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Tatya’s family speaks Quechua, an indigenous language and his music represents these people. When he was little in Lima, there were a lot of issues with racism towards people from the mountains and he got to a point where he realized how beautiful and amazing his roots were and began to embrace them.

He originally worked as an owner of a construction business and left that to dedicate himself to music fully. Tatya has won awards through the Ministry of Culture for his song “apu yaya” which means “the god bigger than all gods.” He also played for TV Peru.

He created experiences duringthe pandemic as a way for people to come to the mountains and connect with “Pachamama” — also known as Mother Earth — while using headphones to hear the music with 8-D sound. This also allowed for people to experience the sounds while being socially distanced.

Tatya worked with a tour company called “Viva Cusco.” They would bring the people to the mountains. They worked with the local “mamitas” - “traditional women” -- who donated the blankets you sat on and held flags of Peru and Tahuantinsuyo (flag of the four directions). They also danced with participants.

After the show, guests would go and see the market where the mamitas sold their artesanal products. This new experience he will be doing in a “huaca.” It will be a different set but also in 8-D. It will be a different type of show but with the same energy.

Tayta Bird is in the process of posting videos every Friday of him doing reworks of his songs in different sacred locations in Cusco. Solar panels are used in order to power his performances from Sudaener. They choose to take care of the earth while they perform.

How to thrive, both personally and professionally, in a time of accelerating change.

Raise your hand if, in early 2020, you worried that the

Covid-19 global pandemic would last for...months! Fast forward to today (over two years later), and most of us realize the “before times” are forever gone and that, like it or not, there is no going back to what was.

Everything has changed.

Everything.

The old rules no longer apply and our past playbooks are useless. Nothing can be assumed or taken for granted - careers, commerce, public health, education, financial markets, climate, societal norms, families, technology, political systems, food systems...it’s all shifting under our feet.

SO, WHAT DO WE DO NOW?

Perhaps a better question to ask is “Who do we want to be now?”

In other words, as a unique individual with many layers of experiences, skills, identities, interests, and passions — how can you show up and thrive in an ever-changing future, with grace and resilience?

If you’ve been asking yourself this question — “Who do I want to be now?” — then I invite you to check out the work of two incredible women who are helping people to create new frameworks for thriving into this rapidly-changing future.

“Flux: 8 superpowers for thriving in constant change” by April Rinne

WHAT’S MY MINDSET AROUND CHANGE?

When April Rinne was a junior in college, studying in the UK, she received a phone call from her sister.

“April, are you sitting down?” she asked, “I need you to sit down.” Then she broke the news: “Mom and dad were killed in a car accident. You need to come home.”

“Whatever I thought my future was going to be, vanished,” Rinne explained from the TEDxFrankfurt stage. “My entire world became flux. I had to let go of the future I had in mind, and the future my parents wanted for me. Little did I know that in the process I was planting the seed of a superpower.”

Rinne defines this, and other superpowers, in her new book “Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change.” The book captures several decades of lessons she gleaned from her travels to over 100 countries as well as her history as a futurist, advisor, global development executive, microfinance lawyer, investor, mental health advocate, certified yoga teacher and (as she highlights) an insatiable handstander.

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“’Flux’ is not about change management. It’s about understanding our relationship to change, from the inside out, and how it shapes and colors every decision we make. Do you come to change from a place of hope or fear? Do you see uncertainty as dangerous or as an adventure for your curiosity? What were you taught about change when you were growing up? We need to examine and reshape our relationship to change to be fit for a world in flux.”

Rinne shows us that the best way to prepare for the future is to develop a “flux mindset.” It is a critical skill for thriving in an ever-accelerating world.

“The pace of change has never been as fast as it is today, and yet it is likely to never again be this slow,” Rinne points out. “Just pause for a moment and take that in.”

For many, the thought of a world that will never slow down again is overwhelming.

“There is a lot of anxiety — both latent and overt. We worry about today and fear the future. Rather than letting that fester, a flux mindset is how you turn that anxiety into action. You can’t control the future, but you can control how you contribute to the future you’d like to see.”

Rinne points out that not all change is “bad” or something to be avoided. In fact, most of us who feel at home in a globalized world are used to uncertainty and often welcome change — but not always.

“We love change that we opt in to. We resist the change we can’t control — the kind that blindsides us, that goes against our expectations, that changes our plans (or disrupts them entirely). [In today’s world] there is no steady state. There is no end game. There is just more change. So, if we think of our mindset as a kind of muscle, we realize it’s something that we can (and need to) strengthen through daily practice.”

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So, how can you develop a Flux Mindset? Rinne shares three key pieces of advice: • Look to other cultures — they can teach us a lot about impermanence, change and flux. For example, most of the population of Mongolia are nomadic — moving and rebuilding their homes three times a year in harmony with the seasons. Rather than making them fearful or anxious, this makes them strong and resilient. • Expand your peripheral vision — literally and figuratively.

Rinne calls peripheral vision the awareness of everything you’re not looking at.

Expanding this view can help you notice things you didn’t see before, and even reduce your anxiety. • Learn to let go — not of the past, but of the future. This is the central difference between those who can thrive in a world of constant flux and those who crumble. Letting go isn’t about giving up. It’s about non-attachment and non-grasping (or, the yogic principle of aparigraha).

“Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change” is exactly the book we need right now in order to come out of

hiding and move with confidence along with a world that is emerging into being. The future is something we can never predict, but with the right mindset we can help to shape it.

Find tools and resources to develop your Flux Mindset, plus travel and handstand inspiration, at https://fluxmindset.com.

WHO AM I, PROFESSIONALLY?

For those of us that identify as “in between” — straddling culture, ethnicity, race or place — we may already see ourselves as “hybrid” in our personal identity. Yet, chances are many of us are still stuck in old professional paradigms that tell us we must niche ourselves into a narrow career field or define ourselves by our job titles.

“Covid-19 has sent a wave of professional identity crises across the country and around the world,” explains Dr. Sarabeth Berk. “It is something millions of people are going through, but lack the language to communicate it because professional hybridity often defies language and categorization.”

Now, Dr. Berk is helping people to clearly define and leverage their professional hybridity through her book “More Than My Title: The Power of Hybrid Professionals in a Workforce of Experts and Generalists.”

Earlier in her own career, Dr. Berk experienced her own professional identity crisis. As an artist, researcher, educator and designer, she had a rich and varied experience. Yet, it was hard to know what to call herself on a resume or job application. It seemed there was always a pressure to adopt standardized titles to appear marketable. This meant sacrificing or hiding parts of her skills and talents and watering down her unique value proposition. Then she noticed something.

“I was looking at an art book and noticed a painting by surrealist René Magrite [“The Treachery of Images”]. The picture shows a