Hi everyone, I'm Julie! Here's my bio:
Julie Nowak (she/they) is an accessibility consultant and disability justice educator who specializes in nature accessibility. Founder of "The Seasonal Body," Julie helps organizations and individuals learn how to make nature connection more accessible to disabled folks and others who can’t access nature spaces. Their work is influenced by their own lived experience as a multiply-disabled and neuroqueer person, as well as by their professional experience working in education and nature-related fields over the past 20 years. Julie has an M.Ed. in Adult Education and Community Development, and is fluent in English, French, and Spanish. Julie is a white person with Celtic and Germanic ancestry, and is based near Tkaronto (Toronto, Canada). They view both the #LandBack movement and ancestral connection as important for nature-related work. You can follow Julie at SeasonalBody.org and @TheSeasonalBody on social media.
Note: My website is currently in the process of being updated with more info about me and my work, so stay tuned!
To learn more about me, here is a short pitch deck about my work (available as both a pdf, and an audio recording where I describe the visuals).
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Hi everyone, I'm Julie! Here's my bio:
Julie Nowak (she/they) is an accessibility consultant and disability justice educator who specializes in nature accessibility. Founder of "The Seasonal Body," Julie helps organizations and individuals learn how to make nature connection more accessible to disa…
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@George Kao, it’s so refreshing to hear about your liberating approach to intellectual property. I feel similar on an ideological level about my own work (especially as an anarchist who doesn’t really believe in the concept of property in general), and tbh I would offer all my work for free if I could survive that way. But the pressures of capitalism have made me feel like I need to at least care a bit about IP, which has added stress - not just because it feels out of alignment with my values, but because it’s a lot of effort to try and figure out how to copyright and have protections etc.
For example, I have felt like I’m “supposed” to trademark my brand name, but it seemed so overwhelming when I looked into it (and expensive, especially since you need to pay separately to trademark in different countries, and I work across the globe). So I decided to not pursue it (at least for the time being), but I felt like I was making a “bad” business decision that could bite me in the butt later. And I have felt similarly about other aspects of my business, such as content I create - where it just seems so overwhelming to be on top of copyrights etc. The bare minimum I do is put a “content ownership clause” in my client contracts, and even that feels weird to me.
So hearing you talk about IP in your liberatory way feels like a weight is being lifted! Because you’re right - ultimately what I want is for my ideas to spread to help change the world. And in terms of making sure I’m not stealing from others, I do credit people when it makes sense to do so, and I’m currently writing up a blurb about my lineages for my website (which I also think is very important for the work I do around social justice and nature connection, as these movements often get co-opted, commodified, and culturally appropriated).
George, I have 2 questions for you related to this:
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Do you have advice for how I can continue to address my fears and scarcity mindset related to IP, so that I can feel fully ready to take a similar liberatory approach as you?
What are your thoughts on licensing your content as an income stream? For you, would this not fit within your approach to making all your content uncopyrighted etc? Or do you think there’s a way to do it that would be value-aligned? (I ask because I feel drawn to licencing as a potential business model because it would help me serve more people without using up too much of my energy, which is a constant issue for me as a chronically-ill entrepreneur with low capacity - but I would only want to do it if I can find a way that doesn’t feel icky.)
(I realize these are big questions, so no worries if you can’t answer them fully here. Maybe I could bring them to one of your Q&As? Either for the framework course, or your general Q&A?)
(I also realize I wrote a lot here, and I think this was mainly to help me think through my own thoughts - and I figured I might as well share it here, ha.)
@Julie Nowak great questions! Yes I'd love to answer them either in the monthly Q&A or the evening Framework session. I see you're signed up for the monthly Q&A so i will try to answer there if possible, and if not, definitely will record an answer for you in the framework evening!
@George Kao ok great thanks! Yes I'm signed up for both times for the monthly Q&A, so I may come to both if I can manage it - but hopefully at least one of them. And I'm hopefully able to come to the evening framework session as well (the evening time for me is late in ET, but I can sometimes manage it).
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the app looks different on my android phone. When I click on the course I registered for, it opens in a mobile browser, and and then it asks me to log in. So is it no longer possible to watch it within the app itself?
@Julie Nowak indeed they have a new app since about a week ago and it looks different from the above tutorial now -- I need to update it. Can you check your mobile app store to see if you have the latest Simplero app? It might ask you to login via mobile browser but should then direct you back to the app to watch the lessons? Let me know 🙏🏼
@George Kao thanks, I do have the most up to date app. But I discovered that if I click on "pick up where you left off", rather than on the main page that says "click here for access to the George Kao courses", then I'm able to watch the videos within the app!
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How do I change my settings so I receive email notifications? I clicked "follow" on a post like you suggested, but I only seem to get notifications within Simplero - so I don't see it unless I'm on the platform. I don't see any settings anywhere for receiving email notifications?
actually nevermind! I realized my simplero account was tied to a different email address than I thought, so my email notifications were just going to a different place lol