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Happy 16th wedding anniversary to my ride or die, @sdotrap. We choose each other through the ups and downs. Mahal kita. #BlacapinoLove taken in Jersey City, New Jersey by @phenomeron

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Knicks are the NBA champions!!!!!! Yes yes yes!! taken in Jersey City, New Jersey by @phenomeron

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50th bday #RONservations. Enjoy! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/celebrating-half-century-ron-rapatalo-cfxwe by @phenomeron

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Week 18 offseason powerlifting continued! 4x4 345 lb deficit conventional deadlifts (did 295 1st 3 sets) and 4x5 125 lb military press. 1 min 45 sec rest bw sets. Then mobility cooldown. Saving sled drags for tomorrow! #tododia #thisis51 #metRONome #gymthreads taken in Ironbound Performance Athletics by @phenomeron

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Happy 45th birthday @sdotrap! RapFam loves you!!! by @phenomeron

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Happy 4 weeks Alex! We love you so much! RapFam can still use your meal train support. Link in stories! by @phenomeron

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Week 18 offseason powerlifting! 4x5 front squats and incline bench press at 175 lbs. then superset of 4x10 bodysaws and 3x10 100 lb sb weighted pushups. 20 minute cooldown stretch. #tododia #thisis51 #metRONome #gymthreads taken in Ironbound Performance Athletics by @phenomeron

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Sometimes the path we end up on starts with a decision we were sure we weren’t going to make.

Laura Saldivar Luna told me about her Teach For America story, and I loved how much uncertainty was packed into the beginning of it.

She met the recruiter at Georgetown and immediately thought: There is no way I’m applying for this.

Too selective.
Too intimidating.
And besides, everyone had already decided she was going to be a teacher.

Laura had other plans. She wanted to prove—to herself and to everyone else—that she could do all the things.

So she didn’t apply.

The deadlines passed.

And then an email arrived from Teach For America about a one-year fellowship at their New York City headquarters, where she could learn how the nonprofit actually worked.

A different door opened.

I think about how often we define our lives by the opportunities we think we’re supposed to pursue—or the ones we’ve already decided aren’t for us.

Sometimes the most interesting chapters begin somewhere you weren’t even looking.

Full episode link in the comments. by @phenomeron

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Week 17 offseason powerlifting done!! 4x5 155-165-185-215 lb Zercher squats. Last set in video. 3x8 155-165-185 close grip bench press. Then superset of 4 sets of 22.5 skullcrushers 15 reps, 15 leg curls and 65 sec l or r side plank. Egads. Nice mobility cooldown. #tododia #thisis51 #metRONome #gymthreads taken in Ironbound Performance Athletics by @phenomeron

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Week 17 offseason powerlfiting continued! 4x5 315 lb conventional deadlifts and 5x3 135 lb military press. 90 sec bw sets. Woosah! #tododia #thisis51 #metRONome #gymthreads taken in Ironbound Performance Athletics by @phenomeron

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8 days ago

We spend so much of our lives learning how to override ourselves.

Push through the exhaustion.
Ignore the discomfort.
Keep going.
Do what’s expected.
Be “resilient.”

In my conversation with Laura Saldivar Luna, she talked about what she’s learned in this second chapter of her leadership: how to reconnect with the wisdom of her body.

Because the body is communicating with us all the time.

A clear yes.
A clear no.
Something that feels aligned.
Something that doesn’t.

But we get really good at ignoring those signals. Sometimes because of the systems around us. Sometimes because of ambition. Sometimes because we’ve spent so many years believing that the answer is simply to keep going.

Laura described reconnecting with that wisdom as a compass for navigating uncertainty toward the path she actually wants.

I loved that.

And then, because this is RONderings and not a leadership conference, she reminded me that strawberries help, too.

Sometimes wisdom is slowing down enough to actually savor something.

Full episode link in the comments. by @phenomeron

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8 days ago

#RONderings episode DROP!

In my late twenties, as a national office manager at Teach For America, I hit my outcomes. But what made me good at the job was something no rubric measured. People trusted me, so they showed up for me.

That relationship acumen was never celebrated the way results were. In most workplaces, it still is not.

Laura Saldivar Luna saw the cost of that gap from the top, as Teach For America's Chief People Officer. Her read: it is easy to get results at the expense of our humanity, and that is not what we want for our kids.

Now, through Piñata Possible, she helps leaders get great results without giving up the human part.

Trust is not a soft skill. It is how the work gets done.

🎙️ Episode 114 of Ronderings is out now. Link in the comments.

If you need an editor, publisher, or ghostwriter to get your impact-driven book out there, connect with @Kent Gustavson, PhD, and Aleck McCathie at @Books That Matter.

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👉 Listen here: https://ronderings.podcastsmatter.com/episodes/laura-saldivar-luna

Publish your book at www.leveragepublishinggroup.com by @phenomeron

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