while fostering toxic work environments internally. True success lies in supportive and equitable cultures. Let's not just hope for but work together for greater accountability in such situations! #Resilience #Accountability #PositiveChange

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    This post ended up being longer than I intended and I’m ok with it! Absolutely love this resource! When was the last time you checked with your stakeholders to see what your commonly used #keywords mean to them? When was the last time you did this for yourself? We can take for granted that the meaning we’ve ascribed to certain words is the same for everyone. So often it’s not though, especially when it comes to value based language. I am always interested in how people and organizations define certain words. Especially words like #success, #failure, #resiliency, #equity, #inclusion, #advocacy, #flextime, #competitivesalary, I could go on and on. Too often these terms are chosen because they are popular and not well defined. We take for granted that we all hold the same definition for the term. This is why I’m always a fan of using simple language and defining loaded words like these if we’re going to use them. Every now and then, coming back to and reflecting on the language we use is also a wonderful self-reflection exercise. Our thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become our reality. Words are POWERFUL. So be sure that you’re speaking into existence exactly what you intend to be. Take some time and think on what you want, pull out keywords and take time to define them. For example, you want balance or good health or success…how I define balance, good health, success is likely very different from how you’d define it. So, what do you mean by “balance”? Journal about it, envision it, how does it feel, what does it look like, where do you feel it in your body? Really get in there.

    ✨The language of the mental health lived experience landscape (2024)✨ 📌By National Survivor User Network Here's a bit about this resource 🔵NSUN are interested in exploring what regularly used language in mental health ⚫Means to those with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma, and distress. 🔵In the summer of 2024, they opened an anonymous survey sharing a range of terms selected by the NSUN team ⚫Asking people with lived experience to define those terms in the context of mental health. 📌They've compiled key terms and offered a summary of the meaning attached to them collectively ✨Here are some of them 🌱Abolition, 💡Advocacy, 🌱Capacity, 💡Chronic, 🌱Coercion, 💡Collective, 🌱Community, 💡Criminalisation, 🌱Co-production, 💡Disability, 🌱Discrimination, 💡Distress, 🌱Grassroots, 💡Healthcare, 🌱Iatrogenic harm, 💡Identity, 🌱Intersectional, 💡Injustice, 🌱Justice, 💡Lived experience, 🌱Lived experience leadership, 💡Mad, marginalisation, 🌱Mental health, 💡Power, 🌱Recovery, 💡Restrictive, 🌱Representation, 💡Safeguarding, 🌱Safety, 💡Service user, 🌱Solidarity, 💡Survivor, 🌱Trauma, 💡User-led, 🌱Visibility, 💡Voice, and 🌱Vulnerability. Thanks to NSUN for this great guide! 🙏 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ 🔥#LivedExperience #Leadership #MentalHealth #Workplace #Peer #CoProduction 🔔 Follow the Lived Experience Advisory Directory's daily updates here👇 💬 Info@livedexperienceleaders.com 🌱https://lnkd.in/gdXun4D4 ☕Interested in hiring LEAD for Consultancy? We help organisations provide exceptional workplaces and support people with lived experience to thrive within them. Find time to have a coffee with us👇. https://lnkd.in/esiXzRFT

  • What does it mean to be #resilient? #Resiliency is one’s ability to overcome challenges & adversity, to adapt to change. Research has shown that certain traits lend themselves to a person’s resiliency in a given situation. Which of the #resiliencytraits do you feel most confident in? Comment with traits not listed here!

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  • #Transition is defined as “the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another” and #transformation as “a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance” (dictionary.com) We all experience transitions throughout our lives, many times over. Each offers an opportunity for transformation. Of course, it may not feel like this at the time. Transitions can be terrifying. Especially if they are unplanned or unexpected. There is always some risk during transition. In nature, this is when animals, plants, and creatures of all forms are at their most vulnerable. This is true for us humans as well. I don't know about you, but I was never taught how to manage transitions in my life. I learned through trial and error how to best navigate them. In my lifetime, I have had MANY opportunities to learn how to take a time of transition and turn it into a powerful and positive opportunity for transformation. I transitioned from victim to thriving survivor, from poverty to financial stability, from struggle and lack to a life of abundance! And if I can do this, you can too! Are you considering a transition from work to business ownership, a career transition, family, life, or other transition? Have you found yourself in an unexpected or even unwanted time of transition? What kind of transitions are you navigating now or have you navigated in the past? Share below!

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  • Sorry I’ve been quiet for a moment as I navigated a tough situation. It can feel like there’s no point in fighting anymore. When you’ve spent the majority of your life scratching and clawing for every inch of progress. Fighting against classist, ableist, racist, and sexist bigots and systems that are designed to bar you completely, or at best, impede your success at every step. It’s exhausting, and at times can feel so very lonely. It can feel like you’re fighting a losing battle…so why bother? When I’m feeling this way, I try to remember my purpose, my vision for a better world where every person has access to what they need to thrive! I believe such a world is possible. I believe that folks who are marginalized, are also sorely underestimated, and I believe this is our superpower! All the folks I know who are #disabled, #BIPOC, #LGBTQIA2S+, and/or who hold other #marginalized identities are often also the most compassionate, innovative, and hardworking folks I know. We’re like real life super heroes! Our resilience builds competence and grit! This is why I’ve dedicated my life to supporting folks like us, to changing the narrative about what people like us are capable of, and to developing and uplifting opportunities that aid our success! Live Dream Lead Inspire literally represents the path forward and I’m excited to share that in the coming months, I’ll be sharing some opportunities I think members of these communities will be super interested in…stay tuned.

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