A Lesson On the Wisdom of Water with Wendy Pabich

Voice Lessons Podcast

Wendy Pabich, scientist, author, and self-proclaimed “water woman” joins Kim in a riveting discussion about how the natural, spiritual and world of science meet, and why understanding water as a woman’s issue is important for women leaders. What can the study of water teach us about our own minds, behaviors, and values?

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Water as “the great integrator, a connector, an agent of transformation”.
• The feminine nature of water.
• Why women leaders are more holistic thinkers.
• Cultivating a practice of creativity.
• What does it mean to be a “water woman”?
• Water is a feminist issue.
• What is the diamond/water paradox?
• How women lead and problem-solve differently.
• What is an aquifer and why are they in trouble?
• How can we reduce our water footprint?

(4:30) When you cultivate a practice of creativity, I think it helps you look at the world differently.

(9:02) Water is a women's issue for women around the globe. That lack of water is a tremendous burden. Women collectively spend hundreds of millions of hours each day gathering water for domestic use. …It's dubbed the universal solvent for instability to dissolve more substances than any other compounds. So it, and it because it receives these compounds easily and again, from that feminine perspective, women are built to receive.

(15:04) Women that are empowered and embodied have a way of moving about and functioning in the world that's holistic and generative and creative. And we're able to integrate from all sorts of sensory input and emotion and imagery and use all these those in conjunction with our intellect to come up with really sort of holistic, creative, resilient solutions.

(19:58) …an even bigger issue is our water footprint. The idea of a water footprint is it's the water embedded in all the goods and products that we consume in our lives every day.

(21:05) The diamond water paradox the idea that water is about the most precious resource we could have in our lives. You can live a couple of days without water. And yet we dramatically drastically undervalue it in the marketplace because we feel like it's a free resource.

(27:02) Is there a length of time that this takes, as an example we're seeing right now because everybody is stuck in their homes in Italy, dolphins reappearing in the Venice canals because there's not very much pollution. Is there a quantifiable time that this takes to allow the earth to heal, to recharge, to do this? Can we do it fast enough?

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