Welcome Back Fab Friends!For this summer mini series Grow Where You are Watered, Kishshana talks about what she’s been doing, seeing, and experiencing since ending Season 2 of Let’s Take This Offline. The Rooted CollaborativeFor those of you listening in for the first time, Kishshana founded The Rooted Collaborative, a community and organization focused on black and brown women who are doing social good. This global community is about wellness and wellbeing, financial fortitude, personal and professional development, building real community, and leveling up women who are moving into the ranks of leadership. Supporting The Rooted Collaborative CommunityThe Rooted Collaborative has a hybrid event coming up in September, https://therootedretreat.com (The Rooted Retreat), happening in Jamaica and virtually online, September 29th through October 2nd. The Retreat supports the conversations about giving voice to the things that matter for women and particularly for women of color and specifically for black women happening right now in the sector, as it relates to wellness, wellbeing, and to leveling up to leadership. The Summer Well SeriesThis is our summer well series for all of you who are thinking “How do I do life better?”, “How do I shift?”, “How do I pivot?”, and “What is in it for me right now in this season?”. Grow Where You are Watered is the well series right here on Let's Take This Offline and Kishshana is ready to answer all of those questions and more. In This Episode . . . Kishshana talks about all things planning and pausing. She shares her experience with planning in her career and professional life as well as in her personal life. Are you getting caught up in the cycle of planning or are you putting off taking a pause? Since Season 2, Kishshana has dug in to really learn about herself and understand what it is that she’s looking for, what she needs, and the voids that she’s felt in her life. Here are four key things to be thinking about as you listen to this episode: “Is it time to pause?”, “Have I pressed the pause button too long so that I'm now on a break?”, “How do I plan for a pause?”, and then “How do I know when it's time to take an unplanned pause?” How to Navigate Planning vs PausingKishshana gives you her three tips for how to navigate planning vs. pausing. First, sit in gratitude for the things that you have, that you’ve done, that you’ve accomplished, and most importantly, who you are. Second, think about planning it out loud. Speaking your plans out loud allows you to give voice to the things that are rumbling and bumbling around in your head and allows you that space to give yourself the energy to imagine a different possibility. Third, get a friend, a thought partner that’s there to walk alongside you as you put the planning and/or pausing into action. As we think about our wellness and we think about well-being as it relates to the planning and pausing in our personal and professional lives, remember that we will grow where we are watered. Session brought to you by our sponsor https://bloomerang.co (Bloomerang) (bloomerang.co). Join us at The Rooted Retreat (therootedretreat.com) For more Management Mastery head over to Kish Camp (kishcamp.co). https://www.buymeacoffee.com/takethisoffline (Support the Show) (buymeacoffee.com/takethisoffline)