A Loving Disruption with Elena Kunkel

About A Loving Disruption with Elena Kunkel

A Loving Disruption starts with a claim I can’t leave alone: the opposite of depression isn’t happiness. It’s expression. By expression, I mean having access to all of yourself - your appetite, anger, humor, ideas, desire, taste, conviction - and letting those things have consequences. They change what you make, what you say, what you choose, what you refuse, how you love, and what you contribute. I’m interested in the distance between functioning and feeling fully alive. How can someone be wildly capable and still feel like she’s managing her life from behind glass? What cracks it wide open? Why can making something honest bring you back into your body? Why do we become vague around the things we mean most? And what happens when fear has been holding the pen for so long that we mistake its voice for our own? Each week, I follow those questions with people who have spent their lives approaching them from different directions: artists, founders, neuroscientists, somatic practitioners, coaches, philosophers, astrologers, Human Design people, and others who know something about what brings a person online. And what shuts her down. They have different language for the same strange gap. I want to hear where their answers touch. Where they contradict each other. What each one can see that the others can’t. This is the experiment: externally processing and testing the idea messily here, in my own life and with the sharpest people I can get in the room, until the language becomes specific enough to reach you when you feel far from yourself—and useful enough to help you find your way back.

Publisher

Elena Kunkel

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Jul 2026

Latest episode

24 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

5 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Sept 2026

   What's Worth Being Misunderstood For? with Eliza

   I went into this conversation a little obsessed with the way Eliza Struthers-Jobin, aka Eliza SJ, makes things. I tend to decide what something is supposed to become and then grip the wheel until I get it there. Eliza makes art almost the opposite way. She creates the conditions. A few rules. Some constraints. A little randomness. Then she lets the thing show her what it wants to be. I called her a gardener. You can’t pry open a flower and tell it how to bloom. Somewhere along the way, though...

2. 

   25 Aug 2026

   Do You Have a Vision Bigger Than Your Ego? with Jean-Marie Jobs

   There are some people who don’t give you answers so much as ask you a question you can’t quite go back to sleep after. Jean-Marie Jobs is one of those people for me. I met Jean-Marie through GAP Community years ago, after more than a decade of working in marketing and messaging. I remember sitting in my first training, watching the way she asked questions, and wanting to learn how to do that. Eventually, I went through GAP’s Coaching Academy and became certified in transformational coaching m...

3. 

   21 Aug 2026

   Your Best Brand Behavior Is Boring

   Interrupting our irregularly scheduled programming because I made something I’m very jazzed about as the kids never say. The Messaging Pop-Up is two hours of high collaboration, low commitment for creative maniacs who are tired of sitting alone at their dining room table trying to think their way through their own work. Bring the thing that’s bugging ya. The offer you can’t quite articulate or do justice. The half-baked idea. The positioning knot. The project you’re secretly wonderi...

4. 

   3 Aug 2026

   Success Is None of Your Business

   My six-year-old daughter looked at me and asked, “Mom, what can I do where I can win a trophy?” It was wildly convicting because I could hear my own relationship with work inside that question. How often have I made the prize, the proof, or the outcome the whole point? So I went down a rabbit hole to find out what science says actually happens when we make success our business. Turns out, it can make us less creative before we even begin, interfere with skills we already know how to use, and ...

5. 

   22 Jul 2026

   Stuckness Is Either Arrogance or Avoidance

   Which one is it for you? The opposite of depression isn't happiness. It's expression. This is the first episode of A Loving Disruption, and I'm starting with the question that rearranged my life. It was 2021, my daughter was one, and I walked into a 96 hour conference I did not want to attend, feeling stuck on a cellular level. A psychological sniper Jean Marie Jobs walked up to me and asked why I was there. I said I was stuck. She said stuckness is usually a symptom of two things, arrogance ...

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