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🌀 Facilitator & Organizational Consultant
🎭 Applied Improviser & Performer
✨ Creating the conditions for collective brilliance.

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Comfort zones? We all have them. But some of the most exciting opportunities happen when we’re willing to venture beyond them!

At Luminari Partners, we believe in moving beyond comfort zones and into strategy zones, where fresh perspectives, bold thinking, and a willingness to take that first step can open the door to something extraordinary.

And sometimes, that first step has nothing to do with business!

Our #founder & #ceo , @sheilakolla Johnston, knows this firsthand. From learning to swim and sail to being encouraged by friends to try improv (yes, improv! 😂), she’s discovered that getting comfortable with being uncomfortable can lead to some pretty wonderful experiences.

It’s a mindset we bring to our work with organizations, too. Being willing to ask different questions, explore unfamiliar ideas, and challenge the way things have always been done.

As Stephanie Stevens shared on a recent episode of Revenue Speaks, sometimes the hardest part of tackling a challenge is simply taking that first step. So here’s to the people who challenge us, encourage us, and occasionally talk us into doing things we never imagined we’d try! 👀

Now we’re curious! What’s something you’ve done recently that pushed you outside your comfort zone? Big or small, we’d love to hear about it in the comments! 👇

✨ Ready to explore your organization’s next strategy zone? Discover how Luminari Partners builds the strategy, strengthens the infrastructure, and creates the momentum organizations need to move forward.

Visit the link in bio to learn more.

🎙️ And catch our conversation with Stephanie Stevens on Revenue Speaks! The link is in our bio too!

Revenue Speaks is hosted by Luminari Partners and produced in partnership with Page Design Group.

#LuminariPartners #RevenueSpeaks #Leadership #Strategy #GrowthMindset #nocomfortzones #strategy #strategies #executive #opportunity #womeninbusiness #businessconsultant #nonprofitconsultant #podcast

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Another awesome drop-in ✅ 🤩 thanks to everyone who came out today to play with us and our awesome instructors Bernie and Dexter! Our next class is Saturday, November 21st at 11 AM at the Geery theater 🎭 register at hausofcomedy.com/shows

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Join us tomorrow, Saturday, October 17 at 11 AM at the Geery Theatre in Midtown Sacramento for our monthly drop in class with instructors Dexter Davies and Bernie Baktashian! Want to give improv comedy a try? That’s your chance! Sign up at the link in our bio or at hausofcomedy.com/classes 🤩

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Doin stuff

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first ren faire 🧚🍻 phenomenal squad 🥳

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Comfort wrapped in a tortilla and covered in sauce #saceats #downtownsacramento #downtownsac #sacramentoeats #sacramento

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#flommist @bernue
Sacramento! One last chance to play with me in this Improv for Real Life series! 🥹

Our final workshop is collaborative relationships—an afternoon of practicing how we listen, respond, support one another, build on ideas and create strong connections through play!

No prior attendance required. No improv experience needed. You do not have to be funny. You just have to be willing to try some things with other humans. 💛

📅 Saturday, September 19
⏰ 2–5 PM
📍 Eagle Theatre in Old Sacramento
🎟️ Sliding scale: $45 / $90

Come as you are. Leave with some new ways to connect, collaborate, and play.

Register through the link in bio!

Hosted by @hausofcomedysac

#sac365 #improvsacramento #downtownsacramento #appliedimprov

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Roughly 80 artists in one year. Here's why Ember refuses to work alone.

Ember can't buy every piece from the artists they admire, but curating their work means spending real time with them, and the result becomes bigger than any one person. "It's fun to tinker with your own things, but I grow so much more when I'm around other people."

That year of collaboration is also where the confidence for Ember's business came from. Full story in the episode.

🎙️ @emberdeboer in conversation with @bernue. Full episode is up on YouTube — link in bio.

#SacPopCast #PassTheMic #Sacramento #SacramentoCreatives #SacramentoPodcast #Collaboration #SacramentoArt #Curation

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We are thrilled to partner with Bernie Baktashian @bernue and Haus of Comedy @hausofcomedy for another Improv Workshop! Join us at Geery Theater for Rediscover Play: Creativity Through Connection, on Mon, Oct 12 @ 2:00 pm.

Explore creativity through playful and reflective participatory activities inspired by applied improvisation. This interactive workshop invites designers, artists, makers, and creative professionals to step away from the pressure to perform and reconnect with curiosity and one another. Through a series of activities, small-group conversations, and guided reflection, participants will experience how play can deepen relationships and spark fresh perspectives.

Get your tickets at the link in our bio.

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Every creative space says "no bad ideas." Almost none of them do the debrief.

Ember on the magic of watching an ambiguous idea become something a room full of people can touch, and the step most creative environments skip afterward: sitting back and asking why did that work, why didn't it, what did we actually hand people?

That, according to Ember, is the whole creative process. The full conversation goes deeper on building it into work with other artists.

🎙️ @emberdeboer in conversation with @bernue. Full episode is up on YouTube — link in bio.

#SacPopCast #PassTheMic #Sacramento #SacramentoCreatives #SacramentoPodcast #Collaboration #SacramentoArt

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Career advice from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. No, really.

Try to make everyone like you and you become extremely unlikable. Bernie's flip on that: everybody wants to be invited, so just be the one doing the inviting. That mindset, plus a no-judgment rule borrowed from improv class (we clap when we mess up), went from "popular amongst the unpopular" to an actual career.

How Bernie turned that into work is in the full interview.

🎙️ @bernue in conversation with @benderworks.id. Full episode is up on YouTube — link in bio.

#SacPopCast #PassTheMic #Sacramento #SacramentoCreatives #SacramentoPodcast #Community #Improv

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Explain your job to a second grader. Go.

Bernie nailed it. You and your friends have a bunch of cool ideas on the playground but can't agree on a game? Bernie gets everyone talking, playing, and combining ideas into the best game possible, then writes it down so next year's second graders can build on it.

Best job description we've heard on this show. Find out what that actually looks like in the full interview.

🎙️ @bernue in conversation with @benderworks.id. Full episode is up on YouTube — link in bio.

#SacPopCast #PassTheMic #Sacramento #SacramentoCreatives #SacramentoPodcast #Facilitation #WhatIDo

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